Chapter 1543 His Majesty is Ill
"It's rare that you're so generous." Seeing that she wasn't taking his pulse properly, the emperor signaled her to be more serious. After a while, seeing that she was still staring at him, he asked, "Tell me, what's wrong with me?"
Manbao said solemnly: "I just caught a cold."
The emperor said again: "I ate only one, no, I didn't finish one, I ate half of it!"
Manbao reached out and touched the melon on the table next to him. It was icy cold. Manbao frowned and asked, "Is it frozen?"
Gu Zhong immediately said, "It's been hot these past two days, and Your Majesty has been suffering from the summer heat, so all the fruits and vegetables have been chilled in ice basins."
Manbao looked at the two ice basins under the table and realized that the room was indeed much cooler than outside. However, it was already evening and she had walked all the way from the corridor of the side hall, so it was not very hot and she did not feel it much.
Manbao stared at the two basins of ice that were about to melt into water and asked, "Are there only two basins of ice in the palace?"
Gu Zhong glanced at the emperor, then whispered, "There were two basins before."
For some reason, under Zhou Man's gaze, Gu Zhong felt a little guilty. He explained, "There were many adults in the palace before, and the weather was hot, so I added two extra basins of ice."
Manbao then asked with certainty, "Has Your Majesty ever left the palace?"
It was Gu Zhong who answered again, "I went out with Lord Liu and Lord Li at 5 p.m. and came back in less than three quarters of an hour."
Manbao then asked the emperor, "Did you feel very cool when you came in?"
emperor:……
He looked at Manbao seriously, making sure that she was not mocking him but asking a question, and nodded.
Wouldn’t it be very cool to enter a hall with an ice basin on a hot day?
Manbao then said, "You've been experiencing alternating hot and cold weather, so you've caught a cold. Your Majesty, shall I remove some of the coldness from you and prescribe some medicine for you?"
The emperor now felt refreshed, strong, and had no stomach pain, so he didn't want to take medicine at all.
But acupuncture is indeed very comfortable. Although the needle looks very long, as long as you don’t look at it, you won’t feel pain when being pricked. Instead, you will feel a little sore and swollen, and it will be quite comfortable afterwards.
So he hesitated for a moment and nodded.
Manbao said, "It's too cool in this room. Let's go to the side hall."
Manbao gave the emperor an acupuncture injection and then prescribed medicine for him, "Take one dose of medicine now and another dose before going to bed at night. That will be enough."
The emperor put on his clothes and looked at her curiously while putting on his shoes. "Are you really here to bring me medicine?"
Manbao nodded repeatedly. It’s true. Why don’t you believe me?
She thought for a moment, then said to the emperor with a sincere face, "Your Majesty, I came here specifically to thank you. Also, I'm very sorry about what happened last time, but that's the rule. If I prescribe a prescription for you, it has to be filed in the case. I didn't expect Lord Wei to scold you for this."
The emperor immediately asked, "You also think Wei Zhi is being unreasonable, right?"
Manbao hesitated for a moment, neither nodding nor shaking his head.
But this was a great encouragement to the emperor. He simply pulled Manbao aside and started to speak ill of Wei Zhi. "Wei Zhi is a man who is strict with others but lenient with himself. In his eyes, I am not even a human being. He would complain if I ate a little more melon. If I took a little longer during my nap, he would suspect that I was having fun at night. He pries into my whereabouts and life like this. Not to mention that I am the emperor, even ordinary people can't tolerate it, right?"
Manbao then said, "Your Majesty, you are not an ordinary person."
She said, "My master once said that if you want to do extraordinary things, you must be an extraordinary person; if you want to achieve great things, you must endure hardships that ordinary people cannot endure. Since Your Majesty wants to be a sage, you must naturally endure what ordinary people cannot endure."
As Manbao put away his medicine chest, he said, "Lord Wei treats you like a sage king, so naturally he's asking the same of you. You should be happy."
The emperor felt that he shouldn't be happy, but to be honest, he was actually a little happy.
Manbao handed the prescription to Gu Zhong and whispered again: "Your Majesty, I still have to enter the case this time."
emperor:……
Gu Zhong took the prescription and lowered his head even lower.
After all, the emperor had just accepted Zhou Man's flattery, so it was not easy for him to turn against her. So he waved his hand and told her to go away.
Manbao ran away with the medicine box.
After returning, he went to the Imperial Medical Office to file the pulse diagnosis.
Xiao Yuanzheng was no longer surprised. After all, this was the second time he had seen it, right?
He looked at the emperor's pulse and thought it was okay, but he still planned to send Doctor Liu for a follow-up examination the next day.
He collected the medical records and asked Manbao, "How is the revision of the medical book in your hand going?"
"Hasn't everyone approved the content? I've already started writing. It'll probably take about two months."
Because they are in the palace, although it seems busy, they can still squeeze out a lot of time, so their efficiency is still quite high.
Xiao Yuanzheng nodded. Seeing her about to leave, he couldn't help but cough lightly and called her, "Master Zhou, I've read the medical manual you wrote to Dr. Liu. I think some of it can be used, but I want to personally verify the effectiveness of a few of the acupuncture techniques."
Manbao nodded and said, "Go ahead and try it. If you have any questions, you can ask me."
Seeing that she didn't understand what he meant, Xiao Yuanzheng said more clearly, "I want to go to the side hall of the East Palace to see your three students' acupuncture. I heard that you haven't been to the side hall for the past two days."
Manbao said, "They've become very familiar with the acupuncture techniques they've used recently. If there's anything they're unsure about, they'll leave the symptoms with me and have someone send me the medical records. That's why I haven't been there for the past two days."
In fact, she and Mingda were too engrossed in playing. The three disciples in the side hall could study on their own, so she didn't bother with them.
Xiao Yuanzheng then asked, "Shall I go over and take a look too?"
Manbao smiled and said, "Go ahead. Please help me keep an eye on my disciples. If they don't understand something, you have to teach them."
Xiao Yuanzheng nodded, but he always felt something was strange. It was not until Manbao left with the medicine box that he reluctantly remembered that he went there to learn secretly, oh no, to study. How did it become teaching a few of her disciples for her?
Xiao Yuanzheng shook his head, sighed, and continued to stay on duty.
He was quite unlucky, for both times Zhou Man went to treat the emperor, he was on duty.
Dean Xiao was thinking that as soon as Doctor Liu came to work early tomorrow morning, he would ask him to go to the Daming Palace for a follow-up examination of the emperor, and then discuss the shift change with Doctor Zheng, so that he would not have to be on duty at this time next time.
He thought, I can always give Zhou Man a diversion, right?
The next day, before Imperial Physician Liu even entered the palace, a eunuch hurried over from the Daming Palace and said, "Director Xiao, His Majesty has summoned you."
Xiao Yuanzheng immediately woke up from his crib, quickly put on his shoes and asked, "What's wrong, Your Majesty?"
"Your Majesty has a fever. Imperial Physicians Lu and Fang from Daming Palace have already gone there. However, a fever is a serious matter, so Imperial Physician Lu sent to see you."
See you at 4 p.m.
Alas, we are all wanderers in this world. Others have holidays but I work overtime. Today is still a day for overtime.
(End of this chapter)
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