After collecting various medicines, Li Dongbi made a kind of hemorrhoid nail, which is an external medicine. Hemorrhoids can be cured after about ten days of use, and more than a month of conditioning is required afterwards.
During these ten days, Chen Tingjian must have endured all kinds of discomfort.
Li Dongbi explained all of this clearly first.
Chen Tingjian had already decided to seek treatment. He was not afraid of taking medicine, but was worried that the princess' daughter-in-law would ask about his condition out of concern.
As soon as Sun saw him hesitating, she knew what he was thinking about. Meeting such a face-conscious husband, she could only cooperate.
Sun went to Siyi Hall and said to Huayang: "Princess, the old man's illness is not serious, he is just too stubborn. I don't want to delay Jingzong's work. If you stay here all the time, Xiaozong is far away, but I am afraid that Bozong will notice it and drop his work to come back to honor the old man..."
Huayang understood and said with a smile: "Don't worry, mother. Please tell father to rest assured and recuperate. We will return to Ningyuan today."
Sun's eyes suddenly turned red.
Her eldest daughter-in-law is also very filial, gentle and considerate, but the one in front of her is a princess in the palace, and she treats them like her own daughters. How can she not be moved
"Princess, what I said to Doctor Li was not just polite words. My life is worth it to have a daughter-in-law like you!"
Wiping the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, Sun spoke loudly!
Huayang feels unworthy of this.
In the previous life, her father-in-law died of illness which was destiny, but Chen Bochong's unjust death in prison was directly related to her younger brother. Sun also suffered the blow of losing her husband and son one after another before she passed away.
If any other powerful official treated her respectable and amiable husband's family like this, Huayang would use her authority as a princess to take the man's life, but that was her own brother.
Huayang would be angry at his brother's stupidity, but he would never take revenge on him.
Everything Huayang did in her life was out of sympathy and compensation for the Chen family. She just hoped that good people could have a good ending, not because she was a good daughter-in-law.
In the morning, Chen Jingzong had already gone to the garrison. Huayang asked the maids to pack up. Before leaving, she met Li Dongbi.
Li Dongbi: "Princess, do you want to ask about the elder's condition?"
It’s not that he doesn’t want to say it, but the elder told him not to spread it.
Huayang smiled and said, "With you here, I don't need to ask and feel relieved. However, the elder has a heavy responsibility. Please stay here for a while and return to Wudang to collect herbs when the elder is completely free of worries. Is that okay?"
Li Dongbi stroked his beard and said, "Princess, don't worry. Since I am treating you, I will definitely see it through to the end."
Huayang: "Before you leave, please let me know. I want to do it for you, and I also have something to discuss with you."
Li Dongbi was a little surprised. He looked at the princess opposite him and agreed.
Huayang said goodbye to her mother-in-law again and left by car. She also asked Zhou Ji to send someone to the guard post to tell Chen Jingzong to return to Ningyuan directly in the evening.
However, at dusk, only Fugui came back and said that the prince consort was worried about the old man's illness and went to the Chen family's ancestral home.
Huayang wasn't too surprised.
Looking at Chen Jingzong's attitude towards his nephews and nieces, you can tell that he is a person who is cold on the outside but warm on the inside. It is true that he and the old man are enemies, but he is their biological father after all, and they don't have much hatred for each other. How could he be so cruel as to ignore his sick father
In the Chen family's ancestral home, Chen Tingjian had already used the hemorrhoid nails prepared by Li Dongbi. He could not even eat dinner and lay silently on the bed enduring the unspeakable pain.
"Master, Madam, the Prince Consort is here."
As soon as the maids' voices came in, Chen Tingjian suddenly opened his eyes and immediately winked at his wife.
Sun was very pleased: "You always complain that the fourth child doesn't take you as his father seriously, but look at how filial the fourth child is."
Chen Tingjian: "He clearly wanted to come and laugh at my joke!"
Sun: "He laughs at you, and you laugh at him. It's not like he didn't make a fool of himself when he was a kid."
While the couple was talking, Chen Jingzong came in with the maid. He had changed into clean casual clothes, his hair was wet, and it seemed that he had washed his face.
Sun was surprised and asked, "You are so particular even though the princess is not here? Or do you know that the area around your father who is recovering from illness should be kept clean?"
Chen Jingzong said expressionlessly: "The princess didn't even say hello to me when she returned. If I had known that she was already in Ning Garden, why would I have come here for nothing?"
Chen Tingjian snorted: "Then you should reflect on why the princess didn't greet you."
It must be because his son had never been able to please the princess, and the princess never regarded his son as a real prince consort.
Chen Jingzong: "Then shouldn't you also reflect on how much the princess despises you that she moved out when she knew you were sick and didn't even want to pretend to be filial?"
Chen Tingjian replied disdainfully, saying that the princess was obviously considerate and not disrespectful or unfilial.
Mrs. Sun: "Alright, I'm tired after taking care of the grandchildren all day. If you want to quarrel, wait until I'm out. No one can stop you from quarreling all night."
Chen Tingjian closed his eyes.
Chen Jingzong walked to the end of the bed, looked at the old man from head to toe, and finally looked at his butt. Just as he was about to speak, Sun glared at him: "Shut up, your father has been given medicine and needs to rest. You are showing filial piety by coming to visit him. Go back and rest!"
Chen Jingzong had basically guessed it. The unspeakable problem must be either in the front or in the back. Seeing the old man lying there, the answer was obvious.
What a top scholar, he is just an ordinary person.
He returned to Siyi Hall.
Huayang took away all the servants around her, leaving only a gatekeeper, and Chen Jingzong went straight to the inner room to sleep.
The bed was filled with her scent, which disturbed his sleepiness.
The next evening, Chen Jingzong went back to his ancestral home, but did not see the old man. After hearing his mother say that the old man was not seriously injured, he strode away, mounted his horse and headed straight for Lingzhou City.
After bathing and changing clothes in Liuyun Hall, Chen Jingzong came to Qifeng Hall and saw her sitting on the couch in the second room reading a book. He first walked around the inner room and found something soaking in the lotus bowl.
All the annoyance in my heart suddenly disappeared completely.
He went back to the side room, stood beside the couch, and stared at her without saying a word.
The sight was like two lines of fire, burning Huayang's whole body. He put down the book and glared at him: "Why did you come back so late today?"
Chen Jingzong: "I went to the old house."
Huayang was very surprised and asked, "How is father's condition?"
Chen Jingzong: "It's already being treated, but it's not getting better that fast."
Huayang nodded, it was unnecessary to ask.
Chen Jingzong suddenly smiled and said, "I thought you would be worried about the old man's condition and lose your appetite, but I didn't expect you would still be interested."
Huayang felt his ears burning, and he lowered his eyes and said with disdain, "It has nothing to do with my father's illness. I just know you too well. You couldn't bear it when you were in Wudang Mountain. Can you bear it after you come back? Rather than letting you toss and turn in the middle of the night, it's better to fulfill your wish earlier so that you can have a good sleep."
Chen Jingzong said nothing more.
But Huayang didn’t get a good sleep that night. Not to mention the time before going to bed, nor the time when he was woken up by Chen Jingzong in the middle of the night, but in the early morning when it was already light, Chen Jingzong came again!
When Chen Jingzong was standing by the bed changing clothes, Huayang was still lying limply on the bed, with the quilt he had helped to cover him with.
Chen Jingzong pushed her messy black hair behind her head, revealing her drunkenly flushed face and her wet eyelashes clenched together.
Hua Yang was obviously very sleepy, but he still looked at him warily.
At this time, Chen Jingzong was wearing a scarlet fourth-rank official uniform. Together with the hazy morning light, his face looked as smooth as jade. However, his facial features were too sharp, and he looked a little gloomy when he was not smiling.
Huayang suddenly noticed his strangeness.
In the past, when things like that happened, Chen Jingzong would always be dishonest and would deliberately say something to embarrass her, but last night, including just now, Chen Jingzong was very silent and just rushed forward recklessly.
"What's wrong?" Huayang asked blankly. Normally, he should have a satisfied look on his face at this moment.
Chen Jingzong touched the corner of her lips and said, "It's okay. I'm leaving now. You should get some sleep."
Huayang glared at him, and he still had the nerve to bring it up.
Chen Jingzong smiled, kissed her before she could avoid him, and then left.
Huayang thought about it carefully and felt that this man didn't seem to have changed at all. He was probably so anxious last night because he had been a vegetarian for too long.
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During Chen Tingjian's treatment, Chen Jingzong would go back every other day, ask about the situation and leave without staying overnight.
Mid-October was the most painful time for Chen Tingjian. He lost a lot of weight and had no strength to trim his beard. Fortunately, Sun felt sorry for her husband and helped him to keep it in order by learning from him.
After the pain came the slow recovery. On the holiday at the end of October, the three couples returned to the ancestral home together. Chen Tingjian was already able to move freely. If Li Dongbi had not been there, Chen Bochong and Chen Xiaozong would have no way of knowing that their father had actually been ill!
"Father, what disease did you contract? Why didn't you tell us?"
Because he felt guilty for not being filial to his father, Chen Bochong spoke to his father in a harsher tone for the first time.
Chen Xiaozong also said something similar to his mother. Only Chen Jingzong stood beside Huayang with a half-smile on his face.
Chen Tingjian glared at his four sons, and then scolded his two filial sons: "Alright, it's just a minor illness. Now I'm well again. Don't bother nagging me anymore."
Chen Bozong and Chen Xiaozong still had regretful looks on their faces.
Li Dongbi's eyes swept over the two brothers and he felt that he needed to remind Elder Chen to teach his two sons who were civil servants the set of conditioning methods he had passed on. So what if they were handsome, the disease could not be cured by appearance.
The family solemnly thanked Li Dongbi.
After having lunch at Chen's house, Li Dongbi prepared to leave.
Huayang invited him to talk alone in the hall: "I wonder what your plans are after you finish collecting herbs in Wudang?"
Li Dongbi smiled and said, "I plan to continue traveling around the world, collecting herbal specimens and prescriptions from all over the world, and compile them into a book in the future."
Huayang sincerely said: "Your painstaking work will surely benefit thousands of people and be remembered for generations to come."
Li Dongbi was not modest and said bluntly: "The princess said earlier that she had something to discuss with me. May I ask what it is?"
Huayang lowered his eyelashes, feeling uncomfortable, and his face showed sadness: "In recent years, my father's health has not been as good as before. I would like to ask you to stay in the capital for two or three years. In case my father's condition worsens, with you here, I..."
She couldn't continue and turned her head away.
She disliked her father's lust, and deliberately distanced herself from him because of a scene she accidentally witnessed when she was young.
It was not until his father died suddenly and the father and daughter met again, they were already separated by life and death, that Huayang began to regret.
How the emperor gets along with other women has nothing to do with her, his daughter. No matter how lustful the emperor is, he has never wronged his daughter. Why does she have to be so stubborn
After her rebirth, Huayang had always missed her father, but she had no reason to return to the capital suddenly. In addition, she also had things to deal with in Lingzhou, so she could only wait to leave with her father-in-law and his family next year.
His father-in-law has been ill recently, and seeing Chen Jingzong often running to his father-in-law, Huayang misses his father even more.
But just as she, as a daughter-in-law, could not care about her father-in-law's hemorrhoids, as a daughter, it was not convenient for her to persuade her father to stay away from women, and even if she did, it might not work.
The best way is to ask Li Dongbi to return to the Imperial Medical Bureau. Your father will always listen to the famous doctor's advice.
After calming down, Huayang looked at Li Dongbi again.
Her eye circles were still red, and there was a layer of water in her clear eyes.
An ordinary woman looking like this would inspire pity, let alone Huayang who is so beautiful.
Li Dongbi was soft-hearted, but he had his own ambition to edit books. Lingzhou was close by, so he could come here, but the capital was too far away.
"Princess, although I am not in the capital, I know something about the emperor's condition. Princess, you should understand that if a person is sick, it is useless for the doctor to treat him. The person must also follow the doctor's advice. When I was still in the palace, I repeatedly advised the emperor to cultivate his character, but the emperor agreed on the surface, but he still did what he wanted. So even if I go to the capital again, it will be a wasted trip."
"Princess, don't worry too much. I do have some medical skills and have earned some reputation among the people, but the Imperial Hospital in the palace has gathered famous doctors from all over the world. Their medical skills will only be better than mine. Once the emperor is ill, the doctors will do their best to treat him."
There was one more sentence that Li Dongbi did not say, which was that if Emperor Jingshun had a terminal illness and the imperial doctors could not cure him, then even if he went there, he would most likely be powerless to save him.
Huayang pursed her lips. She understood the reason, but she just trusted Li Dongbi more.
Li Dongbi smiled bitterly and bowed to her: "I am determined to compile a book, and I hope the princess will help me."
Huayang didn't want to go along with it. She wanted to capture Li Dongbi and bring him back to the capital.
But she could only think about it, and there was no way she could do such a forced thing.
"If one day you suddenly want to go back to the capital, please be sure to come and see me." Huayang said with the last glimmer of hope.
Li Dongbi smiled and said, "I've made a note of it."
He turned and left.
Chen Tingjian and others were waiting in the yard and went to see him off together.
Only Chen Jingzong saw that Huayang did not come out and went into the hall.
Huayang turned his head away, not wanting him to see that he was acting strangely.
Chen Jingzong looked her over and said with a smile, "You really look like my biological daughter. You are so grateful to Doctor Li that you shed tears."
Huayang: …
Although she was annoyed by Chen Jingzong's words, Chen Jingzong gave her a good excuse.
After calming down, she glared at Chen Jingzong and said, "Doctor Li is leaving, why don't you go and see him off?"
Seeing that she had regained her princess's demeanor, Chen Jingzong went after her family and guests who had already walked some distance away.
Outside the Chen family’s gate, Li Dongbi bowed to everyone for the last time and got on the carriage.
Huayang invited the miracle doctor over and then sent Zhou Ji to escort him personally, showing all courtesy.
The carriage gradually went away, and Chen Jingzong clenched his hands under his sleeves again and again.
He could catch up with Li Dongbi and ask Huayang what she had said to him, but she didn't want to tell him, so why should he rush to find out.
This is just like sleeping, she has to be willing to do it.
(End of this chapter)