Xu Yan was crushed by the carriage on his left leg, fracturing his calf and several other injuries, which have been treated and are bruised where they were broken.
One of the imperial doctors stepped forward and carefully touched the broken bone, felt it and saw that it had been joined. He withdrew his hand, took out the ointment from the medicine chest, put it on the broken bone, wrapped gauze around it, took a plate of the right size from Song Yin and fixed Xu Yan’s left leg.
He instructed, “It takes a hundred days to break a bone, Mr. Xu needs to recuperate well, don’t get out of bed for now, we will come over every three days to change your medicine.”
Xu Yan’s forehead was covered in cold sweat and his face was whiter than paper as he nodded his head and thanked with difficulty, “Thank you both.”
The two men waved their hands busily and carried the medicine box out.
Meng’s red eyes thanked her and the two men were busy avoiding them, “You’re welcome, madam, it was Miss Song who fixed the broken bone, we didn’t do anything.”
In fact, both of them were puzzled, with Song Wangyue around, there was no need for them.
“Thank you both for your hard work.”
The old gentleman gestured for the butler to send the two out, before inviting the emperor to have a small seat in his courtyard.
“Father, my son is going to see the teacher.”
“Go, I will talk to the old gentleman for a while, and we will return to the palace in a quarter of an hour.”
“My son understands.”
After seeing the old gentleman accompany the emperor out of the courtyard, the fourth prince lifted his foot and walked into the house, followed by Meng and the second gentleman.
Xu Yan was lying on the bed, and Mrs. Xu Yan was holding a handkerchief to wipe his cold sweat, when she saw the Fourth Prince enter the house, she stood up and bowed.
The Fourth Prince gave him a false support and looked at Xu Yan, seeing his pale face, he was very distressed, “Later, I will have some nourishing herbs sent over.”
“Many thanks, Fourth Prince.”
Over there, the old gentleman took the emperor to the flower hall in his courtyard and took his seat, while Xu Liang brought tea.
This was the second time the emperor had come to the old gentleman, the first time was when he had just ascended to the throne and wanted to invite the old gentleman to join the court as an official, which the old gentleman refused to do.
The first time was when he had just ascended to the throne and wanted to invite the old gentleman to join the imperial court.
The emperor lamented, “In a flash, both I and you are getting old.”
“The grass is really old, but Your Majesty is in his prime.”
The Emperor shook his head, “Although I am younger than you, my heart is much older than yours, and I am unable to do many things, especially when several imperial sons are in trouble one after another, I feel even more exhausted, so I went to the Thousand Hills Temple today and asked Master Jingfan to choose a good day to make the Fourth Prince the Crown Prince.”
After saying this, he went to serve the tea, but out of the corner of his eye, he looked at the old man.
The old gentleman’s face was as usual, “Your Majesty is wise.”
The emperor smiled bitterly, “I am not wise, I have no choice, I only have this one son, who else will I appoint?”
“It’s just that I doted on him all those years and didn’t impose strict requirements on him, only last year did I let Xu Yan into the palace to teach him. Today, apart from thanking Xu Yan, I also asked him to continue to be the Crown Prince’s tutor. Now, I think I can ask Mr. Er to ……”
“No ……”
The old gentleman interrupted before he could finish his sentence, “We are honored by Your Majesty, and we should be happy to accept it, but the old second gentleman is focused on his studies and does not know how to teach his students, making him the crown prince’s tutor will only delay the fourth prince, so please ask Your Majesty to find another high ranking.”
“Very well, since the old gentleman says so, I will not force anyone to do so. ”
……
A quarter of an hour later, after sending off the emperor and the fourth prince, the old gentleman went to Xu Yan’s house.
Sitting in front of the bed, he looked at his injured leg and couldn’t hide the heartache in his eyes, “Yan’er, you’ve suffered.”
Xu Yan half leaned against the bed, “Compared to losing my life, a broken leg is nothing, grandfather, don’t worry, in a few days, my grandson will be alive and kicking.”
Mr. Er laughed at his words, “How old are you and you’re still alive and kicking?”
“Uncle is still young.”
Song Wangyue answered with a smile.
“Yue’er is right, I’m young.”
“You are young, mother is not young ……”
As she said that, Meng got up, “Mother was scared by you, so I have to go back and take it easy, Xu Yan daughter-in-law, you can take me back.”
Mrs. Xu Yan answered and went forward to help Meng out.
If her mother-in-law could see it, she naturally could also see that her grandfather had something to say.
The old man gestured for Xu Liang to guard the door and told him about the Emperor’s visit to the Thousand Hills Temple today to ask Master Jing Fan to tell the day.
“This matter is fishy.”
Even though he was not in the imperial court, he knew that the emperor had been wary of the Ding Guo Gongfu all these years. Even if the Third Prince had died and the First Prince and Second Prince had been exiled, according to the Emperor’s temperament, he would delay as long as he could and would not make the Fourth Prince the Crown Prince so soon.
Song Yin agreed, “You’re right, he’s so eager to make the fourth prince, he should be trying to cover up something.”
Song Wan Yue nodded, “I also have this feeling, and it’s a bad one.”
Before her words left her mouth, footsteps came from outside.
The housekeeper walked into the courtyard with hurried steps and stopped when he saw Xu Liang guarding the door.
“What is it?”
The old gentleman’s voice came out.
The housekeeper bowed slightly, “Someone from the Ding Guo Mansion has come, saying that the old lady is not feeling well and wants Miss Sun to go over and give her a look.”
Song Wan Yue and Song Yin looked at each other.
“Go quickly, and pay some attention on the way.”
The two of them quickly walked out of the Xu Mansion.
The person who came was the attendant beside Xiao Zheng, and when he saw the two of them, he immediately greeted them with an anxious look, “Old Madam’s heart is hurting badly, and the mansion was in a mess when I came.”
The two men took the reins handed to them by the servant and turned onto their horses.
It was already dark and there were few pedestrians on the road, so the two of them were very fast. When they arrived at the entrance of the Ding Guo Gong Mansion, they leapt off before the horses stopped, threw the reins away and ran quickly inside, going straight to the old lady’s house.
The Xiao family were all there, and Xiao Yao and Song Si were also there, gathered around the bed.
“Yue’er is here!”
Xiao Yao saw her first and the crowd moved aside as Song Wan Yue walked to the bed and squeezed the old lady’s wrist, only to suddenly see her blink at her.
Song Wangyue froze, then reacted and her heartbeat slowed down.
No. 1 finished letting go of her hand, “It’s caused by poor sleep, follow the prescription I prescribed a few days ago to calm the mind and grab a few more pills and drink them and you’ll be fine.”
Xiao Yao’s heart was relieved.
Half an hour ago, her grandmother was fine, she had only gone to the kitchen to see what the cooks were cooking tonight, but when she returned, she heard her grandmother say that her heart was hurting, which scared her.
“I’ll go and boil some medicine.”
Song Wangyue stopped her, “Let the servants boil it, you can ask the kitchen to bring some porridge for old madam to drink first.”
“I’ll go.”
Mrs. Xiao Zheng went out with quick steps.
“Then sister-in-law will stay here and supervise Old Madam as she drinks the medicine before going to bed.”
Xiao Yao nodded her head.
“I’m fine, don’t all of you gather around here, do what you need to do. ”
The Duchess of Tingguo shooed people away.
The Duke of Determination asked a few questions uneasily, and only when he saw that his wife was really fine did he “feel at ease” and lead them to the study.