When Deng Xue entered the servants' room carrying the bowl of medicine, she saw Doctor Wang talking to the other palace servants who had been injected with antidote by Tian An in the morning and had now regained consciousness.
Then he handed him the bowl of medicine that Tian An had asked him to take. "Doctor Wang, your illness is relatively mild. Please drink the medicine yourself. I will go and take care of the other palace maids."
"It's my duty, it's my duty. These things were originally my responsibility, but now they fall on Miss Deng Xue. Thank you for your hard work." Doctor Wang said apologetically.
After that, he took the medicine bowl from Deng Xue's hand, but did not drink it immediately. Instead, he held it tightly in his hand and joked, "It's too cold today. Let me use this medicine bowl to warm my hands before drinking it."
"Then Doctor Wang, please don't cover it for too long. After all, the medicine will be weaker when it gets cold. As the doctor, you must know this better than Deng Xue. Don't be willful!" Deng Xue said with a smile.
Then he turned around and ignored him and continued to distribute the medicine to other people.
We are not like Doctor Wang, who was still thinking about covering his hands. He drank the medicine in a hurry as soon as he received it. This is a life-saving medicine. If you drink it, the disease will be cured soon. Compared with life, what are cold hands?
Seeing that everyone drank the medicine they were given like wolves and tigers, even those who could not move were fed by Deng Xue using a strange medicine feeder.
Doctor Wang could no longer act independently, so he held the bowl and covered his hands, and finally had to drink the medicine in the bowl with a frown.
Just as he put down the bowl, he was startled to see Deng Xue standing in front of him as if out of nowhere.
Before he could say anything, the girl turned the tables and said, "Doctor Wang, I never thought that after practicing medicine all your life, you would still shiver from the bitterness of medicine."
Doctor Wang: “…” It didn’t look like she was shivering because of the bitterness of the medicine, it was clearly because she was frightened by her.
After being interrupted by Deng Xue, Doctor Wang immediately forgot most of the herbs he had tasted from the medicine soup just now. However, judging from the few herbs he still remembered, they were indeed suitable for his condition.
After taking the medicine, all the palace servants regained consciousness until evening.
Although he was still weak, it was no longer a problem for him to drink porridge from the bowl by himself.
After the palace servants had eaten, Tian An again asked the imperial doctors outside to prepare some medicine and send it in.
Doctor Wang's medicine was still prepared by Tian An himself, and Deng Xue was still the first to hand him the bowl of medicine.
Although Doctor Wang knew that Tian An had personally prepared a bowl of medicine, he only thought that the bowl prepared by Tian An was for the queen, so this time he drank the medicine while it was hot without even covering his hands.
When he put down the bowl, Deng Xue was still in front of him. After chatting with him for a few words, she took the empty bowl from his hand.
This time, he still only remembered the few herbs he tasted. Adding them to the herbs he wrote down at noon, he was already sure that this medicinal soup was indeed effective.
In the evening, Tian Anzhao gave the Queen and the palace maids a final check. After leaving, he began to give instructions to Deng Xue outside the servants' room:
"I still have to develop the next course of treatment tonight. If nothing goes wrong, after this success, I'll only need to take the medicine for three more days to recover. So, don't bother me unless it's something extremely important.
If this succeeds, then Meixian will also..."
The two people's voices gradually faded away, and all the palace maids in the room cried with joy. Only the smile on Doctor Wang's face always made people feel a little perfunctory.
In the middle of the night, Deng Xue, who had been lying in ambush next to Tian An's room, heard a slight noise and immediately looked through the window gap that had been left in advance.
After a while, he saw that familiar, sanctimonious face lingering outside Tian An's door.
He looked around and after making sure that there was no one around, he took out a dagger from his arms and prepared to pry the latch on Tian An's door.
Deng Xue saw this and was about to go out and catch him in the act, but someone else spoke first. "Who's there?"
Seeing this, the man immediately put away the dagger in his hand and turned around. "It's me. I went out to relieve myself. I felt a little dizzy, and it was too dark, so I took the wrong road. When I pushed the door, I realized it was the wrong room. I was about to go back when you came."
"What? Are you guys out here to relieve yourself too?"
"Who said it wasn't? He's been sick for so many days and finally ate some food today. Once there's something in his stomach, things will start to go wrong!" The two eunuchs lowered their voices and said in a shrill voice.
"Are you all done? Let's go back quickly! It's very cold today." The man hurried towards them, and the three of them went to the basement together.
After they walked away, Deng Xue withdrew her gaze and turned to tuck the quilt for Tian An on the bed.
After sleeping until dawn, Tian An stretched herself contentedly and looked at Deng Xue who was leaning against the head of her bed and sleeping.
I wanted to help her lie down, but I didn't expect that as soon as my hand touched her, I woke her up. "It's still early, lie down and get some sleep."
Deng Xue rubbed her eyes, and when she regained her consciousness, she shook her head, "Madam, no need. I can handle it."
After saying that, he quickly told Tian An what he saw last night.
"It's him." Tian An's eyes flashed, with an expression that was both expected and unreasonable. He whispered in Deng Xue's ear: "Wait a moment, do this first, then..."
After breakfast, Tian An was still boiling a pot of medicine himself. After Deng Xue brought in the medicine boiled by the medicine boys outside, the two were about to pack it, but they saw Doctor Wang coming in from outside.
"This should have been my job, but I've troubled the County Lady and Miss Deng Xue to take care of you for such a long time.
Now that I have almost recovered, it is time for me to take on this responsibility. From now on, I will be responsible for the hard work of boiling and distributing the medicine!"
"This..." Tian An hesitated and said, "Doctor Wang, you have just recovered. If you do this kind of physical work now, your body might not be able to handle it! You should rest for a few more days!"
“Thank you for your understanding, Lord. However, I am also a doctor and I am confident in my own health.
It would have been fine if I couldn't move it before, but now that I can, it would be ignorant of me to trouble the county lady to do these rough work again.
County Master, please let me come!"
"But..." Tian An looked at the huge pot of medicine and was still a little hesitant. "Can you do it alone?"
Seeing Tian An's reassurance, Doctor Wang nodded hurriedly, "Don't worry, County Lady. Even if I don't care about my own health, I won't joke about the Queen's health.
"Just go ahead and focus on other things! I heard you say yesterday that you still have to research the next phase of the pharmacy, don't you? Don't let this little thing get in the way of your work."
Hearing this, Tian An nodded and said, "That's exactly what Doctor Wang said. I'll leave this to Doctor Wang then."
"Don't worry, my lady. I promise I won't make any mistakes."
With the repeated assurances of Doctor Wang, Tian An finally took Deng Xue out of the small kitchen.
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