As soon as he entered the room, Imperial Physician Fan asked Song Yushu nervously, "Excuse me, why do you have this jade pendant? Are you from the Crown Prince's Mansion?"
It's not surprising that it came from the Prince's Mansion, but what's surprising is that the old man actually gave this jade pendant to the person in front of him.
"This jade pendant was given to our family by your father, and our family is indeed from the Prince's Mansion." Song Yushu nodded, confirming Doctor Fan's guess.
Due to factional struggles and historical issues in the Dayan Dynasty, the Imperial Medical Office has always been surviving in the cracks. Many princes' palaces have imperial physicians guarding them, and relatives of the imperial physicians guarding the princes' palaces are also left in the palace to check and balance the imperial physicians throughout the palace.
This practice has always dissatisfied the imperial physicians, but there is nothing they can do as they are powerless.
This also led to many imperial physicians not seeing their relatives stationed in other places since they started their careers.
Imperial Physician Fan, also known as Fan Cailiang, has not seen his father and son for a long time.
"Is my father okay? Am I and my son okay?" Fan Cailiang could no longer care about anything else. His relatives were so close to him but he couldn't see them. This pain was really unbearable.
The palace was full of spies, so Song Yushu couldn't stay here for long, especially with Fan Cailiang. She took out a prescription from her bosom and placed it on the table. "This prescription was written by your father. Please take a closer look. Since Doctor Fan doesn't know acupuncture, please introduce other doctors to our family."
Fan Cailiang glanced at Song Yushu's meaningful eyes, was stunned for a second, nodded suddenly, put the prescription away, and said naturally: "I see, please wait a moment, sir."
He immediately called for a royal physician who was well versed in acupuncture and moxibustion, and left.
After talking for a while with the imperial physician who specialized in acupuncture, Song Yushu left the Imperial Hospital. She couldn't stay there for long.
Sure enough, not long after they arrived at the East Palace, Lu Yanzhou came back with his men. Song Yushu immediately stood aside. While he was looking at the toes of the shoes, Lu Yanzhou suddenly spoke.
"Did you go to the Imperial Hospital today?"
"In reply to His Royal Highness, I went to the Imperial Hospital on my way to the Eastern Palace."
Song Yushu did not hide it. After all, Concubine Yu had great power in the palace, almost rivaling the Empress and the Empress Dowager. It was not surprising that Lu Yanzhou knew about it.
"I heard that Doctor Fan in my palace has a son in the Imperial Hospital." Lu Yanzhou picked up a memorial and said casually.
Song Yushu nodded. "When I entered the Imperial Hospital, I happened to meet a doctor named Fan. However, I didn't ask about his relationship with Doctor Fan in the palace. It's a pity that he is not proficient in acupuncture."
The tone is regretful and sincere and affirmative.
Xia Xingde, who was standing aside and was dissatisfied with Song Yushu in every way, looked at Song Yushu suspiciously. Is it that simple?
Lu Yanzhou nodded and didn't take this little episode to heart. He was just a small eunuch and he wouldn't dare to lie to him.
Since Lu Yanzhou had mentioned it, Song Yushu took the opportunity to enthusiastically recommend his acupuncture skills. "Your Highness, I've just learned it and I feel I've made great progress. If I could give you a little acupuncture, it would probably help alleviate your headache."
Song Yushu saw the opportunity and promoted his acupuncture, and Lu Yanzhou couldn't keep refusing, after all, this was the reason why he brought him here.
"Come here." Lu Yanzhou nodded.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince!" Xia Xingde hurriedly stopped him, deeply distrusting Song Yushu. "Your Highness the Crown Prince is the heir to the throne, how can you allow this eunuch who changed his career to treat you?!"
But this time Lu Yanzhou did not listen to Xia Xingde. As a secretary in the Prince's Mansion, he always obstructed him, which was really annoying.
Seeing that Lu Yanzhou ignored Xia Xingde, Song Yushu raised the corner of his mouth slightly, approached Lu Yanzhou, and took out an acupuncture bag from his arms.
While Song Yushu was disinfecting the moxibustion needles, Lu Yanzhou looked at her with interest. "Little Songzi, I've heard acupuncture is quite magical. I won't blind you with one needle, will I?"
Hearing this, Song Yushu's heart skipped a beat, but her face and hands remained calm as she replied with a hint of embarrassment, "To answer your Highness, I do not have the ability to do so. I can only give you acupuncture on your hand. The points above the head still require acupuncture."
Originally, Xia Xingde thought that acupuncture for headache must be done on the head, so he reacted strongly. However, when he heard that it was acupuncture on the hands, his nervous expression relaxed immediately.
"Is acupuncture useful for treating headaches?" Lu Yanzhou asked doubtfully.
"The acupuncture points on the human body are actually connected. The ancient saying that the fingers are connected to the heart makes sense." After Song Yushu disinfected the needles with flame, he asked Lu Yanzhou, "Your Highness, please extend your hand."
Since it was not an important place and it was in the palace, Lu Yanzhou temporarily put aside his suspicions, stretched out his hand and placed it on the table.
Although Lu Yanzhou's appearance is not as delicate as Lu Zhixing, his hands are very slender, with distinct joints, thin calluses on the knuckles, and slightly bulging blood vessels on his arms.
"Your Highness, I'm starting." Song Yushu said, and the needle went in. In the blink of an eye, it was completed.
Before Lu Yanzhou had time to sigh, someone came to see him outside the East Palace.
"Your Highness, the Crown Prince, the Minister of Rites requests an audience."
Due to the recent droughts across the country, the Ministry of Rites prepared a rain-praying sacrifice according to the ritual system.
"Your humble servant greets His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." A middle-aged man with a mustache walked in with two people.
"No need to be polite."
"Your Highness, I have already drafted the procedures for praying for rain and offering sacrifices. All matters have been arranged. I am presenting the draft document for your review." The Minister of Rites glanced sideways at the person in charge holding the document.
The person in charge quickly presented the document in his hand. Because Lu Yanzhou still had the moxibustion needles on his hand, Song Yushu very tactfully took the document and spread it out in front of him.
Lu Yanzhou glanced down, the more he looked, the more the corners of his mouth curved upwards. He asked softly, "Minister Tao, why isn't there a place for the mother consort during the sacrifice?"
Minister Tao was slightly stunned. He glanced at Lu Yanzhou's expression, his face changed drastically, and he looked at the person in charge beside him, "How did you do this? How did you get the wrong document? I told you that this procedure must be changed, why hasn't it been changed? And you even submitted it to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?!"
The person in charge on the side suddenly looked at Minister Tao with an incredible look on his face. He opened his mouth slightly and said, "Minister Tao, didn't you say -"
"Yes, I've already said we're going to change it! How are you doing this?" Minister Tao vehemently scolded the person in charge, "Why don't you apologize to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince right away?!"
The official stared at Minister Tao, then looked at the silent Lu Yanzhou, and finally knelt down with a pale face.
"It is my fault for not doing my job well. I hope Your Highness will forgive me!"
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