"I'm sorry, I'm sorry—" Huo Qubing said, shaking his shoulders.
Seeing Xie Yuan looking over, he got up and left very wisely.
Not long after, there was unstoppable laughter from outside.
Wang Ergou: "..."
Give him another place to live.
"Xiao Yuan, what are you..." Qi Yan looked at Xie Yuan with a look of astonishment on his face.
Xie Yuan threw Wang Ergou away and went to the side to clean his hands: "I just went to the mulberry field and saw this man sneaking around, so I brought him back."
Thinking of something, Xie Yuan took out the handkerchief and handed it to Qi Yan: "Brother, I took a look at the medical book I had been studying recently to see the white powder on the waterwheel. I always feel like I have seen it somewhere."
Qi Yan nodded, glanced at Wang Ergou, who was covered in manure, with disgust, then walked around him and left.
Wang Ergou: "..."
Have been insulted.
Soon, Qi Yan brought a bunch of medical books and the two of them started studying them together.
Cui Xunzhi has also been learning medical skills from Xie Yuan recently. Hearing that they were going to investigate the poison in mulberry fields, he came to help and learned a thing or two along the way.
When Wang Ergou saw the three people studying there, he wanted to take the opportunity to escape, but found that except for a mouth, a pair of eyes, and a nose to breathe, his entire body was inoperable.
He had a stroke?!
Wang Ergou looked horrified.
"I tapped your acupuncture points, and you can't move now." Xie Yuan raised his head, helped his self-conscious eyes, and smiled slightly, "If you don't tell me what you're going to do today, you're really going to have a stroke."
Wang Ergou also laughed: "I am from the Wang family in Taiyuan, you are just a humble person, what can you do to me?"
"Are they from the Wang family in Taiyuan, or are they just common people who are arrogant in the name of the Wang family from Taiyuan?" Xie Yuan raised his eyebrows.
Wang Ergou choked and stared at Xie Yuan: "What does it have to do with you? You are just a member of a poor family. What qualifications do you have to mention the Wang family in Taiyuan?"
Qi Yan said calmly: "Well, if an insignificant member of the Wang clan has a stroke, he will have a stroke."
Cui Xunzhi glanced at Wang Ergou, pursed his lips and snickered.
Wang Ergou's face turned red and white, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Untie it for me, and I'll tell you who ordered me here."
Xie Yuan shook the knife in his hand, propped up his chin and said, "Exactly, I want to study the blood flow in the human body after acupuncture. You can make a contribution to medicine."
Wang Ergou: "!!"
What kind of change in the world is this!
Seeing Xie Yuan holding the knife and really trying to come out, Wang Ergou was completely frightened.
"I said, I said, don't kill me!"
Wang Ergou confessed everything.
When Dazai saw that Xie Yuan was making a lot of money, he was very jealous.
It happened that several other overseas Chinese families couldn't bear to see Xie Yuan making money, so they got together and came up with a plan to destroy his mulberry fields, leaving Xie Yuan unable to make silk and having to face the dissatisfaction of his hired workers.
and condemnation.
After hearing this, Qi Yan chuckled: "It's really the way of the aristocratic family."
"It's not all true, brother of the Qi family. Like our Huo family, we are loved by the people." Huo Qubing walked in carrying a pot of boiled hot water.
Cui Xunzhi also nodded and said in sign language to Qi Yan: "Our Cui family is not like this."
When Wang Ergou over there saw Huo Qubing, he was stunned for a long time before he remembered that he was a descendant of the Huo family.
Because I became Xie Yuan's retainer, I followed him.
And this woman... I remembered that she was the female disciple Cui Taigong asked Xie Yuan to accept, Cui Xunzhi, the future head of the Cui family!
Damn it, if you offend Xie Yuan, doesn't that mean you offend the Cui family and the Huo family?
Wang Ergou was thinking about how to apologize when he heard Xie Yuan ask: "Is there an antidote to this poison?"
"Yes, there is, but it's difficult to make." Wang Ergou hesitated for a moment, nodded, and then looked at Xie Yuan with a flattering smile, "Little sir, you see I have said it all, please untie it."
Xie Yuan nodded, picked up three silver needles from the desk, and threw them over under Wang Ergou's horrified eyes.
Three silver needles were inserted into three acupoints by Xie Yuan with very tricky force. However, Wang Ergou regained consciousness after a while, but his legs were extremely numb.
He collapsed on the ground with a plop, tremblingly pulled out the silver needle, and when he was about to leave, he was stopped by Xie Yuan.
"What else do you want, little sir?" Wang Ergou smiled flatteringly while rubbing his legs.
Xie Yuan pointed to the feces on the ground: "Clean the road you came from before leaving."
Wang Ergou: "..."
walk slowly!
People under the eaves have to bow their heads.
Wang Ergou worked hard for most of an hour and finally cleaned up.
When I left, I happened to have breakfast in the academy.
The guests saw that he was greedy, so they gave Wang Ergou two white-flour buns.
Wang Ergou has never seen anyone eating white-flour steamed buns as food in his whole life - these are tributes, things that even the emperor can't afford, but this academy actually uses them for breakfast!
It’s actually so plump and white!
Mmm, smells good!
Wang Ergou gnawed the white flour buns and left. Xie Yuan finally found out the origin of the white flour buns.
It is somewhat similar to the ingredients of modern paraquat, and it is indeed difficult to make an antidote as Wang Ergou said.
But it’s not like there is no cure like in modern times.
At this time, a servant who looked after the manor came to deliver a message.
Only then did Xie Yuan realize that not only the mulberry fields in Kuaiji County had been poisoned, but also all the mulberry fields under his name in the entire Jiangnan area had been poisoned.
After hearing this, Huo Qubing swallowed the steamed buns in his mouth and cursed angrily: "Those bastards, these mulberry fields were raised little by little by tenant farmers, and they were all poisoned like this!"
Qi Yan also frowned tightly.
Why are these aristocratic families so small-minded?
You are allowed to make money on your own, but children from poor families and common people are not allowed to make money.
Xie Yuan knocked on the table and tilted his head to look at the sky outside.
The sky was gloomy and it seemed like it was going to rain.
"Unjust, please take someone to count how much silver we have lost in this batch of mulberry fields, including how much silk can be made into, and count it accurately." Xie Yuan picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
"My lord, what are you doing?" Huo Qubing nodded, put down his bowls and chopsticks, and asked suddenly when he was about to leave.
"Of course it's for debt collection." Xie Yuan said with a smile.
Huo Qubing shrank his neck.
I always feel that the aristocratic family with the overseas surname headed by my maternal cousin Wang is going to be in bad luck.
I don't know who spread the news that the mulberry field was destroyed and all the summer silkworms were poisoned. The merchants who originally ordered silk from Xie Yuan were unhappy.
I've paid the deposit, why are you causing this for me?
Funny.
Get your money back!
The merchants made a fuss in the academy, and Xie Yuan returned the deposit in full.
Due to the shortage of silk, the goods that should be sent to the Western Regions and transferred to Luo Chen were delayed.
It didn't take long.
On July 3rd, the tea leaves in tea gardens across the Yangtze River matured.
Tea farmers began to pick tea leaves.
The tea in this season is called autumn tea, and it tastes so refreshing.
Comrade Xiao Xie also has several tea gardens under his name.