King Yan was determined. Although the first doctor spent a long time unable to pull out the diseased tooth, which caused him a lot of pain, he knew the truth that if the root cause of the disease was not cured, the pain would only get worse, so he sent a message to a second doctor.
At that time, those who could stay in the palace to wait for orders were all the top doctors in Pingcheng, and their medical skills were good.
However, the second doctor could not pull out King Yan’s tooth. He knelt on the ground and said shakenly, “My lord, usually the root of this kind of tooth that is difficult to pull out is curved, and it is more dangerous to pull it out by force. You should continue to drink the medicine and just bear with it!”
He really didn’t dare to pull out his tooth, and he had never seen such a stubborn one. If the dental disease is not immediately cured by pulling out the tooth, it could lead to more serious diseases later. If something happened to King Yan, their whole family would lose their heads. He would rather be scolded by the king than dare to try again.
King Yan was lying on the bed covered in sweat, he was in pain, but his sanity was still there.
He also felt that tooth extraction would not work.
“Go out!” King Yan closed his eyes. He didn’t want to see anyone at that moment.
With that, everyone left one by one.
Outside the hall, Wei Yang came with everyone behind his back and wiped away his tears. Seeing it, Wei Yan also did the same and said, “It would be great if I could bear this pain on behalf of my father. Seeing how father is in pain, I, I…”
Wei Yin and Wei Jing also had red eyes.
Concubine Xu glanced at the five brothers, and found that only Wei Luo still had the usual cold expression, but he lost weight along with the king.
“Okay, you should go work, and those who should study, do your own duties first. Come here every morning and evening to greet him, that is your filial piety. Although the king is sick, there can be no trouble in Yandi. At the critical moment, you have to share the worries of the king.”
The five brothers said yes in unison.
King Yan was going to pull out his tooth, and everyone in the palace was looking forward to the result.
Even though Yin Hui already knew that King Yan’s tooth extraction would fail, she still couldn’t help holding on to a glimmer of hope. She could be reborn once again. Perhaps a doctor other than Yuan Daoqing could solve the problem.
It was a pity, when Wei Luo came back and she saw his heavy expression, Yin Hui understood that the matter had to be done by Yuan Daoqing.
She asked Uncle Zhou to bring Yuan Daoqing to Pingcheng by mid-February. Counting the days, he should have arrived.
Hejian Mansion was not very far from Pingcheng. If Yin Hui wanted Yuan Daoqing to arrive early in the morning, she could just tell Uncle Zhou and it would be done. But she couldn’t, she had to wait for the most suitable time, otherwise, it would be too coincidental. After all the doctors in Pingcheng took turns to try and they had no other choice, she would recommend him. It would be easy to gain King Yan’s trust and give Yuan Daoqing a chance to display his medical skills without arousing suspicion.
She thought carefully, but she thought of letting King Yan suffer for a few more days, but those few days were nothing compared to those two months in her previous life.
Yin Hui reassured herself that she didn’t have to feel guilty. However, guilt still surfaced, and she even had a nightmare at night, dreaming that her father-in-law found out that she had deliberately delayed Yuan Daoqing’s entry to Pingcheng, and blamed her for making him suffer for nothing, so he punished her and pulled out her tooth.
In the dream, she was being pressed on the chair, and seeing the doctor approaching step by step with large pliers, Yin Hui woke up suddenly, but saw a black shadow beside her, which made her shrink back in fright.
“Did you have a nightmare?” Wei Luo asked.
He had been awake for a while, and she seemed to be terrified and was babbling, but Wei Luo heard that in that kind of situation one shouldn’t wake people up casually. So he didn’t do anything.
It turned out to be him.
The familiar voice made Yin Hui calm down slowly. She touched her face only to find that it was wet.
Wei Luo got out of bed suddenly.
Soon, a light was turned on outside, and the dim light filled the air.
Yin Hui sat up and was wiping her sweat with a handkerchief when Wei Luo came back and handed her a towel, which was still warm.
“Thank you.” Yin Hui took the towel, lifted the long hair behind her with one hand, and wiped her neck and face all over.
Sitting next to her, Wei Luo waited until she was almost done wiping, and asked, “What did you dream about?”
From her vague sleep, he could distinguish the words “father”, “forgiveness”, and “no”.
Yin Hui smiled bitterly and said, “I dreamed that I also had a toothache. My father asked a doctor to pull out my tooth. I didn’t dare, so my father asked someone to hold me down.”
Wei Luo thought of the scene when the doctor pulled out his father’s tooth. Not to mention her, a woman, even his scalp got numb just looking at him.
She must be very concerned about her father to have such a dream.
“The doctor made a new prescription for my father. It may work. You don’t have to worry.”
“Well, you too. You have lost weight recently.”
A letter came in from Uncle Zhou.
He said in the letter that his father-in-law had never recovered from his toothache, and the prescriptions prescribed by doctors in Pingcheng were ineffective. There was a famous doctor named Yuan Daoqing in Jinghai County, Hejian Prefecture, who was especially good at treating teeth. Uncle Zhou immediately sent someone to invite Yuan Daoqing. Four days ago, he finally arrived, and pulled out the old man’s tooth that day, but the old man had to be taken care of for a few days, so he didn’t dare to let him go.
Uncle Zhou also said that he had also heard about the king’s toothache. He felt that Yuan Daoqing was a good dentist, but he dared not recommend him casually, so he asked her to consider it.
The content of the letter was also instructed by Yin Hui in advance to be written by Uncle Zhou. If Uncle Zhou told the truth, for example, “Yuan Daoqing has arrived”, others would suspect that Yin Hui knew about it long ago.
When Wei Luo came back in the evening, he went to visit his father first, but King Yan didn’t want to see anyone. When he walked to the gate of the back hall of Qinzheng Hall, he was dismissed by Eunuch Hai.
Concerned about his father’s health, Wei Luo lost his appetite for dinner, and stayed alone in the study, and did not even see his son.