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Chapter 291 No Need to Force
Gu Chen also smiled bitterly, "Since I started studying medicine, this is the first time I've seen a patient become worse as I treat him.

I...feel deeply frustrated and helpless."

Ye Wanqing also spoke up: "Doctor Gu, this is not your fault, you don't have to blame yourself.

We all know Xinrou's situation.

You should take a good rest first and wait for news from Jingchen."

Gu Chen responded: "Okay."

Afraid that Gu Chen would think too much if he was alone, Ye Wanqing invited him to have tea together.

The three of them came to the pavilion together.

Ye Wanqing said: "I heard from the servants earlier that the servant in charge of purchasing saw someone selling sweet pomegranates in the city and bought a basket.

I asked someone to buy a lot, let’s try some together.”

Yingxiang led the maid to prepare tea and snacks, and also washed the sweet pomegranates and other fruits and placed them on the table.

Chu Anlan picked up a large and brightly colored pomegranate and asked, "Qing'er, can pomegranates be used to make wine?
I’ve heard of plum wine, peach wine, and grape wine, but I’ve never heard of pomegranate wine.”

"Pomegranates can be used to make wine." Ye Wanqing smiled and said, "Not only pomegranates, but also apricots, pears, lychees, bayberries... can all be used to make wine.

However, fruits like lychees and pomegranates are expensive and not necessities for many ordinary people. Buying them just to try is a luxury, not to mention using them to make wine.

Fewer people buy it, fewer people grow it, and the price is higher.”

"It's probably impossible to buy ready-made pomegranate wine, but I still want to try it..." Chu Anlan muttered softly.

On the side, Gu Chen reminded: "The prince's foot injury has not healed yet, so he should not drink."

"understood……"

Chu Anlan stretched out his voice and threw the big and beautiful pomegranate in his hand to Gu Chen: "Doctor Gu, you have worked hard recently. This pomegranate is the biggest and most beautiful. I will give it to you."

Gu Chen took it with both hands: "Thank you, Prince."

Chu Anlan smiled and picked up another pomegranate, broke it in half, and handed one half to Ye Wanqing: "Qing'er, try it."

Ye Wanqing took it with a smile.

Freshly picked pomegranates have plump, translucent and bright red seeds, just like the finest red agate.

Ye Wanqing tasted one and said, "Very sweet."

Chu Anlan said: "The ones sold outside are indeed much more beautiful than the ones in the corner of our courtyard.

Moreover, it doesn’t taste sour at all.

I have eaten many pomegranates before, but they were all small and sour, so sour that they made your teeth fall out, and they were not cheap. "

Gu Chen said quietly: "It's sour, it can be used to make wine."

He asked the maid for a knife, cut the pomegranate skin a few times, carefully peeled off the skin, and used a plate and a silver spoon to pick out the pomegranate seeds...

The whole process was neither hurried nor slow.

Chu Anlan glanced at Gu Chen's white fingers, then looked at his own hands stained with pomegranate juice, and suddenly laughed: "Qing'er, look, compared to Gu Chen, I look like a rude and reckless man."

Ye Wanqing laughed: "What about me?"

As she spoke, she raised her finger.

Her fingertips were also covered with red juice.

Hearing this, Gu Chen smiled a bit embarrassedly: "I just can't keep my hands idle, so I want to find something to do...

Doesn't the prince want to try pomegranate wine? Why don't we peel the pomegranates together and try to make some wine?"

"Okay!" Chu Anlan immediately became excited: "Are there enough pomegranates at home? Definitely not enough!
I will ask someone to buy more wine, both sour and sweet, and make more wine, just in case it tastes good..."

So, Ye Wanqing asked Yingxiang to arrange someone to go out and buy pomegranates.

When Jingchen came back, there were already several baskets of pomegranates in the yard.

Chu Anlan was staring at the servants, checking each of them to see if their nails were clean. He also urged them to wash their hands several times before he assigned them to peel pomegranates.

Jingchen walked up to Ye Wanqing with something in his hand, bowed, and whispered, "Princess, I have something to report, but I'm afraid I can't explain it in a few words."

Can't tell?
It seems that things are a bit serious...

Ye Wanqing stood up and said, "My Lord, Doctor Gu, can you please spare me a moment to talk?"

The three washed their hands and went into the front hall with Jingchen. After entering, Jingchen first closed the door behind him, then took out two pottery jars, one black and one yellow, from the package he brought back.

He arranged the pottery jars in a row: "The yellow pottery jars contain the leftover medicine residue from the prescription written by Doctor Gu.

The black pottery jar contained the leftovers from the soup that Madam Ling prepared herself.

Soup residue?

Chu Anlan was surprised: "Why did you bring back the leftovers from other people's soup?"

Without waiting for Jingchen to answer, Gu Chen spoke first: "There is something wrong with the residue of this soup."

Gu Chen took two clean empty tea cups, poured the residue that Fengchuan brought back into the empty tea cups, and used a silver spoon to remove the residue.

Afterwards, he examined the two residues separately.

Ye Wanqing calmed down and watched him examine quietly.

Chu Anlan was the kind of person who couldn't sit still, so he picked up a silver spoon and scooped out the medicine residue that Gu Chen had skimmed off.

He picked up a tablet of medicine: "I know this, ginseng tablets."

Gu Chen took a look and said, "It is indeed ginseng."

Chu Anlan said: "What a great learning opportunity, it's a pity that Chen Xi is not here today."

Gu Chen said: "Your Highness, why don't you take a look and see if you find anything?"

Find?

What did you find?
Chu Anlan continued to pick up the medicinal residue.

Ye Wanqing sat at the side, leaned forward slightly to look over here, moved her nose, and gently reminded: "Sir, try smelling the medicine residue."

Gu Chen also looked at Chu Anlan.

Chu Anlan did as he was told, but what he smelled was the medicine that Gu Chen had prescribed: "It smells like normal medicine residue."

Gu Chen pushed the so-called "soup" residue in front of Chu Anlan and said, "Smell this, Prince."

Chu Anlan came forward.

He was surprised when he sniffed it, "Is it alcohol? I smelled a faint smell of alcohol before, and I thought I was mistaken."

"It smells like liquor." Gu Chen crushed the medicine residue between his fingertips and sniffed it: "Liquor, Allium macrostemon, Trichosanthes kirilowii...

Princess, do you think it sounds familiar?
This prescription has been passed down for hundreds of years and is often used by folk doctors to treat patients with heart disease.

Previously, the doctor in Lin'an had prescribed this prescription for Mrs. Ling, but later stopped using it.

The prescription I wrote for Madam Ling recently did not include these herbs."

Chu Anlan frowned: "So, in addition to taking the prescription prescribed by Gu Chen, Xinrou also took other prescriptions?"

Ye Wanqing let out a breath of foul air: "I don't know how to comfort a person who is so hopeless.

We have done what we can do.”

What couldn't be done, has now been done...

Gu Chen tightened and loosened his fingers, still a little unwilling: "I'll go talk to Madam Ling."

Ye Wanqing wanted to say something, but in the end she said nothing: "Just do your best, don't force it."

"I understand."

Gu Chen packed up and went out with his attendants.

After he left, Chu Anlan put his hands behind his head and leaned back: "Hey..."

Ye Wanqing said softly: "During lunch, Xinrou said a few words to me..."

She repeated what Lu Xinrou had said to her during the meal.

After hearing this, Chu Anlan sat up straight and said, "She must be feeling too uncomfortable and feel like she can't hold on any longer, right?
Today, when I saw her, I was also shocked.

I thought maybe Xiao Fengnian was making a fuss because she didn’t get enough rest last night…”

Ye Wanqing felt a little heavy.

(End of this chapter)