Harem for a living

Chapter 94

"How is the second prince?" Arriving at Yikun Palace, Chen Manrou waved her hand casually, signaling the people kneeling at the door to get up, and went inside to see the second prince.Speaking of which, Chen Manrou hasn't seen the second prince for two or three months.

At this moment, the child's face was flushed, with sweat dripping from his forehead, his limbs kept struggling in the small mattress, his lips were burned and split, and he looked very pitiful.

The imperial doctor next to him heard Chen Manrou's question, and quickly said: "The second prince ate the cold food first, and then the hot food. The second prince was originally young, and the combination of these two things made his body unable to bear it. It caused a high fever."

"Have you prescribed a prescription?" Chen Manrou asked in a deep voice, and after a look, the imperial doctor was not Cheng Yuyi who was good at pediatrics, so she turned her head and called Yun Zhan: "Go and invite Cheng Yuyi and Li Yuyi come over."

The imperial doctor breathed a sigh of relief, he knew his level, the second prince was a man of gold, if something happened to him today, even ten heads would not be enough for him.

"Weichen has already prescribed a prescription, but the second prince is young, so I'm afraid he can't bear the power of this prescription. But if this heavy medicine is not used, the heat on the second prince's body will be more difficult to fade away. If you are not careful, you may die burn out..."

Seeing that Chen Manrou looked over again, the imperial doctor hurriedly said, and handed over the prescription he had prescribed. Chen Manrou read it carefully, and Xiangyue who was behind her nodded slightly.Chen Manrou handed the prescription to the imperial doctor again: "In your opinion, what should we do now?"

"Weichen..." The imperial doctor was also a little anxious, after thinking for a while, he suddenly said happily: "Weichen thought of a folk prescription, saying that it is to use strong wine to rub the body for children with high fever, so that the fever will drop faster."

Chen Manrou breathed a sigh of relief, and turned around to order someone to fetch spirits. She had heard of this method of rubbing alcohol with a high fever in modern times, so there should be nothing wrong with what the imperial doctor said.However, as soon as she opened her mouth, Duiyue pulled her sleeves behind her.

Chen Manrou turned her head and saw Xiangyue shaking her head anxiously at her.Chen Manrou frowned slightly, and her eyes sank: "Doctor Zhang, are you sure that your folk prescription is effective? You have to figure it out, the second prince is the prince's grandson, if there is something wrong with your folk prescription, can you Are you up to this responsibility?"

Zhang Yuyi fell to his knees with a plop, hesitating and hesitating, not daring to make any promises.However, Chen Manrou was a little impatient. It was not something that Dr. Zhang dared to guarantee at this moment, but the one who made the decision was herself.

If he said that he didn't need this folk remedy, then if the second prince lost his braids, he would have to bear more than half of the responsibility.But if he said to use it himself, it would be a big problem. He had already reminded Yueyue just now that this method is unreliable.

In a flash of thought, Chen Manrou turned to look at the four nuns: "You two are older nuns, you must have some knowledge, what do you think of the folk prescription that Doctor Zhang said? Can it be used or not? "

The nuns didn't expect that Chen Manrou could directly ask them, the master of the harem, who didn't make up his own mind and order it to go down?

"Servant, servant..." One of the nurses stammered for a long time, but still couldn't give an accurate answer.Chen Manrou sneered, these people are Concubine Shu's confidantes, if Concubine Shu's confidantes make up their minds, then she doesn't have to be in trouble, thinking about it, she went on to say: "I have never given birth to a child, so I don't care about it." Knowing how to take care of the children, Concubine Shu must have trusted you very much to allow you to follow the second prince. You have also seen that the situation of the second prince is not very good at the moment..."

Just as I was talking, I heard a notification from outside, saying that the emperor and queen were coming, Chen Manrou hurried out to greet her, saluted, and before the emperor and queen could ask, she quickly repeated what she had just done, feeling ruthless in her heart He breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he didn't make a random decision before.

"Mother, I have never taken care of children. I heard Zhang Yuyi's folk prescription, and I don't know if it can be used. If it is self-defeating, it's not the concubine's fault. So the concubine is asking these mothers. Are they good or bad? have given birth to children."

Chen Manrou helped the queen's hand, and the queen waved her hand with a smile: "You are very considerate, and you did a good job. Doctor Zhang, I ask you, does your folk prescription really work? Have you used it for others? "

"Returning to the Queen Mother, I just heard that this method is commonly used by the people to reduce temperature, and I have never tried it myself." Doctor Zhang hurriedly saluted and said. ?”

"I've gone to ask for it, but the palace gate has already been locked, and the imperial doctor probably won't come over until a while." Liu Cheng said quickly. As soon as he finished speaking, there were footsteps outside, and when he turned around, he saw the imperial doctor and the doctor. Doctor Li came in each carrying a medicine box.

Both of them were out of breath, and they didn't bother to wipe the sweat from their foreheads after entering the door, and first saluted the emperor and queen.The emperor just waved his hand and asked him to go over to diagnose the second prince immediately.

"Returning to the emperor, the second prince ate cold food and then ate hot food. The cold and heat alternated, causing discomfort in the body. The cold travels in the internal organs, and the heat travels on the body surface, and this is the high fever." Cheng Yuyi stepped forward. After feeling the pulse, and discussing with Li Yuyi for a few more words, he got up and said.

The emperor nodded: "Is there a solution?"

"The current plan is to let the heat from the second prince's body surface dissipate first, and then find a way to drive out the cold." Cheng Yuyi thought for a while and said: "It's just that the second prince is young, and the medicine that can quickly cool down the temperature may not be able to withstand the power of the medicine." .”

"Previously, doctor Zhang said that you can wipe your body with strong wine..." The emperor frowned and said, and doctor Cheng also frowned: "Your majesty, this method is not good. Strong wine only dissipates the heat on the body surface, but it makes the body cold. The more I can't drive it out, the heat from the outside turns into heat from the inside, I'm afraid..."

The second prince is probably going to die. Even if he is lucky and doesn't die immediately, his body will be considered broken, and he won't be able to live a healthy life in the future.

Doctor Zhang's complexion turned pale, and immediately kowtowed to the emperor: "Your Majesty, please forgive me, and I was in a hurry to think of such a folk prescription, and it didn't mean to harm the second prince. I would like to ask the emperor to enlighten me, I dare not have such thoughts."

The emperor glanced at Imperial Physician Zhang with a cold face, and asked Imperial Physician Cheng repeatedly: "The second prince's condition should be now? No matter what is needed, Imperial Physician Cheng can speak up, and today, no matter what, please ask Imperial Physician Cheng to protect my son." life."

"My humble minister should do his best." Cheng Yuyi saluted, and re-checked the second prince's pulse with a solemn expression.However, Chen Manrou was a little startled. Doctor Zhang's prescription just now was really poisonous enough. If she hadn't reminded Yue, she would have been charged with murdering the prince by now.

But, who set up this exit?

"Your Majesty, the imperial doctor said just now that the second prince fell ill after eating cold food and hot food. I would like to ask first, see how these people who serve the second prince are doing today. What have you done."

The queen's indifferent voice sounded from one side, the emperor glanced at the nuns who were trembling and kneeling on the ground, nodded and said: "Then please trouble Zitong, no matter who it is, since you dare not take my prince seriously, then I will kill her nine clans!"

The empress led someone to interrogate, and not long after, the nuns made a list of what the second prince had eaten today.When I got up in the morning, I drank milk first. The grandmother said that the amount was the same as usual, and there was no abnormality. Then I had a few pieces of snacks for breakfast.

At noon and night, I also drank milk first, and then paired it with some meat porridge or vegetable custard rolls.

All the food, compared with the usual, has not changed much, except that at night, there is an extra stick of sesame candy and a piece of biscuit.This must be eaten, as long as it is a living person, it must be counted as a head, and it must be eaten on the day of the stove.

"Ma'am, the sesame candy and sesame seed cakes were brought by my concubine, why don't I ask someone to check these two kinds of food first?" Chen Manrou has already made up her mind at this moment, the person behind the scheme must want to kill two birds with one stone.

Even Doctor Zhang may have been bought.

The queen patted her hand: "You don't have to think too much, how can I not know your temperament? Besides, when delivering things, Wuyao and Mengliu who are around me are also there. If you can do anything, Neither of them are fools."

"The empress can trust my concubine, I am very grateful, but, the empress is always fair, and I have checked these two things earlier, so I can share my worries for the empress." At this moment, Chen Manrou is still a suspect, so naturally she can't intervene in this matter. .

The queen nodded and motioned for Jean to bring over the remaining biscuits and sesame candies.What the prince eats is naturally different from what the court ladies and eunuchs eat.The second prince is not yet two years old, so he only took a bite of the biscuits, and the sesame candy only gnawed off a little bit of sesame seeds.

"Li Yuyi, please take a look at this thing." The queen turned her head and said, Li Yuyi responded, stepped forward to put a handkerchief on it, first took a sesame seed cake, put it under her nose to smell it, and took it again Soak it in a little water and try it with a silver needle.Finally, I put some medicine powder into it, and if there is no change, I changed it to sesame sugar and started testing.

"These two things don't contain anything bad." Doctor Li shook his head: "Besides, the second prince ate a lot of cold and hot things, even if there is something in this mouthful, it doesn't matter. I won't let the second prince have a high fever."

"I already know that Concubine Hui has always been a law-abiding person. This matter has nothing to do with Concubine Hui." The queen said with a smile, Chen Manrou didn't dare to be too surprised, after all, the life and death of the second prince is still uncertain.

Just, what the hell is going on here?Isn't it a trap that kills two birds with one stone?Since he wanted to get rid of both himself and the second prince, why did the things sent from Zhongcui Palace not work?Could it be that only the previous method of rubbing yourself with alcohol was aimed at yourself?

The more Chen Manrou thought about it, the more she didn't understand, and the queen had already asked people to search Yikun Palace.Yikun Palace itself has a small kitchen, and the second prince did not use up the vegetables and meat delivered today, and some of them were kept in the kitchen.

(End of this chapter)