[Qing Chuan] The Empress Dowager Raising Cubs Daily

The names of the last three kittens were changed back to their original names.

Yongqian was still not happy, he pouted his mouth and groaned, but Qiqige looked around: "Speaking of... Where's Duanmin?"

Fuquan, Chang Ning and Longxi who were still discussing the puppy were slightly taken aback.

Fuquan thought about it for a while: "Speaking of which, just now Duan Min went to see the puppy with us..."

"Yeah...where did it go?"

"It's not still where it is...?"

Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, then hurried back.

Going through the back door all the way to the main room, everyone finally saw Duan Min.She stood outside the kennel, looking up at the portrait hanging on the wall, feeling thoughtful.

"Which puppy did Duan Min take a fancy to?"

"...No." Duan Min hesitated for a moment, but still shook his head.

"Huh?" Chang Ning tilted his little head, and quickly dismantled the situation: "My sister looks like she has a dog she likes."

"That's right." Qiqige also nodded.

"Oh, there's no need to keep them anyway." Duan Min shook her head, she put her hands on her hips and moaned: "After Erchen arrives on the grassland, I will raise more than a hundred hounds."

Qiqige was speechless.

She couldn't help rolling her eyes: "More than a hundred hounds? Hulala, people thought it was a pack of wolves when they went out!"

Duan Min's eyes sparkled: "It would be great if I could raise wolves!"

The corner of Qiqige's mouth twitched, and suddenly a flash of light flashed through her mind.Qiqige suppressed her smile, and introduced in detail: "Speaking of which, when Aijia was in the Mongolian grasslands, I really heard that there are dogs that look like wolves..."

"Who doesn't know wolfdogs..." Fuquan groaned.

"It's not a wolf dog, but a kind of dog from the Raksha country." Qiqige described vividly, "Aijia heard from others that it looks like a wolf, with erect ears and a fluffy tail like a brush. It is either blue or blue. brown eyes, and some with flame-like streaks across their foreheads."

This description is something no one has ever heard.

Qiqige held her face in her hands, with a dreamy look on her face: "Everyone who has seen it says that she looks super stalwart and powerful!"

Huskies, rely on appearance to bluff people.

He's pretty handsome but a little silly, just a little bit.

Everyone present didn't know about Qiqige's slander.

They imagined a strong, mighty and domineering dog, not to mention Duan Min's sparkling eyes, even Fu Quan, Chang Ning and Long Xi were also full of curiosity, wishing they could see each other right away.

They all looked at the eunuch in charge: "Are there no puppies of this breed in the palace?"

The eunuch in charge broke out in cold sweat: "This..."

With a bitter face, he honestly shook his head: "The slave has never seen it before."

Duan Min waved her hand happily: "It's okay."

She held her head high and said, "When you come to the grassland later, sister, I will let you enjoy watching it!"

Fuquan, Changning and Longxi all puffed up their faces.

Qiqige's eyebrows and eyes were bent with joy, and her shoulders trembled slightly, so that the hand holding Yonggan shook slightly.

Yonggan raised his head.

He looked at Qiqige suspiciously: "Emperor Niang? Laughing?"

Qiqige hissed.

She covered her mouth and laughed secretly, if Duan Min really raised a hundred huskies... well.

I don't know what the palace will be dismantled into?

Thinking about it this way makes people look forward to it.

The five cats still need to be fed because they are still young, so their residence is temporarily placed in the Compassion Palace.

As soon as the Empress Dowager stepped into the main hall, she heard a burst of meow meow.Following the call, she walked all the way to the yard. The Empress Dowager didn't see the kitten, but a group of busy palace people.They moved the furniture out of the back bedroom hall, and brought in some wooden frames that didn't look like furniture.

The Empress Dowager and Su Mala exchanged glances.

Stopping the palace people who wanted to stop to pay their respects, the master and servant walked in curiously, only to see that the screen separating the two rooms on the east side of the apse was removed, and even the green gauze cabinet was dismantled. It is connected with the main room.

The princes and princesses all nest here.

They either lay down on the ground or sat on chairs, holding all kinds of cat teasing sticks to tease the cats.

And Qiqige was sitting aside with several concubines, watching the eunuchs build a cat house.The tall cat climbing the pillar is like a simplified version of the spiral staircase, next to it are platforms and boxes, and there are fluffy and soft cushions inside, allowing cats to walk freely or go to a high place to rest.

What shocked Qiqige even more was the bottom of the cat climbing frame, where there is also a detachable cabin that can pass back and forth.The hut is entirely made of rosewood, covered with pine wood chips, bamboo charcoal and sand, which can be described as a high-end cat litter box in this era.

The only problem is-

Qiqige looked at the kitten who was not walking steadily, and then at the overly luxurious cat house equipment: "When will this be used?"

"Maybe it will be available in two or three months."

"Is it...?" How did she feel that it would take at least seven or eight months to climb this thing?Qiqige was thinking, and at the same time felt that the answering voice was a little...familiar?She turned her head abruptly, then hurriedly stood up: "Emperor Niang?"

There was a moment of stagnation in the room, followed by voices of greetings one after another.The Empress Dowager nodded and yelled, then looked at Qishou, Longxi and Yongqian with a serious expression: "You three are still young, you can only see if you can't hold a kitten, understand?"

Qi Shou, Long Xi, and Yong Gan withered all agreed.

Qiqige hurriedly laughed and said, "I have already told them that they have to wash their hands and change their clothes after holding the kitten."

Only then did the Empress Dowager soften her face.

But she still added a few words: "I'm afraid the three of them pretended not to hear and touched it secretly!"

The Empress Dowager looked at the three of them: "Really?"

Qishou, Longxi, and Yongqian were all a little guilty, secretly hiding the cat teasing stick behind their backs, and their eyes were even more erratic.They were silent for a long time before answering with the smallest voice: "Grandson dare not."

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The Empress Dowager withdrew her half-smile look, and then focused on Qiqige: "Speaking of which, you also told the Ministry of Internal Affairs that you want to raise sheep, cows, and chicks?"

Qiqige subconsciously stood up straight.

She didn't mention Bo Weng E Fujin and Age E Nie Fujin, but agreed honestly.

The Empress Dowager sighed.

She stretched out her hand and poked Qiqige's forehead: "Aijia has long wanted to say that this is the garden of the Palace of Compassion and Peace, not a farm in the countryside! What's the point of raising cattle and sheep? Later, Fujin ordered his wife to come in to say hello, the garden is smelly God, what should I do? Raise chickens...just raise a few teasers, and you are not allowed to raise more, you know?"

Qiqige listless should be.

It's just that after the empress dowager and the children left, she couldn't help furrowing her brows, showing a little anxiety and uneasiness between her eyes.

The Empress Dowager's decision disrupted Qiqige's plan.

As Chang Ning, Qi Shou, Long Xi, and Yong Qian grew up, Qi Qige also began to worry about another thing.

That is: smallpox.

As the most powerful infectious disease in the early Qing Dynasty, smallpox had no rivals at all in this era, and once infected, the survival rate was terribly low.

According to Qiqige's knowledge, the death rate is close to half. This is still in the royal family's mansion, and the relative health conditions are relatively good. If it is in an ordinary family, the death rate is even more shocking.

Qiqige sometimes thinks that the idea of ​​having more children and more blessings advocated in this era may be just to increase the number of survivors.

Facing the terrible smallpox, how did the Qing palace respond?

From Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty to Emperor Shunzhi, most of them used to avoid smallpox. When the smallpox epidemic spread, children were sent to places without the epidemic to avoid smallpox.

For example, Xiao Kangxi is like this.

When Fuquan was unfortunately infected with smallpox, the little Kangxi, who was still a prince, was sent to the acne shelter, where he was taken care of by Su Mala, Eunuch Gu and all the wet nurses.

It's just that Kangxi couldn't escape in the end.

He contracted smallpox in a pox asylum and survived the ordeal.

There was also an imperial doctor in the palace who suggested vaccination. The method of vaccination was very popular among the Han people. The most common method was the dry seedling method, which was to grind the scabs of patients with mild symptoms into powder and blow them into the nasal cavity to infect them. Seek the mildest symptoms.

It's just that the success rate of this method is not very high.

Even if it is used by adults, there is a mortality rate of nearly [-]%, let alone children.

Children's physical fitness, sensitivity to smallpox virus, and resistance are very different, and even a mild virus may cause disaster in their bodies.

The prince's life is lost, but the imperial doctor will lose his head.

After the method of vaccination was mentioned by one or two imperial doctors, it quickly disappeared in the palace, and finally the policy of avoiding acne was the best choice.

It was different for Qiqige.

The answer to solving smallpox was right in front of her eyes, which could be said to be within reach.

That is cowpox.

Cowpox, vaccinia, there must be a cow.

After there are cows, the cows must be infected with smallpox virus and have cowpox that can be used. Qiqige has already thought of one, two or three ways.It's just that following the empress dowager's denial, all these methods came to naught.

Qiqige had to start elsewhere.

After thinking for a while, she soon came up with a new goal - before the outbreak of cowpox, there was a method that had been circulating in the Central Plains for the longest time, and was used all the way to the Raksha country and even Eastern European countries.

Ripe seedling method.

The so-called ripe vaccine method is to inoculate the vaccinia of mild smallpox patients several times, and select the vaccinia with the lowest toxicity and reaction in each round before use, so as to preserve the immune antigen and reduce the toxicity of the vaccine.

It can be said that vaccinia itself was accidentally discovered or infected by children, but the mature vaccine method must be supported by the hospital.

After thinking about it for a moment, Qiqige quickly decided on the rules.

Apart from being busy in the fields, walking with the empress dowager to recuperate, and playing with the children, Qiqige spent the rest of her time in the study.

The last time I was so passionate about learning Chinese characters and medical science.

So what did the empress dowager think of this time?Qiqige's immersion in learning caused a lot of attention. For example, Fuquan's mentality collapsed, and he complained all the time while dragging the empress dowager.

Of course, not to mention being sympathized by the Empress Dowager, Fuquan was even arrested on the spot by the Empress Dowager for questioning and assessment. When he left, he looked a little dazed.

The Empress Dowager placed the teacup on the table.

She looked in a good mood: "It's better to read more books, it's better than her thinking about raising cattle and sheep in addition to farming! If Ai's family allows it, next time she might talk about raising pigs again."

The Empress Dowager felt that Qiqige could really do this.

She shook her head: "Since Fulin left, she has let go of her whole body. At that time, the Ai family thought she was timid, but now they wish she would be more timid!"

"Look at the fact that the empress dowager likes to farm now, it has spread as Fujin ordered his wives to enter the palace to pay their respects. Today, Ye Bilong also mentioned that he found some fresh and rare plants at home, and wanted to give them to the empress dowager."

The more the Empress Dowager thought about it, the more amusing she became.

She rested her forehead and sighed: "Loving farming is also a virtue, and I don't care too much about it. If you say that you raise cattle and sheep or something... I'm afraid you will get ridiculed instead of praise!"

The Empress Dowager talked on and on.

Su Mala couldn't help laughing: "My servant thinks, the empress dowager must know what the master thinks, so she can refocus her attention on reading."

"If that's the case... that's fine!"

"Why don't you go and find out what the Empress Dowager is reading recently?" Su Mala said with a smile.

If the empress dowager didn't speak, it was her acquiescence.

Su Mala walked all the way to the back bedroom, and just as she reached the door, U Rina lifted the curtain and went in to announce.Not long after, she walked out quickly, and shouted with a smile on her face: "Auntie, master invites you in!"

Su Mala smiled and nodded.

Her inquiry was very simple. After paying respects to Qiqige, Su Mala asked with a smile, "What book is the empress dowager reading recently?"

Qiqige was slightly taken aback.

Presumably this is not Su Mala's problem, but the Empress Dowager's problem.

Qiqige's heart moved slightly, and she subconsciously closed the medical book.

She blinked her eyes uneasily, pursed her lips tightly, and after a long silence, she sighed in a low voice: "Of course Aijia reads medical books."

"My master thinks about Empress Xiaokang..."

"No, no." Qiqige waved her hands, and gave a wry smile: "Aijia just watched Chang Ning Qishou's children grow up, and couldn't help worrying, and wanted to think about it more, to see if there was any way. "

This answer was unexpected by Su Mala.

She was taken aback for a moment, then sighed: "Your servant is ashamed."

The same is true of the Empress Dowager.

Even if Qiqige hasn't researched anything yet, this heart alone is enough to move her.

The Empress Dowager sighed: "Smallpox..."

She gently twirled the beads, her thoughts gradually drifted away, and the whole room became very quiet.