Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 22 Female Medical Officer

A little west, in the warm pavilion.

Under the service of Mu Xiang, Zhu Zhen was washed in vain, and lay comfortably on the big soft bed.

He thought the previous mattress was too hard, so Mu Xiang replaced it with several freshly dried quilts to make the bed, and lying on it finally had the feeling of immersion he had been pursuing.

"Mu Xiang, how did this quilt dry in the sun? It's still so fluffy after several days?" Zhu Zhen asked curiously.

"It's enough to be in the sun every day." Mu Xiang covered her mouth and chuckled, since His Highness fell into the water, it seemed like a different person.In many places, it is not particular, but in some strange places, it is inexplicably particular.

"Is it so troublesome?"

"Don't bother, this is the maidservant's job." Mu Xiang smiled sweetly, and then she straightened up, stood upright, clasped fists with both hands, pressed her left hand with her right hand, bowed her head, bowed her knees, and performed a solemn Wanfu salute.

"What are you doing?" Zhu Zhen was puzzled.

"Maidservant, congratulations to Your Highness on your great achievement." Mu Xiang's big eyes were filled with admiration, "No one else knows, and this maidservant doesn't know. Is it all thanks to Your Highness that Your Majesty is able to come back this time?"

"Hey, that's right, you're also an accomplice." Zhu Zhen regained his energy immediately, Li Yu sat up straight, and finally could start bragging: "It's a pity you didn't see that woman serving tea to my concubine and apologizing. That's a lot of fun..."

"What a pity." Mu Xiang sighed regretfully.

"It's all right, why don't you ask me?" His Royal Highness King Chu said happily.

"What scene is it?" Mu Xiang was also very cooperative.

"I'll tell you..." Zhu Zhen began to boast.

While listening with relish, Mu Xiang served him a bowl of water and snacks for supper.

The little fat man felt much more comfortable now. Although he was full of warmth and thinking about that...but he was still a child, and he didn't have any thoughts about that. Instead, he thought of those poor women in the Nei'an Letang.

"Mu Xiang, you said before that you can't get out after entering the Nei'an Music Hall, so why is the one next to my mother, that..." Zhu Zhen said with gestures: "Can you come out?"

"Your Highness is saying that we are Miao Shanggong? She voluntarily went in with the empress. When the empress came out, she naturally followed back." Mu Xiang said with a look of admiration: "Aunt Miao looks fierce, but she is a top One is good!"

"So that's how it is." Zhu Zhen was stunned, thinking that it's no wonder that the mother and concubine can live so comfortably in the cold palace.With such a big and round female bodyguard following her, who would dare to bully her?

"Then what about the other people? Just stay inside for the rest of their lives and can't come out?" He asked back to the topic.

"There's nothing you can do about it. There have been plagues in the palace several times in the past, and several empresses, as well as His Royal Highness's ninth younger brother Zhao Wang, all died like this." Mu Xiang explained:

"That's why there was a rule later. If the eunuchs are seriously ill, they will be sent to the Outer Anle Hall. If the female officials and palace maids are seriously ill, they will be sent to the Inner Anle Hall. If they can make it through and survive, they will be sent to the clothes washing bureau outside the palace. Anyway Can't come back."

"People eat whole grains, how can there be someone who doesn't get sick?" Zhu Zhen was puzzled, "Could it be that if you are sick, you will be sent to the Anle Hall, how many people are there left in the palace?"

"Of course not all of them will be sent. Those who can handle minor illnesses and disasters will be overcome." Mu Xiang whispered with some self-injury:
"Only those who are seriously ill will be sent away."

"Isn't this nonsense? Most diseases are not contagious." Zhu Zhen became more and more puzzled, "Could it be that the imperial doctor doesn't even understand this truth?"

"The imperial doctor treats His Highness and ladies, how can we servants be so blessed?" Mu Xiang sighed faintly.

"The imperial doctor can't treat you?"

"No, this is the rule. Because the palace is strictly forbidden, no one is allowed to enter the inner court unless there is a summons. Only when the empress is seeing a doctor, the imperial physician can enter the palace according to the order. The female officials and palace servants under the concubine are not allowed to be summoned if they are sick. Doctors who enter the hospital can only 'discuss evidence and obtain medicine.'”

"About the symptoms?" Zhu Zhen didn't understand.

"The father-in-law of the Royal Pharmacy will tell the patient's symptoms to the Tai Hospital, and then the imperial doctor will write a prescription and send it in, and the Royal Pharmacy will follow the prescription to prescribe the medicine." Mu Xiang explained:

"This is the treatment only honorable female officials and palace maids can enjoy. If the idle palace people don't give you money, who will do the work for you?"

"Will the eunuch in the imperial pharmacy see a doctor?"

"The emperor forbids eunuchs to read and write, they say they can't even read medical books..." Mu Xiang said quietly:

"Your Highness thinks, if the imperial physician doesn't look, hear, and inquire, can he diagnose the disease? The people in the imperial pharmacy also know this, so the third-order medicine doesn't work, so they send the patient directly to the Nei'an Hall..."

Zhu Zhen couldn't help saying: "What kind of broken rules are these?"

"Your Highness, don't dare to talk nonsense. This rule is set by the emperor." Mu Xiang's face turned pale with fright.

"That's it, I'm asleep." Zhu Zhen was really scared.

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Early the next morning, the brothers still came to ask Zhu Zhen to go to school, but they no longer went into Wan'an Palace.

Because the empress has returned to the palace, the brothers are not allowed to enter without being summoned.

Concubine Chong didn't go to bed until the middle of the night last night, and she is still sleeping soundly...

Fortunately, there were Mu Xiang and Eunuch Wang who were dedicated to their duties, so they didn't keep the brothers waiting for long.

On the way to school, Zhu Zhen asked his elder brother to verify what Mu Xiang said last night.

"That's right, there is a rule that 'if a concubine below the palace is sick, even if the doctor is not allowed to enter the palace, he can obtain medicine based on his evidence'." Zhu Biao nodded and said:
"This is because the emperor at the end of the Yuan Dynasty couldn't strictly enforce the government of the palace, and the concubines and palace people had private relations with foreign ministers..." In fact, the Yuan Dynasty's harem was full of fun, but the prince couldn't explain it to a child, so he said vaguely:

"As a result, the etiquette and law were lost to the point of death. Never forgetting the past is the teacher of the future. Therefore, the father's palace is especially strict. Sometimes it is inevitable to overcorrect..."

"Excessive correction..." Zhu Di repeated in a low voice, in an inaudible way: "It's not human."

Zhu Biao heard it, but he didn't scold the fourth younger brother for being presumptuous like ordinary princes. Instead, he patted King Yan's shoulder in understanding, and sighed:
"Father is very wise, but the country was first established, and this Kyushu Wanfang wants him to worry about too many things, and it is inevitable that there will be some unsatisfactory things. As sons and servants, we have finished complaining, and we have to find a way Help the father find out the omissions and fill in the vacancies."

"I know, I just said that..." Zhu Di nodded, and the gloom between his brows dissipated.

Although he is in a rebellious period, the eldest brother can still calm him down.

"Brother said to help the father find out the omissions and fill in the vacancies. I remembered that my mother and concubine had a statement yesterday..." Zhu Zhen continued:
"She said that in the Nei'an Letang, she saw that many palace people were sick and were not treated; there were also many palace people who were sent in because of misdiagnosis. It was very tragic."

"Well, what's your opinion on being a concubine?" The prince nodded and asked.

"She said, since the palace selects female officials from the people to be responsible for the affairs of the harem, why can't some female doctors be selected as female medical officers to work in the palace?" Zhu Zhen imitated his mother's tone, like a parrot.

"Uh..." The prince's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help saying: "It's good, you don't have to break the rules, and you can see a doctor for them. Isn't this a simple dilemma?"

"Lao Liu, your concubine mother is really amazing!" Zhu Di hugged Zhu Zhen excitedly.

"The concubine has a bodhisattva heart, she really takes the affairs of the palace people to heart!" Fifth Brother, who had always been very quiet, also praised her.

'Ah! "Wan'an Palace, Dongnuan Pavilion, the concubine sneezed a few times, pulled the quilt again, and continued to sleep soundly.

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