10. Evening Star Garden
When nature created the grass, it was difficult for the hard and soft to interact and grow. When it moved in danger, the water mines gathered...
Chen Ji vaguely remembered that this seemed to be what Manager Yi said, but he didn't know what it meant.
But even if he didn't understand, he still had awe for Old Man Yao's Liu Yao technique. Tonight's hexagram was so ominous that even Old Man Yao would retreat. What was the difference between him going and committing suicide?
He asked doubtfully, "Master, is it because I'm strong enough?"
Old Man Yao thought for a moment and said, "Hmm."
Chen Ji said helplessly: "It's obvious that the three of us brothers have the same horoscope!"
Old Man Yao said, "If anything happens to them, who will pay my tuition? You can't pay the tuition anyway, so go. If you don't want to go, that's fine. Just pack up and go home."
Chen Ji thought for a long time and said, "Okay, I'll go."
Chunhua led Chenji to the main gate of the palace. When they arrived under the plaque of "Zhengda Guangming", they were stopped by guards holding halberds. "Waist plaque!"
She showed her badge: "This is the royal palace badge. Please ask the clinic staff to come over."
The guards silently put away their halberds, and the red door slowly opened with a creaking sound.
The two men lowered their heads and hurried through the huge and profound palace. On their side were tall red walls, gray tiles and a two-story building. Under the eaves was a colorful painting of a four-clawed golden dragon holding a fire-avoiding bead in its mouth.
Chen Ji looked nervously at the black-armored guards standing solemnly, some on guard duty, some on patrol, and all glaring around.
Chunhua asked in a low voice, "Did Doctor Yao tell you about the rules of the palace?"
Chen Ji judged that his original body was not qualified to enter the palace. This was his first time entering, so the other party asked, "Master has not taught me yet. Please give me some guidance, Miss Chunhua."
Chunhua said, "Keep your head down near Jing'an Palace and Mingzheng Hall, and don't look around. When you see my wife, don't speak nonsense. Answer whatever she asks you. Don't tell anyone about anything you see or hear in the palace."
"I understand."
When we arrived at an archway, we were met by a group of more than ten women carrying two wooden stretchers covered with white cloth.
These women have broad shoulders and thick waists, and I guess they are the strong servants in the royal palace.
When the two sides passed each other, one of the stretchers swayed due to the bumps, and a slender, dark-bruised hand hung out. A woman stuffed her hand back under the white cloth with an expressionless face, as if nothing had happened.
The team went away, and no one knew where they were going to send the two bodies.
Chen Ji said, "Miss Chunhua, you have to tell me what happened. What happened just now?"
"My wife had a miscarriage," Chunhua said, "and those two were the maids who were beaten to death in Wanxing Garden."
Chen Ji's heart tightened.
At this time, the backyard was brightly lit, and servants were coming and going in an endless stream. No one knew what they were busy with, and everyone looked hurried and depressed.
When they arrived outside Wanxing Garden, they saw seven or eight slaves kneeling by the wall, crying and shouting for justice. More than a dozen strong women were whipping their backs with rattan sticks. "Tell me, who touched Concubine Jing's dinner today? If you don't tell me, I'll beat you all to death!"
Someone cried, "This slave really hasn't touched me."
A strong woman said angrily: "Why don't you tell me?"
As she said this, the strong woman pulled the slave girl's head against the wall and killed her on the spot!
Chen Ji turned his head slightly, thinking that perhaps this was the result of his inappropriate response tonight.
However, just as he approached the Evening Star Garden, he suddenly felt a stream of ice surge out of the garden and flow into his body. This stream of ice was so powerful that it was even several times more powerful than the one Zhou Chengyi had sent before!
Wait, where does this ice flow come from? And why does it come from?
If it was Zhou Chengyi last time
He was haunted by wronged spirits because he helped Yunyang and Jiaotu catch Jingchao's spies. Then why did ice flow into his body when the people who died in Wanxing Garden this time had nothing to do with him?
Chen Ji thought hurriedly, the surging ice flow must have a hidden commonality. Only by finding this commonality can he understand what the ice flow is.
Who is this ice flow coming from? This question is very crucial.
Before he could figure it out, Chunhua turned around and urged, "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and follow me."
Chen Ji hurried to catch up. There were rockeries and water systems in the spacious Wanxing Garden. The main building in the courtyard was a two-story building. Climbing roses were planted outside the building. Green vines meandered up the building and looked particularly elegant after being trimmed.
The exquisiteness and tranquility inside the garden contrast sharply with the hell on earth outside, making even the rose vines look particularly eerie.
At this moment, a woman in the building was heard shouting at the top of her lungs, "My wife felt that the bird's nest was not right. She had a miscarriage just two hours after drinking it. Someone must have poisoned my wife! When the prince returns and finds that his child is gone, he will definitely kill her!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Chunhua hurriedly said downstairs: "Madam, the clinic is here."
"Come up quickly," a gentle woman's voice said, "Hurry up and let Sister Jingfei see if someone has poisoned her."
Thump thump thump, Chen Ji followed Chunhua up the wooden stairs.
Inside the second-floor room, a gauze screen blocked the bed. A middle-aged woman sat upright on a throne chair just outside the screen. She wore a plain silk gown woven with gold thread, a feather hairpin tucked into her hair. She looked behind the screen with concern and said in a gentle voice, "Don't worry, Sister Jingfei. There's still plenty of time left. You'll definitely get pregnant again."
Behind the screen, Concubine Jing said weakly, "Thank you, Sister Yunfei, for your concern."
In the corner of the second floor, a black cat was fighting with a white cat, leaving their fur all over the floor, but no one paid any attention to them, as if they were deliberately letting them fight.
The black cat was small in stature, and when it was beaten, it was kicked on the head more than ten times, and its soul was almost kicked out.
But when Chen Ji stepped onto the stairs, the black cat suddenly broke away from the white cat and stared at Chen Ji's cuffs, sniffing. It wanted to get closer to Chen Ji, but the white cat pounced on it again and wrestled it into the corner again.
Chunhua had already brought Chen Ji to the second floor and said to the screen, "Madam, the doctor is here. Let him examine you."
At this time, a fierce woman looked at Chunhua and asked angrily, "Where is Doctor Yao? Why is there a brat here?"
Chunhua was so frightened that she quickly knelt on the ground and cried, "Imperial Physician Yao insisted that tonight was too ominous and we shouldn't go out. I even moved the prince out, but he still wouldn't come back."
The fierce woman's face darkened. "The palace's imperial physician, but the palace can't invite him? This Imperial Physician Yao is so arrogant!"
Concubine Yun frowned and said, "I know Imperial Physician Yao enjoys fortune-telling, but it's a little unreasonable that he didn't come tonight. When the prince returns from Jiangnan, I will report this matter to him truthfully. If the Imperial Physician's Office can't be used by the prince's palace, then it's better to abandon it."
The shrew asked, "What about tonight? Are we just going to let it go tonight? What about my wife's illness?"
Concubine Yun looked embarrassed: "The prince is not here now, and Imperial Physician Yao is a seventh-rank official. Ultimately, we have to wait for the prince to return to make the decision."
The fierce woman said in a deep voice, "Could it be that Concubine Yun told Imperial Physician Yao not to come?"
Concubine Jing behind the screen hurriedly said, "Chunrong, you must not be rude to Sister Yunfei!"
Concubine Yun smiled and said: "It's okay, Chunrong is also concerned about you, sister. Otherwise, how about this, since the person from the Imperial Medical Office has come, let him give it to Concubine Jing first.
have a look. "
Concubine Jing said softly, "Alright."
The fierce woman Chunrong looked at Chen Ji and said coldly, "What are you still standing there for? Come and diagnose Concubine Jing."
Chen Ji lowered his head and said nothing.
He can't diagnose anyone at all...
Moreover, the most important thing at this moment is not the diagnosis of the disease. Whether the diagnosis is correct or incorrect, something bad will happen.
When Aunt Chunrong saw that he didn't say anything, she immediately became furious: "Diagnose the disease!"
Chen Ji pondered for a long time, then bowed with a bitter face and said, "My apologies, Madam. I've only been studying medicine for two years. Firstly, I've only been with my master for a short time, and secondly, I haven't mastered the art yet. I really don't know how to tell if Concubine Jing has been poisoned. I'm afraid my master has to handle this matter. I'll go back now and try to persuade him to see if I can invite him here."
Nanny Chunrong scolded, "You didn't even feel his pulse and you claim you don't know. Take him out and beat him to death! Imperial Physician Yao is a seventh-rank official and cannot be touched. Beating a little apprentice to death shouldn't be a big deal. It's a good opportunity to teach the Imperial Physician's Office what the consequences of dereliction of duty are!"
As he was speaking, four strong women rushed up from downstairs, their feet stomping on the wooden floor making a thud. They dragged Chen Ji out and tried to beat him to death.
His hair was disheveled, his wooden hairpin had fallen to the ground, and his clothes were making a tearing sound under the weight.
Concubine Yun took a sip of the teacup and ignored it. In the eyes of the nobles of this era, if an apprentice died, that was it. It was not worth arguing about it.
"Wait, let me finish what I'm saying," Chen Ji struggled to speak. "Although I'm not proficient in medicine, if Madam Jingfei was really poisoned, I'm willing to find the real culprit!"
The second floor suddenly became quiet, leaving only the sound of Chen Ji's heavy breathing.
Concubine Yun put down her teacup and looked over, sizing up Chen Ji with curiosity: "Oh? You have this ability?"
She looked at the embarrassed young man again and felt that he didn't look like an apprentice at all, and his eyes were becoming calmer and calmer.
Chen Ji asked very quickly, "May I ask how many months pregnant is Madam Jingfei?"
Concubine Jing whispered from behind the screen, "May."
Chen Ji said, "The fetus is already formed in the fifth month. If someone uses a strong poison to kill the fetus within a few hours, the adult will also die! There is no poison in this world that only harms the fetus and not the pregnant woman!"
The principle of abortion pills is to reduce the progesterone level in the body and cause the uterus to contract, forcing the pregnancy tissue out of the body. In order for this drug to take effect within one day, it must be used on a fetus within three months.
There are several remaining reasons that can cause miscarriage of a five-month-old fetus. The first is reproductive organ disease of the pregnant woman, such as uterine malformation; the second is systemic disease of the pregnant woman, such as influenza, pneumonia, and organ failure; the third is being hit by external force; the fourth is drastic emotional fluctuations of the pregnant woman, such as sadness or fright.
Chen Ji asked, "Madam Jingfei, have you been feeling unwell these past few months?"
Nanny Chunrong responded, "My wife used to be in excellent health, but she's only experienced a loss of appetite in recent months. I consulted Imperial Physician Yao, and he said it was just a normal pregnancy reaction."
Chen Ji did not take what Old Man Yao said as a reference. He had read the General Principles of Medical Skills and knew that even if the other party was a highly respected imperial physician, he could not transcend the shackles of the times.
He continued, "Has Madam Jingfei recently suffered any external blows, or experienced any major emotional ups and downs?"
Nanny Chunrong sneered, "What are you saying here? How could my wife, a woman of such wealth and status, have such a situation as you describe? If you are just trying to delay time, you will be punished by more than just a beating."
Chen Ji suddenly said, "Since none of the above is true, then it must be poisoning! But it's definitely not the poison administered tonight, but rather the result of long-term poisoning!"
"Um?"
"are you sure?"
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