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Chapter 251 The Disease of Poverty

Zhou Chang just wanted to make Yuan Chuan anxious.

Yuan Chuan hurriedly tried to find an excuse: "Uh... Previously, the Imperial Household Department and the Imperial Hospital had sent people to ask for this prescription, but Your Highness refused. I was just thinking that those people must have failed to express their ideas clearly, which delayed things."

"Well, that does make sense." Zhou Chang's phoenix eyes smiled like a fox, his eyes wandering over Yuan Chuan and Qin Shou's faces before he handed the prescription over again.

Yuan Chuan didn't hesitate this time and took it directly: "Thank you, Your Highness Prince Yi."

"No need to thank me, Lord Yuan," Zhou Chang said calmly, "But I have to remind you that this prescription can cure the poor, but it may not cure the nobles. Therefore, you can definitely use this prescription to cure the three palace servants mentioned earlier. If you use this prescription to give it to other people, it may not work. If something goes wrong, don't blame me for not telling you in advance."

"This, this..., what does Your Highness Prince Yi mean?" Yuan Chuan really didn't understand.

Zhou Chang smiled leisurely and said, "It's not surprising that Lord Yuan doesn't know, because the illnesses of the poor and the rich are different."

Yuan Chuan asked foolishly: "I am stupid, they were all infected by the epidemic, what's the difference?"

"Although they are both infected with the epidemic, the root causes are different." Zhou Chang's bright phoenix eyes glanced at the epidemic area, and then turned back, without a trace of warmth in his eyes: "No matter what disease the poor have, it is ultimately a 'poverty disease', and poverty diseases can only be cured by this king's medicine. As for the nobles..., the diseases of the nobles are different, so it is more important to spend money to buy medicine."

Zhou Chang took out all his anger towards his son Yuan Shao on his father Yuan Chuan.

“This, this…” Yuan Chuan was so angry, but he was speechless. He opened the prescription he had just received, and then he remembered that he had no medical experience at all, so he pushed Qin Shou in front of him and said, “Dean Qin, look at this prescription…?”

Qin Shou, who had been a well-behaved "spectator" since he was a child, was suddenly "called". He was startled at first, but looked at Zhou Chang's face and did not answer.

Zhou Chang smiled calmly: "Master Qin, please take a look if you want."

Qin Shou then took it, glanced at it twice, frowned, but said nothing.

"Dean Qin, how is it?" Yuan Chuan asked.

Qin Shou was thinking hard with a frown on his face, just like Zhou Chang doing math problems in his previous life.

"Haha... Lord Yuan, please don't make things difficult for Dean Qin. If you are not sure, you two can take the prescription back and study it slowly." Zhou Chang remained relaxed.

Yuan Chuan's face was gloomy. "Your Highness Prince Yi, it is true that someone in the palace has fallen ill, and it is also true that the disease is spreading. Your Highness, please do not joke around and delay prevention. This prescription is not requested by me personally, but for Your Majesty, the palace, and me."

Is this starting to get too serious?

Zhou Chang still smiled nonchalantly: "It seems that Lord Yuan doesn't believe it."

"This, this is the prescription recorded in the plague hospital, right?" Qin Shoucai spoke.

Zhou Chang did not deny it.

"Your Highness Prince Yi..." Yuan Chuan's icy face was about to crack, but he was helpless.

Zhou Chang asked casually, "Whose idea was it?"

Yuan Chuan and Qin Shou looked at each other.

"I am asking for my prescription. Whose orders are you following?" Zhou Chang's eyes turned cold.

Qin Shou avoided his gaze and pretended that it had nothing to do with him.

Yuan Chuan hesitated for a moment, but had to answer: "Your Majesty has heard about this matter."

"Hehe..." Zhou Chang got the answer and understood what was going on. "Sir Yuan, if the palace maids are sick, I am willing to provide medicine. There are medicine bags over there. If it is not the order of His Majesty, please go back."

Yuan Chuan was completely rejected and felt depressed.

Yuan's ancestors had been officials for generations, and the Taifu Ling was also a high-ranking official of the court. He had never been teased and treated so lightly in his life. He was furious: "Your Highness Prince Yi, why do you refuse to hand over the prescription? If His Majesty and the young masters and ladies also get sick from this, the blame will be placed on Your Highness. Can Your Highness still refuse to hand it over then?"

Zhou Chang smiled brightly: "Haha, Lord Yuan, don't worry. If His Majesty is infected with this disease, I will definitely go to visit him in person and offer medicine to the bedside with both hands. As for the prescription, even if His Majesty issues an order, I will go to His Majesty in person to hand it over. But it is not the turn of Lord Yuan to hand over the prescription that can cure millions of people in just a few words."

The reason why Zhou Chang cannot hand over the prescription today is the same as the reason why Yun Huazi did not give her the prescription that day.

Yuan Chuan's expression changed several times, but he finally gave up and said, "In that case, I will take my leave first."

In the past, in his impression, Prince Yi was just an idle prince who had no background support, did not participate in political affairs, and was somewhat greedy for money.

But I didn't expect that when we dealt with each other today, Prince Yi would be such a tough person.

He was originally sent by Concubine Yi, Gu, but he had no imperial edict as proof. It was meaningless to persist at this time.

"Wait, Master Yuan," Zhou Chang called out to Yuan Chuan, who was about to leave. "Master Yuan, you don't trust the prescription. Do you want the medicine? Isn't there a palace maid who is sick? This matter can be serious or minor. Even if it is a palace maid, she needs to be treated in time to prevent the disease from spreading, right?"

Yuan Chuan's face changed. He couldn't return empty-handed. He also wanted to give an explanation to his superiors: "Yes, thank you Prince Yi for reminding me. Please give me the medicine bag."

"Monkey, go get a day's supply of medicine for three people for Lord Yuan." Zhou Chang turned around and instructed the skinny monkey.

The skinny monkey agreed, ran to get three medicine bags from the medical officer's registration form, and handed them to Yuan Chuan.

After Yuan Chuan left, Qin Shou stood there blankly, still holding the prescription left by Yuan Chuan in his hand.

"Dean Qin, what do you think? You saw everything just now. I would rather offend the Minister of the Treasury, but it's all for our business." Zhou Chang sighed as he watched Yuan Chuan's back.

Qin Shou didn't expect that Yuan Chuan would return empty-handed. He actually still had a chance. He crumpled the piece of paper in his hand into a ball and said, "Yes, yes, Your Highness Prince Yi is wise. I will buy a prescription today."

"It seems that Dean Qin's patient is really in urgent need." Zhou Chang smiled deeply.

"Yes, yes..." Qin Shou just responded to whatever Zhou Chang said and began to search his body in a panic.

"Just one? Didn't they say that many people were infected?" Zhou Chang took out another pre-written prescription from his sleeve.

"Yes, yes..." No matter how many people there were, Qin Shou originally only planned to buy one.

However, I thought that even if Prince Yi raised the price, three to five thousand taels of silver would be enough.

But he never expected that Prince Yi would ask for such a huge sum of money, and the asking price was actually 10,000 taels, and that was not even the complete prescription.

If it were Qin Shou himself, he would probably rather sacrifice his life than his money and would not pay such a large sum of money.

However, Prince Duan had given the order, so who made Princess Duan sick?

And he also needs to go back and study the prescription, especially the leading ingredient.

As the head of the Imperial Hospital, Qin Shou knew very well that the so-called medicine guide was sometimes an extremely critical and unexpected medicine in a prescription.

Of course, he had received the medicine bags and powder before, but not only him, but also the entire Imperial Hospital and his father, had not been able to fully analyze the complete prescription.

Some of the chopped herbs in the medicine bags were so finely ground and mixed that they were impossible to identify.