Clear and Muddy Loss of Love

unexpected crisis

Nangong Jingnv was silent for a while, and asked, "You want me to use Eldest Sister and Fu'er as hostages?"

Qi Yan: "I can't say that completely. After all, Youzhou is far away. To put it bluntly, given His Majesty's current physical condition, His Highness Qionghua, as the eldest daughter, should return to Beijing to see her. For His Highness, this is also a call for His Highness Qionghua. The best time to return to Beijing. Only at this time, the return of His Highness Qionghua and his eldest son to Beijing will not arouse the suspicion of Youzhou Mansion and His Royal Highness Fifth. I have heard that Youzhou Mansion has a staff of 10 people, but last time From a rough estimate of the number of camps, there must be more than [-] defenders in Youzhou. As a woman, if your Highness wants to go to the end, conventional means will not work, and you must have strong support. Military power is naturally the most powerful, as far as this It is very difficult for His Royal Highness to control the military talisman in a short period of time, so the only place he can count on is the Youzhou Mansion. If His Highness Qionghua and the eldest son of the Zhenbei General's Mansion can stand on His Highness's side, Lord Shangguan will definitely support His Highness with all his strength. "

Nangong Jingnv was silent again, she knew that Qi Yan was doing it for her own benefit, and also knew that Qi Yan's strategy was the most effective and had to be done, but she still asked hesitantly: "Does it have to be like this?"

Qi Yan sighed, and looked straight into Nangong Jingnu's eyes: "Didn't your Highness just say that you listen to your ministers?"

Nangong Jingnu: "Okay, I will make an order to invite eldest sister back to Beijing tomorrow."

Qi Yan: "How does Your Highness plan to deal with this minister?"

Nangong Jingnv thought for a while, and replied, "Three years' salary and three months' confinement?"

Qi Yan shook his head: "This punishment is really too light. Who in the world doesn't know that the son-in-law of Princess Zhenzhen's mansion doesn't need to live on salary at all? Such a treatment may not be convincing."

Nangong Jingnu: "Then what do you want me to do?"

Qi Yan: "Dismissed from office and thrown into a jail, he will be convicted after three rounds of trials. As for General Zhenbei, he should be punished with fifty military sticks, and be imprisoned for three months."

Nangong Jingnu: "No, how can your body bear it?"

Qi Yan: "Then lock me up in the sky prison in Dali Temple. I heard that it is a place where dignitaries are detained. The environment should be better than the sky prison."

Nangong Jingnu: "However, there are three trials, what if they want to punish you?"

Qi Yan: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I have my own discretion."

Nangong Jingnu: "What is it? Can't you tell me? Let me know."

Qi Yan showed tiredness: "Your Highness will know when the time comes, I'm a little tired today..."

Nangong Jingnv stopped asking any more questions, got up and poured a glass of water for Qi Yan to watch her drink, then pulled the quilt for her, and came out of the bedroom only after Qi Yan fell asleep, and asked Qiu Ju to put the burnt silver charcoal in the In the bronze tripod of the sleeping hall.

Although it is only autumn, Qi Yan's hands are very cold.

Today Qi Yan gave Nangong Jingnv a lot of ideas, and some political views could even run through Nangong Jingnv's life in power, but she had no time to digest and organize these, so she passed the sedan chair and went straight to the imperial hospital.

Nangong Jingnu had to ask how those imperial doctors showed Qi Yan, and why Qi Yan was so depressed.

In fact, a total of four imperial doctors have seen Qi Yan, one of them is the chief medical officer Ding You, who was found by Qi Yan himself, and has been in charge of Qi Yan's imperial physician.

The other three were from Nangong Jingnv, the director of the imperial hospital and two vice presidents.

Her Highness Zhen Zhen's Feng drove to the imperial hospital, nearly a hundred people from the dean to the medicine boy came out and knelt in the courtyard.

In the yard of the Imperial Hospital there are more than a dozen large tanks, covered with several layers of fine gauze, which are used to collect rootless water and use it as medicine. The air is filled with the unique aroma of traditional Chinese medicine. The Imperial Hospital is very large.A semi-open structure, the back hall is connected to a large imperial medicine garden.

Everyone: "See Your Highness Zhen Zhen."

Nangong Jingnu: "Let's all get up, let's break up, and go to our own business."

The old man headed by him was the director of the Royal Hospital. He got up from the ground and bent over to Nangong Jingnv: "If you have any orders from His Highness, just send someone to pass them on. Why do you need to come here in person?"

Nangong Jingnu: "Find a clean room, and come here with the two vice presidents."

Dean Wang: "Yes."

Nangong Jingnv sat at the head and the three imperial physicians knelt under the hall. Although the imperial hospital was a very important part of the inner court, since most of the imperial physicians came from the private sector and could be hereditary, the responsibility was low.

The dean of the imperial hospital is only from the seventh rank, and the two vice presidents are from the eighth rank. Most of the remaining imperial doctors are from the eighth rank to the ninth rank. Their grades are high, with such a gap, even if Nangong Jingnu invites them to sit, they may not dare.

Moreover, Nangong Jingnv came here with anger today, and it is even more impossible to have a good face.

Nangong Jingnv has a noble status, but she has never treated her servants harshly, but this matter involves her heart-Qi Yan.

That's another matter.

Nangong Jingnv glanced at the three people in the hall, and said calmly: "By the way, go and call the exclusive imperial doctor of my consort."

Dean Wang kowtowed before replying: "His Royal Highness, Ding You, the exclusive medical officer of the son-in-law, the old mother in the country passed away, and she took two months of funeral leave a few days ago. During this period, the exclusive medical officer of the son-in-law Doctors are served by lower officials."

Nangong Jingnu: "Then go and get the pulse cases of the son-in-law over the years."

Dean Wang: "Yes."

The case of the royal family is top secret and must be sealed in the attic. The key is kept by Dean Wang himself. After half an hour, Dean Wang will come back.

Dean Wang held Qi Yan's pulse case in both hands and handed it to Nangong Jingnv, pleading guilty: "Because of the numerous pulse cases, I have been delayed for some time due to my old eyesight, please forgive me, Your Highness."

Nangong Jingnv nodded and opened the pulse case.

The knees of the other two imperial doctors were already numb, and beads of sweat dripped down their faces.

Nangong Jingnv opened the pulse case and flipped through the pages one by one, and said, "Get up and wait, I will talk about it after reading it."

The three imperial doctors got up from the ground and stood aside as if they had been pardoned.

In Nangong Jingnv's impression, Qi Yan's pulse case should have started at the end of the eighth year of Jingjia. Qualified to accept the diagnosis and treatment of the imperial physician.

Turning over a few pages of Nangong Jingnu's movements, it turned out that Qi Yan had already started to have pulses in the days before Qi Yan was hand-picked as a son-in-law.

The first pulse case in the dossier was impressively written: On July [-], the eighth year of Jingjia, Ding You was ordered to visit the doctor.

Please Jinke Tanhualang, Princess Zhenzhen's prospective son-in-law, Ping An pulse.

Cut, the pulse condition is floating and weak.

Looking, pale, eyes dull, red.

Smell, heavy breathing, coughing.

Question: Limb weakness, nightmare night sweats, loss of appetite and diarrhea.

Diagnosis: "overworked, acclimatized."

At the bottom is Ding You's prescription for Qi Yan, but Nangong Jingnv can't understand it.

The imperial doctor in the palace has to ask for the Ping An pulse. With Qi Yan's rank, you don't need to come every day, just once every ten or fifteen days. If there is nothing wrong, the imperial doctor will write on the corresponding date: Ping An [-] Character.

So Nangong Jingnu turned the pages quickly, if there were suddenly more words on the pulse table, it was probably because Qi Yan was ill.

After turning over a few pages, there were more words on it, it was after they got married, looking at the date and then corresponding to the symptoms on the pulse case, Nangong Jingnv recalled.

It should be their first palace banquet after they got married, Qi Yan was reprimanded by herself, "Don't come with me", and stood against the cold wind on the secluded palace road for a whole day, and then developed a fever that night.

Suddenly remembering this little incident many years ago, Nangong Jingnv had mixed feelings.

Looking back after time has passed: Nangong Jingnv realized how arrogant she was back then, and how Qi Yan was accommodating in every possible way...

Soon Nangong Jingnv discovered that Qi Yan's body was really not as healthy as she imagined, almost every other month, Qi Yan's body would have some minor problems, if she didn't read the pulse case, she might never know.

There was a three-year vacancy in the middle, which was the day when Qi Yan was "assigned" to Jinzhou by himself.It seems that Qi Yan's minor ailments have never stopped since she came back, and Ding You has been prescribing Qi Yan's recuperation prescriptions.

Nangong Jingnv felt very sad, she had neglected it for so many years, she looked back and thought: Qi Yan would indeed sigh and cough unconsciously after returning from Jinzhou.

She didn't take it seriously, it turned out that the illness had already been found, no wonder Qi Yan was so depressed.

Nangong Jingnv didn't know what Qi Yan had done during the three years in Jinzhou, but she could guess something from the current situation in Jinzhou.

Jinzhou has been empty since the epidemic in the first year of Jingjia, and all businesses have withered.Why did Qi Yan turn the situation around in three years after taking office?

If it weren't for working day and night, how could it be possible to accomplish in just three years what others could not achieve in ten years?

But these things... Qi Yan never mentioned it.

Nangong Jingnv also asked about it, but Qi Yan just told her some local knowledge, customs, and people's life.

But she didn't mention the hardships she had experienced herself.

Nangong Jingnv finished reading the pulse case, but she lowered her head and pretended not to finish it. She secretly bit her lips, her eyes turned red several times.

At this moment, Nangong Jingnv can't wait to fly back to Weiming Palace immediately, and tell Qi Yan: I won't let him suffer in this life, and she will be here from now on.

Nangong Jingnv managed to stabilize her emotions, put the pulse case aside, and asked: "A few days ago, the Japanese Palace asked the three of you to show it to your son-in-law, did you make a clear diagnosis? Are there any omissions?"

The three imperial doctors looked at each other, and finally Dean Wang replied: "Your Highness, I dare not miss it."

Nangong Jingnv: "My son-in-law's ancestral home is Jinzhou, and he experienced the epidemic in the first year. He told me that he was also infected with the epidemic back then. Fortunately, he was rescued by an expert and survived. Eye disease. I just read the pulse case and found that most of the illnesses of the son-in-law these years are caused by the lungs. Is it the root cause of the epidemic?"

Hearing what Nangong Jingnu said, the three imperial doctors were a little puzzled, and Dean Wang's performance was the most obvious.

Nangong Jingnv's phoenix eyes narrowed: "But it's okay to say."

Dean Wang knelt down on the ground again, and replied: "Back, back to Your Highness, there is indeed serious illness in the son-in-law's body, but..."

Nangong Jingnu: "But what?"

Dean Wang: "Most epidemics are caused by 'fire disease', but the serious illness of the son-in-law is caused by 'water disease'."

Nangong Jingnu: "I'm confused, so let's keep it simple."

Dean Wang: "Yes...the so-called 'fire syndrome' is caused by fever. People who fall into the 'fire syndrome' get sick again, and most of them belong to 'fire'. The internal symptoms are yang, and the external symptoms are red. The word 'dryness'. Although the symptoms of the son-in-law are similar after the onset, the pulse condition is caused by a word 'deficiency', which is 'water syndrome'."

Nangong Jingnu: "What's the difference between the two?"

Dean Wang: "'Fire disease' comes from the inside out, while 'water disease' is caused by external factors. The most common is drowning, where cold water seeps into the heart and lungs, causing inflammation. According to my humble opinion, my son-in-law The serious illness... No, it doesn't look like it's caused by the epidemic, but it looks like it's caused by drowning."