fifth form

Chapter 2155 Disregard
"Since you need to treat me with courtesy, I will accompany the princess in person tomorrow, which will also be convenient for us to see!"

It is not difficult to guess the purpose of Empress Dou's coming to Changxin Palace.

This was because he wanted to judge the great monk and make a characterization of him, but he was worried that it would be difficult to control the situation, so he came to Changxin Palace to recruit people.

After a brief discussion, the Empress Dowager had fulfilled Lady Dou's wish.

"Whose house is the great monk staying at?" asked the Queen Mother.

"An official named Dongfang Shuo, he is Taizhong Daifu, the young official recommended by Your Majesty three months ago," Empress Dou said repeatedly.

"Your Majesty has mentioned him to me several times, saying that Dongfang Shuo is a rare talent." The Queen Mother thought for a moment and said, "I have never met Dongfang Shuo before, so it would be nice to meet him this time!"

"Then my sister may be disappointed." Empress Dou said with a smile: "Dongfang Shuo was cursed, so Chunyu Tiying from the Imperial Medical Clinic opened his head to remove the curse, but he also suffered from a sleepiness problem. If my calculations are correct, he may fall into a sleepy state tonight!"

"Chun Yu Tiying even dared to do such a thing as opening someone's head?" the Empress Dowager asked in surprise.

"If you open the head and remove the lesion, you may still be able to survive. If you don't open the head, the curse will take effect and you will not have a good end. It's not difficult to make the choice!"

"Is the chance of survival high after opening the brain for treatment?"

"Should it be okay?"

"Is Dongfang Shuo's drowsiness serious?"

"He seems to be in a coma for about twelve days, and then awake for about twelve days!"

"That's too difficult for Dongfang Shuo. Such a long period of coma could very well kill him."

"Dongfang Shuo's family was poor in his early years, so he had to practice the art of fasting to save food. He survived for twelve days and still had energy, which means he had survived for several years!"

"So pathetic!"

The Queen Mother sighed.

The look in her eyes changed slightly back and forth, and her right hand involuntarily touched her chest, then touched the hairpin behind her head.

"When will Chunyu Tiying be able to return to the court?" asked the Queen Mother.

"We haven't found her yet," said Empress Dou. "I punished Chunyu Tiying by asking her to cure 3,000 patients among the common people so that she could return to the imperial court. Her cures would surely attract praise from the common people, and it would not be difficult to track her whereabouts. However, she disappeared after practicing medicine in Chang'an for a few months, and I haven't heard of her reputation as a doctor anywhere. I am puzzled about Chunyu Tiying's whereabouts at the moment."

"Although Chunyu Tiying has superb medical skills, her cultivation strength is average, and she is a woman, so it may be inconvenient for her to go out. You should send two people to accompany her!"

"I was a little inconsiderate at the time!"

Some things may be flawed if you make decisions alone, but the mistakes can be made up after discussion between both parties.

Looking back, Empress Dou couldn't help but admit that she had been inconsiderate at the time, which led to her being in a passive position at the moment and not even being able to find a female doctor to replace Yishuo.

A female medical officer seemed to have no importance in the imperial court, far inferior to many civil officials and military generals, but she was irreplaceable when needed.

The court was full of talented people, with new ones constantly emerging, but Empress Dou did not expect that after several years they couldn't even find a medical officer to replace Chunyu Tiying, and now they even lacked a female medical officer to replace Yi Shuo.

"Medical skills are not like cultivation. Cultivation can be mastered quickly, but medical skills need to be accumulated. It is very difficult to produce replacement talents in a short time, especially for medical officers who are involved in treating monks." The Queen Mother said: "These people are the country's treasures. I hope the princess will cherish them!"

During the back-and-forth discussion, Empress Dowager Dou repeatedly changed the subject, but was pulled back from time to time by the Empress Dowager.

This caused Empress Dou to be criticized a lot, but she had no choice but to bear it as she was in the wrong.

After the Empress Dowager repeated the story three times, Empress Dowager Dou finally found an excuse to escape from Changsheng Palace.

"The great cultivator that the Grand Empress Dowager is afraid of can only come from the Immortal Court. They came to the mortal world too quickly, which doesn't give us any chance at all!" The Empress Dowager's face darkened.

She ordered the eunuchs and palace maids to leave and paced back and forth in the hall, obviously feeling extremely anxious.

"It was fine that you targeted the late emperor in the past, but now it is my biological son who is in charge of the Han Dynasty. My son is the king of this vast territory, and he does not need to be a dog of the Immortal Court!"

The Queen Mother looked at a golden thread hanging from her chest, which in turn was tied to a small silver bell around her waist.

She pulled the gold thread slightly, but the silver bell did not make any sound.

This made her stare at the silver bell for a long time.

It was not until she touched the hairpin behind her head again and pressed down on her head that the slight stinging feeling made the empress dowager stop feeling resentful.

"If Yishuo can use acupuncture to stop my pain, and Chunyu Tiying can open my skull to break the curse, then they won't be able to control me anymore!"

The Empress Dowager looked at the many bamboo slips in the hall and felt a little dizzy.

It was difficult to spend so much effort to tailor a cultivation method for the new emperor, but at the moment it was not enough to weaken her body and blood, let alone cause dizziness.

Her symptoms were more likely caused by a heavy curse.

There are few other options except killing the caster, destroying the medium of the spell, or forcibly breaking the evil curse in her body.

Everyone values ​​life, especially those who hold high positions. No one would think about dying, and the Queen Mother is no exception.

But compared to her own life, the Queen Mother was more unwilling to give up on her son.

She hoped that her son would be the king of this land, rather than becoming the 'Son of Heaven' who obeyed the orders of the Immortal Court hundreds of years ago, or having to 'abdicate' the throne according to arrangements.

If the Queen Mother does not want to repeat this fate, she must break the impasse herself, and she also needs the new emperor to break the impasse.

This requires the removal of the hidden curse in her body, and also requires the new emperor to be able to truly stand firm and have the real ability to fight against various undercurrents.

"Liu Qi, you finally beat me!"

The Empress Dowager looked towards the direction of Yangling.

Emperor Jing may not know, or he may know everything about her.

But nothing mattered anymore. When the Queen Mother's son ascended the throne, her mentality had completely changed.

She needs to protect herself and, even more importantly, protect her son, instead of leaving all decision-making power to the Immortal Court.

This was bound to lead to a deviation in things and also deviate from the Queen Mother's original goal of approaching Emperor Jing.

She gritted her teeth, wishing Chunyu Tiying and Yi Shuo would appear before her so that she could have a gamble.

But since these two people could not appear at the same time, she had to accompany Lady Dou to Zhang Xuezhou's house to see what the intentions of this great cultivator were and what instructions he would give.

If things are acceptable, it's fine. If things are unacceptable, it may require her to start risking her life, and it will be difficult to determine life or death from then on.

The invitation from Lady Dou made the Empress Dowager's mind full of thoughts. In addition to the dull pain in her head, her hands and feet even felt cold and trembling.

This was due to the warning from the witchcraft and sorcery in her body, as well as the fear in the heart of the Empress Dowager.

That was the Immortal Court, the colossal force that had controlled the Great Zhou Dynasty for eight hundred years. It was also the peak that she could not see the top of, and the bottomless abyss that she had to face after she became disloyal.