There are two more days until New Year's Eve.
Uncle Anyuan Cao Baigong was dressed in very plain casual clothes, and on the pretext of reuniting with his former comrades, he left Uncle Anyuan's mansion with only two confidants. He wandered around for a long time before entering a very inconspicuous house in a certain alley.
This is a contact point of Kurong Pavilion in the capital.
He and Uncle Min, the manager of Kurong Pavilion, usually meet here.
Uncle Min still stood in the yard to greet him, saluted him respectfully, and called out, "Pavilion Master."
Cao Baigong nodded, walked into the main room, and sat down at the top: "Uncle Min sits too."
When Uncle Min slanted his body and sat down, Cao Baigong asked straight to the point: "What's the result of the experiment I asked you to do?"
Uncle Min bowed his hands at him: "These days, we secretly sterilized more than a hundred ordinary women. Up to now, there has not been a single case of ineffectiveness."
Cao Baigong crossed his arms, and a little smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Then I can be sure: the one who caused our sterilization medicine to fail on a large scale should be the empress."
Uncle Min was a little surprised: "Empress Empress?"
Cao Baigong nodded: "That's right! If she wasn't pregnant, I wouldn't have thought of her head. After thinking of her, I secretly checked her details, and I was basically sure."
"Why does the pavilion master think it's her?"
"Over 90% of the invalidation cases were prescribed by imperial orders; the remaining 10% were the female relatives of rich and noble families. None of the medicines you gave to ordinary women were effective. This can basically be concluded that, unlike ours, The person who is against him is hiding in the rich man's house..." Cao Baigong began to share his deduction with Uncle Min.
He once suspected that the antidote was someone from the Tai Hospital, and the person he suspected the most was that old fox Xu Xinglin.
But later, he rejected this idea.
Xu Xinglin came to Beijing as an imperial physician more than ten years ago, but the sterilization medicine began to fail on a large scale four years ago.
Four years ago, Xu Xinglin didn't encounter anything special. Even if he had the ability to detoxify, why did he suddenly start fighting against Kurong Pavilion? He couldn't find Xu Xinglin's motive for doing this.
After checking all the people in Tai Hospital, he expanded the scope of the investigation, but he never found any suspicious people.
Until he heard the news: the empress was pregnant.
He was so surprised at the time that he almost thought that the empress had cuckolded the emperor. After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized.
Four years ago, this Empress Empress became the beauty of the Hengjun Prince's Mansion, and officially married into a wealthy family from a commoner.
He checked the time carefully with the help of Princess Xing'an.
Before the sterilization pills began to fail, Empress Yong received the imperial order of the "Madam of the County King" to enter the palace and move around.
Later, Empress Yong was poisoned and lived in seclusion in Tangquan Mountain for three years. In the past three years, there has been no incident of the sterilization drug becoming invalid in the capital.
This year the new emperor ascended the throne, and Empress Yong returned to the palace. The sterilization pill on Xindi's body has also failed!
He checked this Empress Yong's life experience again, and found that in Empress Yong's life, there was actually a traveling doctor.
This wandering doctor is very mysterious, but his medical skills are even admired by Xu Xinglin, the most famous doctor in the south of the Yangtze River.
"Hearing what the pavilion master said, the subordinates also feel that Empress Yong is quite suspicious." Uncle Min frowned, "But how did she do it?"
Cao Baigong shook his head: "I couldn't figure this out at first. Because I didn't hear that Empress Yong gave her prescriptions and medicines. How could there be so many kinds of sterilization drugs that failed? Then I thought of a person, and finally figured out everything. .”
"Who did the Pavilion Master think of?"
"Do you still remember Chen Ai who escaped from the Kurong Pavilion more than 20 years ago?" Cao Baigong gritted his teeth slightly.
Uncle Min nodded: "Remember!"
Of course he remembered, that was simply a major loss that Kurong Pavilion could not bear.
In an underground organization like Kurong Pavilion, it is not surprising that there are sentences.
But only Chen Ai's escape sentence made Cao Baigong's teeth itch with hatred when he thought about it.
Chen Ai was picked up by the old pavilion owner and raised in Kurong Pavilion. He is an extremely outstanding top pharmacist, who has perfected and added many prescriptions for Kurong Pavilion.
But later, he actually eloped with a concubine who was in charge of the Kurong Pavilion pharmacy.
If he elopes, he elopes!
But before he left, he actually destroyed a large number of patented medicines and all the prescriptions in his hand, causing heavy losses to Kurong Pavilion. If it wasn't for Cao Baigong to have a backup copy of all the prescriptions in the pavilion, the Kurong Pavilion would probably be able to divert.
After that, Kurong Pavilion spent a lot of effort to track down the whereabouts of Chen Ai and the concubine.
But I don't know whether these two people were supported by someone or they were too good at hiding. Anyway, Kurong Pavilion has never found any news about them.
"The master of the pavilion is saying... this empress is related to Chen Ai?" Uncle Min's eyes widened in disbelief.
Cao Baigong nodded: "Yes! When this empress was young, her family rented a few rooms to foreigners.
"According to the queen herself, one of these tenants is a wandering doctor who taught her some medical skills. But I sent people to ask her old neighbors, but no one remembered this wandering doctor.
"Obviously, that wandering doctor is very low-key, and he is very careful to cover up his medical skills. Why did he cover it up? Aren't you afraid that he will have no business and no food? There is obviously something hidden in his behavior so sneaky."
"Could it be that the wandering doctor is Chen Ai's judge? He dared to come to the capital?!" Uncle Min was even more surprised.
Cao Baigong sighed: "I can't be sure, but it's very possible. He dared to come to the capital, probably because he thought of the word 'dark under the lamp'. When we tracked down his whereabouts, we really didn't work hard in the capital. Hehe, he is bold and careful."
Uncle Min was stunned for a while before he asked Cao Baigong: "The pavilion master thinks...the queen is Chen Ai's descendant?"
"It should be. We don't even have the antidote for the sterilization medicine used on men. How did Empress Yong detoxify Feng Laosan's body? She is young and has never really been exposed to medicine and pharmacology. Maybe rely on your own ability to detoxify?"
"So the pavilion master thinks that Chen Ai is actually the one who detoxified Feng Laosan?"
"Or the prescription Chen Ai left her. Before Chen Ai was sentenced to escape, he was indeed trying to prepare an antidote for male sterilization. Maybe he succeeded in making it later."
Uncle Min thought for a while, but still couldn't figure it out: "Why did Empress Yong make public about 'You Fang Lang Zhong'? If she didn't make it public, no one would know her relationship with that person, right?"
Cao Baigong said solemnly: "I have thought about this too. Before Yongshi married into the Hengjun Palace, her mother was very ill. At that time, she must have had no contact with Youfang Langzhong, otherwise her mother's illness There is no need for Xu Xinglin to make a move.
"Perhaps she didn't know the real identity of You Fang Langzhong, nor did she know the pros and cons of it. Or, she realized the value of that person and wanted to lure him out.
"She detoxified people who had been sterilized. It may be for the same purpose, or it may be to retaliate against our Kurong Pavilion for her master..."
Uncle Min smiled bitterly: If Empress Yong made the sterilization drug invalid in order to retaliate against Kurong Pavilion, then she was very successful.
Since the mass failure of sterilization drugs, Kurong Pavilion has been discredited, and few businesses have been made in the past few years. This simply cut off the lifeblood of Kurong Pavilion!
Speaking of which, the mother and daughter of Empress Yong are really the nemesis of Kurong Pavilion.
This spring, they found out that the emperor was not in good health and suffered from phoenix dizziness.
At that time, the pavilion master made a plan, intending to trick the mother and son of Yong's natal family into kidnapping, and then use the mother and son to fish out Yong.
When holding the Yong family in the palm of his hand, he can play with the prince to his heart's content and start many subsequent plans. They can make Feng Liao behave in many ways and do many wrong things, it is best to let him piss off the late emperor...
But he never expected that the eunuch who went to lie to the old lady of the Yong family was so useless, and was immediately found out. Not only did he fall into it himself, but he also killed Feng Baoquan's gang.
Really heartache to suffocation! Those people like Feng Baoquan are their most important force in the palace!
What's even more frustrating is that they still don't know how the eunuch was found out, and they dare not go to Yong's house to give away his head.
Result: The first emperor was indeed pissed off, but Feng Liao made no mistakes and successfully ascended the throne. Kurong Pavilion suffered huge losses, but did not reap any benefits, wasting such a good opportunity for nothing.
After talking for a while, Cao Baigong solemnly told Uncle Min: "Now, the Kurong Pavilion has reached the end of the mountain, and the queen is pregnant... We can't wait any longer! So, I plan to fight with my back after the Chinese New Year. What do you do?" Get ready."
Uncle Min unconsciously trembled in his heart, bowed his head and replied, "Yes!"
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In the new year, the reign name was changed from Chengtai to Hengsheng.
This year name was drawn up by Feng Liao himself.
Feng Liao's explanation to the outside world is: I hope the world will prosper forever.
But he quietly said to Yongruo: "Hengsheng has another meaning: no matter how the seasons change, the red plum blossom in his heart will always bloom and never wither."
On the fifth day of the first month of the first year of Hengsheng, Mrs. Zhou, Mrs. Cheng'en Hou, walked into the Queen's Kunde Palace with the female officials who came to welcome her.
In the atrium of Kunde Palace, she subconsciously turned her head to look at the big flower terrace in the northeast corner of the yard.
In that flower bed, there is a newly transplanted plum tree that has sprouted new leaves.
This plum tree used to grow in the courtyard of the Yong family, and was later transplanted to Hengjun Palace, and not long ago, it was solemnly transplanted to Kunde Palace.
Mrs. Zhou was very pleasantly surprised: "Ah! This plum tree has sprouted!"
The female officer who accompanied her said with a smile on her face: "Yes! New leaves started to emerge a few days ago. The gardener in the palace said that this is considered transplanting! The emperor and the empress are very happy!"
"Fortunately, these flowers don't need to be transplanted anymore!" Mrs. Zhou looked at the plum tree again with a smile.
The female officer echoed with a smile: "Your Majesty also said the same thing. Madam and Your Majesty really have a good understanding!"
Mrs. Zhou walked into Yong Ruo's daily living warm pavilion. Before she could salute, Feng Liao had already called him "Wai Li".
At this time, Yong Ruo was only three months pregnant and hadn't shown her pregnancy yet. She was wearing loose clothes, and she sat on the kang with Feng Liao very leisurely.
After exchanging a few words of pleasantries, Mrs. Zhou didn't shy away from Feng Liao, and said directly: "My lady, a young girl came to my house yesterday. She said she was an old childhood friend of my lady's. Her surname was Lu. There used to be a girl named Lulu. Miss Lu said : She has an extremely important matter and wants to report to the empress alone."