Today, Ye Zhen Zhen heard that the armory’s supervisor Zhang Feng was going to enter the palace to meet Ji Wu Jiu, so she also went to take a look.
Ji Wu Jiu met Zhang Feng at Yang Xin Hall, the reason why Zhang Feng visited was to update Ji Wu Jiu on the news on the land mines research. The name “land mine” was created by Ye Zhen Zhen, ‘buried under the lands, once touched you will be blasted apart” quite matching to it’s functions. Ji Wu Jiu has to acknowledge that Ye Zhen Zhen is really talented in the weapons industry.
Zhang Feng explained the progress of the land mine to both the emperor and empress, Ye Zhen Zhen was happily receiving this news. Hearing that the weapon is entering the test runs, and would require a lot of time and place to test them, Ji Wu Jiu immediately release a huge fund for them, and thinking that during this festive season, the soldiers must be very tired, so he awarded them more things.
Becoming an emperor requires a lot of talent, one of them is; when the ministers or soldiers contributed to the country, you must let them know that their efforts are acknowledged. This type of thing is easy to be said but hard to be done, not only you have to do it, you still have to balance it well, if you award them too much the people will be too proud, if you award too little, people will be discouraged. So from this Ye Zhen Zhen can’t help but feel that Ji Wu Jiu is very capable of handling this type of matter.
After Zhang Feng left with all the gifts, Ji Wu Jiu ask Ye Zhen Zhen “I heard you scared off a ghost yesterday?” The empress is indeed the empress, I have only heard about ghost scaring people, and never heard of human scaring ghost away”
Ye Zhen Zhen was not pleased “What ghost, if that was a ghost then I would be the underworld god”
JI Wu Jiu’s mouth starts to tease “If the Underworld god is as pretty as you, even if I were turned into a ghost, I would willingly follow you away”
Ye Zhen Zhen took a sniff and ask “What smell is this ?” Ever since she entered Yang Xin Hall, she smelt a light fragrance, not like the normal fragrance she has used, and much more natural, a little like mint but not as strong as that, all in all it gives of a somewhat warm and comfortable feeling to people.
“You smelled it?” Ji Wu Jiu said while pointing at the fragrant pot ‘the fragrant burning inside is “Hai Li Xiang””
“What is Hai Li Xiang?” Ye Zhen Zhen have never heard of it before.
“It is a type of wood that has been sent from Lu Song, it is grown on the beachside, when the water is in high tide it will cover the entire small island, and from far it would seems like the trees are growing on water, that is why it is called Hai Li Xiang (Fragrant from the Ocean). Previously they have also send them in every year, but because the wood that was sent in carries a strong sea smell, and the people from central plains are not used to it, so the people who knows about it are very little. A few days ago, the empress dowager asked someone to turn them into charcoal, to use it in the fragrance pots, not much different in terms of usage if compared to the normal charcoal, but it also emits a light scent. I thought that it smell quite good, so I asked for some” Ji Wu Jiu explained patiently.
Ye Zhen Zhen took another sniff “I find the smell quite nice as well”
“If you like, I still have a lot here, just take some, I will get someone to make more”
Ye Zhen Zhen starts to contemplate, this thing was made by the empress dowager, who knows if there is any thing hidden.
Ji Wu Jiu saw through her worries and said “Don’t worry, this Hai Li Xiang, I have already used them for a few days, nothing seems to be wrong with it”
That’s true, no matter how cunning the empress dowager might be, she would most probably not harm her own son, Ye Zhen Zhen nodded acceptance.
***
During the new year celebration, besides consistently checking on the progress of the armory, Ji Wu Jiu did not really attend to the matters at court. Even if he was the emperor he still need some times to rejuvenate himself.
But he was busy with another thing: The empress’s weird disease, how can it be cured….
For this, he has dragged all the imperial doctors one by one to ask them, however, not even mentioning to cure, those doctors have not even heard of this before, not even the old farts or the knowledgeable Dcotor Tie has answers.
Ji Wu Jiu has asked everyone that can cure sickness, and still couldn’t get an answer. So he was very distressed.
When he was still distressed, Feng You De announced “Your majesty, Mr Dou came to greet you”
Although Big Beard Dou is a monk, always with the expression of “I am a priest, I want to save the world”, but actually he is someone that also cares about pleasing others, the people that he needs to please he will not lose the opportunity, this time around he has accepted the Chinese culture and went to greet everyone a prosperous new year. Ji Wu Jiu was thinking, this big beard although should not have been involved in this type of matters but he should still be considered someone that is knowledgeable, who knew if he has heard about this type of weird disease before.
Therefore Ji Wu Jiu ask big beard to enter, and after a small chat, he asked “Mister have you heard, that a woman might be sick/vomit during the bed business among a man and woman?”
“???” Big Beard Dou normally understands the normal conversation language used, but towards more elegant words, it was hard for him.
“…. It means wanting to vomit”
“O, your majesty, I have heard of such a thing.” Big Beard Dou answered.
“O?” Ji Wu Jiu was very happy, almost jumping up from his dragon throne “ Mister, do you know the reason behind it?”