Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

Chapter 942: Injury on top of illness
Ji Wuyan has been a worrying person since she was a child. Unlike Shangguan Yuan who is sensible and considerate, this girl who grew up freely in Yunzhou, although smart and clever, rarely changes the decision she wants to make because of other people's concerns.

She used all her intelligence in remedial measures afterwards, and Old Chen was her "accomplice", so much so that over the years, the two of them had such a tacit understanding that they didn't even need to talk. Old Chen could understand Ji Wuyan's meaning with just a glance.

If it were in the past, he would of course cooperate and send everyone in the room out and then prescribe a prescription for Ji Wuyan that looked like it was just for a cold, and then personally deliver some pills over in private - they used to cooperate like this, so that over the years, no matter how carefully the servants took care of him, the young master of the Ji family never stopped having "minor illnesses".

Just this time...

Elder Chen withdrew his gaze, frowned, and silently felt Zi Qiu's pulse. After a while, he gently told Zi Qiu, "Go boil some hot water."

He sent Zi Qiu away, but not Ning Xiuyuan. Ji Wuyan winked at Chen Lao, but Chen Lao kept his eyebrows down and refused to communicate, obviously with other plans. Ji Wuyan pursed her dry lips and called out, "Hey." Her voice was hoarse and dry, and she was shocked by it.

Old Chen pressed his eyelids and refused to look at me. He warned me in a bad mood, "If your throat hurts, talk less. I told you to be cautious, but you ignored me. I can't control you anymore. Rather than letting you continue to do this and ruin my reputation as a miracle doctor, I might as well find some poison to feed you, so that you will be bedridden for the rest of your life!"

Ji Wuyan opened her mouth. The pain in her internal organs had eased a lot, but her throat felt like it was pierced by countless needles. She was in pain every time she opened her mouth. However, she pretended to be nothing and joked, "If a genius doctor poisons a patient, isn't that destroying his reputation? I'm fine. I just fell asleep under the window last night without a blanket. You know the temperature now... I woke up and this happened."

Ning Xiuyuan stood behind Old Chen with his arms crossed. He frowned when he heard this, but said nothing. In front of others, he would never blame her.

Old Chen didn't have such concerns. He slapped her wrist with his backhand and scolded her bluntly, "Are you dead? You are so cold that you don't even know to get up and find a blanket? Or are you simply unable to wake up? How can you not know your current condition if others don't know it?"

Seeing that they were about to talk about a sensitive topic, Ji Wuyan quickly coughed to hint to the old man not to bring up something that was not relevant, "Ahem!"

Elder Chen finally gave her a look of favor and sneered, "Why? You don't allow me to speak? You don't allow me to say anything? In your condition, you couldn't wake up even if you froze to death last night, or your internal injuries won't recover for a year or two?"

"You!" Ji Wuyan hurriedly stood up to cover Chen Lao's mouth, but before she could reach Chen Lao, she was grabbed by someone. It was Ning Xiuyuan with a dark face. He stuffed Ji Wuyan's hand back into the quilt, tucked the corner of the quilt, and then turned to Chen Song and said, "She is sick now, and her voice hurts me. Please don't be angry with her... She has been like this for a long time. Even if she wants to change, there is no rush in one or two days."

Chen Song was stunned and suspicious. He turned his head to look at Ning Xiuyuan, whose face was gloomy but not surprised at all, and then looked back at Ji Wuyan, who buried her head in the quilt, and immediately understood, "You know everything?" Ning Xiuyuan pulled the quilt down a little, lifted the little girl's head out, and nodded, "I probably guessed it, but I didn't expect it to be so serious. It was my negligence. I should have stayed here to guard last night... Now I have caused you trouble. Please prescribe a prescription, and tell me in detail how to regulate her daily life, and I will watch her and do it one by one." He spoke gently and calmly, and never blamed her for deceiving him, but only blamed himself for negligence.

Chen Song was dumbfounded as he watched from the sidelines… He looked at this, then that, and after a while he finally found his voice and coughed, “Aren’t you angry?”

"Angry." Ning Xiuyuan admitted categorically, "Many times I wanted to hang her up and beat her up, and I also told her many times earnestly not to hide it from me, not to take risks alone, and to discuss things with me. Obviously... it has little effect. But you also said that it would take her a year or two to recover completely from her internal injuries. I can't really hang her up and beat her, right? Yesterday I saw blood on her clothes, so I guessed that she had internal injuries. I thought that she wanted to hide it, and if I stayed, it would delay her recovery... It's my fault, I should have stayed, so that she wouldn't have been frozen under the window all night, adding to her injuries."

Ji Wuyan grabbed the quilt, raised her eyes to look at Ning Xiuyuan, pursed her lips, and called hesitantly, "Third brother... I was wrong. I thought it was okay. It was the same when I was practicing martial arts in the past. I accidentally got some internal injuries and it was fine after spitting out blood... I thought it would be the same this time." The look in his eyes looking over the quilt was extremely aggrieved, pitiful and innocent.

Even though he knew that this expression was at most 30% true and 70% fake, Ning Xiuyuan still couldn't stand her like this. He was just angry and didn't want to pay attention to her, so he just turned his head with a dark face and said in a calm voice, "Your throat is not good, don't talk, take a rest."

His face looked grim, but his voice was still gentle. He didn't know whether he was angrier at himself or at the other person.

Old Chen looked at him like this, and for a moment he didn't know whether Ning Xiuyuan was a good thing for Ji Wuyan. The little girl was too brave, fearless, and actually suitable for someone to take care of her. I thought Ning Xiuyuan could take care of her, but now it seems that he kept saying that he was angry, but in front of himself, an "outsider" who was not an outsider, he was reluctant to say a harsh word.

The little girl should be relieved that she is being treated so wholeheartedly, but she is also worried that her daring courage will be indulged even more.

Old Chen sighed, "Forget it... I guess now that I say she's not good, you still have to protect her. I'm too lazy to be the bad guy. It will be hard for me to open a prescription. This girl can't stand the hardship, and Zi Qiu can't keep an eye on her. I'll leave this matter to you... And the medicine in the porcelain bottle I gave you yesterday, one pill each morning and evening, don't forget it."

"Yes." Ning Xiuyuan stood up and spoke respectfully, even lowering his head slightly, "I will definitely keep an eye on it, don't worry."

Old Chen was relieved about this. He said "Hmm" solemnly, and continued to instruct with his hands behind his back, "Before the internal injuries are fully recovered, you are not allowed to use any martial arts, and don't let her get close to Tian Xinqin. Now that Lin Yi is dead, I will make the pills in the next few days. I guess there won't be any fighting and killing worth her personally taking part in."