When Mei Ji saw Leng Ruo Li, she was also slightly stunned.
Leng Ruo Li looked at Mei Ji's haggard face and her swollen, red eyes from crying. She frowned and asked, "Mei Ji, didn't you send someone to tell me you were returning to the frontier? Why are you still here?"
Mei Ji leaned weakly against the headboard. After her gaze shifted away from Leng Ruo Li, she lowered her eyes again and replied in a hoarse, weak voice, "My lady, on my way back to the frontier alone, I encountered some hooligans again. They took turns tormenting me. If I hadn't met a group of burly men escorting goods to the capital, I might not have lived to see today."
Mei Ji recounted her experience with a blank expression, as if these things had never happened to her. Perhaps she had experienced such things too many times, becoming numb.
At this moment, Chu Miao Ling, standing nearby, looked back and forth between Mei Ji and Leng Ruo Li, completely bewildered.
"Wangfei, do you know this Miss Mei Ji?"
Leng Ruo Li nodded gently.
Finally, she looked at Chu Miao Ling and instructed, "Miao Ling, go downstairs and bring me a basin of warm water. I need it."
"Yes, Wangfei!"
After Chu Miao Ling responded, she walked out of the ward, her footsteps fading into the distance.
At this moment, Mei Ji suddenly looked at Leng Ruo Li.
"My lady, so you are the world-renowned Cold Wangfei!"
"Yes!"
Although Leng Ruo Li didn't know why Mei Ji asked, she readily admitted it.
As soon as she finished speaking, Mei Ji suddenly laughed foolishly.
"No wonder, hahaha..."
"Mei Ji, say whatever you want to say."
"Cold Wangfei, you were the one who administered the infertility drug to Prince Qing, weren't you?"
"That's right!"
Leng Ruo Li admitted with a firm tone. Prince Qing was already dead, so there was no need for her to hide it anymore.
"Cold Wangfei, so you were the one who made Prince Qing misunderstand and think I drugged him back then. You woman, you've ruined me. After Prince Qing wrongly accused me of giving him drugs, he gave me to his lackeys to be abused for three days and three nights."
Upon hearing Mei Ji's words, Leng Ruo Li's mood also became very heavy.
Mei Ji's predicament was indeed somewhat related to her. She had learned this later from the informants Leng Ruo Li had hidden in Prince Qing's mansion. However, she couldn't entirely blame herself. If Mei Ji hadn't intended to seduce Prince Qing at the time, she wouldn't have suffered such a tragic fate.
"Mei Ji, although I sympathize with your situation, if you hadn't actively tried to seduce Prince Qing back then, you might not have ended up like this."
After Leng Ruo Li spoke, Mei Ji immediately fell silent, her eyes tightly shut as she leaned against the headboard, refusing to speak.
At this moment, Chu Miao Ling also came upstairs with a basin of water. As soon as she reached the staircase, she heard Mei Ji and Leng Ruo Li speaking loudly.
So, she asked curiously, "Wangfei, what's going on between you and Miss Mei Ji?"
"It's nothing. Put the warm water you brought in the hallway outside. Miss Mei Ji doesn't need her injuries treated right now; let her have some quiet time," Leng Ruo Li replied indifferently to Chu Miao Ling.
After speaking, Leng Ruo Li turned and went downstairs. If Mei Ji still couldn't let go of the past incident, then Leng Ruo Li saw no reason to save her.
"Oh, oh, I see!"
Chu Miao Ling somewhat bewilderedly placed the basin of water outside the ward door and followed Leng Ruo Li downstairs.
As Leng Ruo Li came down, she saw a familiar elderly couple carrying a baby a few months old walking in.
This elderly couple was the one Chu Ming Xuan had mentioned, asking Leng Ruo Li to perform gender reassignment surgery on their child.
Seeing the elderly couple enter the medical hall, Chu Ming Xuan went to meet them.
"Grandpa, Grandma, you've come at the perfect time. The most skilled divine doctor of our An Ji Tang has returned today, and she is currently in the medical hall. I'll have someone inform her immediately."
As soon as Chu Ming Xuan finished speaking, Leng Ruo Li walked over quickly.
"No need to inform anyone, I'm here!" Leng Ruo Li said with a gentle smile.
Immediately, Chu Ming Xuan and the elderly couple turned to look at Leng Ruo Li.
The elderly couple quickly recognized the woman who had previously discussed performing surgery on their child.
The old woman looked at Leng Ruo Li and asked with a choked voice, "Miss, can you still heal this child for me?"
"Yes, but you need to think it through…" Leng Ruo Li stated clearly again.
"Miss, this time we have thought it through, truly thought it through. Please turn him into a girl. As long as he can grow up healthy and have children in the future, my husband and I will be satisfied."
After the old woman finished speaking, tears welled up in her eyes. She looked at her husband, and he also teared up as he looked at her.
Leng Ruo Li didn't know what they had been through to come to such a decision so quickly. However, it was good that they had made up their minds, as the younger the age for this hermaphroditic surgery, the higher its success rate. Therefore, the sooner they made up their minds, the better.
"Since you have decided to have me turn it into a healthy girl through surgery, you cannot regret it." Leng Ruo Li confirmed again.
Upon hearing Leng Ruo Li's words, the elderly couple hurriedly shook their heads.
"Miss, we don't regret it, truly don't regret it. Please perform the surgery on him."
"Alright, you can hand the child over to me now, and I'll perform the surgery immediately. Miao Ling, arrange a vacant room for them to rest, and then ask Sister Nian Hua to cook two large bowls of vegetable and shredded meat noodles for them and bring them over. It will take me a long time to finish this surgery, so you can't let them go hungry."
After receiving the elderly couple's affirmative answer, Leng Ruo Li immediately took the child from the old woman's arms. She thoughtfully asked Chu Miao Ling to arrange a room for the elderly couple to rest and also to inform the kitchen to prepare two bowls of noodles for them.
This was because Leng Ruo Li saw that the elderly couple looked travel-worn, their complexions a bit pale, and even their speech was weak, which prompted her arrangement.
"Yes, Wangfei, I understand. Please go ahead and perform the surgery on the child. I'll handle things outside," Chu Miao Ling assured Leng Ruo Li beside her.
Leng Ruo Li smiled at Chu Miao Ling and then walked into the examination room that had been prepared for her, holding the child. In the blink of an eye, she brought the child into her spatial laboratory.
In fact, Leng Ruo Li had long prepared for this child's surgery. The surgical plan was already written, and she was just waiting for the elderly couple to bring the child over for the operation.
Leng Ruo Li looked at the child's face, which bore some resemblance to Leng Ruo Shuang, and sighed, "Child, although your parents often hurt me when they were alive, and I hated them, seeing you like this, I still cannot bear to watch your life be ruined. So, I will save you this once. I hope you don't become like your parents when you grow up..."
Unexpectedly, after Leng Ruo Li said these words to the child, the child burst into laughter.