Chapter 240 - 236: Planting Ginseng_1

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Yao Yuanzheng thought about it and felt it made sense.

So, he ordered several palace maids to leave and replaced them with two eunuchs for the service.

Two palace maids retreated, but Chen Tiantian was unwilling to leave. Lowering her head, she said, “I was ordered by the Empress to serve His Highness; I can’t go anywhere else.”

Yao Yuanzheng frowned, exchanging a glance with Yingbao.

Being just an imperial physician, matters within the Prince’s chambers were beyond his jurisdiction. Therefore, he felt helpless with the stubbornness of this small palace maid.

Yingbao didn’t care and straightforwardly complained to the Prince, “Your Highness, this person refuses to leave.”

The young Prince leaning on the bed had to speak, “Step back.”

Chen Tiantian, furrowing her brows, reluctantly looked at Yingbao and exited the Inner Palace.

Only then did Yingbao step forward and ask, “Are you feeling a bit better?”

Murong Xian nodded slightly.

Yingbao asked again, “Did you take your morning dose of medicine?”

“Hmm.”

“What else did you eat?”

“I couldn’t eat anything.”

Yingbao fell silent for a moment, then turned to Yao Yuanzheng, “Grandfather Yao, let’s step outside and discuss His Highness’s treatment plan.”

Yao Yuanzheng nodded, exiting the inner chamber with Yingbao.

The reason he trusted Yingbao so much was also that this young child was able to produce extraordinary effective medications.

In addition, Xiao Mo had once told him that her younger brother, Xiao Chengjun, and Zhao Silang were both healed by her, so he naturally considered her a colleague.

He hadn’t seen Xiao Chengjun’s injuries, but he knew about Zhao Silang and had even treated the boy for a while. However, Zhao Silang’s disease was extremely tricky, more so than the Prince’s.

Eventually, even Yao Yuanzheng himself ran out of remedies and could only advise him to leave.

Unexpectedly, such a dying person was miraculously cured by a rural doctor and a small child. It was simply incredible.

Yingbao sat down at the table and seriously told Yao Yuanzheng who was sitting across from her, “The Prince’s body is too weak. He is not suitable for consuming too many drugs. Presently he can only be nourished slowly with food therapy; otherwise, it will backfire.”

Yao Yuanzheng touched his beard in thought, finally nodding, “Good idea.”

Previously, the Prince’s diarrhea had been intermittent, which made him and several imperial physicians fearful every day, scared that a careless medication mishap would send the Prince to his death.

Yao Yuanzheng had also thought about temporarily stopping medication to let the Prince’s gastrointestinal system rest for a while, but the physicians each had their own opinions, which made it difficult for him to decide, thus leading to a day-by-day delay until the Prince’s disease became critical.

Now, seeing Xiao Family bringing a young and an old rural doctors, the Imperial physicians took the opportunity to shirk their responsibilities for self-protection.

After all, the Prince’s situation was too dangerous. Since there were people to bear the responsibility, they were more than willing to step aside.

Yingbao: “Since Grandfather Yao agrees with my treatment method, then the Prince’s daily life and meals must be taken care of by specific individuals.”

“What do you mean?” Yao Yuanzheng didn’t understand.

Yingbao: “I am afraid of too many cooks spoiling the broth, which may harm the Prince’s body.”

Which meant, she was afraid the Prince would get food poisoning again.

Yao Yuanzheng: “I cannot decide on this matter, it needs to be reported to the Chief Secretary, or notified to the Chamberlain.”

Yingbao: “Then, Grandfather Yao, please go ahead and say it. Later you can write a dietary prescription and hand it to the Imperial Kitchen.”

The palace had plenty of health-preserving dietary recipes, Yingbao didn’t need to worry about it.

“And also, ladies should not be allowed near His Highness’s bedroom to prevent the imbalance of Yin and Yang.”

Yao Yuanzheng: …

He felt as though the little girl was behaving like a divine witch, even mentioning the five elements and the Yin and Yang.

Succeeding that, Doctor Li and Yingbao were led out of the Imperial Palace by Yao Yuanzheng to the Imperial Medical Bureau’s pharmacy.

Yao Yuanzheng allowed Yingbao to draft a list of medicinal ingredients. He ordered his people to fetch them, and handed them over to her to prepare medicinal pellets and liquid.

Yingbao, of course, was more than pleased and immediately wrote a long list full of rare medicinal herbs, which she handed to the steward.

In the list, there were five ginseng plants ranging from ten to a hundred years old, along with other medicinal herbs such as fritillary bulbs, gastrodia, panax notoginseng, astragalus, and poria, etc. The selling price of these materials was very high, making them difficult to buy in rural pharmacies.

Once she obtained the herbs, Yingbao expressed that she wished to organize and formulate them herself, she wouldn’t even let Doctor Li watch.

Yao Yuanzheng had to yield and emptied a room specifically for her to formulate the medicine in.

With nobody around, Yingbao chuckled and picked up two whole ginseng plants to inspect them. She then put them into a hole and buried them in black soil, then watered them with Pupil Spring water.

She had tried planting before, but had not succeeded. This time, she was going to try again to see if it would work.

It was a pity that she couldn’t buy ginseng seeds, otherwise she wouldn’t keep trying to plant dried ginseng again and again.

Then she stowed away a few more medicinal herbs and started to prepare and cook the medicine.

She chopped every kind of herb into pieces, ground them into powder using a grinder, and then steamed all these powders on a steam tray.

She weighed the steamed medicinal powders based on proportion, then mixed them with honey, and shaped them into medicinal pills.

In order to make these medicinal pills tastier, Yingbao also added steamed jujube pulp.

Of course, to ensure the stability and effectiveness of the medicinal pills, Five Tripod Ganoderma was indispensable.

After working for a whole day, Yingbao made one hundred medicine pills and two bottles of highly effective medicine water, using up almost all the medicinal herbs.

Actually, half of those herbs had been taken into her den.

However, she didn’t just take things from others, the Five Tripod Ganoderma she brought out was much more valuable than these herbs.

At night, Yingbao and Doctor Li stayed in the Imperial Pharmacy.

There were maids in the Imperial Pharmacy whose responsibility was to clean and cook.

Yingbao lived in a room alone, the maids carried water for her to wash, and delivered a meal to her.

The food in the Imperial Pharmacy was apparently much better than the imperial palace’s, at least there were eggs and a few pieces of lamb in the food.

On the second day, it was Wen Jingyan’s turn to be on duty.

After Yingbao and Doctor Li had breakfast, they went to the office to find him.

“Grandpa Wen, why are you back in Beijing as an Imperial physician?” Yingbao remembered that he had previously said he had retired and returned to his hometown.

Wen Jingyan forced a smile, “I am a doctor, I can’t refuse when the Emperor calls me.”

In reality, his unfilial son had made a mistake, and so he had no choice but to take over the mess.

Doctor Li asked, “Has the doctor surnamed Lin been judged yet?”

“Not yet.” Wen Jingyan sighed, “It was also my negligence. I didn’t expect such a thing to happen.”

He had originally asked his third son to send a person to the Jiang Family of Chuanhe Town to receive gold-foil, but his third son handed this matter over to his third daughter-in-law’s brother.

That Lin fellow procrastinated until after the New Year before he went, and as a result, this happened.

Doctor Li comforted, “Don’t worry elder brother, the Crown Prince has already improved, the Emperor might not pursue this matter.”

Wen Jingyan smiled, then turned to talk to Yingbao, “I’ve heard that you have already graduated. It’s really impressive that you, at such a young age, are able to heal several critically ill patients.”

Yingbao said modestly, “Not at all. It’s because Grandpa Wen and Grandpa Li taught me so well that I can graduate.”

Wen Jingyan asked, “Yingbao, which department do you want to major in? Have you thought about it?”

“I…I haven’t thought about it.” Yingbao truly didn’t know what she excelled in.

She had only learned the basics of each subject, but none in depth. Hitching a ride on the luck of the content of her hole, she was in fact quite capable of getting things done. As for medical skills and such, at most she was still an apprentice.

Wen Jingyan stroked his beard, “After this incident, the Emperor will definitely let you stay in the Imperial Medical Bureau. So, you have to think clearly about what you’re good at.”

“What? Stay in the Imperial Medical Bureau?” Yingbao widened her eyes, “No way! I want to go home with my mom!”

She would be crazy to stay in such a place.

Isn’t going home to run a shop and earn a lot of money more tempting? Staying in this place full of intrigue, a place where powerful figures can remove her with a twitch of a finger, she would be at risk.