Actually, this shouldn’t be considered much of an incident. At any other time, when people from noble families fell ill, they would naturally have more opportunities than commoners.

Last time, hadn’t Prefecture Magistrate summoned all the physicians in the city for his son? During that period, others waiting for medical treatment naturally had no choice, and no one dared to accuse the Prefecture Magistrate of seizing physicians with his power.

The common people actually understood this in their hearts and accepted it. After all, if they truly encountered nobles seeking medical treatment, without anyone saying anything, they would automatically yield.

But seeing someone as arrogant as Chang Yuncheng was truly a first.

If you’re going to do such a thing, at least apologize or say something pleasant to hear. But not only did he not do so, he even said the person deserved to die.

This was truly bullying people beyond endurance.

“Sue him!”

Someone in the crowd shouted first.

These words made the scene fall quiet.

Sue?

“The Great Ancestor said, ‘Those who dare to harm my people shall not be pardoned!'”

The common people in the crowd didn’t quite understand such refined words and turned around to look, seeing several people in the crowd wearing long robes – clearly scholars, both old and young.

Could they sue?

“In those days, the Great Ancestor personally issued the Great Announcement in three volumes, permitting elderly respected ones throughout villages and marketplaces, as well as gentlemen, to evaluate officials. The Prince of Marquis Dingxi is a plague to the people, running rampant in the locality – truly detestable!” Several elderly scholars were filled with righteous indignation, their beards trembling as they shouted loudly.

“We shall appeal to the Surveillance Commissioner!”

“Right, let’s sue him!”

“Go to the capital to petition the Emperor!”

“Exactly, let’s petition the Emperor!”

Things were getting serious…

Qi Yue’s face turned pale.

Although she didn’t understand what this “Great Announcement” these people were talking about was, she knew that at any time, public opinion was something the court feared – it could be followed but not suppressed. If this really escalated, Chang Yuncheng would be…

“Listen to me, it’s not like that. This injured person died from excessive blood loss, it’s simply…” She shouted loudly.

But at this moment, her voice was quickly drowned out by the clamoring crowd.

Due to the commotion here, Huang Ziyang received news and rushed over. Huang Ziyang’s playmates naturally followed along. The newcomers didn’t know what had actually happened, and the latecomers didn’t know who the opponent was. With shouting, yelling, and cursing, the scene finally descended into chaos.

Looking at this chaotic scene, Qi Yue covered her head and crouched down heavily.

Unlucky! Unlucky! Unlucky!

So unlucky!

With things escalating to this point, the authorities were alarmed and brought the opposing parties to the yamen, temporarily resolving the chaos here, but many people still gathered outside the prefecture yamen.

People demanding an explanation.

Although there were fewer people inside the prefecture yamen, it wasn’t much quieter compared to outside.

“What madness has possessed you! What business is this of yours! Are you only satisfied when someone smashes my Qianjin Hall?”

Qi Yue’s furious voice echoed through the hall.

She looked at Chang Yuncheng, circling around him like a raging small beast.

“Miss Qi, Miss Qi, the Prince’s urgent desire to save his mother is understandable…” Prefecture Magistrate couldn’t help but speak in a low voice to mediate.

Mind your demeanor, mind your demeanor – this was his prefecture yamen hall, not the back courtyard of their Qianjin Hall…

“Understand my ass!” Qi Yue shouted.

Prefecture Magistrate immediately shrank to one side.

This woman had no demeanor, but he couldn’t lose his demeanor too.

“What do you take me, Qi Yue, for? Your urgent desire to save your mother? Your urgent desire to save your mother – should I be afraid of you? What do you want others to think of me! Am I, Qi Yue, someone who values life over death and fears you, this powerful person?” Qi Yue looked at Chang Yuncheng angrily.

“Fearing the powerful isn’t wrong,” Chang Yuncheng said flatly.

Since entering, he had been sitting in a chair with a calm expression, as if nothing had happened.

Fearing the powerful wasn’t wrong, but for a physician, being unable to treat severe injuries was wrong.

Liu Pucheng on the side sighed with a complex expression.

Qi Yue ground her teeth with a grinding sound.

“I don’t need you to defend me!” She said word by word. “No one looks down on people like you do!”

Speaking of this, she could no longer contain her anger and lifted her foot to kick him hard.

Chang Yuncheng remained seated upright, letting her kick his legs twice without moving, not even frowning.

Prefecture Magistrate couldn’t help but wince in sympathy.

This woman really knew how to pick her targets – she was kicking all the painful bony spots!

After kicking twice, Qi Yue angrily turned to look at the family of four kneeling to the side.

The corpse was also placed in the hall, and the family of four huddled together sobbing.

“Put your hand on your conscience and tell me,” she looked at this family and said, “what exactly do you want to do?”

Before this family could speak, someone outside spoke up.

“Put your hand on your conscience and tell me?” Wang Qingchun strode in with a cold smile. “Miss Qi, you should put your hand on your conscience and tell us whether you could treat but didn’t treat.”

He couldn’t help but regret leaving too early and missing the good show that followed.

There was still such a good show!

Qi Yue turned around and spat rudely.

“You try treating him! If you can cure him, I’ll call you grandfather!” She shouted. “If you can’t cure him, you’re my grandson!”

This woman was too crude!

Everyone in the hall except Chang Yuncheng looked embarrassed.

Wang Qingchun’s face turned iron-blue with anger.

“Now it’s not about whether I can treat, but about you, Miss Qi, being able to treat but not treating!” He glared and said. “I’m poorly talented and skilled, inferior to others, but you’re different, Divine Physician Miss Qi. I admit I can’t treat – that’s not shameful, but being able to treat but not treating is shameful!”

“Shameful your sister!” Qi Yue grabbed the teacup from the nearby table – specially prepared by Prefecture Magistrate for Chang Yuncheng – and threw it at Wang Qingchun.

Not expecting her to use her hands as well as her mouth, Wang Qingchun dodged somewhat awkwardly, but still got a corner of his clothing splashed.

“You shrew!” Wang Qingchun cursed angrily.

“You mad dog!” Qi Yue cursed back just as rudely.

If the opponent wasn’t a woman, the two would probably be wrestling together by now.

Prefecture Magistrate wiped his sweat.

“Both of you, stop! Stop!” He said hurriedly, trying to maintain the solemnity of the court.

“Look at yourself! I can treat, I can treat – if you treat me like an immortal and worship me, then I can treat!” Qi Yue spat and walked away with a wave of her hand.

Wang Qingchun wiped his clothing corner haphazardly, his eyelids twitching with anger.

“Now you say you can’t treat, of course you say you can’t treat – you and your husband have deep feelings!” He sneered. “Your former mother-in-law, well, a former mother-in-law is still a mother-in-law…”

He said this while looking at that family.

“You can only blame your bad luck,” he shook his head and said. “You just happened to encounter someone’s mother-in-law falling ill. No matter who it was, they couldn’t possibly treat you instead of their own mother-in-law…”

Oh my goodness, this fellow really was…

Qi Yue got agitated again and grabbed a nearby stool.

“Getting anxious, getting anxious, flying into a rage from shame?” Wang Qingchun shouted while carefully guarding and dodging. “This is a court of law – having reason doesn’t depend on speaking loudly. You’re being so unreasonable, daring to act but not daring to take responsibility!”

“Still talking about daring to act but not taking responsibility – who dares to act but not take responsibility! Wang Qingchun, you go kneel at the city gate first, then come talk to me!” Qi Yue shouted while holding the stool.

“What are you doing, you’re hitting people, you’re hitting people – can’t argue so you’re bringing up unrelated matters!” Wang Qingchun said while making defensive gestures.

Looking at these two, Prefecture Magistrate had a severe headache.

“Miss Qi, Miss Qi,” he stepped forward – naturally he couldn’t pull Qi Yue, so he could only grab the stool. “Let’s talk nicely, let’s talk nicely.”

Qi Yue angrily released the stool, and Wang Qingchun also flicked his sleeves.

“Now what needs to be resolved is whether this person died because he could be treated but wasn’t treated, or because he simply couldn’t be treated and died,” Prefecture Magistrate coughed. “We need to give the people an explanation, or else if these people really petition the Emperor, that would be serious! Let me tell you, don’t expect me to stop them – the Great Ancestor issued an order back then that anyone who dares to stop people from petitioning the Emperor would be executed along with their nine generations of family!”

“Of course he couldn’t be treated!”

“Of course he could be treated!”

Qi Yue and Wang Qingchun’s voices rang out simultaneously, but with completely opposite meanings.

“I say, Miss Qi, Divine Physician Qi, what are you being modest about now? You’re really being modest,” Wang Qingchun sneered.

Not like when you dealt with me before, full of arrogance saying things like “you’re ignorant, you’re incompetent, just because you can’t treat doesn’t mean I can’t treat!”

Didn’t you say you could treat everything? How are you cowering now?

“I’m different from you – one must have self-awareness. I know what I can and can’t do, unlike you who doesn’t know your own capabilities,” Qi Yue sneered back.

“That’s well said. Miss Qi, since you dared to take on this patient, you naturally knew your own capabilities. What’s this? Not admitting it now?” Wang Qingchun snorted.

Prefecture Magistrate slapped his forehead.

Here they go again…

“Can you two stop bickering? Can this matter be resolved just by talking?” He put on a stern expression and demanded.

“Of course it can!”

This time the two answered in unison.

“This matter is resolved by talking it through,” Qi Yue said. “I’m the physician, and I was the one who examined the patient, so naturally I have the say.”

“What a joke – you have the say? In this matter, anyone can have the say except you,” Wang Qingchun sneered, looking toward Chang Yuncheng. “One day as husband and wife, a hundred days of affection – you relatives naturally favor each other. Miss Qi, what would it matter if you just admitted it? This is human nature, nothing wrong with it. Although it violates medical ethics, why would you rather tarnish your own medical skills and say you couldn’t save him? Why put yourself through this!”

“Wang Qingchun!” Qi Yue pointed at him and shouted. “It seems talking won’t work, so we’ll have to let facts speak! You go stab yourself with a plow blade right now, then have a bamboo pole pierce through your chest, and see if I can save you!”

Bah, even a madman wouldn’t do such a thing!

This woman was already frantic with rage. Wang Qingchun laughed wildly in his heart.

Excellent – this woman finally has such a day!

Qi Yue was truly about to go mad with anger. As the saying goes, “better to offend a gentleman than a petty person” – it was to avoid situations like today.

He just had to pester her unreasonably!

Qi Yue lifted her foot to step forward, preparing to get physical, when a hand grabbed her arm.

“Enough,” Chang Yuncheng said, looking at Wang Qingchun.

Although this man was thin, he was also sturdy, carrying the aura of battlefield campaigns.

Speaking of which, the people of Yongqing Prefecture weren’t very familiar with the Prince of Marquis Dingxi. First, unlike other dandy young masters, he hadn’t spent his days cockfighting, playing with dogs, fighting, and causing trouble in his youth, and almost never attended any major occasions. Second, after growing up, he had left home.

As a fellow townsman, Wang Qingchun’s understanding of Chang Yuncheng had only increased after arriving in the capital.

Mixing in the Imperial Medical Academy, though not an important government office, he often moved among people from important offices, so he could often hear evaluations among court officials.

Though Chang Yuncheng was young, from what Wang Qingchun had heard, he was quite favored by the Emperor. As the son of a meritorious noble, entering the military was just to gain some credentials, and promotion wasn’t necessary since they fundamentally couldn’t serve long-term in the military. Even if appointed to positions, they wouldn’t hold important posts in the military – the Emperor was on guard against this. But this Chang Yuncheng was different. The Emperor was quite straightforward about promoting him, and from what those officials said, there seemed to be intention to eventually make him a General.

Although Chang Yuncheng wasn’t yet thirty and becoming a General was still a distant prospect, these officials looked at long-term matters – they didn’t care about immediate concerns.

This man was somewhat untouchable…

Wang Qingchun felt somewhat intimidated for a moment. If this escalated, he would be offending this man.

But what was there to fear! Speaking of offense, he’d already offended him!

If this really escalated, he occupied the moral high ground! Besides, it wasn’t him who had given offense – this Chang Yuncheng was bullying people with his power. Speaking small, it wasn’t much – which powerful person doesn’t bully with their power? But if you really wanted to make it big, it could truly become a major incident.

Even if the Emperor favored him, the Great Ancestor’s Great Announcement still sat in the Hall of Diligent Government. No matter what, he’d have to weigh which was more important…

If Chang Yuncheng fell, then he naturally wouldn’t have any problems. He might even gain some reputation for high moral character and righteous speech. Could he perhaps get promoted in the Imperial Medical Academy?