Knowing that Zhao Chen was going to give this thing to Empress Changsun, Li Ruoshuang stopped saying anything.
She also knew that Queen Changsun was like her own mother to Zhao Chen.
"It's snowy and the road is slippery. Please walk slowly. I'll wait for you at home!" Li Ruoshuang tidied Zhao Chen's clothes and said softly.
Zhao Chen nodded, carrying a hand warmer, and disappeared into the snowy sun.
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"Your Majesty, please come and light the fire. It's snowing. It will be better to warm your hands." In the Li Zheng Hall, a maid and the Changsun Queen said.
Queen Changsun is usually very kind to everyone.
The maids around her also respected her.
Seeing that Queen Changsun's hands were frozen to death, the maids were also worried.
Thinking about what the imperial physician in the palace said, keeping your hands warm can reduce the pain caused by frostbite.
Empress Changsun was usually very frugal. If she was the only one in the palace, she would not be willing to light a charcoal fire.
It was snowing today, and I saw that the attendants around me were shivering from the cold, so I asked them to light the stove.
"I don't have any problem, you can just bake it." Empress Changsun smiled and lowered her head to do her own thing.
"Oh, there are so many doctors in the palace, but none of them can cure the frostbite on my hands. It makes the empress suffer so much every winter. It is really a heinous crime."
"No, they will say that there is no way to cure chilblains, just survive the winter."
"But during these winter months, the Queen has been in so much pain that she can't sleep every night."
"After all, it's just that the imperial doctors are incompetent."
"Hey, I remember Duke Zhao of Wannian County. He has good medical skills. I wonder if he can do anything."
"I don't know, but even Dr. Sun Simiao said that his medical skills are not as good as his. Maybe Duke Zhao has a way."
"But Duke Zhao hasn't been here for a few days, so he probably doesn't know about the frostbite on my wife's hands."
"Who doesn't need to be on duty later to leave the palace and ask Duke Zhao to come and have a look?"
"Yes, yes, good idea."
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Entering the palace on a snowy day surprised the palace guards.
At least in their eyes, Zhao Chen, as long as the weather is bad, no one can ask him to come to the palace.
It's very strange that this goose-feather heavy snow actually entered the palace today.
"Your Excellency, why is the weather so bad today?" The city guard captain knew Zhao Chen well and came up to him with a smile.
"Come and give the queen something to warm her hands." Zhao Chen nodded and explained casually.
"Is this it?" The city guard captain looked at the small copper pot in Zhao Chen's hand and was a little surprised.
He has never seen anything like this.
"In this snowy day, let alone standing outside, even if you get under the quilt, it will still be chilly."
"Colonel Zhang, do you want to try it?" Zhao Chen handed over the copper pot in his hand and said to the captain in front of him.
This is something given to the Queen, how dare he get his hands on it.
Busily waving his hands, he smiled awkwardly and said: "This is a gift from the Duke to the Queen. I don't dare to get my hands on it."
"But if there is something that can keep out the cold, the Duke and I should inform you in advance."
"It's such a winter, it's very cold even if I sleep with my wife in my arms."
"Let's do this. In two days, go to Wangyou Bookstore and see where these hand warmers are for sale. Tell me you know me and they can give you a 30% discount." Zhao Chen smiled and said to the captain of the city guard.
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Once you hear it, you can sell this kind of thing that is given to the queen to keep out the cold, and you can even give him a discount.
The captain guarding the city was naturally happy.
He personally escorted Zhao Chen into the palace city.
The hand warmer is a good thing, at least in today's era when everyone can only burn firewood for heating, it is a very cost-effective good thing.
Isn't this an obvious money-making idea? Zhao Chen won't miss it.
You have to make a profit quickly, otherwise this thing will be meaningless when other people's imitations appear.
After all, the craftsmanship required for a hand warmer is really not very high.
The heavy snow continued, Zhao Chen held an umbrella and headed towards the Zhengzheng Palace. Not long after, he met two maids who were about to leave the palace to find him.
"What a coincidence, Your Excellency, the servants are on their way to find you!" The teenage maid's voice was sweet, and she greeted Zhao Chenfu politely.
"What do you want from me?" Zhao Chen was a little surprised.
I thought something must have happened, so I went to look for myself in the heavy snow.
"Your Excellency, you don't know yet, but the Queen has frostbite on her hands, and even the doctors can't cure her."
"Your Majesty is very frugal and reluctant to burn charcoal for heating. This night my hands hurt and I couldn't sleep well."
"We who are serving in the palace are thinking of asking the Duke for help to see if there is any way to cure him."
"I don't want to meet the Duke here!" The maid and Zhao Chen explained their reasons for coming.
Zhao Chen was not surprised at all by the loyalty of the maids.
Empress Changsun is extremely friendly to everyone, and it is natural for the maids around her to think about her.
"Your Excellency, do you have any method to cure the frostbite?" the maid asked Zhao Chen again, with a look of anticipation on her face.
The maid next to her also looked at Zhao Chen slightly nervously.
In their opinion, Zhao Chen's medical skills were even better than Sun Simiao's.
If he says there is no way, then there really is no way.
"Didn't I bring this to you?" Zhao Chen raised the hand warmer in his hand and said with a smile.
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I have frostbite on both hands. I would be lying if I said it wasn't uncomfortable.
Not to mention sleeping, even eating with chopsticks is extremely inconvenient.
Both hands were red and swollen, and Queen Changsun did not dare to show her hands on weekdays.
So as not to scare others.
These days she rarely ate with the emperor, either eating before the emperor came or eating after the emperor left.
Even at Zhao Chen's house yesterday, she only ate two buns and didn't dare to reach out for chopsticks at all.
Even when eating steamed buns, she would wrap her hands in a handkerchief.
Zhao Chen and others only thought that she was afraid of getting her hands dirty, but in fact, Empress Changsun was afraid that her hands would scare everyone.
"You all go back and have a rest. There is no need to wait here."
"By the way, remember to put out the brazier." Queen Changsun said to the attendants around her.
"But Madam, the weather is so cold and there is no brazier, you..."
"It's okay for me, I'll go and have a rest later. It won't be cold anymore. Don't stand around anymore. Let's all go down." Queen Changsun said and walked to the back hall.
When Zhao Chen arrived, a group of attendants from the Li Zheng Palace had just come out of the palace.
"Your Excellency, you are here."
"Your Excellency, please go and persuade the queen. It's such a cold day and the queen is not allowed to set up a brazier. How can she survive the cold weather?"
"Yes, your lord, the Queen loves to listen to you, please go and persuade her."
When the attendants saw Zhao Chen, they all spoke to him.
He was so excited, as if he had met a savior.
Zhao Chen was a little confused by these people.
But he still nodded, handed the hand warmer to the maid aside, and said: "Fill it with hot water and bring it here."
The maid hurriedly ran out, and someone opened the door for Zhao Chen and shouted inside: "Mother, Duke Zhao has come to see you."?