Chapter 775: A Good Taste After A Long Visit
The death of Mr. Wang and his wife, even if it was judged to be an accident, but such an incense block is a bit appalling in the end, if it is not a person who knows incense, or a person who is knowledgeable about medicine, it is impossible to judge that there is a problem from the appearance.
After the prefect of the palace closed the case, the case file was sent to Beijing, after the criminal department recorded, it was sent to the palace, the emperor saw the incense block, it contained highly poisonous, and could not help but be shocked, the emperor is also a person who commonly uses incense, and the emperor loves incense, and because of the heavy government affairs during the day, often sleepless at night, after the princes were killed, the situation became more and more strict, so he relied on incense to sleep, recently the imperial doctor has reminded him that he must not increase the amount, otherwise it will be harmful to the dragon body.
I thought that the materials used for incense were all beneficial to the body, but I never thought that someone would poison people in this way.
The emperor was in the imperial study, and ordered people to talk to the judge and the envoy of the imperial hospital, and asked them to send a few imperial doctors who were proficient in medicinal herbs, incense and other things.
He also ordered someone to go to the royal treasury and bring the incense he usually used, even the one used in the imperial study and the dormitory.
When the court judge and the court envoy heard about this, they all felt incredible, they were all doctors who saved people's lives, and they had never thought that someone would use this method to take people's lives!
The emperor moved so much, the movement was a bit big, the news naturally spread into the harem, the concubines all smelled and changed, because they were also lovers of incense, they didn't dare to be like the emperor, and invited the imperial doctor to identify the incense, and there was no one around who knew incense and pharmacology, so what should I do?
For the sake of his own life, he had to stop using it.
For a while, the amount of incense in the palace was sharply extinguished, and it directly hit the imperial merchants.
Strictly speaking, the impact on the imperial merchants is not too great, and it is the magnates and rich people in the capital who really impact their business, and the proportion of incense used by civil officials is also quite large, but they are not as generous as the magnates, and the magnates use incense, and they have their own preferences, and they will not all come to the palace, but the rich are different.
They are favored by the nobles, they are generous, and they all pick expensive ones to buy, and now the nobles in the palace are panicking, who will still use the incense that comes in from outside the palace?
It's okay if it's okay, but once there's something, it's all over the mouth and can't tell.
If the imperial merchant has other business support, it is not worried, only one of them, is specialized in spices, incense, this person's surname is Wu, and Prince Ping has a little relationship, the daughter of the family married the son of Prince Ping's brother.
can be the name of the imperial businessman, and the princess of Ping is also the one who pulls the strings from it.
Wu Huangshang's incense and spices are no problem, but the business has plummeted, and the filial piety to Prince Ping and Princess Ping is naturally less.
Prince Ping was detained in her own courtyard, and her life has not been smooth, in the past, she spared no effort to suppress the side concubines and beauties in the house, but now she has turned them over, and her treatment is not as good as before, which is also a matter of course.
In fact, if the prince and his wife opened their mouths, her life would not be too sad, and the side concubines of the housekeeper would not dare to do too much, the problem is that she did too much that time, which made the daughters-in-law's life difficult in the in-laws' house, and even the prince was counted down by Prince Ping.
The life of the princess is not very good, and Prince Ping is not very satisfied with this daughter-in-law, the son is busy outside, but what about the daughter-in-law? She stays in the inner house all day, doesn't she know what the mother-in-law plans to do? Why don't you dissuade her? Why don't you stop it? If it is not easy to persuade because of filial piety, then she can have a good relationship with the son, right?
In this way, he and Shizi will not know how to deal with things when they happen.
Because Prince Ping sent someone to keep an eye on it, even if the prince and his wife want to stand up for their mother, it is really difficult to say anything, after all, Ji Yaoshen is still recuperating at home! Even if it is hindered by filial piety, it is difficult to say anything about his mother and sister, but people don't complain in their hearts?
Before the bitter lord was appeased, he was anxious to let the troublemaker come out, not to mention that Prince Ping was unwilling, and even the palace was not happy to see it? Who let the matter make too much trouble and alarm the palace!
This is also the main reason why Prince Ping blames the princess, if she had spoken to her husband earlier, her son would have told him that when he knew that Ji Yaoshen had an accident, they would not have been so panicked and made a big fuss.
It is also because of this that when the side concubines were a little harsh on the princess, he turned a blind eye and let it go.
Prince Ping didn't know that even though the side concubines were harsh on the princess, her life was still not bad, because there were constantly people outside who were filial.
Recently, the grandmother next to Princess Ping found that the share of filial piety outside has become less, and she was afraid that people outside would know that Prince Ping had now lost the right to speak in the house, so she had lost her filial piety, so she hurriedly went to find someone to ask.
Everyone else is fine there, but the princess's brother said about Wu Huangshang here.
When Mama heard about it, it was related to the palace, and she hurriedly called someone to inquire, and only then did she know that such an incident had happened, and she hurriedly went back to report to the princess.
"How can such a thing happen?"
"Yes!" Mama said that she still felt frightened, you must know that Prince Ping also likes to use incense, and since being detained by the prince's order, this dosage has become heavier and heavier, and Mama can't persuade if she wants to, after all, without incense, the princess can't sleep, this night can't sleep, and her body will soon collapse, not to mention, this person has been a little thin, and she can't let her not sleep anymore, so she can only use incense.
But now that I think about it, Mama can't help but wonder if the incense used by the princess has also been tampered with?
She didn't dare to tell the princess, so she could only quietly take out the incense used by the princess and ask the doctor to see it.
Fortunately, there is no problem, Mama is relieved, but this is all an afterthought, at the moment, Wu Huangshang has to ask the princess to help find a way!
"Your brother said, this Emperor Wu Shangzu is such a job, and he is already the fourth generation, if you really want to ask him to change his business, he really can't change it. ”
"What does he want me to do? I'm trapped in the mansion now, and I can't go there, let alone meet the ladies and wives of Kyori, and even my in-laws rarely interact. ”
The reason why the in-laws do not interact with each other is because the daughters of Prince Ping are not good and are not kind to the sister of the concubine, and the princess of Ping does not lead by example, oh, no, she leads by example and demonstrates to her daughters how to murder the concubine.
Having a daughter-in-law like this has made the in-laws a headache, and having such an unkind in-law really makes them worried, if the daughters-in-law have the same example, and treat the concubines in the family like this, how can it be good?
The daughters-in-law are not jealous of their sisters-in-law, but they are not to their son's sisters-in-law, so they are detained and not allowed to go back to their parents' homes to get close to their mothers.
Princess Ping was angry, but she didn't want to attack her in-laws, so she endured it, if it weren't for this, how could she not sleep at night.
Mama sighed, "They also know that this matter is really unlucky, so they just want to ask you to see if there is any way to make their business better." ”
"I'm not a god, I can make their business better. ”
Mama looked at the appearance of Prince Ping, she should not want to deal with it, so she didn't say anything anymore, if she talked more, I was afraid that the princess would even annoy her.
Wu Huangshang failed to get help from Prince Ping, his business plummeted, and in the end, he couldn't even keep his name as an imperial merchant, so he could only sell his business out, and the whole family went back to his hometown in disgrace.
In March, Li Qianqian suddenly received a letter from her eldest brother from Beijing, and after reading the content, she ran to find Lantang with some tears and laughter.
"Spices, incense, how could the young general take over this business?"
"It's not the storm set off by the case of Mr. Wang. Li Qianqian told Lan Tang what happened in Beijing, and she felt happy when she heard it.
"The case of the violent death of Mr. Wang's husband and wife, at first glance, should be accidental, but after careful investigation, I found that the problem is not small. ”
Although Liu Er and the others knew that the death of Boss Wang should be related to Huang Shi, that is, Wang Can's son Wang Shi, they couldn't say what was going on.
Li Qianqian is naturally not very clear, and now when she hears Lan Tang mention this, she can't help but laugh at her, "It turns out that Sister Tang is not just busy preparing for marriage, and she still has time to find out about this?"
"There's no way, don't talk about me, it's my father, and I'm also very interested in the medicinal materials used in the Wang family's incense block!" Lan Tang said, "My father said! This black sweet fragrance ingredient, if it is improved properly, maybe it can be used to heal people!"
"Huh, really?" According to Lan Tang, if this black sweet fragrance is modified well, it can be used as an anesthetic?
"Nature is true. Lan Tang nodded, "I just don't know who made this incense block that Doctor Wang used, my father said, if you can exchange opinions with the other party, maybe you can benefit a lot!"
It's a pity that Wang Shi's whereabouts are unknown, and in the official mansion, his identity is unknown, but I'm afraid that if he really shows his face, he will be immediately asked by the prefect Wang to question, right?
"You just said that Mr. Wang's death may not be an accident, what happened?"
Lan Tang sent someone to Wang's house to inquire about it, and explained to Li Qianqian, "I heard the maids around Mrs. Wang say that although the incense block used by the old lady is not particular about the fragrance, but the color is only white, I didn't care about it, but then I heard them say that the incense block mixed with black sweet fragrance is light purple, and I began to feel strange." ”
When the Wang couple had an accident, the broken incense block was lilac, if the old lady ordered it herself, she would never use this piece of incense, even if there was no other incense block in the drawer in the house, she would ask the maid to take it again, and would not use that piece of incense.
"Why is that?"
"There was a rumor in the Wang family that Mr. Wang's original partner was actually killed, and she and Mr. Wang died in the same way, they lit incense during the lunch break, and then never woke up. ”
Li Qianqian listened expressionlessly, Chun Shou stared in shock, Chun Jiang couldn't see her like that, and dragged her hard to drag the person to normal.
Some people in the Wang family said that the death of Mr. Wang was retribution, and also said that when Mr. Wang's step-room Gao was in the boudoir, there was a friend who was a master of making incense, and Mr. Wang's original death was because of the incense sent back by Mr. Wang, and the incense was obtained from the step-room Gao family. ”
In other words, from Mrs. Wang's treasury, two pieces of incense that had weakened, maybe it was at that time, her friend helped her make four pieces, one of which was given to Mr. Wang by the Gao family, and then transferred home by the old lady Wang to the original match, and the original match died after using it, which just fulfilled Gao's wish to marry Mr. Wang to be the main room.
And one of them recently killed her and her husband?
"No, her friend may have only made three pieces, giving one to the original partner Zeng, and the other two pieces were stored in the treasury, as for the piece that let the husband and wife go to Huangquan together, it was not made by her friend, but newly made. ”
Because Lan Tang wrote from his father from Beijing and talked about the incense block, he also specially asked Liu Er to inquire about the prefect's yamen's opinion on those pieces of incense.
Li Qianqian still heard Lan Tang talk about it at this time, and only then did he know that the incense that caused the death of Mr. Wang and his wife was not very different from the other two.
Although the black sweet fragrance is recorded in ancient books, because of the rarity of medicinal materials, if it is not for a coincidence, or deliberately looking for it, it may not be possible.
However, several generations are incense-making people, more or less have the habit of collecting medicinal materials, and there are familiar incense-making peers, to collect black and sweet medicinal materials, it will be much easier, and it is not easy for outsiders to know.
After all, to make a black sweet fragrance of medicinal materials, it has a wide range of uses.
"For ordinary people, it is not easy to obtain, but they have been making incense for generations, and they may be able to get it together without looking outside. Lan Tang touched his chin thoughtfully. "I always thought that yellow stone was a little weird. ”
"Feng San and I guessed that he should be Wang Can's son. ”
Lan Tang didn't understand, so Li Qianqian told her their conjectures, and said, "Do you think he is strange, is it because he deliberately went to ask Lord Wang and his wife to resign?"
"Well, I heard that it has always been Master Wang's father and son who have been entertaining him, he wants to leave, tell their father and son, and after he resigned from Mr. Wang and his wife, he went out to eat with Mr. Wang and them. ”
Lan Tang said, "I guess that when he went to resign, he may have taken the opportunity to move on the incense burner, and when the old lady went to light the incense after the lunch break, she failed to find that the incense block was not the white she usually used." ”
"Probably, but after knowing how my great-grandmother Zeng died, I think Mr. Wang and his wife deserve this retribution. ”
If they don't harm people first, Zeng's great-grandson Wang Shi won't attack them, and even, Lord Wang shouldn't think about killing the family of his eldest grandson, and ask Master Wang to take Wang Shi out of prison, and he won't get into trouble.
They have this retribution, it is just because they have started evil thoughts first!
"You say, can we find Wang Shi and ask him, who made that incense?" Lan Tang was full of hope, Li Qianqian looked at her shining eyes, and suddenly felt a little speechless.
"Don't think about it so much! Let's help me think about it, what should I do with my brother's new business?"
I don't understand!
Don't say that Li Qianqian can't figure it out, even Li Mingxi and Li Lingxi can't figure it out, they spent a few hundred taels of silver to make such a business that is destined to lose money to death, what are they going to do?
Li Shaoxi snorted coldly, he didn't care about his two younger brothers, he would take over this business, all because he looked at his family's inventory, those spices were all good things! Although there is no business for the prepared incense blocks, there is still a way out for the spice business.
The most important thing is that Wu Huangshang's inventory actually has peppercorns, chili peppers and other things, he has checked them, and they are much purer than those sold on the market, if only he could find out from the mouths of Wu Huangshang or his subordinates that these things were purchased from there!
It's a pity that Wu Huangshang's family left too quickly! and took away his capable subordinates, thinking that after returning to his hometown, he still wanted to make a comeback!
But don't worry, there is a caravan under his sister's hands, and his quasi-brother-in-law's subordinates are all over the entire Zhongzhou Continent, if you really want to check, are you afraid that you can't find out if Wu Huangshang bought these things?
Thinking of the taste of authentic spicy pot, Li Shaoxi showed the smile that his sister had rated as a profiteer, and the father and son of Li Jingshi, who watched him play with his face all the time, suddenly felt a chill, and the three of them looked at each other, not knowing what would happen.
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