- After he roughly determined that this secret passage had nothing to do with Concubine De, thinking of the several chiefs of the Ministry of Engineering who majored in this Huayang Palace more than ten years ago, he suddenly remembered someone just now. If this person was in the construction team at the time, then this secret passage may have many uses, but it could not have been used against him.

When Huayang Palace was built more than ten years ago, Wang Hong was just a child, and he didn't remember much about the whole process of building Huayang Palace. However, such important information related to the construction of the imperial family's dormitory, no matter how long the time has passed, as long as the lord of Nanzhao is still a member of his royal family, this information can be found in the archives of the Ministry of Industry.

Just now he insisted on coming in to take a look, because he suspected that this secret passage had an ill-intentioned use, and now this can be roughly ruled out, so whether to find out today, or to send someone to investigate thoroughly in the future, there is no need to enforce a time charter.

- What's more, if this secret passage is really the work of that person, with Xiao Xing's shallow understanding of the secret technique of the Qi Gate, the possibility that she can touch the door of this secret passage today is even more slim.

"A moment." Wang Hong repeated what he had said earlier, paused slightly, and then continued: "At this point in today's matter, I am also a little tired. If this secret passage had been designed in the drawings at the beginning of the construction of the palace, it would not be a secret that cannot be traced. Another day, I went to the Ministry of Industry to look through the old year's files, and I could see the difference. ”

Seeing that the prince had expressed his intentions to this journey, Xiao Xing didn't say anything more, nor did he rest for a while, and soon set off to devote himself to the second "attempt".

Li Shi watched as the thin girl jumped from side to side in the secret passage like a stray arrow, and her eyes had become slightly accustomed to some of the faint shadows. Gradually, I understood what the girl's temptation was.

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On the night he came out of the secret passage, the second prince Wang Hong's illness was a little severe. It's just that he has been plagued by hypocrisy since he was a child. He has become accustomed to or developed a kind of patience, and if it were not for the excessive discomfort of his body, he would not have seen anything abnormal on the surface.

Until the light of day outside, on the couch with a silk tent in the inner room of the dormitory, the people who fell asleep last night still did not move at all.

The palace maids knew that His Royal Highness had left the palace yesterday evening and returned tired, so no one went to visit him in the morning. When Concubine De came last night, she also said that the prince didn't have to get up early to ask for peace in the past few days.

Although the palace maids and eunuchs in Huayang Palace are highly virtuous, some rules are not required to be done. But also because of this. All the servants in this prince's residence are more considerate of their master's wishes. It's not just about following the rules.

Even if there was no matter of Concubine De coming last night. There will be no palace maids to disturb the prince today. Even if there were, the servant who went would only enter the inner room gently, if the master did not respond. It will gently retreat again. It's like I've never been there.

However, this has been done many times in the past. Today, however, there was an accident.

The second prince, Wang Hong, slept until noon, and there was still no movement to get up. From the perspective of the servants of Huayang Palace. That's kind of weird.

All servants know it. His Royal Highness is a very hardworking person. It is only said that reading in the morning and reading at night is a compulsory thing to do every day after getting up and before going to bed, and it is rarely missed. Yesterday, His Highness was unwell. I stopped reading at night, and I stopped reading in the morning today, which is a matter of common sense.

But His Highness never got up so late, and even when he got up, he couldn't do much, and most of the time he spent himself in a quiet and quiet place or reading a book or playing chess and playing the piano, but when he could sit, he would never be happy to lie down.

You can still do something while sitting, but you can do something when you're lying down. There was a time when His Highness used to say this.

When several palace maids in Huayang Palace gradually realized a feeling of unease, and after a little discussion, they finally couldn't help it, and when they opened the silk tent without the permission of His Royal Highness the Prince, they were immediately frightened by the prince's pale but somewhat weirdly flushed face.

Although these servants all knew that the prince they were waiting for was a very patient person, from a certain point of view, this was actually a master who was not very easy to serve. Because his pain cannot be expressed in time, and by the time he can no longer bear it, the sickness that often plagues him has often reached a point of collapse.

It was also because of the weak constitution of the second prince that Huayang Palace chose a location closer to the Taiyi Bureau at the beginning of the new repair, but on the way to the Taiyi Bureau, several palace maids only felt as if they had run for hundreds of miles in a row, and their legs were already a little weak in their bones.

And looking at the gate of the Taiyi Bureau, which was no longer a few steps away in front of them, the last bit of the road seemed to them as if they were stepping on a ladder on the clouds, and it was rare that they couldn't even take half a step.

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Knowing that the second prince's condition was repeated, three imperial doctors came to the Imperial Medical Bureau together.

According to the usual practice, the prince is in poor health, but there is no need to use so many doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau at once. Compared with the previous dynasty, the Taiyi Bureau in the new dynasty is very staffed. There are only nine main imperial doctors, and three more were removed three years ago for some reason, and they have not been filled in since, so there are only six people on the post in the list of nine doctors. These six people perform their own duties, and the daily workload is quite large.

Unlike other officials, medical officers do many things that cannot be done verbally. At most, the students and medicine children in the Taiyi Bureau can do some things to catch medicines, boil them, and deliver medicines according to prescriptions, and as for the patient's pulse, complexion, and other problems, the medical officer needs to visit them in person.

Let's just say that a trip to General Xuanwei's mansion, a round trip plus the time spent on diagnosis and treatment can occupy more than three hours for an imperial doctor, which is almost equivalent to using half of the time that an imperial doctor is on duty in a day. The old general made outstanding contributions on the battlefield in his early years, and participated in an important step in the history of the founding of the Nanzhao Dynasty, for the recurrence of his old injuries, the emperor sent one of the nine doctors to cook full-time, and in the last few days, there were actually only five imperial doctors in the Imperial Doctor Bureau.

Of course, the emperor also knew that the daily workload of the Taiyi Bureau had almost doubled due to the excessive downsizing of personnel. So a decree has been given a long time ago. Even if the imperial relatives are transferred to the imperial doctor, they can only go to one person at a time, and there is no hard limit on the number of companions of the students.

In fact, the emperor would draw up such a will, not only in order to reduce the burden on the Imperial Medical Bureau. For most pathologies. These doctors who can be promoted to the rank of nine doctors are enough to deal with it alone, and there is no need for multiple medical consultations. In addition, for ordinary cases, if there are a few more doctors involved in the treatment, there may be differences of opinion that the treatment is not beneficial.

The nobles who lived in the orderly and stable Kyoto were sick for nothing more than that, and even the imperial doctors had their own records of this. I am often invited to go by a certain house as if the sky is burning with fire. In the end, the cause of the diagnosis and the prescription were actually old-fashioned -- not everyone was like the one who played with fire three years ago, and he was obviously extremely calm. But there is a slight movement. put his life in half.

Today, in order to diagnose and treat the second prince who lives in the palace, he mobilized the three imperial doctors of the Taiyi Bureau, and almost all the main doctors in the bureau were consumed. This is not only because His Highness's condition has indeed changed quite severely. And because of these three people. Two of them had been involved in treating His Highness before that. For His Highness's injuries suddenly worsened. These two people are inseparable from their responsibilities.

But specifically. Like these two, the imperial doctor can't escape his responsibilities. There should be a third person. And it is likely that he will bear the heaviest responsibility for this, but he did not come.

The imperial doctors in the Taiyi Bureau are among the nine doctors, and their medical skills are roughly the same. If you want to talk about the difference, the main thing is that the field of expertise is slightly offset. For example, these doctors have all learned the ability of silver acupuncture points, but if you want to say that the real master, it is also a Chinese physician whose ancestors have specialized in the knowledge of meridians and acupoints in the human body for five generations. And if you want to talk about the use of herbs in medicine, Doctor Hua is difficult to compare with the imperial doctor surnamed Chen who added "monkey grass" to gold sore medicine.

The method of adding "monkey grass" to the gold sore medicine has saved the lives of many soldiers. "Monkey Grass" does have an excellent effect on accelerating the healing of trauma, and the faster the wound heals, the more you can avoid the danger of injury deterioration.

As for the adverse effect of this herb on causing human body heat, how can the soldiers on the battlefield have so much consideration, and the soldiers with strong physiques can directly ignore this discomfort.

The words of the imperial doctor who was invited to Huayang Palace last night could not be regarded as interceding for Imperial Doctor Chen, and the use of the safety process of "Monkey Pu Cao" was indeed equivalent to indirectly using the body of thousands of soldiers to test, and there was no problem. As for how there was a problem with the use of the second prince, the root of the problem should not be on the medicine, but in the negligence of Imperial Doctor Chen.

Yesterday evening, he should have considered that this prince's physique was too weak, and he had to be cautious about using drugs that were slightly more irritating to his body. He missed this, not only because most of his attention was on the emperor at that time, but also because he had not considered the slightest risk of "monkey grass" for a long time.

For pharmacology, every action has its own considerations, and the law of its existence cannot be denied because of human forgetfulness. And for the sake of this little bit of pharmacology that can be ignored, Imperial Doctor Chen may not be able to avoid responsibility.

But I'm afraid only the second prince knows in his heart what the real reason is that his injury became worse overnight.

From a big point of view, Imperial Doctor Chen and "Monkey Pucao" are innocent.

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Except for Imperial Doctor Zhao, who had been mainly responsible for treating the sword wound on the second prince's hand a few days ago, and the Imperial Doctor Feng who came last night, the third person who came with him was the Imperial Doctor Hua, who was good at administering needles.

Hua Shixian shared more than a dozen thin silver needles to puncture, and the needle application time was a little long. The two palace maids standing at the door from a distance quietly glanced at each other, and saw that the prince was still lying on the couch in a coma, with so many sharp needles standing on his back, which made the palace maid look frightened and frightened.

The palace maids only thought it was an embroidery needle, and each one was as painful as a thorn in their fingertips, and their hearts felt a pang of guilt. His Royal Highness the prince suffered this kind of suffering, most likely because they did not serve well. They have the leniency that their masters usually treat them, and after this incident, they don't know what kind of punishment will come.

Imperial Doctor Zhao and Imperial Doctor Chen, who were standing in front of the couch, had both learned the art of silver needle acupuncture, although they were not as proficient in this way as Hua Shixian, but with the essentials of this kind of medical skill they mastered, of course, they knew that the silver needle accurately pierced the acupoint, and there would not be any obvious pain. However, after some acupuncture, the acupuncture array began to work, mobilizing the body's qi and blood, and whether it was comfortable or painful at that time was really going to be revealed.

So although they didn't think like those palace maids, they wouldn't feel terrible because the prince had a few more stitches in his back. But when Hua Shi finished his idle stitching, they couldn't help but feel a little panicked.

When he pulled out the last three silver needles, Hua Shixian's hand paused slightly, he looked sideways at the two colleagues with slightly condensed eyes, and asked hesitantly: "Wangwen and Wen are one, do you need to ask the Second Highness about the matter?" ”

The two imperial physicians, Zhao and Feng, were first slightly stunned when they heard this, and then Imperial Physician Feng asked quickly: "Why, what does Doctor Hua mean is that whether His Royal Highness is awake or not at this time is under your control?" ”

There was no malice in Imperial Doctor Feng's words. With his many years of experience working with Huashi. Hua Shixian said this at this time, it was indeed easy for him to understand it so much.

"I have already crossed the acupoint with a silver needle to force the qi and blood meridians, and the high fever on the body of the Second Highness has gradually subsided. After that, it is carefully conditioned with a decoction. This body temperature can stabilize dìng. Hua Shixian sighed when he said this. Then he continued: "His Royal Highness has been burning all night. Although people are lying down, they are actually in the midst of illness all the time, and they cannot be regarded as rest. At this point, the heat was suppressed. can get a moment of real leisure, and it is certainly best not to disturb him at this time. But...... Looking at this matter from my experience in diagnosis, I always feel that there is something strange about His Second Highness's illness, so I think you should ask him so that you can not delay the accurate preparation of the decoction. ”

Imperial Doctor Zhao, who had been mainly silent since entering Huayang Palace, opened his mouth and asked, "Why did Doctor Hua say this?" What exactly do you think is the oddity? ”

"There was no rain in Kyoto last night, but the soles of His Highness's boots were stained with some fresh mud. Don't be surprised, sometimes it is necessary to understand the daily activities of a patient in order to treat a patient accurately, and it does not depend entirely on medical theories. Hua Shixian paused slightly, and then continued: "The sudden aggravation of His Second Highness's injury, at this time, the three of you and I can discuss whether it is the cause of the 'Monkey Pucao' or some other reason. ”。 (To be continued......)