EBE Chapter 517: I don't want 2 boards, I want 3 boards
Chapter 517: I don't want 2 boards, I want 3 boards
Shen Wantang stood up and walked towards Nanny Fu with a calm expression under the sympathetic gazes of everyone.
Aunt Fu stretched out her hand and rolled up her sleeves.
Shen Wantang placed his fingers on Nanny Fu's wrist and began to take her pulse carefully.
Soon, the Queen Mother lost her patience: "Have you finished the examination? Why is it so difficult for you to take a pulse?"
Shen Wantang loosened her hand and said calmly, "Your Majesty, Madam Fu is generally in good health, but..."
"Just what?"
"I just have occasional migraines, probably from the cold I caught when I was young."
The Queen Mother was stunned for a moment, then sneered, "Nonsense, Aunt Fu is fine! She doesn't have any migraine at all. I think you don't understand medicine at all, and you dare to use a random symptom to fool me! You really don't know how to live or die. Come, drag her out and give her twenty lashes!"
The eunuchs were about to pull Shen Wantang away, but Shen Wantang shouted, "Wait!"
The Queen Mother looked at her with disdain: "What else do you have to say?"
"The Queen Mother should ask a few imperial doctors to diagnose whether Aunt Fu has migraines. In addition, the Queen Mother should also ask Aunt Fu herself whether she is suffering from headaches. She knows best."
The Queen Mother frowned and looked at Aunt Fu: "This fool insisted that you have a migraine. Come on, tell her whether you have this disease or not!"
Nanny Fu hesitated. Looking at the empress dowager's confident expression, she didn't know whether she should tell the truth or lie.
She had served the Queen Mother for so many years, but she still couldn't figure out what she was thinking.
However, she had been able to stay by the Queen Mother's side for so many years, so naturally she had her own ways to deal with it. She knelt down hurriedly and said, "The Queen Mother is wise. I don't have a migraine. I just feel a little stuffy and uncomfortable occasionally. These are minor ailments that everyone has. They are not worth mentioning. This is not a migraine at all!"
The Queen Mother was very satisfied with her answer. She looked at Shen Wantang and said, "Did you hear that? Aunt Fu doesn't have a migraine at all! You are just a person who seeks fame and reputation. You say you are proficient in medicine. You are just a liar! Now, what else do you have to say?"
Shen Wantang remained calm: "Madame Fu has a stuffy head, which is already clear. The Queen Mother colluded with Madame Fu and insisted that this is not a migraine. There is nothing I can do."
"The Queen Mother has already decided on the answer in her mind, and has already convicted me of the crime. I have nothing to say."
"If the Queen Mother wants to beat me, she can just beat me directly. Going through so much trouble and accusing me of a crime is really damaging to the Queen Mother's reputation."
The Queen Mother was so angry at her words that she glared at her: "You are such a sharp-tongued bastard, who do you think colluded with Madam Fu? I am the Queen Mother, I don't want to do such a despicable thing!"
Shen Wantang looked up at her and said, "Why didn't the Queen Mother let the imperial doctors check Madam Fu's pulse? Is the Queen Mother afraid? Is she afraid that I really know medicine, and that the imperial doctors' pulse diagnosis results will be exactly the same as mine?"
The Queen Mother was so angry that she fell backwards: "Who do you think you are? How could I be afraid of you?! I didn't realize that you are still a stubborn person. You don't want twenty strokes of the cane, but thirty strokes!"
The rest of the people in the room didn't quite understand why Shen Wantang wanted to anger the Queen Mother, just to prove that her pulse diagnosis results were correct?
You know, the Queen Mother just said that if there are mistakes in the pulse diagnosis, the patient will be beaten with twenty boards, but if there are no mistakes, the patient will be beaten with thirty boards!
Doesn’t the Crown Prince’s Consort know how to settle accounts? In this situation, she must have made a wrong diagnosis on purpose!
However, Shen Wantang stood straight and said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "Then please ask the Queen Mother to order the imperial doctors to check Madam Fu's pulse as well. I don't believe that the imperial doctors have colluded with the Queen Mother."
The Queen Mother was extremely furious. She hadn't met anyone who dared to challenge her like this for a long, long time.
But her reputation could not be ruined here, so she said sternly: "All of you, come and check Aunt Fu's pulse! Check carefully for me, if there are any mistakes, you will be punished along with Shen Wantang! Anyway, you are all a bunch of rubbish who can't cure my son, so kill them all!"
Doctor Qin and the others quickly stood up and went to check Nanny Fu's pulse one by one.
After everyone had finished their examination, the Queen Mother asked coldly, "How is it? Did Aunt Fu have a migraine?"
Doctor Qin and the others looked at each other, and none of these old foxes was willing to speak first.
"Speak! Are you all mute?!"
The Queen Mother was very annoyed. She picked up a tea bowl and threw it at the doctors: "Can't you hear me when I ask you a question?"
Doctor Qin was the first to be hit. He didn't dare to dodge, but he caught the tea bowl very swiftly and then knelt down out of habit.
As soon as he knelt, the other imperial doctors followed suit, fearing that if they knelt too slowly they would be noticed by the empress dowager.
The Queen Mother was furious and angry: "Qin Fangming, tell me what the result of your pulse diagnosis is! If you can't tell me, I will have your hands chopped off, and you will never be able to diagnose pulses and be a royal physician again!"
Doctor Qin couldn't help but shrink his hands in his sleeves. He prostrated himself on the ground, and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, from what I have seen, Madam Fu suffers from migraines."
The Queen Mother's face changed. "What?! Really? Did you diagnose correctly? I think you are old and your eyes are blurry. You can even diagnose a migraine wrong! Come over here and diagnose again!"
However, Imperial Doctor Qin did not step forward. What a joke! If he couldn’t even diagnose a migraine correctly, what was the point of being an imperial doctor?
What would his colleagues say about him later? He had to diagnose a migraine twice to confirm the cause. Wasn't he as fast and accurate as a young woman like Shen Wantang?
Although he is smooth and shrewd, he is still very careful about his reputation when it comes to medical ethics and skills.
"Queen, calm down. It's not wrong. Aunt Fu does have a migraine."
"impossible!"
Seeing that the Queen Mother was about to get angry again, Imperial Physician Qin hurriedly said, "However, there are many types of migraines. Just now, the Crown Prince's Consort said that Madam Fu's migraines were caused by a cold when she was young. I think this is not a rash conclusion. I think that Madam Fu's migraines may also be caused by washing her hair with cold water."
The Queen Mother's expression improved slightly: "So, Shen Wantang made a wrong diagnosis?"
"That's true... I can't say it's completely wrong. Catching a cold can indeed cause a migraine."
The Queen Mother waved her hands in annoyance: "Step aside, you never have a good time, I feel annoyed listening to you talk! Zhou Guangzheng, tell me, what is Fu Ma like!"
Doctor Zhou was old, with gray beard and droopy eyelids, but he was just like his name, bright and upright. He said honestly, "I think the Crown Princess's diagnosis is correct. Madam Fu does have migraines, and the cause of her migraines is the cold."