Chapter 55 Wei Yan Pretended to Be Sick
Inside the gauze curtain, Wei Yuewu’s small face looked somewhat unhealthily yellow and also faintly pale. Doctor Ming knew at first glance that she was in a bad state. However, what shocked him the most was that the face in front of his eyes looked so similar to that person’s face, with which he was so familiar that he could tell who the patient was without a second thought.
At first glance, the same look of sickness and the same paleness and haggardness made him feel as if he had traveled through time to the past.
Once, that drop-dead gorgeous lady had lain there on her deathbed, looking pitifully at a little girl beside the bed. The yellowish color on Wei Yuewu’s face resembled the sick face in his memory so much...
“Doctor Ming, what’s the matter?” asked Huamo in surprise as she looked at Doctor Ming who had plunged into panic. Although her mistress appeared very ill due to the makeup, how came a doctor got frightened by the weak face of a patient?
“Nothing... nothing. I just didn’t expect the Sixth Young Lady was so sick.” Doctor Ming seemed to have calmed down by now.
Wei Yuewu’s eyes turned cold as they landed on Doctor Ming’s exposed hands. The hands of a doctor should be steadiest, but at this moment, his hands were trembling slightly...
She had only put on some medicinal powder to pretend to be sick, yet she had terrified this senior doctor, the private doctor of the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang. This was way too suspicious. Her beautiful eyes grew more thoughtful.
Nevertheless, Doctor Ming was highly professional and in a short while, he had regained his composure. He pulled near a stool on one side, sat down, observed Wei Yuewu’s countenance and nodded to himself.
Huamo pulled down the gauze curtain and asked, “Doctor Ming, how is our young lady?”
Doctor Ming thought for a moment. He had closely observed the Sixth Young Lady’s complexion after he calmed down. She was ill indeed but didn’t seem to in an acute condition. Despite the sudden onset of the disease, it was actually not serious but more likely to be the result of her weak body catching a cold.
“I’ll prescribe some restoratives for Sixth Young Lady. Take two doses first and see if they work. If they do, take a few more. If they don’t, I’ll prescribe some other medicine.”
Doctor Ming was very conservative with his diagnosis. After all, this Sixth Young Lady got sick so suddenly that the disease might turn into a serious one. It wouldn’t be wrong to be cautious.
“Thank you, Doctor Ming. Please follow me outside to prescribe the medicine,” replied Huamo.
Doctor Ming nodded and tidied up his medicine chest. He followed Huamo out of the inner chamber and went to the right wing to write a prescription.
Inside the inner chamber, Shufei lifted the curtain again for Wei Yuewu. Seeing Wei Yuewu thoughtfully looking in the direction where Doctor Ming had left, she couldn’t help asking in a low voice, “Miss, is there anything wrong?”
Wei Yuewu withdrew her gaze and said, “Shufei, next time you ask someone to find out who was sent to see my mother when she fell ill. I wonder if it was Doctor Ming.”
Doctor Ming acted truly too strange today. Wei Yuewu knew that the medicinal powder on her face was actually not a big deal. She just used it to snatch Doctor Ming away from Wei Yan. Why did Doctor Ming appear so shocked, as if he had seen something astounding?
It was impossible for Wei Yuewu not to be suspicious: a sense of weirdness pervaded the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang.
“Yes, I got it.” Shufei nodded to receive the order.
Wei Yuewu got up from the bed and sat in front of the dressing table again. She took the warm wet towel handed over by Shufei again and wiped her face to remove the powder residue on her face. Then, she asked, “Is Jin Ling back yet?”
“Not yet. I came back a little faster because I said you were seriously ill. The doctor who went to the Second Young Lady’s walked slowly, and Shuiyue wasn’t as anxious as me.”
Jin Ling had gone to Wei Yan’s courtyard to watch over Wei Yan’s courtyard. If Wei Yan’s doctor hadn’t left, of course she wasn’t back yet.
Wei Yan’s illness, of course, was also fake.
Although she fell into the water and was shocked today, the servants of the mansion of the Prince of Nan’an immediately brought her a bowel of hot ginger tea and changed her wet clothes. Moreover, she had had a strong physique under Lady Li’s care since childhood, and was therefore not sick at all.
After every servant retreated, Wei Yan stretched out her hand and asked Doctor Ming’s student, “Did you bring the thing I asked for last time?”
The student was actually a nephew of Doctor Ming and his surname was also Ming. The people in the mansion usually called him Doctor Ming Junior. However, no one knew that Doctor Ming Junior would occasionally bring Lady Li and Wei Yan some medicine that they didn’t want the Madam Dowager to know about.
Therefore, by pretending to be sick, Wei Yan wanted to see Doctor Ming Junior, but not Doctor Ming.
“Second Young Lady, do you really need that drug?” said Doctor Ming Junior uneasily. He placed his hand on his medicine chest with prolonged hesitation, not daring to take the thing out, and he looked a little nervous.
He would normally bring some ginseng and other restoratives for the Second Lady and the Second Young Lady, but this time...
“Of course. Otherwise, I wouldn’t ask you for it.” Wei Yan said impatiently and stretched out her hand.
Doctor Ming Junior had no choice but to open the medicine chest. He took out a small package of medicine from the bottom and carefully handed it to Wei Yan.
“How to use it?” Wei Yan took the package and looked at it with a satisfied smile on her face.
“Just put it in any decoction!” Sweat appeared on the forehead of Doctor Ming Junior.
“I see. Here, these are the silver tickets for you. Remember, as long as you help me and my mother, we will reward you generously.” Wei Yan smiled and pushed out two silver tickets that were placed on the table. “It won’t be a big problem if you want to have your own clinic in the future.”
Doctor Ming Junior’s eyes lit up when he saw the denomination of the silver tickets. He hurriedly took them and said to Wei Yan, “Thank you, Second Young Lady. Don’t worry. I will keep my mouth shut as that of a jar.”
“Good!” Wei Yan raised her eyebrows with satisfaction and waved her hand.
Doctor Ming Junior quietly walked out. Now the drug had been delivered, neither he nor Wei Yan had the mood to act any longer. He tidied up the medicine chest and left Wei Yan’s Music Pavilion.
Since Doctor Ming Junior had come here more than once and Wei Yan was now fully focused on the newly-obtained drug powder, she did not order anyone to send Doctor Ming Junior out.
Therefore, Doctor Ming Junior carried his medicine chest and walked along the way to the festoon gate in the backyard.
Unexpectedly, after a few steps, he found a crowd of maids and old maidservants blocking the way in front of him. There were two maids who seemed to be quarreling with each other and their argument was getting worse. They had even started a fight and the maids and old maidservants who passed by, whether they knew the two maids or not, all came to stop them from fighting each other.
Jin Ling, of course, was also among the peacemakers. When she noticed Doctor Ming Junior walking over with his medicine chest on his back, she moved her fingers slightly and a pebble in her hand was shot out all the way hitting one of the maids in the face who was rather absorbed in squabbling. That maid’s face immediately swelled up, yet no one noticed the pebble that dropped to the ground.
This scene was caused because the two maids accidentally bumped into each other in chaos during their walking. One of them knocked over the fruit plate in the other’s hands and accused her of walking without watching her steps. The quarrel thus happened.
Of course, Jin Ling had played a role by adding fuel to the flame, as exampled by the face of one of the maids that became inexplicably swollen. Needless to say, the victim thought it must be done by the maid who was pulling her. She punched that maid in hatred right away and the latter’s nose bled as a result. The latter was enraged and reached out to hit the other in the face.
At this time, the quarrel had developed into a fight. And coincidentally, as they were fighting each other, the crowd moved towards Doctor Ming Junior.
Doctor Ming Junior only wanted to watch the scene for fun, but didn’t expect that they would crash into him. As he wasn’t quick enough to avoid them, he was knocked down by the two maids and other maids and old maidservants who were trying to stop them from fighting. When he fell to the ground, the medicine chest in his hands dropped to the ground and the contents in it fell out.
Now the maids and old maidservants realized that they caused trouble and hurriedly retreated one by one. After all, this was the doctor who came to treat the Second Young Lady and the Sixth Young Lady.
“Ah, doctor, why did you bring out the prescription for the Second Young Lady?” A surprised voice came from the crowd.
Everyone looked up and saw that a piece of paper that looked like a prescription floated out of the medicine chest.
“No, no, that is not the prescription for the Second Young Lady.” Doctor Ming Junior inexplicably felt bad. Since he had not written a prescription for the Second Young Lady, how could there be the so-called prescription?
There were a few in the crowd who could read. They looked at the prescription on the ground and said, “This is obviously a prescription.”
“Doctor Ming Junior, did you forget to give it to the Second Young Lady?” Someone asked hesitantly. Doctor Ming Junior had always followed Doctor Ming to treat patients the mansion, so many people in the mansion knew him.
“No, it’s not.” He shook his hands and didn’t dare to admit the prescription that came out of nowhere.
“How could it not be? The ink looks still fresh. How about sending someone to ask the Second Young Lady if she dropped the prescription?” Someone suggested.
Doctor Ming Junior was sweating on his forehead. He didn’t really treat Wei Yan because she was pretending ill. Of course he didn’t write a prescription. However, with so many people surrounding him, it looked like they were going to ask Wei Yan about the prescription. The problem was that he didn’t write any prescription!
“It... it wasn’t written by me. I didn’t give a prescription to the Second Young Lady.” Doctor Ming Junior clenched his teeth and spoke the truth. He had no choice but to say so.
He couldn’t say that he had forgotten to give Wei Yan the prescription, because that would be too absurd. How could a doctor not give the prescription to his patient? Even if he didn’t, Wei Yan’s servants would definitely ask for it. If he didn’t even leave a prescription, what kind of doctor was he?
Moreover, he hadn’t read the prescription that inexplicably appeared in his medicine chest. Perhaps it was prescribed to treat some serious disease. How could he admit it was written by him so casually? “The Second Young Lady is not seriously ill. She’ll be fine if she keeps a balanced diet.”
“Isn’t the Second Young Miss very sick? How come she’s fine?” Jin Ling had squeezed herself into the crowd. She took advantage of the chaos and muttered, “She even wanted to compete with the Sixth Young Lady to be treated by Doctor Ming. Could it be that the Second Young Lady only wanted to see Doctor Ming Junior?”
These words actually overstepped the mark. However, everyone in the large crowd was looking at Doctor Ming Junior, so no one noticed who said them. Hearing these words, everyone’s eyes fell on Doctor Ming Junior!
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