Congratulations on opening the coffin

Chapter 77 Lifesaving Medicine

Shen Ruo was waiting in the room, and when he saw the man coming, he heard his laughter first: "Your Majesty has been waiting for a long time, and my concubine brought some cakes made in the Hou's mansion today, I hope your Majesty will not dislike her."

Madam Hou is indeed a well-known social butterfly in the Beijing circle, as soon as she shows up, she heats up the scene.

Even with Shen Ruo's indifferent temperament, he responded with a few polite words: "Mrs. Hou is serious. It is my blessing that you can come here."

When Madam Hou of Xiangyang entered the door, she took her hand and said with a smile, "It's cold outside, let's go in and talk."

"This time I came here to thank the princess. If it weren't for your prescription, those boys in my family might not be able to survive this winter. You are the savior of our Marquis Mansion."

Shen Ruo was a little flattered: "Mrs. Hou is too polite, how can such a trivial matter deserve your special visit?"

"It's worth it!" Madam Hou patted her hand with a smile eagerly, looked around, and asked, "Where is my little son, I brought a lot of pastries today. It's cold, so we have to eat them while they're hot." .”

"He wanted to play with the snow, but Xiao Chen didn't agree, so he just let him watch the servants build a snowman."

When mentioning his son, Shen Ruo couldn't help but put a faint smile on his face.

But I didn't want Mrs. Hou to show a few ambiguous smiles: "The prince knows how to love the child, it means that the prince has you in his heart."

Shen Ruo only replied two embarrassing "hehe".

As soon as Mrs. Hou saw it, she immediately changed the topic: "Is there enough medicine and food in the palace now? If not, I'll ask my servants to bring some from the Hou's mansion."

Shen Ruo nodded hurriedly: "Enough! Don't bother the Hou Mansion, you also need it."

"No trouble, no trouble!" Madam Hou said, as if remembering something, the smile on her face faded, "Anyway, if you don't give it to the palace, you have to confiscate it."

"Confiscation?" It was the first time for Shen Ruo to hear this, with doubts on his face.

"Oh, the princess seldom goes out of the palace, I haven't heard of it yet."

Mrs. Hou immediately began to explain to her enthusiastically, "Didn't the people make a lot of noise a few days ago? Miss Pei, who is next to the queen mother, suggested to the queen mother that all civil and military officials should share some food to help the people get through this time." Difficulty."

Mrs. Hou smiled lightly, but her smile was a little weak: "She is really good at being a good person. She can win the appreciation of the emperor and empress dowager with a casual sentence, and let the people only remember her."

Shen Ruo didn't answer. Although she had some conflicts with Pei Zhizhou, she agreed with this proposal.

Seeing that the topic had cooled down, Mrs. Hou changed the topic and sighed: "Actually, it's not that I don't want to do some good deeds to help those poor people. It's just that she expropriates so forcefully that we all look like bad people. She is the one who is generous."

"Speaking of which, you have to be more careful, Madam Wangfei."

Seeing Madam Hou's mysterious appearance, Shen Ruo felt amused in her heart, and asked, "Why should I be careful?"

Mrs. Hou was shocked: "Don't you know? The Queen Mother intends to make this Miss Pei the concubine of Prince Jing. There were some gossips in the womb a while ago. The prince was seriously injured and recuperating in the palace. It was Miss Pei." Personally cared for."

"..." Shen Ruo was speechless, and she didn't know how the news spread, did she ignore such a big person?
As soon as the gossip was mentioned, Mrs. Hou became energetic: "Princess, you don't know, this Miss Pei looks weak and weak, but she has deep thoughts."

"Oh? How do you say it?" Shen Ruo cooperated with the conversation.

Mrs. Hou said in detail: "This Miss Pei was originally the concubine of the Pei family. Logically speaking, she would not be able to serve the queen mother by her side."

"One year, the Empress Dowager went to Jinshan Temple to worship Buddha. I don't know whether it was a coincidence or something. She happened to be there and wrote a good Buddhist scripture. It happened that the Empress Dowager saw it. The abbot of the temple also praised her full of praise."

"The Empress Dowager saw that this child was destined to be a Buddha, so she took it with her. Even her concubine's mother went to heaven with chickens and dogs, and was highly valued by the Pei family."

Mrs. Hou is the main wife, and she looks down on children born to such concubines, and whenever she says "coincidentally", she always puts an emphasis on it.

Shen Ruo just listened quietly, without commenting on it.

After Mrs. Hou finished talking, she chattered about other topics, Shen Ruo gradually lost her patience listening to it, and from time to time made a few hasty and perfunctory sentences.

Madam Hou noticed it very quickly, looked out the window immediately, and said with a smile: "Ah, it's about this time, it seems that I've got the most out of the conversation, so don't delay the princess's business."

When Shen Ruo saw it, she knew that she was going to leave with an excuse, so she raised her spirits and said politely: "Where, thanks to Mrs. Hou who told me so much, otherwise I would appear to be ignorant."

Mrs. Hou stood up, Shen Ruo followed, and sent people out. At this time, there was heavy snow outside again. Mrs. Hou couldn't help but sigh: "When will this snow stop? If the road is blocked again, the food will be fine. Without medicinal materials, the people are really in trouble."

Shen Ruo listened with doubts in her heart, but she didn't ask any questions. She just watched Mrs. Hou get into the carriage, and after she left, she turned around and went back to the main courtyard.

As soon as she sent him away, Xiao Chen got the news and went back to the house, as if he didn't want to see Mrs. Hou very much.

Shen Ruo was silent, and asked, "What's the matter with the medicinal materials? Didn't you escort many back to Beijing?"

Seeing that her complexion was not very good, Xiao Chen was about to ask her about her situation when she choked her back.

He was a little helpless: "Can't you worry less about these things? Is this something that you, a family member of the palace, should care about?"

"It's everyone's responsibility to care about national affairs." Shen Ruo sat down next to him, speaking with confidence.

Xiao Chen sighed, and still explained to her: "The medicine sent back last time was soaked in the snow, and it is broken and unusable."

"Besides, after the avalanche, the official road was blocked by heavy snow that was almost ten meters high. Unless the snow and ice melted, supplies and medicinal materials might not be able to be delivered in a short time."

Shen Ruo pursed her lips, and suddenly said: "Can you bring all those medicinal materials to the palace? I have a way."

When Xiao Chen heard this, he couldn't help but look at her twice in surprise.

But this time, he didn't ask any more questions. He just followed her instructions and brought all the medicinal materials. There were hundreds of large boxes.

Shen Ruo asked her servants to grind the medicinal materials into different categories and send them to the main courtyard. Naturally, she sent these medicinal powders into the space and began to make pills.

Xiao Chen took some first, to test the effect, and found that these pills had a faster effect than boiled soup, so he no longer hesitated, and distributed all of them to those who had the disease, but there was no cure The common people still use Shen Ruo's name.

This is a life-saving medicine that relieves the urgent need. For a while, the people in the capital spontaneously thanked Princess Qijing for saving her life, and even exaggerated, and even proposed to build a temple for her.

When Shen Ruo heard about it, she couldn't laugh or cry, she could only gouged out Xiao Chen who was next to her, who else could make the situation so big, but him?
Xiao Chen was also helpless, didn't he want to help her earn a good reputation, so that the Queen Mother would not always look at her unhappy?

But unexpectedly, that night, the Compassionate Ning Palace sent another person, but it was for the sixth princess's son.

(End of this chapter)