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Chapter 599

After taking office again, in order to pretend to be a diligent errand, Yuzhu decided to stay overnight in the duty room of Qianqing Palace tonight.

Yuzhu is the foreman, the imperial minister, as usual, he does not need to be on duty in the palace every day.

Because, there are as many as five ministers in front of the imperial court, but there is only one foreman, and no one can replace Yuzhu.

When dinner was approaching, Yu Zhu was drinking tea in the duty room, when the little eunuch Qin Ding reported that Wei Zhu had come.

Yuzhu knew in his heart that at this juncture, Wei Zhu came, and it must be Kang Mazi who had something to do with him.

After Wei Zhu came in, Zhaqian saluted, bowed his waist, and whispered, "Master Zhu, Lord Long Live called you over."

Yuzhu smiled slightly. As he got older, the old emperor's appetite became worse and worse.

No need to ask, it must be that the old emperor wants Yuzhu to go over and have dinner with him.

When Yuzhu met the old emperor, sure enough, the old emperor pointed to the little table next to the throne and said with a smile: "If you accompany me to eat together, the food will taste delicious."

Yuzhu was not too polite, and after saluting and thanking him, he sat down on the little table.

After the dishes were gradually prepared, Yuzhu could see clearly that the dishes in the palace were still the same old ones, nothing new at all.

In the past, when Prime Minister Yu Zhu was in the imperial dining room, he presided over the development of effective means to keep the dishes warm.

Otherwise, eating cold dishes with the old emperor, especially cold dishes that are quite greasy, will easily cause diarrhea.

Completely different from others, when Yuzhu accompanied the old emperor to dine, he could eat whatever he wanted, without being polite at all.

Seeing that Yuzhu was delicious, the old emperor also made an exception and used an extra bowl of rice and mutton soup.

After the meal, when the old emperor was playing chess with the jade pillar, Wang Chaoqing came to report that the imperial concubine and empress of Jingren Palace were in poor health and called the imperial physician.

The rules in the palace are strict, the concubines, no matter who they are, as long as they call the imperial doctor, they must report to the old emperor in time.

Yu Zhu also knew the reason.

The main reason is that the concubines of Manchuria are extremely susceptible to smallpox because of their sensitive constitutions.

Kang Mazi had smallpox, and if he hadn't been lucky enough to survive, he would have given up cooking a long time ago.

When Yuzhu heard that his aunt was ill, he quickly knelt down and said sincerely, "I ask for permission from Ama Khan. I want to show my filial piety and take the imperial doctor to see my aunt."

According to the rules in the palace, when the imperial physician enters the palace to see the concubines, the eunuch in charge of the imperial pharmacy can only lead the way and monitor by the way.

The old emperor knew better than anyone else that with Yu Zhu outside to take care of him, little Concubine Tong's life in the palace was extremely comfortable.

Not to mention anything else, there are as many as a dozen 300-year-old Changbai ginsengs from Concubine Tong Gui.

As for tonics such as blood swallows, they seemed to be free of money, and were piled into Jingren Palace by Yuzhu.

Yuzhu knew in his heart that after testing with modern medical equipment, the effects of ginseng and blood swallow were not as miraculous as in the legend.

However, people in this era, including the old emperor, believed in these supplements.

Now that the real power faction believed this, and Yuzhu had a lot of them, it was natural that Liu Shuijie sent them to Concubine Tong Gui.

Concubine Tong Gui is Yuzhu's aunt and father, and the old emperor can fully understand Yuzhu's filial piety.

The concubines with status in the palace all have imperial physicians whom they usually trust.

The imperial doctor who sees little Concubine Tong every day is called Cao Zhengxiu, and he is now the head of the imperial pharmacy.

In the profession of imperial doctor, from the rank of nine officials, they are already regarded as high-level technical talents.

Because, only an imperial doctor above official level is eligible to see a doctor for the old emperor or empress dowager.

After Yuzhu came out of Qianqing Palace, Cao Zhengxiu was already standing outside the gate of Rijing, waiting for Yuzhu obediently.

There were also several eunuchs who came with Cao Zhengxiu, and these people belonged to the unique eunuchs in the imperial pharmacy.

The so-called cutting, as the name suggests, is a proper term for brewing Chinese medicinal materials.

In Tai Hospital, there is a food doctor who is mainly responsible for copying.There is also a cutting doctor who is responsible for the preparation of medicinal materials.

However, the doctor Qiezao cannot replace the eunuch Qiezao, they belong to the same job in different yamen.

In the palace, all the things that the emperor enters can only be handled by the eunuchs, and it is absolutely impossible for foreign ministers to give them their hands.

Today's imperial pharmacy is under the jurisdiction of Yuzhu, so the eunuchs including Cao Zhengxiu and Qiezao all bowed their heads and bowed their heads respectfully.

"Let's go." Holding the waist badge awarded by the old emperor in his hand, Yu Zhu took the lead to walk into Jingren Palace.

Thousands of taels have already been paid in the palace. Among the two eunuchs serving Yuzhu, Qin Ding is in charge of carrying the lantern, and Du Lin is in charge of calling the door.

Jingren Palace is just east of Rijing Gate and north of Yuqing Palace.

After calling to open the palace gate, Yu Zhu led Cao Zhengxiu into the bedroom of Concubine Tong Gui.

Yuzhu often walked in the palace, so he naturally knew very well that the so-called imperial concubine's bedroom was actually just a small single room in the sun with an area of ​​about fifteen square meters.

Not to mention the imperial concubine's bedroom, even the old emperor's bedroom is no more than twenty square meters.

"Nephew Yu Zhu, please give my aunt and father peace."

"Minister Cao Zhengxiu, I respectfully invite the noble concubine to rest in peace."

"Come on." Little Concubine Tong cried out with great difficulty.

After Yu Zhu got up, he could see clearly that little Concubine Tong was on the bed, her face was blue and gray, and her lips were so dry.

Things are clearly not looking good!

Yu Zhu hurriedly said: "Auntie, my nephew has brought Imperial Physician Cao here, why don't you hurry up and ask for your pulse?"

Little Concubine Tong couldn't help retching for a while, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, then panted and said: "It's all up to your arrangement."

Cao Zhengxiu also ignored the bad smell in the room, knelt down on the side of the couch, and carefully observed the complexion of Little Concubine Tong while taking the pulse.

After the procedure of looking, hearing and asking, Yuzhu received Cao Zhengxiu's wink, and followed him out of the bedroom.

"Zhongtang, the pathogenesis of the imperial concubine is that damp heat, epidemic poison, and cold damp accumulate in the intestines, stagnation of qi and blood, damage to the lipid membrane and blood collaterals, turning into pus and blood, and loss of large intestine conduction. If the humble official has not made a wrong diagnosis, It should be dysentery." In front of Yuzhu, Cao Zhengxiu was not at all worried about hiding anything, so he immediately confessed.

Yuzhu couldn't help but gasped. In this era of lack of medical care and medicine, getting dysentery meant that he was close to death.

"How should I treat it?" Yuzhu didn't know Chinese medicine, so he had to suppress his nervousness and asked Cao Zhengxiu calmly.

Cao Zhengxiu lowered his head and said: "To tell you the truth, Zhongtang, this is damp-heat dysentery. It should clear the intestines and remove dampness, regulate qi and blood. I thought that we will soon make Shaoyao decoction. Among them, peony and honeysuckle should be doubled..."

"Quickly prescribe the prescription and make the medicine right away." Yuzhu knew it well, in this era without antibiotics, saving lives is like putting out a fire, so he didn't dare to hesitate at all.

Unexpectedly, the deputy chief eunuch of the imperial pharmacy said, "Master Hui Zhu, if you want to decoct medicine after you have ordered Qianliang, you must order from Lord Long Live."

(End of this chapter)