Chapter 552: The Queen Mother is Poisoned
The palace maid hurried to the Imperial Hospital to summon the imperial physician.
There were five imperial doctors and several medical assistants on duty tonight. When the palace servants came to summon the imperial physician, the other imperial doctors had been sent away, and Wang Xiaozhi happened to be there.
Wang Xiaozhi was stunned when he heard that the empress dowager had summoned the imperial physician.
He had been warned that the Empress Dowager in the palace was very special and that he should never get involved. Fortunately, the Empress Dowager rarely summoned the imperial physician, and he had never encountered one before...
The palace maid was very anxious this time. The doctor who was treating the empress dowager was not qualified, so an imperial physician must be required. Now he was the only imperial physician, so he had to go.
Naturally, he cannot be the only one to suffer from such a bad thing.
His eyes fell on Su Taiyuan who was standing beside him.
"Doctor Su, come with me." Wang Xiaozhi said.
"Yes!" Su Taiyuan quickly stood up, looking very respectful.
Wang Xiaozhi and Su Taiyuan hurried towards the Buddhist temple.
When they arrived, the Queen Mother was lying on the bed, twitching all over, looking somewhat terrifying.
The eldest princess stood by the bed with a worried look on her face. She glanced at the imperial physician and said, "Come and take my mother's pulse!"
Wang Xiaozhi hurried over and took the empress dowager's pulse.
Wang Xiaozhi took the empress dowager's pulse for a while and felt that there was nothing wrong with it.
If there is no problem, why would there be twitching?
The eldest princess's intimidating gaze fell on him, making him feel a chill down his spine.
Wang Xiaozhi asked, "Princess, how long has the Queen Mother been like this?"
The eldest princess's gaze fell on Nanny Chu: "How long has it been?"
"Princess, it's been half an hour. She's been twitching about once every quarter of an hour, and the duration varies." Nanny Chu said anxiously, looking at Wang Xiaozhi, "Please, save the Queen Mother."
The eldest princess looked at Wang Xiaozhi: "What's wrong with the Queen Mother?"
"Princess, the Queen Mother... the Queen Mother's pulse is fine." Wang Xiaozhi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
The eldest princess's face turned cold: "No problem, how could this happen?!"
Wang Xiaozhi suddenly knelt down.
The eldest princess looked at Su Taiyuan who had followed her and said, "Come and see! If you can't see it, call someone else. If no one can see it, the entire Imperial Hospital will be shut down!"
The eldest princess' voice became cold and stern.
Su Taiyuan pretended to be frightened, walked to the bedside tremblingly, and took the empress dowager's pulse.
Su Taiyuan took a long time to take the princess's pulse, and the princess became more and more impatient.
Just before the eldest princess's patience was completely exhausted, Su Taiyuan withdrew his hand.
"Your Highness, the Queen Mother's illness is epilepsy," Su Taiyuan said. "It's her first attack, not serious. I can treat it."
"Then treat it quickly, why are you still standing there?!" said the eldest princess.
Su Taiyuan quickly opened the medical box, opened a medicine jar, took out a piece of ginseng, put it into the empress dowager's mouth, then took out a silver needle and gave the empress dowager acupuncture.
As Su Taiyuan inserted more needles, the Queen Mother's convulsions became weaker and weaker. When Su Taiyuan finished the acupuncture, the Queen Mother stopped convulsing.
Su Taiyuan breathed a sigh of relief and removed the needles.
After a while, the Queen Mother opened her eyes and looked around blankly.
"Empress Dowager, you're awake!" Nanny Chu was very surprised.
The eldest princess also breathed a sigh of relief.
She stood up and looked at Su Taiyuan: "I have something to ask you."
Su Taiyuan followed him out respectfully.
The eldest princess is slightly plump, with a round face and a very kind appearance, but when she squints at people, she looks cold.
"You just said that the Queen Mother's illness is..."
"Epilepsy is a disease that I have seen many times. The Queen Mother was able to control it with acupuncture not long after the disease started." Su Taiyuan said.
Su Taiyuan naturally knew why the Queen Mother was twitching. He had prepared that kind of pill, which could produce symptoms similar to epilepsy and be treated with acupuncture. This gave him an excuse to visit the Queen Mother every once in a while.
"What will happen if it can't be cured?" the eldest princess suddenly asked.
Su Taiyuan was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "If left untreated, the convulsions will become more and more severe until he dies."
The eldest princess's expression changed. "Treat her! You must treat her well! If anything happens to our mother, your entire Imperial Hospital will be buried with her. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Princess." Su Taiyuan responded quickly.
"What's your name?" the eldest princess suddenly asked.
"Chen Su is too far away."
"Su Taiyuan, I want to ask you, besides her insanity, does the Queen Mother have any other problems? She doesn't even recognize me as her daughter." The eldest princess stared at Su Taiyuan's head with cold eyes.
"My Lord Princess, the Queen Mother's pulse is fine. As for not remembering you, it's because people tend to forget things as they age."
The coldness in the eldest princess's eyes faded a little.
"So it's because of old age. I understand."
The eldest princess waved her hand and asked him to return to the Imperial Hospital.
Wang Xiaozhi and Su Taiyuan both left.
The eldest princess stood at the door, looking towards the room where the queen mother was lying, with an unfathomable expression.
This is crazy and annoying.
It would be better to just die. Only dead people can keep secrets.
But her emperor still cared about family affection and was reluctant to let her die.
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Wang Xiaozhi and Su Taiyuan went to the Imperial Hospital. Along the way, Wang Xiaozhi was acting weird.
"I never thought that Doctor Su is so amazing. I feel ashamed of myself."
He had long forgotten that if Su Taiyuan had not stepped forward, he would have been punished. He only remembered that the disease that he, an imperial physician, could not cure was cured by a mere medical officer who had just joined the Imperial Hospital.
Isn't this a slap in his face?
"What did the princess just say to you?" Wang Xiaozhi asked.
"The eldest princess asked me to take good care of the empress dowager." Su Taiyuan said.
"Oh, now I've shown my face in front of the master. But Su Taiyuan, do you really think that being able to treat the empress dowager is a good thing? Let me tell you, there was also an imperial physician who treated the empress dowager before. Guess what the result was?"
Su Taiyuan looked at him.
Wang Xiaozhi showed a frightened expression: "In the end, he died!"
Su Taiyuan showed no fear and responded calmly, "Oh."
Wang Xiaozhi was irritated by his attitude: "Su Taiyuan, what's your attitude..."
At this moment, Wang Xiaozhi suddenly felt his knees go weak, and his body fell forward uncontrollably, landing on his face!
A wailing sound.
"Ouch! It hurts so much!"
Su Taiyuan looked at the two medical boys standing at the door of the Imperial Hospital, and a smile flashed across his face.
He hurried to help Wang Xiaozhi: "Doctor Wang, how did you fall? It's getting dark, you have to watch your way carefully..."
Two medical boys ran out and got the medical box for Su Taiyuan.
The names of these two medical boys were numbers before, and Su Taiyuan named them Peony and Ophiopogon.
Maidong was a little naughty. Su Taiyuan looked at Maidong and Maidong stuck out his tongue at him.
Su Taiyuan no longer paid attention to Wang Xiaozhi, but took the hands of Maidong and Shaoyao and walked towards the Imperial Hospital.
The imperial physician on duty has a room to rest.
Su Taiyuan returned to his room and Shaoyao closed the door.
Doctor Su's face suddenly turned cold.
During the pulse check just now, Doctor Su discovered exclusively that the Empress Dowager's madness was caused by poisoning.
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