Chapter 108 Ridiculous Mother and Son
The servants in the room didn't dare to breathe. Xuanyuan Ling listened and his brows turned cold. His tightly pursed lips returned to their normal state. His face was a little cold and hard. He said to the doctor, "Continue to treat him."
The imperial physician did not stop at first. He did not dare to stop and continued to insert the needle rapidly. After he was done, the empress dowager felt her immobile body regain feeling and her fear gradually dissipated.
Xuanyuan Ling looked at her and asked the doctor, "What happened to the Queen Mother?"
The imperial physician knelt on the ground and did not dare to raise his head. He did not tell the truth last time. This time, the emperor was right in front of him, so how could he not tell the truth? "The Empress Dowager has hyperactivity of liver yang, inflammation of heart fire, and deficiency of both yin and yang. If her mood fluctuates, she will inevitably feel dizzy. Now the Empress Dowager has signs of numbness in her limbs. If she cannot concentrate and rest, she may be in danger of a stroke."
The empress dowager's eyes widened when she heard this. She didn't think much of the Yin and Yang deficiency. After all, the imperial physician would always say whether something was deficient or not, and if it was deficient, it could be cured by replenishing it. But this deficiency could actually lead to a stroke?
"How dare you lie to me." The last time she asked, the imperial physician didn't explain it in detail, and even said that there was a chance of recovery. She almost fainted when she thought about it, and said angrily: "Emperor, he lied to me, and you don't punish him?"
The imperial physician knew that this would happen if he was exposed, so he could only give up his defense to the empress dowager and said to Xuanyuan Ling: "I did not intend to deceive the empress dowager, but this disease is most afraid of emotional fluctuations. Once the emotional fluctuations are too great, the disease will become more serious. I have no choice but to resort to this last resort. I have been giving acupuncture to the empress dowager these days, and her condition has been well controlled. I never expected it to be like this suddenly. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
The Queen Mother froze when she heard this. She felt that her heartbeat was not normal, but would the symptoms become more serious if her emotions fluctuated too much?
She could only adjust her breathing and dared not act rashly.
Xuanyuan Ling said: "You not only deceived the Queen Mother, but also deceived me."
The report at the time only said that the Queen Mother had a minor illness and no one took it seriously.
The imperial physician was sweating coldly. He had lied on the pulse record in order to hide it from the empress dowager. Now he could not refute it and could only kneel on the ground in despair: "Your servant deserves to die."
Xuanyuan Ling looked at the imperial physician: "Are you sure he will recover?"
The imperial physician knew what the emperor meant. If the empress dowager could recover, he would have made up for his crime. However, any imperial physician would know this disease. The imperial physician could not: "I can only try my best."
Xuanyuan Ling knew that the Queen Mother's illness could only be delayed.
The Queen Mother tried her best to control herself, but she couldn't help herself after hearing this. Thinking about the feeling of half of her body being unable to move, she was filled with fear again. How could this happen? Could it be incurable? Could she have a stroke in the future?
It's not that the Queen Mother hasn't seen what a stroke looks like before. She has really seen it. Those people couldn't move, and they had shit and urine all over their bodies. Some people even had squinting eyes and twisted mouths, it was so horrible. When she thought about how she would become like this in the future, she couldn't calm down even if she forced herself. Her chest heaved violently, and she was about to have another attack.
The imperial physician quickly handed over the pills. After the queen mother took one, whether it was due to psychological effects or the quick effect of the medicine, she actually felt much better. Her breathing became stable again, but her mood was really unstable: "You must cure me, you must cure me."
Xuanyuan Ling then called other imperial physicians over. In fact, the imperial physician who treated the empress dowager had good medical skills, and which imperial physician didn't know the problem? They all lowered their heads to discuss the matter and their expressions didn't look very good.
Xuanyuan Ling was waiting outside, and all the imperial doctors reported: "As long as the Empress Dowager calms her mind and calms her nerves, and takes elixirs and acupuncture, this disease cannot be cured, but it will not affect her life span."
The Queen Mother did not believe them when she heard them: "A bunch of quacks, why don't you punish them for deceiving the emperor? Or did you know it long ago and wish for me to suffer this? I know it, I know that you never have me as your mother in your heart. You even reported me to the Grand Empress Dowager, and caused me to be confined to my house and lose my favor... You rebellious son."
Xuanyuan Ling listened to the Queen Mother's words expressionlessly and said calmly: "Everyone go out."
The imperial doctors and servants all fled away as if they were about to die. After hearing this, they really didn't know whether he could survive.
The Queen Mother looked at his face and asked: "What are you going to do?"
"What can I do to the Queen Mother?" Xuanyuan Ling looked at the fear in the Queen Mother's eyes: "I just have a question that has been suppressed for a long time, and I have always wanted to ask the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother always says that she poisoned me and asked me to bathe in cold water in winter. These things were all for my own good. I was indeed able to protect myself because I showed weakness for a long time. Although I suffered, I did benefit, so I have no hatred towards the Queen Mother." He just couldn't get close to her or like her.
The Queen Mother frowned.
"I complained to the Grand Empress Dowager, and the late Emperor ignored her. In fact, it was only because I had already shown my talent in the court, and I knew that someone in the harem wanted to target the Empress Dowager, so I took the initiative to protect her. If I didn't make the Empress Dowager fall out of favor, she would be the target of other people in the palace. My original intention was no different from the Empress Dowager's intention to protect me."
Xuanyuan Ling's tone was very calm: "I just did what the Queen Mother did to me back then, and I also named you the Queen Mother after I ascended the throne. Why do you still hold a grudge against me and even think that I want to harm you?"
The Queen Mother sneered, "You did that for me? It's just that you attracted a lot of attention in the court at that time, so you wanted to make me fall out of favor so that others would let down their guard against you."
No wonder she has become more and more excessive towards him over the years. Is it because she holds a grudge against him because of this incident?
Xuanyuan Ling laughed, he really laughed.
Every time he was sick, the late emperor would come. Even though it was discovered later that he came less often due to his illness, he would still come from time to time. Compared with some neglected princes, he even saw the late emperor more often because of his illness. Later, the late emperor came less often. When he grew up a little, he was poisoned once. Every time he was poisoned, the person who had a grudge against the empress dowager in the harem was the one who poisoned him. Was it really done by someone else?
Xuanyuan Ling has never been stupid since childhood.
She only showed her care for him when the late emperor came. She always left him in the care of the nanny in the past. But it was she who asked someone to call him to drink the bowl of sweet soup that day.
Even though he couldn't get close to the Queen Mother, he never really hated her. After all, that was how he survived. Compared to those brothers who died, he really survived because she gave birth to him and raised him. Even though he didn't get close to her, he wouldn't really do anything to her.
But this sentence really made Xuanyuan Ling unable to deceive himself. If he had not had selfish motives when he attacked him in the first place, how could he still feel that he was using him after he explained?
Yes, didn't he also suspect the Queen Mother? How could he blame the Queen Mother for suspecting him?
It's really ridiculous.
Xuanyuan Ling felt that the mother-son relationship between him and the Queen Mother was extremely ridiculous.
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