Chapter 3472 Extra Prince 11
After Zhou Man finished reviewing the pulse cases of the first three years, he paused and said, "I want to review the pulse cases from six years ago."
Lord Yu had made preparations in advance and had twelve pulse records brought in, still one for each month.
Zhou Man looked at it and said after a long silence, "Your Majesty's illness five years ago did have an impact."
Lord Yu stood up suddenly, "Zhou Man, you admit it!"
Zhou Man sighed inwardly, thinking that doctors weren't omnipotent and couldn't tell the emperor's condition based on the pulse alone. But that was also due to their lack of training. She could only nod and say, "This is the fault of the Imperial Hospital. However, Lord Yu, your attempt to conclude that our hospital was involved in the murder of His Majesty is far-fetched."
The topic was brought back again.
Lord Yu frowned.
Minister Li was most concerned about the emperor's health and asked hurriedly, "What kind of poison is that?"
Zhou Man said with a strange look on his face: "It's not really poisonous."
She tapped the pulse chart in her hand, pondered for a moment, and then said, "Combining the pulse conditions before and after, if my guess is correct, Your Majesty must have inhaled something like a charm fragrance back then."
Minister Li and Lord Yu and Minister Zhang were both incredulous. "Can a charm fragrance really have such an effect?"
Zhou Man said, "If Your Majesty was a young and strong man like the Crown Prince or Prince Gong, then of course there wouldn't be any such thing. It's just a night of impatience, and you can let it out. Even if you don't, you'll be able to excrete it in two days."
"But judging from your Majesty's pulse during that time, his health was already weakened, and coupled with the hot weather at that time, he might have suffered from heatstroke," Zhou Man said. "The fragrance of the charm only exacerbated your Majesty's symptoms, causing them to manifest outside the body."
Seeing their silent expressions, Zhou Man knew they didn't understand anything. After thinking for a moment, he asked, "I vaguely remember that Minister Li likes to eat eels."
Minister Li was now somewhat troubled by her words and asked unhappily, "So what? Yellow eel is a warming tonic. You said so when you first ate it."
Zhou Man recalled the occasional meals he'd had at Minister Li's place. His fried eel was indeed delicious. "I remember your chef used to add some garlic?"
Minister Li's heart tightened. "Is there a problem?"
Lord Yu couldn't help but knock on the table to interrupt them, "Lord Zhou, we are discussing His Majesty's illness."
Zhou Man said with a sad face: "You can't understand the pulse case I'm talking about. This is the only way I can explain it to you."
Do you think it was easy for her to find examples? She must have put a lot of thought into it, didn't she?
She said, "It's fine if Minister Li likes to eat eels. Eels are warming and nourishing, but you're old now and can't eat them often. If you do, it will just make you restless for a while, but your body will recover slowly as long as you stop. But what if Minister Li drinks two glasses of white wine while eating eels?"
Lord Yu and Minister Zhang became curious and asked, "What will happen?"
“I’ll be a little tipsy.”
Three people: ...
Just as Lord Yu was about to lose his temper, Zhou Man suddenly said, "But Lord Yu happened to be eating dog meat that day, so he brought his own dish to Minister Li, and they ate together?"
Lord Yu did eat dog meat, but the three had already been deceived once, so they asked nonchalantly, "So what?"
"I will vomit and get poisoned."
Lord Yu raised an eyebrow. He was the Minister of Justice and had handled similar cases before. "Food incompatibility?"
Zhou Man nodded. "Of course it won't work immediately. So while you were enjoying the wine and the meat, Minister Zhang brought some persimmons, saying they were a specialty of Yizhou, and invited everyone to eat them after dinner. And you all ate them."
Minister Zhang wanted to say that he had not been the governor of Jiannan Road for many years and would not bring out the specialties of Yizhou, and persimmons were not only found in Yizhou.
But he endured it and didn't say anything.
Minister Li saw that Lord Yu and Minister Zhang had eaten with him, so he stopped caring and asked, "What will happen if you eat it?"
“You’ll die.”
The three of them were shocked, "Is it that serious?"
Zhou Man said calmly, "Given the appetites of the three adults, I will."
They have good appetites and eat a lot.
Zhou Man said: "Dog meat and eel are poisonous when eaten together. Dog meat and garlic are also poisonous when eaten together. Liquor and persimmons are also poisonous when eaten together."
She said, "Eating these dishes on their own wouldn't be a big deal on a normal day. Eating too much would only cause a momentary discomfort. The three of you are older, so you might feel even worse. But they just happened to enter your stomachs at the same time, and those insignificant ingredients have become poisonous."
"Your Majesty's condition at the time was exactly like this. He had a poor appetite due to the harsh summer, and his body was weak. This is nothing serious. He can slowly recuperate and recover once the hot summer is over." Zhou Man said, "He happened to smell the aphrodisiac fragrance at that time, and his body became restless and agitated. This is also nothing serious. It can also be controlled with medicine and slowly sorted out. But it happened to be the time when new rice seeds were harvested, and Your Majesty was anxious to leave the capital to check on it. So he went out in the scorching sun and suffered from heatstroke..."
Zhou Man sighed, "With my agitated mood, the symptoms got worse and all of them came out at once."
She said, "Given Your Majesty's pulse condition at the time, anyone would diagnose it as heatstroke and overwork. Even with Your Majesty's previous experience, if we encounter such symptoms again, it would be difficult for us to determine whether the patient was truly poisoned by the fragrance of the charm, even with enough previous and subsequent pulse cases for reference."
She said bluntly, "If you hadn't found out that Concubine Liu might have poisoned Your Majesty, I wouldn't have dared to speculate that Your Majesty was poisoned by the fragrance of the charm."
Zhou Man said: "A doctor needs to observe, listen, ask and feel the body, but he should only focus on the body itself." Who would want to dig into the things that happen after death?
The three masters pondered for a moment, and after a while, Master Yu came back to his senses, "Master Zhou, are you trying to exonerate the Imperial Hospital?"
Zhou Man: "Whether the Imperial Hospital is guilty or not, His Majesty and the court officials will judge when His Majesty wakes up. The most urgent matter is how you will deal with the rumors that the Crown Prince is plotting to murder the Emperor."
Her face darkened as she confronted them head-on for the first time, "My Lords, is it really a good thing for the Crown Prince to be under suspicion, Yu Dajin?"
Zhou Man looked straight at the three people, especially Minister Li.
Upon hearing this, Minister Li straightened his back, and the balance in his heart that had been swaying began to tilt towards the prince.
Lord Yu and Minister Zhang's expressions changed, and their eyes moved back and forth between Zhou Man and Minister Li.
Zhou Man's emotions soared, knowing her words had taken effect. She said, "Your Majesty is in deep sleep, and I don't know when he will wake up. If suspicions about the Crown Prince spread, I'm afraid all the states will be in turmoil. Since you have been ordered to investigate the case, please find out the truth as soon as possible. Evidence is more important than anything else. It is too arbitrary to conclude that the Crown Prince and I conspired to murder Your Majesty based on a few specious rumors, and even to implicate the entire Imperial Hospital."
"Do the three lords really want to plunge the entire court into chaos?"
Minister Zhang was displeased, "Are you threatening us, Lord Zhou?"
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