Chapter 853 - 763: Searching for Someone (2)
But none is like the Seventeenth Princess.
So stubborn, so strange, so terrifying.
Luo Jia also looked grave, sighed softly, and said in a low voice, "Mr. Meng, perhaps we should look for the disciple of the Undying Poison Doctor?"
For the past two days, Luo Jia had been wanting to speak, but seeing Meng Zhang’s expression, he couldn’t bring it up.
As the Dean of the Imperial Hospital, Meng Zhang had his pride and was quite conceited. Besides, he believed that although the Seventeenth Princess’s stubborn illness was persistent, with his experience, he could cure it.
But after he personally treated it for four days, it remained the same, without any sign of improvement.
Initially, he didn’t believe in the disciple of the Undying Ghost Doctor.
He even doubted the Undying Ghost Doctor, thinking he could match him. When he entered the palace as an Imperial Physician, several years had passed since the Undying Ghost Doctor refined the Heart Cleansing Pill for the Imperial Family.
The Undying Ghost Doctor’s refining of the Heart Cleansing Pill almost exhausted more than half of the Emperor’s private treasury, yet only yielded six pills. Even if these pills were miraculously effective, the Emperor had some displeasure. Moreover, he did not wish others to know about this lifesaving elixir. Thus, few were aware of it.
The Undying Poison Doctor’s fame in Jianghu was undeniable, but as he aged, he became eccentric and no longer cared about reputation. In recent years, he hardly appeared in Jianghu, and fewer and fewer people knew of him. Those who had heard of his name yet deemed themselves highly skilled in medicine could not help but think, if only I were born a few decades earlier.
Otherwise, how could the Undying Poison Doctor become so renowned?
Meng Zhang was among those who thought this way.
If he held such thoughts towards the Undying Poison Doctor, what of the disciple?
Therefore, when Luo Jia first suggested this, Meng Zhang immediately dismissed it.
This time, seeing that although the Seventeenth Princess could eat, there was still no trace of improvement, Luo Jia felt uncertain and couldn’t help but bring it up again.
Meng Zhang’s face darkened, his gaze falling on the basin of yellow fluid that a palace maid carried out, his eyes inscrutable. He didn’t understand why, in a common ulcer, pus would form, but in the Seventeenth Princess’s, it was yellow fluid. He didn’t know where so much yellow fluid came from; washing it away once, and the next day it was full again.
The first time the yellow fluid filled, he was quite pleased, thinking that the ulcer was ripe and, once removed, treating it with some restorative medication would cure the Seventeenth Princess.
𝕗𝕣𝗲𝚎𝚠𝖾𝔟𝗇𝔬𝔳ℯ𝐥.𝒄ℴ𝓶
Yet the next day, the ulcers that had subsided were full again, with the yellow fluid translucent and clear, repeating this, leaving him uncertain.
He glanced at Luo Jia and finally couldn’t help asking, "Where exactly is the famed physician’s apprentice you mentioned?"
Luo Jia also didn’t know where she was. Thinking for a moment, he said, "A year ago, during the plague in Northern County’s Wangshan Town, I was sent there and met Miss Xia. However, while we were handling the aftermath, she left, and now I don’t know where she is!"
"A woman?" Originally displeased, Meng Zhang’s expression turned even more unhappy upon hearing it was a woman.
Luo Jia, seeing Meng Zhang’s reaction, smiled wryly, "When we first met in Wangshan Town, I had a stronger reaction than Mr. Meng, especially seeing she was just a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl!"
Meng Zhang swallowed the words "What? Only sixteen or seventeen?" Initially, he thought Luo Jia was deliberately using the Undying Poison Doctor’s disciple to pressure him. But now, both were tied together; if the Seventeenth Princess didn’t recover soon and the Emperor sought punishment, neither would escape.
Moreover, should someone truly be found, they’d receive credit if she could heal, or have a scapegoat if not!
Therefore, Meng Zhang said, "What use is mentioning this? If we can’t find her now, isn’t it all just talk?"
Luo Jia said, "Though we can’t find her, someone surely can!"
"You mean the Emperor?" Meng Zhang, of course, didn’t doubt, but he dared not mention it before the Emperor.
Luo Jia originally thought so too, but seeing Meng Zhang’s look, he changed the topic slightly, "When we followed the imperial envoy that day... Young Master Jinxuan might know!"
Their voices rose a bit, seeing the palace maids’ glances, they quickly quieted down. This was the Liqing Palace; they couldn’t make noise at will, especially now that there was still no sign of improvement in the Seventeenth Princess’s condition.