Xiao Qingyin nodded, "That's what I heard too."
Princess Zhaoyang laughed, "You're quite an interesting child compared to these wooden beauties in the capital. I almost lost my life, thanks to your help. Your medical skills are extraordinary. Who did you learn them from?"
“An old Taoist priest who travels all over the world,” Xiao Qingyin casually made up. “He taught me for a few years and then left. I don’t know where he went.”
"It seems I will not be able to see you." Princess Zhaoyang sighed, and then saw Granny He leading in the imperial physician's order. She waved her hand and said, "I'm already better, thank you for coming all this way."
Marquis Yong'an was still not entirely at ease. "Your Highness should have the Imperial Physician take your pulse."
"Alright," Princess Zhaoyang agreed. After examining the princess, the imperial physician was astonished. "Your Highness's health is even better than before. May I ask which renowned physician performed the examination?"
He looked at the imperial physician, who looked at Xiao Qingyin with a face full of shame. The imperial physician was astonished that the one who saved the princess's life was actually a young lady from a noble family.
“There are always mountains beyond mountains, and people beyond people. Don’t underestimate my future daughter-in-law,” Princess Zhaoyang said with a hearty laugh. “She is no ordinary person.”
Does this mean they've acknowledged the marriage between Xiao Qingyin and the heir of the Marquis of Yong'an?
Madam Yao was heartbroken. Her scheme had not only failed to offend Princess Zhaoyang, but had also cost her own daughter. She had really lost out.
She never imagined that the price would be far more than that.
Princess Zhaoyang directly expelled the mother and daughter from the Marquis's residence. Yao Shi returned to the residence with Xiao Qingrong, looking disheveled. Before she could even call for a doctor, Xiao Shengyuan returned from court and berated her severely.
"What did you do at the Princess's residence? His Majesty scolded me in front of all the civil and military officials for failing to properly educate my daughter, ordered me to reflect on my actions in seclusion for a month, and also fined me a year's salary!"
Mrs. Yao was dumbfounded.
"How did this escalate to the imperial court... My lord, Rongrong and I are innocent!"
Wiping away her tears, Madam Yao complained to Xiao Shengyuan, "...Rongrong knows the princess dislikes osmanthus, how could she make such a mistake? Qingyin is new here, I haven't had time to tell her these rules yet, she might make a mistake, but it was Rongrong who was found with the osmanthus sachet. She saved the princess, and instead became a guest of honor at the Marquis's mansion..."
Why is it that Xiao Qingyin gets all the benefits while the mother and daughter have to suffer?
“Rongrong was almost strangled to death by that murderer, and the master also lost face in the court. I’m afraid things are too coincidental. Once the princess and the marquis come to their senses and suspect that she deliberately set a trap, our whole household will lose our heads.”
Xiao Shengyuan didn't think that his daughter, who grew up in the countryside, had such great abilities. In such a short time, she had found out the princess's taboos and set a trap. But Yao's worries were not unfounded. The coincidences were too great. This was a crime of plotting against the royal family.
As a result, Xiao Qingyin was ordered to stay at home after returning from the banquet and was not allowed to leave the courtyard.
"Confined to your residence?" Xiao Qingyin found it amusing. "You think you can confine me to a mere Minister's residence? You're dreaming."
The next morning, after washing up, she walked towards the courtyard gate as if no one else was around. When the maids saw this, they quickly stepped forward to stop her.
"Miss, the master has asked you to..."
Before he could finish speaking, everything went black, and he collapsed to the ground.
Xiao Qingyin scattered medicine all the way out of the mansion, causing chaos and destruction wherever she went. When Yao received the news, she was so angry that she smashed all the porcelain in the house.
"This is outrageous! Absolutely outrageous!"
Xiao Qingyin ate her way from the wonton stall to the sesame seed cake stall, watching the bustling crowds and the occasional luxurious carriage passing by, and nodded in satisfaction: "The capital is still the most prosperous. Opening a pharmacy here will surely bring in a lot of money."
Female doctors were extremely rare in this era, and those who were were from medical families. Xiao Qingyin had no affiliation with any sect or school, and even if she wanted to treat patients, they wouldn't take her. After transmigrating, she partnered with someone to open a pharmacy in order to make a living.
The pharmacy was located in Yizhou, the prefecture where the Xiao family's ancestral home was located. After several years of operation, the business was booming. However, Yizhou was not a large place, and the business was very limited. Xiao Qingyin had long planned to open a branch.
She strolled around the largest commercial streets in Beijing, inquired about the rental and sales prices of shops, and found that they were all ridiculously expensive.
Yizhou Pharmacy's annual revenue isn't even enough to cover renting a shop here for half a year.
"No wonder it's the capital city where every inch of land is precious," Xiao Qingyin thought to herself, "Being a landlord here is much more profitable than doing business."
Her stomach started growling, and she was just looking for a place to have lunch when she suddenly saw a large crowd gathered around the clinic in front of her. Someone was shouting at the top of their lungs, "Dr. Gou, please, save my grandmother!"
"This clinic does not treat the dead! Take him away immediately!" a voice said mercilessly.
Xiao Qingyin squeezed in and saw a young man in his twenties kneeling on the ground, holding an elderly man with white hair in his arms. The elderly man was stiff and motionless.
"Grandma still has a body temperature, she's still alive!" the young man argued.
"No heartbeat and you still say you're alive? Go away, don't bring us bad luck!"
The young apprentice used a broom to chase people away.
Xiao Qingyin walked up to the young man, squatted down, took the old woman's hand to check her pulse, and then said to the young man, "Put her on the ground and keep her lying flat."
The young man was stunned.
"Hurry! If we delay any longer, it will be too late."
The young man snapped out of his daze and exclaimed excitedly, "You can save my grandmother?"
"Yes!" Xiao Qingyin said firmly.
The young man was on the verge of despair. He believed the man who suddenly appeared in front of him and said he could save his grandmother without thinking and immediately did as he was told.
Xiao Qingyin performed CPR on the elderly man.
The onlookers were so shocked to see her pressing on the old man's chest and blowing air into his mouth that their eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
"What is she doing? Is she performing a shamanistic ritual?"
"Good heavens! Even in death they are tortured, and they probably won't even get a complete corpse. What unfilial descendants!"
"This girl is quite pretty, and her clothes don't look like those of an ordinary person, so why does she act so frighteningly..."
Upon seeing this, the middle-aged man, whom the young man had just called Doctor Gou, sneered, "Your heart isn't even beating anymore, yet you're still performing some kind of shamanistic ritual. It's truly laughable."
Xiao Qingyin performed six sets of CPR before the old man's heart began to beat weakly again. Ignoring her aching arms, she immediately took out silver needles from her sleeve and began to administer acupuncture to the old man.
"Cough cough!" The old woman coughed violently. Xiao Qingyin helped her sit up. The old woman spat out a mouthful of black blood and slowly opened her eyes.
"Grandma!" The young man excitedly hugged the old woman.
"Oh my god! It's a zombie! It's a zombie!"
The crowd erupted in excitement; some retreated, while others mustered their courage and stepped forward to investigate.
The young man forcefully slapped away the hand that was reaching out to touch the old woman, and shouted sternly, "What do you think you're doing! Don't touch my grandmother!"
The man wasn't angry at being hit, and asked curiously, "Did your grandmother really come back to life?"
"Of course it's true." The young man carefully helped the old woman up. "Grandma, how are you now? Are you feeling unwell?"
The old man shook his head, "I'm much better."
She turned to Xiao Qingyin, about to thank her, but after seeing her face clearly, she froze on the spot.
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