“Rest in peace, Your Majesty!”
The crowd of eunuch doctors and the palace staff serving in the shop knelt down.
The emperor wanted to open his mouth to curse, but just as his mouth opened, saliva was about to come out, and he hurriedly closed it again, staring at the crowd of eunuch doctors with a gloomy gaze.
They were all useless trash!
Not only could they not diagnose that he had been killed! They couldn’t even cure him!
“Pen!”
He squeezed a word out of his teeth.
Eunuch Huang busily got up and brought over the small table with pens, ink, paper and inkstones prepared to one side.
The emperor wrote down a few words, “Proclaim the divine doctor to come here!”
Eunuch Huang quickly went and sent someone over.
For some reason, the emperor always felt that the divine doctor looked familiar, but after thinking about it for days, he couldn’t remember when he had seen him.
“Greetings, Your Majesty.”
Doctor Yao saluted.
Facing him, the Emperor’s face eased considerably and he put pen to paper and wrote a line: When will I be well?
Eunuch Huang came over and brought it over to Doctor Yao.
“This is not something the herbalist can be sure of. As I said at the beginning, you have been in a coma for too long and your internal organs have been damaged to varying degrees, so I can only guarantee that you will wake up, and as to how much you will recover, I cannot guarantee that.”
The Emperor’s face, which had just eased a little, sank again.
As if he did not see it, Doctor Yao continued, “At the beginning, the Crown Prince promised me that he would give me ten thousand taels of gold as long as you woke up, and now that you have recovered better than expected, I would like to ask you to let the Crown Prince keep his promise.”
“Ten thousand, ten thousand, ten thousand taels?”
The emperor spat out these words with difficulty, and there was saliva running down the corners of his mouth. He scrambled to wipe it, almost bringing over the small table, thanks to the quick eyes of Eunuch Huang who held it in place.
There was dead silence in the chambers.
But as if he didn’t notice, Doctor Yao shook his head, “I’ve done my best, I’ve used all my skills to heal Your Majesty.
The emperor wanted to pick up the inkstone and smash it over, but then held back.
When he woke up, he knew that the divine doctor was Xu Yan’s old friend, so he guessed that the divine doctor must have a connection with the Ding Guo Gong House. But no one could heal him except the divine doctor, so he did not ask anyone to take him down.
Since he was so insensitive ……
The Emperor raised his pen and quickly wrote, “Send the man back, without my order, he is not allowed to leave the palace!”
Only Eunuch Huang saw this line and walked up to Doctor Yao, “Divine Doctor, I will send you back.”
Doctor Yao did not move.
“Your Majesty, the herbalist wants to leave the palace.”
“Where are the words of the divine doctor? Your Majesty is not yet well, how can you leave the palace?”
Without waiting for Doctor Yao to say anything else, he raised his voice and called out for a few junior eunuchs to come in and send the man back with a half-push, half-invitation.
The eunuchs all saw the change in the Emperor’s attitude, and no one dared to say a word. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to plead for the divine doctor, but if the divine doctor left the palace, they alone would not be able to cure the emperor.
The commotion here soon reached the Prince’s ears.
After hearing this, the Crown Prince put down his memo and hurriedly came to his chambers, but was stopped by Eunuch Huang at the door, “Your Highness, the Emperor is in a bad mood, so you should not go in at this time.”
“The Crown Prince can’t go in, can my palace go in?”
Consort Xiao Xianfei walked over slowly with her palace staff.
“Your Majesty.”
Eunuch Huang saluted respectfully.
Consort Xiao Xian stood in front of him and looked at him indifferently, “Eunuch Huang hasn’t answered my palace, can this palace go in?”
“Your Majesty will be a moment, my servant will go in and ask the Emperor for instructions.”
After saying this, he turned and walked quickly into the house, quickly turning back, “Your Majesty, please.”
When Consort Xiao Xian entered the hall, she saw the Emperor sitting against the bed, slowly stepped forward and bowed, “Greetings, Your Majesty.”
The attitude was worlds away from the previous days when the Emperor had just woken up.
The emperor naturally felt it and smiled bitterly, pointing to the crooked corner of his mouth and lifting his pen again to write down a quick line, “Does Concubine Ai blame me?
“I dare not, all that I have today is from Your Majesty, naturally Your Majesty wants to see me if you want to, but not if you don’t.”
Hearing the resentment in her words, the emperor simply put down the pen and spoke vaguely, “It’s not that I don’t want to see you, but I’m afraid you’ll see me in this state.”
When he said the first word, his saliva came out, and he didn’t wipe it, by the time he finished, it was already running down the corner of his mouth and onto his clothes.
Consort Xiao Xian could see it clearly, and her eyes suddenly turned red.
She took out her own handkerchief and went forward to wipe it for His Majesty, her words choked with sobs, “Your Majesty, no matter what kind, is the best in my heart, so why do you need to hide it from me?”
The emperor’s eyes crossed with coldness, but he raised his hand to pat her hand and once again put pen to paper: you are my favorite person, I naturally don’t want you to see me like this, and also, don’t tell Johnnie that I am like this now.
“I know, I will not tell.”
The emperor wrote again: Today the divine doctor said there was nothing more he could do for my illness, I think he was telling lies, that’s why I didn’t let him go out of the palace, if you want me to recover, help me to beg him.
Consort Xiao Xian nodded her head without any hesitation.
The emperor revealed his first comforting smile in days, put down his pen, grabbed her hand and gently rubbed it.
After staying for half an hour, seeing that His Majesty was a little tired, Consort Xiao helped Him to lie down, covered Him with the quilt and sat by the bedside to keep watch, waiting until His Majesty was fully asleep before coming out gently.
“Mother Consort ……”
The crown prince quickly stepped forward.
Consort Xiao Xian made a shushing gesture and whispered, “Your father is fine, he just woke up and his body is still weak, you don’t need to worry, go and deal with the zhengqi, Mother Consort is also going back to the palace.”
The crown prince looked towards the palace with a worried face for a few moments before reluctantly withdrawing his gaze.
Consort Xiao Xian looked at him and spoke softly, “In a few days, when your father is feeling better, he will be able to see you.”
“Really?”
The prince’s eyes lit up.
Consort Xiao Xian nodded.
The crown prince was ecstatic, “Then, then my son will go and deal with the zheng now, and when father is well, I want to stay by his side all day.”
“Go on.”
The prince saluted and then turned to leave, his steps flying.
When his figure disappeared, the smile on Consort Xiao Xian’s face receded and she ordered, “Go and see the divine doctor.”
The palace guards hurriedly carried the sedan chair over.
But Consort Xiao did not see anyone.
The divine physician naturally had a temper, and after being forced to return, he had the medicine boy throw out the palace staff who were serving him, shut the door and didn’t see anyone.
Xiao Xianfei begged for a long time at the door, but the doctor did not budge, saying that he had done his best, and that he could either pay 10,000 taels of gold to get him out of the palace, or he would starve to death in the palace.
Xiao Xianfei had to send Xu Yan into the palace to persuade the divine doctor.
When Xu Yan received the summons, he hurriedly entered the palace. When the divine doctor saw him, he cursed, “Look at the good student you have taught, the crown prince has gone back on his word. I’ve saved him, but not only did I not get a single tael of gold, I’m still trapped in this palace!”