Queen Of Medicine

Zhuo Xi called softly, "Xiao soul, how is this? Mr. Hong Quan is our guest. How can we treat him like this? Give it to him! " She knew that only Xiao Hun had seen Hong Quan among the three dark guards, so she asked her to invite him over. Unexpectedly, it was in this way.

Xiao soul appeared, prepared to take off the cloth strip in Hong Quan's mouth, and asked seriously, "Sir, Miss Zhuo Xi is here now. Will you stop yelling? " He nodded hard. Xiao soul slowly took off the cloth strip, cut the rope on him with a dagger, and said, "madam, he didn't believe you sent me to pick him up. He not only shouted, but also punched and kicked. His subordinates had to let him be wronged temporarily. If it were not for the sake of his being a weak scholar, I would take off one of his arms and one of his legs. "

Hong quansong loosened his muscles and bones, hugged Zhuo Xi and said, "I've seen a girl. Previously, I only heard that Miss Zhuo Xi was far away in Liangzhou. Suddenly, this fierce woman said that the girl wanted to find me. I can't believe it. "

"Who did you say was fierce?"

"Who caught me and flew out?"

"You're a big man flying around by a girl. Are you okay?"

At this time, Zi Ran's voice sounded outside, "Sir, my subordinates are willing to go with the Lord tonight."

Jing Yuan coughed, "come in and talk." There are many people outside.

The carriage was spacious, but it seemed too crowded for five people to come in. Originally, Zhuo Xi and Jing Yuan were on one side, Hong Quan and Xiao soul were on the other side, separated by a few minutes. But as soon as Zi Ran came in, he had to deliberately squeeze between Hong Quan and Xiao soul, and said, "Sir, this gentleman has no martial arts. My subordinates thought about it for a while. It's inevitable that something unexpected will happen. I'd better let my subordinates go to protect him personally. How about it?"

Xiao soul listened to the horizontal eyebrow and said, "this is my job. What are you robbing?!"

Zhuo Xi laughed and said deliberately, "why? Xiao soul's martial arts are not weak, and his figure is thin and easy to hide. "

Zi Ran glanced at Hong Quan and whispered, "Sir, after all, is a man. If you need to go to...," his voice became louder and louder. Finally, he straightened up his waist, "Zi Ran can also be accompanied with you. Don't let anyone find him!"

Xiao soul said again, "you think this is shopping! You have to go here and there! "

Zi Ran stole a glance at Jing Yuan. Seeing that he had no objection, he looked forward to Zhuo Xi. "Madam, my subordinates know that it's the royal palace courtyard. It's very dangerous. If there's really something urgent, my subordinates are more convenient after all."

Zhuo Xi knew that he was worried about Xiao soul, and only smiled and said, "is it dangerous? It's not dangerous. If it's really dangerous, the Marquis can't let me wait to enter the palace. "

Zhuo Xi shook Jing's hand and smiled.

Zi Ran was worried again, so he had to touch Hong Quan, "Hey, do you want to be followed by me or her? My kung fu is much better than her. "

Hong Quan didn't have time to answer. Xiao soul split his hand. "Lord Ziran's hand itched, didn't he? I haven't fought for a long time. I forgot the taste of being hit three times by me last time?"

"I was distracted and attacked by you!" Zi Ran took the hand and blocked it. In an instant, they used both hands to make dozens of moves. Zhuo Xi helped his forehead. Looking at Hong Quan, who was sweating across the face, he stabbed Jing Yuan, who was watching the play. Jing Yuan coughed, "if so, let's go. Xiao soul, just wait outside the palace to meet you. "

Zhuo Xi saw that Xiao soul's face was bad, so she said softly, "Xiao soul, you've been dusty all the way. You're really tired, so you can have a rest. When I come back later, you will be busy. "

Xiao soul's face was better. He looked white, lifted the car curtain and went down.

The carriage soon came to a stop. Zhuo Xi got off the bus first under the leadership of Jing Yuan. Zi Ran and Hong Quan came down after a while. After coming down, Zhuo Xi knew that they had changed eunuch clothes in the car. Hong Quan was weak and could see through his clothes. However, he was tall and dignified, so he looked a little nondescript.

It was not until Jing Yuan knocked him on the head that he realized that his waist was too straight. Where could a slave walk like a general? He quickly bent down to make it less conspicuous.

Several people walked along the dark palace wall for a long time. They vaguely heard two bird calls in front of them. When Zi Ran listened, he covered his hand in his mouth and whispered two cat calls. Zhuo Xi was happy again. After Jing Yuan held his hand twice, he held his laughter in his stomach.

Leaning a little, Jing Yuan took Zhuo Xi and climbed up the palace wall and fell to the other side of the wall. A dark figure in the corner of the wall was short. It seemed to be saluting, but there was no sound. Jing Yuan raised his hand, and the man got up and made an invitation gesture. Zi Ran also jumped in quietly with Hong Quan. The party walked silently to the deep inside.

It was late at night, and the palace gates were the next key. Only occasionally did the bodyguard and internal supervisor pass by.

The party soon reached the side door of Ci'an palace. Mammy Su, who had long received the news, quietly opened a crack in the corner door and welcomed the four people in.

When she got to the inner room, mother Su closed the door and asked for a big ceremony. Jing Yuan grabbed her arm and whispered, "Mammy, don't be polite. We all care about the Empress Dowager. Please take us to see the Empress Dowager first."

Mammy Su was full of tears, but she unloaded a big stone from her heart and took the four people directly to the Queen Mother's bed.

There was only a small lamp beside the bed, reflecting the vague side face of the old man in the tent. When she opened the tent, Zhuo Xi only looked at it and burst into tears. Her visibly sunken cheeks and wrinkled skin make her look ten years older than she did three months ago. She wiped her tears, gently took the old lady's hand out of the quilt and motioned Hong Quan to come forward and feel her pulse.

Jing Yuan was quiet and silent. Zhuo Xi knew he was sad and shook his hand.

After a while, Hong Quan let go of the Empress Dowager's wrist and looked puzzled. He whispered to Zhuo Xi, "girl, according to the pulse, the Empress Dowager's pulse is vain, slow and urgent. It seems that she is evil outside and inside, stagnation of liver and spleen, exhaustion of spleen and stomach, and loss of transportation. There is little water and valley. She can neither 'rongmu' to nourish the liver, nor 'Shengjin' to nourish the lungs, nor can she nourish the nature in the future, fill the kidney essence and generate Qi and blood. Therefore, eat less and sleepy. But I don't know the specific cause. I'm really ashamed. "

"Look, smell and ask. You just feel your pulse. Naturally, you can't judge. Mother Su, can you open the curtain? "

Mother Su hesitated for a moment, opened the whole curtain, and Hong Quan pleaded guilty and approached the Empress Dowager with a small lamp.

After a while, he put the small lamp back at the head of the bed.

Jing Yuan saw that the people on the bed seemed to move. He said, "I'll go to the outside first. Don't disturb the Empress Dowager to rest."

"Promise." Mother Su put down the curtain and went out with them. When she was about to close the door, she heard a hoarse voice, "wait a minute“

Mother Su trembled all over her body, rushed to the curtain and knelt down, "damn the slave!"

"Mammy, get up. Just say it here. AI Jia also wants to know what happened to AI Jia. " When the person in the account finished this sentence, a string of coughs overflowed from her throat.

Jingyuan three also hurried to the account and knelt down to salute.

The Empress Dowager stopped coughing, "yuan'er, you must not have received the king's will to come back so soon. You have a heart. Get up first. "

Jing Yuan led the three to get up and said easily, "empress mother, my son's minister heard that you have been ill for more than a month, and things have changed in the south, so he led Xi'er and Dr. Hong to show you. Maybe he can get a prescription different from the imperial doctor and receive miraculous results. You should be a little relieved. It's true that the hyacinth girl is pregnant and can't enter the palace to ask for your pulse. Otherwise, I believe her medical skills will cure the disease“

The Empress Dowager then said, "when you come back quietly, you naturally know that AI Jia's body may not be in a few days. Let's get this straight. The AI family has made the worst plan. The AI family can bear it. Girl Xi, come on. "

Zhuo Xi said with a bitter smile, "empress dowager, it's not that we don't say it. We really don't have any clue. We're about to discuss it."

Mother Su suddenly turned around and kowtowed heavily to Jing Yuan. It was the same sentence, "maidservant, damn it."

Jing Yuan was startled. "What's the matter with mother Su? Get up first and answer. "

She took a deep breath, made up her mind, and took out a wrinkled yellow silk from her sleeve, "Lord, I'm damned. I should present it at the first time. Wang Meimei got this from Mrs. Qin seven days ago. It's a matter of great importance. The maidservant made a good claim and didn't give it to the Empress Dowager. Please save the Empress Dowager! The slave and maidservant died to atone for this sin. "

The Empress Dowager coughed violently again. Mother Su hurried into the account to cheer her up.

Jing Yuan took Huang Juan and looked at her carefully. The more she looked, her face became more and more heavy. Zhuo Xi wanted to get close to her. Jing Yuan pulled her up. "The handwriting is very small. Don't hurt your eyes. Mother, don't worry. It says on it that someone found that a palace maid's stomach hurt and vomited blood. On her deathbed, she confessed that she had put poisonous insects into a basin to clean the Empress Dowager's hands, which made you poisoned. "

When she first heard this, the Empress Dowager suddenly grasped mammy Su's hand, looked at mammy Su, closed her lips and said nothing. Mother Su nodded sadly, "madam, I'm afraid you'll know. I'm even more depressed. I'm afraid I've hidden it from you. Please bring down the crime. "

The Empress Dowager took a long time to breathe out and said slowly, "Mammy, you have taken care of me for decades. Don't I know. Don't worry, it's just a bug. I can afford it. " Having heard of the black worm in the coffin of the former king, she had made countless conjectures in her heart. Now it's just that the conjecture has been verified.

The surprised water is not clean? Why can't you see insects in it? "

Mammy Su opened the tent and came out, "it's the servant's oversight. She didn't find that the water was unclean."

Jing Yuan said, "it is said that no one of the Zhao family has understood this Gu skill since Feng Zhao was captured. Does the Zhao family still have a daughter wandering outside?" What's more, on their way back to the capital from Liangzhou, city Lord Zhao and Feng Zhao were reportedly killed by roving bandits. When he received the tip off, he just laughed it off.

Zhuo Xi silently said the word "first king" to Jing Yuan. Jing Yuan was cold and nodded imperceptibly. Perhaps, those who dare to lay poison on the Supreme People of the royal family these two times must also be high-ranking people.

Zhuo Xi coughed softly, nodded and asked, "Mammy, you will come together with the symptoms of the Empress Dowager recently. Let's see what kind of insect it is."

Mammy Su nodded, "yes, in the first two months, the Empress Dowager felt heavy and weak and sleepy every day. According to the diagnosis of the imperial doctor, she also said that the liver and spleen were depressed and tired, so she only used some Decoction for regulating qi and dispelling fire. In the past seven days, however, the fever continued from lunch to evening. After fever, they have palpitations, shortness of breath, dry throat and dry mouth. They can't lie down. They can sleep only after Hai. Therefore, I am sleepy in the morning. I often have to sleep after breakfast. This is the prescription used by the imperial medical department during the consultation the day before yesterday. Please have a look, miss. " She said that she had taken a prescription in the cupboard and handed it to Zhuo Xi.

Zhuo Xi took it over and looked, "the effect of regulating qi and reducing fever should be good. It seems that the crux lies in the Gu insect."

Jing Yuan suddenly asked, "mother Su, can the Empress Dowager have other symptoms? But it doesn't matter. "

Zhuo Xi understood what he meant. If she was just hot and sleepy, why did beauty Wang send the word "critically ill"?

Mother Su said, "since the day of fever, the Empress Dowager's cough has intensified and occasionally coughed up blood." She hesitated and said, "yesterday, the Empress Dowager said it was abdominal pain. The maid helped her to the clean room. After using it, she found that the Empress Dowager had blood in her stool."

Zhuo Xi suddenly realized that in this era, once hemoptysis or hematochezia occurs, it may be a terminal disease. She pondered for a while and said with relief, "in fact, hemoptysis and hematochezia are sometimes just concurrent diseases, and they are not very dangerous. They can be relieved as long as the right medicine can be applied to the case. At present, the main problem is the various types of insects. However, the complexity of insects often lies in their species. If you can't find its kind, you can't suit the remedy to the case. "

Hong Quan said at this time, "my Lord, when Xiao Min was visiting the doctor with his master in his early years, he had seen farmers who were prone to water bugs for generations because of their long years of work in the water. The initial symptoms are continuous fever, useless medicine stones, hemoptysis and hematochezia. After that, the abdomen was swollen like a drum, abdominal pain and dysentery. Xiao Min felt the pulse of the empress dowager, but it was similar to that at the beginning of the disease. Maybe it's this kind of water bug. "

Mother Su was overjoyed. "As Mr. said, the Empress Dowager's abdomen has swollen, and sometimes the pain is unbearable."

The Empress Dowager's eyes brightened and asked, "if what Sir said is true, can this Gu be highly toxic?"

Hong Quan replied respectfully, "this Gu is non-toxic. If it is not treated properly, it will only make people thin and have a big belly, and finally die."

Jing Yuan immediately interrupted him, "don't worry about your mother. Yuan'er will come up with a way to solve the Gu. "

He turned to Hong Quan and asked, "so, sir, can there be a cure?"

But Hong Quan was embarrassed. He hesitated and said, "grass, grass people dare not say."

Jing Yuan said, "it doesn't hurt. You say it."

Hong Quanxian knelt down and knocked on his head. "Folk pest control uses arsenic." Moreover, it is not certain that arsenic can be cured. There are many cases of death due to improper use of arsenic, so this method dare not be used to kill him.

Mammy Su was shocked, "empress dowager, you have a golden body. How can you use this poison?!"

The Empress Dowager had got up and leaned on the bed. She said faintly, "if arsenic is the only solution, AI family can also try. It's lucky to win and life to lose."

Jing Yuan was also silent. He could understand it by attacking poison with poison, but how noble is the Empress Dowager? How can he bet on this game? It's lucky to win a bet. Who can think it's life to lose a bet. Besides, the man behind them may be waiting for them to make a fool of themselves. So he said softly, "mother, take it easy. This may not be the only solution. At present, we are not in a hurry. Let's think about it slowly first. Don't rush to medical treatment, but give others a handle. Besides, there is a hyacinth girl outside the palace. She is the most vicious person in the Jianghu. There is no poison in the world that he can't solve. "

The Empress Dowager said happily, "yes, you are worried about me. What else can I worry about? In my life, I have seen all the prosperous life and death. There are some truths that I can't know. At present, I think I have no worries except your marriage. "

Jing Yuan also said happily, "empress mother, she was in Liangzhou seven days ago. Her son's ministers were going to worship heaven and earth with Xi'er."

"What?!" The Empress Dowager pretended to be angry, "you unworthy son, why don't you worship the high hall when you get married! I'm not dead yet! "

Jing Yuan quickly acted like a spoiled girl and said, "stop your anger after your mother. My son's ministers just want to give Xi'er a folk wedding. For a serious wedding, you'd better go back to Kyoto. At that time, you will have to work hard for your mother? Before the son minister, he gave Xi'er all his fields and cities as a bride price. In this grand wedding in Kyoto, you didn't give him some subsidies. What will the son minister take to marry Xi'er? "

The Empress Dowager was angry and angry. "This child, how can marriage be a trifle?! The AI family and the Wu family haven't started najicai marriage yet. Did you send out all the bride price? How dare Xiao want to offer another bride price for you? It's hateful! "

Jing Yuan hurriedly sat on the machine in front of the bed and fell on the Empress Dowager's lap. "Empress mother, you see, the hyacinth girls are already pregnant. The minister can't wait to get married with Xi'er. Brother Wang doesn't know when he can let go. "

The Empress Dowager said with a smile, "you child is too disciplined. It is said that the mourning family has...... "under the pull of Jing Yuan, she suddenly stopped and looked at Zhuo Xi. She thought she would be shy, but she still looked thoughtful and didn't seem to notice what they were talking about.

The room was quiet for a moment. Zhuo Xi suddenly had a flash of light on her face and asked, "Mammy, can you take the Empress Dowager's bedpan?"

Mother Su hesitated, "girl, what do you want that filthy thing to do?"

"Since it is a water insect, there must be insect eggs in it. We just need to hatch the eggs, don't we know the types of insects? Mammy, it's not too late. You'd better go and get it. "

Zhuo Xi now basically understood that the person who used the Gu didn't use the Gu developed by Zhao, but put the ready-made parasite eggs in the water to make the Empress Dowager touch them when she cleaned her hands. The insect eggs are transparent and small, and are not easy to be found in the water. After being stained in people's hands, they enter the human body with food, and then hatch into adults slowly. In ancient times, diseases related to insects were called Gu. But now I don't know what kind of parasite it is. If we can find the eggs and hatch the adults, we can know what kind of insect it is.

Mother Su wept with joy and went to get the bedpan.

When she brought it, Jing Yuan was dirty and opened his face slightly, but he saw Zhuo Xi looking seriously. He couldn't help glancing at it, but he saw only an empty basin. He said strangely, "what's good about the empty basin?"

Zhuo Xi said with a smile, "the insect eggs are very small and transparent. They may stick to the basin wall." She turned to mammy Su, "Mammy, can I borrow a bag of coarse cloth? I'll take this basin back for observation for a few days. If the Empress Dowager has any more convenience, please keep it and don't wash it. Every few days, someone will come to see us. "

Mammy Su nodded in response, found a rag, wrapped the basin and handed it to Hong Quan.

Jing Yuan said, "empress mother, you have a good rest. Your children and ministers will leave first. You can rest assured and wait for our good news."

The Empress Dowager said happily, "well, I'm waiting for your good news." When all three of them withdrew, the Empress Dowager lay down tired and closed her eyes.