The rural doctor bought a husband who was very treacherous

Chapter 251 Blood Test

The outskirts of Kyoto.

Princess Li and Princess Mingyue, who had burns on their hands, no longer looked as glorious as they did when they first arrived in the capital.

The clothes they wore were made of coarse linen, which rubbed against their delicate skin, making them extremely uncomfortable.

But they had been locked up in Prince Li's Mansion and had been hungry for several days, so they had no time to think about the discomfort of their clothes. They just wanted to have a full meal.

Dragging his weak body, Mingyue was hit by the scabbard of a yamen runner behind him. "Hurry up, we will be able to report to the meeting place soon."

"I, but I have no strength left. Can you give me something to eat?" Mingyue said pitifully.

"Okay, I'll give it to you. If you let us touch you, I'll give you a cake." The bailiff grinned lewdly. Although the woman in front of him was a convict, she was much prettier than the girls in the brothel.

"You, do you know who we are? Wait for us..." Mingyue was filled with shame and anger. No one had ever said such obscene words to her.

"Pah!" The bailiff slapped Mingyue in the face. "Do you still think of yourself as the master? You are not even as good as the women in Cuihonglou. After all, they only receive wealthy patrons, but you can only work for free. Hahaha..."

Mingyue's face swelled up instantly. She looked at the bailiff in front of her in astonishment, and then she looked at Princess Li behind her.

Princess Li didn't even look at her and walked forward like a zombie.

“Mother!!” Mingyue cried, but Princess Li didn’t even stop.

"Why are you shouting? Aren't you hungry? Let us take a look and see how much you are worth..." An obscene voice sounded from behind, and Mingyue's screams and curses could be heard from time to time.

Fortunately, these yamen runners only touched Mingyue all over and did not do anything more outrageous.

The satisfied yamen runners did not give Mingyue any food. In the end, they dragged Mingyue, who had fainted from excessive fright, to the gathering place outside the city.

This case of Prince Li's rebellion involved many people, and many officials in the court who had close relations with Prince Li were exposed.

Most of these people participated in Prince Li's rebellion to some extent, so many ministers and men in their families were beheaded by Emperor Jing's order, leaving only the women in their families and Prince Li's wife and her entourage in exile.

When Mingyue woke up again, she and her group had already embarked on the road of exile.

No one in the family dared to give these people money or food. One can imagine how difficult it was for these exiled people along the way. Many women, who were already weak, died on the way, and their bodies were simply dragged to the wilderness and discarded at will.

The Third Prince's Mansion.

The third prince, who was announced to be seriously ill, was indeed so ill that he could not get out of bed.

However, his condition was so serious that no imperial physician came to help treat him.

This was completely different treatment from when the Second Prince was seriously ill.

"Father...Father, someone come...I want to see father, cough cough cough..." The third prince lay on the edge of the bed, his eyes dark.

He stretched out his hand, but there was not a single servant serving him in the huge bedroom.

At this time, the door of the bedroom was opened, and a ray of light finally shone into the bedroom.

The third prince lay on the edge of the bed and looked up at the door.

It was not until the person came closer that the Third Prince could see who it was.

It turned out to be Eunuch Fu who was beside Emperor Jing.

"Eunuch Fu, I want to see my father..."

"Don't call me father. Don't you know? You are the child of Xuanyuan Rui and Lu." Eunuch Fu leaned over and whispered in the third prince's ear.

"No, it's impossible." The third prince looked at Eunuch Fu in horror, his eyes full of disbelief.

"Xuanyuan Rui and Lu have already gone ahead. His Majesty asked me to take you there so that your family can be reunited on the Naihe Bridge." After Eunuch Fu said this, he took out a foot of white silk from his arms, wrapped it around the third prince's neck in two or three strokes, and tightened it.

The third prince had already been eating the food given by the palace for several days. Those foods were the ones that Lu had previously sent to Emperor Jing.

Emperor Jing didn't eat it, and had it sent to the Third Prince's palace.

At that time, Emperor Jing only disliked the third prince, but he did not expect that Lu actually put a chronic poison in the food he fed.

The poison would not kill a person directly after taking it a few times, but it would only make the person gradually weak and powerless.

But if you take it for too long, the medicine will gradually drain your body and eventually it will become incurable.

The third prince ate those foods and eventually his health collapsed.

Only then did Emperor Jing realize that Lu actually intended to poison him.

After the third prince was poisoned, Emperor Jing did not allow anyone to treat him, so the third prince had no strength at all at this time.

Eunuch Fu easily strangled the weak Third Prince with a piece of white silk.

Looking at the Third Prince who died with his eyes open, Eunuch Fu secretly cursed.

After letting go of the white silk, the Third Prince's body went limp and fell under the bed.

"Someone come, the third prince has passed away."

Soon, footsteps were heard outside the Third Prince's bedroom, and several burly eunuchs came forward and began to clean up the Third Prince's disguise.

The third prince was eventually buried as a prince, but his death was sudden, so he was hastily buried in a random place on the edge of the imperial mausoleum.

royal palace.

Emperor Jing had a gloomy expression and stared blankly at the table in front of him.

He actually helped raise someone else's child for more than ten years, which was a great shame for Emperor Jing.

But since the Third Prince is not his biological son, he cannot announce it to the public.

He didn't really want to become a laughing stock in the world.

"Fuquanhai."

"I'm here." Eunuch Fu responded from the side.

"Bring all the princesses and princes to the Imperial Study tomorrow. I will test their blood relationship."

"Yes."

The next day, all the princes and princesses, including Su Tang, were summoned into the palace.

The princes and princesses waiting outside the imperial study were confused.

Prince Li rebelled a few days ago. Although these princes and princesses did not participate, this incident made them much more cautious.

Even Xuanyuan Mengyao, who is usually flamboyant, stayed in her princess mansion and did not go out.

"Royal sister, what happened today?" Princess Thirteen asked nervously as she stood beside Su Tang.

"I don't know." Su Tang lived outside the palace and had no idea what Emperor Jing was going to do today, but she also saw that those who were called to the outside of the imperial study today were all princes and princesses.

Thinking of what happened to the third prince before, Su Tang guessed that Emperor Jing would conduct blood tests on the princes and princesses today to see which one was not his offspring.

However, this method of blood test is not very reliable. Should she help Emperor Jing and use DNA test?

But after thinking about it, she decided to forget it. It wasn't like she was raising someone else's child for free. It wasn't her responsibility to worry about it. It would be better for her to stay out of it.

Soon, a group of princes were brought in one by one, but none of them came out. It was not until Su Tang entered the imperial study that she saw that the princes who had been called in earlier were standing outside the imperial study, with their heads down and silent.

Seeing Su Tang coming in, the second prince raised his head and nodded to her, still with a relaxed smile on his face.

Seeing this, Su Tang nodded in response, and was led into the inner room of the imperial study by the eunuch.

"Sugar is here."

"Tang'er greets father."

Perhaps Emperor Jing had been staring at the door, as soon as Su Tang stepped in, Emperor Jing took the initiative to greet Su Tang.

"Come and sit there." Emperor Jing waved his hand, and Eunuch Fu came forward with a little eunuch.

"Put a drop of blood into this bowl." Emperor Jing's somewhat cold voice sounded from above.

Eunuch Fu also took out a silver needle from the wooden tray held by a eunuch beside him and handed it to Su Tang.

Su Tang raised her eyes to look at Emperor Jing, who smiled faintly but did not say much.

Su Tang lowered her head again, took the silver needle handed to her by Eunuch Fu, and inserted it into her index finger.

When the needle was removed, a drop of blood fell into the bowl below.

Eunuch Fu handed over a clean cloth at the right time, and Su Tang shook her head. "No need, this small cut will heal in a while."

Seeing this, Eunuch Fu stopped persuading him and waved his hand to let the young eunuch step aside.

Over there, Eunuch Fu took the bowl that Su Tang had just dripped with blood on, and fiddled with it aside for a while. Soon, he brought the bowl in front of Emperor Jing to show him.

Emperor Jing nodded and said to Su Tang, "Tang'er, you have worked hard. Please wait in the side hall outside for a while."

"Tang'er, take your leave." Su Tang bowed and walked out.

Fortunately, Emperor Jing did not have many children, so it did not take too long for the blood test to be completed.

There was no sound of smashing or breaking anything in the imperial study, so it was believed that all the princes and princesses would be fine with the blood test today.

"Princesses, His Majesty has asked you to go back first. You must not tell anyone what happened today." Eunuch Fu came over personally and gave instructions to the princesses.

"Yes." The princesses responded. Some of the older princesses already knew what Emperor Jing was doing by asking them to drip blood.

Although no one knew why Emperor Jing suddenly doubted their bloodline, since he did not get angry on the spot, it proved that they should be fine.

The princesses left one after another, and Su Tang followed them out of the palace.

"Let's go to the pharmacy first." After leaving the palace, Su Tang said to the coachman outside the carriage.

"Yes." The coachman responded, and after a while the carriage turned around and headed towards the pharmacy opened by Su Tang in Kyoto.

Since this pharmacy opened in Kyoto, Su Tang has hardly ever been there. Firstly, there is already a doctor in the pharmacy who sees patients. Secondly, Su Tang still plans to develop the valley in Dahe Village so that those desperate patients can go there for treatment.

"The young lady is here." The carriage stopped in front of the pharmacy.

Su Tang had already changed into a set of skirt that ordinary women wear in the carriage. Fortunately, people wear less clothes in summer, so it is easy to change in the carriage.

Chunmei lifted the curtain outside the carriage and helped Su Tang get off the carriage with one hand.

After entering the pharmacy, it was indeed deserted with few people inside. "The master is here."

The doctor in the pharmacy was reading a medical book with great interest. When he heard someone coming in, he looked up and saw Su Tang coming in.

"Doctor Wen, there's no need to be so formal. Just sit down." Su Tang waved her hand, indicating that the old doctor in the room didn't need to stand up.

"How can this be good?" Doctor Wen stood up and came over with a smile.

"This pharmacy is still so deserted." Su Tang walked to the table where Doctor Wen was sitting and sat down, glancing at the medical book that Doctor Wen had just read.

It turned out to be a book of miscellaneous notes by a traveling doctor. It seems that Doctor Wen is not a person who is bound by rigid reading.

"I, Wen, am ashamed that I am causing losses to my master every day while sitting in the court..." Doctor Wen said while clasping his fists.

"Doctor Wen, if people came to this pharmacy every day, there would probably be chaos outside." Su Tang replied with a smile.

"Haha, the master is joking, but Wen is still not very capable. Those who are sick always like to go to other pharmacies for treatment."

"It's okay. It's not your fault. When this pharmacy just opened, I boasted outside that the Immortal Hall only treats diseases that other medical clinics can't treat, and that people who are not dying don't need to be brought here. I guess it was because I said too much and scared some people away."

"Ah." Doctor Wen sighed and did not apologize to Su Tang again. He had heard about what happened when the Xianren Hall first opened, but he was desperate at the time and had no choice but to apply for the medical job here.

Fortunately, Su Tang is not a stingy person. Even though there are not many patients in the pharmacy, she has never treated him harshly.

"But our pharmacy is running out of money every day, and I really can't bear to waste the master's money anymore." Doctor Wen said with a bow.

"Doctor Wen is leaving? Which pharmacy are you going to?"

“There is no pharmacy.

Wen originally came to Kyoto just to find someone, but he couldn't find that person after searching for a long time.

Wen has no face to stay in Xianren Hall to eat for free. "

As Doctor Wen spoke, his face flushed and he was too embarrassed to look Su Tang in the eye.

The person opposite him was a much younger person than him, which made him feel even more ashamed.

"Since Doctor Wen is not in a hurry to leave, I don't need the money to support you. Since there are not many people coming to see the doctor in this pharmacy, I want to convert it into a school."

"This, that is even more useless to me. I know that I am not as talented as those scholars. I just know a little bit about medicine."

Doctor Wen had studied medicine from his family elders since he was young. He had never taken part in an imperial examination and did not even have the title of a student.

"The school I want to run cannot be taught by those scholars, but you are just the right person to be the teacher."

Doctor Wen looked at Su Tang in confusion, and Su Tang smiled and said, "I will find some children from poor families and you can teach them medical skills."

"This..." Doctor Wen had never heard of any place that had a school specifically for teaching people medicine.

Since ancient times, learning medicine has been inherited from father to son. Even if someone went to a pharmacy to learn, most doctors would not teach outsiders, for fear that if they taught their apprentices, they would starve to death.

"Doctor Wen only needs to teach them how to identify medicinal materials and learn basic medical theories." Su Tang knew that the ancients had some taboos about medical skills, and most of them were unwilling to teach outsiders.

But Su Tang only asked Doctor Wen to teach those people basic medical knowledge, and Doctor Wen should be able to agree.

If Dr. Wen doesn't even agree to this, then there is no need for her to force Dr. Wen to stay.

Knowing that Su Tang might have misunderstood, Doctor Wen quickly stood up and said, "It's not that I don't want to teach, I was just a little surprised to hear the news. Since I have been appreciated by the master and are willing to let me be the teacher, I will definitely live up to the mission and teach well."