Chapter 557: Discipline Wang Xiaozhi
Wang Xiaozhi brought the boy doctor and happily came to the princess's Zhiyun Palace, but was stopped outside the door by palace servants.
Wang Xiaozhi was a bit arrogant at first: "The princess summoned me to see the doctor, how dare you stop me?"
The guard looked at him, said nothing, and remained silent, like a piece of wood, and did not let him in.
Wang Xiaozhi walked angrily at the door, and even tried to tiptoe to look inside. What if he saw the princess?
However, after a while, no one was allowed to go in.
He really had no choice but to soften his tone: "Go and report to the princess and tell her that Wang Xiaozhi from the Imperial Hospital has arrived."
The guards still ignored him, staring straight ahead as if they hadn't heard him.
Wang Xiaozhi gnashed his teeth in hatred. What was wrong with these guards? They didn't even obey the princess's orders?
He couldn't get in, so he could only wait at the door. After waiting for about an hour, the guard let him in.
Wang Xiaozhi glanced angrily at the guard who stopped him, his eyes seemed to say "just wait".
Wang Xiaozhi was led into the princess's palace by the palace servants. Through a gauze curtain, he saw the princess's figure.
Wang Xiaozhi originally wanted to complain harshly to the guard, but he heard the princess say, "Doctor Wang, I'm sorry for keeping you waiting. I just took a nap." In fact, if you listen carefully, her voice is clear and there is no laziness at all as if you just woke up.
It turns out that the princess fell asleep...
Doctor Wang had to swallow his complaint and said, "You are too polite, Princess. I didn't wait long."
The princess held out her hand, which was covered with a thin cloth. "Doctor Wang, please take my pulse."
Doctor Wang quickly put his hand on it.
He carefully felt the princess's pulse and found that it was very stable and there was nothing wrong.
He wanted to say it was okay, but then he remembered Su Taiyuan saying the princess had a headache and asked him to prescribe medicine...
Could it be that I didn’t diagnose it myself?
The princess valued him and asked him to take her pulse, but he failed to tell the difference. Then the princess would never look for him again.
Wang Xiaozhi pondered for a moment and asked, "Does the princess have a headache?"
"Did you figure it out?" the princess asked an ambiguous question.
Wang Xiaozhi withdrew his hand. "I see the princess's pulse is slightly weaker. Does the princess have frequent headaches?"
"I don't remember." Princess Jingshu said perfunctorily.
"Don't worry, Princess. I will prescribe some medicine for you. If you take it every day, your headache will be relieved." Wang Xiaozhi said.
Wang Xiaozhi wrote a prescription for treating headaches, which is very mild and harmless to the body.
Wang Xiaozhi did not see the princess's illness, so he chose this safe method.
In the next few days, Wang Xiaozhi was asked to take the princess's pulse from time to time.
Wang Xiaozhi thought, it seems that the medicine he prescribed is really effective!
Wang Xiaozhi couldn't help feeling a little proud.
The others in the Imperial Hospital were confused. Aren't they here to treat the palace masters? How could he have such a sense of superiority by treating Princess Jingshu?
Concubine Wang also heard about this matter.
When Wang Xiaozhi went to take her pulse, Concubine Wang asked about it.
"Have you been taking Princess Jingshu's pulse these days?" asked Concubine Wang.
"Yes." Wang Xiaozhi said.
"Wasn't it always the chief judge of the Imperial Hospital who took her pulse in the past?" Concubine Wang was a little confused.
Although Wang Xiaozhi is her cousin and his medical skills are decent, he is definitely not as good as the court judge.
"Maybe my diagnosis is good." Wang Xiaozhi said.
Concubine Wang nodded.
Princess Jingshu is very favored. If Wang Xiaozhi wins her favor, she will say a few good words to His Majesty, which will be beneficial to their Wang family.
It's always a good thing.
"Take the princess's pulse carefully and don't be negligent." Concubine Wang said.
"Yes." Wang Xiaozhi responded.
Wang Xiaozhi was able to thrive in the Imperial Hospital thanks to Concubine Wang's support. This was the first time that Concubine Wang could use him, and he felt even more proud.
The next day, Wang Xiaozhi went to check the princess's pulse as usual.
But he saw Princess Jingshu sitting on a chair, looking at him with an unhappy expression.
Wang Xiaozhi looked at her expression and asked quickly, "Princess, are you feeling unwell?"
"Doctor Wang, I took the medicine you prescribed, but my headache didn't get better at all. Instead, it hurts even more." Princess Jingshu said coldly.
When Princess Jingshu said this, Wang Xiaozhi's face turned pale.
how so?
That's clearly a recipe for warming up the body!
Being an imperial physician actually has a dangerous job. If you can cure the patient, then the patient is fine. But if you can’t, you may lose your head at any time.
Especially for a noble body like Princess Jingshu, if he damaged her, the consequences would be...
Wang Xiaozhi couldn't help but shiver.
Wang Xiaozhi hurriedly said, "Princess, let me take your pulse..."
"No need." Princess Jingshu said coldly.
Princess Jingshu did not give Wang Xiaozhi any chance to struggle. She called the guards, dragged him away, and gave him ten strokes of the cane!
These ten boards are neither light nor heavy.
It wasn't so severe that I needed to lie down, but my butt was aching from time to time, which was very unbearable.
The fact that Wang Xiaozhi was beaten by Princess Jingshu was soon known to other people in the Imperial Hospital, and they all secretly gloated over it.
Wasn't it a great honor to treat the princess before? With a temper like that of Princess Jingshu, how could she be an easy mistress to serve?
Wang Xiaozhi could no longer feel proud and could only be thankful that the princess did not hit him too hard.
However, what he didn't expect was that the next day, Princess Jingshu summoned him to take her pulse again.
Wang Xiaozhi didn't understand what the princess meant at all. He took the patient's pulse tremblingly, but the princess found a mistake in him and gave him ten strokes of the board again!
After being beaten with the cane for a total of twenty times, Wang Xiaozhi had no choice but to go home and lie down.
After he finally recovered and returned to the Imperial Hospital, the princess summoned him to Zhiyun Palace!
When Wang Xiaozhi heard about Zhiyun Palace, his scalp went numb and he wanted to hide.
He found several imperial doctors and wanted someone to go in his place.
Why would the others be willing to go? They were all happy to see him suffer.
"Doctor Wang, the princess summoned you, not us. What if you don't go and the princess blames you?"
Wang Xiaozhi had to go.
As a result, he was beaten again!
At this point, Wang Xiaozhi finally realized that it was the princess who was playing a trick on him.
They tortured him but didn't kill him. Every time he was about to recover, they beat him again.
In this way, Wang Xiaozhi was tortured for a month. His face turned pale and he was dying.
Wang Xiaozhi didn't dare go to the Imperial Hospital again. He just found an excuse, resigned from his position as imperial physician, and returned home in disgrace.
Without Wang Xiaozhi, the imperial doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau were all very happy, and no one was targeting Su Taiyuan to cause trouble anymore.
Su Taiyuan prescribed a new prescription for the empress dowager. After the empress dowager took the new medicine, the poison in her body became less and less severe, and her spirits became better day by day.
However, the memories of those twenty years never came back.
Su Taiyuan felt a little strange.
Logically, as the toxin becomes less severe, memory should gradually recover, right?
How come I didn’t remember it at all?
Of course, there is another possibility, that is, during those twenty years, the Empress Dowager had memories of fear or escape that she did not want to recall.
…
night.
"Your Majesty, I have been wronged!"
"Your Majesty, I have not collaborated with the enemy!"
The man in front of him was wearing armor, holding a halberd, his face covered in blood. He walked towards him, his voice full of resentment.
Emperor Zhou suddenly opened his eyes, gasping violently, his eyes widened as if their eyeballs were about to pop out!
The eunuch who was on guard outside heard the noise and hurried in.
"Your Majesty, are you alright?"
Emperor Zhou listened to the familiar voice, which belonged to Deshun, who served him, and gradually calmed down.
It was just a dream.
Many years ago, he often had such dreams, and because he had a head injury when he was young, he suffered headaches from time to time.
In severe cases, the headache is splitting.
The saintly doctor's medicine saved him.
But the effect of the saintly doctor's medicine seemed to have weakened again, and he had the same dream again.
When Emperor Zhou closed his eyes, he saw a bloody scene.
"Deshun, get me another pill." Emperor Zhou said.
Deshun didn't dare to look up. If he did, he would see that Emperor Zhou's face was pale and his lips were trembling, like a ghost.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Deshun went to get the medicine, and Emperor Zhou took it and gradually calmed down.
"Is the eldest princess staying in the palace?" asked the emperor.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Let the eldest princess come to see me." said Emperor Zhou.
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