Xiangsheng prosperous

Chapter 18 Leaks
"Mr., the mosquito repellent incense is brought for you!"

Wen Weixing came back to his senses, and the pharmacy clerk came out of the warehouse with a brocade box containing mosquito repellent incense.

He took the brocade box, took out ten Wen from the money pouch at his waist, and handed it to the clerk.

The guy was flattered and declined: "No, no, no! How can this be done!"

"This is for your hard work." Wen Weixing patted the man on the shoulder, "Dare to ask, who is the lady just now?"

"Oh! Say Mrs. Qiu San!" The man said, "That is the only daughter of the second wife of the Qiu family. Although she is the first wife of our master's family, her background is very pitiful."

The clerk was carrying ten cents that hadn't been warmed up in his pocket, and felt that Wen Weixing seemed to be getting more and more friendly, so he said everything.

"Your Majesty, don't look at the fact that Mrs. Qiu lost her mother when she was young, and the second wife of the Qiu family is also weak. But she is talented and capable, so she forcibly relied on herself to withstand the gate of the second wife of the Qiu family. Well," the man said. Nuzui pointed to the mosquito repellent incense in Wen Weixing's hand, "The mosquito repellent incense in Lang Jun's hand is the pioneering work of Mrs. Qiu San."

It turns out that this burst of refreshing fragrance that can heal me comes from her handwriting.

Thinking of this, Wen Weixing tightened his grip on the brocade box.Afterwards, he followed the pharmacy assistant and left Shanchun Hall quickly.

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Qiu Mo, who returned to Qiu Mansion from Shanchun Hall, quickly put this encounter behind her.

The most important thing for her now is to re-engrave a incense that wards off evil spirits and avoids plague in the "Jihe Pavilion Jifang" written by later generations of famous masters.

In her previous life, Qiu Mo did not study history in university, but almost everyone who has studied history textbooks in middle school knows about the big event of Xuanwu Gate.

What impressed her deeply was that in the second year after the Xuanwumen Incident, that is, in the autumn of the first year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty will usher in a frost that has the widest spread and the strongest damage to food crops since the founding of the Tang Dynasty. disaster.

The final result of this frost disaster was that the crops of the current season were not harvested, which in turn triggered a very serious famine in the early Tang Dynasty.At that time, Tang Taizong Li Shimin thought it was a disaster from heaven to kill his brother and force his father, so he wrote a special article "Criminal Edict" for this purpose.

Qiu Mo doesn't know how to grow food. All she can do to prevent this famine is to go to the market to buy enough grain, oil, rice, and millet for her family.She asked Shuanghan to take all the money she had saved from offering incense recently, and keep only one-tenth of it. The rest was used to buy rice noodles and vegetables and wheat seeds, and they were specially placed in the high place of the wing room, which was kept away from moisture and insects.

Then, it is to make this incense to ward off evil spirits and avoid plagues, so as to prevent the spread of additional plagues when there are starvation everywhere.

"We have Jiangzhen incense and sandalwood. Mrs. Su has found all the other materials for us. Let's start making incense." After explaining the follow-up process to Shuanghan, Qiu Mo immediately started making today's incense medicine.

The two performed their own duties, Shuang Han was in charge of drying the medicine and making powder, and Qiu Mo was in charge of mixing the pulp, kneading the dough and kneading the pills.

The two of them were very busy in the yard, and Shuang Han asked Qiu Mo curiously while grinding Asarum with medicine.

"Third lady, why didn't you get the medicinal materials from the warehouse of Shanchuntang this time?" Shuanghan was puzzled, and would rather go around and ask Miss Su to get the medicinal materials needed to make incense than from her own medicinal material warehouse.

Qiu Mo was mixing bletilla striata powder with water, and she kept holding the pestle in her hand, explaining, "Because, this time, I don't want to make this incense recipe public so early."

That's right, after she was going to make this incense recipe quietly, she asked the Su family to spread it, so that all medicine shops and incense shops could use this incense recipe, and quickly spread the evil spirits and plague avoidance incense.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Su family would not be able to get enough sandalwood and Jiangzhen incense for a while, she might not even take a single ingredient from the warehouse of Shanchuntang.

Just as they were chatting and discussing the details of spice making, they didn't notice that a figure of a girl hurriedly left from the shade of the courtyard gate...

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After more than half a month, the private school just ended today.Qiu Mo was waiting for Shuanghan to pack her pen, ink, paper and inkstone into her rucksack, so that they could return to the courtyard of the second room together.The incense she developed to ward off evil and avoid plague has been stored for enough time, and today I just opened the lid to test the incense.

Just as they stepped out of the wing room and were about to walk back to the yard, they suddenly heard a voice calling from behind: "Third Lady, please stay!"

Qiu Mo looked over after hearing the reputation, and saw Mei Xin, the personal maid of Mrs. Sanfang Tian, ​​with a group of servants including Ting Qin, standing at the side of the door of the wing room, as if she had been waiting for her for a long time.

Qiu Mo frowned, this battle is a bit like a Hongmen banquet...

Mei Xin walked forward with a smile, bowed to Qiu Mo, and said: "The servant girl is here to look for the third lady on the orders of the third master and the mistress."

"Oh, uncle and aunt asked you to come?" Qiu Mo raised her beautiful Liu Yemei and asked suspiciously, "Then what can I do for you?"

Mei Xin replied respectfully: "Third lady, you don't need to ask any more questions, you will know as soon as you go, please." After speaking, she stepped back with a smile and made a "please" gesture.

This clearly shows that the visitor is not kind.Qiu Mo's eyes narrowed into a slit, and her lips were pursed tightly.

She turned her head and looked at Shuanghan, then turned her head and led Shuanghan to the direction where Mei Xin and the others were.When passing by Tingqin again, Qiu Mo caught a glimpse of Tingqin showing a weird sneer.

Qiu Mo secretly thought something was wrong, she suddenly had an idea - could it be Tingqin's fault?
They walked along the corridor.Not long after, they came to the three-bedroom courtyard. Qiu Qianshen and Mrs. Tian were already sitting firmly in the main hall, and on the ground facing them, there was the evil and plague-proof incense that Qiu Mo was going to open to test the incense today.

Seeing that the fragrant medicine she wanted to hide secretly was placed in the center of the living room in such a grandiose manner, Qiu Mo's expression froze involuntarily.

She coughed lightly, walked forward, saluted the two elders in the hall, and then got straight to the point.

"I don't know why my uncle and aunt asked me to come here?"

Mrs. Tian said with a smile: "It's nothing important. It's just that I heard that Mo'er has developed a new incense, and I feel a little strange. If it is usual, I should have told your uncle before it was made. Take the spices and medicinal materials , also registered and reported to Shanchun Hall. Why this time, until it was time to taste the incense, none of us in the third room knew about it, San Niangzi, why do you think this is?"

What she said was impeccable, but she pointed out that Qiu Mo did not report the incense prescription to Shanchun Hall, but decided to make incense privately.

Qiu Mo was silent.

Her silence made Tian Niangzi think that she had a guilty conscience.Her smile became brighter and brighter: "What's the matter, what's the secret, you can talk to your uncle and aunt."

Even Qiu Qianshen put down a teacup in his hand and stared sharply at Qiu Mo in the hall.

But obviously, Qiu Mo was not unprepared.She had long thought about what to do if Sanfang knew about it.She didn't speak, just because she was thinking about why Mrs. Tian always has a natural hostility towards her?It seemed that if she could get hold of her once, she would crush Qiu Mo into the dust.

Why is it that Qiu Mo has put her figure so lowly, but Mrs. Tian still doesn't want to let her go.

Qiu Mo came back to her senses and ended her silence.

"Back to my uncle and aunt, the name of this incense is the incense that wards off evil spirits and avoids plague." She said the name of the incense word by word slowly but forcefully.

"The incense is as its name suggests. The efficacy of this incense is used to ward off evil spirits and avoid plagues during the plague season. Even if this incense is made and tested, in a peaceful and prosperous age, I would not show it clearly. Because as soon as this incense comes out, it means that it is the time when the world is in great plague and people are dying. And if Shanchun Hall is in peace today, when the people are recuperating, they will display this incense in front of the world. Your Majesty, all officials and Chang'an There are so many people in the city, how do you feel?"

When Qiu Mo spoke, the two sitting in the seat were covered with cold sweat, especially Lady Tian, ​​her face had turned pale.At first, she thought that she would finally catch the evidence of Qiu Mo's selfishness, but she didn't expect that the clown was herself.

　Xiangsheng small knowledge
　　incense to ward off evil spirits and avoid plague

　　"Crane Feeding Pavilion Collected Prescriptions"

　　Prescription Jiangxiang 4 liang, Sandalwood 4 liang, Arrow feather 2 liang, Salvia miltiorrhiza 2 liang, Maozhu 2 liang, Winged Heart 2 liang, Angelica dahurica 2 liang, Asarum 2 liang, Angelica 2 liang, Danpi 2 liang, Pei Lan 2 two.Preparation method: Raw sun-dried powder is used as the powder, and elm powder is beaten into big pills.

　　Usage: When the plague is prevalent in the four seasons, it is advisable to burn it frequently to avoid infection. Burning more at the end of the year can ward off evil spirits and avoid plague. If there is no good room for a long time, damp poison is the most likely to harm people. Burning it with this pill can harm people far away.

　　
　
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