Around the hour of You, Zi'an said to the Queen, "Your Highness, the condition of His Highness has stabilized a lot now, and you can move back to the palace."
The queen breathed a sigh of relief and waited for a whole day just to hear Zi'an say this.
"Come on, get ready." Nanny Yang shouted immediately.
Zi'an stepped forward and said to the queen, "Your Majesty, may I have a few words with you alone?"
The queen's nerves, which had just relaxed, tensed up again. She sent her attendants away and asked nervously, "What's the matter? Has the condition changed?"
Zi'an shook his head, "No, Madam, don't go any further. His Royal Highness Prince Liang's condition is very stable now. Just continue to drain twice, and take anti-inflammatory and consolidating medicine, and he will be fine in half a month. As for epilepsy, we have to wait until the body gets better before acupuncture treatment. This is a long treatment process, so don't rush."
"The epilepsy you mentioned is actually... epilepsy?" The queen was reluctant to say the word epilepsy. In her opinion, this disease was only suffered by low-class people or lunatics.
"Yes, epilepsy is the scientific name, and epilepsy is the folk name. They are the same thing. In fact, this disease is not serious at all, because when it occurs, the body will also give warnings. It can be treated in time. This disease causes many deaths, mainly because people fail to pay attention to the warning signals. When the disease suddenly occurs, relatives do not know how to deal with it, which will cause saliva or blood to be poured into the trachea and suffocate to death."
The queen was relieved after hearing her explanation. "When you first entered the palace, you said you could be treated by acupuncture and bloodletting, right?"
"This is just a general statement. It is quite complicated to do. It mainly stimulates the brain nerves..." Zi An paused for a moment, thinking that the Queen might not understand what he said, so he said briefly: "I am certain about the treatment of this disease."
"Then what do you want to tell me alone?" The Queen looked at her suspiciously, then said indifferently with a clear expression: "Do you want to tell me about your family affairs?"
Zi'an was startled. "Family affairs? There is nothing much to say about family affairs, and it is not appropriate to talk about them here. What I want to talk about is the original leg injury of His Highness Prince Liang. When I bandaged and fixed the wound for the prince, I found that the original wound was treated incorrectly, causing the bones to grow out of place, and bone spurs appeared in the dislocated joints. The bone spurs compressed the nerves, making it difficult to walk, and caused sharp pain like lightning. This is very torturous. I have a request, and I hope the Queen can agree to it."
Tears gathered in the queen's eyes and her lips trembled slightly. Although she tried her best to control her excitement, her voice was still trembling. "You say."
Zi'an said sincerely, "I regretted my engagement, Your Highness, so I want to make it up to you. If Your Highness the Queen trusts me, please allow me to provide further treatment for the leg injury of Your Highness Prince Liang."
The Queen asked excitedly, "Are you sure?"
"There is a 70 to 80 percent chance of success. However, Your Highness Prince Liang will have to endure some pain during the treatment." Broken bones need to be reconnected, and there is no anesthetic, so acupuncture and acupoint sealing are the only options for pain relief. The effect is not as ideal as with anesthetics, so Prince Liang is not sure if he can endure the pain.
The queen cried out in shock, "70% to 80% sure?" The imperial physicians had said before that this leg could no longer be cured and that he would not be able to walk like a normal person.
She had been in despair for so many years, but she never expected that this person whom she hated so much would say that he could cure her. This made the queen so excited that she was speechless.
Zi settled down for a moment, then looked up at the queen, "Your Majesty, there is one more thing I want to ask for your forgiveness first."
The queen was now in a state of excitement, and she kept saying, "You say, I forgive you for being innocent."
If it were modern times, Zi'an would have said it directly, but in this feudal era, she had to be cautious, so she was silent for a while, and under the empress's urgent eyes, she spoke hesitantly: "Your Highness's injury is close to the thigh root, and from the condition of the wound, it seems that he fell, which may cause necrosis and atrophy of blood vessels and nerves in a certain part. If it is not treated in time, it may lead to inhumanity."
The Queen's expression suddenly changed, "How dare you!"
The Queen's face turned pale as she stared at Zi'an. This was an everlasting pain in her heart. Not many people knew about this matter and she had issued a strict order not to spread it. Not to mention it, even thinking about it would make the Queen angry and heartbroken.
She said sternly, "Xia Zian, don't think that just because you cured King Liang, you can speak nonsense and slander King Liang without fear. If even a word of this gets out, I will kill you."
Zi'an looked at the queen and said firmly, "Your Majesty, you have never been shy about your illness or avoided the doctor. I am now the doctor of the King of Liang. Although I know it is an offense, I cannot not speak up. I cannot not treat the disease when I know it is curable."
The queen's lips trembled a few times, and she pulled Zi'an aside with one hand, "What did you say? You said you can cure it? You can cure it?"
The queen asked several times in a row, staring at Zi'an eagerly, as if she didn't want to miss any word she said, even her expression.
Zi'an was about to speak when Nanny Yang came over and said, "Your Majesty, Prime Minister Xia brought his wife into the palace and asked to see the Queen."
The Queen raised her hand, her expression showing some disgust, "Let them wait first."
Madam Yang hesitated for a moment and said, "But they are kneeling outside the Changsheng Palace."
"Who allowed them to come to the Palace of Eternal Life? Who told them that I was in the Palace of Eternal Life?" the queen was furious.
Nanny Yang said, "It was Concubine Mei who came with them."
The Queen's face was filled with displeasure. "Mei Fei?"
A palace maid came hurriedly, "Miss, the judge wants you to come over for a moment."
Zi'an bowed to the queen and said, "Your Majesty, I will go first."
The Queen wanted to ask more specifically, but the sudden visit of Concubine Mei and Prime Minister Xia interrupted her, making her anxious and annoyed.
But when he heard the judge looking for Xia Zian, he thought something had happened to Prince Liang and followed him into the palace.
The judge came out and said to Zi'an, "Miss, the prince came in to sleep and vomited once. What he vomited was all black liquid."
Zi'an went forward to check the vomit, checked the pulse, and then said to the judge, "It's okay, he vomited the medicine. Taking medicine three times a day is a bit bad for the stomach, so vomiting is inevitable. Starting tomorrow, the dosage will be reduced to twice a day."
"Okay, I'll give the order right away." The judge bowed to the queen and went out.
After hearing that everything was alright, the Queen felt relieved. She sat beside Prince Liang to comfort him before leaving.
"Your Majesty, do you want to meet him or send him away?" Nanny Yang asked again.
The Queen said sternly, "I will go out to meet them. Do not allow them to come in."
"Yes, Your Majesty, please come over." Madam Yang bowed and asked.
The queen took two steps and looked back at Nanny Yang. "Go and follow Xia Zian to see what she wants you to do. You've been in the palace for a long time, and none of the maids can read people's faces. Letting them serve Xia Zian will only delay things. You should go in person."
Nanny Yang remained calm and restrained her gaze, "Yes!"
She ordered two palace maids to follow the queen out, and she herself went into the palace.
After the queen walked out, Prime Minister Xia and Concubine Mei were nowhere to be seen.
(End of this chapter)