Pampered Consort of the Fragrant Orchard

Old Madam Fu waited for Du Kexin and Zhong Meiqing to leave before tugging on one of Du Xiaoli’s hands and saying, “I’ve heard all about it from them. Your performance this time was very good. You won first place in dance. Needless to say, you defeated Northern Yuan’s princess. However, you even helped Feng Ming open up Northern Yuan’s trade city. You earned glory for my Du family as well as our country, Feng Ming. Very good, very good.”

“Grandmother, you’re overpraising me,” Du Xiaoli said with a smile. “Grandmother, the weather has gotten cold recently. With this rapid decrease in temperature, you must take note to wear more layers of clothes.”

“Haha. With those few girls around, you don’t need to worry about this. However, I keep feeling quite weak lately. Could you have a look?”

“Sure.”

At this side, Du Xiaoli was giving Old Madam Du a check up. Meanwhile, over at Prince Ren’s Manor, two people entered the manor and received Han Minghong’s personal welcome.

“Gifted Doctor Wang, thank you for being willing to come,” Han Minghong said to Wang Ze sitting opposite him.

“Your highness requested to see me. I couldn’t possibly refuse,” Wang Ze replied modestly. “May I ask why Your Highness has asked me here?”

“It’s like this. I…” Han Minghong wanted to tell Wang Ze about his situation, but he noticed Fan Nuo’er

sitting at the side and felt too embarrassed to talk about it.

Fan Nuo’er took one glance at Han Minghong’s expression and knew her presence here was an inconvenience. She stood up and said, “Your Highness, it’s my first time coming to your manor. I feel very curious… May I go take a look around?”

Han Minghong nodded hurriedly and answered, “Of course, you can. I’ll have someone take you around the place. Someone, come here!”

“Thank you, Your Highness.” Fan Nuo’er smiled at Han Minghong for a moment before leaving somewhat shyly with a servant girl.

Fan Nuo’er was beautiful, and she had a shapely figure. Having grown up in the southern part of the country, she brought with her the soft vibe of the south. That smile of hers and her shy appearance instantly melted Han Minhong’s heart and gave him an urge that was hard to endure.

If it were in the past, his ‘dragon’ would definitely be rearing its head now. At present, however, his ‘little brother’ would not react at all regardless of how he felt emotionally.

When Wang Ze saw Han Minghong gazing dazedly at Fan Nuo’er’s back, the corners of his lips raised slightly. There was a somewhat contented expression in his eyes as he said, “Your Highness, you can now tell me about your issue. Your Highness? Your Highness?”

After Wang Ze called Han Minghong back to attention, the latter said with a smile, “I’ve long known that Fan Nuo’er of the Medicine King’s Valley was both extremely talented and beautiful. Having seen her personally today… She is indeed like a fairy.”

“Why is Your Highness talking about the Medicine King’s Valley? We can no longer say that we’re their members now,” Wang Ze said with a sense of desolation.

“Eh? Why is that?” Han Minghong asked.

Wang Ze let out a sigh and answered, “Ai. My master, that old man—he has some misunderstandings with us, but he won’t doesn’t want to listen to us explain. So, in a moment of rashness, we left the Medicine King’s Valley.”

“There was such a thing?” Han Minghong was somewhat surprised. However, when he recalled how the members of the Medicine King’s Valley would always look down on him and not give him any respect, Han Minghong smiled. He said, “In that case, do you, Gifted Doctor, have any plans of what to do now?”

“I don’t really have much planned. I’m merely going to take Nuo’er with me to wherever we can earn a living,” Wang Ze replied sentimentally. “It’s just that this is going to be hard on Nuo’er. She’s lived a pampered and spoiled life in the valley since she was a child. Now, she’s going to have to suffer hardships with me outside. Ai.”

“Gifted Doctor Wang, if you don’t feel disdainful toward this idea, perhaps you could work here as my manor’s physician. Then you’ll live in This Prince’s manor in the future,” Han Minghong said.

“This…” Wang Ze found it somewhat difficult to speak.

“Gifted Doctor Wang, are you unwilling? Do you feel that This Prince’s manor is not good enough for the two of you?” Han Minghong said somewhat unhappily.

Wang Ze hurriedly stood up and replied, “Your Highness has misunderstood. It’s my honor to be able to work here as a doctor. It’s just that…”

“It’s just what?”

“It’s just that Nuo’er lived in the Medicine King’s Valley her whole life, so she doesn’t know much about the outside world. If she leaves me, there will be nowhere for her to go. However, if she follows me into your manor, it will be unsuitable. She is a girl, after all,” Wang Ze explained.

“That’s easy! This Prince will take her as my Third Imperial Concubine. If I have her become This Prince’s woman, won’t that be perfectly appropriate?” Han Minghong said with a big laugh.

“Your Highness is being serious?”

“Of course! This Prince always does as promised. It’s just that I don’t know if Miss Nuo’er would be willing.”

“Nuo’er doesn’t have parents, and now, she only has me, this teacher of hers. Naturally, I can make the decision for her,” Wang Ze said assuredly.

“Speaking of which, This Prince has a matter that I have you trouble you with. If this issue isn’t resolved, This Prince won’t be able to take in a Third Imperial Concubine,” Han Minghong sighed.

“What matter has gotten Your Highness so worried?” Wang Ze asked.

“It’s an embarrassing matter,” Han Minghong said and then told Wang Ze what happened that night. After that, he added, “The reason why I invited you over this time was to ask you to treat this condition for me.”

“Your Highness, was there anything peculiar before that?” Wang Ze asked.

Han Minghong thought about it for a moment and then said, “No. It was all fine before that. It was as if the issue just appeared suddenly.”

“Eh? It just appeared suddenly?” Wang Ze said. “Your Highness, could you let me take your pulse?”

“All right.”

Han Minghong let Wang Ze feel his pulse and waited for the latter to finish before asking, “Gifted Doctor Wang, how is it?”

“Your Highness, you have been poisoned,” Wang Ze replied. “I need some time before I can completely eliminate the poison. In the meantime, there is a medicine you can take to treat the symptoms.”

“Treat the symptoms?”

“In other words, when Your Highness wishes to show special favor to one of your imperial concubines, you can take this medicine and temporarily resolve your problem,” Wang Ze explained.

References 1. — The ‘er’ is normally a nickname modifier of sorts, but in this case, I think it’s actually part of her name. However, it looks kind of hard to read without the apostrophe, so I’ve added it in. MoonWhisperer, TWIP's Thoughts

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