Chapter 72 Pear Blossom
"Your Highness, you are overthinking it." Taohua sighed helplessly.
Her Highness had secretly studied medicine, but the result was a complete mess.
To be honest, Taohua didn't know what her prince was good at.
It is said that everyone is born with a purpose, but her prince is probably not made of wood.
When they arrived at Hanshan Temple, Zhu Huaizhen didn't need to greet the abbot. He took Taohua's hand and supported the handsome man together, and went straight to the Hualan Tower where she often stayed.
Outside the Flower Basket Building, there are two peach and pear trees, planted by Emperor Wu Zhang and Concubine Xue in the year Zhu Huaizhen was born. Unfortunately, the flowering period has passed, and only the jade-green leaves remain.
"The fragrance on this young man's body is like the fragrance in the goose pear tent." Zhu Huaizhen placed the handsome young man on the Arhat bed, accidentally fell down, and then slowly got up.
"Your Highness, don't you think it's a bit dirty for you to pretend to fall like this?" Taohua couldn't help rolling her eyes.
"Taohua, have you ever seen me pretend to fall like this? I didn't even touch your lips." Zhu Huaizhen didn't blush or feel any pain in his heart. He put his hands on his hips, looking quite indignant.
Unfortunately, Taohua didn't believe a word she said. Instead, she walked over and covered the handsome man with a quilt.
She doesn't know how much of a fangirl her prince is.
Even the eunuchs in the princess's mansion have to be handsome.
Fortunately, her name is Taohua, and she is as beautiful as peach and plum, otherwise she would not have caught the eye of her prince.
As a result, when Taohua moved closer, she also smelled a faint scent of pear blossoms, and an idea suddenly came to her.
"Your Highness, I know what poison he was poisoned with. It's pear blossom snow!" Taohua was overjoyed.
"What the hell is pear blossom snow?" Zhu Huaizhen frowned, a little unhappy.
Taohua is a genius, and the elder sister is also a genius.
They always know something that Zhu Huaizhen doesn't understand at all.
"Lihuaxue, when the poison takes effect, her hair becomes as white as snow and her body smells like pear blossoms." Taohua said with a smile.
"Is this poison? It's clearly an alluring aphrodisiac." Zhu Huaizhen couldn't help but complain.
"Your Highness, it is true. Pear Blossom Snow was originally developed by a female doctor to win favor for her mistress. However, after taking Pear Blossom Snow for a period of time, her mistress developed symptoms of drowsiness. Moreover, she slept restlessly and seemed to be in great pain in her dreams, but she could not be awakened. The female doctor was very meticulous and soon discovered that there was something wrong with the Pear Blossom Snow, so she advised her mistress to stop using it. Unfortunately, her mistress was determined to become the most favored imperial concubine in the harem, and she increased the dosage of Pear Blossom Snow. As a result, in less than a month, the Pear Blossom Snow attack became so severe that her mistress actually experienced severe pain from broken blood vessels. She kept rolling around and begging for death, and finally turned into a pool of snow water, leaving behind the fragrance of pear blossoms." Taohua told the story slowly, sighing.
In the middle and late period of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the recipe for pear blossom snow spread to the people and could not be stopped despite repeated bans.
Many wealthy families, after buying beautiful concubines, would feed them pear blossom snow.
The purpose was to let the concubine, when she was poisoned, touch her hair as cold and soft as snow, and smell the fragrance of pear blossoms, which was more romantic than the fragrance of goose pear blossoms in the tent.
Later, there were many cases of beautiful concubines killing their husbands, and the fragrance of pear blossoms gradually disappeared.
"Taohua, is there an antidote for this pear blossom snow?" Zhu Huaizhen asked.
"Your Highness, if it is poison, there must be an antidote. However, this young man has been poisoned by Pear Blossom Snow for more than a year. The poison has invaded every part of his body and there is no cure." Taohua shook her head gently.
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