Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 781 - 779

Chapter 781: Chapter 779

"Doctor Luo, please take a look!" Shangguan Ruixi placed Du Yijin back onto the warm bed.

Doctor Luo stepped forward to examine her and shook his head, "No, her fever has dropped a bit, but it will quickly rise again. Look, Crown Prince, the Crown Princess’s hand is icy cold. If it continues like this, her body temperature will still increase, she has to take medicine to lower it."

Would it rise again? Her body temperature was already terrifyingly high! Shangguan Ruixi’s eyebrows were tightly knotted as he reached out and touched Du Yijin’s hand which was indeed icy cold.

"Doctor Luo, can’t you prescribe some medicine that the Crown Princess can keep down?!" The Empress Dowager grumbled upon hearing this.

Doctor Luo replied, "Empress Dowager, even if the Crown Princess drinks water now, she will vomit."

Empress Dowager: "..."

She will vomit even if she drinks water, then what else can she consume! Perhaps she doesn’t need to eat anything else!

"Bring the medicine!" Shangguan Ruixi decided to feed her bit by bit, hoping that she would not vomit this way.

However, even just one spoonful fed to her, Du Yijin still vomited it out.

At this time, the wife of Prince An had also entered the palace. Seeing Du Yijin’s condition, she was shocked, "What happened? How come Yijin is unconscious? Today is the day for her to visit back her parental home!"

The new bride had only been married for two days and was already ill to the point of not being able to visit her parental home. Who else could be at fault other than her family!

It was at this moment that Shangguan Ruixi remembered their visit was scheduled for today. He said to the wife of Prince An, "Mother, please send someone to the Du Mansion to inform them that the Crown Princess has caught a cold and is suffering from a high fever. She won’t be able to visit today. Once she recovers, I will accompany her to apologize."

"We have no other choice." The Crown Princess nodded after hearing what he said.

She somewhat regretted not decisively staying there last night. She could never have anticipated that the older the Empress Dowager got, the more powerful she became. She has tortured someone to the point of unconsciousness, a severity she had never seen before!

After arranging the matters for the visit, Shangguan Ruixi asked Doctor Luo again, "Doctor Luo, what should we do if she can’t keep the medication down?"

Doctor Luo hesitated for a moment then said, "Princess Rui also has some knowledge of pathology and specializes in treating complex diseases. How about we ask Princess Rui if there’s a way?"

Doctor Luo only suggested this because he noticed that Du Yijin and Xiao’er were on good terms. Otherwise, he wouldn’t want to trouble Xiao’er.

A spark lit up in Shangguan Ruixi’s eyes after hearing this suggestion. How could he have forgotten about his sixth sister-in-law! She must have a solution!

"There’s no need to invite her, I’ll bring the Crown Princess to Prince Rui’s Mansion right away." Requesting someone to come over would waste a lot of time!

Shangguan Ruixi picked up Du Yijin and rapidly ran towards the palace gate.

Watching her son’s frantic actions, the wife of Prince An had a flicker of suspicion in her eyes.

...

At Prince Rui’s Mansion, Xiao’er had just gotten up and was preparing to have breakfast before heading back to the Marquis Shengping Mansion.

As the end of the year was approaching, she had planned to spend the next few days helping Mrs. Liu and Yun’er check the accounts sent from all the shops. Otherwise, those two wouldn’t be able to handle it all by themselves.

As for her own mansion’s accounts, Xiao’er only needed to bring them into the space dimension. They could be checked within one night, so there was no rush.

She had asked Yang Liu to pack some things and was about to leave when Shangguan Ruixi rushed in with Du Yijin in his arms.

Seeing the unconscious Du Yijin, Xiao’er furrowed her brows, "Prince, what’s going on now? I feel like disasters always strike Yijin after she married you. She’s either getting injured or going into a coma. Do you two always have conflicts?"

Shangguan Ruixi had no time to pay attention to Xiao’er’s sarcasm. He anxiously said, "Yijin was punished by the Empress Dowager for transcribing Buddhist scriptures in the small Buddhist temple without any heating. She was frozen all night and fainted on the ground for who knows how long. Now she has a high fever that won’t go down and she’s unconscious. Sixth sister-in-law, do you have any way to lower her fever?"

"Isn’t it normal to get a fever after catching a cold? Just let the imperial doctor prescribe some medicine for her to take, there’s no need to be so nervous!" For someone to get a fever due to a cold, using the Ashoka fruit to make medicine would be quite wasteful.

"No, she can’t keep the medicine down. Once she ingests it, she vomits it out. The imperial doctor said..." Shangguan Ruixi repeated what Doctor Luo had said before.

"Is it that serious? You wait in the guest house for a while, Yang Mei, take the prince there." Even if it was a severe cold, Doctor Luo’s medical skills shouldn’t be incapable of treating it! Xiao’er had her doubts but didn’t show any on her face. She headed towards her home’s pharmacy.

The pharmacy was specifically equipped by Xiao’er, containing a pill furnace for refining medicine to avoid arousing suspicion.

Xiao’er was about to enter the space dimension to get a pot of water when she noticed someone was peeking from the roof. So she casually took a small bottle of pills out from a cabinet, halso ot a pot of water from the table, and went to the guest house holding these two items.

When she arrived at the guest house, she placed the two items on the table. She approached the bed, touched Du Yijin’s forehead, and performed a set of traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis methods. "Such high fever? Did she vomit out all the medicine she ate?"

"She vomited everything out, even almost her bile!" Shangguan Ruixi said worriedly.

"First, make her drink more water. Drinking more is good when she has a fever." Xiao’er poured a cup of water and prepared to let Yang Mei feed her.

Shangguan Ruixi took it and said, "Let me do it!"

Taking the opportunity to sit down, Xiao’er poured herself a cup of water to drink, "Has Yijin had any food from this morning till now? Taking medicine on an empty stomach might harm the stomach."

"No, all she vomited out this morning was medicine. There weren’t any food residues. She probably didn’t eat dinner last night either because she was punished by the Empress Dowager to transcribe Buddhist scriptures in the small Buddhist temple."

Xiao’er nodded, "Why did the Empress Dowager punish Yijin again?"

"Mrs. Du stole Yijin’s dowry and pawned it. One of the jade bracelets was a family heirloom passed down by the Empress Dowager that was supposed to be inherited from generation to generation... " Shangguan Ruixi explained as he fed her water.

Hearing this, Xiao’er was speechless towards Gu’s. Stealing a stepdaughter’s dowry was something she could do without a shame.

Poor Du Yijin too, such a thing actually managed to reach the Empress Dowager’s ears within a day. Her luck was really hard to beat!

Xiao’er did not ask further, but instead was contemplating something in her mind.

Due to the high fever and severe vomiting, Du Yijin was probably dehydrated. She didn’t vomit after drinking a full cup of water.

"She’s not vomiting anymore!" Shangguan Ruixi was overjoyed.

You’re such a fool, of course she wouldn’t vomit. The water she had drank contains a drop of detoxifying spirit liquid. After detoxifying, what would she still vomit for? Xiao’er sarcastically thought in her heart, yet she replied, "Now, let’s start by taking a heat-clearing and detoxifying pill! This bottle of medicine is specifically for reducing fever. Three times a day, every four hours for two days, it needs to be taken together with the medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor. The imperial doctor’s medicine is the fundamental cure for the cold."

Xiao’er unsealed the small bottle on the table intending to pour out a pill but accidentally poured an extra one, which fell onto the floor. She handed a pill to Shangguan Ruixi and then sealed the bottle.

Shangguan Ruixi took it and fed it to Du Yijin.

"Yang Mei, pick up the pill on the floor and throw it under the ginkgo tree in the back mountain!" Xiao’er pointed at the pill on the floor.

"Yes." Yang Mei stepped forward to pick up the pill on the floor.