Chapter 8 Guilt is Okay



Luo Xuening glanced at Gu indifferently, then rubbed her forehead, looking drowsy and weak.

"Ning'er, what's wrong with you?"

"Dad, I was injured today and feel dizzy and weak. I was just about to go outside the house to get some medicine."

Luo Xue Ning answered obediently, and even had a hint of provocation in her eyes, as she looked at Gu. Gu really couldn't pretend to be magnanimous at this moment, so she snorted coldly.

"You can just get the medicine in the mansion. Why are you running outside? If you do that, people will think that we, the Luo family, have treated you badly."

Gu suffered a great loss at the hands of Luo Xuening. At this moment, he could not control his disgust towards Luo Xuening at all.

Prime Minister Luo glanced at Gu coldly, very dissatisfied, while Luo Xue Ning showed a charming smile on her pretty face, and her soft voice, although apparently calm, directly hit Gu's mind.

"I don't know what happened to our court doctor, but he actually gave me a prescription that is not available in other pharmacies. Father, you know a little about medicine, why don't you take a look at it for your daughter?"

Luo Xue Ning shook out a prescription from her arms and handed it to Prime Minister Luo.

Luo Xue Ning knew that Prime Minister Luo had always been fond of studying medicine. Whenever he had any minor illness or pain, he didn't need to see a doctor and could prescribe some medicine himself.

Although his medical skills could not be called advanced, it was enough as long as he could see what was wrong with the prescription.

In fact, the Nanshao Kingdom is very similar to ancient China. Similarly, they have all kinds of religions, all kinds of people, and all kinds of occupations.

The "Three Religions" refer to China's three major religious sects: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.

The "Nine Classes" are further divided into the "Upper Nine Classes", the "Middle Nine Classes" and the "Lower Nine Classes".

The "upper nine classes" refer to emperors, saints, hermits, child immortals, literati, warriors, farmers, workers, and merchants.

The "middle nine classes" refer to men who raise children, doctors, fortune tellers, painters, scholars, musicians, chess players, monks, Taoists, and nuns.

The "lower nine classes" refer to lawyers, yamen runners, scale-holders, matchmakers, errand boys, witches and kidnappers, thieves, robbers and prostitutes.

The five elements refer to the carriage business, the boat business, the shop business, the foot business, the government service business, and the

The eight crafts refer to goldsmiths, silversmiths, bronzesmiths, ironsmiths, tinsmiths, carpenters, bricklayers and stonemasons.

Doctors belong to the middle nine classes and are despised by the upper class people. As the prime minister holds a high position, he naturally would not show off his medical skills everywhere. Even Gu did not know this.

However, Luo Xuening remembered clearly that Prime Minister Luo learned medicine just to cure Aunt Ye's illness, which was indeed commendable.

In the Nanshao Kingdom, the development of medicine was extremely slow, and studying medicine was looked down upon. Naturally, no one in these noble families studied medicine.

The original owner suffered because of this. If she had taken the time to look up medical books, she might have found out how strange the medicine prescribed by the doctor was and how it was inadequate to cure her illness. She wouldn't have been ruined by Gu and the doctor in vain.

Therefore, since the original owner of this vengeance is dead and cannot be avenged anymore, she has to do it on his behalf. This can also be considered as an explanation she gives to the original owner.

Prime Minister Luo took the prescription from Luo Xuening's hand. The handwriting on it was neat, and it was indeed written by the family doctor. Moreover, this prescription was some time old.

The more Prime Minister Luo looked down, the more his brows furrowed, which made Gu feel nervous.

Because Luo Xuening's illness was anemia. After the doctor had prescribed a few medicines, he basically asked his servants to prepare the medicines according to his original prescriptions. This was also to conceal his tracks. After all, prescribing too many prescriptions would always arouse suspicion.

Luo Xuening couldn't believe it. The original owner had been taking this strange prescription for ten years.

"Ning'er, is this the recipe you've been taking?"

Prime Minister Luo frowned and stared at Luo Xuening closely. In his eyes, besides anger, there was also a hint of guilt. His hand holding the prescription was also shaking.

Luo Xuening was thinking about Prime Minister Luo's guilt. She lowered her eyebrows and looked innocent. "Yes, father, is there something wrong with this prescription? My daughter has been taking this medicine recently, but her health has not improved. Instead, I feel more dizzy and weak. I have no energy. My daughter is also very confused about this."

Luo Xue Ning's words were ambiguous, which made Prime Minister Luo even more nervous. He slammed the table with his hand and scolded angrily.

"Someone, tell the court doctor to come over here."

Prime Minister Luo has always had a good temper. Even when dealing with his servants, he is always kind and pleasant. It is rare for him to lose his temper like today. Luo Xue Ning knows that the court doctor will not be able to escape his fate this time.

But he deserved it.

The court physician quickly "rolled" over. Seeing Prime Minister Luo in a rage, he was nervously sweating. Just as he was about to greet him, Prime Minister Luo threw the medicine in his hand onto the court physician's head.

"Tell me, did you prescribe this medicine?"

The court doctor picked up the prescription on the ground tremblingly, wiped his sweat secretly, turned around and looked at Gu in surprise, as if asking for Gu's opinion.

Gu shook her head secretly. She vaguely guessed the cause of the incident, but she pretended to be calm.

The court doctor naturally understood what Gu meant and immediately denied it, saying, "Prime Minister, this prescription is obviously problematic. How can a blood-tonifying medicine be taken with a pungent medicine? However, this prescription is definitely not what I would prescribe. Please, Prime Minister, take a closer look."

The court physician spoke with utmost sincerity. He looked at Prime Minister Luo, trying his best to show that he was sincere. However, while he spoke, he touched his nose out of habit.

This is the corpus cavernosum in a man's body causing trouble when he is telling a lie. This subtle movement clearly shows that the doctor is lying.

Of course, these little tricks of the court doctor are not acceptable to Luo Xuening, a psychologist, but this does not mean that Prime Minister Luo can see through these tricks.

After all, in most people's understanding, as long as a person looks into the other person's eyes when speaking, then what he says is likely to be true. However, psychological research shows the opposite. When people consciously organize lies, they tend to look into the other person's eyes.

Therefore, don’t blame Prime Minister Luo for being deceived; it’s just that this court doctor is too cunning.

However, Luo Xuening directly took out a stack of papers from her arms. These were all the prescriptions that the court doctor had written for her over the years. She knew that the court doctor would deny them, so she had already made a backup plan.

"You said that the prescription was not written by you. I believe you, but take a closer look and see if these prescriptions were written by you."

Luo Xuening frowned, and in the astonished look of the court doctor, she turned around and handed the prescription to Prime Minister Luo.

These prescriptions are actually very similar. They are nothing more than some blood-replenishing prescriptions with the addition of two herbs: ephedra and cinnamon twig.

The court doctor was probably so sure that no one would discover his dirty deeds that he was too lazy to even change the prescription.

When Prime Minister Luo looked at these prescriptions, he became furious. Apart from this palace doctor, there was no one else in the palace who could prescribe so many prescriptions.

"Well, you actually gave my daughter these drugs. Tell me, why did you want to harm my daughter?"

Prime Minister Luo's lips were trembling and his nostrils were turned outward, which was enough to show how furious he was.

Unexpectedly, right under his nose, his daughter was murdered for such a long time. You know, these drugs mixed together are equivalent to poison.

And he actually tolerated the murderer for so many years.

The court doctor opened his mouth wide, not knowing how to refute for a moment. Facts spoke louder than words, and he could not explain. He could only kowtow vigorously.

"Prime Minister, please spare my life. I was just confused for a moment. When I wrote these prescriptions, my medical skills were not yet perfect, so I wrote the wrong ones. But the young lady is fine now. Please, Prime Minister, spare me for the sake of my ten years of service as a doctor in the Prime Minister's Mansion."

The court doctor was no longer as confident as he had just been. After he pleaded with Prime Minister Luo, he saw that Prime Minister Luo's face had turned ashen and he no longer looked like a peaceful person.

The court physician knew that it was useless to ask Prime Minister Luo for help, so he turned around and kowtowed to Luo Xue Ning.

"Miss, I was wrong. I only thought that you were weak and needed medicine to relieve the symptoms, so I added these two herbs without authorization. I didn't mean to harm you. Please, Miss, you are magnanimous and will not argue with a fool like me."

Luo Xuening sneered. He really dared to say that. The original owner of the person was killed by them, and he still dared to cry out for injustice here.

"Yes, I remember that the court doctor came to the Prime Minister's Mansion about ten years ago. During this long period of time, even if you have no credit, you have worked hard. Indeed, we should be more lenient with you."

The court doctor nodded. Although he felt that Luo Xue Ning's expression was very strange when she said this, he still had to agree.

"But, ten years ago you didn't know medicine, and ten years later you still don't know medicine. What's the use of having a mediocre doctor like you? Do you know that because of you, I haven't had a good sleep in the past ten years, and I have taken so many medicines in vain. Tell me, how do you want me to forgive you?"

Luo Xuening's expression suddenly turned cold. Ten years ago, she had pronounced those three words very heavily, as if they were striking someone's heart.

Prime Minister Luo suddenly came to his senses. He glanced at Gu with a cold look in his eyes: "Ten years ago, you were the one who brought this palace doctor in. How come you don't even know if he is a real doctor or a fake one? Gu, how on earth are you acting as the mistress of the house? You are almost killing people in our Prime Minister's Mansion."


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