At Chang Le Palace, Dou Miao was chatting with Lady Cao, Lady Song, and Yuan Shao's mother. They were discussing the emperor's dishes for the next day.
Just as the group was chatting happily, Xiao Hong led a eunuch from Deyang Palace to Dou Miao in a hurry.
"What's wrong? Why are you in such a panic...?"
Looking at the sweating eunuch and the anxious Xiao Hong, Dou Miao felt a vague sense of unease rising in her heart.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, His Majesty..."
The young eunuch knelt down with a thud, and as he spoke, he turned his head to look at the other people in the palace.
"Xiaohong, take the ladies downstairs to rest for a while!"
Upon seeing this, Dou Miao's expression changed. She then waved her hand, instructing Xiao Hong to take Madam Cao, Madam Song, and Yuan Shao's mother away.
"Tell me quickly! What happened to the Emperor?"
After the others left, Dou Miaofeng glared at the kneeling eunuch.
The young eunuch hurriedly said, "Empress Dowager, His Majesty just fainted in the Deyang Palace...!"
"What did you say... The Emperor has fainted... What happened?"
Upon hearing this, Dou Miao's heart skipped a beat, and she immediately stood up, her phoenix eyes shooting out a cold glint.
"I...I don't know...His Majesty was discussing matters with the Grand Tutor and the others when he suddenly fainted...!"
Meeting Dou Miao's cold gaze, the young eunuch was already deathly pale and trembling all over.
"Hmph, a bunch of useless trash... Prepare the carriage for Deyang Palace!"
Dou Miao snorted coldly, then quickly left Chang Le Palace and headed towards De Yang Hall. At this moment, Xiao Hong also hurriedly followed, looking anxious.
"Xiao Hong, immediately send people to take care of the three ladies, and at the same time send people to their residences to bring all those who have come into contact with the Emperor's food into the palace. Without my decree, no one is to be allowed to move!"
As she walked briskly, Dou Miao immediately thought that there might be something wrong with the emperor's food.
"promise!!"
Xiao Hong then waved her hand behind her, and the female officials following Dou Miao immediately turned around and left, walking quickly in different directions.
"What just happened? Why did the Empress Dowager suddenly leave?"
Inside Chang Le Palace, Madam Cao looked at a female official beside her with a puzzled expression.
"The Empress Dowager has matters to attend to; ladies, please wait here patiently..."
The female official spoke expressionlessly, saying nothing more, and simply stood there quietly.
"Oh well...!"
The ladies exchanged glances upon hearing this, and then said nothing more.
Inside the Deyang Palace, Chen Fan and the others looked anxiously at the unconscious emperor lying on the couch, while constantly looking outside, hoping that Hua Tuo and the others would arrive soon.
"Those in front, get out of the way... Anyone who blocks the way will die!!"
Three Imperial Guardsmen rode swiftly through the streets of Luoyang, brandishing their whips and shouting as they galloped toward the Medical College.
"What...what happened??"
Seeing the Imperial Guards' urgent manner, pedestrians on the roadside scattered and were puzzled, because in Luoyang City, apart from those delivering military reports, almost no one dared to ride horses in the street.
"Could something major have happened in the palace...?"
Zang Yan, standing in the crowd, secretly speculated as he observed the Imperial Guards' tense demeanor.
In a secret research room at the medical school, Hua Tuo, Dong Gan, and Zhang Zhongjing were gathered around a cage, carefully observing the condition of a piglet.
"Yuanhua, it seems we're going to fail again this time...!"
Looking at the piglet in the cage, although its wounds had healed somewhat, its vital signs were getting weaker and weaker. Zhang Zhongjing, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
Dong Gan, standing to the side, also frowned. "His Majesty once said that there is something in mold that we can't see, and that thing is the key. But how exactly do we extract it?"
"We're on the right track, but we need the right tools... and also the chemistry Your Majesty mentioned!"
Looking at the transparent liquid in the vessel beside him, which they had repeatedly refined, Hua Tuo's expression was somewhat grave. That was the limit they had reached; they could not refine or separate it any further.
Zhang Zhongjing sighed softly, then asked, "Yuanhua, this matter cannot be rushed. I heard that your research on Mafeisan (anesthesia powder) and Healing White Medicine has made progress...?"
"good!"
Hua Tuo nodded, then led Dong Gan and Zhang Zhongjing to his workbench, where he took out a sealed pottery jar and an exquisite wooden box.
Before long, the three men placed a piglet with its limbs bound on the workbench. The piglet kept squealing and struggling. Dong Gan and Zhang Zhongjing stepped forward, reached out and held it down, and pried open its mouth. Then Hua Tuo poured some numbing soup into the piglet's mouth.
Before long, the piglet, which had been screaming and struggling, closed its eyes and quieted down. Hua Tuo then took out the high-purity distilled liquor that Liu Hong had sent, dipped it in clean cotton, and began to clean the piglet's wounds.
The three then washed their hands with wine, put on masks made by Liu Hong, and then Hua Tuo, holding a sharp knife, with Dong Gan and Zhang Zhongjing standing by to assist, prepared to perform surgery on the piglet.
"Clang!"
Just as the three were concentrating on preparing to operate on the pig, the door to the research room was suddenly opened, and three Imperial Guards rushed in.
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