Chapter 84 Just try your best
The emperor was puzzled, but once the seeds of doubt were planted, they would take root and sprout.
He glared at the queen: "Is this the family education of your Lu family? An unmarried woman actually wants to gamble with others, and the stakes are so vicious."
The queen was also panicked. She cried, "Your Majesty, you misunderstood. Jinxuan didn't mean that."
Lu Jinxuan had just woken up. She was secretly annoyed with herself for being so hasty in dealing with Shen Jingxuan. She was blinded by jealousy for a moment.
"Your Majesty, I, I..."
"That's enough, Eunuch Deng, arrange for someone to escort Miss Lu out of the palace." The emperor interrupted Lu Jinxuan.
He looked at the Queen and said, "Queen, please go back to your own bedroom. I will ask Miss Shen to see the Queen Mother."
"Shen Jingxuan, help the Queen Mother with her treatment. If you are successful, I will reward you handsomely."
Shen Jingxuan looked at Xie Lingxiao, and when she saw him nod, her heart slowly settled back to where it was.
Just now, when she was pulling Xie Lingxiao away, she was really nervous.
If the emperor sided with the queen and accused her of treason, she would not be able to bear it.
Shen Jingxuan knelt and saluted: "Yes, I thank the emperor for his trust."
The emperor looked at her and waved his hand, ignoring her. Eunuch Deng asked the nanny to take Shen Jingxuan to the inner hall to see the empress dowager.
Xie Lingxiao originally wanted to go with him, but seeing the emperor sitting there motionless, he had to give up the idea and wait in the outer hall.
"Royal brother, why did you let Miss Shen treat the Empress Dowager?" The Emperor was a little curious. His royal brother was always confident in what he did.
If it was true as the Queen and Miss Lu said, that Shen Jingxuan had no medical skills or her medical skills were limited, he would not have invited Shen Jingxuan into the palace.
"Your Majesty, Shen Jingxuan's medical skills are pretty good. I would like to ask her to give it a try." Xie Lingxiao swallowed back the words he was about to say.
If the emperor knew that Shen Jingxuan was the last disciple of the Medical Saint, there would be no peace in the future.
The emperor cherishes his life so much that he will inevitably have to send Shen Jingxuan into the palace whenever he has a major illness or a minor illness.
"Okay, I think my brother is fully confident in asking Shen Jingxuan to treat him." The emperor continued to test.
Xie Lingxiao frowned slightly: "No, the imperial physician couldn't cure it, so I just tried all kinds of treatments out of desperation."
Seeing that he could not get anything out of him, the emperor looked at Xie Lingxiao quietly and sat there with his eyes closed to rest.
The two of them looked at each other in silence, and the hall became quiet.
Shen Jingxuan came to the empress dowager's bed, and was shocked when she saw her face clearly.
The Queen Mother at this moment no longer looked like she did when she went to the Queen's Palace to rescue her.
The empress dowager's face was dark, the corners of her mouth were slightly black, and the muscles on her face were slightly twisted. Shen Jingxuan knew that the empress dowager was poisoned without taking her pulse.
Shen Jingxuan reached out and took the Queen Mother's pulse, her brows furrowed tighter and tighter.
After she finished taking the pulse, she turned and left the inner hall and stood beside Xie Lingxiao.
The emperor heard footsteps and slowly opened his eyes: "But is there a result?"
"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother has been poisoned." Shen Jingxuan said lightly.
"Can you cure it?" The emperor already knew what was going on. After all, it was he who asked Eunuch Deng to do this in order to force Xie Lingxiao to come back.
Shen Jingxuan said in embarrassment: "But I want to find some medicinal herbs, and I can't cure it for the time being."
The emperor didn't want the empress dowager to die. When he heard that Shen Jingxuan just lacked medicinal herbs, he slowly felt relieved.
He looked at Xie Lingxiao and said, "Royal brother, you accompany her to the Imperial Hospital. If she needs any medicinal materials, go there to get them. If there are none, I will order someone to look for them. What do you think?"
"I'll take her there right away." Xie Lingxiao walked out of the hall, and Shen Jingxuan followed silently behind him.
After walking for a while, Xie Lingxiao saw Shen Jingxuan not speaking, so he turned his head to look at her.
Seeing that her brows were tightly furrowed, he unconsciously raised his hand and reached out to her.
Shen Jingxuan suddenly saw a hand in front of her and looked at him in confusion: "What are you doing?"
"But is there any difficulty with the Queen Mother's illness?" Xie Lingxiao took his hand back and put it behind his back.
He didn't want to do anything, he just wanted to smooth her frown.
"It is a little difficult," he realized it was inappropriate to say.
Shen Jingxuan continued, "When I rescued that man before, I used up all the detoxification pills that Second Master gave me."
Seeing that she was in a dilemma, Xie Lingxiao asked, "Is there any other way?"
"There is a way, but it may take some effort." Shen Jingxuan sighed.
"Let's go find all the herbs first." She had a plan, but she was still worried.
The two found the necessary medicinal herbs in the Imperial Hospital, and Shen Jingxuan borrowed silver needles from the imperial physician. Then the two returned to the Empress Dowager's bedroom.
When they arrived, the emperor had already left and only ordered them to follow Shen Jingxuan and Xie Lingxiao's arrangements.
The two walked into the inner hall. Shen Jingxuan was in a daze and stood there for a long time, unable to come back to her senses.
She was actually still a little nervous. Although she had been learning medicine from her master for a long time, she had never really treated anyone.
Xie Lingxiao took Shen Jingxuan's hand and found that her hand was extremely cold.
He held Shen Jingxuan's hands with both of his own: "What's wrong? Why are your hands so cold?"
Shen Jingxuan looked down at a pair of big hands that had been holding her hands at some point. The warmth from their hands made her heart beat faster.
She appeared calm and was about to pull her hand away: "I'm a little nervous. This is my first time treating someone."
Xie Lingxiao's hands were empty, and his heart felt lost.
He suppressed his discomfort and said, "Just do your best and go for it."
Looking into Xie Lingxiao's eyes and listening to his words, Shen Jingxuan's heart slowly calmed down.
She never understood why she felt inexplicably at peace every time she was with Xie Lingxiao.
Shen Jingxuan frowned and said, "Please have someone boil the medicine I just brought back. I'll go give the Queen Mother acupuncture."
"Okay." Xie Lingxiao looked at Shen Jingxuan deeply, then turned around and told the nanny to boil the medicine.
He could see that Shen Jingxuan was deliberately avoiding him and keeping him at a distance.
I also realized that something must have happened to her, as if her heart was closed and no one was allowed to touch it.
If it weren't for this, with his personal care and his constant flattery, no other woman would do this.
Xie Lingxiao didn't believe that with Shen Jingxuan's intelligence, she couldn't detect the difference in his attitude towards her, and he didn't believe that she couldn't see his feelings.
He stood outside the hall, enjoying the cool breeze for a while. When his mood eased a little, he returned to the inner hall again.
Shen Jingxuan was giving acupuncture to the empress dowager. It was fine at first, but as more and more needles were given, beads of sweat gradually appeared on her forehead.
Xie Lingxiao walked closer and moved his gaze from the acupuncture hand to her face. He saw how focused she was and how indescribably attractive she was.
He took out a handkerchief and gently wiped away the sweat for Shen Jingxuan.
Shen Jingxuan was extremely nervous at this time, because the location of the last silver needle was an important acupuncture point.
Although she could remember it after her master explained it once, she was still a little scared when it came time to actually do it.
Xie Lingxiao kept watching and saw that her hand holding the last needle was shaking constantly.
He wiped the sweat off Shen Jingxuan again and placed the handkerchief on her chest.
Seeing Shen Jingxuan's hands shaking faster than before, he held Shen Jingxuan's hand: "Don't be afraid, I'm here with you. I'll bear the consequences if anything happens, just do it with confidence."
Xie Lingxiao's rare gentle voice reached Shen Jingxuan's ears, and she looked up at Xie Lingxiao.
As their eyes met, Shen Jingxuan's heart slowly relaxed.
Until her hands stopped shaking, she struggled to break free from Xie Lingxiao's hand and pierced the acupuncture point.
"Puff..." Before Shen Jingxuan could withdraw her hand, the Queen Mother spat out a mouthful of blood.