After wearing the book, Ben Gong lay down all the way to win

Chapter 129 Orpiment
"Therefore, the queen will never let nobleman Berry give birth to the prince safely, and nobleman Jia has a very deep city and ruthless means. The last time the transformation is her masterpiece, and this time she will definitely use the queen to borrow a knife to kill someone."

The queen mother nodded: "Your analysis is correct. Lady Berry's birth was indeed done by the queen, but it was Lady Jia who hid behind the queen's back to plot. Fish and shrimp are good for the fetus, so I persuaded Berry to eat a lot of fish and shrimp, and then urged the queen to secretly order people to put orpiment in the fish and shrimp, and I secretly increased the dose of orpiment. .”

Linglong studied chemistry in her previous life, so of course she knows about orpiment.

Orpiment is a poisonous sulfide mineral with a lemon yellow appearance and its main component is arsenic trisulfide.

Everything in the world is divided into yin and yang, male and female, male and female, if there is orpiment, then there must be realgar.

The chemical name of realgar is tetraarsenic tetrasulfide. Its color and appearance are very similar to orpiment. It is also a highly poisonous mineral. It can not only be used as medicine, but also the nemesis of snakes. The legendary white lady drank realgar brewed during the Dragon Boat Festival The medicinal wine showed its original shape, scaring Xu Xian to death.

The reason why these two minerals are named realgar and realgar is because most of orpiment and realgar are produced together in low-temperature hydrothermal deposits and chalcovolcanic fumaroles, and the two coexist with each other, so there have been "mandarin duck minerals" since ancient times statement.

Different from realgar, orpiment is very unstable in chemical properties and easily decomposes when heated. Arsenic trisulfide combines with oxygen to form sulfide and arsenic trioxide. The sulfide is not very toxic, but arsenic trioxide is the well-known highly toxic drug arsenic.

In the novel, the child of Berry Guiren died of chronic arsenic poisoning by eating a large amount of fish and shrimp. This method is very vicious and extremely frightening.

In addition to making arsenic, the special properties of orpiment can also be used to modify articles.

"Mengxi Bi Tan" once recorded: "There is an error in the clean version of Guange's new book, and it is painted with orpiment, and the method of proofreading and correcting the characters is tried: scraping and washing will damage the paper, and the paper is easy to come off. If the powder is applied, the characters will not be correct. No, it can be wiped out by spitting it several times, but the orpiment will disappear once it is diffused, and it will not come off for a long time. The ancients called it lead yellow, and it is well used."

Therefore, in the Chinese environment, orpiment has the meaning of tampering with the article, and it has the extended meaning of "nonsense", such as the idiom "speaking orpiment".

Linglong sighed faintly: "The child is innocent, but also a poor child!"

The Empress Dowager said coldly: "Women in the harem, who doesn't have their own suffering, adults are like this, let alone a child, I can only blame the child's bad life, and will not be reincarnated. If it falls into your belly, Aijia will definitely protect you He was born safely."

Linglong said: "The matter of getting pregnant depends on God's will, and there is no need to rush it. Fortunately, the emperor still favors me. As long as I don't get tricked, I will have my own child sooner or later."

The Empress Dowager said: "With the empress and Mrs. Jia taking action, the Ai family can rest easy. You don't have to worry about Mrs. Berry giving birth to the prince before you."

Linglong said: "Aunt, why should you care about the eldest son or the noble son, the emperor is still young now, how many years he will be in power, no one can say for sure, it may not be a good thing to have the emperor's eldest son."

The Queen Mother frowned and said, "Then what do you mean?"

　During this period of time, I have been looking through those unofficial gossip, looking for something that can replace cinnabar, and finally I found orpiment.

　　What's more, the book "Illustrations of Materia Medica" also writes: "When a woman feels pregnant, take two liang of realgar and hold it in a crimson sac, which can be turned into a male. Take half a liang of orpiment and carry it in a plain sac. , can turn male into female", which means that these two minerals have the effect of changing the sex of the fetus.

　　Of course, there is no scientific reason for mineral sex change, but writing novels is unconstrained, and you can make it up based on unofficial history. I plan to set the androgynous baby born by Berry as orpiment plus part of realgar.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)