I turned my face and saw a photo of Vice General Lu and Aunt Seven on the dresser, although it was a black and white photo, I could vaguely see that the former Aunt Seven was in her prime, especially beautiful, and it was like two people in front of me.

"Are the other wives in the same situation?" I asked.

Vice Admiral Lu sat aside, and Steward Lu replied cautiously: "The other wives are not so serious, but the symptoms are the same. ”

"Aunt Seven isn't pregnant, is she?"

When I asked, Steward Lu, including Vice General Lu, was stunned, and I continued: "It's not the aunts and wives who are infertile. ”

"Nonsense!" Steward Lu shouted loudly, and the faces of everyone present changed.

I stood quietly on the side, looking at Vice General Lu, and after a while, Vice General Lu waved his hand and said, "You all go out." ”

Steward Lu took everyone out, leaving only me and Xiao Jinyu.

Deputy General Lu's original name was Lu Youcai, but he was sixty out of thirty, and it was said that he could lead troops to fight in his teens, and he had some strategy, and he had already sat in the position of deputy general in his twenties.

It's a pity that I don't know why, a few years ago, I suddenly returned to Lin'an City with my family, settled down, and never left.

I think it's probably because of my health.

"I checked it in Kyoto and there was no problem." Lu Youcai finally spoke, "My seventh aunt's wife is fine, but, I don't know why, I just can't give birth to a son and a half daughter." ”

"So you're sick and rushed, aren't you?" I asked next, and Xiao Jinyu couldn't help but look at me sideways, obviously a little surprised.

Lu Youcai's eyes also changed when he looked at me: "Did Miss Meng see something?" ”

"You just tell me, yes, or no." I insist.

"I'm thirty-six years old," Lu Youcai hesitated for a moment and said, "There are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is the greatest, at my age, there are grandfathers, so I'm a little anxious." ”

"Among my aunts, Xiao Qi is the most favored, in the early years, she followed me to the north and south, and she knew some talented people, a few years ago, she asked God to worship the Buddha, I thought it was her sincerity that moved the heavens, and finally conceived an heir for me at the beginning of the year."

"After the fetus was stable for three months, Xiao Qi revealed that the reason why she was able to get pregnant was because she got a home remedy, and after that, she shared the home remedies with other sisters, but no one expected that before the others were pregnant, Xiao Qi's body changed."

Sure enough, this is not a simple matter.

"What kind of change, can you describe it in detail?" I asked.

"The change should start with pregnancy, because when Xiao Qi was just pregnant, everyone always praised her for being pregnant, but her figure has improved." Lu Youcai recalled, "I felt that all the flesh in her body was gathered towards her stomach, and other places became more and more slender, just three months later, Xiao Qi's belly was like someone else was pregnant for four or five months, and everyone also joked if she was pregnant with twins." ”

"But the strange thing is that after six months, Xiao Qi still hasn't been able to feel any fetal movement, his stomach is getting harder and harder, and his whole personality is starting to become very bad, but Lin'an is a small place after all, and the doctors I can find say that Xiao Qi is just weak and weak, and it's good to make up more, but the more I make up, the thinner and thinner, but the belly is big and scared, I have to contact friends outside, but the experienced doctor didn't wait, Xiao Qi looked at it and was dying."

I can understand Lu Youcai, after all, Aunt Seventh has a big belly, it is impossible to take her to Kyoto University Hospital for examination, she may die on the train, and it is difficult to invite the doctor to Lin'an for examination.

Even if people are willing to come, without those advanced instruments, it is in vain.

This is how time is delayed.

After Lu Youcai finished speaking, he looked at me sincerely and said, "Miss Meng, to be honest, when you came in just now, I saw that you were still young and didn't have much hope, if it wasn't for Jinyu's strong recommendation, I might ......."

"But you can see the way at a glance, I really admire, if you can save my aunts and wives, I won't treat you badly."

I groaned and asked, "Is the recipe still there?" ”

"There's no way." Lu Youcai said, "The home remedies provided to Xiao Qi were from an old man she knew in Kyoto, who had been exchanging letters, and the home remedies were prepared by the old man and sent someone to bring them, and when something happened, there was no reply to the letter, and I also sent my subordinates to Kyoto to look for it, but I didn't find anyone." ”

In other words, there is no prescription, the home remedies have been used up, and it is too difficult to find the root cause of the problem.

"I know that without a prescription, I can't prescribe the right medicine, and it's also embarrassing for Miss Meng." Lu Youcai's face darkened, and he probably didn't have much hope.

I hesitated and said, "Aunt Seven's symptoms have made me think of something, but I can't be sure if it's or not. ”

"Miss Meng, let's treat a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and we will bear all the consequences caused by ourselves." Lu Youcai pleaded.

I nodded, and reached out again to press on Aunt Seven's stomach, which was as hard as a rock, bulging, and it was difficult for Aunt Seven to pant for breath.

"It's supposed to be a big lump of grease wrapped in it." I speculated, "If I'm not mistaken, Aunt Seven's home remedies should have used a lot of snow clams." ”

"Snow clams?" Lu Youcai stood up suddenly and exclaimed, "It's Lin Frog, right?" ”

"Yes."

"Speaking of forest frogs, we really have them in our house." Lu Youcai said, "I have a subordinate, the forest in his hometown is rich in forest frogs, every year when the forest frogs hibernate, he will catch a batch and send it to the house, five or six years, never stopped, in his words, forest frogs nourish, is conducive to conditioning the female body, help to prepare for pregnancy." ”

"Every time I send forest frogs, I divide them evenly among the rooms, is it because these forest frogs are bad?"

"No, it's not certain yet." I said, "But I'd suggest first searching how many frogs are left in the house, I'd like to see." ”

"Last winter's forest frogs, it's almost a year old, there shouldn't be any left, right?" Lu Youcai was a little skeptical.

I laughed and said, "Let's search first." ”

Lu Youcai called the housekeeper and told him to search carefully and not let go of any corner.

We waited in Aunt Seven's room, and as the minutes ticked by, and after waiting for about half an hour, the butler walked in with a plate.

There were two things on the plate, a boxy sandalwood box, and the other a bottle wrapped in linen.

I walked over, and the lock on the sandalwood box had been picked open and lifted, and several blood-red frogs were neatly stacked inside.

These forest frogs have slender limbs, shriveled and thin bodies, and their stomachs bulge high, which are just like the state of the seventh aunt.

Then he lifted the linen cloth on the side, revealing the bottle inside, and in the bottle, more than a dozen forest frogs were soaked in blood, and they looked very fresh.

"Where did this come from?" Lu Youcai asked.

The housekeeper subconsciously glanced at the dying Seventh Aunt who was lying on the bed, and said in a low voice: "It is in the small Buddha hall where the Seventh Aunt worshiped the Buddha before, and these two things are pressed under the statue of Guanyin. ”

Everyone gasped, the Buddha Hall was a sacred place, how could there be such a bloody thing?

"Sorcery!" Lu Youcai was furious, his eyes stared at Xiao Jinyu and said, "You should have seen more of this kind of thing." ”

"I've never seen anything like it." Xiao Jinyu hurriedly avoided suspicion.

I said, "It doesn't have to be sorcery, and in my opinion, these two things are at best a medicine primer." ”

I picked up a forest frog in the box and said, "In Aunt Seven's previous letters, there should be a mention of medicine introduction. ”

"Letters, housekeeper, flip, inside and out, check all the letters of the seventh aunt." Lu Youcai commanded again.

I turned my back, pulled out the silver needle without a trace, pressed the belly of the seventh aunt with one hand, pinched the silver needle with the other, and rotated it slightly.

The stomach is very hard, and it will definitely hurt a little if the silver needle is pricked, but Aunt Qi doesn't feel it, the silver needle turns for a long time, and finally breaks the skin, and suddenly, an unpleasant liquid flows out.

Everyone covered their mouths and noses, and Xiao Jinyu muttered, "What stinks so much?" ”

"It turned out to be corpse oil." Lu Youcai stared at Aunt Qi's stomach and said with certainty.

I was surprised that he could recognize at a glance that the corpse oil that flowed out of the stomach of the seventh aunt was corpse oil, but after thinking about it, Lu Youcai was a general who had been galloping on the battlefield for more than ten years, and it was not surprising that he had seen this kind of thing.

"Yes, it's corpse oil, the current situation is consistent with my prediction, Vice General Lu, you should have offended someone, right?" I asked.

Lu Youcai smiled bitterly: "For a person like me, it is difficult for a person not to offend." ”

Yes, there must be a lot of enemies for people who lick blood on the knife, so in this way, it is difficult to determine who wants to harm this family for a while.

"In that case, I can only say what I know." I took out the silver needle, wiped it clean with a clean handkerchief, and closed it on the cuffs, and then I said, "The so-called snow clams are the best female forest frogs that have just completed hibernation, and at that time these female forest frogs were full of eggs, and they wore cotton thread with a steel needle, passed through one eye of the forest frog through the other, and strung the female forest frogs one by one. ”

"After that, these strung female forest frogs, hung in the shade, the female forest frogs are in pain, want to escape, can only keep pushing their legs, in the process of pedaling, the fat of the whole body will gather towards the stomach, and the people who make them, from time to time will spray water on their bodies, keep them will not die for ten days and half a month, until they are alive and dry, the dried female forest frogs, all of them have a hard belly."

"It turns out that this is how the snow clams are made, it's too cruel." Xiao Jinyu was surprised, "When I was in the palace, those beauties in the harem loved to eat snow clams." ”

"Whether you like to eat or not is secondary, eating snow clams, eating is the belly part, and that piece, is the female sexual characteristics of the whole body of the snow clams, which can beautify and nourish the skin, and can also greatly increase the chance of pregnancy, it is a shortcut to help the harem beauties compete for favor, such a good thing, who doesn't want to eat it."

"Aunt Qi's home remedies, there should be a lot of snow clams, and these snow clams must have been soaked in a lot of corpse oil and other unclean things during the production process."

Speaking of this, Lu Youcai and Xiao Jinyu's faces became very difficult to look at, and the housekeeper on the side, holding an envelope in his hand, said cautiously: "Young master, the letter has been found." ”

Lu Youcai opened the letter and quickly scanned it, Xiao Jinyu also stretched his neck to look at it, and then Lu Youcai handed me the letter.

I took it and read it carefully, and sure enough, the letter described in detail how to make a medicine guide.

Looking at the production process and the materials to be used, and seeing the words snow clams, sunflower water, and air-dried and ground into powder to take, for a while, my stomach tumbled one after another, and I almost vomited.

Lu Youcai grabbed me, he was born as a military general, and he was straightforward in doing things, glaring at me and saying: "Miss Meng, it's been a few months, I don't know how many people I have found and how many methods I have used, but I have not broken through, everything you speculated today has been confirmed most accurately, what Jin Yu said is really right, you have the ability, I believe you, the lives of my seven aunts and wives will all be handed over to you." ”

"No, no." I was so frightened that I quickly shirked it, "Vice General Lu, don't get excited, I admit that I have seen a lot of unbelievable things, so many times I can see the hidden mysteries in things at a glance, but this does not mean that I can break the game." ”

If it was in the Yin Division Bureau, I wouldn't have to spend so much tongue and speculate step by step and not do it, because I had enough mana to support it at that time, but now I don't.

"Whatever you need, as long as you say it, I'll get it for you."

As soon as Lu Youcai said this, I immediately frowned, no matter how well-connected he was, he could only say that he would 'get you the sword mountain and the sea of fire', not 'Huangquan Biluo'.

The reason why he said the words 'Huangquan Biluo' should be because he saw the corpse oil seeping out of Aunt Seven's stomach, and he knew how to do it.

I couldn't help but ask: "Dare to ask Adjutant General Lu, when he led troops to fight outside, did he have any contact with ......?"

"Touched." Before I finished speaking, Vice General Lu directly admitted, "You asked me before if I had offended anyone, and I can't give you an exact answer, but if it involves those unclean things, I think, I understand." ”

He slowed down, his eyes were a little misty, he should be recalling: "I went to the battlefield at the age of fifteen, and I followed my father, and I learned all my life's skills from my father and brother. ”

"Miss Meng, there are too many uncontrollable forces hidden in this world, and only those who rush to the front can have access to them, and my father and brother happen to be the ones who rush to the front."

"You're saying they've been in contact with the Yin Soldiers, right?" I asked.

"Yes." Lu Youcai did not hide it, "Twenty years ago, I followed my father to the south to fight, at that time there was a lack of materials to the point that we could not support the last, but once we missed, our homeland would completely become someone else's territory, in desperation, my father took a team of cronies, invited a team of Yin soldiers to the tomb, and unexpectedly broke the other party's camp. ”

"That time, my brothers also went with them, but they wanted to leave me in the camp, but the more they wouldn't let me go, the more curious I became, and when they set off, I secretly followed."

"Everything went well, no one found me, but the tomb was crooked, and soon after I got in, I lost it, and I wandered around the tomb, and then I was caught in a small burial chamber, and then I ......."

"What happened next?" Xiao Jinyu asked urgently, "Did you meet zombies?" ”

Lu Youcai shook his head, but his face turned red inexplicably: "Then I had a spring dream, in which a graceful woman entangled me and swore to me ...... the mountains and seas."

"At that time, after all, I was young and vigorous, and I was impulsive, and I was fascinated and did some ridiculous things, until I was brought out of the tomb by my father and brother, and I was still in a daze."

Xiao Jinyu immediately teased: "Brother Lu is really blessed. ”

"Xiao Jinyu, if you don't say a few words, will you die?" Lu Youcai's face couldn't hold back, and he was angry, "There's nothing for you here for a long time, what are you doing here, it's good to leave." ”

"It's urgent, it's urgent." Xiao Jinyu sneered, "I found Miss Meng for you, you are so ungrateful that you didn't invite me to eat a meal, you want to send me away like this, it's not so easy." ”

Lu Youcai reacted at this time, looked at the sun outside, patted his head and said, "Look at me, it's all over the meal, Miss Meng, let's go to the restaurant first and talk while eating." ”

When Lu Youcai was talking to Xiao Jinyu, I kept staring at his eyebrows, but my eyes were too ordinary to see anything, which made me very frustrated.

But I said: "You can put the matter of eating first, I think the most important thing for Vice General Lu at the moment is to send someone to find the subordinate who has been sending forest frogs to the mansion for the past five or six years." ”

"Miss Meng is the subordinate who suspects me of scheming against me?" Lu Youcai shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be, I have been kind to that subordinate, he has always been grateful to me and will not harm me." ”

"Let's go and find out." I insisted.

Lu Youcai is convinced of me now, even if he thinks it is impossible in his heart, he still agrees and asks the housekeeper to send a quick run.

I also said, "It's getting late, I might have to go back." ”

"No, Miss Meng is leaving? Are you really not going to help me with this? Lu Youcai said gloomily.

"Vice Admiral Lu misunderstood, if I can help, I will definitely do my best," I said, "but now I can't help, I need to go back...... Go back and ask someone to help, and if I can do it, I'll be back soon. ”

Lu Youcai was unwilling, but he also understood that he couldn't force me, so he said, "Then I'll let someone drive Miss Meng back." ”

I got into the carriage with Mrs. Wu, and Mrs. Wu immediately gave me a thumbs up and praised, "Miss Meng, you are so godly, how can you know so many strange things?" ”

"I just read a lot of books." I found an excuse to confuse the past, and then changed the subject, "You are now Hu Dingtang's younger brother, and you want him to help if you have something, and there is a way to invite him over, right?" ”