The Apothecary Diaries - Vol. 3 Ch. 9 - Cat Reasoning

[SotiCoto]

What the fuck? Silver isn't highly corrosive. It isn't even mildly corrosive. The fact that it occurs natively and doesn't react with many things, relatively speaking, is a big part of while silver has always been regarded as valuable... though less so than gold, which is pretty much as inert as they get.

Yeah sure, there are some chemicals that can react with it eventually... but if it was corrosive then you wouldn't be able to touch it bare-handed.

Is that just a translation error then?

 

[SOL_rocks]

Because it resembles imperial china does not make it imperial china. At the start of the series it stares this is in some world not earth, much less china itself. It certainly resembles it but it just isn't it, if you ask me this affords them some flexibility though I'm sure nitpickers in the comments wouldn't agree

 

[nobody1111]

@maisonaustyn
you are actually wrong about the finger prints in china, a quick scan of the wiki says that its not actually out of sync with history

Although ancient peoples probably did not realize that fingerprints could uniquely identify individuals,[38] references from the age of the Babylonian king Hammurabi (reigned 1792–1750 BCE) indicate that law officials would take the fingerprints of people who had been arrested.[39] During China's Qin Dynasty, records have shown that officials took hand prints and foot prints as well as fingerprints as evidence from a crime scene.[40] In 650 the Chinese historian Kia Kung-Yen remarked that fingerprints could be used as a means of authentication.[citation needed] In his Jami al-Tawarikh (Universal History), the Iranian physician Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247–1318) refers to the Chinese practice of identifying people via their fingerprints, commenting: "Experience shows that no two individuals have fingers exactly alike."[41]

 

[Hollow7F]

ok yeah, now i too believe hes the brother of the emperor

 

[H0P3L3_SS]

lady gyokuyou's other attendants are so sweet but the misunderstandings are pretty funny

 

[cannarali]

So her bullying the consort actually ended up saving the Loli consort life.....damn

 

[purpleflowers123]

ahh, so poison and allergy are two different matters, so we don't know who is the poison maker (and why they choose to poison her at that time).

and bruh, foreshadowings!! he has to be the brother of the emperor 'cause some of us came up with theories on why he could go move around in harem freely, and as it turns out-

wait, we don't know the identity of her dad and the kidnappers and why she was taken to the palace and there was also something related to...it was in the earliest chapters where jinshi (? that feminine-looking boy) had planned something like he was testing something and that something is prolly related to her.

 

[Mibuichizoku]

I foresaw this happening in the comments.

If anyone else sees this.

This series is most explicitly not historical. The author doesn't even pretend to be historically accurate, and in fact makes no effort whatsoever to make it historically accurate. Everything is just a setting for the story. Take it from someone who has read the novel. She goes into incredible detail on the mysteries and the science, but the 'historical' setting exists only to move the story forward, and she makes no pretension, and will make no pretension otherwise.

And for those who are guessing when the story takes place, it's pointless. The clothing style is blatantly referencing the Ming Dynasty, but not quite. Which means if you want to insist this is historical, none of this occurs later than the 15th century AD, and you will spend the rest of the series tearing your hair out at the 'inconsistencies with history'.

If 'historical accuracy' is important to you, continuing to read this series will be inviting a cascade of self inflicted pain.

 

[Grimmycoffee]

If he is the emperor's brother, I don't think the reason he's disguising as an eunuch is ever really explained yet even in the latest chapter (ch 60.1)

 

[alacaelum]

this doesnt make any sense
he just told her that he just spooned some shit out and put it in a bowl there shouldnt be any fingerprints on the bowl because its a new one

What he meant was... that he took some excess broth so that it didn't spill and touched his skin in case the content itself was poisonous, maybe it is a poison that has an effect even with skin contact, then wrapped the original bowl in a cloth.

He was just being careful, and with the variety of poisons there is, kinda justified.

 

[Pallington]

What the fuck? Silver isn't highly corrosive. It isn't even mildly corrosive. The fact that it occurs natively and doesn't react with many things, relatively speaking, is a big part of while silver has always been regarded as valuable... though less so than gold, which is pretty much as inert as they get.

Yeah sure, there are some chemicals that can react with it eventually... but if it was corrosive then you wouldn't be able to touch it bare-handed.

Is that just a translation error then?

silver isn't corrosive (mistranslation or author error, not sure which), but it does rust very quickly, and needs to be polished or else it will blacken.

 

[Carn109]

I wonder what sort of hairpin that is?

 

[infinity781]

Why does she want to leave so bad? Looks like she is enjoying the tasting

I mean she can do it anytime in the outside world. In the royal palace, it is pretty limited