The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 1191 Jia Ming

When Princess Hong'an opened her eyes, she found the room much darker. She called the attendant softly and asked hoarsely, "What time is it now?"

The maid who was in charge of serving her knelt slightly and saluted towards her, saying, "Grand Princess, you are awake. It is now three quarters past the hour of the twelfth hour."

After saying this, the maid waved outside.

Soon, a group of servants came in one after another carrying lanterns.

After they hung lanterns in every corner of the room, the room, which had previously been dark, suddenly became as bright as day.

"Why is it so late?" Princess Hong'an's eyes suddenly widened, and she instantly felt an indescribable sense of uneasiness.

"Grand Princess, please have some hot tea first." The maid came to her bedside, holding the teacup that had just been filled with tea. Seeing that she was waiting for her stubbornly, she could not help but reply in a gentle voice, "Grand Princess, don't you remember? You suddenly felt dizzy and sleepy before, and you went to rest without even having lunch?"

"Huh?!" Princess Hong'an rubbed her swollen forehead, and several fragments flashed through her mind.

It seems to be the case.

The maid placed the teacup and tea tray on the small table next to her and adjusted the pillow for her. "You were sleeping soundly before. The imperial physician invited by the temple minister felt your pulse, but you didn't wake up yet! The imperial physician asked the female doctor to give you acupuncture and then prescribed a sweat-inducing medicine. He also asked everyone not to wake you up and let you rest well. Therefore, the temple minister changed the time for the court session. It won't be too late to talk to you after you have rested up."

Upon hearing this, Princess Hong'an silently touched her undershirt and found that it was indeed slightly damp. Only then did she believe it a little.

However, she did not appreciate the care of the Dali Temple Minister. Just as she was about to ask for details, she heard a slight sound from her stomach.

The maid immediately said, "The imperial physician instructed that you must eat immediately after you wake up. I have already had ginseng soup and rice porridge prepared for you to eat! Do you want to serve it now?"

Princess Hong'an nodded slowly, without saying a word but watching her every move.

It was not until the aroma of rice and the heat wafted into her face that Princess Hong'an asked in a hoarse voice, "The court session has been delayed. Do Cen and Shu have any objections?!"

The maid wiped her hands with a hot towel and replied, "Both Concubine Cen and Concubine Shu are exhausted. After the imperial physician examined you, he examined them one by one. I don't know what he said exactly, but I heard that the imperial physician specifically told the temple minister that it would be best for them to have a good rest as well." "Humph, Nan Diyuan, this fox, is afraid that something bad will happen to us two old bones. He can't afford it, right?!"

The maid didn't know how to respond to her words, so she lowered her head and carefully applied balm on her hands.

After taking the spoon, Princess Hong'an just turned her wrist slightly and pushed the crystal clear rice porridge in the small bowl of official kiln white porcelain and spun it around: "Didn't Nan Diyuan say to send someone to the palace to call Yongping over? What's the matter? Has Yongping come over during the whole afternoon when I was in a coma?"

The maid sat quietly at the foot of the bed and answered in a gentle voice: "I have never heard that another noble person has come to our place. Of course, I have never been to the front, so I don't know much."

Princess Hong'an stroked her chest. Although she felt hungry, she had no appetite at all.

The maidservant did not try to persuade her, but only said, "Is the eldest princess still feeling unwell? The imperial physician is still in the outer courtyard. I will ask someone to bring him in to see you."

Princess Hongan, who originally wanted to say no, suddenly changed her mind and followed the arrangements made by her maid.

She didn't have to wait long before the imperial physician came hurriedly with his female doctor and carrying a medicine box.

Princess Hong'an allowed the other party to bow and feel her pulse, and she looked closely at the person in front of her with a pair of slightly sharp eyes.

"My Imperial Physician, what is your name? Why do you seem so unfamiliar to me?"

Upon hearing this, the imperial physician quickly replied, "Grand Princess, you can just call me Jia... I was admitted to the Imperial Medical Bureau last month. Before that, I had been following the Imperial Medical Order to check the pulses of the noble ladies in the palace. I was only officially registered in the bureau not long ago."

There are two types of imperial physicians in the Imperial Medical Bureau of the Great Chu. One type is able to see patients alone upon imperial order, and the other type, although people outside also call them imperial physicians, are actually called physicians of the Imperial Medical Bureau. Most of these people are the reserve force of the imperial physicians, and before they can see patients alone, they either learn from the imperial physicians or help review prescriptions and sort out pulse records in the bureau.

"Oh, so Doctor Jia, you are... a newcomer to the Imperial Medical Bureau!" Princess Hong'an nodded. When the doctor continued to feel her pulse, she suddenly asked, "Then, Doctor Jia, have you ever been to the Imperial City Outer Garden to see patients before?"