NOVEL WEB Chapter 235 - The General is Sick, He Just Needs a Good Beating (31)
Chapter 235: The General is Sick, He Just Needs a Good Beating (31)
Translator: asassin
The old doctor writes a prescription and asks a servant to get all the medicine back.
Then, he goes to Lv Zhu.
Lv Zhu tells him what she told the other two a while ago.
Huo Jun simply gives an order: “Take the Fourth and Fifth Miss here.”
He doesn’t know for sure if the two girls have anything to do with what happened to Ah Zhao. However, undeniably, both are suspicious.
The old doctor cares in particular about the aromatic knots and scented tea that Lv Zhu mentioned.
Lv Zhu glances at Huo Jun and brings that basket.
Opening a tin of the scented tea, the old doctor looks carefully at it and then smells it.
After that, he picks up the two knots, examines them and smells them.
“These are good for the nerves. No problem at all.” He concludes.
The young doctor, however, is suspicious. “How do you know what they are by simply looking at them? I think we’ll have a more accurate result after a lab test…”
The old doctor gives him a glance and sounds a bit proud: “Young man, the heritage of our ancestors isn’t as bad as you think it is. Everything else aside, though I’m dim-sighted from old age, if I claim that I’m second best at identifying medicine, nobody dares to say he is the best.”
Huo Wan Wan and Huo Xian Xian arrive around the same time.
Worried, Huo Wan Wan asks the first thing she is here: “Sister-in-law is ill? How come? She was well when I came this morning…”
Huo Xian Xian, however, is more reserved. Though she is worried all the same, she doesn’t speak, only keeps looking at the room where Ah Zhao is.
Huo Jun asks them: “You’ve seen the Young Lady today. What did you say and do? Tell me everything now.”
Seeing Huo Jun like this, both girls grow nervous and tell him exactly what they did.
The old doctor listens carefully and suddenly interrupts as Huo Xian Xian is speaking: “Did My Lady say she liked the smell of the original knots?”
Huo Xian Xian is startled by him. Though a bit unnerved, she still nods.
The doctor recalls the knot at Ah Zhao’s bedside when he was taking her pulses and its faintly familiar scent.
With a sudden insight, he says: “Go! Get me that knot at My Lady’s bedside!”
At that, Lv Zhu acts immediately. She goes to Ah Zhao’s room and brings him the knot.
Holding the knot, the old doctor can smell that scent without putting it under his nose.
“Lily, glaze flower, dayflower…” Smelling carefully, he suddenly opens his eyes. “I see!”
He turns to Lv Zhu: “I remember you said that this knot and the other ones came from the same person, right?”
Lv Zhu pauses for a second and nods.
The doctor strokes his beard and sighs: “It seems your Sixth Lady knows medicine as well.”
He stands up and turns to Huo Jun: “General, may I have a talk with you in private?”
Huo Jun nods and goes to the study with him.
Biting her lips, Huo Xian Xian watches them leave and then looks at the knots that are put away carefully by the maids. All of a sudden, she feels very unsettled.
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When Huo Jun and the old doctor come back from the study in grave expressions, Lv Zhu has given Ah Zhao her first bowl of medicine soup.
Huo Jun speaks politely to the old doctor: “Please stay here for the following few days, sir.”
The old doctor is reluctant at first until Huo Jun says: “If you don’t want to, I have no choice but to send for you in a car. Or do you prefer a horse, sir?”