Chapter 257 Brother Chen is sick
After the family finished lunch, Wen Lier suggested taking her cousin-in-law and cousins for a walk around the capital.
Liang Qingning nodded vigorously.
Liang Qingyou looked at his grandmother.
Old Mrs. Yu met her granddaughter's expectant gaze and said with a smile, "Li'er is familiar with the capital. It would be good for you to go with her to see the world."
"Thank you, Grandma."
Liang Qingyou pursed her lips and smiled at Wen Lier.
Old Mrs. Yu looked at the three sensible granddaughters-in-law and said, "You should also go out for a walk with us. Watch more and talk less. Don't cause trouble for Li'er."
Ji, He, and Tang nodded in agreement.
But when they packed up and prepared to go out, the maid from the Wen Mansion came hurriedly to report that Chen Ge'er had woken up with a fever.
Tang was extremely anxious and said to Wen Li'er and the others hurriedly, "Cousin Li'er, you guys go shopping. I won't be going today."
After saying that, she lifted her skirt and ran towards the backyard.
Chen Ge'er was sick, so Wen Li'er had no mood to go shopping. She turned to look at Liang Qingyou, Liang Qingning and others.
Liang Qingyou spoke first: "Cousin, how about we wait until Brother Chen gets better before going shopping?"
Wen Li'er nodded: "That's right."
The group hurried back to the backyard.
Everyone was shocked when they saw Chen Ge'er's face flushed and crying weakly.
Wen Li'er said to Qiu Ying behind her, "You're fast. Take my sign and ask Doctor Wu to come and see Chen Ge'er."
"yes."
Qiuying took the sign handed to her by Wen Lier and left.
Mrs. Tang was holding her son, feeling extremely anxious. However, when she heard her cousin ask the imperial physician to come and see Chen Ge'er, her anxious heart calmed down a little.
Seeing that everyone was standing in the room, Wen Li'er was worried that the thin air would cause Chen Ge'er's condition to worsen, so she asked Nanny Qin to stay in the room with her third cousin to look after Chen Ge'er.
She took the others out and waited outside.
Liang Qingning was impatient and walked back and forth.
Finally, he stamped his foot and said, "I'll go wait at the door. As soon as the doctor arrives, I'll ask him to come over."
Liang Qingyou knew that his fourth sister was impatient and worried that she would offend the imperial physician, so he hurriedly said, "You stay here, I'll go."
After saying this, she didn't care whether her behavior was appropriate or not, and hurriedly left the backyard with her skirt lifted.
In fact, he didn't have to wait too long. Wu Junnian rushed to the Wen Mansion carrying his medicine box.
Liang Qingyou saw a carriage stopped at the door and a man carrying a medicine box got out of it, so he hurried to greet him.
Qiu Ying saluted her and said, "Cousin, this is Imperial Physician Wu."
Liang Qingyou bowed to Wu Junnian and made a gesture of invitation.
"Please ask Doctor Wu to come with me. Brother Chen is in the backyard room."
Her voice was soft, but she couldn't hide the anxiety between her brows.
After Liang Qingyou finished speaking, he quickly led the way.
But it snowed these days and the ground is slippery.
She didn't pay attention to her feet and stepped on a small round stone with her embroidered shoes.
The next moment, my feet slipped...
The body fell backward uncontrollably.
Liang Qingyou was also startled and screamed subconsciously.
Seeing this, Qiuying, who was behind her, tiptoed forward and was about to fly forward to support her.
But Wu Junnian was following behind Liang Qingyou, and when he saw the woman in front of him fall backwards, he subconsciously caught her.
Qiuying stopped silently.
"Girl, are you okay?" Wu Junnian lowered his eyes to look at the girl in his arms, whose face was pale with fear, and asked.
Liang Qingyou came back to his senses, and his originally pale face instantly turned red with shame.
She hurriedly stood up and bowed to Wu Junnian to express her gratitude.
"Thank you, Doctor Wu, for your help."
Wu Junnian nodded: "Nothing, continue to lead the way."
Liang Qingyou agreed, turned around and continued walking forward.
However, although his steps were fast this time, each step landed firmly on the ground, and he looked extremely cautious.
Wu Junnian also noticed that the woman in front of him was very cautious because she had been bitten by a snake once, so he couldn't help but look up and take another look.
She was wearing a half-worn lilac-colored shirt and a silver hairpin in her hair, the pearls hanging from it swayed gently with her steps.
Wu Junnian was a little surprised.
The cousin of the Wen family actually dressed so... simply.
It can be seen that Lord Wen is truly honest and dedicated to his work in his daily life.
When they arrived at the backyard and saw Wen Li'er, Wu Junnian hurriedly wanted to greet her, but Wen Li'er stopped him with her hand.
"Doctor Wu, there's no need to worry about these formalities. Please come in and examine my cousin."
"Yes." Wu Junnian pushed the door open and went in.
The air in the wing was filled with the smell of wormwood fumigation.
Tang was wiping Chen'er's forehead with a handkerchief dipped in warm water. When she saw the imperial physician come in, she hurriedly stood up and moved away, not daring to breathe.
Wu Junnian placed three fingers on Chen Ge'er's hot wrist, and suddenly heard the crisp sound of snow breaking dead branches outside the window.
He frowned slightly, and repeatedly pressed his fingertips on the Cun, Guan, and Chi points. Then he turned around and asked, "Young Master, have you been frightened recently?"
Tang twisted the handkerchief and thought for a moment, then suddenly tightened her grip.
"We traveled for a month from Luohe Town in Mizhou to the capital. Thirty miles outside the capital, our carriage collided with another carriage, nearly overturning. That night, Chen Ge'er cried for half the night..."
"That's it."
Wu Junnian withdrew his hand, took out a green jade vein pillow from the medicine box and placed it behind Chen Ge'er's neck.
"The cold entering the body is secondary; the most important thing is the convulsions that damage the mind. The lungs govern the skin and fur, and now that the lung qi is blocked, the high fever persists."
As he spoke, he lifted a corner of the quilt, and Tang saw that there was a layer of fine red rash on Chen Ge'er's back.
Wen Li'er walked in and saw it, and she couldn't help but gasp: "This rash..."
"Don't panic, Imperial Concubine."
Wu Junnian took out a silver needle and ran it over the candle flame. "This is 'shock measles,' a common condition seen in children in the north when traveling with their elders. I'll use acupuncture to draw out the pathogenic factors, then I'll use herbal remedies to treat it."
Before he finished speaking, the silver needle in his hand had already accurately pierced the Dazhui acupoint.
Chen Ge'er suddenly started coughing violently and vomited a ball of yellow turbid phlegm.
Seeing this, Tang almost collapsed, but Liang Qingyou quickly supported her.
But after coughing, Chen Ge'er opened his eyes and called out "Mom" in a daze.
Wu Junnian took the opportunity to insert three more needles, using the lifting and inserting technique at the Hegu, Taiyuan and Fengchi acupoints respectively. In just half a cup of tea, beads of sweat appeared on Chenger's forehead.
"The heat and poison are beginning to spread outward."
Wu Junnian gestured to Nanny Qin to change the cold water towel and turned to write the prescription: "First, boil six parts of ephedra and remove the foam. Mash three grams of almonds. Wrap one or two ounces of gypsum in cloth and boil together..."
He suddenly stopped writing mid-sentence and asked, "Do you have any snow water stored in your cellar from last year?"
A cellar for storing snow and ice would cost a lot of money to build, and the Wen family doesn't have such a thing.
Wen Li'er asked Qiuying to make another trip and go to the palace to get it from her Bixi Palace.
Upon seeing this, Wu Junnian added the five words "decocting medicine with Laxue water" to the prescription.
He advised, "Today is the most critical day. If you can sweat profusely before the beginning of the evening hour, the disease will be largely cured."
After saying that, he took out a small celadon bottle from the medicine box.
"This is frankincense. Dissolve it in hot water and steam it. It can calm children who are frightened and crying."
Wen Lier took it personally and said, "Thank you, Doctor Wu, for coming here today in the snow."
Wu Junnian hurriedly took a half step back and bowed, "Your Majesty, your words are too kind. This is my humble servant's responsibility."
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