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"My dear husband, my dear sister Bian is pregnant, pregnant..."
Qin Mu was reading the battle report from Guizhou in the imperial study. Yang Zhi, who seldom entered the imperial study, walked in quickly with a happy look on her face.
Qin Mu threw the battle report aside and asked cheerfully, "Are you pregnant? Are you really pregnant?"
"My dear husband, look at you. How can I deceive you? My dear husband, I am not wrong. Sister Bian is a good childbearer."
When Yang Zhi said this, she revealed a smug girlish demeanor, which was very different from her usual dignified and elegant demeanor, and made Qin Mu think of that morning in the back court of Ganzhou Prefecture.
Qin Mu stepped forward, hugged her shoulders and said with a smile: "Yes, the queen's words are golden, so they can't be wrong." Qin Mu said and kissed her smooth forehead;
Yang Zhi opened her arms and hugged his waist, gently leaning her head into his arms. She had been under a lot of pressure in the past two years, and today she could finally relax.
In the past, Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty favored Empress Zhang, which led to a lack of offspring, and Empress Zhang was criticized by the ministers. Since the founding of the Qin Dynasty, Yang Zhi has also been criticized in this regard, because Qin Mu has only one child so far, and some ministers inevitably think that it is because she favors the harem.
Last year, the ministers wrote a petition together, asking the King of Qin to take nine concubines to make the royal family prosperous. However, King Qin only took three. The ministers were quite dissatisfied with this and could not help gossiping about her as the queen.
Now that Lady Bian has lived up to her expectations and is finally pregnant, Yang Zhi can breathe a sigh of relief, "Husband, go and see Sister Bian."
"No hurry." Qin Mu hugged her tighter and said softly, "My dear, I'm sorry for making you feel wronged. Don't take those rumors to heart. Now that Yujing is pregnant, there will be fewer rumors."
"No, as long as my husband doesn't blame me, I won't take anything others say to heart. My husband, don't say anything yet. Go and see Sister Bian."
"Come on, let's go together." Qin Mu took her hand and walked out of the imperial study together, following the corridor under the eaves towards the inner courtyard.
The maids in the courtyard saw the two of them and bowed to congratulate them. Qin Mu was in a good mood. Whenever a maid congratulated him, he would say with a smile, "There is a reward!", which made the maids from other places come over one after another, bowing and congratulating him with smiles on their faces.
"There are rewards, everyone will get a reward!"
Qin Mu gave the order generously, rewarding each maid with two taels of silver. In fact, there were only forty or fifty maids in the whole palace backyard. The total cost was only about one hundred taels, but it made everyone even happier, and the backyard was filled with laughter.
Bian Yujing's boudoir consisted of two rooms, one bright and one dark. In the outer room, a doctor in his sixties was sitting at the table writing prescriptions. Next to him stood a woman in her twenties, with a delicate face and a little baby fat, which made her look very friendly.
When Qin Mu and Yang Zhi walked in and saw the old man and the young, they couldn't help but be a little surprised.
The old man and the young man quickly stood up and bowed. "I am Li Nong, paying my respects to the King of Qin and the Queen."
Qin Mu stepped forward to support the old doctor and said, "Old man, there is no need to be polite. Get up, get up."
"Thank you, King Qin and Queen."
"How is your health, Madam?"
"Congratulations, King Qin. Your Majesty's pulse is stable. You only need to take some medicine to stabilize the fetus and regulate the qi."
"Well, thank you, old doctor."
Qin Mu glanced knowingly at the girl behind the old man. It wasn't that he was attracted by her beauty. Although the girl's appearance could be considered pretty, it was not to the point of stunning.
As far as Qin Mu knew, it was normal for a reputable old doctor to bring a disciple with him when he went out to see patients, but it was unusual for him to bring a woman with him.
When the old doctor saw Qin Mu looking at the girl, he quickly said, "This is my granddaughter. I don't know the etiquette. I hope the King of Qin will forgive me."
Qin Mu said in a gentle voice: "The old doctor has misunderstood. I am just curious for a moment. Could it be that the old doctor's granddaughter has inherited everything you have learned?"
Li Nong bowed again and replied, "I'm sorry to make you laugh, King Qin. My granddaughter has been exposed to the world since she was a child and can only recognize a few herbs."
Qin Mu nodded and said, "Then I'll have to trouble the old doctor to prescribe some medicine." After saying that, he turned and went into the inner room. The two maids beside the bed quickly bowed and left.
On the bed, Bian Yujing's pretty face was slightly red, with tears in her bright eyes. When she saw Qin Mu, she hurriedly got up.
Qin Mu stepped forward and held her shoulders, saying with a smile: "No need to stand up, you are older than me now, haha... Yu'er, well done, eh, why are you crying, is someone bullying you?"
"King Qin, I am happy."
"Haha, laugh out loud if you're happy."
"But I don't know why, I just can't laugh. Instead, I want to cry." Bian Yujing's smile with tears in her eyes was like a pear blossom in the rain in spring.
Qin Mu leaned down, pecked him lightly on the lips, and soothed him: "Yu'er, don't think too much, take good care of yourself. The doctor said your pulse is stable and everything is fine. Hehe... I heard that Yu'er is pregnant, and I am happy!"
Bian Yujing pursed her lips and said hesitantly, "King Qin... I invited a doctor from outside. King Qin will not be angry with me, right? King Qin, Doctor Li is a famous doctor in Jinling. Sister Xiangjun used to go to Ren'antang for treatment..."
From Bian Yujing's intermittent words, Qin Mu finally resolved the doubts in his heart.
When he first entered the room, he was surprised that there was no imperial physician from the Imperial Medical Bureau present.
Due to his attention, the Imperial Medical Service recruited a large number of famous doctors such as Wu Youxing, and achieved remarkable results in medical research, especially in surgery. After Wu Youxing's repeated anatomical analyses, great breakthroughs were made.
The problem was that all the doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau were men. When Bian Yujing saw that her menstruation had not come, she thought she had a gynecological disease and out of shyness, she did not want to ask the imperial doctor for help.
In the past, Li Xiangjun always asked Doctor Li from Ren'antang for treatment. In addition to Doctor Li's superb medical skills, more importantly, he had a granddaughter named Li Zixuan. Although young, she inherited the family knowledge. It would be more convenient to have Li Zixuan diagnose the woman's illness, so Li Xiangjun sent someone to Ren'antang to invite him.
"It's okay. Now that we've diagnosed that Yu'er is pregnant, this is a good thing. Don't worry about it."
Qin Mu comforted her softly. Bian Yujing's words touched him deeply.
It is true that the medical skills of imperial physicians such as Wu Youxing were not bad, but there were differences between men and women. Not to mention in this era of strict ethics and morals, even in later generations, there were still many women who were embarrassed to see a male doctor for gynecological diseases.
Qin Mu remembered hearing this: when the imperial physician was diagnosing the empress or imperial concubine in the harem, he could not touch the wrist. He could only feel the pulse by tying a thread around the wrist, which was euphemistically called "feeling the pulse with a hanging thread."
Such a thing as "diagnosing pulse with hanging thread" may really exist. Legend has it that Sun Simiao once used this method to diagnose Empress Changsun.
What a joke! If the disease could be diagnosed in this way, the sun would have risen by then.
Regardless of whether it was true that Sun Simiao used the "hanging thread pulse diagnosis" method to treat Empress Changsun or it was just a rumor, Qin Mu absolutely did not believe that the disease could be diagnosed in this way.
After taking the pulse and diagnosing the disease, the doctors would prescribe some irrelevant prescriptions based on some symptoms and conjectures. This means that many women who are sick can only wait to die.
No, this situation must change. Qin Mu doesn't want to regret it one day.
After he asked Bian Yujing to have a good rest, he walked out of the outer room and saw Yang Zhi holding a prescription and asking the maids to go to the Imperial Hospital to get medicine.
Qin Mu asked someone to serve tea and started chatting with the old doctor named Li Nong. From time to time, he would bring the topic to the old doctor's granddaughter, which made the old doctor quite uneasy. The girl even lowered her head with a blushing face.
Seeing this, Qin Mu realized that he had been a little presumptuous, so he asked someone to bring the medical fee, gave them some reward money, and sent the grandfather and grandson out of the house.
After the grandparents left the house, Yang Zhi might have misunderstood. She asked with a smile, "Husband?"
"ah?"
"My husband is still pretending. This girl from the Li family is really good..."
"Hahaha... Madam, you are not going to prepare a sedan chair to carry her into the mansion, are you?"
"My dear, I have asked my sister Xiangjun. This girl's maiden name is Zixuan. She is an excellent doctor. Her name is good. Zixuan can clear away dampness and heat, cool the blood and detoxify. It also means good luck. I have heard from the old people that if a woman wears daylily flowers when she is pregnant, she will give birth to a boy. I have seen this Li Zixuan. Her figure is also good for childbearing..."
"Puff!" Qin Mu burst into laughter, turned around and held Yang Zhi's face, saying with a smile: "Madam, you...you..."
"Husband, what's wrong? Did I say something wrong?" Yang Zhi asked innocently.
"That's right, that's right, my lady, quickly ask someone to get a ruler to measure and see if Li Zixuan's measurements are... the same as Yu'er's... Hahaha..."
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ps: The closer we get to the end of the month, the stronger the sense of urgency becomes. With earnest heart, I once again ask my brothers for monthly tickets. Brothers, please hold on and keep up. Don't let this little hope be shattered, please!
.(To be continued..)
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