Chapter 284 A strong dose of medicine

Song Qi came out after receiving the order. Xia Chunyu held him back and asked in a low voice, "Did the Second Young Madam ask you to go to the Mu family to pass on the message?"

Song Qi still hesitated and refused to say: "Second Young Madam didn't say that you can tell the Young Master."

Xia Chunyu really wanted to kick this ungrateful guy away.

Well, he would endure it. After he dealt with Yaoyao, he would see how he would settle accounts with these guys.

"Then...how is the Second Young Madam feeling?"

Song Qi smiled in a very annoying way: "My Lord, the Second Young Madam just saw that you were in a bad mood, so she spoke to me in a nice tone."

Xia Chunyu could no longer bear it, so he gave him a slap on the chestnut and shouted, "Get lost..."

Song Qi rolled away happily.

As he rolled, he thought: Oh... what should I do? Normally, he should feel sympathy when he sees the prince being humiliated, but why is he so happy? Song Qi, you are so unkind.

Xia Chunyu mustered up his courage and was about to enter the house when he heard Xue Ye say, "Madam, why are you here?"

When I turned around, I saw that it was indeed my sister-in-law.

Xia Chunyu sneezed in annoyance, and instead of going over to greet her, he covered his nose and said, "Sister-in-law, I have a cold. I have to stay away from you."

Qiao Mingxiu said with concern: "You caught a cold! Let's find a doctor right away."

Xia Chunyu smiled awkwardly and said, "It's okay, it's okay." He then went to the study room with a swagger.

Qiao Mingxiu couldn't help laughing. She had seen her second brother lingering at the door just now, wanting to go in but not daring to. The second brother's wife was really impressive, making her husband obedient. It would be great if Chunli could be so obedient.

Today she came here on the orders of her mother-in-law to persuade her second brother and sister-in-law, but of course, she wanted to come herself. Something big happened in the mansion last night. Chunfeng and Liuli went to the ancestral hall to kneel down as punishment, but she was kept in the dark and didn't know anything about it.

When she heard about it this morning, she was so shocked that her jaw almost dropped. The fire of gossip was burning. Normally, she was lazy and pretended to be unwell every morning and didn't go to pay her respects to Mrs. You, but this morning she went there in high spirits.

The mother-in-law was very tight-lipped. She said that Liuli and Jinxuan had a quarrel, which caused Chunyu and his wife to quarrel, and asked her to come and comfort them and act as a peacemaker. She gladly accepted the order and wanted to find out what the big deal was that made Liuli kneel down as punishment.

Ye Jiayao invited Qiao into the house and asked Xiangtao to serve tea.

Qiao looked around and asked in surprise, "Why is my sister-in-law living in this room? It's so simple, is it suitable for living here?"

Ye Jiayao thought, what kind of words are these? Is this house considered bad?

"Oh, the main room is leaking, and we're looking for someone to fix it! We can't live in it for the time being." Ye Jiayao covered up.

She didn't want to say it, because she had broken the bed in that room, and she couldn't let anyone else know that Xia Chunyu and Jin Yao were together.

Qiao didn't believe it, but she didn't want to ask any more questions, so she said, "I went to pay my respects to my mother this morning, and I heard that you two young couples had a quarrel?"

Ye Jiayao smiled and said, "It's not a big deal, just a misunderstanding."

Mrs. Qiao smiled and said, "I said it's okay. Chunyu loves you so much, what could possibly happen? Mother is still worried and insisted that I come to see you."

Ye Jiayao smiled without saying anything. I'm afraid you wanted to come here on your own!
Mrs. Qiao took a sip of tea and sighed, "Third brother's wife is really something. Why does she always pick on you? Now, she has to go to the ancestral hall to be punished, and she has also implicated Chunfeng."

"We are family, we should live in harmony. If we make a scene like this, won't we be laughed at?"

Ye Jiayao held the tea in her hand, flicked the tea leaves floating on the surface, and listened quietly to what Qiao said.

"I'm just curious, what did she do to you?" Seeing that Ye Jiayao didn't say anything, Qiao couldn't help but get straight to the point.

Ye Jiayao smiled and said, "I've already dealt with this matter. I don't want to mention it again. If I do, it will make me look petty."

He lightly blocked the topic. If Qiao wanted to know, she could ask Liuli herself.

Qiao was depressed. How come the second brother's wife was more tight-lipped than the mother-in-law? This showed that the problem was serious.

He sighed again and said, "Hey, last time my third sister-in-law asked me to send you cordyceps sinensis, I thought there was no problem between you two!"

Ye Jiayao's heart skipped a beat when she heard this: "Sister-in-law, didn't you give me the Cordyceps?"

She remembered that this was what Qiao said at the time.

Mrs. Qiao was stunned for a moment. Oh, she forgot and let it slip.

"Well, yes, my third sister-in-law was afraid that you would be suspicious, so she said it was given by me." Unable to hide it any longer, Qiao confessed everything.

Ye Jiayao was worried. Was Liuli so kind? Did she drug her? It seemed that she had only eaten half of the Cordyceps sinensis. She had used the whole thing to stew chicken for Chunyu. Chunyu didn't get sick from it...

After Mrs. Qiao left, Ye Jiayao asked Qiao Xi, "Is the Cordyceps sinensis sent by the eldest young lady still there?"

Qiao Xi thought about it and said, "It's still there. Last time, the Second Young Madam was going to visit Madam Zhu of the Su Mansion, and she asked me to prepare some tonics. I saw that there was not much cordyceps left, so I took a new one."

"Go get it." The more Ye Jiayao thought about it, the more questions she had. Qiao Xi saw that the second young lady's face was gloomy, so she hurried to the small kitchen to get half a bag of cordyceps.

Ye Jiayao opened it and looked at it. She didn't know much about medicinal materials. The cordyceps was about four or five centimeters long, had eight pairs of legs, and was brown in color. It should be a high-quality cordyceps. She picked up one and smelled it. It seemed to have a special smell, so she said, "Qiao Xi, go to Renhe Hall and ask the doctor there to see if there is any problem with this cordyceps."

It would be fine if there was no problem, but if there was a problem, she and Liuli would have another debt to settle.

Qiao Xi took the Cordyceps and left the house. Ye Jiayao lay down on the couch to rest. She couldn't help but worry about that guy again, so she stood up and called Xiang Tao: "Where is the prince?"

"The Young Master is in the study! I just went to bring him tea and saw that he was asleep on the table. I didn't dare to wake him up, so I just covered him with a blanket." Xiang Tao replied.

Ye Jiayao said, "Tell the steward to invite a doctor back. Don't say that I invited him. Just say that Madam knew about it and asked me to invite him."

Xiang Tao agreed verbally, but thought in her heart: I will tell the Young Master later, he will definitely be happy, the Second Young Madam still loves the Young Master.

Xia Chunyu was sleeping soundly on the table. Not sleeping for two nights was not a rare thing for him. During the war, they marched for days and nights, fought ambushes, and each ambush lasted for several days without relaxing for a moment. Even with such hard work, he did not feel so tired. Now he was mentally exhausted, exhausted by helplessness.

"Young Master...Young Master..." a soft voice came from my ear.

Xia Chunyu opened his eyes dazedly and saw that it was Xiangtao calling him, and there was an old man standing behind him carrying a medicine box.

"Young Master, the doctor is here. Please let him take a look." Xiangtao motioned for the doctor to take your pulse.

Xia Chunyu stretched out his hand lazily. He felt dizzy and the air he exhaled from his nose was hot.

The doctor felt his pulse, checked his tongue, and took his temperature. He said, "My Lord, the cold has entered your body, and the stagnation in your body is difficult to eliminate, so you have a fever. I will prescribe a medicine for you. Take it first to reduce the fever."

After the doctor finished speaking, he went to write a prescription. Xiangtao followed him and listened to the doctor's instructions, telling her to drink more water, eat more vegetables, and not eat chicken, fish, etc. for the time being. She wrote them down one by one.

Xia Chunyu held his forehead with his hands, feeling depressed. It seemed that he was suffering from a mental illness. This was too bad. A man as fierce as a tiger could actually be so weak.

Suddenly, he looked up at Xiangtao who was listening to the doctor outside, and hurriedly called her in.

"Xiang Tao, who invited the doctor?"

Xiang Tao blinked, with a sly smile in her eyes: "My Lord, what do you say?"

Xia Chunyu's eyes gradually brightened up, with a hint of joy: "Is it the Second Young Madam?"

Xiang Tao said, "The Second Young Madam said it wasn't her who invited us, it was the Madam who invited us."

Xia Chunyu smiled, Yaoyao, Yaoyao, it seems that you still care about me very much!
Xiang Tao said with a smile: "My Lord, you just need to work harder."

Xia Chunyu placed one hand on the table, looked at her leisurely, and said with a smile: "Alright, alright, this time I finally see clearly that you are the most conscientious among all the servants in the room."

Xiang Tao smiled proudly: "Master, please don't say that. In fact, everyone cares about you very much. They deliberately ignore you just to make the Second Young Madam feel more distressed."

Xia Chunyu said with a sigh, "That's really heartwarming. I will definitely reward you handsomely later."

Others might think so, but he was sure that Song Qi had betrayed him, he was a traitor.

"It would be the greatest reward for me if the Young Master and the Second Young Madam could reconcile as soon as possible." Xiang Tao said obediently.

Xia Chunyu rolled his eyes, waved his hand, motioned Xiangtao to come closer, and gave her instructions in her ear. Xiangtao nodded repeatedly.

Ye Jiayao felt relieved when she knew the doctor was here. Catching a cold and having a fever was not a serious problem. It would be fine after taking a few medicines. There was nothing to worry about.

Not long after, Xiangtao replied.

"Second Young Madam, look, this is the prescription the doctor wrote."

Ye Jiayao took it and looked at it: "I don't understand it, just ask someone to prescribe the medicine according to the prescription."

Xiang Tao said with a sad face: "The doctor said it's quite serious. The prince is not just suffering from a cold."

Ye Jiayao's heart ached when she heard this: "What did the doctor say?"

Xiang Tao said, "The doctor said that the prince was first attacked by anger, and then he was worried and depressed. If the cold air invades, the problem will be serious. If not handled properly, it may turn into typhoid fever."

Ye Jiayao was horrified: "What?"

No matter how shallow her medical knowledge was, she knew that colds and typhoid fever were not the same thing. The latter was much more serious and could even cost a person's life. After all, ancient medicine was not as advanced as modern medicine.

Seeing the Second Young Madam's face turn pale with fear, Xiang Tao felt a little sorry for her and thought, is the Prince's move a little too cruel? But the Prince said that the Second Young Madam had already softened her heart and now she just needed a stronger dose of medicine.

"I...I can't explain it clearly. How about, Second Young Madam, please ask the doctor?" Xiang Tao said.

Ye Jiayao was in a state of panic and said hurriedly, "Why don't you let the doctor in?"

(End of this chapter)