Chapter 162: Chapter 162 - How to Determine

“Your Royal Highness, Vice General Zhang of the injured barrack sent a message that a group of wounded soldiers had anomalies.”

Xia Houmo raised his eyebrows. Yesterday, he was told by Su Muge that a group of fevered patients needed to be closely observed.

“Send a message to the Rani that I’ll go back to take her to the injured barrack.”

“Yes.”

When the messenger arrived at Jin Mansion, Su Muge was acupuncturing Qingyu’s eyes.

After the successful operation, the poison in his body had been dispelled, and now he could feel some strong light.

“Your Grace.”

Wang Yi’s voice came from outside the door.

Su Muge put the needles in her hand away and walked out.

“What’s the matter?”

“His Royal Highness sent a message to let you get prepared. He’ll come back to take you to the injury barrack.”

Hearing this, Su Muge raised her eyebrows. There must have been something wrong with the fevered imperial guards.

“Okay.”

Su Muge returned to the room. Liu Rumeng who was standing in the room looked at her and clenched her hands.

“Your Grace, will brother Qingyu’s eyes recover soon?”

“If nothing unexpected happens...”

Liu Rumeng lowered her eyes. “Thank you, Your Grace.”

“I’ll change a prescription for you today. Take the medicine until you can vaguely see.” Su Muge handed the prescription to Guima.

Guima took over and read it.

“I have to leave for something else. Take care.”

“Farewell, Your Grace.”

After returning to Bamboo Courtyard, Su Muge changed into a men’s suit and put on makeup to disguise herself. As soon as she was ready to leave, Xia Houmo’s carriage arrived outside the mansion.

“Let’s go.”

After leaving Jin Mansion and getting onto the carriage, Su Muge felt the faint coldness of Xia Houmo.

“Your Royal Highness, you are unhappy today?”

Xia Houmo stretched out his arms and hugged her. “Why do you ask so?”

Su Muge blinked her eyes. “Although you usually look cold, you are not so indifferent.”

Hearing this, Xia Houmo smiled and raised her chin. “You observe me so carefully?”

Now that I had to live with you, I certainly had to observe you carefully!

Su Muge pushed his arms away. “Your Royal Highness, don’t make fun of me.”

“Now half of the phoenix token of the Imperial Guard has been in Xia Houkun’s hands.” Xia Houmo said quietly.

Su Muge was stunned for a moment; she didn’t expect that Xia Houmo would tell her about this.

“The phoenix token?”

“It’s the military power of the Imperial Guard.”

“It’s the Emperor ...” The Emperor thought Xia Houmo too powerful? Su Muge didn’t finish her words.

Xia Houmo gently rubbed her soft palm. “If there are any more problems with the imperial guards, the other half will also change hands.”

Now, it was known to all that the Emperor had been showing his age. However, the Crown Prince of the Chu hadn’t been established yet. Therefore, everybody had his own thoughts and plans.

In the capital, the most important guard was the Imperial Guard. Whoever got the military power of the Imperial Guard would have a greater chance of winning the throne.

Under such circumstances, even if Xia Houmo had no interest in getting the throne, he had no way to be an idle King of Jin. The situation would force him to get involved in this dispute because he had not only the military power of the Imperial Guards but also of Yanxia pass. If he lost the military power, not to mention others, Xia Houkun wouldn’t keep him alive in the Chu; moreover, his followers would also be cleared completely.

Therefore, he could never lose the other half of the phoenix token in his hand!

Su Muge had always been unwilling to think too much about fighting for the throne. With Xia Houmo’s ability and the real power in his hands, she felt that he was very likely to become the final winner.

But what would happen to her after that?

Would she really like to lock herself in the cage of the imperial palace all her life?

Su Muge was temporarily unwilling to think about it.

The two thought about each other in silence for a while.

“Your Royal Highness, here we are.”

Donglin’s voice came from outside the carriage. Xia Houmo held Su Muge’s hands and helped her get off the carriage.

Vice General Zhang had been waiting outside the gate.

“Your Royal Highness.” Vice General Zhang stepped forward to salute. In fact, he didn’t quite understand the situation of the patients in the tent. After getting Su Muge’s order yesterday, the two military doctors became very vigilant. After checking the patient’s condition early in the morning, they immediately reported their situation to Vice General Zhang.

“Okay.”

Su Muge and Xia Houmo walked to the tent.

“Your Royal Highness, please wait outside temporarily.” Since many people were infected with this disease, she was afraid that it was contagious.

Xia Houmo didn’t refuse.

Su Muge put on her mouth mask and gloves before entering the tent.

Even if she was wearing a mask, Su Muge could still smell the pungent smell.

“Master, here you are.”

The two military doctors saw Su Muge coming in and stepped forward.

They had ventilated the tent according to Su Muge’s requirements, but the smell was still so heavy and they could do nothing about it.

“How’s it going?”

“After taking the medicine you left yesterday, their situation has changed, and some of them started to have loose bowels in the middle of the night.”

“Diarrhea?”

“Yes.”

“How is their excrement? Let me see.”

“What?” The two military doctors were stunned. To see the filthy thing...

“It’s improper...”

“Why?”

Seeing that Su Muge insisted, the two lifted the curtain on the other side of the tent and led Su Muge out.

The conditions in the camp were not so good and the manpower was insufficient, so the closestools were directly placed outside and would be cleaned up in the morning. Anyway, there was no woman in the camp.

Because it was still cold, the surface of the excrement in the closestools had already been frozen.

Su Muge squatted down to observe it closely.

The two military doctors took a breath and felt a tumult in their stomachs.

This young man looked cool and delicate but was actually so casual!

Su Muge picked up a branch on the ground and stabbed into the thin layer of ice on the surface.

The liquid in the closestool floated up with the thin ice.

The military doctors had already looked away quietly.

Su Muge found the things in the closestool with a dark red color. “This was excreted last night?”

“Yes.”

Su Muge picked up the dark red thing which looked like bloody nasal mucus with the branch. After observing it for a while, she threw the branch away and stood up.

“Let’s go.”

“Okay.”

After going back into the tent, Su Muge asked the two military doctors to carry a patient on a wooden bed that was empty on all sides.

“Turn him over and take off his pants.”

“Yes, okay.”

The two military doctors didn’t know that the Rani was standing in front of them, so they obediently turned the patient over and took off his pants.

“Let him kneel on his legs and stick his butt up.”

“Uh...”

“Okay.”

Although they didn’t understand what Su Muge was going to do, the two did as she said.

After that, Su Muge disinfected her gloves and reached out to part the two buttocks of the patient...

“...”

Su Muge pierced her finger into the man’s anus while the two doctors were shocked...

“Suck!”

The eyes of both military doctors were almost popping out!

“Uh... uh...”

Although the patient was in a semi-conscious state, he was not dead and he could feel what Su Muge was doing to him!

He struggled uncomfortably while humming, trying to get rid of Su Muge’s hand.

That scene was...so shocking that they dared not to see it!

Xia Houmo lifted the tent curtain and saw this unexpected scene with a dark and cold face!

Vice General Zhang and others who walked in were also terrified.

“What are you doing?!” The cold voice scared the two military doctors who started shivering.

“Your, Your Royal Highness ...this, this is...”

The two military doctors thought Xia Houmo was angry that they were playing with the imperial guards.

“What are you doing?!” Vice General Zhang’s complexion was also not good.

Only after a careful check did Su Muge release her hand and look at Xia Houmo.

“Your Royal Highness, aren’t you supposed to stay outside?”

“That’s why you don’t want me to come in?!”

“Uh...”

Su Muge looked at the big butt in front of her with twitched eyes.

“Hurry to put on his pants!”

“Yes, yes.”

Xia Houmo looked at Su Muge with dark eyes. “Go out with me!”

Su Muge was helpless. “Your Royal Highness, I haven’t finished the inspection yet.”

Vice General Zhang looked at Su Muge and Xia Houmo, always feeling that they were... flirting!

“You have to take off his pants to check!?” Xia Houmo’s words were almost squeezed out from his throat.

“I found that they had very serious hematochezia, and there was something similar to the intestinal mucosa in their excrement. If this is the case, their intestines should have been corroded.”

The two military doctors couldn’t understand!

Wasn’t it fever and cough? How could their intestines be corroded?!

“So I want to check if there is any residue in their anus...”

Vice General Zhang was also shocked. They were checking if there was remaining shit in their anus...

Su Muge put the thing like nasal mucus on her glove in a small porcelain plate in her medical kit.

“Your Royal Highness, look at this.”

Xia Houmo frowned coldly. Su Muge curled her lips and showed it to Vice General Zhang.

Vice General Zhang subconsciously held his breath.

“This, this is what you get from inside?”

“Yes.”

“This is probably the intestinal mucosa. The fever is actually a symptom of damaged intestine.” Therefore, there would be no effect to treat them as fevered patients.

“Now I want to determine what kind of bacteria is damaging their intestines.” The most direct way was to cut their bellies open, but she didn’t make it clear for fear of scaring them.

“How to determine?” Vice General Zhang asked.

Su Muge raised her eyebrows and looked at Xia Houmo.

“Come out.” After that, Xia Houmo turned around and walked out.

Su Muge took off her gloves and went to the main tent with Xia Houmo.

“You have to strip them off to determine?” Xia Houmo said with a dark face!

He hoped that Su Muge could cure them, but he would not be happy to let her see those men’s bodies!

“Uh, Your Royal Highness, I needn’t strip them off.”

Hearing that, Xia Houmo felt much better.

“Then what will you do?”