On the other side, Wen Shichu, who left Shuiyuxuan, was in a good mood. He recalled Zhen Huan's incredulous look and found it funny.

More than ten years ago, Zhen Yuandao did help save the Wen family, but after so many years, the Wen family has never been stingy with money and has done their best to repay the favor; and the original owner's medical skills have never been stingy in treating the Zhen family, so the favor has long been repaid.

It was not worth it for the original owner to risk the death of her entire family to help Zhen Huan with a small plan to avoid favor.

Wen Shichu had no complaints about helping Zhen Huan cure her illness, but he couldn't think of anything else.

After what was said today, if Zhen Huan had any dignity left, she would not bother him anymore, and her days in the harem would be peaceful from now on.

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This time, Zhen Huan did not have Wen Shichu's help to pretend to be sick to avoid favor, and the first person to sleep with her changed from Shen Meiyu to her.

The next day, I was subjected to a lot of verbal sparring.

Wen Shichu doesn't care about the above. He goes to and from get off work on time every day, and exercises, grows flowers and raises fish to maintain his health in his spare time.

The leisurely life continued until an epidemic broke out in the harem. The palace doctors were helpless and were all busy researching treatment methods.

Given that Wen Shichu had been doing research before, he was able to concoct a suitable prescription for treatment without much effort this time, but he didn't tell anyone.

Speaking so quickly seemed like he was well prepared, and some people might even suspect that he had deliberately released the epidemic to gain an opportunity to advance.

Like other imperial doctors, he studied ancient books diligently every day to find solutions. When Shen Meizhuang was about to die of illness, he stepped forward and cured the illness of several young eunuchs. Then the prescription was used on Shen Meizhuang, and she recovered.

Wen Shichu was appreciated by the emperor because of this, and his status was promoted from an ordinary imperial physician to the left court judge, filling the vacancy of the left court judge. His medical skills were also noticed by the concubines in the harem, and they liked to ask him to treat headaches, fevers, etc.

In the past, he treated the illnesses of concubines of lower rank and received less reward, or no reward at all;

Now that he is treating high-ranking concubines, the rewards are naturally great, which is equivalent to getting a position to receive high rewards.

His position was neither high nor low, which was just right. He only needed to treat high-ranking concubines and did not have to treat the emperor, empress dowager, or queen. This reduced the risk of making mistakes and being beheaded.

Within a few months, Wen Shichu had added bricks and tiles to the house and renovated it. He also hired a few more maids and servants to serve his parents, who took turns to keep watch at night to prevent his parents from getting up at night and being left unattended.

A year later, Wen Shichu married a woman introduced by his mother.

At that time, Zhen Huan asked to leave the palace and went to Ganlu Temple, and the Zhen family was driven to Ningguta. Wen Shichu spent money and asked someone to go to Ningguta in advance to take care of Zhen Yuandao's family.

As for Zhen Huan, Wen Shichu not only did not take care of her, he even sent someone to secretly give money to Jingbai, causing Zhen Huan and her group to be tortured even worse than in the original plot, and also paid back for the cold words that Huanbi and Zhen Huan said to him.

The timeline soon came to the plot where Guaerjia Wenyuan reported Zhen Huan for having an affair with someone, but because Wen Shichu had been avoiding Zhen Huan this time and did not develop into a couple with Shen Meiyu, Guaerjia Wenyuan's brain was not smart enough for her to find any clues of the affair, so she did not make the famous report.

Wen Shichu spent this period of time peacefully.

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A few more years passed and Zhen Huan became the queen mother.

Because Wen Shichu did not intervene, Shen Meizhuang did not have children with the emperor this time, but she lived safely to the end.

One day, Zhen Huan summoned Wen Shichu.

Her sister Mei and her younger sister are still there, so she is in good spirits.

Seeing Wen Shichu's even more gentle and graceful demeanor than before, Zhen Huan suddenly said, "I know that it was you who sent people to take care of my Zhen family, my father, my mother, and my sister."

"I'd like to make you the clerk of the temple. Would you be willing?" Zhen Huan had no idea that Wen Shichu had a hand in her suffering at Ganlu Temple. She simply said, "I was wrong back then. I shouldn't have always forced you to commit such...capital crimes."

Many years have passed, and Zhen Huan's character has changed. She knows that there are spies everywhere in the harem and realizes her ignorance back then.

She sincerely apologized to Wen Shichu.

Wen Shichu's brows relaxed slightly, "The Queen Mother has grown up."

For some reason, this sentence made Zhen Huan want to cry. If the price of growing up was losing Liu Zhu, losing her father, losing Huan Bi, and Xiao Yun Zi...

And...Prince Guo.

She would rather never grow up.

Wen Shichu smiled and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Queen Mother, but I have no intention of becoming an imperial envoy."

Zhen Huan didn't care about being rejected. She said, "Well, since you don't want to be a court official, I will compensate you somewhere else."

Wen Shichu took his leave.

After Wen Shichu left, Shen Meizhuang came out from behind the screen and stared at his back. It was Wen Shichu who saved her back then, and she always remembered it.

Zhen Huan said helplessly, "Sister Mei, your eyes are almost glued to me."

Shen Meizhuang smiled gently and retracted her gaze, but her eyes were slightly bitter yet filled with blessings: "I heard that Doctor Wen got married and his wife is pregnant. I'm sure he must be very happy."

Zhen Huan smiled and snorted coquettishly, "Sister Mei wants me to increase his monthly salary. Just say it directly. Why beat around the bush?"

"I told you to find out." Shen Meizhuang covered her lips with her hands, her eyebrows curved.

Zhen Huan waved her hand and increased the monthly salary of the judges of the left and right courts.

Old friends are still around, but what is lost will never come back. Zhen Huan cherishes the old friends who are still alive and gets along with Shen Meiyu better than before.

Wen Shichu had the Empress Dowager Zhen Huan to protect him, so the new emperor did not make things difficult for him. In addition, his salary was increased, and his life became more and more comfortable. After retiring in his later years, Wen Shichu and his wife lived a happy life, playing at sunrise and resting at sunset.

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