"Did that quack doctor surnamed Huang also go?" Concubine Fang Pin looked up, frantic, "Foolishness, why let that quack doctor named Huang treat? No, I can't be at ease. I must go and see for myself."
Jin Xi hastily held her back, coaxing and pleading, emphasizing that the head of the Imperial Medical Bureau was also there. Only then did she manage to persuade her, exhausted by the effort.
She thought the usual whimsical master was easier to serve, unlike now, when the master seemed to have lost her senses, making it extremely difficult to attend to her. She had already pleaded emphatically yesterday, fearing her own master would walk into trouble and end up punished and imprisoned like those servants.
When she went to the Imperial Kitchen to fetch the morning meal, she hurried past places where Punishment Bureau personnel occasionally passed through, which was quite frightening.