Fang Yi saw Feng Yuheng's reaction, but thought that she didn't move forward just to avoid suspicion, so she took the initiative to step forward, lifted the curtain and went in first to say to the queen: "Your Majesty, Princess Ji'an is here, and she said she wants to see you."
The Queen was originally quite unhappy with what Concubine Yuan Shu said, and she was not feeling well, so she coughed a few times. Now that she heard that Feng Yuheng was here, she finally showed joy on her face: "Please invite the princess in." After saying that, she glanced at Concubine Yuan Shu and warned: "Don't talk nonsense about Mo Xu. The wife of Lao Jiu is not someone who can be fooled. Be careful that you, the Concubine, will lose face."
As soon as she finished her warning, Feng Yuheng walked in slowly under the guidance of Fang Yi. He bowed to the queen and said, "Ah Heng greets the queen. May the queen be well."
The queen was all smiles, and quickly asked Fangyi to help the man up, and then said: "I have been thinking about you these days. I was thinking that if you hadn't come, this disease might not have been cured."
"Don't worry, Madam. Ah Heng is here!" She smiled and stepped forward, glanced at Concubine Yuan Shu, and said generously, "This nobleman looks familiar. I think I must have seen him at the palace banquet. I wonder which madam he is?"
Concubine Yuan Shu felt very embarrassed. She was the biological mother of the Eighth Prince after all, but Princess Ji'an was so blunt that she didn't even recognize her. She immediately said with a fake smile, "I am your Majesty's concubine, please greet me!"
Feng Yuheng smiled and didn't argue with her too much. She just leaned forward and said, "Hello, Madam Shufei." Then, without waiting for Shufei to say anything, she stood up, walked forward and sat next to the queen. Without saying anything, she grabbed the queen's right wrist and began to examine her.
She examined the empress's pulse, and Concubine Yuan Shu said no more, but she sat there unwilling to leave. It was said that Princess Ji'an was a reincarnated miracle doctor, and she wanted to see what her miracles were.
Feng Yuheng didn't take the pulse for too long before letting go. She told the queen, "It's nothing serious. He's just weak. He can take some tonic."
The Queen sighed, "That's what the doctors said, but I've been taking a lot of tonics and supplements, but I haven't gotten better. I always feel weak. At first I could walk around the yard, but now I even have trouble getting out of bed."
"Oh?" Feng Yuheng was not too surprised. It was always harder to cure an illness in the palace than outside. First, most of the imperial doctors were conservative and did not dare to prescribe strong medicines. Second, there were too many steps in the preparation and decoction of Chinese medicine. If something went wrong in any of the steps, it would affect the quality of the medicine. And such careless things happened unexpectedly. She said to Fang Yi, "Aunt, please go get the Queen's prescription and medicinal materials. If there is any boiled medicine now, please bring it to me."
Fangyi glanced at the Queen, who nodded: "Go ahead."
She turned and left, and when she came back, she brought the prepared herbs and prescriptions in her hands, and the maid behind her brought the freshly boiled medicine. A strong bitter smell invaded, and Concubine Yuan Shu frowned.
Feng Yuheng looked at the prescription, then at the prepared medicines. Without even looking at them, he could tell from the smell whether the ingredients were correct. After the three of them checked, he returned the prescription to Fang Yi and said to the Queen, "There's nothing wrong with the medicine, but the Imperial Hospital has always been conservative and cautious, so they used a lighter dosage, which is why it's taking longer to heal."
The Queen frowned: "Such a bitter medicine, how can it be light?"
Feng Yuheng told her, "It's not that the more bitter the medicine is, the stronger it is. Whether it tastes bitter or light has little to do with its efficacy." As she spoke, she reached into her sleeves, and her mind went around the pharmacy, and soon she brought out a few boxes of Chinese medicine pills. "Your Majesty, take this medicine." She put the medicine on the table, "Three times a day, one pill each time. You'll be fine after taking these boxes."
"Really?" The queen's eyes lit up, and she opened the medicine and looked at it again, and she couldn't help but feel happy, "Finally, I don't have to drink those bitter soups. Ah Heng, you don't know that people who are not sick will become a little sick after drinking those soups. Yours is better, it has a light fruity fragrance, it must not be bad."
Feng Yuheng smiled and said, "It has hawthorn ingredients mixed in it to relieve the bitterness. It doesn't taste bitter at all, just slightly sour, like plums."
When the queen heard this, she wanted to eat it immediately, "It just so happens that this bowl of bitter soup is not going to be drunk, I will try it now."
She also cooperated in opening the package, and a ping-pong ball-sized pill was placed in the queen's hand. "Your Majesty, you can bite it like a fruit, and swallow it after it melts. If you want to drink water in the middle, drink water. If you don't want to drink, wait until you finish eating it and then drink a mouthful of water to suppress it."
The queen followed her advice and found the taste very pleasant. For the ancients who were used to drinking Chinese medicine soup, this kind of fruit-flavored pill was really a godsend.
Seeing that the Queen was not opposed to it, Fang Yi also felt relieved and kept thanking Feng Yuheng.
Feng Yuheng also said politely: "Aunt, there is no need to thank me. I should have brought some new things to the queen after traveling so far. Unfortunately, there was an earthquake and avalanche in Qianzhou, and I was only doing disaster relief. I couldn't bring back any good things."
The Queen quickly expressed her opinion: "State affairs are more important. Gadgets and the like are for girls. I am already past that age. It's hard for you to still think about it. With a lovely person like you by His Highness' side, I think... Sister Yun can also feel at ease."
After thinking about it, she finally mentioned this. After all, although what Concubine Yuan Shu told her was absurd, she was also an old veteran in the palace. She knew what to say and what not to say. She had never said anything irresponsible over the years because she was afraid that if this was true, she, as the Empress of the Central Palace, would be the first to bear the brunt of the responsibility!
Feng Yuheng probably guessed some of it in his heart, but still pretended not to know, and only replied to the Queen's previous words: "Ah Heng is very grateful to the Royal Father, the Queen Mother, and Concubine Yunmu for keeping you in mind."
The Queen praised her for being sensible, and the two of them talked enthusiastically for a long time, until Feng Yuheng saw that the Queen was tired, and then he said the purpose of his visit to the palace today: "Ah Heng came here today, and I have something else I would like to ask the Queen to do me a favor for."
"Oh?" The Queen was delighted when she heard this. It was rare for Feng Yuheng to ask her for help, so she quickly said, "You tell me, if I can do anything, I will definitely help you."
Feng Yuheng said, "It's not a big deal. My eldest cousin is getting married soon, and my cousin's wife made a batch of jewelry in a jewelry store I run. As a result, when the wedding date was approaching, the shop assistant accidentally broke it. It was a bit too urgent to make it at this time, and the craftsmen in the shop didn't have the skills, so I wanted to ask the Queen for a favor and see if I could borrow Bai Qiaojiang for a few days to help Ah Heng out of this predicament."
The Queen was startled. "How big of a deal is this?" She then said to Fang Yi, "Go and tell Bai Qiaojiang to leave the palace today to help the Princess."
Fang Yi nodded and went to tell the servants. Feng Yuheng saw that his goal had been achieved, so he didn't stay any longer. But before leaving, he glanced at Concubine Yuan Shu and said, "Madam Shu, there are many gossips in the palace. It's always bad to say bad things about people behind their backs. I hope you take care of yourself."
"You——" Concubine Yuan Shu didn't expect Feng Yuheng to suddenly attack like this. She was furious and shouted, "How dare you! A mere princess of another surname speak to me like this! What crime should you be punished for!"
Feng Yuheng asked her in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "What crime does your Majesty say I should be punished for?"
"Of course it's a capital crime!" Yuexiu beside Concubine Yuan Shu interrupted, "Even though the princess is spoiled outside, my queen is a legitimate mistress who gave birth to a prince. Does the princess think that her status is more respected than that of Concubine Shu?"
Feng Yuheng snorted coldly and turned to ask the Queen: "A palace maid spoke to Ah Heng like this. Your Majesty, how should we deal with her?"
The queen took a deep breath. She knew that Feng Yuheng had heard some of the previous words, and now she was determined to make Concubine Yuan Shu look bad. In fact, Concubine Yuan Shu and the others were right. Even though the princess was delicate, her status was far inferior to that of the first concubine who had given birth to a prince. But this princess was not an ordinary princess, not like Qingle in the past. She was a meritorious official who forged new steel for Dashun, formed a sharpshooting team, quelled the war, and saved the victims. Every honor was earned through real military merit. Even the queen had to smile and deal with it. She really didn't take a mere concubine seriously.
The queen didn't think much about it, her face darkened, and she said to Fang Yi, "Slap her face."
Fangyi went forward without saying a word and slapped Yuexiu twenty times.
Concubine Yuan Shu was shocked. She never expected that Feng Yuheng would be so overbearing, and the Queen was protecting him to this extent. How should she respond to the following words?
Yuexiu was so scared that she knelt on the ground and dared not say another word. Concubine Yuan Shu looked at the situation and gritted her teeth and said, "I will go to the emperor to file a complaint against you! Princess Ji'an, you wait for me."
Feng Yuheng didn't care about her words at all, and just said: "Madam Shufei, please do as you please, Ah Heng will take his leave."
She said goodbye and left the palace. Aunt Fangyi personally saw her off. As she walked away, she whispered to Feng Yuheng, "The princess just spoke vaguely. I still want to ask, is there really no problem with the medicine that the queen took before?"
Fangyi has been serving the Queen for more than 20 years and is a very attentive person. The matter of the medicine is weighing on her mind and no matter how she thinks about it, it doesn't seem right.
Feng Yuheng heard the question and didn't hide it, so he said: "Actually, what I said before was not too vague. It is true that the amount of medicine used by the imperial doctors was not enough and too light."
Fang Yi heard the door and asked, "How light is it?"
She replied: "It's useless except suffering."
"Hiss!" Fang Yi gasped. This was very clear. It wasn't that the Queen's illness didn't get better just by taking medicine. It was that she didn't take any medicine at all. She just drank bitter soup for several months. She was furious. "Who is so bold? Are the people in the Imperial Hospital tired of living?"
Feng Yuheng lowered her voice and said, "This matter may not have its origin in the Imperial Hospital. Aunt, please don't make it public. If an open investigation doesn't work, you should conduct a secret investigation. Aren't there many similar incidents in the palace?"
Fang Yi nodded and said more respectfully: "Thank you for your enlightenment, Princess. I will definitely report this favor to Her Majesty. We at Jingci Palace will remember it."
Feng Yuheng smiled and said no more. It was not until they left the palace and sat in the imperial carriage that Wang Chuan patted his chest and said, "Young lady is really bold. Concubine Yuan Shu is the mother of the Eighth Prince and has some power in the palace. Young lady actually dared to speak to her like that."
Feng Yuheng's face darkened, but she shook her head helplessly. What if she didn't act tough? Although she hadn't heard much about Concubine Yun, it was not difficult to guess. I'm afraid that Concubine Yuan Shu didn't have good intentions, and she must not let her get away with it. I hope that after today's shock, Concubine Yuan Shu will think more about it if she is smart. After all, whether it's Concubine Yun or the Ninth Prince, they are not something that ordinary people can afford to touch.
"Has His Highness said when he will return to Beijing?" she asked Wangchuan.
Wang Chuan whispered, "He went to pick up the queen. He should be back soon."
Feng Yuheng sighed and said, "I hope we can hurry up!"
But at this moment, the imperial carriage suddenly stopped, the horses neighed, and the driver shouted, "Who dares to stop the princess's carriage?"
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