Leader Lan Palace

Chapter 691 Volume Two 209 (6 more)
"The imperial doctor said that medicine is three-point poison. Sulfur and mercury can cure the poison of scabies, but if used improperly, these medicines themselves can also cause poisoning. Just like sulfur, heating and fumigation is an effective method, but the sulfur The heat that rises after being heated is itself poisonous. Mercury is the same, and the heat that rises when exposed to fire is even more poisonous."

Wanxi pointed to the cinnabar on Lan Pei's table: "Jiufujin may be young and a lady, unlike me who has seen all kinds of industries in the countryside since I was a child-I have seen how craftsmen roasted cinnabar at home when I was young. Mercury comes out. If the cinnabar is heated, it will become mercury. Mercury craftsmen say that the heat is poisonous, and they dare not open it up and heat it. They always put it in a bamboo tube or an earthen jar and seal it tightly. It's nice to smell the heat."

"Jiu Fujin used this cinnabar to boil water, and then threw the animal bones coated with cinnabar into the fire for divination. Maybe he was poisoned by the heat of mercury unknowingly. This drowsiness is already a sign."

Wanxi lowered her head: "If you are poisoned by the mercury gas, the woman's monthly letter will be unstable, and it will not be easy to conceive; or even if you have a fetus, there is a risk of slipping away."
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Lan Pei sat where he was, the autumn wind was blowing outside the window, but beads of sweat fell from Lan Pei's forehead.

"Did I accidentally use this poisonous method myself, or did someone deliberately harm me?"

Wanxi's eyes were black and white, and she fixed her eyes on Lan Pei.

"Painting is naturally your hobby, and so is divination. You know it yourself, and so do the people in your house. That's why they used this method of cinnabar, so that even if you notice something is wrong, you will only go to it. Think about your own preferences. It’s just that you are not cautious on weekdays, but you may not be able to recognize that someone is trying to harm you.”

Lampei's heart also sank: "Exactly. At that moment just now, the slave's first thought was these paintings and divinations of his own."

Wanxi looked at Lan Pei quietly: "Although you use a lot of cinnabar when you paint, but the cinnabar itself is not heated, and the cinnabar will not turn into mercury, so there is no poisonous gas; in terms of the amount of cinnabar used, no one can compare But your majesty, every day, your majesty must criticize the papers with a pen and ink, if the cinnabar is poisonous, wouldn't all the emperors of the past have lost their lives?"

"Although you do divination, you want to stain the animal bones with cinnabar, but your divination method is to throw the animal bones into the fire, and take out the bones after they are cracked. The cinnabar cannot withstand the fire for a long time. Besides divination, after all, you don’t do it every day, at most once every ten days and half a month, even if it’s poisonous, there’s a limit to how much it can be.”

Wanxi picked up Lanpei's own tea set from the desk.It was a pair of small red clay teapots, and a small stove was equipped under the teapots. Mulberry leaves and pine branches were simmered in the stove to keep the water temperature and keep the tea fragrance lingering.

This is a method that only the most elegant people can enjoy, even Wanxi has never played in the palace.But if someone smears this most elegant thing with a means of harming others, it would be a waste of money.

"It's your teapot that is more likely to harm people. You see, your teapot is made of red clay, even if some cinnabar is added to it, it's not easy for you to notice it; besides, look here," Wanxi said. Turn the bottom of the teapot over.

The bottom of the teapot has a layer of glaze to prevent it from being burnt and to avoid scorched fire marks.The glaze is also red in order to match the whole red clay teapot.

(End of this chapter)