Chapter 290: 290 Addiction (1st update)
Chapter 290 290 Addiction (first update)
Duke Mu frowned, his expression complex.
Early this morning, the son-in-law suddenly told the emperor that he wanted to resign in the court, and Duke Mu was also shocked.
The emperor did not approve it in the end and put it aside for the time being.
After the court, the son-in-law said that he wanted to go with him, and Duke Mu also wanted to ask him what happened. However, the son-in-law was like a mute and said nothing...until now.
Duke Mu's eyes moved to Shen and Chu Qianchen. Seeing that they were also there, he knew that something big must have happened.
He didn't rush to ask, and now he sat down on the kang.
Shen Wan cried for a while, and her mood calmed down a lot. Thinking that there were still people here, she pushed Gu Jin away, wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and then faced her family, her eyes even redder and swollen.
After his daughter and son-in-law sat down, Duke Mu asked, "What happened?"
After crying, Shen Wan's voice became hoarse: "Qiniang is sick, and she is in the Bisha Cupboard."
Then, she told Duke Mu exactly what happened, and finally said: "I originally wanted to reconcile..."
"No harmony." Gu Jin interrupted Shen Wan very firmly.
He is absolutely unfriendly.
Gu Jin added: "I am the legitimate son. Even if I don't have the title of the county king, if we separate the family, we can at least get some shops and villages. I can afford to support you and Qiniang."
"It doesn't matter if I don't have any errands. I just have time to spend more time with you and Qiniang. We can live in the village. It will be surrounded by green mountains and green waters every day. How comfortable it is."
There was a look on Gu Jin's face and eyes, casual, optimistic, and quite a bit happy-go-lucky.
It was written all over his body that if the sky fell, there would still be people taller than him to hold it up.
"Ahem!"
Mu Guogong coughed twice and asked Shen Wan and Gu Jin to sit down first. Then he looked at Shen Wan with stern eyes and lectured: "Awan, your mother and I really taught you bad things. He Li is Can you say it casually?"
"You are now a mother, not a child. How could you act so recklessly?"
"It's hard to collect water when it's poured out. What you say is like water being poured out!"
"There is also the matter of Qiniang. You are really too hasty and confused..."
Duke Mu looked at Shen Wan and frowned, feeling helpless and angry.
Duke Mu raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows. He simply didn't know how to say good things to his third daughter.
Shen Wan: "..."
Facing her father's reprimand, Shen Wan did not dare to refute a single word, and sat there in silence with her face lowered and her hands on her knees.
Gu Jin quickly admitted his mistake and said, "Father-in-law, this is all my fault."
As soon as he said this, he drew Mu Guogong's firepower.
Duke Mu also lectured his son-in-law again: "And you too, what can I do to Awan?"
"You are a man, so you should be able to distinguish right from wrong. Don't you know if something doesn't go your way?"
“…”
They talked about theirs, while Chu Qianchen was immersed in his own world, with his eyes half-closed, diagnosing his own pulse.
The purpose was naturally to see what effect drinking the talent's cup of talisman water would have on her pulse condition.
Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Mu Guogong cast their eyes on her from time to time. Seeing her silence, they did not dare to disturb her.
As soon as Mu Guogong started talking, he kept talking and was still training until Shen Wan's maid ran out of the blue gauze cupboard and said with joy: "Princess, the county master is awake!"
Duke Mu's words stopped suddenly, and everyone was happy.
Shen Wan stood up in excitement, but heard Chu Qianchen say: "I'll go in and take a look, aunt, you don't need to follow me. There are too many people and the air is not good."
So, Mrs. Mu Guogong took Shen Yuan's hand and asked her to sit down again.
Chu Qianchen followed the maid into the Bisha cupboard alone, followed closely by Hu Hue.
The wet nurse was still sitting beside the beauty's couch and coaxed Gu Zhiyan with a soft voice: "County Master, don't move around, you still have a needle stuck in your body."
Gu Zhiyan woke up, still lying on her side, with the five golden needles still stuck in her body. Her face was not good, as wilted as a little flower that lacked water.
When she saw another figure behind the screen, she looked in the direction of Chu Qianchen and softly called, "Sister!"
The wet nurse immediately stepped aside. Chu Qianchen first touched Gu Zhiyan's back comfortingly and said softly, "I'll remove the needle for you first."
Chu Qianchen pulled out the needle from Gu Zhiyan in a matter of seconds. Gu Zhiyan was obedient and motionless.
Chu Qianchen touched the top of her soft hair as a reward and asked, "Is there anything wrong with you?"
The step of "asking" is also indispensable.
Gu Zhiyan replied obediently: "Sister, I don't have any physical strength."
The little girl lost weight, and her big obsidian eyes looked even bigger.
"You are sick now, so you have no strength. When you get better, your health will be better." Chu Qianchen looked into the little girl's eyes and asked, "I heard from your mother that you have been having nightmares recently, right? "The little girl's eyes dimmed a little more, she shrank down, wishing she could shrink into a shrimp dumpling, nodded, and whispered: "Sister, dreams are so scary."
Chu Qianchen looked at her and smiled slightly.
The little girl seemed to be comforted and encouraged, and said: "After I woke up, I felt so tired..."
"I didn't mean to lose my temper..."
As he spoke, Gu Zhiyan's voice became softer and softer, pitifully and wilted even more.
While listening, Chu Qianchen checked her own pulse at intervals and felt that her pulse was slowing down and weakening. No, it should be said that her heartbeat was slowing down, so her pulse also changed accordingly.
Chu Qianchen roughly estimated the time. It took about a stick of incense after she took the talisman water. The medicine started to take effect.
Chu Qianchen showed no expression on his face, took his hand away from the pulse, grabbed Gu Zhiyan's little hand, and began to massage the acupuncture points on her hand, comforting her: "It's okay, Qiniang, your mother knows that you are just Just sick."
Gu Zhiyan pursed her lips, a little embarrassed, "My mother said so too."
"Sister, I don't know what's wrong. After I had a nightmare, I felt scared and unhappy. My heart felt stuffy and I just wanted to be alone..."
She raised her finger and pointed at her temple, then her chest, "Here, and this place feels like paste...
Chu Qianchen continued to massage the acupuncture points on the little girl's body, taking his time and ease.
During this period, Chu Qianchen had been paying attention to the changes in her body. She found that her breathing had become shallower and slower, and her whole body was in a relatively relaxed state.
Normally, if a person is sleeping peacefully, they should be able to reach her current state.
In other words, the medicine contained in the talisman paper can most likely relax and aid sleep.
Not only that, her thinking seemed to slow down.
Chu Qianchen remembered that when she went to visit Gu Zhiyan at Jingjun Prince's Mansion in August, her reaction was a little dull and her eyes were dull...
Chu Qianchen was thoughtful, but his face didn't show anything.
She chatted with Gu Zhiyan for a while, and then asked her whether she slept well after drinking the talisman water, whether she was angry, etc.
Slowly, Gu Zhiyan closed her eyes and fell asleep under her repeated massage.
Chu Qianchen did not leave immediately, but continued to sit by the couch, carefully covering the little girl with a quilt and tucking the corners of the quilt over her.
At this time, Amber's saluting voice came from behind: "Princess."
Shen Wan walked silently to Chu Qianchen. The tears on her face had long been wiped away, but her eyes were red and swollen.
She stared at Gu Zhiyan's sleeping face for a moment, without saying anything, and then walked out of the Bisha cabinet with gentle steps.
Chu Qianchen left the wet nurse to take care of Gu Zhiyan and followed him out.
On the way to Nuange, Chu Qianchen lowered his voice and asked, "Aunt, after Qiniang drank the talisman water, how long will it take for her fever to subside?"
Shen Wan immediately replied: "Probably between one stick of incense and half an hour."
It was about the same time as when she felt something strange about her pulse. Chu Qianchen thought as he walked forward.
When she returned to Nuan Pavilion again, the atmosphere was much calmer and everyone was there.
After the intense sadness and joy just now, Shen Yuan and Prince Jing Gu Jin calmed down, their moods settled, and their original impetuousness faded away.
Everyone's eyes were looking at Chu Qianchen, with anticipation, worry, sourness, uneasiness...all kinds of emotions boiling over him.
Since the people present were all of his own people, Chu Qianchen calmly pointed to the remaining talisman paper after sitting down and said: "This talisman paper was soaked in a high-concentration concoction and then dried. Therefore, when the talisman melts into the water, the concoction will be released into the water.”
"It's supposed to be a calming, relaxing drug that helps you sleep."
However, Chu Qianchen still doesn't know what kind of medicine it is. She has not seen it in any pharmacopoeia.
The others looked at each other in confusion, feeling that judging from Chu Qianchen's description, this medicine did not seem to be a harmful poison.
No one asked any questions, waiting for Chu Qianchen to continue.
Chu Qianchen stroked his sleeves and said, "This medicine reminds me of a herbal medicine from Chidi called Red Hengcao. If taken in moderation, the juice of Red Hengcao can calm you down and treat epilepsy, headaches,... In children with high fever and convulsions, if the dose is large, it can make people fall asleep immediately. If it is taken for a long time, people will become dependent on it and become addicted. "
When they heard Chu Qianchen's last words, everyone's expressions changed, their eyes widened in shock, and Gu Jin stood up in a state of disbelief.
Thinking that his father-in-law and mother-in-law were here, he sat down again.
Chu Qianchen sat there with a calm expression.
Medicine is like a weapon. Weapons can kill people or save people, depending on how they are used.
The same is true for medicine. It can save people, but it can also harm people.
This kind of thing has happened throughout the ages.
Shen Wan took a deep breath, held her husband's hand with one hand, and asked, "Sister Chen, what should we do? Is Qiniang... addicted?"
After talking about this, everyone roughly guessed the whole story. Chu Qianhuang should have started to increase the dosage of medicine after the queen took away her status as the princess's companion, which is why Gu Zhiyan's illnesses occurred frequently. The attacks become more severe each time.
(End of chapter)