Chapter 188: A Thousand Miles to Find a Husband and Walk...
I waited at home for three more days, I really couldn't wait, and I still went to the palace to find the idea of Concubine De. Concubine De is a devout Buddhist, except for chanting sutras and burning incense in front of the Buddhist shrine, she has no real action.
I don't know if there are gods in this world, but I know that if a person doesn't work hard, he will never get what he wants.
I first went to the Imperial Hospital to ask the person in charge, and if I want to talk about Fourteen's condition, the clearest one must be the Imperial Doctor of the Imperial Hospital.
The person in charge, Lord Wang, once protected my baby, and was entrusted by Concubine De, and I also had a very good relationship with him, so I trusted him more.
He was about to go to the harem to ask Concubine Tong for peace, but I stopped him on the palace street. I was so anxious that I didn't even say a word of greeting, and said directly: "Do you know about Fourteen's condition?" "Lord Wang is an old imperial doctor for many years, not only has medical skills, but also in the officialdom, and is far-sighted.
He hugged his fists and asked An first, and said: "Weichen is not the head of the Fourteenth Master, and he doesn't understand the situation, so please forgive Fujin." "It's about the prince's life, not only the imperial doctor, but even anyone, don't dare to say it to death.
I said, "I don't want you to be cured, I just want to ask you what kind of disease Fourteen has!" Lord Wang thought for a while, and said, "Wei Chen only heard that the fourteenth master had cold limbs, severe headaches, vomiting and even convulsions from time to time, or was unconscious. When he said this, my heart pounded and hung in the air, and I felt trembling when I spoke, and I said, "Have you ever treated such a patient?" I was afraid that Lord Wang would not dare to say it, so I added another sentence and said, "Don't worry, I will bear the responsibility if something happens, and it will never involve you." Lord Wang's beard curled, and he reluctantly smiled: "Fu Jin's words are serious." He immediately frowned and said: "Wechen is good at treating women's diseases, and other illnesses in the imperial hospital have never been the responsibility of Wechen." But Weichen thinks that the local flash flood is easy to cause various infectious diseases, and it is easy to spread through mosquitoes and vegetable water sources, once the momentum cannot be controlled, the consequences are unimaginable. Although I don't know how to heal, I do know what infectious diseases are, and I said, "I haven't heard of anyone else getting it." Lord Wang bowed his head and said, "Fortunately, it is not due to infection, I believe that Lord Qin and others must have a good way to diagnose and treat it." "Lord Qin in Lord Wang's mouth is one of the imperial doctors sent by Kangxi to the Fourteen Residency a few days ago.
Lord Wang looked around, looked vigilant, and said, "Weichen said something selfish, if he said something wrong, please don't be surprised." I hurriedly said, "Lord Wang just speaks." Lord Wang said: "Lord Qin and the others think it is typhoid fever, but Weichen thinks it is cold fever." At the beginning, the cold fever was only a headache, a sensitivity to cold, and a sensitivity to heat, and then it slowly attacked. After a pause, he said: "This is the words of the Weichen family, right or wrong, Fujin doesn't have to be serious, everything should be subject to Lord Qin's diagnosis and treatment." From his words, I vaguely guessed that the undercurrent of the imperial hospital was turbulent, and I couldn't embarrass him anymore, so I let him go.
My target is not in the Imperial Hospital, but in the Qin Heavenly Prison. There were two missionaries who had come by ship from France, one of whom was Antey, a former surgeon.
After coming to the Qing Dynasty, because the people of the Qing Dynasty did not know what surgery was, and they also believed that the parents who suffered from the body skin and hair must not be damaged in the slightest, Antai had no place to use, and could only work as an errand in the Qin Heavenly Prison, and sometimes exchanged geometry, mathematics, and astroscience with Kangxi.
I made up my mind, Antai is a Western medicine, maybe with Western medicine, I don't know if there were various antibiotics invented in Europe in 1714 AD, but try it, it's better than nothing.
People in the Qing Dynasty didn't believe in Western medicine, but I was not from the Qing Dynasty. It's not difficult to find a foreigner, because foreigners are so rare.
Antai has long, golden curls that are tied haphazardly with rope. He wore a waistcoat and a white shirt, his eyes were as blue as the sea, and his skin was particularly white, like a blank sheet of paper.
Minqiu, who had never seen a foreigner before, was startled and hid behind me and shouted, "Youkai."
Antai has the comfort and calmness of Westerners, he shrugged his shoulders, and did not care about Minqiu's rudeness, but praised Minqiu and said: "Oh, socute" Minqiu has been with me for many years, and he has also seen many big scenes, and he quickly came back to his senses and said, "Master, is he scolding me?" I was in a rare mood and smiled, "No, he said you were cute." "Minqiu has never suffered like this
"Molestation", blushing, glared at Antai. I told Antai about Fourteen's illness in detail, and Antai thought for a moment and said: "According to what you said, I think it may be malaria, malaria is an acute infectious disease with chills and fever on time, and the pathogen is the malaria parasite, which is transmitted to the human blood by the malaria mosquito" Halfway through, he suddenly smiled and said, "Do you believe in our French medical skills?" I could probably understand what he said, and I was sure, "Of course I believe it, otherwise I wouldn't have come to you." "Antai has been in Daqing for many years, and it is the first time that he has met someone looking for his own medicine, and he is very excited.
He rummaged through the cabinets, and very cherished the pill in a small glass bottle from under the bed, and said: "This is called quinine in our France, one pill at a time, dissolve it with warm water and take it, three times a day, if the fourteenth master is really malaria, that is, the cold and fever that your imperial doctor said, I will pack a ticket, eat it once and it will get better, and you can be cured after eating it for three days." After a pause, he said, "I only have one bottle in total, and there are ten pills in it." He handed me the whole bottle, and I exclaimed, "Are you willing to give it all to me?" An Tai said: "You are the only person in the Qing Dynasty who believes in me, "Warring States Policy" said that women are the ones who please themselves, and the people who are confidants die, not to mention that it is just a bottle of medicine, and the medicine is originally used to save people." I was so moved that my eyes were red, and I smiled and said, "Thank you." Antai spread out his hands, his eyebrows and eyes were deep, and he smiled: "Itmypleasure." "I took the medicine and naturally wanted to send it to the fourteenth, I went straight to the Qianqing Palace with joy, and told Kangxi all the ins and outs, I thought that Kangxi would be happy, but I didn't want him to be old, not as open-minded as when he was young, and said pedanticly: "France is a small country outside the country, and their medicinal materials may not be suitable for the Qing Dynasty." I had summoned Antai to discuss his medical skills before, and I didn't want him to tell me something about disembowelment, how could it be convincing? He took the small glass bottle and looked left and right, smiled contemptuously, and said, "What can these few pills be used for?" I've sent the Imperial Physician to treat Fourteen, so you don't have to worry about it. "It's about fourteen lives, I wanted to persuade a few more words, but I saw Hongfu quietly shaking his head at me, and then looking at Kangxi's expression, his face was full of clouds, his lips were pursed, and he was stern.
I knew that no matter how clever I was, I couldn't convince the old stubborn in front of me, so I thought about it and knelt down and retired.
Since Kangxi is not allowed to send it, I will send it myself. I didn't dare to make a big deal about this matter, not to mention Concubine De, she couldn't do anything if Kangxi didn't agree.
Besides, she still wanted to go to the Jingshan Temple to offer incense and pray for blessings, and all her thoughts were on relying on the blessing of the Buddha.
The people in my husband's family are unreliable, so I can only rely on the people in my mother's family. I carefully divided the ten pills into three parts, first wrapped them in a layer of silk yarn for fear of getting wet, and then wrapped them in a layer of oiled paper, each wrapped in three lotus packs.
If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, after all, the road is far away, and I dare not believe anyone except myself. I had to deliver it myself, and Ama didn't agree, so he smoked a hookah and confronted me silently.
Eniang folded her hands in front of her, her face was sad, and she said: "What do you want, what do you want, I and your Ama both support you, but this time, absolutely not." As he spoke, he almost begged bitterly, and said: "Such a long road, you have to walk for a month or two quickly, and you have to hide it from the emperor's master, you have never gone out alone, and you don't know the danger of the road." Besides, if your foreigner's pill doesn't work, if something happens to your pill, do you want our Wanyan clan to bury him? As soon as I said that the fourteenth accident happened, my tears rolled down, and I swallowed angrily: "It's not interesting for him to die and I'm alive, Eniang, you help me persuade Amma, I" Ama threw the hookah pipe to the ground and said angrily: "I will never agree!" Since you were a child, when did Amma not follow you? Are you good once from Amma? "This is the first time Wanyan Luocha has been angry with me, I am extremely aggrieved, and I am worried about Fourteen, my nose is sore, and I can't help but cry loudly.
Luo Cha couldn't see me crying, and he was reluctant to let me risk my life, so he simply brushed his sleeves and left. E-niang held me in her arms, patted me lightly on the back, and sighed again and again.
I am discouraged, and I dare not delay, Fourteen is still waiting for my medicine. Wiping away my tears, I want to go back to my house to find Hongchun and think of ideas, he reads a lot, and he should always know how to get to the fourteenth station.
It's really not good, I can go with the maids and guards in the house myself. After leaving the gate of Yan's Mansion, Xiao Hai came out of nowhere, he stopped my carriage, sat on the crossbar in front of the carriage, raised the curtain and asked, "If you promise to help me find Shiyun, I will take you to my brother-in-law." The poem in his mouth is the prostitute Shiyun who was sent to Hainan by Fourteen before.
Unexpectedly, Xiaohai never forgot it. I didn't think about it, and said, "As long as you take me to find Fourteen, I will also find Shiyun back for you at the ends of the earth." Xiao Hai's eyes lit up and said, "Okay, a word is a certainty." Seeing that I was smiling, Xiao Hai took out a brocade handkerchief from his cuffs and said, "Hurry up and wipe your face, your makeup is crying." When do we leave? I said, "Right now!" Xiao Hai was surprised: "How can that be?" I didn't even bring any luggage, and I didn't talk to E-Niang" I let Xiaohai sit in the carriage and let the groom drive outside the capital, and said: "E-Niang, just ask someone to go home and say it." Besides, I put two boxes of gold underneath, what can't I buy? Xiao Hai was startled again, knocked on the horizontal stool, and said, "Here?" I nodded and said, "About four hundred taels." "You must know that the ordinary people of a family of four in the capital spend only twenty taels a year, and it is silver!
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