You rascal, stop right there!

Chapter 195: Betting on this 5%, life or death (Thanks to Lin Minci, the book friend)

A separate courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing.

The snowy fog in the early morning dyed the entire yard white, with only the occasional bird flying by.

The yard was sealed off layer by layer, and it was airtight. It was heavily guarded and no one dared to enter.

In a shabby room in a corner, there was only an old white wooden table, on which were placed some study items and scrolls.

"Sir, today——"

The little maid in pink was holding a food box and looking at the man who was half-sitting at the table with shackles on his hands and feet.

She felt more pity than sympathy.

He has a handsome face, but he can't see and is locked up in such a shabby room without freedom.

I heard that this man was a painter who was almost frozen to death in the well prison due to heavy snow the day before.

He was sent here after being unconscious for about ten hours...

The first time I saw him, I noticed that there was a circle of charcoal fire in the house, which set off his frail face, as if he was a snowman taken out of an ice cellar.

After that, I became more and more afraid of cold and rarely moved around.

As I approached this man's desk, my eyes were filled with horror.

There were various human-figure sketches on the table, with traces of dry ink and brush, which did not look like they were made by a blind person at all.

especially,

The person who was handcuffed and shackled was wrapped in a thick blanket and holding a small hand warmer, and he was very afraid of the cold.

The maid asked slightly, "Sir?"

Bai Wan still kept her eyes closed and said nothing.

Suddenly, the maid was so scared that she put her index finger between the man's nostrils and felt that the breath was weak.

The air around was suffocatingly quiet.

The little maidservant dropped the food box in her hand to the ground and rushed out of the door shouting.

"Someone come! Someone come! Someone is going to die!!!"

……

That night, news of the near-death situation spread to the palace.

The Empress Dowager Cixi had to send a doctor to treat her, but the fact that Han Miaoran was imprisoned in the other courtyard could not be made public.

After much deliberation, she had to choose from the famous doctors in Jiaxing who made elixirs for immortality, and Lin Fu, who came from a medical family, was chosen.

The Empress Dowager Cixi held in her hands the painting "Wanli Minyuan" that Bai Wan had copied for four months, and a cold breath appeared in her eyes:

"I won't let him die until he figured out the meaning of this painting!"

The carriage is in a hurry at night.

The elderly Lin Fu had difficulty walking, so he was carried into the courtyard by someone holding a lantern.

She was originally imprisoned in the palace, forced to make elixirs, and forbidden to travel, but she never expected that the Queen Mother would issue a secret order requiring her to go outside the palace to rescue people.

If it weren't for that useless old partner, I wouldn't be so restricted.

Originally, I just thought that it might be a minister outside the palace who needed medical treatment, but I didn't expect to be shocked when I arrived at the bedside.

How could this person appear in this heavily guarded villa in the suburbs of Beijing?

The eunuch Wei Gonggong who brought the genius doctor Lin Fu, looked threatening, but said softly: "Doctor Lin, I heard that you are from a medical family and have trained countless imperial doctors. You must do your best!"

"I know what's going on."

Lin Fu checked Bai Wan's pulse without changing his expression, but his heart was in turmoil.

This person was overthinking, which caused his qi and blood to become unbalanced. He also suffered two disasters, which caused him to go blind.

Now, due to the cold caused by frostbite during the punishment and the lack of timely diagnosis and treatment of hypothermia, he has fallen into coma and lost consciousness.

"It snowed heavily the day before yesterday, so they must not have been able to provide timely treatment. If they hadn't been in a hurry, this wouldn't have happened..."

Eunuch Wei took a look at the person on the bed and felt that the next sentence out of Doctor Lin's mouth would probably be "no medicine can cure it".

No matter how much the Queen Mother values the paintings of this man, he is just a lowly painter.

Who would care about a civilian with no identity background?

If it weren't for his usefulness, and so many people had died in the well prison over the years, who would have put him in the room above ground?

"Oh, that was an accidental delay. Can this person's life be saved?"

Lin Fu did not answer directly: "If it is me, I can let him come back from the King of Hell!"

Eunuch Wei did not expect that the old woman would be so confident. She spread out the acupuncture cloth strips to perform acupuncture, and then wrote the prescription in an orderly manner.

He hissed, but asked tentatively: "Hey, if you are so powerful, can you cure his eyes too?!"

Lin Fu handed the prescription to the maid next to him, his eyes flashing with lightning: "His eyes are blocked by blood stasis, and he must be bled. There is only a 50% chance of regaining his sight."

The other 50% is death.

There seemed to be regret in her voice. If she didn't get the patient's consent, she would not use such a radical method to treat his eyes.

"Fifty percent chance?" Eunuch Wei slowly closed his eyes.

If this person can't see it, it will be of no use to interpret the meaning of the painting. Since this heavy snow can make people near death, then this 50% is just a gamble.

He walked to the table and looked at the line sketches and various small texts left by Bai Wan. Among them, "carry", "the skinny old man carrying the young man on his back", "famine everywhere", "rice and meat", etc. were particularly eye-catching.

As he watched, Eunuch Wei's eyes seemed to flash with nectar and bitter wine.

I see……

"Doctor Lin, why don't you give up the blood as well?"

He spoke very casually, and although he spoke lightly, his tone was intimidating and did not allow for opposition.

"But there's only a 50% chance. Why don't you wait until he wakes up and ask him in person?" Lin Fu didn't expect this man to say that.

Eunuch Wei said solemnly: "Alas, if you were not here, he would have died today. Isn't that right?"

A person's life was arranged so arbitrarily, and it was so justified...

Lin Fu simply couldn't believe that a mere eunuch close to the empress dowager could treat people so casually.

She hesitated for a moment, and the needle in her hand felt cold.

"Doctor Lin must not know that this man did everything he could to escape six years ago."

"Not only did he act crazy and stupid, he also ate the grass mixed with dirt and filth, rolled around naked on the ground, and drugged the guards..."

"If he wakes up, he might use more methods to pretend to be crazy and stupid and escape again."

Lin Fu was speechless...

I know that Bai Wan is tenacious in order to survive, but I didn't expect her to be more powerful than she imagined.

"If he regains his sight, we will have done him a favor and we cannot leave with that favor! If he dies, it will be as if Doctor Lin had never come today."

After weighing the pros and cons, Eunuch Wei came to this conclusion.

Although this additional bloodletting to treat the eyes was not authorized by the Empress Dowager Cixi, it did not get the patient's consent.

It's just his family's opinion...

Seeing that Lin Fu seemed to be still a little hesitant, he held the golden needle in his hand and stopped it in mid-air.

The person on the bed still had his eyes closed and his breathing was cold and weak.

A very cold patient, sleeping unconsciously, not knowing whether he is alive or dead, but everything has been arranged by others.

Wait for this person to live or die, to remain blind or regain his sight...

"Doctor Lin, your husband is still in the inn. Eunuchs and palace maids have been sent to serve him." Eunuch Wei reminded.

Lin Fu took a deep look at the person on the bed. He was blind due to a head injury...

She closed her eyes: "Okay!"