The magistrate and his wife’s taut nerves suddenly relaxed. Magistrate Huang collapsed into a chair, while the magistrate’s wife breathed a sigh of relief and fainted.
“Drag her over here and ask who it was.” Marquis Dingxi shouted.
A’Hao had already been brought over. Hearing the command, she was pushed in by two female servants, her hair disheveled and clothes in disarray.
“Speak quickly, which physician cured you?” Marquis Dingxi asked.
A’Hao knelt on the ground, her whole body trembling as she hugged herself and kowtowed.
“There was no one, no one.” She cried.
Marquis Dingxi was somewhat irritated. Looking at that timid maid, his heart surprisingly lacked the usual affection, replaced instead by Nanny Su’s earlier words about “such a long scar”…
He couldn’t help but shudder, while also feeling annoyed. This damn maid actually concealed it. If this had been discovered only when taking her as a concubine, wouldn’t it have been frightening…
Fortunately, fortunately…
Marquis Dingxi’s face showed complete disgust as he lifted his leg and kicked her.
A’Hao was kicked to one side, biting her lip hard and not daring to cry loudly.
“Damn maid, a life hangs in the balance, and you’re still playing mute!” He cursed.
Magistrate Huang fell to his knees before A’Hao with a thud.
A dignified seven-foot man, the prestigious magistrate.
“Miss, my child’s life is in your hands. Please, I beg you to tell me who cured you.” He shouted hoarsely.
The people in the room panicked. Marquis Dingxi hurriedly pulled him up while A’Hao also turned over in terror and kowtowed desperately to Magistrate Huang, her forehead already bloody.
“It was the Young Madam who treated you, wasn’t it?” Chang Yuncheng’s voice came from the doorway.
The chaotic room fell silent for a moment, looking toward him.
A’Hao lay on the ground crying and trembling all over, neither admitting nor denying, which in everyone’s eyes already seemed like acknowledgment.
“I’ll go bring her back.” Chang Yuncheng asked no more questions and bowed to Magistrate Huang, who had been helped to his feet. “Please wait here, sir.”
After saying this, he turned and strode away, leaving the people in the room still in shock.
“Young Madam?” Magistrate Huang murmured, looking toward Marquis Dingxi. “She really is a physician!”
Marquis Dingxi was also filled with shock. He knew this daughter-in-law seemed to understand some medical arts, but he never expected she had reached the level of cutting open people’s bellies. Opening the abdomen – wasn’t this the legendary skill of the divine physician Bian Que?
My heavens, no wonder mother treasures this beggar maid like her own granddaughter. So she truly is a precious beauty…
Madam Xie stood up, looking toward the direction Chang Yuncheng had left, her face also full of shock.
Young Madam?
Young Madam?
That lowly servant… how could it be possible…
Qi Yue had been sitting by the pond with her fishing rod for half the day.
“Young Madam, let’s go back to eat.” A’Ru said softly behind her.
Qi Yue came back to her senses, withdrew her gaze from the lake surface, stretched lazily, and stood up.
“Let’s go.” She picked up her fishing rod and turned around.
A’Ru followed with the small stool and fish basket.
A seven or eight-year-old child suddenly darted out from the side.
“Hey, stop right there.” A guard standing not far away shouted.
With this shout, a long spear whooshed over and stuck firmly and precisely into the ground at the child’s feet.
The child screamed in fright, fell to the ground, and the basket in his hands dropped, spilling four or five dumpling-shaped things.
“Are you crazy!” Qi Yue was also so frightened her heart nearly stopped, shouting at the guard.
A’Ru also hurried to help the child up.
“Don’t move!” The guards shouted coldly, stepping over to separate the child. “The Prince said to be careful of everything.”
“This is a child! Be careful of what!” Qi Yue couldn’t help but curse.
“Young Madam, when we were in the north, those Eastern slaves had three-year-old children who could poison water.” The guard still spoke coldly.
Qi Yue looked at them, opened her mouth, and could only be speechless.
“What do you want to do?” A’Ru asked, supporting the child.
The child was obviously already frightened, and now was even more scared, trembling all over.
“Please, please, grandmother eat.” He used almost all his strength to say this sentence, then pushed the basket toward them and ran away crawling and rolling.
A’Ru and Qi Yue called out “hey hey” twice to no avail.
“Young Madam, it’s the child who nearly drowned.” A’Ru said to Qi Yue.
Qi Yue made an “oh” sound. That day she had been in a hurry to rescue him and he was all wet, so she hadn’t seen his face clearly and couldn’t recognize him.
“Young Madam, these are jiaozi.” A’Ru picked up the basket and said after looking.