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As Donglai approached the main hall, Sanlang saw the darkness in the room, subconsciously took a step back, "Why are there so many people?"

Hearing the voice, everyone who was talking looked out at the same time, "Come in, come in." Mrs. Zhen waved to him happily.

Seeing her stand up, Saburo moved swiftly and crossed the threshold without any panic, "Ma'am, Mr. Xiang." He bowed and was so curious about this master that he didn't dare to look up.

"Sit down." Zhen Xiang pointed to the seat where he started, looked at Saburo, and finally understood why the old wife said that people should not look good.His skinny body collapses when the wind blows, his palm-sized face is not as big as his eyes, and his head is slightly lowered, looking really ordinary.

Saburo didn't dare to sit down, the aristocratic family had great rules, looked around, there was no other seat except for that empty seat, "This..." is not very good.Saburo is in a dilemma.

"Sit down if father tells you to do it." A middle-aged man next to him suddenly said.

Seeing that he looked like Zhen Chen, San Lang swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Brother." When it came to this point, he didn't dare to call Young Master Zhen.

"Since you call me big brother, then we are a family. How can there be so many rules?" The two brothers have been asking people outside today to find out what happened when they were imprisoned. Why did the emperor's condition improve so quietly? .

And Xiang Zhen went to the palace yesterday, and today he stayed in the palace for a long time. After having lunch with the emperor, he didn't find out the reason why the emperor's spirit improved. Who would have thought that when they returned home, what troubled them for two days would be revealed. up.

"Yes, Sanlang, you are a hero of our family." Second Brother Zhen changed the subject of conversation, "By the way, how did you make donkey meat? Why does the emperor like it so much? Could it be that donkey meat can really cure diseases?"

"Second brother, he has a secret recipe." First Young Master Zhen scolded his younger brother for being ignorant in his decades.

"There's no secret recipe." Sanlang glanced at Donglai secretly, and sold him after a while.

Saburo can see through people's hearts. Seeing that Big Brother Zhen sincerely invited him to sit down, he didn't hesitate. He glanced at everyone calmly. really not bad.

He didn't know that the Zhen family encountered a catastrophe, and all the people who had been friends with them in the past disappeared. Xiang Zhen and the others were circled, and it was better if they didn't know the situation outside. Grandpa told grandma that when he was doing activities for his father-in-law's family, he had tasted the warmth and coldness of the world.

To put it bluntly, after this incident, the rats of the Zhen family also grew wiser.

Seeing that Saburo didn't want to say anything, the old lady greeted her son and son-in-law, "Eat, eat, let's talk about something after dinner."

"Yes, yes, I heard that Sanlang was still sick two days ago, so he has to make up for it." Xiang Zhen then asked the maid to help Sanlang prepare vegetables.

Saburo is not used to it. He was lucky enough to attend several state banquets in his previous life, but he was as uncomfortable as he is now, so he wanted to find something to say, "Huh? Master Xiang, why do you only drink water?"

"I ate too much at noon, so I'm not hungry." Zhen Xiang was very embarrassed.

The old lady joked with a smile, "It's all because the donkey meat made by Sanlang is so delicious. The emperor asked Mr. Xiang to accompany him to eat. No, he ate too much all of a sudden, as if he had never eaten donkey meat in eight lifetimes."

With a sound of "click", Sanlang's chopsticks hit the bowl, and just got up from the bed, his blushing face suddenly turned pale, and he asked in a daze, "Did Xiangye eat donkey meat?"

"Yeah, what's the matter?" Zhen Xiang was very surprised that his face changed instantly.

"It's okay." Saburo suppressed his panic, wishing that the donkey meat Zhen Xiang ate was only cooked with ordinary seasoning.But the emperor had never eaten any delicacies from mountains and seas. If it was ordinary donkey meat, how could he let his most dependent officials accompany him to eat it.

Everyone is human, with such an obvious change in him, even Mrs. Zhen, whose eyes are getting worse, can't be fooled, let alone Xiang Zhen, "What's going on?"

"Master Xiang, the younger ones go out first."

Donglai is Zhen Qingming's servant, and now he is Saburo's servant, he has to wait for the master to eat, and if the master has something to do, he can't find him, knowing the inside story, he will take the initiative to remind the prime minister.

Zhen Xiangru was enlightened, "You all go to eat, there is no need to serve."

Well-trained maidservants filed out, and Donglai's mother came out last, and when she passed by Donglai, Donglai whispered, "Go eat, I'll come and see the door."

The door of the main hall was wide open, except for Dong Lai beside the door, there was no one in a radius of ten meters.

Saburo smiled wryly, he really didn't have the fate to do bad things, and it didn't take long for the retribution to his family.

"Speak up, kid, what happened? Don't be afraid, Mr. Xiang is here." Seeing his small face wrinkled into a ball, Mrs. Zhen felt very distressed for her son.

Saburo thought for a while, then simply stood up, made a bow to Xiang Zhen, and bent down to the end, "Master Xiang, I'm sorry!"

"What is this for?" Zhen Xiang quickly stood up and helped him up.

When everyone saw Saburo's serious expression, they all looked at me and I looked at you, hula-la all surrounded them, and they all asked what happened to Saburo.

Seeing that so many people cared about him when they met for the first time, Saburo blamed himself even more, "Master Xiang, if the donkey meat you ate was handed down to the emperor by the prince, then there is medicine in the donkey meat."

"Medicine? What kind of medicine?" Zhen Xiang is not an imperial doctor and not a famous chef, unless he bribes the palace servant who was on duty in the emperor's palace yesterday, otherwise he has no chance to know what ingredients are in the donkey meat.

And Zhen Xiang was only released at noon yesterday, not to mention that he doesn't know how to bribe palace people, and he doesn't have time to do it.

"How dare you be so bold, how can you put medicine in the donkey meat." Mrs. Zhen sighed, and she was quite disappointed with Saburo in words.

Dong Lai couldn't help but argue, "Ma'am, Saburo is sick to save you all. This is the only way to make that one eat, and he can't help it."

"Look at what each of you looks like. After Saburo finishes speaking, if it's fucked, master, I can still stand here." Zhen Xiang smiled and said kindly, "Don't worry, speak slowly."

Saburo: "You may have heard of that medicine, it is Yingsu."

"What am I supposed to be?" The women of Zhen's family breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhen Qingming's eldest sister and third sister simply returned to their seats and listened to San Lang speak slowly.

"The husk has a nourishing effect, and doctors know it. I heard that the stew is very fragrant. I heard it from a wandering doctor. He also said that if people take it for a long time, they will become addicted." Sanlang pursed his lips, "Occasionally use a little fine."

"Haven't you finished yet?" Zhen Xiang saw the hesitation on his face, "The things at the entrance of the emperor have to be inspected layer by layer. The emperor is fine until now and his spirit is better than yesterday, which means that the yingsu shell has nourished the blood." effect."

Master Taishan, it's too early for you to rest assured.

Saburo rubbed his nose, "If the recipe of stewed donkey meat is modified by the Tai Hospital, then the emperor will be fine if he eats it. If the ingredients of the stewed meat are sent by Xie's family, it will be a serious matter." The voice was a little guilty.

"The Xie family also has them?" Young Master Zhen asked hurriedly.

"I didn't know when I would be able to lure Fatty Xie to take the bait, so I bought all the Yingsu in the market." For this, he used up all the money Zhen Qingming gave him, "I didn't expect things to go smoothly unexpectedly. , there is still a big bag of Yingsu that I prepared, so I will give it all to Fatty.”

"What are you doing for him? How nice it is to bring it home!" Zhen Ershao felt a little regretful.

Saburo rubbed his nose again, feeling guilty, "If it's just the shell of Yingsu, I'm not worried. I heard from Mr. Lian that your accident was caused by the Xie family. I was so angry that I boiled the fruit of Yingsu into a kind of White powder, the powder is worse than poppy shells, people will become addicted after taking it three to five times, it is a bit like a drug, it looks fine at ordinary times, if you don’t take that powder in time when the effect of the medicine takes effect, you can kill people and set fires, you can do anything come out."

The main room was quiet, Zhen Xiang was startled, "Did you give that powder to Fatty Xie?"

Saburo smiled wryly, "I originally wanted to do this. A piece of warbler millet shell and stewed ingredients weighs 25 catties, while the powder I made is only two or three catties. Fatty Xie is really hateful and lured him into the bait." That day, knowing that I had no money, he took away the donkey meat and my oven for making pancakes. In a fit of anger, I mixed the powder into those ingredients. Guessing that the emperor ate donkey meat, he thanked the fat man Take away the seasoning of the mixed powder."

"Oh..." Xiang Zhen sighed, "You said three or five times, today is already the second day, I hope Xie's family will stop using those ingredients for cooking."

"Probably impossible." Sanlang scratched his head, "The emperor is obviously getting better." People are forbidden to eat beef here, but mutton is too fishy, ​​pork is too rough, donkey meat tastes good, and it makes you feel good after eating. Maybe thank your family for keeping the kitchen All the pork and mutton in the dish were replaced with donkey meat.

"Father, what should we do now? Old man Xie, that old fox turned around and found that the seasoning was wrong, so he will definitely look for Saburo." First Young Master Zhen was very anxious. The guards of the East Palace had just withdrawn yesterday, so they might not be back tomorrow.

"Brother, don't worry, the matter is not that serious." Sanlang said slowly, "That kind of powder is very harmful, but it doesn't show at first, the Xie family will at most think that the dishes made by Yingsuke are delicious. It takes months for drug addiction to show."

"You should have said it earlier." First Young Master Zhen wanted to slap him, "I was scared to death."

Everyone exhaled at the same time.

Saburo raised his forehead, "However,"

"Stop!" Er Shao Zhen interrupted him, "Let me sit still before you talk."

Seeing them all staring at him, Saburo said, "Two months sooner, three months later, when Xie's family realizes that they are addicted, if they forcefully quit, they will feel upset, violent rage, palpitations, sweating, etc. Continuously yawning and shedding tears, alternating fever and chills, anyway, it feels similar to the feeling of being eaten by thousands of ants. If they survive this period, the poison will be quit. The premise is that during the process of quitting the drug, they will no longer eat the husks .”

"It's ruthless!" Young Master Zhen stretched out her thumb, and the women of the Zhen family felt a kind of joy of getting revenge while feeling lingering fear.

Saburo was speechless, "I don't want to either."

"We are the ones who made you suffer." Zhen Xiang patted him on the shoulder, "Take a day off tomorrow, and go out of town when it gets dark."

"master!"

"Father!"

"Don't talk about it, if it snows in a few days, Sanlang won't be able to walk even if he wants to." Zhen Xiangdao, "Don't worry about us, the incident happened suddenly at that time, and we were all taken down by the crown prince because we were not prepared. If you clear it up, you won't be easily restrained by the prince."

There are many disputes in the capital, and Sanlang is unwilling to stay here, let alone see the magistrate of other families.Hearing Xiang Zhen's words, Saburo nodded, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the little boy being held in the arms of the second sister-in-law, "Do you want me to take my nephew away?"

"Yes!" Second Aunt Zhen suddenly stood up, "Father, let Sanlang take Xiaobao away."

"By the way, how is Zhen Chen over there? Are you being naughty?" Zhen Xiang asked.

Sanlang: "My younger brother is about the same size as Ah Chen. They usually study and practice calligraphy together. Qingming said that when Ah Chen learns the dialect there and can communicate normally with others, he will be sent to Qingzhou Mansion."

The second sister-in-law Zhen originally thought that her father-in-law sent Zhen Chen away and felt that he was worrying unnecessarily, but now she wished she could carry the child and go with Saburo, "Xiaobao, let's play with uncle, okay?" Then she handed the child to Saburo.

Zhen Xiang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "What does it look like? How old is your family and you can't take care of a child."

Zhen Ershao thought to himself, if it wasn't for Sanlang's coincidence and Wu Sanlang's kindness and righteousness, it would be hard to say whether they would be able to protect the child.