The emperor asked Master Naluo to be sent down. After lunch, all the ministers also left. Only the crown prince and Zhou Man and Xiao Yuanzheng were left behind.
However, only Zhou Man accompanied the emperor into the inner room, while the crown prince and Xiao Yuanzheng were left outside the emperor's bedroom.
The emperor lifted his robe and sat on the couch with a big horse and golden knife, looked at Zhou Man, "Speak."
Zhou Man bowed deeply to the emperor, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, you are poisoned."
Gu Zhong, who was standing aside holding the medicine box, shook his hands slightly, and looked at Zhou Man in shock.
The emperor was still calm and quiet, and asked, "What poison?"
"Erysipelas," Zhou Man said with a serious face, "in other words, the purpose of this elixir is not for longevity, but for the erysipelas contained in it."
The emperor frowned, and looked at Zhou Man suspiciously, "Couldn't it be because you, like all the ministers, objected to me eating immortality pills, and deliberately lied to me?"
Zhou Man's eyes widened, "Your Majesty, am I that kind of person?"
She said: "This is medicine and pharmacy, which is my major. How could I use it to deceive people?"
Zhou Man paused and said: "And, as you said, you never thought that the Elixir of Immortality can make people live forever. You just want to prolong your life and live for decades."
"Actually, I have the same idea as you," Zhou Man said. "Maybe there is no medicine in this world that can make people live forever, but there must be something that can make people live longer, decades or even hundreds of years longer."
As soon as the emperor heard this, he immediately sat aside, let out the other side of the couch, and waved to her, "Come here, and talk to me carefully."
Zhou Man stepped forward immediately, and the monarch and his subjects sat cross-legged facing each other. Gu Zhong struggled for a while, and moved up the small table between the two of them, and then went to make tea for them and prepare snacks.
When Gu Zhong went out, he heard the emperor ask with interest: "How old do you think it is normal for a person to live?"
Gu Zhong turned and closed the door, and said to the Crown Prince and Xiao Yuanzheng who were waiting outside: "Your Highness, Xiao Yuanzheng, Your Majesty and Mr. Zhou are talking, I'm afraid we won't be able to summon you for a while, Your Highness, see if you want to sit in the side hall first to rest?"
The prince thought for a moment, nodded, turned and went to the side hall.
Xiao Yuan is hurriedly following.
The two guessed that the emperor was asking about his physical condition when he saw Zhou Man alone, and they felt that a short period of time, or a long period of two quarters of an hour would be enough, but they sat in the side hall and drank a pot of tea, watching the sun slow down. Slowly to the west, Zhou Man still didn't come out.
Prince: ...
If he didn't know how his father and Zhou Man were, he would almost have misunderstood what they were doing in there.
However, Gu Zhong stayed inside and didn't come out, but a lot of tea was brought in, and he didn't know what the two of them were talking about.
The two were talking about longevity. Of course, Zhou Man was talking and the emperor was listening.
Zhou Man believes that since the ancients believed that a hundred years is a person's life, the normal life span of a person should be a hundred years.
The emperor sighed thoughtfully: "One hundred years old, but it is time for a person to know his destiny when he reaches fifty, let alone sixty or seventy. There are not many old people in Dajin who can live so long."
Zhou Man nodded and said: "This is because people's existence in the world will affect their bodies. People's diet, daily life, and illnesses and injuries suffered during the growth of their bodies will all have an impact on their lifespan..."
Zhou Man has done research, because she was talking to the emperor, so her language is more refined and easy to understand, and she loves to give examples. In such a short time, the old wound on the emperor's body was pulled out as example three I'm back.
Zhou Man picked up the teacup and took another sip of tea, and said to the emperor, "It's just that there are too many animals and plants in this world, and things that can be used as medicine include stones and bones. It may take a few days to research the medicine that prolongs life." Hundreds of years, thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years."
Emperor: "... It's been too long, I don't have such a big heart, you can achieve it in a short time."
"That is to improve everyone's living standards, eat well, drink well, wear well, don't go hungry, don't get cold, and life expectancy will increase a lot. The most simple and effective way is to face it directly."
Yes, they have already talked about the life expectancy increase of the entire Dajin from the individual.
At this time, the emperor had a more thorough understanding of "Longevity", and knew that it would be impossible to achieve it in the short term.
Gu Zhong looked at the time and felt that it would be dark if the two continued to talk, so he hurriedly reminded: "Your Majesty, the crown prince and Xiao Yuan are still waiting outside."
Only then did the emperor think about the business, and asked Zhou Man: "You said that I had erysipelas, but what basis do you have?"
He said: "In the past few months, Xiao Yuanzheng has been keeping my pulse. Apart from occasionally saying that the pulse is a little dry, there is no problem. I also feel that my spirit is much better than before."
Zhou Man said: "I didn't hear it at first, but when I was about to withdraw my hand, I suddenly noticed that the pulse was a bit stagnant, and then I listened carefully. After that, the pulse was normal, but after about eighty breaths, it would stagnate again. …”
"I've calculated that the interval is between eighty breaths and eighty-five breaths. It's a very short, very short freeze. It's just a moment. Your Majesty won't feel too deep, and it's hard for the imperial physician to detect it." Seeing the emperor's confused face, Zhou Man knew that he didn't know what this regular moment of stagnation represented, so he looked around and saw a piece of jade on a shelf not far away, with a red strip tied on it. He pointed to the long rope and said, "Bring it here."
Gu Zhong glanced at the emperor, and went to fetch it after getting permission.
Holding the rope, Zhou Man hung Yu Jue between the two of them, "Your Majesty, do you know that the heart pumps blood to every part of the body?" She clenched her fist in her right hand, and let the emperor open and close. look.
The emperor actually understood and nodded, "And then?"
"Then..." Zhou Man scratched his head and moved the jade, "Then look at this jade, it is just like the heart, it swings like this, sometimes it is fast and sometimes it is slow, but no matter Fast or slow, it’s all within a certain range, that’s normal.”
"However, suddenly it stopped for a while, then continued to swing normally, and after a certain period of time, it paused again." Zhou Man pinched Yu Jue and let go to let it continue to swing, "This kind of pause is abnormal, it is not within the normal range Within a short period of time, nothing can be seen, but after a long time, there will be big problems."
"This is poisoning?" The emperor understood, but frowned: "Can't it be illness?"
Zhou Man moved back and stared at the emperor's lips carefully, "It's too difficult to explain clearly, I can only say that based on my experience, after ruling out all possibilities, poisoning is most likely."
"But if you want me to show evidence, it's your lips," Zhou Man said, "I think your lips are darker than before."
The emperor turned to look at Gu Zhong.