Duanmu Xinmiao sighed: "I compared it. A small part is similar, but most of it is different... However, it's hard to say whether it's really different or fake."
Wei Changying felt confused: "What does this mean?"
"The original ancient prescription needed the brains of young children to be used as medicine, so it was translated and destroyed by the Holy Emperor's order." Duanmu Xinmiao curled his lips, "Although the people who translated the ancient seal characters on the ancient prescription are all talented people from different schools. Gao Badou is a handsome man, but - it is said that many of the ancient seal characters are very unfamiliar. What mistakes might have been made in a hurry? "
It cannot be ruled out that some people deliberately turned over a few wrong recipes and recorded the correct recipes themselves
Wei Changying frowned and said: "This mistake... the prescriptions are all names of medicinal materials, and there are not many herbs with similar names. Even if there is a mistake of one or two words, as long as they are not consecutive, you can guess it, right?"
"Anyway, I didn't see the original prescription. How would I know?" Duanmu Xinmiao sighed, "Qingxin became Shen Bao and entered the Jiaofang. I don't think I can expect to get the remaining half of the prescription from the deposed Queen Gu. Now I am thinking about this recipe that Wei Kuli made, but I think this recipe is indeed interesting - I am relatively free now. "
Wei Changying said in a deep voice: "I think even if you are interested in this, it's best not to leave any evidence to let others know what you are doing! After all, this recipe is derived from the brains of young children. If you don't do this , but let people know that you are thinking about this. Once a child has his brain removed, you will be doubted!"
Duanmu Xinmiao smiled and said: "Master said so too, so I keep it in my mind and don't keep any records. I will tell my sister-in-law about it. I won't mention this recipe to other people... just me. When I’m thinking about prescriptions, is it possible that I can’t think about other prescriptions besides this one?”
"But it's interesting that the Holy One would openly show this recipe to everyone." Wei Chang Ying plucked his hair from his temples and thought thoughtfully, "But if a medicine is used on a young child's brain, given the background of each family, it is necessary to It's not difficult to hide such a small thing. Especially now that the war has just passed, there are so many displaced people, including children! If you don't tell them, who would know that they are missing in the mountains. Once Lao Lin is buried, why would anyone bother to dig three feet into the ground to find it?”
Duanmu Xinmiao reminded: "When people like us take medicine, will they easily let strangers into their mouths? Then we must find someone to test the medicine first! For such a magical prescription to rejuvenate youth, even if the person who tried the medicine was fine at the time, I'm afraid no one would Do you dare to use it right away? You must keep watching... Unless you are very old and have a long life. But now, except for your mother's family, they are all in their prime, and they can definitely wait for it from now on! Try the medicine and take it when you are old. The medicine will not be as simple as one or two!"
At this point, she curled her lips and said, "Besides, do you think this recipe is only difficult to prepare with medicine? Let me tell you, none of the other medicinal materials are cheap! I mean, even I think it's expensive! "
Guard Chief Ying said in surprise: "Isn't it right? Even a prodigal girl like you thinks it's expensive - how expensive is that?!"
Duanmu Xinmiao laughed and scolded her: "When did I become a prodigal? Even if I messed with jade before, it was for a reason, okay? In terms of food, housing, and transportation, how can I be as luxurious as you?"
"If you don't toss the jade, you can be several times more luxurious than me!" Wei Changying said with a smile, "The heroic spirit of you tossing the jade, to be honest, before my dowry was damaged in the war, I didn't even think about it!" I felt terrified! Looking back now, I feel even more terrified!”
"If you want to talk about Bingxian, it's a good thing that I messed up all the good stuff before." Duanmu Xinmiao said, "Otherwise, wouldn't it be an advantage for the Rong people?"
After chatting for a while, Duanmu Xinmiao got back to the business and said, "I have calculated that the entire prescription, excluding the brains of young children, will cost at least several thousand gold at the current price!"
Seeing Wei Changying's disapproving look, she reminded, "This medicine is not effective after taking it only once!"
"Does it have to be used for a long time like a tonic?" Wei Changying asked in surprise.
Duanmu Xinmiao said: "It's not for a long time, but for the first time, I have to eat it for three months in a row, and I have to change it every day!"
Now even a noble lady like Wei Changying couldn't bear it: "So expensive?! That child's brain... Didn't Concubine Xu touch the prince born by Empress Feng before?"
"It doesn't take a lot of medicine, it's enough for a small child." Duanmu Xinmiao sighed, "But the medicinal materials..."
"... It's strange that the Taoist Saint is willing to take it out for everyone to see." Wei Zhang Ying said with a smile, "If someone really follows this recipe to seek youth and immortality, even if he is not caught for killing young children, this medicine alone will be enough. It’s so painful! If those people do anything illegal in order to collect medicines, it will be dealt with by the Holy One!”
A pair of medicine costs thousands of gold - not counting the brains of young children - let's just say it's a thousand gold. If you change it every day, for thirty days in a month, it's thirty thousand gold! Three months is 90,000 gold—if converted into silver, that’s more than 900,000 taels!
When Wei Changying got married, her dowry was huge, far more than Shili Hongzhuang, but the converted price was similar to this amount, which made the whole world know how valued she was in Ruiyu Hall!
That's because the few things she packed at the bottom of the box were really priceless and couldn't be bought, so they were valued at high prices.
So when she calculated this, she couldn't help but frown, "This price is wrong! Concubine Xu's natal family, although it was not as declining as the former Wei and this dynasty during the former He, it had declined and was no longer a famous family known to the whole country, but there was no Our family is so prominent! How could these two people come from a branch of the Gu family in Hongzhou? "
Even if they don't ask anyone to test the medicine and just prepare it themselves, according to Duanmu Xinmiao, they shouldn't be able to afford the medicine - Wei Zhang Ying said it would cost a thousand gold for a pair of medicine, but Duanmu Xinmiao said A pair worth thousands of gold!
Duanmu Xinmiao sighed: "So, I thought it was a fake prescription at first. But after reading it, Master felt that this prescription was not completely nonsense. Even if it is not the dream powder mentioned in the previous records, it should have another purpose."
After a pause, he said, "But Mrs. Gu and Concubine Xu must not have taken this." Wei Chang Ying couldn't afford such an expensive medicine when he got married and had a large dowry, let alone Concubine Xu. And the deposed Gu family
"You actually made two Dream Powder Prescriptions?" Wei Chief Ying said, "Or is there someone deliberately playing tricks? Although the Holy One is only fluent in writing, he may not be able to understand those ancient seal scripts... But I know that there is someone who must be I can understand it, at least most of it.”
Duanmu Xinmiao glanced at her: "That day I was summoned to the palace to see the prepared recipe. Sister-in-law, you and the third brother happened to receive the letter from Fengzhou, and they left for Fengzhou at that time - Wei Xinyong, he was later He left, indeed he was in the palace at the time."
Regardless of whether people like or dislike Wei Xinyong, they cannot deny his talent. Just like people who don't like the Fengzhou Wei family, they can't deny the Fengzhou Wei family's accomplishments in literary affairs - this is a fact established by the endless stream of celebrities and scholars throughout the ages.
Being born in such a family, one is influenced by what one sees and hears, unless one is careless like Wei Changying, or one is really not a student like Wei Gaochuan. For example, Wei Xinyong and Wei Changfeng are talented and hard-working, so there is no reason why they should not learn to become rich.
"That should be the case." Wei Changying nodded and said, "After my sixth uncle read the prescription, he did some tricks - so if you show it to everyone, the Holy Spirit will have to destroy it, otherwise if you keep it, you may be killed. See the flaws.”
Duanmu Xinmiao said: "The question is, what are the benefits of doing this? Our families are not fools. With such an expensive prescription, even if we want to rejuvenate our youth, we are crazy, so we may not try it, right? Although our families are said to be rich, But most of the property belongs to the same clan. How much is it in the hands of one person? Which clan would agree to exchange the clan's property for someone's youth? A good ending—this doesn’t happen often, right?”
"Actually, there is another question, is this recipe really found by Wei Kuli?" Wei Changying sighed, "We all think that this recipe is expensive and the consequences are unpredictable, so we will only try it if we are crazy - But in his later years, Emperor Wei Ai was crazy for many days, wasn't he
Duanmu Xinmiao said: "Yes, Emperor Wei Ai was very busy at that time, but he didn't mention this. So it is very possible that this recipe is not from Wei Kuli at all, but it was said so deliberately by the Holy Emperor - the question goes back again, Regardless of your natal sixth uncle or the emperor, I don’t see any deep intention in doing this. If you want to wait for the nobles to try this recipe, Huo Zhaoyu previously persuaded various families to prevent the emperor from entering the palace. Isn't the method more direct and quick? How can the Holy Spirit keep an eye on everyone's brains day and night? Maybe no one knows about it?"
"If this prescription is indeed Mengjian Powder, the Holy Spirit doesn't want everyone to get it, so he simply doesn't take it out; if this prescription is not Mengjian Powder, why does the Holy One want us to think that it is Mengjian Powder? Do you think that we The nobles are all fools. If they catch someone who is young and old, they may ignore everything else and focus on it to give him a chance to gain power?" Duanmu Xinmiao shook his head and said, "I don't think so."
Wei Changying thought for a long time and said, "I do have an idea, but I think it's very ridiculous: Princess Qingxin's incident."
Duanmu Xinmiao was surprised: "What?"
"We all thought that Princess Qingxin was so good-looking, and no matter what happened, there was no problem in being a concubine. But Your Majesty..." Wei Chief Ying said, "Your Majesty seized this opportunity to tell the former Wei Dynasty that she was not good-looking. The subjugation of the country is simply unforgivable - although people like us can clearly see the ins and outs, the common people in the world believe it! After Princess Qingxin was demoted to the church, the world began to spread the words of Ming Jun's enthronement, and everyone praised the emperor but not admired him. Beauty, saving people from fire and water—but what happened to Princess Qingxin was an accident! Even the Holy One didn’t expect it.”
Duanmu Xinmiao said in a deep voice: "I know what you mean. Are you saying that the Holy Lord arranged the Mengjiansan incident originally to discredit the former Wei Dynasty? But with the incident of Princess Qingxin, it can be forgotten?"
The Chief of Guard Ying said: "Your Majesty makes the people angry because he wastes the people and money, appoints people inappropriately, and fails to defend against the enemy. If the people can't survive, they will naturally rebel. To be honest, the last few emperors of the former Wei Dynasty, apart from purely doing Except for the puppet Emperor Xingping, who could not harm the people even if he wanted to, he could not be considered a wise king. But if the people knew that when they were struggling and dying of hunger, the emperor was obsessed with youth and immortality, and even used the brains of young children as medicine. "How can a child's brain be found from a nobleman? He must be a descendant of the people!"
"The former Wei Dynasty lasted for nearly two hundred years. Even if the last few generations of emperors were mediocre, there was always a group of loyal subjects." Duanmu Xinmiao bit his lip, with some confusion in his eyes, "Use the dreams recorded in history books. Jian San slandered the former Wei Dynasty and won people's hearts. He also destroyed the empty Meng Meng San Fangzi to prove his kindness... It makes sense, but the news of Meng Meng San was after Princess Qingxin was humiliated!"
"The Holy One must not know the ancient seal characters himself. Among the people around him, the one who is most likely to use this ancient prescription is my sixth uncle. Just after something happened to Princess Qingxin and the prescription that had been scattered in the dream was discovered from the library, Then my grandfather fell into the water, and the sixth uncle followed us back to Fengzhou - he didn't have much time left after Doctor Ji diagnosed him." Wei Changying sighed, "Perhaps Dayong has already been persuaded a lot about Princess Qingxin. People's hearts, and Uncle Six's departure, caused the Holy Emperor to be unable to find a suitable person to continue the original arrangement, so he had to forget it, right? "
Duanmu Xinmiao thought for a long time and then said: "Maybe that's the case... Oh, it's really boring! What an ancient recipe, it has been changed beyond recognition!"
"You are interested in ancient prescriptions, they are interested in power, and the methods of using it are of course different." Wei Changying stretched out his wrist and said with a smile, "I have forgotten what I said, you come here. , how could I not take the opportunity to let you take my pulse?” (To be continued)