Chapter 04
The test came unexpectedly. By the time the doctors reacted, Xiao Huan had already waved for paper and pen. The novel he had read before was still fresh in his mind. Xiao Huan did not wait for these people to exchange glances after taking their pulses. He just made a blanket decision and signaled everyone to write down the results on paper after taking their pulses, so as to prevent them from leaking secrets to each other.
Xia Changli, the head of the Imperial Hospital, was watching from the side. He knew what the emperor was here for at a glance. He probably had doubts about the level of the young people in the Imperial Hospital and deliberately tested them.
It is impossible to say that Xia Changli did not know the morals of his subordinates, after all, he was the head of the hospital, but what was the use of knowing. Xia Changli's family had been practicing medicine for generations, but they were just ordinary doctors. He himself was born in Jiangnan and was fortunate to pass the examination of the Ministry of Rites to become a medical officer. He worked hard in the palace for more than 40 years, and it was not until the current emperor ascended the throne and diagnosed the emperor's pulse that he was valued and became the head of the hospital.
Even if the status of a medical officer is low, he is more or less supported by the government. Therefore, many sons of noble families who cannot inherit the title or pass the imperial examinations set their sights on becoming a medical officer.
Over the years, there were only a few serious medical officers like him, and most of them were relatives of the rich and powerful who came to make a living. Due to the complicated interpersonal relationships, Xia Changli was not easy to manage, and he just wanted to wait until he retired and returned home.
But now it seems... Xia Changli looked at His Majesty with a complicated look.
Xiao Huan first asked the medical officers to examine him with a handkerchief covering his face, and then asked the people behind him to take the pulse of several eunuchs around him.
The medical officers all acted as if they were facing a great enemy, and Xiao Huan even doubted whether they had diagnosed the patient's pulse properly.
The results really opened his eyes and almost made him laugh.
The consequence of preventing eye contact is that those medical officers who have no real skills are simply conspicuous. The answer written by Xiao Huan, who knows no medical skills, sneered.
"My internal fire is too high, and my five hearts are burning?"
Xiao Huan paused for a moment and said, "I am hot on the outside and cold on the inside. Am I suffering from a cold?"
What a mess! Not to mention Xiao Huan, even Wang Bao was dumbfounded. He didn't expect that this group of doctors could diagnose so many problems.
This, this, this... Normally, Dean Xia is there to hold the scene, and every pulse diagnosis is very convincing, but you can't tell that at all.
Xia Changli gave a bitter smile and didn't dare to speak at this time. The moment Xiao Huan sneered, a crowd of people knelt on the ground. Xiao Huan didn't know whether to sneer at the fact that the novel really said it, or sneer at the group of good-for-nothings in his own Imperial Hospital.
The silence in the air was terrifying. Xiao Huan waved his hand and glanced at them: "You all really gave me a big surprise."
"check!"
"Check carefully to see how these people got into the palace."
"Whose children are they, and whose in-laws are they?"
A simple sentence fell into the frying pan, and Xiao Huan was so angry that his head hurt. He simply handed the matter over to the Censorate and asked the Censorate to conduct a thorough investigation to find out how much benefits the people in the Ministry of Rites received to allow such a group of people to be selected into the palace.
Even Xiao Huan narrowed his eyes and couldn't help but become suspicious for a moment.
Could it be that the Ministry of Rites intended to murder the emperor by selecting an imperial physician of such quality?
It's fine now, but if there is something wrong, with the skills of these imperial doctors, it will definitely delay the treatment after Xia Changli retires and returns home. By then...
The more Xiao Huan thought about it, the gloomier his expression became. He could almost describe it as as dark as water. If he hadn't read that fictional "novel" and been in high spirits today and come here to take the test, it would have been an unknown amount of time before this incident happened.
Xiao Huan has always been proud and confident. Since he ascended the throne, he has fulfilled his ancestors' unfulfilled wish of unifying the north and the south, defeated the old enemy Dayan, and now he is rectifying the court and gradually improving the administration, in order to prepare for the attack on the Xiongnu in a few years. However, before the external threat arises, the court has given him a hard slap in the face.
There is a group of useless imperial doctors right under the nose of the emperor!
Although this group of imperial doctors had probably been around since his grandfather's generation, the fact that Xiao Huan had been on the throne for so long and still hadn't noticed this huge hidden danger really made him feel like he had swallowed a fly.
…
The news of His Majesty's outburst in the Imperial Hospital soon spread throughout the palace. Except for the head of the hospital, Old Doctor Xia, almost everyone was scolded by His Majesty. The several Imperial Academy scholars waiting in the Wannian Hall looked at each other in bewilderment, not knowing what had happened, and were only terrified.
Your Majesty was so moody when he first ascended the throne, and it was not until he severely damaged the courage of those old ministers and achieved great success in military operations and defeated Dayan that things got better.
Seeing that he had rarely been angry this year, before the ministers could even breathe a sigh of relief, news came from the Imperial Hospital today.
When the left and right censors of the Censorate received the imperial edict, they set out immediately without any delay.
The Hanlin scholars waited for a whole day, and His Majesty finally came in the evening.
Xiao Huan was not in a good mood, but his diligent instinct made him force himself to handle today's political affairs, and he did not let others leave the palace until late at night. You have been busy for so long, Wang Bao thinks Your Majesty should take a break, right?
It was almost midnight and the court session would begin in a few hours. If I didn't rest now, it would be too late.
However, Xiao Huan's face darkened as he thought of Xie Ling who was imprisoned in the side hall of Yuanji Palace.
The golden light appeared at night several times before. What he saw this morning was yesterday's. It should have appeared today as well, right?
Xiao Huan, holding on with all his strength, was unwilling to finish reading this, especially when he checked the situation in the Imperial Hospital today and found that it inexplicably matched what he had written, which made him even more anxious.
He wanted to see what would happen next, and what that "click" would reveal!
So Xie Ling had just finished catching up on his sleep in the middle of the night and was about to update under the urging of the system when he heard the noise outside.
The sound of kneeling and saluting stopped after a moment. Xie Ling blinked and before he could react, the handsome and gloomy face of Emperor Wu, whom he had just met in the morning, appeared before him.
——Suddenly attacked by this murderous face in the middle of the night, Xie Ling's first reaction was to immediately check the duration of his pain shielding technique.
Fortunately, fortunately, there are still three hours of shielding and it has not expired.
"System, he wouldn't go back during the day and get angrier and come here in the middle of the night to kill me, right?"
It's no wonder that Xie Ling thought too much. When Emperor Wu left in anger in the morning, he was really angry. Although he didn't know why the other party was angry, he did look very unhappy.
And now, it can only be said that the emperor's wrath is indeed unusual. Xie Ling felt a little panicked as soon as he came in.
The time traveler, who had been talking nonsense for a long time, looked at the emperor opposite awkwardly, hesitated for a moment and said carefully: "Your Majesty?"
Xiao Huan: ...
He was filled with unpredictable, suspicious and judgemental emotions, and when he saw the other person's silly face, he suddenly choked.
Xiao Huan ignored him and immediately glanced above his head.
The golden words on the top of the head are still there. I read through it quickly from "Three Sentences to Make His Majesty Fall in Love with Me", and the plot just stopped after the "click".
Xiao Huan narrowed his eyes, and before he had time to think about why it wasn't there yet, he saw that the page of the novel above his head suddenly changed. A series of "Ahhhhhhhh" suddenly appeared under the serious plot, almost filling the entire screen.
"Why is your majesty looking at me like that?"
"I was scared to death for most of the night!"
The rapidly appearing font flashed across the novel page. Xie Ling, who felt too stressed out by being stared at, quickly deleted his complaints and looked at the emperor in front of him innocently, typing in his head to relieve his tension:
"I have to say that although it's quite oppressive, your Majesty has a really nice appearance."
"I'd conservatively estimate him to be about 1.9 meters tall, with broad shoulders, a straight waist, long legs, sharp eyes, a high nose bridge, and a pair of thin lips that look like an emperor!"
"Remember his father and grandfather both had average looks, how did he get a genetic mutation to become so handsome?!"
Xie Ling typed and deleted, deleted and typed again on the novel page, relying on the fact that it was his own update page and no one would see it, and just treated it as a chat and complaining tool.
Xiao Huan originally came to see the latest updates, but was suddenly hurt by the blunt words.
How outrageous! As an emperor, no one had ever said such frivolous words in front of him.
What broad shoulders, narrow waist and long legs.
absurd!
Xiao Huan's face turned pale and blue, and he suddenly remembered that this guy was offered to him because he wanted him to be his male lover. Xiao Huan had forgotten this because he was so obsessed with the novel these days.
Emperor Wu, who hated gay men the most in his life, suddenly turned pale. Under normal circumstances, he would have had this gay man dragged down and torn into pieces, but now he was too aggrieved to do it.
Novel, remember the ending of the novel... Xiao Huan reminded himself secretly.
But when had he ever been so angry before? He was easily provoked to anger in front of Xie Ling several times. The expressionless emperor tried to ignore the words like genetic mutation and looked at Xie Ling coldly.
Xie Ling, who had just quietly deleted the random words he had typed, said: …
What's wrong?
What's going on? Why are you looking at him like that?
When he came in, he just said, "Will you join me, Your Majesty?"
He thought, I didn't say anything wrong, right?
The two looked at each other, staring at each other for a long time, and Xie Ling was stunned.
"How can I continue writing when you're staring at me like that? I'm scared out of my wits."
The golden light above his head flashed by, and seeing that this guy really couldn't write it on the spot, Xiao Huan took a deep breath.
Forget it, I'll wait until he finishes writing and then deal with them together.
So Xie Ling blinked and saw that Emperor Wu looked at him for a while and then closed his eyes.
Xiao Huan thought that he must read the content of the novel tomorrow, so he would not allow this guy to be lazy tonight.
Haha, this guy has slept from morning to afternoon, so he should have had enough sleep.
Xie Ling glanced at the other person secretly and saw Xiao Huan suddenly speak.
"Someone come."
"Your Majesty." Wang Bao, who was waiting outside, immediately bowed and walked in, not knowing what His Majesty wanted to summon him for.
Xiao Huan glanced at him calmly and said, "Ask the imperial kitchen to prepare some food and bring it in."
Hmm? Food?
So Xiao Huan came to take care of his meals?
What kind of loving King of Hell is this, Your Majesty? He even treats you to a few good meals before you die. Xie Ling was no longer sleepy, and stared at the two of them with burning eyes.
Xiao Huan choked and ignored him. He only turned to look at the eunuch after he walked out.
"Tell them to make Xie Ling's tea stronger tonight." He paused, "Make sure he doesn't sleep a wink tonight."
He just didn't believe that he couldn't write it if he didn't sleep all night.
Wang Bao: …
Your Majesty, what is this quirk?
Although he felt strange, Wang Bao immediately lowered his head and did it.
After Xie Ling opened the page and wrote for a while, he saw that the food that Emperor Wu had ordered to be served later was served.
Hmm, it’s different from the kidney bean cake we had today. It seems to be white jade tea cake?
It tastes like tea, but is the taste too strong?
Xie Ling shuddered with pain, and picked up the hot tea beside him with his left hand that was released.
With just this one sip, Xie Ling opened his eyes wide and spit it out, almost drinking out the Mask of Pain.
"System, is this really tea? Why is it so bitter?"
"Chinese medicine isn't as refreshing as this, right?"
The system, which had just vaguely overheard the emperor's instructions, could only urge the host to update quickly.
"Hurry up and write, uncle, it's almost time to update."
Alas, Xie Ling pondered for a long time and still thought that ancient tea was like this in its original flavor.
He sighed and didn't dare to take the second sip. He glanced at the tea cake beside him and had no appetite anymore. He sat in the chair without any desire, and his mind began to update actively.
It is true that tea factors stimulate the brain.
Until dawn, Xie Ling updated three thousand words without feeling sleepy at all.
While reviewing the system, I could hear the sound of Buddhist scriptures being chanted beside me, which made me see stars.
Xie Ling felt so excited that he couldn't even sleep at all.
"System, I'm done."
"I'm not sleepy at all right now. I feel like I can kill a cow."
The system, which was annoyed beyond endurance, was indifferent and ruthless: "No, you can't kill it, you will only annoy the cow to death."
Xie Ling: ...How can this be!
"It's also my skill to annoy cows to death."
When Wang Bao came over, he saw Master Xie slumped in the chair with his eyes open and lifeless.
Wang Bao, who also did not sleep all night, said: …
Is this too exaggerated?
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