Chapter 1152: Rumors
There is no problem with the medicinal materials, the quality is quite good, and the quantity is not small.
Xie Mulin quickly put away the medicine and said to Mrs. Zhang: "Mother Zhang, clean up the place, the tools are ready, and I will have someone send a batch of medicinal materials to you in a while." I'll accompany you, and try to boil a pot of medicine first according to the recipe. ”
Mrs. Zhang responded with a smile, turned around and got busy.
Xie Mulin called a few of his own girls to help, moved the medicinal materials he had just gotten back back to his yard first, then retreated left and right, repacked the medicine alone, attached a label, packed it in a box, pasted a seal, and tied it twice with a silk rope, and then found a few packets of medicinal materials to be used for boiling throat honey refining ointment, packed it in a big basket, and ordered Xiao Tao to send it to Mrs. Zhang, so that she could do the preliminary treatment first. She herself ordered someone to send a letter to the county lord of Yongping, and did not send people to deliver medicine at will, so as not to make any mistakes on the way to the unsuspecting subordinates.
The county lord of Yongping had already been reminded by her, although he followed his family into the Forbidden City early in the morning, he left behind a henchwoman female guard who knew the inside story, and as soon as he received Xie Mulin's letter, he immediately went to Xie's house to take the medicine away and sent it directly to the Forbidden City.
Xie Mulin sent the medicine out and completed his task, and he had nothing to do. As she said to the people around her before, she took the peach and accompanied Mrs. Zhang and her husband to make the ointment. Several people are novices, but Xie Mulin and Xiangtao have seen the Du family survive twice, and they are still clear about the steps and techniques, bumps and bumps, tried three times, and finally boiled out a decent honey refining paste, eat it in their mouths, and feel the same texture and taste as they got back from the Du Family Medical Center in previous years.
Wen was very happy, it happened that he was a little hot in the past two days, so he asked for a jar of water to drink in the morning and evening, and felt that the effect was good, and finally put his mind at ease. She asked Mrs. Zhang to step up the preparation of a batch, and recently, many familiar people heard about the Xie family's ointment, and came to her to ask for it. The new ointment came out, just in time to send a circle of favors, lest they always come to urge her.
This batch of ointment was sent out, and when people living on the same street passed by Xie's house, they could faintly smell the slightly sweet smell of medicine, and they all knew that the Xie family was indeed making ointment, and who else would be suspicious of his family's purchase of a large number of medicinal materials first?
It's just that outsiders are easy to bluff, but their own people are not necessarily smart.
Mrs. Zhang once asked Xie Mulin in private: "Second girl, you first asked people to buy back so many kinds of medicinal materials, but only twenty or thirty kinds were used to make them, so what about the rest?" It's all used to fool people, don't they guess what medicine is used in our secret recipe? But even if you want to fool people, you can't afford to buy those expensive, rare, and difficult to buy, right? Isn't it a pity that I finally bought so many medicinal materials now, but they can't be used? ”
Xie Mulin couldn't tell her the truth, so he had to tell her: "It is the high-priced and rare medicine that is easy to mislead people, if others have the intention to steal our prescription, they will definitely think that the medicinal materials bought at a large price are necessary, and this will trap them." You don't have to worry, once you buy the herbs, there is no reason to waste them. This will not be used, it is on the cusp of the storm, and it cannot easily arouse suspicion. When the rumors of this matter are over, I will have my own place to dispose of them, and I will definitely not waste the good things! ”
Mrs. Zhang naturally didn't believe her little master, so she didn't ask any more.
After working as a messenger in a big family for so many years, Mrs. Zhang has an idea in her heart. The owner of the Xie family is very good, benevolent and compassionate, and generous, but after all, she is old, her husband Zhang Laohan's legs and feet are not good, and he can't do any heavy work, so he continues to stay in the Xie family, and when she is too old to work, the two of them are really useless. Even if the host family is willing to provide for them, they just go back to their hometown to look at the house and the field. Zhang Laohan's legs and feet are inseparable from Beiruitang's plaster. But when she returned to her hometown in Huyin, where did she find this plaster? Even if I could find it, I wouldn't have much silver to buy it!
But the second girl is going to marry into the Yan Palace, if she thinks she is useful and brings her husband and wife, they will be the descendants of the palace in the future! Not to mention that the identity is different from that of the servants of ordinary official eunuchs, just because the second aunt is the king of the county or the owner of Beirui Hall, this amount is different. The plasters sold in the master's shop, if she waits well, even if she can't get a reward, she can get a discount, right? It's also easy to buy. Mrs. Zhang has to fight for this Qiaozong no matter what, and it is impossible to make the second girl angry. Whatever the second girl says, she just does it!
Mrs. Zhang became more and more meticulous in the business of making ointment, and regarded it as her own step into the body. Her husband Zhang Laohan also silently cooperated with his wife's plan and carefully attacked. Xie Mulin was very satisfied with the work of his husband and wife, and was already thinking about including them in the list of marries, but the main attention was still on the Forbidden City. She wondered, is the fourth prince's physical condition expected to improve?
But the Queen Mother and her entourage entered the Forbidden City, and there was no news for several days. The Yanwangfu family went into the Forbidden City every day, went in early in the morning, and came out after dark. The eldest princess of Yongning lived directly in the city, and Ma Juma lived in the Yanwang Mansion with her children and servants, and she had to go to the Forbidden City every day to ask for peace, and she would not come back until at least two hours. They didn't mention to others what they had experienced in the Forbidden City, and they kept silent about the Queen Mother's illness. Someone tentatively handed a post to Ma Dagongzi, inviting him to participate in the banquet of a local calligraphy and painting master, but Ma Dagongzi politely refused, saying that the elders were sick and needed to serve the sick, and they did not dare to have fun.
The circle of officials and magnates in Beiping City soon spread rumors. Everyone speculates whether the Queen Mother's condition will be very bad? You must know that the two palace doctors of the Yanwang Mansion have never come out since they entered the Forbidden City, if it weren't for the fact that the Queen Mother was too sick and couldn't leave anyone around her, how could this be? In this way, after the queen mother got sick, she refused to be treated on the spot, and she refused to return to the capital, so she had to speed up the trip to Beiping, so she wanted to see her youngest son for the last time!
Within two days, news came that the emperor in Beijing received the secret fold of the eldest princess of Yongning, and ordered the four princes who were worshipping the Buddha in Putuo Mountain to rush to Beiping to serve the queen mother, which aggravated this rumor even more.
Naturally, the emperor can't leave the capital easily, but the four princes who are traveling can replace their father to fulfill their filial piety to their grandmother. If it weren't for the Queen Mother's illness, the emperor would not have tossed his beloved little son like this!
There are even conspiracy theorists who believe that the emperor wants his youngest son to inherit the great treasure, but there are many people in the court who oppose the abolition of the elder and the younger. At this time, the emperor ordered his youngest son to come to Beiping to serve the seriously ill Queen Mother, probably because he wanted to use the reputation of filial piety and the honor of the Queen Mother to carry a sedan chair for his younger son!
Rumors spread everywhere in Beiping City, and no one noticed that Zhu Rui, the newly crowned king of Yong'an County, entered the city with a few entourages in a low-key manner.