The two of them were led by a few serious-looking servants, and walked all the way through the back garden to the spacious palace garden ahead. The little eunuch who was following Lian Zhi looked sullen and depressed. , It is estimated that he has already received a penalty.
Yu Jinnian still wanted to say something to him, but the other party hurriedly avoided and walked to the front.
Ji Hong leaned over, lowered his head and said softly: "Don't be nervous, His Majesty summoned you, just to ask a few words."
"..." How not to be nervous
Quickly walking out of the garden, Ji Hong tilted his head slightly, and suddenly slowed down. He took off his outer shirt and put it on the young man's shoulders: "It's both ominous and indecent to see you with blood on the front of your lapel."
Yu Jinnian saw that his clothes were complicated, even if he lacked an outer shirt, there was nothing wrong with it, so he honestly stretched out his sleeves, asked Ji Hong to help him fold the cuffs a few times, and tied a few extra inches around his waist with the buckle He covered up the stained blood on the skirt of his clothes tightly, and then continued to move forward.
After passing a small hall, he saw Lian Zhi from a distance in front of the door. Yu Jinnian had sharp eyes and saw that one of his hands was slightly bent in front of him, and the exposed half of his wrist was already wrapped in white gauze. Seeing the two of them, Lian Zhi bowed to salute, and reported to the inside of the hall, after a while, a young eunuch opened the door of the hall and invited them in.
The emperor was younger than Yu Jinnian imagined, but he was also full of majesty. He was leaning on an arhat couch and reading the memorial. Beside him stood a rather old eunuch. Simple. He just took a quick glance when he entered the door, and Yu Jinnian didn't dare to look any further, and then Ji Hong half-covered him behind him.
On the other hand, the concubine who was sitting on the side was caressing her enlarged belly, she was surprised when she saw him come in, and then she suppressed the surprise, smiling kindly, but she kept looking at him vaguely. Look around.
Ji Hong is first a close minister of the emperor, and second is the younger brother of the imperial concubine. In order to show his intimacy, according to the usual emperor, he is exempted from the great ceremony of bowing down. However, when he came to the front, thinking that the young man beside him had never knelt before anyone, let alone the royal family with great etiquette, he took him to kneel down together, and fell on the ground in an orderly manner, worshiping the emperor and the concubine until the emperor The memorial on the date of dismissal of the case expresses the word "exemption from courtesy".
When he got up, Ji Hong helped him out of everyone's sight.
He only thought that no one saw him, but he didn't want to bump into Concubine Ji's probing gaze as soon as he raised his head. Before Ji Hong could speak, the imperial concubine smiled slightly, turned her head and praised the emperor, "Your Majesty, you see, it is true that young men have been born since ancient times. Mr. Yu Xiao is so young, and he has such a good hand at rejuvenation. It is really my luck Ah... Your Majesty?"
The emperor stared at Yu Jinnian and pondered carefully, and it was only after a while that the noble concubine came back to his senses. He clenched his fingers on the chair carved with golden dragons, and suddenly said: "Raise your head and show me."
Yu Jinnian was so puzzled that he had no choice but to raise his head.
The imperial concubine smiled and said: "Your Majesty, what is it about Mr. Yu Xiao that His Majesty is so fascinated by it?"
The Son of Heaven stepped down from the low couch, took a closer look, suddenly raised his hand and tapped in the air, thought for a moment, and said in surprise: "It reminds me of an old friend."
The noble concubine said angrily, "Your Majesty, did you remember your pink friend again?"
"Hey, Su Niang!" The emperor called her by her baby name eagerly, which shows that the love between them is so deep, just like what is sung in the operas outside. He went to caress the back of the imperial concubine's hand, sighed and recalled, "Su Niang can I still remember that when I was still in Prince Rong's mansion, I had a serious illness, and the imperial physician exhausted all the prescriptions, but there was nothing I could do."
The concubine glared at him complainingly, and teased in a low voice: "I don't know this kind of thing, my concubine was still young at that time, it was just that the gate was out of the door, and she was embroidering flowers at home all day long!"
"You still embroider, but you're fine if you don't!" The emperor pretended to scold her, and the imperial concubine smiled flatteringly, urging him to continue, "... At that time, Prince Rong's mansion was in dire straits, and there was almost a funeral. Unexpectedly, one evening, a bell doctor who walked around the streets came."
The way of medicine in ancient times, although it cures diseases and saves people, it is inevitable that it is unavoidable, and it is divided into three classes by the world. The top ones are the imperial physicians who can serve the imperial court. It is a place where famous doctors from all over the world gather, but also because the people who diagnose and treat are relatives of the emperor, so the methods of treatment tend to be conservative, and there are many scruples; Among the doctors in the yamen, there are many good doctors who can help the world and the masters of Xinglin; the last one is doctor Ling, who is also the least favored by noble families.
The bell doctors hold medical bells or beat drums, carry medicine baskets, cloth bags and gourds, shake them in three steps, and shake them in five steps. I know, this is Yaolang coming. Naturally, there are quite a few people with excellent medical skills, and people from Taoist and temple schools have also been doctors of Ling, but because they are traveling in the rivers and lakes, they will inevitably get mixed up with some fake eye medicines to fool the common people.
Then came the saying of "let me see what kind of medicine you sell in your gourd" in later generations.
Yu Jinnian thought, could it be that Na Ling cured him
Just as he was wandering in the sky, the emperor suddenly asked: "Where is Mr. Yu from, and his family also makes a living in medicine? Are there other relatives?"
Yu Jinnian hurriedly raised his heart, bowed his head and replied cautiously: "Your Majesty, it is a small village near Xin'an County, Changdu Prefecture. His parents only did some small business, and they passed away early. Although there are some distant brothers, they also I don’t move around very much, so there is no one else in the house.”
The emperor seemed a little disappointed, but he didn't delve into anything else. He only asked about Min Xuefei's condition in detail. Hearing that Min Xuefei still had a chance of getting better, he waved his sleeves and rewarded a lot of jewelry and valuables happily, and even praised Li Guogong's mansion, and chatted for a long time, as if talking by candlelight at night. In the end, the imperial concubine at the side showed fatigue, and the emperor let the two of them go.
After leaving the small hall, Yu Jinnian let out a long sigh, and said that he was relieved.
Just after walking a few steps, a maid came out from the hall, stopped Ji Hong, bowed slightly and gave a salute: "Master, our empress said, if the son has nothing to do these two days, then go and catch up with our empress."
I'm afraid it's not about reminiscing about the past, but about accusations. Ji Hong nodded, he understood.
The two of them were walking on the path back to the Siqi Courtyard, and Yu Jinnian had time to think about the affairs in the hall just now. While thinking about the sister who turned out to be Ji Hong, he then thought about the doctor Ling mentioned by the emperor. The story is interesting, but I regret not hearing the ending, so I asked Ji Hong curiously, "What happened to Doctor Ling? Why did you stop talking about it halfway through?"
Ji Hong dragged him to his side, told him to be careful of the cobblestone path under his feet, and then said: "I also heard Xue Fei's chat about this matter, and there seems to be some twists and turns in it. I don't know how it happened. I made some misunderstandings and almost killed the doctor Ling by mistake. Although I didn’t really kill him in the end, it caused the girl to suffer a lot. Later, His Majesty recovered from his illness and felt very guilty when he heard about it, so he thought that he should make up for her. Knowing that the other party has wandered away and disappeared without a trace."
Nodding like a chicken pecking at rice, Yu Jinnian suddenly came back to his senses: "Wait, is Dr. Ling a... girl?"
Ji Hongdao: "It is indeed a young girl. It is said that her surname is Xie, and her double character is Junmeng. She has superb medical skills, but her whereabouts are uncertain. She often rings the bell when the night is misty and enters the city. Some people call her the king of dreams, and the common people often Call her Dream Fairy."
Xie Junmeng, Yu Jinnian always felt that he seemed to have heard this name somewhere before.
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After returning to Siqiyuan, Min Xuefei hadn't woken up yet, probably because of the pain in his head, and he couldn't wake up for a while. Yu Jinnian went in and took a look at the glass tube on the ground. Although it was still dripping a little, it was not surging. It could be seen that the bleeding in his chest had stopped. He poured out the bloody water in the tank and replaced it with clean distilled water before walking to the bed Went to touch Min Ji's forehead.
It seems to be slightly hot, because I don't know how the fever will develop, so I decided not to take medicine for the time being, and observe for a while.
It's just that people are inseparable from this yard, so I have to keep an eye on him from time to time, just in case something happens to him.
However, after a busy day, Yu Jinnian was surprised by the emperor again. After a long time of leisure, he felt hungry. So after guarding Min Xuefei for half an hour, he slipped to the back kitchen and prepared to cook some food to fill his stomach. It happened to be in the dining room. A few plucked fresh ducks were sent to the side. The original intention was to make soup for the seriously injured Mr. Min. Yu Jinnian asked Yu Jinnian to detain half of them and threw them to the cooks to rub them evenly with soy sauce, salt, cooking wine, green onion and ginger. Then marinate it with cloves.
The remaining half is given to them to stew Dangshen duck soup. After all, Dangshen is sweet and nourishing, and has a mild nature. It can also neutralize the coldness of duck meat, nourish the middle and Qi, and nourish the spleen and stomach. Min Xuefei was injured in his chest and lungs, so he couldn't chew hard food for the time being, but it wouldn't hurt to drink some nutritious soup.
And by the way, he also boiled some decoction for the second son of Min.
Now it has been three or two days since the Second Young Master Min was injured, after the diagnosis and treatment by the Imperial Physician, although the blood in his chest has stopped, the stasis is still there, so that the pain in his chest is unresolved, so right now, he should expel the unresolved blockage in the chest and flanks Blood stasis and stagnant qi, after the lungs have fully expanded, how to take care of them.
Although the Siqi Academy is remote, it temporarily set up a pharmacy, and there are all kinds of medicinal materials in it. There are even several old long-bearded ginseng standing there. However, Min Xuefei is not suitable for big mending at this time, Yu Jinnian just glanced at it, grabbed a thin ginseng whisker and put it in his mouth to play with, then closed the brocade box and ignored it. Behind him was a little eunuch who was doing odd jobs, about twelve or thirteen years old, holding a medicine bowl, looking trembling.
Yu Jinnian weighed two pieces of angelica, two pieces of raw land, and two pieces of safflower, threw them into the medicine bowl, and asked casually, "Where did you come from?"
The little eunuch said: "The royal tea room."
Yu Jinnian: "Who told you to come?"
The little eunuch: "Young Supervisor Lian..."
Two-and-a-half cents of peach kernels, half a cents of bupleurum, Yu Jinnian frowned: "Why didn't I ask you a question, and I didn't eat you. Hey, do you know that there is no one else around you even the young prison, so let me listen to it." listen?"
The little eunuch trembled with fright, his mouth was sticky, and he said "I don't know".
Yu Jinnian complained that he was bored, but it was Ji Hong who walked in and blamed him for being idle and having nothing to do to poke people. The little eunuch was not allowed to be poked and teased, so he could only molest the eldest prince Ji. Yu Jinnian fought with him, chatted and laughed, and it was like blood stasis soup, but it took half an hour to catch them all.
Back in the room, he personally lit the stove and took care of the medicine pots. When the duck was marinated, he was very sleepy, he felt that the dark circles under his eyes were going to hang on his cheeks, and he really didn't have the energy to get up to do it, and Ji Hong was called by his concubine, and there was no one for him Yu Jinnian had no choice but to ask the cook to use Mr. Min's duck soup, and casually ordered a bowl of noodles to satisfy his hunger.
He was sucking on the noodles, when there was a squeak behind his back, he thought it was Ji Hong who came back, and hurriedly took a look at the noodles, but before he could say "Ah Hong" - the person standing in front of him was actually a man in green The young eunuch took a closer look before he recognized Lian Zhi.
Lianzhi was holding a wooden plate in his hand, and on the plate were three or four small gold-threaded bowls with buckle lids, and he didn't know what was inside. The loose gauze on his wrist was looming on the cuffs with his movements, which made Yu Jinnian seem to have the urge to tie it up for him. The young eunuch walked in quietly, bowed to Yu Jinnian, glanced at the couch again, and then said in a low voice: "Mr. Yu has worked hard all day, and the slaves have asked them to prepare the sleeping pavilion and light up the benzoin, sir. Let's go and rest, Master Min, this servant will keep an eye on it."
Yu Jinnian thought about Min Ji's current situation, and remembered that the eunuch had an unclear relationship with Min Ji. Since everyone came to him on his own initiative, it was inconvenient for him to stand here and block his eyes. He stood up and said: "Then there is Young Prisoner Lao Lian. The medicine on the table will be fed to Master Min when he wakes up. If the Master burns up again, please call me over."
Lian Zhi nodded, and asked his little eunuch to send him to the sleeping pavilion.
After closing the door, Lian Zhi stood in front of the drainage tube and took a look, seeing a bubble gushing out of the bottle for a while, as if he was struggling with something. He didn't take a deep breath until the person on the bed groaned softly in the drowsiness, touched it on tiptoe, half-kneeled on the ottoman to observe the other person's sleeping face, stuck out his fingertips from his sleeve for a while, and quietly Gently touched the back of Min Ji's hand, and touched along the phalanges a few times, like touching a precious porcelain vase.
Seeing that Min Ji didn't respond, he became bold again and held Min Ji's hand.
Min Xuefei flicked his fingertips suddenly, and Lian Zhi let go again in fright, causing the hand to fall on the couch with a thud.
"Well… "
As if hurt from the fall, Min Xuefei snorted softly. Lianzhi murmured an apology like a mosquito, and didn't dare to touch him anymore, but knelt down and sat on the footbed in front of the bed, wearing the green robe of the eunuch in charge, dragging the three-petaled lotus pattern on the corner of the clothes, and stacked it heavily on the bed. feet. The moonlight passed through the window and passed over the official uniform coat folded at the feet, illuminating the soft snow-blue inner shirt inside in a trance. Under the white silver light, there was a secretly embroidered branch of flowers.
Kneeling and sitting for a long while without taking his eyes off, seeing that his forehead was painful and sweating, he hurriedly took out a small silk to wipe his face.
After wiping it a few times, Min Xuefei frowned faintly.
Most of the servants in the summer palace only removed the eggs on both sides, and only a few who committed holy wrath were cut cleanly. Lian Zhi often heard that such servants would smell bad if they were old. Although he wasn't the kind who was cut clean, he was also afraid of having that smell on his body, so he always smoked the veil to make him feel closer to normal people.
At this moment, he suddenly realized that it was the incense on the veil that made him uncomfortable, so Lian Zhi hurriedly walked to the copper basin, cleaned and wrung out the veil before bringing it over for him to use, smelling himself before approaching Do you have a strange smell
It's still the same square foot couch, like a looking-home platform with branches, and you don't feel tired if you kneel and sit on it and watch the whole night.
At the end of the night and dawn, Lian Zhi wiped off all the sweat from his body, and moistened his slightly dry lips from time to time with his fingers dipped in tea. Finally, he couldn't hold on any longer, so he lay down on the edge of the bed and fell asleep. Closing his eyes in a daze, he thought: "When he wakes up, he will definitely scold me again..."