Zhuo Qihua

The closed gate of Huayang Palace opened, Zhuo Ji hurried out with Chang Jing and Xiao Hui, Chang Jing was holding a long lacquered wooden box in his hand.Zhuo Ji didn't sit in the chariot, but trotted all the way to Yunyue Palace.Seeing Shunxiu, Fuquan, the nanny, and the palace people who were guarding the bedside of the Third Highness cried one by one.

"By the way, the Third Highness is on fire again! He even vomited milk!"

The third prince was crying, his face was abnormally red, obviously he had a fever again.Zhuo Ji told the others to back away, he washed his hands, and Chang Jing opened the box.Inside the box were pieces of cut flat plaster cloths and a porcelain bowl. Inside the porcelain bowl was a light green jelly, exuding a medicinal fragrance.Zhuo Ji picked up a piece of plaster, scooped out the glue with a wooden spoon, spread it evenly on the plaster, and then stuck it on the forehead of His Highness the Third.

"This is a cooling patch, please don't let His Highness drop it."

"Yes!"

Zhuo Ji made a few more in the same way, and stuck them on the armpits and inner thighs of His Highness the Third Highness.In order to prevent the third highness from messing around and losing it, Zhuo Ji asked the nanny to wrap the third highness in swaddling clothes.This is an ancient version of the antipyretic patch that he made himself. It is not sticky enough to fall off easily and absorb quickly.

After finishing this, Zhuo Ji said: "When it dries up or thins, change it when it's gone. Feed the third highness more water. It doesn't matter if you drink less at a time. Feed it several times. Make sure that the urine is not yellow, More urine output can reduce inflammation as soon as possible.”

"Yes!"

After putting on the antipyretic stickers of the ancient version, His Highness hummed and slowly fell asleep in the nurse's arms.Chang Jing urged in a low voice that it was time to go to Fengtian Hall, and Zhuo Ji took Chang Jing and Xiaohui away.When they arrived at Fengtian Hall, Zhuo Ji didn't go to the palace banquet immediately, but went back to the anteroom to tidy up again. At this time, it was only half an hour before the palace banquet ended.The main hall of Fengtian Palace was singing and dancing. When Zhuo Ji appeared, the dancing prostitutes stopped immediately and retreated respectfully to both sides, and the sound of the piano also stopped.There was a moment of silence in the entire hall.

Emperor Yong'an broke the silence: "Shunxi, are you feeling better?"

Zhuo Ji was stunned for a moment, and smiled: "Take the medicine, sleep for a while, and feel better, which made His Majesty worry. But the minister promised to spend the New Year's Eve with His Majesty tonight. Is it time for the minister to come?"

Emperor Yong'an laughed and said, "Whenever you come is the right time, hurry up and take a seat."

"Yes."

As soon as Zhuo Ji's words came out, De Guixie's tears almost came out.Others may not understand why, but he can understand it.As soon as Zhuo Ji sat down, Emperor Yong'an signaled for the song and dance to continue.Chang Jingfu said a few words beside Degui Xie, and Degui Xie wiped the corners of his eyes with a handkerchief, nodded, and looked at Zhuo Ji with gratitude in his eyes.The palace people were serving dishes to Zhuo Ji, and it was inconvenient for Zhuo Ji to tell De Guixie about the situation of His Highness the Third Highness.

Zhuo Ji came late, but the dishes served by the palace people were all hot.Zhuo Ji was indeed hungry, so he picked up his chopsticks and started eating.Seeing him like this, Emperor Yong'an, who was sitting at the top, felt distressed, Deguixie and Mingxie also felt distressed, and Deguixie felt even more guilty.Deguixie and Mingjue took a pair of clean chopsticks to pick up vegetables for Zhuo Ji.

By the way, the cheerful show that was suppressed by the order of the Holy Majesty immediately came on stage.Zhuo Ji was happy watching and eating, but he was also thinking about the situation of the Third Highness in his heart.When the time comes, the palace banquet is over, and Emperor Yong'an got up: "Soon, please accompany me to watch the year, and everyone else will retire."

"The concubine (servant)/concubine (servant) presents his majesty—"

"The concubine/servant respectfully sends you along——"

"I respectfully send you off to Your Majesty——I respectfully send you off to your Majesty——"

Zhuo Ji left with Emperor Yong'an, De Guixie left quickly after Emperor Yong'an left, Ming Xie and Concubine Xi Gui also followed closely, and they all went to Yunyue Palace to see His Highness the Third Highness.

Emperor Yong'an took Zhuo Ji to Wensi Pavilion, and as soon as he entered Wensi Pavilion, Emperor Yong'an asked, "Are you full?"

"I still want to eat a bowl of wontons."

Feng Xi, who had just followed in, went out as soon as he turned his footsteps.Emperor Yong'an sat down, patted his side, Zhuo Ji went to sit down, and very actively snuggled into Emperor Yong'an's unfolded arms.

"You are tired again today."

"Your Majesty, it's not easy for you. The most important thing now is that the Third Highness is fine. Chang Jing, you go to Yunyue Palace to see the situation of the Third Highness. You stay there and wait a little longer."

"Yes."

Chang Jing left.Zhuo Ji couldn't help yawning, and Emperor Yong'an hugged him distressedly: "Go to bed and rest after eating the wontons."

"I want to accompany His Majesty to watch the new year, but I didn't accompany him last year."

"Then squint for a while, I will call you when you are eating dumplings."

"I'll eat wontons first."

After waiting for almost a stick of incense, Feng Xi personally brought a bowl of big meat wontons.Zhuo Ji even finished eating all the wontons and soup.Emperor Yong'an frowned: "Don't tell me that you haven't eaten since you came back from worshiping your ancestors."

Xiaohui said: "Your Majesty, the master is so busy taking care of the Third Highness that he doesn't even have time to drink his saliva."

Emperor Yong'an's eyebrows were twisted.Zhuo Ji said while eating: "Fever in infants and young children is not just for fun. Otherwise, they will be disabled or die. Infants and young children must be very careful when taking medicine. If they take the wrong medicine, they will become disabled or die. The soup and medicine are special. Difficult to feed. Conservative treatment first, if the fever still does not subside today, I will prescribe medicine. The most urgent thing is to reduce the fever as soon as possible, and the inflammation can slowly disappear. In that case, how can I be in the mood to eat. I ate snacks at Mingyu’s before .”

Emperor Yong'an knew that what Zhuo Ji said was correct, so he asked along the way: "Is the situation serious?"

"Preliminary judgment is that it is a fever caused by pharyngitis, and there are some mild cold symptoms. There is no cough, and there is no problem with the lungs. It is fortunate. I got some antipyretic patches and see the effect first. Fever in children is common, but Our medical facilities are so poor that it becomes difficult."

Emperor Yong'an waved his hands, and Zhang Xian and the others retreated immediately.Only then did Emperor Yong'an ask: "Is it really just a fever caused by throat discomfort?"

Zhuo Ji was stunned for a moment, then thought of all kinds of conspiracy theories in the harem, and said carefully: "This is what I'm checking at the moment. When the Third Highness is sleeping, the nanny puts on him a lot of clothes and covers him with a quilt, covering too much When you sweat and catch a cold, you will easily catch a cold. And if you cover it too much, you will easily get angry. This is a mistake that many people make. I can’t say whether there is any problem with the nanny. But it should be fine, right? Who Will you attack the Third Highness? There must be a purpose."

Emperor Yong'an: "We still need to investigate."

Emperor Yong'an may have been psychologically shadowed by the former empress Cheng.He called Zhang Xian and asked him to inform Mrs. Degui to find out whether the Third Highness's fever was an accident or something else.Zhuo Ji didn't dare to pat his chest to guarantee that the nanny would be fine, but he didn't think the problem was serious, after all, no one in the harem had a reason to harm the Third Highness.In addition, De Guixie's protection of the two children is meticulous, and there will be no such omissions.

When he was full, Zhuo Ji went to wash up, then put on comfortable pajamas, let down his hair and braided it, and lay down on the Arhat bed to watch the new year with Emperor Yong'an, who also changed into home clothes.Firecrackers are ringing outside, and the "Nian Beast" is being driven away inside and outside the palace.Chang Jing never came back, but no one came to Fengtian Temple to look for Zhuo Ji, no news is good news.

Zhuo Ji dozed off in Emperor Yong'an's arms.Keeping the year old every New Year's Eve is actually watching until the end of the ugly time and the beginning of the Yin time to eat dumplings.After eating the dumplings, the New Year's Eve is over, and you can go to rest.Otherwise, Emperor Yong'an would have to worship heaven and earth in the morning on the first day of the lunar new year, and his body would not be able to bear it.Zhuo Ji persisted until the dumplings came to the table, he ate five or six, brushed his teeth and went straight to the dragon bed.Zhuo Ji who climbed onto the bed fell asleep almost instantly.Emperor Yong'an was not in a hurry to go to bed, he asked Zhang Xian to go to Yunyue Palace to see the situation.

Zhang Xian left in a hurry, and came back in a hurry after a while.His Highness the Third Highness changed the antipyretic patch once, and the previous one had already gone down the fever, Degui Xie was worried, so when the time came, he asked him to change another pair.Now De Guixie doesn't know, if this pair is used up, if the Third Highness doesn't have a fever again, do you need another pair.

Emperor Yong'an looked at the sleeping Zhuo Ji, and couldn't bear to wake him up.But no one can make a decision on this matter, even if Hu Pengju is called in, he may not be able to make a decision.Emperor Yong'an sat on the bed, bent over, gently pushed Zhuo Ji, and shouted in his ear: "Zhuo Ji, wake up."

Zhuo Ji suddenly opened his eyes, and Emperor Yong'an immediately hugged him and said, "Zhuo Ji, Chen's fever has subsided. Can you continue to apply the antipyretic patch?"

Zhuo Ji was stunned for a while before he realized it, and looked at Emperor Yong'an: "The third highness has a fever?"

"The fever went down before I changed it, but your wife still gave him another pair. If this pair still doesn't have a fever, can you stick it on?"

Zhuo Ji: "If you don't have a fever this time, just paste it on your forehead. If you don't have a fever again today, then you don't need to paste it."

"Okay, go to sleep."

Zhuo Ji yawned and closed his eyes again.Emperor Yong'an raised his hand, and Feng Xi immediately went out to spread the word.Emperor Yong'an stood up and motioned for Zhang Xian to change his clothes.

Emperor Yong'an wanted to get up early, and he got up after two hours.Zhuo Ji was still asleep.Emperor Yong'an didn't wake him up, and only after he left the bedroom did he ask, "How is Chen Yu?"

While dressing Wansui, Zhang Xian replied: "It is said that there has been no fever again, and it is much better than yesterday's breastfeeding. Your wife has also been putting antipyretic patches on the third highness. The nurse is afraid His Majesty the Third Highness is freezing, so he covers too much. Gui Xie said, by the way, I said that the child can't judge whether the child is hot or cold by the warmth of his hands and feet, it depends on whether the back of the neck is warm, and it doesn't matter if the child is cold, as long as It’s fine not to be blown by the cold wind, and you can’t feed too much. The nurse was skeptical in private, feeling that His Highness’s hands and feet were not hot enough, so she felt that His Highness was cold, so she added clothes and quilts. When His Highness cried, she was always afraid I'm hungry. Your wife originally wanted to drive them out of the palace, but she was afraid that the new ones would be disobedient. So she just punished them a little."

Emperor Yong'an suddenly asked, "Did Concubine Jing feed herself?"

Zhang Xian: "Ms. Concubine Jing fed His Highness the Fifth Highness and gave His Highness to the wet nurse after confinement."

Emperor Yong'an was very satisfied, it seemed that Liu Yanling was obedient, or in other words, she was smart.Because of Zhuo Ji's reasons, the way the concubines and concubines feed the dragon heirs has undergone great changes and requirements.The maid was unable to feed herself, and the child was still fed by a wet nurse after birth.But this nanny is also just after giving birth.The nanny can only feed the children of the master's family, let alone the princes and daughters in the palace.After Deguixie and Mingxie were seven months pregnant, the palace would begin to select a wet nurse.The nanny's pregnancy period is not far from that of the two aunts.

There are many qualified candidates.Take De Guixie as an example, when he gave birth to the third prince, the palace secretary over there selected from among the candidates a nanny who had just given birth within two days, the quantity and quality of milk met the requirements, and her own qualifications also met the requirements. into the palace.This nanny was confinement in the palace and fed the third prince the most precious colostrum.The nanny can no longer feed her own children, and the palace secretary will pay the nanny's family a high fee compared to ordinary people as compensation, which is also requested by the empress.After all, she entered the palace before she was confinement, and Huang Guixie didn't want to cause any consequences. Zhuo Ji blamed herself when she found out.However, before the prince (daughter) becomes an adult, the nanny cannot go out of the palace, and has to take care of the prince (daughter)'s daily life all the time.

As for the concubines, the imperial concubine directly decreed as the master of the harem that the concubines should personally feed the dragon heirs for at least half a month.Concubine Jing fed for a month, and Emperor Yong'an was naturally satisfied.As for letting the concubines feed the children themselves, this is not in line with the rules of the palace.

Zhuo Ji was still thinking about the situation of the Third Highness.He got up when Emperor Yong'an started offering sacrifices to heaven.Today, Emperor Yong'an will not only offer sacrifices to the land and heaven, but also a ceremony to open the court, which is to take out the sealed jade seals and imperial pens, to show that the new year is coming, and the emperor will work tirelessly and conscientiously as in previous years. Be a gentleman.Afterwards, Emperor Yong'an will accept New Year's greetings from all officials and envoys from friendly countries. Have fun together and give a red envelope or something before returning to Fengtian Temple to rest.In short, on the first day of the new year, Emperor Yong'an would not be able to return to Fengtian Hall until the afternoon, and he also had to go through a test of physical strength and energy.