35. Ghost stories
Lying on the bed, Shui Xiao was only amazed by Yuan Chun!
He actually knows better than the emperor and empress: why was he born sick? Why is his condition different since eight years ago? Why did he become a taboo!
When his biological mother Min Guiren gradually became favored, she was still just a small talent. And at that time, it was when Concubine Xu Shu was in full swing. Of course, Concubine Xu Shufei didn't want a newcomer to come forward to compete with her for favor, so she designed to frame Min Cairen. Min Cairen saw through the mechanism, planned the plan, united with a concubine who was taken away by Concubine Xu Shufei, and defeated Concubine Xu Shu. also took the opportunity to frame Xu Shufei, so that Xu Shufei had no possibility of turning over.
Later, Min Cairen became pregnant and became a beauty. Before Concubine Xu committed suicide in the cold palace, she had viciously cursed his mother and him. After he was born, his mother was elevated to the rank of nobleman. He was born frail and sickly, and Min Guiren suspected that it was caused by Concubine Xu Shu's curse and secretly regretted it. Since then, Min Guiren has gradually withdrawn from competing for favor and only takes care of his son. But he was getting sicker and sicker.
He finally swallowed his breath on Chinese New Year's Eve, the year he was five years old, that is, in the ninth year of Longzheng.
He was very scared before he swallowed his breath, but the real horror came after his breath - he was born weak and sickly, and it was indeed caused by Concubine Xu Shufei's curse and resentment. At this time, Concubine Xu Shu has turned into a ghost; And his soul fell into the hands of Concubine Xu Shu. Concubine Xu Shu's soul trapped him was not finished, and she actually took advantage of his mother's heartbreak to bewitch her to commit suicide on the spot.
The souls of him and his mother fell into the hands of Concubine Xu Shufei, and they were tortured by Concubine Xu Shu in turns. That night, Concubine Xu Shufei scolded while torturing their mother and son, and shook off all the old things to him.
Later, it was getting brighter.
At sunrise, the heavens and the earth are suddenly filled with the fragrance of lotus flowers. That pure qi is pervasive, and it can turn into lotus flowers, scorching the exposed soul. And the more fierce the ghost, the more seriously injured.
When his mother left her soul, a black jewel ring followed her away. When the lotus clear qi rose, the ring actually absorbed a lot of lotus clear qi, helping his mother break free from the cage set by Concubine Xu Shu with her ghost power, and also rescued him. Concubine Xu Shu was unwilling to let them escape, so she endured the scorching heat of the lotus and came to capture them again.
When he escaped, his mother accidentally discovered that pressing his soul back into his original body would not be scorched by the pure breath of the lotus flower. His mother pressed his soul back into his original body, fearing that his soul would float again, and put the ring on his thumb, which was constantly absorbing the pure breath of the lotus flower. He turned around and entangled with Concubine Xu Shu, not letting Concubine Xu Shu seize her body......
When he woke up again, he was lying on the spiritual bed with that black jewel ring on his thumb! And his mother, never woke up.
After he returned to the spiritual bed, the original illness was cured without medicine, but he got this strange disease of not being able to see the sun and being extremely afraid of cold, which has since become a taboo in the palace. No one dared to come to see him except the Queen. The eunuchs and palace maids around him also gradually settled down after several changes.
For the cold reception he has received in the palace over the years, Shui Xiao has never blamed anyone.
Fear is human nature, and he is often afraid of ghosts, of the dark, of the fragrance of lotus flowers. So he doesn't blame others for being afraid of him. Sometimes, he himself is afraid of himself, and all these years, he never dares to look in the mirror.
But since his mother sacrificed herself to protect him, then he must try to live! Live well! Just as his mother had hoped.
Be scared and live!
It's better to live than to die!
And the experience of that night was not without its benefits.
Since then, he has had yin and yang eyes and can see ghosts. The ghosts in the palace and even in the capital were consumed in the early hours of that morning. But in the past few years, there have gradually been some new ghosts in the palace.
Fortunately, the ring that absorbed the pure qi of the lotus flower was quite able to restrain ghosts. As long as he had that ring with him, those ghosts didn't dare to come within three feet of him. He named the ring: "Chunhui".
He tied the "Chunhui" ring with a sturdy rope and hung it around his neck day and night, hiding it under his clothes.
Whenever he was in pain from a strange illness, whenever he was lonely and desperate, he would touch the ring through his clothes.
Each time, the ring gave him the strength to think of his mother again, to his mother's last words - in fact, at that time, she only said five words: live well!
Later, his strange illness became more and more serious, and the doctors were helpless.
He didn't want to die like that, so he began to learn to overcome the fear in his heart, and to gather the ghosts to find out the news for him, and to see where there was a famous doctor who could cure the disease. The ghosts refused to show their heads during the day, and could only act at night, and the famous doctor did not find him, but he heard a lot of other news for him.
After the news spread that Yuan Chun had met an immortal and had been taught medical skills, he drove the ghost to inquire about the truth and reality. But those ghosts reported that Yuan Chun hid a power that they were very afraid of, and they didn't even dare to approach Yuan Chun within ten zhang. The idea of probing Yuanchun's reality had to be put on hold for the time being.
Fortunately, Yuan Chun entered the palace.
He couldn't wait and didn't want to wait for his father's grace, so he went directly to the Linfeng Shui Corridor.
Under his yin and yang eyes, he saw Yuan Chun's soul, which was firmly protected in a five-color lotus platform!
It's just that the breath and divine light of the lotus platform are contained but not revealed, so he can't be sure whether this lotus platform is the source of those lotus pure qi back then.
Emperor Longzheng, Empress Shen and Shui Xiao were silent for a long time, but they didn't mean to explain the old incident eight years ago to Yuan Chun.
"How to cure the disease of Seventeen?" Emperor Longzheng directly skipped the root cause of the disease and asked about the treatment.
Yuan Chun said the treatment he had just told Shui Xiao.
Then she took a deep breath, looked at Shui Xiao, and said a crucial taboo in front of the emperor and empress: "It's just that Your Highness needs to remember: before you are completely healed, you must not get close to women." Otherwise, the disease will never be broken for the rest of its life! ”
Shui Xiao's expression became uncomfortable in an instant, coughed, and said with a little fluttering eyes: "I wrote it down!" "No matter how precocious he was, he was only a thirteen-year-old boy.
A little smile appeared on the corner of the queen's mouth, and she was busy and restrained, as if she hadn't seen anything, heard nothing.
Emperor Longzheng also coughed lightly uncomfortably and asked, "Doctor Jia Shang, when will Seventeen be completely cured?" What he really wanted to ask was: When will Seventeen get close to women?
Yuan Chun thought for a while: "If it's fast, it's five or six years, and if it's slow, it's seven or eight years!" The disease is relieved quickly in the early stage, and it is difficult to break the root in the later stage. After a year or two, the sun and the decoction will not be of much benefit to His Highness's condition. Since then, His Highness can only rely on his own will and efforts to cut off the root of this disease. ”
The palace ladies decocted the medicine.
Yuan Chun asked Shui Xiao to take the decoction. He also taught the palace maid how to apply ointment to Shui Xiao's body. Then he withdrew from the Cunxin Hall and waited in the middle courtyard.
In the Cunxin Hall, the palace maids stripped Shui Xiao's clothes, pulled up their dirty pants high, and tied Shui Xiao's Chunhui ring, which never left his body, in his hair. Then the ointment was evenly applied to Shui Xiao's body, and then wrapped in a white cloth. According to what Yuan Chun said, cover Shui Xiao's eyes with a black cloth, so that his eyes that are not good at applying medicine will not be burned by the sun. Then put a mask on Shui Xiao's face, so that he would not be burned on his mouth, nose and other places when he opened his mouth to speak......
As soon as the qiē was done, four eunuchs lifted Shui Xiao out and put it in the sun.
Shui Xiao was lying on the couch, originally a little frightened, afraid that as before, when he was basked in the sun, he would feel like being scorched by the flames.
But until the eunuchs put down the soft couch, the painful feeling of being scorched by the flames did not appear.
Shui Xiao was very happy in his heart.
Although he doesn't mind suffering anything in order to survive, it would be better if he didn't have to suffer.
"Seventeen, how do you feel?" Emperor Longzheng asked curiously.
"It feels warm and comfortable." Shui Xiao under the mask, the urn said angrily, "But it's still very cold inside the body." ”
Even if it's just skin, he's not experienced this warm feeling for a long time! Over the years, no matter when, he only had two feelings, one was the deep cold that his bones were aching, and the other was the hot pain when he was scorched by the sun. For him, the charcoal basin was of no use at all.
Now that he is basking in the sun, his skin does not have that burning sensation, but gradually warms up, as if he had been baked on a fire when he was a child. The inside of the body is still so cold that it seems to be in an ice cellar, and it is so cold that the bones are aching.
To be honest, this feeling of ice and fire is not pleasant.
But Shui Xiao felt a fresh hope.