Lakan challenges Jinshi to produce blue roses to present at the upcoming garden party, forcing Jinshi to turn once again to Maomao for her help.
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1. The Apothecary Diaries
2. The Apothecary Diaries
3. This story is a work of fiction. The names of all of the characters, organizations, and so on
are imaginary. It also bears no connection to any specific real-life events.
4. By the time we started
to smell spring in the air,
5. it became certain that
Lady Gyokuyou was indeed pregnant.
6. That's curious. Can she tell
there's a baby inside?
7. So cute!
8. Maybe I also should start to...
9. Even if she did get a proposal,
10. they'd probably never let her leave.
11. Being too good at one's job
can be a curse at times.
12. Time flies when every day is so fulfilling.
13. In comparison, the two months spent at
Master Jinshi's offices felt like forever.
14. Would you like to draw pictures again?
15. Yes!
16. This is the woolly milkcap,
a poisonous mushroom—
17. Ow!
18. Draw normal flowers, please.
19. Normal flowers, huh?
20. A blue rose?
21. Episode 22: Blue Roses
22. Yes. Perhaps you've never seen one before?
23. The striking blue petals are so beautiful.
24. I used to see them in the palace often.
25. Perhaps you were dreaming?
26. Blue roses do not exist.
27. But in fact, they do.
28. Oh, how I'd love to appreciate them
with everyone again.
29. What do you think? Could it be done?
30. With your power, there must be
nothing outside your reach.
31. Understood. If such a rose does
indeed exist, I'd like to see it as well.
32. Then it's settled.
33. Goodness, I can't wait!
34. Excuse me.
35. I hope to see it at next month's garden party.
36. You're already so busy.
You didn't have to take on more work.
37. Don't rub it in. Please just go ask
every florist in the nation about this.
38. The florists say that roses are not in season.
39. Sorry to call you up so suddenly.
40. We were talking about getting
together to admire blue roses.
41. Blue roses...?
42. I'm just an apothecary, you know.
43. Yes, I'm aware...
44. I wonder what prompted this?
He seems awfully tired.
45. Roses, huh? I do know
a thing or two about them.
46. I've sold them before to make some
quick cash with the courtesans. But...
47. They really said they saw a blue rose?
48. Yes.
49. Is there some new popular hallucinogen, or...?
50. That'd ruin our whole nation!
51. Master Jinshi.
52. Is it impossible?
53. What exactly is it that you desire?
54. Can you find some by next month's garden party?
55. Next month? Roses bloom
two months later at the earliest.
56. I know...
57. I'll find a way to turn him down.
58. Master Jinshi's reaction, and this style of
forcing people to attempt the impossible...
59. Was this brought up by a certain strategist?
60. Yes.
61. Understood. I will take this on.
62. Are you sure?
63. I don't know if I can pull it off,
but I'll try my best.
64. I don't want to just run from him.
65. I might as well take a swing at
smashing his creepy monocle.
66. Master Jinshi, may I make a few requests?
67. Thank you for allowing me
to use it, Lady Lihua.
68. I don't mind. You were the one that
had it constructed in the first place.
69. It's been a while.
70. I remember back then, I got them to
make a steam room for Lady Lihua,
71. who was suffering from poison back then.
72. I'm borrowing it now,
but I feel bad using it for free.
73. This is the emperor's favorite book.
74. I appreciate this.
75. I'm glad I got it through the brothel.
76. Take that side.
77. Yes, sir!
78. Master Jinshi.
79. Ah, you're here.
80. I had them build this as you asked, but...
81. What is this for?
82. We're going to make the roses go mad.
83. Make the roses go mad?
84. What does that mean, apothecary?
85. We're going to let the sunlight in,
and blow steam inside through there.
86. The roses will grow in this warmed room.
87. This way, the flowers might
mistake it as the time to bloom.
88. I see, so they'll "go mad."
89. I can't guarantee it, though.
90. Oh.
91. Maomao!
92. Xiaolan?
93. I'll help, too!
94. Is your leg okay?
95. Did he summon her to chaperone me?
96. They did repeatedly tell me
not to push myself too hard.
97. I'm fine. Sorry to make you help.
98. It's okay. It's been a while since
we've worked together, huh?
99. Yeah, it has.
100. We brought in over one hundred roses.
101. This is the last one.
102. Wow, this is a lot!
103. We diversified the species, selecting
early-blooming ones where possible.
104. Will they all bloom?
105. I hope so.
106. Temperature control requires utmost care.
107. I got them to send some help, but this is
a tough task to delegate to others.
108. If we make a mistake and kill them all,
that would be the end of it.
109. On sunny days, we bring them
outside to expose them to sunlight.
110. That must feel good!
111. Yeah.
112. How are you doing?
113. Here, a gift.
114. Thank you very much.
115. I get to skip work and
eat snacks? This is great!
116. This is work too, though.
117. What's with them?
118. I don't know. Maybe they're just curious.
119. Or they want to be scared.
120. What should I do next?
121. If a seedling has a lot of sprouts
on it, can you pick a few?
122. It concentrates the nutrients into the
remaining sprouts and helps prevent sickness.
123. Ah.
124. Whoa!
125. It's fine.
126. Thank you.
127. Don't mention it!
128. Hurry!
129. It's taking them a long time to bloom.
130. On days where it gets cold,
131. I stay up all night to maintain the heat.
132. Weather can't be controlled.
133. Did you pull another all-nighter?
134. I did sleep, around dawn.
135. Dawn was just moments ago!
136. I'll do what I can,
so why don't you get some sleep?
137. I can't leave this alone.
138. They're looking at us again.
139. Every single day. Don't they get tired of this?
140. It's irritating.
141. I wonder if I can divert their attention...
142. Wow! So this is what a manicure is like!
143. Everyone does it in the pleasure district.
144. It sure is pretty!
145. Oh, you did it too, Maomao?
146. So cute!
147. It's been popular recently.
148. Indeed.
149. The high-ranking concubines are always
at the cutting edge of fashion.
150. Seems like a waste of time.
151. Lady Hongniang prefers work over fashion.
152. I've finished tasting for poison,
so I'll go back to the Crystal Pavilion now.
153. Already?
154. The garden party is coming up soon.
155. I see...
156. Oh, by the way, Lady Gyokuyou
won't be attending this time around.
157. We're letting the focus of this event
be Lady Loulan's introduction.
158. To hide the pregnancy, right.
159. Understood. Excuse me.
160. Hey, is everything alright
at the Crystal Pavilion?
161. You look worse for wear every day.
162. Don't push yourself too hard, okay?
163. Thank you.
164. Maomao!
165. Maomao, hurry!
166. A bud...
167. I found it just now.
168. Our first one, finally!
169. At this rate... We might just make it in time.
170. Maomao? Maomao!
171. Maomao!
172. Has the apothecary sent any word?
173. No, nothing.
174. I haven't been able to visit her
for the past few days.
175. We were both busy preparing
for the garden party.
176. Master Jinshi.
177. So, that's Concubine Loulan,
daughter of Master Shishou.
178. How splendid.
179. Regarding Concubine Loulan,
180. is there anything that needs improvement?
181. Please, hold nothing back.
182. Please.
183. Oh.
184. Blue roses?
185. It can't be...
186. It may be entertaining
187. to enjoy the beauty of these buds while
imagining how they look at full bloom.
188. Yes. They're beautiful.
189. Hmph.
190. The attention that "Jinshi" gets.
191. Unlike some of the worthless officials,
192. many don't appreciate a young eunuch
hoarding attention, no matter how beautiful.
193. Lust is fine. It's easy to exploit that.
194. Envy is fine, too. It's manageable.
195. What's really troubling is...
196. When I can't tell what they're thinking.
197. Shishou. Concubine Loulan's father, the man
favored by the mother of the former emperor...
198. Even now, the emperor
can't look him in the eye.
199. That's why I also can't let
my smile fade, either.
200. And besides, the one who's more
worrying than Shishou right now is...
201. That man, Lakan.
202. How annoying.
203. Are you awake?
204. Yinghua.
205. Don't go to the Crystal Pavilion anymore.
206. You always come back looking so exhausted.
207. I'm sorry.
208. You're up.
209. Excuse me.
210. You can stay seated.
211. It was hard. I couldn't get them
to fully bloom.
212. You're not apologizing to me, are you?
213. Never mind. You did well.
214. How did you do it, though?
215. I just dyed them.
216. Dyed? But there's nothing on them.
217. Not on the outside. We dyed them from the inside.
218. All of these roses were originally white.
219. We mixed water with several colors
and had the white buds suck them up.
220. So that's why there were
many colors, not just blue.
221. Yes. The leaves ended up coming out
black, so we plucked them all.
222. Then all we had to do was to fix cotton
soaked in the dyed water to the stems,
223. so they wouldn't lose their
vibrancy during the garden party.
224. It really was quite simple.
225. What was actually difficult was
getting the roses to bloom at all.
226. Simple, indeed.
227. Also, because some officials might
have picked a quarrel about this,
228. I went ahead and revealed
the trick to the emperor.
229. He seemed to enjoy the fact that
he got to know the secret first,
230. and had a good time listening to me explain.
231. So, about the story of the blue roses
being seen in the palace...
232. There must have been someone with a lot of
free time feeding blue water to the roses.
233. Who would do something like that?
234. Who knows? Maybe they wanted
a gimmick with which to woo women.
235. That's unexpected. Are you painting your nails?
236. It doesn't suit me, though.
237. If I had some balsam and woodsorrel,
I could have made them look prettier.
238. Balsam is often used to dye fingernails,
and woodsorrel is nicknamed cat's foot.
239. Mixing them together and applying them
on the fingernails creates a vivid red.
240. But then, even if I made them prettier...
241. This is better than it was before.
242. Master Gaoshun, what about
the item I requested?
243. Yes, as you wished.
244. Thank you.
245. Now the stage is set.
246. All I have to do now is catch
that nasty creep off guard.
247. I didn't expect my provocation to fail.
248. Most humans only look like go stones to me.
249. Men are black stones, women are white stones.
250. Even my subordinates in the military
only appear as chess pieces, at best.
251. Most are soldiers, pawns.
252. As they gain ranks,
they become cavalry and cannons.
253. Working in the military is easy.
254. I just need to know where to place the pieces.
255. The right pieces in the right places.
Most wars can be won by that alone.
256. It's quite easy. Even if I were
completely useless,
257. as long as I placed others in the right places,
the work would get done on its own.
258. My eyes hurt more than usual today.
259. A red color keeps flickering into my view.
260. Manicures...
261. The manicures in my memories
aren't this overly flamboyant crimson.