Inside the study.
Marquis Gu was pondering over how to tell Yao shi everything when he heard the servant report that Yao shi had fainted.
Yao shi, who was recovering from illness these days, lived in a small courtyard, and would only co over to visit Gu Yan and Gu Jinyu every day.
When Marquis Gu arrived at the small courtyard, Yao shi had been laid on the bed by Wet Nurse Fang and CuiCui.
Grannie Fang had caught a cold in recent days, and wasn’t around Yao shi to wait upon her. Wet Nurse Fang took charge of the matters in the courtyard for the anti, and she also went to summon the physician.
Marquis Gu looked at Yao shi who was unconscious, and then at a room full of trembling servants. His face sank as he said, "Who is serving the Marchioness today?"
Two servant girls suddenly plopped down on their knees.
One of them cried out, "This servant doesn't know what happened... When this servant returned to the courtyard... Mada was already in the room unconscious!"
Marquis Gu snapped, "How are you serving your Mada exactly? Who told you to leave your Mada alone in the yard?"
Another servant girl also sobbed, "Lord Marquis, spare this servant, Mada... She doesn't like people to follow her every day... and this servant dares not to disobey..."
"A bunch of trash!" Marquis Gu lost his temper, at the sa ti, Wet Nurse Fang arrived with the physician.
They were about to salute Marquis Gu, but Marquis Gu rely waved his hand and said, "No need, just treat the Marchioness quickly!"
"Yes!" The physician walked forward with the dicine box on his back, put a silk handkerchief on Yao shi's wrist, and began to check her pulse.
To be honest, the physician wasn’t optimistic about Yao shi's condition.
Yao shi didn’t seem to have any serious illness, but in fact she had already exhausted her body. At the sa ti, she was also suffering from too much lancholy, and should avoid receiving too much stimulation. In severe cases, she might have hallucinations and uncontrollable madness and do sothing irreparable as a result.
Marquis Gu was afraid of this situation, so he had been hesitant to tell her the truth.
The physician checked Yao shi’s pulse for a long ti this ti.
Long enough for Marquis Gu's cold sweat to break out.
"What's the matter, Physician Chen?" He asked anxiously.
Wet Nurse Fang also looked nervously at Physician Chen.
Physician Chen frowned thoughtfully, and once again checked Yao shi's pulse. He said, "Strange, really strange."
Marquis Gu hurriedly asked, "What's strange? Is the Marchioness’ condition very serious?"
Physician Chen shook his head and replied, "It’s nothing serious."
Yao shi's body had been very weak and unable to withstand stimulation. Generally, passing out should be a very dangerous circumstance. However, Yao shi's pulse condition at this ti was smoother than he expected.
That was why he felt strange.
"What dicine has Mada been taking recently?" The physician asked.
Marquis Gu looked at Wet Nurse Fang.
Wet Nurse Fang paused briefly and said, "Aren't those the dicines you prescribed?"
Physician Chen responded, "Take it out and show it to ."
"Ey." Wet Nurse Fang ca to the dresser, opened Yao shi's dicine cabinet, and took the dicine bottles and dicine jar that Yao shi had been taking every day recently to the physician.
The dicine bottle was filled with white tablets, which were colorless and tasteless. Physician Chen had never seen this kind of dicine before.
The one in the jar was a small bottle of granules. Physician Chen hadn't seen this dicine either, but he could sll that familiar scent of traditional chinese dicine in it and could vaguely identify the dicinal herbs such as ginseng, wild jujube, fuling, cassia, asparagus fern, cultivated rehmannia root and so on.
"dicine can also be made like this?" Physician Chen murmured.
He had only seen the dicine made into ball-shaped pills; never had he seen any dicine made into this kind of shape and into granules, especially the white pills, which he couldn’t identify the ingredients at all.
"Where did these dicines co from?" Physician Chen asked.
Wet Nurse Fang looked at Physician Chen in astonishnt and replied, "Didn't you prescribe it?"
Physician Chen said, "I haven't prescribed these dicines."
Marquis Gu's cold eyes fell on Wet Nurse Fang, "When did your Mada start taking these dicines?"
Wet Nurse Fang hurriedly explained, "This servant... can't rember when clearly but Mada has been taking it for a while now. Mada refused to take dicine before, but recently she suddenly started taking dicine. This servant thought Mada had finally listened to the advice of Physician Chen."
"Are these dicines the cause of the Marchioness’ fainting?" Marquis Gu asked Physician Chen.
Physician Chen mused, "I don't know... The nerve-calming dicine in the dicine jar should be harmless to the body. The other dicine is pills I haven't seen before, so I dare not conclude anything."
Marquis Gu looked coldly at Wet Nurse Fang and asked, "Who gave these things to your Mada?"
Wet Nurse Fang said with a pale face, "This servant doesn’t know. Although this servant serves by Mada’s side at the mont, Grannie Fang is the one who serves the most around Mada."
Grannie Fang was currently away from the villa due to her cold!
Marquis Gu clenched his fists and said, "Send soone to get Grannie Fang for !"
Physician Chen thought for a mont and said, "Lord Marquis, don't worry, Mada's pulse condition is better than before. Maybe these two dicines are harmless to Mada."
Marquis Gu said coldly, "Then how do you explain the sudden fainting of the Marchioness?"
"This....." Unable to give an explanation, Physician Chen said, "Mada should wake up soon. We can find out the truth by asking Mada in a mont."
Wet Nurse Fang lowered her head and pinched her fingers.
Physician Chen wrote a prescription. Wet Nurse Fang took the prescription and went to the village pharmacy to get the dicinal herbs.
CuiCui sneaked in through the back door while Wet Nurse Fang was boiling dicine in the small kitchen.
"Aunt!"
Wet Nurse Fang looked out warily, closed the door and said to her, "Why are you here?"
CuiCui said, "Huang Zhong suddenly went to Grannie Fang. Is sothing wrong?"
Wet Nurse Fang squinted her eyes and replied, "Mada has been taking dicine recently, and she's cured of her illness!"
CuiCua looked pale, saying, "What? Didn’t you say... if she received stimulation... she will..."
Once, Yao shi suffered from great stimulation. At that ti, Yao shi's illness still wasn't so severe, and yet she almost failed to keep her life. They thought it was foolproof this ti, who knew...
"A letter from Imperial Concubine Shu has arrived. She’s asking the Marquis to bring the young miss back to the capital for her coming-of-age ceremony. The young master’s condition has improved these days. Marquis will definitely take the Mada and the young master back as well..." Wet Nurse Fang said, and her cold eyes rested on the steaming dicine pot.
……
Huang Zhong went to Grannie Fang's ho and brought Grannie Fang back to the villa.
Marquis Gu personally went to the study to question her.
At the mont, there were only two servant girls keeping watch in the room.
Wet Nurse Fang entered the room with the steaming soup and said to the two servant girls, "It’s fine, I'll watch things over here. Go to the main kitchen and see if the porridge for the Mada has been cooked. Also, don't forget to send the fruits that the young miss wants to the Orchid Pavilion."
"Understood." The two servant girls stepped down.
Now there was no third person in the room, and there was an eerily still atmosphere.
With the dicine bowl in her hand, Wet Nurse Fang ca up to the bed step by step, looked down at Yao shi, who was sleeping peacefully, and said disdainfully, "Mada, don't bla this servant, bla the person who doesn't want you to go back to the Marquis Estate."
Wet Nurse Fang pried open Yao shi's mouth and fed Yao shi a spoonful of dicine from the bowl...
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