A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 1041 The Secret of the Harem
"Aye, let me tell you a secret. You are not allowed to tell others."

Wu Liuer leaned into his father's ear and whispered.

"Okay, I will keep it a secret," Wu Huaiyu just treated it as a little secret between children and agreed with a smile.

"Her Royal Highness the Queen is ill. She is very ill. She has been vomiting blood recently. Her Royal Highness does not want anyone to reveal it, but I accidentally saw it and heard the white-bearded old doctor who was treating Her Highness shaking his head with a frown..."

Wu Huaiyu frowned and his expression became serious.

He held his daughter and asked patiently.

After a long time, Wu Huaiyu's face was as dark as water.

The queen's old illness relapsed, and this time it was very serious. She kept coughing up blood. The queen blocked the news about her condition, but the royal doctors were always treating her, but the doctors were helpless and the queen's condition became more and more serious.

Wu Huaiyu was a little confused.
He knew that the queen was in poor health, but why did the queen hide it?

unless,

Wu Huaiyu couldn't sit still.

Fan Xuanfu called Li Qing and Yang Muyun, and the three of them changed into hairpin dresses and went to the palace to see the queen.

"Liu'er saw the Queen vomiting blood more than once. The Queen also sealed the condition. This matter, hey, let's observe it in secret first."

"I brought back a lot of local products from Lingnan, including fish maw, bird's nest, shark's fin, dried sea cucumber, dried abalone, dried cuttlefish, etc. You can bring some to His Highness."

"Why don't Alang just help the queen to diagnose and treat her?"

Xuan Fu was also shocked,

The queen is gone, and if Li Shimin gets into trouble, there won't be many people to comfort him. Similarly, if father and son Li Shimin and Cheng Qian become violent in the future, it will be very troublesome without the queen.

Wu Huaiyu didn't stay at home either. He was tired of the endless guests.

He was really seriously ill and there was no cure, and the queen didn't want everyone to feel sad.

As long as Queen Changsun is here, Li Shimin will be more stable as a saint, and even the throne of Prince Chengqian will be safer and more stable.

He admired and even respected Queen Changsun.
Wu Huaiyu sat in the study and pondered for a while, then went to find his wife Xuan Fu.

"Liu'er, thank you for sharing your little secret with Aye, please don't tell anyone else."

Wu Huaiyu respected Empress Changsun, and also because Empress Changsun was of great help to Li Shimin.

Fan Xuanfu held Chengxun, the twenty-second son who was less than half a year old. They had been an old couple for more than ten years. She could feel that there was something different about her husband and that there was something on his mind.

"Is something wrong?"

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon. I think you should take Sanniang and Yunniang with you and go into the palace to thank Queen Changsun. Our Yingluo and Liu'er have been taken care of by the Queen for more than half a year."

"Well, keep it secret, let's hook up."

"It's impossible. Maybe it's just Liu Niang talking nonsense and the child doesn't understand."

"It's a rule that doctors don't knock on the door." Wu Huaiyu said helplessly, "If you can confirm that the queen is indeed seriously ill, I will find a way."

Huaiyu told his wife the little secret Wu Liu had told her, "The queen may be seriously ill. I want you to take the opportunity of thanking you to come to the palace to visit."

She asked all the maids to go out, leaving only the couple and their child under half a year old in the house.

People were crowding in front of every door of the Duke of Jin's Mansion. He led directly from the back garden to Leopard Square, climbed over the wall from Panda Garden to Longmen Temple,
No one expected that the dignified Sikong and Jin Guogong would actually climb over the wall and leave home.

Walking out of Longmen Temple,
The Wu family's carriage was already waiting there as ordered, and Huaiyu got on the carriage directly.
"Alang, where are you going?"

Wu Huaiyu sat in the carriage and hesitated for a moment, yes, where to go?
"Go to Qianjin Hall."

Wu Huaiyu thought for a while and finally decided to go to Qianjintang, the Wu family's medical shop. Qianjintang was the first shop opened by Wu Huaiyu, and it was also the first pot of gold he earned. Chen Xing, Zhao Xin, Zhao Yi, Wu Fatty and many other people got acquainted with him from here, including Runniang, who was still part-time at that time. The accounting room of Qianjintang.

Now Qianjin Hall has opened in every corner of the Tang Dynasty, with countless semicolons.

There are five stores in Chang'an alone.

Wu Huaiyu went to Qianjintang in Dongshi, which was also the first Qianjintang and the main name of Qianjintang.

This store is now very large. It no longer only sells Chinese patent medicines when it first opened. Now it sells both raw and cooked medicines. It also has doctors on site. It has a great reputation and many people seek medical advice.

Today is the free clinic day every ten days. Qianjintang organizes free clinics for doctors. The medicines for patients today are cheap, so the queues are also very long.

Physicians, assistants, pharmacists, assistants, apprentices, as well as pharmacists, shopkeepers, packers and handymen. They all wore clothes embroidered with the Qianjintang logo and were busy non-stop.

Seeing such a lively scene, it was not easy for Wu Huaiyu to go in and disturb them.

After thinking about it, he asked his attendant Shitou to go to Qianjintang and get a set of doctor's clothes from the shopkeeper. After a simple make-up, he suddenly changed and became a Qianjintang sitting doctor.

If you don't look carefully, you really can't tell.

"Alang, do you really want to go for a consultation?" Shitou looked at him curiously. He was so dignified. So many relatives and senior officials in the family came to visit and refused to receive them, but they climbed over the wall and left home just to see people?

"The free clinic held by Qianjin Hall every ten days is a long-standing tradition and has won the satisfaction of the people. I am also the boss and a famous doctor. I happen to be free today, so I came to participate and do my best. "

Wu Huaiyu got off the carriage,
Entering the extremely noisy and crowded Qianjin Hall,
This kind of free clinic activity every ten days will lose money. There is no charge for medical consultation, and the medicines prescribed are only charged at a low price. Even some poor people who have no money can even keep accounts on credit.

Many people cannot repay the medication they owe in their accounts.

At the end of every year, Qianjintang will conduct a check and will not collect debts from some debtors who are too poor. And some patients who owe debts are deceased and their families are poor, they will directly write off the debts in public. After death, the debts will be cancelled, and they will not ask their families for payment again.

This kind of charity costs money.

But it also won Qianjintang an excellent reputation.
The head shop manager naturally knew Wu Huaiyu, and was surprised that he came to the free clinic in such a disguise, and personally took him to a location.
"Go and do your work,"

Wu Huaiyu sent the chief shopkeeper away, and like other doctors in the store, he began to treat everyone and prescribe prescriptions.
There are many patients and there are long queues.
There are all kinds of patients,
Many people only deal with minor illnesses and drag on with serious illnesses. They simply don't see them, or they look down upon them. Qianjintang's free clinic is not available in every pharmacy and medical shop.

Hope, hear and ask,

When Wu Huaiyu sat in the clinic, the shopkeeper arranged for two physician assistants, both of whom were medical students.

After the diagnosis here, Huaiyu writes a prescription, and the assistant takes the patient to a pharmacist to fill the prescription. Finally, the clerk takes him to check out. Today's diagnosis and treatment is free, but the medicine still has to be paid. However, the medicine on the free clinic days only costs Fair price.

Of course, if we really have no money, we can only keep accounts on credit.

Fortunately, Qianjintang is big enough, with a store in the front and a warehouse and staff housing in the back. In the front, doctors see patients, pharmacists dispense medicines, and in the back there are pharmacists who process and prepare medicines...
Busy for a long time,

Wu Huaiyu was also very tired.

This half day also allowed him to see a different side of Chang'an, not only the majestic glory on the surface, but also the hard struggle at the bottom.

If you can't afford medical treatment and can't afford medicine, a minor illness will turn into a serious illness, and if you become seriously ill, you can only wait for death.

The pharmaceutical industry is also a hugely profitable industry in Datang, that is, only those in the upper class can enjoy real medical protection.
For ordinary people, although Chang'an has many herbal medicine shops and many doctors, and has more medical resources than any city in the world, these are irrelevant to the vast majority of the people.

of course,

Sometimes, in the face of life, old age, illness and death, the powerful and the common people are equal.

at night,

Huaiyu returned home with a tired and heavy heart, and still climbed over the wall to go home.

He went directly to his wife's hospital,

"How's the situation?"

Xuan Fu looked a little solemn, "The queen is very haggard..."

The Queen faced them all, and although she tried to keep herself up, Fan Xuanfu went there with a special mission, so she kept observing carefully, looking for every detail.

She confirmed that the queen was indeed seriously ill, and there were many details to prove it.

"What should we do now?" Xuan Fu asked. She really felt sorry for the queen. "Princess Jinyang and Princess Xincheng are still so young."

"I'm going to see His Royal Highness tomorrow,"

But if the queen's condition has really reached that point, I'm afraid even if the prince and emperor know about it, there will be nothing they can do to save her.

This night, Wu Huaiyu didn't sleep well.

If Queen Changsun really leaves like this,
It will undoubtedly have a great impact on the future palace structure, and will also greatly affect the emperor and prince.

The next day, Huaiyu went out with panda eyes.

This time he didn't climb over the wall again. He wanted to go to the East Palace and couldn't go secretly. Even if he was the prince's teacher, he couldn't meet the prince secretly. That would be a big taboo.

He formally went to the East Palace to meet with His Highness the Crown Prince.

Cheng Qian was very happy to see him, "I originally said I was going to visit him, but thinking that the teacher had just come back, I wanted him to rest for a few more days before talking,"

Wu Huaiyu had something on his mind and looked heavy.

He stopped the prince from making tea for the teacher himself.
"Your Highness, I have something to report to Your Majesty. It is very important."

Seeing how serious he was, Cheng Qian couldn't help but become solemn and sat down, "Teacher, please speak."

"Your Highness also knows that the eldest daughter and the Eighteenth Niang were brought into the palace by Her Highness the Queen. They were taught by them and kept company by Princess Jinyang and Princess Xincheng."

"After the eighteenth mother came back, she accidentally mentioned to me that she discovered that Her Majesty the Queen was coughing up blood,"

"Yesterday Zhuo Jing went to the palace to thank Her Highness the Queen, and when she came back she said that Her Highness was very haggard,"

"I am very worried about the queen's body,"

Wu Huaiyu proposed to visit the queen with the prince. The queen suffered from qi disease before, and Wu Huaiyu used medicine to treat it.

"We're going now."

Cheng Qian became anxious upon hearing this and quickly stood up.

The two of them rushed from the East Palace to the Tai Chi Palace and went straight to the Li Zheng Palace.

The queen was notified that the prince had arrived with Wu Huaiyu, and she couldn't help but smile bitterly. She knew that Fan Xuanfu and the others had come to see her in poor health yesterday and went back to tell Wu Huaiyu.

"Invite the prince and Sikong to come."

The queen smiled helplessly. She was already terminally ill. Even Dr. Sun said that there was no cure or cure, so she hid it because she didn't want everyone to worry. She wanted to spend the last period of her life quietly.

"Your Majesty, Wu Sikong is a disciple of the Hidden Immortal, and is revered as the King of Medicine among the people. He must have a way to cure the illness. My Majesty had an attack of Qi before, and the doctors were helpless, but it was Wu Sikong's elixir that cured her." A famous female official.

The eldest grandson was very calm, "This time is different,"

She didn't hold out much hope. The medicinal prescription that Wu Huaiyu had used previously was indeed effective. However, Wu Huaiyu also said that it could not cure the disease, but only treated the symptoms, not the root cause, and could only provide relief.

But this time, she fell ill like a mountain, which was completely different from before. Sun Simiao was also invited. He also bluntly said that Wu Huaiyu's pills were no longer effective. Her body was completely exhausted. This time the illness was severe, and there was no medicine or stone to cure it.

During this period, I was relying on the medicines of Sun Shen Yao to keep myself alive.

But time is running out,

Empress Changsun is ready to face that day calmly, but she also hopes to spend more time with her husband and children.

(End of this chapter)