Chapter 10 The Scribes of More Than 2,000 Years Ago
In a gloomy prison, in a prison full of all kinds of torture and detention, a prisoner covered in blood was tied to a wooden cross, and a hideous-looking cell boss was holding a very thin leather whip in his hand, groveling and smiling at an adult in front of him, like a pet competing for favor. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"My lord, this bitch still won't open her mouth? Why don't we use another way to get her to speak, what do you think?"
The cell boss glanced at the female prisoner, who was covered in blood but couldn't hide her pretty face, smiled lewdly, and whispered something in the ear of the adult-looking man.
"Haha...... Old Sun, you're getting older and hotter, haha...... I'll leave it to you!"
The adult patted the cell boss Lao Sun on the shoulder, glanced at the female prisoner who was tortured unconscious, smiled strangely at the corner of his mouth, and turned to leave.
Suddenly, the cell boss Lao Sun seemed to remember something, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop the adult who was about to pace away, the corners of the adult's eyes moved slightly, and his cold face obviously showed a look of displeasure, he didn't like to be disturbed by outsiders when he was thinking.
It's just that this expression was quickly masked, and at the same time, there was a flash of murder in his eyes, and in an instant, the adult returned to normal, and looked at the cell head with admiration.
"Old Sun, do you have anything else?"
The adult looked at Lao Sun's somewhat hesitant appearance, and guessed a little in his heart, so he immediately opened his mouth and asked first.
"My lord, this slut has a daughter next to her, who is being held in other cells, according to my opinion, what should I do?"
"Everything is according to your wishes, just ask the whereabouts of the immortal elixir for your lordship!"
"Thank you for your trust, the little one will never give up and complete the adult's task!"
"Old Sun, when you ask about the whereabouts of the immortal elixir, I will ask you to say a few more kind words for me in front of the adults!"
"The little one is an errand runner, please give me a lot of help!"
The head of the cell has bent his waist and can't bend anymore, and the smile on his face is estimated to be more than the previous half of his life, with a respectful demeanor.
The adult smiled faintly, stretched out his woman-like hand, which was almost bloodless, patted the head of the cell, and then took out two pieces of gold from his bosom and put them in Lao Sun's hand, and then walked away satisfied.
Touching the two pieces of gold in his hand, Lao Sun's heart was not as happy as just now, just now he unintentionally touched the adult's finger, it was a cold hand like ice, not at all like a human with body temperature, at this time Lao Sun thought of what the old people said: Dead people have no body temperature!
The more he thought about it, the more terrible it became, Lao Sun could feel that the hairs on his body were upside down, and cold sweat also flowed down his back, and he remembered that he had heard the jailer talk privately about the strangeness of adults, and he didn't believe it at the time, and even scolded them, and now he recalls that some places about adults are indeed a little suspicious.
"Elixir of Immortality...... Don't you ...... adults?"
Lao Sun didn't dare to let himself think about it anymore, the gold at his fingertips was in front of him, and there would be more gold in the future, what the high widow of Dongcun, the little gold powder of the Pink Mansion no longer talked about, thinking of this, Lao Sun squinted his eyes, and couldn't help but look forward to the future drunken gold fan.
"Boss, what do you think this girl should do?"
A young jailer who usually follows Lao Sun is in a mess at the moment, running to Lao Sun with a flattering smile on his face, and greeting him flatteringly.
Lao Sun slowly opened his eyes, glanced at the young jailer in front of him, his wrinkled old face suddenly bloomed like a chrysanthemum, stretched out his hand to pat the young jailer's shoulder, and pretended to say in a deep voice: "Xiaolong, you can follow me and do a good job!
"Thank you, boss, my little dragon will recognize you as the boss!"
"Lock this woman up for me first, they are our Jinbao Beans, you kid have to show me good, if she loses a hair, you kid get out!"
Lao Sun sternly raised his face, this matter may be too deeply involved, and it is not at all that a small jailer can peek into the corner and know the overall situation, so he can only save his life if he does his task well.
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In a cell, Miao Miao's thin body curled up in the corner, his hands tightly holding his curled calves, listening to the miserable screams outside the cell, his body trembled, his young mind had already endured an unbearable experience.
The cell door was opened by the jailers, and the two jailers dragged their mothers, who were covered in blood, and threw them into the ground at will, and then closed the door and left.
"Mother, wake up, wake up!"
Miao Miao quickly stood up from the corner of the wall, knelt down beside the woman, stretched out her little hand to try to wipe the blood stains off the woman's body, and cried to wake the woman up.
"Your mother can't do it, you just wait to collect her body, haha......"
Several jailers outside the cell who were drinking heard Miao Miao's childish crying, laughing wantonly with a mouth full of wine, and vented their dissatisfaction in their hearts to the fullest.
"Mother, mother...... Woohoo......"
Miao Miao heard the jailer's drinking words, and her tears immediately burst like a flood, and she couldn't help but cry, how could her only relative in this world leave her?
Suddenly, Miao Miao remembered what the middle-aged strange uncle had said to her, looked cautiously at the jailer outside, touched the thin clothes on her chest, and then carefully curled up in the corner.
Curled up until the sky was dark, Miao Miao moved her small body and quickly attached it to the woman's body, and hurriedly put the pill that she had been holding in her hand for a long time into her mother's mouth.
This pill was given to her by the strange uncle, who told her that it was a magic pill that could make her immortal, and that if she ate it, she could be with her mother forever.
However, Miao Miao didn't eat it, because she didn't know if what the strange uncle said was true or not, and she looked at this uncle a little strangely, and most importantly, her mother had told her since she was a child, don't eat what people she didn't know!
But just now, Miao Miao saw that her mother was covered in blood, and she had already messed up the small square inch in her heart because she was worried about her mother's injury, she only knew that if her mother took the immortal pill, she would not be separated from her only relative in this world, so Miao Miao gave her the pill given to her by her strange uncle to her mother, and she wanted her mother to never die!
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"My lord, what should she do if she gave her mother the immortal pill?"
The head of the cell, Lao Sun's face was bitter and depressed, he didn't expect that the important things that many people were looking for were hidden in a little girl who no one cared about, looking at the adult's gradually cold face, the coldness that Lao Sun had touched the adult's fingers before rushed out for no reason, from the soles of his feet down his legs to his whole body.
The adult did not speak, but calmly stared at the little girl curled up on the ground, and there was no trace of emotion in his calm eyes, as if it was a corpse resurrected through the ages, and anyone he looked at was a corpse that was no different from him.
The adult left without saying anything, and before leaving, a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth again, and after the adult left, the huge prison left only the frightened and trembling Miao Miao, and several dry corpses, including the cell head Lao Sun.
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The weak Miao Miao walked out weakly with her mother's body, where is her home in the world, according to memory, Miao Miao dragged her mother's corpse and walked on a way home......
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"Mother, are you feeling better?"
Miao Miao looked at her mother's cheeks that were white because of the pain, and her heart was like a knife, even if the cold sweat of the bean slipped down her forehead, her mother never made a sound, and after the strange illness subsided, her mother also had to be in a coma for a while because of forbearance, Miao Miao supported her mother's back, and the clothes on her back were soaked with painful sweat, and none of them were dry.
Looking at her mother, who was lying on the bed to relieve her pain, Miao Miao picked up a piece of black charcoal on the ground and drew another stroke on the wall that was almost covered with black lines.
Miao Miao couldn't remember how many strokes she had drawn in her mind, and each black line on the wall represented the day when her mother became ill, and the longer the line was drawn, the longer the onset time.
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Under a bright moon, Miao Miao snuggled in her mother's arms, looked up with her little face, counted the stars in the sky one by one, and couldn't remember it clearly, so she played tricks on her mother again, begging to count it tirelessly.
Looking at Miao Miao in her arms, the woman's eyes were full of love and care, her illness had not occurred for several years, the naïve Miao Miao thought that her mother's strange illness was cured, but she faintly felt that things would not be so good.
She vaguely remembered the scribe's face, thin and frighteningly white, but the two eyes were as black as ink, and she only glanced at the scribe quickly, but felt that her eyes could almost see through her soul, and then she fell into a stupor.
Suddenly, she remembered the strange beggar in the village today, with his hair growing haphazardly, his thin cheeks like the bark of an old tree, his black tattered clothes, and a torn bag lying under the tree.
As she passed by, she sympathetically gave him a few steamed buns, but when she approached the beggar, a strange and familiar feeling quickly awakened from the depths of her soul, and with it, she was covered in a cold sweat, and her face seemed to be drained of blood, and she staggered home.
Now that she thought about it, that feeling could only be experienced from the dark eyes of the scribe, but this has been a change of dynasties, and after hundreds of years, the scribe should have been reduced to a pile of dry bones, how could it be possible to live forever in the world?
Unless the scribe ate the elixir of immortality developed by himself and experienced the same pain as her, but in that case, why did he try her in the first place?
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"Mother, a beggar uncle at the door of the house gave me two pills, saying that it is a miracle medicine that allows me to see the world again!"
Miao Miao ran into the house in a hurry, holding a porcelain bottle in her little hand, and said happily to the woman.
The woman was a little panicked in her heart, this beggar who gave her an extremely familiar feeling had appeared near the two of them countless times, and she was already convinced that the tattered clothes worn by the beggar were really the clothes of the Qin Dynasty where she lived, but they were too dirty for she to recognize at the time.
The beggar was the scribe who asked her to try the medicine, and now she was pretty sure!
But why did he keep following him, and what other ulterior conspiracy did he have?
Looking at the porcelain vase in her daughter's hand, the woman looked at her almost non-existent body again, "Immortal medicine...... Immortal Soul ...... Resurrection from the dead......" The whispers of the scribes reappeared in my mind one by one.
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