Chapter 65: The Poison of Cinnabar
Only a few days after the Duanyang Festival, Chen Yiqing ran to Shuqing Hall crying and begging the Queen Mother to ask for a doctor for her.
When Chen Yiqing took off the veil while crying while talking, she only listened to the snap! With a bang, the Queen Mother's teacup fell to the ground...... Then he fell into his chair.
You must know that Chen Yiqing is the top favorite of the Queen Mother, she is in love with her prospective granddaughter-in-law, but now her face is rotten and almost disfigured...... The Queen Mother was in a hurry, a mouthful of blood surged, and as soon as there was sweetness in her mouth, she spit on the ground.
"Queen Mother! Dowager! Gui Chun hurriedly stepped forward to support the Queen Mother and rubbed his chest. Qiaoxin, come to that glass of water. ”
Chen Yiqing climbed up to the Queen Mother, shook the Queen Mother's legs, and cried more and more sadly.
"Queen Mother, don't worry, it's all because the Qing girl is not good, the Qing girl shouldn't listen to you, she has to get those peaches......"
The Queen Mother gasped twice, picked up Chen's face and looked at it carefully, gasped, frowned, got closer, and looked carefully, the Queen Mother was stunned. Turning his head to look at Gui Chun, Gui Chun seemed to understand what the Queen Mother meant.
At this time, Xing'er Wang Zhen'er, Aunt Liyue, etc., heard the sound and also ran into the Shuqing Palace, and when they saw the Queen Mother vomiting blood, they were all startled, and they all knelt down.
"Three treasures, three treasures!" The Queen Mother called.
The father-in-law of the Three Treasures stumbled in from outside the hall, and when he entered the door, one accidentally tripped over the threshold and fell to the ground.
"Yes, the Queen Mother! The Three Treasures are here! ”
"Quick, go! Go to the hospital and ask for a doctor! ”
"Yes!" The eunuch of the Three Treasures responded and ran out with a smoke.
Taking advantage of the fact that Sanbao went to invite the imperial doctor, the queen mother ordered someone to place a fragrant concubine for Chen Yiqing alone, so that she could temporarily diagnose her pulse here.
About a stick of incense, the imperial doctor came, but it was not Du Zhong, but a rather faceless imperial doctor, with a mustache, about forty years old.
"Wechen Qi is seeing the Queen Mother at the right time!" The Imperial Physician bowed.
The Queen Mother looked up and down, this imperial doctor who had never met.
"Why haven't I seen you before?" The Queen Mother asked.
"Back to the Queen Mother, Weichen was only a famous court judge before, and he was just promoted to the position of imperial doctor a few years ago." The man replied with a slight bow.
"Oh, where's Eucommia?" The Queen Mother was still a little suspicious.
"Imperial Doctor Du, I took leave after Gu Yu, went home to worship my ancestors, and I haven't come back yet, today Weichen is on duty, and my father-in-law came to call, so I came over."
The Queen Mother nodded slightly and raised her hand.
"Then Imperial Doctor Qi, please take a look at this girl's injury."
Imperial Doctor Qi was led by Qiaoxin and came to Chen Yiqing's collapse, and at this moment Chen was already lying on the collapse, his face covered with a veil.
"Excuse me, girl, what is the disease?" Imperial Doctor Qi asked.
Qiaoxin helped Chen remove the veil, Imperial Doctor Qi was startled at first, rushed to check left and right, and then put on a pair of gloves and gently pressed Chen's ulcerated parts, Chen was in pain, gritting his teeth and making a painful sound.
Imperial Physician Qi cut Chen's vein, and the expression on his face became more and more gloomy.
"May I ask the girl, have you eaten or drunk anything by mistake recently?"
Chen Yiqing shook her head, as if she remembered something.
"A few days ago, with the Queen Mother went to the Imperial Garden to play, to see the peach forest of green peaches grow crisp and lovely, just into the forest to pick a lot, and then the Queen Mother let me throw away, said that the peach hair into the skin, the face will be raised very, I didn't care at the time, later, back to Shuqing Palace really responded to the Queen Mother's words, raised for several days, woke up today, a look in the mirror, a few days ago caught the place, it festered into this look, I was frightened, only to ask the Queen Mother, the love of the Tai Doctor you, to take a look."
After listening to Chen Yiqing's words, Imperial Physician Qi nodded and stood up.
"Empress Dowager Qiqi, Weichen just checked the wound on this girl's face, although there are signs of infection by peach hair, but Weichen believes that it is more due to poisoning."
"Poisoning?!" "Poisoning?!" "Poisoning?!" The room full of people looked at Imperial Doctor Qi in disbelief.
"Imperial Doctor Qi, is this true?!" Empress Dowager Guo asked again.
"Back to the Queen Mother, it's true!"
The Queen Mother stopped the imperial doctor's words, stepped forward in a few steps, and then looked at Chen Yiqing's injury, Chen himself was also frightened at this moment and sat up, gently stroking his ulcers.
"Girl, don't touch it with your hands again!" The Queen Mother shouted.
At this moment, a voice at the door announced, "The emperor and queen have arrived!" Then Emperor Yude and Empress Dowager Zhou and a group of people walked into the main hall of Shuqing Palace.
"Son-in-law, please give peace to the queen mother!" Emperor Yude and Empress Zhou saluted.
"Queen Mother, I heard from Sambo that you vomited blood in a hurry?! How about now?! Emperor Yude walked to the Queen Mother in a few steps.
"It's not in the way, it's just a mouthful of blood stasis and spit it out."
"Queen Mother, let's ask the imperial doctor to ask you about your pulse, please have a safe pulse." Empress Zhou said, "Liyue, where is the imperial doctor?!" ”
"Back to the queen mother, this one is the imperial physician of Qi who is on duty today." Liyue bowed and compared.
Empress Zhou looked Qi Fengshi up and down a few times and frowned.
"Why hasn't Hongu seen you?"
As soon as the imperial physician of Qi was about to return, the queen mother cut off his words.
"This is a newly promoted imperial doctor who has only recently been sentenced from the hospital, and he must have never served him, so he doesn't know him very well."
When Empress Zhou heard what the Queen Mother said, she nodded again and again. "Then the queen mother, please ask this Imperial Doctor Qi to listen to your pulse."
The Queen Mother nodded, and the imperial physician took a small wooden pillow that cushioned her wrist and put it on the small table in front of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother put her hand on it, and the Imperial Doctor covered a silk handkerchief on the Queen Mother's wrist to listen to the pulse.
After a while, the imperial physician got up and bowed to Emperor Yude.
"Your Majesty, the queen mother, the queen mother's body is fine, just vomiting a mouthful of blood is indeed a mouthful of blood stasis, don't worry, in recent days, the queen mother only needs to take some bird's nest, moisturize the lungs at the same time, and nourish the blood."
Emperor Yude nodded repeatedly.
"Zhou Liang!"
"The minions are here."
"Go, order the Internal Affairs Office to turn around and bring the bird's nest up."
"Yes!" Zhou Liang turned around and went out and ordered, then turned around and came back.
Emperor Yude looked at his own mother and couldn't help but look worried.
"Mother, what is the matter? In such a hurry? Vomited blood? Emperor Yude stared at Empress Dowager Guo with his eyes, his eyebrows furrowed.
"Yes, Queen Mother, my sons are waiting for the emperor to eat some supplements, and when I heard that you vomited blood, I was scared and the mouth of the bowl was buckled. also sprinkled the emperor's body, you see, the emperor is still wearing a dirty dragon robe! didn't care about the change, so Laerchen came in a hurry. Queen Zhou hurriedly took the opportunity to complain.
Just listen to the poof! With a bang, Chen Yiqing fell from the collapse to the ground and crawled a few steps on her knees.
"Emperor and Empress Qi, if you want to blame, you can blame the courtiers, it's all the courtiers who are not good, it is the courtiers who make the queen mother anxious, so she vomits blood." Chen Yiqing has already covered her veil.
"You?! ......" Queen Zhou was about to have a seizure when she got up.
"Queen!" The Queen Mother stopped, "This kid is also wronged!" ”
As he was talking, he only heard the news outside the door: "Shuguifei, Xianguifei, Defei, Qingfei, Liu Zhaoyi, etc.!" Then I saw a group of people led by Concubine Shu and Concubine Xian, hula and walked in from the gate.
"The concubines and others meet the emperor! Please Queen Mother! Greetings Queen, please! ”
"Let's be flat." Yudedi said.
"The concubines heard that the queen mother was not safe today, so they came to take a look." Concubine Xian said.
"Queen Mother, are you feeling better?" Concubine Shu asked panting.
Concubine De was about to speak, but saw a girl kneeling on the ground with her face covered. He took a few steps forward and looked at it.
"Isn't the girl kneeling on the ground Chen?"
"Presumptuous!" The Queen Mother slapped the table.
Concubine Zhang Defei and everyone were startled, seeing the Queen Mother so violently, they all knew that the Queen Mother was not sick, and they all stood quietly and did not speak, and Concubine De also slipped back to the side lightly and stood.
"It's good for Concubine Xian and Concubine Qing to stay, let's go back, it's okay to mourn the family."
Everyone was blessed, and then left, Concubine De still wanted to say something, but when she raised her eyes and saw Emperor Yude glaring at her, she also went out with interest.
Concubine Shu also stood in place and did not move.
"Wan Rong, you are not in good health, go back too, there is no big problem here in the mourning family."
"Back to the Queen Mother, Wan Rong usually doesn't have much opportunity to serve you, now that I'm here, you can let Wan Rong accompany you more." Concubine Shu is sincere.
"Hey......" the Queen Mother sighed.
For Concubine Shugui, the Queen Mother likes her very much, but she pities her, only to blame the emperor for not taking a fancy to her at the beginning, or she wouldn't have been hit by her arrow. Although the emperor accepted her, his gratitude was greater than that of men and women, although he gave her a high rank and a prince, but the sixth prince Jingxuan was also sick, which was both disappointing and pitying.
"Come, show the three princesses." The Queen Mother commanded.
The three concubines all sat down and looked at Chen Yiqing who was kneeling on the ground.
"May I ask the Queen Mother, what is wrong with this Miss Chen? Kneeling here? Concubine Xian was the first to speak.
"The virtuous concubine blames the courtiers themselves, and they startled the queen mother in the morning, and made the queen mother vomit blood." Chen Yiqing cried as she spoke.
When the third concubine heard this, they looked at each other, and they all frowned, not knowing what to do.
"Hey...... Girl, get up too, Liyue will get a stool for this girl. Liyue immediately moved a group stool for Chen Yiqing.
"Imperial Doctor Qi, let's talk about it."
"Yes!" Imperial Physician Qi bowed his hand like the three concubines. "The Empress Dowager of Qiqi, all the mothers, this girl has been poisoned."
"Huh?!" Everyone was shocked.
"This girl just said that she was disobedient and put peach hair on her face, which only accelerated the rapid onset of poison in her body, but it was not the real cause of her skin ulcers." The doctor stroked his mustache.
"So what made the poison like this?" Concubine Qing asked.
"The girl will ask you to take off your veil again, and take a closer look at it below, and confirm it."
Chen Yiqing stopped Imperial Doctor Qi's words, and gently took off the veil, the original pretty face, now the corners of both sides of the mouth have all festered, and there are red bruises on the cheeks, and the whole face seems to be bigger.
"The Queen Mother, you are presumptuous, you have to be closer to this girl."
Just as Imperial Physician Qi sat down close to her and observed left and right again at close range, the fan that Chen Yiqing was sandwiched in his clothes fell out, Imperial Physician Qi picked up the fan, put it on the tip of his nose and smelled it, rubbed the red on the fan surface, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed and nodded.
"Your Majesty, this girl is indeed poisoned."
"What poison?" Everyone asked.
The imperial physician raised the fan above the top and bowed, "It should be the poison of cinnabar on this fan......"