Chapter 9: Sudden Illness (2)
It is nearly 100 miles from Zhenjiang to Nanjing City. It is not far away or close. The south of the Yangtze River is a hilly area with many hills. The road is not straight. After half a day, it is still halfway. Xu Ruying, who was taking care of the car, was anxious and kept urging the driver to speed up. Finally, before dark, he rushed to Nanjing City.
Zheng Baoyu is a famous doctor in Jiangnan. He is very famous in Nanjing and is easy to inquire, so he found Zheng Baoyu's residence without much effort.
The coachman and Xiong Tingbi kept muttering in their mouths, "cold" and "hot" for a while. Zhu Yinglong, whose body trembled slightly, lifted it off the carriage.
The three big words "Jishi Hall" with gold-questioned words have become dim under the baptism of time, especially under the dim candlelight, which is even more difficult to see clearly. Zheng Baoyu, a famous doctor in Jiangnan, lives here. Without saying a word, he carried the person inside.
As soon as Xu Ruying stepped into the door, she was stopped by a servant and said, "Mrs. You are here to see a doctor. Sorry, Doctor Zheng is not in the hall today, so you might as well come tomorrow!"
When Xu Ruying heard this, her heart suddenly became cold and asked anxiously: "Where is Dr. Zheng? My husband is seriously ill. If he can't find Dr. Zheng to treat him, he may not be able to survive tomorrow morning!"
The doctor's parents' heart is a life. He is just a servant who comes to the pharmacy as an apprentice. Doctor Zheng will not explain to him wherever he goes. For what reason: "Madam, if you have a prescription, the young one can help you, but I don't know where Doctor Zheng is going."
Xu Ruying's eyes suddenly turned dark. She went to Nanjing City in one day after all difficulties. When she knew that the doctor she was looking for was not at home, she immediately fainted in anger.
"Madam!" Xiong Tingbi, who was standing behind him, was shocked and hurriedly reached out to hold it over.
The servant also hurriedly went up to pinch Xu Ruying's people. After a while, Xu Ruying woke up leisurely, and pearl-like tears rolled down from her eyes. Could this be God's will? She had just found a lifelong support, and she was about to lose this support in a flash. She didn't even know his true identity.
Xiong Tingbi saw Xu Ruying awake and breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, no one else could lie down. He calmly asked the servant: "This guy, has your doctor Zheng ever said when will he come back?"
The servant also wanted to help them, so he lowered his head and thought for a while: "Doctor Zheng and the old abbot Wuneng from Qixia Temple outside the city are friends of Fangwai. They stay at the temple for a few days every month, but the specific day is uncertain, so the younger ones don't know if Doctor Zheng will go to Qixia Temple today."
"Qixia Temple?" When Xu Ruying heard that someone might be in Qixia Temple, she suddenly felt an endless stream of strength and said resolutely: "Hurry up, go to Qixia Temple!"
Xiong Tingbi hurriedly asked the servant about the location of Qixia Temple, and called the coachman to lift Zhu Yinglong into the carriage again, and rushed out of the city without stopping.
The servant who was grabbing medicine in Jishitang looked at the carriage away and murmured to himself: "If such a beautiful wife treats me like this, it will be worth dying!"
The gate of Nanjing City was closed after nightfall. If you want to leave the city, you have to wait until the door was opened the next morning. No matter how Xu Ruying and others beg, bribe money and even kneel down, the guards at the city gate refused to be able to get along and let them out of the city. Xu Ruying almost burst into tears in a hurry and wanted to fight out, but it was a fantasy to try to fight out the gate with heavy troops with only the strength of the two of them.
"What should I do?" Only these three words appeared in Xu Ruying's mind. She was almost desperate. Zhu Yinglong in her arms could not even make a murmur sound. Her whole body was so hot that she was afraid of people. The blood in her body seemed to be burning. This might be Zhu Yinglong's last vitality. Once it was burned, his life would come to an end.
At this moment, the city gate was suddenly pushed open, and dozens of people entered Nanjing city in a row. They were actually the Tiqi of the East Factory. Xiong Tingbi naturally recognized it and understood instantly. No wonder these guards dared not let them go out of the city. If the people of the East Factory knew that they had released people privately during the time when the city gate was closed, their jobs would not be saved, and of course they would not dare to open the city gate for them.
A eunuch in the leader saw Xu Ruying's carriage and heard Xu Ruying crying in the carriage. He stopped beside the carriage and asked the guard with a sharp voice: "Who is on this carriage? Why is it parked at the city gate late at night?"
The guard told Xu Ruying about going out for medical treatment late at night.
The eunuch was still a little conscientious and said, "Save a life better than building a seven-level pagoda. Just let them out of the city!"
The people from the East Factory were not provoked by a small city gate guard. Xu Ruying survived the scene. She wiped the tears at the corner of her eyes and got off the car to thank the eunuch. When the eunuch saw Xu Ruying's eyes lit up and praised: "What a handsome girl, it's a pity. She's already married, otherwise..." She seemed to have an intention.
Although Xu Ruying was a little dissatisfied with the eunuch's rude words, she was very grateful after all. After thanking her, she hurriedly asked the coachman to carry the carriage out of the city.
Qixia Temple is built on Qixia Mountain, so naturally the carriage cannot go up the mountain, so Xiong Tingbi carried Zhu Yinglong up the mountain along the way.
Zheng Baoyu was indeed in Qixia Temple. He had not yet fallen asleep. He was talking about sutras and talks with the old abbot in the Zen room. Suddenly, he heard that a novice monk in the temple reported that someone went up the mountain to seek medical treatment. It was so late that the patient must have been to his Jishi Hall before he knew that he was in Qixia Temple. He went out of the city to go up the mountain overnight. He must have been a severely ill person who saved his life and could not delay it. He immediately stopped talking about the novice monk and came out to see Xu Ruying and others.
"Doctor Zheng, please save my husband!" Xu Ruying recognized Zheng Baoyu at a glance, because he was not wearing a monk's robe, and his appearance was exactly the same as what the servant in Jishitang described. He immediately knelt down and said.
"Madam, please get up." Zheng Baoyu saw it a lot and reached out to help Xu Ruying up and said, "Mrs. Get up, the doctor is the parents' heart. I will definitely help if I can."
After looking, hearing, asking, and slashing, the expression of the famous doctor Zheng Baoyu became more and more serious: "From the pathology, the young man should have malaria. His body had only been in the whole day since the onset of the disease, so it shouldn't be so serious. However, I just took my pulse and found that his kidney water was insufficient, which seemed to be a little deficient, so the wind and cold were penetrated into the bones, and the lesions penetrated deep into the internal organs. But at his age, it should be around twenty years old. The kidney water deficiency only occurs more frequently in men in their forties or fifties. How young is it? How could this happen?"
What Zheng Baoyu said is exactly the same as what the old doctor in Zhenjiang said.
"Doctor Zheng, you want to save my son." Xiong Tingbi also begged nervously.
"It's not very difficult to save him, but the difficulty lies in my lack of ability!" Zheng Baoyu said.
"Ah?" Everyone in the Main Hall looked at Zheng Baoyu in surprise, saying that it was not difficult to save people, and said that he did not have the ability to do so. Isn't this a contradiction?
"To save this young master, I need someone. Without this person, I can do nothing!" Zheng Baoyu said.
"My doctor, please tell me, I will definitely invite someone!" Xu Ruying was shocked when she heard that she was rescued and called a guarantee.
Zheng Baoyu shook his head and said, "Madam, I'm afraid it won't work. If that person knows your husband's symptoms, he may directly bombard you!"
"Why?" Except for the old abbot in the hall, he seemed to have known the answer for a long time. Everyone else stared at Zheng Baoyu and asked in confusion.
"Madam, tell me, how many wives and concubines do your husband have in total?" Zheng Baoyu asked.
Xu Ruying was stunned for a moment. This question was really hard to answer. She had not even figured out the origin of Zhu Yinglong, but she didn't know how many wives and concubines he had at home. However, Zhu Yinglong told her that she was his first real woman, so she said, "As far as I know, I am the only one!"
What is this answer? Zheng Baoyu said: "That means, besides you, don't you know how many wives and concubines he has?"
Xu Ruying was about to nod honestly, but Xiong Tingbi hurriedly stood up and explained: "Doctor Zheng, my son's lack of kidney water is definitely not caused by indulgence. I can guarantee this!"
"Oh, is your young master lacking in congenital kidney water?" Zheng Baoyu asked.
"I don't know this, I don't know this." Xiong Tingbi replied awkwardly.
Xu Ruying suddenly had a flash of inspiration in her mind, her face turned pale, and she stuttered and asked Zheng Baoyu: "Doctor Zheng, that, will the aphrodisiac... cause insufficient kidney water?"
“Under normal circumstances, it won’t.”
“What if it’s an overdose?”
"It depends on what kind of aphrodisiac it is."
"It's that, that..." Xu Ruying's face turned red, and her voice was like a mosquito.
"This is used by a doctor in the martial arts world to cheat money, but it is also a strong aphrodisiac, which is extremely harmful to men's spleen and kidneys. How do you know this aphrodisiac? Could it be that your husband..." Zheng Baoyu looked at Xu Ruying in surprise and asked.
"I, I..." Xu Ruying couldn't say anything about this, but everyone understood it. His wife actually gave her aphrodisiac to her husband. If it was rumored, someone would definitely be called a slut. Only Xiong Tingbi vaguely knew the inside story and complained in his heart that Xu Ruying was too ignorant. Because she did not intentionally harm others, and was working hard to save the prince, as long as the prince was safe and sound, he would not care.
"Since this is the case, Ling Fu's illness is not a big problem!" Zheng Baoyu's promise made Xu Ruying and Xiong Tingbi mentally relieved the heavy burden on his shoulders. Xu Ruying couldn't hold on and fell down immediately. Zheng Baoyu checked it, but he hadn't eaten for a day, and with the mental fatigue, it was nothing serious to take a break.
Chapter completed!