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Yang Zheng was robbed, and the servants of the Marquis of Xing'an dared to make a big fuss for Yang Zheng's reputation. When they sent people to search for Yang Zheng, they also sent people to the Chu family to discuss an explanation.

People from the Chu family and the Yang family also found Chu Chengmao and Yang Zheng, but Yang Zheng drove back to the city with Chu Chengmao, who was drunk and asleep, in a carriage. Not only the people in Xing'an Houfu were dumbfounded, but the Chu family was also scratching their heads.

But Yang Zheng himself said that the hijacking was a misunderstanding, and no matter how hard the people in the Xing'an Hou Mansion tried to make trouble, they couldn't find a reason.

When the news reached the palace, Jiang Yan sighed at Feng Shuo while eating: "Unexpectedly, the second brother looks rigid, but he is a man of interest. He drove out of the city that day to take Princess Jiawu to watch the sunset at Yanghu Lake."

Feng Shuo was eating, only glanced at her, and spoke.

In the evening, the eunuch on duty in the imperial study came to pass a message to Jiang Yan: "Your Majesty invites your mother to go to the Star Tower."

The Star Picking Tower in the palace was built during the reign of the former emperor. It is said that the former emperor wanted to ascend the immortal throne from the Star Picking Tower. The location of the Star Picking Tower was calculated by a magician. It is a blessed place for immortals. They are all paved with white jade, and covered with nine-color double-eaved brackets outside. Under the sun, the glazed tiles on the brackets seem to be shrouded in a layer of golden light, majestic and sacred.

Jiang Yan doesn't know whether the Zhaixing Building is a place of immortality or happiness, but the stars can be clearly seen from the Zhaixing Building. The officials of the Qin Tianjian will go up to the building to watch the stars every year when divining the fortunes of the country.

She wondered why Feng Shuo suddenly invited her to the Star-Zhai Building, and went to the appointment full of doubts. When the carriage stopped at the Star-Zhai Building, Jiang Yan was still very shocked by the ancient architect when he saw the tall building in front of him ingenious conception.

Regardless of the gorgeous appearance or the load-bearing capacity of the pavilion, it is unprecedented.

In the torrent of time, craftsmen with no unique skills have emerged in almost every industry. Some built a building that amazed the hundreds of years of time, some burned a piece of porcelain that has been passed down through the ages, and some made a pair of calligraphy and painting. To be remembered in posterity...

Jiang Yan traveled from a different world thousands of years later, and he always has a lot of emotion and awe for these things full of ingenuity and wisdom.

The life of the later generations is more and more convenient and fast, but many things are far better than this era, perhaps because people's hearts are more prone to impetuosity, and more and more people are willing to spend more than ten years learning a skill. The art that once amazed time will eventually be gradually forgotten into time again.

Ascending to the Zhaixing Tower, I felt that the wind blowing in front of me brought a little bit of coolness.

Jiang Yan saw Feng Shuo who was waiting here early, he didn't like to wear a golden dragon robe, and the dragon robes sewn for him by the maids of Shangyi Bureau were mainly black.

A long wind blows head-on, pouring into his wide sleeved gown, his long hair dances around his sleeves, and the golden dragon with its teeth and claws on the skirt seems to come alive.

"Why are you called here?" Jiang Yan stepped forward slowly.

Feng Shuo turned his head, looked at the sinking red sun above the West Mountain and said, "The sunset here is better than the one at Yanghu Lake."

Jiang Yan was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that he called himself over just because she praised Chu Chengmao at the dinner table for taking Yang Zheng to watch the sunset.

She couldn't cry for a while.

What I can't deny is that watching the sunset from the Star Tower is really beautiful.

The late sun, fiery red, is no longer glaring, and the majestic glow falls on the distant mountains and the rows of houses near the mountains, which is so gentle that it makes people enchanted.

The clouds in the sky seemed to be on fire, with deep and shallow reds, a magnificence that even famous painters could not describe with their brushes.

Jiang Yan turned his head to look at Feng Shuo, his handsome facial features were shrouded in a ray of light, and the golden dragon embroidery on his robe seemed to have turned dark red.

Jiang Yan has always felt that dark red suits Feng Shuo better, his appearance is coquettish but unassuming, and the majesty of a high-ranking person accumulated between his brows is enough to make people ignore his appearance.

She leaned over, stood on tiptoe, and kissed him lightly on the chin.

Feng Shuo lowered his eyes, kissed her back on the forehead, hugged her and looked at the capital at dusk, and said, "I can't accompany you to travel all over the world, famous mountains and rivers, but when the sun rises and sets, we can watch it for decades."

Unspoken love words are always the most touching.

Jiang Yan used to think that the word "life after life" was okay, but after meeting Feng Shuo, she really hoped that there would be reincarnation in the world, and that they would stay together forever.

*****

Chu Chengmao and Yang Zheng's wedding is scheduled for mid-September.

Autumn tigers show their power, and the sun is a bit more vicious than July.

Yang Xiu led the caravan to search outside the customs and brought back not unusual seeds. Jiang Yan found cocoa beans and coffee beans nearby, and the coke making finally came to fruition.

She used cocoa beans, cinnamon, and bay leaves and cloves to cook the original cola soup, and then added the brewed coffee. When blended together, the color looks like cola, and it smells faintly like cola, but it tastes more like the ones of later generations. Some kind of cold granules after melting water, put in boiled caramel, and squeeze lemon juice 1, the taste is one step closer to cola, but it is still a bit worse. 2

Because he only remembered these seasonings and didn't remember the specific ratios, Jiang Yanguang kept increasing or decreasing the ratios of ingredients by smelling and tasting. At the end of the trial, he almost forgot what real cola tasted like.

The production of carbonated water takes much effort. The imperial wine comes from two sources, one is the tribute from outside the palace, and the other is the wine brewed by the imperial winemaker.

Jiang Yan asked the winemaker to add a partition with small gaps in the fermentation barrel, place a water bowl on top of the partition, and then seal the barrel tightly, so that the carbon dioxide produced during winemaking will be integrated into the water bowl to form carbonated water. 3

The cola with carbonated water and ice cubes tastes more like that, but it still tastes worse than real cola.

Jiang Yan was also able to restore the taste of cola 100%, excitedly took the experimented cola to Feng Shuo to taste, Feng Shuo took a sip, his brows furrowed tightly.

There is a burning sensation on the tip of the tongue in the mouth, which is different from the burning sensation of spirits entering the throat. It is like the pain caused by the bursting of tiny air bubbles on the tip of the tongue. The taste is a bit sour, but after a careful aftertaste, it seems sweet again. Not surprisingly.

Jiang Yan excitedly asked him: "How?"

Feng Shuo pursed his lips to savor the taste, and said, "I still prefer to drink alcohol."

This result made Jiang Yan very frustrated. She asked Chen Yu and other young maids to try it. It may be that this thing is black at first glance, and the bubbles are rolling in the cup, very similar to the dove wine rumored in the court. After all, it is said that The dove wine was knocked to the ground with a sound of "Zi", foaming straight away.

One of the little maids drank tremblingly and cried right away, which confused Jiang Yan and asked the little maid if she was crying.

The little maid broke down in tears and said: "Your Majesty, this servant doesn't want to, there are old parents in this servant's house..."

So they poisoned Coke...

With black lines all over Jiang Yan's face, he raised his head and drank a glass of iced Coke, saying: "This is the fat house water developed by this palace, let's just try the taste."

Although the little palace maids didn't know why their empresses took the name "Fat Boy Water", they were all relieved that their lives were safe.

When Jiang Yanji drank coke, she also felt that the drink was a little cloudy and not very clear. She tried repeatedly, and finally found that removing the cocoa beans could avoid the cloudiness, and the subtle bitter taste of the cola also disappeared.

She was a little puzzled, thinking that she might have made a mistake in her memory, and maybe there were cocoa beans in the ingredients of Kele.

Coke is still improving, and the little maids of Chengde Palace often help Jiang Yan try it out, and gradually become obsessed with this kind of weird drink.

Jiang Yan made Coke too frequently, and the winemaker was gradually unable to supply carbonated water. With his little chemical knowledge from his high school chemistry teacher, Jiang Yan remembered that sulfuric acid reacted with limestone to produce a large amount of carbon dioxide.Sulfuric acid was called green vitriol in ancient times, and it was a "medicinal" material for treating typhoid fever blindly. Jiang Yan asked people to get green vitriol from the Tai Hospital, and ordered people to find limestone, and successfully collected carbon dioxide to make carbonated water. 4

The number of times she made the original cola soup, Jiang Yan also felt that the taste of the cola she made was always wrong, maybe it was because she didn't use the essential oil extracted from those raw materials.

Thanks to Xizhou becoming the hub of trade between neighboring countries in the Daxuan Dynasty, a caravan from the depths of the desert brought perfume to Daxuan.Yang Xiu is now mainly in charge of running the caravan. Bing Shao is nominally the imperial guard, but in reality it is for Yang Xiu to receive information and pass it on to Jiang Yan.

When Jiang Yan was doing one thing with a single mind, his head was not very bright. When he heard that there was a caravan selling perfume in Xizhou, his first reaction was not to win over the foreign caravan as soon as possible and monopolize the perfume market, but to let the caravan sell perfume. Yang Xiu's caravan contacted them and asked them to use all the equipment to extract lemon oil, cinnamon oil and cassia oil, which are the flavors and seasonings for making cola. 5

In the world where Jiang Yan originally lived, perfume was first born in Egypt in the [-]th century. When she came here, she opened the river of foreign trade with the export of porcelain, and only then did the caravans bring the perfume of the desert country back to the Xuan Dynasty. .

Even though they had no intention of "planting" willows, the people in Yang Xiu's perfume caravan contacted them not for the perfume among them, but to ask them to help develop and extract what Jiang Yan needed, and took this opportunity to make friends.

Later, merchants from all parties saw the dividends brought by the perfume, and when they rushed to cooperate with the caravan, Yang Xiu went up to bid, and the caravan directly chose Yang Xiu, an old acquaintance, to cooperate with.

Jiang Yan drank the coke blended with various extracted flavors, and was a little dumbfounded when he saw the thick silver bill handed over by Yang Xiu.

She has monopolized a field again invisibly and made a fortune.

The supply of perfume was limited, and the caravan had to travel long distances from the desert outside the customs to transport it. As a result, the officials and women in the Xuan Dynasty had to rely on their contacts to bid for a small bottle.

Jiang Yan became a supply middleman and controlled all the perfumes in the entire Xuan Dynasty. When Chu Chengmao and Yang Zheng got married, he was rich and powerful and gave Yang Zheng a bottle of all kinds of perfumes that didn't smell.

As a queen, her accompanying gift was placed on a red cloth tray, and the eunuchs of the palace brought it to the Chu Mansion, and the people all over the city could watch.

Seeing that the female guests at the wedding banquet saw such perfume, their eyes were straightened, and they had to say something sour about Yang Zheng being blessed.

It is said that fortune and misfortune depend on each other, Jiang Yan finally made a cola with [-]% similar taste, and made a small coffers by relying on perfume, just when he was happy, his head came.

She took away a large amount of green alum from the imperial hospital, and ordered people to search for limestone. Some ruthless palace people also said that she fiddled with some weird bottles and jars every day, repeatedly wanting Feng Shuo to be drafted by Feng Shuo. The ministers who came back were overjoyed, and it seemed that they had caught Jiang Yan.

Rumors spread ten times, ten times and hundreds of times, and in the end it turned out that Jiang Yan knew sorcery and bewitched Feng Shuo, which made him favor himself exclusively.

When Feng Shuo put the memorial to impeach Jiang Yan for alchemy in front of her, Jiang Yan was stunned.

"Alchemy?" She looked bewildered.

Feng Shuo rubbed her head and said: "He is well-known among the people, and those old things have never been able to find a stain to discredit them. Now that they have this opportunity, they will not let it go."

Jiang Yan also expected that he just wanted to drink a Coke, and he would get into such a big trouble.

It feels disgusting to be framed by someone. She originally thought that she was the only one in the palace, there was no intrigue in the palace, and the people in the palace were strictly disciplined. Now that something like this has happened, it cannot be rectified.

Mrs. Yang Zheng'an often went to the palace to accompany Jiang Yan, and she always drank the Coke she made, saying that those ministers who spread rumors were disgusting.

Yang Zheng was so angry that he slapped the table: "They said that Fat Zai Tea is demonic water that has cast a spell, that is, demonic water? Didn't they also say that the empress made alchemy before? Now there is a rumor, and there is a face to yell, obviously wanting to kill the family The daughter is also forced into the palace, but she still wants to be named for the sake of His Majesty's heirs, this literati can really talk about excrement "urine" with a single mouth."

Mrs. An is not as straightforward as Yang Zheng, but she also heard from An Yongyuan that the ministers in the court hall used Feng Shuo's heirs and Jiang Yan's evil intentions in refining the demon water, and clamored for drafts to fill the harem. She gave Jiang Yan a prescription. She said earnestly: "Chu took this prescription and drank the 'medicine' twice, and then she became pregnant. Your empress will try it too."

Seeing Mrs. An giving Fangzi, Yang Zheng slapped his head and remembered that before she entered the palace, Mrs. Chu also gave Zhang Fangzi to bring to Jiang Yan, and quickly turned it out of his sleeve pocket and said, "Grandmother asked to bring Zhang Fangzi too. "

Holding two prescriptions for recuperating his body, Jiang Yan was quite helpless.

She Feng Shuo got married less than a year ago, and the two of them were not in a hurry. It was the first time that the ministers submitted their sons for the draft. Feng Shuo realized that the offspring was the reason for those ministers to let him be drafted, so he always wanted to have a relationship with Jiang Yan. child.

However, Jiang Yan's stomach was still moving all the time, and the imperial physician came to take her pulse every now and then to recuperate her body. She also paid great attention to nourishing her meals, and the imperial physician said that she was in good health.Feng Shuo had heard that there were men who were infertile, and behind Jiang Yan's back, he asked the imperial physician to check his pulse. The imperial physician bluntly said that he was in good health and had no worries about having children.

He didn't know where he heard the folk prescription, and every time he finished tossing Jiang Yan, he still buried it in his face and refused to come out, saying that it would be good for conception, but he tried hard and still failed.

*****

Feng Shuo suppressed the booing ministers with strong words in the court hall. He was worried that Jiang Yan would be bored alone in the palace, so he asked her to go back to Chu's house for a few days to relax.

Jiang Yan also wanted to go back to see Mrs. Chu, so that she wouldn't worry about her.

Except for a mistress, everything in the Chu family remains the same.

Sun Chu Nian'an, the eldest son of the Chu family, is almost two years old. He is a chubby boy who walks wobbly, but loves to run around. The grandmother follows him all day long, lest he Accidentally stumbled and stumbled.

Mrs. Chu asked her to hug Nian An's chubby boy, saying that if she was destined to be a child, she might be there.

Jiang Yan originally expected too much for the child, but he picked up the fragrant and soft little chubby pier, watched him grab a piece of "milk" cake in his fat paws, and called her aunt with his big round eyes "milk" and "milk" , I feel like my heart is melting again.

Xue Shi looked at Chu Nian'an, and couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear. Chu Nian'an ate cakes all over her body, and she hugged the child without the slightest thought, and carefully wiped Chu Nian'an's fat paws with silk. She really likes this child, and Quan is raising her with her own.

Mrs. Xue has always been considerate in dealing with people. After Yang Zheng entered the house, she handed over the right to be in charge of Zhongfu, and devoted herself to helping Jiang Yan take care of the students. With the right to speak thoroughly, Wan dared not treat Mrs. Xue harshly again, but instead rushed to curry favor.

Yang Zheng is also a very kind person when others treat her well, and Xue gets along very well.

As soon as Chu Chengmao got married, Chu Shubao and Chu Jiabao had to prepare for a marriage proposal. Mrs. Chu had a lot of things to worry about. Then he focused all his attention on Yan Zhisheng.

Chu Shubao's rouge business grew bigger and bigger, opening several shops in the capital, and because of Jiang Yan's relationship, he met the Zhao family who specialized in rouge, and the Zhao family became Shengshang's allies.When Jiang Yan returned to Chu's house this time, the two sisters even asked Jiang Yan about his life.

What Jiang Yan cared about the most was Chu Yangui.

After Mrs. Jiang, she could feel that this child has never been able to find a sense of belonging.

She specially asked Chen Yu to send a message to the gate, and asked Chu Yan to sue her when he came back from court, but Chu Yan returned home until dark, and only let a young man from a restaurant come back to send a message, saying that several of them Liao has an appointment and won't come back for dinner.

Jiang Yan and Chu's family had dinner together, and the Chu family knew that Feng Shuo's letting Jiang Yan come back was for her to relax, so they didn't mention anything about the courtiers slandering her for putting pressure on Feng Shuo to draft.

In the evening, Jiang Yan went back to the yard, and only then asked the secret guards sent by Feng Shuo to find out where Chu Yan had returned.

Based on her understanding of Chu Yangui, Chu Yangui is not someone who knows how to make friends and meet up for dinner in a restaurant.On the cusp of her impeachment by the courtiers, Chu Yangui suddenly became abnormal, and there must be a reason for the incident.

***

As soon as Haishi arrived, Chu Yangui's carriage returned to the Chu Mansion, and when he entered the mansion, the concierge said respectfully, "Fifth Master, Your Majesty has returned to the manor to visit your relatives, and I will let you return to the Red Sandalwood Garden."

Red Sandalwood Garden is Jiang Yan's courtyard in the Chu family.

Chu Yan Guiyi was behind him, and he looked a little thin in the loose court clothes. The lantern hanging high in front of the mansion cast a soft yellow light on his elegant and elegant face, making him look even more beautiful. Sven is harmless.

Chu Yan nodded and said: "Yes, I had a few drinks with Liao, and I smelled of alcohol. I went back to the yard and changed my clothes to see sister."

The porter kept saying yes.

When Chu Yangui walked a few steps and raised his head again, he saw bloodstains on the sleeve of Chu Yangui's back.

The splotches of blood didn't look like Chu Yangui's, but like someone else's blood sprayed onto his sleeve.