Divine Doctor Mommy Is A True Big Shot-Chapter 11 - : The Sickly Sweet Princess Mother (Part 2)

With a clang, the porcelain bowl shattered into pieces, and the thick medicine spilled all over the floor.

The people in the room were all startled.

"Miss, this medicinal soup is very precious. It was personally prepared by Doctor Yang. How could you carelessly spill it? If you delay taking the medicine and the Princess suffers any mishaps, how am I to explain this to the master?"

The steward Uncle Wang silently cursed Feng Bailing as a wasteful daughter.

"I ask you, what illness does my mother have, and what medicine did Doctor Yang prepare?"

The look in Feng Bailing's eyes, cold and piercing, sent a chill to the soles of Uncle Wang's feet, and he couldn't help but think of Xia Zhu, who had been left in the firewood shed.

"Replying to Miss, the Princess has tuberculosis, which she has suffered from for several years. The medicine Doctor Yang prepared are all good treatments for tuberculosis, including pearl, white grass, Fritillaria, and others."

Uncle Wang listed a few of the commonly used medicines for the Princess, sneering inwardly at Feng Bailing, who could not even fully recognize the characters, yet was asking about the prescription.

Listening, Feng Bailing heard Uncle Wang reporting all medicines for treating tuberculosis, but in the spilled medicinal soup, there was also the added ingredient of Guizhi.

Guizhi is a kind of herb, its tuber contains a strong poison; if taken properly, it can relieve pain, indeed it could alleviate the daily pains of Princess Yong'an.

However, if a large dose is taken at once, or if it is used over a long period, it can cause fatal coughing up of blood, similar to the symptoms of tuberculosis.

"If my mother has tuberculosis, given her temperament, why would she insist on being served by so many people? Tuberculosis is a contagious disease."

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Feng Bailing glanced at the nannies and maidservants in the room.

Tuberculosis was infectious, and in that era, nine out of ten tuberculosis patients died; even the one who survived was left debilitated.

Princess Yong'an, with her cold exterior but soft heart, would certainly not let so many people die with her.

Initially, after Princess Yong'an was infuriated to death by her, all the nannies and maidservants in the room were executed by Feng Zhanlian on the pretext of catching the disease—seven or eight people in the room, not one survived.

Seven or eight lives, Feng Zhanlian and Uncle Wang, these two beasts, actually did not even blink an eye while killing them.

"Nanny Gui, and the rest were the Princess' old servants, who volunteered to serve the Princess with their lives. Besides, Doctor Yang prescribed tonics for everyone in the mansion to take daily, which keeps us all in robust health," replied Uncle Wang fluently.

The same response he had already given several times over in the palace.

Nanny Gui and the others bowed their heads, a mixture of sorrow and fear in their hearts. The Princess was near her end, and they were both grieving and frightened.

They also knew, once the Princess died, their own time would come.

But what method could they have? The Prince Consort controlled all their families; if they gossiped, whole families would die.

"Well said on being in robust health. Nanny Gui, go and bring the rest of the medicine from the kitchen, pour it into Uncle Wang, so that he may live a long and healthy life."

Feng Bailing nodded to Nanny Gui.

Nanny Gui was an old palace maid who had come with Princess Yong'an as part of her dowry. She had served the late Emperor back in the palace, a person adept at reading situations, and she immediately went off to the kitchen. In just a moment, the medicine jar was brought over.

Uncle Wang's old face changed, and he tried to keep calm.

"Miss is quite the joker. This old servant is not sick, there is no need to take medicine."

"Sick or not, that's not for you to say. Pour it down!"

Feng Bailing said just a sentence.

Uncle Wang, panic-stricken, his old face sweating, tried to rush to the door to escape.

Seven or eight nannies and maids from the west wing, who usually suffer Uncle Wang's bad temper, and some of whom have even been mistreated by the old wretch, all pitied the Princess who had been bedridden for years with nowhere to turn for help. Tonight, before one of them died, they managed to get their revenge, gritting their teeth, and surrounded him.

Eight women against one old man, an entire jar of steaming medicinal soup was poured into Uncle Wang's belly.

Uncle Wang was scalded to screams, and not long after the medicinal soup entered his stomach, his face turned blue, clutching at his throat and letting out nonsensical cries. Within a moment, his legs kicked out, and blood flowed from all orifices as he fell to the ground, breathless.

Nanny Gui and the other maids were all terrified, their faces turning pale.

"Don't be afraid; I'll take the fall if the sky comes down. You few, carry the body out and dump it at the mansion gate."

"Nanny Gui, go to the storeroom and find two types of herbs, red sage and Angelica dahurica, the older the better."

Feng Bailing was methodically giving orders.

At first, Nanny Gui and the others were frightful, but seeing Feng Bailing's fearless demeanor, they too began to feel a sense of security.

Especially Nanny Gui, who, seeing Feng Bailing handling the prescriptions while checking on the Princess, felt a sliver of hope rise in her despairing heart.

"Late Emperor, please protect the Princess."

Nanny Gui wiped the corner of her eyes and hurriedly made her way to the storeroom.

After everyone was gone, Feng Bailing then checked Princess Yong'an's condition again, Nanny Gui said her mother had passed out after hearing she had been sent to the Ancestral Affairs Office by the Seventh Prince, it was probably out of fury. She took out the emergency kit.

After examining her, Feng Bailing was more than 90 percent certain that her mother's illness was not tuberculosis at all, but pulmonary arterial hypertension. Fortunately, it was only the intermediate stages—if the correct medicine was administered, it could be cured.

From her memory, among the several bottles of medicine from last time, there was one for lowering blood pressure. Although it wasn't the most effective, it could still lower the blood pressure appropriately.

Feng Bailing crushed a few antihypertensive tablets, mixed them with water, and fed them to Princess Yongle.

Princess Yongle's lip color did indeed improve somewhat.

It was now 7 p.m., and father and daughter Feng Zhanlian should be returning home. Utilizing this time, it was a good opportunity to check on Xia Zhu's condition in the woodshed.

On the streets of Chu City, in the horse carriage of Feng Mansion, Feng Xiangxue thought about the day's events and felt dispirited.

"Daddy, don't you think sister has changed since she came back this time?"

Feng Xiangxue had never been so humiliated in public before. In the past, it was always she who had outsmarted Feng Bailing. But today's Feng Bailing seemed completely transformed.

"What could be different, she's the same ugly and brainless person, having offended the Seventh Prince, how could she have good days ahead?"

Feng Zhanlian was filled with resentment when it came to Feng Bailing.

Like her mother, this misfortune of a daughter only blocks his prospects. Back then, to coerce him into marrying her, Princess Yong'an had the late Emperor destroy his nearly completed Wenhua Seal—this vendetta, irreconcilable!

"Sister said I'm claiming what's not mine, could it be she knows that we are actually your own flesh and blood."

Feng Xiangxue bit her lip, looking pitiful.

Officially, Feng Xiangxue was Feng Zhanlian's adopted daughter, the posthumous daughter of Aunt Xue's "late husband." But in fact, Feng Zhanlian had a childhood sweetheart, Aunt Xue, back in his hometown when he became the top scorer.

Aunt Xue was the daughter of a Scholar's family, already married, but she secretly got involved with the handsome Feng Zhanlian, and Feng Xiangxue was conceived before Feng Zhanlian went to the exams.

After Feng Zhanlian received top honors, news reached home, and within a few days, Aunt Xue's short-lived husband died. After giving birth to twins, a boy and a girl, she took refuge in the Feng Mansion under the identity of Feng Zhanlian's maternal cousin.

The Princess' Mansion was unaware, and Princess Yong'an kindly took in the widowed and orphaned Aunt Xue... If it hadn't been for Feng Xiangxue deliberately revealing all this when Feng Bailing was expelled from the Princess' Mansion, Feng Bailing would have been kept in the dark to her dying day.

"The people in the village who were in the know have all been dealt with; she has no heavenly power to know this. When we return to the mansion, I'll have her kneel down to apologize to you."

Feng Zhanlian waved his hand dismissively, and as he spoke, the horse carriage was about to arrive at Feng Mansion.