usatvline Chapter 94 094 Weaving Fate with 3 Stitches
Chapter 94 094 Weaving Fate with 3 Stitches
Chapter 94 094 Thirteen Needles of Weaving Life
Meanwhile, back at Ciyuantang, after drinking the medicine prescribed by Doctor Xu, Old Madam Song fell asleep. However, her sleep was extremely restless. Not only did her fever remain high, but she was also plagued by nightmares, and she would often break out in a cold sweat, soaking the bedding beneath her.
Marquis Anshi had been watching over Madam Song in Ciyuantang. Seeing that something was wrong, he quickly asked Doctor Xu to prescribe new medicine and administer acupuncture twice more, but it still had no effect.
Just as he was in a state of utter panic, a maid announced that the eldest young lady and young master Xun had arrived. Marquis Anshi frowned and said, "Why are they causing trouble at a time like this? Tell them to get out of here!"
Qiu Jin, the maid of Old Madam Song, said, "My lord, the eldest young lady is carrying a medicine box and said she wants to show it to the old lady."
"Even Doctor Xu is helpless with this disease, do you think she has the ability to cure it?" Marquis Anshi didn't trust Ye Pianran at all, and waved his hand impatiently, "Go, go, let them go."
Unexpectedly, Ye Pianran, without waiting for the maid to announce her arrival, picked up her medicine chest and walked into Old Madam Song's room on her own. Ye Yanxun followed closely behind her, his face filled with an apologetic and helpless smile, and softly called out to An Shihou, "Father... Ran'er, she..."
Marquis Anshi raised an eyebrow and glared at Ye Pianran, angrily saying, "Didn't I tell you to go back? You've really gone too far!"
Ye Pianran ignored his anger, only glancing at Old Madam Song on the bed. Perhaps due to being "possessed by evil spirits" last night, Old Madam Song's face was dull and lifeless, ashen like a dead person, with a dark aura seemingly gathering between her brows. Coupled with the faint sandalwood incense wafting in the air and the occasional mutterings from her mouth, she exuded an eerie feeling.
Suppressing the goosebumps rising all over her body, Ye Pianran said, "Father, Grandmother is so ill, why didn't you send someone to Lanxin Courtyard to inform me? What if this delays Grandmother's treatment?"
"You? You've only just started learning medicine, how could you possibly diagnose any illnesses! Stop fooling around here and go back!" Marquis Anshi rebuked him with a stern face.
"Dr. Xu?" Ye Pianran smiled slightly. "Is he the Dr. Xu who failed to diagnose the deadly poison in my mother's body, allowing her to take the poison for three years, and who even misdiagnosed my mother's pulse when she was trying to detoxify her?"
Doctor Xu was extremely embarrassed by her words, feeling ashamed and inexplicably guilty. "Miss is right, I am indeed lacking in medical skills."
"Dr. Xu, there's no need to be modest. It's not that you lack skill, but rather that you've been unlucky and have encountered some rare and unusual diseases," Ye Pianran said calmly.
"A strange illness?" Doctor Xu's eyes lit up. "Could it be that Miss has already figured out the cause of the old lady's illness?"
"I wasn't sure at first, but when I arrived here and saw my grandmother, I knew what was wrong with her," Ye Pianran said, walking to the bedside to take Madam Song's pulse.
Marquis Anshi, hearing her seemingly mysterious words, asked with skepticism, "Ran'er, are you really so sure?"
"Father, please rest assured, since I have come, I have come fully prepared," Ye Pianran said, frowning as she carefully observed Madam Song's pulse.
Marquis Anshi was now quite curious: "Doctor Xu has already prescribed two doses of medicine to dispel the cold and performed acupuncture to dissipate heat, but neither of them worked. What do you plan to do now?"
Withdrawing her hand, Ye Pianran turned to look at Doctor Xu and asked, "Doctor Xu, do you really think that Grandmother's persistent high fever and delirium are caused by fright and a cold?"
Dr. Xu, who had been very confident in his diagnosis, now hesitated: "Isn't this the old lady's symptom?"
"Yes, and no," Ye Pianran said.
Ye Yanxun chuckled lightly: "Ran'er, yes is yes, and no is no. Your ambiguity only makes your father worry."
In fact, Ye Yanxun shared the same thought as An Shihou. He didn't believe that Ye Pianran, with her current abilities, could cure an illness that even Doctor Xu couldn't handle. Moreover, among everyone in the room, only he knew the real reason for Old Madam Song's abnormality, and Ye Pianran simply couldn't possibly save her.
"Brother misunderstood Ran'er's meaning. Ran'er says yes because Grandmother's illness is indeed as Dr. Xu diagnosed. She says no because there is another main reason that made Grandmother like this, which is poisoning."
As Ye Pianran spoke, her gaze swept lightly across Ye Yanxun's face, and the hint of mockery in her eyes made Ye Yanxun's pupils shrink suddenly.
She could actually tell that the old lady was poisoned! How could that be? Has her medical skill become so amazing without her even realizing it?
Ye Pianran was merely testing Ye Yanxun. Seeing his genuine astonishment, she immediately understood. Ha, if she wasn't mistaken, this poison was probably from Ye Yingrou again, wasn't it? To bring down her and her mother, these two were even willing to harm their grandmother; they truly used any means necessary.
"How dare someone poison Ciyuantang! This is outrageous!" Marquis Anshi was furious and immediately shouted, "Guards! Guards!"
Hearing An Shihou's call, Steward Ye, who was guarding outside Ciyuan Hall, rushed into the house and knelt before An Shihou: "What are your orders, Your Excellency!"
"Immediately summon all the guards in the manor and surround the entire Ciyuan Hall. Investigate thoroughly what food the old lady ate yesterday and what she touched! If anyone is found to have poisoned the old lady, kill them without mercy!"
"Yes!"
Hearing the uniform footsteps of the guards outside, Ye Yanxun suddenly clenched his fists tightly, trying to appear calm.
After giving his instructions, Marquis Anshi turned to Ye Pianran and asked urgently, "Ran'er, is the poison your grandmother is suffering from difficult to cure? Does she need any help?"
"No need, I am enough on my own. Please step back a few steps, Father, and give Ran'er some space," Ye Pianran said. After An Shihou stepped back to Ye Yanxun's side, she took out a row of silver needles of different lengths and sizes from her medicine box, lit an oil lamp and placed it beside her. With a focused expression, she heated the needle tips over the fire.
After the needle tip was heated red-hot, she took out peony petals that she had prepared beforehand from her medicine box. With a silver needle piercing through the entire petal, her ten fingers flew swiftly and accurately, inserting the needle and petal into several major acupoints on Old Madam Song's face. She inserted a total of thirteen needles, each with a red petal attached. This unheard-of treatment method completely astonished everyone in the room.
Dr. Xu searched through his own medical experience and that of his colleagues over the years, but found that none of them could explain the skill Ye Pianran had displayed. He couldn't help but mutter to himself: No wonder the young lady doesn't like him. It turns out that the young lady's medical skills have long surpassed his!
But what they didn't know was that the key to Ye Pianran's skill wasn't the silver needles or the technique, but rather the peony petals pierced by the silver needles.
Those petals were picked from peonies planted in the Langhuan Spirit Realm. Because they grew naturally in the realm and were watered with spiritual spring water, the sap contained in the petals could also detoxify people. Although the effect was not as good as the spiritual spring water, it was more than enough to treat Old Madam Song.
The sap of the peony flower flowed slowly into Madam Song's body through the silver needle. Before long, a wisp of black thread was forced out by the peony sap, climbing up the silver needle and quickly turning the originally vibrant peony petals black. Madam Song's ashen face, which had been ashen like that of a corpse, gradually returned to its original state with this change.
After Ye Pianran forced the poison out of Madam Song's body, she took out silver needles and withered flower petals, cleaned them, and then used a different set of needles to insert them into Madam Song's body.
Doctor Xu understood this set of acupuncture techniques. Wasn't it the same set he had used to reduce fever and calm the mind for Old Madam Song before? It turned out that to treat Old Madam Song, he had to detoxify first before he could reduce the fever; otherwise, the evil fire in Old Madam Song's body could not be suppressed.
Dr. Xu suddenly realized, and his gaze towards Ye Pianran unconsciously carried a hint of admiration.
After administering two sets of acupuncture, Ye Pianran checked Madam Song's forehead again and found that the frighteningly high fever had subsided considerably. She then put the silver needles and other instruments back into her medicine box, stood up, and said:
"Alright, Grandmother's poison has been neutralized, and her fever has subsided a bit. After drinking the medicine prescribed by Doctor Xu and resting for two days, she will be fully recovered."
Marquis Anshi breathed a long sigh of relief and said to Ye Pianran with a gentle expression, "Ran'er, we are so grateful to you this time, otherwise your grandmother would probably be in grave danger."
Ye Pianran smiled but did not speak. Doctor Xu leaned closer and asked impatiently, "Miss, may I be so bold as to ask what kind of acupuncture technique you just used? Why have I never heard of this technique in any books or in the martial arts world?"
The question asked by Doctor Xu was exactly what Ye Yanxun was wondering about. He turned his gaze to Ye Pianran, trying to see some clues on her face.
"Doctor Xu, have you ever heard of the 'Thirteen Ghost Needles'?" Ye Pianran asked.
Doctor Xu was taken aback, his eyes widening in surprise: "Does Miss mean that what you just performed was the legendary 'Thirteen Ghost Needles'?"
"What is 'Thirteen Ghost Needles'? Why does that name sound so strange?" Marquis Anshi asked, frowning.
"Your Excellency," Doctor Xu said, "'The Thirteen Ghost Needles' is a folk acupuncture technique used to cure diseases and exorcise evil spirits. Once cured, similar symptoms will never recur, hence it is also known as the 'Thirteen Ghost Needles.' However, this technique is a closely guarded secret of the medical community, and ordinary people cannot easily see it. Even I have only heard of it." Doctor Xu became more and more excited as he spoke. "I never expected that Miss would actually learn this technique and be able to use it skillfully. It truly makes me look at you with new respect!"
Ye Yanxun clenched his fists so tightly that his nails dug into his flesh, using the piercing pain to remind himself not to lose his composure on the spot.
"Ran'er, when did you learn such a skill? Why didn't you tell us?" Ye Yanxun asked with a forced smile.
Ye Pianran's face was covered by a veil, so her expression couldn't be seen, but her watery eyes curved into a smile: "It wasn't long, I learned it during the time when my elder brother went to Xuzhou."
So, she's been hiding in her room all this time to study this acupuncture technique? Was Jasmine's claim of hearing a man's voice in her room true or false?
“However…” Ye Pianran paused suddenly, a sly glint in her eyes: “What I just used was not exactly the ‘Thirteen Ghost Needles,’ but rather a unique needling technique that I created myself based on the incantation of the ‘Thirteen Ghost Needles,’ combined with some insights I gained from studying medicine. It is called ‘Thirteen Life-Weaving Needles.’”