There were already two imperial doctors at the Queen's bedside. As the Imperial Concubine and Concubine Hu were both pregnant, Concubine Di came to visit and listened to the imperial doctors' diagnosis and treatment, waiting to report back to the Emperor.
After Yuan Qingling met the imperial concubine, she first asked the imperial doctor, "How is the queen's condition?"
The imperial doctor stepped forward and bowed to answer: "Replying to the princess, my face is yellow, her body is edematous, and her liver is hard, swollen and painful. I guess it is due to stagnation of liver qi, insufficiency of qi and blood, and damage to the internal organs."
Yuan Qingling heard this and walked over with the medicine box. When he saw the queen, he was slightly startled. She had lost a lot of weight, her face and eyes were yellow, and the quilt covered her body, but it could be seen that
Her belly was a little swollen. She was conscious but mentally exhausted. When she saw Yuan Qing coming, there was no light in her eyes. She just glanced at him and then looked at King Qi behind her.
Ever since she was imprisoned in Fangming Palace, she had rarely seen her son. She used to have a knot in her heart, but now she was lying ill in bed. She hated her past persistence and looked at her son with a sour look in her eyes.
King Qi stepped forward with tears in his eyes, held her hand, comforted her a few words, and persuaded her to let Yuan Qingling diagnose and treat her, and the queen agreed.
Yuan Qingling first listened to her heart and lungs, then pressed her liver and asked: "Mother, does it hurt?"
The Queen frowned and took a deep breath, "It hurts!"
Yuan Qingling pressed her swollen abdomen again and asked: "Where is this place?
Does it hurt?"
The Queen still looked like she was in pain just now, "It hurts!"
Yuan Qingling checked her legs and found that their legs were severely swollen. When she pressed them with her hands, it was difficult to bounce them back.
If you have water accumulation in the abdomen, edema of the lower limbs, pain in the liver and abdomen, and looking at the yellowing of the face and eyes, the basic diagnosis is hepatic ascites.
Yuan Qingling asked the people serving in the palace and said that the queen had lost her appetite a month or two ago, had vomited blood and had bloody stools, and had severe diarrhea.
"Fifth sister-in-law, how are you?"
King Qi looked at Yuan Qingling and asked.
Yuan Qingling opened the medicine box, checked that all the medicines needed were complete, and then said: "Let's give the medicine first, drain the edema, and see if it can be drained out. If not, I'm afraid the ascites will need to be punctured to remove the ascites."
She gave the queen an infusion of albumin, and then used diuretic drugs to see if she could pass it out on her own. If she could pass it out, the situation would not be the worst. If she couldn't, it would be more serious.
After the infusion, she waited in the palace for about an hour. The queen did urinate, but not much, which was not ideal.
She called King Qi out and told him to be mentally prepared. If the ascites continued to be serious, the queen would not be able to endure it for long.
King Qi's eyes turned red and he couldn't help but burst into tears. When he saw his eighth brother looking over from the corridor, he tried hard to hold back and said softly: "Fifth sister-in-law, just do your best."
"I will try my best, I just have to make you mentally prepared."
Yuan Qing Lingdao.
King Qi held back his grief and said, "I know."
Later, the princes and princesses also came to the palace to visit the queen, and Lao Wu also came. The relationship between the queen and the princes was not good in the past, but seeing that she was now seriously ill, everyone came to the palace to visit without being summoned. She
I was also very touched, and tears gathered in my eyes, but they did not fall down.
And all the princes, after experiencing the changes in the country, have not kept the grudges of the past in their hearts. It is like being wounded by a knife, so why do you care about the prick of a needle?
Yuan Yongyi arranged the affairs in the palace, packed her clothes and entered the palace. She was the empress's serious daughter-in-law, so she should enter the palace to attend to the illness.
In the evening, when Concubine Di reported back to Emperor Ming Yuan about the queen's situation, Emperor Ming Yuan came over in person.
The emperor and the empress had not seen each other for a long time. The reason why the empress died was because of Emperor Ming Yuan's complete neglect and rejection. Today, everyone came, but she never really shed tears. The moment she heard the announcement of the emperor's arrival outside, she burst into tears.
, burst into tears, crying uncontrollably.
After all, Emperor Ming Yuan was thinking about the love between husband and wife for many years. Seeing her like this, he felt uncomfortable and sat by the bed.
The queen cried more and more heartbreakingly, "Your Majesty, do you still remember my concubine?
Do you still hate my concubine?"
Emperor Ming Yuan stretched out his hand to wipe away her tears and said, "It's over now. You can take good care of yourself."
"I am wrong, I am really wrong."
The queen's hand firmly grasped Emperor Ming Yuan's wrist and pressed it on her heart, crying until she was out of breath.
Everyone felt sad when they saw this. Yuan Qingling was held in the arms of Lao Wu. She looked at King Qi. King Qi squatted in front of the curtain and couldn't help crying. Yuan Yongyi accompanied him and her eyes were full of tears.
The queen cried a lot, took medicine, and slowly fell asleep. Emperor Ming Yuan got up and asked Yuan Qingling and the imperial doctor. Although Concubine Di told him, he still asked in detail.
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The imperial doctor said that the basic situation has reached the worst point. Because the ascites is severe, Yuan Qingling cannot guarantee that it will be cured, so he can only delay it for as long as it takes.
After hearing this, Emperor Ming Yuan did not say anything. He just raised his hand and told everyone to retreat.
Emperor Ming Yuan spent half an hour chatting with the queen before leaving. No matter how the queen made mistakes in the past two years, he was still unwilling to take her life. It was the love between husband and wife that was difficult to let go.
When it got dark, Lao Wu and his wife left the palace and returned home.
After a long day of exhaustion, when she arrived at the mansion, Lao Wu automatically and consciously rubbed her shoulders and said softly: "Thank you for your hard work."
"What's so hard about this?
Just seeing the appearance of Lao Qi and Lao Ba makes me feel a little uncomfortable."
Yuan Qingling sighed.
"um, yes."
Lao Wu also felt bad. What he was worried about was Lao Ba. Lao Ba was deeply dependent on the Queen. If the Queen did something bad, Lao Ba might not be able to bear it.
Moreover, in the case of Lao Ba, no one can take care of him as hard as the Queen. In these long decades, Lao Ba will be very miserable, because no one can take the place of a mother.
In the past, the imperial concubine could take care of her, but now that the imperial concubine is pregnant, she will be very busy when the child is born. Moreover, she is still in charge of the affairs in the palace, and she will definitely not be able to take care of the eighth child.
Lao Ba cannot build a palace alone. No one can rest assured if he leaves the palace. If Emperor Ming Yuan relies on him, he is busy with government affairs and may not be able to see him several times a month.
In the end, both of them felt that if the queen was really old, they would raise the eighth child under the name of some empress. It would be better to have the bond of mother and son than to have no one to look after her.
When Yuan Qing entered the palace the next day, Concubine Di asked her to come to the side hall to talk.
Concubine Di took out a letter and handed it to her, "This is the letter Tian'er asked someone to deliver to me. The Crown Princess has a look."
Yuan Qingling was a little surprised that Lao Jiu actually sent a letter to the imperial concubine.
She took it and looked at it. It was an ordinary letter from home asking for greetings, and talked about his own situation. At the end of the letter, Lao Jiu told the concubine to take more care of Lao Ba if she had time, saying that Lao Ba was the one he couldn't worry about the most.
After reading the letter, Yuan Qingling was a little confused, "What does your Majesty mean?"
Concubine Di did not mince words and said bluntly: "The fourth child went to Jiangbei Mansion and may not be able to come back once a year. The emperor hardly comes to this palace now. The days are long and lonely. How do you spend it?
Therefore, after the Queen fell ill, I was thinking, if the Queen..." She looked at Yuan Qingling and lowered her voice, "I want to take the Eighth Prince into the palace to raise him, first as a companion, and secondly,
Come, I always hope that the emperor will think of the Eighth Prince and come to this palace a few more times, so that I will not be hopeless."