Chapter 115: The Farmer and the 'Forget Worries'
If it weren't for wanting to find out the origin of the poison, Ye Xici really didn't want to recall the scene at that time. Although she was still a child at that time, she was born sensitive, and she already knew many things.
He never felt that the concubine would remember and forget it again and again because she was sick, although the doctors said that the princess was sick, because she had a rare disease, and the people went crazy, so they would do these crazy things.
But he never doubted his father. After all, no matter how much he resented his mother and concubine, no matter how much he tried his best to torture them on weekdays, he still never doubted him.
Until one day, when he heard the 'facts' he proudly said from Ye Xiqian's mouth, he no longer had any expectations for the entire Anwang Mansion.
Now that I think about it, people say that tiger poison does not eat children, he is his biological son, he still keeps putting him to death, for many years, open and dark, conspiracies and conspiracies emerge in endlessly, poisoning, assassination, deception...... Even now that he is blatantly looking for someone to hunt him down, he, a good father, in order to be with his favorite woman, poisoned his wife with Li Suqing, and in order to remove his favorite son from the position of the son of the world, he wants to get rid of him as an obstacle to the road. Such a vicious person, why didn't he fight for the throne in the first place? If he had the ambition to compete for the throne at the beginning, how many innocent people would die in the palace because of him?
Ye Xici sneered. If his good father really had a heart of disobedience, then he could justifiably put this person to death in the name of righteousness and annihilation!
Fang Xiaoyu was silent, his face was solemn, and his brows were furrowed. Princess An's situation is very similar to the situation of a certain person at that time, but the number of such poisons in the world is rare, and it is too much of a coincidence that three people in the capital have found such a difficult thing to find at the same time?
"I'll sort out my thoughts first. And then I'll talk to you about it in detail. Fang Xiaoyu caught a glimpse of Ye Xici's anxious gaze and said. Then he fell into deep thought.
After nearly a stick of incense, Fang Xiaoyu raised his head, looked at Ye Xici with a solemn expression and said, "There are some things that I also guess. Therefore, it is not accurate, and you and I need to study it again before we can conclude it. I'll tell you first about this poison. ”
"You say." Ye Xici nodded, and also told himself not to be impulsive. Compared with the previous clues, there is a breakthrough, which is rare.
Fang Xiaoyu went to take Ye Xinrou and Ye Shuqing to another side hall to rest. Because maybe she had to discuss it with Ye Xici for a long time, and then ordered Xie Yu to wrap some raw dumplings and prepare them, and give them to him to take back when the little fifth son beside the prince came. After all the qiē was dealt with, Fang Xiaoyu said to Ye Xi: "This poison is called 'forgetting worries'. Forget the meaning of worries. ”
"What a name that doesn't live up to its name." Ye Xici looked sarcastic.
"It's a name that doesn't live up to its name." Fang Xiaoyu sneered: "The prince should know that there is a small country in the extreme west, they seem to have no quarrel with the world, although they are not dependent on any big country, but they also rely on all the big countries for their survival. It is the only way to pass through the Valley of the Corpses, and the Valley of the Corpses is rich in all kinds of wild herbs, so most of the people of the small country rely on going to the Valley of the Corpses to collect medicines and then resell them to merchants from various countries to make a living. They are not rich. At least you can keep yourself fed. Because the country is so small that it can not arouse the covetousness of the big powers, and they can never afford to invade other countries, they have never been annexed to this day. ”
"You mean Hayashu Province?" Ye Xici suddenly remembered that small country with a population of only tens of thousands and a remote area. He had heard it because a man had come from there.
"Yes, what I'm talking about is the country of Hayashu. It is small and sparsely populated. Although it is a mistake, in fact, it is not as good as a state and county. However, because Hayashu Province is a necessary place to go to the Valley of the Corpses, he uses various rare herbs collected in the Valley of the Corpses. It's not hard for them to live. Most importantly, and because of this, many doctors with excellent medical skills were born in Hayashu Province. ”
But for some reason, those doctors, despite their medical skills, are not well-known in the world, so few people know about their existence. And what I mean by 'forgetting worries'. It was developed by a farmer in Hayashu Province. ”
"Farmer?" Ye Xi was stunned, how could a farmer develop such a vicious poison?
"To be precise, the farmer has developed the predecessor of 'Forget Worries'." Fang Xiaoyu took a deep breath, and he was also feeling helpless for the farmer.
"Predecessor? Do you mean that the farmer developed this poison, and then someone else modified it, so that the vicious poison of the concubine was formed? Ye Xi's eyes were slightly murderous.
Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said, "That farmer originally made only medicine and not poison. The farmer and his wife grew up in a village since childhood, and they played together in the fields all year round. The farmer loved his wife very much, and even if the family was poor, he was reluctant to let her do the heavy work, and if he earned some silver, he went to the town market to buy her some cheap ornaments. Although the thing is not expensive, it is sincere. ”
However, the farmer's wife, who had been suffering from a stubborn illness since she was a child, always wandered around at night without saying anything, and often said that she was someone else, and that if the farmer had not grown up with his wife since childhood, I am afraid that she would have believed her and regarded her as someone else. The wife is like two different personalities competing for the body, sometimes normal and sometimes abnormal, and the farmer is very worried, but there is nothing he can do. ”
Fang Xiaoyu said and glanced at Ye Xici's reaction. She thought that Ye Xici should be able to understand the farmer's feelings, although the symptoms were different, but the recurrence of Princess An's poisoning was somewhat similar to the situation of the farmer's wife.
Fang Xiaoyu once thought that the farmer's wife was likely to have a split personality, or was really crossed by someone, but her soul was not destroyed, so she was fighting for the same body.
How it is, so many years have passed, and no one knows for a long time. It's just that the reincarnation that Fang Xiaoyu has experienced is a very wonderful thing, so whether it is a split personality or being crossed, this is possible.
"In addition to farming, the farmer also knows some medical skills, which he learned from a barefoot doctor who came to the village before. The doctor wandered the world and was already old, so he came to their village to settle down and treat the villagers for minor illnesses on weekdays. The farmer had a good relationship with the barefoot doctor because of the proximity to home. He often gave sweet potatoes to the doctor, and the barefoot doctor taught him to read and write, and also taught him some ways to cure diseases, all of which were not too complicated. The farmer will not have a hard time learning. In addition, the farmer was strong and often went to the Valley of the Corpses to collect herbs and give them to the doctor, and in exchange, the doctor has been helping him study how to treat his wife's illness. ”
"When the barefoot doctor lived in the village for three years, he was no match for old age. Eventually went. A house, a medicine chest, and some medical books were left behind for the farmer. And until the death of the barefoot doctor, there was no way to heal the peasant couple. The farmer was disappointed, but not despairing, and he began to use the money he earned from picking herbs to go to the city school to study calligraphy seriously, although he was old, but the barefoot doctor had taught him to recognize some simple words, so the gentleman saw that he was sincere in learning. And they took him. After learning the words, he began to study the medicine left by the barefoot doctor, trying to find a cure for his wife on his own, and so that after five years, both his wife and he were getting older, and her illness became more and more severe, so he took the risk and used a prescription that he had found in the medicine, according to which it was written. He developed the medicine 'Forget Worries'. ”
He didn't know if this medicine would be useful to his wife, and it was a medicine that would hurt the enemy by a thousand and damage himself by eight hundred, and he didn't want to use it unless it was absolutely necessary. At the time, there was no name for this 'forgetting worries'. The farmer is a rough man, and he only develops medicine to cure his wife, so how can he have time to name a pill? And the original prescription of this medicine is a medicine that can make people forget jì a qiē. As long as you take this medicine, no matter what has happened before, sad. Painful or happy memories will be emptied at a moment's notice. In other words, as long as the wife takes this medicine, it is likely that even the farmer will forget about it. However, in order to make his wife normal and not be tortured by this strange disease, he still reluctantly gave his wife this medicine. ”
Fang Xiaoyu sighed deeply.
"And after that, his wife was healed?" Ye Xici also seemed to be moved by the farmer's actions. If he hadn't developed the medicine of forgetting worries, maybe her mother would not have died so painfully, but he was also sober that it was not the farmer who was at fault, it was the person who transformed the medicine originally made for love into poison, and the person who killed his mother with this poison!
He understands that there is nothing wrong with the knife itself, it is the person who uses the knife to kill people!
"Nope." Fang Xiaoyu shook his head and said, "There is nothing wrong with the medicine itself, it is developed according to the prescription, it is not toxic, and it will not kill people, but the fault is that his wife's illness is too complicated." After taking the medicine, his wife's face was ruddy, as if she had eaten something big, which was said to be a good phenomenon, but in just four days, his wife's condition began to be uncontrollable, she screamed heartbreakingly all night long, and the people in the village would be frightened by the painful roar from afar, and then, the wife began to change her personality. One moment he used his wife's personality to tell the farmer about his pain, and the other time he became the farmer's unknown personality and began to curse loudly for the farmer and wanted to harm her. Personalities had to be exchanged almost every other time for tea, so that not only the wife, but also the farmer was miserable. ”
This situation lasted for more than ten days, and the farmer could not do any work, could not do anything, but could only guard his wife at home, and constantly heard the sound of pleading or cursing from his wife's body. The farmer was on the verge of collapse. ”
"And then?" Ye Xici seems to have thought that this ending must not be perfect.
"Later...... Ten days later, the farmer was physically and mentally exhausted, and his wife collapsed to the ground, almost without strength, but her personality continued to change. The pleas and curses went on with great vigour, and the farmer was deeply saddened by them. Later, when the wife's personality reappears, the wife begs the farmer to kill her so that she can be freed. She no longer wants to live this kind of constantly disturbed life, she doesn't want to increase the burden of the farmer anymore, not to mention that if she doesn't kill her, I'm afraid she won't live long. Therefore, she wished to die at the hands of the person she loved the most, and that was the only request in her life. ”
The farmer was sad, but she knew that perhaps this was the only way for his wife to be free. So, he poisoned his wife with poisonous weeds with his own hands, and then carried her body up the mountain, and dug a grave for her with his own hands, and then he held his wife in his arms and lay down in the coffin with her, but he only fastened the lid, but he did not have the ability to nail the coffin to death. ”
If he feels suffocated, he can even regret pushing the coffin away. But he didn't, he endured the pain of suffocation, hugged his wife's corpse, and suffocated himself alive in the coffin. And it was much later that someone saw the coffin and the stone tablet carved in front of it on the mountain. The year of birth and death of the farmer and his wife is written on it. By then, the corpse had already decomposed. The villagers also took pity on them, so they buried them and rebuilt the graves, so that they could be buried in the ground. ”
Fang Xiaoyu sighed. This is the feeling of living and dying together. But she felt that instead of being so vigorous, it was really better for two people who love each other to live a plain life. Like the farmer and his wife, they love each other, but they also torture each other, and this affection is certainly touching, but it is also sad.
Fang Xiaoyu glanced up, but found that Ye Xici's state seemed to be a little wrong. He pursed his lips tightly and frowned, his whole face looking a little distorted. He clutched his knees tightly with both hands, and seemed to be pinching hard, with indescribable pain and self-reproach in his expression.
Fang Xiaoyu was puzzled. Although the farmer's story is indeed touching, it doesn't make people like Ye Xici fall too deep into it, right? But why is Ye Xici like this? As if he had personally experienced the farmer's story, Ye Xici at this moment, I don't know why, Fang Xiaoyu felt that he and the farmer overlapped.
"What's wrong with you?" Fang Xiaoyu asked with some concern.
Ye Xici was suddenly pulled back to reality by Fang Xiaoyu's concern, and seeing Fang Xiaoyu looking at him with a worried expression, he shook his head, trying to hide his appearance. It's just that his pale face still betrays the unrest in his heart at the moment. (To be continued.) )