In the warm spring of March, the peach is in full bloom, and the courtyard of Kunning Palace is deep and beautifully pink; The wings of the colorful butterflies are still cold, and the goose yellow and tender willow silk are flowing with the wind.

The wind is still cold.

The scorching sun casts mottled shadows at the bottom of the eaves through the sparse treetops, like a gorgeous carved set. A finch swept by, as if gliding on the surface of the sun's waves, setting off bursts of golden ripples.

There was no sound except for the birds flapping their wings.

Several little palace maids stood under the eaves, holding their breath.

Through the carved window lattice, I faintly heard that there was broken porcelain inside, and it must be the Queen Mother who dropped the medicine bowl again.

Then, there was the heart-rending cough of the Queen Mother and the popping sound of the Imperial Doctor kneeling on the ground.

The little palace maids are even more afraid, they are new today.

After a while, the silver-red felt curtain was raised, and a slightly older palace maid came out, and instructed the little palace maid: "Go and talk to Aunt Cheng, and then decoct a ......dose of medicine for the Queen Mother."

A little palace maid with a round face was smarter, and she answered yes and went immediately.

The Queen Mother has been sick for seven or eight months, and her cough does not stop, and she has asked all the famous doctors in the world to no avail. She was in a terrible mood. The palace ladies made mistakes and were immediately punished. In the past six months, the palace maids of Kunning Palace have changed batch after batch.

In the past, it was a beautiful thing to come to Kunning Palace to do things, but now everyone talks about it, for fear that they will be selected.

These little palace maids consider themselves unlucky.

In Kunning Palace, on the bed of the mahogany inlaid luodian flower bird Arhat, the woman lying in her kimono was described as haggard, and her face was purple due to a violent cough.

She tightly squeezed the hand of her son, who was sitting on the edge of her bed and dressed in a dragon robe: "...... Handful...... Drag all these quacks out and ask for guilt! Mourning ...... The mourning family doesn't want them to cure ......"

Before he finished speaking, he coughed again.

She's in pain and anyone can feel it.

The emperor's face showed deep sorrow.

There were three imperial doctors kneeling below, their heads pressed to the ground, cold sweat pouring from their foreheads.

"Queen Mother, try another dose of medicine?" The Emperor pleaded, "If it is ......"

"Don't eat...... Don't eat! The Queen Mother roared, followed by a cough.

The emperor didn't dare to say more, and gently patted his mother's back.

"After eating for more than half a month, today is good, tomorrow it will be again, the mourning family has been cured by this group of quacks! Let them go, let them all go! The cough stopped slightly, and the Queen Mother scolded people.

No matter how scheming and moody the woman used to be, she coughed for eight months, and she wore out the patience of the Queen Mother.

Coughing is painful, restless eating, and sleepless nights.

The Queen Mother was tortured like a withered body, her cheekbones protruded high, and she no longer saw her former plump and graceful appearance.

The emperor felt the same way, and his thick eyebrows tightened.

For the Queen Mother's illness, how many doctors have been changed?

Unfortunately, it has not worked.

He was cured once two months ago, and the Queen Mother was very happy and asked the emperor to knight the imperial doctor.

It's just that within half a month, the Queen Mother relapsed, her cough was stronger than before, and she didn't sleep for two days and nights, without a drop of water.

The newly crowned uncle was stripped of his title and driven out of the capital.

As a result, the original doctors who were eager to try all excused themselves from being poor in learning and refusing to treat the Queen Mother.

The emperor also sent people to find several famous miracle doctors from the people, but they were still ineffective.

Cough August......

Even a strong man can't stand it, let alone the original delicate queen mother?

But what is the use of punishing the Imperial Doctor? They did their best, too.

"All of you go down!" The emperor said to several imperial doctors. The emperor who reigns over the world has just turned twenty years old this year, which is the age of vigor, but there is a bit of twilight in his voice.

The queen mother's illness tossed the emperor enough.

Several imperial physicians hurriedly got up, saluted the emperor and the empress dowager, and exited Kunning Palace.

Two of them were already soaking wet on their backs, and the other had trembling legs. The three of them came out of Kunning Palace before they dared to inhale.

On a March day, when it was cloudy, it was chilly.

The spring is cold, and the goose yellow and light willows are also sorrowful.

The three doctors parted ways and went home.

One of the doctors is called Qin Weisi, who is the hospital who raised the point.

He went out of the palace gate and was about to get into the carriage when he saw someone coming from a distance. Looking carefully, it turned out to be Gu Yantao, a scholar of Dongge University, one of the emperor's favorite ministers, who entered the cabinet at the age of only forty-two, and was the youngest pavilion elder with a bright future.

Everyone in the court flattered him.

Qin Wei Sizhi is the Tai Hospital, a little five-grade official. When he saw Gu Yantao, he naturally wanted to go up and salute.

“…… Has the Queen Mother's illness improved? Gu Yantao asked Qin Weisi with a smile.

The Queen Mother was sick for seven or eight months, and others may have vaguely heard some rumors, but Gu Yantao, as a close minister, was clear.

Qin Weisi sighed: "The old minister is not good at learning and art, and he can't relieve the pain of the Queen Mother, he deserves death!" ”

"Qin Tidian, don't be presumptuous, who doesn't know that you are the Holy Hand of Xinglin?" Gu Yantao comforted him, "Everything in the world is about fate. Qin Tidian and the Queen Mother don't have that medical relationship. ”

Qin Weisi smiled bitterly.

This should be the holy hand of the apricot forest, and if you can't cure the cough of the queen mother, you will even lose your life.

The two exchanged a few more words of greeting and said goodbye to each other.

Gu Yantao heard that the emperor was serving in front of the queen mother's bed, so he also followed Qin Weisi out of the palace gate and returned home.

Back at the Chengguo Mansion, Gu Yantao went straight back to his courtyard and discussed with his wife Ning: "Write a letter to Yanling Mansion and ask the old man to return to Beijing to see the Queen Mother's illness, right?" If we are cured, our family's wealth will be another layer. ”

Yanling Mansion is also called Changzhou Mansion, far away in Jiangsu.

Gu Shifei, the old man of the Gu family, was also mentioned by the Tai Hospital in his early years, because he cured the evil disease of the former emperor and was named the Duke of Chengguo. It's just that he was gradually disliked by the emperor, and the old man resigned by himself, and took his third son and his family back to his hometown in Yanling Mansion to live for the rest of his life.

It's been more than six years.

The old man of the Gu family has mediocre medical skills, but his luck is good, otherwise how could he be crowned the Duke of the Kingdom?

If it weren't for the last resort, Gu Yantao wouldn't have thought of his father who didn't help him in his career.

Mrs. Gu Ning disagreed: "...... How the old man's medical skills are, we know best as children. How many doctors can't cure the Queen Mother, what can the old man do? Didn't you bring him back and disgrace? Besides, the old man has been indifferent all his life, and someone from Yanling came to Yanling last month and said that the old man was teaching the third daughter, Jinzhi, to study, and entertain himself and enjoy his old age, so why bother him? ”

The third child of the Gu family is called Gu Yanzhen, and he followed the old man of the Gu family back to his hometown six years ago.

Gu Yanzhen's eldest daughter is called Gu Jinzhi.

Mrs. Gu's Ning family is good at everything, but she is high and unwilling to camp.

Gu Yantao was disdainful in his heart, and he didn't bother to discuss it with Ning, so he went to the study by himself and wrote a letter to the third brother and wife who served their father in their hometown.

He asked people to send a horse to Yanling Mansion in Jiangsu.

A month later, it was the season of April when the Jiangnan delicate flowers were beautiful and the weeping willows were swaying.

The third wife of the Gu family, Song Shi, received a letter from Gu Yantao, the uncle of the capital, and after a few glances, she was not interested and put it aside. She got up and changed into new clothes, took her daughter Gu Jinzhi and son Gu Xuanzhi, and went to her sister-in-law as a guest.

Today is her sister-in-law's birthday.