Chapter 1438 Asking for the Imperial Physician
Prince Gong still knows whether he did it or not.
Although he was made a vassal, it was impossible for Prince Gong to give up his fight for the throne and he could not let it go.
He and the prince have been fighting for several years and have become mortal enemies. If the prince ascends the throne, even if he can let him go, those who follow him will not let him go either.
However, he was not stupid. He had just been enfeoffed and the people in Luozhou had not yet stabilized their hearts. The most important thing at this time was to gain the pity of his father, the emperor, and his mother, so that he could return to Beijing for a long time in the future.
He had originally planned to get sick after a while, and then write a letter to his father, saying that he missed him so much that he couldn't eat, and then begging to return to Beijing.
How could he frame the prince during the New Year?
Who doesn't know that he is the most suspected when something happens to the prince?
The thought flashed through his mind, and the Third Prince's body stiffened. Something exploded in his mind, and his eyes widened slightly.
"Someone's involved. Who is it?" Prince Gong speculated with a gloomy face, "Is it my second brother, fourth brother, fifth brother, or even the younger sixth brother's mother's family?"
Everyone was shocked, and the staff hesitated and said, "Your Highness, the Second Prince and the others are all illegitimate children. The Queen is still here, and His Majesty treats them the same..."
"But what if the prince and I are gone?"
Prince Gong couldn't help but think deeply about it, and all kinds of thoughts came to his mind at once.
However, they are far away in Luozhou now, and news from the capital is slow to arrive, let alone investigate. They can only ask the people who stay in the capital to inquire.
So whatever they are talking about now is just speculation.
Prince Gong also felt that such a discussion was meaningless. He gritted his teeth and said, "Let someone investigate. Also, how should we deal with this matter? Should we write a letter of confession or cry out in complaint?"
The question is about plowing on the second day of the second month.
Prince Gong felt that if he admitted it, his father might think that he was admitting to framing and threatening Zhou Man; but if he didn't admit it, he was afraid that his father would think he was quibbling.
Prince Gong thought about it and felt that this matter was very important and he had to think about how to write the letter.
The prince was also thinking about what to do with the talents he had recruited during this period. He couldn't just recruit half of them and then not use them, right?
But if you use it, it will be considered as forming a clique for personal gain, which is also a crime.
He told the Crown Princess not to worry, but it was not easy to clean up the mess.
The prince couldn't help but knock on the table, and the light in the study was on for half the night.
The next day, Manbao went to the palace to see the Crown Princess and said there was no problem. He then sat down and talked to her. He also watched the Crown Princess play the piano. It sounded really good, even better than Bai Shan's.
Seeing that Manbao liked it, the Crown Princess asked with a smile, "Why don't you learn the piano?"
Man Bao said: "I know a little, but I don't understand it well. My junior brother is learning it."
The zither was too expensive. At that time, Bai Shan was in Yizhou and wanted to learn how to play it, so he went to the provincial school to order one. The teacher also knew some of the music and taught him some.
Manbao went to see it with her and found it was really expensive. Not to mention Old Zhou, even she would not be willing to spend so much money to buy a piano.
The Crown Princess smiled and said, "Girls should know some music, so that they can calm down when they are in a bad mood."
The Crown Princess suddenly became interested, "How about I teach you?"
Manbao entered the palace under the pretext of giving acupuncture to the prince. It usually took her about an hour to give acupuncture to the prince, so she had to stay in the palace for that long today.
But the Crown Princess was in good health, so even if she was pregnant, Manbao didn't need to do anything. She just took her pulse, and the two of them whispered about some things that needed to be paid attention to during pregnancy.
Because it was still a secret, they only said a few words when they were away from others, and they didn't dare to speak loudly, so they were idle for the rest of the time.
The Crown Princess simply took Manbao aside and taught her music, chess, and painting.
Manbao's calligraphy is pretty good, so he doesn't need her to teach him.
Two big characters every day is Mr. Zhuang’s bottom line that he cannot retreat from.
Anyway, she can't leave the palace early, and she's idle anyway. If the Crown Princess is willing to teach, she will naturally be willing to learn.
So when the Crown Prince was busy with calligraphy, the Crown Princess would ask Manbao to play the piano, play chess, and chat with her. It was because with Manbao around, the Crown Princess's nervous mood was relieved a lot.
The next day, Manbao went to the palace on time again to give acupuncture to the prince. While waiting for the needles to be removed, Manbao also learned a new song with the princess.
Manbao changed the acupuncture method for the prince. Now he needs two sets of acupuncture every other day, so it takes a little longer than before.
She suddenly went to the palace every day, which was very eye-catching. Everyone knew the pattern of her previous visits to the palace and the pattern of her treatment of patients. Just look at the few patients she treated with acupuncture and you will know that they all started with dense acupuncture and then became sparse acupuncture.
Every day, every other day, every two days, every five days, every ten days, and then once every two weeks...
But why is the prince doing the opposite?
Could it be that the condition has worsened?
However, because the Crown Princess was pregnant, the couple quietly cleaned up the Eastern Palace, so the people outside received limited information.
The emperor and the empress knew that Zhou Mantian went to the palace every day and one day he was playing the piano and painting with the crown princess. They privately guessed that the crown prince was trying to intimidate outsiders and wanted to do something.
Then the emperor and the empress waited with a heavy heart.
As a result, ten days passed and the prince still did nothing.
On the contrary, the servants who served the Crown Princess became more and more happy. Although they kept their faces tense, they could not hide their joy.
They were the ones who washed the Crown Princess's underwear, so they naturally knew that the Crown Princess had not had her period for more than half a month.
However, they also knew that they could not tell anyone about this matter when it was uncertain, so they reduced their outings and were more careful when serving the Crown Princess.
When Manbao entered the palace again, she felt the Crown Princess's pulse. Now she could tell it was a pregnancy pulse, so she stopped and said, "The Crown Princess can now call the imperial physician."
The Crown Princess couldn't help but look at the Crown Prince. This was going to be semi-public, and she was still quite nervous.
The Crown Prince summoned Eunuch Wu and said, "Go to the Imperial Hospital and ask for a doctor. Tell him that the Crown Princess is ill."
Eunuch Wu had also noticed something in the past few days. He felt a tremor in his heart and immediately bowed in response. He turned around and took his men to the Imperial Hospital in a hurry.
Manbao hesitated and asked, "Should I leave the palace first?"
The prince said, "Why rush? Wait until the imperial physician comes to see you before leaving."
It is easy to tell if the pulse is slippery, but Manbao didn’t have enough experience before, so he couldn’t confirm it when the time was short.
Doctor Tao was much better than her. He could basically tell after the baby was one month old that the pulse was as smooth as a bead. He could hear it much more clearly than Manbao.
Later, Shi Dalang's wife Liu Niang became pregnant. It was the first time that Manbao came into contact with a pregnant woman. In addition, after Shi Dalang's story spread, many women in the capital who wanted to have children came to him.
There were men too, but maybe because she was a female doctor, they were very secretive when they came to her, just like the women who went to see Dr. Tao for treatment.
There were many women who came to seek medical treatment, some of whom were pregnant. Manbao had accumulated experience by taking pulses many times, so she was able to diagnose the Crown Princess's pregnancy so quickly.
Of course, she felt that Koko had already scanned it out, and she knew deep down that the Crown Princess was pregnant, so she was able to notice the slight sign of slippery pulse.
But for the imperial doctors in the Imperial Hospital, their skills were stronger than Zhou Man's. Even though the Crown Princess's pregnancy was still short, it was already a full month. He could vaguely feel it as soon as he put his hand on her.
If you listen for a little longer, the slippery pulse will become more obvious.
He looked at Zhou Man in surprise.
Zhou Man blinked at him in confusion. Why was he looking at her?
Shouldn't we look at the prince?
The imperial physician immediately came back to his senses and hurriedly stood up to congratulate him, "Congratulations, Your Highness! The Crown Princess is pregnant."
See you at 6pm
(End of this chapter)
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