116. Buying a body
Grandma Wang took out a hosta inserted in her bun: "The earth has a breath that can purify living beings, and it can wash away the miasma and dirt of all things. The hosta that my husband gave me back then was immersed in the mud of the lotus flower for ten years, and I found it later, and I used this method to restore it. ”
I took a breath: "What earth, do you mean that I want to bury the hairpin in the soil, and then it will grow another one that is exactly the same?" ”
Grandma Wang ignored me, and she continued to explain intently: "I have studied ancient books intently, and later found a record written by a little-known miracle doctor about the treatment of scars, which says that the flowers of Shanqi and the leaves of the purple forest are stirred into juice, and slowly mixed with a bucket of sun rain, which can repair and restore everything. ”
"So, did you try it?" Chang Xi shook his head: "But I haven't heard of these things, how did you find them?" ”
"The leaves of the purple forest are the northernmost bamboo forest of Afang Palace, and there is only one with a purple trunk. Shanqi is the rarest medicine in medicinal materials, many people have never heard of it, legend, it grows on the cliff wall, and only blooms once in ten years. The rain of the sun is to collect the rain that falls slanting in the scorching sun. ”
"It doesn't sound like it's particularly hard to get, otherwise how would you have gotten these things back then?"
Money can make ghosts grind, and these things sound like they are all within the scope of human solutions.
Grandma Wang nodded: "Forty years ago, these things were not difficult to find. I entered the palace as a maidservant at the age of ten, when I was still the world of King Yingzheng of Qin, and built the magnificent Afang Palace, I secretly went to Zilin. The rain of the sun is the kind of rain I've been waiting for for ten years. As for Shanqi's flowers, they were bought by Hou Ye's father, Liu Fei, the king of Qi, from a merchant at a high price, and it was a reward for me for serving him for decades, but it was ......"
Chang Xi sighed, her eyes suddenly became confused, and she took Grandma Wang's words: "However, Xianyang City is broken, Afang Palace is destroyed, and Gaozu establishes the Han Dynasty, everything is no longer what it used to be." ”
"As long as you have the ability to collect these three things, it is definitely not difficult to restore the hairpin."
The leaves of the purple forest, the flowers of the mountains, the rain of the sun.
I held my head in my hands, and walked out of Grandma Wang's courtyard with Chang Xi in a graceful manner, and sneered: "How do you find these things?" I'm afraid she also has a lot of lies. ”
"No, I see that this princess's eyes are very sincere, Furui, don't worry, since I promised to help you, I will definitely find a way."
In the afternoon, when the sun was shining and it was very warm, Chang Xi pulled me out of the house, and then walked to various medicinal herb shops.
"Changxi, you don't have anything to do with your brain, right? Instead of staying in the house to accompany Liu Zhang, you have to run around for me to find that Shanqi flower? ”
"Isn't it bad to have a clue? You've helped me so much, it's nothing to ask around for you? ”
She inquired about the various herb shops one by one, and I finally couldn't help but interrupt her overflowing love, and there was another point that I really couldn't walk.
We searched almost all the large and small pharmacies on East Street, and no one had ever heard of this medicinal herb.
Now it is the last family, the boss glanced at me who was about to collapse, pinched his beard and thought: "Shan Qi...... I've heard my master mention it once before, but this herb is extremely rare and can't be used as a pharmacy for curing diseases, so no one collects it at all. ”
Chang Xi finally gave up, and the two of us found a shop on the street and ordered two bowls of egg drops, and I half-snuggled up to the table, pinching my sore feet.
The shopkeeper greeted warmly, and when he brought up 20,000 hot egg flowers, Chang Xi took a look at it and pushed the bowl in front of me.
I scooped up a big spoon and put it in my mouth: I slurred and asked Chang Xi, "Why don't you eat it?" ”
"There are shrimp on it, I don't know what it is, I will have a small red rash all over my body when I eat shrimp, it is itchy and painful, and it will take a few days to go away."
I tilted my neck and thought, "Oh, then you're allergic to shrimp." ”
"What does allergy mean."
"Oh, you don't have a lot to do with this food, you can't touch it anyway...... But then again, your thin body is weak, and you went into shock last time because of your allergy to my blood marks. ”
Chang Xi nodded thoughtfully, not knowing whether Lu Dao agreed with my words, or if he was thinking about something else.
There was a noise in the market, and there were more and more crowds gathered in that area, and by the time I finished eating and wiping my mouth, Chang Xi had already floated to the center of the crowd.
The circle is full of people watching the excitement, and the core character of this excitement is a sixteen-looking girl with shackles on her hands and feet.
Because it was too tight or maybe the market broke free, the wrists and ankles had worn off a layer of flesh, and it looked like the flesh was blurry and glued to the chains.
She was tied to a reckless man, who wore a white cloth coat with a wide open neckline and a lot of oil stains on it, and his beard was also a mess, looking like he had just crawled out of the garbage heap.
"The price starts at five taels of silver, whoever bids high will take this girl, be a slave who warms the bed, a maid who washes her feet, or buys it to a brothel, this girl still looks a little good, whoever likes it will take it!"
With such a blatant human trafficking, it is no wonder that there are only onlookers, and no one dares to bid.
Seeing that no one wanted to buy it, the reckless man was furious, stretched out his foot and kicked the girl's head hard: "Cheap girl! If you don't know how to work, forget it, I can't sell you if I want to! Lao Tzu really regrets buying such a money-losing thing from you! If you don't get me some money back today, I'll slaughter you and sell you as pork! ”
The girl's head was bloodied by him, lying down her cheek to the corner of her mouth, she didn't shed a single tear, stretched out her tongue and licked the blood from her mouth, and continued to kneel on the ground, her eyes like a black pearl without brilliance.
"This girl ......"
Chang Xi's face was moved, and I pushed her: "Hey, you won't be overflowing with compassion again, there are many people like this, you ......"
Without I could say a word, she squeezed through the crowd and walked to the middle, took out the money bag from her bosom, and took out a silver ingot: "Here are ten taels, I bought her." ”
The man was instantly happy, and hurriedly took the silver, and nodded to Chang Xi: "Madam has a good eye, this girl can do any job!" ”
Say, he stuffed the iron chain in his hand, as well as the key to the shackles, into Chang Xi's hand.
Seeing that the dust had settled, the crowd dispersed sparsely.
Chang Xi couldn't open it when she poked the key, I held my forehead, and reluctantly stepped forward to help her unscrew the lock: "It's time for you woman to exercise well." ”