After Wang Wenyan asked his waiter to add two more glazed candle lamps, he gathered the powdered medicine residue in the palm of his hand and distinguished it carefully.
Not long after, he raised his eyes and looked at Zheng Haizhu: "It is indeed the shell of aphrodisiac, the poppy shell you asked about."
"Oh? Mr. Wang, the doctor's name is A Furong, isn't it called A Piao Mu?"
"A Piao Mu?" Wang Wenyan smacked these three words, shook his head and said, "I've never heard of it. However, Wang is not a doctor, so he could identify this thing just because when he was a jailer, he was treated by a relative of a prisoner. Yinzi, let's get some aphrodisiac to give people pain relief. Besides..."
Wang Wenyan hesitated for a moment when he said this. He thought that Zheng Haizhu was not one of those ladies with skin as thin as paper. He finally said: "Besides, this stuff is always kept in the royal pharmacy in the palace. It can be boiled into a decoction and mixed with Pour some honey and feed it to Long Live Lord to help you enjoy it."
Zheng Haizhu made a clear expression.
Sure enough, as he had told Yan Siqi before, the harem of the Ming Dynasty used poppies as the emperor's aphrodisiac. However, the Imperial Pharmacy at this time did not call it "A Piao Mu Ointment" or "Opium", and they probably didn't know how to smoke it.
But Wang Wenyan rubbed the broken poppy shells again, put them together, continued to examine them for a moment, squinted his eyes and said: "These are in good condition, not like those from the west, but more like those from Java, and the palace." It’s the same one used in the house. Madam Zheng, when you ask about this matter, did you encounter something strange? "
As soon as he finished speaking, the waiter from the wine shop came in a hurry, leading two men.
"Madam, are you okay, madam?" Li Daniu shouted loudly as soon as he walked around the waterside pavilion.
"Nothing, come here." Zheng Haizhu responded.
When the two of them arrived at the table, Wang Wenyan, the person who went to Zheng's shop to hand over the name card, bowed and reported: "Master, the store manager Qin, a flower girl, and this brother Li are all worried about whether Madam. An Tuo, the younger one has been sitting there for less than half an hour, and Brother Li asked the younger one to lead the way to find it."
Wang Wenyan dismissed his followers and bowed his hands to Li Daniu calmly: "You should do your duty as a subordinate. Brother Li, sit down and have a drink at Yuezhou Bar."
Zheng Haizhu then spoke: "Sit down, I am asking Mr. Wang about Governor Liu's matter, please listen."
Li Daniu followed the instructions and sat down at the table, his eyes falling on the medicine dregs.
For a while, Li Daniu had been staying near the home of the doctor who was treating the child of Liu Qiao, the governor of Fusi in Beizhen. He found that the patients who came for consultation only took the prescriptions and left to make their own medicines. Li Daniu rarely smelled the smell of decoction three or four times. The doctor always picked up the jar and hurried out. Later, he found out that he was going to Liu's house to deliver medicine.
Yesterday, Li Daniu finally got a chance and waited for the doctor to throw the medicine residue and melon and vegetable garbage into the big basket at the entrance of the alley. Li Daniu then took out the copper plate, found a refugee doll, pretended to be getting food, and went to pick out the medicine residue.
"Daniu, you're wasting your energy. Mr. Wang took a look and found that there is indeed something wrong with this medicine."
Luo Sigong and Liu Qiao have been on Zhu Changluo's side in the past few years and have a close friendship with Wang An. Therefore, after Zheng Haizhu had an in-depth talk with Wang Wenyan today, she decided to use Wang Wenyan's strength to investigate Zheng Haizhu, who was listed as suspicious. list of people.
Zheng Haizhu then told Wang Wenyan in a concise and concise manner that she went to befriend Liu Qiao but found out that there was something wrong with the doctor hired by his family.
Wang Wenyan frowned and said thoughtfully: "Afurong can aphrodisiac, analgesic, and cure diarrhea in children. This is the first time I have heard of it."
"Mr. Wang, what's the price of aphrodisiac?"
"Go to the black market to get good ones. It only costs a tael of silver for a few bucks."
Zheng Haizhu said: "So, maybe this thing does have an anti-dysenteric effect on the intestines and stomach, but it is just because it is extremely expensive and mostly sold as tribute. I don't know where folk doctors can get it. That's why it's weird. I want to visit Liu. When I was a child, I asked Mrs. Liu about her prescription. She didn't hear her mention it. She only praised the doctor for being so powerful. The combination was just ordinary herbs, but the medicine cured the disease. The doctor looked poor, so why could he use the expensive medicine? Why is the drug so expensive? Why give it to the Liu family for free and not let them know? Why does this doctor claim to be from Shanxi, and the drug in his hand is not a tribute from the northwest trade route, but from Java? "
Wang Wenyan's eyes turned cold: "Why did Madam become suspicious of the doctor?"
Zheng Haizhu then mentioned that the doctor's hands seemed to be open all year round, and also mentioned that although Liu Qiao's child had no diarrhea after taking medicine, he slept for an unusually long time.
Wang Wenyan nodded and said: "Afron can make even adult men addicted, let alone young children. This doctor must have malicious intentions."
Zheng Haizhu stared at him: "Either he came to find Liu Qiao because of his own personal enmity, or there was someone behind the scenes. Mr. Wang, Liu Qiao is the leader of Fusi in Beizhen, Luo Sigong is in harmony with him, and most of the Jinyi Guards Ding and Liu Qiao are both incompetent."
Wang Wenyan tried to figure out what Zheng Haizhu meant. He held the wine glass to his lips, but he didn't drink a drop of wine.
From the speculation that Concubine Zheng wants to use Li Kezhuo as a chess piece, to the speculation that Liu Qiao may be threatened by the power in the shadows, how can this woman named Zheng have the ability to sift through all the clues until the net has been woven, and it seems that something is really going to happen?
"You have to send someone to keep an eye on it," Wang Wenyan said in a low voice.
This is what Zheng Haizhu wants.
She then simply agreed and added a request: "Mr. Wang, I have just arrived in Beijing. The servants who serve as sentinels in the south have not yet arrived. I am not able to do anything. I have to rely on my husband's foundation. He must send someone to keep an eye on Li Ke all the way." Zhuo, keep an eye on the doctor all the way. In addition, give me two more teams of sentinels."
Wang Wenyan was surprised: "There are still weird people and strange things? Which two characters are they?"
"There is a scribe named Gu Qingquan in the imperial prison. He has been spying on me since the first time I went to see Commander Luo. And the last one is Cui Wensheng's younger brother, Cui Wenjing, the leader of the patrol camp in the capital. As far as I know, patrol camps have always been a place for relatives or nobles to enrich themselves with free money, and none of the previous admirals were as flattering as Cui Wenjing, asking the Ministry of War to transfer General Ma Xianglin to help him train troops."
Wang Wenyan is also an old Jianghu with eight hundred holes in his heart, and his mind works very quickly and cunningly. The information Zheng Haizhu said even when mixed together does not affect his understanding and association.
"Mrs. Zheng, I will come to arrange this matter tomorrow. I have to ask Brother Li to take my people to identify the appearance of the doctor and the clerk. It doesn't matter whether these four people have their own grudges, their own masters, or We work together for the same purpose, and if anything strange is discovered, Wang will have his subordinates communicate with you immediately."
It was an agreement between the two parties that they would say goodbye this night.
Two days later, Zheng Haizhu took several pairs of Songjiang cloth shoes for adults and children and went to Baoxu Temple.
Jingzhao was not there, so her disciples welcomed Zheng Haizhu into the temple and took her to the vegetable field.
The man with the Sichuan accent and his baby were both there last time.
