Song Wangyue and Gu Yi both entered the magistrate’s office along with the Third Prince and the Duke of Qi.
Sheriff Liu saw them from afar, he quickly took a few steps back to hide behind a pillar, and when their group was far away, he quickly ran to report to the county magistrate.
After hearing this, the County Magistrate turned back and forth in the room a few times, “You go to ……”
The first thing he did was to think that the Third Prince’s guards were all masters, so Sheriff Liu was afraid he would be discovered before he even got close to the courtyard where the Third Prince was staying.
Sheriff Liu answered and turned to run outside.
The county magistrate turned around a few more times.
When the Third Prince and Duke Qi went to the academy, he wanted to follow along, but was stopped by the Third Prince, who had a vague feeling that the Third Prince and Duke Qi were not really here this time for the old man’s poisoning ……
After returning, he has been trepidatious.
The third prince entered the courtyard and instructed the guards to take Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi to wait inside the side room and let Dr. Yao go in with them.
When they arrived inside, Duke Qi sat at the table and placed his left hand on the table. Doctor Yao put the medicine box on the floor, took out the pulse pillow and sat opposite him to take his pulse.
The Third Prince lazily sat down on the main seat and gestured for the guards to serve tea.
Imperial Doctor Zheng and Imperial Doctor Liu waited for a good show.
The Duke of Qi was in good health and had hardly suffered any illnesses over the years. He said he was suffering from a persistent illness, just because he wanted to trouble Doctor Yao.
After finishing his left hand, Doctor Yao instructed Duke Qi to extend his right hand, and after both hands were finished, he got up and bowed, “I am a superficial doctor, and I have not diagnosed any old and persistent illnesses in Your Highness.”
“Shallow medical skills?”
The Third Prince fiddled carelessly with his tea leaves, not even raising his eyelids, “You were able to quickly develop an antidote for the ten …… fifteen days of sleep, but you couldn’t even diagnose the Duke’s persistent illness? I think you are not shallow in medical skills, but you do not want to diagnose the State Duke, right?”
“The Third Prince understands ……”
Doctor Yao bent lower at the waist, but did not kneel down, “I am indeed a shallow doctor, why don’t you let the two imperial doctors take his pulse?”
The third prince’s hand fiddling with the tea leaves gave a beat, slightly raising his eyelids to look at him, the harshness in his eyes forced straight at Dr. Yao.
Doctor Yao lowered his head as if he did not feel it.
“I’m just a country doctor, I’m really no match for the two imperial doctors in terms of medical skills, otherwise I wouldn’t have failed to find out what kind of poison the old gentleman was suffering from for so many days. As for developing an antidote, it was purely a fluke. I also ask the Third Prince to let the two imperial doctors show their medical skills, so that the grassroots can gain insight.”
“Bam!”
The Third Prince put the lid on the tea.
Imperial Doctor Zheng and Imperial Doctor Liu jumped in fright.
Doctor Yao still maintained his bowing posture.
“What a fluke! Today, you give this emperor another fluke, if you diagnose the Duke’s stubborn disease correctly, I will spare your life, if you fail to diagnose it, you can break your right hand, lest you use the old gentleman’s matter to sell your reputation and deceive more people in the future.”
“It is true that I cannot find out. I dare not disobey your order, but before I break my right hand, I still want to see the diagnosis of the two imperial doctors, and I hope you will allow me to do so.”
Snap!
The Third Prince copied the tealight and smashed it at his feet, “How dare you, since you are bargaining with this prince!”
Imperial Doctor Zheng and Imperial Doctor Liu were both taken aback.
“The grassroots do not dare.”
Doctor Yao maintained his bowing posture and lowered his head, no difference could be heard in his voice.
The Third Prince was burning with anger, even the Imperial Doctors were respectful when they met him, a countryside doctor dared to stand and talk back to him.
“Kneel down!”
The scattered broken porcelain pieces were at his feet and the tea was running everywhere, so Doctor Yao took two steps back and knelt down.
Imperial Doctor Zheng and Imperial Doctor Liu looked dumbfounded.
The Duke of Qi was also stunned.
The Third Prince’s face was all blue, he had deliberately smashed the tealight on the ground to both injure Doctor Yao and warn Song Wan Yue, not expecting Doctor Yao to dare to back off.
His hand slammed heavily on the tabletop, “How dare you!”
“I dare not!”
The Third Prince wanted to order the guards to pull the man out and kneel, but when he thought of Song Wangyue and Gu Yi being in the side room, he held back again.
“The Third Prince rests his anger.”
The Duke of Qi found a step for him, they couldn’t go too far today, lest word get out about what they were going to do later, “He’s just a country doctor, why should you bother with him? Besides, my persistent illness is not well diagnosed, so I can’t blame him.”
Doctor Yao lifted his head and looked at the Duke of Qi without fear, “I dare to ask, what kind of disease do you have?”
The Duke of Qi choked for a moment.
“Even you can’t answer yourself, I’m afraid you don’t.”
“How dare you!”
The third prince thumped the table again in anger.
Doctor Yao was not intimidated and looked as he always did, “If there really was, you two would not have prevented the imperial doctor from taking the pulse, and today you did not ask me to come along with you, but wanted to make things difficult for me, just because I stole the limelight from the two imperial doctors and made you lose face.”
“Come, men!”
The third prince was irritated.
The guards came in.
“Pull down and kneel!”
The guards stepped forward.
“Hold it!”
Doctor Yao slowed his voice, “Although His Imperial Highness does not have a persistent illness, he has a hidden illness, and if the needles are not administered early, the consequences will be unthinkable.”
“Full of nonsense! Drag ……”
“Hold it!”
The Duke of Qi interrupted the Third Prince and looked at Doctor Yao, “What hidden illness do you say, I have?”
“You must have been injured before and there is bruising in your brain that has not dispersed, if you don’t treat it in time, in time, it will turn into dementia at a lighter level, or you will lose your life at a more serious level.”
The Duke of Qi once again put his hand on the table top, since he woke up from the last time he knocked his head and fainted, he felt dizzy from time to time, could it really be due to the bruises in his brain.
“Imperial Doctor Zheng, you come!”
Imperial Doctor Zheng went over and put his finger on Duke Qi’s pulse with trepidation, and only after a long time did he let go of his hand, with a grave face, “He is right, there is indeed bruising in Duke Qi’s brain.”
The Duke of Qi was greatly alarmed, but he tried his best to steady his mind and spoke in a deep voice, “Is it as serious as he says?”
“This ……”
Zheng imperial doctor did not dare to answer, after the Duke of Qi fainted, the emperor sent the imperial doctor over to treat him, it was reasonable to say that there should not be bruises left in the brain, but now not only was there, there was quite a lot, and he did not know to what extent it would be.
The Duke of Qi’s heart sank.
“Just tell the truth.”
Imperial Doctor Zheng rose in a panic and bowed, avoiding the seriousness of the situation. “Back to the words of the State Duke, this Doctor Yao is right, you need to perform the needle in time.”
The Duke of Qi’s sunken gaze looked over, and Imperial Doctor Zheng didn’t even dare to raise his head.
He was not the one who had diagnosed and treated the Duke of Qi’s illness in the first place, and if he said too much, it would be bad for his colleagues, and if he said less, he could not afford it in case something happened to the Duke of Qi.
“How long will it take?”
“This ……”
Imperial Doctor Zheng looked to Doctor Yao, he really wasn’t sure, plus he didn’t want to treat Duke Qi in case there was any accident.