Doctor Dong saw that the Second Prince had already left, so he just wanted to finish examining the Prince quickly and return to the palace to report to the Empress. "Prince, please!"
At this moment, Doctor Dong felt a sense of relief. Just now, the Second Prince hurriedly sent someone to call him, and he thought that Prince Fu'an was seriously injured!
Looking at Prince Fu'an's appearance now, it seems that nothing serious has happened.
Yuan Bohua wanted to make one last gamble. If he removed the bandage, he had a feeling Yue'er would be angry. "That Doctor Dong..."
Before Yuan Bohua could finish his deliberate words, Zhou Qiongyue interrupted him, "Then I'll have to trouble Doctor Dong."
Doctor Dong still maintained a friendly demeanor, "Your Highness, your words are too kind. This is also my duty."
Yuan Bohua could only stretch out his arm. Fortunately, Doctor Dong only looked at it carefully for a few times and did not open the wrapping.
Doctor Dong was an old doctor, so he could understand what Prince Fu'an meant. He also wanted to oblige, "Your Highness, please change your hand and let me take your pulse!"
"Doctor Dong, don't you need to open the prince's wound and take a look at it?" Zhou Qiongyue didn't actually mean to pick a fight with Yuan Bohua, she was just worried about Yuan Bohua's wound.
Doctor Dong glanced at Prince Fu'an and of course received Prince Fu'an's signal. He followed Prince Fu'an's wishes and replied:
"Princess, the prince's wound was bandaged very professionally. It will be fine when you apply medicine next time. After taking the pulse, I will prescribe some internal medicine to use together. The effect will be better."
Zhou Qiongyue felt relieved when she heard Doctor Dong say this, and thanked him again: "Thank you for your help, Doctor Dong."
"You're too polite, Princess." Imperial Physician Dong was quite kind to Zhou Qiongyue. He was the Queen's trusted Imperial Physician and had seen Zhou Qiongyue many times over the years. Zhou Qiongyue wasn't a pushover either, so there was definitely some affection between them.
Doctor Dong had already finished taking Yuan Bohua's pulse while he was questioning Zhou Qiongyue. In Doctor Dong's eyes, this injury was truly a minor matter. It wasn't even a difficult one.
Although Doctor Dong gave face to Prince Fu'an and did not open the wound, he still had to tell the truth about his diagnosis:
"Your Highness has only lost a little too much blood. As long as you apply medicine regularly to the wound and prevent it from getting infected, it won't be a serious problem. Get more rest, eat more blood-tonifying foods, and don't lift heavy objects with the wounded hand."
Zhou Qiongyue quickly thanked him, "Okay, thank you Doctor Dong."
Upon seeing this, Doctor Dong immediately bowed and left with his suitcase, "Then I will take my leave!"
Zhou Qiongyue still asked Gu Mei outside the door to escort Doctor Dong for a while. Although she said it was an escort, she actually wanted Gu Mei to take the opportunity to give Doctor Dong some reward money.
After Doctor Dong left, Zhou Qiongyue didn't ask any more questions about Yuan Bohua's injury. She attributed Yuan Bohua's concealment to the man's desire to save face.
So Zhou Qiongyue turned to ask the cause of the incident. As soon as she asked the question, the second prince and Zhou Zhiyi came in.
Zhou Zhiyi was able to follow the Second Prince in because the Second Prince took the initiative to bring him in. Otherwise, he, a small official of the Ministry of Revenue of the seventh rank, really couldn't get close to the prince's room.
Zhou Zhiyi and his second wife, Zhou Zhiyu, took the imperial examination six months before the pandemic, and both were ranked second. Zhou Zhiyi took the top spot in the second class, "Chuanlu," while Zhou Zhiyu took the last spot.
However, Zhou Zhiyu was very satisfied with this, at least he did not fall into the top three of the same Jinshi class. Under the arrangement of his parents, Zhou Zhiyu got married as soon as the list was released, and then Zhou Zhiyu took his newly married wife to be a county magistrate.
Zhou Zhiyi failed to enter the Hanlin Academy, but because of his good performance in mathematics, he entered the Ministry of Revenue and became a minor official of the seventh rank in the Ministry of Revenue.
Marquis Cheng'en was quite pleased with this. For a family like theirs, achieving a second-class score was quite a feat. As long as they were capable, they would have no trouble finding opportunities for promotion. Having successful descendants and a successor was a given—what could be more gratifying than this?
Even the wife of Marquis Cheng'en, Liu, was much nicer to these two grandsons. Her kindness was probably second only to that of their third uncle Zhou Wenfu!
This time, Zhou Zhiyi was able to work alongside Yuan Bohua because of this relationship. In order to facilitate Yuan Bohua's actions at the city gate, the emperor personally appointed Zhou Zhiyi to be in charge of the accounting of money and grain, and he was considered a temporary expatriate from the Ministry of Revenue!
Otherwise, he wouldn't have had such a good opportunity.
Yuan Bohua saw the Second Prince and Zhou Zhiyi coming in and quickly called them to discuss the matter. "Your Highness is here too, so let's listen together! Afterwards, I have to write a memorial to the Emperor! I'll trouble my second cousin to take it in later."
Normally, he should have gone to the palace to report to the emperor in person in this situation, but this happened during the day, so he couldn't leave for the time being and had to continue watching here!
"Actually, I don't know the details yet, as my subordinates are still investigating! But I think the people who attacked the city gate this time are very suspicious.
Although most of the people inside appear to be civilians, there are a few who are quite skilled. I just don’t know who is behind this.”
After Yuan Bohua finished speaking, he looked outside. He just felt it was incredible. Who was so fearless as to dare to cause trouble at this time?
"Are you saying there's someone skilled here?" The Second Prince couldn't believe it. His father was still in the palace keeping watch! What were these people planning to do?
The Second Prince hadn't realized at this moment that the idiot was right in his backyard. The more he gloated over the idiot now, the more he would sympathize with himself in a few days.
Yuan Bohua nodded in agreement. "Otherwise, even if there were a large number of disaster victims who only eat half a full meal every day, there would be no way they could get close to me."
It was impossible for him not to notice the other party's trick for a moment. It is true that no matter what environment a person is in, he should not underestimate his opponent.
When the Second Prince heard what Yuan Bohua said, his interest immediately piqued. "This is very interesting. I wonder who is so fearless of death."
What bad intentions could the Second Prince have? It was just that the weather was so hot and he wanted to watch a show.
Zhou Zhiyi thought about what he had witnessed at the city gate and said, "The cause of the incident is even simpler. It was simply because the government was late in distributing porridge today, and some of the victims couldn't wait any longer, so they started arguing with the porridge cook.
Then a team of people was sent from the city gate to check, and for some unknown reason, the two sides started fighting.
It just so happened that the prince also heard the commotion, so he randomly picked a dozen people to take with him to provide support.
It was only a few hundred meters, and the prince and his men had walked less than a third of the distance when a group of people rushed out from the left. It was unclear whether they were heading directly for the prince or for the city gate.
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