After giving his instructions, Song Xibai entered the bedroom.
The Empress Dowager has aged considerably.
This kind of aging is not physical, but mental.
Song Xibai stepped forward, bowed, asked a few questions, and then, while the palace maid went out to make tea, took her pulse.
The Empress Dowager sighed, "Don't bother, my body is no good anymore. At my age, I've enjoyed all the blessings, I only ask that I can leave with less pain."
She spoke a little slowly, and her pronunciation wasn't as clear as before.
Song Xibai listened silently, pondered for a moment, and then spoke.
"Grandmother's health is indeed not as good as before, but she is not on the verge of death. As long as she takes good care of herself, she can live for another ten years without any problem."
The Empress Dowager's eyes lit up at first, then dimmed.
"Stop trying to comfort me."
Song Xibai laughed and said, "How can you call it coaxing? I'm telling the truth! Don't you believe in my medical skills? Since I was able to pull you back from the brink of death, I can naturally ensure you live to be a hundred years old."
Her smiling face gave the Empress Dowager great confidence.
"Living to a hundred years old is not enough, just living a few more years is fine." The Empress Dowager also laughed.
Song Xibai comforted her a few more times, and seeing that she was in a much better mood, he changed the subject and said...
"The palace is not a suitable place for recuperation. When the weather gets warmer, Your Majesty can go out of the palace to recuperate. I heard there is a manor in the south with geothermal activity. I'll have His Majesty find someone to renovate it. When the weather gets warmer, you can stay at the cool manor. In short, you can go wherever you want."
The Empress Dowager narrowed her eyes as she listened. She really didn't like staying in the palace; there were too many people, and it was too annoying.
Song Xibai's words struck a chord with her.
She took Song Xibai's hand and patted the back of it gently: "Good boy! You understand me best. You'll come with me then."
The two talked for a long time until the Empress Dowager got tired, at which point Song Xibai withdrew and gave a few instructions to the maids.
Then, the group left Renshou Palace and prepared to return to Changqing Palace.
But they hadn't gone far from the gate of Renshou Palace when a hurried voice suddenly came from behind.
"Miss Ding! Miss Ding!"
Song Xibai turned around and saw a thin eunuch running towards them.
Dingxiang stopped the young eunuch first.
"Why are you running so fast? Be careful not to bump into the Imperial Concubine."
The young eunuch was startled and hurriedly knelt down.
"This humble servant...this humble servant did not see Her Highness the Imperial Concubine..."
Song Xibai waved her hand: "Alright, alright, it's nothing, no need to make a fuss. You look unfamiliar, which palace are you from?"
"The smaller one belongs to Sidexuan."
Song Xibai frowned.
Dingxiang then explained, "He's a eunuch serving the Sixth Prince. I just saw him yesterday."
The young eunuch nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, I serve His Highness the Sixth Prince. His Highness is ill and has a fever. When I saw Miss Ding, I was so anxious that I forgot my manners. Please punish me, Your Highness."
Song Xibai waved his hand: "Since you're sick, then hurry up and find the imperial physician!"
To everyone's surprise, Dingxiang stomped her foot.
“It would take who knows how long it would take to summon the imperial physician. I’ll go check on him myself. That kid is really something! I told him to take care of himself yesterday, and he’s sick today…”
She pushed the little eunuch forward, not forgetting to turn back and say something.
"You guys go back first!"
Song Xibai watched her lift her skirt and run forward quickly, shook his head, and told someone to go to the Imperial Pharmacy to find the imperial physician.
Regardless, the Sixth Prince is now the King of Han, and his illness should not be taken lightly.
On the way back, Song Xibai made a detour to the Hall of Mental Cultivation and told Yuan Shen about it.
Yuan Shen sighed and called the King of Wu over to give him a good scolding.
How could the King of Wu have imagined that just yesterday he had a drink with the King of Han, and he would fall ill?
While muttering about how weak Xiao Liu's body was, he apologized and, after returning home, prepared a large number of gifts with Princess Wu and personally led them to the residence of King Han.
Meanwhile, when Dingxiang arrived at Si De Xuan, she immediately ran into the inner room and saw Han Wang lying on the bed. She reached out to touch his forehead and was so shocked that she withdrew her hand.
"Why is it so hot?!"
Prescribing and decocting medicine takes at least half an hour; if the fever continues like this, the person will become mentally impaired!
Without saying a word, she took out her needle kit and prepared to administer acupuncture.
The King of Han was in a daze. When he saw the figure in front of him, he thought he was dreaming and hugged her waist tightly.
"Don't go..."
Dingxiang said in a coaxing tone, "Okay, okay, I won't leave. You lie down quietly."
The King of Han refused to let go and instead held on even tighter.
"You always say that, but you always disappear in the end."
Dingxiang: Sure enough, this kid has gone mad and started talking nonsense.
The two eunuchs standing to the side lowered their heads, not daring to look at the two men, wishing they had more hands to plug their ears.
"What are you two standing there for? Hurry up and come help! Hold your master down, I need to administer acupuncture."
Dingxiang turned around and called out to them.
The two eunuchs looked at each other, then reluctantly stepped forward, each grabbing one of the King of Han's arms.
Dingxiang swiftly inserted several silver needles into the body of King Han.
The acupuncture for reducing fever wasn't too strenuous. While keeping an eye on it, she asked the two eunuchs about what happened last night.
"I was perfectly fine before I left, how could I suddenly have a fever?"
"I don't know either!" The little eunuch was also puzzled. "I followed your instructions and brought ginger soup and boiled hot water for your bath."
Suddenly, another eunuch interjected.
"However, the master doesn't allow us to serve him closely, so he goes to bathe by himself."
Dingxiang couldn't figure it out and could only attribute it to the cold energy accumulating in her body, which hadn't manifested at first but had only erupted today.
Fortunately, although the fever came on suddenly, the treatment was timely and there shouldn't be any major problems.
After a long while, Dingxiang pulled out the silver needles one by one, touched his forehead, and confirmed that his temperature had dropped a bit. She finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, the imperial physicians from the Imperial Pharmacy also arrived.
Dingxiang clapped her hands and called the imperial physician in. The two of them then discussed the prescription together.
The imperial physician prescribed the medicine and led his men to the imperial pharmacy to collect it.
The King of Han was still asleep. Dingxiang had the two eunuchs take turns watching him while she waited to get the medicine. She wandered around the room at will.
When she reached the window, Dingxiang suddenly stopped moving.
I reached out and touched the window frame; it was wet.
Having followed Song Xibai for so long, Dingxiang had developed a keen eye for observation and always felt that the window was strange.
The residences of the masters in the palace used the finest glass for their windows, and this particular glass window showed obvious signs of having been frozen.
The room was warm with charcoal burning inside, so how could the windows have been covered in ice?
Dingxiang frowned deeply, thinking of a possibility. She then pushed open the window and leaned out to look around.
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