It is understandable that doctors want to see patients. So Ying Zheng nodded.
Seeing Li Shui's confident look, Lu Lie felt panicked for no reason. Could it be...that he could really cure gangrene?
Lu Lie's mind became hot, and he suddenly made a plop, knelt down in front of Ying Zheng, and cried, "Your Majesty, the young master has a noble status, how can he be desecrated by this liar?"
Ying Zheng's face darkened, a little unhappy.
Li Shui caught a glimpse of Ying Zheng's face and immediately felt confident. He walked up in three steps and gave Lu Lie a big slap on the face: "The young master is in danger, and you are still here to stop him. Don't you want the young master to recover?" Lu Lie, you and I are irreconcilable."
Lu Lie was beaten so dizzy that he covered his face and wondered: "Why do you always emphasize that you are irreconcilable with me?"
Just when Lu Lie was wondering, Li Shui had already opened the door and walked into the room.
The furnishings inside the house are elegant and noble, and the smell of incense is burning. There were two palace maids, kneeling and sitting in front of a low table.
Li Shui walked over and saw that the man on the squat was very small, probably only about ten years old.
Li Shui was a little puzzled: "So young?"
When the two palace maids saw the man coming, they were a little cautious. They bowed and retreated to the side.
Li Shui ignored the two palace maids and just observed the person on the low couch. He was lying there with his upper body bare and a sore the size of an egg on his back. Indeed, as the doctor just said, it has become extremely swollen and may soon collapse.
Li Shui knelt down and took a look, and saw that the person on the couch was still awake. It's a boy.
The boy smiled at Li Shui, then closed his eyes in pain.
Li Shui asked: "What's your name?"
The boy closed his eyes and said, "Ying Fuyao."
Li Shui nodded and checked carefully, feeling that the sores would be fine and would not break within the next day or two.
So Li Shui ordered the two palace ladies to take good care of Ying Fuyao and not to damage the sores.
Then he walked out quickly.
Ying Zheng was still waiting outside. When he saw Li Shui coming out, there was a trace of nervousness in his eyes. However, the nervous look disappeared in a flash and turned into calm and indifference.
Emperor, emperor must be ruthless. The emperor, who was full of joy and anger, was too fragile. How could he rule the world?
Li Shui saluted Ying Zheng and said, "Master Fu Yao's illness can be cured by me."
Ying Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Shui added: "It's getting late today, I'm afraid it's too late. I will come to perform magic tomorrow. Please send two or three people to listen to my call. I have to make some preparations."
Ying Zheng pointed at the young eunuch beside him: "Ji Ming, you choose two more people. In the past few days, the three of you have been following Huaiguzi and you have not been able to leave."
The young eunuch named Ji Ming agreed. He knew that he wanted to monitor Huaiguzi to prevent him from running away.
After giving the instructions, Ying Zheng left. He was busy with everything. Even if the patient was his son, he could not abandon state affairs because of this.
Lu Lie and the others looked at me and I looked at you, and they all ran away, lest Li Shui find an excuse to hit them again.
Li Shui looked at Lu Lie's back and sneered, and then said to Ji Ming, "Follow me out of the palace."
Ji Ming was startled and thought: "Are you going to run away?"
He asked nervously: "Master Huai, what are you doing out of the palace?"
Li Shui said as he walked: "Buy wine."
Ji Ming followed closely behind Li Shui, randomly pulling in two young eunuchs to work as coolies along the way. One of them is called Xiao Yi and the other is called Wu Jiao.
The three young eunuchs whispered to each other along the way and followed Li Shui out of the palace with complicated expressions.
Just as he walked out of the palace gate, Li Shui met a man with a rough face.
The man grabbed Li Shui's arm and asked, "Brother Huai, I heard something happened in the alchemy room, and I was about to come to the palace to see you. Are you okay?"
Li Shui was stunned for a moment, and then recognized that this person was General Li Xin.
When Li Xin failed to attack Chu, he was chased by Xiang Yan and was desperate. He happened to meet Huai Guzi and saved his life.
Later, when the Chu State fell, Huaiguzi came to Xianyang, hoping to enter the palace to refine elixirs. Li Xin repaid his kindness and recommended him to Ying Zheng.
The two of them are considered close friends.
Li Shui saw Li Xin's sincere face, and his concern was definitely not fake. I couldn't help but feel a little moved, so I patted his shoulder and said, "I'm fine. Brother Li doesn't have to worry if he leaves the palace for a walk."
Li Xin nodded: "As long as nothing happens."
Ji Ming hesitated for a moment, then leaned into Li Xin's ear and whispered what had just happened.
After hearing this, Li Xin was shocked and hurried into the palace to see Ying Zheng.
Li Shui didn't notice Li Xin, who was racking his brains to figure out the steps to make alcohol.
After a while, Li Shui walked to a wine shop.
As soon as the four of them entered, the boss greeted them enthusiastically: "What kind of wine do you want, distinguished guests?"
Li Shui thought for a while and said, "I want good wine, strong wine, and intoxicating wine."
The boss pointed to a few jars of wine in the corner and said with joy, "This wine is called Drunken Immortal Wine. It can make gods drunk. It has the strongest temper."
The boss was afraid that he was not convincing enough, so he added mysteriously: "The alchemists in the palace, such as Mr. Lu and Mr. Hou, all like this wine and come to buy one or two jars from time to time."
When Li Shui heard him mention the alchemist, he suddenly became furious. He slapped the counter hard and shouted loudly: "I, Huai Guzi, have no sworn relationship with other alchemists! Write down this sentence and tell it to me widely. Everything comes to you. You have to reach out to anyone who comes to you to buy a drink.”
The boss was startled and kept his promise.
Li Shui pointed at the Drunk Immortal Wine and said, "Let's go to the three altars first. If you can really get the immortals drunk, you will be rewarded heavily. If you mess up important matters in the palace, just wait for the whole family to be executed."
The boss was so frightened that he almost lost his mind: "Drunk God, that's a metaphor, how can it be taken seriously? You... are you from the palace?"
Ji Ming and the others didn't bother to pay attention to him, and each of them moved a jar of wine and walked outside.
Li Shui patted the counter hard: "Pay, pay. When buying wine in the palace, you don't have to pay?"
Ji Ming thought to himself: "Do you need to pay for wine in the palace?"
However, he did not dare to disobey Li Shui's wishes, so he took out a string of Qin Banliang and threw it on the counter.
Li Shui put his hands behind his back and walked slowly towards Lanchi Palace.
The more the boss thought about it, the more frightened he became. He quickly chased after Li Shui, grabbed Li Shui and said, "Sir, sir, I have a few jars of stronger wine. Just put down this Drunk Immortal Wine."
Then, regardless of whether Li Shui agreed or not, the boss took down the jars of drunken immortal wine mixed with water and threw them in the corner. Then one person replaced it with a jar of real spirits.
After returning to Lanchi Palace, Li Shui found some earthen jars and started cooking wine.
According to the knowledge learned by later generations, the boiling point of water is 100 degrees, while the boiling point of alcohol is only 78 degrees. Therefore, just heat the wine until it is between the two boiling points. A large amount of alcohol can be collected from the steam.
This is the distillation method of later generations.
Li Shui tried it and the effect was indeed good. However, the utensils were simple and the alcohol content might not be high enough, so Li Shui steamed it three times.
Ji Ming sat next to him for a while, feeling that the aroma of wine was getting stronger and stronger, and finally he was almost drunk.
He looked at the jar of transparent liquid and couldn't help but ask: "Master Huai, what is this?"
Li Shui smiled and said: "This is the essence of wine, called alcohol."
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At the same time, in Yingzheng's study.
Li Xin was speaking sincerely: "Your Majesty, Huaiguzi has a gentle temperament and a simple mind. He is definitely not a liar. There may be other reasons for the failure of the alchemy. Your Majesty, you must not rush to accuse him."
Ying Zheng said calmly: "I have already given him a chance. If he can cure Fu Yao's sores, I will naturally spare his life."
Li Xin sighed and said: "The disease of gangrene is a terminal disease. It is so difficult to cure it. It must be that Huaiguzi was desperate, so he made a desperate move. Your Majesty, if Huaiguzi can cure the young master, please give me a generous reward. If Even if the doctor is not good, please spare his life. This man is quite talented, and I saw him treating illnesses and saving people in the Chu region. At that time, Xiang Yan was chasing after him, and I was seriously injured, and he was about to..."
Before Li Xin finished speaking, a young general next to him interrupted him.
The man said with a smile: "Chu land, Chu land. General Li really misses Chu land. In that battle, he abandoned his helmets and armor, and the 200,000 troops were destroyed. If my grandfather hadn't restored the prestige of Qin, General Li’s crime is very serious.”
Li Xin was furious, waved his fist and shouted: "Not even Wang Jian dares to speak like this in front of me, and even your father, Wang Bi, is respectful when he meets me. Who do you think, Wang Li?" So arrogant."
Wang Li sneered and said, "Old General Li, do you want to take action? I, Wang Li, am not afraid of you."
When Li Xin heard him call him "Old General", he was so angry that he almost fainted. I'm only forty years old, so I'm called "old"?
At this time, Ying Zheng shouted coldly: "That's enough. How dare you be so presumptuous in front of me."
Wang Li gave a dry laugh and said: "Your Majesty, I'm just afraid that General Li has neither the ability to lead troops nor the ability to recognize people. If we lose our troops and lose our generals, we, the Qin Dynasty, can still regroup. If we kill Mr. Fu Yao, then I regret it so much.”
Li Xin was about to speak, but Ying Zheng stretched out his hand to stop him, and then said to the young eunuch next to him: "Call Ji Ming and see how Huai Guzi is preparing."
A moment later, Ji Ming came trotting over, smelling of alcohol.
Ying Zheng was furious and said coldly: "I asked you to stare at the Huaiguzi. How dare you drink and indulge?"
Ji Ming was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed: "Slave, I don't dare to drink. This is Huaiguzi cooking wine, and the smell of alcohol has contaminated my body."
Ying Zheng became even more angry: "He doesn't want to save Fu Yao, but he is cooking wine?"
Ji Ming said tremblingly: "Huai Guzi cooked something out of wine, and the name is alcohol. It means, it means..."
Ji Ming tilted his head and thought for a while, then said with certainty: "It means the demon in the wine."
Ying Zheng was furious and smashed the bamboo slips in his hand on Ji Ming: "How dare you play with me like this?"
