Chapter 123: diagnosis and treatment

"Plum reward!!"

Bai Qingyang didn't react, the moment her hands parted, she hurriedly wanted to hold her back. Yang Dejin, who had been paying attention to this side all the time, rushed towards him shouting the name of his best friend when he saw Li Zishou fall down.

When Bai Qingyang was crying, some criminal officials in the interrogation room wanted to poke their heads out to take a look, but Yang Dejin stared them back. Now something happened suddenly, everyone crowded in the classroom and looked at each other, not knowing what happened.

"Chou, what's wrong with you..." Bai Qingyang knelt on the ground, supporting Li Zifu's shoulder, his voice trembling.

"Li Zichou!" Yang Dejin ran up to the two of them and took Li Zichou onto himself, "Wake up! What's wrong with you, don't f*cking scare me!"

Bai Qingyang's arms were empty, and he looked at Yang Dejin with a complicated expression. The other party was shaking Li Zishou's shoulders, trying to wake her up.

But Li Zishou just closed his eyes tightly, as if he was dragged into layers of dreams, and he couldn't wake up no matter what.

"What's the matter, what happened?"

"Your Majesty, she..."

"how so…"

"Quick! Go and call the imperial doctor!"

"Put Ji Zhuilu on death row pending trial!"

//

"It's poison." The girl in official uniform twisted a silver needle and said so after examining it carefully.

Bai Qingyang turned pale in shock and said, "What...Didn't Doctor Hang say that the arrows are not poisonous?"

Li Zichou was lying on the bed, his face was blue, but his lips were an ominous dark purple. In a coma, she frowned tightly, showing a painful expression like a nightmare.

This dropout from the imperial hospital showed a calmness and old-fashionedness that did not match her age. After she wiped off the silver needles, she used a wet cotton napkin to clean up the blood around Li Zifu's mouth.

"The old man has not seen many poisons, and this poison has an incubation period, so it was not discovered." The girl explained, "This is wolf poison from the grassland."

"Lymphomaniac?" Xie Zhi said, "But the little doctor Hang, the venomous wolf's poison is so strong that his throat is almost blocked by blood, isn't it?"

How could the Queen survive after being infected with wolfsbane?

The little medical officer surnamed Hang shook his head and said to several people: "This wolf's poison is not that wolf's poison.

"The wolf's poison Mr. Xie mentioned is made of chamaejasma flower, that kind of poison grows on some high mountains in the south, and it really seals the throat when it sees blood.

"And the chamaejasma I'm talking about is made from lucifera, a plant that grows in the northern grasslands and is less toxic."

Bai Qingyang: "The toxicity is weak, so she will be fine, right?"

Doctor Hang shook his head heavily again: "The toxicity is weaker than chamaejasma flower. This kind of poison is generally used by prairie people to train wolves or eagles, so as to screen out strong beasts. But beasts Birds can carry it, but people may not be able to carry it."

"When the toxin first invades the trauma, it will bring a strong burning sensation to the wound and produce severe pain.

"After a few hours, the blood carries toxins through the whole body and enters the incubation period. The analgesic effect of the lucifera plant is exerted, and the poisoned person will feel weakened pain sensation, high spirits, and tirelessness.

"And once the toxin has flowed through the internal organs, limbs, and bones, it will enter the stage of poisoning, manifested as a trance, loss of appetite, and a surge of qi and blood accompanied by pains all over the body. Judging by His Majesty's appearance, he must have endured it for a long time."

After Bai Qingyang listened, he recalled Li Zishou's anomaly before:

On the night of avoiding the pursuit, Li Zichou was fainted by the pain countless times, and woke up countless times.

After Doctor Hang took out the arrow, he said that the wound didn't hurt at all, and he looked very energetic.

In Yaoyue Pavilion, she frequently lost her mind, her expression was obviously not right, but she insisted that she was fine.

It turned out that she not only kept the matter from Aye, but also concealed her illness from herself. In order to make the plan go smoothly, and to give herself a so-called surprise, she endured pain all over her body and pretended to be fine.

Bai Qingyang's eyes turned red again, he held Li Zifu's hand tightly, and buried his face in her palm.

Bai Qingyang looked heartbroken, and Zhou Huaijin couldn't stand it any longer: "Medical Officer Hang, how to cure this poison, just tell me directly!"

Dr. Hang Xiao said, "It's very simple. It's still Wolf's Nightshade. The leaves are used to make poison, and the rhizome is used to detoxify. As long as the root of Wolf's Nightshade is used as medicine, supplemented with other medicinal materials, it can detoxify."

Zhou Huaijin: "Great! Then I'll go find the wolfberry plant."

"Please wait a moment, Minister of the First Auxiliary." But the medical officer Hang Xiao stopped him at this moment, "This kind of grass is rarely found in medical centers and pharmacies in the Central Plains. And at this time of year, it is estimated that it is difficult to find wolfberry on the grassland. gone."

Zhou Huaijin heard it: "Then what should I do?!"

Yang Dejin, who had been sullen all this time, turned around suddenly and left, aggressively, as if she was going to hit someone.

Xie Zhi was taken aback, and quickly stopped her: "What are you doing?"

"Go to Ji Zhuilu."

"It's useless for you to find him. If he had an antidote, I would have asked him."

Li Zichou fainted suddenly, as early as those few imperial physicians couldn't figure out why, Xie Zhi interrogated Ji Zhuilu again, and it turned out that, not to mention the antidote, Ji Zhuilu didn't even know where the arrow went What kind of poison was quenched.

"Then what do you want me to do?!" Yang Dejin was so anxious that her back molars were about to be crushed.

Facing Yang Dejin's excited rhetorical question, Xie Zhi just held her shoulder and said in her usual steady voice, "Calm down, have you forgotten how many people from Shuobei are still locked up in Dali Temple?"

Hearing this, Yang Dejin suddenly had hope: "Then I..."

Xie Zhi knew what she wanted to say: "Leave it to Pei Yu, if he can't do it, I'm still here."

"But…"

"It's too early for you two to argue," Doctor Hang suddenly intervened in the conversation between the two, "It's okay to say if there is an antidote, but if there is no antidote, I'm afraid the two of you will have to think of another way."

Wolfganggrass is a tool specially used by Shuobei people to tame beasts and birds of prey. Anyway, she has practiced medicine all over the world, and has never heard of anyone specially making detoxification medicine. She probably has to prepare it herself.

Zhou Huaijin: "Then what if the Shuobei people don't have the antidote?"

The little medical officer Hang pondered for a while: "Well... then I can only try my luck at Hu Shang, or else, I'm afraid I can only ask the grassland people for it."

Yang Dejin: "I know a few Hu merchants, I'll go find them." After finishing speaking, he ran out without waiting for everyone's reaction. Xie Zhi didn't stop her this time, but bowed to them, and said yes. Go do what you can do.

Bai Qingyang: "Medical officer, how long can she last like this?"

Li Zifu has entered the stage of poisoning, and his health will be deteriorating day by day. The doctor hang can only say conservatively: "If there is no medicine primer, just relying on conventional medicine for conditioning, it can last up to three months, but it can only be hanging One breath."

Even if lukewarm lupus is a chronic poison, its toxicity is still very strong. Rather, compared with those highly effective poisons, wolfwort brings more prolonged and heavy pain to the poisoned.

"The weather is getting colder and colder. Whether Her Majesty the Empress can survive the cold winter is still unknown."

Bai Qingyang held Li Zichao's Weiliang hand. She used to be a powerful woman in Vanity Fair, but she could only watch her sweetheart suffer from illness, and she felt this... powerless.

"Medical officer Hang, you have a lot of research on poisons, I implore you, you must save her."

This is the first time that a candidate medical officer has been entrusted with great trust since he entered the Imperial Hospital. The girl nodded and bowed her hands solemnly: "I should do my best, and I will take over your majesty's diagnosis and treatment first.

"Before finding Yaoyin, I will use medicine to suppress the Wolf's Poison in Your Majesty's body.

"She's bound to sleep for a while."

Zhou Huaijin also said: "Even if I dig all over the grassland, I will definitely bring back the medicine."

//

Under Li Zishou's careful arrangement, Ji Zhuilu was arrested, and the rebellion plot went bankrupt.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, several confidantes of the Empress cooperated closely, and the Forbidden Army dispatched controlled all the officials in the Yaoyue Pavilion, and the rebels who entered the imperial palace's patrol battalion disarmed one after another.

The officers and soldiers of the city defense battalion who wanted to rush back from Shanglinyuan were even more miserable. They were killed and injured by Bai Qingyang's subordinates, and none of them rushed back.

Dali Temple also has its own armed forces, not only did Ji Zhuilu's subordinates not rescue the Shuobei people who were imprisoned, but also captured many dead servants alive. I heard that their jaws were all dislocated, so naturally they couldn't bite through the poison hidden in the back molars.

It hurts just as it sounds.

It's just that the big villain Ji Zhuilu was eliminated, and there are still many small villains lurking in the court who followed him. In order to uproot these forces, Li Zishou's original plan was to follow the same method as the previous emperor and carry out a large-scale attack on the court. cleaning.

Ji Zhuilu's crimes are certain, and all of them are serious crimes. No one can refute him, and no one dares to refute him. It can't make a climate at all, so cleaning it is far less troublesome than Jingdi's.

According to the empress' will, Yushitai will focus on certain officials and strictly examine them. Those who should be punished will be convicted, and those who should be confiscated will be confiscated. Li Zishou wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to wipe out the mediocre puppets that Emperor Jing used to help him control the court, and restore the proper officialdom.

However, because Li Zi paid for his bravery, he made himself ill, and all the above burdens were handed over to the chief minister and several cabinet ministers. Zhou Huaijin finally fulfilled his duty of making the imperial edict. According to the previous instructions of the empress, Several edicts were drafted in succession.

In addition, regarding the death of Prime Minister Bai during the Jingchang period, the Ministry of Criminal Justice reversed the case and retried the case, revealing the truth to the world, and Prime Minister Bai's former department and disciples were finally able to appear in front of everyone frankly.

The seal of the Prime Minister's Mansion was torn off, and Zhou Huaijin sent someone to repair the mansion.

After Xie Zhi brought the news back to the Minister's Mansion, Mrs. Bai wept with joy, and several former servants of the Prime Minister's Mansion hugged their heads and cried.

As for the assignment of Bai Xun's posthumous title, the cabinet seemed afraid to make a decision lightly, and now that Li Zifu was still lying down, everyone unanimously decided to wait until their queen woke up before discussing it.

Ji Zhuilu is still locked up in the death cell of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, guarded by heavy guards, and Xie Zhi has to pry something out of his mouth, so he cannot die for the time being until the rebel party is cleaned up.

However, compared to the work of redressing grievances and investigations, which is complicated but progressing smoothly, the matter of finding medicine and detoxification for the empress is obviously more difficult.

Although those people from Shuobei were very aware of the poisonous effects of wolfgut grass poison, but as the doctor Hang Xiao said, they had no antidote, nor would they know how to make an antidote.

Yang Dejin searched all over the Hu merchants in the capital, and even contacted the intelligence dealer Kuai Gang, but still found nothing.

The people in the Tai Hospital are also anxious. The toxicology attainments of several old imperial doctors are not as high as that of a female medical officer candidate who has just reached the level. This incident makes the whole hospital feel complicated. They watched her laugh; some looked at her with admiration, hoping that she would definitely heal people.

However, Doctor Hang was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by the queen. She became the queen's attending doctor, and the old guys could only help. This is really rare in a century.

While Li Zichou was sleeping, Bai Qingyang, as the queen regent, had to deal with the government affairs of the court and China, and also had to coordinate with the cabinet, so he was in a hurry.

To make matters worse, the Shuobei people have not been very peaceful recently, and they always make some small moves in the three border states, probably because they heard something.

The author has something to say:

Hang Xiao Medical Officer: Good card, don't cue.