However, on the third day, when Xiao Youran was all ready to embark on the journey north to Dingzhou with Doctor Gu, a sudden little incident disrupted their plans.
It turned out that as they were leaving the city, they heard someone shouting from the city wall, "The ghost doctor is here! The demon doctor is here! Smash them! Quick! Smash them!"
Xiao Youran was startled.
What kind of doctor is this? What kind of sorcerer is this?
The sound of eggs being smashed could be heard coming from the roof of the carriage.
There were also some other things mixed in.
The guards were also completely bewildered, and shouted, "Who goes there! How dare you be so disrespectful to our young county princess?!"
Someone shouted from afar, "That young county princess is a monster, a demon doctor! Doctor Gu isn't a doctor either, he's a ghost doctor! They dared to cut open a living person's abdomen to remove their child! This is murder!"
Xiao Youran's face darkened, and she shouted sternly, "Hurry up and arrest that person who is spreading heresy!"
"Yes!" The guards responded and left.
Suddenly, more and more people appeared out of nowhere, shouting, "Burn the demon doctor! Burn the ghost doctor!"
There were over a hundred people at once.
The dozen or so guards were at a loss and hurriedly drove Xiaoyouran's carriage back into the city gate.
Unexpectedly, this group of people came in a fierce manner and forced their carriage to push towards the clinic.
Upon arriving at the clinic's entrance, some people threw eggs and rotten vegetable leaves at the clinic's door.
Xiao Youran and Doctor Gu stared at each other in the carriage, neither of them understanding what had happened.
Just then, someone outside shouted, "These ghost doctor and demon doctor dared to cut open a woman's abdomen to take her child! In my opinion, the child that was taken out is also a demon. How can a living person survive after being cut open? The mother who survived must be a living dead! What else could that child be but a demon?"
"That's right! The living dead shouldn't live! The Japanese devils shouldn't live in this world!"
"What living dead? What Japanese devils? Where did these Japanese devils come from?" someone asked loudly on purpose.
"You don't know, do you? When the princess was giving birth, the baby was in a perfect breech position, the most difficult position for childbirth. Normally, the mother couldn't possibly deliver the baby easily. It was this little miracle doctor and the great miracle doctor—oh, no! They should be called a demon doctor and a ghost doctor—who operated on the mother and literally cut the baby out. What are they if not devils?"
"So the eldest princess's son is a Japanese soldier? Then the eldest princess..."
"The eldest princess was disemboweled while still alive, yet she is still alive and well. What else could she be but a demon or a living dead?"
"Oh my god..."
Yueyue rushed out of the clinic, shouting angrily, "You ignorant fools! How dare you speak ill of royalty! Your crime is compounded!"
"who is she?"
"I heard he's that ghost doctor's apprentice."
"Ghost Doctor! Demon Doctor! Are you still unwilling to get out of the carriage?"
Xiao Youran finally understood: these people were all after the Princess.
Although the target was clearly her and Doctor Gu, the ultimate goal was the eldest princess's son.
She remembered that the eldest princess had said that her son was the only son of the Zhenguo Duke Xue family and might inherit the Xue family army in the northern border.
But who exactly leaked the news that the eldest princess had given birth via cesarean section?
As soon as she lifted the carriage curtain, an egg was thrown at her from outside.
The guard beside him reacted quickly and blocked the egg.
Xiao Youren covered her face with her sleeve, quickly got off the carriage, and pulled Yueyue into the clinic. Doctor Gu followed closely behind, and several guards slammed the clinic doors shut.
Doctor Gu is not seeing patients today; there are only a few people picking up their prescriptions.
Yan Jin was busy sorting and packaging some dried herbs when she saw the two of them rushing back. She asked in surprise, "Master, Princess, why are you back?"
Yueyue was furious. "Those damned scoundrels dare to talk nonsense!"
"What did they say?" Yan Jin asked curiously.
Xiao Youran's face darkened. "Only the two of us know about the Princess's affair. How did outsiders find out?"
Yueyue's face turned red with anger. "Neither you nor I could possibly leak this. The only one left is Aunt Jinxiu. But she is extremely loyal to my mother and would never do such a thing."
"What exactly happened?" Yan Jin was still very curious.
Yueyue glanced at her but didn't say anything.
Yan Jin quickly lowered her head, "It was this servant who overstepped her bounds."
Having spent so much time with this unpretentious princess, she had gotten used to speaking her mind and asking questions without hesitation, and for a moment she had forgotten the proper etiquette.
Suddenly, Doctor Gu asked, "Yan Jin, did those two women who had cesarean sections come back to the clinic after their stitches were removed?"
Yan Jin shook her head blankly, "Yan Jin has never seen it."
"Master means that people know about their cesarean section and the birth of their child, and then they deduce my mother's situation from that?" Yueyue was precocious and immediately made this connection.
“It’s not impossible.” Doctor Gu’s expression wasn’t very good either. “But after they survived by the skin of their teeth that day, I repeatedly told them not to let anyone else know about this.”
But secrets can't stay hidden forever. If either of their stories were leaked and those with ulterior motives found out, they would gradually piece together the truth about how the princess was saved during her difficult childbirth.
Thus, we have this vicious attack today.
If it is aimed at the eldest princess's youngest son, the only bloodline of the Duke of Zheng's mansion, and the future heir of the Xue family army in the southern border.
This bizarre and malicious attack is quite understandable.
What reputation could be worse than that of the Japanese invaders, or more detrimental to morale?
Just then, the side door of the clinic was banged on loudly.
Yan Jin answered the door and then returned to report, "Princess, it is your aunt from the Princess's residence who has come to invite you back to the residence."
Without a word, Yueyue grabbed Xiao Youran's hand and headed towards the door. "It seems you and Master can't leave today. Why don't you come back to the Princess's residence with me and see my mother? My little brother is so young and has to bear such a bad reputation. These people are utterly despicable!"
The two exited through the side door of the clinic and, escorted by guards, hurriedly boarded a carriage and returned to the Princess's residence.
Sure enough, the eldest princess sat in the main seat of the flower hall with a livid face, a long list already forming in her mind.
The only ones capable of targeting the Princess's residence and the Duke of Zheng's residence in this way are those generals who have been eyeing the Xue family army in the northern border.
Wen Yuanbai sat quietly to the side and said calmly, "Aunt, there is no need to worry. Today, there were censors who impeached me in court, but Father suppressed them. However, there must be a reason for everything. My cousin Xuan is only a little over a year old, and someone is already eager to make a move. They must have designs on the Xue family army."
The eldest princess gritted her teeth, "To kill someone is to destroy their spirit! I only regret that I am now just a woman and cannot go to the Southern Border! Otherwise, I would have shown the Xue family army that the descendant of the Xue family is just an ordinary child!"
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