Song Yi

Chapter 254 Wu Jieyu's Cold and Fever Disease

Du Wenhao collected himself, only to realize that the one kneeling on the ground was an old eunuch, lying on the ground, unable to see clearly.

"Excuse me, are you...?" Du Wenhao asked suspiciously.

The old eunuch raised his head, with a wrinkled face and a benevolent look on his face, he kowtowed and said, "Master Du, this old servant is from Zhaogan Palace, I beg you to go and see my mother."

Du Wenhao quickly thought about the gardens where these concubines lived in the harem, but the emperor had too many women, plus the widows of the previous emperors, etc., he couldn't think of the master of the Zhaoqian Palace. who.

Seeing Du Wenhao's bewildered expression, the old eunuch raised his eyes to see someone approaching from a distance, getting closer and closer, and asked anxiously, "My lord, is it convenient for me to take a step to talk?"

Du Wenhao saw that the eunuch seemed afraid of being seen, and he naturally knew that the palace was full of ears, as the little eunuch said. It seems that the master of the Zhaogan Palace should not be among the women that Song Shenzong loved. It can't be a concubine, so I can't call myself to serve the doctor when I'm sick, so I have to hide and ask myself.He nodded in agreement.

The old eunuch walked ahead, and Du Wenhao followed, avoiding the eunuchs who came over, and came to a secluded place, seeing that there was no one around, the old eunuch then turned around and saluted, saying:
"My lord, our lady has been ill for a long time and has not improved, and her condition is getting worse day by day. There are rumors in the palace that Mr. Du, your medical skills are like a god, and you can bring the dead back to life, so this old slave has been waiting at the gate of the palace, and came in with your lord. I am using this opportunity to implore my lord, I have offended my lord, and I ask my lord to forgive me!"

Du Wenhao waved his hand: "Your mother is...?"

"Returning to my lord, my maiden's surname is Wu, and she is Jieyu."

"Wu Jieyu?" Du Wenhao's heart skipped a beat, he really said that Cao Cao Cao Cao has arrived, he was still talking about Wu Jieyu just now, now someone from her palace asked him to see her sick.No wonder the old eunuch was afraid that others would see that the master of Zhaoqian Palace turned out to be Wu Jieyu.

Eunuch Jiao once told Du Wenhao something about Wu Jieyu.This Wu Jieyu is talented and intelligent, and is one of the most beautiful women in the harem, but she is born with a weak temperament. Even if Song Shenzong loves her very much, she is often bullied by other beauties in the palace, because she has never complained to the emperor when she is bullied. Every time I suffer by myself.Others didn't dare to tell, for fear of offending those empresses, so Wu Jieyu's life in the palace became even more difficult.

After Chen Meiren was favored, she sowed dissension everywhere, and quickly destroyed the images of Lin Jieyu and Wu Jieyu, who were favored by Song Shenzong. He dotes on Chen Meiren, so he neglects other concubines.Including Wu Jieyu, who has a weak temperament.

However, it is precisely because of Wu Jieyu's weak character that the emperor has to take pity on her. He is half-believing in the lies that Chen Meiren made up about her. Therefore, every once in a while, he always visits her bedroom, Fortunately once or twice.This made Chen Meiren very angry, and made trouble for Wu Jieyu.

The empress dowager has already told Du Wenhao not to scare the snake, so Du Wenhao can't openly confront Chen Meiren. If he goes to see Wu Jieyu now and delays the empress dowager's diagnosis, it will not work, and it will attract Chen Meiren was unhappy and delayed the plan.

So Du Wenhao hardened his heart: "There are so many imperial physicians in the imperial hospital, why don't you go and see other imperial physicians first? You know that only the empress and concubine can call me to serve doctors in the harem. Jieyu Next, it depends on whether I have time, and it is up to me to decide. Now I am in a hurry to treat the empress dowager with acupuncture and moxibustion, and then go to see the doctor of Chen Meiren. This is the emperor's decree. Therefore, this official I'm afraid I don't have time to go to Wu Jieyu's place."

The old eunuch wept and said: "Our lady is very ill. She has been seen by the imperial doctor in the imperial hospital, but she is not optimistic. If it is not a last resort, the slave will not dare to disturb your lord."

"What's wrong with your mother?"

"Your Majesty has a strong fever all over her body. She has trouble sleeping and eating. She eats very little and drinks water all day long. She is already so thin that she is out of shape. Fu He Fu from Tai Hospital judged that it was a heat syndrome. What is the specific disease?" , the old slave doesn’t know either. But it doesn’t work after taking the medicine.”

After hearing this, Du Wenhao couldn't help but agree, and finally shook his head hard and said: "I'm really sorry, I really don't have time, father-in-law, this symptom of your mother is not an emergency, and there should be no life-threatening for the time being, or Let’s find other imperial doctors first. In fact, there are many imperial doctors in the imperial hospital who are better than me. I really don’t have time to go. I have to go to the empress dowager’s palace to treat her elderly. I can’t make the empress dowager wait long Otherwise, the crime would be great."

After listening to the old lady, Gudong knelt on the ground and burst into tears: "My lord can treat the empress dowager before going. The old slave is waiting for you outside. Is that good?"

"This won't work! Jieyu can't call me to serve as a doctor. I'm really sorry, I'm busy with work, really..., I really can't get away."

"I beg you, if you refuse to save my mother, my mother will really have to wait to die. Please..." There was a kowtow.

Du Wenhao stretched out his hand and said, "Eunuch, don't do this, you should find someone else. I'm really sorry!"

After persuading for a while, seeing the old eunuch knelt down and begged hard, Du Wenhao had no choice but to walk away quickly, and went straight to the empress dowager's bedroom as if fleeing.

Two hours later.

Du Wenhao came out of the empress dowager's palace.

The Empress Dowager's menstrual period was approaching, and the abdominal pain began to attack again during menstruation, but it was just a dull pain at the beginning. After the pain was relieved by Du Wenhao's acupuncture, the pain was under control.

In Du Wenhao's mind, he kept thinking about what was going on with the Empress Dowager's abdominal pain during menstruation, and why repeated treatments were ineffective.

He was walking towards Chen Meiren's bedroom, thinking over and over again, and suddenly heard someone beside him calling softly: "Master Du!"

Du Wenhao took a closer look, only to find that the same old eunuch was standing behind a rockery looking at him pitifully.The past two days have been cold in spring, the weather is very cold, the cold wind is blowing loudly, the old eunuch's clothes are a bit thin, and he looks even more pitiful.

Du Wenhao hurried forward and said in a low voice: "Why are you still here? This is just a wind outlet, such a strong wind, be careful of catching cold."

The old eunuch sniveled and burst into tears, and before Du Wenhao could leave, he grabbed his sleeve and knelt down in front of him again: "Master Du, please do me a favor and take some time to see our mother." Let's go on, I'm afraid you won't have a good life for a few days if you continue like this, woo woo woo..."

"I've already said that I really don't have time. You'd better go find another imperial doctor. For example, if my apprentice doesn't take money, his medical skills are not inferior to mine. He should be able to cure your mother's illness."

"I went to look for it. The imperial hospital ruled that Mr. Fu Hefu only sent ordinary imperial physicians to treat diseases. They said that according to the rules, Mr. Qian Yi and Mr. Qian are the imperial physicians, and they only treat women above Zhaoyi and below Jieyu. , I can only ask ordinary imperial physicians to see it. Therefore, I do not agree to send Mr. Qian to wait for the imperial physician Cheng to see the empress."

Du Wenhao frowned, and muttered: "It's Fu He, that bastard again!"

The old eunuch didn't hear what Du Wenhao said, so he just kowtowed and begged.Du Wenhao was moved when he saw blood spots on his forehead, such a loyal servant is really rare.In order to carry out the will of the Empress Dowager, I couldn't go to treat the poor Empress Wu Jieyu, I am really ashamed.

After thinking about it, he decided to go and have a look, just take one step at a time.Human life is the most important thing compared to the outcome of court battles.

Du Wenhao helped the old eunuch up and said, "Okay, I'll let you go and have a look."

The old eunuch was overjoyed: "Thank you! Thank you, Master Du! This old slave knows that you are in trouble, and I have nothing to repay you. I can only repay your kindness by being a cow or a horse in the next life!"

Du Wenhao smiled bitterly and said: "Okay, hurry up, your mother's illness can't afford to delay, and my time can't afford to be wasted either, Chen Meiren's empress is still waiting there, she needs to know that I took time to go to your place and won't give it to her." Seeing sickness, sue me at the emperor, I can't bear it and walk around!"

"Yes, yes, yes! It's really embarrassing for you, my lord! Please go this way, this old slave." The old eunuch wiped his tears with his sleeves, and hurriedly led Du Wenhao forward along a secluded path. No one met him on the road. Arrived, and soon came to Zhaoqian Palace.

In this cold spring, the quiet Zhaogan Palace makes people feel even colder. Fallen leaves, dead branches, and weeds are spread on the gravel road. You can hear the crisp cracking sound when you step on it. When the wind blows, there are residual leaves falling everywhere. , The residual lotus in the pond from last year has not been cleaned up, giving off a faint smell, even the grass on both sides of the road is listless, and the whole garden looks lifeless.

Du Wenhao walked forward quickly, and asked the old eunuch, "What's your surname, father-in-law?"

"No expensive, the old slave's surname is Ye."

"It turned out to be Eunuch Ye. It seems that you are also the person in charge of your mother. You see that the garden is so dilapidated, why don't you send someone to clean it?"

Eunuch Ye smiled wryly: "The old slave is not in charge, but Chen Po is in charge, she won't let me."

Du Wenhao wondered, "What do you mean?"

"Grandma Chen didn't arrange to clean the garden, so no one cares about it. Anyone who doesn't like it and takes the initiative to clean it will be sent by her to the palace handyman's room to pick up manure and chop firewood to do coolies."

"Why does she do this?"

Eunuch Ye faltered and said: "This..., this old slave doesn't know..."

It must be the result of the court battle again, Du Wenhao felt sad for a while, this is the life of the women in the harem, just like the fallen leaves under their feet, they don't know when they will wither and fall.

While speaking, he came to Empress Wu Jieyu's bedroom garden, the maid at the door saw it and greeted her in surprise.

Eunuch Ye seemed to have completed an important mission, and said loudly: "Lamei, hurry up and report to your empress, and say that Master Du is here!"

The palace lady named Lamei agreed, and trotted in, shouting along the way: "Madam, Mrs. Du is here! Mrs. Du is here to treat you!"

Du Wenhao hurriedly stopped: "No price! If you spread the word like this, if Lady Chen Meiren finds out, it won't be easy to explain!"

Eunuch Ye suddenly understood, and hurried to catch up and shouted repeatedly: "Lamei! Don't! Stop screaming! Shut up! Stop screaming...! Cough cough cough...!"

He screamed so anxiously that he crossed his breath, bent over and coughed repeatedly.

Fortunately, Lamei finally heard Ye Gonggong's words, stopped crying, and continued to run in hastily.

Eunuch Ye coughed and panted and led Du Wenhao in, through a bamboo forest, to a small house in the forest, and up the steps.The two maids on both sides bowed and saluted, opened the door curtain and said, "Master Du, please come in!"

Entering the inner room, I saw that although the doors and windows were all open, there was still a musty smell in the room, mixed with the scent of traditional Chinese medicine, which turned into a strange smell, which was very unpleasant.

There was a purple screen in front of the room, and Du Wenhao stopped in his tracks.Gonggong Ye smiled at him apologetically, turned behind the screen, and said softly: "Your Majesty, Master Du is here."

First there were two light coughs, and then a faint voice behind the screen said: "Come in, please."

Eunuch Ye came out and led Du Wenhao in for an introduction.Du Wenhao saw a woman sitting on a soft couch behind a curtain of purple tassels, but he couldn't see clearly.

The most eye-catching thing is her purple dress.In the past, when I treated other ladies, they were separated by white gauze, but this Wu Jieyu was separated by tassels. I didn't know that there would be a sense of freshness, but Du Wenhao's heart sank. Judging from the skirt, purple tassels and purple screen, this Wu Jieyu prefers purple, and purple is easy to make people melancholy. Often in such a bad environment, she is prone to depression, autism and even schizophrenia.

Du Wenhao rushed forward and bowed to salute: "I have seen Mrs. Jieyu."

"Your Excellency Du, show me your seat!" Wu Jieyu's voice seemed very tired.

The maid at the side brought a stool and put it in front of the tassel curtain, and put a small tea table beside it for pulse diagnosis.

Du Wenhao sat down on the stool, took out the pulse pillow from the consultation box and put it on the coffee table.Wu Jieyu slowly stretched out her hand and placed it on the pulse pillow.Du Wenhao saw that the slender hands had burst out with blue veins, it seemed that this woman was malnourished, and being a concubine in the palace would be malnourished, no one would believe it, but Du Wenhao saw it.

Du Wenhao picked up the bowl to check his pulse, and when he put his three fingers together, he felt a heat coming from Wu Jieyu's wrist, burning his fingers, and his heart sank.

After taking the pulse, Du Wenhao asked, "What's wrong with your mother?"

"It's so hot." Wu Jieyu only said two words.

Du Wenhao pondered: "I need to observe the face and tongue of the empress. If I offend, I ask the empress to forgive me."

"It's all for diagnosis, it's okay."

The palace maid came up and lifted the tassel curtain, and a wonderful person appeared in front of her eyes, with a face as delicate as the bright moon, with curved willow eyebrows, but slightly furrowed, a small cherry mouth, but no blood color, long eyelashes, deep in the His eye sockets cast a faint dark color, which made people feel a desire to feel pity and love in their hearts.

It's a pity that such a stunning beauty is living in a deep palace and being bullied everywhere. It's a pity that such a wonderful flower is slowly withering like this.

Looking closely, I found that Wu Jieyu's phoenix eyes were faintly bloodshot red, her lips were swollen and scorched, and her complexion was flushed. It was cold spring and the weather was cold. Everyone had already put on thin jackets and stockings, but Wu Jieyu was wearing a Wearing a thin purple long skirt, the half skirt was draped on the soft couch. It was obvious that it hadn't been tidied up in a hurry just now. One can imagine that before Du Wenhao came in, Wu Jieyu should have lifted up her dress, so Block the front door with a screen.

Looking down, I saw a pair of little feet stepping on the bluestone floor at the bottom of the skirt. ——This empress is actually barefoot!It can be seen from this that the strong fever on Wu Jieyu's body has made her unable to find a better way to reduce the fever.

Wu Jieyu seemed to be extremely hot, and couldn't help but wink at the maid next to her.The maid came over in a hurry, took out a wet towel from the plate on the side coffee table, gently wrung it half dry, and carefully wiped Wu Jieyu's forehead, neck and hands.A weak and satisfied smile appeared on the corner of Wu Jieyu's mouth.

At this time, Du Wenhao's eyes fell on a white porcelain bowl on the coffee table on the other side. There was more than half a bowl of hot water in the bowl, which was steaming.

Du Wenhao's heart moved, and he asked: "Is this water drunk by your mother?"

"En!" When it came to water, it seemed to remind her, Wu Jieyu reached out for the water bowl, and drank most of the water in one gulp.

Du Wenhao asked in a deep voice, "Does your lady always feel thirsty?"

Wu Jieyu shook her head and said: "That's not true, I just feel that I have to drink very hot water to feel comfortable."

If Du Wenhao realized something, he nodded, and asked again: "Is your mother relieved recently?"

Wu Jieyu shook her head, and said: "Minor relief is more than ten times a day, and it turns yellow, and the major relief is not proper, it has been several days."

Wu Jieyu showed strong signs of heat, but she liked to drink hot water, which made Du Wenhao frowned, thought for a while, and then asked: "Who was the one who treated the empress earlier?"

Eunuch Ye helped answer: "It's Mr. Fu Hefu, the judge of the Supreme Hospital."

Du Wenhao nodded, stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Madam, I have finished my examination, so I will prescribe you a prescription."

Wu Jieyu said: "Thank you, Mr. Du. I have some fine silks and satins that were gifted by the previous emperor. I asked Eunuch Ye to prepare some for you. Mr. Du, take them back to Madam, and express my gratitude."

Du Wenhao hurriedly bowed and said: "Your Majesty, you are being polite. It is the duty of the minister to see the doctor of your Majesty."

"My lord, you are being polite. I know that asking you to treat me is very embarrassing for you. Therefore, I don't know how to thank you. I can only give some vulgar things to express my gratitude. My lord must accept it. Otherwise, I would feel bad."

"This..., I would like to thank my mother for your gift, so I will accept it."

Eunuch Ye brought the silk and satin, and Du Wenhao took it after thanking him. Just as he was about to go out, he heard a drake outside the door shouting in a broken voice: "Master Du is here, right? Why didn't anyone tell me? Everyone in the house is dead." Yet?"

As soon as the words fell, a short and fat old woman walked around the screen and walked in. When she saw Du Wenhao, she immediately smiled, nodded and said: "This is Mr. Du, right? I have met Mr. Du before!"

The old woman owed a blessing, but she was too fat to bend her waist like a thick bucket, so this blessing was almost the same as no blessing, except that her thick and strong hands fiddled with her waist.

Du Wenhao hurriedly bowed to return the salute, and looked at Ye Gonggong who was at the side.

Eunuch Ye hurriedly said with a smile: "Master Du, this..., this is the steward of our palace, Mrs. Chen.

Du Wenhao was stunned, and looked at the fat woman. Before he could speak, the other party had already said: "Master Du, I heard the girl Lamei yelling earlier, saying that Mrs. Du is here, I am still surprised, Mrs. Du is not Are you treating Mistress Chen? Mistress Chen is still looking forward to it, so why did you come here? I don’t believe it, so I rushed to take a look. Hey, it really is, Mrs. Du, you have given Mistress Beauty already Are you sick after reading it? The beautiful lady has to serve the emperor all day long, but it’s hard work. If she is in poor health and delays serving the emperor, she will say that no one will take the blame, and we slaves will also take the blame. Come on, Master Du, do you think so?"

Du Wenhao took a good look at her, and said: "Mother-in-law is from Wu Jieyu's palace, why doesn't she think about Empress Jieyu?"

"As slaves, we can't just think about our own masters. We have to think about the emperor. The emperor is the first. Chen Meiren is the emperor's favorite concubine. Chen beauty's health is the most important thing for us to be slaves. What needs to be considered, other things have to be moved to a later date. Do you think so, my lord?"

The old lady is on the left, the emperor is on the right, and Chen Meiren is on the right. Du Wenhao couldn't help but look at her a few more times, and said calmly: "I have my own reasons for how I arrange the consultation, so I don't need to worry about it."

Chen Po smiled and said: "That is, that is, but, Miss Chen is very caring for my lord, and my lord must not disappoint the kindness of my lady."

Du Wenhao thought for a while, then cupped his hands to Wu Jieyu and said: "Your Majesty's illness, I have to go back and think about it, and I can't be hasty. Please forgive me, Madam."

Wu Jieyu nodded sadly, but did not speak.

But Eunuch Ye was about to cry: "Master Du, our lady's illness is very dangerous. Now she can still talk, but she hasn't eaten a single rice for several days! Now, my lady's life is all due to Du Between your fingers, my lord."

"I understand! This matter is not urgent, let me decide." Du Wenhao bowed to Wu Jieyu to the ground, then bowed to Ye Gonggong, glanced at Mrs. Chen, and carried a medical case with a scroll Satin, go in a hurry.

Du Wenhao went out of Wu Jieyu's bedroom, went straight to the Empress Dowager's bedroom, and found Eunuch Jiao.

When Eunuch Jiao saw Du Wenhao, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Master Du went and came back again, why? Could it be that he wanted to drink with our family?"

Du Wenhao looked around, lowered his voice and said: "I'm not busy drinking, something strange happened, I'm here to ask my father-in-law for advice."

"What's the matter, let's talk. But our family still understands the things in the Fan Palace."

"Of course, is there anything that can bother Eunuch?" Du Wenhao lowered his voice and said, "Eunuch Jiao, what I want to ask is that there is an old woman in Wu Jieyu Palace who says she is in charge. Yes, what is it called Mrs. Chen, today I found time to see a doctor for Wu Jieyu, this old woman kept talking about the emperor and Meiren Chen, I was thinking, does this Mrs. Chen have anything to do with Mrs. Chen?"

Eunuch Jiao smiled: "Have you noticed such a small problem? That's right, Mrs. Chen is an old servant of Chen Meiren's natal family. After she became favored, she called Mrs. Chen into the palace and placed her in Wu Jieyu's bedroom." She is in charge. You know that this Wu Jieyu is weak by nature, and she is the one who won't get angry when someone rides on her neck and poops. She didn't say a word about Chen Meiren's arrangement. It's just that since then, Wu Jieyu didn't have a good time."

(End of this chapter)