Chapter 72.2

Yaoniang stayed inside for two hours before coming out.

During this period, Fucheng and Yuchan had wanted to go inside numerous times, but they both endured it.

Yaoniang lowered her head and pushed open the door. Fucheng and Yuchan immediately leaned forward.

"How's His Highness?"

"Madam, are you okay?"

Yaoniang shook her head and pulled Yuchan aside to whisper something. Yuchan blushed and said to Fucheng that the swelling of His Highness had subsided. As for the details, they would have to wait for Doctor Liu to come and take a look or for him to wake up.

Then the two of them left. Fucheng looked at Yaoniang's back and shook his head before stepping inside.

Doctor Liu, who had said that he was going back to research medicine, quietly went to the small courtyard to find Mammy Mu.

After Doctor Liu finished explaining the matter, Mammy Mu frowned and did not speak.

Doctor Liu said anxiously, "This prescription should be okay. But I don't know why after His Highness took it, not only did it not help, but his condition became even worse. Of course, it could be that the relief wasn’t enough, but it definitely shouldn’t be like this."

Mammy Mu pondered for a moment. "If the prescription is okay, but the medicine didn't work, was there something wrong in the process?" The reason why she asked this was because she believed in Doctor Liu's medical skills more than Fucheng.

Back then, with Consort De's illness, the successful birth of Jin Wang was because of Doctor Liu's weird prescriptions. She even managed to last a few more years before she was gone.

"This—" Doctor Liu smiled bitterly. "This prescription should be okay. I have been working on this prescription ever since I diagnosed His Highness. Although my medical skills are limited and this poison can't be completely cured without the antidote, my prescription should still be able to delay its effects. Even if it can’t delay it, His Highness should remain sane after taking it. It’s absolutely impossible to reach the point where he loses his mind and becomes crazy.” He paused. “I’m not afraid of you laughing at me but I’m starting to wonder if I can continue like this? There has been no news from the capital and His Highness's situation is getting worse every day. When Her Highness, Consort De, was leaving, she repeatedly asked us to look after His Highness…" 

Mammy Mu couldn't help but be silent after hearing these words. She sighed and persuaded, "You shouldn’t be thinking about this now, but about how to heal His Highness. "

Doctor Liu exhaled and cheered himself up. "Yeah, that’s why I’m here to ask Mammy to give me a bit more of the little princess's blood. I’ll take it back and try again. "

Mammy Mu understood his intentions, but when she thought of the bowl of blood, she still felt distressed. "Can’t you use something else instead of blood? The little princess is so young and can’t afford to go through this repeatedly. "

“If I could, I wouldn't have spent all this effort. Everything points to this blood. The blood of the little princess is the main ingredient. What I’m taking is His Highness and Side Consort Hu’s first…"

Doctor Liu started to explain everything again and Mammy Mu’s heart was aroused.

She suddenly interrupted and said, "If you want to take it, take it. Even if I don't like it, His Highness is still the most important. " Once she said that she asked Yuyan to bring the little princess over for Doctor Liu to collect blood. 

After Doctor Liu left, Yuyan was about to take the little princess back to the nursery to feed her when Mammy Mu stopped her. She asked her to bring the little princess over for a closer look.

Mammy Mu took the sleepy little princess into her arms and reached out to look behind her earlobes.

Nothing on the left or right side.

Mammy Mu withdrew her hand in silence. She looked at the face of the little princess again, lost in thought.

"Mammy…" Mammy Mu came back to her senses, handed the little princess to Yuyan, who then retreated.

Mammy Mu has been in the palace for decades and knew the nature of women very well.

They could be the weakest in the world, where slightly stronger wind and waves were enough to wash them away. But when they were cruel, they could also be the cruellest.

To compete for favour, what means couldn't be used? To fight against each other, everything was fair play and all sorts of methods were involved. In the palace, women, children and eunuchs were the ones who died the most.

Who knows how many fetuses were born as a mass of flesh and blood? Everyone knew how important the emperor's heir was to the imperial family. Naturally, they would strike at where it hurts most.

Similarly, there were also fake imperial heirs …

Mammy Mu couldn't help thinking of what she had heard when she was still a little palace maid. It was a secret from when the founder of the dynasty was still alive.

Since a counterfeit nearly ascended the throne, the imperial family has paid special attention to the issue of heirs. The founder of the dynasty took some sort of miracle medicine and ever since, all male descendants of the imperial family would have a mark that was easy to distinguish. The mark was a red mole behind an earlobe.

But whether the girls had it was up to chance. Some had it while others didn’t.

The reason why Mammy Mu knew about this was that when Consort De gave birth to Jin Wang, some concubines deliberately spread rumours that Jin Wang was not Emperor Hongjing’s son. Everyone in the palace knew that Consort De's body was very poor, so based on her health, how could she give birth to the emperor's heir?

You said that the stomach can’t be faked since the imperial physical has taken the pulse and there were records from the eunuch that night?

There was nothing impossible in the palace. Once a concubine becomes pregnant, she rarely goes out and it wasn’t like she would lift her clothes for others to see. As for the imperial doctors, some of the harem women’s own people were mixed in. The records from the eunuchs were even less reliable because a woman's birth could be early or late. Except for making a rough guess, they were useless.

Therefore, when it came to the matter of heirs, nothing was simple.

On the surface, Emperor Hongjing showed trust in Consort De. But in private, he ordered his personal eunuch to take a look at the young Jin Wang who was still in his infancy. At that time, Mammy Mu stood nearby and learned about the secret through this opportunity.

Mammy Mu had watched the little princess’s birth. Since some girls had the mark while others didn’t, she didn't care much about it.

But after Doctor Liu told her everything, she couldn't help but doubt.

After all, Side Consort Hu’s origins were not easy to accept. When Jin Wang came back with Side Consort Hu, he had said that she was lucky to be a virgin, but…

Mammy Mu raised her eyebrows.