Chapter 521: Fighting Yuanbao from a Distance

Yan Shirong smiled and whispered back, "This is really a little phoenix. I know that Taigong is old and hard to deceive, so I won't lie to him."

"Hey, kid," the old prince raised his palm-leaf fan and gestured at him, "How dare you tease Taigong!"

Emperor Mingpei glanced at him a few times and asked Xinbao, "Is it okay for Grandpa to be here?"

He actually wanted to ask how the old prince was doing, but unexpectedly Xinbao replied, "Grandpa was very obedient and took a nap."

Emperor Mingpei laughed: "Did the grandfather bully Xinbao and my brother?"

"No," Xinbao said, "Grandpa just fanned the air, it's okay." She peeked inside and whispered to Yeye, "Only A-niang can shoot the bull from a distance."

Emperor Mingpei asked: "What do you mean by shooting a bull across a mountain?"

Xinbao peeked inside again and repeated quietly: "Hit the cow across the mountain." She pointed at herself with her little hands.

Is she a cow? Emperor Mingpei twitched his lips: "Who is the mountain?"

Xinbao said, "Brother Xiaoxian."

The few people who heard it understood immediately and tried to hold back their laughter.

The second brother laughed softly and said, "Mother slapped Xiao Jue this morning. Do you still remember it?"

Emperor Mingpei laughed and said, "Isn't that called making a scene on the mountain to scare the tiger?" He didn't feel comfortable saying "killing the chicken to scare the monkey."

"No," Xinbao said, "Knocking is like this," she bent her little hand and pretended to knock on the door, "beating is like this."

She flattened her little palm, drew a half circle, and then it was very fierce.

Emperor Mingpei propped up his head and laughed so hard that he couldn't stop. Yan Shirong said, "Then why not just shoot the cow from across the mountain? The cow won't feel any pain, right?"

Tuanzi looked at him strangely and said, "Don't you understand the meaning of this idiom? Ask Uncle Yuan to explain it to you! If you hit a cow from a distance, the mountain will feel pain, and the cow will feel pain too!"

Several people: "..."

Yuan Shenjue pursed his lips and could hardly stop laughing.

The little brat's casual remark about cows feeling pain always makes people happy when they hear it.

Madam Lin and a few palace maids were bored, so they made several small cloaks for Feichu. After a while, they changed one. When they came out, they found that several people were looking at her with strange eyes.

Madam Lin raised her eyebrows: "What did you say about me?"

Tuanzi felt guilty and turned his head away quickly. Madam Lin understood immediately and deliberately said, "Yan Shirong, is it you? I think it must be you. You are the one who has many bad ideas, while Sheng'er and Xinbao are very obedient."

She reached out and grabbed him, and Yan Shirong cried out in pain: "Mother, be gentle, I was wrong, I was wrong!"

Xinbao got anxious, turned around, pushed Mingpeidi's hand away and ran over, raising her hand to block him: "Mother, it was Xinbao, it was Xinbao who said it, Xinbao was wrong, don't hit brother, don't hit brother, brother is too fragile!"

Yuan Shenjue stood up and walked between them as if unintentionally. Sure enough, Madam Lin slapped him on the back and asked, "What did Xinbao say?"

Even Emperor Mingpei couldn't help laughing out loud.

It's really like shooting at the cow from across the mountain and shooting at the treasure from across the dollar.

The whole family was laughing and having fun.

As the old prince sat there, he secretly glanced at Emperor Mingpei. Seeing that Emperor Mingpei was smiling and looked very interested, he was obviously used to such an atmosphere. The old prince couldn't help but be secretly surprised, but he felt relieved.

The old prince stayed there temporarily.

Yuan Shenjue took the two young eunuchs and Hao Huasheng and practiced for another two days, and finally they were able to control the temperature.

Then Xinbao asked for leave from Emperor Mingpeidi, and they started to make the elixir.

Five pounds of medicine have been gathered and cut into small pieces.

Yuan Shenjue stood aside, protecting Xinbao.

Hao Huashi sat cross-legged on the other side, mainly to familiarize himself with the sound.

Bai Gusheng stood directly next to the alchemy furnace. He knew Kung Fu and was familiar with medicine, so he was the one who operated it.

The two young eunuchs were responsible for making fire, and the two young imperial doctors were responsible for delivering medicine.

So a junior alchemy team was formed.

Then everyone officially started practicing.

Xinbao just gave instructions, just like teaching acupuncture before, and followed his feelings.

Moreover, Yuan Shenjue, who had obsessive-compulsive disorder, had numbered several small doors and slots in advance. Everyone had their own responsibilities, and the furnace was started at the command.

Everyone was very serious, and Xinbao's orders were decisive, but for some reason, they smelled a burnt smell just over a quarter of an hour after the furnace was turned on, and it failed.

We waited for the temperature to drop, cleaned the furnace, and started it again. This time, it failed again in less than a quarter of an hour.

This happens four or five times.

Yuan Shenjue said: "Everyone, please stop and think quietly about where the problem lies."

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

Bai Gusheng sat down without saying a word.

He was originally a medical enthusiast and was very interested in this novel way of making elixirs. Although his hearing was not as good as Hao Huashi's, he could smell the fragrance of the medicine. While listening to Xinbao's orders, he was thinking about it.

An imperial physician asked, "Could it be that some of the medicine leaked into the fire?"

"No," Hao Huashi said, "The medicine trough is very deep, it won't fall in."

"Could it be that the charcoal was not placed evenly? So the flames would be different when they burned?"

Everyone discussed various things, summarized experiences, and then tried to start the furnace.

But at the end of the day, a lot of medicine was wasted and not a single one was successful.

These few people were all determined people, so they tried again the next day, but after another day, they still failed.

At first the two imperial doctors had some concerns, and the two young eunuchs did not dare to speak, but gradually, everyone developed a sense of friendship as they fought side by side. Everyone spoke freely, and summarized experiences and lessons over and over again.

On the third day, the new alchemy furnace was delivered and everyone used it.

The new alchemy furnace is almost a perfect replica of the old one at a two-to-one ratio. Everyone originally thought that there would be no difference, but once they used it, they discovered the difference.

It took more than two quarters of an hour for this furnace of elixir to be scrapped, but even so, everyone saw hope.

Xinbao had been dreaming about making elixirs these past few nights, and said, "I know, it's the medicine trough!"

Hao Huashi also said: "Indeed, it is the medicine tank. I can hear that the trend of the flame has changed slightly."

The previous alchemy furnace was made of grass, and the medicine in the medicine trough was shoveled directly into the furnace and then the door was sealed. But now, the medicine trough is a tipping bucket, which can be pushed in all at once, and the medicine will flip to the bottom, blocking the door in the process.

But no one had thought that the medicine trough that had been turned inward actually had the effect of isolating the fire invisibly.

Everyone discussed it again and continued to work on the furnace with great interest.

Over there, the old prince had already sensed something was wrong.

He was just rough, but not stupid. Moreover, Bai Gusheng said it directly that day, so how could he not understand it?

Moreover, in the past two days, the imperial physician had come to take his pulse from time to time, and the old prince asked a few questions, and the imperial physician also wanted to ask him how he was treated... After the two of them, the old prince got the words out, and his heart sank.

He originally thought that his disease was difficult to cure, but his great-granddaughter was a little fairy and had her own fairy-like methods.

But seeing how busy Xinbao has been these past few days... and the shadow guards were guarding the front and back, he felt something was not right, so he went to talk to Yan Qingshan: "Qingshan, if my illness can be cured, then cure it. If it can't be cured, don't force it. If you get into trouble for me, I won't be happy even if you cure me."

He was very serious.

Yan Qingshan just said, "Grandfather, you are too serious. Everything Xinbao did was approved by the emperor. How could it be inappropriate?"

"Don't hide it from me!" The old prince came over and whispered, "It's smoky and hot over there... Don't hide it from me!!"

(End of this chapter)