Queen Wang put her left hand on the card table and covered it with a handkerchief before letting the machine take her pulse.
Zhang Ji was stroking his beard with one hand and feeling the pulse of Empress Wang with the other, his expression becoming heavy. When Empress Wang saw the difference in his expression, she was startled and asked, "Does this palace have any serious illness?"
Zhang Ji murmured: "This... this."
Queen Wang's face darkened and she said displeasedly: "Why are you so hesitant? Do you have any serious illness in me?"
Zhang Jicheng said in fear: "Empress, judging from your pulse, you have chronic diseases in all your internal organs. You are extremely ill and difficult to cure."
When Queen Wang heard this, her head buzzed, her body swayed, and she almost fell down.
Zhu Changluo shouted: "Shut up, you quack doctor, stop making alarmist remarks. Come on, beat him out with a stick."
Zhang Ji knelt down and kowtowed: "The grassroots people know their sins, and the grassroots people know their sins."
Eunuch Gao called over some young eunuchs, all carrying sticks, and they were about to take action.
Queen Wang signaled them to leave and said, "I am tired and want to take a rest. You can all leave."
Concubine Zheng stood up and said, "Sister, please retire." She happily took Zhang Ji and Liu Cheng away.
Prince Zhu Changluo did not leave, but said: "Mother, don't listen to the nonsense of that quack doctor. This guy was brought by Concubine Zheng. How can you believe his lies?"
Empress Wang said: "That Zhang Ji's words may not be false. I feel unwell all over my body recently. I don't feel well anywhere. Maybe I really have a serious disease."
Zhu Changluo said: "Mother, you are worrying too much. If you are always ailing, how could Dr. Wang and the others not notice it?"
Queen Wang said: "Eunuch Gao, go to the Imperial Hospital and call Imperial Physician Wang and others."
Three imperial doctors, Wang Wanxue and Wang Wanxue, came to Kunning Palace and walked into Queen Wang's bedroom. They saw Queen Wang sitting on the bed, and the prince was also there. The three of them gave gifts to Queen Wang and the prince. Queen Wang said: "Just now there was a man named
Zhang Ji's doctor showed me this, and he said that I am suffering from a serious disease and am terminally ill. You can show me again to see if what Zhang Ji said is true."
When these three doctors came here, Eunuch Gao had already told the story, and they all made up their minds not to tell the truth. Doctor Wang first felt the pulse of Queen Wang, and after checking it, he said: "Queen, please relax.
It's just that he is a little weak, but nothing serious. That Zhang Ji is a country doctor. His words cannot be trusted. Please don't take it to heart, Queen."
After the two imperial physicians Wan Xue checked Queen Wang's pulse, they both said that the Queen was fine and told her to relax.
Empress Wang was dubious about their words, and she still didn't know what they were saying. After asking them to leave, she said to Zhu Changluo: "Luo'er, which medical clinic in Beijing is the most famous?"
Zhu Changluo thought for a while and said: "Huichun Hall is the most famous."
Empress Wang said: "I don't know if Dr. Wang and the others have the intention to deceive me. Please go with me to the Huichen Hall. I want to put my mind at ease."
Zhu Changluo said: "There is no need for the queen to go there in person. I will go and summon the gentleman who is sitting in the hall into the palace."
Queen Wang was afraid that the man sitting in the palace would not tell the truth after knowing her identity, so she insisted on going there in person. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, neither the empress nor the concubines were allowed to leave the palace without permission. In order to seek peace of mind, Queen Wang did not care about the law.
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Wearing casual clothes, she dressed up as a rich grandmother, sat on Zhu Changluo's sedan, and sneaked out of the palace. The sedan stopped in front of the Huichun Hall. Zhu Changluo opened the curtain of the sedan and helped Queen Wang get out of the sedan. Xu Daiyue escorted her, and the three
People walked in.
I saw a few people standing in front of the counter waiting to get medicine, and there was no doctor in the hall. Xu Daiyue called a waiter and asked: "Where is your doctor?"
The waiter said: "Our husband is resting in the back house."
Xu Daiyue said: "Call him out quickly and show his body to my old lady."
The shop assistant said: "Our husband only attends the clinic in the morning, you can come back tomorrow morning."
Xu Daiyue took out Jin Yiwei's waistband, flashed it in front of the shopkeeper, and said, "Go quickly."
The waiter smiled apologetically and said, "It turns out to be the official. Please wait a moment while the young man goes to invite our husband."
Not long ago, an old man with white beard and hair, who looked to be about ninety years old, came to the hall. This man was the gentleman sitting in the Hui Chun Hall and the owner of the hall. His surname was Gong and his given name was Tingxian.
Xu Daiyue cupped his fists and said with a smile: "Mr. Gong, I am so anxious to treat my old lady that I broke your old rules. I'm really sorry. Please don't blame me."
Gong Tingxian smiled and said: "It's nothing." He said to Queen Wang: "Old lady, please take a seat."
Zhu Changluo helped Queen Wang to sit down. Queen Wang put her right hand on the table. Zhu Changluo covered her with a handkerchief. Gong Tingxian felt her pulse. After a while, he said: "It's nothing serious." Pointing at Zhu Changluo, he asked: "Old Madam,
Is this young master a member of your family?"
Queen Wang said "hmm".
Gong Tingxian dipped his pen in ink, wrote out a prescription, and said to Zhu Changluo: "Young master, please come with me to get the medicine."
Zhu Changluo followed Gong Tingxian to the medicine cabinet. Gong Tingxian handed the prescription to the shop assistant to grab the medicine, and whispered to Zhu Changluo: "Young Master, I dare not tell the truth in front of your mistress, for fear that she will not be able to accept it. In fact,
Your mistress's internal organs are all damaged and she is terminally ill. She doesn't have much time left."
When Zhu Changluo heard this, he was stunned and whispered: "Old sir, are you telling the truth?"
Gong Tingxian nodded slightly.
Zhu Changluo said sadly: "Is there no way to cure it?"
Gong Tingxian shook his head and said: "My medical skills are shallow and I can't cure it. Why don't you take your mistress to another medical clinic? Maybe they will have a good cure."
The store clerk had packed the medicine, and Gong Tingxian handed it to Zhu Changluo and said: "These medicines can only help your mistress to recuperate her body, but they cannot cure her disease. You should not take this medicine again in the future."
Zhu Changluo paid the consultation fee, came back in a daze and said to Queen Wang: "Mother, let's go back."
Queen Wang saw Zhu Changluo's expression was different and asked, "What did the old gentleman say to you just now?"
Zhu Changluo did not dare to tell the truth and said: "The old gentleman told me how to boil this medicine."
Queen Wang said: "No, Luo'er, you didn't tell the truth. Tell Wei Niang, what exactly did the old gentleman say to you? Was it about Wei Niang's condition?"
Zhu Changluo forced a smile and said: "Mom, you are too worried, your old age is not a serious problem."
Queen Wang said to Xu Daiyue: "Guard Xu, call that old gentleman over. I have something to say."
Before Gong Tingxian returned to the back house, he was standing by the medicine cabinet. Xu Daiyue called him over. Queen Wang said: "Old sir, tell the truth, how is my health?"
Gong Tingxian said: "The old lady just has poor Qi and blood, nothing serious."
Queen Wang said: "Guard Xu, please tell him my identity."
Gong Tingxian was startled when he heard that Queen Wang called herself this palace.
Xu Daiyue said: "Old sir, this is the current queen."
Hearing this, Gong Tingxian hurriedly knelt down to pay tribute to the Queen.
Queen Wang said: "Get up, I'm going on patrol incognito, don't make any noise. Old sir, do you know the crime of deceiving me?"
Of course Gong Tingxian knew that if he deceived the Queen, he would be punished by the whole family. When Queen Wang said this, Gong Tingxian was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat.
Queen Wang said: "I ask you again, am I okay?"
Gong Tingxian muttered: "This..."
Seeing him hesitating, Queen Wang felt cold in her heart and frowned, "Tell me quickly, how is my health?"
Gong Tingxian did not dare to hide it anymore and told the truth.
Empress Wang was half-convinced about Zhang Ji's diagnosis. Now Gong Tingxian made the same diagnosis again, leaving no room for disbelief.
After Empress Wang learned that she was not going to die soon, her spirit collapsed immediately. She felt that the sky was spinning and the earth was spinning. Her vision went dark and she fainted.
Zhu Changluo saw her falling forward and hurriedly supported her, shouting repeatedly.
Gong Tingxian was startled and thought: "If the Queen dies here, it will be a big crime." He ordered the shop assistant to get a silver needle and prick the Queen Wang's vagina. Queen Wang woke up immediately and was weak.
Said: "Luo'er, let's go back."
Her legs were weak and she finally stood up. With Zhu Changluo's support, she got on the sedan and returned to Kunning Palace. Angrily, she asked Eunuch Gao to go to the imperial hospital to send a message to summon the three imperial doctors Wang Wanxue and Wang Wanxue again.
Find them to settle accounts.
Eunuch Gao came out of the bedroom and asked Xu Daiyue in a low voice: "Mr. Xu, what did the gentleman at Huichun Hall say? Is the Queen okay?"
Xu Daiyue told the truth, and Eunuch Gao said sadly: "How could this happen?"
The three imperial doctors, Wang Wanxue and Wang Wanxue came to Kunning Palace again. On the way, Eunuch Gao told the Queen about the Queen's visit to the Huichun Hall. The three men guessed the Queen's purpose in summoning them and were afraid that the Queen would kill them in her rage.
, one by one walked into the queen's bedroom with fear, knelt on the ground to greet the queen and the prince.
Queen Wang sat back on the bed and did not ask them to lie down. She said with an angry face: "How dare you deceive me, you are such a big bitch. Come on, drag these three people into the courtyard and beat them to death with sticks."
Wang Wanxue and the others were so frightened that they kowtowed and begged for mercy.
Eunuch Gao called a few young eunuchs and was about to take action. At this time, Zhu Changluo said: "Wait a minute! Queen Mother, I guess these three eunuchs were afraid that you, the old man, would not accept it, so they did not dare to tell the truth. Please forgive them, Queen Mother."
Empress Wang pondered for a moment and said: "Since the emperor begged for mercy for them, the queen mother will spare them for once." She said to Wang Wanxue and the others: "You go down."
The three people thanked the queen and the prince and left. Doctor Wang said: "It's a good chance. Fortunately, the prince is here, otherwise we would have died."
Doctor Wan said: "I see that the Queen's complexion is much worse than before, and she has lost her energy."
Dr. Xue said: "Master Luo doesn't know yet, so we have to go to him quickly to discuss countermeasures."
The three of them went to the General Administration of Health and Welfare, met Luo Sigong, and told the story. Luo Sigong frowned and asked, "How is the development of the life-saving medicine for the three of you?"
Doctor Wang shook his head and said: "There is no progress."
Luo Sigong said: "Now the queen's condition is no longer a secret. You no longer need to secretly develop it. Come all over here and seize the time to develop the life-saving medicine as soon as possible."
On that day, the three imperial doctors Wang Wanxue and Chen Zhenshi were admitted to the No. 13 Hospital of Jinyi Health Administration. They put down their work in the Imperial Hospital and concentrated on developing life-saving medicines.