"I hate you, I don't want you to apply the medicine!" Lanqin spat.
"Alright, I'll go ask Doctor Lin. Chief Physician Yang should be here soon." The Fourth Prince felt very uncomfortable at the thought that his wife might be deliberately delaying his treatment to make him feel guilty.
After the Fourth Master left, Lanqin had Cui Niang and Nianxue come in to serve her.
"Master, let me apply the medicine for you. Where are you injured?" Nianxue noticed that Lanqin was lying on the bed in a strange position.
Cui Niang went to tidy up the boxes, and Fourth Master opened each box one by one, making the entire dressing table look like it had been robbed.
Lanqin was embarrassed this time. Her face turned as red as an apple, and she said "butt" in a voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz.
Nianxue didn't hear her, so she had to ask again, "Where?"
"Butt!" Lanqin said, then buried her head in the blanket.
Nianxue and Cui Niang both looked at Lanqin with smiles, thinking that the two of them were just flirting, not arguing as they thought!
Nianxue gently pulled down Lanqin's pants, and sure enough, there were some red finger marks on her pink buttocks!
"Master is really something, how did he manage to leave such marks?" Nianxue immediately felt sorry for him, complaining as she opened the ointment to reduce swelling and relieve pain.
Lanqin buried her head in the quilt. Although Nianxue and the others had seen her body before, they had never seen her buttocks like this before. She cursed that guy Si in her heart again.
"Cui Niang, let your eldest and second brothers come into the manor. I think we need to stop her from causing trouble as soon as possible!" Lan Qin poked her head out from under the covers and said to Cui Niang, "Sometimes, being lenient with the enemy is being cruel to yourself!"
While applying medicine to Lanqin's buttocks, Nianxue said, "Master is absolutely right. She couldn't help but hit Master again! Second Princess is really something, Master treats her so well, yet she is ungrateful!"
“Second Princess is a junior, so our master can’t say anything about her. Besides, she went to plead for the primary wife, which is considered filial piety in the master’s eyes. The master must not say anything about that!” Cui Niang said as she finished tidying up the dressing table.
“I know, that’s why I didn’t mention the Second Princess at all!” Lanqin said. “Cui Niang, you should talk to your eldest brother tomorrow and do as I discussed with you the other day.”
Cui Niang nodded in agreement.
Meanwhile, Yang Yuanzheng was stroking his white beard as he took the pulse of the Fujin (principal wife).
Fourth Master called over Doctor Lin, who also stood aside and watched.
The Fujin was somewhat nervous. After all, Niohuru had already guessed that she had thrown away the medicine. If Niohuru told the Fourth Prince, how would he view her? The Fujin felt a chill run down her spine at the thought; Niohuru was terrifying! The reason the Fujin had humiliated herself to gain the Fourth Prince's pity was because she thought no one would suspect her method, especially with the Second Princess and Yehe Shi subtly encouraging her. However, the Fourth Prince hadn't lifted her confinement, so the Fujin was now extremely anxious, fearing that Yang Yuanzheng would discover the truth!
When the Fourth Prince brought Doctor Lin over again, he had already asked him in detail. Doctor Lin also said that the Princess Consort's cold shouldn't have been cured after drinking herbal medicine for so long, unless she caught another cold or wasn't taking the medicine properly!
Yang Yuanzheng removed his old, withered hand from the Fujin's wrist.
"Professor Yang, how is the Fujin?" the Fourth Prince asked hurriedly.
Lingxiu and several maids stood nervously to one side. Some of them were afraid that the doctor would say it was due to the servants' inadequate care, and they would be punished! Others, like Lingxiu, shared the same worry as the Fujin, fearing that the Imperial Physician Yang would realize that the problem stemmed from not taking the medicine properly!
"The Fourth Princess Consort's condition is due to a cold, and her symptoms don't seem to be getting better. In addition, the weather is getting colder, which has caused the cold to invade her body. I will prescribe more medicine, and she must drink it all, otherwise she may get worse!" said Yang, the Imperial Physician.
The princess relaxed a little. Yang Yuanzheng's words were rather ambiguous, and it was hard to tell what he meant.
The Fourth Prince first had Yang, the Imperial Physician, prescribe a medicine for his wife, and then ordered Su Peisheng to personally lead Lingxiu and several other maids to get the medicine and brew it.
Fourth Master then led Yang, the Imperial Physician, and Doctor Lin back to his front courtyard.
After Zi Ran served them tea and they were seated, the Fourth Prince asked directly, "Director Yang, how exactly did the Princess Consort's illness get to this point?"
Upon hearing this, Physician Yang's mind raced, and he glanced at Doctor Lin, saying, "Why don't we have Doctor Lin from your household speak on this?"
Dr. Lin immediately bowed to Chief Physician Yang and said, "How can a junior like me presume to teach a senior like me?"
The wrinkled face of the Imperial Physician Yang relaxed slightly as he cleared his throat and said, "The reason why the Princess Consort's illness has progressed to this stage is because she has not been taking any medicine or the medicine she is taking is incorrect!"
Upon hearing this, Doctor Lin immediately said, "All the prescriptions I gave for the Princess Consort are here. Please take a look, senior!"
After taking the prescription from Doctor Lin and glancing at it, Dr. Yang said, "Doctor Lin's prescription is correct. You should be able to get better if you take the medicine according to this prescription."
Doctor Lin breathed a sigh of relief. If his prescription had been questioned, he would have been punished by the Fourth Master.
"So, there's only one reason: it's because the Princess Consort didn't take the medicine properly!" The Fourth Prince's expression immediately darkened.
"In my opinion, that's right! But why hasn't the Princess Consort taken her medicine properly? We should ask the servants who are attending to her," said Yang Yuanzheng.
Fourth Master knew this in his heart, but he couldn't say it out loud so that outsiders would know!
Doctor Lin also knew a little bit, but since Fourth Master didn't say anything, he couldn't just say it out loud.
After sending someone to escort Yang Yuanzheng out, the Fourth Prince, with a sullen face, ordered Lingxiu and Qiuchan, who served his wife, to be brought before him.
Su Peisheng had just returned from the main courtyard when he saw Zhao Quan and a servant coming out of the Fourth Master's study.
Meanwhile, Lingxiu was feeding the Fujin medicine.
"I wonder what Imperial Physician Yang will say to the Fourth Prince? I have a bad feeling about this. I didn't expect Lady Niohuru to guess it so quickly. If she tells the Fourth Prince, I will only make him dislike me even more!" The Princess was immediately filled with fear. She had only thought of using this method to gain sympathy, but she never expected that Lanqin would see through it!
“Master, as long as we stick to our guns and don’t say anything, that’s fine. Didn’t Chief Physician Yang just say that it wasn’t caused by you not taking your medicine?” Lingxiu said.
"That cunning old man! He wouldn't say that in front of me, the Fujin," the Fujin said.
Just then, Zhao Quan and a young servant came over.
"Sister Lingxiu, they're here! They say they want you and Sister Qiuchan to go to the front yard!" A little maid rushed in and said.
"What's the panic? Who's coming?" the princess shouted.
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