Lin Dan was taken into a mansion with his hands tied. When he passed the gate, he looked up and saw a plaque hanging on the beam with four large characters "Xuanping Marquis Mansion" inscribed on it. He immediately understood what was going on. In the original owner's memory, this Marquis Xuanping was a top-notch gigolo in the Great Qin State. With his handsome face, he won the favor of the eldest princess and was married to her. He jumped from being the son of a poor minor official to the Marquis Xuanping, which was truly a meteoric rise to fame. But he was dissolute by nature and could not control his lower body. Even after marrying the princess, he still did not change his romantic nature and was always flirting with other women.
At first, the eldest princess eliminated all the women he had ever offended, causing the couple to become estranged and no longer loving each other. After being honest for a few years, his true nature began to grow. He no longer dared to hang out in places of entertainment, so he turned to women from decent families. His face was so handsome, and coupled with his luxurious clothes and noble temperament, the women were fooled by him as soon as he beckoned, and they almost fell into his arms one after another.
He kept five or six concubines and had seven or eight illegitimate children. When he didn't have enough money, he would return home to ask the eldest princess for money. No matter how he lied or coaxed her, he was always able to get gold, silver, and jewelry from the eldest princess to support his concubines. The eldest princess was no fool. She soon discovered the clues and eventually became disillusioned with him. She shut herself in to raise her only son and no longer cared about his romantic affairs.
However, Marquis Xuanping thought that the princess had compromised, so he brought his concubines back one by one and kept them in his mansion openly. The eldest princess did not say anything and just sneered as she divided the Marquis Xuanping's Mansion, which was also her own princess's mansion, into two. She occupied most of the mansion and left only a small square courtyard for the Marquis Xuanping and his women and children to live in. She did not care about their food, clothing or other expenses at all and let the Marquis Xuanping support them with her salary.
Marquis Xuanping only had a monthly salary of more than fifty taels, which was not enough for his own expenses, let alone the support of so many people. He immediately complained bitterly, cried and apologized to the princess, trying to reconcile with her. But the eldest princess had no feelings for him. If it weren't for the fact that her son could smoothly inherit the title of Marquis, she would have kicked him out long ago.
The handsome young man in front of him must be the eldest princess's only son Zhu Yimin, the young master of the Marquis Xuanping's Mansion. He often went in and out of the palace and was favored by the emperor, but he seldom went out and did not like to participate in social activities. Therefore, the original owner did not know much about him.
However, what kind of person he is is not important to Lin Dan. She only knows that he is a patient and in urgent need of treatment. That is enough. After being locked in the woodshed, she found a haystack to lie down on, feeling very calm.
On the other side, the young master covered his chest, ran into the main courtyard with a pale face, and yelled: "Mother, mother, it's bad, please save my child!" At this moment, he no longer looked arrogant and vicious, but was clearly a scared child.
The princess put down the teacup heavily and scolded, "Be steady. Even if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. What are you afraid of? Didn't I tell you not to go out casually? Why don't you listen to me?"
"I, I thought that if I wore thicker clothes in winter, ordinary people wouldn't be able to see it." The young master grabbed his collar tightly, tears in his eyes, "How could I know that my horse would be frightened and gallop in the busy city, almost trampling someone to death. I also fell off the horse and was saved by a little girl. The little girl touched my chest and must have known something. Mother, what do you think I should do? After all, she saved me. I can't kill her just to keep my secret, right?"
The eldest princess rubbed her eyebrows with a gloomy expression. The thing she was most worried about finally happened. My son was originally fine, but for some reason, his chest became fuller day by day, and his lower body was in great pain and almost lost its function. Since then, his skin became smooth, his beard stopped growing, and his appearance became more and more beautiful, as if he had changed his gender. Seeing that his chest was getting bigger and bigger and could no longer be covered, the princess almost turned gray overnight out of worry.
His son’s illness must not be known to outsiders, otherwise he would lose his title as the crown prince and might even be denounced as a monster and burned to death. The princess shuddered at the thought of such an outcome. She did not even dare to ask an imperial physician for him, for fear that the news would leak out. She only let the doctors in the palace treat him, but there was no improvement. These days, she was thinking about going to other states to find a doctor, but she didn't expect that something unexpected would happen so quickly.
"Where is he, and what is his background?" The princess decided, "No, I have to go and see for myself."
The capital city is neither small nor big. You can meet one or two nobles just by walking around the streets, so you need to be more cautious in your actions. The princess didn't dare to deal with people casually, for fear that a small matter would become a big one and that the matter could not be resolved. She hurried to the woodshed, forgetting even to open her umbrella. Her hair and skin were covered with snowflakes, and she looked a little disheveled. Her two most trusted palace maids were taking out handkerchiefs to wipe her hair, and they had sent away all the guards around her to prevent the young master's secret from being disclosed by the crowd.
Zhu Yimin hid behind the eldest princess and peeked at Lin Dan with a somewhat ashamed expression.
"Whose daughter are you?" The eldest princess slowly walked to Lin Dan and looked down at her.
"You don't need to care who I am. You just need to know that I can cure your son's illness." Lin Dan opened his eyes and was stunned when he saw the eldest princess with rosy cheeks and extraordinary beauty.
The eldest princess' heart was beating fast, but she gritted her teeth and said, "My son is sick, how could I not know?" This little girl is only seventeen or eighteen years old, but she said that she could cure such a rare disease. Isn't she cheating? The princess will never let down her guard until she finds out where she came from.
Lin Dan stared at the princess carefully for a few seconds and said firmly: "Not only can I cure your son's disease, I can also cure your disease."
Zhu Yimin was surprised and said, "My mother is ill, how come I don't know?"
Lin Dan smiled and thought that this mother and son were really interesting. Even the words they said were exactly the same.
The princess touched her son's head and said in a cold tone, "Yes, I am ill. How come I don't know, but you know?"
Lin Dan climbed up from the haystack and said, "Princess, don't be so stubborn. Although your face is rosy and beautiful like a peach, and you look healthy, you have actually been seriously ill for many years. If I am not mistaken, you probably haven't had a good night's sleep since the birth of the young master, right?"
The two senior palace maids' eyes flickered slightly, and they tried their best to resist the desire to look at their master.
The princess was unmoved and sneered, "Oh, tell me, what's wrong with me?"
Zhu Yimin quickly jumped out and shouted, "Yes, my mother is not sick at all, tell me the details right now, if you are not right, I will have someone chop you to pieces right away!"
Lin Dan didn't even look at the toothless little puppy who loved to jump around. He just stared at the princess and said slowly, "Your Highness's face is rosy, not because of the frost and snow, but because of the rising internal fire. In the cold winter, you are wrapped very thickly, but you only wear a pair of thin shoes, but your legs and feet don't look stiff and cold at all. It can be seen that this internal fire is circulating in the Jingxue of the foot Shaoyin kidney meridian, and has nowhere to go, so it rushes to the head and face. It is actually because the Jiao Yang is too weak and cannot control the kidney Yin, which causes the Yin fire to boil and the soles of your feet to burn. If I am not mistaken, every late at night, the fire in your soles will be even hotter, which will disturb your sleep. If you get cold, you will feel your knees are sore and cold. In serious cases, you can't even stand and need to stay in bed all day to recuperate. You have a strong Yin fire, so your face is ruddy and your eyes are bright, as if you are very healthy, but your roots are actually almost dried up, right?"
The eldest princess finally showed a look of surprise, but she still couldn't believe that the little girl in front of her could see through her illness at a glance. Yes, she had been ill for more than ten years. Every night she had to expose her feet outside the quilt and step on the cold jade stones before she could fall asleep. However, she would be woken up by the heat within a few hours of sleep. Her appetite became weaker and weaker, and her body became thinner and thinner. If she caught a cold, her knees would feel like they were wrapped in a layer of ice, sore and cold, and her feet would feel like they were stepping on hot charcoal and she would almost jump up. The pain was so painful that it was hard to describe.
Everyone else said that she looked healthy, but how could they know that she was already terminally ill! She consulted numerous doctors and drank countless medicines, but to no avail, and gradually she became desperate.
"So what? How can you cure a disease that even the imperial physician can't cure?" The eldest princess' voice was dry and nervous.
Lin Dan sniffed the strong smell of medicine on her body and shook his head, saying, "It's not that they can't cure it, but they used the wrong medicine. Your illness is caused by the change of yin and yang. Your yin fire is strong and your yang fire is weak, but the imperial physician prescribed you a medicine to nourish yin and tonify the kidney, nourish yin and reduce fire, and clear bone steaming fatigue. This has aggravated your yin fire, so how can it be effective? If I smelled it correctly, you recently changed the prescription and started taking Shengyang Sanhuo Decoction. You must know the way of yin and yang. Yang is the root of yin. When yang is born, yin can grow. The imperial physician raised your yang fire, which indirectly caused your yin fire to become stronger, which aggravated your condition. In this way, even if you treat it for another few decades, Your Highness will not be able to recover."
The princess pondered her words secretly. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that they made sense. Her half-believing and half-doubting expression was gradually replaced by suppressed excitement. She immediately softened her tone and asked, "May I ask your name, young lady?"
"My last name is Lin, and I'm just a fledgling country doctor, not worth mentioning." Lin Dan was not being modest, but he really thought that his abilities were still very superficial.
The eldest princess did not dare to look down on her anymore. She quickly took off her cloak and put it on her shoulders. She then respectfully invited her into the main courtyard, served her hot tea, and then began to ask about the treatment method. This girl had found a way to cure herself after having been ill for more than ten years, so it should be no problem for her to treat her son's disease.
The young master followed his mother around in a big circle in a daze, but he vaguely knew that he seemed to be saved!
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