Chapter 72: Don't provoke an Imperial Physician, no matter who you are!

Lin Jiaojiao took the brush, ink, paper, and inkstone and quickly wrote down two prescriptions. Seeing that the ink on the paper was not yet dry, Lin Jiaojiao blew on the paper surface carefully.

She instructed Song Mu, "Before the medicinal bath, have your house physician clean his wounds, especially cleaning out the pus inside the wounds."

"Then the medicinal bath, the medicinal bath only needs the time of a cup of tea," Lin Jiaojiao said, worried that Song Mu would forget, so she took paper and wrote down the matters before the medicinal bath.

"How about this, when you go back, give these three sheets of paper directly to the house physician and let him do as written."

Song Mu held the three sheets of paper with wet ink as if they were treasures, "If only you could leave the palace and treat my son personally, that would be great."

But the Empress Dowager looked displeased, "Runiang, you are not right to say that. You asked Lin Guniang to write a prescription for your son. Now that she is living in the palace, shouldn't she also take a look at my headache?"

Song Mu teased the Empress Dowager, "Yes, yes, you have many Imperial Physicians in the palace that you don't use, but you took advantage of this opportunity."

The Empress Dowager held her forehead and complained: "Those Imperial Physicians are useless."

"When my migraine acts up, the prescriptions they write are useless, and they are like tortoises, afraid of this and afraid of that."

Hearing this, Lin Jiaojiao understood in her heart that those Imperial Physicians were not tortoises; they were just afraid of being punished if they couldn't cure her!

She was willing to take the risk to treat the Empress Dowager, for no other reason than that she was a medical student, and it was her profession and instinct.

"Empress Dowager, why not let this commoner take your pulse and see?" Lin Jiaojiao asked tentatively.

To be on the safe side, she added, "This commoner is just a folk female physician. If I can't cure it, I hope the Empress Dowager will not punish me."

The Empress Dowager laughed heartily, "You are the future daughter-in-law of my bosom friend, how could I punish you?"

Song Mu also laughed, "Lin Guniang, feel free to treat the Empress Dowager. If anything happens, I'll take the blame for you!"

Seeing the close relationship between Song Mu and the Empress Dowager, and not having to worry about losing her head, Lin Jiaojiao breathed a sigh of relief, "Let this commoner take your pulse and see."

The Empress Dowager sat on the stone stool and stretched out a hand for Lin Jiaojiao to take her pulse.

Lin Jiaojiao placed her uninjured hand on it. After only a moment, she diagnosed the general situation, "The Empress Dowager's headache is a migraine on both sides of the head, which is caused by the obstruction of the liver and gallbladder. Once the emotions are too agitated, it will be induced. First, it is a slight throbbing pain, and when it is severe, it will throb with the heartbeat. When it is serious, the eyes will go black, the head will ache as if it were splitting, and you will not be able to sleep at night."

The more the Empress Dowager heard, the brighter her eyes became: every symptom she mentioned was exactly the same as when her migraine acted up!

The Empress Dowager nodded excitedly: "Indeed, indeed, truly a divine physician! How should it be treated?"

"Treatment is not difficult. I believe the prescriptions written by the Imperial Physicians are symptomatic. Actually, the best way is to pay attention to soothing the liver qi in daily life and prevent the liver and gallbladder from being blocked in the head." Lin Jiaojiao did not want to disparage her peers, nor did she want to steal the credit of the Imperial Physicians.

Especially after experiencing the medicine soup brought by Imperial Physician Jia this afternoon, which caused her diarrhea and discomfort all afternoon, she understood: don't provoke an Imperial Physician, no matter who you are!

"Lin Guniang's words are reasonable." The Empress Dowager nodded, "Then can Lin Guniang also write a prescription for me to treat this migraine?"

But at this moment, there was a rustling sound in the room. The four of them looked in the direction of the sound and saw Hui Guiren holding her bleeding forehead, dizzy and walking out of the room!

Qingdai and Lin Jiaojiao stared at Hui Guiren. Qingdai regretted it so much that her intestines turned green!

If she had known she would wake up so quickly, she should have hit her on the head again when she entered the room just now!

Song Mu and the Empress Dowager were full of confusion, "Hui Guiren, why are you here?"

They looked at the wound on Hui Guiren's forehead again, and then turned their gaze to Lin Jiaojiao.

"Empress Dowager...?" Hui Guiren was still not fully awake, and her spirit was a bit dazed.

Seeing this, Qingdai was the first to rush to the Empress Dowager to kneel and admit her mistake, "Empress Dowager, it was me, I knocked Hui Guiren unconscious!"

The Empress Dowager frowned at Qingdai, "You, a mere palace maid, how dare you knock a mistress of the palace unconscious?"

Qingdai cried with snot and tears. She raised her hand that had been stepped on and cried, "Empress Dowager, it's all this maid's fault. Hui Guiren brought people to the Qingju Pavilion this afternoon. As soon as she entered, she said Lin Guniang was a vixen or something, and wanted to punish Lin Guniang..."

"At that time, Lin Guniang had just fallen asleep after taking medicine. Hui Guiren directly ordered people to take away Lin Guniang's blue and white porcelain pillow, smashed it on the ground, and wanted to use the broken porcelain to gouge Lin Guniang's palm!"

"Lin Guniang resisted desperately, and her palm was cut!" Qingdai accused while crying.

As she spoke, she raised Lin Jiaojiao's hand, which was wrapped in gauze but still seeping blood, "This maid was really scared, really scared. In a moment of desperation, I knocked Hui Guiren and her two personal maids unconscious!"

Qingdai's accusation was smooth and coherent, leaving Lin Jiaojiao dumbfounded!

Lin Jiaojiao had admired Song Shijie's acting ability before, but she didn't expect that Qingdai could act and use the situation to provide evidence!

Even Song Mu, who didn't know the situation, was convinced by Qingdai's clear mind!

Only Hui Guiren, holding her bleeding forehead, woke up a little and argued: "No, Empress Dowager, it's not like that..."

"This maid did this, it really shouldn't have been done! Please Empress Dowager, punish me!" After Qingdai finished speaking, she knelt on the ground and kowtowed!

Lin Jiaojiao hurriedly went over and reached out to help her up, "Qingdai, you don't have to do this for me..."

"She, she is slandering me! Empress Dowager," Hui Guiren pointed at Qingdai and Lin Jiaojiao, so angry that she cursed, "It was clearly you who were the villains who filed the complaint first!"

"This maid dares not," Qingdai knelt and kowtowed and cried, "If you don't believe me, you can ask Eunuch Deng. When he came to pass the message, he clearly saw me kicked to the ground and bullied—"

Xiao Zhuozi, who was guarding outside the Qingju Pavilion, heard someone pointing at him and hurriedly entered to kneel before the Empress Dowager, "Reporting to the Empress Dowager, when this humble one came to summon Lin Guniang to the Shoukang Palace, I saw Qingdai kicked to the ground."

"That's right," the Empress Dowager nodded in agreement, "You came back to report to me, saying that I was afraid Lin Guniang could not come to the Shoukang Palace to pay respects to me. It turns out the reason was here."

Hui Guiren was so angry that her eyes turned red. She glared at Qingdai and Lin Jiaojiao. If it weren't for the Empress Dowager and Song Mu being here, she would have wanted to swallow Lin Jiaojiao and Qingdai alive on the spot!

The Empress Dowager raised her head arrogantly and looked down at the kneeling Hui Guiren: "Hui Guiren, this afternoon, you were the one who came to me and complained that a newcomer had come to the palace, making the Inner Palace restless?"

"Yes!" Hui Guiren still didn't know the seriousness of the matter and continued to point at Lin Jiaojiao and speak wildly, "It's her! She entered the palace at noon today. Just after noon, the Emperor came out of the Qingju Pavilion and ordered a search of the Inner Palace!"

"It was clearly her bewitching the crowd, bewitching the Emperor! Causing chaos in the Inner Palace!"

This time Song Mu couldn't sit still: "But she is the future daughter-in-law of my Song family, how could she bewitch the crowd and bewitch the Emperor?