Sheng Xiyan: “…”
Her distinct black and white almond-shaped eyes were wide open.
Chu Yuanchen put his fist to his lips, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he seemed to let out a chuckle.
Seeing that Sheng Xiyan was about to get angry out of embarrassment, he took the initiative to stretch out his hand and said with a smile: "Miss, please check my pulse again."
Sheng Xiyan: “…”
She silently stretched out three fingers and placed them on his pulse, concentrating carefully.
The pulse was much stronger, unlike last night, when it was so weak that it seemed like it would disappear at any moment. But the feeling at her fingertips told her that Chu Yuanchen's heart pulse was very weak and seemed to have been severely injured.
Sheng Xiyan recalled the medical notes left by her grandfather and said, "Take the pill first."
Chu Yuanchen agreed very readily.
Then, she went out with the food box, mumbling something in her mouth. She stopped at the door and turned around and said, "There are golden milk puffs on the table. If you are hungry, eat them. There is warm water on the red clay stove. If you don't want to drink it, remember to turn off the fire."
Chu Yuanchen nodded with a smile.
Sheng Xiyan returned to the main room with the food box, put it down casually, and said to Xigui who was coming back with noodles, "Tell the kitchen tomorrow that I want to eat rouge goose breast. You take a silver ingot from my box and give it to the kitchen."
In the Sheng family, the daily meals were set, and if you wanted to add more dishes, you had to pay for them yourself. This was the rule set by Liu.
Sheng Xiyan seldom orders extra food, but who made her agree to it without even thinking?
After finishing the noodles, Sheng Xiyan took the key given by Liu and went to the warehouse. She remembered that her grandfather's medical books should be placed together with her mother's dowry.
When he learned that his mother was seriously ill, his grandfather hurriedly took her back to the Sheng family, but what he saw was his mother's cold body. His grandfather died immediately and died a few years later.
My maternal grandfather had only one daughter, my mother. My maternal grandmother passed away early, so he raised my mother alone.
My grandfather had no successor, and before he died, he left all his medical books and medical notes to me.
Unfortunately, Sheng Xingan hated studying medicine, so he locked all the medical books and medical notes in the warehouse where his mother's dowry was kept.
Sheng Xiyan believed that if she had not resisted with her own death, Sheng Xingan, who was very concerned about his reputation and was afraid of being criticized by outsiders, would have burned those medical books directly.
She was not sure about some parts of Chu Yuanchen's pulse. She only remembered that her grandfather's medical notes had recorded a case of heart injury caused by a sharp weapon, so she planned to look it up again to confirm her guess.
It was already halfway through the morning. When Liu heard that Sheng Xiyan was going to the warehouse at this hour, she was so surprised that she sat up immediately.
Her chest still aches from the harassment she received from Sheng today. It had just stopped, but this shock made the pain even worse.
Liu managed to sort out the bad accounts of the stall with great difficulty, and lost more than 10,000 taels of silver.
She prided herself on her family's upright character, and her dowry did not include any vulgar items such as gold or silver, so she could not make up for the loss at all.
Originally, she was planning to take some money out of the public treasury to deal with the emergency, but Nanny Sun gave her an idea, saying that since the wife of Marquis Yongning wanted the things in Xu's dowry so much, she probably wouldn't mind spending some money to exchange for them.
Liu thought it made sense and planned to invite the wife of Marquis Yongning to her house for a talk, but she didn't expect that Sheng Xiyan actually ran to the warehouse!
Liu was so frightened that her face turned pale.
She quickly asked Nanny Sun to go over and take a look, and tried to persuade her, telling her to wait a few days if she really had to do an inventory. Otherwise, if she had counted everything in the warehouse and something was suddenly "lost" in the future, it would be even harder to explain.
Nanny Sun knew what was going on, so she hurried over. She had a lot of words in mind for how to persuade Sheng Xiyan, but as soon as she arrived at the storeroom, she heard that Sheng Xiyan had already left, taking only a few books with her. Nanny Sun hurried back to report to Mrs. Liu.
"It's okay, it's okay..." Mrs. Liu stroked her chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
In her opinion, Sheng Xiyan's temper has become less gentle since she broke off the engagement with the Yongning Marquis's Mansion. At first, Liu thought that she was irritated by the Queen Mother's decree, but today, she didn't seem to be jealous of Zhao Yuanrou. Anyway, she just couldn't understand it. Liu just hoped that they could return to the peaceful state they had before.
"This matter must be resolved quickly." Liu said without hesitation, "Go and send a letter for me to invite the wife of the Marquis of Yongning to come to the mansion for tea. Go there in person tomorrow and tell her that if she still wants that thing, she should hurry up, otherwise when Sheng Xiyan marries into the Zhenbei Palace, no one will be able to intervene."
"Yes." Nanny Sun said hurriedly, "I will go there early tomorrow morning. Madam, you should rest first. If you still feel unwell, please ask a doctor to take a look."
"No need." Liu waved her hands, sighed, and couldn't help muttering, "I don't know when the Zhenbei Palace will come to propose marriage." She now just hopes to settle these messes as soon as possible, and then marry the girl off, so that she can live in peace.
Not only Liu, but even the Queen Mother was thinking about the Zhenbei Palace.
Princess Jingle was slow to comply with the imperial decree and propose marriage, which made the Queen Mother feel embarrassed. She felt that Princess Jingle was just like her stubborn father.
So, she sent a nanny to go to the Zhenbei Palace early the next morning to urge them to do so. She didn't believe that Princess Jingle would dare to openly disobey the order. But before she arrived at the Zhenbei Palace, an urgent memorial with a distance of 800 miles arrived in the capital first.
"Great victory in the Northern Frontier! Great victory for the Prince of Zhenbei!"
From the moment he entered the city gate, the young general holding the urgent letter of 800 miles in length rode his horse in, shouting all the way. Before he was summoned by the emperor, everyone in the capital city had already known that the Prince of Zhenbei was safe and sound and had returned alive.
In the Darong Dynasty, everyone knew the name of the Zhenbei Wang Chu family.
It was because the Chu family had been stationed in the northern border for a hundred years that the barbarians dared not invade, thus ensuring the peace and prosperity of the Great Rong Dynasty for a hundred years.
When the news came that the Prince of Zhenbei had disappeared while pursuing the Northern Yan army and his life or death was unknown, many people spontaneously went to temples to pray for him and set up longevity tablets for him at home. Now, when they heard the news, they all cried with joy and rushed to tell each other, and the news spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred.
In just one day, more news came out.
It is said that the Prince of Zhenbei led a battalion of elite soldiers to take a shortcut through the Death Swamp and raid the rear of Northern Yan.
It is said that Northern Yan has surrendered, and the king of Northern Yan has submitted his loyalty, willing to worship Darong as his monarch for generations to come.
It is said that the Prince of Zhenbei has returned to Jiangyue City and will soon bring the envoys of Beiyan back to the capital to report and sign the letter of credence with Darong.
…
Even Sheng Xiyan, who had stayed in the house and never left, knew about it.
Xigui had originally gone to Baicaotang to pick up the medicinal herbs she had ordered, but when he heard these rumors, he excitedly hurried back to tell her.
And now, looking at the young man who had just climbed in through the window an hour ago, finished eating the rouge goose breast, and sat in front of him with a smile, Sheng Xiyan stroked his aching forehead.
Sheng Xiyan emptied her mind, picked up a silver needle, and steadily inserted it into his Ximen acupoint.
Her technique was so quick and precise that you would hardly tell she had ever used silver needles before.
Sheng Xiyan had been reading the notes she had taken for a day and two nights and could conclude that Chu Yuanchen's heart was indeed seriously damaged, and most likely his injury was near the left heart.
She also asked about it, and Chu Yuanchen admitted it without hesitation, saying that he was injured by a crossbow, and an arrow was left in the wound, which he later dug out himself.
After confirming her judgment, Sheng Xiyan decided to use this set of needle techniques.
According to my grandfather's medical notes, it can repair damaged heart meridians. Sheng Xiyan made some slight adjustments based on Chu Yuanchen's pulse.
Sheng Xiyan was concentrating, her face was serious, and her lips were tightly pursed.
Her hand holding the silver needle was as steady as a rock, but Chu Yuanchen noticed that her other hand, which was placed at her side, was clenched into a fist, the back of her hand was a little pale, and her little finger was trembling slightly.
Chu Yuanchen smiled slightly and said, "Is this memorial coming at the right time?"
Reason told Sheng Xiyan that knowing too much about some things could easily bring disaster upon oneself.
But curiosity made her eager to act again. She hesitated for a while and thought: Anyway, I already know enough. I even delivered the secret letter for him. It will be impossible to get rid of it completely in the future!
She asked desperately, "Is he near the capital?" She was talking about the young general who delivered the memorial.
The timing of the arrival of this memorial was so delicate that Xiao Shuo must have made the decision after the letter was delivered.
The letter was sent the day before yesterday, and it would take too long for it to reach the capital from the northern border in just two days.
Chu Yuanchen did not hide it from her and praised her: "Ms. Shengda is really smart."
Sheng Xiyan's eyes visibly brightened, her tightly clenched fists slowly loosened, and the corners of her tightly pursed mouth also relaxed a lot. When inserting the next needle, her hand movements became more and more smooth, and she identified the acupoints very accurately without any hesitation.
Chu Yuanchen's smile deepened, and he added: "The person is in Yizhou, and it's only three days away from the capital." A three-day journey was completed in two days, and it looked like he was rushing at a speed of 800 miles.
It is true that we captured the seven cities of Northern Yan.
The raid on the rear of Northern Yan was also true.
It is even more true that the King of Northern Yan surrendered and was willing to sign the letter of credence.
He simply used a trick to keep the news secret for three months and did some more things in private.
"The emperor is going to build a tomb for me, so naturally he has to let people know that I'm still alive. Otherwise, it would be too much trouble and waste money." He glanced at her frivolously, his peach blossom eyes sparkling. "Miss Shengda, don't you agree?"
Sheng Xiyan ignored him.
She felt much more relaxed and in great shape. She was given several injections in a row, each one on the key points that protect the heart, all in one go.
This set of needlework took a whole incense stick of time to learn.
Chu Yuanchen only felt a warm current flowing through his veins and tendons throughout his body. When it flowed through his chest, he could clearly feel that the severe pain that had been bothering him day and night for the past few days had also eased a lot. At that moment, he felt relaxed all over.
"Give me your hand."
Sheng Xiyan's voice was like the sound of a yellow oriole singing out of a valley, and what she said sounded like it was a matter of course.