Something seems to have gone wrong with the female ghost, Wu Qing thought vaguely.
She slept for a while, and when she woke up she found herself still trapped in her body.
Wu Qing couldn't move his body, but he could hear other people's voices.
The Queen Mother's pious and slightly crazy voice continued to be heard. She kept repeating something about the Buddha appearing in the sky and a female living Buddha.
Defei wanted to get closer to her body, but was severely scolded by the Queen Mother.
It seemed that when the assassination attempt just now took place, her action of avoiding the assassin was discovered by the Queen Mother.
About half a quarter of an hour later, Zhu Hanfei hurried over.
She was concerned about Wu Qing's safety, fearing that she would not arrive in time and miss the best time for rescue.
"Where is Concubine Ji? Why are they all gathered here?" Zhu Hanfei asked anxiously.
The atmosphere in the hall was very solemn and strange, and no one answered her question.
The concubines gathered spontaneously around the wooden platform in the main hall, which was also the location where the smell of blood was the strongest.
Zhu Hanfei held the medicine box tightly in her hand, pushed through the crowd with one hand, and struggled to find a way out.
"My ladies and gentlemen, Noble Ji is in urgent need of medical treatment. Please move aside a little..."
The concubines slowly moved aside to let Zhu Hanfei pass.
Under the Bodhi tree, noble lady Ji was wrapped in a holy halo, sleeping in endless peace.
Her clothes were intact, and apart from her skirt being stained blood red, there was no sign of any external injuries.
Zhu Hanfei immediately thought of the day when Zhao Changzai gave birth to a child.
"...Lady Ji recovered on her own?" Although it was just a question, Zhu Hanfei already believed it without a doubt.
The Queen Mother was still sighing: "I knew from the beginning that this child had a connection with Buddha. If not, why would I have chosen her and let her enter the palace?"
Concubine Lin sneered in her heart. The old man really knows how to flatter himself.
She then walked over to Zhu Hanfei and asked, "If it healed itself, why didn't the person wake up? But what went wrong?"
Upon hearing this, Zhu Hanfei gently placed her fingers on Wu Qing's wrist and frowned for a while before speaking.
"Mr. Ji's pulse is steady and strong, a hundred times stronger than that of an ordinary person. He really shouldn't have been so slow to wake up."
She pondered for a moment, and suddenly thought of a possibility: "Now it seems that Lady Ji has entered a state of 'stupor'."
"What is 'stupor'?" asked the Queen.
Zhu Hanfei explained: "The bodies of patients in catatonia appear to be normal and they can eat normally. However, their consciousness is silent and they cannot control their body movements."
The queen's expression changed slightly, and she quickly asked, "Is there any treatment method?"
"As far as I know, there is no perfect cure for this disease. We can only hope that the patient will wake up on his own."
"You mean... to wait for her to wake up on her own?"
"What if she doesn't come back and never wakes up?"
The Queen and Concubine Lin asked at the same time.
Zhu Hanfei nodded heavily.
…
Wu Qing realized it later - she seemed to have temporarily turned into a vegetable.
Her body was moved to Linhua Palace and taken care of by Jinxiu.
To Wu Qing's surprise, there were many people visiting her.
The Queen and Concubine Lin would visit her every day, sit by her bed and talk to her.
Zhu Hanfei said that you can find something that the patient likes to stimulate her to wake up.
So Concubine Lin would regularly put some delicious food in Wu Qing's room, such as grilled skewers, roast duck, water chestnut cake, candied haws... Wu Qing could smell the food but could not move, and his heart was dead.
Concubine Shu and Concubine Zhao also came many times carrying the third prince.
Zhaopin held the child and said gently, "This is Concubine Ji. Without her, mother would not be alive. If you talk to her, she might wake up."
Perhaps the third prince should not exist in this world. He seemed to be able to sense the existence of Wu Qing's soul.
Every time he stepped into this room, the third prince would laugh non-stop.
He thought that his sister lying motionless on the bed was funny.
Concubine Shu was pleasantly surprised and said, "Sheng'er is smiling! He seems to like Concubine Ji very much."
Concubine Zhao nodded in agreement and said, "In that case, I will bring Sheng'er to visit Concubine Ji often."
The Third Prince saw Wu Qing's soul crumpled in pain, and he laughed even more happily. He kept making musical sounds, disturbing Wu Qing.
Wu Qing: “…” Dog system, you really know how to play tricks on me.
In the past, she was the only one who quarreled with others, but she didn't expect that one day, she would also be sanctioned.
After that, more and more people came to see her, even people who were completely unrelated to her came.
Everyone in the Cining Palace witnessed her ability to bring the dead back to life. At the same time, the empress dowager also enshrined her statue in the Buddhist temple, confirming the rumor that she was a goddess who had descended to earth and cultivated into a Buddha.
The story became more and more bizarre. Many people believed it without a doubt, thinking that Wu Qing had cultivated into a Buddha, and was surrounded by supreme auspiciousness and blessings. If they were close to her, they would be blessed by her.
The number of palace maids who applied to serve in Linhua Palace set a record, and the room where Wu Qing was located also became a check-in attraction.
Sometimes when Wu Qing woke up, he could hear a faint sound coming from the wall.
"Oh my God, why is this wall so smooth?" Someone touched the smooth bricks on the wall and made a surprised sound.
"Lady Ji sleeps in this position. Look, this brick and this brick are closest to Lady Ji's head. It is said that someone touched it twice and his lung disease was cured after he returned home."
"So it works? Let me feel it."
"Go, go, go, you get one tael of silver for each touch. You just touched it, it's my turn."
When night fell, two more eunuchs ran behind the wall, each took a knife and cut and scratched the wall.
Wu Qing finally fell asleep, but was woken up again by their noise.
A young eunuch exclaimed in a low voice: "Well, you actually secretly carved your name on the brick!? Shame on you!"
[What is written? xxx was here?] Wu Qing thought with a smile on his face.
The other young eunuch snorted and pushed the other away, "You carved the birth date, how are you better than me? Get lost."
Wu Qing, who took in everything, said: "..."
Please don't scribble on the cultural relics, okay?
The Queen and Concubine Lin also noticed that there were quite a lot of people sneaking into Linhua Palace under various excuses recently, so they considered finding a new place for Wu Qing to recuperate.
Even a heavily guarded place like Linhua Palace could not escape being invaded, not to mention other places in the imperial palace;
Winter is almost over, and the palace is still a bit cold, not suitable for patients to recuperate;
There are several vacant palaces outside the imperial palace. They are close together, so it is convenient for the concubines to visit Concubine Ji. However, they have fallen into disrepair and it will take a month or two to renovate them before Concubine Ji can move in.
After the decision was made, everything in the palace returned to normal.
Wu Qing waited and waited, and finally his new home came.
But she didn't expect that the person who sent her away would be him.