Chapter 551: The Queen Mother Can Go Crazy But Not Die
Su Taiyuan remembered that the purpose of his entering the palace was to treat the empress dowager.
Therefore, he has always been very low-key, concealing his own edge, just like an ordinary doctor, trying his best to make himself appear unremarkable.
He does the work that is his responsibility and does not interfere in things that are not his responsibility. He performs his duties conscientiously.
As for Wang Xiaozhi, he also acted respectful and carefully avoided him.
However, as he avoided trouble, trouble found him.
The thing is, every night there would be imperial physicians and medical assistants on duty at the Imperial Medical Service.
That night, Wang Xiaozhi and several other imperial doctors, along with Su Taiyuan and several other medical officers, were on duty at the Imperial Hospital.
It just so happened that a lady was unwell and came to see the imperial physician.
This task was assigned to Wang Xiaozhi.
The queen had a low rank and was not favored. Wang Xiaozhi did not want to go, so he let Su Taiyuan go.
Later, the emperor suddenly favored that empress for some reason. The empress, thinking of Su Taiyuan, actually gave him gifts again.
At this moment, Wang Xiaozhi disliked Su Taiyuan and felt that he had stolen all his credit. He bore a grudge against him and made things difficult for him. He specially arranged for him to keep watch at night and did not let him take a break.
Su Taiyuan guarded this place for ten days.
However, he had no complaints and just did his job silently.
He acted cautiously and did not allow Wang Xiaozhi to find any fault with him.
He would occasionally look up and out the window, waiting for the opportunity to see the Queen Mother...
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Buddhist temple.
Nanny Chu poured a pill out of the porcelain bottle and wanted to feed it to the empress dowager. The empress dowager remembered that this thing was sweet, so she opened her mouth obediently.
Just then, a voice suddenly rang out.
"What are you feeding the Queen Mother?"
The sound startled Nanny Chu so much that her hand trembled and the pill almost fell to the ground.
She looked at the majestic emperor and knelt down to pay her respects.
"Your servant pays homage to His Majesty!"
The emperor hadn't come to the Buddhist temple for several years. She didn't expect the emperor to suddenly appear here, and so quietly!
She was sweating coldly, and a voice in her heart told her to calm down!
Nanny Chu quickly calmed down.
The empress dowager looked at the emperor in a daze for a moment, then bent down to grab Nanny Chu, as if trying to pull her up.
"Get up." said Emperor Zhou.
Nanny Chu then stood up and stood aside with her head down.
"What was just given to the Queen Mother to eat?" Emperor Zhou asked again.
"Your Majesty, it's a sugar pill. The Queen likes sweet food." said Nanny Chu.
Emperor Zhou nodded, his expression showing a hint of tenderness: "My Queen Mother loves sweets."
Emperor Zhou glanced at Nanny Chu, his meaning was obvious, and asked her to leave.
"I'll take my leave." said Nanny Chu.
The Queen Mother seemed a little afraid of the Emperor and tried to pull at Nanny Chu's clothes.
"Your Majesty, His Majesty is thinking of you and wants to talk to you." Nanny Chu said with a smile.
The Queen Mother looked at Nanny Chu with a confused look. She didn't know how much she understood, but she just stood there obediently and didn't move.
Nanny Chu retreated.
Emperor Zhou looked at the Queen Mother, a little dazed.
The mother in his memory was gentle, generous, dignified and elegant. She had aged a lot, her hair had turned white, her face had many wrinkles, and her figure was a little hunched, but her eyes were still looking at him like a child's.
Emperor Zhou wanted to take her arm, but she dodged him.
His expression was startled: "Is the Queen Mother blaming me?"
The Queen Mother lowered her head and said nothing.
"Although I'm not your biological son, I believe that no matter what I do, you'll understand." Emperor Zhou said sadly, "I just hope that the Great Zhou will prosper under my leadership, rather than changing its name. Everything I do is for the Great Zhou..."
The Queen Mother remained silent, raised her head and looked at him with a blank look.
Emperor Zhou found that what he had just said was useless, as the Queen Mother couldn't even recognize who he was.
"Mother, I am A Yan." Emperor Zhou said.
"Ayan..." Hearing this name, the Queen Mother finally reacted. She looked at Emperor Zhou and shook her head, "Ayan, little..."
She gestured at a height, probably around her legs.
Then she looked at Emperor Zhou and realized that this tall man was not her Ah Yan. Ah Yan was very small...
"Mother, I have grown up and am no longer the child you protected." Emperor Zhou said.
At that time, the Empress Dowager was still the Empress. The Empress, childless, chose a child from among the concubines' children. Before being chosen by the Empress, he was a mere prince with no sense of place in the palace, bullied by anyone. His biological mother was a mere palace maid, who died young, and his father, the Emperor, ignored him. He struggled to survive in the harem, and it was a miracle that he made it to the age of five or six.
After being chosen by the queen at that time, he became the eldest son, and everything was different.
If it weren't for the Queen Mother, he might have died in the harem long ago.
The Queen Mother had a gentle temperament, was not competitive, and was very kind to him.
Therefore, although the Queen Mother was not his biological mother, her grace in raising him was more important than her grace in giving birth to him.
There was a lot of warmth in Emperor Zhou's eyes.
Emperor Zhou sat down and talked about what had happened before.
The Queen Mother reached out and touched his head, just like she did when he was a child.
Emperor Zhou suddenly laughed, a laugh from the heart. He hadn't laughed like this for a long time.
Emperor Zhou spoke for a while before leaving.
When Emperor Zhou left, he said, "Mother, I will come to see you again when I have time."
At this time, Nanny Chu was with the Queen Mother.
She thought to herself, since His Majesty is willing to visit the Queen Mother, why doesn't he ask an imperial physician to check the Queen Mother's symptoms of dementia?
Nanny Chu helped the empress dowager to sit in the Buddhist hall. Looking at her sitting there in a daze, as if she had no soul, she felt depressed and uncomfortable.
I wonder if that noble person has any way to cure the empress dowager's illness.
As Nanny Chu was thinking this, she ran into a palace maid outside the next evening.
The palace maid quickly knelt down to apologize and beg for mercy. Nanny Chu scolded her with a cold face and then turned back to the Buddhist hall.
After returning to the Buddhist temple, Nanny Chu found two more things on her. One was a note with familiar handwriting, which asked her to let the Queen Mother take the pill today and find a way to go to the Imperial Hospital to invite the imperial physician. The other thing was a pill.
Nanny Chu put the two things away.
She paced the room, feeling very restless, and finally made up her mind to go to the Queen Mother.
Nanny Chu gave the pill to the empress dowager. After the empress dowager took it, her body suddenly began to twitch.
Nanny Chu knew the effect of this pill, which would cause the Queen Mother to convulse. She also knew that the convulsions looked scary but would not harm her body. She also knew that this was necessary. If the Queen Mother was fine, the Princess would definitely not ask anyone to call a doctor. However, seeing this, she was still very worried.
She suppressed her worries and quickly called other palace servants.
"Someone, come! The Queen Mother is ill! Go get the doctor!"
The other palace maids rushed in and were also shocked when they saw this, and hurried to report to the eldest princess.
On this day, the eldest princess happened to be staying in the palace. Upon seeing this, she immediately sent someone to call the imperial physician.
The Queen Mother can go crazy, but she cannot die!
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