After some discussion, the Queen Mother and Emperor Xia decided that this time the competition of the palace priests will adopt a best-of-three system, presided over by the Queen Mother and Emperor Xia respectively, Ye Lingyue and the concubine will conduct three rounds of competition, each of the three games will account for one point, and the final winner can become a court scholar.

"This first round of the competition was presided over by the mourning family. Concubine, Lord Ye, you come with the mourning family. The Queen Mother took the two daughters to the medicine warehouse in the summer palace.

The medicine warehouse is divided into two parts: the pharmacy and the Dan room, and the Queen Mother brought Ye Lingyue and the concubine into the Dan room.

There are medicine bottles of different sizes stored in the Dan room, and some commonly used three to four grades of pills are displayed inside.

The concubines, princes, and daughters in the palace can receive a certain amount of pills every month according to the size of the grade.

The elixir of more than five grades must have the hand of the Queen Mother to receive it, and as for the elixir above the sixth grade, it is even rarer, and only the princes and princesses who have made great contributions or are particularly favored are on the verge of breaking through, and Emperor Xia will personally order the reward.

Looking at the dazzling array of pill bottles, Ye Lingyue and Concubine Xiao both had solemn faces, not knowing how the Queen Mother was going to test them.

As soon as the Queen Mother raised her hand, two eunuchs stepped forward and blindfolded their eyes with two black scarves.

"As a court alchemist, the first priority is to be able to identify all kinds of elixirs and prevent some poor quality or even poisons from flowing into the court. In front of you, there are a total of ten kinds of pills, all of which are not labeled, and the mourning family wants you to identify the grade and name of these pills in the time of a stick of incense, just by your hands and sense of smell. After the Queen Mother said that, she ordered someone to send ten bottles of pills and put them in front of Ye Lingyue and Concubine respectively.

You must know that the alchemists relied on color, fragrance, and taste to identify the elixir, and blindfolded them, which greatly limited the accuracy of the elixir's identification, and the difficulty was undoubtedly increased a lot.

Emperor Xia and Master Long Yu were both waiting anxiously on the sidelines.

Fortunately, Ye Lingyue and Concubine were both calm-minded people, and after being stunned for a moment, they quickly came back to their senses.

After half a pillar of incense, the two of them wrote down the names of the ten pills almost at the same time.

The Queen Mother ordered someone to put away the paper with the name of the pill written on it and took a look.

"The results have come out, and in the first round of the competition to identify the elixir, it was Lord Ye who won. As soon as the Queen Mother's golden mouth opened, the concubine's complexion changed, and Bei Yan bit her lip.

My concubine studied under a famous family, and she couldn't help her at all when she was blindfolded and recognized the pills.

She has absolute confidence that the pills she wrote down are all correct.

Even the little Siding Fang Shiye County Lord had all guessed the pills, and the two could only be tied at most, and it would never be possible for the other party to win.

The Queen Mother is clearly partial.

But my concubine is just a concubine, so naturally it is not good to question the decision of the queen mother, she can't, but Emperor Xia can, and my concubine looked at Emperor Xia very aggrievedly.

That look, Rao is a seven-foot tough guy, and he can also instantly turn into a soft finger.

How could Emperor Xia let his concubine be wronged.

"Queen Mother, you are clearly unfair, the elixir written by the concubine and the lord of Ye County is clearly the same, even if you really want to divide the high and low, it should be a tie. Emperor Xia also peeked at the paper of the two women, if he was not mistaken, the name of the pill guessed by the two should be almost the same.

"Oh, the Holy Lord is questioning the decision of the mourning family, Concubine Ye, Lord Ye, you all come forward and see each other's answers. The Queen Mother glared at Emperor Xia angrily.

Master Long Yu shook his head secretly on the side, Emperor Xia was really bewitched by the concubine, he was the biological flesh and blood of the Queen Mother, but he didn't know the Queen Mother at all.

Although the Queen Mother doesn't like concubines, she is definitely not the kind of person who can reverse right and wrong, and the more protective Emperor Xia is to the concubines, the more disgusted the Queen Mother will be.

Ye Lingyue and my concubine both stepped forward, in black and white, the answers of the two jumped on the paper, and at a glance, the answers of the two were really exactly the same.

The first elixir, the Concentration Pill, the second elixir...... But when she saw the last elixir, the concubine's eyes suddenly widened.

"Auntie, you still have something to say. ”

The last pill was the blood-turning and activating pill written by the concubine, while what Ye Lingyue wrote was the blue-veined blood-transforming and activating pill.

The concubine's cultivation is indeed beyond doubt, and she also accurately recognized the Four Pins Pill to Transform Blood and Activate Stasis, but she didn't expect that the Queen Mother gave her the blue-veined pill.

After all, just from the sense of smell and feel, there is no difference between ordinary pills and blue-veined pills.

Ye Lingyue won if she won, as long as the pill fell into her hands, she could use Dingqi to distinguish the ingredients and grades of the pill.

Although it was only a difference of two words, my fair aunt still lost.

"So in this round, the mourning family sentenced Lord Ye to win, but is there anyone who has objections?" The Queen Mother was not angry.

Emperor Xia sneered, not daring to say anything, and Master Long Yu nodded with satisfaction.

The concubine glanced at Ye Lingyue, and a rhino light flashed under her eyes.

If it was said that the concubine hadn't taken Ye Lingyue in her eyes earlier, after this first round of competition, the concubine had already become wary of Ye Lingyue.

The second round of the competition, but Emperor Xia presided over, this time, no matter what, the little Fangshi could not be allowed to win.

"Since Concubine Ai and Lord Ye have already tried to identify the pill, this second round is better than the trial of the alchemy pill, after all, the most important thing for the court is alchemy. Seeing that the concubine had already lost a round, Emperor Xia was also secretly anxious in his heart.

He thought about it, and already had an idea in his mind.

"I have also prepared more than a dozen kinds of pills, Concubine Ai and Lord Ye stepped forward to draw one pill each, limited to one hour, whoever can refine more and better pills will be considered a winner. As Emperor Xia spoke, he ordered the eunuch to prepare paper and ink, wrote down more than a dozen Dan recipes with a stroke of a pen, and then turned the paper over and asked Ye Lingyue and the concubine to come forward and choose.

Emperor Xia's actions seem to be very fair, but in fact, they are unfair.

My concubine is deeply favored by him, and on weekdays, my concubine in the palace does not give Emperor Xia a lot of ink and paper, Emperor Xia's pen habits, my concubine has long figured it out, what Emperor Xia wrote, she also saw through it at a glance.

The concubine was not in a hurry, she picked out a piece of paper, opened it and saw that there was a four-grade pill written on it.

When it was Ye Lingyue's turn, she also stepped forward and opened a Dan Fang under the gaze of the concubine.

On that page, the Seven Heart Pill was written.

When she saw the Seven Heart Pill, the Queen Mother's eyes sank slightly.

This kind of Seven Heart Pill is a five-grade pill, and it is also one of the more difficult to refine among the five-grade pills.

The five-grade elixir, in the palace, can only be refined by monks above the six-grade level.

Its refining difficulty is much more difficult than Concubine Yao's four-grade pill.

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