Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 574 - 572: Imperial Edict

After spending nearly forty hours in the modern world, Lin Wanwan traveled back in time to the Great Tang.

On the Great Tang side, the long night was just about to pass.

As for Aunt Xiao’s marriage proposal last night, after being washed away by modern times, Lin Wanwan didn’t care much anymore and had already put it behind her.

Therefore, when she met Aunt Xiao in the main hall, she could pretend as if nothing had happened.

However, it was clear that Aunt Xiao was very angry at Lin Wanwan’s lack of appreciation and did not show her a good face early in the morning.

Lin Wanwan didn’t care about Aunt Xiao’s attitude. After all, today was the day they were going to Xiao Yixun’s house. As long as they kept up appearances as relatives, it was fine not to see each other and feel annoyed.

No sooner had Lin Wanwan’s name card been delivered to Xiao Deyan’s house than she brought Xiao Yixun and a group of servants to the Xiao Mansion.

Staying at Xiao Yixun’s house temporarily, Lin Wanwan’s psychological burden was not heavy.

To her, seeking refuge with the Pang Family was not as good as with the Xiao Family. After all, Xiao Yixun had stayed with her for nearly a year, and the two families had exchanged letters a few times.

It was only nominally that the Pang Family was her aunt’s family by identity, which was why she had chosen to stay there before. But now, one was that there was no place to stay, and two was that there were conflicts, so it was better to stay apart.

The Xu family did try to persuade Lin Wanwan to stay a few more words, while Aunt Xiao remained cold and indifferent.

But regardless of their attitude, it did not affect Lin Wanwan’s departure from the house.

There was quite a distance from Jinchang Square to Kaihua Square, and the streets of Chang’an were crowded. After traveling for more than half an hour amid the traffic, Lin Wanwan and her party finally arrived at the Xiao Mansion.

The men of the Xiao Family were mostly out on official duties, and only the women and the young sons were at home.

In the flower hall, Lin Wanwan met Xiao Yixun’s mother, a charming and graceful woman not yet forty.

As expected, how could the woman who gave birth to someone with Xiao Yixun’s looks be ugly? Although Xiao Yixun had albinism, in terms of the delicacy of her features and the harmony of her proportions, she was definitely at the fairy level.

So far among the noblewomen she knew in the Great Tang, Lin Wanwan had rarely seen an ugly one.

In wealthy and powerful families, genes have been selected through generations, with beautiful wives and concubines blending through generations. Naturally, most of the descendants are good-looking. Even the occasional unattractive ones look better once dressed in fine silk and satin than ordinary people wearing simply cut hemp or cotton clothes.

However, Lin Wanwan’s good impression of Xiao Yixun’s mother in terms of appearance and conversation only lasted a few minutes before her impression greatly declined.

This was a mother so biased and indifferent to the extreme that during her conversation with Lin Wanwan, she did not inquire about Xiao Yixun’s daily life at all.

Finally, when Lin Wanwan, holding little Qingyu’s hand, followed Xiao Yixun into her courtyard, Lin Wanwan felt Xiao Yixun, usually indifferent, was seething with anger.

Her courtyard was no longer exclusively hers; Xiao Shen’s two illegitimate daughters had also moved in.

Apparently, with the daughter away, they paid no regard!

Lin Wanwan watched Xiao Yixun stand in the courtyard, staring icily at the wing rooms occupied by the two sisters living in her courtyard, and wondered what trouble this young girl was planning next.

Knowing Xiao Yixun as well as she did, Lin Wanwan knew she couldn’t possibly suffer in silence. The two illegitimate daughters should just wait to be pranked.

In some aspects, Xiao Yixun could even be described as vengeful. She couldn’t possibly endure someone else occupying her nest.

Lin Wanwan bet a package of spicy snacks that if Xiao Yixun could endure for a night, it would mean she’d grown up and matured.

But no matter what, even with the two sisters living in Xiao Yixun’s courtyard, it was still incomparable to the Pang Family. After all, this was the Southern Lanling Xiao clan, and even in the land-scarce and expensive Chang’an City, they still lived in a large garden.

Lin Wanwan’s servants, along with the slaves rewarded by Li Shimin, could all be accommodated, even Qingyu was given a separate room.

Actually, Lin Wanwan strongly suspected that this room might be the most important matter for Xiao Yixun. No matter what, it was something that would have been arranged for.

While everyone was settling in their luggage, a servant from the Xiao family suddenly reported that an eunuch had arrived from the palace to deliver an imperial edict.

The eunuch first went to the Pang Family in Jinchang Square and, finding no one there, turned to the Xiao Family in Kaihua Square.

Lin Wanwan, utterly bewildered, followed the Xiao family to greet the edict at the main entrance and almost couldn’t help swearing when she heard the eunuch say that Li Shimin wanted Lin Wanwan to enter the palace to take care of Empress Zhangsun’s pregnancy.

She had originally planned to stay in Chang’an City for ten days to half a month, meet some influential figures, collect some calligraphy and paintings, and, if there was an opportunity, ask about Oracle bone script, and then happily return to Mao County.

But now, what was this, came and couldn’t leave?

Zhangsun’s pregnancy was only three months along. Taking care of her until delivery meant staying in Chang’an City for half a year?

The main issue was that if she really became an "Imperial Physician" for Empress Zhangsun, she might not even be able to leave in half a year!

The child Zhangsun was carrying was none other than Princess Jinyang, Li Mingda, who Li Shimin personally raised!

Li Shimin, the doting father, upon seeing his newly born little daughter, wouldn’t he want the supposedly exceptional disciple, also a nominal disciple of Old Master Sun, Lin Wanwan, to continue serving as a pediatrician?

That’s why Lin Wanwan never wanted to come to Chang’an, even if the civilization of Chang’an City was brilliant, she didn’t like it.

Because there were too many people here who could determine Lin Wanwan’s destiny in the Great Tang, against whom she had no ability to resist.

In this human-rights-deficient ancient time, the entrenched belief was "learn a skill in literature or martial arts, and offer it to the imperial family," thinking it a privilege to be asked to serve the empress!

Of course, even millennia later, in modern times, serving as a healthcare physician for the leaders in Beijing remained something renowned doctors aspired to.

But Lin Wanwan’s ambitions didn’t lie there!

She wanted to build her Peach Blossom Spring in comfort!

The spring plowing at Lin Family Manor was about to start, Lin Qin’s due date was next month, and these were the only matters Lin Wanwan cared about, not anything concerning Empress Zhangsun’s pregnancy!

After the eunuch left, Lin Wanwan sighed deeply and jokingly asked Xiao Yixun’s mother what would happen if she refused the imperial edict.

Madam Xiao was completely taken aback that Lin Wanwan would even ask such a question, finding it hard to understand, and looked at Lin Wanwan as if she were looking at a lunatic.

Indeed, how could someone who gets along harmoniously with her capricious daughter be normal? Only a madman can communicate with a madman’s world.

Madam Xiao immediately responded irritably, saying something to the effect of: What happens if you refuse the order? You get stripped of your title, either get flogged and imprisoned, or exiled!

"Alas~" Lin Wanwan sighed deeply; this was truly distressing!

Forget it, forget it; take one step at a time. Fortunately, an "Imperial Physician" doesn’t need to live in the Imperial Palace, and they aren’t on duty every day, so most of the time is relatively free.

Lin Wanwan could only adjust her mood and temporarily accept it.