That night, ZiLi tossed and turned in bed, covered in a fine sweat, feeling unbearably hot! Angrily kicking off the quilt, he soon felt chills all over his body. After struggling like this for a while, feeling utterly uncomfortable, he just threw off the quilt and sat up. Outside the window, shadows of trees swayed in the cool breeze.
Licking his dry lips, ZiLi got out of bed and poured himself a cup of tea. The cold tea went down his throat, making his body shiver a few times! He felt his hands and feet, then hugged his arms close and returned to the not-so-warm bed.
The next day, Ming Yue, estimating the time ZiLi would wake up, gently pushed open the door of ZiLi’s room with Chun Lan and the others, carrying hot water. Lifting the curtains, they saw ZiLi still curled up under the blanket, sleeping soundly, with only a small tuft of soft long hair scattered on the pillow.
“Your Highness, Your Highness? It’s time to get up!”
The person in bed did not move at all.
“Your Highness, it is already morning!” Ming Yue tried again, tentatively. But ZiLi still did not respond at all. On any other day, even if he did not want to get up, he would at least mutter and turn over, burying himself under the pillow to keep sleeping, but he had never been this quiet before.
“Is he sick?” Chun Lan behind her put down the copper tray, leaned closer and suddenly asked.
Ming Yue frowned slightly and stepped forward, lifting the quilt covering ZiLi’s head. Sure enough, it revealed an unusually flushed face with furrowed brows. Touching his forehead, she found it was scalding hot!
“Quick, summon a Court Physician, and inform His Majesty that His Highness has fallen ill!”
Ming Yue wrung out a cloth, and wiped away the fine sweat on ZiLi’s face. She then rinsed it again, folded it neatly, and placed it on ZiLi’s forehead.
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After waiting for a while without seeing a Court Physician, it was actually Hong Xu who hurriedly arrived. He had just been reviewing Memorials in the Imperial study when he heard the report from the servants of Xia He Palace and immediately dropped his work to rush over. Ignoring the kneeling servants in the room, Hong Xu went straight to the bedside. He saw ZiLi’s face flushed red, unable to tell whether the other had fainted or was asleep. He leaned down and touched the other’s burning cheek, his heart could not help but tighten. He had only been away for one day, and yet ZiLi had ended up like this. Baby, you really know how to make a person worry!“Have you summoned a Court Physician?” Hong Xu asked without looking up.
“We have!” Ming Yue hurriedly replied.
“Here, I am here――” The panting Court Physician, holding his official hat, stumbled in and sank to his knees on the ground, bowing anxiously. “Your subject greets Your Majesty!”
Ah, why did he have to be on duty today! Recently, they in the Imperial Medicine Hall had been under tremendous mental strain. Every time there was a slightest whiff of trouble with the Prince of Bei Ling, they had to be fully prepared, ready to face death, because they never knew when His Majesty might suddenly say, ‘Drag him out and behead him!’ Their days were spent in constant fear, as if they were walking on thin ice!
Hong Xu was very displeased with his tardiness. “All right, hurry up and examine him!”
“Yes, yes!”
ZiLi felt his head heavy as a stone, his throat dry and rough, his body burning hot, and his limbs so weak that he could not even move a finger. The quilt wrapped around him made it hard to breathe, and he was drenched in sweat!
“Ah, His Highness seems to be having a seizure!” someone exclaimed in alarm! Then, the sound of chaotic footsteps followed.
“You useless piece of trash. A simple fever has been bothering him for two days and you still cannot cure it. Are you just eating your way through this job
混饭吃
Hùn fàn chī
Joining a team but hardly contribute something valuable.
1 as a Court Physician?”
Hùn fàn chī
Joining a team but hardly contribute something valuable.
“Forg…… please forgive me, Your Majesty!”
“Someone, take off his black gauze hat
乌纱帽
WūShāMào
A black gauze hat worn by an imperial official as a sign of his position.
Something like this, I think:
2 , expel him from the Capital, and forbid him from practicing medicine ever again!”
WūShāMào
A black gauze hat worn by an imperial official as a sign of his position.
Something like this, I think:
“Your Majesty……”
“What are you all standing around for? Summon the ‘Holder of Panacea’!”
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Feeling a pair of strong hands massaging his limbs, ZiLi groaned in pain, then his consciousness faded, and he fell unconscious……***
“Tell me, why are you so foolish, ah!” Sitting leisurely with his legs crossed on a stone bench under the tree, the ‘Holder of Panacea’ took a small sip of a top-notch cup of Tieguanyin tea and glanced at Mo Shou
It has been a long time since Mo Shou was last mentioned. He was the first person ZiLi met after sneaking out of his palace around chapter 5.
3 , who was busy washing and drying herbs, saying. “I offered to take you as a disciple, but you would not accept, insisting on working like a horse in this miserable place!”
“Thank you for your kindness, but according to the palace rules, we are not allowed to study medicine privately!” Mo Shou stopped his work and looked seriously at the man in the black veil hat opposite him. Ever since his theft of medicine was exposed, he had been driven here by Imperial Physician Li to do hard labor. Every day he divided, washed, dried, and collected herbs, until he was exhausted! And this strange man in front of him from who knows where kept insisting on making him his disciple!
“Why care about such rigid rules! If you agree to be my disciple, nothing else will be a problem. How about it? It is rare for me to be in the mood to take a disciple. Do you know how many people have offered me large sums of money to take them as a disciple, and I refused? Now I am offering to teach you for free, and you still do not want it? It’s truly unreasonable!”
“Thank you for your kindness! But…… I am a criminal, I don’t dare hope for such a thing!”
Tell me, is your brain made of wood? I have told you these things are not worth mentioning! As long as I say a few words to that hot-tempered man, well, although we had some minor disputes before, as long as his beloved is still there, he cannot do anything to me. So, the crime on you is a trivial matter!” To win over this kid, he had really wasted a lot of breath! If the other still did not agree, he would have to resort to kidnapping! This kid had extraordinary potential, and though a bit slow, his talent in medicine was limitless! Now that he had found him, he absolutely could not let him go!
Seeing Mo Shou still looking dumbfounded, the ‘Holder of Panacea’ became even more frustrated. Just as he was about to say something to scold him, a little palace eunuch ran over, and panting and sweating, he bowed, saying, “Your excellency ‘Holder of Panacea’, His Majesty requests your presence. Our Prince has fallen ill!”
“I neither receive his official’s salary nor am I his Court Physician, so why does he always call on me for labor! Are those Court Physicians he keeps just for show?”
“This humble servant deserves to die, please Your Excellency calm your anger!” The little palace eunuch, thinking his words had offended this person whom His Majesty had ordered to be treated as an honored guest, was already so frightened that he fell to the ground with a thud and kept kowtowing repeatedly.
Hearing that his big brother Su
For if anyone forgot, but ZiLi’s full name is Su ZiLi.
4 had fallen ill again, Mo Shou could not help but feel a wave of worry. Since he had been stripped of his position as a medicine attendant and demoted to this place, he had not been able to see ZiLi even once. Not long ago, he had heard that ZiLi had been poisoned and remained unconscious for a while, and just recently recovered with great difficulty, but now he was sick again!
“All right, all right, I am not an official or your master, no need to kowtow to me!”
“Please, Your Excellency, go see our Prince! Please Your Excellency go see our Prince……” The little palace eunuch was unyielding, continuing to kowtow with the determination that he would not stop until the other agreed!
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“Truly, if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked
上梁不正下梁歪
Shàng liáng bùzhèng xià liáng wāi.
Subordinates imitate their superiors’ vices.
5 . The master is unruly, so are the servants, both so persistently troublesome! Well, lead the way!” the ‘Holder of Panacea’ said discontentedly.
Shàng liáng bùzhèng xià liáng wāi.
Subordinates imitate their superiors’ vices.
Hearing this, the little palace eunuch was overjoyed and quickly jumped up to lead the way.
By the time the ‘Holder of Panacea’ arrived at Xia He Palace, ZiLi had already stopped having seizures. When Hong Xu saw the ‘Holder of Panacea’ dawdling at the doorway, he felt a strong urge to go up and kick the other a few times, but reason told him that he absolutely could not! So, Hong Xu controlled his temper and said, “He has had a fever for two days, and has taken medicine, but there has been no effect at all!”
The ‘Holder of Panacea’ strolled over to ZiLi’s bedside, felt the other’s forehead, and lifted the other’s eyelids, saying, “This does not look like an ordinary fever. These are symptoms of chickenpox!”
“Chickenpox?” Hong Xu frowned, “Isn’t that something only children get?”
“Not necessarily! Look at his neck and body, aren’t there many small red spots?”
“Ah? There really are!” Ming Yue exclaimed softly. She had not noticed before, thinking it was just a fever, so she had kept ZiLi tightly covered with the quilt!
“Then what should we do?”
“It is just chickenpox, it won’t kill him! Just don’t let the patient get exposed to wind and keep his diet light. When the chickenpox breaks out, his body will itch, so just prevent him from scratching excessively!” the ‘Holder of Panacea’ said indifferently.
Without waiting for orders, they had already closed the surrounding doors and windows.
“Then how long until he gets better?”
“About ten days or so.”
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