Empress Dowager Zhou even asked Mo Chuan to put up a royal list to seek medical advice for Princess Zhaorong. As long as someone could save Princess Zhaorong, she would agree to any conditions.
After the imperial list was posted, many people did come to treat Princess Zhaorong, but they were all charlatans who wanted to gain benefits under the guise of medical treatment.
The Empress Dowager Zhou was so angry that she issued an edict to kill all these charlatans, so no one dared to expose the imperial list again.
However, Princess Zhaorong's condition became increasingly serious. Her mother was in tears all day long, and Empress Dowager Zhou also felt sad.
Just when everyone was feeling desperate, a Taoist nun with a celestial spirit came to reveal the disease, claiming that she could cure Princess Zhaorong's illness.
When she saw Princess Zhaorong, she didn't check her pulse like a doctor. She just took a look and took out a pill and said that Princess Zhaorong would be cured immediately if she took this medicine.
How could Ning Guogong and his wife dare to believe her words and casually give the pill to Princess Zhaorong to take? If the medicine was a poison pill, wouldn't it immediately kill their beloved daughter
But the Taoist nun swore that if Princess Zhaorong had any shortcomings after taking the medicine, just ask her to pay for it with her life.
Ning Guogong and his wife thought about it again and again. Seeing that their beloved daughter was in danger, they had no choice but to give the pill to Princess Zhaorong.
Who knew that this pill really had miraculous effects. After Princess Zhaorong took the medicine, she could get up the next day. Three days later, her illness was cured.
Ning Guogong and his wife were extremely grateful to the Taoist nun and took out a thousand taels of gold as a reward, but the Taoist nun refused to accept it. She only said that she was destined to Princess Zhaorong and wanted to accept her as a female disciple and take her back to the master to teach her martial arts.
Princess Zhaorong's parents only had this daughter. They loved her as much as their lives, so they were not willing to let their beloved daughter travel far away with a Taoist nun they had never met before. However, the Taoist nun took out the royal list, leaving the two of them speechless.
In desperation, Ning Guogong and his wife had no choice but to let Princess Zhaorong worship the Taoist nun as her teacher, and traveled with the Taoist nun to study the art, but there was no news after her departure.
In the second year after Princess Zhaorong left Kyoto, Ning Guogong's wife, who was also the cousin of the Queen Mother Zhou, fell ill because of longing for her daughter. Ning Guogong sent a large number of people to search for the whereabouts of his beloved daughter and the Taoist nun, but failed. All in vain, Ning Guogong's wife could not see her beloved daughter, so she gave up and returned to the west.
When she was dying, she held Empress Dowager Zhou's hand. Although she did not explicitly ask Empress Dowager Zhou to grant a marriage to Mo Chuan and Princess Zhaorong, she begged Empress Dowager Zhou for the lifelong happiness of her beloved daughter, and she expressed her sorrow.
Empress Dowager Zhou was extremely sad. Before her deathbed, she promised that she would take good care of Princess Zhaorong and make her wealthy and worry-free. This was the highest promise she could give to her confidant and cousin.
Ning Guogong's wife passed away peacefully after receiving the Queen Mother Zhou's promise.
Queen Mother Zhou always remembered her promise. In the past three years, she had never stopped sending people to inquire about the whereabouts of Princess Zhaorong, but she found nothing.
Who would have thought that three years after Princess Zhaorong left Beijing, she would suddenly come back.
Empress Dowager Zhou was overjoyed, especially when she saw that the little girl of yesteryear had now become a graceful young girl and had learned martial arts. She immediately thought of her late cousin, her close friend, and she couldn't help but feel sad.
Not long after her son got married, Princess Zhaorong came back. The two of them had a strange coincidence, which really made her regretful.
If she had known about Princess Zhaorong earlier, she would never have agreed to Mo Chuan marrying Shen Ning as the queen.