see you tonight princess

Chapter 108

Xia Lvsi has been busy tinkering in her shed these days.When Xiaozhu walked in, he found that the originally spacious shed was now occupied by bundles of weeds, and there was no place to stand, and the workers were busy chopping and smashing the weeds and pouring them into big ones. in the tank.

Little Zhuzi walked in holding his nose: "My lord, why are you messing around with weeds again?"

"What do you know?" Xia Lvsi spat at him, "It's called Artemisia annua, and it's very useful. The zero state next door is now experiencing a malaria plague, and the state capital and family heads there have posted a list, asking for good medicine and prescriptions." , Those who can solve the malaria plague will get ten thousand taels of gold. After I found out, I immediately ordered someone to reveal the list for him. With a shake of my little hand, ten thousand gold is in my hand! Just wait, it all depends on this grass. Hehe."

Xiao Zhuzi covered her mouth and smiled: "I know it's Artemisia annua, but isn't it just a weed? It's all over the mountains and plains, and it grows fast, but it's annoying. Every year when the farmers reclaim wasteland, they have to set fire to it, and it becomes a treasure in your hands." Can it really be turned into ten thousand taels of gold?"

"It is indeed a treasure." Xia Lvsi smiled, "There is a kind of artemisinin in Artemisia annua, which will win the Nobel Prize after thousands of years. It is specially used to treat malaria and has miraculous effects. "

Knowing that Xia Lvsi has great supernatural powers, Xiao Zhuzi will take it seriously: "Thousands of years later, I can't say for sure. At that time, my bones were turned into mud, but is it true what the prince said now?! This Artemisia annua has been around since ancient times. It can be regarded as a kind of medicinal material. Taking it in decoction can clear away heat and cure heatstroke, but it doesn’t have a miraculous effect on malaria. If it is effective, it has been discovered long ago. Did the medicine king Gu Lingyu tell you this method?”

"It's not what Gu Lingyu said." Xia Lusi grinned: "Why has it never been found that it can fight malaria before? Because artemisinin, the active ingredient in Artemisia annua, can't be heated, and the daily prescription is to decoct it with water. Boiling water will lose the efficacy of the medicine. Therefore, other methods must be used. After mashing and squeezing the juice, alcohol extraction is used. That is to soak it with the wine made by fermenting sugarcane bagasse and straw, and extract it for use.”

"The wine in the jar is made of straw? No wonder the smell of inferior wine kills me." Xiao Zhuzi pinched his nose and said.

"That's called industrial alcohol, what low-quality wine! It's not for drinking, it makes me look like a counterfeit wine maker." Xia Lvsi angrily took a handful of Artemisia annua and hit Xiaozhuzi on the head.

"Hey, here, the world has too many supernatural powers, so it's inevitable for a young man with little knowledge to make a fuss." Xiao Zhuzi laughed like a dog, and gave a thumbs up to praise.

"Say, is this another medicine made by your son? The sulfur ointment you made last time is really a miracle medicine. It can be used for skin sores and even mosquito bites and insect bites. It can cure all skin problems. All kinds of diseases! Now the supply is in short supply. As long as it is manufactured and puts it on the shelves of Wanyizhai, it will be sold out. The price has been raised several times, but it has been bought at a high price. Even the imperial medicine department in Zhaoyang Palace has paid a high price. Come to me for bulk purchases."

Xia Lvsi laughed: "Well, that sulfur ointment has the least technical content. In fact, sulfur is practical. It has been used in alchemy since ancient times, and it has been recorded in ancient books that sulfur can heal the skin. But when I made medicine, First of all, sulfur should be put into the furnace for refining. After heating, the sulfur will turn into gas. At this time, the gas will be cooled to obtain sublimated sulfur. This kind of sulfur has high purity, no impurities, and uniform texture. Art becomes medicine."

Xiao Zhuzi was dumbfounded when he heard it: "Just hearing the name of sublimation sulfur, and just listening to your operation, you already feel like something like an elixir, no wonder it can cure all diseases."

"Hey, it's not that magical. But it can indeed cure many skin problems. Use sublimated sulfur, add borax, and add some vegetable gum to mix the by-product of our soap making: glycerin, and mix together to get sulfur ointment."

"Your Majesty is really a god!" Xiao Zhuzi praised with a thumbs up again.Then he asked: "So, last time you ordered the bark of the willow trees outside the city to be peeled off, washed and dried, will you also take a wine to soak them in the next day?"

"Well, the willow bark doesn't need to be soaked in wine, it can be boiled in water. It's not enough, continue to peel off the willow bark for me." Xia Lvsi smiled obediently.

At this time, Xia Lvsi and Xiao Zhuzi were surrounded by people.Many of these craftsmen were born in medicine boys and medicine farmers. They were specially selected by Xia Lvsi for training and arranged to work in her big shed where she did research.Everyone has been fascinated by Xia Lusi's various miraculous products for a long time, and their skills are quite mature, and they have a rough understanding of some modern chemistry knowledge taught by Xia Lusi.

Knowing more, he naturally became interested. Hearing Xia Lusi personally talk about the uses of these artemisia, sulfur and willow bark, naturally they all gathered around and listened carefully.

"My lord, continue to talk!"

"My lord, tell me more about it, what is the magical effect of this willow bark?"

Xia Lvsi glanced around, and said as if telling a story: "The magical effect is great. Boil the willow bark in water, get the medicinal soup, filter out the sediment, continue to heat and concentrate, and there will be a white crystal like salt. When we use cold well water to continue cooling the drug soup, we can get more crystals. This thing is aspirin.”

"What's a weird name for aspirin?"

"Haha, then, I named it the salicylic essence. This salicylic essence can relieve all pain, nourish the heart, treat strokes, and has some messy benefits. In the future, if you have strain or pain, you can try it , Hey, I'm now a pharmacist again." Xia Lvsi also found it funny, shaking her head and laughing.

"it is good!"

"The son is truly a learned man!"

Everyone applauded.But Xiao Zhuzi was suddenly filled with righteous indignation, he pulled Xia Lvsi aside and said, "Your Majesty, be careful, you can't just tell people about these secret methods in the future."

Xia Lvsi smiled: "It's nothing. Let me say this. I haven't received the kind of education I had in the past systematically. I don't know why. What can I know?"

"Oh, that's why you're so annoying! You are kind and sincere, but you can't stand some young people who learn the tricks in Jiangzhou and copy them!" Xiao Zhuzi beat his chest and stomped his feet angrily: "I'm here today I just want to tell you about this, the delicacies we sell and the food streets we open in various places have been copied by people in different ways."

"There is also our Playhouse, and now many places have imitated us and opened such beautiful goods and playhouses, clever goods and playhouses, there are all kinds of names! The things in it are also imitated by us. Most of them are far worse than our craftsmanship, and they are not easy to use at all, but the cheap price has deceived many people, who want to steal our business in a mess."

Xia Lvsi waved his hand: "It's okay, it's okay, those are easy to imitate, and they can't imitate those with real technical content. You increase the publicity, let people sing advertisements in the streets and put up posters, and tell everyone that we are the only ones. Just authentic."

"Oh, oh, it won't work, there are more excessive things!" Xiao Zhuzi is the emperor's eunuch who is not in a hurry to die: "Now other states are also copying our method: how to rank the land and release the serfs, and how to open up wasteland and reclaim land to reward farmers Lah, interplanting potatoes in winter, even our red fruit tomatoes have been copied, our high-yield rice, and the seeds of our fresh and sweet fruits and vegetables have also been copied. I’m so angry!”

Xia Lvsi didn't take it seriously when she heard it, and waved her hands with a smile: "Isn't this a good thing! Since last year, we will let the princess and Duanxi's royal farm use our method and use our seeds. People are not happy, we use both soft and hard If it continues to be popularized, wouldn’t it be a good thing that all states across the country come to learn it now.”

"That can't be the same. The princess's Huangzhuang belongs to Her Royal Highness! Even if she is not Her Royal Highness, she is at least your biological wife, and it is right to give it to her. But if other states learn it, it is something else. I'm not happy if the family stole our things!"

Xia Lvsi still didn't take it seriously, just smiled, and coaxed Xiao Zhuzi instead: "Don't be angry, don't be angry, no matter how much they copy me, I promise we can still make money, and I will make you sleep on gold ingots every day, You say okay."

"Hmph! It's all their fault!" Xiao Zhuzi thought to himself, according to his elder son's attitude of spending all his treasury every time, his daydream of sleeping on gold ingots every day might be a bit difficult to realize.

"Don't talk about it. Did the messenger come back today? Did the princess tell me anything?" Xia Lusi looked like a big dog sticking out its tongue, with an expectant expression on his face.

Little Zhuzi scratched his head in embarrassment: "Uh, no..."

Xia Lvsi was a little disappointed, and said to himself: "Account the days, it's time to arrive, why haven't you replied to me yet?"

Xiaozhuzi smiled and comforted: "Every time the princess writes back to you, she has already read two words. Before you arrive, you will know what the content is. It's all right."

"You don't understand!" Xia Lusi glanced at him, muttered with contempt for him and said, "You will understand when you grow hair on your mouth."

Xiao Zhuzi also followed Xia Lvsi and muttered: "You don't have hair on your mouth..."

Xia Lvsi came out of her pharmaceutical shed and went back to the small courtyard of Liuyuan.Only then did Xiao Zhuzi take out the information that the spies in Zhaoli City had sent back to Xia Lusi from his bosom.Xia Lvsi shook his head helplessly when he saw it.

Little Bamboo asked, "What's wrong?"

Xia Lvsi sighed: "Your former master, my insensible father, I don't know what happened, but he offended Lingge in the court. His Royal Highness the eldest princess suspended him for two months for self-reflection."

"What's going on specifically? Do you want to send someone to investigate in detail?" Xiao Zhuzi asked.

For the spy network established under the guidance of Xia Lvsi, she handed over the official version to Lan Mo to directly serve Duan Lingge, and she only had the private version consisting of her boatman, business name and merchants in her hands.She knew that Duan Lingge suffered from being watched and spied on, and that Xia Lvsi was a modern person, so she naturally would not extend her surveillance hand into the palace to spy on the person she loved deeply.

Therefore, Xia Lusi will only know about Duan Lingge's daily life when he goes back to see it.And she can only know a rough idea of ​​the first-hand information about the court. If she wants to know the details, she must investigate carefully through other methods.

Xia Lvsi ordered Xiao Zhuzi to continue to investigate.She sat in the room and thought for a while, then picked up the brush and wrote the big characters that she hadn't written for a long time: "Linggegegegege! Princess sister, why don't you reply to other people's letters? They all rushed back to pay the food, there is no need to write letters, but I write to you once in a while, you should write back to others, or they will miss you very much."

After finishing writing, Xia Lusi ordered people to send it out by express ship immediately, then put the matter aside, and went back to happily extract her antimalarial medicine to earn her ten thousand taels of gold.

However, what Xia Lusi didn't expect was that from this day on, she began to write letters to Duan Lingge every day, and then she waited every day for the reply from the princess and lady, but when she got up to the point where she had to leave Jiangzhou every month On the day of departure back to Zhaoli City, a man came from Jiangzhou——it turned out to be her powerful minister father, Xia Mengfu!

Jiangzhou is the sphere of influence of the Xia family. When Xia Mengfu arrived in Jiangzhou, the magistrate of Jiangzhou came to welcome him with big and small officials, including powerful and wealthy households, including all members of the Xia clan.

However, Xia Mengfu refused to see him alone, so he went back to Xia Mansion in Jiangzhou City, and then recruited Xia Lvsi to meet him alone.Xia Lvsi was about to leave at the pier, but was abruptly dragged to Xiafu.

Xia Lvsi had just entered this mansion, which he seldom visited on weekdays. As soon as he entered the main hall, he saw Xia Mengfu standing in the main room with a straight face.

Xia Lvsi cupped his hands helplessly and said, "Father, why did you invite me here? I'm about to board a boat and go back to Beijing to see my relatives. If you want to see me, just wait for me at home for a few days. Why bother to come all the way to Jiangzhou?"

Xia Mengfu was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, and immediately reprimanded him: "Why are you saving your relatives! Every time you visit your relatives, do you save any benefits for my Xia family?! It doesn't matter if your relatives don't care, your wife doesn't abide by the women's precepts, Disrespecting a woman's virtue and being filial to her father-in-law is a violation of the seven rules! This woman can't be married anymore!"

"Ah?!" Xia Lvsi was dumbfounded, with her mouth wide open and her neck leaning forward.What's the matter, did my father and my wife quarrel?Returning the female ring, returning the woman's virtue, returning the seven, as if she could teach that lady a lesson, as if she could divorce that princess sister.

She can only be taught by his wife with a ruler, okay?My dear father, have you figured out the situation? What makes you feel that your daughter has someone else's share?

Besides, look at me rushing home to see my wife in such a hurry, do I look like I'm not willing to give up? ! ?