Chapter 60: A Mirror and a Watery Moon

Su Yan slept for six hours, and when he woke up, it was the late afternoon before the hour, and the rain outside the window was obscene, and the sky was cloudy.

Every limb ached, a fiery swelling still lingered in his posterior, and the memories of a night of madness flooded into his mind as he rolled over facelessly, burying his face in the pillow and pounding the bedpan a few times.

Shen Qi was also lying on the bed, seeing this, she swept him into her arms, “Regret? It’s too late.”

Su Yan is very chagrined at the moment, feeling that he even got a dead eunuch’s way, combined with the previous life of the palace drama are white (accompanied) to see. As for regret,…… Shen Qi if not mentioned, he really did not have this realization.

“You are already my person, you can’t escape in this life.” Shen Qi kissed him and kindly smiled, “Resign yourself to your fate.”

Su Yan only took him for a dog fart, pounded the bedpan again, and said, “I missed today’s duty!”

“A long time ago, I sent someone to the Da Lisi Temple to take sick leave for you, take a good rest. What do you want to eat, I’ll order the subordinates to do it.”

Su Yan wanted to eat Chaoshan congee in a casserole and dictated the recipe. Shen Qi then asked the cook to use fragrant rice, glutinous rice mixed with peanut oil, held in a purple casserole pot boiled into a thick white congee, put in the fresh river shrimp and chicken wings and legs to cook for a few moments, accompanied by shredded ginger, shredded mustard greens, salt and pepper seasoning, and finally sprinkled with chopped green onions and coriander, a strong aroma of the nose, fresh and appetizing. Both of them ate one pot each.

Shen Qi couldn’t get enough of it, “You’re a good one for enjoying yourself, where did you get the recipe.”

Su Yan laughed: “When the day cools down, the blacksmith will make a nine-gallon copper pot, so you can taste the authentic Chaotianmen hot pot.”

“Such a good appetite, how come you don’t see to fatten up a few pounds?” Shen Qi got up and picked up Su Yan, wanting to turn the weight upside down, his face suddenly turned white and cold sweat rolled down from his forehead.

Su Yan nearly fell to the ground, and was busy standing firmly to support him, asking, “What’s wrong with you?”

Shen Qi gritted his teeth, “Back pain. Can’t move.”

“…… told you to take it easy, you have to show off!” Su Yan half-supported and half-framed him to get him to lie down on the bed, “I’ll go find the housekeeper and ask him to invite Mr. Ying Xu over.”

–

After Chen Shiyu took Shen Qi’s pulse and carefully examined his back injury, he sighed and said, “Did Commander Commander Commander fail to follow the old man’s doctor’s advice and engage in strenuous sexual intercourse?”

Shen Qi coughed awkwardly.

“Your injury, not only withered blood to meat, but also loss of vital energy, injury to the body of the fundamental, must be attentive will be able to slowly recover. Ordinary people at least have to one or two years, but fortunately, you are successful in martial arts, the body is strong and healthy, but also used the trauma medicine, the injury is faster, but half a year of conditioning is still inevitable.

“It’s a pity that you don’t listen to the old man’s advice, and now that your injuries have recurred, you have to recuperate again. Alas, young people are just bloody …… and vigorous for three more months of abstinence!”

Shen Qi’s face turned green, “Three more months?!”

Chen Shiyu stroked his long beard, “It will take at least two months. If you don’t follow the doctor’s advice again, then hire another doctor.” He wrote a prescription and left it on the desktop, collected the consultation fee, and carried the medicine box to leave.

As soon as the door closed, Su Yan came out from behind the curtain and ate to stifle his laughter, and laughed out loud when he couldn’t help it.

Shen Qi’s face was green and white, his self-esteem was hit hard, and he turned his face sideways into the wall to sulk.

Su Yan walked over and lovingly stroked his head, “Seventh son take good care of yourself and remember to abstain from sex.”

Shen Qi grabbed his wrist, pulled it to his mouth, and took a big bite as if he was venting his anger.

“Dog!” Suyan drew his hand back owlishly and smacked his thigh.

“Dog day.” Shen Qi countered sorrowfully.

Su Yan suddenly blushed and walked away in annoyance.

–

When it was dark, Su Yan returned home.

He knocked for a moment and it was Wu Ming who came to the door.

Su Yan was stunned, “You’re not in the second courtyard?”

Wu Ming said, “Yes, I heard knocking on the door, I think it’s your honor coming back. Your Excellency is an official of the fourth rank, how come there is not even a concierge in your residence?”

Su Yan nodded and said, “It is time to hire a concierge, lest the moment I return late, Xiao Bei Xiao Jing will take turns guarding the door.”

He shook the ** oil umbrella and walked into the courtyard door. Wu Ming stared at his weak and feeble footsteps and frowned slightly, “Your honor is not feeling well? Do you need me to ask a doctor?” Su Yan smiled dryly: “No harm, just a little tired. You’ve all had dinner, right? I’ve also had dinner, so I don’t need to order the kitchen to prepare it.”

As Su Yan brushed his shoulders, Wu Ming smelled a faint trace of fishy odor on his outer robe.

Wu Ming’s five senses were naturally a bit sharper than normal people, being a killer and having received special training, not only was his ear, eyesight and determination superior, but his sense of smell was also extremely sensitive. This silk with a bit of musk pungent fishy smell, wandering in the nasal cavity, so that he immediately sniffed out – is the odor of Yang Jing.

Su adults this is …… Wu Ming can not help but speculate, he went to the palace yesterday morning, and only returned at this moment. This kind of thing will not be in the palace, could it be after the palace? But adults line end upright, is not looking for flowers and willow people, a clean and unhindered, only except ……

The image of Lord Su, naked and pinned under a man, flashed through his mind as he broke the window of the small southern courtyard.

Shen Qi, this dog! He’s still restless even though he’s injured, and he’s trampling on Lord Su again! Wu Ming’s face was as cold as frost, his back teeth clenched: one day I’ll call his head to the ground, to give your honor an outlet for his anger! I only hope that the Lord will not be soft to protect this villain, as soon as possible to get up and get rid of his restraints.

Wu Ming looked at Su Yan’s back and couldn’t help but call out, “Lord Su!”

Su Yan stopped walking and turned his head to look back, the corners of his lips faintly smiling, “Hm?”

Wu Ming suddenly could not speak, feeling that every word in his mind that was doubtful was blasphemy to this teenage official, and for a moment he could only look at him in a daze.

Su Yan endured the soreness of his limb muscles, walked to Wu Ming and asked, “What is it, just say it, I’ll listen.”

Wu Ming nagged, “…… A new gourd of wine, put it at the door of your room.”

Su Yan’s brain hurts when she hears the word “wine”, but she can’t bear to brush off his good intentions and smiles, “Okay, I’ll save it for drinking slowly.”

He slowly walked to the inner courtyard. Wu Ming lowered his eyelids and was silent for a long time, the frost blade on his waist abruptly came out of its sheath, as if it was a slender electric light in the night, soughing and stabbing the raindrops in the sky.

–

In the East Palace waiting hard for the Prince, once again was Su Yan pigeonholed, until the palace door under the key, only to know that he has long been out of the palace, even specially instructed to guard outside the Yangxin Hall of the chamberlain, have not seen his face, straight gas in the seven orifices of smoke.

“Is the Eastern Palace’s decree not a decree? He’s clearly bullying, not taking little lord me seriously at all!” The Crown Prince’s eyes reddened with anger as he loudly proclaimed to Fubao, “I’m going to punish him severely once to teach him a lesson!”

Fubao knows that the crown prince is now in the anger, have to go along with the words, but also worried that the crown prince really Su adults to the punishment, back to regret, anger him to add fuel to the fire. Thinking about it do not dare to say anything.

The crown prince angrily kicked him, “Even you don’t listen anymore! Say, how will you punish him?”

Fu Bao for it, “Punish …… him for standing outside the temple for half an hour? Or else punish him with a month’s salary?”

The Crown Prince laughed back in anger, “Should we punish him for drinking three cups to himself?”

Fubo thought, “I am not afraid that you are going to back out after your anger is gone. Why don’t we just raise it high and lower it lightly, so that both sides can have a step down.

The Crown Prince grunted coldly, “He won’t try to fool me this time, just wait and see!”

–

Yangxin Hall, King King listened to Yu Wang told Su Yan pharmaceutical rescue, and ordered to call Chen Shiyu immediately into the palace, detailed interrogation, the name of this “penicillin” of the strange drug is very moved.

Before he ascended the throne, he also rode the frontiers with the late emperor and knew the horror and lethality of ulcers and carbuncles. When two armies fought, if the enemy was insidious and soaked their weapons with gold juice and other filth, a small bloody wound could take the life of a soldier.

The fighting strength of an army is supported by good commanding generals and veterans who have been in the battlefield for a long time. If a new soldier has never seen blood or been wounded, he can only be considered a rabble. However, six or seven out of ten wounded soldiers will die of gold ulcer attacks, often before they are honed, they are regrettably lost.

If penicillin really works wonders in the treatment of canker sores, it can help a nation more than 100,000 troops, because it can benefit a hundred generations.

“The Book of Rites? University’ has a cloud, ‘Zhi Zhi Zhi is in the Geshu, and after the object is grasped, knowledge comes’, but as I listen, I feel that it is different from what Mr. Yingxu said about ‘Geshu Xue’. Can you tell me more about it?” The emperor asked.

Chen Shiyu ashamed: “I only vaguely heard a general, specific still have to ask Su adults.”

The emperor is interested in this, just want to give the order to summon, and shook his head: “just, tomorrow.”

King Yu seemed to smile, “Su Shaoqing is not just out of the palace, now send people to chase, but only a few moments of work.”

The emperor glanced at him, “I will find him to discuss this tomorrow, so you guys should retire first.”

Chen Shiyu saluted and retired. King Yu owed a bow and left as well.

Out of the Yangxin Hall, King Yu asked, “Mr. Yingxu has ever smelled that there is a smell of wine in the hall, and there is also a hidden fragrance?”

Chen Shiyu hesitated to answer. The two of them walked to a secluded place and saw no one to the left or right before he said to King Yu, “I can smell it. If old me’s nose hasn’t failed, that should be the odor of Tianshui incense.”

King Yu has long experienced the wind and moon, once he heard it, he knew the trick, his face changed slightly, recovered as usual in a moment, but his eyes were cold, squeezing out three words from between his teeth, “–good royal brother!”

Chen Shiyu arched his hand, “The drug of aphrodisiac, long immersion in the fear of injury to the dragon body, but also please advise His Majesty, use less for good.”

King Yu laughed: “Imperial brother’s bedtime affairs, as a subject brother, how can I intervene?” Only to intervene.

The next day the emperor summoned Su Yan, and when he heard that he had sued for illness, he waited for another day and finally met someone in the imperial study.

“Feeling better?” The Emperor asked, sitting behind the table.

Su Yan was ashamed: “Real is not a disease, it is a hangover. I behaved in an unruly manner, and I was greedy on the day of the birth anniversary, Your Majesty forgive me.”

The emperor remembered that day he also fed him a cup of wine, and then remembered the floating fragrance in the bedchamber, the red clothed young man who was lying drunk on the bed, the scattered clothes all over the floor, and the dragon robe still seems to have the touch of being rubbed by someone …… s chest is difficult to restrain itself from burning hot.

He closed his eyes, his fingers gripped the cold and hard Xuan copper gilt evil spirits paperweight on the table, tightly pinched a pinch, before he opened his eyes, faintly said, “People’s common sense, no need to thank you. I summoned you today, want to ask you, what is ‘geomancy’?”

Suyan was moved to endeavor to advance natural science in the present age when he threw out this term, which had existed long ago in history.

Throughout history, the Chinese people tend to use the word “wisdom” in the body of the strategist, while the West is mostly used in the inventor. Although there have been a number of domestic such as Shen Kuo, Song Yingxing stream of scientists, but from the overall level, the importance of scientific development does not have a deeper understanding.

The dynasty that followed Ming was even more closed and ignorant and servile, almost destroying the scientific and civilizational progress of the previous centuries.

In comparison, the Ming Dynasty was already considered quite a broad-minded and open-minded era.

There are more than 100 meters long, nine masts and twelve sails, displacement of more than 10,000 tons of treasure ships, in the Western South Seas cut through the waves, invincible.

There were firearms that were ahead of the world level at that time: the Swift Thunder Singijeon, the Five Thunders Divine Machine, the Carrying Gun, the Artillery, the Flame Thrower, the Mines, and the Water Mines……. These hot weapons were even able to be assembled into a Divine Machine Battalion, which is called the golden period of the development of the firearms in the history.

There are also experts in optical instruments who can make magnifying glasses and microscopes; physicists who put forward the view of space and time that time and space cannot exist independently of each other; meteorologists who can make cloud maps of climate change; mathematicians who write books and use beads to calculate squares and cubes; and even the first astronomical telescope in the history of China.

Such a glorious dynasty, the lack of talent is not talent, but the official discovery of talent, science and technology more systematic, extended, in-depth research.

Su Yan to the emperor ruthlessly instilled a pass, his understanding of “science and technology is the first productive force”, vigorously promote the use of science and technology in agriculture, water conservancy, war and other areas of great benefit, and finally said: “Assuming that the realm of the world of all different things, and the classification of the poor its reasoning, it is the point of view of the study of material things! This is the point of view of ge-physics. Ge Shi is not only the origin of the things of the study of the detailed investigation, or the process of knowledge growth, but also less hands-on practice. Therefore, I would like to request the opening of the ‘Academy of Heavenly Works’ to incorporate ‘materialism’ into the examination categories, and to recruit the world’s materialistic talents to learn from each other, to seek common development, and to push forward the development of new ideas, so as to bring the power of our country to a higher level!”

Jinglong Emperor fell into deep thought, half a long time Fang said, “This is a major national event, I need to discuss with the cabinet ministers, and then decided.”

Su Yan knows that only with his words, to let the emperor resolve to create unprecedented new situation, almost impossible thing, can be open-minded advice, research and deep thinking, already has a very enlightened vision. He only seeks to bury a seed of science in the hearts of people in this era, slowly see it take root and sprout, gradually sprouting new leaves, will have been satisfied.

He sincerely bowed to the Emperor and said, “My Emperor is wise.”

The emperor ordered Su Yan to get up, looking at that spirited through the joy of the face, suddenly incomparably grateful, he was in the bedchamber scrupulously mindful of the day, the precipice of the horse. At the same time also feel incomparable resentment – the national scholar and beauty, is it really can not be both? As an emperor who is responsible for the countryside, he can get everything, but will also lose more.

He sighed silently and waved at Suyan.

Su Yan was a little hesitant, because of Lan Xi’s sentence “The Emperor has taken a liking to you”, as well as the Emperor’s hot desire that was undoubtedly against his leg when he hugged him to change his clothes the day before.

Once, when he first entered the palace, he was afraid that the emperor would be angry and cut off his head or beat him with a cane. Nowadays, he no longer harbored fear when he faced the emperor, he just didn’t want to disappoint the other party – in any way, he didn’t want to see the emperor’s despondent gaze.

The emperor’s face sank due to his hesitation. However, he saw Su Yan slowly walk closer and sit down on his knees, gently crouching on his knees, his demeanor no different than before.

It was as if the wine and aroma in the bedchamber was a mirror image, and the coronation that had nearly crossed the thunderbolt didn’t exist.

The emperor pursed the corners of his mouth, and then suddenly smiled faintly, gently caressing the side of his face and calling in a low voice, “…… Qinghe.”