Chapter 440   Accidents, All Are Accidents

As Ning Xueyan expected, Ning Qingshan lost control and got angry.

At first, when a doctor said that her leg was broken, she was still hopeful. However, all other doctors said that her leg was broken, which triggered her emotional outbursts. After finishing feeling her pulse, the last old doctor stroked his beard hard and was about to issue a long statement to show that he was a doctor of noble character and high prestige.

“Is my leg broken?” Ning Qingshan asked with a gloomy face. She looked nervous and expectant at the same time.

“Young Lady, your leg bone has been broken and needs to be set. But I’m not professional at bone setting.” The old doctor was a man of wide knowledge and experience. After the young lady was injured, so many doctors were asked to come over at once. It could be seen that this Young Lady was not an ordinary person. So he dared not to guarantee that he could cure her.

If he failed to handle it well, he would have to risk his life and family possessions. Therefore, the old doctor made an excuse.

“So you can’t set it?” Ning Qingshan asked calmly.

“I didn’t mean that. I may be able to set it, but I’m not sure that I can do it perfectly. If you really want to have it set now, I... may give it a try.” The old doctor thought that his words were very appropriate. With his implicit and vague words, even if he really failed to set it well, he wouldn’t get into trouble.

“Get away! How dare you come to fool me since you are incapable of bone setting! Get away!” The calmness on Ning Qingshan’s face suddenly broke. She picked up the cup by her hand and threw it at the old doctor, while screaming harshly. She looked ferocious and horrible like a ghost.

The old doctor didn’t expect that the young lady, who had been calm and gentle just now, would suddenly swear at him like a shrew as if possessed by an evil spirit. He was caught off guard by a cup of chilling tea she threw at him. Fortunately, the tea had been put aside for some time, so he didn’t feel hot. Nevertheless, anyone cursed by someone else, who pointed at his nose and threw a cup of a tea at him, would feel uncomfortable.

“Well, well, well. I’m incapable of treating this young lady. Please find someone better qualified than me!” The old doctor had self-esteem. He stood up angrily, carried his medicine chest, and wiped away the tea on his face, while pushing away the old maid intending to hold him. He got exasperated and involuntarily raised his voice.

There were two more doctors thinking over their prescriptions outside the room. Seeing the old doctor come out with tea on his face and several tea leaves on his eyebrows, they wondered what had happened for a moment. They were all stunned for a while and looked at the old doctor.

“Doctor Chen, what happened? What’s the matter...” The old doctor was highly respected among this group of doctors, so someone couldn’t help asking.

“Everyone, I’m leaving now. I thought the patient is a Young Lady from an aristocratic family. Unexpectedly, she’s no match for a shrew in the market. Humph!” The old doctor felt disgraced and degraded at the same time. He removed a tea leaf on his head and walked away directly without saying anything else. After getting out of the yard, he asked the carriage, which had driven him to go up the mountain, to leave immediately without staying in the temple for a minute.

He could be considered a famous doctor in the capital. Although he was no match for the imperial physician, he was prestigious among the doctors outside. Today after someone threw a cup of tea at him, he felt too disgraced to stay. Thinking that the Third Young Lady of Lord Protector’s Manor turned out to be such a shrew, he felt increasingly annoyed.

Why would he meet with such a misfortune?

After the old doctor went down the mountain in rage, Ning Qingshan threw out all items beside her in anger. Caifen and Feilian were beaten by her many times. She seemed to be mad and made a scene by crying and screaming without caring about her dignity as a Young Lady of Lord Protector’s Manor.

Mammy Luo, who came in hurriedly after getting the news, was also slapped by her.

“Young Lady, master, we are still outside. You should be careful! Don’t damage your reputation!” Mammy Luo was anxious. She tightly held Ning Qingshan, who seemed to be mad, in her arms and shouted. On the other side, Caifen and Feilian also came to help her drag Ning Qingshan. The three of them worked together and finally suppressed her.

“Reputation? I don’t need reputation. Why do I need reputation in current status!” Ning Qingshan cried out loud. If it were not for her injured leg making her unable to move, she would have run out. She felt as if her heart was about to burst. She had broken her leg. How could the imperial family tolerate a co-consort with a broken leg?

All the painstaking efforts she had made in these years were wasted. She had schemed for so many years. Since she was a child, she had known that she must become stronger. Otherwise, anyone could bully her. In order to become stronger, she could pay a lot.

She could not remember clearly about her childhood. She only knew that after she entered Lord Protector’s Manor, Ning Ziyan and Ning Yuling were the noblest Young Ladies of Lord Protector’s Manor, while she was just an adopted daughter and an orphan. To put it bluntly, she was even inferior to a maid in Lord Protector’s Manor. So she had to seek wholehearted care from someone else.

Madam Ming had her own daughter, so she wouldn’t treat her sincerely. Therefore, she drugged Ning Xueyan, who was still a child in order to slow down her recovery. Afterwards, she joined herself to Madam Ling’s side and trapped Madam Ming once, and then moved out from Bright Frost Garden. She tried to please Madam Dowager and maintained an ambiguous relationship with Ning Huaiyuan in order to live a good life in Lord Protector’s Manor and live like a real Young Lady of Lord Protector’s Manor.

Even so, Madam Ling was kind to her on the surface, and Ning Huaiyuan kept a distance from her. She felt that she had tried hard, but was not rewarded. So she bore profound hatred in her heart. For a period of time, she felt that everything she did was meaningless. However, she learned that she was Grand Tutor Ya’s granddaughter and Honored Consort Ya’s niece later. Moreover, Honored Consort Ya and Grand Tutor Ya intended to marry her to the Third Prince, so she cheered up.

Afterwards, Honored Consort Ya gave her advice and gave her the chance to save the Third Prince. Grand Tutor Ya told her to make concessions in order to gain advantages. So she went to the nunnery and got a good reputation. For a time, everyone praised her. Even she thought that she would definitely be the Third Prince’s wife in the future, and her cousin had a deep affection for her.

After that, she found out that she was the Great Elder Princess from the previous dynasty. She had a noble status and was not Grand Tutor Ya’s real granddaughter. However, Grand Tutor Ya didn’t find out about it. Someone inexplicably showed up around her and helped her solve problems from time to time, which made her feel that she had really become a royal princess.

She was the real princess, superior and noble. Even the current princess couldn’t compare with her. She felt proud and considered herself noble because of this.

Unexpectedly, there came twists and turns. At first, her cousin became weird and paid more attention to Ning Xueyan, which gave her a sense of crisis. She then failed to plot against Ning Xueyan repeatedly, and committed a breach of etiquette in the Beauty Contest in the palace and thus to descend from a consort to a co-consort in the end.

She had planned to seek help from the person with her beauty. In this way, after her cousin succeeded in inheriting the throne, she could definitely become the empress, the noblest lady around the world. However, she broke her leg at this time. How could she be qualified to be an empress with her broken leg?

If she could not marry the Third Prince and become the empress, how could she live up to her status as the supreme princess of the former dynasty? How could she live up to her so many years’ planning? She felt that all her painstaking efforts over these years were wasted. This was the reason why Ning Qingshan made such a scene.

“Young Lady, your bone can not necessarily be set. As long as it is set properly, it will be as fine as it used to be. There is an imperial physician in the palace who is good at this. I heard that there was a noble lady in the palace who fell from the rockery and broke her leg. But her bone was set properly and as fine as it used to be.”

Holding Ning Qingshan in her arms, Mammy Luo endured being beat by Ning Qingshan on her back and tried to console her in a low voice. Except for Lord Protector’s Manor, there were the members of other manors in Cold Mountain Temple. The old doctor’s curses on his way out were unpleasant enough. If Ning Qingshan made another scene, her reputation would be ruined.

“Can it be set properly?” Mammy Luo hit the nail on the head, and her words worked immediately. On hearing that there was still hope, Ning Qingshan immediately stopped crying. With no time to wipe her tears, she looked at Mammy Luo with eagerness in her dark eyes and asked, hoping to get a more accurate answer from Mammy Luo.

“Yes. Young Lady, I’ve just sent someone to the Third Prince and ask him to send the imperial physician here for setting your bone. Rest assured. The Third Prince and Honored Consort Ya will definitely send the imperial physician here as soon as they know that you had an accident,” Mammy Luo answered with certainty.

On hearing that Mammy Luo had sent someone over and the imperial physician might be on his way here now, Ning Qingshan felt relieved. She had heard about the incident in the imperial palace, so there was indeed such an imperial physician in the imperial palace. The Third Prince and Honored Consort Ya would be extremely worried if they knew what had happened to her, so it was reasonable for them to send the imperial physician here right away.

“Mammy, I’m sorry! I was really desperate just now, so I...” Ning Qingshan cried in a low voice at this moment and looked at Mammy Luo, who got two bruises on her face after being beaten by Ning Qingshan, with guilt. She said with guilt and sadness on her face, “Mammy, I... I’m sorry. You... You can beat me to vent your anger!”

“Young Lady, I won’t blame you. As long as you’re fine, I’m willing to do anything for you.” Seeing that Ning Qingshan stopped making a scene, Mammy Luo let go of her. She straightened up and felt pain all over at once. After all, she was old. Besides, Ning Qingshan kept beating her like crazy and bit her. Several parts of her wrists even bled because of Ning Qingshan’s biting.

“Caifen, get some ointment and put it on Mammy. Mammy did this for me, such a disappointing master. Rest assured. As long as I exist, I will never allow you to suffer. I... I’ll pay you back.” At this moment, Ning Qingshan had returned to a noble lady. Watching the bruises on Mammy Luo’s body, she burst into tears sadly.

Her words were so touching that Caifen, Feilian and Mammy Luo were moved to tears. They only felt that their Young Lady was not bad-minded, and she hurt them because she had lost control just now.

They thought that as long as the Third Prince got the message, he would definitely send the imperial physician here or even come here in person to see their master. Not only Mammy Luo and others but also Ning Qingshan thought so. Thus, they became cheerful for the moment. They asked the doctor outside to put some ointment on Ning Qingshan and gave a prescription. Meanwhile, they waited for the Third Prince to come here with the imperial physician and see Ning Qingshan.

They didn’t expect that the Third Prince Ao Mingyu was busy enough with his own affairs and had no time to go to see Ning Qingshan, not to mention to enter the imperial palace to find the imperial physician. The Third Prince’s manor was full of billowing smoke and burning fire. Obviously the fire couldn’t be controlled in a short time.

Accidents. All were accidents, a series of accidents...