Summary of the previous chapter: Zheng San also wanted to get the Ma family's miracle medicine from Ma Xiaoquan, but Ma Xiaoquan made an excuse and refused

When +++++++++++++++++++++ Ma Xiaoquan heard this, his heart was not good, and he hurriedly said: "Grandma, since the Ma family's miracle medicine has been handed down, has anyone tried it?" ”

Old Madam Ma shook her head: "That miraculous medicine was also found by the third-generation head of the family, according to the records of my Ma family, the miraculous medicine was refined by the first-generation head of the family."

"The first head of the family?" When Ma Xiaoquan heard this, he smiled bitterly.

If Ma Xiaoquan is not mistaken, the so-called miracle medicine is actually just a horse urine pill that he casually made when he fought against Dong Zhuo in the late Han Dynasty.

Today is the seventh day of the eighth month of the 48th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1620 AD), and it has a history of more than 1,400 years from the sixth year of Zhongping (189 AD).

Ma Xiaoquan remembered that the color of those horse urine pills was blue-black, and more than a thousand years have passed, and the color of the pills has turned red, which is enough to prove how toxic it is.

Not to mention anything else, as long as Zhu Changluo eats such a one, he will definitely die.

Seeing that Ma Xiaoquan was silent, Mrs. Ma said worriedly: "Quan'er, is there anything wrong?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan raised his head and said, "Grandma, let's be honest, any pill or something, it has a shelf life, what is the shelf life, that is, in a certain period of time, this thing is useful to eat, if it exceeds this time, it will either have no effect, or it will become poison."

Old Madam Ma is very smart, as soon as Ma Xiaoquan said this, she immediately reacted and said in surprise: "Quan'er, you mean that the miracle medicine of my Ma family has already become highly poisonous?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan nodded bitterly.

With a "bang", the teacup lid in Mrs. Ma's hand fell to the ground.

"What to do? So what to do? I heard Zheng San say, this pill is for the emperor to eat, if the emperor eats this pill, if something happens, wouldn't my Ma family"

Ma Xiaoquan also has a headache, in history, Zhu Changluo of Mingguangzong did die after eating the red pill, but Zhu Changluo did not only eat one red pill, but several, and Zhu Changluo's death cannot be completely attributed to the fault of the red pill, in general, it was Zhu Changluo who did not take care of his body first, so there was the "red pill case" later.

In fact, this can't be completely blamed on Zhu Changluo, after all, before the lord of tragedy became the emperor, what did he want, what did he not do, and even the fortunate woman had to be controlled by outsiders. It's also thanks to this Prince Zhu who can endure it, if this was put on ordinary people, he would have committed suicide I don't know how many times.

Ma Xiaoquan pondered for a moment again, comforted Mrs. Ma and said, "Grandma, in my opinion, this matter is not without a way out, we have to do something to prove that the Ma family has nothing to do with the red pill."

Mrs. Ma smiled bitterly and said: "Hey~ This matter, how easy it is to talk about, my Ma family has a miracle medicine, this is a well-known thing in Beijing, the former Wanli Emperor was obsessed with alchemy, and he had issued many edicts to ask for pills, if it wasn't for the old man pretending to be stupid and not admitting it at that time, I'm afraid my Ma family would have been punished by the clan long ago."

Ma Xiaoquan said: "Grandma, is there any miracle medicine in the Ma family?" ”

Mrs. Ma shook her head: "Where is there any more, Ma Qiang, the fourth son of the first head of the family, tried to learn refining, but none of them succeeded, and the matter of alchemy, I heard that it also depends on fate For more than a thousand years, there are so many people in my Ma family who are obsessed with this, but because they are too obsessed, after taking the pill they refined, the poison died."

Ma Xiaoquan was very helpless, in ancient times, when refining pills, there were either heavy metals such as lead or mercury in it, and it was strange if he ate too much of this thing, so he didn't die.

"Is there any literature such as books on refining pills in the house?"

Old Madam Ma thought for a while, nodded and said, "Yes, it's all kept in Qinghan." ”

Ma Xiaoquan heard that it was his sister-in-law, and his heart beat a drum, this morning the sister-in-law's maid came over to change his clothes, and he asked so aggressively, I am afraid that his image in front of his sister-in-law is half a cut shorter.

"Grandma, can you ask my sister-in-law for the book? I'm inconvenient, isn't it? ”

Old Madam Ma nodded: "Okay, Quan'er, you wait a minute, I'll go and ask Qinghan in person." ”

After a stick of incense, Mrs. Ma came back with Li Qinghan's support.

Beside Li Qinghan, the little maid named Xiaohuan lowered her head and held a tray in her hand, on which were a few books.

"Hmph~" Li Qing snorted coldly and glared at Ma Xiaoquan with a look of disdain.

Ma Xiaoquan scratched his scalp in embarrassment: "Sister-in-law, hehe, good morning~"

Li Qinghan glanced at Ma Xiaoquan, shook Mrs. Ma's arm and said, "Grandma, why do you suddenly want to read those books in the morning~"

Old Madam Ma touched Li Qinghan's hair lovingly, sighed and said, "If you want to see it, you can take it." ”

"Him?" Li Qinghan turned his head in some surprise and looked at Ma Xiaoquan, "Grandma, can he understand?" ”

When Ma Xiaoquan heard this, he smashed it and said, "How do you speak?" What does it mean to be able to understand? Is my Ma Xiaoquan so bad? ”

Not to be outdone, Li Qinghan said: "Then you wait, how do you pronounce this word?" ”

Li Qinghan picked up a book, turned a page, found a word from it, and pointed it to Ma Xiaoquan to recognize.

Ma Xiaoquan took a closer look, raised his eyebrows, and said: "This word, I know, it's not just this, it's not this" Ma Xiaoquan's head oozed sweat.

Li Qinghan glanced at Ma Xiaoquan with disdain, closed the book with a snap, turned his head to Mrs. Ma and said, "Grandma, he doesn't even know the word '欤'"

Mrs. Ma blinked her eyes, took the book that Li Qinghan had just turned over, turned to the page that Li Qinghan had just turned, looked at the word Li Qinghan had just pointed to, and said slowly: "Qinghan, this word is really pronounced 'Yu'?" ”

Li Qinghan had a chill, it turned out that his grandmother didn't know this word either.

Ma Xiaoquan saw that he didn't know his grandmother, and couldn't help laughing: "Sister-in-law, you are smart but you have been mistaken by cleverness~"