"Sister, you look so beautiful in this hairpin!" the Eleventh Prince said weakly, looking at the hairpin in He Xue's hair.
"Because you made this for your older sister yourself, she loves it. When you get better, make a few more for her, okay?"
“Okay, it’s a deal!” the eleventh prince replied with a smile. He was determined to get better as soon as possible and make a lot of hairpins for his sister. He had loved carpentry since he was a child, but apart from his mother and two older brothers, no one else looked down on him and said that he was not as good as his ninth brother.
Until his older sister came back, she supported him, saying that as long as he did what he liked, he shouldn't care about what others thought!
He gave his older sister a wooden hairpin, and unexpectedly, she kept wearing it.
"Thank you, He Xue!" Consort Yi said to He Xue. The people in the palace looked down on Little Eleven's behavior, finding it unbelievable that a prince would like to be a carpenter.
Whether He Xue wore the hairpin temporarily or had been wearing it all along, she was grateful to He Xue, which made Xiao Shiyi happy.
"Your Highness, you're too kind! I also like Little Eleven very much!" He Xue said. The Eleventh Prince has always been well-behaved and sensible.
At this moment, Physician Liu arrived, and He Xue gave up her seat. Physician Liu's final diagnosis was the same as that of the previous physicians.
The eleventh prince had similar symptoms before, but he took some herbal decoctions at the beginning, which relieved the symptoms. However, this time the herbal decoctions probably won't work anymore.
Consort Yi saw that even Physician Liu was helpless and wept softly.
"Physician Liu, please prescribe medicine to relieve Xiao Shiyi's symptoms!" the Crown Prince said to Physician Liu.
"Yes!" Physician Liu quickly wrote down two prescriptions: one was Yi Yi Fu Zi Bai Jiang San, used to dispel cold evil in the body and relieve pain; the other was Da Huang Mu Dan Tang, used to purge heat, break up lumps, and reduce swelling.
These two prescriptions can temporarily alleviate the eleventh prince's symptoms, but they cannot cure him. Now we can only do our best and leave the rest to fate.
Everyone remained silent, except for Consort Yi's sobs and the Fifth Prince's wife's voice comforting her.
If we find a Western doctor, can we save Xiao Shiyi? But can they accept open surgery? He Xue wondered to herself.
"He Xue, let He Zhu escort you back first!" the Crown Prince said to He Xue.
"Brother Crown Prince, can we try finding a Western doctor?" He Xue asked.
"Western doctors?" The Crown Prince looked at He Xue in confusion. He knew that He Xue had been exposed to more Western things when she was in the South. Could Western medicine cure Little Eleven?
Everyone heard Xue and the Crown Prince's conversation and looked at them.
A glimmer of light appeared in Consort Yi's eyes.
"Sister, you have a way to save Little Eleven, right? You must have a way!" Ninth Prince asked anxiously as he approached He Xue.
“Xiao Jiu, calm down. I heard a foreigner mention this when I was in Fujian, but it requires opening the abdomen and cutting away the diseased area to cure it!” He Xue said.
Upon hearing He Xue mention that he needed to have his abdomen opened, the Ninth Prince couldn't help but take two steps back. Putting aside whether his father would agree, this method was too risky.
Consort Yi turned around and looked at the Eleventh Prince lying on the bed, silently shedding tears.
"He Zhu, summon Physician Liu!" the Crown Prince said to He Zhu. He wanted to ask Physician Liu if he had heard of such a method.
"Second Brother, do you really agree to do this?" The Eighth Prince was the first to stand up and object.
"Second Brother, putting aside whether this method can save Little Eleven, the idea of opening the abdomen is simply too absurd, and to even more so, to cut out something from inside the abdomen is utterly unbelievable!"
If it were any other matter, the Eighth Prince might support He Xue, but not in this one. If the Eleventh Prince were to die because of it, Consort Yi might hold a grudge against He Xue.
Another point is that the Eighth Prince knows that the Ninth Prince and the Crown Prince have been getting closer recently. If this method can save the Eleventh Prince, the Ninth Prince will probably completely submit to the Crown Prince, which is not what he wants to see.
Recently, he had been trying to persuade the First Prince to help him, hoping that the First Prince would consider that he had also been raised under Consort Hui's care. Unexpectedly, the First Prince told him that if he behaved himself, he might be granted the title of a hereditary prince in the future.
He wouldn't be satisfied with just being a hereditary prince; he wanted greater power, only then could he get everything he desired.
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