Uncle from a poor family

Chapter 353: Divine Doctor Zhang Luan
Zhang Mansion.

Zhang Luan hurried to the backyard to look for his youngest son. Facing the two Zhang brothers who were about to go out, Zhang Luan did not avoid the ignorant eldest son next to him. He directly pulled his youngest son's arm and said:

"Yanling, something terrible has happened. The emperor has returned to the palace, and his condition is very serious. Li Zisheng has come to my house in person, asking me to follow him into the palace...

"What do you think I should do? Should I go or not?"

Zhang Heling asked in surprise: "Dad, are you going to see the emperor? Can you cure diseases?"

Apparently the Zhang family didn't have any inherited skills in the past. Zhang Heling had always been wondering how his old father suddenly became a miracle doctor in the eyes of others.
Zhang Yanling thought for a moment and replied, "Ever since my father followed Li Zisheng's instructions and prescribed medicine for the emperor, it has become inevitable for him to enter the palace to treat the emperor. Especially when your majesty is desperate and needs to seek medical treatment, let alone you being the prince's father-in-law, even if you are a doctor from an enemy country, you will be treated."

"Too."

Zhang Luan said dejectedly, "After all, I am the Minister of the Ministry of Rites and a minister of the Ming Dynasty. I would not openly murder the emperor, right? But I..."

Zhang Yanling smiled and said comfortingly, "This day will come sooner or later, it just came suddenly... Dad, are you not used to it? But it doesn't matter, I will teach you some words, and you will naturally know how to deal with it after entering the palace."

"But……"

Zhang Luan said with a bitter face, "I have never even felt His Majesty's pulse, let alone you...You usually use this trick to fool the ignorant common people, but you want me to fool His Majesty? There are so many doctors in the palace, they can easily expose my tricks."

Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "If those imperial doctors were really capable, they wouldn't have asked you, a common doctor, to enter the palace to treat the emperor... Father, why are you still worried about this?
"You should think about how to shift the blame to someone else, which is more realistic... Actually, we have a ready-made scapegoat now. As long as we can push the responsibility onto one person, everything will be fine."

"who!?"

Zhang Luan didn't react for a moment.

"Who else could it be? Of course it's Deng Chang'en, the one who used elixirs to cure illnesses and tricked the emperor into going to the Chuyun Temple for a few days of meditation!"

Zhang Yanling said with a smile, "Deng Chang'en is really unlucky. He hasn't enjoyed his glory for a few days, and now the emperor's condition has suddenly worsened. He is naturally the best candidate to take the blame... Apart from him, I really can't think of anyone else who is more suitable.

"So the words my son taught you are to try to push the responsibility onto him, to let His Majesty know that if it weren't for Deng Chang'en's misbehavior, his condition wouldn't have deteriorated so quickly. So... it doesn't matter whether your medical skills are good or not, nor does it matter whether the group of doctors in the Imperial Hospital have fulfilled their responsibilities. Everything... is... to blame on Deng Chang'en!"

"Yes, yes, it's all his fault!"

Zhang Luan is also smart.

Now he finally realized that if he wanted the emperor not to put the blame for the worsening of the disease on them, he had to have a common target. That person was Deng Changen, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, who was also Li Zisheng's political enemy and had ill intentions towards the prince.

Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "When the time comes, you can prescribe a prescription that will still focus on reducing jaundice, but you should also tell Your Majesty that everything is just a matter of doing our best and leaving the rest to fate."

"Ah... this... is this something I can say?"

Zhang Luan was shocked.

When a doctor tells a patient this, it is usually easy to cause conflicts between the doctor and the patient, not to mention that the patient is facing the supreme emperor?
Can the emperor accept that his illness has developed to such an irreversible level?

Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "That's basically it, to make His Majesty feel that Deng Changen is plotting something bad, and even wants to harm his life in order to achieve some ulterior motives.

"Your Majesty, the more hatred you have for Deng Chang'en, the more compassion you will have for the Crown Prince, and at the same time, the more trust you will have in me, Dad. By then..."

"Okay, okay, you don't have to explain this to me."

Zhang Luan raised his hand to interrupt his son and sighed, "You just need to tell me what to say... Hurry up, Li Zisheng is still waiting up ahead. I believe you have a sharp mind and will not betray me. I am counting on you to bring me a bright future!"

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Zhang Luan accepted his son's instructions and left happily.

Only when his father's back disappeared did Zhang Heling turn to look at his younger brother and asked curiously, "Second brother, are you kidding our father?"

"Why would I bother him?"

Zhang Yanling also retracted his gaze and looked at the eldest son of the Zhang family. "He is going to the palace to treat the emperor now. Shouldn't I give him some advice?"

Zhang Heling said worriedly: "But...but I always feel...our father is not the kind of person who can be on the big stage. He is just..."

At this point, the eldest son of the Zhang family shook his head worriedly.

Zhang Yanling thought to himself, Old Zhang, oh, Old Zhang, how disappointing were you in the past?
Look, even your very incompetent eldest son thinks you are not presentable. How have you ruined your family to cause such a painful realization for your wife and children?
"Second brother, if I'm sick, can you cure me?"

Zhang Heling asked eagerly.

"You are so young, why do you want to be sick? Even if you want to be sick, the disease will not find you."

Zhang Yanling sneered and raised his chin, "When you are like dad, in your forties, with a lot of bad health problems and your body starts to become weak, then it won't be too late to tell me this."

"Tsk, then you have to wait another 30 years, and it's hard to say whether you'll be alive or not by then." Zhang Heling rolled his eyes when he heard this and stopped talking to his brother.

Originally he was going to go with his brother to work, but Zhang Yanling suddenly changed his mind and decided not to go out for the time being.

After all, Zhang Luan might encounter some troubles when entering the palace, so he would need to send someone back to inquire. Even if his cheap father came out of the palace safely, he would need to find someone to complain to and ask for solutions. As a son and aide, he could only wait at home.

After all, Zhang Yanling was the instigator of the whole thing.

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Zhang Luan took Li Zisheng's carriage to the palace.

Li Zisheng looked at the sun and said helplessly, "Laizhan, it seems that we have to find you a new residence... You live in the north of the city, and it is too inconvenient to go to the palace. You basically have to go around half of the city, which is time-consuming and laborious!"

Zhang Luan immediately replied: "Doesn't the Imperial Palace have a north gate?"

"Is that a place you can enter at will?"

Li Zisheng said sarcastically, "How about this, I'll find you a place to live in the south of the city, and you don't have to come back recently. I'll have someone take good care of you here, and you can always come and see me if you have any problems. How do you do that?"

"Oh."

Zhang Luan glanced at Li Zisheng and thought to himself, you think it's inconvenient to go to my home in the north of the city, so you want me to live in the south of the city, right?

It was you who clearly gave me the house, but now you think that place is not suitable?
Then why don’t you give me a new house?
That's so unmanly!
"Laizhan, what did you say to your son? Can you...see His Majesty's condition?"

Li Zisheng also became nervous.

He had never doubted Zhang Luan's ability to save the world before, but now seeing that Zhang Luan had to ask his son for advice before entering the palace to treat the disease, he couldn't help but start to have doubts.

Zhang Luan said: "My son said that when it comes to curing a disease, we must first find the person who is primarily responsible."

"Why?"

Li Zisheng looked over in surprise.

"Your Majesty's condition has deteriorated rapidly, so there must be someone at the forefront to take charge. This person... can only be Deng Chang'en who bewitched Your Majesty. It's all his fault that Your Majesty's condition has deteriorated to this point!"

Zhang Luan said firmly.

Li Zisheng slapped his thigh and said in agreement, "Hey, Laizhan, you really hit the nail on the head. If it weren't for that charlatan Deng Changen who bewitched the king, why would the doctors be helpless like now? Your son is absolutely right."

At this time, Li Zisheng finally felt relieved.

It turns out that Lai Zhan asked his son in advance not because he had any medical problems, but because he needed to think clearly about the way out before treating the emperor, so that he could move forward and backward freely. "It seems that your son is really talented. He has thought through the affairs of the court very thoroughly!"

Li Zisheng said appreciatively, "Since he has made a good start, I will help you extend it...

"Look, your majesty was vomiting and having diarrhea before, it must be because there was something wrong with the new medicine prescribed by the Imperial Hospital. Later, the elixir presented by Deng Changen stopped your majesty's adverse symptoms, not because the medicine was suitable for the symptoms, but because your majesty's dragon body was already in a state of gradual recovery, and he happened to encounter it."

Zhang Luan nodded and said, "That's how it should be! Oh, by the way, Minister Li, didn't you say before that the medicine Deng Changen presented was actually some tonic medicine to strengthen the body and replenish the vital energy, so that Your Majesty... that...?"

"Yeah."

Li Zisheng said with surprise, "Look, I don't know any medical skills, but I can talk to you casually and get to the point.

"As the saying goes, everything in the world remains essentially the same. Your Majesty is ill now, so he must be too weak to be nourished. However, Deng Changen used strong medicine to nourish your Majesty. It may be effective in the first two days, but once the effect of the medicine wears off, won't it... backfire?"

When Zhang Luan heard this, he almost wanted to get off the carriage.

I thought to myself, you know everything, why do you need me?

Why don’t you deal with the emperor yourself?

"Minister Li, how about you personally go and bring this up with His Majesty?"

Zhang Luan asked tentatively.

"How does this work?"

Li Zisheng said, "I understand the truth, but His Majesty doesn't believe what I say."

Zhang Luan asked curiously, "Your Majesty doesn't believe what you say, but your Majesty believes what I say?"

Li Zisheng shook his head and said, "You are different... You are a world-renowned miracle doctor. You can even cure a plague like smallpox, which is so deadly that people are helpless. Isn't it just a liver disease? His Majesty still trusts you very much!
"Why do you think His Majesty made you the Minister of the Honglu Temple and allowed you to enter the Hanlin Academy? Was that to help the Crown Prince? His Majesty was preparing for you to enter the Imperial Hospital!

"Don't think that I recommended you. In fact, everything was arranged by His Majesty long ago."

Zhang Luan heard this and couldn't help but muttered, "If I had known it would be like this, I wouldn't have come to the capital to treat smallpox with any medicine."

"Laizhan, what did you say?"

Because the noise coming from the roadside along the way to the palace gate was too noisy, Li Zisheng could not hear clearly what Zhang Luan was saying, and could not help but look over curiously.

Zhang Luan said quickly, "Minister Li, actually we can do this... you can ask the people in the Imperial Hospital to tell His Majesty what you said, and His Majesty will definitely believe it. The people in the Imperial Hospital are well-read, how could they not understand the reasoning?"

Li Zisheng rolled his eyes at Zhang Luan and said unhappily, "Are you ignorant of the ways of the world? The Imperial Hospital is a bunch of cowards, each of them is incompetent and irresponsible, and is especially good at shirking responsibility and perfunctory. Ask them to confront Deng Changen head-on? Do you think they have the guts to do that?"

Zhang Luan argued: "But they targeted you before..."

I was too embarrassed to continue talking halfway through.

What I mean is that when the Imperial Medical Bureau was against you, they still stood tall, and two of them were even sent to prison because of it.

Although the people have been released now, they all suffered a lot, especially Shi Qin, who was almost exiled to the northwest to do hard labor for several years. It was only because of your "magnanimity" Li Zisheng that he was spared.

Li Zisheng said calmly: "Isn't it because I took the initiative to declare war on them? Besides, it is precisely because they suffered such heavy losses that time that they dare not take risks this time.

"I even dare to assert that they don't even have the courage to change the prescription for Your Majesty. Let them fight Deng Changen? You think too highly of them."

Zhang Luan shrugged and was about to speak when he found that the carriage had stopped. He lifted the curtain and looked out. In front of him was the majestic Chang'an Left Gate, and Wei Tai, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department, was already waiting there.

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Zhang Luan and Li Zisheng entered the palace gate under the guidance of Wei Tai. After passing the Fengtian Gate, Wei Tai deliberately slowed down his pace and approached the two of them and whispered a reminder:
"You two, you must be careful when you get to the Qianqing Palace. His Majesty has become much more irritable since returning to the palace this time. I heard that he punished the people accompanying him on the way back to the palace, and two guards lost their lives because of this."

Li Zisheng was shocked and asked quickly, "What about Deng Changen?"

Wei Tai said, "He...has been allowed to return home for the time being. I haven't heard how His Majesty intends to punish him. Master Li, you are a man of great ability and you also observe etiquette. There are some things...you don't need...our family to remind you, right?"

As he said this, he deliberately glanced at Zhang Luan who was looking around.

What I meant was that you are responsible for regulating the behavior of the person you bring with you. After all, when I left the palace, I was not sure who you were going to bring into the palace, and I was not even sure whether the emperor would let Zhang Luan enter the inner hall of the Qianqing Palace to treat him.

But at least you have to keep an eye on the people you bring.

"Know, know."

Li Zisheng responded quickly.

As he said this, he grabbed Zhang Luan from behind.

Zhang Luan, who was very wary of Long Yang's kindness, straightened his body instantly and thought, why are you still touching me?

Now that you are in the palace, no one dares to control you, right?
I, Zhang Laizhan, don't like men's homosexuality, so don't tease me!
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Outside Qianqing Palace.

Zhang Luan stood there, looking a little nervous, after all, he was about to meet the emperor.

Although that person is his father-in-law, what is his identity?
The kind of person who could be crushed to death with just a little finger.

After waiting for a long time, Wei Tai finally came out, followed by several people in official uniforms.

Zhang Luan didn't know who was who among them.

The few people who came out also looked at Zhang Luan with a bit of avoidance and even indifference in their eyes, as if they were determined not to have any contact with him from now on.

"Don't look at them. They are from the Imperial Hospital."

Li Zisheng reminded from the side.

Zhang Luan understood it immediately.

The emperor is now using doctors from outside the palace to treat him. These people must be unhappy about this, but I'm not afraid of you.

What rank is the Director of the Imperial Medical Bureau?

By the way, my son said that the court envoy is only a fifth-rank official, the court judge is a sixth-rank official, and the other imperial doctors are eighth-rank officials.

Zhang Luan thought to himself, as the Minister of the Honglu Temple, facing a bunch of small fry like you, I can crush you all with a higher rank, let alone several levels higher!
"Master Li, Zhang Honglu, please come in." Wei Tai greeted them.

"Yes."

After Li Zisheng answered, he couldn't help but pull Zhang Luan, who was daydreaming.

The two of them walked into the hall.

Wei Tai couldn't help but frown when he saw this scene, thinking, is this how you, Li Zisheng, discipline the people you brought with you? It seems that it is difficult for you to regulate his behavior. You actually need to do it yourself to control him?

This is too incredible!
(End of this chapter)