After Transmigration, I Snag a Stunning Bigwig as My Husband-Chapter 902 - 897: Outstanding Disciple

The Empress safely gave birth to a qilin child.

The Emperor was delighted, and the Empress Dowager even more so.

For the next half year, Doctor Feng continued to prepare medicine for the Empress.

Perhaps because the Empress had given birth to a legitimate prince, stabilizing her position in the harem, Doctor Feng was highly praised by the Emperor for his contribution, and the Empress Dowager rewarded him with many gifts.

For a while, even though Doctor Feng was not yet the dean of the Imperial Hospital, the old dean began acting according to his wishes.

When one becomes proud, it’s easy to lose oneself, and Doctor Wei found an opportunity to inspect the medicine he was preparing several times.

They were medicines meant to help the Empress recover her vitality.

Each time the dosage became lighter, indicating that the Empress’s health was improving.

Less than three days after Doctor Wei inspected the medicine residue, Doctor Feng died on the way to treat a patient.

"When the cunning hare has died, the hounds are boiled."

"When the birds have disappeared, the good bow is hidden."

Doctor Wei was plagued by nightmares every night, fearing that one day he would meet the same end as Doctor Feng.

Could it be that Doctor Feng willingly committed the grave crime of deceiving the Emperor?

He had no choice but to be forced into it.

He still had a chance to extricate himself now.

If he delayed any longer, it might really be too late.

Back in the day, he had passed many tests to enter the Imperial Hospital, and leaving the capital hastily could raise suspicion, so Doctor Wei put on a show of breaking his own leg and arm.

The broken leg was fake; the broken arm was real.

After leaving the capital, although he didn’t earn as much money as when he was an imperial physician, what money could he make treating the poor?

Even if money could be made, he would have to harden his heart.

A little profit from the hands of high-ranking officials could cover his hard work for ten days or half a month.

Although he earned less money, he indeed lived a happy life for over a decade.

Returning to the capital now, and for this matter no less, he feared there would be no more peaceful days.

Doctor Wei spoke very tactfully, but Su Jin, as a physician, naturally understood the part that Doctor Wei left unsaid.

Indeed, the Empress had been pregnant, but she suffered a miscarriage, and the fetus had already died in her womb at six months.

To secretly replace it and to consolidate her position, the Empress Dowager ordered Doctor Feng to keep the fetus in the Empress’s belly, preventing it from miscarrying.

In other words, that dead fetus stayed in her womb for almost three months.

This was terribly damaging to her body, which led to Doctor Feng secretly helping the Empress recuperate for half a year afterward.

Needless to say, the Empress Dowager was ruthless, sacrificing the Empress to put her grandson on the throne, treating the Empress as less than human.

Of course, the Empress might have been willing herself; after all, at that time, her mother, Consort Yun, had already entered the palace and, due to her kindness, had secured the Eldest Prince, who was registered as hers.

This exerted tremendous pressure on the Empress, who needed a prince to secure her position.

Knowing such a huge secret, Doctor Wei’s decision to leave the capital was understandable.

All of this had been Su Jin’s speculation; now Doctor Wei had confirmed it.

But the events happened over a decade ago, and Doctor Wei’s testimony alone was insufficient; more evidence was needed.

Su Jin was still pondering over this case, while Doctor Wei was more concerned about treating Princess Duanhui’s wrist tomorrow.

If even the Princess Consort Zhenbei couldn’t cure Princess Duanhui’s wrist, could he?

Yet in the eyes of the Empress Dowager, he was supposedly the teacher of the Princess Consort Zhenbei, who had learned only seventy to eighty percent of his skills.

He said he couldn’t treat it, and he was being truthful, but the Empress Dowager would only think he was unwilling to help...

Doctor Wei thought he was doomed.

He knelt down and begged Su Jin, but Su Jin helped him up again and smiled, "If you can’t cure the illness, can’t you at least fool the people?"

Doctor Wei, "..."

Then—

Doctor Wei could only deceive.

The next day, he went with Doctor Zhao to the Imperial Mausoleum to treat Princess Duanhui’s wrist.

Adhering to the principle of deception, Doctor Wei advised Princess Duanhui to first recuperate her health, as the conditions at the mausoleum were distressing, and she appeared much more emaciated than before.

To heal the wrist, the severed tendons had to be reconnected, and such pain was unbearable for most people.

Doctor Wei’s words made others shiver in fear, let alone Princess Duanhui herself.

If Doctor Wei were to treat her now, she wouldn’t dare; it was just as well she could use the opportunity to prepare mentally while recuperating.

Doctor Wei’s statement had been instructed by Su Jin, although having been away from the Imperial Hospital for so long, he indeed had seen patients with severed tendons, but he was powerless to help; he had thought it might be possible to reconnect them like with broken bones, but he couldn’t do it.

A broken bone could be reconnected by feeling the bone; tendons couldn’t.

And slicing through the wound with a blade...

Honestly, when Su Jin had said it, Xingxing had fled in fright, and Doctor Wei had listened in terror too.

But Doctor Zhao considered Doctor Wei’s treatment idea mind-blowing.

Doctor Zhao didn’t know Doctor Wei was Su Jin’s "teacher," but Princess Duanhui knew because Nanny Li had mentioned it when sending things over to her.

Su Jin was an expert in treating broken legs, and even though Doctor Wei’s words were frightening, they seemed somewhat reasonable; reconnect what was severed and let it grow back.

Seeing that Princess Duanhui showed no anger, Doctor Wei was relieved.

The realm of "recuperation" was vast.

Moreover, examining Princess Duanhui’s physique, at least a month or two of recuperation would be needed.

As long as Princess Duanhui’s wrist was not healed, he would be safe.

Besides, the origins of the Second Prince were being thoroughly investigated by the Princess Consort Zhenbei, and once reported to the Emperor, blood would flow like a river.

The Empress Dowager herself would not be able to protect herself, let alone force him to treat Princess Duanhui’s wrist.

As the Princess Consort Zhenbei said—

"Helping her is helping himself."

Doctor Wei was reluctant to return to official duties, but the Empress Dowager wasn’t planning on letting him go easily; she needed him where she could see him, always at call to ease her mind.

What could Doctor Wei do?

He had no choice but to rejoin the Imperial Hospital.

However, being unjustly seen as a threat by the Empress Dowager, Doctor Wei’s days in the Imperial Hospital were tough.

Casual mentions from the Empress Dowager prompted someone to make Doctor Wei’s life difficult.

All of this was witnessed by Director Li and Doctor Zhao, leading to even greater confusion.

The Empress Dowager had gone through great lengths to bring him back to the capital; why not put him to good use instead of tormenting him?

Doctor Wei endured for a few days but couldn’t take it anymore, and sought out Su Jin again.

He wanted to return to his hometown for a few peaceful days.

Su Jin did not agree.

Once he left, he might be impossible to find.

Could she trick the Empress Dowager again?

But seeing the bruises on Doctor Wei’s forehead, Su Jin sympathized with his innocence.

Besides, this was a good opportunity to sow discord.

After Doctor Wei left, Su Jin gave a few orders to the Hidden Guard.

The next day, when Doctor Wei entered the Imperial Hospital as usual, he felt his colleagues looking at him differently.

Especially the physicians who had been tasked with picking on him a few days prior, they directly knelt to apologize.

Doctor Wei was baffled.

Could this be a new trick to torment him?

The two physicians, trembling with fear, deferentially said, "Master Doctor Wei has been generous, it was we who were blind and did not recognize the mountain, unaware that Princess Jin Ning is your esteemed disciple."

Doctor Wei, "..."

Who leaked this information?

It wasn’t something he instructed to be spread!