I am a ruler in troubled times

Lu Jihe stared at the pill in his hand without blinking, and said in a deep voice, "I still haven't found the rice sac inside."

As a son of a family, you don't have to be proficient in pharmacology, but you are not completely unfamiliar with such addictive things as rice capsules.

Lu Jihe has seen countless things mixed with rice sacs, and has learned various ways to identify rice sacs.

He can even detect the rice sacs mixed in the pastry.

However, facing the pills in the porcelain bottle brought by Wei Zhiyuan, Lu Jihe felt that they were ordinary pills for pain relief.

"Where did you get this thing?" Ping Zhang and Luo Yong, who were extremely anxious, grabbed Wei Zhiyuan's shoulders respectively, only to realize that Wei Zhiyuan was smelling of alcohol all over his body, and his exposed skin was extremely hot .

Wei Zhiyuan struggled to break free from the restraints of Ping Zhang and Luo Yong, strode to the corner and retched.

After a long time, Wei Zhiyuan, who didn't spit out anything, supported the wall and walked back slowly.

Seeing this, Ping Zhang and Luo Yong immediately went to carry Wei Zhiyuan back.

"This is something that Chen Guo sent to the thief Wei. I saw that he carried the porcelain bottle with him every day, so I wanted to steal it out and see what was inside. Today I just found a chance to get him drunk in the Ming Kelou. If I leave temporarily, there will be people watching him." Wei Zhiyuan could stand upright only by Luo Yong and Ping Zhang on his left and right, and spoke intermittently.

"No!" Bo Yang, who had been quiet for a long time, suddenly said, "The rice capsules are not mixed into the pills, but processed in a special way, ground into powder, and fixed in a porcelain bottle."

After Chong Yi confirmed that the pills in the porcelain bottle contained the rice sacs that people are addicted to quickly, he handed the porcelain bottle to Bo Yang, the only one who could be regarded as proficient in pharmacology among the people present.

Bo Yang immediately took the porcelain bottle to a place where no one was around, carefully poured out the pills inside, and sprinkled the various powders he carried with him in an order that only he could understand.

From time to time, I used a small blade to put pills smaller than my fingernails into my mouth.

"But..." Sheng Tairan looked at the pill that had been transferred from Chong Yi to Song Peiyu, his tone was full of confusion, "There is no powder on the pill either."

Bo Yang poured out the more than 20 pills left in the porcelain bottle, turned his hand so that the mouth of the porcelain bottle faced down to the light blue handkerchief, and with the other hand, he stretched into the mouth of the bottle with a silver needle and jabbed violently.

Following Bo Yang's movements, a steady stream of dark brown powder fell from the mouth of the bottle onto the light blue handkerchief.

All the onlookers were dumbfounded.

Song Peiyu, Lu Jihe went to distinguish the powder poked by Bo Yang with the silver needle in turn, and they all shook their heads with heavy faces.

In their opinion, this is the most common medicinal powder, more like Coptis chinensis powder, even if they carefully tasted a few powders, the answer did not change.

If someone they trust tells them personally that this is a medicine powder for relieving headaches or preventing colds, they will never doubt it.

After Song Peiyu and Lu Jihe, others also carefully identified the powder, but they all looked blank.

Only Chong Yi, who was warned by Song Peiyu never to taste the powder again, stared at the powder for a while, said in a positive tone, "It's a rice sac, which has much stronger medicinal properties than ordinary rice sacs."

Bo Yang cut the pill in the middle again in front of everyone.

He found that it was not that there were no rice capsules in the pills, but that they were all in the center.

Song Peiyu hurriedly asked Bo Yang to take Wei Zhiyuan's pulse to see if Wei Zhiyuan was poisoned.

After so many years, Wei Zhong or Chen Guo finally found out that Wei Zhong had been exposed, so they used obviously well-designed porcelain bottles to hold the pills with a lot of rice sacs.

If Bo Yang didn't find that there was something wrong with the porcelain vase containing the medicine pills, Song Peiyu would definitely ask Bo Yang to replace the original medicine pills in the porcelain vase with ordinary medicine pills, and wait to see Wei Zhong's follow-up reaction, trying to play tricks.

Little do they know that as long as the problematic porcelain bottle is not disposed of, no matter how many kinds of pills are changed, the pills put in the porcelain bottle will be stained with rice capsules that make people addicted quickly.

Fortunately, Bo Yang did not find out that Wei Zhiyuan was influenced by Mi Nang.

Wei Zhong hasn't done anything to Wei Zhiyuan yet, or the rice capsules Wei Zhiyuan took haven't reached the level of addiction.

Song Peiyu asked Bo Yang to clean the porcelain bottle carefully, put new medicine powder and pills in it, and then asked Wei Zhiyuan to put the porcelain bottle back on Wei Zhong.

In addition, Song Peiyu also specifically asked Wei Zhiyuan to leave a loophole for Wei Zhongneng to notice something was wrong.

After Wei Zhong woke up, he clearly discovered the loopholes Wei Zhiyuan left intentionally. Not only did he not investigate the loopholes left by Wei Zhiyuan, but he also took the initiative to cover them up for Wei Zhiyuan. Or the former subordinate was drunk and passed out.

Every time when he was unconscious, Wei Zhong would carry the porcelain bottle with him.

After half a month like this, Wei Zhong took the porcelain bottle to harm people.

The first victim was King Su.

Wei Zhong went to meet King Su on purpose, and told King Su mysteriously that he got a bottle of medicine that has a miraculous effect on pain relief from the doctor's office, and the problem of leg pain that made him unable to sleep on cloudy and rainy days for many years was finally relieved.

It's a pity that he met Youyi near Zhuangzi, and he happened to be in a good mood, so he bought the "miracle medicine" prescribed by Youyi.

When he found out that Youyi was a miracle doctor and that ordinary pills had miraculous effects, he went back to Zhuangzi to look for Youyi, but he found out that Youyi had left.

Wei Zhong searched for a wandering doctor for a long time without any results, so he came to ask King Su to help him find this wandering doctor.

King Su happened to have the same problem as Wei Zhong.

In other words, people who have been on the battlefield for many years will have symptoms of bone pain on rainy and cloudy days.

Some people just have feelings, while some people's symptoms are extremely severe. Su Wang is the one who suffers from severe pain.

King Su jumped into Wei Zhong's trap very readily, facing Wei Zhong's old, pretentious face, he threatened and begged at the same time, and even used aggressive methods, so that Wei Zhong "reluctantly" gave him a pill .

When King Su heard someone report that 'Wei Zhong is coming to see him', he first applied the medicine powder sent by Bo Yang on his tongue before coming to see Wei Zhong.

Bo Yang told him that as long as there were rice sacs in his mouth, he would feel unbearably bitter.

King Su endured his nausea and chewed the pills. It was not bitter, but rather sweet.

For a moment, King Su and Wei Zhong both laughed with great satisfaction.

The second victim was Emperor Yonghe.

Su Wang pretended that he had recovered from the leg pain that he had been recovering for a long time. He regarded Wei Zhong's precious pills as the most precious treasure, and followed Wei Zhong's vague reminder to tell Emperor Yonghe about the magic of the pills. .

Emperor Yonghe immediately called Wei Zhong into the palace, saying that he wanted to try the magic medicine that King Su regarded as a treasure.

Wei Zhong continued to make a gesture of reluctance, but was defeated by Emperor Yonghe.

Emperor Yonghe sighed with regret on his face, "Since I love you so much, I don't want to force it. I'd better wait for King Su's people to find a miracle doctor, and then I will try the effect of the miracle medicine."

The smile on Wei Zhong's face froze immediately, and he changed his words to beg Yonghe Emperor for medicine.

From then on, Wei Zhong was called to take medicine by Emperor Yonghe and King Su from time to time.

Song Peiyu heard Emperor Yonghe say, "Wei Zhong always takes medicine with King Zhen and King Su at the same time", and specially handed over the rice sac powder that Bo Yang scraped off from the porcelain bottle to Wei Zhiyuan.

Let Wei Zhiyuan put the rice sac powder in Wei Zhong's food, so that Wei Zhong will not have any symptoms of addiction and find something wrong.

At the beginning, Wei Zhong had to visit Su Wang every ten days, telling Su Wang whether he felt leg pain recently, and if he could take another pill of "miracle medicine", the symptoms of leg pain would be relieved.

Su Wang had already learned more inside information from Song Peiyu and Bo Yang.

Naturally, Wei Zhong would respond to whatever he said. At most, he would delay Wei Zhong in terms of time, lest the process go too smoothly and make Wei Zhong suspicious.

For the sake of safety, King Su and Emperor Yonghe would carefully smear the medicine powder sent by Bo Yang on their tongues before taking the pills together with Wei Zhong.

Not long after, Emperor Yonghe and King Su took the initiative to shorten the interval between medications under Bo Yang's reminder.

When Chongyi and Song Peiyu's wedding day came, Emperor Yonghe and King Su had to take medicine every three days, and their temper became more and more urgent.

Song Peiyu always remembered the frequency of the medicines of Emperor Yonghe, Su Wang and Wei Zhong, and counted how many pills were left in the porcelain bottle in Wei Zhong's hand.

On the day before his and Chong Yi's big wedding, Emperor Yonghe and King Su, who had just taken the medicine two days ago, snatched the last two pills in the porcelain bottle from Wei Zhong on the grounds that they wanted to cheer up on the day of Chong Yi's big wedding. .

Wei Zhong, who has always been taking medication with the same frequency as Emperor Yonghe and King Su, became visibly sluggish to the naked eye, and even lied to Emperor Yonghe and King Su.

Wei Zhong said that after the last medication, there was only the last pill left in the porcelain bottle, which he had already eaten.

Emperor Yonghe changed his face on the spot and went to search Wei Zhong's body himself. King Su almost didn't react. Seeing Emperor Yonghe's fist landed on Wei Zhong's face, he hurried forward to make up for his footprints.

After Wei Zhong was suddenly beaten, he didn't try to resist, but took out the porcelain bottle containing the pills from his arms, and wanted to pour it into his mouth regardless.

King Su had no friendship with Wei Zhong in the early years, and it could even be regarded as not getting along.

After he learned that Wei Zhong was a spy of Chen Guo, although he was angry, he didn't hold Wei Zhong like Emperor Yonghe for many years. Together with Emperor Yonghe, he only helped Emperor Yonghe hold Wei Zhong down.

Seeing that Wei Zhong was about to pour the porcelain vase into his mouth, King Su suddenly became furious, kicked Wei Zhong to the ground without thinking, and immediately snatched the porcelain vase away.

Pressing his fingers on the mouth of the porcelain bottle that was still dry, King Su heaved a deep sigh of relief.

Fortunately, he didn't have to pick the pills out of Wei Zhong's mouth.

Wei Zhong was also a famous fighter on the battlefield in the early years. Even though his luck was particularly bad after three years in Yonghe, he was dragged down by various things and never went to the battlefield again.

When he occasionally sparred with young generals in the army, he was still able to hold on to the wind for a long time.

However, at this time, Wei Zhong fell to the ground after being hurt by King Su, and could no longer get up. He could only lie on the ground and move his body with difficulty, making a sharp voice that seemed to be crying and laughing, "My lord!" ! Don't take it all, give me the rest! Half pill, half pill is fine! Please!"

Su Wang was so frightened by Wei Zhong's indiscriminate appearance that his eyes widened. He barely resisted the thought of kicking at Wei Zhong's face again, and poured the only two pills left in the porcelain bottle into the palm of his hand.

Emperor Yonghe put his head aside, no longer looked at Wei Zhong's embarrassed appearance, 'snatched' the pill from King Su's palm, and stuffed it into his mouth impatiently.

On the surface, Emperor Yonghe and King Su confronted each other because they were dissatisfied with the other party's 'snatching' a pill, but in fact they were chewing the pill carefully, making sure that the pasty pill in their mouths was only sweet and not bitter. Swallow the pill.

Wei Zhong watched helplessly as the last two pills were shared between Emperor Yonghe and King Su, then suddenly let go of his hand holding King Su's calf, and lay on his back powerlessly on the ground, the light in his eyes completely extinguished.

He regretted it.

If he had known that the rice sac poison made life worse than death, he shouldn't have had the idea of ​​luring the enemy in, and insisted on taking pills with Emperor Yonghe and King Su every time.

Wei Zhong had long since discovered that the porcelain bottle he was carrying had been tampered with.

The person who handed the porcelain bottle to him told him that he didn't need to care about the abnormality of the porcelain bottle. As long as the porcelain bottle was still there, no matter whether the pills inside were dropped or not, the person who took the pills would be poisoned by rice sacs.

Wei Zhong thought that if he secretly took the medicine to alleviate the poison of rice sac, the symptoms would definitely be milder than Emperor Yonghe and King Su.

As long as he can hold back, he will not show his flaws in front of Emperor Yonghe and King Su.

Even if Emperor Yonghe and King Su felt unwell, they would not immediately associate it with the rice bag.

Because before he took the pills to King Su, he found that the pills in the porcelain bottle had been dropped.

Nine out of ten people who dropped the pills belonged to Emperor Yonghe or the Crown Prince.

Before the rice sac poison broke out, Wei Zhong had been secretly mocking Emperor Yonghe and King Su all the time.

They all regarded him as a real fool, but they didn't realize that they were the ridiculous fools.

As the pills in the porcelain bottle became less and less, Wei Zhong's mind was also changing. He had thought of leaving Xianyang with the remaining pills countless times.

Why should such a good thing be distributed to Emperor Yonghe and King Su?

Can't he enjoy it by himself?

Wei Zhong soon discovered that the symptoms of rice sac addiction in him were getting worse.

For this reason, he deliberately avoided King Su for a few days.

He hoped that the poison of rice sacs on Emperor Yonghe and King Su would show up more slowly.

At the same time, Wei Zhong stopped the decoction that relieved the toxicity of the rice sac, and changed to taking the rice sac powder privately, hoping to quench his thirst by drinking poison so that he could last longer.

However, Wei Zhong found that the rice sacs he had someone find were more than a little less medicinal than the rice sacs in the Chinese medicine balls sent by Chen Guo.

Even if he took the rice sac to death in private, he still didn't feel the refreshment after taking the medicine with Emperor Yonghe and King Su.

Since then, Wei Zhong's life has become more and more difficult.

The pain and torture from his body are gradually shaking his loyalty to Chen Guo.

What he does the most every day is to lock himself in the study, staring at the porcelain vase containing the pills, and eating all kinds of food mixed with rice sacs.

Nearly a month later, Wei Zhong not only did not gain weight, but lost more than 20 catties.

As the pills in the medicine bottle became less and less, Wei Zhong's temper became more and more unpredictable. Many times when he suddenly recovered, Wei Zhong found that he had already taken out the pills in the porcelain bottle and put them away. in the position of the mouth.

After countless difficult choices, Wei Zhong still resisted the idea of ​​taking the pills in the porcelain bottle in private.

Calculating based on the days and dosage, Emperor Yonghe and King Su had been addicted to rice sacs for a long time, because they had been taking a large amount of rice sacs steadily, so they didn't attack immediately.

Now is not the best time for Emperor Yonghe and King Su to fight.

The person who sent the porcelain bottle said that after Prince Zhao got married, he would suddenly stop the medicine for Emperor Yonghe and King Su.

Sudden withdrawal after taking rice capsules to addiction will cause the toxins accumulated for a long time to explode immediately.

After the toxin broke out, if you want to keep calm, you can only double the amount of rice capsules each time. It will be a matter of time before you die.

Chen Guo must have made a good deployment, he can't let Chen Guo's deployment be ruined!

In the last few days of insisting on not touching the pills in the porcelain bottle, Wei Zhong even started cutting his thighs to keep himself awake.

At this moment, finally watching Emperor Yonghe and King Su take the last pill, Wei Zhong didn't feel any sense of satisfaction in getting what he wanted, only deep emptiness and regret.

Anyway, Emperor Yonghe and King Su had already been poisoned to the marrow, why did he insist on it?

These are the last two pills!

Since the porcelain bottle containing the pills was handed over to him, people from Chen Guo never contacted him again.

He can no longer eat this kind of rice capsule that makes him feel extremely happy...

What is the point of his life!

Before dawn, Song Peiyu was woken up by Song Jinyu.

Song Peiyu, who used to be lazy on the bed, opened her eyes suddenly, there was no confusion in her pupils.

Facing Song Jinyu's playful gaze, Song Peiyu coughed lightly, bypassing Song Jinyu and went directly to the cubicle to wash up.

There are nine layers of auspicious clothes for the big wedding, which is really embarrassing in the September weather.

Fortunately, neither Song Peiyu and Chong Yi, nor the Song family and Emperor Yonghe are the kind of people who stick to the rules.

It is a rule left by the ancestors that the prince's wedding requires nine layers of auspicious clothes, but the ancestors did not stipulate what materials should be used for the nine layers of auspicious clothes.

Moreover, the auspicious time for the wedding was at dusk, when it was relatively cool, and there was always an ice mirror in the house, so Song Peiyu didn't have to worry about being unable to bear the heat.

After Song Peiyu changed into the nine-layer auspicious clothes and the corresponding hair crown accessories, the sky was completely bright.

The crown prince got married, and Emperor Yonghe deliberately avoided it for a day, and guests who live nearby or have friendship with the Song family have already started to visit.

Song Peiyu didn't have to entertain the guests, he just had to wait in Tianhuju for the prince to greet his relatives.

Not long after, Lu Jihe, Bo Yang and Sheng Tairan came to Tianhuju to accompany Song Peiyu to pass the time.

Luo Yong, Ping Zhang, and Wei Zhiyuan have already rushed to the East Palace, and they will follow the wedding procession to the Song Mansion.

When the three of them entered the door, they congratulated Song Peiyu first.

Song Peiyu nodded reservedly. It has been more than half a year since the imperial decree of marriage was announced to the world. He has long been able to calmly face all kinds of teasing, and he will never change his color easily.

Lu Jihe handed the box in his hand to Song Peiyu, and said with a half-smile, "When they gave the crown prince and Yuan Jun the wedding gift, I happened to be not in Xianyang, so I made up for it in the middle of the day."

Song Peiyu remained silent for a while, then took the box from Lu Jihe's hand, and opened it directly in front of Bo Yang and Sheng Tairan.

He is not afraid!

He has a big box of all kinds of Ning Dynasty cheats and toys, and he has been given cheats and toys by a group of friends for more than ten years.

What else is there to fear?

Seeing the half-inch-thick books in the box, Song Peiyu's eyes flashed contempt.

Without hesitation, he took out the book and opened it in public.

As long as they are willing to read it, he is willing to turn it over.

However, the content in the book was quite different from what Song Peiyu thought.

The page he let go of was indeed a painting, but it wasn't such an unscrupulous painting where the two overlapped each other.

This painting... doesn't look too serious.

Recalling the memory on the painting, Song Peiyu's eyes gradually became numb.

Lu Jihe is really a vengeful person.

On the painting is the Donggong Nuange, which was not repaired more than ten years ago.

Windows blown wide open by the cold wind.

The screen that fell to the ground.

Song Peiyu was only wearing messy pajamas and sitting on the same messy bed, looking at the screen lying on the ground with a face full of surprise.

The old god was nestled on the bed, and Chong Yi didn't even want to put on his pajamas.

There was also Lu Jihe, who was facing the door, but turned his head to stare at Song Peiyu, with a face full of enlightenment.

Sheng Tairan, who was covering his face with a folding fan, wanted to see it but felt embarrassed, suddenly regained his spirits, "When did this happen? It looks like the Donggong Nuan Pavilion when we were just reading with His Highness."

After Bo Yang carefully read the picture album, understanding gradually appeared in Song Peiyu and Lu Jihe's eyes, and he said with a smile, "No wonder Ji He always looked at Mr. Yuan unhappy, so it turned out that he wanted to keep the crown prince and Mr. Yuan out of anger. secret."

Sheng Tairan suddenly exclaimed, "Why do I feel that the traces of ink on this painting become more and more familiar the more I look at it, could it be that Brother Lu painted it himself?"

The smile on the corner of Lu Jihe's mouth became brighter and brighter, "It is indeed my own painting, and it is the most impressive picture of the prince and Yuanjun when I was young."

When Bo Yang and Sheng Tairan heard this, their interest became even higher, and they looked at Song Peiyu with urging eyes.

Waiting for Song Peiyu to turn the page, and enjoy other pictures with them.

After Song Peiyu heard Lu Jihe's words, the smile on the corner of her mouth became more and more stiff.

He began to recall the scenes when he got along with Chongyi and Lu Jihe when he was young, and couldn't help but cast a suspicious look at Lu Jihe.

Would Lu Jihe scold him in the margins of the album...?