Painting Doctor Jinhua

Although she was older, the woman already revealed a mature charm and the elegance and grace of a lady from an aristocratic family. However, her gorgeous and somewhat ostentatious facial features as well as the desire and deep meaning implied in her eyes made Xiao Jinyu think of that man.

The cousin of the current emperor, Chen Jianchen, the daughter of Emperor Wu of Chen, Chen Baxian.

Just a dozen years ago, she was not a princess, Chen Shili was not an emperor, and Chen Baxian was not a founding emperor. She was just a country official of humble origin. If she had not been recommended by her grandfather and appreciated by Xinyu Hou, Chen might never have entered the political center of Southern Liang, and it would have been even more impossible for her to replace Liang and become emperor.

With the help of Xinyu Marquis Xiao Ying, Chen Baxian was promoted from a small oil depot clerk to a frontier official in charge of military power. The Chen family also rose to prominence. Chen Jianchen, the daughter of Governor Chen, was just a humble and timid girl from a poor family at that time. When they met at a banquet by chance, the look in his eyes was filled with endless envy and a burning desire that was impossible to see clearly.

At that time she could not understand what this desire was, but now thinking about it, it was probably a desire to replace her, or to be superior to her.

However, the ambition burning in the eyes of a young girl of her teens is no less than that of a boy, and is exactly the same as that of her cousin Chen Shili.

More than a decade has passed in the blink of an eye. Now she is no longer Xie Yuqing, and that woman must have changed a lot as well, right?

Pulling her thoughts back to her senses, Xiao Jinyu looked at the woman, and the woman was also looking at her curiously.

"You are the famous doctor invited by Qilang. When did you meet Qilang from my Xiao family? What's your last name? What's your name?" Princess Yunyin asked, tapping on a white porcelain cup with her long nails, a hint of temptation and arrogance in her eyes.

Xiao Jinyu smiled softly. Fenghuang seemed unable to tolerate the arrogant attitude of this woman who was interrogating her, and answered first: "Xiao Xianlang's name is well-known in Jiangzuo. Who in the world doesn't know him? Besides, my brother Qing is here to treat your wife, not to be interrogated by you. What does her last name or name have to do with you?"

Princess Yunyin's face froze. No one in the entire Xiao mansion dared to speak to her like this.

"How dare you! Where did you come from, you wild boy? How dare you speak to our princess like that?" Sensing the mistress' displeasure, Old Lady Jiang shouted.

Princess Yunyin raised her hand to stop Jiang Yu's shouting and looked at Fenghuang carefully.

"What a handsome face. She is so beautiful at such a young age. I wonder how stunning she will be when she grows up. I think she is not too much like Han Zigao, who made Emperor Wen obsessed with her and was willing to change his fate and make her the male queen."

Princess Yunyin suddenly sighed, and Old Lady Jiang blushed. After glancing at the phoenix, she tactfully bowed and retreated.

"Okay, I won't ask you how you met Qilang, nor will I ask your names, but I have a condition."

"What conditions?"

"My wife from the Xiao family is not for anyone to see casually, even doctors. If you can cure her, I will naturally reward you handsomely. If you can't, then you, don't even think about leaving the Xiao family."

"Not leaving the Xiao family? Then what do you want us to do?" Fenghuang asked.

Princess Yunyin smiled with an ambiguous meaning, and did not give a direct answer. She only said, "You will know when the time comes." After that, she instructed an old woman behind her, "Take them to Lingqing Pavilion!"

Such a mysterious attitude.

Phoenix also disdained to pay any attention.

The two followed the old woman for a few steps, and suddenly heard a voice behind them saying, "Oh, by the way, since you don't want to tell us your names, you should at least tell me what I should call you, right?"

"My brother Qing's surname is..."

Fenghuang was about to answer when Xiao Jinyu interrupted: "Ge."

"Ge? Could he be the descendant of Ge Hong, the Immortal Ge?"

Princess Yunyin smiled, but Xiao Jinyu ignored her. After stopping for a moment, she and Fenghuang followed the old woman to Lingqing Pavilion where the third wife of the Xiao family lived.

Along the way, I learned from the old woman that Xiao Shiniang was the only daughter of the eldest branch of the Xiao family. Xiao Qi, the eldest son of the Xiao family, was the first son of Xiao Jian and his wife, Madam Zuo, Xiao Yuan. Fourteen years ago, Xiao Qi married Feng, a woman from a low-ranking aristocratic family, despite his family's opposition. A year later, Feng gave birth to a daughter, but she died soon after due to postpartum depression.

One year after Feng's death, the patriarch of the Xiao family wanted Xiao Qi to marry into the Zhu family. However, he did not expect that Xiao Qi was a loyal person. He said that he would observe mourning for his wife and not remarry for three years. However, before the three years were up, Xiao Qi got a cough and passed away.

Now, the eldest family only has one granddaughter, Xiao Ruoling, who will not live long, bringing a lot of bad luck to the mansion. Also, because this girl seems to be born with bad luck, anyone who gets close to her will be unlucky. Everyone in the Xiao family, even the servants, don't like her very much.

Therefore, the mistress of the Xiao family, Princess Yunyin, arranged a remote and quiet place for her that was particularly suitable for recuperation, under the pretext of letting her recuperate well and no one could disturb her.

Standing in front of the gate of a small courtyard covered with weeds and vines, Xiao Jinyu looked around at the quiet environment without any trace of worldly affairs, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart that this was truly an isolated "paradise" that no one cared about.

If you walk here at night, someone who doesn't know would think you have entered a haunted house with no one living there.

"My two gentlemen, this is where Lady Ten lives."

The old woman said something, and Xiao Jinyu came back to her senses and nodded, then followed her into the inner room, where she saw a girl of about twelve or thirteen lying on a bed. Her thin body was as thin as a piece of paper. The girl kept coughing, and there seemed to be thick phlegm mixed in. A maid with double buns was holding a spittoon beside the bed and patting the girl's back. On the table next to her was a bowl of half-drunk medicine soup.

There was a little bit of liquid spilled on the ground, perhaps it was what the girl had just vomited.

"Girl, you must drink this medicine. How can you recover if you vomit while drinking it?"

The maid looked anxious.

"What should I do? Mr. Qi has repeatedly warned me..."

At this time, Xiao Jinyu said, "Fenghuang, go and bring the medicine here so I can take a look."

The maid was startled when she heard the voice. She looked up and found that a maid had entered the room with two unidentified outsiders.

The maid recognized the servant woman at a glance as Wei Yu from the mistress's courtyard, and hurriedly bowed and said, "Hello, Wei Yu. I didn't know you were here, but what do you want from the mistress?"

Even the slaves in the aristocratic families are strictly divided into different levels. It can be seen that the status of this maid is not only a little bit lower than that of the old woman.

"Has your wife's illness improved?" Received such respect, Wei Yu naturally put on airs.

The maid quickly replied: "Girl, your illness..."

"Is it good or not? Why are you so hesitant in your words?"

The maid was a little timid and answered quickly: "Yes, I dare not lie, the girl's illness is probably..."

The young girl on the bed immediately sent him a look, stood up and continued, "Please thank grandma for her concern on my behalf. My illness has improved a lot, so you don't have to worry about me."

Wei Yu was surprised and said sarcastically, "Shi Niangzi, don't try to hold on. What kind of hurtful words are you saying? The mistress is always concerned about Shi Niangzi's health. After all, Shi Niangzi's life was bought by the eldest master and the first lady."

The girl's expression changed slightly. After all, she was young, and her clear eyes were already filled with uncontrollable anger.

"Look, the mistress has invited another famous doctor to come and see Lady Ten again."

Wei Yu added one more sentence, and the girl then turned her gaze to Xiao Jinyu. After just one glance, she said weakly, "No need. Thank you, grandma, for me. I'm afraid my illness can't be cured. If I pass it on to others, it would be bad. Let me accumulate some virtue before I leave!"

"The heaven and earth are the furnace, nature is the worker, yin and yang are the charcoal, and all things are copper. In this world, living is a torment, but being alive is your greatest blessing and luck. Since you have such good fortune, why would you seek death?"

The girl suddenly raised her head and seemed to be looking at Xiao Jinyu straight in the eye.

At this time, Xiao Jinyu had already walked in front of her, sat down on a couch, and said gently: "Look at me, stretch out your hand."

The girl was skeptical, but Xiao Jinyu's voice seemed to bring her an inexplicable sense of security. She stretched out her hand involuntarily and placed her white wrist on the folded handkerchief.

Xiao Jinyu pointed at her wrist, and after a while, she said, "Stick out your tongue again so I can see it."

After hesitating for a moment, the girl did as she was told.

After Xiao Jinyu looked at it, she asked, "Did you fall into the water a month ago? Is that why you got this cough?"

Before the girl could answer, the maidservant beside her said, "Yes, yes, the lady did accidentally fall into the pond a month ago, and then her whole body began to feel hot, and then she started coughing."

A month ago, the ice and snow had melted, but there might still be ice in the pond water. You can imagine how freezing cold it was.

Xiao Jinyu saw a hint of vigilance and sadness in the girl's eyes.

After a moment, she stood up and said, "I fell into the water a month ago and the cold entered my body. Although I took a lot of medicine to relieve the cold, it did not stop the cold from entering my bones. It condensed and did not dissipate over time, and I developed a cough."

"Is there any way to cure it?" the maid asked hurriedly.

Xiao Jinyu looked at the girl, then glanced around, and suddenly said, "If it is a common cold, it is easy to treat, but this..." After a pause, "I can prescribe a prescription to try."

"Youtan, quickly get the pen for this miracle doctor." The girl ordered hurriedly.

The maid named Youtan answered hurriedly and took out writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone from a box.

They were just the most common wool brush and hemp paper, which were very different from the deer hair brush and Saeki paper she used in her previous life.

Xiao Jinyu picked up the pen and started writing on the rough paper. After a while, she was ready to hand the written prescription to Xiao Ruoling, the tenth lady of the Xiao family. At this moment, Wei Yu, who had been watching, said, "Wait, please let this old servant see this prescription, Master Ge. Please forgive me, all food and medicine that are taken must be checked by our mistress."