Yu's down, only frightened the two big girls Yinliu and Xueliu's soul scattered, and was panicking to call someone to call Xiao's family, invite Lang Zhong, go to the yamen to call Jiang Jun back, etc., when he saw the old lady Jiang coming out of Baicaozhai, with a medicine box in the back of the licorice, came over and asked someone to put down Yu's, and took out the silver needle and pricked it.

In the past few years, Mrs. Jiang has stopped practicing medicine, and the most recent time Jiang Xinghua fell into the water, everyone's attention was attracted by Taohua's blowing and pressing on her chest at that time, and she forgot that there was a former doctor at home, and what did she call to invite Langzhong.

After a few stitches, Yu Shi let out a low sigh and opened his eyes. Yinliu and Xueliu came back to their senses and were about to help her, but Old Lady Jiang had already waved her hand to stop her: "Let her rest for a while, and find someone to carry her back to recuperate." ”

"Old lady-" Yu Shi looked at her husband in a daze, trembling her lips and wanted to say something, but was stopped by Old Lady Jiang lightly: "You are suffering from heart palpitations, but you are worried and thoughtful on weekdays, and your diet is unrestrained, so let's talk less and move less at this time." "Turn around and tell licorice," boil a dose of coptis warm bile soup. With that, he got up and walked away with his hands behind his back.

Yu Shi looked at the back of Old Lady Jiang who was indifferently away, twisted his head to the side, and closed his eyes.

Jiang Jun heard the news from his family at the pox plant, and hurriedly ran back, only to see his mother half-leaning on the head of the bed, and Xiao Shi was feeding her medicine. Yu's face was still a little pale, but it was no different from usual. Jiang Jun relieved himself a little, and inevitably asked Yinliu about the situation again.

Yu Shi took the medicine and already felt much better, but his body was still a little weak. Hearing that Jiang Jun was still asking, he said, "I'm fine." The old lady said it, but she was more worried and thought about it on weekdays, and she could talk less and move less. It's you, now that things are busy in the yamen, let's go back. ”

Jiang Jun hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "Otherwise, I will serve my mother at home?" ”

"You also want to learn from Liu Hanlin?" There is still some tacit understanding between mother and son, and Yu Shi knew his son's intentions when he heard this, and said, "Brother Song'er came back today, and the old lady told him to just go back to the academy to study with peace of mind." ”

When these words came out, Jiang Jun also knew what Yu meant: "Mother is saying that this matter is ......" Old lady Jiang thinks that the matter of pox can still be carried out smoothly?

Yu Shi sighed: "Although your father has not spoken all these years, he always knows in his heart. Besides, the Liu family reported that the illness was served, if you serve the illness again, it is not good to say this...... Besides, you are in charge, and you can't say anything about it. Now that Sister Mei'er is having a hard time, if you quit your errand again...... "My family has given up, and the people in the palace don't take the opportunity to step on it."

Speaking of Liu Zhijing, Jiang Jun was a little angry in his heart: "At the beginning, he found it himself, saying that he knew how much and how much he knew in the northwest, and now he has reported the name of the sick and hid first, he is really a villain!" ”

Yu Shi coughed lightly and said, "I heard that his mother is really sick." ”

Jiang Jun snorted and didn't speak. In fact, he also went to see it, Mrs. Liu was indeed very sick, if it weren't for this, he wouldn't have let Liu Zhijing quit his errand. However, he didn't believe that there was such a coincidence, but Liu Zhijing's filial piety to his mother was famous, and he couldn't casually question that Liu Zhijing himself made his mother sick, right?

In fact, although Jiang Jun's speculation is not entirely correct, it really conforms to part of the truth - Mrs. Liu was not sick by Liu Zhijing, but her illness was indeed man-made - she took a cold shower herself.

Although it is now the end of April, the night in the capital is still quite cold, and the water from the deep well is even cooler. To say that Mrs. Liu worked hard enough for her son, she quietly fetched well water at night and soaked in the middle of the night.

Rao is her body is strong on weekdays, and now she is also fifty years old, where can she withstand such a cold water method, and she had a high fever on the second day, Liu Zhijing urgently invited Lang Zhong to come, and poured a bowl of medicine down violently, so that the heat subsided, but she was still lying on the bed, coughing up a little.

"Mother-" Chen Yan came in with the medicine, "drink the medicine." "Mrs. Liu's illness is almost exhausting her to death, and she has a few maids to marry, and Mrs. Liu only needs her to serve, and she can't rest well day and night, and after only a few days, she feels that she is a little shaky when she walks.

"It's the medicine again." Mrs. Liu coughed a few times, and as soon as she took the medicine, Xuancao came in and reported: "Jiang Langzhong's mansion sent someone to visit the old lady." ”

Mrs. Liu immediately put the medicine bowl aside and pulled down her face: "Is this here to urge your life?" "A few days ago, it was not enough for the princess of the county to come to the door in person, and the Jiang family's room invited Lang Zhong to come over and see, all of them suspected that she was faking her illness. Fortunately, she is smart and really sick, otherwise she wouldn't have been exposed on the spot?

"Let's just say I'm sick, no. Daughter-in-law, you went out to take a look, and sent people away. Your uncle is really ......" Old Mrs. Liu is now looking at Chen Yan unpleasantly, marrying this daughter-in-law, she has not seen any benefits, but she has always been unlucky. The Jiang family came here at this time, where did they really come to visit, obviously seeing that she was slightly better, and wanted to pull Liu Zhijing back on an errand and top the cylinder together.

How dare Chen Yan talk back to her now, bow her head and go out to send people. Here Mrs. Liu picked up the medicine and was about to drink it, but suddenly put it down again. The Jiang family is staring at her so closely, if she is well, I am afraid that she will have to ask Liu Zhijing to go back, in this way, isn't the toss ahead in vain?

Old Mrs. Liu couldn't help frowning when she thought of this. Chen Yan is really useless, the last time she came to the Jiang family, she told Chen Yan that she asked the Jiang family not to come to visit in the future, but it turned out to be useless. Come to think of it, this Chen Yan is now surnamed Chen, and has nothing to do with the Jiang family's room, how could Jiang Langzhong listen to Chen Yan? Speaking of which, she has to think of it herself.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Liu looked left and right, picked up the medicine bowl and splashed out of the back window, this medicine can't be eaten, how can it be delayed for a few more days, and it will be delayed until the Jiang family dies. Hey, this princess of Anjun is really a trick, and now that the capital is like this, she ran to the northwest, could it be that she wants to hide in the northwest and not come back, so that the people in the capital can take the blame for her?

was suspicious of Mrs. Liu and wanted to hide in Taohua in the northwest, and she was listening to Gu Cong's report at this time.

That day, after Gu Cong suspected that the people in the town were using fake pox vaccines, the Dingbei Hou Mansion sent people to investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is said that in this place in the northwest, there is really nothing that can prevent the Dingbei Hou Mansion from checking, and sure enough, it was discovered within a few days that this pox seedling was indeed not made by Gu Cong, but was adulterated with some fakes.

"The person who made the fake pox vaccine has been raided by the Marquis of Dingbei, and the fake pox vaccine made is stored there, waiting to be presented to the capital." Gu Cong has been busy for these fake pox seedlings for several days, but this matter has finally been solved, although he is tired, he is also in good spirits, "This person met an old man who was sent to the northwest, and occasionally heard him talk about making pox vaccines. At that time, he didn't believe it, he just thought it was the old man talking nonsense, who knew that the princess did this, he regretted it, and with the little idea he heard at the time, he dared to make the pox vaccine himself, but the toxicity was too great, and the children who died all used his pox vaccine! ”

"Something that kills a thousand knives!" Mint couldn't help but scold, "What do you still keep him for, he should be cut with a thousand cuts!" This thing can also be used casually? ”

"Lord Hou is right to do this, send him to the capital, and deal with him with his own laws." Taohua has always hated making fake drugs, not to mention that this is not only a fake drug, but it is simply a □□, "What happened to the families where the children died?" ”

Gu Cong sighed: "This thing is really ...... In the northwest, it is good to say that Hou Ye not only copied the home of the person who made the fake pox vaccines, but also the official who bought the fake pox vaccines, and was also beheaded by Hou Ye's house. This can be regarded as revenge for those families. However, the two ...... in Dingzhou City "The one who made the fake pox vaccine should be kept and sent to the capital to explain the whole story, and the officials who bought the fake pox vaccine to fill their pockets directly cut the people's anger, but Dingzhou City is not within the jurisdiction of Dingbei Hou, and the two families have been packed and sent to the capital by the Zhizhou of Dingzhou City, and they are going to sue the emperor.

If you don't sue the royal complaint, anyway, there is already a Zhang family in front of you, Taohua is now more lice and not itchy, and more debts are not worried: "You have worked hard these days, and now that the water is out, you can also rest." ”

Gu Cong scratched his hair: "Actually, this matter is mainly done by Master Hou. Xiaguan thought that the things in the northwest were almost done, and the craft of making pox vaccines had also been mastered, and Xiaguan wanted to return to the capital with the princess, which could be regarded as a personal witness. ”

"It's okay for you to go back with me." Tao Hua thought of Liu Zhijing, and couldn't help sneering slightly, "There is a shortage of manpower in the capital." In the future, to promote pox, it is indispensable for people like you to take charge of it. It's just that you're going to have to work harder, and I'm afraid it's hard to rest these days. ”

Gu Cong smiled: "If you can follow the princess, the lower officials can learn more things, I can't ask for it." He put down his hand, but accidentally a purse fell out of his sleeve, and with a thud fell to the ground, and some pieces of silver and copper coins rolled out.

Yuzhu was fast, and hurriedly lowered his head to pick it up, but Gu Cong was very embarrassed, thanked him repeatedly, and retired with his purse in his sleeve.

"Princess, the slave and maid looked at that purse, like the craftsmanship of a butterfly clothes." Mint had sharp eyes, and whispered in Taohua's ear, "The pattern of the lock on the edge of the purse, Dieyi likes to use it the most." ”

Taohua couldn't help but smile: "Really? If so, that's a good thing. However, when she thought of Dieyi, she thought of Cicada Yi, "What about the prince?" ”

Mint was afraid that she would ask this, so she snorted for a while before whispering: "Lord Wang, go back to the Hou Mansion first." "I must have gone to see Cicada Yi, and I don't know what to do with her, whether I will soften my old feelings, or I am afraid that the princess will deal with her heavily, so ......

"What do you think I'm going to do?" Taohua sighed, "Beat her to death?" "Cicada is indeed selfish, and has no good intentions for her, but to say how great this sin is—at least in her opinion, sin does not lead to death. If she is really allowed to deal with it, she can't do anything except drive people out, but Shen Shu will deal with it, and she will probably be much more ruthless than her.

Cicada Yi really didn't expect that it would be Shen Shu who would come to deal with her. She wanted to cry and cry a few times, but when she saw Shen Shu's angry eyes, she didn't dare to say a word, and knelt down as soon as her legs were weak: "Lord, the slave knows ...... wrong."

"Since you know that you are wrong, then what is the crime of your own words?"

Cicada Yi was speechless. Seriously, she has selfish intentions that are not good for the princess, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she betrays the master. But in her heart, she really didn't feel that she was much wrong, after all, she hadn't done anything yet, but it was just a momentary negligence that let the Zhang family get out of control. What's more, the Jiang family is not her master, Shen Shu is, and she has never thought of being unfavorable to Shen Shu for a moment.

Shen Shu waited for a moment and smiled: "It seems that you are just casually perfunctory." As he expected, Cicada Yi had no intention of repenting at all. This is also his fault, the royal majesty is not strict, and he is used to the heart of a maid.

He laughed too coldly, and Cicada Yi was frightened: "Lord Wang, slave maid, slave maid don't dare anymore......"

Shen Shu shook his head: "No, if there is a next time, you will still do it, your idea is too big." "Not only can you be your own master, but you can also be his master.

"Slave maid-" Cicada Yi instinctively wanted to justify, but was stopped by Shen Shuyi waving his hand: "I won't kill you, after all, you always serve me." Moreover, the princess has always punished you for her crimes, and if she disposes of you instead, she will sell you at most, and maybe she will just be thrown out. ”

Cicada Yi listened to his previous words, and a glimmer of hope just rose in his heart, and when he heard it, his heart sank again. Why, if you don't kill her, it's because the Jiang family won't kill her? Why didn't Jiang kill her? Didn't the Jiang family wish she died?

She has served by Shen Shu's side for many years, although she can guess Shen Shu's mind, but in the same way, Shen Shu also knows a lot about her, and she knows what she is thinking by looking at the look on her face: "What, you don't believe it?" Do you think this king is afraid that the princess will be too ruthless, so he came here? ”

How dare Cicada Yi have this idea now: "The slave didn't ......"

Shen Shu waved his hand again, not wanting to hear what she said anymore: "Although your sin will not lead to death, if you are allowed to go on like this, you will make a big mistake one day." You--drink the dumb medicine, go to the Zhuangzi in the north. ”

Cicada Yi opened her mouth and froze. Dumb medicine, Zhuangzi in the north?

The so-called Zhuangzi in the north is a part of the military camp in the northwest, and many of the people who work there are exiled to the northwest, or there are people who have committed serious crimes in the northwest. As for the dumb medicine, this is to seal her mouth, and she is not allowed to go outside to spread the news of her master word by word.

"Lord, the slave and maid will not, and the slave and maid will not pass on the prince's affairs if they die!" Cicada Yi only felt full of desolation, how could Shen Shu think that she would tell him about it? She wouldn't do that! If she shouldn't say it, even if someone uses a knife to pry her mouth, she can't pry it open.

Shen Shu glanced at her, a trace of pity flashed in his eyes, and then he waved his hand, Chu Yi lowered his head and walked in with a bowl of medicine: "You go to Zhuangzi over there, as long as you keep to yourself, someone will naturally take care of you, so you will live there forever." "Even if Cicada Yi goes to the place where the prisoners work, he may not have to do hard labor, but he will not be able to leave that remote grange for the rest of his life. As for this bowl of dumb medicine, in fact, he doesn't want to pour it, but Cicada Yi doesn't reveal his affairs, but he may not say bad things about Taohua, if a bowl of dumb medicine can make her completely calm her mind and live peacefully to old age, it may not be a good thing.

"Lord Wang, Lord Wang-" Cicada Yi knelt on the ground and walked a few steps, reaching out to hug Shen Shu's leg, but was blocked by Chu Yi. After Shen Shu finished speaking, he didn't look at her at all, turned around and walked out.

"Cicada Yi-" Chu Yi's voice was also a little hoarse, "You-drink, An An will go to Zhuangzi separately, and I will also entrust someone to take care of you." "I can't do anything else, it's okay to let her suffer less on the Grange.

"No-" Cicada Yi looked at the bowl of soup and medicine, and suddenly laughed, "I have always been loyal to the prince, and I have never had a little unfavorable mind, I don't drink this medicine!" "This medicine is for the slave and maid who betrays her master, has she betrayed her master?

Chu Yi closed his eyes: "But the prince and the princess are one...... That's it, you don't need to say any more, you drink it. Although they all grew up together, it is not without embarrassment to see her fall into the current situation, but at this time she is still so stubborn, if the prince does not deal with it like this, who knows what else she will do in the future, and at that time, who can save her life?

"No!" Cicada Yi stood up suddenly, and the light in her eyes was terrifying, "I am loyal to the prince, and the world can be expressed." The prince can rest assured that the slave will never reveal the slightest thing about the master, never! ”

The tone of her last sentence suddenly rose, and at first she felt a little tingling in her eardrums, and she couldn't help but cover her ears with her hands, when she saw the cicada turn around and hit the wall headlong.

The houses in the northwest are low, but they are built very strongly, and the walls are especially thick to keep out the cold winter winds. Cicada Yi hit his head, only to hear a muffled sound, a bright blood flower bloomed on the gray wall, Cicada Yi's body was bounced back to the ground, convulsed a few times, and then stopped moving......

When the news of Cicada's death reached Taohua's ears, it was already a day later, and everyone had already been buried. Of course, the death of a slave maid did not alarm anyone, except for Dieyi and Chu 15 who quietly sent her to the cemetery, only a few big maids in the Dingbei Hou Mansion sighed in private.

"Cicada clothes are dead?" After Taohua finished doing acupuncture for Shen Shu, she couldn't help but ask.

"Kill yourself." Shen Shu half-closed his eyes and said in a muffled voice, "I wanted to spare her life." You can't blame me, do you? ”

"What do you blame? Spare her life? Taohua sighed and touched his face, "Sin doesn't lead to death, what do I blame you." Now that people have gone and settled in the ground, there is no need to think about it anymore. ”

Shen Shu smiled bitterly: "I didn't think about her, I was just thinking about what would happen to me now." "The Yu clan will definitely seize this opportunity to attack Dingbeihou, wanting to grasp the military power in the northwest, or at least get a piece of the pie.

"Since the pox vaccine was faked by someone, not the pox vaccine supervised by Gu Cong, there is a problem, then the matter is not difficult to solve. When I go back to the capital this time, I can give Bai Ge'er pox. "Once the pox is successful, there will inevitably be people who will try it, although it may not be as smooth as in the northwest, but it will be successful in time. The emperor is young, he has time.

"It's not that simple." Shen Shu opened his eyes, "I'm very skeptical, whether this counterfeiter's so-called 'once talked about the technique of planting pox with Lao Langzhong' is true or false, according to what my uncle said, that Lao Langzhong never talked much to anyone, and only talked about it to my uncle when he was about to die." ”

"So someone is deliberately creating fake pox vaccines?" Taohua's eyes widened suddenly, "Just for-to attack my uncle and get involved in the Northwest Army?" ”

"The emperor is young, but Yu Ge is not young anymore." Shen Shu sneered, "Southeast, northwest, he tried here and there, and he was already going crazy." If he is allowed to continue like this, of course the emperor can afford to wait, but he doesn't know how many people he will hurt again! ”

The soldiers and civilians in Fuzhou who died because of the sneak attack of the Japanese invaders, this time planted fake pox seedlings and dead children in the northwest - this is because the fake pox vaccine is mixed with real pox seedlings, and it just so happens that only five people in this batch of pox seedlings used fake pox vaccines, if a whole batch of fake pox vaccines are used, dozens or hundreds of children will have to die, not to mention that smallpox may even be spread again - of course, not in the northwest, but all the way to the Guannei - Yu Ge Lao is really going crazy for the sake of military power.

"So what now?" Taohua knows that she really doesn't understand politics, so it's better not to express her opinions casually.

Shen Shu groaned for a moment: "When I came, the emperor had a little meaning with me...... The emperor, I don't want to wait any longer...... "Yu Ge is always old, but he may not die immediately, and the emperor is in his early thirties this year, and he really doesn't have much time. At least he doesn't even have an heir now, and he can't afford to drag it out.

Speaking of heirs, Taohua thought of Lu Ying: "It's time to give birth in July." ”

"Do you think it's a boy or a girl?"

"How can this be said accurately?" Taohua couldn't cry or laugh, "The so-called diagnosis of male fetuses is actually not very accurate. "Even modern B-ultrasound sometimes makes mistakes, let alone diagnose the pulse. As for what kind of belly tip gives birth to a male fetus, the "empirical talk" of a pregnant woman who does not give birth to flowers on her face is a female fetus, and the accuracy rate is even lower.

"In fact, whether it is a man or a woman, the emperor does not want the queen to raise this child."

Of course. How many heirs did the empress kill the emperor, how could the emperor let her come and pick up the ready-made. Originally, he planned to take the evidence of the queen's druggedness, but he was intervened by the queen mother, although he found clues that the first concubine and Zhao Chongyi were also poisoned, but as far as the matter itself is concerned, it is considered a failure, and the real handle is not grasped.

"If the Yu family does not fall, the Queen Mother and the Queen will not fall. Similarly, if the Queen Mother and the Queen do not fall, the Yu family will also be stumped. Shen Shu let out a long sigh, "If you want them to fall, unless—commit an unforgivable sin." "Murdering the emperor's heir, Empress Yu is a big crime, but for the family, unless there is empirical evidence to prove that the Empress Yu instigated the queen to act like this, it is still not enough to implicate.

"Unforgivable sins?" Taohua could only think of one thing for a while, "Rebellion?" She only knew that this was a big crime of beheading and stealing the family and punishing the nine clans.

Shen Shu didn't speak, but after a moment, he nodded slowly.