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At the end of September, the 100-day wedding banquet of the first daughter of the Marquis of Qinghe was held in Qinghe Garden, and the princes and princes of Xianyang and the civil and military officials all went to send gifts and congratulations, and the emperor also sent people to send congratulatory gifts and congratulatory messages.

On the day of the wedding banquet, Zheng Boqiao returned from the south and reported a very bad news to him.

He was assigned to go to the land of Sanxiang to develop the Five Poisons Soul Relief Water encountered a major setback, and the research results of two years were almost destroyed, and the dozens of gourds stored in the store of various original and improved versions of the Five Poisons Soul Relief Water were all burned in flames, and the leader of the guards, Li Gui, was nowhere to be found, but the only good news was that the original formula and improved formula of the Five Poisons Soul Water were still there, and now after three months of production, some more have been made.

"Why didn't you arrange for someone to come back and report this earlier?" Chen Xu looked at Zheng Boqiao angrily.

"Hou Ye, we have been staying in the mountains and rarely contact the outside, I thought you were still following the emperor on the parade, plus the search for Li Gui delayed for a long time, and last month I heard that Hou Ye was ambushed by bandits in Hangu Pass and was seriously injured and unconscious, so he didn't dare to come back, until a few days ago, Hou Ye sent the guards to inquire, Lao Er learned that Hou Ye had recovered and rushed back to report, but recently the road is full of bandits and soldiers, Lao Er almost robbed on the way back!" Zheng Boqiao replied with a sweat on his head and trembling.

"Do you suspect that Li Gui stole the Five Poisons Soul Water and set fire to the warehouse?"

Chen Xu's face was cold, and he only believed Zheng Boqiao's words for three points, this guy must have thought that he was going to die, so he didn't plan to come back at all, but he sent a guard, and he had to come back.

"Yes, Li Gui and another guard were responsible for taking care of the cave that evening, and only Li Gui had the opportunity to access the key to the cave, he may have taken a handful with him, Li Gui asked the guard to go to the room to get snacks for recreation, but when the guard returned, the cave was already on fire, and Li Gui had disappeared!"

Zheng Boqiao was full of fear, for fear that Chen Xu would kill him in anger.

But Chen Xu didn't think about Li Gui, but thought of the Miao doctor.

Although he had not seen the true face of Doctor Miao, according to Xu Fu, he was unrecognizable and his facial features were sparse, and he did not look like a person at all.

That Miao doctor Chen Xu had also seen it twice, and his voice was hoarse, although the voice could be changed, but the body shape was definitely not Li Gui, so Chen Xu directly ruled out the possibility that Li Gui stole the Five Poisons Soul Water and mixed it into the palace to contact the emperor.

But this matter must have something to do with Li Gui and Li Si's uncle and nephew.

"Except for Li Gui's disappearance, is there anyone else missing? Than those Miao Wu and Fang Shi? Chen Xu asked with a frown.

"No, there are a lot of Miao doctors and Fang Shi!" Zheng Boqiao shook his head.

"No, there should be a lame man, who speaks hoarsely and has a sparse face......"

"Ah, I know, Master Hou, there is indeed a missing, but he is not Miao Wu at all, not even a Miao person, it is a guy who fell off a cliff rescued by two Miao Wu from Bashu on the road, his voice is hoarse and his face is ugly, and he also follows Miao Wu to help collect some medicinal materials in the camp on weekdays, and it happened to be the day when Li Gui's missing warehouse caught fire, at that time I remember that he also followed us to search for Li Gui's whereabouts in the mountains, but he disappeared the next day, We all thought he had accidentally fallen off a cliff or been taken away by a tiger wolf......" Zheng Boqiao exclaimed and stood up.

"That's right!" Chen Xu looked at Zheng Boqiao directly, "Do you know that guy's name and real identity?" ”

"I don't know, I don't know......" Zheng Boqiao shook his head again and again with a pale face.

"Hmph, I don't know if you still dare to let him help in the camp, how did Ben Hou tell him at the beginning? Except for Miao Wu and Fang Shi, no one is allowed to interfere in the development process, have you ruined Benhou's big business? Chen Xu stood up with an angry face.

"Huh?! Hou Ye spared his life...... Spore ......" Zheng Boqiao knelt on the ground and kowtowed in fright, trembling like chaff all over his body, "Master Hou, that person was brought by Miao Wu, he didn't speak or interact with anyone on weekdays, and after he arrived, Lao Er also arranged for Li Gui and the guards to interrogate him strictly, and later Li Gui said that he didn't ask any questions, claiming to be a mountain man in the deep mountains of Bashu, and accidentally fell down the cliff to collect medicine and broke his face and right leg ......"

Chen Xu pinched his chin and his face turned pale, the guy who disguised himself as a Miao doctor and infiltrated the palace must be the guy who was rescued by the two Miao Wus, and the potion may have been given to him by Li Gui, but this is a little unreasonable, why did Li Gui burn all the potions in the cave and escape, he didn't have to run at all, and after cooperating with that guy to steal the potion, he only needed to push everything on that guy, and it was not worth it at all......

Chen Xu is familiar with many things in the Qin Dynasty, and can fool the emperor and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military ministers through these things, but he can't speculate about this kind of things that are not in the history books at all, because there is no record in history of anything that the emperor received from the Miao doctor after parading to Dongting, so the identity of that guy is impossible to understand at all, and since that person wants to lie, the two Miao Wu must not know, but when he met him on the road, he rescued him and took him to Sanxiang by the way. Chen Xu didn't even need to arrange for someone to ask again, and he could roughly guess it, but even if there was only the slightest possibility, Chen Xu still had to inquire clearly.

"After you go back this time, interrogate the two Miao Wu in detail, inquire about all the circumstances of that person, and it is best to arrange for someone to go around the place where you found out to find out about that person's heels!"

"Yes, yes!" Zheng Boqiao nodded again and again, wiped the sweat rolling down his forehead and stammered: "Master Hou, that cripple is missing, why do you want to inquire about his whereabouts, it's just a mountain villager!" ”

"Bang~"

Chen Xu kicked Zheng Boqiao to the ground, grabbed him by the collar and said viciously: "You know a fart, that guy pretended to be Miao Wu and dedicated the improved version of the Five Poisons Soul Water you developed to the emperor, and now he has become an imperial doctor in the palace, Ben Hou doesn't know his purpose, if he just wants to use the Five Poisons Soul Water to please the emperor, but Ben Hou suspects that he has another purpose, if he kills the emperor in the future, not only Ben Hou will be implicated, none of you can escape!" ”

"Ah......" Zheng Boqiao was so frightened that he almost peed his pants, and was thrown on the ground by Chen Xu, trembling all over his body, and couldn't get up at all.

"But don't worry too much, after all, there are many imperial doctors in the palace, and the emperor is very strict in his diet and medicine, if he wants to frame the emperor, once he shows the slightest clue, there is only a dead end, but this matter has to be guarded against, so Ben Hou needs all the news of that guy!" Chen Xu sat down again and said.

"Master Hou, since you know that person is pretending to be Miao Wu, you only need to find two Miao Wu to tell the emperor to confront him face to face, he will definitely have nothing to hide, and he will not be at the disposal of Hou Ye at that time!" Zheng Boqiao said on the ground.

"What you think is too simple, the Five Poisons Soul Water Ben Hou arranged for you to develop it secretly, I wanted to use it for emergency purposes, even if it is an improved version of the Five Poisons Soul Relief Water, the toxic side effects are not clear now, drinking it in a short time can indeed make people feel more energetic, but no one knows what the consequences will be if you drink it for a long time for three or five years, once Doctor Miao testifies against that person in person, but what can he say, at most he can only think that he is not a doctor, he just wants to borrow the Five Poisons Soul Water to gain glory and wealth, the emperor will not punish him at all, but the Five Poisons Soul Water will inevitably be exposed, How could the emperor let go of such a good thing, he would inevitably ask for a large amount of it to be made for drinking, and once the poisonous side effects broke out, the emperor had three longs and two shorts, and you still wanted to live? Chen Xu kicked Zheng Boqiao again.

No matter how much the fierce and domineering thing like the Five Poisons Soul Water is improved, it cannot hide its essential ingredients, and what is used in medicine is highly toxic.

Without the advanced analysis and extraction methods of pharmaceutical ingredients in later generations, toxins will definitely not be completely removed, even if they have been improved countless times now, removing the ingredients that stimulate subconscious desires, but what about other toxic substances, so this kind of thing Chen Xu himself dares to drink on weekdays, and the old man repeatedly coerced and tempted, and only gave him three bottles, and then asked directly and said no, the medicine of later generations needs countless pharmacological analyses and several years of clinical trials before it can be listed, and it is difficult for traditional Chinese medicine to get a marketing license in the West. It is because the pharmacology of Chinese medicine is not clear, and there is a huge difference between science and metaphysics in the theoretical analysis of things.

The effect of traditional Chinese medicine is undoubtedly undoubted, in order to save the poison side effects can be ignored, but the effect of the five poisons soul water, which can be called against the sky, makes him very worried, and there is no sequelae in a short time, but once the emperor is allowed to drink it for a long time, there will inevitably be huge hidden dangers.

This is the reason why Chen Xu has never dedicated the potion to the emperor.

From Xu Fu's mouth, he learned that the Miao doctor who offered the medicine that day also claimed to have only made two gourds, which should have only stolen out two gourds, and also told the emperor that the medicinal materials were difficult to find and difficult to make, so Chen Xu speculated that the guy must not have learned how to make it, and he just wanted to take an opportunity to join the emperor, so the guy would definitely not say anything about this matter, so Chen Xu was left enough time to investigate the true identity of the person.

Next, Chen Xu arranged for more than ten guards to escort Zheng Boqiao back to the land of Sanxiang to continue refining the Five Poisons Soul Water, and at the same time to find out the identity of the liar Miao Wu, and recruited Xu Fu again, telling him all the news brought by Zheng Boqiao, and asked him to arrange someone to secretly keep an eye on that guy in the Tai Hospital and the Imperial Medical Department, especially to carefully monitor the emperor's diet and decoction to prevent that guy from having bad intentions towards the emperor.

And after Xu Fu's monitoring for several days, it seems that that guy is very responsible, and he is in the palace on weekdays with a group of imperial doctors to study prescriptions and develop medicines, and there is nothing unusual about it, although Chen Xu is a little relieved, but he still doesn't dare to be careless, and he invited Zhou Bo and Bai Zhen to the Qinghe Hotel to drink, so that the two leaders of the forbidden army also pay close attention to the Miao doctor's every move.

Bai Zhen is the deputy commander of the guard, responsible for the security in the palace, and the Imperial Medical Office is also under his jurisdiction, so it is easier to operate, and although Zhou Bo is the small leader of the Qianniu Wei of the Lieutenant's Mansion, he is responsible for protecting the security of the palace gate, to put it bluntly, the security guard who guards the palace gate, the responsibility is very important, so he can also monitor the news of that guy entering and leaving the palace, so that he can know where he will go on weekdays and contact with which people.

After some arrangement, this matter can only be put aside for the time being, and the consequences can only be observed slowly.

Judging from the little news, the emperor attached great importance to the fake Miao Wu, and arranged for the Shaofu officials to start collecting some of the medicinal materials needed by the Miao Wu from all over the country, but according to the news that came out, the various medicinal materials collected were not the materials for refining the Five Poisons Soul Water at all, and many of them had never heard of it, according to Xu Fu's statement, it may be a fake name that was completely nonsense, but because the effect of the potion was too magical, and it was Miao Yao, the Shaofu officials could only send a large number of officials to the south to find it.

And that guy got two gourd potions, gave Li Si half a gourd, and the other half was originally going to be fed to Chen Xu, but Chen Xu didn't drink much, most of them secretly vomited, and there was a gourd emperor who stayed in the palace, it is said that the effect is very good, since the emperor returned from the tour, his mental state is very good, he is very diligent in handling government affairs, and often stays up until midnight, and then he is still in the mood to go to the harem to pamper many concubines, it can be seen that the improved version of the five poisons soul water does have a very magical effect, This made the emperor very concerned and very regretful at the same time, so he could only save drink, and under Xu Fu's persuasion, he tried to drink as little as possible, and now it is almost ten and a half lamps, and this news also made Chen Xu slightly relieved.

What he was most afraid of was that the emperor couldn't help but drink a large amount of alcohol at one time, causing his body to be extremely excited and then hang up, Shaofu would inevitably track down the source of this potion, and that Miao doctor would definitely confess Zheng Boqiao and others, and then implicate Chen Xu.

It doesn't matter if the emperor hangs up, but it definitely can't hang now.

Daqin is now in chaos because of the Xiang family's rebellion, the most important thing is that there is no designated prince, once the emperor suddenly dies, Daqin will be in chaos in an instant, and it is difficult to say whether it can succeed in renewing Daqin's life, Chen Xu's current power in the court is not enough to resist Li Si, and if Li Si uses this as an excuse to attack Chen Xu, Chen Xu may lose the support of almost everyone, including Meng Tian, Meng Yi, Feng Quji, these important ministers of the court.

Of course, in order to completely cut off this matter, the best way is to quietly kill the fake seedling doctor.

But at this juncture, it is definitely not a good time, because this potion is too tempting for the emperor, once the fake seedling is killed, it will also be traced in detail, and Chen Xu does not dare to guarantee that he will not show his feet.

In short, this matter is very fucked-up, which caught Chen Xu off guard suddenly.

The only good news is that he is not alone, and Xu Fu and others are secretly monitoring and helping, which is not completely dark.