First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

"You guys go out for a while." The man in gray robe said to Su Jixiang and Xie Yingfeng.

"Oh. Okay, okay." Xie Yingfeng quickly called Su Jixiang, "Let's go, let's wait outside."

"Oh." Su Jixiang came out of the room obediently.

Although she didn't know the man in gray inside, since he was Xie Yingfeng's cousin and someone Xie Yingfeng trusted, she had nothing to worry about.

"Is the Nine-Turn Resurrection Pill very powerful?" Su Jixiang asked curiously after he went out.

"Let me tell you this." Xie Yingfeng crossed his arms and leaned against the pillar beside the corridor. "As long as a person is still alive, if he takes this pill, there is a good chance that he can survive."

"Does that mean General Wei's condition was very bad just now?" Su Jixiang asked.

"It can be said that his life is basically hanging by a thread." Xie Yingfeng straightened his expression and frowned, saying, "I don't know why this guy didn't take a pill first to save his life. Maybe he left in a hurry and didn't bring any medicine with him."

Su Jixiang nodded.

I think so, otherwise, Wei Ling would not have known to take medicine if he was in such a dangerous situation.

Su Jixiang had already felt Wei Ling's pulse when he found him in the mountains. It was indeed terribly weak. If he hadn't pressed hard, he probably wouldn't have been able to feel it.

Not to mention that we didn't see where he was injured, even though he had lost so much blood, we knew he was seriously injured. Moreover, he must have rushed back from outside, and he might have had to avoid being hunted down along the way. The fact that he was able to return to Mangcheng with a breath of his own life was already a blessing from the spirits of their Wei family in heaven...

"Don't worry, since he has taken the Nine-Turn Resurrection Pill, my cousin will definitely be able to save him." Xie Yingfeng said. "But he...has been seriously injured before, and he has tortured himself like this, so it may take a long time for him to recover. I will need to trouble you for the next period of time." After he finished speaking, he bowed to Su Jixiang.

Su Jixiang was stunned. "It's my duty." She quickly stood up straight and returned the greeting.

"The man inside is my cousin, named Zhou Ziqi, he is a very skilled doctor. Don't look at me as poor as I am, but he is from a family of doctors, and three of them were directors of the Imperial Hospital. Unfortunately, his family was unlucky and offended the Empress Chen, so they were convicted and imprisoned. He was sent to Mangcheng after only two days as an imperial physician." Xie Yingfeng said to Su Jixiang. "When I went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, his family had already been exiled, otherwise I wouldn't have fallen to such a miserable state of living in a temple..."

"Ah? I seem to have heard of their family when I was in the palace." Su Jixiang suddenly realized, and she said that she felt Zhou Ziqi looked a little familiar when she first saw him.

It turns out that he is the son of Imperial Physician Zhou!

Doctor Zhou treated her and was a very kind person.

Most of the imperial doctors in the palace were arrogant and only treated the masters of the palace and the nobles in the capital. They always looked down upon the eunuchs and maids in the palace.

Generally speaking, if the eunuchs or maids in the palace were sick, if the master was favored, he could go to the Imperial Medical Bureau and find one or two people willing to help prescribe medicine. However, they would usually just ask the medical officers around the imperial physician to see them.

But Doctor Zhou was different. As long as he was free, he would carefully examine the patients who came to him for help.

Therefore, Doctor Zhou has a very good reputation in the palace.

Su Jixiang went to see Doctor Zhou for treatment when she had just traveled through time.

We didn't have much contact after that, but I heard from people in the palace that his son was admitted to the Imperial Medical Bureau and was the youngest imperial physician there.

The good times did not last long. Soon, news came that Imperial Physician Zhou had been executed and the Zhou family had been demoted and exiled.

After she became familiar with Xiao Shunzi, she also told him gossip about the Zhou family. Xiao Shunzi even told her mysteriously that the reason why Imperial Physician Zhou was executed was because he refused to cover up for Concubine Chen's lies... That was why he offended Concubine Chen, and ended up with his head cut off and his entire family exiled.

"So there are many hidden dragons and crouching tigers in Mangcheng." Su Jixiang said with some emotion.

Any doctor you pick up is a former imperial physician from the Imperial Hospital...

"Isn't it? It's all because of the deposed emperor!" Xie Yingfeng sneered, "Many people in Mangcheng are descendants of former court officials. You will get to know them slowly in the future."

"Go and prepare some hot water." Zhou Ziqi's voice came from inside the room.

"How much hot water do you need?" Xie Yingfeng asked.

"I'm going to give him a medicinal bath!" Zhou Ziqi said. "Come over later and get the prescription and go buy the medicine!"

"Boil some water!" Xie Yingfeng said, and then he pushed the door and walked in.

Su Jixiang went to the kitchen, called Wei Zhong, and asked him to help boil water.

She looked at the sky and saw that it was almost evening. She had been busy all day without realizing it... But calculating the time, it should be like this. After all, she had spent a lot of time going into the mountains in the morning, and it was already past afternoon when she transported Wei Ling back.

Since Zhou Ziqi was going to give Wei Ling a medicinal bath, it would probably take some time, so she might as well prepare some dinner.

After all, she herself has been hungry until now.

She still had some of the wild boar meat she had hunted left, so she asked Lu Shui to get the remaining meat and soak it in warm water to dissolve it. Then she asked her to help cut the wild boar meat into small strips each one finger wide.

Wild boar meat is leaner than domestic pork, so if you stir-fry it it will be hard and dry, but it can be made into a casserole.

First, put the thawed wild boar meat into the pot with cold water, add some rice wine, ginger slices and shallots to blanch. When the water in the pot boils, foam will appear in the water, and then let it stay for a while, then use a colander to scoop out the wild boar meat strips and drain.

She took out some soybeans and fried them until they were fragrant and cooked, then heated the oil in the pan again. Su Jixiang also added some lard to melt it. After the oil temperature was high, she added ginger and garlic slices and fried them to bring out the onion and garlic aroma. She then poured the blanched wild boar meat strips in and stir-fried them. After a while, the aroma of meat mixed with the aroma of onion and ginger rose from the pan, and the kitchen was filled with the tempting meat aroma.

After the fat from the pork strips was fried, rice wine, soy sauce, dried chilies, star anise and cinnamon were added and stir-fried together. Finally, a large spoonful of bean paste was added. Guihua bought this bean paste at the market, so Su Jixiang didn't know how salty it was. She scooped up some soup with a spoon and tasted it. The bean paste was not particularly salty, and adding a spoonful was just right for seasoning. Su Jixiang added a little sugar and stir-fried together, making the whole meat shiny. Then she shoveled out the pork from the big pot and moved it to a casserole. After adding water, she put the previously fried soybeans in and stewed them together.

Su Jixiang prepared the wild boar meat in the casserole, while Guihua and Wei Zhong had already boiled the hot water that Zhou Ziqi needed.

Su Jixiang asked Wei Zhong to carry the bucket to the backyard. At the same time, Xie Yingfeng also ran back from outside in a hurry. He went to buy herbs for Wei Ling's medicinal bath.