Chapter 23: Saving Someone Exposes Identity

Peanut also knelt on the ground and said, “Please, Princess, save my father, I will kowtow to you too.”

Jiang Li said, “Alright, whether he can be saved depends on fate, kowtowing is useless.”

She walked to the bed and sat down.

Hua Shun just stared at her, and compared to the excitement of his wife and daughter, he was a little too calm.

He had just heard his wife and daughter talk about the Princess’s “feat” and became a little curious about her.

But these curiosities were quickly covered up by his own sadness and helplessness.

Now that he saw Jiang Li, he kept staring at her.

Even though Jiang Li didn’t bother with such a rude person, she was a little annoyed by his staring.

Just as she was about to speak, she heard Hua Shun say, “Princess, are you surnamed Li, with the given name ‘Tang’?”

Jiang Li was stunned.

He actually knew her.

The capital was indeed too small.

Li Tang was the pseudonym she used when she worked as a traveling doctor outside.

Not to brag, in the capital’s city streets, this name was like thunder.

Jiang Li did not deny or admit it, but only said, “Give me your hand.”

Hua Shun was a little excited, his lips trembling as he wanted to say something, but he didn’t. He laboriously stretched his hand out from the quilt.

His originally strong and powerful arm was now much thinner, and his skin was yellow, revealing an extremely unhealthy morbid state.

Jiang Li frowned slightly.

Looking, listening, asking, and feeling the pulse, she had already seen some problems from the first step.

Amidst the eager expectations of the family of three, she calmly placed her fingers on Hua Shun’s pulse.

After a while, Jiang Li withdrew her hand, looked at Hua Shun, and said, “You have offended someone.”

Hua Shun was shocked, “Does the Princess mean that I have been harmed by someone?”

“Yes, someone has been putting chronic poison in your diet, and they are still continuing to do so. You eat and live with your wife and daughter, now you should think about what you ate that they didn’t eat, and then you should have an idea.”

Hua Shun was just seriously ill, his brain was not broken.

After thinking for a moment, he said, “Medicine!”

“Yes, I suspect so too. Peanut, go and get the remaining dregs from the medicine you just decocted for your father, let me take a look,” Jiang Li said in a deep voice.

If she guessed correctly, Hua Shun initially had a minor illness, and someone bribed the doctor to poison him, causing his condition to become more and more serious, to the point of an incurable illusion.

This way, “that not only allowed Hua Shun to die quietly but also would not arouse suspicion from others.

“Yes, I’ll go right away!” Peanut was clever and ran out quickly.

Hua Niangzi crawled over, excitedly and nervously asking, “Then, Princess, can my husband still be saved?”

Since she could see that Hua Shun was poisoned, she should also be able to detoxify him… right?

“Princess, no matter what the cost, as long as you can save him, we are willing!”

“You have already sold yourselves to the Wang residence, and now you are penniless to treat the illness. What else do you have to exchange with me?” Jiang Li asked calmly, her voice gentle but the question sharp.

Hua Niangzi was stumped and speechless for a moment.

But Hua Shun was very smart.

Hua Shun had already seen hope in Jiang Li’s tone.

Jiang Li did not deny that she could detoxify him, which meant that she really had a way.

“Princess, I have been in the Wang residence for twenty years and am familiar with all the places. I am not afraid of that rootless dog, Wang Jingrong. If I can be saved by you, I can’t guarantee anything else, but my family of three is willing to be driven by you and will not hesitate to die.”

“Do you know other people who can help you? Then why aren’t they helping you now?” Jiang Li’s words were sharp.

“They are all honest people who followed me to make a living; I was kind and didn’t let them suffer. But after I became seriously ill, no, after I was poisoned, I couldn’t take care of everyone. They, they are also afraid of Wang Jingrong’s persecution, so they can only stand by…”

In fact, it wasn’t a complete bystander.

They had secretly helped a lot.

“…They all have families, I understand, and I don’t want to drag them down; but as long as I get better, they will come back.”

Hua Shun understood that nothing else mattered, the most important thing was that he had value.

People without value would not be noticed.

Not to mention a princess who he had just met, wouldn’t it be the same with brothers who had known each other for many years?

After seeing the cold nature of human relationships in this world, one can be more calm and peaceful.

This was the most helpless wisdom of life.

“Good.” Jiang Li was waiting for these words.

She also liked smart people.

Hua Shun was able to say these words while dragging his sick body, proving that he had value, and this person could be used in the future.

Jiang Li said, “How you were poisoned, you can tell me about it later.

“I’ll investigate slowly; my responsibility now is to save you.”

“Thank you, Princess.”

Jiang Li first gave him acupuncture.

After about half an hour, Hua Shun, holding onto the edge of the bed, vomited a large mouthful of black blood.

Hua Niangzi couldn’t dodge in time and was splattered with black blood on her hands and face.

She cried and cursed, “Which heartless bastard wants to harm us like this?”

“Shut up.” Hua Shun wiped his mouth with his sleeve and scolded in a low voice.

Hua Niangzi could only stop speaking and sobbed beside him.

“This wife of mine is stupid, Princess, please don’t blame her.”

“Stupid or not, it’s enough if she has a sincere heart for you.”

“Yes, this servant knows it in his heart.”

“I’ll prescribe medicine for you, and tomorrow someone will be sent to deliver the medicine, and I’ll tell you how to take it. You just need to rest and recuperate. If I’m not mistaken, you should feel a lot better now. You can get out of bed after taking the medicine for three days, and then you’ll slowly recover. It should take about half a month to completely clear the remaining poison.”

“Princess, your great kindness and virtue, this servant will never forget.”

“I don’t listen to what you say, I only look at what you do,” Jiang Li said. “The future is long, and I’ll wait and see your performance.”

With that, she stood up, a smile on her lips.

Hua Shun, lying on the bed, looked at her and suddenly felt as if she was carrying a thousand feet of light behind her.

Hua Shun remembered when he was a teenager, a fortune-telling Jianghu swindler pointed at him and said, “In the future, you will be driven by a woman.”

The people around him burst into laughter.

Hua Shun also felt humiliated and raised his fist to hit the swindler.

Not knowing if the swindler was afraid of suffering a loss, he changed his tone and said, “Don’t worry! Don’t look at them laughing at you now, in the future they will all envy your good fortune.”

Hua Shun didn’t hit him after all and let him go.

Thinking about it now, was it going to be fulfilled on the Princess in front of him?

It could be seen that people’s fate was really magical.

He hoped so, hoped that Jiang Li was really his lucky star.

After Jiang Li left, Hua Niangzi couldn’t help but ask, “Husband, what is that pear soup? Is it the Princess’s name? But the Princess’s surname is Jiang…”

“I don’t know what’s going on. When Wangye hadn’t had his accident, that was five or six years ago, once when I went out drinking, I saw her coming out of a civilian house across the street in a tavern. The people next to me pointed and talked, discussing that she was the goddess doctor Li Tang in the capital.”