Mistress

Chapter 80

Xu Cheng sat by the bed and looked at Li Yan who was lying quietly on the bed. Although she passed out, she could still hear her breathing suddenly and suddenly.

He took Li Yan's hand and held it in his palm, looked at her face, looked at her tightly closed mouth, and said guiltily: "You must hate me...hate me very much, if I hadn't been hesitant , if I hadn’t taken in two Jiangnan women and Yuyu, you wouldn’t have left the palace, and you wouldn’t have been arrested by Wang Yingying. If you really can’t be saved, how will I spend the rest of my life?”

Speaking of this, two lines of tears came out of his eyes, and he continued: "Since I came back from Jiaoyang City, I found that you have changed a lot. Compared with before, except for your appearance, you are not like the Li Nianyun you used to be. But I was thinking again, who can you be if you are not Li Nianyun? It is impossible that you are not Li Nianyun. Maybe your disposition and charm have changed after a serious illness. The changed you are more attractive to me, understand me better, and understand me better. You understand my heart. In the past few months, you have been supporting me silently. Everything you do is for my good, and you are my solid backing. And you have never done anything for your natal family. Or mutilate a concubine's child in order to stabilize Xiao'er's position. At first I thought I wouldn't fall in love with you, because I was too familiar with Li Nianyun, and also because I would never have true feelings for a woman. But Since then, you are no longer the former Li Nianyun in my heart. Your words and deeds make me so concerned, and your thoughts are always so unexpected. You really want to live a loving couple with me. You want me Contrary to your frankness, you want to know everything about me, you will be jealous without any concealment, you will openly want me to have only one woman in my life from now on, no other woman dares to ask me these things, only you dare , but that's it, I gradually fell in love with you, I couldn't stop loving you, not thinking about you, I tried my best, but I couldn't..."

His tears dripped on the back of Li Yan's hand, moistening it.

Li Yan didn't even move her eyelids, she couldn't hear.

Xu Cheng gently pushed a hair on her face to her ear with his hand, and then said: "You must be good, didn't you say that you will wait to see how I will work for you, don't you want me to live forever? Do I only guard you as a woman for the rest of my life? I won't hesitate anymore, I promise you, from now on, only you, and from now on, only you will be my woman in the entire harem! I have already promised you, you must live well, otherwise You let me live alone in this Nuoda harem, how can you bear to do this?"

Li Yan remained motionless, her eyelashes didn't even tremble, Xu Cheng broke down in tears, put his forehead on the back of Li Yan's hand, and cried vaguely: "Don't die, don't leave me..."

He grew up so big, this is the second time he cried bitterly, the first time was the death of his father Xu Guogong, this is the second time, it was for Li Yan.His mother, Mrs. Tai, passed away, and he didn't cry like this.

He didn't know until now that without her, he would never be happy again in the future.After losing the only woman he can be tempted by, is he going to live his next life without affection or indifference?Just like before, keeping a deep guard against every woman?That kind of life is really boring, and he doesn't want to live like before.

What he needs is a woman who can make him laugh for no reason and make him so angry that he has nothing to say.

He tried his best to control his emotions, wiped away his tears, and yelled out that Eunuch Qu came in.

Xu Cheng ordered: "You go and hand over the conferring letter to the canonization officer Mr. Xiao that I drafted before, let him read the canonization letter, and then let someone bring the empress's phoenix robe and put it on for the empress."

Eunuch Qu was ordered to leave, but Xu Cheng stopped him again, "Immediately send someone to send the two Jiangnan girls out of the palace, as well as Yuyu and Yujin!"

"Your majesty, this..." Eunuch Qu was thinking, the empress seems hopeless, why did the emperor drive those four girls out?Is he planning to not have a woman?Even a eunuch like him can't do it!
"Go!" Xu Cheng yelled at him.

Eunuch Qu trembled in fright, turned his head and ran out in a hurry.

At this time, Qi'er had brought Dr. Zhang over.

Doctor Zhang first took Li Yan's pulse, then observed her skin and appearance, and took out a needle to prick Li Yan's wrist to bleed, carefully watching the color of the blood.Li Yan didn't wake up after being stabbed like this, Xu Cheng was very worried, and his right arm also trembled.

His right arm has been wounded by a sword, and it has been in severe pain, but he no longer has the heart to care about himself.

Doctor Zhang not only carefully observed the few drops of blood flowing from Li Yan's wrist, but also sniffed it, and then wiped it on the back of his hand for a closer look. Finally, he shook his head and said, "Your Majesty's blood is dark, and the poison has penetrated into the whole body. I'm afraid..."

Nanny Cui and Qi'er wept bitterly on the spot.

With the mentality of a dead horse as a living horse doctor, Doctor Zhang squeezed Li Yan's mouth open with his hands, and poured a small pot of detoxification liquid into it, even though he knew that his stuff could not drive away such a heavy erysipelas, anyway, this kind He can do anything at any time.

If the poisoner puts a small amount of erysipelas, this liquid will still have some effect, but the poisoner deliberately does not want Li Yan to live, so the dose is extremely heavy.

At this time, Qing'er also ran in. She was escorted back by Jiang Ziheng, and came later than Xu Cheng. As soon as she ran in, she heard Cui Nanny and Qi'er crying, and looked at Li Yan on the bed, and Physician Zhang, who was shaking her head at the side, threw herself on Li Yan and cried, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty! Wake up, didn't you say that you would take your servants to go to the theater, listen to music, grow vegetables and fight crickets together?" ?”

"Pull them out!" Xu Cheng said in a low voice, but extremely stern, immediately a few young eunuchs came in and pulled Nanny Cui, Qi'er, and Qing'er out.Xu Cheng's heart was pierced like a knife and he had a splitting headache, he couldn't bear to hear these cries.

Xu Cheng himself also learned some medical skills. He dipped a drop of Li Yan's blood on his finger and licked it on his tongue. He also believed that it was erysipelas, a poison unique to the Northwest!
One of the two famous doctors that Xu Cheng asked Su Bai to go to went to the Northwest to practice medicine. I don't know if he can cure the poison.He knew that the hope was slim, but he still had to work hard, and he ordered someone to find Li Xiangrui and the doctor in his house, because they had stayed in the Northwest and were familiar with this poison.

Doctor Zhang dyed some of Li Yan's blood with gauze and went back to the Tai Hospital to ponder, while Xu Cheng stood by Li Yan's side alone.

Nanny Cui, Qi'er, and Qing'er knelt outside Chengyuan Palace and cried.

Cui Momo scolded Qing'er while crying, "You girl, why are you so ignorant? Your empress is going out of the palace, and you not only don't stop her, but even run along with her. Why are you even more out of character? If your empress really doesn't ...If you don't... I'll break your leg!"

Qing'er wept uncontrollably, "If I hadn't met that..." She was going to talk about Wang Yingying, that goblin, but she thought that this matter should not be made public, and it would be bad if it was widely spread, so she held back and didn't say anything. .

She is usually reckless and ignorant, so don't make trouble at this time.

She had no choice but to keep admitting her mistake, and then said: "You don't have to break my legs, mother. If your mother really can't live, I will go with your mother, and I will have a company in the underworld."

After hearing what Qing'er said, Nanny Cui and Qi'er couldn't blame her anymore. They couldn't do anything except cry.

Because Li Xiangrui's mansion is far away from the imperial palace, in the southernmost part of the capital, and the two famous doctors that Su Bai went to visit do not live in the capital at all, Xu Cheng can only sit beside him and wait heartbroken.

At this time, the canonization officer came, and the phoenix robe that Li Yan had ordered Cui Mama to send back to the House of Internal Affairs was also delivered at this moment.

Nanny Cui, Qi'er, and Qing'er held back their crying, and went in first to change Li Yan into a phoenix robe.

Xu Cheng didn't go out, but just turned his back to them.After they finished changing for Li Yan, he turned around.

The canonizing official finished reading the summoning letter tremblingly, then put the gold seal and the calling letter beside Li Yan's pillow, and then hurriedly withdrew to canonize a dying person as a queen. This official was indeed a little frightened, because standing by The emperor always had a sullen face, looking like he was going to eat people at any time.

Nanny Cui, Qi'er, and Qing'er left Chengyuan Palace again and knelt outside.

Cui Momo cried and said: "The day the emperor ascended the throne, he didn't canonize the empress, and he didn't come to Chengyuan Palace to see the empress for more than ten days. Now the empress is unconscious. What's the use of the emperor canonizing the empress again? Look at the empress." Can't see or hear..."

Nanny Cui thought that the emperor couldn't hear him inside, so she was really depressed and panicked, and couldn't vomit.

It's just that Xu Cheng has always had a keen ear, so how could he not hear?He didn't blame Nanny Cui for complaining, he hated himself more than Nanny Cui, and hated himself for not hesitating.

But Qi'er said: "When I changed the clothes for the empress just now, the empress's body was very hot. I see that maybe... it can be saved."

After hearing this, Nanny Cui and Qing'er also remembered that Li Yan's body was really warm when they changed their clothes just now. Although her breathing was uneven, her facial expression was also soothing.

Qing'er thought of Li Yan's painful expression in the old city of Yange when she had a toxic attack, which was completely different from her soothing expression now, and also felt that Li Yan might not die.Even if he would die, it would be a painless death.

Qing'er clasped her hands together, "Nurse, Qi'er, let's stop crying, hurry up and ask God to bless your mother."

The three of them, young and old, just kowtowed to God outside.Xu Cheng sat beside Li Yan and looked at her face, waiting quietly, waiting so anxiously that his viscera ached and his right arm spasmed with pain.

When the next day was ugly, the sky was still pitch black, and it was still two hours before dawn.Li Xiangrui came over with the doctor from the mansion, and they were surprised to see Xu Cheng's face was bruised, his complexion was particularly bad, and his right arm was hanging stiffly.

They think that the emperor also has to see a doctor.

Li Xiangrui looked at his daughter lying on the bed, his face turned blue and tears flowed down his face.He had already read the letter Li Yan wrote to him the night before, but he didn't send anyone to look for it.His daughter has already left the palace, even if he finds her back, he feels that the emperor will never forgive her, and she is no longer a queen, so she will go.

In his heart, he also hated why Xu Cheng didn't canonize his daughter as queen for so long, but now seeing his daughter wearing a phoenix robe, with the gold seal and summoning book beside him, he finally got a little comfort in his heart, and said with old tears : "Empress Empress, you are already a queen, you have to fight hard, at least stand up and be a queen for a few days in a dignified manner, and your mother will honor the world, your life will be considered complete."

But Xu Cheng pulled Li Xiangrui aside, and asked the doctor who came with him to quickly check Li Yan's pulse.

This doctor is from the northwest, and he knows a lot about elixirs. He said: "If you want to live, you can only let blood out. The poison is weakened, and then you can make medicine to drive away the remaining poison. But... nine out of ten people die after bloodletting." In the northwest, I once poured several large bowls of blood for several soldiers who were poisoned by erysipelas, but they lost their blood and died before they were poisoned to death. However, once for a soldier who was chopping firewood in the mountains, he accidentally got erysipelas. The same amount of blood was given to the old woman, but she came back to life after being unconscious for a few days, and I have been puzzled. The empress's body is precious, and I... dare not move rashly."

Xu Cheng heard that bloodletting would most likely lead to death, and his black and blue face became even more gloomy.

At this moment, Imperial Physician Zhang also ran over and said, "Your Majesty, I am a fool, I can only think of bloodletting to reduce the toxicity, but this method is extremely dangerous..."

Before he finished speaking, Xu Cheng knew that what he meant was consistent with what the doctor from Li's residence said, so he hurriedly interrupted him and asked, "You all said that you need bloodletting, how much blood do you need?"

Physician Zhang and the doctor looked at each other, and stretched out three fingers at the same time, which meant to let go of [-]% of the human body's blood.

In order to be more specific, Doctor Zhang took a silver bowl from the table and said, "Eight...eight bowls are needed."

Xu Cheng was dizzy for a while, said, "No!" and fell down.

When he fell, the people in the room screamed in shock, the empress is still lying down, why the emperor fell down again.The emperor has a body like a rock, how could he fall down.

Everyone carried Xu Cheng to the bed in the next hut to lie down, because it was too late to carry him to Chunhui Hall.

Doctor Zhang untied Xu Cheng's right arm, only to realize that his wound was so deep that the bones inside were exposed. He touched his forehead and it was scorching hot. He knew that the emperor's right arm was infected.

If it is not handled properly right away, the emperor's right arm will be useless!
He hastily ordered the people around him, "Quick! Boil the water! Throw the towel in and boil!"

Nanny Cui and the others stopped crying and ran to boil water.

Physician Zhang himself ran back to the imperial hospital to get spirits, needles and threads. When he came back, he threw the needles and threads into the boiling water and boiled them. Then he uncorked the liquor and poured it on the wound on Xu Cheng's right arm.

"Hiss..." Xu Cheng woke up in pain. He is not a person who can cry out pain, but he just hissed his mouth, and then he gritted his teeth and endured it.

The needle, thread, and towel were almost boiled. Doctor Zhang washed Xu Cheng's wound with the towel first, then poured a small amount of spirits, and then used the threading needle to sew up the open wound.

He is like sewing clothes, the needle shuttles through the flesh, and then pulls and pulls, the blood keeps oozing out, and the people watching can't help grinning, this is the seam on the flesh forcibly.

Xu Cheng just frowned and pursed his lips tightly. Even though his forehead was sweating profusely due to the pain, he didn't make an overly painful expression.

After the stitches were finished, Xu Cheng was about to stand up. Doctor Zhang persuaded: "Your Majesty, it will take a while before dawn. You should lie down and rest for a while, so that the wound will heal quickly. If you haven't eaten for a day, and you don't have any food for a day, you will not be able to get up again." If you don't sleep all night, a healthy body will collapse, not to mention the emperor is still seriously injured."

"This is considered a serious injury, and it didn't break an arm or a leg." Xu Cheng insisted on getting up, his face was obviously exhausted, but how could he sleep at this moment?Li Yan was still lying there, and everyone was still waiting for his order. It was up to him whether to bleed Li Yan or not.

Doctor Zhang and Li's doctor actually did not want Li Yan to be bled. If they died after the bloodletting, the emperor might not be able to spare them.Although they are willing to say this method, they dare not lose their medical ethics.

Xu Cheng asked them to go out first, he had to think carefully, and he still wanted to wait for Su Bo to find the two famous doctors, maybe they had a better way.

Since there is a high probability of bleeding to death, how could he let Li Yan fall into a situation where only [-]% to [-]% survived? He had already made her queen and released the four women from the palace. He only wanted Li Yan now. Can live well, and the two live together like a fairy couple, because she can bring him joy.

He stroked Li Yan's cheek with his hand and said: "You must live well. If you really want to go out of the palace to play, I will go with you. We will watch operas, listen to music, grow vegetables, and fight crickets together. It's not interesting for Qing'er to go together, it's fun to go with me, isn't it?"

Li Yan still didn't move, Xu Cheng seemed to feel Li Yan's increasingly unstable pulse and weaker breathing.

Xu Cheng was so anxious that he was going crazy, he kept saying: "Whether you are in the palace or out of the palace, you can only be with me in this life, I will not let go of your hand, I will not allow you Go find another man, because none of them are good enough for you..."

He seemed to be talking in a joking tone, but his tears wet the front of his chest. He was anxious because he was holding Li Yan's wrist, but he could hardly feel her pulse. The palms of his hands gradually became cold.

Xu Cheng was so anxious that he almost suffocated...

(End of this chapter)