Chapter 429: Taking the Heart's Blood
The shock on Xiang Hualan's face was really genuine. It turned out that lying in front of them was not that difficult.
"This, this is a contagious disease... If you get infected..." Xiang Hualan didn't say the rest, but those who understood would understand.
"But don't worry, grandma. The girl Su who saved me yesterday is a skilled doctor. She woke my grandmother up. Why don't I let her come and see my sister?"
In this era, leprosy is equivalent to a highly contagious terminal illness. Old Madam Xiang doesn't think Su Ying has the ability to save her life, but Xiang Shule is her beloved granddaughter after all, and she is unwilling to give up as long as there is a little hope.
"Then there is Miss Laosu."
Su Ying was invited to the outside of Xiang Shule's house. She had a strange cloth covering her face and gloves on her hands. Even her eyes were covered with something.
Su Ying gestured to Hualan and others to wait outside the door, and she went into the house alone.
The door opened, Xiang Shule heard the noise and looked up. When she saw Su Ying coming in fully armed, she subconsciously stepped back. She was unwilling to admit that she had the damn leprosy, but subconsciously felt that she was doomed. She was afraid that she would be sent to the mountains outside the city, and then she would have no way out.
"Don't come over here, don't come over here!"
Su Ying looked at her indifferently, "I'm here to treat you. If you don't want to die, just be honest."
"Treatment..."
While Xiang Shule was stunned, Su Ying walked up to her, took her pulse, checked the red spots on her body, and finally determined that she was infected with leprosy.
Su Ying took out a bottle of medicine from her body and asked Xiang Shule to take it, "This medicine can relieve the symptoms on your face."
Xiang Shule looked at the medicine on the table without touching it. She didn't trust Su Ying.
But Su Ying's words quickly broke down her defenses, "If you don't want to be sent away, listen to me."
Xiang Shule's eyes were filled with fear. He didn't care about anything else. He grabbed the medicine on the table and swallowed it.
After watching her take the medicine, Su Ying left the room.
When Xiang Hualan saw her coming out, she went up to her and asked, "What's wrong? What's the disease?"
The old lady and the others also looked at Su Ying with hope.
"It's definitely leprosy."
Although they had been mentally prepared, when they heard Su Ying give the confirmed answer, the old lady and the others were still so shocked that they fell down on their chairs.
"But it's not completely impossible."
She raised her eyes to the old lady and said, "This is leprosy. Even the imperial doctors in the palace can't help. What can you do?"
"I don't know if the imperial physician in the palace can help, but I do have a method passed down from my ancestors that I can try."
Old Madam Xiang and Second Madam Xiang saw that Su Ying was not joking and became serious, "Miss Su, what can you do?"
"I have a formula here. It requires the use of the heart blood of the patient's blood-related sister as a medicine to introduce the drug and release it to cure the disease."
"What did you say? The blood of a blood sister?"
Su Ying's answer surprised everyone in the room.
It's not that Mr. Xiang II was without concubines in his house, and they had children too, but none of those children lived past the age of three. So up to now, the second branch of the Xiang family has only had one son and one daughter, both born to Mrs. Xiang II. Therefore, Xiang Shule has no blood sisters at all.
Of course, except Xiang Hualan.
Although they are not from the same mother, they are blood sisters.
Madam Xiang Er came to her senses and knelt down in front of Xiang Hualan begging.
"Lan'er, please save your sister. She is the sister you have loved since she was a child. Can you just watch her get into trouble and do nothing?"
Xiang Hualan looked at the begging Second Madam Xiang without saying a word. She just looked up at Old Madam Xiang and said, "Grandma, if it was blood from somewhere else, it would be fine, but this is blood from my heart. If I take this blood from my heart, my life will be in danger at any time. Are you going to force me to save my sister?"
Old Madam Xiang was filled with resentment and her face darkened. Although Xiang Hualan was not her biological daughter and she did not care about her life or death, it was undeniable that Xiang Hualan did have some abilities that could bring benefits to the Xiang family.
But on the other hand...that was her granddaughter, and the eldest prince had promised her before that as long as he broke off the engagement with Xiang Hualan, he would ask Xiang Shule to marry him.
However, Madam Xiang did not hesitate for too long and raised her head sadly, "Lan'er, as long as we are a little careful when taking the heart blood, nothing will happen." She turned to Su Ying, "Miss Su said so, right?"
Su Ying said coldly: "Of course not. This is actually equivalent to exchanging one life for another. The risk is extremely high, so whether to save or not is entirely up to you."
Su Ying had said this, and there was nothing the Xiang family didn't understand. If they wanted Xiang Shule to live, Xiang Hualan might die.
"My time is limited. I will leave tomorrow night at the latest. You should make a decision as soon as possible."
He stood up and asked the second lady, "Can you guarantee that you can cure Le'er's illness?"
"I can."
No doctor has ever said with such confidence as Su Ying that he can cure leprosy. This made Old Madam Xiang and the others unconsciously believe what Su Ying said.
"Lan'er, please, for the sake of your second aunt taking care of you for so many years, please save your sister..." Second Madam Xiang knelt in front of Xiang Hualan and begged bitterly.
Madam Xiang's heart had long been tilted towards Xiang Shule. "Lan'er, you know, if your sister hadn't rescued you when you fell into the water, you wouldn't be alive today. Grandmother won't force you. It's up to you to decide."
She said she could make her own decision, but the sharp look in the old lady's eyes seemed to be warning her that if she dared to refuse, she would never let her off.
Xiang Hualan felt extremely upset. The relative whom she had always trusted now wanted her to die without hesitation!
Xiang Hualan clenched her fists in her sleeves, but still gritted her teeth and said, "Whatever, whatever, I promise to save you, but I have a request."
When the two heard Xiang Hualan's agreement, a smile flashed in their eyes, "Just tell me if you have any request."
"I have to get back everything in my warehouse. Nothing can be lost."
Old Madam Xiang and Second Madam Xiang exchanged glances. The person is about to die, what is the point of holding those things?
Madam Xiang thought this might be a trick, "Your grandmother has been keeping those things for you. They will never fall into the hands of others."
"Grandma, many of those things were left to me by my parents. I don't know what the outcome of this incident will be, I just want to take a look, as well as leave a memory for myself. If grandma and second aunt change their minds and don't want to treat my second sister, I will personally send her to the Leper Mountain and have someone take good care of her." Xiang Hualan's expression was so sad that it made people feel that she really just wanted to leave a memory for herself.
But I still have doubts about the old lady.
(End of this chapter)
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