Denghuaxiao

Chapter 141 Poaching

 There are Shennong Temples in both the Imperial Pharmacy Hospital and the Medical Official Hospital.

Medical officers often went to Shennong Temple to pay homage during festivals to receive the influence of Medicine King Deze.

However, the Shennong Temple in Nanyang Pharmacy is far less bright and spacious than the one in Imperial Pharmacy. The small courtyard is located in a wasteland behind the warehouse. It is relatively clean, but it is not facing the sun. As soon as you enter the courtyard, you feel cold and cold, and even the light is a bit dim.

He Xiu walked in the front, hurriedly stepped forward and opened the lock hanging outside the door.

The heavy wooden door of Shennong Temple made a sour sound, and slowly cracked a thin crack. A sliver of light penetrated from outside the door, illuminating the dim ancestral hall.

Facing everyone, under the tall statue of Medicine King, there is a man kneeling on a haystack.

This man's back is facing everyone, his back is particularly thin, and he does not waver at all when he hears the movement. The statue of King of Medicine looks down with kind eyes and a smile, making the shadow peaceful and gentle. It is also like a butterfly perched on the lotus altar. The next moment will be Return by the wind.

Shi Changpu couldn't help but lower his voice: "Doctor Lu?"

Hearing the movement, his back paused, then he slowly turned around, revealing a beautiful face.

Shi Changpu was shocked, and when he looked at Qiu He on the side, he was also surprised.

 This is a young woman.

Although he already knew that Lu Huan was the new medical officer this year and was not very old, in Shi Changpu's heart, a common medical worker who could get the top spot in the spring examination should have been practicing medicine for some years. The so-called young should only refer to the old men with white beards in the medical hospital. The girl in front of him was only seventeen or eighteen years old at most. She looked more like an ignorant young lady in a boudoir's embroidery room.

It was she who tampered with the red fragrant catkins? Shi Changpu is doubtful.

"Lu Yun." Behind him, Zhu Mao stood with a straight face on the threshold of the ancestral hall. He did not enter the door and only stared at her. "The envoy from Qiuyuan of the Royal Medicine Academy has something to ask. Please come out and speak."

Lu Zhuo nodded: "Yes." He stood up as he was told, but as soon as he stood up, he stumbled. He Xiu quickly reached out to help him, so that he didn't fall.

This is because my knees are numb after kneeling for too long.

Shi Changpu looked at Zhu Mao with a bit of condemnation. For such a thin girl, Zhu Mao locked her in the ancestral hall and knelt for three days. It was simply vicious.

Zhu Mao didn't notice Shi Changpu's eyes, and watched He Xiu helping Lu Zhu into the yard with a little nervousness.

 Qiu He is waiting in the yard.

As soon as Lu Chen left the ancestral hall, he saw an old man wearing a tan-coloured round-neck brocade shirt standing in the courtyard. He had a bright beard and a round figure. He was standing not far away and looking at her with squinted eyes.

Zhu Mao said: "This is the envoy Qiu of the Royal Medicine Academy." He pointed to the middle-aged man wearing a stone-colored gown next to him and said, "This is Shi Yizheng."

Lu Zhuolian: "Qiu Yuan envoy, Shi Yizheng."

Qiu He stroked his long beard, and his seemingly dim old eyes were sharp: "I heard that you will clean and sort all the red fragrant catkins sent to the Royal Pharmacy?"

"yes."

"Tell me, how did you clean up this batch of red fragrant catkins?"

Lu Zhen raised his head, and the eyes of everyone in the courtyard fell on her for a moment. They were either curious or nervous, but He Xiu was full of worry.

“I boiled black bean juice, perilla juice, indigo juice, blue juice, and centipede juice into water, and soaked the washed red fragrant catkins.”

As soon as the words came out, everyone in the courtyard was stunned for a moment, and Qiu He even frowned.

Zhu Mao scolded: "Nonsense, Hongfangxu is always washed and tidied with warm water. Who let you make your own decisions?"

This is true. Before Lu Huan came to Nanpharmacy, Hongfangxu had been treated in this way for many years, and He Xiu also did the same.

Qiu He raised his hand to stop Zhu Mao's next questioning and looked at Lu Zhuo: "Why did you treat Hongfangxu like this?"

 Lu Zong thought for a while, then lowered his head and knelt down.

She said: "As we all know, Hongfangxu is highly toxic, but as it is picked, most of its toxicity fades away within seven days at most. This is a good thing for drug makers, but it is just the opposite for preserving its medicinal properties."

"The fragrance of red fragrant catkins is the most poisonous. Although its rhizomes have no aroma, they have the strongest medicinal properties. But as long as black bean juice, perilla juice, indigo juice, blue juice, and centipede juice are boiled in water and soaked for a day and night, it will be cured. It can retain the medicinal properties of the rhizomes.”

"I checked the medicine booklet supplied by the pharmacy to Nan Pharmacy and found that in the entire palace, Hongfangxu is the only medicinal material that must be consumed when making Yimengdan. And as long as Hongfangxu is treated in this way, retaining its medicinal properties and eradicating its floral fragrance, it will no longer It affects the health of the drug maker and enables Yimengdan to exert its best effect."

She finished speaking in one breath, then leaned down and said in a calm voice: "Xiaoguan took it upon himself to clean and organize the medicinal materials in other ways without authorization. Dr. He didn't know about it. He also asked the hospital envoy to clarify. I am willing to bear all the consequences. "

Zhu Mao opened his mouth but didn't speak. Qiu He had a smile on his face, without any sign of anger. He only thought for a moment and said, "Then how do you know about this method of handling it?"

The Royal Pharmacy and the Medical Officials' Hospital have existed for many years, and there are many people who are proficient in medical theory. However, how to deal with the toxicity of Hongfangxu has always been a problem, otherwise it would not be scolded by the people in Roufei's palace every year. .

Lu Zhuo was still kneeling, with a humble expression: "Returning to the hospital, Xiaguan was troubled by this poisonous weed when he was a child in his hometown. Thanks to the treatment of a passing doctor, he got better. I saw her handling Hongfangxu in this way, so I wrote it down. .”

Qiu He hurriedly asked: "Where is Dr. Ling now?"

"A person without roots doesn't care about her coming and going, and her subordinates don't know where she is now."

Qiu He was greatly disappointed and looked at Lu Huo again, wondering whether he believed what he just said or not.

He stepped forward, stretched out his hand to help Lu Huo up, and said with a smile: "Get up, I am not here today to trouble you. The red fragrant catkins you have processed are used to make a dream pill with pure medicinal properties, Roufei The empress gave me a special reward, so I thought of coming to you."

 Lu Zong's face showed a hint of surprise at the right moment: "Thank you very much, Concubine Rou, for your love."

Qiu He looked at her with an appreciative smile in his eyes: "I think Dr. Lu is about the same age as my granddaughter, but he is already proficient in pharmacology. Hongfangxu is just a chance to pass by Dr. Ling. The 'Chunshui Sheng' who was praised by the city's medical firms before ’, but it’s true that it came from you, right?”

 Lu Zhuo was startled.

At that time, Bai Shouyi of Xinglintang did something bad. First, he bribed the cooked medicine shop to find trouble. When his plan failed, he contacted the Imperial Medicine Institute and took away Chunshuisheng's prescription in the name of returning it to official medicine.

 I didn’t expect to hear Qiu He mention it here.

Same, Qiu He is the envoy of the Imperial Medicine Academy, and he should have read every prescription of the official medicine.

 Lu Xu lowered his head and said, "Let the envoys laugh."

Qiu He saw her calm expression and magnanimous eyes. The more he looked at her, the more he fell in love with her. He turned to Zhu Mao and joked: "Doctor Zhu, you have such a talented person in your pharmacy, why are you hiding it so that no one knows?" If it weren’t for the carefulness of Acorus, we wouldn’t even know that Hongfangxu has such a layer!”

Zhu Mao’s expression froze and he was about to laugh. Suddenly, I heard Lu Zhuo say in surprise: "Don't know?"

His heart trembled, and before he could speak, he saw Lu Yan in front of him, who looked puzzled, and his tone was full of confusion: "I haven't written the prescription to Mr. Zhu, why didn't Mr. Zhu give the prescription to the imperial medicine?" Courtyard?"

Zhu Mao was stunned: "When did you..."

"It wasn't that Mr. Zhu suspected that I had tampered with Hongfangxu, so he sent me to the ancestral hall to think about my mistakes. On the first day I entered the ancestral hall, I handed over the prescription for Hongfangxu to Mr. Zhu, and Mr. Zhu said that he would hand it over to the Imperial Medicine Academy. Judgment. Why..." She looked at Qiu He: "Your Majesty, it seems that you don't know?"

As soon as these words came out, several people in the courtyard immediately looked at Zhu Mao, among them Qiu He's eyes were the sharpest.

Zhu Mao's face suddenly changed and he scolded: "That's nonsense, when did you ever give me a prescription?"

 He ​​is the medical supervisor of the medical official hospital, not a medical worker. When he gets the prescription, he can only give it to Cui Min, the envoy of the medical official hospital, or Qiu He, the envoy of the imperial medicine hospital. There is absolutely no reason to keep it secretly. And when Lu Zhuo said this in front of Qiu He, wasn't he telling Qiu He that he used the name of the Imperial Medicine Institute to ask for the prescription, but kept the prescription privately?

 It is a serious crime for a medical prison to hide prescriptions secretly!

Zhu Mao blushed and tried his best to argue: "Sir, this woman is talking nonsense. I haven't seen her in the past three days of seclusion!" Shi Changpu glanced at Qiu He, and instantly understood Shangfeng's eyes, and smiled and insisted. He led Zhu Mao out and said: "What are you doing, Doctor Zhu, so loudly? No one is saying anything to you. Come on, let's talk outside. Don't disturb the hospital envoy and Doctor Lu when they are talking..."

Zhu Mao turned around hard and wanted to explain a few words, but he was a fat man who couldn't match the strength of Shi Changpu who was busy working in the medicine warehouse every day, so he was pulled out in a moment.

 The yard became quiet again.

Qiu He looked at Lu Yun, as if he didn't care about the commotion just now, and his eyes were still gentle: "Doctor Lu is proficient in pharmacology. It is still a waste of talent to stay in Nanyang Pharmacy."

 Lu Zhen didn't speak.

“Why don’t you come to our Royal Medicine Hospital?”

After the words fell, He Xiu on the side raised his head in surprise.

There is no way in or out of Nan Pharmacy. Unless they are dead, no one has been seen leaving Nan Pharmacy in these years. Here are the abandoned people, the people who have offended the powerful, the people who have no future.

But now that the envoy of the Royal Pharmacy has personally invited him, he clearly intends to attach great importance to promoting Lu Huo. If he gets a special treatment from the top, Lu Huo's future will only be bright. He no longer has to squeeze into the small dormitory of Nan Pharmacy, spending all day long. Keep company with poisonous flowers and poisonous weeds.

 No one would refuse such an offer.

Qiu He is very confident.

"The envoys expressed their love, and the lower officials were frightened." Lu Yu said: "But I'm sorry that the lower officials cannot accept it..."

Qiu Hedun couldn't believe his ears: "Why?"

He Xiu could not believe it.

 How could you refuse?

"Xiaguan is from the Medical Official Hospital. Chief Cui personally ordered him to come to Nanpharmacy for training." She raised her head, with an expression of yearning and apprehension, as if a sweet dream was right in front of her eyes, but she didn't dare to get close.

“If you go to the Royal Medicine Court, I’m afraid the envoy of Cui Court will have to make the decision.”

 …

In the medical hospital, Cui Min was sitting at the table, reading medical books.

The person next to him carefully polished the ink for him. As he watched, Cui Min thought of something. He raised his eyes and asked the person next to him: "How is the Nanpharmacy?"

The servant replied: "No news has been sent."

Cui Min nodded slightly and put down the medical book in his hand.

Today is the third day that Lu Tong entered the Shennong Temple.

 Going to the Shennong Temple to kneel as punishment is just the beginning. Zhu Mao's temptation has not received any response from the Medical Officer's Hospital in the past three days, so he will soon attack Lu Huo.

 A young woman, no matter how arrogant and tenacious she is, will be quickly destroyed once she falls into such a miserable situation.

 The more arrogant you are, the more completely you will be destroyed.

Mei Erniang was like this back then.

But Lu Zhen is luckier than Mei Erniang, because she is valuable, so he will be merciful and rescue her from purgatory, becoming her grateful benefactor.

“In these three days, can Lu Zhuo send messages?” Cui Min asked.

　　　　　 sir, no.”

Cui Min lowered his eyes.

 There had been no words for three days, or the matter of being punished by kneeling in the ancestral hall was not unbearable for Lu Zhen, so she did not think of asking anyone for help. Or, she was just incompetent and stupid. She had been in Nanyang Pharmacy for so long without even finding anyone to help spread the message.

However, based on her previous performance, Cui Min did not think it was the latter.

 The reason is that the punishment is not harsh enough.

Before reaching the abyss, everyone always thinks that they can climb out by their own abilities. However, in a place like the Imperial City, it is not a big deal if no one can help. It is a big deal to be stepped on when you are stuck in the quagmire.

Cui Min shook his head, took the ink stone, rubbed the ink on his sleeve, and said, "Go to Nan Pharmacy and ask Zhu Mao a few words. Don't do anything unnecessary."

 The servant looked stern.

 This is going to add fuel to the fire.

He almost told Zhu Mao plainly that the Medical Office had no objection to his handling of Lu Zhuo, and would do nothing if it knew about it. In this way, Zhu Mao would become even more unscrupulous and unscrupulous in torturing Lu Zhulai.

 Lu Zong's good days are coming to an end.

 “Yes, my lord.”

The ink slowly formed a large black mark in the inkstone, and Cui Min squinted at it.

 He is waiting.

 When Lu Yun fell into the abyss and had no way to turn to him, he appeared in front of her as a savior.

By that time, he and Lu Tong would be like a light in a dark room or a boat in a desperate situation, and he would be able to gain gratitude and shed tears easily.

 Human nature is always like this. It is easy to add icing on the cake, but difficult to provide help when the time is right. All this can be regarded as a small lesson for him to the young female medical officer, telling her that it is not enough for one person to fight alone in the imperial city.

Just like the ink in this inkstone, the black characters on the white paper are always distinct at first. However, with just one stroke, the ink infiltrates the entire white scroll, and the two phases merge into one, and it is no longer possible to distinguish black from black and white from white.

 It is easy to join in the evil, but difficult to stay alone.

Just as he was watching, someone suddenly came in from outside. It was his medical officer. He stood hesitantly at the door, not daring to go further in. He lowered his head and said, "Envoy from the Imperial Medicine Hospital, Qiu Hospital Envoy, is here and is waiting at the door." .”

ˆ˜Qiu He?

Cui Min was confused.

Although the Medical Officer's Hospital and the Imperial Medicine Hospital have contacts, he and Qiu He are not close friends, and they rarely meet in private. Qiu He can count the number of days he has been to the Medical Officer's Hospital throughout the year on one hand, so how could he suddenly come here? ?

 “What’s the matter?”

The servant hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Envoy Qiu Yuan said, I want to ask you for someone."

 “To please?”

Cui Min frowned.

Medical officers from the Imperial Medical College who are excellent in pharmacology will be transferred away by the Royal Pharmacy College for some pretext. This kind of thing has happened in the past.

But this was the first time that an envoy from the Royal Medicine Court came to ask for someone in person. When had such a person in the Medical Court been so valued by Qiu He?

 “Who to ask for?”

 No one answered for a long while.

Facing Cui Min's increasingly suspicious gaze, the medical officer lowered his head. Finally, Nono said, "It's...it's Medical Officer Lu from Nan Pharmacy."