Spring Girl's Notes

In the warm spring of March, peach pistils are just blooming, and the courtyard of Kunning Palace is deep and full of charming pink; the wings of colorful butterflies are still chilly, and the light yellow and tender willow silk ribbons are lingering with the wind.

The wind is still cold.

The scorching sun shines through the sparse treetops, casting mottled shadows under the eaves, like a gorgeously carved scene.A sparrow flitted past in surprise, as if gliding across the surface of the sun, setting off golden ripples.

Except for the fluttering of the birds' wings, there was no sound.

Several young maids stood under the eaves, holding their breath.

Through the carved window lattice, one could vaguely hear broken porcelain inside, it must be that the empress dowager dropped the medicine bowl again.

Then, there was the empress dowager's heart-piercing cough and the imperial doctor's kneeling thud.

The little maids are even more afraid, they are newcomers today.

After a while, the silver-red felt curtain was raised, and an older maid came out, and told the little maid: "Go and tell Aunt Cheng, and cook a dose of medicine for the empress dowager..."

A little court lady with a round face was smarter, and said yes, and went immediately.

The Empress Dowager has been ill for seven or eight months, and she has a persistent cough. She has consulted all the famous doctors in the world, but all of them are ineffective.She was in a bad mood.The maids who make mistakes in their errands will be punished immediately.In the past six months, the maids of Kunning Palace have changed batch after batch.

In the past, it was a good job to come to Kunning Palace to do things, but now everyone's expressions have changed, and they are afraid that they will be selected.

These little maids thought they were unlucky.

In the Kunning Palace, on the mahogany inlaid mother-of-pearl flower and bird Luohan bed, the woman lying in her clothes looks haggard, her face is purple and swollen due to severe coughing.

She tightly held the hand of her son who was sitting beside her bed wearing a dragon robe: "...Drag...all these quack doctors out for questioning! Aijia... Aijia doesn't want them to treat..."

Before he finished speaking, he coughed again.

She is in pain and anyone can feel it.

The emperor's face showed deep sorrow.

There were three imperial physicians kneeling underneath, with their heads pressed to the ground, cold sweat dripping from their foreheads.

"Queen, try another dose of medicine?" the emperor begged, "If..."

"Don't eat...don't eat!" The queen mother roared, followed by coughing again.

The emperor didn't dare to say much, and gently patted his mother on the back.

"Have been eating for more than half a month. Today is good, tomorrow it will happen again. Ai's family has been cured by these quack doctors! Let them treat the animals, let them go away!" The cough stopped for a while, and the empress dowager began to scold people.

No matter how scheming and unequivocal the woman was in the past, coughing for eight full months has completely worn out the patience of the empress dowager.

Coughing is a painful thing, eating is disturbed, and nights can't sleep.

The empress dowager was tortured to the point of emaciation, her cheekbones protruded high, and she no longer had her former abundance and grace.

The emperor felt the same way, and his thick eyebrows were furrowed.

How many doctors have been changed for the queen mother's illness?

Unfortunately, it has not worked.

It was cured once two months ago. The queen mother was very happy and asked the emperor to confer a title on the imperial doctor.

But within half a month, the empress dowager relapsed again, and her cough became stronger than before. She stayed awake for two days and nights without taking a drop of water.

The newly appointed uncle was stripped of his title and driven out of the capital.

Therefore, the imperial physicians who were eager to try all refused to treat the empress dowager because they were not good at learning.

The emperor also sent people to find several famous doctors from the people, but it still didn't work.

Cough August...

Even a strong man can't bear it, let alone the originally delicate queen mother?

But what's the use of punishing the imperial physician?They also did their best.

"You all go down!" the emperor said to several imperial physicians.The emperor who ruled the world has just turned 20 years old this year. He is at a vigorous age, but there is a bit of stagnation in his voice.

The Empress Dowager's illness has tormented the Emperor quite terribly.

Several imperial doctors hurriedly got up, saluted the emperor and queen mother, and exited Kunning Palace.

Two of the imperial doctors' backs were already soaked, and the other's legs were trembling.The three of them left the Kunning Palace before they dared to breathe.

On a March day, when it was overcast, the chills surged everywhere.

The spring is cold and the willows are rustling.

The three imperial physicians bid farewell and went home separately.

One of the imperial physicians was Qin Weisi, who was a referee from the imperial hospital.

He went out of the palace gate and was about to get into the carriage when he saw someone approaching from a distance.Looking carefully, it turned out that it was Gu Yantao, a scholar of the Eastern Pavilion, one of the emperor's favorites, who joined the cabinet at the age of 42, and was the youngest elder with a bright future.

Everyone in the court flattered him.

Qin Wei's fourth point is the imperial hospital, a small fifth-rank official.Seeing Gu Yantao, he naturally wanted to go up and salute.

"...Is the Empress Dowager feeling better?" Gu Yantao asked Qin Weisi with a smile.

The Empress Dowager was ill for seven or eight months, others may have heard some rumors vaguely, but Gu Yantao, who is a close minister, knew it all.

Qin Weisi sighed: "The old minister is not good at learning and cannot relieve the pain of the empress dowager, he deserves death!"

"Qin Tidian, don't underestimate yourself, who doesn't know that you are the master of Xinglin?" Gu Yantao comforted him, "Everything in the world depends on fate. Qin Tidian and the Queen Mother don't have that little medical relationship."

Qin Wei smiled wryly.

This is the holy hand of Chao Xinglin, if he can't cure the cough of the empress dowager, he will lose his life.

The two exchanged a few more pleasantries and said their goodbyes.

Gu Yantao heard that the emperor was waiting on the empress dowager's bedside, so he also followed Qin Wei out of the palace gates and returned home.

Back at Duke Cheng's mansion, Gu Yantao went straight back to his own yard, and discussed with his wife, Ning: "Write a letter to Yanling Mansion and ask the old man to return to Beijing to see the Queen Mother's illness? If it is cured, our family will Wealth is another level."

Yanling Mansion, also known as Changzhou Mansion, is far away in Jiangsu.

Gu Shifei, the old man of the Gu family, also raised some points from the imperial hospital in his early years. Because he cured the late emperor's serious illness, he was made a Duke of Cheng.It was only later that the late emperor gradually disliked him, so the old man resigned himself, and brought his third son and his family back to his hometown in Yanling Mansion to live up to his old age.

It's been more than six years since I left.

The old man of the Gu family's medical skills are mediocre, but his luck is good. Otherwise, why would he be made a Duke?

If it was not a last resort, Gu Yantao would not think of his father who did not help him in his official career.

Mrs. Gu, Mrs. Ning, disagreed: "... We children know best how old man's medical skills are. No matter how many doctors can't cure the empress dowager, what can the old man do? Don't you let him come back to shame? Besides, the old man has been indifferent all his life. Last month, someone from Yanling also said that the old man is teaching the third daughter, Jinzhi, to enjoy his old age, so why bother him?"

The third child of the Gu family is called Gu Yanzhen, and he returned to his hometown with the old man of the Gu family six years ago.

Gu Yanzhen's eldest daughter is named Gu Jinzhi.

Mrs. Gu Ning is good at everything, but she is high-minded and unwilling to make money.

Gu Yantao felt disdainful, and didn't bother to discuss it with Ning Shi. He went to the study by himself and wrote a letter to his third brother and his wife who were serving their father in their hometown.

He asked people to send them to Yanling Mansion in Jiangsu Province quickly.

One month later, it will be the season of beautiful flowers and swaying weeping willows in the south of the Yangtze River in April.

The third wife of the Gu family, Mrs. Song, received the letter from the uncle Gu Yantao in the capital. After reading it for a while, she was not interested and put it aside.She got up and changed into new clothes, and took her daughter Gu Jinzhi and son Gu Xuanzhi to visit her natal sister-in-law.

Today is her natal sister-in-law's birthday.

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