The story of the husband and the son of the doctor and daughter of Houmen

Chapter 769: After Autumn (4)
Yao Yanyu untied her hair into a single bun, fastened it with a white jade hairpin, put on men's clothes, and went out from the West Corner Gate of the Hou Mansion, heading directly towards Xishi Street.

In today's Yundu city, it can be described as a sea of ​​people.Be it merchants or pawns, or families with names and surnames, all kinds of people in Yundu City paid great attention to this execution.

Since ancient times in China, there has been a saying of "asking and beheading after autumn".The reason is probably because agriculture was the main focus in ancient times. After autumn, the harvest was over and it was time for slack farming. At this time, centralized processing can gather people to watch, which has a deterrent effect, and there is a chilling atmosphere in autumn and winter. It may be because the weather is cold at this time, it is easy to dispose of corpses, and it is not easy to cause the spread of plague.

At this time, the frost has passed, and it is the beginning of winter.Even though the sun was shining brightly, the north wind was blowing and it was bone-chillingly cold.Yao Yanyu stood on the crowded street, raising her hand to tighten the cloak around her body.

Both sides of the street leading to Xishikou from the prison of the Ministry of Justice are crowded with people, and all kinds of shops on both sides are also full of people. Whether it is jewelry sellers or embroidery shops, as long as there are houses with windows facing the street, it will be crowded. All are human heads.

Yao Yanyu took Bai Kou and Yu Guo'er to go out, and they couldn't squeeze in before they reached West Market Street.

While he was in a hurry, someone suddenly called from the side: "Master Yao?"

Yao Yanyu hurriedly turned around to take a look, but saw a white-faced, beardless man in a blue cotton gown standing there hunched over and arching his hands towards him.Yao Yanyu felt that this person had a kind face, and couldn't remember where he had seen him before, so he just nodded towards him.

The man took a few steps forward and said in a low voice: "My master is in the Yinhua Tower over there, sir, please come over."

The man's voice was slightly shrill, Yao Yanyu's heart froze, he suddenly understood, and quickly responded: "Then please lead the way."

"My lord, please." The visitor turned sideways, didn't say much, just led Yao Yanyu to push through the crowd and went up to the nearby Yinhua Building.

Yinhua Building is a silverware shop, specializing in making all kinds of silver utensils, silver bowls, silver chopsticks, silver jugs and so on.

Yao Yanyu followed the little eunuch into the Yinhua building through the back door, walked through the courtyard to the front building, and went directly to the third floor into a clean room.

There were two people sitting in the room, one was Emperor Jinglong in a cotton robe, and the other was a leader of the imperial hospital who was seconded to the National Medical Center to be in charge of ancient folk prescriptions in Huaxi Linghua.

As soon as Yao Yanyu came in, Hua Xiling stood up.Seeing the emperor sitting, Yao Yanyu naturally didn't dare to neglect, and hurried forward to prepare to kneel down and salute.The emperor raised his hand and stopped: "If I go on tour in modest clothes, the gift will be waived. Madam, please sit down."

Yao Yanyu still bowed in the end, and after Hua Xiling bowed to him and returned the salute, Fang took his seat with the emperor.

After exchanging pleasantries, the emperor asked Yao Yanyu: "Today's event, I never thought that Yao Yuan would come to see the excitement."

Yao Yanyu frowned slightly, and sighed: "I don't want to come out to join in the excitement, but I always feel that it would be a pity if I didn't take a look at such a big event."

"Regret?" The emperor heard something in Yao Yan's words, but still followed her words and asked, "I don't know what regret Yao Yuan thinks?"

Yao Yanyu wanted to say that I have never seen such a big scene in two lifetimes, isn't it a pity?But the person on the opposite side is the Ninth Five-Year Honorable, so I can't say this, so I leaned forward and said: "It's a pity for me not to be able to witness the rebellion and rebellion, which has brought disaster to the country and the people, and to be punished. .”

The emperor smiled indifferently when he heard the words, but said to Hua Xiling: "You lost."

Hua Xiling hurriedly leaned over and said, "The emperor is wise, and the minister is convinced."

Yao Yanyu was suddenly confused, thinking that these two people are betting on feelings?And this bet is related to yourself?

Seeing Yao Yanyu's puzzled eyes, the emperor smiled lightly and said, "Xiling, you can tell Yao Yuanjue yourself."

Hua Xiling responded, Fang turned to Yao Yanyu, leaned forward and asked, "Master Yao, don't you think it's a pity that these prisoners just got cut like this?"

Yao Yanyu was startled, thinking how do you know?
Hua Xiling said again: "These more than 600 death row prisoners were executed at the same time today. The scene is naturally grand, and the deterrent effect on the people is naturally strong enough. But it is a life after all. Although they have more than enough to die, they should be allowed to die again before they die. Make a contribution."

Yao Yanyu looked at Hua Xiling in surprise. If she hadn't known this kid well, she would have thought that he was just like her, and had also come through time travel.

"What Master Hua means, how should these people contribute?" Yao Yanyu asked calmly, suppressing the excitement in his heart.

"Test the medicine." Hua Xiling said softly with a smile.

Hua Xiling obviously understood that Yao Yanyu asked the question knowingly.But the emperor just said that he lost the bet, so he can't expose Yao Yanyu's old background. Besides, although the woman in front of him is a woman, she is also the woman Hua Xiling admires the most in his life. Even if he doesn't care about the emperor's face, he will follow her Keep talking.

"Testing medicine?" Yao Yanyu's excited heart gradually calmed down. It turned out that it was just testing medicine, and what she thought was not the same thing!
She also wanted to say that if no one wanted the corpses of these prisoners, she would immediately send someone to freeze the corpses and send them to the National Medical Center for the students to dissect.

I thought that this guy had been in the National Medical Center for more than half a year, and he should be interested in anatomy, but he was so excited in vain.

"As far as I know, Master Yao is compiling the "Dayun Pharmacopoeia" based on the pharmacopoeia of the previous dynasty. I wonder if this is true?" Hua Xiling asked.

"Yes." Yao Yanyu nodded, "This matter has been done since my master Zhang Laoyuanling was alive, and it is the will of the late emperor."

"Have you ever thought about compiling a copy of the "Dayun Pharmacopoeia"?" Hua Xiling asked again.

"Dungeon? What kind of dungeon?" Yao Yanyu was at a loss, thinking that you're taking this as a boss, return the dungeon?
"It's the poison spectrum." Hua Xiling cleared Yao Yanyu's doubts, "There are more than tens of thousands of herb species in this world, and there are more than a thousand people who can be used as medicine. Some things can be directly used as medicine, and some things are poisonous and need to be processed or matched with other things. But there are some things that can’t get rid of their toxicity no matter how they are concocted. But sometimes, to save lives, it is necessary to take risky tactics and fight poison with poison. In this way, we need to test medicine. Usually, doctors will test medicine by themselves, However, due to the different constitutions of people and the instability of toxicity, the doctor's test medicine is not only not very accurate, but also life-threatening. So, why can't we use those death row test medicines? This way we can try again and again. Wouldn’t it be a merit to finally make detailed annotations on those poisonous medicines and pass them on to future generations?”

(End of this chapter)