Exhausted, Lanqin quickly fell asleep. Perhaps because she had been too stressed these past few days, she had a dream in which she seemed to have returned to the modern world. She saw the lake from before she traveled back in time, saw the person who had fallen into the water, and saw herself jumping into the water to save him.
In this dream, everything suddenly disappeared, and she was surrounded by darkness. She seemed to hear the "beep beep beep" sound of medical equipment. In the dream, she felt herself being pulled by a force. She tried desperately to open her eyes to see, but she could not wake up.
The Fourth Master, who was sleeping next to Lanqin, was awakened by Lanqin's movements. He saw Lanqin struggling in pain, as if she were drowning, and then she was covered in sweat and kept shaking her head.
Seeing Lanqin in this state, the usually composed Fourth Master panicked. He quickly got up and kept calling out, "Lanqin, Lanqin..."
"What's wrong? Wake up..."
"Lanqin, don't frighten me..."
But no matter how much the Fourth Prince called out to her, Lanqin remained unresponsive. She continued to struggle but could not wake up. The Fourth Prince grew anxious and hurriedly called out, "Su Peisheng, quickly go and call the imperial physician over."
Upon hearing the Fourth Master's call, Su Peisheng was startled. He entered the room and saw the state of the room, so he quickly ran out to call the imperial physician.
Before long, the imperial physician, covered in sweat, followed Su Peisheng to Jiuzhou Qingyan with his medicine box. As soon as they entered the bedroom, before he could even bow, the flustered Fourth Prince said, "Come quickly and see what's going on."
The imperial physician rushed forward to take Lanqin's pulse and, after examining her, said, "This is the Empress Dowager having a nightmare."
"What should we do? When will she wake up?"
"We can only wait for Her Majesty to wake up on her own; we can't wake her up now."
Seeing Lanqin covered in sweat, Fourth Master felt as if his heart was being slowly gripped by an unnamed hand, and even breathing became painful.
Completely bewildered, the Fourth Prince, seeing that the imperial physicians could offer no treatment, could only repeatedly call out in her ear, "Lanqin, Lanqin..."
Seeing that she still didn't wake up, Fourth Master couldn't wait any longer. He was afraid that the longer he waited, the less Lanqin would wake up, and he really didn't know what to do then. He couldn't bear to lose Lanqin anymore.
"I order you to immediately wake up the Empress Dowager, or I will hold you accountable."
Upon hearing the Fourth Prince's stern words, the imperial physician immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, trembling as he said, "Your humble servant..."
Fourth Master took a few deep breaths and suddenly remembered that Lanqin had been in the same situation not long after she married him. At that time, the imperial physician inserted a few needles into her hand and Lanqin woke up.
So the Fourth Prince hurriedly said to the imperial physician, "She had a nightmare like this once before, and she couldn't wake up either."
"How was the Empress awakened?"
"The imperial physician at the time administered acupuncture to her, and she soon woke up from the nightmare."
Upon hearing the Fourth Prince's words, the imperial physician pondered for a moment. He could not be entirely certain, but he could only give it a try, since he had never seen a case of nightmares like Lanqin's before.
The imperial physician took a light breath and said to the Fourth Prince, "Then this humble subject will now administer acupuncture to the Empress Dowager."
The Fourth Prince counted the money and ordered the imperial physician to come forward and administer acupuncture to Lanqin.
The imperial physician took out several silver needles from his medicine box and stepped forward to administer acupuncture to Lanqin. Seeing that Lanqin was still shaking her head, the imperial physician said to Cui Niang beside him, "You must hold the lady down first and prevent her from moving too much."
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