Chapter 220 Exchange
It was unknown whether the emperor heard the conversation between the two. He stared at the mist with his eyes lowered, wondering what he was thinking.
Neither of them spoke, it was like a silent confrontation.
"Your Majesty, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of War wishes to see you."
The eunuch walked into the hall with small steps to report.
The emperor glanced at Shen Anan and waved to the young eunuch, who immediately withdrew.
"What kind of imperial physician do you want? Go to the Imperial Hospital and choose one."
Shen Anan came here on her own initiative, which meant that she could not hold on any longer, and the emperor's relenting was considered a softening of his attitude, giving Shen Anan this face.
"Thank you, father. I will take my leave now."
"Well," the emperor pointed to the eunuch beside him, "you personally accompany the Fourth Prince's wife to the Imperial Hospital."
"Yes," the chief eunuch bowed, "Please come in, Princess Fourth Prince."
A hint of coldness appeared on Shen Anan's lips, but she didn't say anything in the end. Since they were negotiating terms, they had to see it with their own eyes. Neither she nor the emperor trusted each other.
She turned and left the imperial study, and the eunuch followed her in small steps under the emperor's gaze.
The Imperial Medical Bureau was not too far away and it only took fifteen minutes to get there.
"Fourth Prince's wife, the imperial doctors are all here, you can choose any one you like."
Shen Anan, "I don't know much about the Imperial Hospital, and I don't know which master has better medical skills. Let the father-in-law choose."
The chief eunuch agreed immediately and picked the oldest one among the imperial doctors. "This one has the longest experience in the Imperial Hospital and is experienced."
Shen Anan nodded, "Let's go then, it's getting late, it's better to go early than late when it comes to seeing a doctor."
The old doctor picked up the medicine box and followed the two men obediently without saying anything or asking any questions.
"Princess." Qingfeng's carriage was waiting outside.
"Go to Dali Temple."
"Yes," Qingfeng glanced at the eunuch and the old doctor, then jumped onto the carriage and drove the horse without saying a word.
The eunuch looked at his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose, as if he didn't hear what Shen Anan said.
The carriage drove slowly and stopped in front of the gate of Dali Temple three quarters of an hour later. When the officers and soldiers saw the carriage from the Fourth Prince's Mansion, their brows knitted together and they hurried back to report to Lord Chen.
"Father-in-law, please."
Shen Anan said to the chief eunuch.
"No, no, please go first, the Fourth Prince's wife, and I will follow you."
"That won't do. If Master Chen can't see you and the imperial physician, I'm afraid he won't let me in."
“…” The chief eunuch knew that Shen An’an was being sarcastic, so he could only smile awkwardly and remain silent.
He secretly complained that the Fourth Prince's wife and the Emperor were competing with each other, but in the end it was he, a eunuch, who suffered.
The emperor agreed to send the imperial physician, which meant he allowed the Fourth Prince's wife to meet the young master of the Shen family, and he sent me to ensure that the Fifth Prince was in the hands of the Fourth Prince's wife and was safe and sound.
They both had good intentions.
Each of them supervises and ensures that the person they want to exchange is safe.
"Your Highness, you are joking. I am a eunuch, how can I have such a big face?"
Shen Anan smiled and said nothing more, and walked straight up the steps of the Dali Temple.
When those people saw the eunuch with a whisk in his hand and the imperial physician carrying a medicine box following behind her, they were all stunned.
"Where is Master Chen?"
"Yes, inside. I'll go and report right away."
The whisk was only used by the eunuchs serving the emperor. After a moment of stunned silence, the few of them ran inside as if they had greased their feet.
After a while, Lord Chen came out in a hurry with his official hat tilted.
"The Fourth Prince's Consort." He raised his hand to straighten his hat, with a stain of black ink still on the back of his hand.
"I want to see my eldest brother."
Lord Chen glanced at the imperial physician and the chief eunuch on the side, knowing that the emperor and the fourth prince's wife had reached an agreement, and immediately said, "Of course, the fourth prince's wife, please."
Shen Anan walked in, trying not to let anyone notice her urgency.
"Princess Four, I will not go in. I will wait for you here." The chief eunuch smiled.
"How can that be possible? I was able to enter the Dali Temple's cell today thanks to you, eunuch."
The chief eunuch smiled stiffly, "You are joking. I dare not take the credit for this. Please go back and don't delay going back to the Fourth Prince's mansion to see a doctor. I have to hurry back to report."
He didn't dare to look at Shen Anan, and lowered his head to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.
Shen Anan's eyes narrowed, "Why are you being so polite, sir? It's unreasonable for you to pass through the door without entering." As she said that, she reached out and grabbed his whisk and pulled him in.
The eunuch naturally did not dare to resist and could only bend over and obey with a bitter face.
Shen Anan had been mentally prepared since the eunuch retreated and refused to enter the cell, but when she actually saw Shen Changhe, her heart still tightened.
He sat cross-legged in a corner of the cell, his clothes had been ripped into rags by the barbed whip, revealing his bloody skin that had been torn off. His wrists and ankles were shackled with iron chains, and blood was oozing out.
His hair was disheveled and his face could not be seen clearly, but his back was still straight. The torture had not worn away any of his character.
Shen Anan's eyes suddenly turned red, and her lips trembled slightly, "Brother."
Shen Changhe raised his head slightly, and a shocking scar on his side face came into view, which completely defeated Shen Anan's reason.
She slowly turned around and looked at Lord Chen. Her almond-shaped eyes were filled with endless cold light, as sharp as a knife.
"Fourth Prince's Consort." Lord Chen's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he immediately lowered his voice to explain, "I have always tried my best to help. The wound on Master Shen's face was caused by Master Shen's unwillingness to treat it, and I can do nothing about it."
As God is my witness, he had hired the best doctor in the capital to give him medicine every day.
Shen Anan didn't have time to listen to his explanation, and ordered coldly to open the cell door.
"Hurry, open the door." Lord Chen urged without saying a word.
The emperor and the fourth prince's wife have reached an agreement, so doesn't that mean Shen Changhe, who is being tortured, has to take the blame?
He had a bitter face and looked helpless.
The eunuch looked at this scene and quietly hid back, but was still met with Shen Anan's threatening gaze full of hostility.
…
He said he didn't want to come, but you insisted him to come. He doesn't want to take the blame! !
"Brother." Shen Anan rushed in, looking at his bloody hands and feet rubbed by the iron chains, and dared not touch them with trembling hands, and was furious.
"Don't cry, brother is fine." Shen Changhe said in a hoarse voice.
Since he came in, he has thought about what might happen. "I was impulsive, and I caused you to be restrained and constrained."
"No, it's me who has implicated you and the Shen family. You were plotted against because of me." She couldn't stop crying and didn't dare to look up at his face that was bruised by the whip.
When she took a look at it just now, she felt so painful that her heart suffocated. The skin and flesh were turned inside out, and it was horribly red and swollen. If it was not treated, it would definitely leave hideous scars.
"What nonsense are you talking about? We are all family. If it weren't for you and your brother-in-law's help, and if Master Chen hadn't found a doctor to treat my injuries, I might have died long ago."
After hearing this, Lord Chen on the side breathed a sigh of relief, showing some relief. He felt that after all, he had a conscience and his efforts were not in vain.
Shen Anan turned around and called the imperial physician, "Come in and treat my eldest brother's injury."
"The Fourth Prince's Consort." The head eunuch reminded in a low voice, "The imperial physician given by the Emperor is going to the Fourth Prince's mansion to treat your friend."
"Since you said he is my friend, then I have the final say on whether to treat him or not. I can make him sick or let him die!" Her eyes were cold and she spoke with gritted teeth.
The eunuch shuddered and immediately shut his mouth and stopped talking.
The imperial physician glanced at the cowering eunuch, and walked towards the ferocious Shen Anan without hesitation.
At least for now, it seems that the Fourth Prince's wife has the upper hand.
"Open the chains." Shen Anan said to Lord Chen, as if he would overturn the Dali Temple today if you dare to say no.
The emperor's eunuchs were all out of service, so he naturally obeyed orders and personally asked the jailer for the key and opened the chains.
A small part of the iron had already been embedded in the flesh. If Shen Changhe let out a gasp, Lord Chen would be skinned alive by that knife-like look.
"I am clumsy, how about you, the Fourth Prince's wife?"
Shen Anan didn't know how to do this. She was afraid that it would hurt Shen Changhe, so she said coldly, "You come, be gentle."
“……” Lord Chen could only continue.
The iron chain was removed, tearing off a lot of flesh. Shen Changhe only gasped a few times without crying out in pain, even though his entire face was covered in cold sweat.
Before Shen Anan could speak, the imperial physician had already opened the medicine box and began to apply medicine to stop the bleeding and bandage his wounds.
When he took out the anesthetic powder, Shen Changhe directly refused, "No need for anesthetic powder, just apply the medicine directly."
“This…Mr. Shen, the injuries on your wrists and ankles are quite serious. If you don’t scrape off the rotten flesh, the inflammation will become more serious and may even affect future use.”
"No need for anesthetic powder, just cut it directly." He had experienced all kinds of pain in the past few days, so this little pain was nothing.
The imperial physician's hands trembled when he heard this, "How...how can this be possible?" He turned his gaze to Shen Anan.
What I mean is, it's not that I don't want to use it, it's that he doesn't allow me to do it. It has nothing to do with me if he gets hurt.
“I am a martial artist, and the anesthetic powder has an effect on me.” Shen Changhe explained to Shen Anan.
"Use it once, and there won't be any aftereffects."
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