Section 55 What is the reason for the catkins?

Later, Shu'e went to the Anqing Hall on time, the hall was very spacious, and there were high bookshelves on the four walls, full of books. The Queen Mother usually looks at the folds, not here, but in the Chongzheng Hall east of Qingshou Palace. Shu'e sometimes helps the Queen Mother sort out the books, and sometimes helps the Queen Mother copy some articles she wants to read. Shu E's writing is upright and generous, and the Queen Mother likes it very much. Sometimes the Queen Mother left Shu'e to speak.

The matter of sealing the willow branches is not over in the end. That day, Shu'e finished copying an article and was about to send it to the main hall, when she heard the queen mother say to Liuquan or Zhu Yan, I have been crowned in the court, and I have always been favored because of merit, and the mourning family does not want to damage the emperor's reputation......

Shu E suddenly remembered what Hua Fu said a few days ago when she discussed giving gifts to willow branches. She said that the emperor's meaning is the most important thing in this matter.

Now the sealing has failed, but the emperor's favor for willow branches is still there, and the reward is only more generous than before. Shu E sighed secretly, I really don't know whether Hua Fu's words are right or wrong.

On this day, Gonggong Lin replied, saying that there was no imperial doctor coming to ask Shu'e for a pulse today.

Shu E wondered in her heart, I am not sick, how can I ask for a pulse. Suddenly remembered the words of the Queen Mother the day before yesterday, and I only felt panicked in my heart, hoping that it was something else.

Hua Fu also stepped forward and asked, "Madame has not passed on the imperial doctor, besides...... Madame does not need to ask for a regular pulse. ”

When the harem concubines are not sick, the Hanlin Medical Hospital [Note 1] will also arrange for the imperial doctor to regularly ask for a case to be filed. In order to prepare recipes for health and fitness for each person according to the changes in solar terms and personal physique, list the most suitable decoction and tea medicine every morning, as well as the daily bathing, face washing, foot soaking of harem concubines, and all kinds of health preservation activities, all of which require the imperial doctor to add or subtract a few medicinal materials according to the physique and climate.

The so-called "no need to ask for a pulse regularly" means that Shu'e is just a lady, not a concubine, so there is no such treatment.

Gonggong Lin replied: "It is the imperial doctor specially invited by the Queen Mother for her wife, what is it for, and the little one doesn't know what to do." ”

"I don't know which imperial doctor you invited?" Waff asked again.

"Well, it's the East China Yanghua Imperial Doctor who is invited." Gonggong Lin seemed to be quite emotional.

The imperial physician of Yanghua in East China was originally a member of the Correction Medical Book Bureau [Note 2] in the Hanlin Medical Academy, because he had pointed out the omissions in the posthumous works of several imperial doctors of the previous dynasty, so he was quite valued by the medical officials [Note 3], but he was promoted to become a medical officer and prescribed for the pulse of the people in the palace. And because of a coincidence, the medical envoy recommended him to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother took his medicine, only thinking that it was very effective, so the Queen Mother was very important. If it weren't for the ancestral system, he would have been promoted again.

Hua Fu's eyebrows jumped slightly, but no one noticed. When Shu E heard this name, she didn't know why she thought of the person who diagnosed her pulse on the day she entered the palace, and she was secretly shocked in her heart. Everyone had something in their hearts, and they were speechless for a while.

It's March, and the spring breeze is extremely soft, carrying clumps of catkins. The catkins are like this, they have not been seen for many years, and suddenly one day, the sky is full of flying white cotton, as if they are going to participate in a grand ceremony, telling people really and directly that spring has arrived.

It's like the first heavy snow of winter, it always comes so unexpectedly. Shu E suddenly remembered that it was still last winter, she was around the stove to sew new clothes for the young master, the snow was blowing, but the room was as warm as spring, she looked at the snowflakes idly, and secretly hoped that she would live like this for the rest of her life.

Why is there so much snow? If the catkins are not raised by the wind.

What is the reason for the catkins? If the snow is not as white as the wind rises.

Shu E thought, this is not a matter of right or wrong, but that, except for you, everything around you has changed.

[Note 1] Hanlin Medical Hospital: Jitai Hospital. In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was called the Hanlin Medical Hospital, which was subordinate to the Hanlin Academy.

[Note 2] Correction Medical Book Bureau: An affiliated body of the Hanlin Medical Academy, responsible for the compilation and demonstration of medical books.

[Note 3] Medical Envoy: The Hanlin Medical Officer's Hospital has two Hanlin Medical Envoys and two Deputy Envoys to be in charge of the hospital's affairs.