56 The instruments of God
"They don't drink pee?" The king sneered when he heard the attendant's report, "Rudos is sure that these people are doctors and not liars?" Did they not even inquire about my illness, so they rushed over and sent me to death? ”
The first step in diagnosing a person with sweet urine is to taste the patient's urine. This is common knowledge about sweet urine that the whole kingdom and even the entire continent knows. Only in the "cure" of the earliest swindlers and wizards did there be no urine tasting link, and later all the doctors vied to use this link as the best part of their professionalism, they could not only taste the sweetness of urine, but even accurately tell the king's diet and lifestyle through urine.
And even professional doctors, their treatment still does not help their own illness in the slightest, let alone those who are unprofessional, pure deception and gods. There are even some people who come against themselves with some special malice - some people prescribe poison to themselves and want to kill themselves; Some people advise themselves to believe in God; There were even some fools who directly cheated a sum of money, claiming that they would go thousands of miles away to personally select the best medicinal materials for the king.
All these fools and liars are now hung at the gates of the city, and it has become a beautiful scenery and a famous tourist area in the royal city of Elis.
Elise thought that no one would dare to deceive him, but he didn't expect that this time not only the liars came, but there were also four at one time - they felt that the gallows of the entire Elise Kingdom had been used up by themselves, right?
Even liars, casually asking around the streets, obviously know the necessary steps to treat sweet uria, even if they pretend to be professional, and try a sip or two - then maybe they will live a day or two longer. And now, apparently, these four guys don't even want to pretend, which makes Elis, who is already in a bad mood, furious: "What is this guy doing with Rudos!" Are these four people in the main hall, eating their last lunch? ”
In the first period when the list of seeking medical treatment was issued, there were many poor people who specialized in cheating on food and drink, and had nothing. They claimed to be able to heal the sick, but when they came in, they did not rush to see the king, and confined themselves to the palace in the name of analyzing the disease. When it was time to eat, these people ate and drank like tigers coming down the mountain, almost treating every meal as the last meal of their lives. The king almost subconsciously felt that there must be another such person, and that his medical minister had not done his duty.
The waiter hurriedly distinguished for Ludaos: "No, the people who came this time are not poor, they are all strong and rich, each of them has good mounts, armor and swords, and the jewels they bring with them are enough to buy half of the royal city!" The medical appliances they claim are beautiful and unprecedented! Mistress Rudolphus let them in. ”
King Elise glanced at the waiter with slanted eyes, and he was completely frightened to the ground: "Every word I say is true, Your Majesty. ”
Elise snorted, he didn't have much energy at this time to pursue the matter between the waiter and the minister, and his own son. What can you do if you are held accountable, can you find someone more loyal now? He asked, "And how are they going to heal the disease?" ”
The attendant looked at the king tremblingly, and said, "They want His Majesty's blood." ”
The king smiled and asked him, "So, you came and fetched it for them, didn't you?" How do you want me to cooperate with you? A cut in the throat and then a sewn up? The blood I had been drained by these quacks was almost enough for me to bathe myself! ”
Phlebotomy was the mainstream of medicine in this era, and was used for almost all ailments, and when King Elise was just diagnosed with sweet uria, he used to bleed frequently, and a small bowl was put almost every day. It wasn't until he finally became so weak that he could barely get out of bed that he finally gave up. After that, I tried it one after another, but none of them had obvious results. In King Elis's view, a doctor who only knows how to let blood is a typical representative of quacks.
"No, no, no...... They said, just a little ......," the waiter quickly explained, "They said that as long as there are a few drops of His Majesty's blood, they can use these few drops of blood to communicate with God and judge His Majesty's condition. ”
"God? Big or small. King Elise was not surprised at one point.
"Neither...... They ......" the waiter hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and conveyed the other party's exact meaning, "They say that the Great Yang God and the Little Yang God are both evil gods, and they believe in the land god. ”
"The god of the land?" King Elise confirmed that he had never heard of the name.
"They say that this is the god who is in charge of the underworld, and that they have brought the will of God this time, and have come to save your Majesty, and through you, to save the entire kingdom of Elis," and then the attendant handed the king a small object, and said, "They said that they would use this thing to bleed Your Majesty, as if it had been lightly pierced by a nail." ”
King Elise took the lance and looked at it carefully, although he didn't understand it, but the delicacy of the thing in his hand was undoubted, even beyond all the other doctors the king had ever seen. He carefully rubbed the exterior of the lancet, it was not wood, nor leather, nor iron, but a material he had never seen before. Lightweight and beautiful.
The king's accumulated anger gradually subsided because of the small lancet in front of him, and was replaced by a faint hope - maybe, maybe this time the doctor really can?
He waved his hand and said, "Bring them in, there are four of them, right?" Plus, call in eight more guards! ”
"Father," asked Prince Elise, who went into the bedroom, looked at the chamberlain, "I heard that four healers have come this time, and they are going to bleed you again!" ”
"You should have known this news before I did," said the king, glancing at his son, "but your information is very inaccurate, and if a mere mosquito bite is bloodletting." ”
"How much is not the point," the prince worried, "the point is that they will sacrifice your blood to their evil gods!" ”
"I don't care who it is given to," the king mocked, "the great sun god is the god you believe in, but he just doesn't want to see me healthy." No matter how much money I paid to atone for my sins, he insisted on starving your father to death, but you still believe it, don't you? ”
The prince ceased to exhort, and he stepped aside, stood at the head of the guards who had just entered, and said to the king, "Father, then, allow your son to guard you with the sword." If these cultists dare to play any tricks in person, I will let them taste the wrath of the Great Sun God as soon as possible. ”
The king snorted: "I don't need your god to be angry with me, thirteen people are enough in one room, you better go out and pray more before God for your father." If you hate cultists so much, you should go to the front for your god and slaughter a few more Xiaoyang cubs, maybe your god will be happy about it and cure my illness. ”
The prince stopped talking, and enough quarrels had arisen between their father and son over this.
Outside the room, the prince saw the four madmen who were walking in, and they seemed a little nervous compared to the doctors who had come before.
The prince was not surprised by this, in his opinion, all those who came to treat the disease were essentially deception, everyone knew that sweet urine was a terminal disease, and it was already a miracle that the king was able to survive for more than three years - but this miracle was also almost coming to an end.
The king three years ago was a king who was afraid of all generals at the mention of his name, and his greatest characteristic was that he was overly strong. But after three years, the strong man who could not run the horse that could be pressed is now indistinguishable from the starvation in the slums.
These people were merely hoping to earn a little bit of profit before the king died.
The prince investigated the origin of these people and knew that they had just been in the south, on the territory of the Xiaoyang Sect, and had already carried out a large-scale deception, causing the rear of the Xiaoyang Sect to be restless. Now these people can't stay in the south, so they can only come to the north, where it is known that there is a mad king who is most expected to be deceived.
If these people continue to stay in the territory of the Little Yang Sect and make trouble, the prince will be very happy, welcome and even secretly support their actions, but if they want to be here, disrupt the country that he is about to rule, the prince will use his sword to let these people know that here, the sun of his father is about to fall, and he will be the only sun in the kingdom of Elis!