withered prosperity

"Steward Yan! Steward Yan!"

Yan Hai raised his head and watched Xiao Ran rush in in a panic.

Said that flustering was just a movement, but there was an uncontrollable excitement on his face.

"What happened?" Yan Hai put down the pen in his hand.

"Big thing!" Xiaoran lowered her voice: "The eldest lady was reprimanded by the pavilion master, and said that after the big sacrifice, she will be driven to the back mountain to reflect!"

"Really?" Hearing the news, Yan Hai was really surprised, but then he thought: "The pavilion master loves Miss Chi Lian so much, maybe it's just to scare her!"

"What is what the pavilion master said, how could he bluff people!" Xiaoran didn't believe it.

"Why not, he..." Yan Hai suddenly stopped talking and picked up his paintbrush: "Whether it's true or not, we'll know after the big sacrifice."

"Yes!" Xiaoran was still excited: "Everyone is saying that with King Cheng's presence, this festival must be very lively."

He bounced around beside Yan Hai.

Yan Hai slowly painted the patterns, with steady and light strokes.

"We made an appointment when we came back just now." Thinking of being able to go down the mountain to play, Xiaoran blushed with joy: "On the night of the big festival, everyone will go to the town at the foot of the mountain to play together, and you can go with me if you are in charge!"

"I won't go, you guys have fun."

"Oh!" Xiaoran knew that he didn't like to be lively, so he was not surprised to be rejected.

"By the way, the steward, I heard from Ding Ning that he is the errand in the Tianfeng Building." He continued to chatter: "He said that he went to Lianbaoxuan to see Princess Cheng that day! Princess Cheng is so beautiful Yes, I have a strange disease, or I just sleep all the time, and when I wake up, I keep eating, eating after eating, sleeping and sleeping, it's strange!"

Yan Hai's pen stopped suddenly, and the stroke became half thick.

"It's a pity that we are in the lower courtyard, and we can't see the prince or concubine..." Xiaoran sighed: "If only I could be as smart as Ding Ning, then Ah Zhi and the others wouldn't bully me all the time."

Yan Hai put down the pen in his hand again.

"You said, Princess Cheng falls asleep from time to time, and she has to keep eating when she wakes up?"

"That's what Ding Ning told me." Xiao Ran scratched her head: "It seems that Mr. Pei and Dr. Zou have both visited it, but I just don't know how it looks."

"It's quite strange..." Yan Hai staggered his frozen fingers into his sleeves.

The sky had already darkened, and he stood with his back to the window, his face suddenly blurred.

"Why is it getting dark all of a sudden! I... I'm going to get a lamp." For some reason, Xiaoran suddenly felt that the sky was too dark, and it was a little scary.

"Be careful!" Yan Hai's gentle voice sounded: "I left a snack for you, and it's on the stove, go and eat it first!"

"Thank you, Manager Yan!" Xiaoran ran out happily when she heard that there was something to eat.

Yan Hai turned around, and with the dim light from the window, he looked at the painting that was about to be completed.

The peonies are in full bloom, layer upon layer, enchanting.

Servants filed out from the door with empty bowls and saucers in their hands.

The last two people who came out, an old man and a young man, both had solemn expressions.

Yin Yutang was sitting in the flower hall, rubbing the jade pendant around his waist with his hand.

"My lord." The old man came up first to greet him.

"How is it?" He asked with his mouth, but his eyes were looking at the young man.

From the perspective of others, he is really a somewhat strange young man.

At that time, people regarded luxurious decoration as their beauty. Although Chaomu Pavilion did not promote extravagance, they also paid attention to clothing and decorations. This ordinary-looking young man was dressed in a dark blue cloth. We are all shabby.

But among the people present, none dared to despise him.

"Weird." The young man only said one word.

"Mr. Pei." Yin Yutang frowned lightly: "I've read this five or six times, and you keep repeating this one word, which makes me very worried!"

The young man didn't have an interface, and he didn't want to talk.

"My lord, Mr. Pei and I have taken turns to check the princess's pulse these few days, and we also searched through the classics in the Zhaixing Pavilion." The old man said, "But until now, although there is a little clue, there is always something that doesn't make sense. "

"What idea?"

The old man looked at the young man, the young man nodded, and then he continued: "Concubine Guan is sleeping so much, maybe it's because of her internal yin energy is too strong, but she eats so much, but she doesn't show signs of stagnation, it's really strange. "

"If it wasn't too weird, how could I have brought her all the way to seek medical treatment?"

"But Mr. Pei just discussed with me whether it might be caused by some rare medicine." When the old man said this, he hesitated.

"Oh?" Yin Yutang showed a look of surprise: "Mr. Pei, can you tell me why you think so?"

It was Pei Buyi who asked the question, so naturally the old man couldn't answer for him.

Pei Buyi was a little impatient, but he could only speak patiently: "For vigorous vitality, there must be a miracle medicine."

"Is there such a medicine in this world?"

"My lord doesn't know something. There are so many strange things in the land beyond transformation. I once met a person who had a strange medicine." The old man replied: "The medicine is called puppet branch, which can make people lose weight within twelve hours. , From the viscera to the hair and skin slowly turned into wood and stone. At this time, even if the blood was cut open with a knife, there would be no blood gushing out. Until twelve hours later, it would be restored to its original state. Not to be seen."

"Sounds like a blindfold."

"This kind of thing can't be done in front of the old man, but it's a pity that no matter how much he asks, he refuses to let me study the puppet branch. It's really a pity in life." The old man sighed: "Mr. The vitality in the body is extraordinary, so the appetite is different from that of ordinary people, and the viscera can also bear it, this is naturally not without reason, it must be caused by some kind of abnormal medicine."

"Is there a cure for that?"

"I also said before that the princess's sleepiness should be due to the excessive yin energy in the five internal organs, but the exuberant vitality is an abnormally abundant yang energy." , the two conditions can never exist together.”

Yin Yutang was about to speak, but Pei Buyi took a step forward.

"Medicine!" He said to Yin Yutang, "You need to treat the symptoms."

Yin Yutang also understood what he meant.

"Of course I will investigate thoroughly." Yin Yutang narrowed his eyes: "But what do you two mean, do you mean that the princess was actually poisoned?"

"Where are poisons and good medicines in the world, they are just medicines! Used properly, good medicines can kill people, and poisons can save people." The old man thought for a while: "Even if the princess has abnormalities, but now her qi and blood are strong, and her internal organs are all affected by the medicine." Infiltration, if there is a way to relieve lethargy and overeating, it will definitely benefit a lot in the future.”

"I don't know anything about medicine, so I still need to bother you two." Yin Yutang said sincerely: "Even though as you two said, the princess will not be in danger of her life, but she is suffering too much now. She saved it."

Pei Buyi, who didn't want to talk nonsense with him for a long time, nodded, turned around and left, and the old man hurriedly left after seeing this.

Yin Yutang looked at the place where the two left, and didn't move for a while, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Until Yin Zhan came to look for him.

"Uncle Emperor." Yin Zhan saluted him.

"How's it going?"

Yin Zhan looked ashamed.

Yin Yutang was not surprised either. With his status and ability, he hadn't had a clue for more than ten years, and he didn't expect to get any surprises from his half-grown nephew in the past three or two days.

"No rush." ​​He spoke reassuringly, but changed the subject and asked, "Do you know anything about that Zou Changqing?"

"Old Zou is the doctor in charge of the Zhaixing Pavilion, and his medical skills are extremely good." Yin Zhan thought for a while: "His family has been a doctor for generations, and he was famous before he entered the Chaomu Pavilion, but I think he can be the chief. Because of his generous temperament, he can endure Pei Buyi's weird temper."

Yin Yutang nodded.

"I don't know why Uncle Huang is interested in him? Could it be that he is..."

"No!" Yin Yutang smiled: "He is not the person I want you to find, but he just told me a very interesting thing..."

"What is it?" Yin Zhan suddenly became curious.

"He just said that he once met a person and saw a strange medicine called puppet branch." Yin Yutang tapped the table with his fingers lightly: "Puppet branch... If it is true, maybe the whereabouts of that person may be It will fall on this Zou Changqing."