Chapter 293 Pulse Diagnosis
293 Pulse diagnosis
Xu Junying unfolded a blanket, wrapped them both, picked up Meimei and walked to the clean room. Meimei put her hands on his neck and looked at his young and handsome face in the morning light. He looked gentle and kind, familiar and strange. His cold and dull expression seemed gone forever. She couldn't help but smile and kissed him on the lips:
"Husband, you are so kind!"
Xu Junying's body trembled, his arms tightened, his face pressed against hers, panting slightly, "Don't use the honey trap, your husband can't stand it!"
They got out of bed at noon and took another hour to bathe. When the two of them came out and changed their clothes, they called Cui Xi and the others in to slowly dress up. After having breakfast, it was almost noon.
The old lady sent someone to invite again. This time it was Mother Ji who came in person with a humble smile on her face. Before she could say anything, Ma Wei came over with the eunuch from the palace and said that the emperor summoned Marquis Weiyuan to the palace.
Xu Junying said to the eunuch: "Please go ahead, I will follow soon!"
When Mother Ji saw this, she didn't say much and quickly went back to Jinhua Hall to report the news.
Cui Xi was asked to take the maids downstairs, leaving the couple alone in the room. Mei Mei asked, "Are you leaving right away? Can we have a few words?"
Xu Junying nodded: "Meimei, just talk, I'm listening!"
"Well, what I wanted to say last night..."
Meimei rubbed her forehead, Xu Junying smiled and gently hugged her, and the two sat down on the purple wooden chair beside them. Meimei subconsciously reached out and touched the clavicle that was specially covered with a layer of gauze, raised her eyes and looked at Xu Junying and said:
"I want to go to the palace with you. If the emperor wants you to marry A Yao because of the pressure from the queen mother, I will go back to him with you!"
Xu Junying said, "Don't worry. I know what to do. I told Bai Zhan last night that he should have been prepared. The one in Ayao's belly won't stay for a few days... The emperor may not have summoned me for this matter, but for other matters. It's better for you not to go yet."
Meimei was startled and struggled out of his arms. She sat up straight and said, "No, no! You can't do that, kid, don't move!"
Xu Junying was stunned: "Meimei, it has to be like that! Give up their thoughts. I only love my own family. I don't want anyone else. The appearance of that child is not what I want. They will use it and affect us more or less. I won't allow it!"
Meimei took a deep breath and thought of a question. If the child was really Xu Junying's, what would she do? Would she really let him get rid of it? Would she have the heart to do that?
Thinking of Bai Jingyu, she had seen Xu Junlang's child being hurt. In order to protect her family, her and her daughter's happiness, she remained indifferent and allowed the concubines to have affairs with each other, harming the innocent fetus. She couldn't help but sigh secretly, has she come to this point? Such things are really difficult to make a decision. And now she is 80% sure that the child in A Yao's belly is not Xu Junying's, so she must stop them, resolutely and definitely not let them hurt the child!
Xu Junying looked at the copper kettle hourglass. Meimei knew that he could not delay any longer, so she said hurriedly:
"I'm serious, tell Bai Zhan to stop. You can't touch that child, he may not be yours!"
Xu Junying looked at her blankly: "Meimei, I really, really did it... I remember hugging her... and waking up the next day, we were lying in bed together."
Meimei bit her lip and stared at him: "Does it feel good to hug her?"
"At that time, I just wanted to be free. How do you want me to feel? I didn't feel anything - I don't remember anything!"
Xu Junying was very embarrassed and reached out to stroke her cheek: "Stop biting. You'll hurt yourself!"
Meimei pushed his hand away, puffed her cheeks, stared at the carved wooden door leading to the study and pondered. Xu Junying stopped talking and did not move to leave. Meimei thought for a while and said to him, "I am not completely sure about this matter. I wanted to explain it to you, but time is too late. If you enter the palace, you can talk about official business. If the emperor helps the queen mother to force you, just refuse and insist that the child in Ayao's belly is not yours. If the emperor asks why, you can ask me!"
Xu Junying looked at her with sparkling eyes: "Meimei, while I was away from home, I heard that you went to Prince Qi's mansion. Did you...find out anything?"
"I went to Prince Qi's mansion, but he refused to give in. For the Queen Mother's sake, he had to fulfill his conditions. But I thought he might not be of any use. Remember my words, go ahead!"
After seeing Xu Junying off, Meimei remembered something and hurried into the inner room. She took out a small porcelain bottle from the chest of drawers, poured out a small black pill, looked at it from left to right, put it in her mouth and swallowed it. She was going to start taking the contraceptive pill made by Doctor Duan of Qiancaotang.
In the side hall of the palace, the emperor, Xu Junying and several other ministers finished discussing government affairs and asked the others to leave, leaving Xu Junying behind. The two of them went to the west building of the Dewen Hall not far from the Forbidden Garden and sat down to drink tea. The emperor said:
"What are you dithering about? Are you really going to argue with the Queen Mother? You're pregnant, so hurry up and get married! Your wife is gorgeous and Yao is not ugly, so why do you dislike her?"
"How dare I despise her? I will never marry A-Yao. Please ask the emperor to tell the queen mother to bring her back to the palace. It's not a good idea for her to live in my house all the time. It's not good for my reputation!"
The emperor looked at Xu Junying as if he were a monster. Ji Qing, who was standing behind him, was also stunned, unable to believe that Xu Junying would say such a thing.
The emperor suddenly pointed at Xu Junying and yelled, "You are so brave! I am pregnant with your child, but I am living in the palace instead of your mansion. What do you want? You should be careful about who you are framing!"
Xu Junying was a little flustered, but remembering Meimei's words, he gritted his teeth and said, "I need to ask my wife about this matter. I don't know much about it either!"
"You did a good thing, don't you understand?"
"Your Majesty, I am drunk, and there is medicine in the wine! I don't understand anything, but my wife has something to say!"
The emperor turned around and said to Ji Qing with gritted teeth, "Go and invite the queen, and ask her to summon the wife of Weiyuan Hou to the palace!"
Meimei was quickly brought into the palace and saw the emperor and empress sitting at the top, while Xu Junying was sitting at the bottom, looking a little uneasy. After she knelt down to ask for the emperor's greetings, she walked towards him, and the two of them held hands tightly.
The emperor and the queen looked at each other and snorted coldly, "Qin Meimei, could it be that you don't want Xu Junying to marry a concubine, so you came up with some crooked idea to confuse people? I'll give you a chance. Go back with your husband now, prepare for the wedding, and marry A Yao on the date chosen by the queen mother! In view of your abominable behavior, I have decided not to help you. I will obey the queen mother's wishes. A Yao must be a co-wife!"
Meimei smiled and said, "Your Majesty, Empress Dowager: If my husband had married Ayao in the days when the incident happened, I would have arranged the wedding for them immediately without hesitation. Ayao is deeply loved by the Empress Dowager and is regarded as her goddaughter. She is of noble status. Even if she wants to be my legal wife, I will let her do so! But unexpectedly, when my husband came back from a business trip, Ayao was pregnant. I don't recognize this, and I won't allow my husband to marry an unfaithful woman!"
The emperor stared at Meimei, his eyes smoldering with anger, but the queen remained calm and looked at Meimei and said, "What did you say? An unfaithful woman? A Yao has been living in the mansion of Weiyuan Marquis since she spent a night in the same room with him. Isn't she pregnant with Weiyuan Marquis's child?"
Meimei said calmly: "That's right! I heard from my husband that they lived together in the same room in Huangzhuang for one night. I believe my husband and we both admitted it. But the problem is that my husband can't make A Yao pregnant - because he doesn't have that ability!"
The Emperor and the Empress were dumbfounded. This time they looked at Meimei like a monster. Ji Qing suddenly found it funny and lowered his head. Xu Junying was embarrassed and looked at Meimei, not knowing what to say.
The queen stuttered, "What do you mean? Explain yourself!"
"Your Majesty, Empress Dowager: The real situation is this." Meimei said slowly: "My husband took stone ball powder, which is a paralyzing drug that grows in the cracks of rocks. If a man takes a certain amount, he will be sterile! The amount of medicine my husband took is enough to make him childless for three years!"
The Emperor and the Empress were stunned again, but Xu Junying was so shocked that he almost fell off his chair. He held Meimei's hand tightly and stared into her eyes until he saw the definite answer in her eyes. His hands and feet instantly turned cold and sweat appeared on his forehead.
The emperor looked at Xu Junying and said, "Is this true? Why didn't you tell me? Who told you to take that medicine? You actually took it!"
Xu Junying lowered his eyes and said, "This is a private matter between husband and wife, and it is not appropriate to tell others. My wife has had a serious illness, and her body is weak and unable to give birth to a child. She has taken too many decoctions during her illness. If she is asked to take contraceptive decoction, it will only make things worse and will not be conducive to her recovery. Therefore, I am the one who will take this medicine!"
Xu Junying's words were so perfect and convincing that the queen was so moved that she could not find any reason to embarrass him.
The emperor did not give up: "Whether this is true or not, we need evidence. Besides, there is still A Yao here, where did the baby in her belly come from? Someone, please ask the imperial physician to confirm it first!"
Meimei frowned slightly: Zhang Jingyun said that Xu Junying ate a small amount of stone powder and would be childless for the next three or four years, but he was a martial artist with good luck, and his pulse was somewhat peculiar, which was difficult for doctors with less sophisticated medical skills to detect.
So, regardless of Xu Junying's presence, she said to the emperor, "Zhang Jingyun once took my husband's pulse when he was not paying attention. He said that only a person with superb medical skills could diagnose this kind of pulse!"
The emperor didn't even look at her, and said to Ji Qing, "Go, find me all the old doctors in the Imperial Medical Office who boast of their great medical skills!"
After a while, seven or eight doctors came into the west building and, in accordance with the emperor's wishes, took Xu Junying's pulse one by one. Doctors Su and Qiao exchanged opinions after taking his pulse. Doctor Su then reported to the emperor: Marquis Weiyuan had indeed consumed stone powder, but...
Meimei interrupted him in time: "The two imperial doctors are indeed highly skilled. They were able to diagnose even such a subtle pulse. Mr. Zhang once said that the two of them are the masters of the imperial medical clinic in the palace!"
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