Mother Cui glared at Father Cui, and Father Cui stopped talking in anger.
After the family's anxious wait, the doctor finally arrived.
"Doctor, please take a look at what's wrong with my son?" Cui's mother stood up and made room for the doctor.
The doctor soothed her, "Madam, don't panic. Let me take the second young master's pulse."
The doctor's face changed drastically after taking the pulse, and he stood up in a panic, "Second Master...this pulse...please forgive my lack of skills, Master Cui, please seek help from someone else."
Father Cui was puzzled: "Doctor, what do you mean by that? I just gave him a few canes in a fit of anger. Although I hit him a little hard, he is a seven-foot-tall man, not a child. How could I hurt his lungs?"
After hearing this, the doctor shook his head and said, "Second Master, this is a severed pulse, it has nothing to do with flesh wounds."
"What do you mean by dead pulse? Please explain clearly, doctor." Father Cui's face changed when he heard this and he stopped the old doctor.
"My son was beaten on the back by his father with a cane and suddenly vomited blood. Did the doctor make a wrong diagnosis?" Cui's mother also looked nervous.
The doctor looked at the expressions on the faces of the people in the room, who seemed to be completely unaware of the situation, and explained, "The pulse of the second young master is weak. If I am not wrong, he should have taken something extremely poisonous to maintain his life, but now it is just a bow with a strong force."
Seeing that everyone in the room had changed their expressions, the old doctor quickly changed his words and said, "It is possible that I am not well-trained and made a wrong diagnosis. Master Cui, please ask another doctor to come and take a look."
"Go and invite him." Father Cui said to Cui Muyan with a sullen face.
Cui Muyan glanced at the old doctor and said hurriedly, "Son will go to the palace to invite the imperial physician."
After Cui Muyan left, Cui's father did not let the old doctor go, but said, "There is a headache in my house, and I have been asking you to come. Tell me the truth, how is my son's health?"
The old doctor sighed, and he looked at Cui Mubai who was still unconscious on the bed and said, "Since the Second Young Master has taken the medicine to counteract the disease, I think he should be aware of his own body. I will give him acupuncture to wake him up. You may as well ask him this question."
The boss took out a needle bag from the medical box and pierced Cui Mubai's acupuncture points.
Mother Cui tightly grasped the handkerchief, feeling heavy in her heart. Cui Qiong did not dare to believe what the doctor said at all. She even wanted to retort. Yu Jiao was such a good doctor. Her sister-in-law had brought her second brother to Yu Jiao for pulse diagnosis before. How could his pulse suddenly stop?
After a long incense stick, Cui Mubai slowly woke up. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a group of people gathered around his bed with nervous expressions. He also saw the doctor who was giving him acupuncture. Cui Mubai smiled bitterly, "It seems that I can't hide it anymore."
As soon as he finished speaking, he started coughing again, and blood overflowed from the corners of his lips.
Cui Mubai's words were like a thunderclap hitting the Cui family's heads. Cui Qiong was the first to react. She handed the handkerchief to him and said with a sour nose, "Second brother, stop joking. You are obviously fine..."
Cui Mubai wiped the blood from the corner of his lips and looked at the old doctor beside him: "Go back, you can't treat my illness."
The old doctor hurriedly picked up his medical box, but was stopped by Cui's father. "He has a wound on his back. Please give him some medicine."
After the old doctor applied medicine to the wound on Cui Mubai's back, he hurriedly said goodbye and left with his medical box.
"What's going on? How... did he suddenly become like this?" Father Cui took a deep breath and asked.
Cui Mubai lay on his back, looking at the ceiling of the tent, and said slowly: "I didn't get sick suddenly, I have always been like this. I just didn't want you to worry. It can't be cured anyway. I wanted to keep it a secret from you, but you found out anyway. Don't be sad. Life is just like this. It's meaningless. Sooner or later, everyone will die. Death can put an end to the dust and dirt of this world, which is also good."
Cui's mother cried bitterly, threw herself on the bed, and slapped the quilt with her hands, "I will beat you to death, you heartless evil creature! I carried you for ten months and gave birth to you. How can you live without me? What do you mean that death can end the dust and dirt of this world? Do you have us, your dearest relatives, in your heart?"
Cui Qiong said with tears in her eyes: "Second brother, I will write a letter to Pingliang Prefecture and ask my sister-in-law to bring Yu Jiao back. She is a miracle doctor and she will definitely be able to cure you."
Cui Mubai looked at them, a hint of sadness flashed through the depths of his eyes, and he said, "Please ask her to see it. She can't be cured. Don't write to Pingliang Prefecture, and don't tell Yaozhen about this first."
He raised his eyes to look at Father Cui and said calmly, "Father, I am dying soon. I have only one wish. Please allow me to marry Yue Lian into your house."
Father Cui seemed to have aged a lot in an instant. He was silent for a long time and suddenly understood many things. His second son was never a playboy who lingered in brothels. It was impossible for him to act so high-profile because he suddenly fell deeply in love with a brothel girl.
"Okay." Father Cui finally agreed.
Cui Mubai smiled slowly, "Thank you, father."
Father Cui glanced at him and said, "Although you fell into the cold pond in winter and injured your body, you have been well-nourished over the years. How could your body be in such a bad condition? Your elder brother has already gone to the palace to ask for the imperial physician. If the imperial physician cannot cure you, I will send people to various places to find doctors. The world is so big, there must be a miracle doctor, and it may not be impossible to cure you."
Cui Mubai shook his head: "Father, please don't waste manpower. I have secretly consulted many doctors over the years, but they are all helpless. The director of the Imperial Hospital has also seen me."
His body was damaged by poison. In order to make him obedient, Zhu Yu had been giving him poison over the years. The poisonous grass was brought from the foreign land of Lingnan. He had been trying to find a way to detoxify him over the years, but the doctors could not diagnose that he was poisoned. They only knew that his pulse was getting weaker and weaker.
He also went to Lingnan in person, but was told that there was no antidote for this poison.
This poisonous herb is the same as the Zijicao that Xue Rong took. Both are chronic poisons. One can only glimpse the effect from the pulse, but it is difficult to find the cause.
When he learned that Xue Rong was pregnant, he felt a glimmer of hope, but when Liu Yujiao examined his pulse, she found nothing unusual.
The sun was blazing outside, and the cicadas were chirping. Cui Muyan, sweating profusely, ran into the yard with the imperial physician, "Imperial Physician Liu is here."
The room was extremely quiet, with only the sound of Cui's mother wiping her tears.
Cui Mubai sat up and smiled, "I'm awake now. Doctor Liu has been busy. Big brother, please go to the front hall and invite Doctor Liu to have a cup of tea."
Cui Muyan was a little confused and looked at Cui's father, who nodded at him.
When Cui Muyan saw Cui Mubai waking up and not looking seriously injured, he guessed that the old doctor had misdiagnosed him, so he led Doctor Liu to the front hall.
As soon as the doctor left, Cui Mubai said, "There are still some unresolved issues between the prince and I, and it is not appropriate to publicize the serious illness."
"You are in such a bad condition, why are you still working for the prince?" Cui's father said angrily, "Write a letter of resignation and I will submit it to the Ministry of Personnel. You should stay at home and take good care of yourself. Don't go anywhere."
Cui Mubai said nothing. He whispered a few words to comfort Cui's mother, and signaled Cui Qiong to take Cui's mother back to the courtyard to rest. After sending everyone away, he said to Cui's father, "Father, I still have a wish to fulfill, and I don't have much time left to live. Please let your son do what he wants for once."
Father Cui was silent.
Cui Mubai pointed at the desk and continued, "If someone from the Liu family is here, please ask father to play a scene with me. I don't want Yaozhen to be depressed about me after I leave. Please give the divorce letter to the Liu family for me."
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