Di Daughter: The Favoured medical Princess Ch 3

 

Chapter 3: Drowning

 

But Nangong Yue couldn't lie down at ease. While she went to put on shoes, she anxiously pulled An Niang's sleeve and asked: "What about elder brother? Where is my elder brother?" 

Nangong Yue had an older brother, second among the family's male grandchildren, who was the only eleven years old and went by the single name Xin.

The elder brother had fallen off a rockery when he was five and hit his head, and his mind had since stopped at five, causing his mother a great deal of grief.

Maternal Grandfather has been trying to cure her brother. For this reason, he has been wandering around the world hoping to find a way to cure her brother, but did not wait for this day...

It was today that my brother drowned in a previous life! Since then, their family seems to have been scattered. Her mother felt that she had failed to take care of her brother and was devastated, and had become estranged from her father as a result ...... more so than ever before, giving other women an opportunity to take advantage!

An Niang thought that Nangong Yue was missing her elder brother and hurriedly said reassuringly, "Miss Third, the Second Young master should be taken by Yun Niang to play in the Back garden at this time. If you want to see the Second Young Master, can Nanny help you to invite the Second Young Master over?" Yun Niang was the nurse of the Second young master, Nangong Xin.

But unexpectedly Nangong Yue said decisively: "Nurse, take me to the garden!" With that, she turned her head and ordered the little maid next to her, "Quickly fetch a cloak for me!"

The little maid hurriedly put down the soup in her hand and brought over a peach-colored rabbit fur cloak and served Nangong Yue to put it on.

"Miss Third, you are too weak and can’t bear the wind blow..."  An Niang still wanted to persuade her, but Nangong Yue had already walked out towards the door in spite of her persuasion.

An Niang quickly came to have a soft nature and could only change her tone and say:"Miss Third , go slowly, nanny will accompany you." 

Nangong Yue could not listen to An Niang's words at the moment and rushed out of the courtyard door at a faster pace. 

Beyond the cramped confines of the boudoir, it was as if heaven and earth had come into view in an instant and everything around was so familiar, as if it were yesterday.

This is the residence of the Nangong family in Wangdu. 

She remembered the year when her eldest uncle, Nangong Qin, had just received his investiture as a third-ranking imperial official from the new emperor, and the family had moved from the old Nangong residence to the royal capital, as well as returning once again to the former residence in the royal capital, which had been unused for nearly thirty years.

Mansion in Wangdu is astonishingly large in size. The courtyards in the shape of a rectangular, flanked by verandahs, leading to the front door of the house and the back door of the courtyard, with either a rockery or a lotus flower and fish pond in the middle, looks quiet and elegant ...... It is all the same as it was in her memory, familiar and intimate but strange and distant, she is out of place here, yet born to belong here.

            Nangong Yue did not care about the scenery in the mansion, striding forward, and in the end even trotting up, a haze before her eyes. All that had happened at this time in her previous life flashed rapidly through her mind.

All of these originated from Xuanhuang Linglong ginseng!

Xuanhuang Linglong ginseng can bring the dead back to life and it can be called a rare elixir in the world. It is her mother's dowry thing. Over the years, her mother has been carefully preserving it and never willing to take it out for use. Until a few days ago, the Emperor's favorite concubine Liufei suddenly fell ill from a strange disease and could not be cured for a long time. So Her eldest paternal aunt(Gumu) Nangong Yun gave her grandmother Su Shi an idea and  asked for Xuanhuang Linglong ginseng from her mother, Lin Shi with the intention of offering it to the Emperor as a token of loyalty.

Lin Shi's offering of Xuanhuang Linglong ginseng should have been credited as a meritorious deed . But who knows, a few days later, Nangong Yue suddenly had a high fever, which lasted several days. Her Father Nangong Mu and Eldest uncle Nangong Qin happened to be out of the town. Lin Shi anxious for her beloved daughter and can only beg the old Furen herself  to return Xuanhuang Linglong ginseng.

The Xuanhuang Linglong Ginseng is a tool Grandmother intends to use to show her goodwill to the Royal family. And she is just a sick child who is not favored by her Grandmother. Compared with the interests of the family, which is more important, there is no need to think much.

Although many years have passed, Nangong Yue still clearly remembers this day in her last life when her mother was pleading hard at her grandmother's, while her brother Nangong Xin was accidentally drowned in the garden ......

Thinking of this, Nangong Yue's heart jerked and she ran even faster.

An Niang chased after her as she continued to advise, "Miss Third, slow down, your body is not yet healed ......"

Soon, Nangong Yue followed the route she remembered and arrived at the back garden of the house. It was now early spring, and in the back garden, there were already a hundred flowers blooming, beautiful purple and red, as well as rockery ringed by rockery, small bridges and flowing water, the design was very exquisite.

As soon as she entered the back garden, Nangong Yue caught a glimpse of several eye-catching maids and Pozis anxiously guarding the pool by the rockery, all eyes looking towards the pool.

Her heart stuttered and she thought Not good! She was still too late!

"Brother! Brother!" Nangong Yue shouted, only to see a  tall and sturdy pozi carrying a young boy in a stone-green robe swimming from the pool and struggling to carry him towards the shore.

"Brother!" Nangong Yue pushed aside the crowd and rushed towards the shore, glancing out of the corner of her eye to see a familiar figure constantly backing away, finally turning around rockery and disappearing.

It's 'her'!

With just one glance, Nangong Yue recognised the other woman, and her second thought was, "Why is she here?

The next thing she knew, she couldn't think any further ...... She, An Niang, and an old pozi scrambled to pick up the teenager and lay him flat on the ground.

"Second Young Master!" An Niang carefully held his shoulder and slightly shook, "Second Young Master! Second Young Master!"

That pozi timidly put her finger under the boy’s nose. Her face suddenly turned pale as paper. Her body trembled and even her teeth began to chatter. "Second.. Second Young Master is out of breath..."  After finishing, her feet went weak and her whole body sat down on the ground.

"Quick, go and call the doctor!" don't know who shouted, a servant girl and a pozi ran away in a panic.

Nangong Yue didn't care about them at all and all her attention was focused on the boy in An Niang's arms. Eleven-year-old young boy had inherited the good looks of his parents,with red lips and pretty white teeth and handsome features. But at this moment his originally white jade-like cheeks were purple, his exposed hands and neck had been blistered white, his abdomen was slightly bulging, and his right hand was clenched into a fist, as if clutching something ......

"Miss Third!" An Niang's face was even worse. Her body trembled and said, "Second Young Master, he...."

Brother! Nangong Yue looked at Nangong Xin with dead eyes and knelt beside him with hot tears. With just this one glance, she could see that her brother's breathing had indeed stopped.

Nangong Yue knew that she could not panic at this time. As far as she knew, even if a drowning person lost his breath and pulse for a while, he might still be saved. The sooner they were saved, the better the chances! She hurriedly probed at Nangong Xin's right wrist and her eyes lit up as she hurriedly said: "There's still a pulse, he still has a pulse!"

When An Niang heard that Nangong Xin still had a pulse, she was also happy. "Where is the doctor? Why isn't the doctor coming?"

Nangong Yue said to herself: It will be too late when the doctor comes!

She quickly took out a handkerchief and cleaned the water, mud, algae and other foreign matter from Nangong Xin's mouth and nose as quickly as she could, pulled his tongue out of his mouth again and loosened the lapels of his collar. Then pointing to An Niang's bent knee thigh again, she instructed the pozi, "Quickly help me turn my brother over! Put his belly on An Niang's lap, with his back up and his head down!”

TL note:

Pozi - married slave woman;mostly used for rough work or as a wet nurse.

Gumu- Father's sister.

Shi -It is refering the maiden family name of a married woman.ex; Lin Shi,Su Shi.

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