Since coming to Beijing to treat Xie Jingyan's leg, Doctor Tao's life has become more and more comfortable.
She earned a lot of money and had plenty of time to study medicine. More importantly, she had a powerful backer and didn't have to worry about being targeted. She could treat patients without worrying about her life or property. She was very careful when prescribing medicine and even had imperial meals every day. Her life was a hundred times more comfortable than that of Zhao, the chief physician.
However, such comfortable days were gone forever with the Empress Dowager's rewards.
Doctor Tao cured King Cheng's hidden illness, causing his concubine to become pregnant. After this news spread, many people came to seek his medical help.
Ordinary people dared not come to the Ling Prince's Mansion, but Doctor Tao's house was behind the mansion, and Doctor Tao always had to go home, so a bunch of people went to the Tao family's courtyard to beg for help.
Other illnesses can be left untreated as long as they are not life-threatening, but of the three unfilial acts, the greatest is having no offspring. Even if it means kneeling for a long time, we must persuade Doctor Tao to come.
Dr. Tao is a kind-hearted man. If someone comes to him for help, he will definitely treat them if he knows the skills, let alone kneel down and beg him.
However, he was, after all, the physician of the Ling Prince's residence, and the Ling Prince's residence had to take priority. If high-ranking officials and nobles needed his medical services, they could only do so with the consent of the Ling Prince and Princess. Otherwise, he could only come to the Tao family's courtyard. If he left, the Ling Prince and Princess would not be able to return in time if needed.
This is understandable to everyone. Besides, the consultation fee is not the same for going to a pharmacy and having a doctor come to your home. If you can have a doctor come to your home, of course you will.
Then--
After a few months of leisure, Dr. Tao has become busy again.
...
The day for the autumn imperial examination results to be announced will arrive in the blink of an eye.
That afternoon, after waking up, Shen Wan, having nothing to do, took Yinshuang and Haitang for a stroll in the garden.
The observation tower has been rebuilt and is even more magnificent than before. However, it has just been painted and the smell has not completely dissipated. Shen Wan found it pungent and did not go up to the observation tower.
The wind was strong by the lake, and it felt a bit chilly, so Chen Wan went into the pavilion.
Yinshuang and Haitang followed behind. Yinshuang said, "Tomorrow is the day the results of the autumn imperial examinations will be announced. I wonder who will be the top scholar this year?"
Everyone unanimously thought of the young master Zhao who betrayed the Yun family. He looked down on the Yun family and tried to curry favor with the Chen family, the Chancellor of the Imperial Academy. In the end, he was not only stripped of his academic honors but also imprisoned and exiled thousands of miles away, ruining his promising future. If young master Zhao had not harbored any ill intentions, even if he had not become the top scholar but only a Jinshi (a successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations), with the Yun family's current status, why would they have worried about not helping him rise to prominence?
Shen Wan believed that even if he was exiled, the news of the Yun family's marriage alliance, which was the envy of the entire capital, would reach Zhao's ears, and regret would torment him every day. This would be the best revenge for his ingratitude.
Seeing the two maids' curiosity, Shen Wan chuckled, "You're allowed to go out and join the fun tomorrow."
If she weren't so heavy, she would have loved to join in the fun.
Although Shen Wan allowed them to go out, Yin Shuang and Hai Tang knew that Shen Wan was staying in the Prince's Mansion and wouldn't have to worry about not having anyone to serve her, but the two maids still dared not go out.
Yinshuang and Haitang discussed it and decided that Yinshuang would go to see the results tomorrow.
Shen Wan strolled around half of the garden. Her belly was growing rapidly, and her hips started to hurt after walking for a while, so she prepared to return to Moyuxuan.
Just as she reached the entrance of the Moyuxuan courtyard, a maid in a light blue dress ran over and reported with a smile, "Your Highness, the Yun family just sent someone to announce the good news that Princess Qinghe is pregnant..."
Shen Wan was happy for the Yun family and her cousin; she couldn't even imagine how happy her maternal grandparents must be.
However, she was too heavy to go to the Yun family, so Shen Wan instructed Yin Shuang, "Go to the Yun family tomorrow."
Silver Frost nodded like a chick pecking at rice.
She and Haitang loved going to the Yun family's house the most; they never returned empty-handed. Now that Princess Qinghe was pregnant, Old Master Yun and Old Madam Yun were overjoyed and would surely reward the entire Yun family, including them.
Back at Moyuxuan, Shen Wan prepared some tonics and sent a maid to the front courtyard to tell Chef Li to make some pastries that Old Madam Yun liked, so that Yinshuang could take them to the Yun family the next day.
In order not to delay the viewing of the autumn imperial examination results, the next morning, after serving Chen Wan until she got up, Yin Shuang took some tonics and pastries to the Yun family.
Yinshuang didn't return until lunchtime after leaving the manor, and when she did, her face was still sullen.
At the time, Shen Wan was embroidering when Haitang saw her and said, "Why do you look so angry?"
He always came back from visiting the Yun family with a big smile on his face.
Silver Frost puffed out her cheeks in anger, "I missed the excitement of the results being released..."
Haitang said, "How could that be? You went to the Yun family so early, there's no way you couldn't have made it. How long did you stay at the Yun family?"
Yinshuang said, "I went to join in other people's fun and missed the results announcement."
Haitang, "..."
Shen Wan, "..."
Haitang said, "You went out to see the results, but you missed them because you were busy with other things. How dare you say that?"
Shen Wan then asked, "What kind of excitement were you watching?"
Yinshuang said, "This servant went to the Yun family early this morning to visit Princess Qinghe on behalf of the Princess Consort, and also to pay respects to Old Madam Yun. I received quite a reward before leaving the Yun family. This servant thought it was still early, so I wanted to stroll around the streets for a while. However, on the way, I saw the Empress's personal maid enter a pharmacy. When she went in, she was acting rather suspiciously, looking around as if afraid of being seen. This servant became curious and wanted to see what medicine the maid was buying, so as not to be discovered..."
The palace has the Imperial Medical Academy, and Empress Song's personal maid doesn't need to go out to buy medicine, so it's no wonder Yinshuang finds it strange.
Shen Wan asked, "What medicine did the palace maid buy?"
Silver Frost said, "An abortion pill."
Shen Wan's face suddenly darkened when she thought about how Empress Song would have aborted her child if it weren't for Eunuch Yuan and Xiao Xizi.
Xie Jingyin has no hope of participating in the struggle for the throne anymore. Does Empress Song intend to harm the others?!
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