"What are you doing here?"
Lao Zhu did not give Zhu Tan a good look. Ever since he knew that his son was secretly raising alchemists in the house, making elixirs and taking medicine, Lao Zhu was greatly disappointed with him.
"Back to my father," Zhu Tan bowed, "I am here to remind my father that you must not take the alchemist's elixir."
Lao Zhu felt that Zhu Tan today seemed to be different from the past. After taking a closer look, he couldn't find anything wrong with Zhu Tan for a while, so he continued perfunctorily, "What? Do you think your father took these two away from you? To make elixirs for yourself and take medicine?"
Lao Zhu frowned slightly, if I want to make elixirs and take medicine, do I need to go to your place to find someone? If I just make a decree, countless capable people in this world will flock to me to make elixirs for me. It is because I know that taking elixirs is of no benefit to anyone, that I don't allow you to do whatever you want.
Not the best!
His father's words made Zhu Tan secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and he quickly bowed down again, "Father, I understand that this is not what I mean. It's just that this elixir is very poisonous, and taking it for a long time will endanger your life. My father is a man of virtue, and if you have anything to do with it, With the dragon body as your priority, don't take such risks."
Are you here to persuade me not to take the elixir? Lao Zhu looked at Zhu Tan in surprise, feeling that his mind was beginning to become confused. This situation is wrong. He didn't take the elixir. Shouldn't I be here to persuade him?
"You said that the elixir is highly poisonous and will endanger your life. Then you also found two alchemists to refine the elixir in the mansion?"
"My son, I listened to slander in the past and did such foolish things. Please forgive me, father." Zhu Tan lifted his brocade robe and slowly knelt down towards his father, with a look of sincere regret.
Zhu Tan knelt down like this, and the anger in Lao Zhu's heart immediately disappeared. Originally, Lao Zhu had no plans to do anything to Zhu Tan. He was more of a biological child, so he could only teach her a few words. Now seeing Zhu Tan admitting that he was wrong so sensibly, he actually felt a sense of comfort.
Waving his hands, "Get up, learn that you've done something wrong and change for the better, and don't do such stupid things in the future. By the way, how do you know that the elixir is very poisonous?"
Zhu Tan then told him that Han Du saw him taking the elixir and told him that the elixir was very poisonous.
"What? All the chickens you used the elixir for died, are you okay? Come here and call the imperial doctor." Hearing that the elixir Zhu Tan took was so poisonous, Lao Zhu suddenly became nervous. Although he was very dissatisfied with Zhu Tan taking the elixir, this was his biological son after all.
Zhu Tan felt that it was a bit of a fuss. After all, Han Du had said that as long as he stopped taking the pills, the toxins in his body would be slowly eliminated.
"Father, it's not necessary. Isn't this a good thing for my son?"
"Shut up! If you dare to take these things next time, I don't need to poison you, I will beat you to death first." As he spoke, Lao Zhu stood up and walked to Zhu Tan and warned harshly.
"The imperial doctor is here. Is the imperial doctor here?" Lao Zhu anxiously shouted outside the hall.
The eunuch on duty was not far from here. After hearing the emperor's order, he quickly ran over with the old eunuch carrying a medicine box.
"My regards..."
Before the imperial doctor finished speaking, Lao Zhu said directly:
"Quick, show Tan'er quickly."
The imperial doctor did not dare to neglect, and quickly put down the medicine box and took Zhu Tan's pulse right there. After a moment of silence, he said to Lao Zhu with a smile on his face: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, Prince Lu is just a little weak. If I take the medicine prescribed by me, everything will be fine."
Only then did Lao Zhu feel relieved. Seeing Zhu Tan's indifferent look, he couldn't help but tell him: "Take the medicine from the imperial doctor in a good manner, and don't eat randomly in the future."
Although Zhu Tan didn't think there was anything wrong with him, since his father had said it, he had no choice but to obey.
"Yes, Father."
After staying in the mansion for two days, Zhu Tan returned to the academy. After Zhu Zi and others asked Zhu Tan why he was not in the academy these two days, and seeing that Zhu Tan had decided not to take the elixir anymore, they didn't know what to say and just comforted him.
But in Zhu Tan's heart, this incident did not just go away. Instead, an idea sprouted in his mind. He is smart and studious, and is very interested in things like Qihuang, gold, stone, and elixirs. This is why when he saw some alchemists defecting to him, he accepted them without any hesitation.
All this was just because he was very interested in alchemy made by alchemists, but Han Du told him that alchemy made by alchemists could not be compared with chemistry.
One day, while Zhu Tan was peeing with his classmates, he suddenly had a whim when he looked at the color of the water column. The color of urine is yellow, similar to the color of gold. Can gold be extracted from it through chemical methods?
Ordinary people have this idea. At most, it flashes in their minds and then is forgotten. But Zhu Tan is different. He can do whatever he thinks of.
He went to Magistrate Xue with great interest and explained his intention.
A sip of tea almost made Xue Xiang choke in tears, "What did you say? What do you want that thing for?"
Zhu Tan replied seriously: "The student wants to try to see if he can refine gold."
"Who told you there was gold in it?" Xue Xiang was going crazy. What kind of weird brain did he have to think that there was gold in urine?
"Aren't they all yellow?" Zhu Tan asked confidently.
After hearing this, Xue Xiang suddenly fell silent. After a while, he said: "There are no ready-made ones, but if you really want it, you can have some barrels obtained and collect them yourself."
So Zhu Tan had some wooden buckets brought into the academy, placed in the toilet, and posted a notice asking people to urinate into the buckets.
Within a few days, Zhutan had enough urine to refine it.
If you want to refine it, the best way is of course to steam it first. He just did what he said. Zhu Tan naturally didn't know how to do it himself, so he spent his meal tickets to find two people to help him.
On the large iron pot stand, a fire started, and the urine in the pot soon began to boil. But as the urine boils, a strong smell spreads in all directions along with the steam.
The two people who were responsible for the fire were the two who started the fire. Even though they had not been afraid of these nasty things since they were young, they couldn't stand it anymore.
The smell was so strong that it made both of them burst into tears.
Zhu Tan also covered his nose and backed away. Although he couldn't stand the smell, he was still unwilling to give up, and his eyes were still staring at the changes in the pot.
Needless to say, Zhu Tan's character is quite in line with the spirit of a research scholar.
Zhu Tan found an open space behind the academy to refine it, just to avoid disturbing other people.
