After appeasing the two women, Li Qi found Weigang.
Some time ago, he asked Wei Gang to check out the two addresses he had deleted. Now that he is back, there must be results.
When Li Qi entered Weigang's room, Weigang was devouring sesame seed cakes.
"Monk, have you found the place?" Li Qi sat down and gave him a cup of tea, "Eat slowly and don't choke."
Wei Gang swallowed the sesame seed cake in his mouth, then looked at Li Qi and said, "Sir, I found it. I have visited both of the two places you mentioned, and one of them meets your requirements very well."
"Is it far?" Li Qi asked.
"It's not far. If you start from the villa, you can get there in one day." Wei Gang said.
Li Qi nodded thoughtfully: "Okay, you have a good rest these days, and you will be ready to go in these few days."
"Okay, sir."
Li Qi didn't see Zong Mixing for two days in a row, and he didn't know how her conversation with the owner of the village went.
Li Qi knew that since she didn't come to him, it meant that the father and daughter must be at loggerheads.
He also felt a little regretful, and wanted to comfort Zong Mixing, but he was afraid that it would be self-defeating, and that girl would run away with him in a hurry, and that would be the end of it.
Li Qi simply pretended not to know anything and continued to eat and drink as usual every day.
Just when he was about to tell Zong Yinghao about his departure, someone from the Yamen suddenly came looking for him.
The person who came was the prefect of Kuncheng, and his posture was called a big one.
Thousands of officers and soldiers came, and as soon as this guy arrived, he went directly to Zong Yinghao to ask for medicine to cure smallpox.
"Zongzhuang Master, I heard that your daughter has developed a medicine to cure the plague?" The Kuncheng prefect's name is Zhang Min, and he should be in his forties.
Zong Yinghao said with a smile: "I dare not hide it from the prefect. Cowpox is just a medicine to prevent the plague, not a cure."
"Did your daughter develop it?"
Zong Yinghao shook his head: "No."
Zhang Mian was a little surprised: "Oh? Who is that?"
"I can recommend this person to the prefect." Zong Yinghao said.
"Okay, just come here and let me take a look." Zhang Min sat on the Grand Master's chair and gave orders.
Zong Yinghao nodded and asked someone to call Li Qi over.
When Li Qi came to the main hall and saw so many officers and soldiers, he was a little surprised. He didn't react until he saw a middle-aged man wearing the official uniform of a prefect sitting on the chair of the grand master.
"Are you Li Qi?" Zhang Mian looked at Li Qi and asked.
Li Qi nodded without being humble or arrogant: "I am."
Li Qi was too experienced in dealing with imperial officials.
Although he is only a fifth-grade petty official, he is still a Beijing official.
"Why don't you salute me when you see me?" Zhang Ming said.
Li Qi has always been a relatively low-key person, so he smiled and saluted: "I have met the prefect."
"I heard that you developed the medicine to treat the plague?" Zhang Ming said.
Li Qi did not deny it, nodded and said: "Back to the governor, what I invented is only a medicine to prevent smallpox, not a medicine to cure smallpox."
"smallpox?"
"Yes, it is what adults call a plague. This disease is called smallpox."
"The name smallpox is very fitting." Zhang Ming said, "I came here today just to ask you for the formula."
Although things like cowpox are very simple to get, Li Qi knows very well that this is the treasure that he needs to settle down in this era.
How could you just give it to someone else casually?
Moreover, he specifically told Zong Mixing that the process of making cowpox should not be told to anyone.
"I wonder what the recipe is for, sir?" Li Qi asked.
Zhang Mian said with some displeasure: "Of course it's to drive away the plague."
"I have prepared the medicine to dispel the plague. If you need it, I will give it to you."
"What I want is the formula!" Zhang Ming raised his voice.
Zong Yinghao on the side saw that something was not right in the atmosphere, so he quickly smoothed things over and said, "Mr. Zhang, you haven't eaten all the way here, right? How about I ask the kitchen to prepare some..."
Zhang Ming waved his hand: "I don't have time to eat with you. The purpose of my coming here today is to get the formula. Li Qi, if you give the formula to me, I can give you some rewards."
"Oh? I wonder what your lord wants to reward me?" Li Qi said.
"How about five hundred taels of silver?"
Grandma's, five hundred taels? Where's the one you sent to beg?
Young Master, I usually give thousands or even thousands of taels in tips. You want to buy cowpox for only 500 taels?
Are you kidding me?
Li Qi smiled and said, "This recipe is passed down from ancestors, so I'm very sorry that I can't give it to you."
"Bold!" Zhang Min slammed the table, shaking the tea bowl off the table.
"Li Qi, do you know the consequences of doing this?"
"The consequences? I don't know, I hope the adults can give me advice."
Li Qi came out this time with the prince's decree. Otherwise, the journey would not have been so smooth. All the checkpoints were passed in seconds.
Although Zhang Ming was a fourth-grade official, he was nothing in front of the prince's decree.
So Li Qi didn't panic at all.
"Okay! Someone come and bring this unruly man down to me!"
As soon as Zhang Mian finished speaking, several officers and soldiers rushed towards Li Qi. Seeing this, Zong Yinghao gritted his teeth and said: "Master Zhang, this is the West Dian Villa!"
"Why Zong Yinghao, do you want to go against the imperial court?"
"The villain dare not."
"Then stop talking so much nonsense!"
Zong Yinghao clenched his fists tightly and endured it.
When the officers and soldiers came to Li Qi, Wei Gang also rushed over. In a few seconds, several officers and soldiers fell to the ground in an instant.
Zhang Min was a little surprised, but his eyes became even colder: "You're such a cunning citizen, you dare to go against the imperial court. Someone come and capture these two rebels."
"Wait a minute!" Li Qi shouted.
For a moment, the people who rushed up hesitated. During this gap, Li Qi said: "What a great official power! Do you know who I am?"
Zhang Min stared at Li Qi and sneered: "I don't care who you are!"
"Really? Your Excellency just said that I was a rebel, didn't you?"
"What are you if you're not a rebel?"
Li Qi took out the prince's edict and raised it above his head: "This is the prince's edict. I, Li Qi, came here with the edict. You said that I am a rebel. Does that mean you think the prince is a rebel? Let me see who dares to touch me today.
Try it!"
As soon as this statement came out, everyone's expressions changed drastically!
Zhang Min stared at the edict in Li Qi's hand, a little confused.
Zong Yinghao was also stunned for a moment, apparently unable to react.
Li Qi was not polite at all, and directly handed the edict to the officers and soldiers on the side: "Why don't you take it over and show the truth to the prefect?"
The officer and soldier hesitated for a moment, glanced at Zhang Min, saw him nodding, then took the order and handed it to Zhang Min.