Chapter 10 The Road Meets the Divine Stick
Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "The person who was dragged out by Xue Zhuangshi was the imperial physician Ling Wei Shen of the Imperial Physician's Department, you invited him over first because of the poisoning of King Qin before you came, but I didn't expect him to be helpless, maybe his peers were jealous, and he couldn't rely on his official authority to suppress you, but he didn't expect to meet you, Mr. Xiao."
After Fang Xuanling finished speaking, he told Li Shimin about the poisoning.
So it turned out that Xiao Zheng thought that the historical record of Li Shimin's poisoning was made up to sympathize, but it seems that this matter is still true. As for throwing the imperial doctor Wei Shen out, Xiao Zheng didn't think much about it, what else was there to be afraid of.
The next morning, Xiao Zheng just pushed the door and walked out of the guest room, looking up to see a eunuch in his fifties. Carrying the medicine bag, he was waiting outside the door, and when he saw Xiao, he bowed and said, "Ji Chun, the head of the slave Qin Wang's Mansion, has seen Mr. Xiao, and everything you asked for last night has been prepared."
Although Ji Chun was polite when he spoke, he did not have the servile face and knees of a subordinate, nor did he have the domineering and domineering attitude of the Qin Palace, and there was a kind of atmosphere between his gestures.
Xiao Zheng is also a descendant, and he has no discrimination against eunuchs, and when he saw Ji Chun being so measured, he arched his hand with a smile and said, "Then there is Lao Jiye."
Ji Chun's eyebrows and smiles with his old treacherous slickness, he knew that Xiao Zheng was not deliberately complimenting him, but really treating him as an equal. This is very rare in this hierarchical society, while the two were talking, Ji Chun took Xiao Zheng to the kitchen, opened the medicine bag, checked the medicinal materials one by one, and put them into the medicine jar to start decocting the medicine.
Turning around, he saw that there was a chicken that had just finished killing the feathered on the board, so he asked the cook to step aside, and took the cook's knife and slid over the chicken like a cloud, and after a few breaths, a whole chicken came out of the bones, and the cooks on the side looked stupid, if it weren't for the identity, they would have knelt down and kowtowed to the teacher.
"Good knife technique!" Ji Chun saw Xiao Zheng's knife technique and raised his thumb, cut the meat into thin strips and put it in the rice pot to boil slowly, and when the medicine was almost fried, the aroma of the mixed rice grains of the chicken dispersed, making people drool after smelling it.
"Ji Ye, taste it," after speaking, he took a small bowl and filled it with some porridge and handed it over.
As soon as the "good taste" porridge was eaten, Ji Chun's eyes narrowed as if they had just been cut by a blade.
Xiao Zheng tasted the decoction again, and walked towards the flower hall with the medicinal soup and meat porridge.
In the flower hall, Li Shimin and his wife were chatting, and there was a Luoyang spring word written by Xiao Zheng on the desk.
"Guanyin, this is a poem written by Mr. Xiao, this is what I used to exchange the short knife of Uzi steel from the third sister" Li Shimin seems to be recovering very well.
"Grape wine glow-in-the-dark cup, if you want to drink the pipa, urge immediately" The eldest grandson said with a smile: "This Mr. Xiao looks polite but can write such heroic poems, no wonder he threw people out last night without saying a word."
"Also, these poems are written by Mr. Xiao to commemorate his master," Li Shimin picked up the pen and wrote after speaking. "The spring silkworm is dead to the end, the candle is gray and tears begin to dry ......., this Mr. Xiao can be famous only with these poems, and the world is about to be occupied by him, congratulations to Erlang for getting a big talent" The eldest grandson said.
"That is, Mr. Xiao is no less than the auxiliary machine and Qiao Xuan," Li Shimin said proudly.
When the two were chatting, they saw Xiao Zheng and Ji Chun walking in with two jars in their hands. After seeing each other, Xiao Zheng was not polite, and after giving Li Shimin a pulse, he poured the jar of medicine into the bowl. When Xiao Zheng was pouring the medicine, the eldest grandson glanced at Ji Chun without a trace, and Ji Chun, who was standing on the side, nodded with a smile.
After drinking the medicine, Li Shimin and Xiao Zheng chatted for a while, Ji Chun took two bowls, and as soon as the porridge was in his mouth, Li Shimin sighed: "When I was eating in Shenhe Bay, I heard that the virtuous brother has the art of changing teeth, and today this ordinary thing has changed into such a delicious taste in the hands of the virtuous brother, which is amazing!" Guanyin, come and have a taste", and after finishing speaking, he sped up his meal.
After eating, Xiao Zheng said to Li Shimin: "Since His Royal Highness has been poisoned, and now the prince is in the limelight, even if he makes trouble today, the saint is estimated to not be able to take any advantage, but it is still possible to fight for His Highness's popularity."
"Will the plan be released?" Li Shimin was in the mood all of a sudden, and he was indeed defeated enough to be poisoned this time.
"It's also very simple, but His Highness won't take any big moves for the time being," Xiao Zheng said with a smile.
Within a day or two, the wine shops and Fengyue places in the streets and alleys of Chang'an City all spread the news that King Qin went to the prince's east palace for a banquet and was almost poisoned. The wealthy dignitaries in the court all have their own eyeliner, and although the people in the prince's camp didn't say anything after knowing it, they really looked down on Li Jiancheng's behavior in their hearts.
After seeing this, the neutral people also sympathized with King Qin in their hearts, but they also despised this kind of means that could not be put on the table. During this period, many people also stood up to speak, no one knew that it was Li Yuanji who did it, everyone knew that King Qin was poisoned from your prince's mansion, and for a while, most of the public opinion sympathized with Li Shimin's voices, and finally there were important ministers in the court who asked for a thorough investigation of King Qin's poisoning.
"Third brother, you are too presumptuous, you can do this kind of thing of poisoning and killing your second brother" Li Jiancheng in the prince's east palace was rarely angry at Li Yuanji, and the servant who was kneeling next to him was trembling.
"Big brother, what's the big deal, it's just that this time he Li Shimin's life is not poisoned, I'm doing you a favor now, not only do you not thank me, but I blame me, and the younger brother is not convinced" Li Yuanji stood under His Royal Highness and said solemnly.
Wei Zheng looked at Li Yuanji and said: "King Qi, I also advocate getting rid of Li Shimin, but it is not a subordinate means to do it by poisoning and assassination, if the dispute between the Tang magnates is resolved in this way, everyone will be in danger, and the court situation will be unstable, what is the use of the laws of this country?" Your audacity this time has not only failed to achieve your goal, but also made the prince unkind and unjust, which is despicable to people."
Li Yuanji glared at Wei Zheng angrily and said, "My family's affairs are about your foreign ministers!" That is, my eldest brother still asked you to point fingers here, and I would have let you go a long time ago."
"Nonsense! Wei Qing is my washing horse, you don't talk nonsense in front of him," Li Jiancheng said angrily and Li Yuanji angrily.
"Humph!" Li Yuanji glared at Wei Zheng and turned around and walked out.
Li Jiancheng was also so angry that he turned out of the back of the case, looking at Li Yuanji's distant back, his chest was constantly rising and falling, and he looked down at the servant lying on the ground and shouted angrily, "Pull it out, the cane will be killed!" ”。
In the palace of King Qin, Xiao Zheng gave Li Shimin another examination and found that Li Shimin's body had fully recovered. After coming out for two days, he should go back to the medicine hall to take a look, and agreed to Li Shimin's request to take the whole family to the Qin Wangfu in a few days, and then resigned from the Qin Wangfu.
Seeing that there was still some time before noon, Xiao Zheng was not in a hurry to go back, and the two of them slowly looked at the street scene and walked back.
"Two donors, poor and polite," a Taoist suddenly stood in front of the two of them and said with a smile.
This old Taoist looks like he is in his fifties, with a medium build, a ruddy complexion, a Taoist robe, although it is clean, but it has also made up a few patches, and there is a white hosta pinned on the bun. The dust on his hand is more personalized than the beard under his forehead, and it is straight outward one by one, with a very surprised expression on his face when he looks at Xiao Zheng.
After the Taoist priest stopped the two of them, he stopped talking, and watched Xiao Zheng and Wuhua turn around several times, and let out a sigh of admiration from his mouth.
"What's the matter?" Xiao Zheng and the others grabbed their mounts and asked.
The Taoist priest stopped his figure and said proudly: "The poor Dao King knows that he has seen the little brother."
"Ahh Wang Shenxian," Gong Ruoyi first shouted involuntarily.
Xiao Zheng glanced at Ruo Yi before asking this Taoist priest, "Are you Wang Yuanzhi?" ”。
"Yes!" The old Taoist priest replied very sneeringly.
"Haven't heard of it!" Xiao Zheng thought about it for a long time, and he really didn't remember that there was such a person in the Tang Dynasty, but he only remembered that one of the two famous gods in the Tang Dynasty was Yuan Tiangang and the other was Li Chunfeng, and the others were really not impressed.