General, your wife has gone to deliver another calf for your horse.

Jiang Nuanzhi composed herself and spoke again: "Your Highness, please don't be anxious. I haven't taken your pulse yet. As for how to treat you, I will need to take your pulse first..."

Then, she looked at Xiao Yuanshan questioningly: "What does Your Highness think?"

Xiao Yuanshan stood up, stared at Jiang Nuanzhi for a moment, and then waved his hand.

Reluctantly, Lord Xie behind him sheathed his spear, and the guards who had been lying in ambush also put away their bows. The tense atmosphere seemed to dissipate by half in an instant.

Grand Tutor Fang finally caught his breath.

After all, although they brought a lot of people, and they were all Jingwei, who knew what kind of poison Xiao Yuanshan might have?
He once used the poison he carried to eliminate thousands of enemy troops in Yunnan.

Moreover, in that moment of desperation, Xiao Yuanshan single-handedly faced two great protectors and the exceptionally skilled woman beside Physician Jiang, yet he held his own without being at a disadvantage. My previous assessment of him was likely inaccurate.

Now it seems that Xiao Yuanshan is truly unfathomable; even the two protectors could not fathom his strength. In the past, there might have been a war god, Li Rong, who could rival him, but Li Rong is no longer what he once was, and it is likely that no one in the world can match him now.

This matter should be reported to the Emperor immediately.

"please."

Xiao Yuanshan stepped aside slightly: "Jiang Nuanzhi, is it? I advise you not to try any tricks. Otherwise, I will make sure that all of you are buried here today. Including them."

As he spoke, he glanced at Grand Tutor Fang and his group.

He spoke calmly, but no one present doubted the accuracy of his words.

Jiang Nuanzhi felt a chill run down her spine, as if she were being stared at by a venomous snake, when she was given such a glance. She didn't say anything, but simply nodded, took a deep breath, and stepped forward, crouching down to place her fingers on Li Mingyu's pale, bloodless wrist, which was weak from illness.

While Jiang Nuanzhi was calmly listening to the pulse, the people around her made almost no sound, except for the occasional faint groans from the person in the cage.

Almost everyone's gaze fell on Jiang Nuanzhi. Seeing that Jiang Nuanzhi's brows were furrowing more and more, Li Mingyu's face paled even more.

"What's the situation? Can you cure it?"

Li Mingyu couldn't help but ask.

"Do not talk."

Jiang Nuanzhi said, then closed her eyes again.

Xiao Yuanshan clenched his fists so tightly they cracked, but he suppressed his anger and stared intently at Jiang Nuanzhi's actions.

But seeing her clicking her tongue, sighing, and frowning, he was so frightened that his wife's face turned even paler. He really wanted to slap the person in front of him to death.

But at least I managed to hold back.

"Hey, tell me what's going on! Who are you trying to scare with those winks and glares!" Xiao Yuanshan held back, but Lord Xie couldn't and roared.

Jiang Nuanzhi opened her eyes in annoyance: "This patient's family member, if you're in such a hurry, go outside and wait! You've been paralyzed for years and you can endure it, can't I endure listening to your pulse carefully? Besides, even the prince hasn't said anything, why are you getting so anxious?"

Jiang Nuanzhi was incredibly annoyed by this Lord Xie; she'd wanted to confront him for a long time. Why were they so incompatible?
Lord Xie was so angry his neck turned red: "Hey, you poisonous woman, I..."

"Alright, shut up," Xiao Yuanshan said impatiently. But the coldness in his eyes deepened: "You'd better find a way, or I'll make you..."

"Don't make a sound, are you annoying?" Jiang Nuanzhi interrupted him, and took Li Mingyu's other hand: "Didn't you see I was taking your pulse?"

Xiao Yuanshan was stunned by the rebuke, his face full of confusion, as if his entire expression was saying, "Is she speaking to me?"

Having held a high position for many years, no one has ever dared to reprimand him like this. Not even the former emperor!
Does a mere young girl, still wet behind the ears, not know how to write the word "death"?
Now no one dared to speak. Even the furious Lord Xie secretly glanced at Xiao Yuanshan's expression and couldn't help but swallow.

Who in this world would dare speak to their prince like that? It's true what they say, you see everything when you live long enough.

Especially at their age, they've never been scolded, let alone uttered a harsh word. That's quite something, isn't it?
Xiao Yuanshan took a deep breath, his face turning red from holding it in. He forcefully withdrew his hand, which he had intended to use to slap Jiang Nuanzhi to death.

He silently warned himself, "I can't kill him, I really can't kill him."
Clearly, he had no interest in saying anything more. After all, he had been scolded like this and couldn't kill anyone. To argue or not to argue would only make him lose face.

Jiang Nuanzhi was actually keeping an eye on Xiao Yuanshan out of the corner of her eye. She was also testing how much this prince could tolerate his wife. Seeing that the prince had endured this, she breathed a sigh of relief and continued to examine Li Mingyu.

She withdrew her hand and pinched Li Mingyu's leg: "How is it here? Can you feel anything?"

Li Mingyu shook her head: "No."

Jiang Nuanzhi looked down at her legs, then thrust in forcefully: "What about here?"

Li Mingyu shook her head again: "No."

Jiang Nuanzhi nodded, then took out silver needles and rotated them on Li Mingyu's hand, finding the Shaoze, Laogong, Hegu, and Houxi acupoints. Then she asked Li Mingyu again, "Now, can you feel anything?"

Li Mingyu frowned suddenly, and said in a daze, "It's... a little swollen."

The next second, cold sweat suddenly slid down his forehead.

"Your Highness, I'm in so much pain!"

Li Mingyu suddenly gripped Xiao Yuanshan's arm tightly.

Xiao Yuanshan's brows furrowed: "Insolence—"

"What are you being so presumptuous about?" Jiang Nuanzhi didn't even raise her head: "Now that she can feel pain, there is a possibility of recovery. The more intense the pain, the more beneficial it will be for the treatment."

At this moment, tears streamed down Li Mingyu's face: "Your Highness, after so many years, this is the first time I've regained feeling in my legs. I can actually feel pain again."

In a daze, Xiao Yuanshan's fingers tightened. Meeting Li Mingyu's tearful eyes, he himself was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Jiang Nuanzhi: "Can it really cure it? You only used silver needles to stimulate a few ordinary acupoints."

"Is there any distinction between ordinary and unusual acupoints?" Jiang Nuanzhi asked gently. "As long as it's useful, even something as simple as the Renzhong acupoint, which everyone knows, can save lives."

Then, she changed the subject: "However, my treatment method is a bit special; it requires a little blood."

"Blood?" Xiao Yuanshan narrowed his eyes, staring at Jiang Nuanzhi's clenched fists, which cracked loudly. "You dare to play tricks on me?"

Jiang Nuanzhi frowned: "What are you saying, Your Highness? It's just a matter of using some blood. Everyone says that you are a master of both medicine and poison, so you should know the importance of this blood. Your princess has been without feeling in her legs for many years, and the blood supply is insufficient. She needs some blood to enter her body... However, not too much is needed, just a little bit."

As she said this, she brought over a porcelain bottle.

He frowned and glanced at Xiao Yuanshan and the Regent's wife, then continued, "However, injecting someone else's blood into the Princess's body is rather disgusting. Especially taking the blood of a servant... I imagine the Princess would feel extremely uncomfortable just thinking about it. If there is a rejection reaction, it would be even more unpleasant."

"How about Your Highness do it?" (End of Chapter)