allendalepharm Chapter 691 Inheritance
Chapter 691 Inheritance
In the end, Yan Shu still lived in the palace. Jiang Ci arranged a position for her as a female doctor. She could work with the imperial doctors of the Imperial Hospital during the day, and someone would send someone to pick her up and take her back to Chongzheng Hall to rest at night.
Within a month, Jiang Ci eliminated a large number of Zhao family remnants, and the killers of Wushengmen were also wiped out. The new emperor's thundering methods also made the officials in the court fearful. Everyone realized that this young emperor was not someone who could be easily fooled.
Jiang Ci arranged Yan Shu to work in the Imperial Hospital because, firstly, he wanted to find a reason to keep her in the palace for a long time without being criticized. Secondly, what she said on the carriage on the way back to the city that day touched him a lot. Compared with the highly civilized world where Yan Shu lived, the world he lived in was more like a wild land. Since he couldn't do the imperial examination at the moment, he would start from other places. Perhaps the little fox's superb medical skills could open the eyes of these useless people in the Imperial Hospital.
The fact was just as Jiang Ci expected. When Yan Shu first entered the Imperial Medical Bureau, he was deliberately made difficult by several old imperial doctors. After Yan Shu personally cured several concubines' difficult and complicated diseases, these imperial doctors gradually shut up and completely submitted to Yan Shu. This is also related to today's small surgical operation.
As soon as Yan Shu arrived at the Imperial Hospital today, the servants of the Zhang Mansion hurried to the hospital to ask the most experienced imperial physician Cai to see the patient. They said that Prime Minister Zhang suddenly had unbearable abdominal pain shortly after breakfast and the situation was very critical.
Prime Minister Zhang and Prime Minister Su were the two pillars of the Sui Dynasty. They must not be in any danger soon after the new emperor ascended the throne. Yan Shu took the initiative to propose to go over and take a look at the situation, and Imperial Physician Cai readily agreed to take her with him.
When the two saw Zhang Shoufu, the old man's face was already pale from the pain, with beads of sweat the size of beans constantly oozing out. His thin body curled up on the bed and gradually began to become confused. Several of Zhang Shoufu's sons, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren gathered in the room, worried that the old man might not be able to hold on.
Imperial Physician Cai quickly checked Prime Minister Zhang's pulse and based on his symptoms of pain, determined that it was intestinal abscess, or appendicitis.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the only treatment for this disease is medication and acupuncture. Even the imperial physicians at the Imperial Medical Bureau have no better solution. However, Yan Shu could see that Prime Minister Zhang clearly had acute appendicitis. Even a young person would find this disease unbearable, let alone an old man in his eighties.
So she proposed the idea of an emergency operation. Imperial Physician Cai was horrified after hearing this. He thought this girl might be crazy. She actually wanted to operate on the Prime Minister?
Yan Shu explained the seriousness of Zhang Shoufu's illness to his family and promised to help him eradicate the disease. Seeing that Zhang Shoufu was unconscious from the pain, Zhang Shoufu's eldest son finally made the decision to let Yan Shu treat him.
The reason why he decided to let Yan Shu do it was that he had heard of Yan Shu a long time ago. It was she who cured the late emperor's headache. The late emperor had praised her superb medical skills more than once, even far superior to those imperial doctors. Since she dared to take the initiative to take on this task, she must be confident in her heart.
Afterwards, Yan Shu dismissed all the people in the Zhang family and only left Imperial Physician Cai to help. Before she came, she brought a medicine box with all the surgical tools in it. Her technique was skillful, and after the tools were disinfected, she began the operation neatly. The whole process took less than half an hour, and this was under harsh external conditions. In order to prevent external infection, special attention was paid to disinfection, which delayed some time. If it was in a professional operating room, it could be completed in thirty minutes at most.
Only Imperial Physician Cai was left in the room to watch. He didn't even dare to blink during the whole process, watching the knife cut open Prime Minister Zhang's right abdomen and cut out the contents. He was so scared that his heart almost beat into his throat, fearing that Prime Minister Zhang would die if he wasn't careful.
Even during Yan Shu's operation, Imperial Physician Cai had thought about how to explain to the emperor if the operation failed. He was even more worried about losing his official position. He had wanted to bring this girl here to broaden her horizons, but now the more he thought about it, the more he regretted bringing her here.
Yan Shu was of course unaware of what Imperial Physician Cai was thinking. Her attention was completely focused on the operation. She finally proceeded to the suturing and final disinfection, and applied professional sterile gauze. She then checked Prime Minister Zhang's heart rate and pulse, and after making sure everything was normal, she could wait with peace of mind.
An hour later, as the Zhang family and Imperial Physician Cai anxiously waited, Prime Minister Zhang finally woke up from his coma.
Yan Shu stood by the bed and reminded: "You need to rest for the wound on your body. Just eat some liquid food for the next few days. I will come to the mansion to change your dressing every day. You can try to get out of bed and walk after three days."
Zhang Shoufu felt some pain in the wound, but this pain was the tearing sensation of external trauma, while the pain just now was as uncomfortable as a spasm in the entire abdomen.
He weakly expressed his gratitude: "Thank you Miss Cui for treating me in time, otherwise I am afraid I would not survive today."
Imperial Physician Cai stepped forward and said, "Prime Minister Zhang, I will take your pulse."
He was somewhat puzzled. Yan Shu cut open Zhang's stomach with a knife and cut off a piece of meat, but Zhang Shoufu actually woke up safely? This method of curing the disease was really shocking and completely beyond his cognition.
After personally taking Prime Minister Zhang's pulse, Imperial Physician Cai had to believe that the treatment method used by Yan Shu was really effective.
Soon, the two left Zhang's house together. Imperial Physician Cai looked at Yan Shu with a little more admiration, and his tone was no longer the cold attitude of a superior towards a subordinate. Instead, he began to humbly ask her about the medical principles of surgery.
Yan Shu entered the Imperial Medical Bureau with the original intention of imparting as much as possible what she had learned throughout her life. She would not be able to stay here for long. If she could train a group of doctors who were proficient in combining Chinese and Western medicine in the limited time, it would be very helpful in opening up new ideas for this era.
Therefore, Yan Shu would explain to him in detail the questions asked by Imperial Physician Cai. Imperial Physician Cai was the most skilled imperial physician in the Imperial Medical Bureau. He had profound attainments in the field of traditional Chinese medicine and was also a medical madman. He was very interested in knowledge in new fields. From then on, whenever he was free, he would follow Yan Shu. Even when he encountered difficult and complicated diseases, he would let Yan Shu take over first. Therefore, Yan Shu was very busy for some time.
That day, Jiang Ci returned to his bedroom after reviewing the memorials in the evening, but he did not see the figure he was expecting.
"Where's the Ashu people?"
Ying Si said, "Your Majesty, Miss Yan just sent someone to tell you that she will be giving lectures to other imperial doctors at the Imperial Hospital, so she may be back later."
Jiang Ci frowned unhappily: "Is the Imperial Hospital very busy recently?"
Ying Si knew that his master wanted to know about Yan Shu's situation, so he told him in detail about Yan Shu's recent situation in the Imperial Hospital.
"I'll go and see for myself."
He didn't keep the little fox by his side to be ordered around by those old men. She used to be able to come back early to accompany him, but in the past month or so she has been even busier than he, the emperor.