Ye Qingcheng took out a silver needle and inserted it into the acupoint of Xiao Wangye's thumb nail: "Do you feel anything?"
Xiao Wangye shook his head.
Ye Qingcheng twisted the needle a bit deeper.
Xiao Wangye immediately hissed.
Ye Qingcheng had a rough idea. She sighed and asked Bi Xi to prepare hot water, then picked up her brush and wrote down several medicinal ingredients on paper: "Have Lin Xiao go get them."
Lin Xiao took the paper and looked at the long string of medicinal ingredients he didn't recognize, asking doubtfully, "What is this?"
Ye Qingcheng explained, "I checked your prince's pulse before and knew that your prince's leg tendons were severed. Reconnecting them is not that easy. The medicinal ingredients here are all for activating blood and clearing meridians. Pick them according to the list and use them for soaking your feet. Tsk, what are you stunned for? Hurry up and go!"
Lin Xiao snapped back to reality and rushed to the pharmacy, hoping it wasn't closed yet.
At this moment, he was incredibly excited. His prince would really be able to stand up again. Haha, just thinking about it made him happy.
In the room, the atmosphere was very quiet. Xiao Wangye looked at Ye Qingcheng, who was sitting on the stool in thought, and wheeled himself closer: "You haven't told me the truth, have you!"
Ye Qingcheng played with the tassels and looked at him, "What? What truth do you want to hear?"
Xiao Wangye's tone was calm, "About my legs."
Ye Qingcheng sighed, "Alright, since you want to hear the so-called truth, then I'll tell you. I can indeed cure your legs. Not only were your leg tendons severed, but there are also signs of poisoning."
Xiao Wangye showed no emotion, his gaze still as steady as before.
Ye Qingcheng turned her back to him, clearly unwilling to see Xiao Wangye, who had just threatened and used her, but she still conscientiously explained, "Your poisoning wasn't sudden; it accumulated over time. This poison is quite interesting; it hasn't affected other parts of your body."
Xiao Wangye understood, "Meaning, it only targets my legs."
"Correct." Ye Qingcheng made an OK gesture behind her back.
Soon, Lin Xiao returned in a hurry: "Great, I made it just in time before the pharmacy closed. I bought everything."
Ye Qingcheng inspected the medicinal ingredients: "Mm! Not bad, many are fresh and good quality herbs."
Lin Xiao grinned foolishly.
A moment later, Bi Xi also brought the boiled water: "Wangfei, here is the hot water you wanted."
Ye Qingcheng nodded, poured all the medicinal ingredients into the hot water to soak, and then covered them with a cloth to prevent the medicinal liquid from evaporating.
The air was filled with a strong medicinal fragrance.
Seeing that the time was right, Ye Qingcheng lifted the cloth, and the strong medicinal scent wafted out. Everyone covered their noses and mouths, feeling a little unaccustomed to the bitter taste.
"Your Highness, please!"
This meant to soak his feet.
Xiao Wangye's expression was a bit awkward, but he still put his leg into the hot water. The moment it went in, it was so hot that Xiao Wangye instinctively tried to pull it out, but Ye Qingcheng held it down firmly.
Xiao Wangye's face turned fiery red from the heat, his eyes bulging, and he stared fiercely at Ye Qingcheng, as if trying to bore a hole through her.
His hand was already raised. Ye Qingcheng, with her sharp eyes, saw it immediately: "Lin Xiao, quickly stop your prince! This treatment is to activate blood and clear meridians. The key is hot water to activate blood, so that it can heal faster."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao immediately stepped forward and pressed down Xiao Wangye's already raised hand: "Your Highness, this is for your own good. Please bear with it for now!"
Xiao Wangye turned his head to look at him with all his might, his gaze as if he were looking at an idiot.
Ye Qingcheng secretly chuckled but managed to hold back her laughter. She firmly held down Xiao Wangye's leg, which was trying to lift, and her eyes glinted with a mischievous liveliness as she looked up at him.
However, Xiao Wangye saw through it with a single glance and understood that this little girl was intentionally tormenting him.
How could Ye Qingcheng not understand? The water was too hot; she could take it out and let it cool, then soak it again.
Besides, she had asked Bi Xi to boil the water, and she had waited a while before asking Xiao Wangye to soak his feet, so it wasn't too excessive. Who told him to threaten her into treating him?
He deserved to be scalded. A gentleman never forgets a grudge, and she should suppress his arrogance, make him speak to her properly, and recognize her status. She was a physician, after all! Patients must listen to their physicians.
Seeing that Xiao Wangye was no longer struggling and had likely adapted to the water temperature, Ye Qingcheng then had someone release him. She casually grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the small round table and sat on the stool, shelling them.
However, before she could shell one, Xiao Wangye used his internal energy to suck them away, under the guise of: "One should not overeat after a meal, as it can cause discomfort."
Ye Qingcheng was stunned. He was retaliating against her for making him soak his feet in boiling hot water earlier: "I know you're not happy with what I did just now, but it was for your own good! Don't you want to stand up and walk again?"
Xiao Wangye's flushed complexion had not yet subsided. So, with a bright red face, he grinned: "I was also doing it for your own good!"
Everyone was taken aback by his expression.
Good heavens, you're the male protagonist! You're not going to be blackened by a scalded foot, are you?
Ye Qingcheng was speechless.
However, in Bi Xi and Lin Xiao's eyes, why were they silent, yet their gazes were filled with sparks of conflict?
Ye Qingcheng tested the water temperature; it had cooled down. She called out to Bi Xi, "Add hot water."
Bi Xi obediently added hot water. The boiling hot water mixed in, making Xiao Wangye twitch his lips. After a while, he let out a sigh: "Lin Xiao, tell the kitchen to remove all the pastries."
Lin Xiao was stunned: "Ah?"
What responded to him was the prince's murderous glare, so he obediently collected all the snacks.
Ye Qingcheng's forehead twitched with veins. Then she burst into laughter: "Your Highness, this method is slow to take effect. You need to soak your feet every day for two hours. Oh! The water has cooled again, so the medicinal effect won't be good. Bi Xi, add water."
Bi Xi's lips twitched, and she obediently added water.
Xiao Wangye's face turned crimson.
All night, the most frequently heard sounds were Xiao Wangye's outbursts: "Lin Xiao, tell the small kitchen not to make any pastries this month!" and Ye Qingcheng's calm but powerful voice: "Oh! The water has cooled again, Bi Xi, add water."
The next day, before dawn, the rooster crowed. Bi Xi rubbed the sleep from her eyes and got up to get dressed to attend the morning meeting.
As the saying goes, a country has its laws, and a family has its rules. If there were no rules, the prince's mansion would fall into chaos. Moreover, many people were eyeing the prince's mansion covetously, so the prince's mansion must set an example.
Yu Jian, as the head nanny of the mansion, had established numerous rules. The first rule was that all servants in the mansion must get up at the rooster's crow to attend the mansion's morning meeting.
Bi Xi's daily workload was not heavy, but she had an endless amount of laundry to do.
However, Yu Jian still pointed out her inadequacy: "Bi Xi, step forward."
Bi Xi obediently stepped out. She had no choice; when others nitpicked for details to find fault, she couldn't do anything about it and could only accept her fate.
Yu Jian walked up to Bi Xi and pointed at her forehead with her finger: "You've been doing this for so long, how can you not even do a simple thing like washing clothes properly? What's the use of having you here?"
Bi Xi trembled incessantly.