The rural doctor bought a husband who was very treacherous

Chapter 195 It’s your own fault

"She should be considered one." Su Tang pointed her finger at Xuanyuan Mengyao, who was leaning beside the Queen Mother and looking at her with contempt.

When the Queen Mother turned around and looked at her, she didn't even have time to retract the smile of success on her face.

To be able to reach the position of Queen Mother, one must be a master of palace fighting.

How could the Queen Mother not see the expression on Xuanyuan Mengyao's face?

The empress dowager suddenly felt a sense of being plotted against and used as a pawn.

A look of displeasure immediately appeared on the Queen Mother's face.

Xuanyuan Mengyao had no idea that the Queen Mother's anger was directed at her.

After all, it was Su Tang who was here just now, which was disrespectful to the Queen Mother.

"You, now that you know I'm the Queen Mother, why don't you bow?" The Queen Mother's eyes did not have the compassion that a worshipper should have.

Su Tang felt that the Queen Mother filled the room with Buddha statues just to seek peace of mind for herself.

I'm afraid she killed many innocent people when she was young.

"Su Tang greets the Queen Mother." Su Tang performed standard palace etiquette towards the Queen Mother.

Before entering the palace this time, Chunmei and others specially demonstrated the palace etiquette to Su Tang, just to prevent the Queen Mother from using this to cause trouble for Su Tang today.

Seeing Su Tang's impeccable palace etiquette, the empress dowager had no choice but to let Su Tang stand up.

"Hasn't my royal sister bowed and greeted me yet?" After Su Tang stood up, she turned to look at Xuanyuan Mengyao with a faint smile on her face.

"I, my legs are numb from squatting just now." Xuanyuan Mengyao didn't want to salute Su Tang.

It was because of Su Tang's arrival that her position as the eldest princess became the second.

What's more, when she was the eldest princess, she didn't even have a title given by Emperor Jing. How could she be willing to bow down to a wild girl who grew up in the countryside?

"Is your sister's leg in trouble? I'm a doctor and I can help you take a look." Su Tang said as she was about to step forward and stretched out her hand to grab Xuanyuan Mengyao.

Seeing Su Tang's action, Xuanyuan Mengyao's nightmare-like scene flashed through her mind again.

The previous two times she fainted, it was after Su Tang reached out her hand, and she suddenly felt pain and numbness all over her body. She didn't want to experience it again.

"No, that's not necessary." Xuanyuan Mengyao hid behind the Queen Mother, and holding the Queen Mother's hand, she pushed the Queen Mother forward. Subconsciously, she wanted the Queen Mother to help her block Su Tang.

The Queen Mother was startled by Xuanyuan Mengyao's actions. When she sat on the bed, she was leaning on Xuanyuan Mengyao, with the center of gravity of her body on Xuanyuan Mengyao.

At this moment, pushed by Xuanyuan Mengyao, the Queen Mother fell forward.

“Queen Mother!!”

Upon seeing this, the maids and nannies in the room hurried to support the empress dowager.

The nanny behind Su Tang also quickly got up from the ground and prepared to help the empress dowager.

If the Queen Mother fell off the bed, all the servants in this room would be dead.

"Ah! Help me quickly." The Queen Mother exclaimed and reached for the bed beside her, but her fingernails, which she took good care of every day, were too long.

In his haste, he grabbed the bed with his fingers and broke his long nails that he took good care of.

When this kind of long nails break, it is not just the outer layer of the nail that breaks, but it starts to break from the nail bed.

There was a panic in the room. Fortunately, the empress dowager did not fall off the bed. However, two of her long fingers were broken. The pain made her unable to speak for a while.

This is really what you deserve!

Soon the imperial physician was summoned to Ningshou Palace. Seeing that the empress dowager had no time to pay attention to her, Su Tang left Ningshou Palace on the pretext of going to see Emperor Jing.

However, Xuanyuan Mengyao, the culprit who ultimately caused the Queen Mother to suffer this disaster, did not dare to leave without permission.

Royal study room.

"Why did the Empress Dowager summon you to the palace?" When Su Tang came to the imperial study, Emperor Jing was playing with the Western clock that Su Tang had Chunmei and others bring to him.

The Western clock that Su Tang took out was not a modern version, but a retro Western clock.

I don’t know who bought it in the compound, but his aesthetic taste is really unique.

However, it was also thanks to this person's unique aesthetic that Su Tang found this retro Western clock in the space.

"The Queen Mother asked me to come over and recognize someone." Su Tang bowed to Emperor Jing, walked forward, looked at the Western clock and asked, "Do you like this Western clock?"

"This is called a Western clock. I bought it together with the snuff bottle I gave you last time. But the seller said that this thing is afraid of being bumped. We were in a hurry to get back, so I asked someone to help bring it back."

"Oh? This thing is called a Western clock? It looks quite exquisite. When they moved it just now, I heard a sound coming from it." Emperor Jing had a smile on his face. Now his attention was completely attracted by the new thing in front of him.

"Well, this has a similar use to a sundial, both for telling time." Su Tang said, stepping forward to demonstrate to Emperor Jing how to use the Western clock in front of him.

Eunuch Fu, who was watching from the side, praised in surprise when he saw the hands of the western clock start to turn: "This treasure is really rare. This time, I am also blessed by the princess. I can be said to have opened my eyes."

"Well, it's really good, but I don't know whether our sundial is more accurate or this Western clock is more accurate."

"These two are similar." Su Tang smiled and adjusted the time on the Western clock. "This thing will pop out from here and chirp twice every noon."

As Su Tang adjusted the time to noon, a cute mechanical bird immediately popped out above the Western clock and chirped twice.

"This is so magical!" Emperor Jing moved closer, wanting to see how the bird made the sound.

"I don't know the exact reason. The merchant who sold the clock only briefly explained how to use it."

Su Tang didn't want to explain to Emperor Jing how the clock worked anymore. She just wanted to teach the people here how to use it.

She also had no intention of launching an industrial revolution in ancient times.

After all, if you want people to master this knowledge, you must at least make the people civilized first, which is not what the rulers of the feudal dynasty want to see.

"Well, Fu Quanhai, find two smart little eunuchs and let them learn how to use this." Emperor Jing waved to Eunuch Fu.

"Yes, I will find two smart ones right away." Eunuch Fu replied to Emperor Jing.

Eunuch Fu walked outside the hall and quickly brought in two young eunuchs who looked very smart.

"Your servant, I am here to see Your Majesty and greet the Grand Princess." After the young eunuch came in, he greeted Emperor Jing and His Majesty.

Emperor Jing ignored the two young eunuchs and was still pondering the Western clock in front of him.

Su Tang looked at the two little eunuchs. They seemed to have long been accustomed to being ignored.

Here, these little eunuchs may not even be considered as human beings, and may not be as valuable as any object in this room.

Eunuch Fu pointed to the Western clock in front of Emperor Jing and said to the young eunuchs,

"That treasure is called a Western clock. You two should learn from the Grand Princess how to use it.

Be careful, this is a rare thing, and few people in the whole palace have seen it!"

"Yes." The two young eunuchs responded.

Emperor Jing finally had enough of what he had seen, and then turned and walked towards the desk.

"Go." Eunuch Fu waved to the two young eunuchs.

Seeing this, Su Tang also walked to the clock and said, "This is to control the spring in the clock, and the corresponding ones are to adjust these hands..."

Su Tang operated the controls on the clock one by one and explained them to the two little eunuchs.

Afterwards, Su Tang watched them try it on the clock again, and then nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, you two learn very quickly. If you have any questions next time, go to the princess's mansion and send me a message."

"Yes." The two little eunuchs were very happy to be praised by the Grand Princess in front of Emperor Jing.

They bowed to Su Tang with grateful smiles on their faces.

Eunuch Fu was also very satisfied with Su Tang's praise. The young eunuchs he could call in were the most useful people under his command and were considered to be part of his trusted team.

If they were praised, it was also relatively speaking a compliment to Eunuch Fu.

"Okay, you two can leave first." Eunuch Fu waved his hand, and the two young eunuchs stepped back in response.

"I have just adjusted this Western clock. It will ring once every hour. If Father finds it noisy, just ask them to turn off the alarm sound on the clock. I have just told those two people."

"Okay, let's leave it like this for now." Emperor Jing was in a good mood now. This Western clock was a new thing, and he was sure he would not find it annoying now.

"Then Tang'er will go back first." Su Tang bowed and saluted to Emperor Jing.

"Well, go back." Emperor Jing waved to Su Tang and signaled Eunuch Fu to see Su Tang off.

That day, until Su Tang left the palace, the Queen Mother and Xuanyuan Mengyao did not stop Su Tang in the palace again.

It seems that the Queen Mother was seriously injured. After all, she was a woman who had taken good care of herself for many years, and a broken nail should be considered a serious injury for her.

Su Tang was in a good mood today. She left the palace and went to the Second Prince's Mansion.

Since returning from southern Xinjiang, Su Tang has not met the second prince.

It’s not that she is not close to the Second Prince, but she tries to keep a certain distance from him on the surface.

No emperor wants his subjects to have too close contacts. Even for siblings like Su Tang and the Second Prince, it is better to have some distance between them so that Emperor Jing can let down his guard against them.

Therefore, the second prince, who had lived in Kyoto for a long time and grew up in the royal family, had no complaints about Su Tang's behavior.

Moreover, in the eyes of the Second Prince, Su Tang grew up in the countryside and, apart from having some medical skills, could not be of much help to him in his struggle for power in the court. He also did not want to involve Su Tang in these disputes.

"Tang'er is here." The Second Prince was very happy to see Su Tang. He asked his men to go to the kitchen to get a lot of snacks. "These snacks are made by the chef in the mansion. See if there is anything you like. I will ask the chef to prepare some more for you to take away later."

Before, the Second Prince was weak and had little appetite, so various snacks were always available in the mansion so that he could eat whenever he was hungry.

Even though he has recovered now, snacks are still always available in the mansion.

"Well, the snacks in my brother's house are much more delicious than those sold outside." Su Tang still remembered that when she treated the second prince for the first time, she ate up all the snacks in his room.

The second prince seemed to have remembered it as well, and said with a smile: "It seems that the chef's cooking skills are very much to Tang'er's liking. When you leave later, take the chef who made the snacks back with you."

"Goodbye, it's okay to eat snacks occasionally. Whenever I want to eat, I can just come to my brother's house."

"Okay." The second prince nodded in agreement, looking at Su Tang in her formal palace dress, "Did you just enter the palace? Or are you going to enter the palace later?"

"I was just summoned to the palace by the Queen Mother." Su Tang said after taking a sip of tea.

"The Queen Mother? She hasn't been involved in the affairs of the palace for a long time." The second prince said with some surprise.

"I think Xuanyuan Mengyao went to see the Queen Mother and said something." Su Tang briefly told the Second Prince what happened in the Queen Mother's Palace today.

"Prime Minister Xie's wife is from Empress Dowager Liu's maternal family." The Second Prince and Su Tang said.

"Well, Chunmei told me about this relationship before I entered the palace today."

"That's good." The second prince nodded. At that time, Chunmei and others were sent to Su Tang in order to prevent Su Tang from being unclear about the relationships between the family forces of major officials in Kyoto and suffering losses again.

"By the way, I'm going back to Dahe Village in a few days, and I want to bring Zhao Youtian and his family back."

"Okay, Imperial Doctor Zhao has been kind to Tang'er and helped my mother escape from other people's schemes. I have a house in Kyoto. I'll give you the deed and then give it to Imperial Doctor Zhao."

The second prince said this, then walked to the bookshelf and took out a small wooden box from one of the shelves.

Su Tang raised her eyebrows. Her cheap second brother was really smart. He even remembered where the house deed was.

Su Tang did not reject the Second Prince's advances on behalf of Old Man Su. This is what Old Man Su deserved.

"it is good."

Su Tang took the title deed and took a look at it. The location on it turned out to be a house not far from the princess's mansion, and it was much larger than the one she had bought before.

After sitting with the Second Prince for a while, the Second Prince personally told Su Tang about the relationships between some important officials in Kyoto.

Then she went back with a big bag of cakes.

After Su Tang left, an old man walked out of the second prince's study.

The old man was the Second Prince’s teacher and is now one of the Second Prince’s most important aides, Mr. Wu.

"The princess's temperament is completely different from that of Concubine Su."

"Yes, maybe it's because he has suffered too much." The second prince murmured as he looked outside the house.

One day later.

After Chunmei prepared Su Tang's belongings for the trip back to Dahe Village, Su Tang and Qi Lingheng finally set out on the journey back to Dahe Village.

When she came to Kyoto before, she had to follow the young master of the Qian family to Beijing, so she was in a hurry all the way and did not have the time or mood to enjoy the scenery along the way.

When Su Tang went back this time, she traveled with a huge convoy of eight carriages in total.

Although she and Qi Lingheng were already married and would hold a wedding ceremony in Kyoto, and had already told Chunmei and the other three, in order to avoid suspicion, Su Tang did not ride in the same carriage with Qi Lingheng.

Professor Tian also rode in a carriage alone.

During the day, Qi Lingheng would ride his horse and follow Su Tang's carriage, talking to Su Tang from time to time.