Qi Yatou said that after Xiaoyaozi was invited by your third uncle Zhao Kai, he was invited to various military camps in Jiangzhou County.
After Xiaoyaozi looked it up, he thought that the safest and most effective way was to use Waidan for treatment.
So he took the Taoists from Qingfeng Temple to use the alchemy cauldron to make elixirs, and then gave the elixirs to the sick soldiers.
The effect is certain, dozens of people can be treated every day, but the Marquis thinks the speed is too slow, because tens of thousands of soldiers have been recruited, and dozens of people are treated every day. At this speed, the people behind will not be able to get in line, and these twenty I'm afraid there won't be many soldiers left.
Xiaoyaozi had no choice but to cast a larger alchemy cauldron in order to refine more elixirs at one time, so that hundreds of people could be treated a day. Therefore, medicinal merchants from all over the country flocked to Jiangzhou County during that period.
However, the Marquis still felt that the speed was too slow, so he ordered a larger alchemy cauldron to be cast. I heard that even a few cows and donkeys could not be filled.
"How many cows and donkeys are thrown in?" Zhao Chuan wondered, "Is there anyone who uses this material to make elixirs?"
When it comes to alchemy, Zhao Chuan is not a layman. The "Elixir Pills" taught to him by Master Gui all exist in his mind. He has practiced them all. Although he has not practiced them in practice, he theoretically knows the materials for alchemy. They are all precious herbs and medicinal stones. I have never heard of using animals as ingredients to make elixirs.
"Is this a medicine introduction? Used as an ingredient?" He asked Qi Yatou, but Qi Yatou shook her head and said that she didn't know the art of external alchemy. In short, the prices of even the most common medicinal materials on the market have increased a lot recently.
Zhao Chuan asked Qi Yatou, what was the effect of refining the elixir like this in the end?
Qi Yatou said it was okay and could treat more than a thousand people a day.
However, the Marquis still thought the speed was too slow and ordered to speed up, so the Taoists had to refine the elixir day and night. The officers in the barracks felt that there were not enough manpower, so they asked ordinary soldiers to help. Xiaoyaozi disagreed, but the officers and soldiers did not listen to him. Then something happened, and there was a problem with the elixir that was produced.
"What went wrong?" Zhao Chuan asked.
"The effect of the medicine is very poor. It even kills people. Some people who survive are treated with deviations. They are either mentally abnormal or have abnormal limbs. They cry, scream, run around and call people crazy... in short, there are all kinds of things."
"This is because the Marquis wants haste but wastes time. No one else is to blame." Zhao Chuan said.
Qi Yatou said that Mr. Hou didn't care about this, so she was furious and wanted to punish Xiaoyaozi. Xiaoyaozi ran away in anger.
Zhao Chuan sighed and said that it is not good to get involved in official affairs. If it is handled well, it should be done. If it is not handled well, you will be punished. It is better to stay away from the official family.
Qi Yatou said yes.
Zhao Chuan said that he didn’t know how many good soldiers the Marquis could have left.
Qi Yatou said that of the 200,000 soldiers, not even half of them could hold swords and carry guns now, because many barracks were empty. As soon as Xiaoyaozi left, many Taoists also ran away.
"It seems that Qingfeng Temple is coming to an end!" Zhao Chuan said with some regret, "Poor Taoists, they will be homeless now."
Qi Yatou said that was not entirely the case, only some of the Taoists from Qingfeng Temple followed.
Zhao Chuan wanted to ask something more, but the oil lamp in the room ran out of fuel and the room was dark.
The lamp oil in the upper room uses pure vegetable oil extracted from plants, not animal fat, so it is considered to be the best oil. It does not smoke much when burning, and it does not have that unpleasant smell. It is very expensive. But the amount is small because it is only provided for short-term lighting before guests go to bed.
Higher-end inns have upper rooms, and candles are used in them, just like the first-class cabin on a luxury passenger ship on the river a few days ago.
But the price of an upper-class apartment is around five taels, so how can ordinary people afford it?
But Qi Yatou didn't understand this, because she rarely stayed in inns, and it was probably her first time staying in an inn with Zhao Chuan.
Qi Yatou asked Zhao Chuan to go down and ask the waiter to add lamp oil.
Zhao Chuan briefly told her the rules of the hotel, and deliberately said that if she asked for gas, she would have to pay extra, and the price was not low.
When Qi Yatou heard this, she said forget it and save some money to buy you the materials for making alchemy.
In fact, Zhao Chuan had no idea whether asking for extra gas would cost more or what the price would be. He deliberately said this to make Qi Yatou go to bed early, because he was still thinking about going out to have a private meeting with Shopkeeper Wang in the middle of the night. Woolen cloth.
Although it is an upper room, it still has one bed. Unless it is a suite, there are two beds. But that is a higher-end inn, and there is no need for an ordinary inn. Even if a middle-class family comes to stay with their slaves, the slaves will sleep on the floor in front of the bed.
This seventh girl didn't know either, because the second-class cabin she stayed in on the luxury passenger ship she took before originally had two beds, and later she was upgraded to first-class cabin, not to mention.
But now we only have one bed, how can we live there?
Before the oil lamp ran out, the two of them sat on the edge of the bed. Even in the guest room, there was no table, chairs or other things, because the room was out of place and the bed took up most of the space.
In the darkness, Qi Yatou began to take off her clothes.
Zhao Chuan didn't want to sleep on the bed because he still wanted to sneak out at midnight.
After Qi Yatou took off her clothes, she pulled the quilt and lay down without speaking or making any other movements.
Zhao Chuan was still sitting on the edge of the bed, motionless, until Qi Yatou kicked him half an hour later. Zhao Chuan fell to the bed with an ouch and lay down with his clothes on.
Qi Yatou snorted and turned over. Zhao Chuan closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, but unexpectedly he actually fell asleep after a while.
I don't know how long it took, Zhao Chuan was awakened by a small knocking sound next door. He raised his head and listened carefully. The sound was louder and quieter, like a rhythm, which was very strange.
So what is the woman in the house doing at this time? Zhao Chuan was curious.
In the darkness, Zhao Chuan pushed Qi Yatou, and she fell into a deep sleep.
Zhao Chuan suddenly remembered the date when that charming woman called him Zi.
Zhao Chuan thought to himself that it was too bad, why did he just fall asleep?
Zhao Chuan listened to the noise around him. Apart from the even breathing of the seven girls next to him, there were also tiny knocking sounds in the room next door.
Suddenly, the watchman's call came from the street outside, and the rhythm was exactly midnight.
Zhao Chuan felt very uneasy. That charming woman, Shopkeeper Wang's wife, asked him to meet and claimed that she had something she wanted. What was it?
Zhao Chuan quietly stood up, left the guest room and went downstairs.
Passing by the guest room next door, Zhao Chuan stopped. The strange knocking sound was definitely coming from inside, but as soon as Zhao Chuan stopped, the sound stopped.
What a strange woman, Zhao Zan thought to himself, and continued going downstairs without thinking too much.
Due to the lack of spiritual energy cultivation, Zhao Chuan had no night vision ability. He carefully walked downstairs and found that the door of the inn in the front hall was open.
Zhao Chuan was puzzled as to why the inn was not closed at night. Could it be that the waiter had forgotten?
Not only that, the back door of the front hall is also open, and the back door leads directly to the yard. In the yard, there are guest rooms, kitchen, as well as wing rooms, warehouses and other ancillary facilities of the inn.
There was moonlight in the yard, and through the moonlight Zhao Chuan discovered that the back door of the yard was also open.
Damn it, what's going on with this inn? It doesn't close the door when sleeping at night. What if a thief comes?
Is it possible that the public security here is so good that people don’t close their homes at night and don’t pick up things on the streets?
Zhao Chuan thought for a moment and decided to go out through the front door of the front hall. He thought it was suspicious to go through the back door of the courtyard in the middle of the night.
In fact, walking through the front door in the middle of the night was not going anywhere openly, because he was going to have a private meeting with someone else's wife.
It was dark in the front hall, and although the moonlight from outside the front and back doors could shine in a little, it didn't make much difference.
Zhao Chuan couldn't see anything in the darkness, so he could only rely on his impressions during the day to lightly lift his legs and feet like a cat and walk towards the front door. When he walked out of the front door, he saw the street. I guess the charming and charming shopkeeper Wang's wife was already tired of waiting.
Zhao Chuan had just taken three steps when he stepped on something soft under his feet. He was so frightened that he almost screamed and quickly retracted his legs and feet reflexively.
Zhao Chuan was subconsciously afraid of snakes because the feeling coming from under his feet was like stepping on a snake. Ever since he and Qinglian were bitten by poisonous snakes while playing in the mountains before escaping, he hated snakes very much, especially those that crawled on the ground. The viper of man.
Zhao Chuan stood calmly, and it took him a long time to calm down.
Thinking about it, this seems impossible. How could there be a snake in this inn where people come and go? There is realgar wine on the counter of this inn, and merchants who come and go can take it at will, drink a little or apply it on themselves, so it is often sprinkled everywhere in the store.
After drinking realgar wine, all diseases will go away. Zhao Chuan, who studies medicine, knows this well.
Realgar is commonly known as "cockscomb stone". Realgar wine is made by adding a trace amount of realgar to brewed wine. It has the effect of sterilizing, deworming and detoxifying. It can be used externally to treat skin diseases, remove toxins and relieve itching, prevent insects from biting, ward off evil and prevent epidemics.
Zhao Chuan was worried and tried tapping the spot with his toes again. No, the soft thing was still there.
Zhao Chuan was a little nervous. He wanted to retreat, but he was unwilling to do so. His curiosity rose again.
Damn it, this thing hasn't left yet. Is it a sleeping snake or a drunken snake?
Zhao Chuan tried it with his toes in the left and right directions. He felt that the soft thing was high and low, and the ups and downs did not look like a snake.
After trying it for a few times, Zhao Chuan knew in his heart that there was a person sleeping on the ground.
No wonder the front and back doors were not closed. It turned out that someone was sleeping on the floor. It seemed that the business of this inn was really good. There were not enough rooms, so late guests had to make beds on the floor in the front hall.
In order to verify, Zhao Chuan squatted down and touched the position he had just tested with his hand.
This test made Zhao Chuan suspicious again. It was a real person, but a woman! Zhao Chuan touched the two large protruding balls on the man's chest.
It's wrong that it's a woman, because men can't find a place to make do with it because the guest room is tight. How can this woman sleep in such a place?
Zhao Chuan subconsciously touched his head. The man had a beard, but the woman did not. He wanted to make sure again.
Well, she is a woman. She has no beard. Check if she has an Adam's apple.
When Zhao Chuan touched his neck, his whole body trembled suddenly. His hand was wet and there was a big hole in his throat!
Zhao Chuan subconsciously put his hand on his nose and sniffed. He couldn't help but screamed and collapsed on the ground. This was a murdered woman on the ground!
"Hahaha..." Following Zhao Chuan's surprised voice, the dark front hall burst into laughter. Then the lights came on, and Zhao Chuan saw that half of the hall was filled with people who had eaten during the day.
"Killed!"
"Catch the murderer"
"The princess has been killed! Catch the assassin!"...
A chorus of shouts rang out from various parts of the front hall and courtyard.
Zhao Chuan was stunned for a moment. Before he could react, he was pinned to the ground by several people who came over and couldn't move. "Don't move!" "You will die if you move!" Someone threatened in a low voice.
In fact, Zhao Chuan had already collapsed on the ground. When he touched the murdered woman, he was so frightened that his limbs became weak and he couldn't move even if he wanted to.
"It's terrible, the princess has been killed! Catch the assassin! Catch the murderer..." Someone stood on the street outside the front door and shouted, deliberately turning his body and shouting back and forth.
"Okay, okay! That's enough, stop shouting." Someone whispered to stop the shouting, came in from the outside, and kicked Zhao Chuan, who was in a daze, "Tie him up!"
