Tang Zhuyun was startled. "What happened?"
"I heard that Madam Wang had an accident. It seems she ingested arsenic. Eunuch Wang was summoned back to the manor, and then someone was sent to find the imperial physician," Xiu'er said. "Your Highness, do you think this matter can be blamed on you? Madam Wang is really something; she couldn't think straight, so why drag others down with her!"
"Xiu'er, don't talk like that," Tang Zhuyun said.
If people had no difficulties, who would have gone to that point?
Xiu'er stamped her foot. "It's not that I lack compassion, but this is dragging you down! What if Eunuch Wang goes after that great villain, the Ninth Prince, of the former dynasty, and blames you? We don't even know what's happening to Madam Wang, it's so unfair!"
Tang Zhuyun, however, was thinking that Madam Wang had ingested arsenic...
She looked at the Prince of Jin.
The Prince of Jin said, "There's nothing to hide about saving people."
Although Tang Zhuyun always teased him, making him waver between wanting to die and wanting to kill her, she valued human life, which Prince of Jin appreciated.
He went to the battlefield in his teens, killed many people, and came through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but precisely because of this, he has even greater reverence for life.
Because death is too easy, and even if one dies on the battlefield, even if one is glorious after death, one is just a handful of dust and can never see the beauty of the world again.
Every soldier who bravely fights the enemy is willing to die for their country, but if they can live on their own, no matter how difficult it is, they are willing to do so. This is their respect for and dedication to life.
Tang Zhuyun also began to look at Prince of Jin with new respect.
She knew that getting close to Wang Fu would not benefit Prince of Jin, but he was still willing to let her go to save people.
"Then I'll go take a look," Tang Zhuyun said, "I don't care whether I should go out or not. Xiu'er, you take the medicine box..."
"They're here..." Song Jingyang called out from the courtyard.
Tang Zhuyun: "..."
She wasn't planning on taking him along!
However, Song Jingyang continued, "Eunuch Wang has brought Madam Wang to see the Princess."
Tang Zhuyun's eyes widened.
"... Say it," Song Jingyang rushed in, "That even the imperial physicians are helpless. Eunuch Wang doesn't believe it, so he brought people to find Her Highness the Princess."
The Prince of Jin's gaze toward Tang Zhuyun suddenly became somewhat profound.
Even the imperial physicians were helpless, so why did Wang Fu actually bring people to find Tang Zhuyun?
How did he know Tang Zhuyun was a skilled physician? Was it simply because Tang Zhuyun had saved that wanted criminal from the Golden Scale Guard last time?
But even he himself only felt that Tang Zhuyun had used tricks, and his recognition of her medical skills only gradually formed through several subsequent events.
How did Wang Fu come up with the idea of her? Was it simply a desperate measure, a last-ditch effort?
Tang Zhuyun and Xiu'er hurriedly went out to greet them.
Wang Fu carried the unconscious Madam Wang in.
Tang Zhuyun never expected that Wang Fu, who always hunched over in front of the Emperor and looked like an old man, would have such great strength.
Moreover, he had completely lost his usual composure; his hair was disheveled, his eyes were anxious, and he pleaded desperately as if grasping at a straw, "Your Highness, Your Highness, please save me..."
He knew about the emperor's heart ailment and that Tang Zhuyun had saved the emperor, so now all his hopes were pinned on Tang Zhuyun.
Although the imperial physicians all said that there was no cure for taking arsenic.
Tang Zhuyun said in a deep voice, "Bring her into the room first, I'll take a look at her."
After Wang Fu carried the person into the side room, Tang Zhuyun took Madam Wang's pulse.
Almost as soon as Tang Zhuyun felt her pulse, she guessed why she had taken poison.
But that's not important; the most important thing is to save lives.
Tang Zhuyun prescribed emetics and then antidotes, instructing someone to fetch and prepare the medicine.
Wang Fu asked impatiently, "Your Highness, is there any hope for her?"
His voice trembled, his eyes filled with both expectation and fear.
Tang Zhuyun, as a doctor in her previous life, had seen this kind of expression far too often from patients' families.
She dared not speak too definitively, because the situation was more complicated than she had imagined.
It wasn't the poisoning itself, but rather that Madam Wang had other illnesses... This was probably the main reason she couldn't think straight.
Tang Zhuyun couldn't understand it either, but for her, curing the sick and saving lives was the most important thing.
She was just afraid that even if she cured her this time, it wouldn't stop Madam Wang from committing suicide. She was even more afraid that Wang Fu would become the straw that broke Madam Wang.
So she simply said, "I'll do my best."
"Okay, okay, okay, thank you for your trouble, Your Highness." Wang Fu's eyes were red and bloodshot.
Since Tang Zhuyun didn't say there was no hope, there is still hope.
He sat by the bed, holding Madam Wang's hand tightly, unaware that his body was trembling.
He couldn't imagine what meaning there was in his life or his struggles without her.
He wanted to give her the best, and seeing her look on with surprise and delight at things she'd never seen before, he felt a mixture of disdain and joy; aside from physical intimacy, he didn't want to owe her anything else...
Knowing that she was lonely all alone in the mansion and had no close friends, he tried his best to cheer her up, buying her many things and toys.
Last autumn, she stammered that she had found an infant boy and wanted to raise him, and he immediately agreed.
He should have realized it sooner; he was destined not to give her a child, so he adopted one.
From then on, she raised the child herself. Although it was hard work, she smiled more often.
She's very good at taking care of children, because she helped take care of his younger siblings when she was at his home in the countryside... She even started saving money, saying she wanted to save money for her child's future marriage...
This fool has no idea that their family fortune is more than enough to marry a hundred wives.
Every time he returned from the palace, she would hold their several-month-old baby and teach him to call her "Dad," her face filled with anticipation for the future.
Wang Fu thought to himself, if he had known earlier that she liked children so much, he would have raised a child for her to play with sooner.
Life seemed blissful, and he felt content.
But suddenly, he heard the news that she had taken poison, and he couldn't believe it at all.
Everything was fine, so why did she suddenly abandon me?
He nearly went mad when he heard the imperial physician say "prepare for the worst," and then he thought of Tang Zhuyun, desperately clinging to her as his last lifeline.
Now, hearing Tang Zhuyun say she would "do her best," he finally felt a little calmer. Holding Madam Wang's hand, he murmured, "How could you be so heartless! What happened? You didn't even tell me before abandoning me?"
Tang Zhuyun looked at him holding Madam Wang's hand tightly and said, "Eunuch Wang, please go out first. I need to perform acupuncture on Madam Wang to expel the toxins."
"Let this old servant stay; this old servant wants to see her..."
However, if Madam Wang were sober, she probably wouldn't want him to see her.
Before clarifying the situation, Tang Zhuyun couldn't speak rashly, and could only say, "Your staying might affect the treatment..."
"Then this old servant will step back, this old servant will step back now!"