0p0 Chapter 160: What is the Princess of the County?
Chapter 160: What is the Princess of the County?
Doctor Cen was the Queen Mother Qin's personal physician and a trustworthy person. Yu En brought him to Prince Pingyang's Palace and told him along the way not to reveal the Queen Mother's identity and to pretend not to recognize her when he saw her.
Imperial Doctor Cen agreed with great trepidation.
As soon as he entered the room and looked at the people in the room, Doctor Cen saw the empress dowager standing beside the bed. His scalp tightened and he subconsciously saluted.
"Ahem..." Yu En stared at Doctor Cen without blinking, fearing that the reverence for the Queen Mother engraved in his bones would make him forget his instructions.
really!
Imperial Doctor Cen came back to his senses with a start, and quickly looked at the old princess next to him, bowing and saying, "Old princess."
The old princess nodded slightly: "Thank you, Imperial Doctor Cen."
When Doctor Liu heard that the visitor was the imperial physician, he hurriedly stood up and gave up his seat respectfully.
Doctor Cen stopped talking and sat in the seat where Doctor Liu had just sat. He first looked at the wound and then took Gu Zhiyin's pulse.
"The wound has been cleaned very well. The burns are quite serious. Have you prescribed any internal medicine? Let me see. The Princess inhaled a lot of smoke and her lungs may be infected."
Imperial Physician Cen said this and looked towards Doctor Liu.
Doctor Liu said, "I haven't written the prescription yet. I'm going to apply the external ointment to the princess first."
"What kind of plaster?"
Doctor Liu hurriedly handed the ointment he brought to Doctor Cen.
When the servant from the palace came to see him, he said that the princess was burned, so he brought the burn ointment with him.
Doctor Cen took the bottle of ointment, scooped a little and applied it on his hand, then put it to his nose and smelled it.
After a while, he put down his hand and said, "It works for ordinary minor injuries, but it won't work well for the Princess's burns."
"Yes."
Doctor Liu was rejected, but he was not angry.
This person is an imperial physician. Regardless of what position he holds in the Imperial Medical Bureau, the mere fact that he is able to enter the hospital shows that his medical insights are beyond their reach.
"Then how effective is your burn ointment?" The Queen Mother suddenly asked, "Will it leave a scar?"
Doctor Cen replied tremblingly: "This... I'll try my best!"
The Queen Mother pursed her lips and looked at Doctor Cen with some disdain, as if to say: So useless.
Doctor Cen: “…”
Dare not refute.
The Princess smiled weakly at Doctor Cen and said, "Doctor, just do your best. There's no need to feel pressured."
The Queen Mother: "Why are you dawdling? Hurry up and apply the medicine."
Doctor Cen quickly took the ointment and began to apply it. He glanced at Gu Zhiyin with surprise from time to time and couldn't help muttering in his heart.
Who is this Princess of Ming County that makes the Queen Mother so nervous?
And what he wanted to ask the most, but didn't dare to ask, wasn't the Queen Mother in Huangjue Temple? Why did she appear in Pingyang Palace?
Doctor Cen had a hundred questions in his mind, but he could only keep them in his heart and dared not ask.
After applying the medicine and wrapping the wound with gauze, Doctor Cen carefully reminded the patient of the precautions.
He was talking to the maidservants and old women who were serving him, but the empress dowager was listening attentively and nodding from time to time.
Doctor Cen was stunned...
"Here is the prescription. Boil three bowls of water into one bowl of medicine. Drink it in two meals, with a two-hour interval in between. If you have a fever in the middle of the night, come to the Cen Mansion to find me. If you are well overnight, I will come to change the medicine tomorrow morning."
"You will stay here tonight and be ready to deal with any emergency at any time." Taihou gave the order decisively.
Doctor Cen subconsciously bowed: "Yes."
Doctor Liu didn't find it strange. Since the old lady could stand together with the old princess, her identity must be extraordinary.
He looked at the ointment that Doctor Cen had brought out, and said with envy, "I wonder if I'll be lucky enough to take a look at the burn ointment developed by Doctor Cen."
Imperial Doctor Cen is about fifty years old, with half white hair and beard. When he is silent, he exudes a serious air and seems to keep strangers away. As the director of the Imperial Medical Bureau and the exclusive imperial physician of the Empress Dowager, not everyone can read his medicine.
But will this happen...
"Of course." As he said that, he took out an empty bottle from the medicine box, scooped a piece of medicine into it, and handed it to Doctor Liu.
He had to give Doctor Liu some face since he was able to stay in the same room with the Empress Dowager without being kicked out.
"If you have any questions, you can ask me." Doctor Cen said again.
Doctor Liu was immediately flattered and almost fainted with happiness. He held the medicine bottle in his hand like a treasure and bowed to express his gratitude.
After Gu Zhiyin's wound was treated, everyone left one after another, allowing her to rest in peace.
In the flower hall, the old princess ordered the servants to leave.
After Qin's mother and Yu En went out, they closed the door and stood guard outside.
Queen Mother Qin and the old princess sat at the top, followed by Wen, Fu Yunyao and Fu Yunjing.
"What happened during the lake cruise arranged by the Cheng family?" asked the old princess.
Wen recounted what had happened, with Fu Yunyao occasionally adding to the conversation.
The Queen Mother's face was gloomy, and she said in a cold voice: "Humph, I have only been away from the palace for a few days, and the Emperor has really gone backwards, allowing the enemy's spies to kill and burn in the capital with great fanfare."
"If we really let them capture the second son's princess and the sixth son, then we will be led by the nose."
The moment the empress dowager opened her mouth, Wen's mind went blank.
She stared at the Queen Mother in astonishment, completely stunned.
What did the old lady say?
mourning home?
bah—
Wen was so frightened that her body went limp and she slid off the chair, her legs involuntarily kneeling on the ground.
"Too... too much..."
Because he was too shocked and frightened, Wen stuttered and couldn't utter a complete sentence. In the end, he decisively shut up, with a look of panic on his face.
Why is Yinyin’s grandmother the Queen Mother?
Rumor has it that the Queen Mother has a fickle temper. Since I just lost my composure, will I be dragged out and beaten to death?
Just thinking about it, Wen couldn't help but shiver, his face turned as pale as a little white flower blown by the wind.
The Queen Mother glanced at her calmly and motioned Fu Yunyao to help her up.
"Mother, please sit down first." Fu Yunyao helped Wen sit down again.
Wen sat down anxiously.
Aren't you all surprised?
Oh, yes, everyone in the Pingyang Palace had been to the palace before, so they had naturally seen the Queen Mother. Even though they had been to the palace less frequently in recent years, it was not surprising that they recognized the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother left the palace quietly, and she certainly didn't want too many people to know.
"Since Yinyin was with you, why did she get hurt?" The Queen Mother suddenly looked at Fu Yunjing and asked.
The old princess also looked at him with displeasure.
The Wen family said that when they found Yun Jing and Yin Yin, they saw them running out of the burning room.
Facing the two people's unfriendly looks, Fu Yunjing couldn't help but swallow his saliva and said, "I was drunk. Gu Zhiyin came to find me. When I woke up, the fire had already burned to the room I was in. When it was almost at the door, a piece of wood as thick as an arm fell on my head. Gu Zhiyin raised his hand to help me block it and quickly pulled me away. Otherwise, the wood would have hit my head."