The Daily Life of a Down-on-Hard-Life Medicine Girl Supporting Her Family

Chapter 117 You ruined my plans

If you can't get an erection, you can't have offspring!
This was a complete shock!

Madam Xia felt a sudden darkness engulf her!
Why does the Xia family always have so many misfortunes?
The Xia family had served in the military for generations, a family of generals who protected their country. Good people, but not good fate. For the safety of the border, generation after generation of men built a Great Wall of steel with their flesh and blood. In Xia Guangcheng's generation, he was the only son left.

They eagerly awaited his marriage and children, but he became impotent due to injury and was destined to be childless!
The sky has fallen!
“Mother, don’t worry. Your son has thought it through. He will marry the eldest daughter of the Xiao family next door. She doesn’t know that I can’t have children, and she won’t get involved in the court’s disputes. Besides, she already has a child, who can be my daughter. After that child comes of age, she can find a son-in-law to marry into the family, and the Xia family’s lineage can still continue.”

This is simply a self-deceiving trick.

However, this is indeed the best method!

Madam Xia was utterly despondent and waved her hand.

"Do whatever you want. I'm too old to care about anything else."

"Mother, please take good care of yourself."

Seeing his elderly mother's lonely figure as she turned away, Xia Guangcheng felt a little guilty.

However, her own mother knew very well that if she didn't say this, Xiao Chunyu would never have the chance to enter the family.

For that silly girl, Xia Guangcheng felt it didn't matter if he made fun of himself.

Sure enough, if you're not ruthless, your position won't be secure. After Xia Guangcheng put himself in such a position, Old Madam Xia never mentioned arranging a marriage for her son again.

Xiao Chunyu naturally knew nothing about the Xia family's affairs.

However, her and Panpan's lives changed drastically. Every few days, people from the palace would come to summon her to the palace with her child.

Every time she entered the palace, Panpan was overjoyed. She even brought a small snack box filled with cakes, snacks, and dumplings that she had prepared for her "brother".

The little one does everything in a very orderly manner.

Seeing her bring food into the palace for the eldest prince, Xiao Chunyu realized that she had completely given up on herself.

In any case, the lives of the mother and daughter were in her hands.

What puzzled her most was that the First Prince always managed to eat everything that Panpan brought.

"Your Majesty, my daughter is so disrespectful..." What she finds most intolerable is that every time she sees the eldest prince, Panpan, she rushes straight up to him and calls him "brother," making her feel utterly humiliated.

"It's alright, Panpan is a blessed child." The Empress smiled as she watched her son bend down and hug Panpan. "These days, Panpan often comes to the palace, and Che'er likes it very much. She can also eat some food now, so she has the energy to get out of bed and move around."

From being unable to eat a drop of water and receiving no medicine, to being able to eat some liquid food, from needing eunuchs to help her turn over, to being able to walk, Heaven knows how excited the Empress was.

Although she was still ill and couldn't engage in too much physical activity, the Empress deeply understood the principle that illness comes like a landslide but goes away like pulling silk, and she kept reminding herself: No rush, no rush, take it slowly.

"The eldest prince will get better and better."

"Good good."

This is probably what they mean by "love me, love my dog". The Empress now finds Panpan quite pleasing to the eye, and also thinks Xiao Chunyu is very good-looking.

She thought to herself, "Fate really does play jokes. How did such a good girl end up in the heartless and ungrateful Wu family?"
Furthermore, Panpan is such a well-behaved girl, yet the Wu family, those blind fools, didn't want her.

The eldest prince's good fortune was beyond the imperial physician's expectations, and it also attracted the attention of those with ulterior motives in the harem.

"You really got out of bed?"

"Yes, he got out of bed and even hugged Xiao Chunyu's daughter, the girl named Panpan."

"Xiao Chunyu?"

"The eldest granddaughter of Physician Xiao, the former head of the Imperial Medical Academy, and the second daughter-in-law of Vice Minister Wu, later..."

"I understand." How could I not know about something so important? I just didn't know that Physician Xiao's granddaughter was also capable.

"Does Master mean that Xiao Chunyu was the one who made the diagnosis?"

"Go and find out, lest you ruin my plans."

It was as if Xiao Chunyu had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, escaping his control. Soon, he learned that Xiao Chunyu was a pampered young lady raised in seclusion and actually knew nothing about medicine.

"The Empress or Empress Dowager often summoned her to the palace, seemingly because they liked her little maid."

"Yes, not only the Empress and the Empress Dowager, but even the Emperor likes her very much. That girl calls the Emperor 'Uncle'."

With a "pfft," the nobleman spat out the tea he had just drunk.

"When did it happen?"

"Half a month ago, the eldest prince was already unconscious. The emperor and empress were furious. The emperor even said that he would have the imperial physicians buried with him. But unexpectedly, the eldest prince pulled through."

Therefore, there must be something they don't know!
"Do Xiao Chunyu and her daughter live in a village on the outskirts of Beijing?"

"Yes, Master."

"How could a weak woman who can't even kill a chicken ruin my plans?"

The instructions are as follows.

"Yes."

The eunuch nodded and turned to carry out his task.

In Kunning Palace, the Empress unusually showed concern for Xiao Chunyu's personal life and marriage.

"You are still young. If you find someone suitable, you can tell me, and I will bestow a marriage upon you."

The Empress bestowed this marriage upon us; it was a divine favor.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. I have no other thoughts but to raise my child to adulthood."

She still longed for her family to be reunited, but she couldn't say that. After all, it was the Emperor who issued the decree. Wouldn't it be a slap in the face to the Emperor to talk about family reunion in front of the Empress?

The matter was accomplished in secrecy, and given the business of Qingcheng Pavilion, it would surely be fulfilled within five years.

While they were having a pleasant conversation, Panpan had already scared the old nanny who served the eldest prince half to death.

"Brother, you can't eat this, you can't eat it!" The little boy clung tightly to Zhang Mama's hand. "You're a big bad person."

what's the situation?
The eldest prince was a little tired at this time, so he put Panpan on the couch to play and sat on the couch himself. It was at this moment that Zhang Mama said it was time to take his medicine.

But Panpan snatched the pills away and made a scene, saying that the eldest prince couldn't take them.

"what happened?"

Since it concerned the safety of the eldest prince, the empress had no time to care about anything else and immediately stepped forward to inquire.

"Your Majesty, this old servant gave the First Prince his medicine, but the child..."

That's utterly absurd; such a young age and yet so nosy.

"What medicine?" the Empress asked.

"This, this, brother can't eat it, it will make your tummy hurt." Panpan put the pills she had snatched into the Empress's hand: "It will make your tummy hurt."

"Come here, call the imperial doctor."

Physician Chen arrived, and the Empress asked him to examine the pills.

"These pills are..." Aren't they the pills that the eldest prince usually takes? What's there to see?

"I order you to examine this carefully."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Imperial Physician Chen sniffed the pill and found nothing unusual. However, just to be on the safe side, he crushed the pill, dipped his finger in the powder, and put it in his mouth. His expression immediately changed.

(End of this chapter)