Feng Yexuan took Chu Qianli to the back mountain.
When Funing returned, in the backyard of Qianyun Pavilion, the maid who had been beaten was just being dragged back.
"Dongqing?" Wasn't this the little maid specially sent by the Prince to serve Her Majesty the Empress?
"What's going on? Why was she beaten like this?"
Dongqing was still spitting blood, unable to even speak clearly.
The guard whispered, "She offended Her Majesty the Empress, causing the Empress to be furious. His Highness ordered us to flog her thirty times."
"Dongqing!" Seeing Dongqing spit out another mouthful of blood, Funing felt a pang of pity.
This didn't look like the result of just thirty strokes!
Funing said angrily, "His Highness ordered you to beat her, but not to injure her. She has such severe internal injuries!"
The guard looked innocent, "We were already very light-handed. Miss Funing, her internal injuries were present before she was beaten."
"Mis-Miss, it's not... it's not their... fault." Dongqing had just opened her mouth to speak when she spat out another mouthful of blood.
The two guards also felt a pang of pity.
They hadn't expected this little maid to speak up for them after being beaten.
One of them said, "Miss Funing, I think she's probably not favored by Her Majesty. Why don't we send her back to Wuzhouyuan and let His Highness decide her fate?"
If she stayed here and was kicked by Her Majesty again, her life would be lost.
Funing was helpless and had to personally help Dongqing. She didn't know where to send her, so in the end, she sent her back to Wuzhouyuan.
Funing found Leng Ji, and Leng Ji called for a doctor.
However, with Dongqing's injuries, how could a young lady's body be examined by a male doctor?
This courtyard was full of male doctors.
"What should we do? She looks badly injured." Besides being beaten with sticks, she also suffered internal injuries.
It was said that she was injured by Her Majesty the Empress's kick.
Even Leng Ji found it incredible, "Miss Chu... Your Majesty, how could she be so heavy-handed?"
Dongqing wanted to explain, but now, if she spoke, she would spit blood. She could only endure it.
She was really not a spy, really not.
"I've got it!"
Leng Ji remembered something and immediately went out.
Before long, he dragged the reluctant Xiao Yao in.
"Miss Xiao Yao, I know you are skilled in medicine. Please help her."
"Your Prince's Mansion has plenty of doctors. Why are you looking for me?" Upon hearing that it was someone from Prince Xuan's Mansion, Xiao Yao didn't want to treat her.
She was utterly annoyed by that scoundrel.
But after seeing Dongqing's disheveled state, her desire to diagnose immediately arose.
"Bring me a basin of hot water." The doctor's nature and sense of responsibility made her unable to stand by and watch someone die.
Funing immediately brought hot water. As soon as she put down the basin, she looked back and saw the medicine bottle in Xiao Yao's hand.
With just one glance, Funing was so shocked that she almost cried out, "Xiao Yao! What are you holding?"
She rushed over and snatched the medicine bottle from Xiao Yao's hand.
It was the same! It was really the same!
Wasn't this the same medicine bottle that Ah Li used to use to treat her injuries?
How could Xiao Yao have such a medicine bottle?
Funing quickly opened the medicine bottle. The smell of the ointment inside was exactly the same!
"Xiao Yao, where did you get this medicine?"
"I refined it myself." Of course, Xiao Yao wouldn't tell her that she had a Qiankun Chain system.
There were many medicines in the system.
Her master had said that the Qiankun Chain must never be revealed to anyone.
However, she could indeed refine this kind of medicine herself.
She only needed to smell it to know what medicinal ingredients were used.
"You... refined it yourself?" Funing stared at her face.
A face that was completely unfamiliar to her before today.
A face that, no matter how she looked at it, didn't seem to match.
But... but why were there so many similarities? Why... the more she looked, the more suspicious she became?