Denghuaxiao

Chapter 140 Reward

 It rained for two days in a row, but the sky finally cleared up.

In the Royal Medicine Courtyard, Shi Changpu moved the damp medicinal materials to the sun to dry, and sat on a chair at the entrance of the courtyard to take a nap.

The errands of the Royal Pharmacy Hospital are busier than those of the Imperial Medical College, but they are not leisurely either. However, for people who have no ambitions and just want to make a fool of themselves, this is a good job.

Shi Changpu was in the imperial medicine hospital that had progressed for twenty years. Twenty years passed in a blink of an eye. His colleagues were either promoted or climbed to the top, or fell to death in the middle of the climb. He was the only one who was safe and sound. The position of medical treatment has never given up.

His boss always scolded him harshly. The Royal Medical College is the same as the Medical Officer's College. As long as he is respected by noble people, he will have a good future. However, he has been in the palace for many years. Not to mention being favored by nobles, he has not even given a word of praise. He has taken the word "mediocre" to the extreme.

Every time his boss scolded him, Shi Changpu looked submissive on the surface, looking sad and remorseful, but inside he rolled his eyes all over the place.

 What do they know?

 There are many sick people in this imperial medicine hospital and the medical official hospital next door. Today I will make six bottles of medicine, and tomorrow he will make seven bottles. Today, he lights up lamps and boils wax until midnight in order to figure out how to maintain health for the noble man. Tomorrow, I will not rest until I am ugly.

In the end, the contender collapsed, and at a young age, his white hair grew all over his forehead. He took advantage of the high-ranking nobles in the palace, just to win the respect of the nobles.

　　嘁.

 Stone calamus sneered.

Anyway, although the salary is not generous enough, he can't spend much money himself. If you are moderate in everything, others will have little expectations of you, so you don't have to force yourself to make progress.

 To live life, you should be fooling around.

 Stone Calamus turned over and found a comfortable position under the sun. Before closing his eyes, a voice suddenly came from his ears: "Calamus!"

　　He stood up with excitement and said, "Your Majesty, your Majesty."

The visitor is Qiu He, the envoy of the Imperial Medicine Academy.

Qiu He was already over sixty years old. When he ran, his snow-white beard and eyebrows twitched. He was afraid that his old bones would fall apart as he ran, so he hurriedly got up to greet him: "Your Majesty, this is..."

"Yimengdan..." The old hospital envoy held his arm and stood still, panting.

 Stone calamus thought to himself, Sure enough, it’s here again.

Every year, Yimengdan is prepared and sent to Concubine Rou. There is no doubt that she will be scolded by the people in Concubine Rou's palace soon. It is just that the medicine is mediocre and the number of pills is not enough. A bunch of wastes in the Imperial Medicine Academy are just eating. Sooner or later everyone will be kicked out of the palace.

 Fortunately, Shi Changpu had heard these words from experience over the years and figured out a way to do it. Before Qiu He could say anything, he immediately stretched out his sleeves and lowered his eyebrows to repent.

"Your Majesty, the envoy is right. The Yimeng Pill didn't work well this year, and it's all my fault." He admitted his mistake with great sincerity: "It's all my fault. My pharmacological skills are mediocre, and I have betrayed the trust of Concubine Rou. But this The raw material Hongfang Xu is not abundant, and the medicinal properties fade quickly, so it is really difficult to come up with a solution. The hospital is assured that the official will work hard to study next year and try to find a way to consolidate the efficacy of the medicine next year, so that Rou The concubine solves the problem of insomnia and takes care of the noble man's worries."

Qiu He: "You..."

Shi Changpu nodded: "Yes, yes, it's my fault. The envoy should be punished with a salary and should be scolded by the subordinate officials, but the subordinate officials should not say anything."

ˆ Qiu He: "I..."

Shi Changpu: "Yes, yes, the imperial envoy is worried about me all the time. I am deeply ashamed. Don't get so angry that everyone in the Royal Medicine Academy is still counting on you."

The envoy of the old courtyard stamped his foot and said angrily: "Can you just listen to what I have to say!"

 Stone calamus shut up immediately.

"Someone just came from Concubine Rou's palace. He said that the Yimeng Pill you sent this year is very effective, so I specially rewarded him." Qiu He patted him on the shoulder, his smile full of joy, "Calamus, in the past I was still worried. You are not motivated enough, and you didn’t expect that you are working hard secretly without saying anything. God will not treat those who are prepared badly, your luck has come!”

 Stone calamus: "Huh?"

 …

The envoy from the old courtyard came over and gave a few instructions, and then asked Shi Changpu to go with him to receive the reward.

Even after the eldest maid beside Concubine Rou left, Shi Changpu still felt hazy and in a trance that was a bit unreal.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  God. However, it is not a good thing for Shichangpu. The beauty in the forest will be destroyed by the wind. He has only hoped to be a doctor in the imperial medicine hospital for the rest of his life. Who would have thought that he would suddenly be valued by Concubine Rou? Look. Look, the colleagues around him immediately looked at him with something wrong. They didn't really think he got up secretly to develop new drugs in the middle of the night, right?

 Twenty years of hard work have failed, and Shi Changpu's heart is bleeding.

 Which **** wants to harm him?

Qiu He turned around and said to him in a gentle tone that he had never seen in the past many years: "But Chang Pu, which pharmaceutical recipe did you change to make this year's Yimeng Dan more effective? Concubine Rou Your Majesty is not someone who is easy to please."

 Change the recipe?

Shi Changpu panicked and replied: "Your Majesty, the envoy of the hospital, my subordinates have little knowledge and limited medical knowledge. How dare you rashly tamper with the prescription. The prescription for Yimengdan this year is still the same as before. The pharmaceutical process is not any different."

This is not a lie. After all, how can a person who can be fooled all day long find trouble for himself?

 It’s not like you’re full.

Qiu He frowned: "Really?"

 “Absolutely true!”

This is strange, Concubine Rou sent people to reward her specially. The effect of Yi Meng Dan cannot be false. In the Royal Medicine Academy, all Yimengdan are made by Shi Changpu himself and have never been made by others. If the prescription has not been changed and the pharmaceutical process is the same as before, why are the effects different?

The old hospital envoy pondered for a while and said, "Take me to the pharmacy to have a look."

"yes."

The pharmacy was not far away. Acorus Acorus helped Qiu He go there. As soon as he entered the pharmacy, the fragrance of bitter herbs hit his face.

Shi Changpu showed Qiu He the location where he made the medicine: "Your Majesty, I will make the medicine here. No one has been here in the past few days. This is the remaining half bottle of waste medicine."

Qiu He nodded, picked up the medicine bottle, poured out a few pills, put it under his nose and smelled it.

Iris turned her head to the side and saw at a glance that there were three or two branches of leftover red fragrant catkins scattered on the ground of the pharmacy. They were bright red and looked like red blood lines in the dimly lit pharmacy, which was very eye-catching.

 Maybe it was missed during cleaning two days ago. As the red fragrant catkins were picked, the toxicity gradually became less and less effective. At most, it would lose its medicinal effect after seven days. The few scattered branches were useless. Shichangpu squatted down, picked up two broken branches on the ground, and planned to throw them into the bamboo basket.

 Herbs are not toxic and naturally lose their flavor. When the branches of the flowers are brushed against people's faces, the dizzying fragrance is gone and becomes dull, but the color is still as bright as blood.

 It looks as if it has just been picked.

Hmm...just took it off?

Shichangpu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized what he was doing. He rubbed his eyes and looked carefully at the herbs in his hand.

The red flowers are extremely bright, and the remaining flowers are stuck to the green branches. They are more attractive than the red plums in winter.

 Stone calamus stared at the flower branch in his hand, his expression gradually became strange.

The catkins of Hongfang Catkins are poisonous, but as the medicinal properties of the catkins weaken, the color will gradually fade. However, the two branches of red fragrant catkins in my hands now, although the fragrance of the flowers has disappeared, the color still retains the appearance of just picking them, and has never withered.    This is different from the past.

 He suddenly spoke: "Your Majesty..."

"how?"

 “It’s a flower…”

He turned around, put the flower branch in front of Qiu He, and said excitedly: "It's not the prescription, it's the flower, it's the flower that has changed!"

 …

When Nan Pharmacy received the news from Imperial Pharmacy, it was during afternoon nap time.

Zhu Mao was woken up from his sleep. He had not yet put on his shoes. He was tying his robe and belt and hurried out of the house to greet people.

 When we got to the courtyard, we saw two people sitting in the hall. One has gray hair, the other is younger, wearing a stone-colored robe, and is looking around.

Zhu Mao hurriedly walked in the door and saluted the gray-haired old man: "Envoy of Qiu Yuan."

The visitor is Qiu He, the envoy of the Imperial Medicine Academy.

Although Nan Pharmacy is affiliated to the Medical Official Hospital, the Royal Pharmacy Hospital and the Medical Official Hospital also have contacts with each other. Cui Min, the envoy of the Medical Official Hospital, is still somewhat polite to Qiu He, not to mention that he is a small medical supervisor.

Zhu Mao ordered his servants to serve tea to the two of them, and said with a smile: "I wonder what the business of Qiu Yuan's envoy came suddenly?"

Qiu He was the envoy of the Imperial Pharmacy. If he had anything to do, he would just ask people to come over and say, why bother to go to Nan Pharmacy in person? Zhu Mao rarely even saw Cui Min in his daily life, so when such a "big shot" suddenly came, he naturally did not dare to take it lightly and mustered up all his energy to deal with it.

Qiu He didn't say anything, but coughed slightly, and Shi Changpu on the side took the initiative to speak: "I'm bothering you today because of the Hongfangxu that I sent to the Imperial Medicine Hospital before..."

Hongfangxu?

Zhu Mao was stunned for a moment: "What's wrong with Hongfangxu?"

Shi Changpu and Qiu He looked at each other, then turned to ask Zhu Mao: "Doctor Zhu, the red fragrant catkins sent this year are different from previous years... I wonder if the person who cleans the medicinal materials has changed?"

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Mao's heart "thumped".

Hongfangxu is poisonous, so the Hongfangyuan area has always been left to He Xiu. He Xiu is weak and dull, but he has not had any problems picking and cleaning red fragrant catkins over the years. Until this year... This year, the people who picked red fragrant catkins had an extra Lu Yun in their hands.

Lu Zhen never had brown poisonous spots on his face, it was just a reason for him to find trouble. But when it comes down to it, no one knows whether Lu Yan picked the red fragrant catkins or what he did when cleaning the medicinal materials.

She couldn't really have tampered with the red floss, could she? Zhu Mao was shocked and confused.

How dare she!

Thinking of this, Zhu Mao made a decisive decision and stood up suddenly: "Come back to the hospital, there is indeed one more medical worker picking red fragrant catkins this year. It is different from previous years." Turning around, he called the medical workers outside: "Come here, go and pick He. Come show me!"

The medical worker left quickly, and after a while, he led He Xiu into the house.

He Xiu was checking the medicinal materials in the medicine store when she was suddenly taken away by the medical workers. She was worried and didn't know why Zhu Mao asked her to go there. As soon as he entered the house, before he could see who was in the house, Zhu Mao immediately shouted: "He Xiu! The day before yesterday, you said that the picking and cleaning of red fragrant catkins was all done by Lu Zhuo, but is it true? "

He Xiu was startled, not knowing what was going on, and quickly knelt down to argue: "Sir, what I said is absolutely true. Doctor Lu was definitely not lazy. On the contrary, she saw that I was disturbed by Hongfang's gossip and couldn't breathe. By the way, she was responsible for picking most of the red fragrant catkins, and the subsequent cleaning of the medicinal materials was all done by Doctor Lu."

She thought Zhu Mao was calling her out because Lu Xun was lazy, so she immediately took all the credit for Lu Xun. Unexpectedly, Zhu Mao's next sentence almost made her lose her mind.

Zhu Maodao: "So, the one who tampered with the red fragrant catkins was Lu Zhuo alone?"

 “Make a move?”

He Xiu's unfinished words were suddenly stuck in his throat, and he was confused for a moment: "What are you doing?"

When no one answered her, Zhu Mao turned around, bowed to the two people in the seat and lowered his eyebrows. His tone was rare and serious: "Your Excellency, you have heard that the picking and cleaning of red fragrant catkins are done by these two people." After a pause. After a moment, he continued: "In the past many years, He Xiu has done it alone without making any mistakes. This year, I wanted to add more manpower to the pharmacy, so I sent an extra person to the pharmacy to help. Unexpectedly, this woman had evil intentions... It was all done by me. It’s a fault of inspection.”

　　Although the words were an apology, every word was a shirk, removing oneself from the whole matter without leaving any trace.

He often doesn't look at the stone puppet of the top of the top of Shangfeng.

Looking at the shivering medical workers on the ground, I can't help but feel a bit pitiful for the same illness.

Zhu Mao is still saying: "Lu is still in Nanyang Pharmacy now. If the envoy of the hospital wants to punish him..."

"Punishment? Who said there will be punishment?" Shi Changpu interrupted him.

Zhu Mao’s voice stopped suddenly.

Shi Changpu walked up to He Xiu deliberately and slowly with his sleeves in his pockets. He lowered his head and looked at He Xiu. He said with a pleasant expression, "Did you just say that the cleaning and arrangement of the red fragrant catkins was all done by Dr. Lu?"

He Xiu's body trembled.

She gradually understood what Zhu Mao said just now. There was something wrong with the batch of Hongfangxu sent to the Royal Pharmacy. But no one knows what Lu Zhuo did. She wanted to hide it for Lu Huan, but she was timid by nature. Faced with the sharp eyes of the people in front of her, she finally did not dare to lie and answered honestly: "...That's true. Dr. Lu cleaned up Hongfangxu quickly and without any trouble. Suffering from the pain of the crotch, I saw that the hongfang crotch after she cleaned it was cleaner than me, so I didn’t stop her..."

“This batch of red fragrant catkins sent to the Imperial Pharmacy was all cleaned up by Doctor Lu.”

 Stone calamus said "Oh" and nodded meaningfully.

Zhu Mao noticed that something was wrong in the atmosphere. This was different from what he thought. He spoke uneasily: "Shi Yizheng, what on earth is going on..."

"Calamus," Qiu He, who had been sitting silently, finally couldn't stand it any longer, raised his eyebrows and scolded: "Stop teasing Dr. Zhu."

Only then did Shi Changpu turn around and show a real smile: "Okay, Doctor Zhu, actually we are not here to discuss crimes, but to reward merits. This batch of red fragrant catkins sent has strong medicinal properties, and the Yimeng Dan made from it is very good." It is loved by Concubine Rou. The hospital envoy came to Nan Pharmacy just to meet the doctor who cleans the red fragrant catkins."

“The person with such powerful skills should not be underestimated. In the past, I didn’t know that Nanpharmacy was such a place of crouching tigers, hidden dragons.”

He spoke seriously. Finally, he looked around: "I wonder where Doctor Lu is now? Please come out and see him!"

 Every time he said a word, Zhu Mao's expression became stiffer. Until Shi Changpu asked the last sentence, Zhu Mao stood there, like a stone eroded by the wind, with a very ugly expression.

 No one answered for a long while.

Just when Shi Changpu looked confused, He Xiu, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly leaned down and said loudly: "Sir, I know where she is."

“Doctor Lu is currently in the Shennong Temple in the backyard, kneeling on the wall and thinking about his mistakes!”

  Shichangpu: Those who fool the workplace will not have bad luck (-_-)

 Forward this salted fish and calamus, and it will be your turn to be rich and prosperous next!