Chapter 68 Section sixty-seven

On the second day of her stay in the Summer Palace, the Empress Dowager Cixi was eating carelessly and had a stomachache. When she summoned the military aircraft, she complained a lot. "The emperor's illness is getting worse and worse. The medicines given by Zhang Pengnian and Shi Huan on the first shift are useless. What kind of famous doctor is there? I think it's just a name. Pulse." Empress Dowager Cixi asked by name: "Zhang Zhidong, you usually have illnesses, who do you ask for advice?" "If the minister's family is sick, I always ask Lu Yongbin to come and see it. It's very effective."

"Okay! Let Lu Yongbin come to see you!" Lu Yongbin and Du Zhongjun were in the third class, one round every two months, and it was still very early, so there was a wealthy family in Nangong whose only son was suffering from typhoid fever, and they were hired sincerely, so Lu Yongbin went there with confidence.However, the palace suddenly summoned him, and the Lu family immediately sent a car to pick him up from the Nangong overnight, but he couldn't enter the door, and went straight to the Summer Palace to wait for orders. I got my pulse and prescribed a prescription before I had to go home and catch up on some sleep.When the dream was in full swing, someone woke him up, "Hurry up, hurry up!" His aunt said, "Zhang Zhongtang sent someone to invite you to go right away. I'm afraid the old lady's illness will change."

Hearing the last sentence, Lu Yongbin was taken aback, drove away the remaining drowsiness, and sat on the edge of the bed in a daze. "What's the matter! Are you getting out of bed?" "No way!" Lu Yongbin said to himself: "The medicine can never be used wrong! How can it be that the condition of the disease has changed?" "That's my guess. Hurry up, and you'll know when you get to Zhang Zhongtang." "What?" Lu Yongbin asked, "You are at Zhang Zhongtang's house, not entering the palace?" "Who told you to enter the palace?"

"Hey! I was shocked." Lu Yongbin took a deep breath, "It must be Zhang Zhongtang who wants to ask me something!" Sure enough, Zhang Zhidong had something to ask.It turned out that there was the word "diabetes" on Lu Yongbin's pulse case, and the Empress Dowager Cixi was very upset. "Doctor Lu!" Zhang Zhidong said with a sullen face, "The Empress Dowager has also read "Historical Records", "Hanshu", and Tang poetry, and knows the allusion of 'Wenyuan sickness and thirst'. She asked me, 'Lu Yongbin said that I am thirsty, what should I do?" Where did you get the thirst?' I have no answer."

Lu Yongbin was really like the saying "Zhang Er King Kong can't figure it out". After thinking about it for a while, he finally remembered, "It must be a mistake of thirst." He said: "Diarrhea must be thirsty, there must be a reason." "How can thirst be written as thirst? How can you be so careless when offering to the imperial court?" Lu Yongbin felt disgusted when he heard his tone of teaching, and immediately replied: "There are also occasional typos." "If it was decades earlier, this typo could ruin your life!" Although the tone was still serious, but out of goodwill, Lu Yongbin stopped arguing with him, but just argued: "There is a clerical error in the pulse record, but the medicine is good! I am sure that the queen mother's dysentery, three doses will be safe, in the future as long as Eat less greasy, cold food, and it will not relapse."

"Are you really sure?" "Have." "Well, you can still serve as usual tomorrow." Sure enough, Lu Yongbin's medicine was very effective, and because of this, Empress Dowager Cixi no longer pursued the disrespectful mistake of mistaking thirst for quenching thirst. The emperor's illness was just the opposite. Not only did it not improve, but it seemed to be dying.Half of this is caused by anxiety. I don't know how to deal with the red tape of the Queen Mother Wanshou because of my sick bones?Every time I think of serving meals and listening to operas, from morning to night, standing for a whole day, dizzy, cold sweating, but still have to grit my teeth and force myself to support myself, I feel palpitations.What's worse, Wanshou can't last this year!I don't know if it's in the Hall of Qinzheng or in front of the stage, once he falls down, maybe he can't afford it.The emperor wanted to do this without feeling sorry for himself, so he often said in tears: "The empress dowager's day is coming soon, I am so ill, I can't salute the empress dowager, what should I do? "

This word reached the ears of the Empress Dowager Cixi, she felt sympathy, so she went to Princess Rongshou to discuss, how should she sympathize with the emperor? "As long as he has a little bit of filial piety, I don't care if he can give me a salute. However, there are more and more people who like to spread rumors. If we say that we usually do things as usual, and suddenly don't show up on my birthday, it's not a big deal." Appropriate. So, what I mean is, if the emperor wants to ask for leave, he has to do it earlier." When Princess Rongshou heard the words "the emperor asks for leave", she couldn't help but think of Pu Jun being expelled from the palace in Kaifeng, someone accused him of being the "vacant prince", which was also a new topic.However, as soon as the emperor asked for leave, she was afraid that the matter would be too important for her to express her opinion when there was no more leave to be sold, so she kept silent.

The Empress Dowager Cixi let Princess Rongshou accompany her for more than forty years. Of course, she knew her feelings well. Silence was not a tacit approval, but an expression of disapproval.So he asked, "Is there any other good way?" "No!" "Even if you can't think of a good way, then there is really no good way. I think it's better to do it according to my idea!" "Yes!" Princess Rongshou suddenly thought that she had to choose the next best thing, and she should leave a foreshadowing: "Let the emperor take care of it for a few days, and on the day when Lafayette is happy, the emperor will be in good spirits, and salute to Lafayette as usual." .”

"Of course! It's my mother's birthday. No son kowtows. No matter how lively the birthday is, it's meaningless." Empress Dowager Cixi paused and said, "Let's start together from the beginning of October! You tell the emperor what I mean." "yes!" So Princess Rongshou was ordered to go to the emperor's bedroom to deliver the decree. She thought of many words of comfort along the way, but when she arrived at the emperor's bedroom, she suddenly found that among the eunuchs following her were Cui Yugui, Xiao Dezhang, and the eunuch from the respect room. , suddenly realized that he was also under surveillance!

Therefore, almost all the manuscripts she typed were useless, and she only calmly declared the "virtue and meaning" of Empress Dowager Cixi, and then withdrew.On the way back to his life, he deliberately climbed the Buddhist Incense Pavilion at the highest point of Longevity Mountain, burned a stick of incense sincerely, prayed silently to the Bodhisattva, and bless the emperor. Hajj blessings.