Chapter 1734 Blood Water (Reward for book friend "Xuehua")
As soon as Manbao went out, he ran into Baishan and his friends who were leaving school. They were about to go back to have lunch. When they saw Manbao, they ran up to him and asked, "Where are you going?"
Manbao said, "Please save the food for me. I need to go to the Imperial Hospital to get some medicine."
After thinking for a moment, she said, "Xu Yu is seriously ill and may not make it. Brother Tang asked me to save her."
Bai Shan was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, you go. Forget it, I'll go with you. It's not convenient for you to carry so many things by yourself."
Manbao was about to refuse, but Baishan had already forcefully dragged her to the Imperial Hospital.
After leaving the East Palace and walking in the corridor, when no one was around, Bai Shancai said, "Brother Tang wants to use Xu Yu as bait, why are you rushing to be the meat?"
Manbao said, "Just give it a try, maybe we can lure them out?"
"If it were me, I would also choose Xu Yu instead of you."
Manbao: "Then why are you still angry?"
Bai Shan: ...So what if he is just angry?
The two of them walked to the Imperial Hospital. Manbao considered Xu Yu's condition. Although he hadn't felt his pulse yet, since it was an injury caused by torture, the medicines used would probably be similar.
Manbao then wrote a long prescription for Doctor Liu.
As Doctor Liu examined her, he asked, "Giving such good medicine to a female prisoner?"
Manbao said: "I haven't confirmed it yet."
"Basically, few people who enter the Ministry of Punishment can walk out alive, no matter if they are truly wronged or the real murderer. Such good medicine is wasted." Although he said it was wasted, Doctor Liu still signed the prescription and asked her to go to the pharmacy to get the medicine.
Manbao and Baishan carried a bunch of medicine back to Chongwenguan.
Xu Yu unexpectedly came over as well. Her clothes were almost all stained with blood. Man Bao touched her forehead, turned to Bai Shan and said, "You go eat. I'll take care of this."
Bai Shan took a look and turned to leave. A moment later, Bai Erlang and Yin He came over and asked outside the door, "Is there anything we can help you with?"
Xu Yu is still a suspect. All the eunuchs and palace maids in Chongwenguan avoid her, and Manbao didn't call them, so they all hid. It seems that there is no one in the whole yard.
The eunuch who had just brought the person over had also left. Eunuch Wu said that Xu Yu was now the bait, and in order to lure the snake out, they had to loosen it up a bit so that it would be easier for others to take action. So Manbao was the only one left in the room.
Manbao turned around and found that everyone had run away. He was speechless for a long time. He could only complain to Keke in his heart while taking scissors to cut off all the clothes on Xu Yu...
Upon hearing Bai Erlang's voice, Manbao immediately stepped forward and pulled the screen over to block the bed, then said, "Come in, there's medicine on the table outside. I'll read out a prescription, and you can grab the medicine and help me boil it."
Bai Erlang and Yin Huo pushed the door open and came in. Seeing the table piled high with medicine bags, they flipped through the bags and asked, "So many medicines! What kind of medicine do you want?"
Manbao wrung out the towel to wipe the blood off her body while reciting the prescription. Bai Erlang and Yin Huo, one grew up with Zhou Man and knew most of the commonly used medicinal herbs; the other had taken medicine all year round, so he had learned some medical theories by himself and was not unfamiliar with these medicines.
So Manbao recited the prescription, and even though the two of them were a little flustered and clumsy, they still weighed out the medicine using a small scale.
Yin Huo began to search the whole room, "Where is the medicine jar?"
Bai Erlang also followed and looked. Manbao said, "There should be a stove and a pot in the corner of the room. You can look for it again."
Manbao has started giving Xu Yu acupuncture to reduce fever and save his life.
Bai Erlang also joined in the search, and finally the two of them squatted in a corner, looking at a jar and said, "This should be it, right?"
Yin Huo said, "It's not like the medicine jars we usually use at home."
Bai Erlang picked it up and said, "Who cares? As long as it can cook something, come on, I'll go get some water."
Yin Huo said, "Let's ask again. What if this isn't for making medicine?"
While the two were arguing, Bai Shan finally came back after finishing his meal and asked, "What are you arguing about? Didn't I ask you to come and help?"
Yin Huo pointed at the jar and asked Bai Shan, "Manbao asked us to boil medicine, but this jar doesn't seem to be a medicine jar."
Bai Shan stepped forward, opened the jar, took a look, and directly handed it to Bai Erlang, saying, "Okay, go get some water."
He said to Yin Huo, "It doesn't matter whether it's for making medicine or not. As long as it can hold water and boil on the fire, it's fine."
He walked over to the screen and asked Manbao, "Anything else?"
Manbao had already inserted the needle, and came out with a basin of blood and put it in his hand, "Change it to a basin of hot water."
Yin Huo suddenly saw such a basin of blood and couldn't help shaking his head. His face turned pale and he turned his head away.
Bai Shan and Man Bao couldn't help but look at him. Bai Shan was surprised, "What's wrong with you?"
Manbao asked, "Are you afraid of blood?"
Yin Huo shook his head, "I just suddenly felt a little stuffy, I went out for some fresh air."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Manbao and Baishan looked at each other and shrugged. Then Baishan took the wooden basin out to change the water, while Manbao went back behind the screen to continue treating Xu Yu's injuries.
There was still hot water boiling in the small kitchen. This was the imperial palace, and it was winter, so hot water was always available. Although everyone had found various excuses to go out, the hot water was still there.
Bai Shan turned around. He had never worked in the palace before, so he didn't know where to pour the basin of blood.
This basin of blood is different from other wastewater. You can't pour it into the wastewater tank, right?
So he walked around and looked around. Seeing that there was no one in the yard, he poured the blood into the flower bed.
Watching the blood seep into the soil with a few gurgles, it was almost impossible to tell the difference between the bloody and the bloodless areas. So he nodded in satisfaction and turned to go to the small kitchen to get some water.
There were blood marks on Xu Yu's body from being whipped, burns from branding irons, and various other blood marks. After Manbao cleaned them and applied medicine, four basins of blood were used.
Bai Shan poured the last basin of blood into the flower bed. Seeing that the water was draining slowly, he squatted down and watched with some worry.
When County Magistrate Tang arrived, he saw the last bit of accumulated water stubbornly refusing to go down. The red color of the water and the bloody smell made it easy to guess what kind of water it was.
He quickly glanced at the flower bed and saw that the soil in such a short section was wet. He couldn't help but ask, "How much blood did you pour in there?"
Bai Shan was concentrating on staring at the blood flowing down. Magistrate Tang's sudden words scared him so much that his heart beat violently several times and he almost fell to the ground.
"Brother Tang, you almost scared me to death."
Master Tang bent down and poked him on the forehead, asking, "Who told you to pour the bloody water here? It's still winter, and it snowed heavily a few days ago. Aren't you afraid that the water will soak the roots of the flowers?"
Bai Shan said embarrassedly: "I didn't think too much about it at the moment. You can't pour the water into the wastewater tank, right?"
County Magistrate Tang said, "After leaving the courtyard, walk a little further and you will find the wastewater canal."
Bai Shan said, "It's too far."
County Magistrate Tang scolded him, "I'm too lazy to do that."
He glanced at the room where the smell of medicine wafted out and asked, "How is the person?"
Good night
(End of this chapter)
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