RPAGF Chapter 376
Chapter 376
The doctor standing to the side gave a light snort."Where did this old man come from?" Niu Jichuan finally turned his head to look at the doctor beside him, his face full of displeasure. He wondered to himself, where did this old geezer come from?
"This is the doctor our young miss invited." Zhiya did not even think twice before stepping in front of the older man to block him.
"Madam, how can these outside doctors be as professional as us imperial physicians? You had better make him leave quickly!" Niu Jichuan held his head high, speaking with a look of arrogance.
"You may step down first. Thank you for your trouble today." Madam Qiu sighed and had a maidservant beside her hand the doctor an ingot of silver.
The doctor took the silver and left without looking back.
Standing to the side, Niu Jichuan mistakenly thought that Madam Cheng had believed his words, feeling quite smug in his heart.
"You said Second Miss Cheng was poisoned with arsenic, so can you cure it?" Zhiya looked at the smug Niu Jichuan and asked with some disdain.
After all, no one in the entire capital would dare claim they could cure arsenic poisoning. She wanted to see where this person got the audacity to spout such nonsense in front of her young miss.
Someone like this is actually an imperial physician in the palace?
Zhiya thought to herself, the emperor must have a long life to not have been treated to death by such an imperial physician.
"Hmph, of course I can cure it!" Niu Jichuan said with a proud face.
The corners of Madam Cheng and Lady Du's mouths twitched.
He could even cure arsenic.
Even ladies confined to the inner chambers like them clearly knew that arsenic was a highly toxic poison that could not be cured.
"Then you are truly amazing, comparable to a divine doctor," Zhiya said sarcastically.
"Of course!" Niu Jichuan was still feeling immensely pleased with himself over Zhiya's words.
"Is this thing really an imperial physician from the palace?" Lady Du whispered to Madam Cheng.
"Who knows where this wretched thing came from." Madam Cheng only felt that this person was an eyesore.
Wenxiu, who was standing to the side, felt incredibly awkward upon hearing this.
How could this person have the shamelessness to say such things?
"Zhaonan gege, I want a kiss!" Cheng Qingli on the bed rolled over and murmured.
Now, even if Wenxiu wanted to pretend she hadn't heard it, she couldn't.
She thought to herself that she definitely had to write a letter to her eldest brother when she got back, to properly ask him how exactly he had provoked this young girl.
Wenxiu looked at Cheng Qingli on the bed with some difficulty, truly unable to imagine the scene of such an eccentric girl becoming her sister-in-law.
A short while later, Li Zhiwei led Doctor Zhang inside.
"Divine Doctor Zhang!" Madam Cheng was a little excited to see the divine doctor. One must know that back when the empress suffered a miscarriage and nearly lost her life, it was Divine Doctor Zhang who saved Her Majesty.
She never expected that Divine Doctor Zhang had actually come to the Li residence.
"Madam Cheng." Divine Doctor Zhang nodded at Madam Qiu, who was beside her, and then looked at Li Zhiwei, asking, "Miss Li, where is the patient?"
"Doctor Zhang, this way please. It is the one on the bed," Li Zhiwei said respectfully.
Hearing this, Doctor Zhang walked toward the bed, wanting to examine Cheng Qingli's condition.
"Outrageous! Where did this ignorant old geezer come from? This patient is under my care," Niu Jichuan scolded with a displeased face, terrified that this person would steal his credit.
"Miss Cheng, what is going on here?" Doctor Zhang asked, somewhat displeased.
"Madam Cheng?" Li Zhiwei did not answer Doctor Zhang but instead looked at Madam Cheng with some displeasure. She was the one who had invited him.
Now that Doctor Zhang was willing to take Cheng Qingli's pulse, if Madam Cheng did not stop this fool from causing trouble here, then she shouldn't blame her for not showing any respect.
"Imperial Physician Niu, is it? Let this senior doctor take a look first." After Madam Cheng finished speaking, she signaled the older maidservant beside her to pull the man away.
"Madam Cheng, what do you mean by this? Do you not trust this humble official?" Niu Jichuan felt quite dissatisfied.
He didn't want the duck that was already in his hands to fly away.
"What is Imperial Physician Niu afraid of?" Madam Cheng replied coolly.
"Madam Cheng, your daughter is poisoned with arsenic. If it is not cured soon, it will be too late." Niu Jichuan was anxious. He hadn't even fed Miss Cheng the antidote pill yet. What if this old man actually cured Miss Cheng? What role would he have left to play?
Thinking of this, Niu Jichuan hurriedly rushed forward.
"I have lived to this old age and have never heard that arsenic can be cured!" Doctor Zhang looked at the clamoring Niu Jichuan and mocked him coldly.
Then, he carefully examined Cheng Qingli.
Finally, he said, "She is fine, just drunk. This young miss usually doesn't have a good alcohol tolerance, so she should just drink less in the future."
"Divine Doctor Zhang, is my daughter poisoned?" Madam Cheng asked again uncertainly.
After all, as a mother, she was still a bit worried.
"Madam Cheng, if Miss Cheng were truly poisoned, her complexion wouldn't be this healthily rosy right now. Moreover, Miss Cheng is sleeping quite soundly." Doctor Zhang looked at Cheng Qingli's comfortable appearance and thought to himself, Poisoned? Looking like this?
"Thank you, Divine Doctor Zhang!" Madam Cheng breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this and quickly signaled a maid to hand a purse to Divine Doctor Zhang.
"I didn't do anything, so there is no need for a consultation fee. However, Madam Cheng should really have a good talk with Grand Preceptor Cheng about when the Imperial Academy of Medicine acquired such a piece of rat feces." After saying this, Doctor Zhang flicked his sleeve and left.
"Miss Cheng, I still have to go examine Lord Li, so I won't stay here any longer." Doctor Zhang was still extremely polite to Li Zhiwei.
"Then I will see you over." Hearing Divine Doctor Zhang's words, Li Zhiwei's name was cleared of the charge of poisoning Cheng Qingli.
She also breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
"Miss Li has guests, so there is no need to see me off. I know the way." Doctor Zhang waved his hands repeatedly, saying it wasn't necessary.
"Qingyue, you see Doctor Zhang over." Li Zhiwei still had Qingyue escort Doctor Zhang.
She then returned to her own Banyue Pavilion.
"Miss Li, I am truly sorry. I was just anxious earlier and misunderstood you." Seeing Li Zhiwei, Madam Cheng quickly apologized.
"Madam was just anxious out of love for her daughter. Zhiwei does not blame Madam." Li Zhiwei shook her head; it was fine as long as the matter was clarified.
Otherwise, she would have been terrified too.
"Madam, with Miss Cheng in this state, will you wait for her to wake up before sending her back to the manor, or will you take her back now?" Li Zhiwei looked at the soundly sleeping Cheng Qingli and asked Madam Cheng with some helplessness.
"Could I trouble Miss Cheng to arrange a guest room for this child? If I take her back looking like this, it will inevitably cause gossip if seen by those with ulterior motives." Madam Cheng remained silent for a while before asking.
After all, Li Zhiwei's place had no men, so she didn't have to worry about her daughter's reputation being damaged.
"In that case, let Miss Cheng sleep here until she wakes up," Li Zhiwei thought for a moment and said.
"No, Madam, this humble official hasn't cured Miss Cheng of her poison yet." Seeing that these people were actually treating him like thin air, Niu Jichuan immediately became unhappy.
"Men, take this imposter of a quack doctor into the palace and report everything that happened today to the Empress in full detail!" With Madam Cheng's order, two men who looked like guards walked in, grabbed Niu Jichuan by the arms, and dragged him outside.