Chapter 120

Hearing this, Su Hongtu just put his hands behind his back, snorted, and walked away from her.

Lin Jiaojiao breathed a sigh of relief, but when she stepped out of Taihe Hall, she felt her legs go soft. In her mind, the sentence of the Minister of Justice Wen Yushu still echoed: Imperial Physician Lin, are you really a person of this world, and not from another world...?

Did he see something?

No, it shouldn't be!

The Ministry of Justice is mainly an agency responsible for the dynasty's punishments, mainly managing the country's criminal, litigation, and prison affairs. The people the Minister of Justice sees are mostly criminals. Even if she transmigrated, she couldn't be considered a criminal, so it wasn't his Ministry of Justice's turn to be suspicious of her or arrest her for punishment.

She comforted herself by stroking her chest and walked out of Taihe Hall, where she saw a palace maid with lowered brows, seemingly waiting for her.

"Imperial Physician Lin, the Empress Dowager has a headache today," the palace maid called her as soon as she saw Lin Jiaojiao, "The Empress Dowager specifically ordered me to take you over to examine her."

"You are the palace maid Maidong, right?" Lin Jiaojiao recognized the palace maid. She reached out and touched Maidong's pulse, nodding in satisfaction, "Your symptoms of vital energy and blood deficiency look much better."

"Yes, thanks to Imperial Physician Lin's care, I'm much better," Maidong revealed a grateful smile, "Now that you have been appointed as an Imperial Physician, we little palace maids probably won't have the chance to have you examine us again. Now the Empress Dowager is waiting for you to go over and examine her. Please follow me."

"It's okay. If you feel uncomfortable anywhere, just come to me. Whether it's a palace maid or the Empress Dowager, everyone eats the same grains, and it's inevitable that there will be times when you feel unwell. If you don't get sick, you can serve the Empress Dowager well."

Lin Jiaojiao said, following Maidong along the Imperial path of the Huang Gong.

Maidong, who was leading the way, walked a few steps and took her to a secluded corner. She looked left and right, confirming that there was no one around, and then carefully took out a small, exquisite pouch from her hand.

"Imperial Physician Lin, I know you are a good person. This pouch of mine contains something called Hundred Herb Detoxification Pill, which is very rare. Today, to repay your kindness, I will give this medicine to you to repay your kindness for prescribing medicine to treat my illness that day."

"Hundred Herb Detoxification Pill?" Lin Jiaojiao looked at the small pouch. From the outline, she could see that there seemed to be a small medicine box inside.

Even though she was very curious about the ingredients of this Hundred Herb Detoxification Pill and wanted to take the pill to study it, she knew very well how precious this pill was!

"This is too precious, I can't accept it—" Lin Jiaojiao pushed it away, but Maidong insisted on stuffing the small pouch to her.

"Imperial Physician Lin, the lives of us servants are not worth much, and we are not worth the masters looking at us more. Only you are willing to treat us equally and are willing to examine us. We are very grateful. If you refuse to accept this Hundred Herb Detoxification Pill, then you still look down on us and look down on this servant's things."

"No, how could I look down on what you gave me." Lin Jiaojiao could only accept the small pouch, "Then I thank you here. If you feel uncomfortable anywhere in the future, just come to me."

Seeing her accept it, Maidong felt relieved, but she still didn't take her on the main road. She led the way while asking sideways, "Imperial Physician Lin, what happened at your place yesterday has spread throughout the harem. Even we servants know about it. Do you really not want to enter the palace as a concubine?"

"Are you all saying that?" Hearing this, Lin Jiaojiao couldn't help but secretly rejoice: If this is the case, then her plan can be considered half successful!

Things that palace maids are talking about, could the Empress Dowager not know!

"We at Shoukang Palace are all saying that you presented the jade pendant the Emperor gave you and were ready to return it." Maidong said while walking, "I have seen countless women in the harem, all of them wanting to climb onto the dragon bed so that one day they can become a mistress and live a good life with people serving them."

Maidong asked the doubt in her heart, "But why don't you want to be a mistress?"

Lin Jiaojiao looked up at the sky framed by the Huang Gong. She saw a group of birds flying across the blue sky, chirping and calling friends, very carefree.

"If you become a mistress, there are fixed people serving you, but you can never go outside again, and you can never live freely again."

Maidong saw it in her eyes and heard it in her heart, but still didn't understand: "Imperial Physician Lin, if you live outside without anyone serving you, you have to do everything yourself. If you don't work for a day, you will be hungry for a day. What is good about that?"

Soon she paused, seemingly having turned her mind around, and just smiled and said, "But now that you, Imperial Physician Lin, are the adopted daughter of the former Prime Minister and the adopted younger sister of Dali Temple Minister Song, with such a good status and position, I guess even if you are outside the palace, you can live decently. This servant spoke out of turn."

Lin Jiaojiao followed her and soon returned to the main road. For a moment, she didn't know if what Maidong said was to help the Empress Dowager probe for information.

After only five hundred steps, Lin Jiaojiao arrived at Shoukang Palace and was brought to the Empress Dowager by Maidong.

She saw the Empress Dowager lying on the couch. The stove on the side was burning excellent incense. The Empress Dowager had a wine-yellow silk cloth tied around her forehead. The palace maid serving her was bringing a bowl of medicine as thick as ink.

But the Empress Dowager didn't even lift her eyelids, and even waved her hand impatiently, frowning and impatiently driving people away: "Hurry up and take it down! I feel like vomiting when I smell this medicine."

Lin Jiaojiao bowed to the Empress Dowager and said respectfully, "Greetings, Empress Dowager. This subject Lin Jiaojiao pays respects to the Empress Dowager. May the Empress Dowager be blessed with peace."

As soon as the Empress Dowager saw Lin Jiaojiao arrive, her tightly locked brows relaxed slightly, and a trace of expectation and joy appeared on her face: "Miss Lin, you finally came. Where do I have so many blessings? I only pray that this headache will not happen again, and that is Amitabha!"

After Lin Jiaojiao approached, she asked, "Empress Dowager, may this subject first massage a few acupuncture points for you?"

"Why not? You just massage the acupuncture points for me!" The Empress Dowager wished that Lin Jiaojiao could cure her headache right now.

Lin Jiaojiao still maintained great caution. She continued to ask: "It's just that after the corresponding acupuncture points are stimulated, there will be pain like needle pricking. Can you endure it, Empress Dowager?"

"Is the pain of mere acupuncture points more severe than the throbbing pain on both sides of this forehead? How can I not endure it?" Empress Dowager Xiao was already a little impatient, "Hurry up and massage me! Don't let me be so uncomfortable anymore!"

After hearing this, Lin Jiaojiao bowed to the Empress Dowager again, "Empress Dowager, this subject has offended you, please forgive me."

After speaking, she did it in three or five strokes, pinching and pressing hard on the back of the Empress Dowager's forehead, the tiger's mouth on her hand, and between the bones of her instep!

The Empress Dowager was in so much pain that she almost screamed and lost her composure!

But after Lin Jiaojiao massaged her acupuncture points, half a stick of incense passed, and her headache was cured by more than half in an instant!

"Wonderful! My headache is cleared now, and my head marrow can be so transparent!"