Harem for a living

Chapter 219

Lidong hesitated, looked at Chen Manrou, moved his lips a few times, but said nothing.Seeing Lidong's embarrassment, Chen Manrou could not help but twitch her eyebrows, turned her head to look at the emperor, and saw that the emperor was expressionless, just staring at Lidong.

"Lidong, what's the matter, tell the truth, there will be a few imperial doctors coming over later, and they will also diagnose the empress dowager's pulse. Even if your diagnosis is not accurate, it doesn't matter." Chen Manrou said quickly, on the one hand. Hinting that Lidong is telling the truth, on the one hand, it is paving the way for the accident that will happen later.

If something really happened, she might as well excuse Lidong, so that Lidong would not really lose his life.

"If you go back to the emperor, if you go back to the empress, the servants took the pulse just now, but they didn't diagnose the empress dowager's disease. The empress dowager's pulse is neither floating nor sinking, gentle and powerful, and the chi pulse sinking should be strong, which is a normal pulse."

As soon as Lidong finished speaking, Tang Wan'er said angrily: "Presumptuous! You lowly servant girl, the empress dowager fainted, yet you still said that the empress dowager is in good health and not seriously ill. From my point of view, you are not sick at all. Diagnose it? I have already said that, how can a person like you take the pulse of the empress dowager at will..."

While talking, Tang Wan'er squinted at Chen Manrou.In Chen Manrou's heart, she was shocked and angry. She naturally believed in Lidong, after all, Lidong was her confidant.What surprised her was that the queen mother actually played this trick again!
Since the Empress Dowager was not ill, it was obvious that Imperial Physician Zheng, whom she was not familiar with, had been bribed by Tang Wan'er or Empress Dowager Ci'an.Because both Royal Physician Wang and Royal Physician Zhang would send the empress dowager's pulse to the emperor.

Even Chen Manrou could think of what would have happened if Zheng Yuyi had been asked to take the pulse just now.Either Imperial Physician Zheng would say that the Empress Dowager was stunned by the empress, or she would say that the Empress Dowager was unhappy, and then threatened to ask the emperor to promote Tang Wan'er.

Anyway, it wasn't that she, the queen, had a bad reputation, or the emperor had to come forward to appease the queen mother.Now it seems that he is more inclined to target himself, the queen.

"Nonsense!" On the surface, Chen Manrou still angrily scolded Lidong: "The empress dowager has fainted, and you actually said that the empress dowager is not sick? You will not let go of your medical skills, right?"

The emperor frowned on one side. With the matter of Empress Dowager Ci'an making herself sick and making Tang Wan'er wait for her illness, this time, the emperor still believed in the empress, but the empress dowager didn't open her eyes right now. I really can't take the Queen Mother.

Just as he was hesitating, he listened to the report from the outside, saying that it was Royal Physician Wang and Imperial Physician Zhang, as well as Imperial Physician Li Cheng, and the emperor's exclusive imperial physicians Lu Yuyi and Liu Yuyi.Immediately, a court lady came over to set up the screen, and Chen Manrou led a group of concubines to stand behind the screen.

After Wang Yuyi and Zhang Yuyi took the pulse respectively, the remaining few imperial doctors took turns to take the pulse.Then, a few people just looked at me and I looked at you, and they just stayed where they were, without saying a word.

The emperor looked at the expressions of several imperial doctors, and then thought of what Lidong said before, and he had some guesses in his heart.At this moment, his face darkened, and he asked rather annoyed: "What's the matter with the Queen Mother? Are all of you dumb?"

"If you go back to the emperor, I'm not good at learning, and I haven't diagnosed the empress dowager's illness." Royal doctor Wang is the exclusive imperial doctor of the empress dowager after all, so he was the first to answer, and the emperor's face turned darker: "Since the Empress Dowager is not sick, why is she unconscious?"

Physician Wang stroked his beard and began to drop his book bags. He concluded that the empress dowager's body was too weak, and she lacked energy and blood. Anyway, the empress dowager was not sick.

The remaining few imperial doctors also spoke in unison. If it was just one person, there might be a mistake, but since several imperial doctors said so, the emperor became a little suspicious.But looking at the queen mother lying on the bed without any movement, the emperor couldn't help but want to believe it.

After all, the emperor also knows the queen mother a little bit, if the queen mother wants to pretend to be sick, it must be the same as last time, making herself sick first.Or, is Tang Wan'er coming up with some new trick this time?
Thinking about it, the emperor turned to look at Tang Wan'er.Tang Wan'er's face turned pale, and she said with a bit of anger: "A bunch of quack doctors! If the empress dowager is not sick, why can't she wake up? Don't you say that the empress dowager is not sick? Then let the empress dowager wake up! My palace is If you don't study medicine, you also know that you need to see, hear and ask when you see a doctor, so you can be absolutely sure that the empress dowager is not sick just by feeling the pulse?"

When she said this, Royal Physician Wang became angry first, and looked at Tang Wan'er with a very bad look: "Miss Zhao Rong suspects that we veterans are cheating? If you want the empress dowager to wake up, there is a way, but the empress dowager Jin Zunyu Gui, I'm afraid the old minister's method will hurt the empress dowager."

The emperor was also reluctant to let the queen mother suffer, he hesitated for a while and ordered not to wake the queen mother up for the time being.

Tang Wan'er wanted to say something, but the emperor gave her a look: "If Tang Zhaorong is really worried about the queen mother, then go to the small Buddhist hall and kneel for the queen mother. When the queen mother wakes up, Tang Zhaorong can go back at any time."

Tang Wan'er's complexion changed, then she saluted and exited the door.The emperor turned to look at Chen Manrou: "You can go back for now, the queen mother is here to take care of you." He wanted to talk to the queen mother about Tang Wan'er, and if Chen Manrou was present, it would be difficult to speak.

Just as Chen Manrou was about to nod her head, she suddenly thought of the guards who were still outside, and said quickly, "Your Majesty, there is one more thing that I have to ask you for." As she spoke, she explained what she did when the Empress Dowager fainted. Again: "I am not someone who doubts Ci'an Palace, but the empress dowager fainted. Anyone may be the murderer or accomplice who murdered the empress dowager. I am in a hurry..."

"It's okay, I understand what you mean." The emperor nodded and smiled: "You have dealt with it very well, but since there is nothing wrong now, then you can let them all withdraw."

Chen Manrou agreed, and after saluting, she turned and went out.Concubine Hui and the others followed closely behind, and went outside before going their separate ways.

Originally, Chen Manrou thought that this was the end of the matter, and that the Queen Mother's fainting was only because she conveyed the emperor's intention - not to promote Tang Wan'er.But I didn't expect that the next morning, things would become a big mess.

The process was very simple. From the time the Empress Dowager Ci'an fainted yesterday morning to the time Chen Manrou went to pay her respects this morning, twelve hours had passed. The Empress Dowager Ci'an hadn't woken up, let alone woke up. It is said that she didn't even make a movement .

The emperor watched it all day yesterday, and went to look at it early this morning. He was very clear about the posture of Empress Dowager Ci'an yesterday.

Seeing that the Empress Dowager hadn't opened her eyes, the Emperor became a little anxious, and immediately summoned all the imperial doctors from the Imperial Hospital to diagnose the Empress Dowager's pulse one by one.However, everyone's conclusion is still the same, the queen mother is not sick, even if there is, it is only weak, and it is completely impossible to cause such a consequence of being in a coma for a whole day.

The emperor was furious, threw a jade ornament and reprimanded him: "I don't care how you diagnose the pulse, and now I will give you a word - no matter what, you must wake up the queen mother! If the queen mother can't wake up, all of you will die." To be buried with the Empress Dowager!"

The imperial physicians were all a little apprehensive, and Imperial Physician Wang kowtowed tremblingly: "Your Majesty, you can use acupuncture, but this method will be very painful. If it is the Empress Dowager..."

"Don't worry, if the empress dowager wants to blame you, I will intercede for you! The premise is that you can wake up the empress dowager!" The emperor said gloomyly, and the imperial doctors did not dare to talk nonsense.

Doctor Zhang took out a cloth roll and shook it open, revealing the long silver needles inside.Doctor Zhang squinted his eyes for a while, stretched out his hand to pinch a silver needle, searched for a long time on the Queen Mother's head, and quickly stuck it.

The queen mother did not move, and Wang Yuyi began to plant the second root.

Everyone around was staring nervously at Doctor Wang and the silver needles, and Chen Manrou felt that Doctor Wang's hands were starting to shake.I was very worried about Dr. Wang, if the prick was in the wrong place...it would not only be a headache problem, wouldn't the acupuncture be looking for acupuncture points?
It is said that the Achilles' heel is on the head...

Chen Manrou had a good idea, but it turned out that Royal Physician Wang is very capable as the Queen Mother's exclusive physician.Under everyone's gaze, and the emperor's glaring gaze, staring at the huge pressure, he didn't miss a single place.

Within half an hour, the queen mother's head became a hedgehog.But the queen mother is still the same as before the needle, let alone opened her eyes, she didn't even move.If it wasn't for the rising and falling of the queen mother's chest, Chen Manrou would have thought that the queen mother on the bed was a dead person.

"Physician Wang, didn't you say that the Queen Mother will definitely wake up?" Seeing Physician Wang standing by the bed like a fool, the emperor suddenly asked.This sentence was like a small switch, Royal Physician Wang knelt down with a plop: "Emperor, Your Majesty..."

"My minister deserves death, my minister, my minister, I don't know what's going on." Doctor Wang's face was green and pale, with despair on his face: "I have tried my best, my minister, my minister ..."

Doctor Wang stammered, really didn't know what to say.Can he say that the needles he inserted were only selected for the most painful places?Even people who have been in a coma for seven or eight days and are about to die should wake up, but the Queen Mother didn't wake up.

The emperor's eyes turned to the others, Zhang Yuyi took the lead, plopping, everyone knelt down like dumpling.

"Everyone is trash! Didn't you all promise me before that the queen mother is absolutely not sick?" The emperor gritted his teeth and kicked Yu doctor Zhang. The doctor Wang was too old, and the emperor was also worried that he would kill Wang Yu. The doctor lost a person who could heal the empress dowager.

"Your majesty, please forgive me. I want to take the pulse of the empress dowager again." It is still Liu Yu's experienced doctor who sees the emperor all the year round, even Liu Yu's inexperienced doctor can't do it.

The emperor glanced over Liu Yuyi's body, was silent for a long time, and said in a cold voice: "You all go and feel the empress dowager's pulse again, and you must diagnose the empress dowager's condition! When will the empress dowager wake up, and when will you leave Ci'an Palace? If the Queen Mother can't wake up..."

(End of this chapter)