Chapter 230 – Dare not or Cannot

At three o’clock in the afternoon, Jinglong Emperor just off the court, did not return to the Palace of Yangxin, but near to the outer court of the South Study. The service has been waiting for a long time, after receiving the news will be served to the South Study, Linlang full of a table.

Serving Blue Xi’s legs are all hungry and soft, but Emperor Jinglong is not in a hurry to move his chopsticks. Lan Xi endured his hunger and advised, “Your Majesty, it’s been nearly four hours since the court came on at the fifth hour, have your meal while it’s hot, the dragon’s body is important.”

An imperial guard outside the temple knocked to ask for an audience with the saint. The emperor summoned him in and asked, “Where is the man?”

The guard replied: “The crowd was crowded after the meeting, I chased Lord Su across the Jinshui Bridge, and he ran towards the carriage in a puff of smoke. I was about to pass on His Majesty’s message when I was stopped by His Highness the Yu King’s guards, who made a mess of things. By the time I got rid of them, Lord Su’s carriage had already sailed out of sight.”

The emperor asked again, “Where is King Yu?”

The guards replied, “As I watched from afar, His Highness King Yu seemed to have gotten on Lord Su’s carriage as well.”

The Emperor pondered a little and waved his hand to indicate that he should retire.

Lan Xi peered at the emperor’s face and curried favor, “The emperor wants to summon Su Shaoqing, the slave girl will have someone go to the Su residence to pass on the oracle.”

The Emperor shook his head, “Send someone to the Su Mansion and summon him to the palace again, the commotion is too great.”

Lan Xi also thought about what is the relationship between the movement, the emperor summoned the courtiers, do you have to avoid anyone’s ears and eyes not? But saw Jinglong emperor got up and said, “I go out, this table meal will be given to you to share.”

Out of the palace? Lan Xi was too busy to follow. Emperor Jinglong turned his head and glanced at him, “You don’t need to follow. Have someone prepare a carriage and pick two guards who are cautious to be the drivers.”

Lan Xi had no choice but to accept the order and go down to make arrangements.

Not long after, an extraordinarily wide carriage drove out of Donghua Gate in a bone-chilling manner, heading towards the east of the city.

The streets are relatively spacious in the unseasonal time, and it is only half an hour to Huanghua Square. The emperor dressed in civilian clothes, in the carriage with tea and ate a few snacks, and lying behind the screen on the short couch for a few moments of sleep, the occipital bone within the two sides of the cramps greatly reduced.

Recently he seems to have gotten used to the occasional attack of the head disease, as long as it is not the heart piercing the bones of that kind of pain, can face without changing color, even close to the service of the Palace can not see the end of the story.

By the time he had straightened out his grooming, the carriage had stopped, and the guards moved a step ladder to place it under the door.

The door of the car opened, and the emperor had just walked down two flights of steps when he suddenly held onto the doorframe. The guards thought that the steps had not been placed smoothly, and hurriedly reached out to assist. The emperor, however, took a deep breath, drew back his hand, fished out a piece of handkerchief from his pocket, covered his mouth and nose, and said in a deep voice, “You will wait here.”

With that he turned and went back into the wagon.

The two imperial guards looked at each other. One of them sniffed the air vigorously and said suspiciously, “I don t smell any odor …… ah, is it that the stall selling stinky tofu across the street is too stinky, I will let them move a place.”

This guard went to drive away the vendors. The other guard looked towards the gate of the courtyard not far away, on the lintel of which were written the words “Su Mansion”. He knew that this was the residence of Lord Su, the right junior secretary of the Da Lisi, and he also knew that Emperor Taizu liked to visit the residences of his ministers in private, but this time, the emperor seldom did so. As for why he made an exception this time, even if he was curious, he would never ask.

The emperor closed the door of the car tightly before taking the pad down. He touched the pad, his fingertips touched some warm dampness, and he couldn’t help but frown and look grave, but his gaze looked a little blank.

The outlines of everything in front of him melted away, existing only in the form of light and shadow, light and darkness, so that his sight seemed to penetrate the earthly world and enter another world in the underworld.

The emperor closed his eyes and stood quietly for a long time. When he opened his eyes again, earthly shapes and colors emerged again from the ink and water, and he looked down at the several swooshes of crimson blood on the brocade handkerchief in his hand.

There were mirrors in the carriage, nailed to the back wall of the washbasin rack, and the Emperor walked over to them, stared carefully at himself in the mirror, and finally dipped a brocade handkerchief in water and wiped the blood from under his nose.

He folded up the brocade handkerchief and put it into his arms, turned around and walked to the window of the car, lifted the curtain and said to the guards, “Go to the Bright Time Square, Mr. Ying Xu’s medical hut.”

The Su Mansion is up ahead, passing through the gate and not entering, to divert? The two guards didn’t dare to ask more questions, jumped onto the carriage and drove the carriage to the south towards Ming Shi Fang.

When the carriage disappeared at the end of the street, from the corner where it was placed to stay, a team of Jin Yi Wei Tie Riders turned around, trailing an ordinary carriage and stopped at the entrance of Su Mansion. Su Yan was the first to jump out of the carriage and took a few hard breaths of fresh air.

He turned his head to King Yu and Shen Qi, who were flying eye blades at each other in the carriage, and said, “Go to the parlor to talk about it in detail, and bring that sword with you.”

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As the sky darkened, Chen Shiyu packed up the prescription records on the consultation table and ordered the medicine boy to go and close the door.

Today, the Medical Lodge was closed early because he had promised his inner circle that he would go to drink the full moon wine of a relative’s child. The lights in the house were blown out one by one, and Chen Shiyu was about to leave with his emergency medicine box on his back when he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

The medicine boy said in a loud voice, “The doctor has something to do, he will not see the patient tonight, please come back tomorrow.”

The knock on the door was still sounding unhurriedly but firmly.

The medicine boy was a bit angry: “I’ve said I won’t look at illnesses or injuries, why don’t you understand?”

“Alright, don’t scream, perhaps it’s a serious injury of 100,000 fire, saving people is like putting out a fire, there’s no harm in going back a little later.” Chen Shiyu patted the little medicine boy’s head and personally walked over to open the door.

The wooden door opened with a creak. Inside the room is dark, will stand outside the door of the man’s eyebrows in the shadow, only two halo yellow light vaguely illuminated his silhouette. Chen Shiyu saw that the other party stood upright, his breathing sounded even and steady, not like an injured person, so he politely said: “This guest, I have other urgent matters, the medical lodge will be closed, please come back tomorrow.”

Two lamp-carrying guards spun out from behind the man and were about to open their mouths to berate him when the man reached out and stopped them.

The man reached up to remove the hood of his cloak and called out in a low voice, “Mr. Yingxu.”

The voice is quite familiar, Chen Shiyu through the light to see the other side of the face, the hands of the medicine box thumped to the ground: “Huang ……”

The man nodded slightly, “Go inside.”

–

The main doctor did not leave, and the medicine boy could not leave either, muttering and grinding herbs in the courtyard. Two guards with swords stood guard outside the closed door, their faces serious and their eyes alert.

The clinic was brightly lit and the two men sat opposite each other.

Chen Shiyu diagnosed the pulse, and carefully examined Emperor Jinglong’s eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and at the end asked for a blood-stained handkerchief to identify the color and smell the odor.

He occasionally in and out of the palace, had heard the palace people said the emperor’s chronic headache, but the emperor did not decree to ask him to diagnose and treat, and the Imperial Hospital experts gathered, he did not take the initiative to ask for help.

This time, the emperor came to the medical hut in microdress and braved the night, which was really out of his expectation. Chen Shiyu vaguely realized that the emperor was not willing to be known by the people in the palace to know his condition, including the eunuchs.

Emperor Jinglong briefly and succinctly recounted the recent new symptoms, and asked, “Suddenly the eyes are dark and unable to see, but suddenly they are as clear as usual, what exactly is the reason?”

Chen Shiyu twirled his whiskers in contemplation for a moment and replied, “It appears to be a problem with the eyes, but the Herborist has carefully examined both of His Imperial Majesty’s eyes and did not find any symptoms of lesions. Then it is more likely that it was triggered by a head disease.”

“What about unexplained bleeding inside the nose, also triggered by head disease?”

“It’s possible. Now is the spring, rain, humid weather, basically not due to dry nasal bleeding. And from the imperial master’s pulse, the body of yin and yang peace, yang qi slightly hyper, but not to the degree of liver fire, it is unlikely to lead to nosebleeds. Herborist thought about it and had a speculation, I don’t know if I can say it or not.”

The emperor smiled, “Speak up, I am not a person who avoids illnesses. I trust Mr. Ying Xu’s character and medical skills.”

Chen Shiyu arched his hand to thank the grace, only then said: “Herborist dare to ask, the imperial master’s head disease actually deteriorated to what point?”

The emperor sighed: “I have been suffering from head disease for several years, from two or three episodes a year, to two or three episodes a month later, tonics, acupuncture, moxibustion …… the treatments proposed by the imperial physicians I have tried, and still can not be cured. Recently, not only are the attacks frequent, the pain is also more and more intense, especially after exertion or ups and downs of the mind.”

Chen Shiyu advised: “Your Majesty, the day-to-day management, overwork is detrimental to the vital energy. According to the internal medicine, the human body is concerned about the unity of man and heaven, the five movements and six qi are harmonized in order to be healthy, not a headache, foot injury.”

The Emperor asked rhetorically, “What about surgery?”

“Surgery ……” Chen Shiyu hesitated for a while, and finally decided to follow the medical profession, what must be said must be said, “Surgery sees the human being as a combination of parts such as bone, flesh, medulla oblongata, tendons, blood, etc., but these parts are not in But these parts are not isolated from each other. The most subtle and complex of these, the most difficult to detect and treat, is the brain.”

“This seems similar, I have heard Qinghe say something similar.” A strange luster swept across the emperor’s eyes, and immediately lowered his eyes and converged, “The hot compresses and fumigation method he offered are both very effective, but they can only alleviate it for a while.”

Chen Shiyu listened to the more worried: “Su adults on the medical science is quite insightful, the hands also have a miraculous prescription, if even his method does not work, then this disease is even more difficult. Allow me to be honest – the emperor’s head disease may not be the cause of the often said wind evil invasion, but separated from the skull, what is the specific situation inside is not known. Herbs in addition to internal medicine means to continue to soup medicine conditioning, supplemented by acupuncture and so on, there is no better method.”

The emperor was disappointed in his heart, his face did not show the slightest, said lightly: “In the past years, Cao Gong’s head wind is serious, the divine doctor Hua Tuo offered to open the skull with a view to curing the stubborn disease, Cao Gong suspected of plotting to murder, will be put into prison, and ultimately executed. How does Mr. Yingxu feel about this matter?”

Chen Shiyu was shocked, but he also vaguely expected that the emperor would ask this question. He deliberated for a moment and opened his mouth to say: “Hua Divine Doctor’s Qing Nang Jing was thus lost, which is a great loss for my Chinese medical art. But even if it was passed down, the therapies he dared to mention may not be practiced by others, and even if they dare to practice them, they do not have that ability to guarantee the success of the treatment.”

The Emperor eyed him, “Mr. Yingxu is known as the ‘Sacred Hand of the World’, does he not dare, or is he unable to?”

Chen Shiyu arched his hand to apologize: “grass in vain have a few points of thin name, in fact, look at the back of the Hua Divine Doctor is not as good as, do not dare, also can not.”

The Emperor was silent for a long time, his face as dense as a cloudy sky.

Just when Chen Shiyu was apprehensive and thought that the dragon’s face would be angry, the emperor suddenly got up and looked calm: “Since Mr. Yingxu said so, I am not in a position to force the issue, this matter will end here, just as if I have never been here.”

Seeing the emperor is about to walk out of the clinic, Chen Shiyu finally couldn’t help but open his mouth, “Your Majesty, do not ask Su adults to come over, grass people and he discussed with the discussion, see if we can not find another way?”

“No need.” The emperor paused in his footsteps and turned his head slightly, his tone was calm but irresistible, “I hope that Mr. Ying Xu will keep this matter a secret for me, and not to mention a single word in front of Su Yan, or else I will have to punish you.”

Chen Shiyu knew the weight contained in these light words and immediately bowed to the ground and said, “Whether it is out of scrupulous adherence to medical ethics, or in compliance with the holy decree, the grass people will never disclose the relevant information about the person who seeks medical treatment, but also please rest assured that the emperor.”

The Emperor nodded and left a sentence before he left, “If you have any new ideas, come back to me again.”

Chen Shiyu respectfully escorted the emperor out the door, until the other side of the carriage hidden in the night, before raising his sleeve to wipe the fine sweat on his forehead, and said guiltily: “In my life, the only thing I hate is that I have no wonderful hands, and I can’t heal all the people in the world.”

The medicine boy listened behind him and said unconvincingly, “Mr. Benyi of Surgery, written by Mr. Benyi, has been quoted as a classic by surgeons all over the world. If Mr. Benyi’s hands are not considered to be wonderful, is there any other wonderful hands in the whole world?”

Chen Shiyu shook his head repeatedly, “The medical path is like the sea, I am but a drop in the ocean.”

Emperor Jinglong’s disease, he really wants to study, try to find a new treatment, but also have a lot of scruples, not good to take charge. Originally thought to discuss with Lord Su, may be able to have an epiphany, but the emperor and strict orders not to disclose this matter, he also had to keep quiet.

The medicine boy urged: “Mr. is still not fast home, madam waiting for anxious, and want to punish you. Last time madam let Mr. home on the way to buy vegetables, the result is that Mr. forgot all, ran to the righteous village to dissect the owner’s corpse, with a stench back, how madam angry Mr. you forget?”

Chen Shiyu hit a jolt, suddenly a flash of light, remembered the righteous village yesterday stopped a corpse, said to be a serious head disease, epilepsy and death. Why not take this opportunity to cut open the skull of the deceased, to see what is going on in the brain foci?

Most of the surgeries he moved on weekdays were between flesh and bone, and it was the first time he opened a skull. However, his curiosity and sincerity in the medical arts drove him, and he couldn’t wait to close the door behind him and hurriedly boarded the carriage with the medicine chest on his back.

The medicine boy called from behind, “Sir, the direction is wrong! Home is this way!”

Chen Shiyu said without looking back, “You go for me to apologize to madam, and say that my old husband has urgent matters to attend to, so let my son accompany her to the full moon wine!”