Uncle from a poor family

Chapter 165 The Storm is Coming (asking for monthly tickets)
The inner garden of the palace.

Zhu Jianshen rode the imperial carriage back to the palace. As soon as he entered the palace, he ordered people to turn the carriage around and head towards Anxi Palace.

When he was about to reach Anxi Palace, he jumped down from the imperial carriage, went straight into the outer hall of Anxi Palace, and asked anxiously, "How is Wan Shi's illness?"

When the imperial physicians Zhong Lan and Liu Wentai, who were in charge of daily diagnosis and treatment in Anxi Palace, heard this, they were both a little confused.

Everything is fine here, nothing has changed...

How come the emperor suddenly appeared?
Why are you asking such an irrelevant question?

Zhong Lan bowed and replied, "Your Majesty, there is no major change in the queen's illness, everything is fine."

"What the hell! Why don't you keep an eye on it?"

Zhu Jianshen scolded angrily, "God has made it clear, and you are still so unhurried? Is the Imperial Hospital a place to keep idle people? Go in and check the pulse of Wan Shi, and be ready for any unexpected events at any time."

Zhonglan and Liu Wentai saw the emperor's furious look and had no idea what was going on.

But he still hurried to the inner hall in a hurry.

Zhu Jianshen was about to go inside, but was blocked by Tan Chang.

"What?"

Zhu Jianshen's eyes were red, and fire was almost coming out of his eyes.

Qin Chang knelt down and advised: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for my impoliteness. I am worried and confused. If you rush in like this, I am afraid you will not be able to help, but will put yourself in danger. Why not..."

He paused here.

Zhu Jianshen calmed down a little.

Recently, he had indeed asked people to look up a lot of information because of Concubine Wan's illness.

As the saying goes, long illness makes a good doctor. Zhu Jianshen now has a certain understanding of liver and spleen diseases. He knows that this disease is likely to be contagious. As long as someone in the family has had it, there is a high probability that someone else will get it in a year or two, and the symptoms are generally the same.

As for the specific reason, at least with the medical knowledge of this era, there is no clear explanation.

Qin Chang's intention was clearly to warn him that if he went in today, it would be very likely that disaster would be brought upon him, the emperor.

Zhu Jianshen looked dejected for a while, then seemed to let go of something. He found a chair in the outer hall of Anxi Palace and sat down. He neither went in to see Concubine Wan nor left. He just sat there for nearly half an hour.

It was not until Zhonglan and Liu Wentai came out to report to him that Concubine Wan's condition was not serious and she was still resting that he breathed a sigh of relief.

God willing.

It may not be entirely correct.

He could only comfort himself in this way.

"Then I will leave for now."

Zhu Jianshen stood up and ordered, "If there is any news here, report it to me immediately."

"Yes."

Qin Chang took the order respectfully, turned and walked towards the door of the inner hall, as if he was planning to stay and wait for further news.

Zhu Jianshen stopped him in time and said, "Just come with me and send someone to pass on the message."

……

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When Li Zisheng entered the palace and arrived at the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Jianshen had already left the Anxi Palace, but the emperor had not yet visited the Qianqing Palace.

The eunuch Wei Tai, the chief eunuch of Silijian, came out to receive them.

"Is your majesty still in Anxi Palace?"

Li Zisheng poked his head out to look at the empty Qianqing Palace and asked.

Wei Tai's respect for Li Zisheng had already reached a new level, and he hurriedly bowed respectfully: "I guess so. The queen is seriously ill, and we dare not ask too much. But you... dare to speak frankly, which is respectable and admirable... Mr. Li, shall we sit inside and wait?"

"No, I'll just stand here and wait."

Li Zisheng insisted on standing at the palace gate to show that he was committed to his duties as a subject.

Wei Tai asked cautiously, "Someone came here earlier and said that the queen's condition is not serious. Do you think... has God's will changed?"

Obviously, people like Wei Tai had already known the prophecy given by Li Zisheng, and they also knew the connection between the heavy fog today and Concubine Wan, so he asked this question.

Li Zisheng thought to himself, Fortunately, when I entered the palace, I carefully read the booklet given by Lai Zhan, otherwise it would be difficult to answer.

"Once liver and spleen disease breaks out, it will be like a landslide or tsunami. Being fine now does not mean there will be no problems later. If you want to get through this disaster successfully, it all depends on whether you can survive until midnight tomorrow night."

Li Zisheng answered very decisively.

Meaning, my attitude remains the same.

It is said that Concubine Wan will have a change due to God's will, and it will not change easily.

"Ugh!"

Wei Tai sighed helplessly and said, "I hope the imperial physician will observe carefully so that no accidents will happen due to carelessness."

"Yeah." Li Zisheng nodded.

But I was secretly happy in my heart.

Lai Zhan said that with the current level of medical experts, it is impossible to save the patient from this liver and spleen disease. In other words, after the landslide and tsunami come, even if the Golden Immortal comes, it will be useless. Even before that, there is no plan to block or delay the arrival of this landslide and tsunami.

The medical skills are not up to that level!

No wonder Zhang Yanling is so confident.

After all, he was well versed in the medical skills of later generations and knew very well that when liver disease breaks out, bilirubin will rise rapidly. No matter how good the medical conditions are, one can only lie in bed and wait for the bilirubin concentration in the blood to drop. Even in later generations, the means of "lowering jaundice" were extremely limited, let alone in the Ming Dynasty.

Even when human intervention causes bilirubin to drop slowly, there is still a chance that poisoning and liver failure may occur at any time due to excessive bilirubin concentration in the blood.

When it comes to liver failure, the only option is an artificial liver, which is to draw blood and filter out the bilirubin through a machine, or a liver transplant.

It’s not that traditional Chinese medicine is not effective, it’s simply because medicine has only developed to this point. In this era... there is no hope at all.

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On the ninth day until sunset, Concubine Wan's condition remained stable.

But when the lights came on, just when Li Zisheng was getting anxious, he finally saw Zhu Jianshen striding towards him... Zhu Jianshen had not set foot in the Qianqing Palace all day.

"Master Li, my beloved concubine's condition has changed. Please quickly consult me."

Zhu Jianshen's words quickly made Li Zisheng realize that the emperor had deliberately avoided him before.

Li Zisheng stood up, and before he had time to salute, the emperor started asking him questions. He thought to himself, Your Majesty, you finally remembered that I exist.

Look how I've been sitting all day, my butt is about to split.

"I wonder what symptoms the Imperial Concubine has?"

Li Zisheng asked hurriedly.

He only asked about symptoms because the booklet given to him by the Zhang father and son only recorded the possible symptoms of liver disease attacks and gave him a series of words to deal with them.

Li Zisheng thought to himself that it could finally come in handy.

Qin Chang stood behind the emperor and quickly recounted: "The Imperial Concubine has had blood in her stool, and her face is pale yellow, almost bloodless. Occasionally, her hands will suddenly rise up and make some flickering movements in front of her body, as if she is possessed by... an evil spirit."

Zhu Jianshen asked anxiously, "Master Li, please tell me what happened to my beloved concubine?"

"This one……"

Li Zisheng racked his brains to search his memory to see if the symptoms described by Qin Chang could be matched with those in the booklet.

Qin Chang said anxiously: "Please tell me quickly."

Li Zisheng's face was full of embarrassment. I'm not an imperial physician. Why don't you ask the imperial physician when you have problems but come to me? The key point is that I didn't bring my cheat sheet with me... If people knew that I brought the cheat sheet into the palace, wouldn't that make me look cowardly?

Without the cheat sheet, almost a day has passed. Please give me some time to recall it carefully.

"Your Majesty, this is a bad omen."

Li Zisheng said helplessly.

Zhu Jianshen's face darkened, he closed his eyes and sighed quietly: "Actually... I expected this. The person is unconscious. This has not happened in the past few days. It seems that he is in danger."

When Li Zisheng heard the word "coma", everything seemed to become clear to him. He said hurriedly, "This is because the liver disease has spread to the brain, from bottom to top, so that the meridians are damaged, and the hand fanning is formed unconsciously. This symptom may not be obvious at the moment, but it may become worse after nightfall."

Qin Chang asked anxiously: "How should we diagnose and treat it?"

Li Zisheng shook his head, meaning that I am only responsible for explaining the cause of the disease, not for curing it.

Zhu Jianshen looked ashamed and lowered his head, saying, "Master Li, I was a little bit rude to you before, and I thought you were deliberately using the so-called divine secret to go against me, trying to gain my attention, and even... endangering someone close to me."

"How dare I?"

Li Zisheng was shocked. Did the emperor guess his intentions in this way? He immediately knelt down and said, "I am deeply terrified. I have absolutely no such intention!"

"My dear, get up!"

Zhu Jianshen personally held Li Zisheng's arm, his grief evident in words: "Now it seems that you are devoted to me and my beloved concubine... It's a pity that all this is God's will, and it is beyond our control...

"I don't blame you now, and I want to thank you for finding out the intentions of the day in advance and for not being bound by my thoughts and telling me the truth, which allowed me to have a plan in mind.

"Now that I look at all this again, I seem to be more open-minded."

What Zhu Jianshen meant was that, because of your reminder, I had already guessed in advance that the situation like today might happen, so I didn’t feel like the sky was falling when the time came.

Li Zisheng felt the same way and said, "I miss the imperial concubine very much in my heart, but I am powerless and cannot share your worries. I am guilty of death!"

"You did a great job."

Zhu Jianshen said painfully, "The King of Hell ordered people to die at three o'clock in the morning, who dares to keep them alive until five o'clock? What is destined by heaven, who can easily change it? Alas, I still have to go to Anxi Palace to accompany my beloved concubine. Have you had dinner? Come, prepare a meal for Master Li. If there is anything else, I may come in person... Thank you for your hard work today."

"This is what I should do."

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