Chapter 1967: One
Mingda leaned against the window and looked at the bright moon in the sky. Changyu followed her in and saw that she was looking outside. He couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with you?"
Mingda smiled bitterly and said, "Who would have thought that more than two months ago we were still discussing how to talk to the eldest brother and the third brother?" Now Zhou Man has turned to sow discord.
Changyu leaned aside, pulling at the jade pendant around his waist without saying a word.
After a while, Mingda said, "I think she and the doctors must be very angry."
Chang Yu didn't quite understand. "What's there to be angry about? Third brother is not well himself, so they can't cure him. With the Queen Mother around, the Emperor shouldn't punish them harshly. Why would he become an enemy of Third brother?"
Mingda shook his head. "If it were just an ordinary patient, it would be fine. It's their own body that's damaged, so it can't be blamed on them anyway. But they are the imperial physicians. If a patient in the palace disobeys the doctor's orders and harms their health, the imperial physician in charge will be held responsible."
Didn’t you see that just now, the emperor wanted to chop off Xiao Yuanzheng?
On one side is his own brother, and on the other side is his good friend. It is impossible for Mingda not to be sad and anxious.
Chang Yu saw her frown, so he pulled her hand and said, "You'd better not interfere in this kind of thing. If they want to make a fuss, let them make a fuss. Don't bother yourself."
Manbao returned to the Imperial Hospital. Doctor Zheng and his men had some food cooked on the fire. Seeing Manbao coming, he pushed a bowl of rice over to him and said, "The food is cold. I'll light a fire and cook what can be cooked. Everyone, just make do with what you have."
Manbao sat down next to Doctor Zheng. Seeing that Dean Xiao looked gloomy and Doctor Liu didn't seem to have much of an appetite, he asked, "Aren't you two going to eat?"
Xiao Yuanzheng glanced at Zhou Man and said, "Let Imperial Physician Liu take care of the Empress Dowager for now. The two of you will come with me to look after the Empress and Prince Gong. His Majesty said that Prince Gong's leg needs to be reattached. Bones grow every day, so this should be done sooner rather than later, so we'll start tomorrow."
When Manbao heard this, he asked, "Who will fight? I don't have the accuracy or strength."
Xiao Yuanzheng said, "Look at me, I'm old and frail, do I look like someone with the strength to do that?"
Doctor Zheng, who was enjoying his meal, felt a chill down his spine. He looked up and said, "No, it can't be me, right?"
"It's not you," Xiao Yuanzheng said unhappily, "I will decline the job with His Majesty. As for who His Majesty will ask to do it, that's not certain. We are only responsible for setting the bones, and we won't be responsible for anything else."
He said to Doctor Zheng, "This time, regardless of success or failure, we must keep a close eye on Prince Gong. We must not let him do anything wrong again."
Doctor Zheng agreed.
Xiao Yuanzheng then said to Manbao, "You should also pay more attention."
Manbao responded with a "yes".
Manbao took out several pieces of meat from the pot, and then started to eat the rice with a plate of side dishes. She was tired and hungry today, so after finishing one bowl of rice, she had another.
Seeing that she had such a good appetite, Xiao Yuanzheng gave her his share of the meal, then looked at her and sighed, "It's good to be young."
So he decided to let Zhou Man stay for half the night.
When Manbao went to guard the queen, the emperor was still in the room with the queen. She found a place to sit outside the palace, exhaled, leaned on the railing and stared at the moon in the sky in a daze.
Bai Shan was also staring at the moon in a daze. The drunk Bai Erlang had slept for the whole afternoon and felt much better. He walked groggily to Bai Shan and sat down, asking, "Where's Manbao?"
Bai Shan glanced at him and said, "In the palace."
Bai Erlang was stunned. "What is she doing in the palace?"
Bai Shan continued to look at the moon in the sky and said, "It is said that Prince Gong is ill and she has to stay overnight for treatment."
Bai Erlang said "Oh", and seeing Bai Shan still staring at the moon in the sky, he couldn't help but look over and asked, "This moon is not round, nor is it crescent, what's so good about it?"
"Prince Gong is in good health. Apart from a broken leg, what could possibly be wrong with him that would require an off-duty imperial physician to treat him in the palace?" Bai Shan retracted his gaze and said, "I'm wondering if she's free to look at the moon, or at Prince Gong, or maybe she's being held captive for neither."
Bai Erlang was startled and asked, "What's wrong with Prince Gong? I went to the palace to see His Majesty today, and I thought he was quite normal. Oh, and Manbao and the others are still hiding behind the screen and spying on us."
Bai Shan sighed and said, "That's why I'm even more worried. It's either a sudden illness or an accident. Fortunately, we will also enter the palace early tomorrow morning."
What Manbao was thinking was: The patients in the palace are too unreasonable. Doctor Liu said that after this time, even if Xiao Yuanzheng managed to cure the Queen's illness, he would probably be demoted or stripped of his office.
Because they all knew that it would be as difficult as a miracle for Prince Gong's leg to recover.
She whispered to Keke, "So being an official isn't a good thing at all. If I weren't an imperial physician, but an outside doctor, I would have pointed at Prince Gong's nose and scolded him."
Koko said nothing.
Manbao sighed and said, "I don't want to be an official anymore."
Keke asked, "Are you going to give up those vast tracts of official land?"
Manbao sighed even more heavily, "So I'm torn and can't make up my mind. I want official land, but I don't want to be an official."
Koko was thinking about whether to find her some books to read so that she could fully understand what daydreaming is.
Before it even started looking, Manbao said, "I know you can't have your cake and eat it too. I want the fish, but I can't bear to give up the bear's paw. How can such a good thing happen in this world?"
As soon as Aunt Shang came out, she heard Zhou Man sigh three times in a row, his eyes fixed on the moon in the sky, not knowing what he was thinking. She stepped forward and said to him, "Master Zhou, are you still blaming yourself and feeling sad?"
Manbao came back to his senses and thought to himself: What is she feeling guilty about?
Aunt Shang saw her dazed and sighed, "Don't think too much. No one knew that the Third Prince would do that. It's not your fault."
Manbao:...Don’t blame her, she knows it.
Aunt Shang patted her arm, turned around and said, "Go inside and rest. Your Majesty has gone to the study."
Manbao followed her in. She first went to the inner room to take a look at the sleeping queen, felt her pulse and made sure there was nothing wrong before going out and resting on the couch with Aunt Shang.
Aunt Shang couldn't help but ask her, "Master Zhou, how confident are you that Prince Gong will be healed?"
Manbao said without thinking: "10%."
Aunt Shang: ...
Man Bao said, "We should ask the person who is going to break Prince Gong's leg how confident they are. Based on his experience, we have about a 30% to 70% chance of success. However, I think there are very few people in the world who can break a leg exactly the same as the original one, so it's probably about 10%."
Aunt Shang thought that it would be better not to let the Queen know this news for the time being.
Although the Queen spoke harshly, she still felt sorry for Prince Gong in her heart. If she knew that Prince Gong was really going to become lame, she was afraid that his condition would become even worse.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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