Xiao Yuanzheng felt that her smile was too treacherous and he didn't want her to get too involved in this matter, so he said: "Stop laughing, let's think about how we can wake up His Majesty. His Majesty continues to sleep, and I'm afraid the next fire will burn him."
It’s too hospitalized.”
Xiao Yuan's words came true. Not long after the two had finished breakfast, someone came to ask them for questioning.
Because they had to take care of His Majesty now, the chief judges of the joint trial asked the two people in the side hall in front of the Taiji Hall, of course, separately.
Considering that Lord Tang had a relatively good relationship with Zhou Man, she was interrogated by Li Shangshu, Zhang Shangshu and Lord Yu of Dali Temple.
Zhou Man, the official, sat opposite them, looking at them with round eyes, waiting for them to ask questions.
Li Shangshu and Master Yu looked at her in silence for a moment, and finally looked at Zhang Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment. Among the three of them, he was the least familiar with Zhou Man.
Zhang Shangshu looked at his two colleagues, frowned slightly, and had to speak first, "Master Zhou, you took His Majesty's pulse five years ago. How was his pulse at that time?"
Zhou Man said cautiously: "Five years ago... it's been too long, how could I possibly remember it? The hospital should have pulse records."
"Master Zhou, we will naturally investigate the pulse case. What we are asking now is you," Zhang Shang said expressionlessly: "Master Zhou, please think carefully. Five years ago, you were ordered to return to Beijing to serve as Master Wei.
Seeing a doctor, His Majesty was also ill at the time, so you and Xiao Yuanzheng took His Majesty’s pulse together..."
Zhou Man tilted his head and thought for a long time, his brows gradually furrowed, "What do you think? Do you know how many patients I have seen in the past five years? Even Your Majesty, since returning to Beijing, I have been diagnosing his pulse every now and then. So,
How can I possibly remember this with so many pulses?"
Zhang Shangshu frowned and Zhou Man said: "Zhang Shangshu, can you remember the official documents about Huayang County that you handled in Yizhou five years ago?"
Zhang Shangshu:......
Zhou Man spread his hands and said, "Look, this is also your job. You have limited His Majesty, and I have also limited Huayang County for you, but can you remember it?"
"You can't, and I certainly can't either."
Li Shangshu reached out and rubbed his forehead, pretending that Zhang Shangshu's headache was invisible.
Master Yu was not so polite, and said with a cold face: "Master Zhou, I remember that you have a photographic memory. Forget about other things. Your Majesty's pulse condition was different at that time. It is impossible for you not to remember it."
Zhou Man looked surprised, "His Majesty's pulse condition was abnormal at that time?"
Master Yu and Li Shangshu secretly cursed that Zhou Man was becoming more and more slippery and not at all as cute as he was when he was a child.
Thinking about what she said when she was a teenager, when did she become as slippery as the old men in the court?
Zhang Shangshu, who was not very familiar with Zhou Man, looked at her surprised face and didn't know whether to believe her or not. He pondered for a moment and then said: "Master Zhou doesn't remember, then this matter is all Xiao Yuanzheng's fault.
He deliberately concealed the abnormal pulse condition from His Majesty."
Zhou Man frowned. The emperor's pulse condition five years ago was a bit weak, but why did it reach the point where his pulse condition was different?
"If Xiao Yuan truthfully recorded His Majesty's pulse, how could he conceal it?" Zhou Man said: "If he didn't record it, how did the adults know His Majesty's specific pulse?"
Zhang Shangshu was about to speak when Master Yu interrupted: "Okay, Master Zhou, we have been colleagues for more than ten years. You were imprisoned by me in Dali Temple back then. We are also acquaintances with each other, so let's talk straight to the point."
He opened the pulse case under his hand, opened one of the volumes and said: "Five years ago, Xiao Yuan was recording the pulse case. Your Majesty was suffering from Qi deficiency and severe phlegm and dampness. At that time, this pulse case was recorded in the document given to Your Majesty by Mr. Zhou.
After checking Ping'an's pulse, someone also saw Mr. Zhou and Xiao Yuan talking about His Majesty's condition in the corridor of the palace."
"Master Zhou, I have said it in such detail, do you remember it?"
If it weren't for Keke, she would probably have woken up, because what he said was indeed the truth.
Zhou Man didn't deny it, but he didn't admit it either. Instead, he looked at Mr. Yu suspiciously, "See? Is it still useful to talk about the condition?"
She asked: "Could it be that someone from a distance saw the two of us entering the corridor while talking and guessed that we were talking about His Majesty's pulse?"
Mr. Yu, "Master Zhou avoids talking about it. Is it because he dares not admit it?"
Zhou Man sighed and said: "There is nothing I dare not admit. I was the chief of the Qingzhou Medical Office at the time, and Xiao Yuan was the chief of the Imperial Medical Office. After diagnosing His Majesty's Ping'an pulse together, why not talk about His Majesty's health?"
"But this pulse condition is different..."
"This is just a disease," Zhou Man interrupted him and said, "Your Majesty was just recovering from a long-term illness. His body was weak and it was normal for him to be deficient in Qi and blood. Not to mention Your Majesty, all three of you are also suffering from a slight deficiency in Qi and blood.
Mutually."
Staying up all night will make young and middle-aged people weak, let alone a group of middle-aged and elderly people?
Zhou Man also looked at Li Shangshu emphatically, but Li Shangshu's scalp felt numb and his back felt cold.
Before he could stop him, he heard Zhou Man's faint voice: "In addition to the loss of Qi and blood, Li Shangshu also has symptoms of dryness and excessive Yang. You have to relax and drink more warm water..."
Master Yu and Zhang Shangshu couldn't hold back. They turned to look at the gray-bearded Li Shangshu. Their eyes were full of surprise. I didn't expect that, I didn't expect that Li Shangshu was the eldest among the three of them, right?
Li Shangshu was so angry that his beard flew up. He glared at Zhou Man and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? You are so arrogant."
Zhou Man touched his eyebrows and said, "I shouldn't. Although I didn't sleep much last night, I slept well yesterday afternoon and slept on my stomach for a long time at night. I feel good today."
Mr. Yu couldn't help but knock on the table, "Mr. Zhou, don't think about changing the subject."
Master Yu said solemnly: "We will take out His Majesty's pulse in the past five years to study it. His Majesty's health began to deteriorate five years ago. In the past, he fell ill once or twice a year, but after that time, His Majesty's health began to deteriorate.
I get sick five or six times every year. Even if I go to the palace to bathe in hot springs in the winter and go out to escape the heat in the summer, my health is still slowly deteriorating. Otherwise, Your Majesty will not be easily fooled by the demon monk of that day."
He said expressionlessly: "Master Zhou, this conclusion is the conclusion reached by the doctors of your imperial hospital after reviewing the pulse records. You won't deny it, right?"
Zhou Man was surprised, "Can I take a look?"
During those five years, she was away from the capital for the first three years. When she returned to the capital, the emperor's body was already broken due to taking the poison pill.
Master Yu and Li Shangshu and Zhang Shangshu looked at each other, and still asked people to bring all the emperor's information to her.
Zhou Man flipped through the pages quickly. This was her daily job. She could read ten lines at a time and never forget them. She knew everything in her mind after just one glance.
Moreover, the pulse records picked out were not all, but one per month, but it was enough for her to see the changes in the emperor's body.