CHAPTER 185: CHAPTER 183 A SICK JUVENILE (1)

"Alright." The Great Princess didn’t say more for the sake of money.

She put down the basket of herbs and rolled up her sleeves to enter the kitchen.

Fortunately, the pot for boiling water was clean and didn’t need washing from her.

She fetched some water from the well, poured it into the pot, and started boiling it.

Once the water boiled, the Great Princess poured it into a wooden basin and carried it to the bedside in the bedroom.

On the bed, Aunt Liu was no longer groaning from pain, but her complexion still looked bad.

Li Yuzhu turned and said, "Elder Sister, just leave the water here. You don’t need to help with anything else. Go wait by the gate of the residence, don’t let anyone rush in and disturb me. I’ll need a little less than an hour to treat her."

The Great Princess let out a breath, "Alright."

As long as she didn’t have to do anything.

She dragged a chair over and sat inside the gate to keep watch.

Beside the gate was a maple tree, casting a shade of green and a cool breeze.

The Great Princess leaned against the doorframe and started to doze off.

But she hadn’t slept for long when suddenly there was a loud noise outside the door.

The Great Princess was startled, instantly wide awake.

She remembered Li Yuzhu’s instruction—not to let anyone disturb.

The Great Princess was instantly angered and yanked open the door.

A young man lay at the entrance, his face pale, looking at the Great Princess, "Do you have water? I’m thirsty..." His lips were dry, it was clear he was very thirsty.

"No—" Yes!

Before she finished her sentence, her left foot was grabbed by the young man’s hands.

"Give me a sip of water, there will surely be repayment in the future." The young man looked up at the Great Princess, pleadingly.

The young man looked about seventeen or eighteen, with delicate features, well-dressed, but extremely thin.

The Great Princess considered herself thin, slender, but this man looked thinner than her, with fingers thin like bamboo sticks.

His face was also very pale.

Hmm, not lightly ill.

The Great Princess leisurely looked at him, "Oh? How will you repay me?"

She angrily pulled back her foot.

How ridiculous, it was the first time in her life she had her foot grabbed by a man.

She just wanted to kick him to death!

"Whatever... whatever way I can repay, I just want to drink..." The young man’s head tilted, his eyes closed, and he fainted.

The Great Princess was shocked and quickly ran back into the house to fetch water.

There was still a little water left in the big pot from earlier, so she found a bowl and scooped half a bowl of warm water.

"Hey, don’t die, here comes the water." The Great Princess gave the young man a shove.

If she wasn’t afraid of him dying there and causing trouble for her, she wouldn’t have bothered to fetch the water.

The young man gradually woke up, and seeing the water, struggled to grab the bowl and drank it all in one go.

"Alright, you’ve drunk the water, now leave." The Great Princess took the bowl back and was about to shut the door.

What repayment or no repayment, it’s laughable!

Back in the Capital, there were long lines of men finding excuses to get close to her, like pretending to faint from horseback riding and asking her to save them, or pretending to be sick from hunger for three days, claiming they’d die if they didn’t see her, or saying they admired her talent after reading her poems and wanted her as a teacher.

A bunch of scoundrels!

What intentions did they have, as if she didn’t know?

If they wanted to die, just die, she wasn’t going to care.

Bam, the Great Princess shut the door.

She shouted loudly outside the door, "I tell you outside, if you’re thirsty, find someone else! I won’t be opening the door!"

She put the bowl down on the ground, patted her sleeves, and sat back on the chair to continue napping.

The young man outside, having drunk some water, gained a bit of strength and stood up.

He glanced at the door of the residence, moved step by step, and slowly walked away.

Inside the bedroom, Li Yuzhu had already started performing a uterine cleaning surgery on Aunt Liu.

She had just asked Aunt Liu, whose residence this was.

Aunt Liu hesitated and couldn’t say clearly but seemed very upset when mentioning the residence.

Li Yuzhu already had the answer in her heart; this residence belonged to Aunt Liu’s lover, Chen Yao.

The two must often meet here in secret.

This was why she had the Great Princess guard the door; if Chen Yao or other members of his family came barging in, it would affect her surgery.

Fortunately, the Great Princess kept watch diligently, and no one came to disturb them.

Aunt Liu’s postpartum herbal medicine didn’t make clearing the womb too difficult. Li Yuzhu started the surgical room in the space, and after a quarter of an hour, the operation was completed.

A little while later, Aunt Liu woke up from the general anesthesia.

She discovered that her stomach wasn’t as painful, and something was padded underneath her.

She reached out and touched it; it was a piece of cloth.

Li Yuzhu was washing her hands and saw her wake up, saying, "The menstrual cloth you brought wasn’t enough. I found an old bedsheet in this room to pad you with temporarily."

Aunt Liu looked at her, "Is it done?"

Li Yuzhu nodded, "It’s done. The fetus that didn’t completely clear from your womb has all been dealt with cleanly. As for the days ahead, you should know how to take care of your body since you’ve had a few children."

"I know what to do," Aunt Liu replied calmly.

Li Yuzhu surveyed the room, "No one has come to this room for quite a while. In your condition, you can’t leave immediately, so what do you plan to do next?"

Aunt Liu also glanced around the room, "I have relatives coming here tonight, so you don’t have to worry about me. You can leave now."

Li Yuzhu finished washing her hands and was wiping them with her own handkerchief.

She nodded slightly and said, "Alright then, take care of yourself. There’s a small table beside the bed with some prepared Chinese medicine pills on it. Take three pills three times a day, and there’s also a prescription, take it three times a day. You don’t need to take any other medicines prescribed by other doctors, just these will do. This is for a week; if the discharge still doesn’t improve after finishing, then come find me."

After speaking, she walked out of the room.

Inside the room, Aunt Liu punchingly cursed Chen Yao.

Li Yuzhu went into the courtyard, calling for the Great Princess.

The Great Princess yawned, waking up, "Is it done?"

"It’s done, we can leave now." Li Yuzhu took her backpack.

The Great Princess also picked up her backpack, and the two of them walked out of the small house, closed the door behind them, and headed to the pharmacy.

They were regular customers, and the shopkeeper immediately gave them a price after seeing their medicinal herbs.

Some mixed herbs amounted to twelve hundred coins, and the Great Princess’s Lingzhi, due to its small size and mediocre quality, was only priced at five taels of silver by the shopkeeper.

The Great Princess didn’t want to sell it and started arguing with the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper remained courteous and was not annoyed, "If the girl doesn’t trust my shop, you can inquire elsewhere and come back. Your Lingzhi is too pale in quality and too small, so I can’t give it a good price."

The Great Princess, piqued, wanted to sell it elsewhere.

Li Yuzhu said, "Alright then, shopkeeper, take care of our business next time. Five taels it is."

"Alrighty, the herbs plus Lingzhi total six taels and two hundred coins." The shopkeeper took the Lingzhi and went to get the money.

The Great Princess glared at Li Yuzhu, "Why did you decide to sell my Lingzhi?"

Li Yuzhu whispered, "Five taels is about right, the previous shop offered an even lower price, did you forget?"

The shopkeeper at the other place was rather difficult.

The Great Princess remembered this matter and said no more.

The sisters took the money and left the pharmacy.

The Great Princess, fingering the small broken silver in her pouch and the six hundred coins Li Yuzhu gave her, sighed deeply, "The money is so little, how can we ever earn big money?"

She had thought they could earn dozens of taels, but unexpectedly, it was just a few taels of silver.

"Keep trying; remember when we first came here, we didn’t have a single coin in our pockets, no food, no change of clothes either. Now even though we’re not wealthy, we have food, clothes, and shelter." Li Yuzhu comforted her.

The Great Princess glanced at her, "You girl, always know how to speak nicely."

Li Yuzhu smiled slightly, otherwise what? Keep sighing all day? What kind of life would that be?

To live, one must first be optimistic.

Since the money earned was far from her target, the Great Princess, being willful, didn’t even buy her favorite jewelry.

She urged Li Yuzhu to quickly go find Li Xing’an, the Second Princess, and the Second Young Master.

The sisters walked through the crowd on the street, when suddenly, a youth grabbed the Great Princess’s sleeve, "Help... help me..."

Both turned around simultaneously.

Li Yuzhu saw a youth with a pale complexion, handsome features, tall stature, about seventeen or eighteen years old, dressed in a very refined long shirt, gentlemanly.

But his condition was very bad.

The Great Princess recognized the person, and in anger, withdrew her sleeve.

She scolded, "Rogue! Stay away from me!"

Unexpectedly, the youth did not speak and rolled his eyes, his body heading toward the Great Princess.

The Great Princess was startled and quickly stepped back.

But the street was crowded, and people behind blocked her steps, causing the youth to fall onto her.

"Get off, you scoundrel!" Never having suffered such humiliation before, the Great Princess furiously pushed the unconscious youth away.

"Wait, sister, he’s sick!" Li Yuzhu hurriedly ran two steps and forcefully supported the youth.

The Great Princess was furious, breathing heavily, pointing at the youth and said to Li Yuzhu, "He’s indeed sick! Brain-sick! Third sister, ignore him, let’s go!"