Chapter 327 Reversing the Heavenly Gang
"What?!"
Princess Ning was startled and asked urgently, "Where did this doctor come from? Who invited him? Is his diagnosis accurate?"
The maid whispered, "He's the doctor who usually treats the servants in our manor. I heard from Miss Huayi that the young master invited him for her."
Princess Ning turned her head sharply: "Qingyuan, since you've already called a doctor for her, why did you still come to ask Tang'er to treat her?! You're being utterly absurd!"
“Mother, I was just worried that the doctor’s diagnosis wasn’t good enough, so after I hired a doctor for Huayi, I came to Shen Wantang to ask her to take another look at Huayi, just to be on the safe side.”
"You!! You've never cared this much when I was sick!"
“There are plenty of people to serve you here, Mother, and Shen Wantang is also filial to you, so you don’t need me. Huayi is just a maid, who will care for her? Of course I should take better care of her.”
After Xiao Qingyuan finished speaking, he asked the maid who had delivered the message somewhat anxiously, "Is Huayi really pregnant? You're not mistaken?"
"Your Highness, this is what the doctor said. I don't know if he made a mistake, but he has been practicing medicine for many years and is very experienced. He shouldn't make a mistake in such an important matter, right?"
Xiao Qingyuan disliked such ambiguous answers. He turned to Shen Wantang and said, "Shen Wantang, go and check on Huayi quickly. Make sure she's really pregnant! This is my first child!"
Shen Wantang sat beside Princess Ning, motionless, her tone calm and steady: "If the Prince doesn't trust this doctor, then he can just hire another doctor for Huayi. The Prince's mansion isn't so destitute that it can't afford a doctor. If word gets out that I, the Princess Consort, have to examine a maid, the Prince's mansion will be laughed at for being so unruly."
Xiao Qingyuan frowned: "Shen Wantang, can you stop being so stingy? It's just a doctor's visit, it's not like you'll lose a piece of your body, why do you keep making excuses? One excuse after another, isn't it just that you look down on Huayi because she's a maid? Stop pretending!"
"It's just a medical appointment, why does the young master insist that I treat her? There isn't a single doctor or imperial physician in the capital who can accurately diagnose her. Is the young master deliberately humiliating me by making me treat a maid? Is he looking down on me?"
Shen Wantang's voice was icy: "Your Highness says I'm faking it, then Your Highness will show me what it's like to be faking it. From now on, you will serve Moji, take care of his food, clothing, and nighttime needs, run errands for him, and be his servant."
"Nonsense! Mo Ji is a servant, I am the heir apparent, how can I serve him! You are turning against the Heavenly Gang!"
Shen Wantang sneered: "Huayi is a servant too, how can I serve her! Rebelling against the Heavenly Gang? That was started by the young master!"
"The sentiment is different! She has served me for so long, she deserves preferential treatment when she is sick!"
"Mo Ji served the Crown Prince for a short time? Mo Ji risked his life for the Crown Prince, protecting him with his own life. Shouldn't he receive preferential treatment?"
"This is what a lackey should do!"
"Serving the Crown Prince with her art is also what she should do!"
"you!!"
Xiao Qingyuan's forehead veins bulged with anger: "Huayi is very likely pregnant now, she's different from Moji!"
"Does the young master look down on Mo Ji because he's just a servant? A maid's life is a life, but a servant's life isn't? The young master can't even treat everyone equally, yet he mocks me for being stingy?"
"Shen Wantang, you're mimicking me! That's sophistry!"
"Does Your Highness mean that I learned this sophistry from you? Your Highness is quite self-aware!"
Xiao Qingyuan was speechless. He pointed at Shen Wantang and kept saying "you" for a long time, but he didn't know how to refute it. However, he would never become a servant to Mo Ji. Shen Wantang was treating him like a slave!
“When I was young, I learned medicine from my maternal grandfather, not to practice medicine and save the world, but simply so that I wouldn’t have to ask for help when I was sick. Now, thanks to my father and mother for not looking down on my mediocre medical skills, I occasionally take their pulses and prescribe medicine, which is my way of showing my filial piety.”
“Maid, I have no obligation to treat you. I have already fulfilled my duty as mistress by fetching a doctor for you!”
Shen Wantang's cold face remained expressionless: "Since the young master dotes on your maid so much, then he should also learn medicine. If I can learn it, then someone as capable as the young master can naturally learn it too. Once the young master has mastered it, he can also examine and treat his father and mother, killing two birds with one stone."
Xiao Qingyuan's face was very ugly: "So what if you know a little medicine? What's so great about that! If you don't want to show it to Huayi, just say so. Why do you have to lecture me like this?"
"Your Highness seems to have amnesia. I've already told you so, how could you forget so quickly? Your Highness shouldn't bother calling a doctor for Huayi, you should call a doctor to check your head first!"
Xiao Qingyuan was so angry that all the blood in his body rushed to his head: "Mother, look at her! I say one thing to her and she says ten things back. She's deliberately trying to make things difficult for me! Aren't you going to do anything about her? Are you just going to let her bully me like this?"
“I think Tang’er makes a good point.”
"What?! Mother, why are you siding with her again? I'm your own son!"
"Yeah?"
Princess Ning looked at him calmly and said, "To me, you seem to be Huayi's biological son."
"Mother!"
"He accompanied her back to her parents' home for her funeral, then he held his own heir apparent hostage with a knife for her sake, and then he led people to the Duke's mansion to fight with Gu Qianhan. He's risking his life and his reputation!"
Princess Ning was furious when she thought about the stupid things her son had done: "Such absurd things have happened one after another. If it hadn't happened in our family, I wouldn't have believed that there could be such a stupid person! I think Tang'er is absolutely right. You should have a doctor check your head!"
Xiao Qingyuan opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.
He snorted angrily, turned around and left: "None of you care about me, only Huayi cares about me! I'm going back to see Huayi, I can't be bothered to argue with you!"
Princess Ning watched his departing figure and sighed heavily: "This can't go on. He doesn't do anything productive all day. We need to find him something to do."
Shen Wantang asked her, "What kind of work does Mother want to find for the Prince? Isn't the Prince currently on duty at the Dali Temple?"
Princess Ning shook her head with a wry smile: "He has lost interest in his duties at the Dali Temple and has not wanted to do them these past few days. So, let's just invite a royal physician back for him and teach him medicine."
“This… Mother, I was just saying it casually. The young master doesn’t seem to like studying medicine.”
Princess Ning took her hand and patted it reassuringly: "No matter what he likes, just find him something to do so he won't make a fool of himself again. The days he was on duty at the Dali Temple were the most peaceful days in our mansion. Obviously, he'll be more composed when he has something to do."
"Moreover, I think your suggestion should hit a nerve with Qingyuan. Even though he doesn't say it, he actually envies your superb medical skills."
“We don’t need him to learn it perfectly; even learning a little bit would be good.”
"You can take this opportunity to give him some pointers and improve your relationship."
"Tang'er, it's time for you to have a child."
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