Chapter 1560 Eating Melon
Seeing Manbao's insistence, Xiao Yuanzheng could only cough lightly and said, "Doctor Lu, how about you go to the main hall and look after His Majesty?"
The emperor's condition improved, and Wei Zhi and Duke Zhao left the palace early in the morning to go home and rest, so there was no need to keep the imperial physician in the main hall.
Letting Doctor Lu go at this time was simply to get rid of him.
Doctor Lu flicked his sleeves and left angrily.
Manbao hummed softly twice, and Xiao Yuanzheng and the other two looked down at her. If any other colleague had acted like this, they would have certainly been angry, but looking at the angry Zhou Man at this moment, they were not angry at all.
Xiao Yuanzheng shook his head and sat down in the main seat before asking, "Doctor Zhou, what could you possibly find out about nitrates?"
"I found it," Manbao sank into his system mailbox and glanced at Teacher Mo's reply. "Nitrate is the crystals left after boiling seawater, and thenardite is extracted nitrate. There are too many impurities in it, so it needs to be purified again."
Xiao Yuanzheng and the other two were stunned. Doctor Liu hesitated and said, "Then this so-called nitrate is not sea salt, and Glauber's salt is saltpeter?"
He looked at Dean Xiao and Doctor Fang uncertainly.
Doctor Fang: "...Is it saltpeter? It's used to treat intestinal abscesses and swelling. Doesn't the hospital pharmacy have it?"
Xiao Yuanzheng said, "According to what Doctor Zhou said, this should be another name. However, saltpeter is taken from salt lakes, not the sea. Doctor Zhou, why don't you check to see if the effects are the same?"
Manbao came back to her senses now. She knew about saltpeter, so why didn't she think of it at the beginning?
She nodded, feeling a little annoyed, and decided to ask Teacher Mo again later. However, "Since we have saltpeter, why not try it first? I can check it while I'm doing the experiment."
Because she wasn't sure if Teacher Mo knew it, as many medicine names had changed with the passage of time.
Xiao Yuanzheng didn't know about the passage of time, but he knew that the same medicine was often called differently by different doctors in different places.
He didn't know if Zhou Man could find the similarities or differences between Glauber's salt and Portland salt. After thinking about it, he nodded and said, "Okay, let's give it a try."
Glauber's salt may not be available, but potassium salt is definitely available. Watermelon is hard to find outside, but it is not difficult to find in the palace, as it is grown in the imperial farm.
However, this thing is from the West after all, and may not be well adapted to the climate of the Central Plains. Not only is it not as sweet as the ones from the West, it is not as big as the ones from the West, and it seems that its yield is not as high as that of the West.
Dean Xiao was going to Gu Zhong to ask for watermelons. In fact, the Imperial Hospital had its own purchasing channel, but he felt that it would be most useful to ask Gu Zhong at this time.
When Gu Zhongyi heard that it was to be used to make medicine for the emperor, he immediately sent someone to fetch it. However, he was very curious, "This cold melon is a cold food like the sweet melon, but it is not as sweet as the sweet melon. How can it be used to make medicine?"
Gu Zhong might as well have said it directly, Your Majesty is sick because of eating sweet melons, and now you want to eat cold melons to cure the disease?
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yuanzheng was afraid that the emperor would switch to eating watermelon in the future, so he quickly explained, "Your Majesty's illness was not caused by eating melon..."
He paused and said, "It seems that it can also be said that it is because of eating melon."
Gu Zhong: ...
Xiao Yuanzheng couldn't help but slap his forehead and said, "Oh, how can I explain this? Your Majesty ate the iced melon, and there were too many ice basins in the hall earlier. Then you walked outside at noon, and when you were still steaming from your body, you reentered the hall. This heat and cold were trapped on the surface of your body. When Your Majesty ate the iced melon, the coldness in your body was even worse. And because of the ice basins in the hall, there was also heat inside, so it wasn't very noticeable."
Xiao Yuanzheng also felt very sorry and said, "If Your Majesty had taken the medicine prescribed by Doctor Zhou, I think nothing would have happened."
But he didn't listen. He kicked off the quilt at night because he was hot, and it was cold late at night. The alternation of hot and cold caused him to have a fever.
But this doesn’t matter, because it’s not very serious. Xiao Yuanzheng and others can treat it if the weather is stable.
Unfortunately, the weather has been very unstable in the past two days, and it was extremely hot and humid the night before yesterday, and the emperor's condition suddenly became serious.
So the emperor's illness was half due to his own fault and half due to the weather.
Gu Zhong seemed to understand what he said, but he understood one thing: the emperor's illness had little to do with the melon, as long as the melon was not frozen.
So normal melons are still edible...
Gu Zhong was very generous and directly asked someone to bring them a basket of watermelons. However, the Imperial Hospital did not have that much saltpeter. After all, it was medicine and no one would eat it as a meal, so Doctor Fang asked someone to go to the pharmacy to buy some.
The three of them squatted in front of the melons, looked at the prescription, then glanced at the melons in the basket and asked, "So we have to dig out the melon flesh?"
Manbao rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll do it!"
Xiao Yuanzheng then said, "This is a basket full. Even if you only eat half of it, you still can't eat so much, right?"
Manbao sought benefits for his friends, "Why don't we go to Chongwenguan? Let Baishan and the others help."
Xiao Yuanzheng rejected it directly, "It's better to just stay here and find a few palace maids and eunuchs to help."
After all, this medicine involves His Majesty, so it’s better to keep it away from the Eastern Palace.
Manbao was a little disappointed, but she quickly recovered. She picked out the largest melon, gestured for a while, and then took a knife to cut a hole in the top of it.
The flesh of the melon had turned red, so Manbao found a spoon, dug it out, and ate it.
The palace maids and eunuchs who were called in to help: ...
So their job is to eat melons?
Xiao Yuanzheng carefully studied the prescription and said to them, "Don't take too much. Only take about one-third."
Manbao said as he ate, "You can obviously eat half."
Xiao Yuanzheng: "...This is just a precaution. If the flesh is low, where will I find more watermelon?"
Manbao thought so too, tilted his head and thought for a moment before asking, "Xiao Yuanzheng, can I go back to Chongwenguan this afternoon?"
Xiao Yuanzheng thought about the emperor's condition and nodded.
Manbao asked the palace maid for a large porcelain bowl, and whenever he ate a delicious melon, he would scoop out large pieces and put them into the bowl.
Xiao Yuanzheng saw it, took a look at the melon flesh that was particularly well-scooped in front of her, then looked at the melon flesh in the large basin in front of everyone, and couldn't help asking, "What are you doing?"
Manbao said, "I'm going to take some back to Chongwenguan."
After digging it out, she gave it to a palace maid she was familiar with and asked her to put the bowl in an ice basin to keep it cold.
Xiao Yuanzheng looked at it and shook his head. There was enough flesh in the melon, so he couldn't help it.
In the side hall, people were having a lot of fun digging the melon flesh. The palace maids and eunuchs were not brave enough to eat it at first, but after they found that it seemed really edible, they started to eat it.
But I didn't eat as much of it as I could, so there was quite a lot of melon flesh left in the basin.
I just saw the comments from fellow book lovers. You still have monthly tickets. It’s already the 6th, and tomorrow is the last day for double monthly tickets…
Manbao: "Look at me, look at me!"
(End of this chapter)
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