Oh, it's just a drug test, a small matter. Pei Yuan was relieved.

But he reacted in an instant, his eyes widened, and he asked in disbelief: "Do you want me to test the drug?!"

Bao Ning hid back in fear, she was afraid that Pei Yuan's saliva would spray on her face.

Pei Yuan clenched his fists and said angrily, "The mud balls you made are black and smelly. You don't even dare to eat them, but you asked me to eat them! You are afraid of getting ulcers after eating them, but what if I get ulcers? Aren't you afraid of poisoning me to death?"

"What are you talking about?" Bao Ning patted his hands comfortingly, "How could I poison you to death? If you die, I will be a widow. I am so young, I don't want to be a young widow! How about this, before you eat it, let's find some small fish and shrimps to see if they will be poisoned to death. If you are still worried, let's feed a little mouse. I prepared it according to the ancient recipe, and the herbs I used are non-toxic, very common and mild herbs, Don't be afraid, it's useless at best... but you won't die."

Pei Yuan asked her, "Since it's not poisonous, why don't you eat it?"

Bao Ning touched her face, looked at Pei Yuan again, and smiled flatteringly.

That smile was self-evident.

Bao Ning pinched her fingers and gestured to him: "Just a little, just a little."

She was afraid that Pei Yuan would be angry, so she pulled his arm and assured him: "Ayuan, don't worry, this is really not poison. I know some medical skills, don't you believe me! It's just that the skin on my face is delicate, and I feel uncomfortable if I eat something cold or spicy on weekdays. I'm afraid that after eating this, I will get a rash on my face, and then I won't be able to see people. You try it first... I swear to you, it's really just a few small rashes at most, and they will disappear soon."

Bao Ning's voice became smaller: "You are dark and your face is rough, you can't see it..."

Bao Ning put her face on Pei Yuan's arm, rubbed him, and looked obedient and flattering: "I'll make you something delicious, don't be angry."

Pei Yuan was not angry, he just felt helpless.

He rubbed Bao Ning's head and coaxed her, "You are already beautiful enough, you don't need to eat those messy things."

"What do you know!" Bao Ning said with disgust, "How can beauty have no limit? The ancient prescription says that this pill will not only make people whiter, but also emit a fragrance."

Pei Yuan couldn't understand and looked at her in silence.

How can beauty have no limit? He thought Bao Ning was the most beautiful.

"Your Majesty's favorite concubine is called Concubine Diexiang. Do you know her?" Baoning looked up at him and tried to persuade him. "She has a fragrance on her body, and butterflies will stay on her for a while. I heard from the palace servants that the palace where Concubine Diexiang lives is full of fragrance. That's why Your Majesty likes her so much, making all the concubines jealous."

Pei Yuan asked, "Where did you hear that? She attracts butterflies. Is she a monster?"

Baoning said, "I heard it from Nanny Li in the kitchen. Her niece works in the palace. I heard from her description that Concubine Diexiang might have eaten this little fragrance pill."

"How strange." Pei Yuan's attention has never been on Xiao Xiangdan. He said, "Madame Li is almost sixty years old, right? She is still interested in this kind of thing and cares about how a concubine is favored. Women are really interesting. They always look at their faces in the mirror, draw eyebrows, paint lips, and they can't paint enough even after decades. What kind of addiction is this? If the scholars and generals in the world can have this ability, thinking day and night about how to study and how to improve martial arts, how could my Great Zhou not be able to conquer the Huns in the north?"

"I'm telling you about Xiao Xiangdan." Bao Ning frowned, "What nonsense are you talking about."

Pei Yuan asked, "Do you know why we and the Huns have to fight endlessly?"

Bao Ning looked at him for a long time: "I'm telling you about Xiao Xiangdan..."

"Speaking of war, I thought of another thing." Pei Yuan stood up, pulled Bao Ning to stand up, and said seriously, "I should teach you some boxing and kicking skills for self-defense! Or give you some useful hidden weapons. If you meet a thief again, you can poke his eyes out! I'll show you, and you learn. First, let's do a horse stance together..."

Bao Ning shouted at him, "I'm talking to you about Xiao Xiangdan!"

Pei Yuan asked, "What is Xiao Xiangdan?"

"It's this, it's this!" Bao Ning was about to throw the box in his face, and asked angrily, "Are you doing this on purpose? You keep talking around the bush and talking so much nonsense!"

... was exposed.

Pei Yuan took the box helplessly and asked tentatively, "Do you really have to eat it?"

He resisted this not because he was afraid of getting a rash on his face, but because he was afraid that this thing would really work... If he really became fragrant, his fragrance would spread ten miles in the martial arts arena, and Wei Meng's big teeth would be broken into eight pieces from laughing.

Bao Ning was particularly stubborn about this matter: "I want to be beautiful."

She learned bad habits and gave a sweet date after a blow. After she finished yelling, she hugged Pei Yuan's arm and whispered, "I will compensate you. I will help you cut your nails, shave your beard, and make you pumpkin cakes."

Pei Yuan thought for a moment and reluctantly agreed.

Bao Ning happily tiptoed to kiss him.

This mouthful made Pei Yuan feel relieved instantly. He changed his mind and thought, if he could be treated like this, it would not matter if the fragrance spread for ten miles. Even if the fragrance spread for ten thousand miles and he became a spiced duck in the sky above the Great Zhou Dynasty, he would be happy with it.

Little Xiangdan. Pei Yuan silently recited these three words, and in a flash, an idea suddenly appeared in his mind...

Baoning didn't know what Pei Yuan was thinking. She buried her face in Pei Yuan's neck and sniffed . The light smell of soap was mixed with his own smell. She secretly took note of it, wondering if there would be any changes in a few days.

"Let's eat." Baoning kissed him on the chin again as an encouragement.

The dinner was considered rich. Baoning was still a little cold last night, but after a while with Pei Yuan today, he sweated and his minor illness was almost cured. She ate her fill, and seeing Pei Yuan had finished his meal, she urged him to go find Wei Meng. They had already wasted a lot of time, so they should not miss out on important matters.

Pei Yuan did not move, and he spat out the last bite of chicken bones, and suddenly said, "Ningning, show me your pill and prescription."

Bao Ning did not understand, but still took them out and handed them to him.

Pei Yuan lowered his eyes and looked at it for a long time, his face was solemn at first, and he was thinking about something in his heart. After a while, he suddenly laughed.

Bao Ning thought he looked extremely creepy, as if he had gone crazy.

She regretted it and tried to snatch the box back, comforting him: "A Yuan, if you really don't want to eat, I won't force you, you don't have to do this... We don't want to eat, can you go back to your normal self..."

"You've helped me a lot!" Pei Yuan hugged her waist, Bao Ning fell into his arms, Pei Yuan pressed the back of her head and kissed her hard, "I don't know how to love you, I'll take you to eat spiced duck in two days when I'm free, it's very delicious, you will definitely like it!"

He had not shaved his stubble, which hurt Baoning and made Baoning confused. What was Pei Yuan talking about?

"I'll be back soon." Pei Yuan kissed her on the corner of her mouth again and left in a hurry.

...

Wei Meng was washing her feet in the room.

He heard from Aunt Liu that Baoning always put flower petals in his bath and foot bath water, which would make his skin delicate and soft, and he wanted to learn it.

He was indeed old and it was time for him to get married, but no one was interested in him. He usually hung out in Qingluofang and had a few familiar lovers, including prostitutes and those who played and sang folk songs. They were of clean family backgrounds, and he liked them very much. He thought that even if he couldn't marry a wife, finding a good girl to be his concubine and treating her well on weekdays would also help relieve his loneliness.

They wouldn't stare at Pei Yuan with envy every day.

But after asking the brothel owner, it turned out that none of the girls were happy to do it!

Wei Meng was shocked and asked the reason. The brothel owner was embarrassed to say it at first, but later hinted that it was because he was rude and had a strong body odor, so the girls didn't like him and said that his feet were smelly.

There are a few people who practice martial arts who don't have a strong body odor. Is this a problem? Wei Meng was angry and followed Pei Yuan for a few days to smell him. Seeing that he really didn't have a strange smell, he became even more distressed. It wasn't until this afternoon that he asked Aunt Liu and found out that this was because Pei Yuan sometimes took a bath and soaked his feet with fresh flower water with Bao Ning.

Such a simple method... he also wants to change!

But Wei Meng is a big man and he is embarrassed to pick flowers for fear of being laughed at. After much deliberation, he bought a few kilograms of expensive tea leaves as a substitute.

The moment Pei Yuan opened the door, he was almost smoked out.

The strong smell of tea mixed with the unspeakable smell of rotten eggs on Wei Meng's feet. Pei was originally excited to tell him the plan he had just come up with, but after the smell, he forgot everything.

Wei Meng was happy to find a solution by himself, and greeted him cheerfully: "Are you awake? You can sleep well, that's the good thing about young people. Come and sit down, come and sit down!"

Pei Yuan stared at the tea leaves floating in the basin under his feet. After the hot water was poured in, they were already soaked.

Pei Yuan asked him, "Why do you wash your feet in the pot of tea eggs?"

"..." Wei Meng was too lazy to explain to him, and did not invite him to sit down. He said in a rough voice, "If you have something to say, please tell me now."

Pei Yuan took a stick and stirred and searched in his basin, cursing, "Are you sick? You can't tell the difference between good eggs and rotten eggs. Take out the rotten eggs quickly. What a strange smell, it's disgusting!"

Wei Meng resisted kicking him and shouted, "If you have something to say, please tell me now!"

Pei Yuan saw that he was really insisting, frowned, and did not stop him. He went out for a while, took off his belt, tied it around his nose, and felt a little more comfortable when he came back. People who practice martial arts have a keen sense of smell. In the past, I thought it was a good thing, but now I know that everything has its pros and cons, and good and bad are interdependent.

Wei Meng said angrily: "Chang Xi is hanging in the woodshed. If you want to find him, go ahead. I have to wash my feet first."

Pei Yuan felt that he was weird today. But he had something important to say, so he held back for the moment. He sat a little further away from Wei Meng and said in a deep voice, "Let Chang Xi go."

"..." Wei Meng looked up at him in astonishment, "I, am I confused by you?"

"When the poisoning happened, all the blame was directed at me and the eldest prince. Later, we were wrongly accused. Until now, we have not found any evidence to prove that what happened that day was a frame-up." Pei Yuan said slowly, "But if there is no evidence, we can do it ourselves. Pei Xiao gave false testimony, so why can't we?"

Wei Meng noticed what he had in his hand and asked, "What is that?"

"An ancient prescription." Pei Yuan handed it to him and raised his chin slightly, "Pei Xiao's princess will definitely like it."

The moment he saw the ancient prescription's name, Wei Meng secretly swallowed his saliva and said, "I saw the young lady grinding it tonight."

Pei Yuan nodded, answering his question, and then said, "Pei Xiao relied on his retainers to save the son of the left prime minister and win over the left prime minister's heart. It is better to follow the same method and send a retainer to Pei Xiao through today's event to win over his heart."

"Chang Xi is already a useless chess piece." Wei Meng said, "Pei Xiao will definitely make a move to draw a clear line with him..."

After a moment, he understood and looked at Pei Yuan and said, "I understand your thoughts! You want to arrange a drama of a loyal retainer risking his life to save people, so that the retainer can show his face in front of Pei Xiao. In this way, no matter whether Chang Xi stays with Pei Xiao or not, the retainer will leave Pei Xiao with the impression of a die-hard fan and gain his trust first. Do you want to give the recipe to Pei Xiao through the retainer's hands?"

"It's dedicated to Gao Feihe." Pei Yuan tapped the armrest of the chair with his fingers, his eyes far-reaching. "Soon, the Mid-Autumn Festival will be full, and we will have a family banquet. If Gao Taifu's beloved granddaughter died at the banquet because she took the pills Pei Xiao made for her..."

Wei Meng's eyes lit up, and his fists on his knees clenched excitedly: "This plan is very good, but there are still some omissions and improprieties. We need to think carefully!"

Pei Yuan said . Pei Yuan turned around and said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow."

He glanced at Wei Meng and said, "I really can't stand the smell of you. I've only heard of people eating stinky tofu, but I've never heard of eating stinky tea eggs. You'd better eat less."

Wei Meng looked at his hurried back and endured it. Finally, he called him just before Pei Yuan stepped out: "Young general!"

Pei Yuan turned around and was surprised to see Wei Meng's cheeks dyed with a hint of red. He felt uncomfortable.

Wei Meng was embarrassed and didn't dare to look at Pei Yuan. He tilted his head and said, "I have something to ask of you. I know you may laugh at me or refuse, but I still want to say it."

What's going on this night? Baoning is like this, and he is like this, saying such roundabout words.

Pei Yuan said unhappily: "If you have to fart, just fart."

"That little perfume pill, I watched the young lady make it tonight." Wei Meng turned to look at him, with suppressed excitement in his eyes, "Can you let me try it?"

Pei Yuan was stunned.

Wei Meng had expected this reaction. He was hesitant, but he was really eager to become fragrant, so he explained it to Pei Yuan all at once.

Pei Yuan's expression gradually became subtle.

Wei Meng closed his eyes, ready to be ridiculed, but unexpectedly, Pei Yuan actually walked over and patted his shoulder solemnly: "Good brother."

Wei Meng was stunned: "Ah?"

Pei Yuan earnestly persuaded him: "Old Wei, don't worry. It's just that your feet are a little smelly, it's not a big problem, let's take the medicine well, it will get better, there will be women who like you, you have to have confidence."

So warm? Wei Meng was flattered.

"Good brother, you can take as many pills as you want." Pei Yuan looked at him with concern, but he could not hide his joy, "Brother, I'll take them for you!"