Chapter 432 Let’s Get Married
After the white-haired Sima Han was brought to the palace, the emperor asked him to check the condition of the Ninth Prince without even having time to pay his respects.
Everyone held their breath and surrounded Sima Han and the Ninth Prince.
The doctor took the pulse and stroked his white beard in deep thought.
The Ninth Prince kept crying out in pain, groaning softly, and sweating coldly.
Mo Lingwei stood at the head of all the ministers, with a sneer on his thin lips.
"Your Majesty, the Ninth Prince is not sick. If you really want to force yourself to say that you are in pain, I'm afraid you ate too much and got an indigestion. I will give you a few needles and the medicine will cure you immediately."
As he spoke, Sima Han spread out the acupuncture bag he carried with him.
When he took out the silver needle, I don't know if it was the Ninth Prince's illusion of guilty conscience, but he felt that the needle tip was extremely sharp.
He swallowed his saliva calmly.
Sima Han had a white beard and smiled: "Your Highness, I will give you acupuncture to ventilate you now. One of the needles must be placed on the painful point. Please be patient."
Then, he pressed down the Ninth Prince's hand with his rough palm.
The sharp needle tip was about to pierce the blood vessels in the Ninth Prince's wrist!
"Wait!" The Ninth Prince was frightened and screamed. He quickly withdrew his hand, his face livid: "Where did you come from, you charlatan? How dare you speak nonsense? Don't you know my health? It's your turn to treat me, an old beggar."
He looked at the emperor and begged: "Father, don't let such quacks check my pulse. They are of unknown origin and I don't know what they want to do!"
The emperor's face darkened and he scolded directly: "Nonsense! Why don't you apologize to the old doctor quickly? If it weren't for him, your mother's hair wouldn't grow now!"
The ministers hid their mocking expressions, lowered their heads, and endured it very hard.
Only the Ninth Prince was stunned in place.
In his early years, Concubine Qi was banished to the cold palace, and he was also neglected. He hid in his palace all day and rarely went out, and he didn't want to hear about the outside world.
Therefore, he had only heard the name of the miracle doctor Sima Han twice, but he didn't know this person, let alone see him.
What's more, after his mother Concubine Qi was struck by lightning, she became bald and looked extremely ugly and hideous, and she had long forbidden him to approach her palace.
He had no chance to meet the so-called miracle doctor.
However, he also heard the maids around Concubine Qi mention that the emperor found a powerful doctor to treat Concubine Qi's hair problem of "no grass growing".
Unexpectedly... it was this old gentleman!
Sima Han didn't say any harsh words, but he never looked at the ninth prince again.
He bowed to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I have never liked to meddle in other people's business. I am old and only stay at the homes of some old friends. If you hadn't contacted General Xie and asked me to enter the palace to treat Concubine Qi's hair, I would not have entered the palace, let alone coveted the power in the palace."
"Now it seems that since Concubine Qi's son thinks that I have no ability, then the emperor should ask someone else to help her with her hair!"
Sima Han lifted his robe and left.
The brothers Xie Suzhi and Xie Dizhi hurriedly persuaded: "Old doctor, old doctor!"
Sima Han didn't even turn his head.
Xie Mingxu sighed, his eyes dark: "Although the old doctor is a free and easy person, he has his own principles and temper. It was not easy to persuade him to enter the palace to treat Concubine Qi. Now that His Majesty said so, I'm afraid it will be difficult to invite him to come in the future."
The Ninth Prince was stunned.
He actually drove away the doctor who treated his mother!
The emperor's expression was horrible.
"Your stomach doesn't hurt now?" Mo Lingwei sneered.
The Ninth Prince came back to his senses with a pale face, holding his abdomen: "I..."
He looked at the emperor: "Father, I did pretend to have stomach pain... But that's because I was afraid that locusts would damage your dragon body, so I had to use this method to stop people from eating locusts."
The Ninth Prince was afraid of being punished and being ignored again.
"Father, the world can see my heart, and I never intended to deceive you!"
As soon as these high-sounding words were spoken, many ministers flashed a look of contempt in their eyes.
The Ninth Prince said so nicely, just to go against the countermeasures that Princess Funing came up with.
He really didn't have a big picture view.
The emperor was furious and slapped the ninth prince: "Asshole!"
"I was thinking about your mother, but you only cared about your own selfish desires. In front of so many ministers, you have lost my face. What qualifications do you have to call yourself my son?"
The emperor waved his sleeves: "Come, take the ninth prince away and order him to face the wall for a month. No one is allowed to visit him without my permission!"
"Father! I was wrong, father!!" The ninth prince was still shouting for mercy when he was dragged away by the imperial guards.
Xie Mingxu looked coldly in the direction of the ninth prince, and his thin lips pursed up a cold arc.
His sister is still smart.
Shen Ningning expected that someone would oppose today's insect feast, so she pretended to be uncomfortable.
So she asked him to bring the doctor into the palace in advance.
This time, the ninth prince really shot himself in the foot.
...
The emperor posted an imperial edict, calling on everyone to bring locusts to the table.
A trend of fried locusts has been set off in the capital.
However, this matter is still unheard of for most people.
Therefore, the locust situation has not eased much.
Many crops are still damaged every day.
Shen Ningning invited Lu Shaoyuan's mother, Mrs. Meng, to use the power of the Chamber of Commerce to invest money to operate and buy and sell locusts.
Turn fried locusts into a dish business.
Mrs. Meng is indeed a hero among women, and she hits it off with Shen Ningning.
She seized this business opportunity in time and first cooperated with several restaurants in the capital to bring locusts to people's dining tables.
Immediately afterwards, she promoted the medicinal effects of locusts, saying that they filled the stomach, coupled with the extremely low price and delicious taste, everyone who tasted it said it was good, and it soon became a delicacy on every household's table.
Mrs. Meng was making a lot of money and was overjoyed. She planned to give part of the money she earned to Shen Ningning.
The wealthy businessmen in the city saw the business opportunities and followed suit one after another. For a time, there were locust catching nets everywhere.
Soon, not many locusts were seen raging. Everyone stared at them helplessly, either catching the locusts to sell, or roasting them for themselves.
That day, the weather was bright and sunny, with white clouds.
Shen Ningning and Lu Shaoyuan made an appointment to meet in a private room of a restaurant.
"Here, my mother said, you deserve these five thousand taels of silver. You helped her make a lot of money."
Shen Ningning accepted the thick stack of banknotes without politeness and put them in her baggage.
She smiled sweetly: "Mrs. Meng and I each get what we need. It's written in my mother's booklet that this is called a win-win situation."
"By the way, Lu Shaoyuan, I came to you this time because I have something to ask you for help."
Lu Shaoyuan picked up the teacup and raised his eyebrows: "What's the matter? Princess Funing, who is so powerful, actually needs my help?"
Shen Ningning blinked her big round eyes and said seriously:
"Let's go get married tomorrow."
"Puff——!!!" Lu Shaoyuan spurted out all the tea he had just drank.
Shen Ningning covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, feeling a little disgusted.
Hey, why is he so indiscreet, squirting just when he wants to, forget it, just get married and make grandma happy, just bear with it.
The little girl thought so.
"What did you say?! Marrying you?! Tomorrow?!" Lu Shaoyuan's expression changed for the first time, looking happy and confused.
There was a loud "dong" sound coming from the next door, but Shen Ningning didn't take it seriously.
"Yes, would you like to?"