Chapter 636 - 234: Struck It Rich
Chapter 636: Chapter 234: Struck It Rich
Princess Kangning said despondently, "You’re right. The water is treacherous; surviving by a stroke of luck is already a great fortune. As for everything else, if it’s lost, it’s lost. As long as she makes it back, that’s all that matters."
"That is what we thought as well."
After Princess Kangning left, Chen Wanqing was no longer sleepy. She and Zhao Jing took a stroll around the courtyard, but after covering barely a quarter of it, she grew tired. The couple returned to their room to rest.
At Noon, no one returned.
The old master was in the palace and wouldn’t be back for the midday meal. He wouldn’t even be home tonight because it was his turn to be on duty in the Cabinet room to handle any emergency government affairs.
Xu Shiniang was the Standard Third Rank Minister of the Imperial Sacrificial Worship Temple, in charge of rites, music, suburban temples, and sacrifices. Now that it was the end of the year, all kinds of sacrificial supplies and venues had to be fully prepared.
Furthermore, because of the addition of the Crown Prince this year, they had to figure out the proper procedures. Should they follow the rules of the previous dynasty? Most Crown Princes canonized in the current dynasty were already adults. For a toddler who couldn’t even walk yet, should they have someone substitute for him in the sacrifices—as was done in the previous dynasty—or simply skip the step altogether? They had to discuss and finalize a protocol. All in all, there was endless bickering at the end of the year. Unless it was a matter of life and death, he truly couldn’t make it home.
Since no one else was around, the couple ate in their courtyard.
A little later, two more families sent letters over, explicitly addressed to Xu Su Ying. Undoubtedly, the madams of these two families were also good friends with her. However, one madam had contracted a severe illness and couldn’t see guests at the moment, while the other was in the active mourning period and would need a few more days before she could step out. Therefore, they requested to wait a few days before coming together to meet their dear friend.
Though they didn’t arrive in person, their gifts certainly did. Not only did they send food and daily necessities, but they also prepared quite a lot of clothing and jewelry. Those who didn’t know better might have thought Xu Su Ying was their own daughter.
Even later, Imperial Physicians from the palace arrived.
Two Imperial Physicians exchanged greetings with Chen Wanqing and Zhao Jing with smiles. One of them said, "Mr. Xu mentioned that his beloved daughter still has unresolved blood clots in her head, so he specifically requested His Majesty to grant Imperial Physicians to visit the residence and treat her. We two were ordered out of the palace. May I ask where the patient is?"
Chen Wanqing and Zhao Jing were left completely speechless.
Honestly, Chen Wanqing had always felt her mother’s life in the past was pretty good. But compared to these recent days, her mother had truly suffered immensely when she was with her father!
Chen Song also felt that his wife had suffered immensely by following him. In the past, when he took his wife out, buying her a set of jewelry worth a few dozen taels of silver was considered an extraordinary luxury. But going out today, his horizons had been thoroughly broadened.
Overjoyed that her daughter, who had been missing for twenty years, was finally back by her side, the old madam not only donated two thousand taels of silver in incense money to her frequently visited Great Compassion Temple, but she also promised to coat all the Bodhisattvas inside in gold leaf. In addition to this, starting today, the Xu family would hand out free vegetarian meals and medicine at the four city gates of the Capital City, continuing right up until the New Year.
All these actions combined would cost at least ten thousand taels of silver. And for all this, the children didn’t need to pitch in a single copper coin. A mere fraction of the old madam’s personal wealth was more than enough to cover it all.
Chen Song was struck with a massive blow! He was utterly dumbfounded! He truly realized that the good karma accumulated by eighteen generations of his ancestors must have been saved up solely to bless him when he married his wife.
This feeling reached its absolute peak when he returned home and saw the two Imperial Physicians who had been waiting for a long time.
The Imperial Physicians had come under the Emperor’s orders and were the two most highly skilled doctors in the Imperial Hospital. One was the Dean of the Imperial Hospital, and the other was an expert in brain injuries. Yet, even these two top-tier national medical experts showed signs of difficulty after taking Xu Su Ying’s pulse.
The blood clots themselves weren’t hard to remove, but their location was rather tricky. They feared that hastily removing them might trigger other complications. The human brain was, after all, far too delicate. The slightest misstep, and even an immortal would find it hard to cure.
In the end, the two decided on a conservative treatment plan first. She would drink a decoction to reduce swelling and dispel the clots for half a month, paired with targeted acupoint massages, to see if there was any improvement. If this method failed to work after a month, they would resort directly to acupuncture.
Before the Imperial Physicians could leave, Princess Kangning hurried over upon hearing the news.
She didn’t even dare to make a sound. Only after the Imperial Physicians finished taking the pulse and finalizing the prescription did she say with a taut face, "You are the most outstanding Imperial Physicians in the Wei Dynasty. Do even you not have a better solution?"
Recognizing Princess Kangning, the Imperial Physicians hurriedly bowed in greeting and said ashamedly, "Your subordinates will certainly do our best, but the injury is in the brain. We cannot act with undue haste."
"Alright, alright, go down and write the prescription. You Imperial Physicians are the most difficult to deal with. Because you’re afraid of bearing responsibility, sometimes you don’t even dare to use the necessary medicine. If someone doesn’t threaten you with the execution of your nine generations, you refuse to show your true skills..."