123. Medical skills
Tens of thousands of paper cranes flew back and forth in the city, swooping down and devouring the plague when they spotted it. At first, the people would dodge, but when they realized that this was probably a ghost doctor's method, they would honestly stand there and let them peck at them. The carrying capacity of each paper crane is limited, and once it swallows too much distemper, it will automatically fly into the air, turn into a cluster of lilac fireworks, and then flutter away with the wind.
In the Renxin Hall, Youshu and King Yu were not idle, and continued to fold one by one and release them one by one. Suddenly, the endless black clouds in the sky were broken open by the purple fire, causing the bright sunlight to shine in, driving away the pestilence, as well as the cold and despair.
Only then did you Shu stop, use the yin and yang dot pen to dot the eyes of the last paper crane, and hold it high with both hands to let it fly, "The danger of Cangzhou has been solved, we can rest for a while." โ
"Really?" King Yu also put down the talisman paper in his hand and walked to the window to look. Small purple dots of light appeared in the sky, which seemed to be very inconspicuous, but slowly swallowed up the thick dark clouds. Light and shadow, black and purple, intertwined into a magnificent spectacle, like the glow before sunrise, and like the blazing beacon fire after the fierce battle.
King Yu looked at it and saw that his eyes were already sour, and he took the young man into his arms, and gently sucked and kissed the corners of his slightly curled lips, "Youshu, we won." โ
"I said I'd protect you!" Youshu straightened her small chest, and her expression was very complacent. Although the stabbing of Lou Zi this time was a bit big, it was finally solved successfully. In the past, it was the master who protected him, and this time it should be his turn to protect the master.
Seeing the black and blue under the master's eyes, he immediately bent down and picked him up, placed him on the soft bed, and untied his hair crown, robe, shoes and socks, and said in a tone that coaxed the little doll, "Good, hurry up and sleep, and there will be nothing to do when you sleep." At the end, he licked his master a few times like a puppy.
The king was a little crying and laughing, dragged the young man into his arms and held it down, and sighed, "You accompany me, otherwise I won't be able to sleep." โ
Youshu still had a lot of aftermath to deal with, and hurriedly kicked and kicked his legs, but because he was too tired, or the fragrance on the master's body was too familiar, he actually fell asleep and made a slight snoring sound. The little scorpion hiding on the top of his hair crawled to the back of his neck and slowly melted into the flesh to turn into a lifelike tattoo.
The king touched the young man's pale cheek, kissed his smooth forehead, and then turned over and trapped the person, and then fell asleep.
Outside the Hall of Benevolence, the troublemakers were still holding torches, looking at the paper cranes flying around in the sky, and every time a paper crane "boomed" and turned into flames, the despair in their hearts was reduced by a point. In just a few quarters of an hour, the originally heavy black clouds were burned out by these flames, and the bright golden sunlight continued to shine down, taking away the winter cold.
When the last dark cloud was swallowed up and burned by the paper cranes, and the stars and bits of hot smoke and dust were dropped, a few people came to their senses and muttered, "Unraveled!" The Blood Curse is unlocked! โ
"Don't thank you for saving your life?" Zhou Miaoyin stood at the door of the medical hall with a sarcastic smile on her face.
Only then did everyone come back to their senses, and they hurriedly put the torch on the ground, stomped it out with their feet, and then kowtowed "bang bang". How angry and crazy they were before, how remorseful and fearful they are now. I knew that the ghost doctor could unlock the blood curse, so why did they bother to make this scene? I don't know how he will be liquidated afterwards?
The king's private soldiers also regained their senses, and then thought more. Previously, the prince had been living in Renxin Hall, and their burning of Renxin Hall was tantamount to rebellion, and they were afraid that they would be divided by five horses. But a small blood curse, how can you get a ghost doctor? It is said that the adult's means are all over the world, and he has only known it until now, this is not a beautiful word, but a true truth!
"Forgive the ghost doctor! We are all dead! They hurriedly threw down their weapons and knelt down and kowtowed.
For a while, the hall of benevolence was full of kneeling people, some pleading, some grateful, and some worshipping the immortals, but there was no movement in the hall of benevolence, and it took three or four days before a purple mist evaporated out, causing a spiritual rain to fall in Cangzhou Mansion.
The spiritual rain drove away the last trace of haze, and when the people stepped on the soft and fragrant soil to look at the fields, they found that the ears of wheat that fell in the ground before winter had taken root and sprouted, and they looked tender green from a distance. After the plague raged, what was left behind was not ruin and depression, but vitality. There are ghost doctors in Cangzhou, and there is really no room for the ghosts to exert themselves.
Renxin Hall did not open for seven or eight days in a row, and the people thought that they had angered the gods, and they no longer dared to visit and worship, but secretly built a temple to worship the statue of the ghost doctor. Youshu was not as angry as they thought, in fact, he never looked at these people in his eyes, whether they liked him, feared him, or hated him, and never took him into consideration.
Now he is counting his things and preparing to take them to the capital. Three days ago, the imperial palace sent an urgent edict, saying that the emperor was seriously ill and asked the princes to return to Beijing immediately, and sent a post to famous doctors from all over the country, asking them to go for consultation. Youshu got one, Zhou Miaoyin also got one, and the miracle doctors of other domains were in decline.
In order to unravel the blood curse, Youshu can be said to be bankrupt. His blanket was originally a Qiankun bag, which was not as good as Zhou Miaoyin's space, but it was not a problem to store hundreds of pounds of things. Now, however, even when he turned the bag upside down, only two small black flowers, a dagger called the Demon Curse, and a few jars of worms were poured out. As soon as the little scorpion smelled the smell of the same kind, it came out of his neck socket, cracked the outer layer of glass with his small chelicera, and crawled in to feast on it. By the time Youshu found out, it was too late.
"It's really delicious." He lifted his forehead and lamented.
The king put down the scroll, took him into his arms and kissed him, "Let it eat, and I'll send someone to catch it if it's gone." There are so many treasures in the world that sooner or later I can find them all and pile them up in front of you. โ
This is not wrong, most of Youshu's collection is plundered for him by the master's southern and northern wars, whenever he sleeps, the treasures in the dungeon will increase dramatically, as if it is the node of all the small worlds, and the master is the key to open these worlds, and all the treasures that can be scavenged are scavenged, just to make him more comfortable after waking up.
Even if he loses his memory every time he is reincarnated, he is also the best master in the world and the best lover. Youshu's heart was hot, and she threw people down on the soft couch, awkwardly tore her clothes, and licked and kissed her from time to time.
When Zhou Miaoyin lifted the curtain, he saw this scene. The young man sat on the waist and abdomen of the king of the servant, buried his head in a messy kiss, and the king rubbed and pinched his upright buttocks while laughing, as if he was enjoying it very much, this picture was simply a dog abuse.
"Hey, I'm sorry, I knocked on the door, but you haven't answered, so I just lifted the curtain to see. The car has been parked for a while, do you want to come down and walk around and have a bite to eat? She said red-faced.
Youshu was very sorry in her heart, and licked the corner of the master's mouth, and then got out of the car with a messy hair. Zhang Gui has been sentenced to death for inciting the private soldiers of the palace to besiege Renxintang, and now there are no eunuchs and palace maids around the king of Yu, and the two of them do it themselves.
The king was much stronger, one arm held the boy firmly in his arms, and the other slowly turned the grilled fish on the fire. Zhou Miaoyin waited cross-legged, quite bored.
"What are you looking at?" She used a small wooden stick to point the scroll in Youshu's hand.
"I'm looking at the map of Wei Guoyu."
"Look at what that does, do you have any books, lend me some." Zhou Miaoyin has formed a revolutionary friendship with Song's shopkeeper, and they get along easily and comfortably. Her secrets, which might lead to death, were nothing in the eyes of Shopkeeper Song, so they could be communicated without burden.
"There's it in the car, you can get it yourself." Youshu's brows became tighter and tighter, and he said in a deep voice, "There is something wrong with this map. โ
The king placed the grilled fish on the washed rice dumpling leaves, sprinkled salt and asked, "What's the problem?" "It can make the omnipotent ghost doctor say the words "there is a big problem", which shows that this matter is quite tricky.
Zhou Miaoyin also sat back down and carefully studied the map, but she didn't see anything.
Youshu studied it repeatedly for two quarters of an hour, and slowly spoke word by word, "I was wrong before, thinking that they were just tampering with the fate of the prince, but in fact, what they changed was the general trend of the world. Looking at this picture, there are currently eight princes who are crowned kings, and the fiefdom is surrounded by the capital, does it look like eight dragons? And there are two dragons in the imperial city, which are the current saint and the emperor. The formation of this pattern is not accidental, but deliberately guided by someone, and its purpose is to set up the formation. โ
If he had checked the map of Wei Guoyu earlier, he would have been able to find the problem a day earlier, but it was not too late.
"What kind of formation?" A faint sense of foreboding rose in King Yu's heart.
Youshu threw out a few talismans, laid out a soundproof formation, and explained in detail, "Cloth Kowloon Star Picking Array." The Nine Dragons are the vassal kings, the present king, and the emperor, and you are the star. The function of this formation is to use the state of the Nine Dragons Arch Star to collect all the dragon qi accumulated by the general trend of the world and even the royal family of Wei for hundreds of years, so as to achieve the purpose of ascending to immortals. With such a huge fortune, the five or six hundred year monster will definitely not be able to absorb it, otherwise it will explode and die. So I have reason to suspect that it's not a yokai hiding behind it, but a group of yokai. โ
"A bunch of youkai?" King Yu's face was solemn.
Zhou Miaoyin had goosebumps all over her body, although she couldn't understand some words, but it didn't prevent her from making up more terrifying plots in her brain. From the words of the shopkeeper Song, it can be guessed that his previous big actions were to investigate something, and this matter was related to monsters. He didn't go to the capital to see a doctor for the emperor, but to kill demons. I always feel that the character of the shopkeeper Song is becoming more and more domineering and handsome, and I don't know if I am too lucky or too bad when I meet him.
"Those monsters you mentioned are hiding in the capital? Can I go home now? She pulled the package into her arms.
"I don't know how many of them there are, or who they are disguised as, but there is no doubt that they must be hidden in the palace. You see, the place where this array of eyes is is the Forbidden City, and only by living here can you absorb the fortune and dragon qi of the Wei Kingdom. Youshu nodded and muttered, "No wonder Emperor Taishang wants to give you so much power, which is almost equivalent to establishing a country of eight kingdoms, but it was originally to enhance the dragon qi of the vassal kings to enhance the power of the formation." Doctor Zhou, you'd better not act alone, I can see your spatial spiritual spring, and others can see it too. That big demon was seriously injured by me, and it needs the spiritual object to restore its mana, and you are likely to have been targeted by it. Your spiritual spring is an extreme yin attribute, and the dragon qi is extremely yang, and the harmony of the two phases is amazing. โ
Zhou Miaoyin held the jade pendant around her neck and moved to the side of the shopkeeper Song, but she was silently defeated under the stares of the prince.
King Yu stuffed the grilled fish into the young man's hand and guessed, "Our rights are given by our father, and the fief is also selected by our father, could it be that my father is a big demon?" โ
"No, he's just a pawn of the demon, otherwise he wouldn't be in the game. His decisions should have been guided by certain people, who are the most suspicious. Youshu neatly removed the fish bones, stuffed the fish back into the master's hand, patted his chest and said, "Don't be afraid, I will protect you." There are more monsters dead in my hands, and this nest is not bad. โ
King Yu was amused, kissed the tip of his nose, and whispered softly, "My family has a Shu who is really capable." Then I'll entrust myself to you. โ
"Okay." Youshu held the master's wrist, and her cautious expression seemed to be swearing.
Zhou Miaoyin covered his eyes silently, and made up his mind to follow the shopkeeper Song every step of the way when he arrived in the capital, otherwise he was afraid that he would not have the time to take care of others-
The convoys of the vassal kings entered the capital one after another, and they had their own plans in their hearts, but now the saint is like a great enemy, and he runs to the queen mother's bedroom as soon as he is free, and he doesn't know what the mother and son are discussing. The Emperor Taishang is indeed sick, and he is extremely sick, and now he is bedridden.
After the Zen throne, he stayed in the Ming and Qing dynasties all day to make alchemy, and also summoned a slightly prestigious Taoist priest into the palace to accompany him, and gradually stopped asking about state affairs. However, his early layout was very successful, with eight vassal kings to contain Jinshang, and the imperial power in his hands was not only lost, but also strengthened a lot. Every time a government decree is issued, I have to go to the Ming and Qing Dynasty palaces for advice, not to mention how depressed I am.
Previously, the ghost doctor was famous in the Wei State, and the Emperor Taishang had also heard a few words from the chamberlain, and he was going to summon someone to see him, but he was stopped by the "immortal masters", and finally he couldn't do it. But this time he was incurable, and the queen mother was stupid, stupid, and moved, so he summoned the vassal kings to return to Beijing to serve the sick.
As soon as the king entered Beijing, he heard a burst of bells coming from the imperial city, resounding in the sky. The pedestrians on the road were stunned at first, and finally knelt down and kowtowed, even if they pinched their arms to the point of bruising, they had to force out a few tears.
"What's going on?" Zhou Miaoyin didn't know what to do, but King Yu and Youshu had already jumped out of the carriage in a hurry, bowed their heads, and said in a low voice, "The emperor has died." โ
"How could he die? As soon as he dies, won't the Nine Dragons Star Picking Game be broken? That nest of youkai won't do anything good, but will fall short. Zhou Miaoyin knelt down as she spoke.
Youshu was also puzzled, but her face was not revealed, and she waited for the bell to disappear before boarding the carriage and rushing to the palace with her master. The eight vassal kings have already reached six, and two more have delivered letters, saying that they will arrive soon. The once splendid palace is now hung with white flags everywhere, and the people who come and go to the palace are all dressed in plain clothes with sad faces.
Because the emperor died too suddenly, the king who had just arrived in the capital had no time to go to the palace to settle down, so he had to find an inn to live temporarily. After changing into mourning clothes, the two walked all the way, and finally slowly approached the place where the spirit stopped. Youshu's face became more and more solemn as she walked, and she grabbed her master with the cover of her wide robe sleeves, and said, "Lord Wang, this is another formation. โ
King Yu secretly pinched his fingertips for inquiry.
"This is the Blood Sacrifice Formation. Gathering the blood of Nine Dragons and Ziwei Emperor Star to condense the divine soul, it can increase the thousand-year-old Dao in one fell swoop. The big demon should be extremely badly injured and die soon, otherwise he will not sacrifice all his chess pieces. โ
"Can you get out?"
"I can get out." Youshu patted the back of his master's hand and said comfortingly, "But we'd better not move without permission, so as not to startle the snake." I was hesitating how to catch all those monsters when they were automatically delivered to my door. At the time of the blood sacrifice, all the monsters will jump into the blood pool and swallow the demon core, which is a thousand-year-old way, who can resist such temptation? So I guess they'll all come, and those who don't come are lowly little demons, so there's nothing to be afraid of. โ
"What are you going to do?" The king was very stable in his heart. As long as the boy is by his side, he has nothing to fear, he has to live together, die together, and have no regrets in life.
"You'll know then." There is a cloth tied around the waist.
The two entered the mourning hall, took the incense candle from the palace maid and lit it, and were about to insert it into the copper furnace, when they heard the queen mother say coldly, "Slow!" King Yu, you are the son of the former emperor, it is understandable to give him a stick of incense, but what is he who dares to wear filial piety clothes to step into the mourning hall? The fingertips of the gilt armor almost poked Youshu's eyes.
King Yu pulled the young man behind him and arched his hand, "Empress Dowager Qiyu, Youshu is the partner of her son, and she should be filial piety in front of the imperial examination." โ
"Mate, what do you mean?" The Queen Mother's eyes were dark, and she never expected that King Yu would dare to say such faint words in front of everyone.
The vassal kings were stunned for a moment, and then laughed secretly. As soon as the emperor died, they had no restraints, they only needed to send troops to besiege the imperial city, and the throne was not captured? At this time, it is a good time to win over the courtiers, and no one will show their flaws, but they didn't expect the king to expose his shortcomings and laugh generously. Set up a man as a concubine, which noble daughter is willing to marry him? What about the offspring? King Yu, this is a beauty who loves the country, not the country!
But there were also a few vassal kings who showed solemn expressions, because they had already identified the identity of the young man, and the other party was the ghost doctor with great mana, if he was willing to use a small trick, the chances of the king of the servant would be greater than anyone else's. No, we have to find a way to separate the two, but now it's not in a hurry, we have to figure it slowly.
They wanted to deal with the king of the servants, but they didn't dare to offend the ghost doctor, so they opened their mouths to help and persuaded the queen mother who insisted on killing people to go back. Youshu thanked her, and she generously accepted the position of Princess Yu, and finally stared at the Queen Mother with a slightly cold expression.
The Queen Mother's face was not obvious, but her eyes were dodgy and flustered, and she pinched herself with a condom to regain her composure. After waiting for a few quarters of an hour, hundreds of civil and military officials, harem concubines, vassal kings and concubines, and even Taoist priests invited by the Emperor Taishang to make alchemy gathered in the mourning hall and began to bow.
The first day was peaceful, but when the last two vassal kings arrived with their families, the atmosphere in the mourning hall changed in an instant. Youshu has a keen sense of smell, and before he entered the main hall, he found that the incense candle was โกโก, and after three quarters of an hour of smoking, it could make people weak, so he quickly bit his fingertips and squeezed a drop of blood to feed to the master.
King Yu gently licked the delicate wound and asked in a dumb voice, "What's wrong?" โ
"There's something wrong with today's incense sticks." Youshu touched the little scorpion sleeping in his neck socket and explained, "I have a Gu soul to protect my body, but I can't invade all poisons, and my blood is the antidote to all toxins. The stars of Kowloon have gathered, and they are about to do it. โ
The expression of the king remained unchanged, but the light in his eyes dimmed, and he led the young man into the mourning hall and stood in the prince's column. The monks lit three sticks of incense as thick as a child's arm, and then beat the wooden fish to chant the scriptures, and at each critical point, they would signal the kings and civil and military officials to kneel and kowtow.
Three quarters of an hour later, many people fell unexpectedly, and some people staggered and stood unsteadily, and it was too late to realize that the situation was wrong, and the vermilion lacquer gate weighing 100 catties collapsed without anyone pushing it, bringing out a strong demonic wind. The center of the mourning hall seems to be arranged with a mechanism, and it is slowly sinking down, forming a pool.
"What's going on? How could there be a bath in the Taihe Temple? "The kings were terrified, and they tried to flee but could not move a finger.
"Where's the Ghost Doctor? Think of a way! I don't know who shouted.
"What can you do? Didn't you see him and be hard to protect himself? The young and handsome emperor stood up steadily, walked to the side of the king, and crushed the hand of the young man who was protecting him in his arms with the sole of his shoe.
Youshu buried her face in her master's arms, and she didn't know if it was too much pain or too fear, so she trembled slightly. The king was extremely angry, but he couldn't do anything, so he had to bury his face in the neck socket of the young man, and let out a low roar like a trapped beast. The "timid" behavior of the two really pleased the emperor, and the other party stopped crushing and raised his voice, "Queen Mother, quickly throw your father into it." โ
The Queen Mother, who pretended to be paralyzed, got up at this time, swept the coffin lid made of copper water and knocked it away, and took out the body of the Emperor Taishang with one hand and threw it into the pool. I don't know what powder she sprinkled into it, and the body of the Emperor Taishang turned into blood in an instant, and many bubbles bubbled up.
The strong smell of blood spread throughout the hall, making the kings and civil and military officials almost faint. Although I really want to kill the first one to kill the king of Yu, but the method of blood sacrifice pays attention to the order, the more the dragon qi is more to put in the back, otherwise the effect will be lost, the queen mother and the emperor can only reluctantly hold back the killing thoughts in their hearts, and pick among several vassal kings.
"Ghost Doctor, help!" King Jing, who was picked, grabbed the young man's cuffs. The people present are all mortals, and only the ghost doctor may be able to compete with these two mad madmen.
Youshu is proficient in various formations, so he naturally knew that King Jing would be thrown into the blood pool by the second, so he would lie down beside him. At an angle that no one could see, he stuffed two pitch-black spirit grasses into King Jing's sleeve pocket, and as soon as he did this, the Queen Mother kicked him away, and finally picked up King Jing and threw him into the pool of blood.
King Jing, who should have been corroded into a pool of blood by demon poison, was unscathed, just lying at the bottom of the pool and shouting for help. The two spirit grasses in his sleeve slowly melted, causing the blood to become darker and darker, until a rising mist emerged, enveloping the entire temple in an instant, and it became impossible to reach out to the five fingers.
"Skin poison! How can the pool be mixed with skin poison? The Queen Mother's terrible howl pierced everyone's eardrums.