Painting Doctor Jinhua

Xiao Shiniang's question came suddenly, but it was also within Xiao Jinyu's expectations.

Xiao Jinyu smiled and said, "It seems that Lady Shi is a smart person, but also quite stupid."

Xiao Shiniang's face changed, and she said, "Your illness is not caused by falling into the water a month ago. In fact, the cold in your body is something you brought from your mother's womb. You usually take warm and cold-removing medicines to maintain your body. You are well-nourished and your body was fine, but you jumped into the icy water by yourself, causing the cold in your body to relapse and the cold poison to invade your bone marrow..."

"You're talking nonsense. How could my wife jump into the icy water by herself? She did it by accident... No, she didn't do it by accident either. She was harmed by someone..." The maid Youtan was a little angry and stunned, and quickly interrupted.

Xiao Shiniang cast her eyes towards her and suddenly ordered, "Youtan, get down!"

The maid felt a little resentful. She hesitated for a moment before she bowed and retreated.

As soon as the maid left, Xiao Jinyu signaled Fenghuang to guard outside the door.

After a moment of silence in the room, Xiao Shiniang asked, "How did you figure that out?"

Xiao Jinyu smiled and replied, "From the moment you entered the house, you refused to drink the medicine that your maid gave you. It's not that you couldn't drink it, but that you didn't dare to drink it." At this point, she pointed to a pot of blooming but yellowing Epiphyllum in front of the windowsill and asked, "You like Epiphyllum very much, and your maid's name is also Youtan."

"Yes, as the Buddha said, the Udumbara flower is an auspicious and magical flower, with a fleeting beauty and a moment of eternity."

"Fate comes and goes, flowers bloom and fall, and return to dust. This is what you really want to say. You like Epiphyllum, but you hate its short life. You feed the Epiphyllum all the medicine you should drink every day. Do you want to save it, or do you want it to die early?"

Xiao Shiniang's expression changed again.

"In fact, this medicine is not poisonous at all, and it was sent by Xiao Qilangjun, the man who loves you the most in your mansion. The reason you don't drink it is not because you are too cautious, but because you want to delay your illness."

At this point, Xiao Jinyu looked at her again and said in a deep voice, "You are seeking death, or in other words, you are seeking revenge. Gambling your life on an uncertain future is not a wise move, but a very stupid one, as even ants try to survive, let alone humans?"

Xiao Shiniang was a little unhappy.

"You don't understand my current situation. I am now..."

Halfway through her words, she suddenly paused.

Suddenly looked at Xiao Jinyu.

Although there was a layer of veil between them, Xiao Shiniang seemed to be able to feel a sharp gaze. This gaze might contain coldness or compassion, but there was absolutely no mercy. There was only indifference and detachment from all the prosperity and worldliness in the world, just like the temperament revealed by this person, lofty, mysterious, and a kind of detachment that was not worldly and saw through everything.

"Who are you? I feel like I've seen you before?" Xiao Shiniang suddenly asked.

Xiao Jinyu smiled.

"We are both wanderers in this world, so why should we know each other when we meet? You are right. I am not a real doctor. I came here for a purpose."

Having said this, she lifted the veil covering her face, looked at Xiao Shiniang and said, "I'm here to ask you for a favor..."

Halfway through his words, Xiao Shiniang's eyes showed suspicion and her face changed horribly.

"You, who are you?"

She pursed her lips, looking frightened at seeing someone she knew.

"You ever met me?"

Xiao Shiniang shook her head again and again: "No, I have never seen him, but I just think you look a lot like someone..."

"Who?"

Xiao Shiniang did not answer again. She just smiled and shook her head, saying, "I have only seen that person once from a distance. Maybe I saw him wrongly. He just feels similar. He is not alike at all."

Xiao Shiniang spoke incoherently, as if she was hiding something, and Xiao Jinyu did not ask her the reason.

"Oh, by the way, what do you want me to help you with?" Xiao Shiniang asked, as if trying to change the subject.

Xiao Jinyu paused for a moment and replied, "I want to see your grandmother, Madam Zuo in the Xiao Mansion."

Xiao Shiniang was stunned again.

At this time, Fenghuang's voice came from outside the door, "Why, you've been gone for so long, does your wife suspect that the prescription my brother Qing prescribed is poisonous?"

"No, no, young master, what you said is serious. I wonder what your master likes to eat, so Madam can prepare the meal early."

"No need for food. My brother Qing is not used to eating other people's food. What if he is accidentally poisoned to death?"

How does this child talk?

Wei Yu, who had been smiling fawningly, suddenly turned pale with anger. As an old woman in her fifties or sixties, she couldn't argue with a child, so she had to hold her anger and said nothing.

In a blink of an eye, the boy also ran into the house.

Wei Yu sighed in her heart: It's such a pity that she has a face that everyone loves.

Not long after, the man wearing a veiled hat came out with the boy.

"Xiao Shiniang's illness is not serious. Take the medicine according to this prescription, boil it with moxa water for half an hour, take it for a month, and you will be completely cured."

Xiao Jinyu stopped and said.

Compared with that boy, the doctor's attitude was much more polite.

Wei Yu felt a lot more relieved, and then she sneered in her heart: Even the doctor in the mansion said that this was just the most common prescription for treating typhoid fever, not much different from what he had prescribed before. This young man is quite good at bragging, or maybe she was just saying it casually and wanted to take this opportunity to leave.

Sure enough, when she was thinking this, Xiao Jinyu and the boy had already avoided her sight and walked away.

"Wait a minute..." Wei Yu hurried over and stopped them. "You two should stay in our house. Our Madam has already prepared a place for you two to stay. All the food and drinks you need will be delivered upon your request. Madam will treat you as guests."

"We are free to leave. Does your wife want to keep us under house arrest?" Fenghuang said angrily.

Wei Yu's face froze again: "How could this be? Shi Niang's illness has not really recovered yet. My wife just wants to keep the two gentlemen for a while."

"They say they want to keep us here, but they actually want to monitor us. Do you think we can't understand these tricks of the harem?"

Hearing this, Wei Yu also became angry, and hurriedly shouted, "Someone come!" and called out some maids who had been arranged long ago.

Seven or eight burly maids surrounded them in a hurry, and it really looked like they had built a wall around them.

"I didn't expect that the Xiao family, which is known as a prestigious family in Jiankang City, would resort to such tactics." Fenghuang clenched his fists angrily.

At this time, a man's voice came: "What are you doing?"

Wei Yu turned around and saw that the person who came was none other than the Seventh Young Master Xiao Xian, who was paralyzed in a wheelchair due to his disabled legs. A trace of disdain flashed in her eyes, and she hurriedly bowed and said, "Seventh Young Master, a doctor has come to the mansion to treat the Tenth Lady. This doctor has an agreement with the Madam in advance that if he can cure the Tenth Lady's illness, he will be rewarded handsomely. If not, he will have to sell himself as a slave and stay in my Xiao Mansion, at the Madam's disposal. But now..."

Phoenix was unhappy: When did they say they wanted to sell themselves into slavery?

Before he could finish his words, Xiao Xian also asked, "If that's the case, can Shi Niangzi's illness be cured?"

Wei Yu said, "This doctor said he can cure it, but who knows if they are lying? Shi Niangzi's illness has not yet been cured, and they want to take the reward and leave. How can such a good thing happen?" At this point, she added, "Oh, by the way, this doctor also said that it was you, Qi Langjun, who invited him!"

Xiao Xian then turned his gaze to Xiao Jinyu, he had heard that someone in the mansion had mentioned his name and came to see Sanniang, so he came over out of curiosity to take a look. He did not expect that the visitor was an old acquaintance whom he had only met once in the teahouse today.

"Excuse me, are you from the Lanling Xiao family?"

He still remembered that after the boy asked this question, the young man next to him immediately stood up to stop him. He didn't think much of it before, but now thinking about it, he felt that there was something unusual.

He asked this question not to curry favor with him, but simply to find out whether he was from the Lanling Xiao family.

Thinking of this, Xiao Xian did not expose her, and only said: "Yes, they are the doctors I invited to treat Sanniang's illness."

Wei Yu blushed slightly and muttered quietly: "He is just a charlatan. How dare Mr. Qi..."

"Whether he is a charlatan or not, we have to wait until Sanniang recovers before we can make a final conclusion. It is not for a servant like you to make comments!"

Xiao Xian said sternly, and Wei Yu said yes repeatedly, not daring to say anything else.

"Go down!"

Xiao Xian gave another order, but Wei Yu hesitated and refused to leave. She wanted to say something with her lips trembling, but then she heard Xiao Xian say, "A visitor is a guest. The guest's stay or departure is determined by others' wishes. Respecting others' wishes is the way to treat guests. You have been in my Xiao family for more than ten years. Don't you even know this most basic etiquette?"

Wei Yu's face turned red, and she heard him say, "Go and tell the mistress that I will definitely invite this doctor again in the future. If anything happens to Sanniang, I will bear all the consequences."

"Yes, Seventh Young Master, I will withdraw now." After saying this, he hurried away, and the maids also dispersed.

After the old lady Wei ran away dejectedly, Xiao Xian looked at Xiao Jinyu and Fenghuang, stretched out his hand and said softly: "If you two have nothing to do, you can leave!"