"Ah! Both my father and brother were injured? Are their injuries serious?" Su Xingran was surprised when he heard this.
"Princess, this...!" Zhang Jian pondered for a moment, then said, "We don't know very well. The palace is currently guarded by Commander Lu, and no one is allowed to enter unless summoned.
"Husband." Su Xingran looked at Chen Xiaomu with tears in her eyes and choked up: "Let's go into the palace quickly to see how our father and brother were injured by the traitor?"
"Okay!" Chen Xiaomu immediately agreed without saying a word.
Zhang Jian immediately ordered some military horses to be brought in and asked several people to get on the horses. The palace was about eight or nine miles away from the main city gate. Chen Xiaomu and Su Xingran waved their riding whips and gave the horses two hard whips on their buttocks. The army horse roared, raised its hooves, and galloped towards the palace.
In a short time, which was just a sprint distance of the military horse, the two of them arrived in front of the palace. At this time, there were already three layers of sentries outside the palace, and many mobile sentries and hidden sentries were also added. Just as the two of them turned over When they dismounted, a green cloth chariot sedan guarded by four palace guards also stopped at the entrance of the palace. Wei Yushang's father, Prime Minister Wei Wen, tremblingly stepped out of the sedan chair. He did not look around. Instead of watching, he walked straight into the palace under the guidance of the guards.
Chen Xiaomu and Su Xingran looked at each other, handed the horse reins to the soldiers standing guard, and were about to walk into the palace. Unexpectedly, they were stopped by the soldiers. Because there were no palace guards accompanying them, these soldiers received Lu Jun's death order stipulated that no one should enter the palace without being summoned by the palace. However, there was still a primary school officer on duty who knew Su Xingran and knew that she was the eldest princess of Emperor Zheng. After saluting Su Xingran, He hurried in and reported to his immediate superior.
After a while, Su Xingyu followed the primary school teacher and two palace guards to welcome him out of the palace. When Su Xingyu saw Su Xingran, he couldn't hide his sadness. He walked a few steps forward and hugged Su Xingran. , couldn't help sobbing: "Sister, you are here. The queen mother and uncle just sent people to the princess's mansion to find you and the prince-in-law, but neither of you are in the princess's mansion!"
Su Xingran asked anxiously: "Little sister, how are the injuries of father and brother?"
Just as Su Xingyu was about to speak, Chen Xiaomu winked at her and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, it's too cold outside. Let's go into the palace and discuss it in detail!"
Su Xingran nodded silently, then took Su Xingyu's hand, and the two hurriedly walked into the palace side by side.
Chen Xiaomu came to the palace of Emperor Zheng Su Chengxuan twice before, and now three times. The first time was when he led his army to attack Xinjing City and wandered into the palace. He happened to meet the prince, and after several conversations, he obtained Wang Gonggong trusted him and took him to see his mother-in-law, Empress Lu, who was hiding here, and cured her lung disease with the prescriptions found in her mind. Later, she granted marriage to the second princess Su Xingchen and him again. The second time A few days ago, when he returned to the court from the Chu State, Emperor Zheng and Su Chengxuan specially held a celebration party for him in the palace. When he came in this time, he had a vague feeling that he would have to live in this palace for the rest of his life. Stay!
When the group of people passed by the political hall where Su Chengxuan and ministers handled state affairs, Chen Xiaomu couldn't help but take a second look at the dragon chair where Su Chengxuan sat in the court hall, symbolizing the highest power of the Zheng Kingdom. .
After leaving the Political Palace, there was a square paved with bluestone strips at the back. Opposite the square was another palace with cornices and carved beams. Chen Xiaomu recognized this palace as Cining Palace, where he once served Empress Lu. After Zheng Emperor Su Chengxuan returned to the capital from Tianquan County due to lung disease, he gave up the Jingxin Hall where he had lived before to Prince Su Muyang, and moved to Cining Palace to live with Empress Lu.
Although it was already getting light, the palace eunuch, Eunuch Wang, still led a young eunuch carrying a lantern to greet Chen Xiaomu and Su Xingran in front of the Cining Palace. When he saw them coming, he hurriedly led the young eunuch to greet them and salute. He said hello and then led them to the dragon bed where Su Chengxuan was lying in the palace.
Empress Lu was currently being supported by two palace maids, sobbing and sitting on a chair next to the dragon bed. As soon as Su Xingran entered the door, she didn't bother to greet the people in the room, and hurriedly rushed to Su Chengxuan's dragon bed, screaming uncontrollably. He said: "Father, father, are you feeling better?"
At this time, Su Chengxuan had long lost his usual majestic look. His face was as white as paper, his eyes were tight, and he was lying upright on the dragon bed. Facing Su Xingran's repeated calls, he didn't even respond at all. Now Su Xingran was completely panicked. , turned around and asked Chen Xiaomu with a look of horror on his face, "Husband, come and see what's going on with my father?"
Hearing the sound, Chen Xiaomu took a few steps forward and squatted down. As soon as he gently put his hand on Su Chengxuan's wrist, his heart sank. At this time, Su Chengxuan's pulse was not at all, which meant that he was now dead. He was dead. He looked up and saw Su Xingran looking at him with earnest eyes. He didn't know how to tell her the bad news for a moment!
Suddenly, the search engine in Chen Xiaomu's mind was activated, as if playing a movie. The pictures moved forward quickly frame by frame. The final frame showed a black body with a golden line from beginning to end on its back. snake, and then an introduction with hundreds of words appeared on the screen. Chen Xiaomu suddenly remembered that one time he was really bored on the plane. To kill time, he asked the flight attendant for a magazine called "Explorer". This snake has been introduced in detail above.
According to "Explorer" magazine, this kind of snake called "Black Sand" lives in the driest place in the world that Chen Xiaomu traveled to, the Atacama Desert. It is said that there has been no rain in that place for thousands of years. Even if there is a drop of rain, the world-famous explorer, British James Cook once organized an expedition team to explore this desert. One of the team members was accidentally bitten by this snake here. At that time, it felt like He was pricked by a needle, but there was no big reaction. The little black snake that bit him was caught by him at the time, and the wound was disinfected accordingly, because the expedition team often encountered these things in the wild. , so everyone didn’t take it to heart. Instead, they were very interested in the little black snake he caught, because it was a species of snake they had never seen before. But about two or three hours later, this team member died. , fell to the ground with a "plop", and his eyes began to roll. After the expedition team members tried in vain to rescue him, they still couldn't stop the body of the team member named "Ryan" from gradually hardening, and finally touched him My heart stopped beating!
Although James Cook and the expedition team members were very sad, they were also helpless. Just after they held a simple ceremony and prepared to bury him on the spot in the desert, something happened that stunned them. , this team member named Ryan, who was confirmed to be dead, unexpectedly woke up again, but he could only blink, move his limbs slightly, and speak in a weak voice, all of which seemed to be just to prove that he was still alive!
James Cook immediately decided to stop continuing the expedition and try every means to get Ryan out of the Atacama Desert!
In the end, after all the trouble, they contacted the local rescue team, used a helicopter to take Ryan out of the Atacama Desert, and sent him to the best local hospital in Chile for treatment. At the same time, the dead black cat was taken away. Photos of the snake and information about where it was found were sent online to several world-renowned biologists, asking them to identify what kind of snake it was. As a result, no biologist had ever seen or heard of this strange snake. name! The hospital used almost all kinds of anti-venom drugs to treat the snake venom in Ryan's body, but none of them had any effect. Ryan could only be in a slightly better situation than those in a vegetative state. In the end, James Cook took this A black snake was made into a specimen, named Black Sands, and given to the British Museum in England for collection.
The above is the introduction about venomous snakes like Black Sand that Chen Xiaomu read in "Explorer" magazine, but this introduction suddenly jumped out of his head. Su Chengxuan's current state must be caused by the venom of this venomous snake.
Seeing Chen Xiaomu frowning and unable to express his ugly appearance for a moment, Su Xingran asked with a tearful voice: "Husband, is my father dying?"
Chen Xiaomu pondered for a moment and was about to speak when an old man who looked like an imperial physician walked out from the crowd surrounding the dragon bed. He bent down towards Su Xingran, bowed deeply and said tremblingly: "Your Highness, please forgive me." Incompetent, the emperor has passed away!"
"Ah!" Su Xingran screamed, and then burst into tears. Seeing this, Chen Xiaomu hurriedly reached out to cover her mouth, and said hastily: "Honey, if I see it right, my father was just poisoned and feigned death. He didn’t die, so it’s unlucky for you to cry like this!”
"Ah! This...?" Su Xingran was halfway through crying when Chen Xiaomu covered her mouth and forced her to hold it back. She looked at Chen Xiaomu with tears in her eyes and blinked, not knowing for a moment whether she should cry or not. cry.
Seeing her look like this, Chen Xiaomu felt funny in his heart, but he still nodded to her and affirmed: "Father did not die, he was just poisoned by a snake venom and is currently in a state of suspended animation!"
Chen Xiaomu's words frightened the old man who looked like an imperial doctor, and cold sweat started to flow from his head, because he had just reported to Queen Lu that the emperor had passed away, but who knew that the prince-in-law who had just come in was now He also said that the emperor is not dead yet. How can these two ministers be allowed to talk about the emperor's life and death at will?
The old doctor immediately knelt down in front of the dragon bed, trembled and said to Chen Xiaomu: "Consort, I just tried it, and the emperor's pulse is gone. I wonder why the consort still says that the emperor has not died?"
Chen Xiaomu smiled at him and said: "Old doctor, my father did not die, but this does not blame you for your misjudgment. In fact, my father was poisoned by a venomous snake that you have never seen before. If you don't believe it, , I can prescribe a prescription to treat this kind of snake venom. You can take the medicine according to the prescription and boil it into a medicinal soup. Feed it to your father and take it. Your father will gradually wake up, but this kind of snake venom is very difficult to remove from the body. , I’m afraid my father will have to lie on the dragon bed from now on!”
When Chen Xiaomu said this, the old doctor couldn't help frowning, then he seemed to ask Chen Xiaomu, or said to himself: "Where are the poisonous snakes coming from in this cold winter? Besides, both the emperor and the prince were killed by treacherous swords. He was injured and no symptoms of snake venom were found!”
Chen Xiaomu didn't explain much to him. In fact, since he came back from Sanqing Palace on Mangdang Mountain, there were some things that even he couldn't figure out, and now he couldn't explain them to the old doctor.
After a brief pause, Chen Xiaomu raised his hands and said to Queen Lu: "Mother, nothing you say right now will help. Only if I give the prescription a try will you know that what I say is true!"
Empress Lu was also a very smart person. At this time, she couldn't help but think of the time when Chen Xiaomu cured her lung disease. She still had great trust in his medical skills. Now that Su Chengxuan had been diagnosed with death by the imperial physician, it would be better to let him die. If he tries again, he might get an unexpected surprise.
So she immediately nodded in agreement, but did not forget to be polite to the old doctor. Empress Lu whispered: "Mr. Hua, I intend to let the consort give it a try. Do you have anything to say?"
Even though he was talking about this, Imperial Physician Hua was just a piece of elm wood, and he could still understand the meaning of Queen Lu's words. She was just being polite to him and saving him face! I still don't know how to advance or retreat.
Imperial Physician Hua immediately fell to the ground and praised, "I am willing to obey the Queen's decree."
Empress Lu nodded and ordered: "Serve the consort with pen and ink."
Upon hearing this, the prince quickly ordered the young eunuch to find pens, ink, paper and inkstones, arrange them on the tray with his own hands, and then bring them to Chen Xiaomu.
Chen Xiaomu looked at Eunuch Wang and smiled and said: "Mr. Wang, my hand has been hurting for the past two days, and I would like to ask you to write for me."
The prince turned to look at Queen Lu. Seeing Queen Lu nodding slightly, he asked the young eunuch to come over and carry the tray. He laid paper on the tray and then picked up his pen to get ready.
Chen Xiaomu thought for a while and then said slowly: "Lobelia six qian, wild chrysanthemum, gentian, Nanxing, Fangfeng, white aconite, and Angelica dahurica each two qian, Xu Changqing, Qingmuxiang three qian each, astragalus, and raw licorice five qian each. Qian, add eight qian of rhubarb, decoct in water and take it.”
After a pause, Chen Xiaomu asked Eunuch Wang, "Mr. Wang, have you finished writing?"
The prince said: "It's written." He read it again according to the prescription written in his hand.
When Chen Xiaomu heard that there was nothing wrong, he reached out to take the prescription from the tray and handed it to Imperial Physician Hua, saying, "Thank you, Imperial Physician Hua, for sending someone to pick up the prescription from the Imperial Pharmacy as soon as possible, boil it and send it to my father."
Doctor Hua took the prescription, stood up and cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry, Prince Consort, I'll get the medicine, boil it and bring it over!" After saying that, he hurried out the door.
