Chapter 548 - Chapter 548: Show Me And Broaden My Horizon
Chapter 548: Show Me And Broaden My Horizon
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation | Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
When the Old Mistress arrived outside the palace, Su Ying was still playing on the swing. She didn’t want to admit it, but she was a little addicted to the playground.
“Your Imperial Highness, the Old Mistress of General Zhenbei’s Residence has arrived at the palace gates. She said that she wants to beg Your Imperial Highness to save her grandson.”
Su Ying didn’t look surprised. “Fortunately, there’s still an old one who’s clear-headed in that residence. There’s no need for them to enter the palace. Tell them to return to the General’s Residence first. I will be there shortly.” “Yes, Your Imperial Highness.”
After receiving Su Ying’s promise, the Old Mistress brought Nie Jun back to the General’s Residence to wait.
Su Ying instructed Zhou Qing to pack her medicine box and she left the palace after everything was ready.
When Su Ying arrived, the Old Mistress was waiting outside the General’s Residence with some people. When she saw Su Ying alighting from the carriage, she respectfully went forward to welcome her.
“Greetings, Your Imperial Highness.”
“Old Mistress, no need for formalities. Please rise.”
Su Ying didn’t waste any time and followed the Old Mistress directly to Nie Jun’s room.
Nie Jun was still unconscious. After the Old Mistress brought the child over, she immediately got someone to lower Nie Jun’s temperature. Despite doing this, his body temperature remained high and did not come down. His internal body condition was so bad that his high temperature couldn’t be lowered at all without the help of medicine.
I need to explain this child’s condition to you clearly, Old Mistress. His appendicitis is very serious now. It is so serious that it is impossible for him to recover by taking medicine. Therefore, I will open a small hole in his stomach to remove the necrotic intestines. Do you understand, Old Mistress?” Although the Old Mistress had already prepared herself for the worst, her face still paled instantly when she heard Su Ying’s words. “Your Imperial Highness, then Jun’er, he… he…”
“I can’t guarantee that he will be fine. I can only start treatment as soon as possible.”
The Old Mistress’s nervous voice trembled slightly as she knelt down right away in front of Su Ying. “This old lady pleads with Your Imperial Highness to save this poor child…”
Su Ying motioned for Zhou Qing to help the Old Mistress up. “I will do my best. No one is allowed to come in to disturb me while I giving him treatment.”
“Yes, yes, Your Imperial Highness.”
Su Ying closed the door after giving her instructions.
She brought Nie Jun into the interspatial store to measure his body temperature. The temperature had already reached 41 degrees Celsius. If this fever continued, his internal organs would be damaged.
Su Ying had to lower the child’s temperature before surgery. Otherwise, it would be easy for problems to occur during the surgery.
After Su Ying gave Nie Jun a shot to reduce the fever, she put him on an intravenous drip. It was really unlucky for a perfectly healthy child to have a brainless mother.
After the child’s body temperature dropped, Su Ying began to disinfect his body where the surgery would be performed.
Outside the door, the Old Mistress waited anxiously. General Zhenbei only had one legitimate son. What should she do if something happened to him?
“Old Mistress, you don’t need to worry. The Empress’s medical skills are superb and she will definitely not let anything happen to Young Master.” Zhou Qing saw that the Old Mistress was so anxious that she couldn’t even sit properly in her chair, so she tried to allay her worries.
“Yes, yes, you’re right. The Empress’s medical skills are superb and she’s a person blessed with good fortune. Jun’er will definitely be fine.”
At this point, Madam Pang, who was locked in her room, was about to go crazy. She cursed angrily in the room and shouted that she wanted to go out, but the people standing guard outside the door turned a deaf ear.
“You lowly servants, I am the General’s wife. In the future, the entire back courtyard of the women’s quarters in the General’s Residence will be under my control. If you guys dare to go against my wishes now, I will teach all of you a lesson in the future!”
Her words did indeed make the servants waver, and they didn’t want to offend Madam Pang too much.
“Mistress, don’t worry. The Old Mistress will definitely not harm the Young Master.”
Madam Pang gritted her teeth. “Then are you saying that I will harm my own son?”
“Mistress, the Old Mistress has already asked the Empress to come here to treat Young Master, so you can rest assured.”
Although the servants were afraid of offending Madam Pang, they were even more fearful of offending the Old Mistress right now. No matter what Madam Pang said, no one dared to open the door.
Before Madam Pang’s ruckus led to any tangible results, Su Ying had already finished her surgery and brought the child out of the interspatial store.
The moment Su Ying opened the door, the Old Mistress quickly stepped forward. “Your Imperial Highness, Jun’er, he…”
“The treatment is completed successfully. If nothing goes wrong, he will wake up soon. You can go in and take a look at him.”
When the Old Mistress heard Su Ying say this, a big weight was lifted off her shoulders. With the help of the maidservant, she staggered into the house.
Nie Jun was lying quietly on the bed. His face was still pale, but the red feverish hue on his cheeks had faded. His forehead was no longer as hot as before. At this moment, the Old Mistress was truly convinced of Su Ying’s medical skills.
The Empress definitely had abilities that ordinary people couldn’t match.
The appendicitis removal itself was a minor operation. Nie Jun’s condition had been allowed to drag on for too long. If he had been treated in time, he wouldn’t have ended up in this state.
“Old Mistress, I have some things that I don’t understand and want to ask the General’s wife.” Su Ying wanted to know what Madam Pang had fed Nie Jun to control the pain of Nie Jun’s appendicitis. After all, appendicitis could be very painful when it acted up. How could Nie Jun, a mere child, withstand it? Yet he still went to class yesterday.
The Old Mistress also didn’t know what Madam Pang was up to, so she could only order someone to bring Madam Pang here for Su Ying to interrogate.
Madam Pang’s face was full of resentment as she was escorted over by two old maidservants. She glared at Su Ying with a venomous gaze as if Su Ying had caused the death of her son.
“My son has no enmity with Your Imperial Highness, so why is Your Imperial Highness so ruthless to harm my son!”
Su Ying’s brows twitched slightly. Upon hearing these words, she could tell that Madam Pang’s brain wasn’t working very well.
Old Mistress Nie felt downright humiliated when she heard that. “You stupid woman, shut up! If it wasn’t for the Empress, who knew what would have happened to Jun’er!”
Madam Pang felt that the Old Mistress was only siding with Su Ying because of Su Ying’s authority and status.
“Even if Jun’er’s illness is cured, it’s because the Great Immortal White Lotus cured him. It has nothing to do with anyone else.”
It was the Great Immortal White Lotus again, but Su Ying wasn’t angry. Instead, she patiently asked, “Oh? Then tell me. How did the Great Immortal White Lotus cure Nie Jun?”
Madam Pang raised her chin smugly and said, “When Jun’er was in so much pain that he almost died and the Imperial Physician’s medicine didn’t work at all, I gave him a drink with the talisman paper given by the Great Immortal White Lotus. After drinking the water mixed with the burnt talisman paper, his pain immediately disappeared.”
Su Ying seemed interested. “This talisman paper is truly divine. Does Mistress still have any more? Bring one and show me to broaden my horizons.”
Madam Pang didn’t think that there was anything about the Great Immortal White Lotus’s things that couldn’t be made known to others. She immediately took out a talisman paper from her pocket.
Zhou Qing stepped forward to take the talisman paper and looked at it. It looked no different from ordinary yellow talisman papers except that the ink used to draw the talisman symbols was not cinnabar but a mysterious grayish-brown liquid. After the liquid dried, a faint green color appeared on the symbols.
Su Ying placed it under her nose and sniffed it. She could smell a faint medicinal scent. It wasn’t obvious, but Su Ying was sensitive to medicine and could detect it immediately.
The reason Nie Jun could calm down after Madam Pang burned the talisman paper and mixed it in water for him to drink was very likely related to this medicinal smell.
Su Ying told Zhou Qing to bring a fire sparks retainer. She then burned the talisman paper and dropped the ashes into a cup of water before taking a sip.
“Your Imperial Highness!”