It was a sunny spring day. Five stoves were built on the open space in the backyard of the peony garden, and five steaming medicine jars were placed on them in a row.
Several fire-makers were adding firewood to the stove.
Tang Cheng sat comfortably on a chair and directed the four maids to add herbs into the jars. Originally, she had someone renovate an empty house to make the potion, and seeing that the weather was good, she made the potion outside.
The whole backyard was filled with the smell of medicine.
"Miss, is it too much for you to make... no, five jars of potion at once?"
Zhenzhu threw the tiger bones into the jar as Tang Cheng instructed, and returned to Tang Cheng in a daze, her voice a little woozy when she spoke.
"Not much. When the potion is refined, there will be at most one jar. I will give some to Dad and some to Prince Wen. His body is so weak and he needs to be soaked. There is not much left and I don't know if it will be enough."
Tang Cheng had already distributed the strengthening potions.
Madam Cao and Madam Gao: "..."
The poor prince was told by Fourth Miss Tang that he was in poor health, and she even gave him a bunch of random medicines. He didn't know what he would look like outside. The two of them suddenly felt a little sympathy for the prince.
Others in the yard: “…”
Pearl lowered her head silently.
"Miss, are you sure you can make a strengthening potion this way?"
Amber herself knows medical skills. Seeing the young lady casually instructing them to put herbs into the medicine jars, and putting the same herb in each jar at a different time, it felt like a mess and not reliable at all.
Amber couldn't help but worry.
Tang Cheng nodded confidently.
"Of course, you have to have faith in me. We have many people in our house. I will find someone with a weak constitution to try the effect first. I will never take risks with the baby in my belly."
Everyone: “…”
Nanny Cao and Nanny Gao breathed a sigh of relief.
Tang Cheng ignored the distrust in their eyes and just waited for the effect of the potion to come out. Even though she was refining the medicine in public openly and didn't take the recipe seriously, it would be funny if they thought they got the recipe for a strengthening potion. The key to refining a strengthening potion is soul power, and potions refined by people without soul power would not have a strengthening effect.
Tang Cheng is the one who possesses soul power, but unfortunately she can only refine one kind of potion.
If she had known she would travel through time, she would have spent more time learning how to make medicine.
Tang Cheng sighed and put it aside.
She was a spoiled daughter of an aristocratic family. Even if her fertility value was zero, the assets under her name were enough for her to live a carefree life without having to make medicine to earn credit points.
It’s the same in this life, except that the quality of life is much worse than that of the Empire.
But she has a physique that is easy to get pregnant, so her fertility value is full.
Once she improves her physical condition, she will have a bunch of babies.
Tang Cheng, who was obsessed with having a baby, secretly set a small goal, with the corners of his lips raised in joy.
Half an hour later, all the needed herbs were put into the medicine jars, leaving only a few herbs. The smell of medicine in the whole backyard became stronger and stronger.
The strong smell of medicine spread outside the peony garden, arousing everyone's curiosity. After finding out what was going on, they were all speechless.
The fourth young lady is really capable of making trouble.
Almost all the servants in the Peony Garden are spies planted by others.
Tang Cheng's words about Prince Wen's weak health were deliberately spread by someone with ulterior motives, along with the so-called body-strengthening potion, which once again gave everyone something to talk about.
"Mom, I heard that my fourth sister is making a strengthening potion. What is this strengthening potion? Why haven't I heard of it?" Tang Xin, who hurried to the main courtyard, was very interested in the so-called strengthening potion. The name sounded very modern. She secretly wondered if Tang Cheng had also been transported.
Nanyang Marquis’ wife, Zhang, replied casually, “It’s just something that a wandering Taoist made to fool people. It’s not surprising that you don’t know about it.”
Tang Xin was stunned.
A wandering Taoist
Since he is a Taoist, he should have made some so-called elixirs or magical pills to deceive people.
Tang Xin expressed his doubts.
Zhang couldn't help laughing.
"Xin'er, we are not fools. If there really is such a panacea, these Taoists would have used it themselves long ago. Of course, not all Taoists are liars. Some of them are really capable. As long as it is useful, there will still be people willing to spend money to buy it."
Zhang added one more sentence.
Tang Xin: “…”
Suddenly I felt like I asked a stupid question.
So the fourth sister did not travel through time. Judging from the way she made the potion, she must have been fooled.
Tang Xin let out a breath.
…
At this time, Tang Cheng was directing Amber, who knew medical skills, to take out the residue in the jar. Then she personally put the remaining herbs into the medicine bowl and pounded it with a pestle.
Seeing that Fourth Miss Tang was just grinding herbs, Matron Cao and Matron Gao did not say anything to stop her.
No one could see or sense the fluctuations of Tang Cheng's soul power. What she was tinkering with now was the core essence of the strengthening potion. The previous big show was just a prerequisite for refining the strengthening potion.
These things could have been done by intelligent robots, but in ancient times everything was done manually. There were no sophisticated instruments and no simple, easy-to-use intelligent robots.
As a young lady, Tang Cheng certainly wouldn't do it herself and could only order her servants to help.
A quarter of an hour later, Amber cleaned up all the medicine residues, and then asked the maid to pour all the medicine juice in the other four medicine jars into one medicine jar according to the young lady's instructions.
Tang Cheng immediately ground the mashed herbs into powder and poured it into the medicine jar, stirring it while releasing his soul power. After a while, a thin layer of sweat began to seep out of the tip of Tang Cheng's delicate and upturned nose.
"Okay, the strengthening potion has been successfully refined. It's time to find a weak person to test the potion."
Tang Cheng smiled, with a hint of fatigue between her brows. After traveling through time and space, her soul power was weakened a lot, resulting in excessive consumption when refining the potion. She needed to rest for two or three days to recover. However, when she looked at the jar of body strengthening potion that she had successfully refined, her beautiful almond eyes were full of excitement and excitement.
Finally, I can improve this weak body.
The four maids looked at the potion in the medicine jar that had turned black and couldn't help swallowing. It was too horrible.
The two maids took a step back.
"Miss, should we let the doctor examine this medicine and then find someone to do the experiment?"
Pearl's heart was trembling, such a black potion looked too much like poison.
What if someone is poisoned to death in one go...
Tang Cheng glared.
"You don't believe me?"
"No, no, how could I not trust you, young lady? It's just that the Marquis has instructed that the medicine you make must be tested by a doctor before it can be used."
Zhenzhu quickly shook her head to deny it, thinking to herself, this isn't a question of whether to believe it or not, but the fact that this potion is too scary and it's obvious that there's something wrong with it.
Tang Cheng felt that they really didn't know what was good.
"Okay, Coral, go get a doctor."
…
When Shanhu went to Jihetang to ask for a doctor, Marquis Nanyang returned home. As soon as he returned home, he saw Nanny Chen beside Zhang. When he learned that Zhang wanted to see him for something, Marquis Nanyang thought about it and turned to go to the main courtyard.
"My Lord, the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo came to discuss the wedding date of the fourth girl today. She hopes that the fourth girl will get married next month. I haven't given you a reply yet, so I want to ask your opinion."
Marquis Nanyang was very satisfied that Zhang did not agree to the proposal on his own initiative.
"Let me ask Cheng'er about this first."
Zhang was not surprised at all. The Marquis doted on the fourth girl very much and would definitely take her thoughts into consideration.
The Marquis is the most powerful in the entire Marquisate, and as long as it involves the fourth girl, the fourth girl is the most powerful.
Marquis Nanyang did not stay in the main courtyard and hurried to the peony garden.
A goose yellow figure entered the hall from the inner room. Tang Xin looked at the receding back of Nanyang Marquis with a complicated expression.
"Mom, does Dad dote on Fourth Sister too much?"
Tang Xin felt very uncomfortable.
"This isn't the first time. Aren't you used to it?" Zhang patted her daughter's hand gently and gave her a strange look.
Tang Xin woke up suddenly.
She was not the original owner, so why should she care about the favor of Marquis Nanyang.
"Mom, I know there won't be a next time." Tang Xin assured seriously.
"I hope you have really let it go." Zhang looked at her daughter deeply, "By the way, the old princess of Cheng Palace will have her birthday in a few days, you should prepare well."
Tang Xin shuddered.
The husband the original owner married in her previous life before the heroine was reborn was the second grandson of the old prince of Chengwang Mansion.
Apart from having the status and title of a royal family member and being able to receive a salary from the court, he is a mediocre and incompetent person.
But people like this are quite popular.
Tang Xin pursed her lips and nodded reluctantly: "Don't worry, mother, I will prepare well."
Zhang frowned slightly, but didn't say anything. She asked her daughter to prepare well this time because she hoped that she would be favored by the old princess and marry into the Cheng Palace.
The Chengwang Mansion has never participated in the fight for the throne among the princes. Although the Crown Prince's wife's second son is mediocre, he has good character. As the legitimate daughter of Xin'er Marquis's Mansion and the legitimate daughter of a third-rank official, she is qualified to be a prince's consort. However, Zhang, who loves her daughter very much, does not want her daughter to be involved in the disputes among the princes, and even more does not want her daughter to marry into a noble family. In fact, marrying into the Chengwang Mansion is a good choice.
Tang Xin, who traveled through the book, had no idea of Zhang's good intentions. Her eyes were bound by the plot of the book, and she was blinded by the plot. She only saw the reborn heroine's bad speculation about the original owner's marrying a mediocre royal family husband in her previous life. She had no idea how the original owner lived in her previous life, so she was naturally very resistant to Zhang's arrangements.
…
Before Marquis Nanyang came to the Peony Garden, he already knew that his precious daughter had refined a body-strengthening potion.
He arrived at the right time, as the old doctor at Jihetang was testing some strengthening medicine.
When Marquis Nanyang saw the small bowl of black medicine, he was shocked.
“Is it poisonous?”
The four maids lowered their heads.
Tang Cheng: “…”
"Dad, how could the potion I made be poisonous?"
The corners of Nanyang Marquis’ mouth twitched.
"Let's wait until the doctor checks it out."
The old doctor smiled and said, "My Lord, there is nothing wrong with the medicine that Fourth Miss Tang made. As for whether it has a strengthening effect, I don't know. My Lord can find someone to test it."
Everyone was shocked.
The old doctor in Jihetang is a very skilled doctor and everyone believes what he says.
Tang Cheng snorted: "I told you that there is no problem with the potion I made, but you all didn't believe me, humph."
Marquis Nanyang hurriedly comforted his precious daughter.
"Yes, yes, it's all Dad's fault. There's no need to look for someone to test the drug. Let Dad do it."
"My Lord!"
The trusted servant of Marquis Nanyang was shocked.
Seeing the actions of the Marquis, Tang Cheng was very happy. She held the arm of the Marquis of Nanyang affectionately and said happily, "Dad, I will ask someone to prepare the bathtub right away."
Everyone: “…”
The old doctor did not leave. He was very curious about the effect of the strengthening potion made by Miss Tang Si.
While the servants were preparing the bathtub, Marquis Nanyang and Tang Cheng sat down and waited. Marquis Nanyang picked up the teacup and told him about the proposal made by the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo.
"Dad, isn't it too rushed to get married next month? It's shameful to get married in such a hurry. Can't you wait until the baby is born before getting married?"
Tang Cheng stroked her lower abdomen and frowned.
"puff!"
Marquis Nanyang, who was drinking tea, spat out the tea in his mouth.
The four maids and two nannies were stunned.
Get married after giving birth to the baby
Did they hear it right