The Empress's Special Favor: The Prime Minister and His Excellency are Offenders

Chapter 18
"Oh, my waist, I'm so exhausted, hiss—you should be gentle, bitch!"

Concubine Mei was lying on the bed screaming, and the maid was applying ointment on her waist,

"I'll come, you go down first,"

Helian Zhilan stood up, and the ointment box in the maid's hand stretched out her fingers to pick up a little ointment, and applied it on Mei Fei's waist without serious injury.

"What do you think the empress dowager thinks, the emperor is not here, it will torture us all," Concubine Mei muttered,

"Sister, don't speak loudly. Be careful that walls have ears. If someone listens to you, it will be bad for your sister," Helian Zhilan said in a low voice.
"What are you afraid of? Why don't people tell you about doing such a thing? If you want me to say, the Queen Mother is an old witch! Ouch—"

Helian Zhilan exerted a little force on her hand, Mei Fei was about to burst into tears, she just wanted to scold Helian Zhilan, but she turned her head to meet her stern eyes, and swallowed the words that came to her lips,

"Sister, I'm doing this for your own good. In this deep palace, be careful, you might not know how you will die someday!" Helian Zhilan still said softly.

During the time when Mo Qingling went out to pray for blessings, the women in the harem were not idle. As early as the second day after Mo Qingling left, when the concubines came to Fengyi Palace to pay their respects, Concubine Mei muttered that sentence again,
"Sister Wanbi's illness is so pretentious that she didn't even come to pay her respects to the Queen Mother, but the emperor didn't see him less visiting the Qingwan Palace. It's not just sister Wanbi who is suffering from this illness. Let's go and see together later. Look!"

The Empress Dowager decided immediately,

"The spring is warm and the flowers are blooming. The women in our harem cannot be said to be delicious and lazy. From now on, everyone should go to the vegetable garden of the public dining hall to grow vegetables!"

When the queen mother dropped this sentence, everyone thought it was a joke. Unexpectedly, after the queen mother turned and left, someone took them to the vegetable garden of the public dining hall.

In fact, the weather has just warmed up. The fruits and vegetables that everyone ate before were all grown in greenhouses. Of course, the greenhouse was also invented and modified by Mo Qingling. He soon taught Sinongyuan. Now Wudu has popularized greenhouses all year round. Can eat fresh fruits and vegetables.

In fact, these pampered daughters of the princesses don't know how to grow any vegetables. The queen mother asked them to come here, but she just didn't want them to be idle, so as not to find out that the concubine Wan is not in the palace.

But Zhongshiyuan has always been very strict about the crops to be planted, and taught the concubines very seriously, starting with digging the ground.At the beginning, some concubines complained about being tempered, and later complained that those who were tempered would not have food to eat. Now everyone worked hard and did not dare to be lazy at all.

By the 15th day when Mo Qingling left, all the vegetable gardens had been dug up, tidied up, divided into groups, and grown vegetables.

There is a lot of land in Zhongshiyuan, and after planting one piece, there will be another piece. Some concubines who have trained in martial arts have nothing to do with it, but like Concubine Mei, who has never suffered at all, she was tired and sore on the first day. Haven't gotten used to it yet.

However, the cultivation of the land in the public dining hall is not all artificial. Under Mo Qingling's transformation, it is almost mechanized cultivation. The whole country of Wudu is mechanized cultivation, which is very efficient. In addition, Mo Qingling has also transformed the crops. Seeds, floods and droughts have defensive measures, and the country's crop production is very impressive.

Because there are not all the concubines, the professionals in charge of planting in Zhongshiyuan are also working hard to cultivate. In half a month, all the land in Zhongshiyuan has been cultivated.

The concubines were very happy, and they had a celebration banquet with everyone in the dining hall to celebrate that all the land has been cultivated this year and wish a good harvest.

Of course, the reason why the concubines are more happy is that they can finally stop farming.

So the Queen Mother said, go to the Tai Hospital and follow the Pharmacy Bureau to collect medicine.

With the experience of the public dining hall, the concubines no longer complained, and did not dare to neglect their work. They listened carefully to the guidance of the drug boys from the Pharmacy Bureau, and how to distinguish between various rubbings. He picked up a grid of medicine baskets, and started picking herbs with a medicine atlas.

It was also Mo Qingling's idea to divide the medicine basket into nine compartments, so that they could be sorted directly when they were picked, and it would save the trouble of sorting slowly when they went back.

Each of the concubines has a task, and only after completing the task can they have food. Of course, there will be rewards for exceeding the quota.

It’s the same in Zhongshiyuan. If you do well, you will be rewarded with super delicious snacks, such as cakes, butterfly crisps, cream puffs, etc.

This kind of modern dim sum made by Mo Qingling's imperial chef is naturally never seen by concubines from foreign countries. After eating it, it is very popular in the harem.

Although they don't know what kind of reward the Pharmacy Bureau will give, the concubines feel that it must be a good thing. They have already opened their eyes several times when they came to Wu Country.

The place where the herbs are collected is in Wuzhu Mountain.

Wuzhu Mountain is the largest mountain in the Wu Kingdom. There are holy springs, Wuzhu Temple, hunting grounds, etc. on the mountain, all of which are under the jurisdiction of the royal family.

According to Mo Qingling's instructions, the Department of Pharmacy naturally has artificially grown medicinal materials, as do the branches of the Department of Pharmacy across the country, but there are also times when wild medicinal materials are picked a few times a year.

The place where the concubine picked the medicinal materials was far away from Wuzhu Temple and the holy spring.

"Everyone is in a group of four, and each group is led by a pharmacy officer from the Pharmacy Bureau. You can't go too far, follow the instructions of the pharmacy officer in this group, and don't touch the herbs you don't know, so as not to be poisoned. Although the beasts in this area are extremely Rarely, but there will be some poisonous snakes and the like, don’t panic when you encounter them, the medicine officer will protect everyone, even if you are really bitten, the medicine officer will also have healing medicine on him.”

The captain of the herb collection operation carefully instructed,

"After two hours, no matter whether you have completed the task or not, come back here to gather. If you get lost, please use the letter carving to contact us. Let's go gather medicine!"

At the captain's order, everyone dispersed on the spot and searched for herbs in different directions.The pharmacy officers of each group carried a small eagle on their left shoulders, a sword hanging on the right side of their waist, and gunpowder and other self-defense items on their bodies. According to Ling's regulations, most of the pharmacy officers in the pharmacy bureau are skilled. Even if they don't know martial arts, they will teach some self-defense skills after joining the pharmacy bureau, including some gunpowder usage methods specially used by the pharmacy bureau.

Of course, for the sake of efficient medicine collection, even if it is not a concubine who came here today, the Pharmacy Bureau itself basically collects medicines in groups of four, escorted by a drug officer with a weapon, and the others are serious about collecting medicines.After all, carrying a sword is not very convenient.

Because of this, after Mo Qingling came to power, there has never been an incident of death due to picking herbs.

Concubine Mei heard that the emperor is in the holy spring, and she has been wondering all the way how she can sneak there to find the emperor. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, maybe she will be favored in one fell swoop.

Concubine Mei smirked while fantasizing.

　The queen mother is also very cute.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)