On an imperial village outside the capital, if you are seen by uninformed people, you may think that this is a cattle farm, but the people who come in and out are wearing strange white robes, and even their hair is covered with a strange white cloth cover, which at first glance looks like they are wearing half a filial piety hat.

However, these strangely dressed people did not feel it themselves, but all of them had a solemn look on their faces, as if they were not taking care of a livestock, but a living unicorn.

Of course, this is the place where the pox is made, and the people who can enter this place are carefully selected, and even the officials who are still in charge of this matter today are not allowed to enter casually.

In a room on the west side of Huangzhuang, Taohua was giving Shen Shu a needle. The long silver needle pierced into the acupuncture point, and Taohua's three fingers pinched the needle tail and turned it gently, the indescribable feeling of soreness and slight pain made Shen Shu couldn't help frowning.

It was only the beginning of April, and the wind in the capital was still slightly cool, but a thin layer of sweat appeared on Taohua's forehead. By the time all the needles were twisted, her wrists were a little stiff, and her fingers were even more painful because they were pinched too tightly.

"Why do you take so long to twist needles these days?" □□ the last needle, Shen Shu sat up and reached out to pull Taohua's hand.

Taohua sighed lightly, and said lightly: "In the past, it was the first course of treatment, and now it is the second course of treatment, of course you have to change the method." She has now basically determined that the kind of medicine used by the Queen Mother should cause chronic heavy metal poisoning.

If she remembers correctly, mercury poisoning is the main one that affects the central nervous system and may cause visual impairment. If a pregnant woman is poisoned, it can also affect the fetus, such as Minamata disease, which is the most famous example.

Taohua still remembers that Zhao Chongyi had symptoms of dizziness and blurred vision at the beginning, and now, Yuan Shufei's eyesight has also been significantly damaged. If you add Shen Shu - the Queen Mother is likely to have given this medicine to Concubine Xianxian back then, but each person's physique and condition are different, and Concubine Xianxian did not show signs of poisoning, but the fetus in her womb was affected.

With these speculations, the medicine that Taohua gave Shen Shu changed accordingly. However, this is just speculation after all, what is the final truth, and whether Shen Shu's eyes can be cured, she doesn't dare to guarantee, so she is not willing to tell Shen Shu now, lest he have hope and be disappointed in the future.

Shen Shu has always believed in her medical skills, although she is very unfamiliar with the first and second treatments, she doesn't ask much, she just rubs her fingers for Taohua and says, "It's just that you are too hard." "Although she doesn't have to do the things in the imperial village herself, she also has to go on patrols from time to time, not including those who always come to ask for medical advice.

"It's not hard." Momoka smiled. Nowadays, the intensity of receiving a string of patients every day is much lower than it used to be when working in a hospital. Even when she was a child, in addition to her school homework, she had to learn medical skills, which was not necessarily easier than now. Especially at that time, she was under great mental pressure, and there was no one around her who could be considerate of her hard work.

Shen Shu touched her face distressedly: "When you returned to the capital, you lost some weight." These days, it's hard for you just to go to the family to socialize. ”

"It's just a visitor, a few gossips and a cup of tea, what's the point." Momoka leaned on his shoulder and replied a little lazily, "As long as it can be of some use." ”

Shen Shu smiled: "It's a little useful? It's very useful. Nowadays, if there is a child who wants to get pox, he does not fight to please my princess, and you can say one sentence more than ten words to me. "Of course, some people who defend General Lu are sincere, but there are also some people who originally had nothing to do with themselves, but they favored General Lu because of Taohua, which is also an undeniable fact.

"Fill me with ecstasy soup...... Taohua stretched out her hand and pinched Shen Shu's waist meaningfully, of course she didn't pinch anything - Shen Shu is skilled in bow horses, has been practicing martial arts for more than ten years, and there is not even a trace of fat on his body, and his waist is even tighter, and he can't pinch it at all.

However, although this pinch did not hurt, it played a different role. Shen Shu's arm quickly wrapped his arms around her waist and pinched her waist as well. This is very effective, Taohua sneered, and the whole person softened - her waist was the most afraid of itching, and Shen Shu hit the bull's-eye.

Although there are not a few people in the Huangzhuang, they all know each other very well, and they will never come here if they have nothing to do. What's more, there is mint guarding outside, and even if someone comes, they won't let it in casually.

It was early summer, and the wind blowing through the windows was still a little cool, but the air was already slightly warm. There are a lot of flowers and trees on the Huangzhuang, and they are well pruned, and at this time there are a few peonies blooming wantonly under the window, and the sweet fragrance wafts in along the cracks in the window, and the whole house is smoked sweet.

Shen Shu forgot all the intrigues in the court for a while, and pressed down on Taohua, and said vaguely in her ear: "Ecstasy soup?" I poured it, will you drink it? ”

The hot air blew in her ears, and Taohua felt that her ears quickly burned, and then the small flames spread to her cheeks and neck, burning all over her body. The room seemed to be hot all of a sudden, and even the thin jacket on his body was too heavy to seem to be able to wear it anymore. Shen Shu pulled her belt apart with two fingers, and mint's newly made moon-white silk shirt spread out, revealing the water-red belly pocket inside......

Mint from the outhouse went out of the house lightly, and with a serious face, she picked up a small pestle and started needlework under the porch. The houses on the Huangzhuang are for the nobles to cool off, after all, they are not as strict as the serious deep houses in the capital, and some of the voices can be heard a little more clearly. Mint knows that her girl is thin-skinned and doesn't like people to listen to the corner, whether intentionally or not.

"Sister Mint—" A fifteen or sixteen-year-old maid poked her head in from outside the courtyard, and when she saw Mint sitting under the porch, she lowered her voice and whispered hello.

This is one of the newly selected palace people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it has nothing to do with the palaces, and he is still doing rough work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs after two years in the palace. Taohua named her Yuzhu and gave it to Mint to teach. Now that Jiang Bohua lives in the county palace, in addition to the original maids and maids around him, Taohua specially transferred the bellflower over, and there is really a shortage of manpower around him.

Mint glanced at Yuzhu and was very satisfied with her eyesight. Speaking of which, the palace is also a place to hone people, Yuzhu is just an inferior palace person, and it hasn't been long since he came to the county king's mansion, and he already knows some of Taohua's temper. When he saw her sitting outside the house, he knew that he should speak quietly, so as not to disturb the master of the house.

"You're just in time, I'll go to the kitchen and bring some hot water, I'm thinking about doing laundry." In fact, how to use hot water for laundry in this weather, but it is not good for people to know that the prince and the princess have done something inappropriate in the daytime.

Of course, Mint thinks this matter is very suitable, the princess has been married for half a year and has never been pregnant, the master is not in a hurry, she is in a hurry. However, after all, there are many people in the Huangzhuang, and if people know about it, someone will chew their tongues if they can't recite it. It's better for her to take on this, and would rather let someone say that she is lazy because she is the big girl next to the princess, rather than let someone take the princess's handle.

Yuzhu hurriedly agreed, and then said seriously: "Sister, someone from outside sent a letter, saying that the Queen Mother announced that Princess Ming'er would enter the palace, and the Queen Mother would have a cold banquet in the palace." ”

"Let the princess enter the palace?" Mint thought about it in her heart, but she didn't see anything wrong.

Yuzhu whispered: "Sister, I have been in the palace for two years, and I heard that every year the cold food is spent by the emperor with the ladies in the palace, and no one from outside has been called." But the person who came to deliver the letter just now said that the queen mother not only summoned the princess, but also summoned the wife and daughter of the Fuzhou prefect who died a few days ago into the palace. ”

The person who came to deliver the letter was naturally the guard of the county king's mansion. The attendant sent by the Queen Mother to deliver the decree was impatient and ran outside the capital, so he announced the decree to the county king's mansion. Wu Zheng is also a sperm, although he doesn't understand the rules of the palace so well, but the Queen Mother specially summoned Taohua, but made him a little vigilant, so he simply asked someone to bring the news that Cui's mother and daughter were also called.

As soon as Mint heard the name of the Cui family, he immediately became vigilant: "Don't call people outside during the Cold Food Festival? ”

Yuzhu's family is poor, and her parents have a heavy burden to support their two brothers, so they can't wait to send their daughter to the palace and save a bite to eat. Yuzhu is not very old, but he has been used to it since he was a child at home, and he also understands in his heart that his parents do not value him. After entering the palace, I knew that the palace people would not be released until they were twenty-five years old, and when the time came, if they did not have any skills, they would either be disliked by the family, or they would be at the mercy of half married and half sold.

However, Yuzhu was born in a farmer's house, and needlework and the like were limited to sewing clothes and shoe soles, and embroidery was not at all. Not to mention illiterate, where will there be a way to support yourself when you leave the palace in the future? When she heard that the Anjun Mansion was going to pick people, she took out a little silver she had saved and gave it to the inner supervisor who picked people, and came to the County Palace.

She is not very old, but her mind is well-informed, and she vaguely guesses what she can be taught by the princess of the county. I secretly made up my mind that I must serve the princess of the county wholeheartedly, and I don't want to have a future in the future, at least don't wait until I am twenty-five years old to leave the palace and then be at the mercy of others.

Therefore, when she came to Mint's side, Yuzhu was not only careful and attentive, as long as she could use it, she would never reserve the little things she knew in the palace: "I once listened to my aunt in the palace during the Cold Food Festival. ”

Mint groaned for a while, then heard a movement in the house, and said, "I know, you go and get me more hot water, and I will report this matter to the prince and princess." ”

Yuzhu agreed, turned around and ran. She is self-aware, and knows that it is not her turn to go to the princess to pass the word now, but as long as she is careful, sooner or later she will have a chance. There are too few people around the princess, and it is the time to employ people, as long as she is loyal, she is not afraid of not being promoted.

The room was filled with a lazy atmosphere after the rain dispersed and the clouds were closed, Taohua pillowed on Shen Shu's shoulder, and wanted to pinch him again: "The ...... in broad daylight" If people know this, the reputation of prostitution during the day cannot escape.

Shen Shu didn't mind stretching out his arm to pinch her: "Someone is guarding outside, and no one can come over when they are idle." "He's not talking about mint, there are guards outside the courtyard, how can people break in casually.

"Then it's time to get up, too." Taohua pushed him, but he didn't bother to move, "I'll be clear soon...... "Although the sage concubine was favored during her lifetime, she was not qualified to be buried with the first emperor after her death, but was buried in the concubine's mausoleum. Even if the Qingming Emperor sacrifices and sweeps, he can't go to the concubine's mausoleum, so naturally Shen Shu himself has to pay tribute.

"In the past, I was in the northwest, and I bowed to the spiritual seat during the New Year's holidays......" Shen Shu used to be sad as long as he thought of his mother, but now he still has a faint longing lingering when he talks about it, but he feels that it is not so heavy, "Although I can go to the capital to worship and sweep, but--but this year I can take you to see her, my mother knows underground, and she will be happy." From then on, he was not alone, he had a wife like this, and he had nothing to ask for if he wanted his dead mother, and he could rest assured that he would be with his father underground.

Taohua gently stroked his arm and said in a low voice, "The mother concubine will definitely be happy." ”

"Hmm-" Shen counted his thoughts for a moment, and suddenly turned his head, "If I see my grandchildren, my mother will definitely be happier, so ...... Shouldn't we try harder......"

Taohua pinched him hard: "Three sentences are not in shape, why don't you come in quickly!" ”

Shen Shu covered his arms and grinned: "You are so fierce, the mother concubine will not be at ease when she sees it, for fear that I will be bullied by you." Maybe I'll have a dream or something at night......"

Taohua was angry and funny: "That's the best." If the mother concubine is a dream, I will tell her how you bully me on weekdays! "Actually scare her with dreams, don't you really know that staunch Marxist-Leninists are fearless?

Shen Shu hugged her from behind with a smile on his face: "Why did I bully you?" ”

Taohua was pulled by him and didn't put it on three times, so she turned around and pinched him again. The two of them made a mess in the quilt, and almost misfired again, until Mint called softly through the door: "Princess, hot water is here." "That's it.

Although the one in broad daylight is a bit ...... Ahem, but doing what you like with someone you like can really make people feel happy. At least Taohua bathed out, and when she sat down in front of the mirror, she saw that the corners of the person's mouth were upturned, and the tails of his eyes were crooked with a smile, and he couldn't stop it.

However, this good mood was immediately affected, and Mint carefully said the news of Han Shi's entry into the palace, and suddenly saw that the corners of Shen Shu's originally curved mouth were pulled into a straight line: "Han Shisu has no habit of summoning foreign women into the palace, and Princess Cheng has been in the capital for more than ten years, and she has never been summoned by the Queen Mother on this day." And—only the princess was called, not me? ”

"It was said that the Queen Mother only summoned the princess...... "Mint was also afraid that Yuzhu would say the wrong thing, "The person who sent the letter is still on Zhuangzi, can the prince call him to ask?" ”

This is indeed a question to be asked. Shen counted a few times to finish his clothes neatly, and pulled out his legs. I didn't come back in the middle of the day, and my face was not very good-looking: "It's just a harem cold food banquet, and the emperor didn't call me." "He is an adult county king, and it is indeed not suitable to enter the harem without a legitimate reason, let alone eat at the same table with the emperor's concubines.

When he went out, Taohua also thought about it: "Why did the Queen Mother summon Cui's mother and daughter into the palace?" "If she is still a royal person, then Cui's mother and daughter can't beat it.

Shen Shu replied without hesitation: "Anyway, it won't be because Governor Cui sacrificed his life for the country!" "When did the Yu family really care about this kind of thing? They are only concerned about their own interests.

Mint whispered: "Could it be that the Cui family has reversed course and wants to say that the princess has killed the Cui Governor's Mansion?" "Although it is said that the princess has the "Surgical Agreement" in her hand, it is unprecedented for Lang Zhong to sign a deed for treatment, and if the Queen Mother does not admit it, it is not easy to say.

Shen Shu sneered: "This is very possible." The guards who came to deliver the letter got Wu Zheng's advice and brought all the news about them in the capital these days, which of course also included the Queen Mother's intention to let people spread the palace ban - it was clearly implying that Taohua deceived the Cui family to sign the deed, so as to exonerate Cui Jimin from killing Cui Jimin for himself.

Public opinion is like the long grass that grows, as long as a gust of wind blows, it will rise and fall lively, and make more noises. When the Queen Mother's words came out, there were immediately countless derivative versions.

Some people say that the princess of the county wants to kill Cui Jimin. Because the daughter of the Cui family had a marriage contract with King Anjun, although she died unmarried, and her name was not on the royal jade, but because it was the first emperor to marry, she still wrote down a note in the Zongren Mansion. As a result, the current status of the county princess Jiang is a little embarrassing: although it is considered a yuan match, it is a little difficult to speak in front of the Cui family - after all, the princess of Anjun in the mind of the first emperor is surnamed Cui.

As long as Governor Cui is still alive and still an official, he may be transferred back to the capital in the future, and the princess of the Jiang family will always have the word Cui on her head, like choking in her throat. But if the Cui prefect dies and the two sons of the Cui family have no official positions, the Cui family will plummet, maybe it will sink and never appear in front of her eyes again. In this way, Cui Jimin's death is the most beneficial to the Jiang family, even if she does not say that she has the intention to cure Cui Jimin, at least she did not try her best to heal.

However, more people don't think so, after all, everyone has heard about the things in the northwest, and the method of using a knife to cut meat and remove bones has long been used in the northwest, and it has indeed saved some people, and it cannot be said that the princess of the county is harming people. In their opinion, if the princess of the county is using Cui Jimin's life to gain her reputation, it is still reliable.

In a big war in the northwest, it was actually the ambulance team formed by the princess of the county that became famous, and the most legendary of them was undoubtedly Ding Langzhong, who had been honing his skills on cattle, horses, pigs and sheep for eight years. And the princess herself is more aware of people, rather than how much her medical skills have played on the battlefield.

Speaking of this trip to the northwest, the reputation of the princess of the county is indeed a little shaken. This matter is actually quite delicate, although the princess of the county has established an ambulance team, although she has come up with a method of planting pox that can avoid smallpox, and she is famous for a while. On the other hand, however, she failed to cure anthrax and smallpox, and she had to ask other Lang Zhong to treat her ambulance team, which also proved that her own medical skills were not omnipotent, and that she was far from being as clever as people had previously believed.

So there was a rather strange situation: when the famous banner of the princess of the county was flying high, the foundation of the platform with the flagpole was a little shaken. Many people don't say it, but in their hearts, they also think that the princess of the county is practicing with Cui Jimin - if someone is saved, then her reputation will immediately be re-stabilized, and even Ding Langzhong in the northwest will be suppressed.

Others asked, "What if a man dies?" Wouldn't it hurt the reputation of the princess even more?

Ahem, isn't there still a deed? The envoys of the Imperial Hospital said that the Cui Governor's Mansion was not saved, and even if it couldn't be cured, it wasn't the princess's fault, right? As the saying goes: medicine does not die of disease, and Buddha is destined to be a person. If you hit the damn, even if Hua Tuo Bian Que is reborn, there is no way.

Wait, this theory seems a little familiar - hey, didn't the princess say the same when she made that weird green plum drink to kill people?

The remarks of □□ were endlessly spread in the streets and alleys, and many people seemed to have been to the northwest and watched someone drink green plum drinks. How can a person who really knows the truth not be annoyed?

"Come on, don't get angry about this." Momoka herself laughed it off. Not to mention the era she has crossed over now, that is, in the previous life, there were fewer ignorant people, and there were no more malicious people?

Shen Shu said with a calm face: "I'm not for these fools. "To deal with these idle people, it's a big deal to put on a sack and beat them, but if the Queen Mother really wants to talk about this matter, it will be a little troublesome.

"Now that the deed is here, the Queen Mother can't do anything to me." Taohua thought very clearly, "Then there is also the signature of the envoy on the agreement." It was used to prove that the doctors present at that time had no better way to diagnose and treat, so she was allowed to have surgery. Unless the Queen Mother can find a more authoritative person to do a medical malpractice appraisal - but if she can find out, she will definitely mention Enbo Yu Sirui's illness first, and it will not be the turn of the Cui family to come forward at all.

"This truth, the Queen Mother may not understand." Shen Shu shook his head, "She summoned the Cui family's mother and daughter into the palace with great fanfare, if she returns like the Shangyuan Festival that year, it will be too embarrassing." "has already suffered a loss from their husband and wife, and the Queen Mother should not be so easy to plant a second heel.

Taohua frowned: "If it's not for this, why then?" Do you want Cui Xiuwan's name to be included in the jade? "Let Cui Xiuwan become a legitimate yuan match and squeeze her into a steproom?

Shen Shu immediately changed his face: "This is not impossible, after all, there is the intention of the first emperor to marry." The Cui family is now about to fall, and they may not be unwilling to seize this opportunity. "It's much better to have an ex-brother-in-law who is the king of the county than to have no backer.

"However, my name has been added to the jade, is it so easy to change it?" It's not a matter of wiping it with an eraser. After returning to the capital, she had already chosen an auspicious day to worship the Taimiao, as the princess of Anjun, even if she was recognized by heaven and earth and her ancestors, it was not so easy to change it again, did she have to sacrifice her ancestors again, and tell them that she made a mistake last time?

"It's not easy, but it's not completely impossible......" Shen Shu tried his best to recall whether there had been such a thing in the past, but he didn't learn history so well, and he really couldn't remember it for a while.

"Anyway, let's talk about entering the palace tomorrow." Taohua slapped the board, "Now that I can't think of it, forget it, the horizontal and vertical soldiers will block, the water will cover the earth, see the move." "As long as Shen Shu is in line with her, then there is nothing to be afraid of.