Chapter 48: Accidents
At the end of May, Gentle Rou sent me a few herbs, all of which were extremely tonic.
"What is this?" I asked suspiciously, after taking the herbs.
"Weichen has always felt that the Queen Mother's illness is strange, but he can't say it, so he secretly checked the Queen Mother's medicine residue for half a month, and the front was normal, but today there were suddenly more of these medicines, and I specially combined it with Dr. Konglin, and the result was the same as I thought, the Queen Mother's illness is very likely to be caused by these medicines."
"What does Imperial Doctor Wen mean is that the Queen Mother's illness was deliberately done by someone?"
"Yes, these herbs that the minister showed to the concubine Niangniang are all top-grade tonics, and there is no harm to the human body when they are eaten separately, but they are indeed abnormally harmful when they are put together, and the general imperial doctor will only use them when the patient is seriously ill, which helps to return to the light."
"What happens if a normal person takes it?"
"If the amount is large, it can be directly killed, and if the amount is small, the organ failure will die slowly, so Weichen dared to guess that the Queen Mother's illness must have been deliberately done by someone, and someone should have secretly mixed these medicinal materials into the Queen Mother's recipe at the beginning of the Queen Mother's illness."
"If that's the case, why hasn't the Queen Mother been fine for so long?"
This is also what Wei Chen wants to say next, if the amount is small enough, it is difficult for ordinary doctors to find out, and it will only be treated with a cold or accumulated food, but when the Queen Mother was first sick, Imperial Doctor Xu said so? Later, the body is in a recurrent state, sometimes getting better and sometimes getting worse? ”
"Yes, as you say."
"In this way, it makes sense, that person can grasp the dosage so accurately, and his medical skills must be extraordinary. In fact, every time the Queen Mother gets better, it is caused by the effect of the medicine, not really better, and so many times, the Queen Mother's body is actually hollowed out, which is the disease of organ failure I mentioned earlier. ”
"Now that you know the symptoms, is there any way?"
"If it had been two months earlier, Doctor Konglin might still have a way, but now...... "Gently and helplessly shook his head at me, "The damage caused by this drug to the human body is irreversible, and now even if I and Doctor Konglin do our best, I am afraid that we can only protect the Queen Mother until after October." Since the person behind him chose these medicinal herbs, it means that he never thought that the Queen Mother would have a chance to live. ”
Irreversible...... I looked at the medicinal herbs in my hand, if it was really as Wen Rou said, who in this harem could play this big game of chess?
"So, there is no one else who can do this without leakage except for Imperial Doctor Xu?"
"Not necessarily, all the medicines in and out of the hospital will be registered, and before I came, I also went to see the recent medicine records of Imperial Doctor Xu, which are all normal prescriptions for nourishing qi and consolidating the book, and have not registered the extraction of these medicines, and the medicine hidden clam moss in this is not available in the palace."
"So, you're suspicious ......"
"Wechen suspects that this medicine comes from outside the palace, because the effect of the medicine is so special, even if the lady in the palace wants to, there will definitely be no way to purchase it without anyone knowing, so Weichen feels that the person behind Imperial Doctor Xu may not be in the palace, and the power is not small."
"This palace knows, you and Doctor Konglin don't let this matter out for the time being, just continue to pretend that you don't know anything as before, especially Doctor Konglin, don't show too much concern for the Queen Mother, avoid startling the snake, as for the origin of these medicines, I will send someone to investigate secretly."
Now I am most worried about Master Konglin, after all, he is also a world-famous doctor, and it is impossible for Imperial Doctor Xu to be defenseless against him, and it is impossible to believe that he really didn't find anything.
Looks like I'm going to have to find someone else to arrange a play.
"Wechen understands." I waved my hand and let Sandalwood send him out.
originally thought that the Queen Mother was just sick normally, but she never thought that there would be such a thing behind her, it seems that it is time to reorganize the harem.
In today's situation, if you really want to find out who is behind the scenes, the only way is to stand still and wait for the other party to show your feet and hit with one blow.
I called Li Xiaoxiao and carefully explained the arrangement to him. I know that Imperial Physician Xu has always been smart and cautious, and he will definitely not bring all the medicinal materials into the palace at once, so I just need to wait with peace of mind.
On the other side, Concubine Shugui's body is gradually getting heavier, and every time she asks for peace, she likes to talk about her pregnancy, and she always satirizes other concubines for not laying eggs. This back and forth turned the invitation into a debate meeting.
Seeing that the blessing ceremony of the Dragon Boat Festival was gradually approaching, I was worried about the queen mother's health, so I naturally exempted the palaces from asking for peace, and handed over the harem affairs to the assistant manager of the Huang family of Baoyi, and since then I feel that the world is peaceful.
And the queen mother's body gradually improved under the care of Konglin and gentleness, and the emperor was happy for this and rewarded Imperial Doctor Xu.
That night, I carried two bottles of wine to the Buddhist hall.
"Do you feel wronged?"
"It's just to cure the sick and save people, and the doctor doesn't dare to call it a doctor for the sake of money." Kubayashi replied in a voice that only I could hear.
I just shook my head and put the wine down, but unfortunately, not all healers don't practice medicine for money.
As soon as I got out of the Buddha hall, Kong Lin threw all the wine out, and the little eunuch who had been following me disappeared.
There was nothing to do in the previous dynasty, the harem was harmonious, and even Li Yu, who was always in my palace on weekdays, suddenly got busy, and ran to Dali Temple for several days, for fear of missing an unjust case. I could only pull Sandalwood and Qiu Xiang to learn to make pastries every day, and my cooking skills increased dramatically for a while.
Until the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, the lady suddenly led the Qingnu to my palace, this move really moved me, and quickly shouted Sandalwood to take out all the pastries that had been practiced in the past few days, after all, no one was willing to take the initiative to come to me on weekdays.
"Everything in the Buddha hall is arranged, and my sister came today to ask the concubine to come over to check it." After some politeness, the lady said her intention.
"My sister arranged, I am naturally relieved." That said, but I'm still going to see if it's going to be the way I expected.
In order not to disturb the Queen Mother, the lady specially set up the blessing ceremony in the Buddhist hall in Li Yu's palace, which is the same as in her previous life. I shouted Sandalwood to take the almond dew in the morning, so that after reading the Buddha Hall, I could stop by to see Li Yu.
In 965 A.D., the Tang King Li Yu led more than 100 people from the harem into the Chengqian Buddha Hall to pray for the Queen Mother.
However, the scene was unexpected, just as Li Yu and I were about to bow for the last time, we suddenly heard a loud noise, followed by chaos in the crowd.
That night, Concubine Shu gave birth to the four princes in the Jiaofang Palace, but the month was still early, and the child was born without breath, but fortunately, Concubine Shugui's mother was safe.
I heard that Concubine Shu kept shouting Zhongxuan, the queen, and the queen mother in her mouth when she was in a coma......