However, Lu Huai did not call Bao Bao in as she expected: "Ayu! Quickly go and fetch the royal physician!"
Qin Xi looked like she had swallowed a fly.
She tried to explain something: "Lu Huai, there's no need to call a doctor."
"Mmm." Lu Huai tucked the blanket around her, but didn't call for A-Yu to come back.
"This really...doesn't need a doctor..."
"Um."
"Really, there's no need. This doctor can't cure it..."
"Don't think too much. The doctors in the manor are very skilled; you'll definitely get better." Lu Huai gazed at her tenderly.
Qin Xi looked like she had swallowed a fly and was choked.
"Wait for me," Lu Huai said to her in a rare gentle tone, but Qin Qi felt like crying.
She watched helplessly as Lu Huai walked out of the room, glancing at her one last time before leaving.
Qin Xi: "..."
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As soon as he stepped out of the room, Lu Huai's face darkened. The temperature around them seemed to drop instantly, and Lele and Bao Bao, who were waiting outside, couldn't help but shiver.
“Su Ying.” Lu Huai said with a sullen face, it was unclear who he was speaking to.
Suddenly, a man dressed in black appeared, his face covered by a black cloth, obscuring half of his face. He knelt on one knee, his right hand on the ground, and said respectfully but without a trace of emotion, "Your subordinate obeys."
"Find out the pastry shop at No. 36 Jingkou Hutong and bring the shopkeeper and the head chef over to me," Lu Huai said sharply, his eyes slightly closed.
"Your subordinate obeys."
Before the words were even finished, the man in black had vanished without a trace. Lele Bao Bao, who had witnessed the whole thing, was dumbfounded, feeling as if she had seen something she shouldn't have.
"Do you know what to do?" Lu Huai's eyes were still looking ahead, but he was speaking to Lele's bag.
"This servant didn't see anything, and knows nothing." The two maids immediately knelt down, terrified, their bodies trembling like leaves.
Lu Huai turned around, glanced at them casually, and then went back into the room.
Qin Xi was curled up in a ball on the bed, the blanket only covering her elbows, making her look very small.
Lu Huai's eyes softened instantly.
He sat down by the bed and saw that Qin Xi's lips were pale. Lu Huai felt a pang of pain in his eyes and pulled the blanket up for her. A huge sense of self-blame overwhelmed him.
If... he hadn't bought the snowflake pastry from that shop, she wouldn't have suffered like this...
"Hmm...?" Qin Xi sensed the movement and opened her eyes.
Upon seeing that it was Lu Huai, Qin Qi immediately sobered up, her voice even softer than before: "Quick... quick, call Bao Bao in..."
Lu Huai was extremely displeased with her willful insistence on calling the maid in. What time was it? Couldn't she just wait for the doctor to arrive? What use was calling that clumsy maid?
He shook his head: "Don't worry, I will definitely find someone to cure you."
The expression on Qin Xi's face shattered instantly.
As soon as I relaxed, another wave of heat surged through my lower abdomen.
Feeling the dampness, Qin Qi wanted to cry but had no tears. Lu Huai was just too unreasonable.
Before long, Ayu arrived with the family physician.
The doctor who arrived was Dr. Zheng, the most senior physician in the Ministry of Rites, an old man over fifty. He had been running all the way with A-Yu and was panting heavily, wiping the fine sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.
Lu Huai dismissed his attendants and nodded slightly to Doctor Zheng: "Please, Doctor, examine my wife."
"Young master, you flatter me. I will take the young mistress's pulse now," Doctor Zheng said, taking out a small pillow for taking pulses.
"Young Madam, please place your hands on it," Doctor Zheng said to Qin Qi, placing the pillow on the edge of the bed and bending down.
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