Gu Zhong understood, and stepped forward to stare at the emperor's lips. After a long while, he patted his face lightly, and said angrily, "Your Majesty, I really can't see it."
He trotted to get the bronze mirror, and held it up for the emperor to see for himself.
The emperor also stared at his lips for a long time, but he also didn't see the difference, mainly because he usually didn't pay attention to his lips.
He looked at Zhou Man faintly.
Zhou Man nodded affirmatively and said: "It's really dark, I won't lie to you, if you don't believe me, call Xiao Yuanzheng in and ask."
The emperor looked at Gu Zhong.
Gu Zhong brought Xiao Yuanzheng in.
After careful observation, Xiao Yuan said: "The color is darker than before."
The emperor frowned, "Didn't Xiao Yuan find out before?"
Xiao Yuanzheng didn't know how to answer for a while.
Zhou Man said: "Your Majesty, the dark color of lips is not necessarily due to poisoning. As people get older, their liver yang will also become darker in color."
Emperor: "... Didn't you say that I am poisoned like this?"
"No, I mean, if you really want to see it from your appearance, then look at your lips. Your pulse condition is impetuous, and there is suspicion of hyperactivity of liver yang, so Xiao Yuanzheng can't judge whether it is normal, and I It can be judged that you have suffered from erysipelas, relying on pulse and experience, not really judging from the color of your lips."
The emperor said bluntly, "If you want me to believe your judgment, you must show some evidence, right?"
Zhou Man pointed to the medicine box on the side and said, "The best way, of course, is for Your Majesty to give me the pill to study. If I can research the contents of the pill, I will know whether it is poisonous or not."
"It's been too long, and I want to see it from my own body." The emperor stared at Zhou Man and said, "I always think you have a way."
Zhou Man clapped his hands excitedly, and said to the emperor, "It really is!"
"Your Majesty, in the past two years, I have studied and researched a new set of acupuncture methods to detoxify and force poison. This acupuncture method has no other shortcomings, but one." Zhou Man looked at the emperor cautiously and said, "It just hurts so much that it is almost as painful as a woman's. It's like the pain of childbirth, so far, only Mr. Tang has been lucky enough to have this needle, do you... want to try it?"
Xiao Yuanzheng frowned, and stopped immediately, "No, if the pain of acupuncture is like a woman's childbirth, the patient may not be able to control himself, and the needle will shift or resist the needle, which may be dangerous."
Zhou Man nodded: "That's right, so you can try Mafeisan, first faint the person and then perform the needle."
"But with such pain, I'm afraid that the anesthetic will lose its effect soon. Moreover, too much pain will also cause great damage to the heart and lungs." Xiao Yuanzheng said: "According to the pulse condition that you have diagnosed, Mr. Zhou, His Majesty's heart pulse has obviously a problem, and there is no longer a problem. Tolerated such a big stimulus."
The emperor was eager to try, "I really want to try."
Zhou Man also wanted the emperor to try it, and said: "Maybe I can reduce the number of injections to ease the pain. At that time, Master Tang used a full set of acupuncture methods. It was because his poison was so fierce that he died immediately if he didn't force it out. Your Majesty was shot." It is a chronic poison, but it can be removed slowly."
The emperor nodded repeatedly, rolled up his sleeves and said, "Come on."
Zhou Man: "... have to change clothes."
Gu Zhong hurriedly wanted to help the emperor take off his clothes, but Xiao Yuanzheng suddenly said: "Master Zhou, your medicine box is not in the palace, is it?"
"Uh," Zhou Man looked at the emperor, "I'm really not here, but I carry a needle bag with me."
Xiao Yuanzheng: ...
The emperor immediately said, "Just use the needle you brought."
The emperor took off his shirt, because Zhou Man said it would be very painful, so the emperor lay down on the couch.
Zhou Man had already rehearsed in his mind, determined the needles and acupuncture points to be subtracted, took out the needle bag, twisted the needles, and then found the acupuncture points on the emperor.
At first, the emperor didn't feel much, but when the third needle was inserted, he felt pain...
Zhou Man injected the seventh needle, and the emperor's face was already sweating, his body was shaking slightly, and his face was also a little pale, but he couldn't help it and didn't cry out.
Zhou Man raised his hand, "Look, Your Majesty."
The emperor reluctantly turned his head to look at her, only to see that she pricked his finger with a needle and squeezed out two drops of black blood.
The emperor was taken aback, and looked at the two drops of dark blood in shock.
Zhou Man pricked all five of his fingers, squeezed out a dozen drops of blood, pulled out the needles, and performed another set of acupuncture. The emperor felt much better.
After the emperor put on his coat, Zhou Man showed him the bowl containing the black blood, "Your Majesty, you can add a little water to it, find two rabbits to feed, and see how they react."
The emperor looked at the blood in the bowl silently for a while, "No need, I believe you."
Zhou Man raised his head and glanced at him, "Then His Majesty doesn't want this poisonous blood? Then can I take it back?"
The emperor asked angrily, "What did you take back?"
"Test it. I originally thought that if His Majesty uses it, then His Majesty will come and test it. Since His Majesty does not use it, then send it back to me for testing."
The emperor's things, especially blood and hair, cannot be collected casually, let alone taken out of the palace, so Zhou Man had to report to the emperor.
The emperor paused and said: "Then stay, Gu Zhong—"
"The servant is here," Gu Zhong bent forward and took the bowl immediately, "The servant will go down and make arrangements."
The emperor nodded sullenly, and said: "This matter must not be leaked."
"yes."
The emperor waved at him, and when he went down too, there were only three monarchs and ministers left in the room.
Only then did the emperor ask Zhou Man, "Are I deeply poisoned?"
Zhou Man frowned and said, "At first, I couldn't make a diagnosis, but judging from the effect of the acupuncture just now, the blood in Your Majesty's body is much deeper than I expected."
Seeing that she stopped talking, the emperor asked, "What else?"
Zhou Man didn't know what to say for a while, so he couldn't help looking at Xiao Yuanzheng.
Just as Xiao Yuan received her gaze, he snorted coldly in his heart, now he knew that he was discussing with him, why did he go before
And the two of them have been locked in the room for at least two hours, who knows what they said
Concealing it at this moment may make the emperor realize that it is a crime of deceiving the emperor, so it is better to tell the truth.
Zhou Man received it, and then sighed and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, although I haven't had time to study this elixir, I know how poisonous it is from the poison you forced out, so if you continue to take it, I'm afraid In less than three months..."
"Even if it is stopped now, the erysipelas is very detrimental to the body. This is irreversible and can only be recuperated slowly."
The emperor twitched his eyebrows and asked, "Why don't you just tell me how many days I have left."
Zhou Man shook his head, "I can't figure it out, your current pulse is not showing yet, you have to check it after a while."
She whispered: "The shortest is half a year, and the longest... depends on the condition of the recuperation."
The emperor was in a complicated mood for a while, and was speechless for a long time.