The Cannon Fodder and Villain’s Happy Ending

Chapter 292

“……” Qin Jiu naturally saw it and couldn’t help commenting to herself: That is obviously intentional, but why, probably because she is afraid that the empress would not notice the injury on her writs that’s why she did that?

But this doesn’t stop Qin Jiu to looked at Changning’s left wrist under the sleeve with great interest, half an inch of bandage was vaguely exposed under the wide sleeve, and the bright red blood on it looked unsightly.

Qin Jiu, blinked as she curiously asked herself, how on earth did Changning get the injury on her wrist?

Changning, on the other hand, was not even the least interested in Qin Jiu’s inquiring gaze and just looked at Empress Wei as she sincerely said, “Imperial Mother, this is this daughter’s kind intention.”

“Changning is very considerate.” However, Empress Wei neither said she would take the medicine nor said she would not to drink it, her eyes just fell on Changning’s left wrist and asked, “What happened to your wrist?”

“No, it’s nothing.” Changning quickly shook her head. “It wasn’t that much. Thanking Imperial Mother for your concern, it’s just this daughter accidentally scratched it.”

Changning smiled gently and curtsied again, “Imperial mother, this daughter will leave first.”

Empress Wei never asked again what really happened nor stopped her.

“……” Changning was silent for a moment as her face slowly stiffened.

But since she had already said goodbye, she could only stand up, however, coincidentally or not when she turned around, her wrist just hit the food box in the hand of the palace maid close to her, her expression suddenly became very painful. Her two delicate willow eyebrows were tightly wrinkled as crystal tears rolled in her eyes.

“Aunt,” Qin Jiu, who couldn’t bear to look at it, suggested, “Should we get the imperial physician to come and take a look at the Third Princess?”

Empress Wei glanced at Qin Jiu and slightly nodded, she said. “Okay.”

The imperial physician was on standby at the Fengluan Palace, so after Empress Wei gave an order, not long after, an old physician with gray hair came in.

Empress Wei instructed, “Imperial Physician Zhang, the third princess’ wrist seems to have been injured, go and see her.”

Changning hurriedly said, “No need, Imperial Mother.”

“If you say so.” Empress Wei said indifferently, “Then there’s no need.”

Changning: “….”

“Your Highness,” Ling Xiang said in a soft voice and hurriedly convinced her mistress, “you should listen to the Empress and let Imperial Physician Zhang take a look.”

This time, Changning hurriedly nodded, taking advantage of the situation for her own benefit before it would go awry again: “Alright. Thank you for your care, Imperial Mother.” She gently curtsied.

Imperial Physician Zhang first checked Changning’s pulse, then said, “Your Highness, Third Princess, please pull up your left sleeve a bit.”

Her palace maid Ling Xiang pulled up Changning’s left sleeve revealing the bandaged forearm, her white skin and slender wrist looked more fragile with the blood-stained bandage.

Seeing this, Imperial Physician Zhang couldn’t help but frown, he asked. “How did your highness get hurt?”

Changning glanced at Empress Wei and Xu momo as she timidly said, “I accidentally scratched myself.”

Imperial Physician Zhang’s frown deepened as he looked at the amount of blood oozing from the wound, feeling that the wound really didn’t look like an accidental scratch. “May I ask to untie it?”

Changning originally wanted to put on a show and wanted to casually ask Imperial Physician Zhang to prescribe some healing medicine, but looking back at the situation just now, she was afraid that Empress Wei would ask this, which would be troublesome.

Ling Xiang, however, hurriedly said, “Your highness, you’d better let Imperial Physician Zhang have a look. If it leaves a scar… you already have a scar on your forehead.” She looked worried and hesitated before she continued, “Imperial Physician Zhang, this servant requests you to take a look at her highness wound.”

As she said that, Ling Xiang had already taken the initiative to untie the bandage on Changning’s left wrist, but the latter dodge her for a while before she let her untie the bandage while half pushing her palace maid.

After the bandage was unraveled, the wrists covered with blood were exposed. The dark red blood hadn’t completely dried up yet, and the wound was about an inch long, apparently, it hadn’t been treated, and the flesh was badly mangled.

Qin Jiu couldn’t help looking curiously and watched Imperial Physician Zhang first wipe the blood stain on Changning’s left wrist with a wet gauze. “Your highness, please bear it.”

After cleaning around the wound, they could now see the fresh blood on the wrist that was cut by the blade.

Changning’s eyes were moist and red, her slender figure was taut, and the corners of her forehead were covered with cold sweat as if she was enduring great pain.

After a long time, she heard Empress Wei ask, “What’s wrong with the third princess’s wrist, Imperial Physician Zhang?”

“Answering to Your Majesty,” said Imperial Physician Zhang respectfully, “the third princess was cut by a sharp blade, and a small piece of flesh was cut off, and I’m afraid that the wrist will leave a scar.”

Imperial Physician Zhang felt that the third princess was really making people worry, it wasn’t even that long before he heard that she hurt her face in her fight with Princess Yingluo, but the wound on her wrist looks like she scratched it herself.

“Imperial Physician Zhang, will it really leave scars?” The palace maid in blue was so anxious that she was about to cry. “Then what to do!”

“It’s not a problem, I can just cover it with my sleeve,” Changning said softly and feebly.

Palace Maid: “Princess, for the sake of the Empress….”

“Shut up!” Changning aptly interrupted the palace maid, then added, “Physician Zhang, just give me some medicine to bandage it up.”

Qin Jiu: “….”

Imperial Physician Zhang: “….”

“For the sake of this empress?” Empress Wei on the bed smiled, raised her eyebrows, and asked, “What did you say?”

The palace maid bent her knees and hurriedly said, “Your majesty, the Empress, the Third Royal Highness Princess saw a folk remedy in the medical book, saying that it is very effective for your qi disease, but this decoction needs human flesh as one of the ingredients, so…”

“This bowl of medicine?” Empress Wei asked, pointing to the bowl of soup medicine in Xu momo‘s hand, “Imperial Physician Zhang, have a look at it.”

Xu momo then brought the bowl of soup medicine to Imperial Physician Zhang, the latter first smelled it and scooped up a spoonful of soup medicine…

Seeing that the doctor brought the spoonful of medicine to his lips, Changning hesitated but stopped the imperial physician, “Wait, Imperial Physician Zhang!

Facing Empress Wei’s suspicious eyes, Changning slightly bit her lower lip and curtsied to the empress again as she said, “Imperial Mother, this daughter saw this folk remedy in a medical book called Yan’s Miscellaneous Diseases, which said that as long as you cut a flesh and use it as one of the ingredients, it can cure Qi disease.”

Empress Wei thought she was already used to seeing the world, but it seems that this was not the case as she was stunned by Changning’s words and was dumbfounded for a moment.

Changning continued, “Imperial Mother’s phoenix body is not well, this daughter is so worried, so I am willing to cut my own flesh for the imperial Mother as a medicine, this is also this daughter’s filial piety.”

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