The head of the Mu family

Chapter 181 Healing the Empress

"Mother, it's getting late. Let me escort you back to rest."

"Good, my son, you're very kind."

The emperor and empress dowager left immediately.

After they left, Huaisheng came up with a plan: she went to find the aunt who had brought her there.

"Aunt, I'd like to try using His Majesty's ambergris as a medicinal ingredient in my medicine. Is that alright?"

"Sure, I'll have someone collect some right now."

"Songfang, go to the Imperial Household Department and fetch some of His Majesty's ambergris. Tell him it's for use as a medicinal ingredient."

The other aunt responded and left. Huaisheng asked the aunt to remove the smell from the bedroom first.

After the bedroom smelled clean, Huaisheng asked his aunt:

"Aunt, what did you all call Her Majesty before she was married?"

"This is naturally a term of address for 'young lady' or 'miss'."

"Does Your Highness still have the incense you used when you were in your boudoir?"

"I haven't used it for many years, I'll have to go to Qionglou to buy some tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll trouble you to send someone over, Aunt."

She would also buy a portion of the pastries that the empress loved to eat when she was in her boudoir and bring them back with her.

Tomorrow, cook some porridge with fragrant rice, using less rice and making sure the rice water is plentiful and thick.

After Huai Sheng finished speaking, he prepared to leave, but a eunuch immediately came to stop him:

"Madam, please move to the adjacent warm pavilion."

All toiletries have been prepared for the lady.

Xiao west, serve Madam~

"Yes!"

Huaisheng then settled in the side, and breakfast was delivered early the next morning.

The Imperial Medical Academy sent two more physicians to replace the two from yesterday.

After Huaisheng had breakfast, Aunt Songfang came to invite him.

"Doctor, everything is ready."

"Thank you for your trouble, Auntie~"

Huaisheng then had the incense, the one the Empress loved to use before she left home, lit in the bedroom.

Then he asked someone to burn ambergris incense, which terrified the people listening nearby. So Huaisheng asked someone to find a lady's clothes and burn ambergris incense in the next room.

Huaisheng then had someone bring the packaged pastries and wait nearby.

The rice porridge was also prepared and kept warm in a food warmer for later use.

Food warmer: The bottom layer contains hot water, and the top layer can be used to place food. The hot water layer can be removed and replaced.

After the fragrance had been wafting for half an hour, Huai Sheng observed carefully and finally noticed a barely perceptible tremor in the Empress's brow. He then instructed his aunt, who had served the Empress since childhood, to call out from the side:

"Miss, it's time to get up and have some bird's nest soup~"

An aunt opened the food packaging next to her, took a piece and placed it next to the queen's nose.

Upon hearing this and smelling the aroma, the Empress finally frowned slightly.

Now everyone could see it; the aunts standing nearby were so moved that tears welled up in their eyes.

Huai Sheng immediately instructed another aunt to help the Empress up a little.

He picked up the rice porridge beside him and slowly fed it to the Queen with a small spoon.

Sure enough, half a bowl of rice soup was consumed, and the palace maids and eunuchs in the room were so excited that they could not contain themselves.

The following day, he couldn't be fed a single bite, and neither the emperor nor the empress dowager came.

The next day, the Empress was surrounded by clothes scented with ambergris, and Huaisheng had the scented clothes used to help her rise slightly.

This time, they fed them another small bowl of rice porridge, and everyone was overjoyed.

But for the rest of the day, he went back to not eating or drinking anything.

Huai Sheng used the same method to feed them rice gruel for three days in rotation.

The Empress no longer needs ginseng and lingzhi to sustain her life, and the Imperial Hospital is in an uproar:

What kind of evil and crooked practice is this?

Later, egg yolks were added to the rice porridge, but on the sixth day, only half a bowl was consumed again.

The person just wouldn't wake up, and Huaisheng was starting to get a little anxious.

After thinking for a moment, Huai Sheng secretly asked his aunt to find two exotic goddesses' perfumes.

"Dr. Mu, what do you need these cheap things for?"

"If Aunt thinks I have some medical skills, then please try my method."

The Empress only fed me half a bowl of rice porridge today. What should we do?

I have been here for seven days, and Her Majesty has not shown any improvement.

"The worst that could happen is that!"

Seeing this, the aunts thought that only Doctor Mu had made their master's condition improve. They exchanged glances and, not wanting to say anything more, acquiesced.

After thinking for a moment, Huai Sheng asked his aunts for the jade ruyi that the Empress had held when she married His Majesty.

The next day, after everything was prepared by evening, Huaisheng asked his aunts to step outside.

Wrapped in clothes infused with exotic fragrances, she walked to the bedside.

When the Empress reacted:

His hand moved several times in succession, and his brows furrowed almost imperceptibly at times, and relaxed at others.

I just won't open my eyes!

Huai Sheng was anxious, when suddenly a brilliant idea struck him.

Holding the Empress's hand, he leaned down to her ear and whispered firmly:

"If I do not die, you will all become my concubines!"

He seized the opportunity and said it three times in a row. Suddenly, Huai Sheng's hand was tightly grabbed, and Huai Sheng took the opportunity to lean over and whisper it in his ear again.

The empress's eyes suddenly snapped open, and Huaisheng shoved the jade ruyi into her hand.

"Auntie, quickly bring the porridge in!"

The palace maids and eunuchs outside the door came in and saw that the Empress was staring intently at the top of the curtain with her eyes open.

Huai Sheng immediately stepped back, and everyone busied themselves serving the Empress a bowl of egg yolk rice porridge.

The Empress didn't say a word, but simply held the jade ruyi tightly.

He closed his eyes again shortly after finishing the porridge, and everyone started to panic again.

"Aunties, don't panic, Her Majesty is asleep this time."

If you are still worried, there are imperial physicians outside; you can invite them in to take your pulse.

The imperial physicians outside, hearing the commotion, were eager to come in and take a look.

He came in now to have his pulse taken:

The Empress has woken up, but she was too weak to continue sleeping!

Both imperial physicians were in a state of confusion:

How did you do it?

"Xiao Dezi, hurry and tell the Emperor and the Empress Dowager!"

A young eunuch went to investigate upon hearing the noise.

At lunchtime, the Emperor and Empress Dowager arrived and inquired about the condition from the imperial physicians, who both reported:

"Her Majesty the Empress has awakened."

After a period of recuperation, she will be perfectly fine.

"Great! That's wonderful!"

Tomorrow, as soon as the Empress wakes up, tell me immediately, and I will come to see her again.

Mother, you can rest assured now~

"Yes~ I can finally get a good night's sleep!"

At dinner time, the Empress woke up, and Huaisheng had her fed some egg yolk rice porridge.

Have the aunts massage the Empress's leg muscles while she is awake.

Huaisheng then brought out a book that the Empress loved to read in her boudoir, and an aunt read it to her from the side.

The Empress was awake for an hour this time, and when she went back to sleep, Huaisheng had her fed a small bowl of hot milk.

The next day, the Empress woke up again when the sun was high in the sky.

Huaisheng suggested adding some fish paste to the porridge, shrimp paste for lunch, and fish paste back to the original for dinner.

Each time she woke up, she had her two aunts help her stand by the bedside and walk back and forth a few steps.

The emperor arrived again. The empress didn't speak to him, but she gave him a slight smirk.

The imperial physician beside him immediately explained:

"Her Majesty has just woken up and can't speak yet, but she'll be fine in a few days."

"Good, good, good! Rewards! Everyone will be rewarded!"

After eating protein-rich porridge for two more days, the Empress was able to walk for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn each time she woke up.

Huai Sheng suggested that the Empress's lunch be changed to minced meat, and she indeed felt much better and began to speak again.

Thank you!

"It's all thanks to Your Majesty's good fortune; this humble subject did nothing wrong!"

"I am just lying here, but I know everything."

"Now that Your Majesty is fully recovered, this humble subject will take his leave."

"Would you be willing..."

Huai Sheng immediately knelt down and kowtowed on the ground.

"Your Majesty, I am but a wandering physician. It is purely by chance that I have come to see you after your awakening."

"The Empress's awakening is due to the deep love between her and the Emperor; the imperial aura drove away the illness."

"Okay! That makes sense~"

"When I recover, what reward do you desire upon leaving the palace?"

"It would be good if Your Majesty would bestow some silver. When I travel around treating patients, I always do so for free. This time, when I do so again, it will be a token of Your Majesty's goodwill towards all people."