My uncle is Zhu Di

Chapter 9: Taking the wrong medicine
Zhu Di had been waiting for news from the Kunning Palace in the Imperial Study. Liu Yongcheng basically shuttled back and forth between the Imperial Study and outside the study, while the eunuchs and palace maids also shuttled between the Kunning Palace and the Qianqing Palace!
"Your Majesty, Xu Qin has already injected the drug into the Queen's hand!"

"Your Majesty, Xu Qin said we need to wait two quarters of an hour to see if it works!"

"Your Majesty, Xu Qin has packed up his medical supplies and is chatting with the Queen!"

"His Majesty!"

Zhu Di had been watching and counting the time. Two quarters of an hour passed. Zhu Di first stood by the window, then sat in front of the dragon desk, and finally paced. Then he walked quickly in the study, praying in his heart!

"Isn't it yet quarter of an hour?" Zhu Di was getting a little impatient and asked Liu Yongcheng who was waiting in the distance.

Liu Yongcheng came over and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, it's still a little bit, but not much longer. I believe that when the time comes, Xu Qin will start treatment!"

"Yeah, yeah, that's right!" Zhu Di waved his hand and continued walking in the study!

"Your Majesty!" Liu Yongcheng called out to Zhu Di!
"Speak!" Zhu Di responded coldly.

"Your Majesty, Xu Qin said it was a test. If the test failed, there would definitely be news by now. Now there is no news, which is probably good news!" Liu Yongcheng said to Zhu Di while bowing!

"Well, well, that's good!" Zhu Di nodded, but still didn't want to talk. He was in great pain inside!
On Xu Qin's side, when he saw that the time was up, he carefully checked his aunt's arm and found that there was no drug reaction, so he said to the Crown Princess: "Your Highness, help my aunt up and let her sit down. However, you have to pull her pants down a little bit, just enough to expose the muscles of her buttocks!"

"Ah, will this work?" The Crown Princess felt that this method of treatment was unheard of, and if the imperial physician dared to say so, Zhu Di would drag him out and kill him without saying a word!

"Help me up! Cough cough cough~" Empress Xu didn't care about anything else. She only cared about her own nephew and had unlimited trust in him!
"Yes!" Zhang and two palace maids went over immediately!

Xu Qin pulled Zhu Gaochi around and said, "Tell me when you're done. I'll prepare the medicine first!"

As he spoke, Xu Qin began to prepare the medicine without Empress Xu's knowledge. He already knew the dosage!

Before Xu Qin was ready, Zhang said, "It's ready!"

"Okay, wait a moment!" Xu Qin nodded, and continued to carefully take the medicine, then used cotton to dip in high-proof alcohol and held it with tweezers.

After everything was ready, Xu Qin said, "Aunt, I turned around and prepared to give you the injection, huh?"

"Okay, turn around!" Queen Xu said with a smile!

Xu Qin turned around, holding tweezers in one hand and a syringe in the other, and went behind Empress Xu. He first wiped the area where he needed to be injected with alcohol. After wiping it, he handed the tweezers to the maid next to him and said, "Help me hold it first!"

Then he said to Empress Xu: "Aunt, I'm going to give you acupuncture. It will be a little painful, but I can bear it!"

"Okay!" Queen Xu nodded!

Xu Qin took the syringe and inserted it, and Empress Xu immediately became tense all over!

"Aunt, relax, just for a moment! Relax!" Xu Qin hurriedly comforted Queen Xu!

"Okay!" Queen Xu nodded!

After the injection was done, Xu Qin asked the maid to bring over some clean cotton. He pulled out the needle and pressed the needle hole with the cotton. At the same time, he said to the maid, "Press it for a while!"

"Oh, okay!" The palace maid immediately held it down!
Xu Qin said to Empress Xu: "Aunt, today's treatment is over. It will probably take seven days to recover. I will come here every day at this time!"

"Is the treatment complete?" Empress Xu turned her head and looked at Xu Qin and asked.

"Well, the treatment is completed. Don't worry, auntie, there will be no big problem!" Xu Qin said with a smile, and at the same time began to disassemble the syringe and disinfect it!

After a while, Xu Qin asked the maid to take away the cotton and asked his aunt to put on her pants. Then Zhang helped Xu Qin to the bed and leaned against it.
"Baoer, tell your aunt where you learned this idea from?" Queen Xu leaned over and asked!

"An old Taoist taught me!" Xu Qin lied, but he didn't dare to tell the truth.

"Well, okay, he is probably a master in medicine! Do you know his name?" Queen Xu continued to ask.

"I don't know. My nephew asked, but he didn't tell me!" Xu Qin shook his head and changed the subject, "Aunt, I'll wait here for half an hour. If there's no problem, I'll leave the palace first!"

"Well, Baoer, we will have dinner in the palace tonight. Boss, you keep us company!" Empress Xu said to the two of them!

"I won't eat anymore. I'll wait until my aunt gets better and then cook for me. I like the food my aunt cooks!" Xu Qin said with a smile. Empress Xu is a good cook!
"Okay, I'll do it for you when the time comes!" Empress Xu said with a doting smile! Then Empress Xu asked Xu Qin about Xu Huizu, and about Xu Qin and Xu Jingchang studying at the Imperial College, and then persuaded Xu Qin to study hard at the Imperial College, because he had to study hard!
Xu Qin nodded honestly!
About half an hour later, Xu Qin helped Xie out of the palace and went home!
Zhu Gaochi asked Zhang to continue staying here to take care of Empress Xu, while he returned to the Eastern Palace!

After returning to the East Palace, he called his confidants!

After Xu Qin left the palace, Zhu Di went straight to Kunning Palace. As soon as he arrived at Kunning Palace, he saw Zhang coming out of Empress Xu's bedroom!
When Zhang saw Zhu Di, she immediately bowed and said, "Your Highness, I pay my respects to you. Your Highness has fallen asleep. After your grandmother came over, your Highness has been chatting with you. She must be tired now!"

"Well, sleep, sleep well, sleep well!" Zhu Di nodded repeatedly when he heard that Empress Xu fell asleep. Then he thought of something and asked Zhang: "Do you think that Shakyabao's treatment method is useful?"

"Father, I don't know, but from now on, it seems that there is no harm!" Zhang shook her head and said!

"Well, okay, let the Queen sleep, I'll come over at night!" Zhu Di didn't want to disturb Queen Xu. He also knew that Queen Xu had difficulty falling asleep in the past few months and would wake up coughing from time to time.

In the evening, Zhu Di came to visit Empress Xu again. Zhu Di basically came to visit three or two times a day, and each time he would sit with Empress Xu for two quarters of an hour to half an hour!
"Your son greets the emperor!" Zhu Di had just arrived at Kunning Palace when he saw Crown Princess Zhang coming out!
"Well, how is the queen?" Zhu Di nodded and asked.

Zhang said happily, "Father, Mother is much better now. She had two bowls of lotus seed porridge in the evening, which she hasn't had in the past six months. In addition, her cough is obviously not as severe as before!"

"Oh, that's good, that's good!" When Zhu Di heard this, his eyes lit up and he raised his legs and walked inside!

When they arrived at Empress Xu's bedroom, they saw Empress Xu reading a book. Empress Xu also heard the noise, looked up, and found that it was Zhu Di, so she looked at him with a smile!
"Much better?" Zhu Di came in and asked excitedly.

"Much better! It's really a miracle medicine! I didn't expect Baoer to have such ability!" Queen Xu said with a smile!

"It's better now, it's better now!" Zhu Di was still a little excited. Empress Xu wanted to stand up at this moment, and Zhu Di immediately went over to support her!

The two of them sat down on the chairs next to them and chatted!
In the evening, Zhang returned to the East Palace and saw that the prince had been in the study and had not come out. She wanted to persuade him not to be so busy until so late!

When I arrived at the study, I found Zhu Gaochi sitting in the study in a daze.

"Hey, Prince, you have time to be in a daze. Why don't you go look for other concubines?" Zhang came in and saw Zhu Gaochi in a daze, so she asked with a smile.

"Oh, hurry up, close the door!" Zhu Gaochi said with a wry smile when he saw Zhang coming!

"Why are you closing the door? Go find other concubines!" When Zhang heard what Zhu Gaochi said, she immediately turned her face to Zhu Gaochi and said!

Zhu Gaochi stood up helplessly, walked to the door of the study and closed it!

"Zhu Gaochi, you!" Zhang stared at Zhu Gaochi with gritted teeth!
"That's enough, that's enough, eh!" Zhu Gaochi sighed. Seeing him like this, Zhang was a little surprised and asked, "What's the matter? Aren't you supposed to be on someone's belly right now?"

"Hey, look at you!" Zhu Gaochi did not explain. How could he not know the personality of his own wife!

Zhang looked at Zhu Gaochi suspiciously, but still took it. When she saw it was a prescription, she said puzzledly, "I can't read prescriptions. Go find a doctor!"

"Hey!" Zhu Gaochi then took another piece of paper from his desk and handed it to Zhang. Zhang took it and glanced at it briefly and said, "Aren't they all the same?"

"Look at the dosage of some of the ingredients!" Zhu Gaochi said helplessly!

Zhang looked down and found that the dosages of several medicines were different, so she looked up at Zhu Gaochi and asked, "Why are they different?"

"What do you think? Hey, with that little bit of dosage, it's a dose of poison, a bone-scraping medicine. My beloved, you said, when I was young, I wasn't that powerful, right? These past few years have been strange. I didn't think there was a problem at first, but today I went to the imperial prison to pick up my cousin. My cousin said that this was not right and asked me if I took the wrong medicine. I took it to heart. So, I secretly went outside this afternoon and found four doctors, and they all prescribed the same medicine I gave you on the first list!

Those doctors said that if the dosage of those medicines is increased, it will become a bone scraping medicine! Hey, my beloved concubine, you misunderstood me! Look at my physique, I am partying every night, isn't it going to kill me? "Zhu Gaochi sat there and sighed.

When Zhang heard Zhu Gaochi say this, her eyes widened, tears started to flow, and she sobbed, "Who did it?"

"Hey!" Zhu Gaochi waved his hands, and when he looked up, he found that Zhang was in tears. He immediately stood up, took a handkerchief and wiped Zhang's tears, saying: "Who else could it be? The second brother planned, and the third brother executed! Fortunately, I went to pick up Shakyabao today, otherwise, I don't know how long I would have to take this medicine!"

"They are so cruel. You are their elder brother, their real brother!" Zhang asked while gritting her teeth.

"Alas, for that position, fathers and sons kill each other, what are brothers?" Zhu Gaochi waved his hands and said with a wry smile!

"I'm going to tell my father about this. We won't be crown princes anymore. We'll go back to our hometown in Fengyang to farm!" Zhang said unconvinced.

"Hey, come back!" Zhu Gaochi grabbed Zhang.

(End of this chapter)