Chapter 203 Past Events (I)
After the poison was removed, Wen Li'er fell into a deep sleep with a dizzy head.
The abdominal pain has eased, but she is now exhausted and feels weak and achy all over.
Plus, my head felt dizzy, as if a thousand-pound stone was stuffed in it.
Wen Li'er rubbed the warm chest that held her in his arms.
"Your Majesty, I need to sleep for a while."
After saying this, she fell into a deep sleep.
Yan Shixu gently wiped the sweat off her forehead, then looked at Nangong Ziyun beside her.
"Miss Ziyun, could you please take another look at Li'er and the child? The poisonous insect has been in Li'er's stomach for several days. Has it already affected their bodies?"
Nangong Ziyun had actually already checked it, but in order to reassure the emperor, she had no choice but to step forward and take Wen Lier's pulse again.
After a while, she said, "Your Majesty, please rest assured. The parasite in the Imperial Concubine's body has been removed. Fortunately, it was discovered early, and the Dragon Heir is fine. I will prescribe a prescription for conditioning, and he will be back to normal in three days."
Yan Shixu nodded.
"Miss Ziyun has made great contributions in saving the Imperial Concubine and the Dragon Heir. What reward do you want? As long as I can do it, I can satisfy you."
Nangong Ziyun shook his head.
"Your Majesty promised me that he would help me uncover the truth behind the Nangong family's annihilation. Regardless of who the murderer was, they would pay the same price to comfort the souls of the 187 people who lost their lives in the Nangong Mansion. I have no other wishes in this life. Furthermore, the Wen family's help in recovering the Nangong family's secret treasure book, lost for over 20 years, is a great favor to the Nangong family, and I owe them my gratitude."
Upon hearing this, Yan Shixu shook his head and said, "Your repayment of the Wen family's favor does not conflict with my repayment of yours. When you have avenged your great vengeance, there will be no need to hide your identity anymore. When that time comes, I will confer upon you the title of Princess. When you marry, you can discuss with your husband's family about adopting your second son to the Nangong family, carrying on the Nangong family's legacy. You can also serve in the Imperial Hospital, inheriting your grandfather's legacy."
Nangong Ziyun's eyes turned slightly red when he heard this.
She knelt down and saluted Yan Shixu, touching the ground with her forehead.
"On behalf of the Nangong family, I bow to thank the Emperor for his great grace."
"Get up."
Two quarters of an hour later, Yan Shixu asked Madam Su to help arrange a maid to come and look after Wen Li'er.
Madam Su directly asked her personal maids Baozhu and Jinzhu to serve her.
After everyone returned to the main hall and sat down, Wen Tingkuan slowly recounted what had happened that year.
More than 20 years ago.
Wen Tingkuan was still a poor scholar who depended on his widowed mother for support. Later, he was valued by his wife's family and married Liang.
Wen Tingkuan was raised by his mother alone. The hard work and the need to support his education ruined her health.
Before he could pass the imperial examination, his mother fell ill and coughed up blood every day.
The doctor examined the patient and said that he would not live long. He said that if he took expensive ginseng medicine, he could only live for another six months.
As a son, Wen Tingkuan could not bear to watch his mother die before fulfilling his filial duty.
Half a year should be cherished.
In order to save money to buy ginseng, he copied books day and night to earn money and teach children in a private school.
Unexpectedly, because he was too tired during that period, he fainted on the way to the private school one day.
In one’s life, one will always meet the noble people in life inadvertently.
Because of that fainting incident, Wen Tingkuan also met the noble person in his life.
That day, Nangong Lingxiao, the eldest son of the Nangong family's head, happened to be passing by Luohe Town in Mizhou. Seeing Wen Tingkuan fainted on the ground, he rescued him.
When Wen Tingkuan woke up, Nangong Lingxiao learned that his mother was seriously ill. He fainted from exhaustion in order to earn money to buy ginseng for his mother's treatment.
That day, Nangong Lingxiao was not in a hurry to travel. Seeing that this man, who was about the same age as him, was extremely talented and filial, he felt pity for him.
He revealed his identity and went to the Wen family with Wen Tingkuan to take Wen's mother's pulse.
Wen's mother's health was indeed very poor. Even if Wen Tingkuan really bought a ginseng for her to eat, she could only live for another half a year.
But as the heir of the Shenglin medical family, Nangong Lingxiao was confident that he could let Wen's mother live ten more years, and he didn't need expensive medicinal materials like ginseng.
But there is a problem, acupuncture is required every two days.
Nangong Lingxiao can stay in Luohe Town for a maximum of one day. The rest of the time, Wen Tingkuan needs to ask his mother to go to Mizhou to find him.
Since Nangong Lingxiao's father's generation, the Nangong family moved back to their ancestral home in Mizhou. Only Old Master Nangong continued to stay in the capital as the imperial physician.
But by then he had already resigned from his official position with the emperor, and would be able to return to Mizhou to reunite with his family soon.
At that time, Wen Tingkuan was already a scholar and had originally planned to go to Mizhou to take part in the autumn examination that year.
However, his mother was seriously ill and his wife was four months pregnant. He was worried about leaving and planned to postpone the exam for three years.
When Nangong Lingxiao heard this, he immediately began to persuade him.
He suggested that Wen Tingkuan go with him to Mizhou and take his mother with him.
In this way, Wen Tingkuan could continue to participate in the autumn examination that year, and his mother could also ask him for acupuncture every two days.
Wen Tingkuan was moved that his mother could live another ten years...
Even if he was not going to take the imperial examination in autumn, he would definitely go to Mizhou just to let his mother live ten more years.
Wen Tingkuan asked Nangong Lingxiao to wait for him for one more day. He first sent his wife back to her parents' home and asked his father-in-law, mother-in-law and three uncles to take care of her.
After that, he took care of the trivial matters at home, and then went to Mizhou with Nangong Lingxiao.
After arriving in Mizhou, Wen Tingkuan originally wanted to rent a small farmhouse on the outskirts of the city, settle his mother down, and first see if there were any ways to make money.
But Nangong Lingxiao had already sent a pigeon to the provincial government in advance, asking his family to arrange accommodation for Wen Tingkuan and his mother, which was not far from Nangong Mansion.
Nangong Lingxiao advised Wen Tingkuan to study hard first and focus on the autumn examination.
After I finish high school, I will earn money to pay back his medical expenses.
They met by chance, but she did this for him. No words could express the gratitude in Wen Tingkuan's heart.
I will repay this kindness as soon as I pass the imperial examination.
But God played a big joke on him.
After going to Mizhou, Nangong Lingxiao gave Wen's mother ten consecutive acupuncture treatments. Wen's mother's health recovered a lot, and she only needed three acupuncture treatments a month from then on.
Three months later, Wen Tingkuan entered the examination room.
Mother Wen's health has also improved a lot.
Since her son was not at home, Wen's mother sent the small clothes she made in her spare time to Nangong Mansion.
Nangong Lingxiao's wife, Liu, was gentle and kind. She was also pregnant at the time, and her child was the same age as Wen Tingkuan's.
Mother Wen really didn't know how to repay the Nangong family. Thinking of her good embroidery skills, she made some clothes and shoes for the children and sent them to them as a token of her gratitude.
Liu really likes the embroidery work done by Wen's mother.
She immediately invited Wen's mother to have dinner at Nangong's house and asked her for advice on embroidery.
I never thought that we would chat till late at night and it was already dark.
Liu was worried that Wen's mother, an elderly woman, would not be able to see the road clearly in the dark, so she asked someone to clean up a room for Wen's mother to stay in Nangong Mansion for one night.
Mother Wen was not good at speaking and could not refuse the kindness.
As a country woman, she stayed in such a wealthy family's home and didn't even dare to touch the quilt for fear of getting it dirty.
That night, she sat by the window all night without sleeping, praying that her son would do well in the exam and get a good score.
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