Chapter 10 Evening Star Garden

When nature created the grass, it was difficult for the hard and soft to interact, and when it moved in danger, the mines gathered...

Chen Ji vaguely remembered that this seemed to be content from the Book of Changes, but he didn't know what it meant.

But even if he didn't understand, he still had awe for Old Man Yao's Liu Yao technique. Tonight's hexagram was so ominous that even Old Man Yao would retreat. What was the difference between him going there and committing suicide?
He asked doubtfully, "Master, is it because I am strong enough?"

Old Man Yao thought for a moment and said, "Hmm."

Chen Ji said helplessly: "Obviously, the three of us brothers have the same horoscope!"

Old Man Yao said, "Who will pay my tuition if anything happens to them? You can't pay the tuition anyway, so go. If you don't want to go, it's okay, just pack up and go home."

Chen Ji thought for a long time and said, "Okay, I'll go."

Chunhua led Chenji to the main gate of the palace and came to the plaque of Zhengda Guangming. The two were stopped by the guards with long halberds: "Waist plaque!"

She showed her badge: "This is the palace badge, please ask the clinic staff to come over."

The guards put away their halberds silently, and the red door slowly opened with a creaking sound.

The two men lowered their heads and hurried through the huge and profound palace. On their side were tall red walls, gray tiles and a two-story building. Under the eaves was a colorfully painted four-clawed golden dragon holding a fire-avoiding bead in its mouth.

Chen Ji looked nervously at the black-armored guards standing solemnly, some on guard duty, some on patrol, and all looking around fiercely.

Chunhua asked in a low voice: "Did Doctor Yao tell you about the rules of the palace?"

Chen Ji judged that his original body should not be qualified to enter the palace. This was his first time entering, so the other party asked: "Master has not taught you yet, please Miss Chunhua give me some advice."

Chunhua said, "Keep your head down near Jing'an Palace and Mingzheng Hall, and don't look around. Don't talk nonsense when you see my wife, answer whatever you are asked, and don't tell anyone what you see or hear in the palace."

"got it."

When we arrived at an archway, we were met by a team of more than ten women carrying two wooden stretchers covered with white cloth.

These women have broad shoulders and thick waists, and I guess they are the strong servants in the backyard of the palace.

When the two sides passed each other, one of the stretchers swayed due to the bumps and a slender, dark-blue hand hung out. A woman stuffed her hand back under the white cloth with an expressionless face, as if nothing had happened.

The team went away, and no one knew where they were going to send the two bodies.

Chen Ji said: "Miss Chunhua, you have to tell me what happened. What happened just now."

"My wife had a miscarriage," Chunhua said, "The two people just now were the maids who were beaten to death in Wanxing Garden."

Chen Ji's heart tightened.

At this time, the backyard was brightly lit, and servants were coming and going in an endless stream. No one knew what they were busy with, and everyone looked hurried and depressed.

When they arrived outside Wanxing Garden, they saw seven or eight slaves kneeling by the wall, crying and shouting for justice. More than a dozen strong women were whipping their backs with rattan sticks. "Tell me, who touched Concubine Jing's dinner today? If you don't tell me, I'll beat you all to death!"

Someone cried, "I really haven't touched you."

A strong woman said angrily: "Why don't you tell me?"

As she said this, the strong woman pulled the slave's head and slammed it against the wall, killing her instantly!

Chen Ji turned his head slightly, thinking that perhaps he had handled the situation inappropriately tonight, and this was the result.

However, just as he approached the Evening Star Garden, he suddenly felt a stream of ice surging out of the garden and flowing into his body. The momentum of this stream of ice was so huge that it was even several times more powerful than Zhou Chengyi's original stream of ice!
Wait, where did this ice flow come from? Why did it come from?

If it was Zhou Chengyi's wronged ghost who haunted him last time because he helped Yunyang and Jiaotu catch Jingchao's spies, then the people who died in Wanxing Garden this time had nothing to do with him, so why did ice flow into his body as well?
Chen Ji thought hurriedly that the surging ice flows must have some hidden commonalities. Only by finding these commonalities can he understand what the ice flows are.

Who is this ice flow coming from? This question is very critical.

Before he could figure it out, Chunhua turned around and urged him, "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and follow me."

Chen Ji hurried to catch up. There were rockeries and water systems in the spacious Wanxing Garden. The main building in the courtyard was a two-story building. Climbing roses were planted outside the building. The green vines meandered up the building and were particularly elegant after being trimmed.

The refinement and tranquility within the garden contrasts sharply with the hell on earth outside the garden; even the rose vines look particularly eerie.

At this time, a woman in the building shouted angrily, "My wife felt that the bird's nest was not right before. She had a miscarriage two hours after drinking it. Someone must have poisoned my wife! When the prince comes back and finds that his flesh and blood is gone, he will definitely kill people!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chunhua said anxiously downstairs: "Madam, the clinic is here to ask for help."

"Come up quickly," a gentle female voice said, "Hurry up and ask Sister Jingfei to see if someone has poisoned her."

Thump, thump, thump. Chen Ji followed Chunhua up the wooden stairs.

Inside the second floor, a gauze screen blocked the bed. A middle-aged woman sat on a throne outside the screen. She was wearing a plain silk robe sewed with gold thread and a feather hairpin in her hair. She looked behind the screen with concern and said in a gentle voice, "Don't worry, Sister Jingfei. There is still a long time to come. You will definitely get pregnant again."

Behind the screen, Concubine Jing said in a weak voice, "Thank you, Sister Yunfei, for your concern."

In the corner of the second floor, a black cat was fighting with a white cat, leaving their fur all over the floor, but no one paid any attention to them, as if they were deliberately letting them fight. The black cat was small, and when it was beaten, it was kicked on the head more than ten times, and its soul was almost kicked out.

But when Chen Ji stepped onto the stairs, the black cat suddenly broke away from the white cat, stared at Chen Ji's cuffs, and sniffed. It wanted to get closer to Chen Ji, but the white cat pounced on it again and wrestled it into the corner again.

Chunhua had brought Chen Ji to the second floor and said to the screen, "Madam, the doctor is here. Let him examine you."

At this time, a fierce woman looked at Chunhua and asked angrily, "Where is Doctor Yao? Why is there a brat here?"

Chunhua was so frightened that she immediately knelt on the ground and cried, "Imperial Doctor Yao insisted that it was too dangerous tonight and that we should not go out. I even moved the prince out but he still could not be persuaded."

The fierce woman's face darkened. "The palace's imperial physician cannot be invited? This Imperial Physician Yao is so arrogant!"

Concubine Yun frowned and said, "I know that Imperial Physician Yao likes to tell fortunes, but it's a bit unreasonable that he didn't come tonight. When the prince returns from Jiangnan, I will report this matter to him truthfully. If the palace can't use the Imperial Physician's Office, then it's better not to have it."

The shrew asked, "What about tonight? Are we going to just let it go tonight? What should I do with my wife's illness?"

Concubine Yun looked embarrassed: "The prince is not here now, and Imperial Doctor Yao is a seventh-rank official. We have to wait for the prince to come back and make the decision."

The fierce woman said in a deep voice, "Could it be that Concubine Yun told Imperial Physician Yao not to come?"

Concubine Jing behind the screen hurriedly said, "Chunrong, you must not be rude to Sister Yunfei!"

Concubine Yun smiled and said, "It's okay. Chunrong is also concerned about you, sister. Otherwise, since the doctor from the Imperial Medical Office is here, let him check on Concubine Jing first."

Concubine Jing said softly, "Okay."

The fierce woman Chunrong looked at Chen Ji and said coldly: "What are you still standing there for? Come and diagnose Concubine Jing."

Chen Ji lowered his head and said nothing.

He can't diagnose anyone...

Moreover, the most important thing at this moment is not the diagnosis of the disease. If the diagnosis is correct or incorrect, something bad will happen.

When Aunt Chunrong saw that he didn't say anything, she was furious: "Diagnose the disease!"

Chen Ji thought for a long time, and finally bowed his hands with a bitter face and said, "I'm sorry, Madam. I have only studied medicine for two years. First, I have only been with my master for a short time, and second, I have not mastered the skills. I really don't know how to tell whether Concubine Jing is poisoned. I'm afraid my master has to do this. I will go back now and try to persuade him to see if I can invite him."

Nanny Chun Rong scolded: "You said you don't know without even checking his pulse. Take him out and beat him to death! Imperial Physician Yao is a seventh-rank official and cannot be touched. It should be okay to beat a little apprentice to death. It's a good opportunity to teach the Imperial Physician's Office what the consequences of dereliction of duty are!"

As he was speaking, four sturdy women rushed up from downstairs, their feet stomping on the wooden floor made a thudding sound. They dragged Chen Ji out and wanted to beat him to death.

His hair was disheveled, his wooden hairpin had fallen to the ground, and his clothes were making tearing sounds under the weight.

Concubine Yun picked up the teacup and took a sip without paying any attention. In the eyes of the nobles of this era, the death of an apprentice was the death, and it was not worth fussing about it.

"Wait, let me finish what I'm saying," Chen Ji struggled to speak, "Although I'm not proficient in medicine, but if Madam Jingfei was really poisoned, I'm willing to find the real culprit!"

The second floor suddenly became quiet, with only the sound of Chen Ji's heavy breathing remaining.

Concubine Yun put down her teacup and looked over, sizing up Chen Ji curiously: "Oh? You have this ability?"

She looked at the embarrassed young man again and felt that he didn't look like an apprentice at all, and his eyes were becoming calmer and calmer.

Chen Ji asked very quickly, "May I ask how many months pregnant is Madam Jingfei?"

Concubine Jing whispered behind the screen, "May."

Chen Ji said: "The fetus is already formed in May. If someone uses a strong poison to harm the fetus within a few hours, the adult will also die! There is no poison in the world that only harms the fetus and not the pregnant woman!"

The principle of abortion pills is to reduce the progesterone level in the body and cause the uterus to contract, thereby forcing the pregnancy tissue out of the body. In order for this drug to take effect within one day, it must be used on a fetus within three months.

There are several remaining reasons that can cause miscarriage of a May-month-old fetus. The first is reproductive organ disease of the pregnant woman, such as uterine malformation; the second is systemic disease of the pregnant woman, such as influenza, pneumonia, and organ failure; the third is being hit by external force; and the fourth is drastic emotional fluctuations of the pregnant woman, such as sadness or fright.

Chen Ji asked, "Madam Jingfei, have you been feeling unwell in the past few months?"

Nanny Chunrong responded, "My wife was in good health before, but she has only lost her appetite in recent months. I asked Doctor Yao to diagnose her, and he said it was just a normal pregnancy reaction."

Chen Ji did not take what Old Man Yao said as a reference. He had read the General Principles of Medical Skills and knew that even if the other party was a highly respected imperial physician, he could not transcend the shackles of the times.

He continued to ask: "Has Madam Jingfei been hit by external force recently, or has she experienced great emotional ups and downs?"

Nanny Chunrong sneered, "What are you talking about here? How could my wife, a woman of such wealth and status, have the situation you described? If you just want to delay time, you won't be beaten to death in a moment."

Chen Ji suddenly said: "Since none of the above is true, then it must be poisoning! But it is definitely not the poison given tonight, but the result of long-term poisoning!"

"Ok?"

"Are you sure?"

(End of this chapter)