54. Ask for medicine
The trees were lush and the mottled shadows enveloped the two of them.
Changle was shocked. He walked forward two steps and patted Qiao Yu's head hard, "What are you saying, "I'm alive, I'm saying that the life of the palace master is expensive. We have a cheap life. Don't you take yourself seriously?"
Qiao Yu knew that he was doing his own good. That was what he said just now. It was not to threaten Changle with himself. He shook his head. "I take myself seriously, so I don't want to endure hardships or suffer. You are all taking care of me and treating me well. But he is different. My life and I are connected together, living and dying together."
Changle glared at Qiao Yu in a very regretful way, not believing in the deep friendship between his master and slave.
He was once assigned to a concubine's palace when he was young. The nobleman was not favored, and he was only fortunate for one or two times. Emperor Yuande forgot it and never looked for her again. It was probably because of his long loneliness, and he was bullied by the eunuch who was not favored by the dictionary. The nobleman hated the eunuch poisoned the eunuch, and often asked some small eunuchs to go back and peel off their clothes and beat and scolded him. Changle was beaten hard once, and had a few teeth lost, and could not get off the bed, and he was about to survive. It was Anping who knelt on the sidelines Liu for a few days, and after saying all the good things, he took Changle to the imperial kitchen from there.
The lives of this person are different from each other, and the slave and the master are all different, so there is no need to talk about anything else.
Qiao Yu looked up at him and said vaguely: "Even if you don't believe me and him, then you and Anping, if he is sick and injured, Changle, would you be willing to wait that way?"
He didn't want to. Changle always warned Qiao Yu and warned Anping that there was no real relationship in the palace, so no one believed it. But if Anping really involved, Changle would rather take things into consideration and die for him.
Changle's lips trembled slightly and he stopped talking.
After a long silence, he sighed, "You are so sarcastic. I can't tell you, but you're talking first, and you'll show you a way. After leaving this door, I just pretend that I haven't said this. I won't recognize anyone. If you have something to do, you will bear it yourself. If you want to die, you will die by yourself and have nothing to do with me."
Qiao Yu took a few deep breaths and nodded vigorously.
The rules in the palace are that all eunuchs and maids who get sick must be sent to Jianan West Cuban to rest in Jianan. In that place, there are only a few doctors who are just like medical books, and they have no medicinal materials. They rely on themselves to bear the medicine. The more they are, the worse they become, and they will probably not be able to get out after entering. However, some slaves are more favored, or if they save money, they will hide their illness and secretly go to the imperial physician to see a doctor. Although the imperial physicians look down on them, the money they deliver to the door has no reason to be released, and most of them will be rejected and half-rejected.
Among them, the Imperial Doctor Xun, named Xun Le, was most jealous of money. As long as he could give enough money, he would dare to treat anyone and not be afraid of anything. However, his identity was a little different. He was very skilled in medicine. He was an old Imperial Doctor from three dynasties. A few years ago, he went to war with the army and returned to the capital with the life of Emperor Yuande and saved Emperor Yuande. Later, he got older and had no energy. Emperor Yuande wanted to let him go back to his hometown to support him, but he was unwilling to kneel down and beg Emperor Yuande to give him the grace of the old and dead palace.
There is probably this relationship inside, and Emperor Yuande turned a blind eye to what he did and did not pursue it.
Changle agreed that he would not care about Qiao Yu, but he still couldn't bear it. He took a set of old clothes from the past, and used branches to draw a map of the Imperial Hospital and the positions of the Imperial Doctors at the table. He asked him to remember it, and then he sent Qiao Yu out.
Qiao Yu didn't remember the road very much, so she had to use the charcoal ash pulled out of the stove to draw a map on her inner clothes, and carefully lifted the clothes, afraid that if she accidentally touched them, the map would become blurred and unrecognizable.
The matter was urgent. He didn't plan to wait for the meal, so he put four steamed buns in his sleeves. One of them was stuffed with meat and smelled very fragrant. He wanted to give it to Jing Yan. The Imperial Hospital was a bit far away in the imperial kitchen, and Qiao Yu had to hide from the patrolling guards. He arrived at the Imperial Hospital in all kinds of difficulties and dangers.
Most imperial physicians usually live in the palace, and they can only go back to their own residence when they take turns to rest. Doctor Xun’s house is at the innermost point, separated from the yard in front of them by a small river, and they also planted a row of weeping willows, which is very hidden, and ordinary people cannot see the movement inside.
Qiao Yu sneaked in secretly. Doctor Xun was having lunch, and it seemed that his eyes were growing on his back. He tiptoed in and heard the skinny old man say, "Are you here to steal things, or come to see a doctor?"
Qiao Yu is cowardly.
Xun Le turned his head. He was very old and had a long beard, almost covering most of his face. He was as thin as an old pine tree, and his eyes were calm.
He looked at Qiao Yu casually, then turned his head back, muttering, "You are here for me without illness or disaster. Are you really going to steal something? Even if you are too stupid."
Qiao Yu pursed her lips and walked to the front of Doctor Xun. After hesitating for a moment, she still knelt down and begged earnestly, word by word: "I want to ask you to save someone."
Changle told Qiao Yu that Doctor Xun was a strange old man. He had no wife or children, no relatives or friends, and was alone. He was best to make money in his life, but he treated him very hard on himself. He changed his clothes and had patched them all, and even wore a wooden crown with a missing corner for many years. In addition, there was another point, that is, he must know who he treated for.
Doctor Xun glanced at him casually, and did not ask him to get up, saying, "Tell me, who should I save?"
Qiao Yu has been an eunuch for so long, and she has not been bullied much because she is satisfied with her. She has not been bullied much yet. She still thinks that when she was at home, she only had to kowtow a few times a year when she worshiped her ancestors on New Year's Eve, but she didn't know that in the palace, her knees are the most valuable thing.
He closed his eyes slightly, straightened his spine, and was afraid to say that word because he was too afraid of being rejected.
However, there is no other way to go, there is nothing.
Qiao Yu said: "Please save the eldest prince, the eldest prince of Taiqing Palace."
This is a taboo in the palace. Although Emperor Yuande did not attack Jing Yan, he hated this son who was full of blood in the Chen family. Feng Nannan and Jing Xu hated Jing Yan to the core, and he couldn't listen to his name.
The expression of Doctor Xun remained unchanged. He drank a sip of wine and didn't even look at Qiao Yu. "I treated that person for him. I could not just take his life into it. Why bother? I haven't even lived yet. Are you so young, aren't you afraid?"
After hearing this, Qiao Yu thought she had refused. No matter how straight the back was, her whole body almost collapsed. She shook her head weakly, and after a while, she struggled to explain, "His life is the same as mine."
When Doctor Xun heard this, he smiled strangely and slowly stretched out his three fingers, just in front of Qiao Yu, "Look, this person's identity is related to the old man's life; this person's life is related to your life, plus his own, this is amazing. One life is worth three lives of others."
Qiao Yu stared at his fingers in a daze, gritted his teeth and prepared to stand up. Anyway, he had already arrived at the Imperial Hospital, and there were so many Imperial Doctors, and he wanted to go there one by one.
But unexpectedly, Doctor Xun said something, and he smiled, but his pupils were cold, "So, what price do you want to pay? How high is the price that can be worth these three lives."
Qiao Yu took out all the New Year's money that Jing Yan gave him over the years, and all the valuable things that could be brought out from the Taiqing Palace. He gave all of them to Physician Xun, so anxious that he couldn't even say clearly. "If these are not enough, I have a glass lamp imported from the West, worth a thousand gold."
Doctor Xun counted these gold and silver ingots and jade beads and said to Qiao Yu: "These are indeed not enough, they can only be worth two people's lives at most. You are not allowed to owe debts when you see a doctor here. This money is the same as human life and cannot be owed. Besides, since that person is worth your life, you have to take out something worth your life."
Qiao Yu half-closed her eyes and supported the ground with both hands. He was so sad that he could almost be easily broken, and he was still struggling to death, thinking in a daze, what else he had and what could be worthy of his life.
He gritted his teeth and took out the jade pendant hanging around his neck. He raised his eyes and looked blurred. He whispered: "This is the jade pendant given to me by my grandmother. I asked from Lin'an Temple to bless me with peace and safety. Since I was a child, I had to like my grandmother. My parents were both tired of me and I had never given anything to me. Later, they all died, and the only thing left at home was this jade pendant. I have worn it for eighteen years. Can this be considered my life?"
At the end of the conversation, Qiao Yu's throat was even more swallowed, and she was almost unable to speak. This was one of the most precious things on his body. Another one was the Buddhist beads that the prince gave him on New Year's Eve six years ago. Both things were equally important and accompanied each other day and night, just like two pieces of meat on his body.
No matter which one I gave up, it will be painful for a long time and the wound will not heal.
Doctor Xun finally smiled with satisfaction. He carefully weighed the jade pendant, put it in his arms, and asked, "I can't get into Taiqing Palace. I can't look at it, ask about it, and ask it. I can only ask about his symptoms from you and think about the medicine. Even so, are you willing to pay me this grandmother's jade pendant?"
Without a moment of hesitation, Qiao Yu nodded and told Jing Yan about the symptoms from last night to this morning to Doctor Xun little by little.
Although Doctor Xun was greedy for money, his medical skills were really superb. Usually, when a doctor heard the symptoms, he could at most diagnose a hot cold. However, he pondered for a long time before saying: "I listened to the symptoms, it was not like a hot cold. It was like a cold wind entering the body, causing the heart and lungs. This disease came quickly and violently, and the disease became more and more serious. If it was not treated in time, the injured heart and lungs would not be able to be recovered, and the root of the disease would be left and the body would be weak for a lifetime."
Qiao Yu was frightened and had to lean against the door to continue to hold on. Doctor Xun grabbed two pieces of medicine. If Jing Yan didn't cough after going back, he would take the hot cold medicine. But if he coughed severely, it would probably hurt his heart and lungs, so he had to decoct another medicine.
He was looking forward to going back to Jingyan and not coughing, it was just a normal fever.
When I arrived in front of the Taiqing Palace, it was already too late, and it was already past the usual time. In the past, Qiao Yu was playing outside and was as an excuse, so the guards in front of him didn't dare to do anything to him, but now that he has gone to southern Xinjiang, Qiao Yu is like a stripped hedgehog with no protection.
The new guard looked down on Qiao Yu a little, and wanted to show his majesty. He finally caught Qiao Yu's handle, took the rules in the palace to make a move, and wanted to hit Qiao Yu's board. The other guard was the one who was originally with Lu Zhao. When Qiao Yu was very soft-hearted, he had no authority and had weak temper. Finally, he persuaded him for a long time and changed the board to a calve.
Qiao Yu did not resist, nor did she dare, for fear of being found out that the medicine bag hidden on her body was found. She rolled her trouser legs and was trembling by the broken willow branches, so she couldn't even stand.
He didn't dare to see what his calves looked like. He finally couldn't hold on until he walked into Taiqing Palace. He fell down and tears wet a small area in front of him.
Chapter completed!