Chapter 224 Requesting a Female Doctor from the Crown Prince

Chapter 224: Asking the Crown Prince for a Female Physician

Consort Li curled her lip in disdain, her eyes full of sarcasm. "Prince Qi himself was beaten half to death and hasn't woken up yet. What highly skilled female physician could his Qi Prince's Mansion possibly have?"

But mentioning Luo Jingshen gave Consort Li a new glimmer of hope.

She felt that with Luo Jingshen's abilities, the Eastern Palace surely has no shortage of skilled female physicians. Perhaps this method might really work.

Consort Li took a token from her person and handed it to Jian Lan.

"Then take my token and go to the Eastern Palace yourself!"

"Remember, when you see the Crown Prince, be respectful. Just request a female physician, and don't say anything unnecessary."

Jian Lan took the token and accepted the order. "Yes, this servant understands."

Eastern Palace.

After returning, Luo Jingshen was so furious that he threw all the vases and porcelain in the room to the floor.

He fumed, "I just went to the palace to watch the fun. What did I do wrong? Why did he punish me and make me copy the treatise on governance?"

Emperor Jingyang had ordered Luo Jingshen to submit one hundred copies of the treatise on governance within two days. For Luo Jingshen, who hated writing and couldn't sit still, this was no less than torture.

Worse, after receiving the copied texts, Emperor Jingyang would check them one by one, word by word.

If he found that the handwriting wasn't Luo Jingshen's but someone else's, the punishment wouldn't be just one hundred copies of the treatise!

Luo Jingshen had only written two copies so far, and he was already so irritable that he wanted to curse and had thrown the books and porcelain in the room to the ground.

He felt he was being wronged. Even if copying was required, it shouldn't have been his turn.

But Emperor Jingyang punished no one else, only him.

Just then, Linchuan, Luo Jingshen's personal bodyguard, came in to report.

"Your Highness, there is a palace maid outside claiming to be from Consort Li. She says she has urgent business with you. Would you like to see her?"

Luo Jingshen was slightly startled. Why would a palace maid from Consort Li come to see him?

In all this time, he had little interaction with Consort Li.

The most significant interaction was today in the Hall of Government Affairs, when he had said a few words in her defense.

Luo Jingshen involuntarily thought of Consort Li's gentle, watery eyes looking at him. His heart trembled, and he couldn't describe the feeling.

His intuition told him he should see Jian Lan and find out what urgent matter she had.

But his reason told him he shouldn't see her, because Emperor Jingyang was suspicious and would think he had improper dealings with Consort Li.

Yet Luo Jingshen was genuinely curious about what she wanted.

After a moment's thought, he said to Linchuan, "Let her wait for me at the Donglai Teahouse next door. I'll be there soon."

Linchuan knew Luo Jingshen was cautious. He nodded and left.

Donglai Teahouse.

When Luo Jingshen entered through the back door, Jian Lan was already growing impatient.

Luo Qianxue was waiting for a female physician to save her life, but the Crown Prince had made her wait at a teahouse.

She had been waiting for half an hour.

Jian Lan wanted to leave but dared not. Just then, she caught sight of a blue figure approaching out of the corner of her eye.

Looking closely, it was none other than Luo Jingshen.

Jian Lan suppressed her emotions and quickly knelt to bow.

"This servant greets the Crown Prince. I am Jian Lan, the senior palace maid of Consort Li. I am here today on my lady's orders to borrow a female physician from Your Highness to enter the palace and treat Her Highness the Princess."

Upon hearing this reason, a glimmer of shrewdness and confusion flickered in Luo Jingshen's dark eyes.

"What's wrong with the Tenth Princess? Why does she need a female physician?"

Not that Luo Jingshen was overthinking. When he confronted Ji Yuntang in the Hall of Government Affairs today, Luo Qianxue was perfectly fine.

How could she suddenly fall ill just an hour later, and specifically need a female physician? It was truly baffling.

Jian Lan pursed her lips and said slowly, "Your Highness, you may not know. Today at the Yanshui Pavilion, our princess was severely beaten by the Ninth Princess. But all the physicians in the Imperial Hospital are men, making it inconvenient to treat her. With no other choice, my lady sent this servant to beg Your Highness for help."

"I beg Your Highness to please help the Tenth Princess."

Luo Jingshen squinted, but he could see that the expression on Jian Lan's face wasn't fake. She truly had no other recourse and came to him.

He took a sip of tea and said indifferently, "Well, we are siblings after all. I'll arrange for a female physician to accompany you back to the palace to treat the Tenth Princess."

Jian Lan was overjoyed and knelt in gratitude. "This servant thanks Your Highness on behalf of the Tenth Princess for saving her life."

On the other side, Prince Ye's Mansion.

Afraid that Luo Junhe would worry, Ji Yuntang had Xie Liuzheng and Luo Sinian take the carriage to Prince Ye's Mansion first.

She herself took Tao Zhi, along with Luo Qingge and Linglan, to buy ingredients for the meal they were going to prepare.

Ji Yuntang decided to make them some grilled meat today.

She went to the largest market in the capital and bought over ten kinds of ingredients: pork belly, beef, chicken wings, duck intestines, fish, shrimp, mushrooms, chicken gizzards, potatoes, chives, okra, and pig trotters.

Ji Yuntang looked around and found that the market in this dynasty had very few food items. Vegetables like chili peppers, zucchini, eggplant, cucumbers, corn, and lettuce were all unavailable.

Fortunately, Ji Yuntang had had a large area of land cleared in Prince Ye's Mansion when she had nothing to do, and she started greenhouse cultivation.

All the uncommon vegetables were planted in the backyard greenhouse.

By now, these vegetables should be about ready to harvest.

On the way back, each of the four people was carrying a load.

Ji Yuntang had Chen Hu bring out the custom grill pan. This pan looked like a flat-bottomed wok, and any ingredient could be fried on it, with charcoal placed underneath.

Put a sheet of tin foil in the pan, brush on some oil, and you could start grilling the ingredients.

Grill the meat until both sides are golden brown, dip it in sauce, wrap it in lettuce, and it was so fragrant you could bite your tongue off.

Luo Sinian had never seen this way of eating before. Just one bite, and he couldn't stop.

Luo Qingge gave Ji Yuntang a thumbs-up. "Third sister-in-law, your cooking skills are incredible. If you opened a shop outside, you'd make a fortune."

Her casual remark gave Xie Liuzheng a great idea.

He looked at Ji Yuntang with a casual, carefree air. "Princess Ye, how about we partner up and open a barbecue restaurant?"

Ji Yuntang, seeing Xie Liuzheng's slacker attitude, only took it as a joke.

After all, this playboy had been fooling around for so long that he simply didn't seem like someone who could run a business.

Luo Qingge pouted and mercilessly took a dig at him.

"Forget it. If you open a shop, you'll just lose all your money. My third sister-in-law doesn't have the time to play around with a playboy like you."

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