RPAGF Chapter 374
Chapter 374
Thinking of this, Li Zhiwei's expression turned slightly grim. After all, the saying "once bitten, twice shy" existed for a reason."Madam Cheng, I can testify that we truly didn't do anything to Second Miss Cheng. Since arriving here, she only had a bowl of sweet fermented rice balls. Miss Li and I also had some, as did our maids. Everyone else is perfectly fine," Wen Xiu hurriedly stepped forward to explain.
"Miss, this servant knows a little about medicine. Why not let me take a look at this young lady?" Zhiya, who had hurried over upon hearing the commotion, stepped forward and knelt before Li Zhiwei, speaking cautiously.
After all, she had only recently entered the manor. Had she not heard people urgently calling for a doctor, she wouldn't have come forward so presumptuously.
Seeing this madam acting so aggressively towards her own miss, Zhiya quickly stepped up.
"Madam, how about letting my maid examine Second Miss Cheng first?" With the girl's own mother present, Li Zhiwei didn't dare make the decision herself and hurriedly asked.
"Go ahead and look." Madam Cheng had already sent someone to the palace to summon an imperial physician. After all, with her daughter in such a state, she didn't trust outside doctors.
However, since this maid knew some medicine, it wouldn't hurt to let her take a preliminary look.
After all, it was better to discover any problems early on for the sake of treatment.
Having obtained Madam Cheng's consent, Li Zhiwei nodded at Zhiya.
Zhiya quickly stepped forward and began to examine Cheng Qingli.
But as soon as her fingers found Cheng Qingli's pulse...
...she froze.
This Miss Cheng...
"Miss, did you just drink alcohol?" Zhiya looked cautiously at Li Zhiwei and asked.
"We had a little sweet fermented rice balls." Li Zhiwei felt a bad premonition in her heart. Could it be that Second Miss Cheng couldn't tolerate alcohol?
"Madam, Miss, this young lady is fine. She... she is just..." Seeing everyone looking so tense, Zhiya didn't know how to explain for a moment that the person before them was actually just drunk.
"Is just what? Speak quickly! Do you even know how to examine a patient?" Madam Qiu said impatiently.
"Don't be so anxious, let her speak properly. Looking at Qingli's condition, it doesn't seem like there's any serious problem." Lady Du noticed Cheng Qingli's flushed, rosy cheeks.
She indeed didn't look like anything terrible had happened to her.
Rather, it looked more like she was... asleep!
However, seeing that Madam Qiu was currently in a fit of anger, Lady Du didn't say anything more.
"From what this servant can see, this young lady's condition... she should be drunk." After receiving an encouraging nod from Li Zhiwei, Zhiya finally spoke carefully.
"Impossible!" Madam Qiu retorted without thinking. How could her daughter collapse after just a tiny bit of alcohol?
"Did you poison my daughter?" Madam Qiu pointed right at Li Zhiwei's nose and questioned her without a second thought.
"Madam Cheng, I know you are anxious seeing Second Miss Cheng like this. But why would I poison her? And choose to do it in my own home? What good would that do me? Would I be so afraid that others wouldn't know I wanted to harm Second Miss Cheng?" Although Li Zhiwei was quite indignant in her heart, she also understood that Madam Qiu, as a mother, would naturally be anxious seeing her daughter in such a state.
After all, the fact that she hadn't stepped forward to physically attack her meant she was already being polite, Li Zhiwei thought.
However, she was also very confused by the situation before her. After all, she truly hadn't done anything to Cheng Qingli.
At this moment, a doctor was personally led in by Zhou Tong.
Seeing the tense scene before him, Zhou Tong hurried forward and said, "Eldest Miss, the doctor is here."
"Quickly, take a look at this young lady," Li Zhiwei hurriedly asked the doctor to examine Cheng Qingli.
The doctor stepped forward tremblingly to examine Cheng Qingli.
However, as the doctor looked at Cheng Qingli, he saw that her complexion was rosy.
She didn't look like she was sick at all.
"Could you help this young lady to lie down on the bed?" Having examined her for a long time without finding any issues, the doctor could only look at Li Zhiwei.
"Qinghua!" Li Zhiwei ordered Qinghua to carry the girl into the inner room.
At this time, the doctor picked up the bowl to the side and sniffed it carefully. It indeed smelled of alcohol.
"Did this girl drink alcohol?" the doctor asked cautiously.
"She had some dessert with fermented rice in it," Li Zhiwei quickly explained.
"Doctor, is my daughter poisoned?" Madam Qiu asked from the side with some dissatisfaction.
"This girl is not poisoned. She is simply drunk," the doctor said with absolute certainty.
"Drunk?" Madam Qiu looked at her daughter with renewed suspicion.
She still couldn't quite believe that her daughter was merely drunk.
"Are you sure you didn't misdiagnose?" Madam Qiu looked at the doctor, her expression turning somewhat ugly.
How was she to know if this doctor hadn't colluded with Li Zhiwei?
"Eldest Miss, someone has arrived outside. He says he is an imperial physician from the palace and wishes to see Madam Cheng." At this moment, the gatekeeper hurried in, asking somewhat helplessly.
"Let him in immediately." Li Zhiwei sighed. She hadn't expected Cheng Qingli's alcohol tolerance to be this poor.
Just a small bowl of fermented rice, and she was out cold.
And now, her mother thought she had poisoned her.
It was good that the imperial physician from the palace had arrived to take a look.
It would put everyone's mind at ease.
Hearing that the family had even invited an imperial physician, the local doctor stood to the side and said no more.
However, he was curious to see what this imperial physician from the palace could diagnose.
"You are an imperial physician from the palace?" Looking at the man before her, Madam Qiu noticed he wasn't the Physician Qin she was familiar with, but an unfamiliar face, and couldn't help but ask with some suspicion.
To the side, Lady Du looked at the imperial physician and felt he looked somewhat familiar, though she couldn't immediately recall where she had seen him before.
"This humble official is Niu Jichuan from the Imperial Academy of Medicine. I heard Madam Cheng requested my presence to examine Miss Cheng's pulse?" Niu Jichuan's eyes kept darting around the room.
At this moment, he still thought this was the Cheng family manor.
Niu Jichuan was actually just a newly recruited handyman at the Imperial Academy of Medicine. Today, Physician Qin had gone to attend to the Empress. He had heard that the Cheng family was the Empress's maiden family.
If he could successfully treat a patient from the Empress's maiden family today, Her Majesty would surely reward him. Perhaps next time, she would specifically request him for her routine health checkups.
Therefore, Niu Jichuan had taken it upon himself to come.
But as a mere handyman, what did Niu Jichuan know about taking a pulse?
"Since you are Imperial Physician Niu, then I shall trouble you to examine my daughter." Although Madam Qiu was somewhat puzzled by this new doctor, her daughter's condition was currently unclear, so she hurriedly let Niu Jichuan take a look at Cheng Qingli.
Niu Jichuan quickly put down the medicine box in his hand. Mimicking the way the real imperial physicians took pulses, he sat down next to Cheng Qingli, striking a pose as if he were about to examine her.
"Imperial Physician, haven't you forgotten to take something out for the pulse examination?"
Seeing that Niu Jichuan hadn't even taken out a pulse pillow, Zhiya cautiously reminded him.
"Does this imperial physician need a little servant girl to teach him how to do his job?" Niu Jichuan said with a look of displeasure.
Madam Qiu frowned from the side. She didn't say anything, but she also felt that this imperial physician's methods were rather eccentric.