Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Chapter 453: Lonely Palace

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Doctor Wang bowed his head deeply, observing the etiquette between the monarch and his subjects. He stepped back more than ten steps, then bowed and said:

"Your Majesty likes ice cream and sweets, especially sweet fruits. She also likes to drink a little, accompanied by fried food and cold dishes. Is that right?"

Su Hong stared at him blankly and blurted out, "That's right."

"Then my diagnosis is correct." Doctor Wang still lowered his head and advised:

"The harem diet has always been mild because women like chastity and tranquility. If there is a conflict between cold and heat, or too much dryness and dampness, their bodies will be affected.

"Your Highness is in the center of the palace, and you are naturally dignified and steady. You rarely move around in your daily life. If you don't pay attention to your diet and medicine, it will be very difficult to resolve the dryness and dampness.

"Now the accumulation is too heavy, causing liver depression, spleen dampness, lung dryness, and even sleep problems—"

Doctor Wang paused, then asked carefully, "May I ask, Madam, do you have trouble sleeping at night, do you have night sweats, do you feel irritated and tired during the day, or do you even have dizziness and tinnitus?"

Queen Wan also sensed something was wrong, and she sat up straight and said, "That's right!"

"It seems that it has indeed caused the heart and kidney to be out of sync." Doctor Wang lowered his head and sighed, then bowed in the direction of Su Hong, "Auntie, please excuse me for a moment and talk."

Su Hong was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly took a few steps forward and walked to the side of Doctor Wang.

Doctor Wang whispered a few questions into his ear.

Su Hong's eyes widened instantly, then she frowned and thought about it, then whispered back to him.

Doctor Wang nodded in understanding: "That's all correct."

He bowed and said, "Your Majesty is not feeling well and is in a trance. You need to rest! I will carefully use the medicine and the imperial diet to regulate your health. I am afraid it will take half a year."

Queen Wan hurriedly called Su Hong over and asked her in a low voice: "What did you say?"

"It's not appropriate for the imperial physician to ask about your menstrual period in front of a stranger, so he asked me to check it privately." Su Hong praised, "She knows the rules."

Empress Wan was relieved and became very convinced of Doctor Wang, and followed his advice: "In this case, I will leave my care to you.

"Come here, take a look at the reward."

Su Hong understood and quickly handed over a purse.

Doctor Wang bowed his head and accepted the order, then left. Tao Han followed him, and the two of them left Kunning Palace safely.

Lin Daiyu and Feng Tang just watched the scene quietly with a smile through the crack in the door.

When Doctor Wang and Tao Han reappeared in the corridor, Daiyu smiled and said to the inside of the door: "In that case, we will not disturb the Empress any more. We will take our leave now."

Queen Wan finally reacted and said hurriedly, "Stand up!"

Daiyu and Feng Tang did not move.

"Since His Majesty has given you the gold medal, do you know what the situation is like in the outer court now?" Queen Wan put on airs again.

Lin Daiyu confronted her from a distance through the crack in the door: "To answer the Queen, I don't know.

“I only know that during the first month of the year, Your Majesty entrusted the affairs of the outer court to Prince Duncheng, Prince Dongping, the Ministry of Personnel’s Heavenly Official Cao Feng, and the Great Monk Zhitong of the Dali Temple.

"The day for the imperial court to issue the seal has been set, which is the twenty-sixth day of the first lunar month.

"As for the rest, I really don't know anything."

When Queen Wan opened her mouth to ask again, Tao Han gently touched Doctor Wang's arm. Doctor Wang took two steps forward, just to a place where the Queen could see him through the crack in the door, bowed toward the door, and said:

"The Queen's illness is most harmful to her health. Please don't disturb her any more, Princess and General."

Lin Daiyu smiled sweetly: "Yes, the imperial physician's advice is the most important."

Feng Tang felt extremely relieved. He stroked his gray beard, clasped his fists toward the palace gate, and said, "I'm leaving now."

Without even waiting for Daiyu, she turned around and walked away with big strides and in just three or five breaths she reached the intersection of the corridor, jumped on her horse, and galloped away.

Empress Wan was so angry that she was shaking all over: "Horse racing in the palace, horse racing in the palace..."

Lin Daiyu's eyes drifted through the crack of the door, and she bowed gracefully: "My lady, please take good care of yourself and take good care of yourself. I will also take my leave."

Then he said to Doctor Wang, "After you write the prescription, remember to make five copies. One for the Empress, one for Kou Zhaorong, one for Shoukang Palace, and one for the Pharmacy. You keep one for your records..."

"Also, I heard from Aunt Meng that the people who make medicines at the pharmacy have changed frequently in the past two years. When Doctor Wang handed over the prescriptions, he still had to pick the people carefully..."

"Which Aunt Meng are you asking about? As for Meng Hanyan, how could Imperial Doctor Wang not know about her..."

The voice slowly faded away, and he just passed away like that.

Queen Wan felt as if her heart was almost burning with anger!

Su Hong frowned and looked at her, not taking the fact that she had been thrown away the day before to heart at all. Instead, she bent down and pleaded:

"Your Majesty, your health is the most important thing! No matter how chaotic things are outside, the people left behind by His Majesty will take care of it! You must take good care of yourself so that you can have a good future!"

At this time, Zhu Ying squeezed over again and reached out to support Queen Wan, muttering softly: "Your Majesty, look at how arrogant they are. They don't take Kunning Palace seriously at all..."

"Zhu Ying!" Su Hong was so angry that her face turned red, and her voice choked with sobs, "The man just now described the Empress's symptoms very clearly!

"Isn't your Majesty's health a hundred times or a thousand times more important than getting angry with that Princess Lin from the outer fourth road?

"You and I are both her dowry slaves, so we should put her safety first.

"Your Majesty is not feeling well now, even Her Majesty the Queen Mother has noticed it!

"You don't take this to heart at all, but you keep going back and forth to stir up trouble!

"What are your intentions?!"

Queen Wan paused, glanced at Zhu Ying coldly, and brushed her hand away.

Zhu Ying's face suddenly turned red and swollen, she bit her lip and cried, "Aunt Su, how dare you slander me like this!

"The imperial physician also said that the queen just has an unbalanced diet. From now on, just tell the imperial chef to follow the rules and use some mild food!

"What's more, since the queen's discomfort is caused by spleen dampness and lung dryness, she should move around more! Now that she is confined to Kunning Palace, where can she move around?

"The root of this matter is that the man surnamed Lin slandered the Empress Dowager and Your Majesty, so Your Majesty had to ban the Empress from walking out of filial piety!

"I helped the queen deal with that Lin guy, what did I do wrong?!"

Su Hong was furious. Without thinking any more, she blurted out: "Why did His Majesty confine the Empress? How dare you say that?!

"I have tried my best to persuade her, but she has already calmed down! It was you who didn't mind the trouble and kept stirring up trouble. That's why she got so angry that she beat Tao Han outside the palace gate!

"If it weren't for this, how could the queen be fine, so how could she be diagnosed with these eight words: 'fainting due to illness, insane and losing her mind'!?"

Before he could finish his words, there was a crisp "pop" sound!

Everyone was horrified!

It was Queen Wan who slapped Su Hong in the face herself!

Su Hong covered her face with her hands, looked at Queen Wan in disbelief, and knelt down with a thud, shaking her head and crying loudly:

“My queen!

"Wake up!

"Wake up!"

Queen Wan closed her eyes.

After a long time, he reached out his hand.

Zhu Ying hurried forward to support her.

"Su Hong, I know that you have always felt that I am not as smart as you, not as thoughtful as you, and even not as good as you in understanding how to survive in the palace.

"But so what? I am the master and you are just a servant!

“With regard to today’s incident, I may have been too impetuous and wrong.

“But so what?

“I am still the master, and you are still the servant.

"Since you can no longer fulfill your duties as a servant, then you should no longer be my servant.

"Someone, drag him away and lock him up."

Su Hong's heart was dead and her face was expressionless. She let the two eunuchs come forward and drag her away like a dead dog.

Zhu Ying helped Queen Wan back to her bedroom with a proud look on her face.

Chattering all the way.

Queen Wan's face turned pale and she said nothing.

After entering the bedroom, with no one around, he slapped Zhu Ying hard on the face:

"Bitch! Do you think I can't see your dirty thoughts?!"