Chapter 288 Please Save Xiao Quanzi
Chapter 288 Please Save Xiao Quanzi
Just as the emperor was about to nod his head in agreement, a young eunuch from the Cining Palace ran in in a panic, knelt on the ground and trembled all over: "Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, help! Please save my son!"
Madam Xu shouted, "How dare you, a daring servant, disturb the emperor's presence? Don't you want your head anymore?"
Xiao Zhuozi's legs went weak and he knelt on the ground, sobbing: "Madam Xu, Xiao Quanzi suddenly had an unbearable abdominal pain last night. I went to the Imperial Hospital early this morning to ask for some painkillers, but after he drank the medicine, the pain did not ease at all. Now he has fainted from the pain. If you don't quickly ask the imperial physician to treat him, I'm afraid that Xiao Quanzi... He's going to die from the pain. I'm really desperate, so I dare to kneel here and beg the Empress Dowager to have mercy on me and save the poor little Quanzi!"
The little table knelt on the ground and kowtowed while talking. His head was broken and bright red blood oozed out, which looked very scary.
"Madam Xu, ask him to take my token and ask Imperial Doctor Shi to come and check on Xiao Zhuo."
"Thank you, Queen Mother. Thank you, Queen Mother."
Madam Xu took out the token and was about to hand it to Xiao Quanzi when Lai Fu bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Queen Mother, the young master said that Xiao Quanzi has fainted. It takes at least 25 minutes to go from the Imperial Hospital to the Cining Palace. Isn't Doctor Yun here? Saving lives is the most important thing! Why don't we let Doctor Yun treat Xiao Quanzi first?"
The small table crawled towards the sea of clouds. It pleaded, "Doctor Yun, please have mercy on our little Quan! Doctor Yun, please!" As it spoke, it kept knocking its head, and its forehead made a dull sound when it hit the ground.
Yunhai, an outstanding doctor who grew up under the red flag, with superb medical skills and a compassionate heart, really couldn't bear to refuse such an earnest request from a child who was about the same age as his granddaughter.
What's more, there was a patient waiting for treatment. Although he felt that something was a little unusual in the depths of his heart, at this moment, these doubts were overshadowed by his concern for the patient's safety.
Yun Hai couldn't help but ponder inwardly. Lai Fu was a person close to the emperor. It could be said that he was a guest invited by the emperor today. It was impossible for him to be treated for no reason. It seemed unlikely that he was pitying the little eunuch.
Logically speaking, it was a great blessing for a mere eunuch to be allowed by the Queen Mother to summon the imperial physician with her token. But the reason why he was allowed to save the patient was really puzzling.
However, facing the patients whose lives are hanging by a thread, Yunhai is fully aware of the heavy responsibility as a doctor and must not turn a blind eye to any patient in urgent need of treatment.
So, he slowly turned his head, looked firmly at the emperor sitting on the high throne, and said sincerely: "Your Majesty, since Eunuch Lai Fu thinks highly of me, I will go and take a look at the little table!"
The emperor nodded and said, "Go and have someone carry that little Quanzi to the side hall and have Doctor Yun treat him. Then have someone invite two imperial doctors to come over and treat him together with Doctor Yun."
Lai Fu reminded Xiao Zhuo: "Xiao Zhuo, why don't you thank me, Doctor Yun?"
"Little table, thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Queen Mother, and thank you, Doctor Yun."
Yunhai came to the side hall, and the palace servants had already carried the unconscious Xiao Quanzi over. Yunhai put his hand on his pulse. The little eunuch's breath was weak and his life was indeed hanging by a thread.
He didn't take the medicine box, and he couldn't go to the space to get tools. The person was unconscious, and he couldn't determine the condition just by taking the pulse. He had to wake the person up.
Find me a needle and a pot of liquor. There is no other way. Without a silver needle, I can only use a sewing needle. The palace maids in the Cining Palace usually embroider handkerchiefs or something, so they should have embroidery needles or sewing needles.
Soon the palace maid brought a needle and a small pot of wine. Yunhai disinfected the needle with the wine, then gave a few needles to the philtrum and several other related acupuncture points, and little Quanzi slowly woke up.
After waking up, Xiao Quanzi held his stomach and groaned again.
Yunhai looked at Xiao Quanzi and comforted him softly: "Your name is Xiao Quanzi, right? Don't be afraid, I'm a doctor. Come and lie down so I can see where it hurts."
Yunhai's gentle voice flowed into Xiao Quanzi's heart like a warm current. These eunuchs were the lowest-ranking servants in the palace. If they did not reach a certain status, they could be beaten and scolded at will. He did not expect that the doctor would speak to him so gently. He endured the pain and lay there.
Yunhai pressed the painful area with his hand and asked if he had fever or vomiting. Xiaozhuo answered all the questions one by one. Based on his reaction and Xiaozhuo's description of his condition, Yunhai basically concluded that he had appendicitis and needed to have surgery in time or there was a risk of perforation.
"Don't be afraid, little Quan. I will use needles to prick a few acupuncture points to relieve the pain. These are not silver needles, so it may be a little painful. Just bear with it." He treated her like an ordinary patient, talking to divert the patient's attention while performing acupuncture.
"Thank you, doctor. I'm not afraid. Just go ahead and give me the injection." Xiao Quanzi spoke with difficulty, enduring the pain.
When Xiao Quanzi's pain eased, he left the inner room and saw the emperor and Cheng Zhiyuan waiting in the outer hall of the side hall. He was a little surprised. He was just a little eunuch. It was impossible for the emperor to wait outside! This could only mean that the emperor was coming for him.
Eunuch Lai Fu was waiting outside and anxiously asked Yun Hai: "How is Doctor Yun? Can this little servant be saved?"
Yunhai looked at Lai Fu and replied, "Don't worry, eunuch." He looked at the emperor and Cheng Zhiyuan, "Your Majesty, Elder Cheng, the condition of eunuch Xiao Quanzi is not optimistic. I diagnose him as intestinal abscess. The condition is not optimistic. The conservative treatment is decoction plus acupuncture. If this method is used at the beginning of the disease, it is still okay. Now it is probably too late. When the imperial physician comes, we can diagnose and treat him again. Maybe there is a more advanced treatment method."
As he finished speaking, two imperial doctors came in with medicine boxes and hurriedly saluted the emperor: "Your humble servants pay their respects to the emperor."
"Doctor Liu, Doctor Shi, you two go and check on Xiao Quanzi."
The two of them came out quickly.
Imperial Physician Liu bowed respectfully and said: “Your Majesty, according to our diagnosis, the pain in the right lower abdomen of the eunuch Quanzi, as well as fever and vomiting, is due to intestinal abscess…
"Your Majesty, you are still hesitating here. Why don't you speak quickly!" The shrill voice of Eunuch Lai Fu sounded.
Doctor Shi continued, "Your Majesty, the pulse of the young eunuch Quanzi shows that he has an acute intestinal abscess. I am afraid that ordinary medicine or acupuncture will have little effect on the emergency. I am incompetent, please forgive me, Your Majesty."
Doctor Liu bowed again and said, "May I ask who helped me relieve the pain just now? The technique was very skillful. I heard that the doctor relieved my pain with just an ordinary needle. He is really a miracle doctor. Even if the two of us used silver needles, we couldn't achieve such an effect."
Lai Fu smiled and said: "It was this Doctor Yun who treated Xiao Quanzi. He is the miracle doctor you all are talking about."
Doctor Liu was overjoyed: "Doctor Yun's acupuncture skills are far beyond my reach. I would like to ask Doctor Yun to teach me something if there is a chance."
Yunhai thought to himself that the acupuncture technique of China over the past 5,000 years was the essence of the Chinese medicine predecessors who had accumulated and summarized it over many years. Of course, these ancient people could not compare.
"Dr. Liu is too polite. We can learn from each other if we have the chance."
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