Vol Chapter 8 (1/2)
Chapter 8: Old court case of gold, Part 1 of 4
(Translation credits: Silhoutte)
The s.p.a.cious room has no screen, no curtains, no bronze mirror, it did not seem like a woman’s room, but lying on the big mahogany bed was a slender, delicate woman. Her eyes were slightly closed, her face showed no signs of pain, nor was it pale. It was as if she was just calmly sleeping. However, the atmosphere inside the room was not calm, in front of the bed an old man felt the lady’s pulse whilst constantly wiping his sweat, not daring to look towards the centre of the room where a distinguished yet edgy young general stood.
After a long time, the old man slowly withdrew his hand, Su Yu strode up immediately and anxiously asked: “How is she?”
The young lad who had invited the old man to the Manor, to examine the unconscious lady, said that she is General Su’s wife, hence he cannot be the slightest bit negligent in his diagnosis as he absolutely couldn’t afford to bear the consequences in case of misdiagnosis. With Su Yu watching him closely, the old man broke out in cold sweat, but neither did he speak rashly nor gave the wrong prognosis, he fearfully replied: “Madam’s pulse is steady and her breathing is normal, this old man … this ignorant old man really cannot diagnose what this illness is.”
Another quack! Su Yu furiously, shouted: “Leave.”
The old man hurriedly got up and fled, Su Yu in anger bellowed towards the officers at the front door: “Are these the few quacks you managed to find?”
The officers awkwardly replied: “Responding to deputy general, nearly all the famous doctors of the capital that could be found were invited to the manor.” From yesterday morning till now, a dozen doctors have been invited.
Su Yu obviously did not want to hear this and angrily said: “Find again.”
“Yes.”
The person lying quietly in the bed seemingly lifeless is a Qing Mo, Su Yu never wanted to see. She should not be looking like this! She should be arrogant, bra.s.sy, definitely not this!
Clenching his teeth, Su Yu asked Su Ren who has all this while been sitting silently: “Brother, should I ask an imperial doctor to look at her?”
Su Ren shook his head and dismissively replied: “It is inconvenient to disturb the imperial physician. Do not worry too much, the doctor said her pulse is steady, it should not be anything serious, let her rest a few days and see.” They have already invited the famous doctors in the capital to examine her since no one could give a prognosis there could only be two possibilities: one Qing Mo is suffering a strange illness, and if so, imperial physician is also powerless to diagnose; or another possibility is that she is not ill at all!
Noting an expressionless Su Ren, Su Yu did not agree with him and said: “She has been unconscious for nearly two days so how could there be no harm? Even a healthy person, cannot sustain a few days without food and drink! Those bunch of quacks examined her for such a long time yet can’t even utter out a sensible word!”
Su Ren sighed gently, Why is he so obstinate? Just as Su Ren was about to speak, Su Yu’s tall body has quickly stepped out the room.
Su Ren urgently asked: “Where are you going?”
“To find a doctor.” With these words, he departed the courtyard.
Su Ren stared at Su Yu’s hurriedly departing back and then looking at the woman lying quietly in bed, he suddenly had a bad feeling about this!
After a while, Su Ren also left the room, thus deep in the night everything returned to its tranquil state.
The peaceful and serene woman lying on the bed suddenly opened her eyes. Those pair of eyes with a clear, keen and penetrative gaze did not belong to a man in coma for two days. Gu Yun gently moved her stiff fingers, and in her heart she cannot help but cursed.
d.a.m.n, she was not afraid of hunger, nor afraid even of harsh surroundings, but maintaining this inert state for over thirty hours, she is really stiff! Yet, she needed to keep breathing evenly that those doctors could not find anything wrong with her. This was even more difficult than surviving 72 hours in the wilderness!
Quietly, paying close attention, Gu Yun felt that there was no one outside the room. She slowly straightened her body and sat up, standing barefoot on the limestone floor, she immediately felt a surge of cool air seeped up the soles of her feet, which caused her to relax her tensed self. Whilst stretching her neck, Gu Yun looked around the large room that was simply decorated however it was adorned with elegant fixtures which she guessed should be a guest room.
As her keen gaze swept across the few paintings on the wall, she was attracted by a painting in the middle, depicting the Ba Gua diagram. She walked in front of it and studied it closely noting the fine dark lines in the pattern of the diagram matched the pattern in Ba Gua disk that she saw before she was transported to this century. Therefore, this is the Su clan so-called coat of arms (crest)!
The lines and patterns in the painting were much clearer than the ink slab, Gu Yun wanted to draw the diagram, she looked around the room and found ink and paper. To save time, Gu Yun took down the painting and putting the fine writing paper on top of the picture she moistened the tip of the brush and painstakingly draw the veins and lines in the diagram. To prevent the ink dripping to the picture she has to be extremely careful thus it was already sunrise when she finished drawing.
Worried that Su Yu could come back anytime, Gu Yun deftly hung back the painting, returned the writing paper and ink stone to its original place, ascertained that everything was in place, she folded the finished drawing and put it in her waist pocket. Just then, the sound of hurried footsteps were heard.
Chapter 8: Old court case of gold, Part 2 of 4
(Translation credits: Silhoutte)
Gu Yun scowled and thought to herself, what? It’s not over yet? Without any hesitation in her footsteps, she headed towards the bed and laid down on it. Not a moment too soon as the bedroom door crashed open with a bang!
“Quick, examine her and see what’s wrong with her?” Su Yu’s voice thundered in.
Soon, one hand rested on Gu Yun’s wrist, for a long time, the doctor did not speak, his wrinkled brow tightened more, Su Yu could not help but asked: “How is she?”
The puzzled doctor asked: “How long had Madam been sleeping?”
“She has been for out two days, with nary a drop of water in between.” That was precisely why he was anxious!
The doctor slowly removed his hand, bowed and said: “Madam’s pulse rates are strong and her condition did not seem to be of a person who had been without water for two days. This disease is somewhat strange, I can’t give you a diagnosis, let me look this up in detail.” Such an illness, he really has not encountered yet.
Gu Yun secretly smiled as she, too, did not want to have a strong pulse, but just now she has to run quickly to the bed, thus it was difficult to control.
After hearing his words, Su Yu got angry again, “Look up, my foot, by the time you found out the condition, she would have starved to death! Get out!”
The doctor was frightened and quickly backed out, he could not afford to offend anyone from the General Manor.
Indoor all lapsed into silence once again, Su Yu walked to the bed, watching the sunlight through the window which illuminated her face. She looked as if sleeping, with her long eyelashes fanning down, giving her a very cute and adorable appearance. However, Su Yu did not gain any comfort from this, he didn’t know if it was pain or anger he felt in his heart hence he struck a heavy blow on the bedstead which caused Gu Yun to feel the bed swaying violently for a moment.
What did this brat want?!
“When I am really sick, and the doctors you send for can’t heal me then you have to take me to the Prime Minister’s Estate and find my sister else I would not survive.”
Her words of that day, though sounded as if a joke, still echoed in his mind, Su Yu was startled. Right, her sister! If she can cure Qing Mo, then he’ll take her to her sister now!
Su Yu shouted to the soldiers at the front door: “Come, go get me a palanquin, hurry.”
Palanquin?! Gu Yun was delighted, Qing, wait for me!
Having been carried a long while, they finally reached a regal residence. Lying in the carriage, Gu Yun did not peer out, she only heard Su Yu and a cold male voice exchanged some words. The man then brought them to one side of the reception hall to rest.
After a while, a person came in.
“Prime Minister Lou.” Su Yu’s ever arrogant tone had a touch of reverence.
“General Su.” His gentle voice seemed like a light breeze, even just listening to the sound of it is fascinating.
Gu Yun was a bit curious, how strange to have a man with such a soft and gentle voice. Opening her eyes slightly, she only saw a tall figure pa.s.sed by her side but didn’t manage to see his appearance, however from his easy and graceful movements, it reflected this man’s bearing and manners.
“General Su do not worry too much, Ling Er will come over immediately.”
Naturally one never tires of hearing such a soft and gentle voice, however the words “Ling Er” gave Gu Yun goose b.u.mps.
She was inwardly cringing when, the slightly surprised voice of Su Yu rang out again: “Are you Qing Feng?”
Gu Yun suddenly perked up as a slender woman entered into the reception hall at the moment, is it Qing? It is difficult to see the woman’s face, through the veil but that cool and aloof demeanor is similar in temperament to Qing.
The woman strode to the palanquin and looked but did not speak, then a gentle voice cautiously asked: “How? Do you need to send for the imperial physician to have a look?”
“Not yet, first carry her into my room, prepare the silver needles (fine needles used for acupuncture), if this can’t help then it is still not too late to send for the imperial physician. Gu Yun surmised that this person should be Qing because the real Qing Feng would know that her sister, Qing Mo, was rarely sick!
Once Su Yu has gently nodded, four orderlies lifted the stretcher and walked towards Star Plucked Pavilion. Gu Yun was placed on the ground, the woman who was standing with her back to the screen said: “General Su Yu, acupuncture is not something that can be completed in a short while. It is better if you go back first to the Manor. When she wakes up, I’ll send someone to send her back.”
“It is no trouble, you start the treatment, I’ll wait outside.” Su Yu’s firm voice can be heard clearly.
The woman coldly replied: “As you wish.”
Soon, the door was slammed shut.
Although Gu Yun was certain that this woman is Qing, but she still remained as before, no words or movement, the woman held the silver needles in her hands for a long while whilst staring at Gu Yun without making a move.
After a while, the woman suddenly leaned over Gu Yun’s body gently and whispered in her ear: “Yun, wake up otherwise I will certainly immediately insert the needles.”
She called her Yun! It’s really Qing!
Chapter 8: Old court case of gold, Part 3 of 4
(Translation credits: Silhoutte)
Gu Yun was happy and excited to see Zhuo Qing but she still wanted to tease her and see her reaction, she didn’t expect that she would actually take her arm to insert a needle.
At the exact moment the long needle was about to pierce her arm, Gu Yun quickly opened her eyes, grabbed the hand that wanted to hurt her and growled: “You really want to pierce ah!”
Zhuo Qing gently lifted her eyebrow and replied : “What do you think?!” She finally woke up!
Time inexorably ticked away, there were still no movement inside the room, Su Yu impatiently waited in the courtyard walking to and fro, Jing Sa led an imperial doctor into the courtyard and in a clear voice he announced: “Miss Qing, the imperial doctor has arrived.”