Chapter 157: Arrangement
If you guessed correctly, this bizarre story was written by this woman named Qingrou, and the origin of the story was Chen Lang in his mouth.
And the time of writing is clearly recorded, that is, ten days ago.
Then the story may have only recently appeared.
And just now, Meng Fu also said the words of Qingshui Zhenchen before he died.
It's a pity that Meng Jie insisted on running out of oil and running out of lights until Xianyang, and Gentle may be the disciple of Liezi who killed Meng Jie, but who is this Chen Lang? Where is Qinghe Town? If you are in Nanyang, is it in the Funiu Mountain?
Qin Shi Huang, as the first emperor of the ages, is not to mention the great Qin, from enduring humiliation to the unification of Dingding China, both the mind and the means are beyond the reach of ordinary people, so it can quickly be inferred from these simple information that this Chen Lang may be the person he needs to find, and even may be the disciple of the immortal family that he has recently encountered in the legend of the disciples of Liezi.
"Someone!" Qin Shi Huang closed the book in his hand.
"Your Majesty, please command!" A Xuanjia guard knelt down on one knee.
"Go and call Zhao Qing to see me!"
"Whoa!" The Xuanjia guards left the main hall, but within a few minutes, a middle-aged scribe in a gray robe entered the main hall, bowed his hand, and bowed respectfully without saying a word.
"Zhao Qing, you immediately go to Pheasant County, Nanyang County, look for a place called Qinghe Town in the Funiu Mountain, and inquire about a young man surnamed Chen, this person is young, but he may be very famous, remember not to rush recklessly, observe carefully, if you find anything abnormal, you must immediately report it to me!"
"The minister will do it immediately!" The middle-aged scribe turned around and left, although it seemed rude, but Qin Shi Huang did not say anything.
The silence in the room was restored again, the deep palace was forbidden, the stone walls were thick tiles, the light was not bright, and the air in the room seemed to be frozen, and this kind of atmosphere, Qin Shi Huang was very accustomed to and familiar with.
He slowly copied a few books with the legend of the white snake neatly stacked, looked at the remaining books, thought for a while and still couldn't hold back, picked up a book and opened it.
"When I first saw Chen Lang, he was ragged, rude, disgusted, and indifferent, but Chen Lang didn't blame him, and he was terrified......"
This is still written by the woman called Gentle, as if a diary of a junior high school girl in the later generations was full of moods, and the situation of seeing Chen Xu for the first time was very complete, and the mood was both apprehensive and regretful, but there was a strong attachment between the lines, and all of what was written was the feelings of love at first sight, and the little daughter's mind was unobstructed.
Because of the reason of the queen mother Zhao Ji, coupled with his confusing life experience, Qin Shi Huang hated women since he was a child, so even if he ascended the throne to become the first emperor, the harem has never been established, the mother of the emperor's eldest son Fusu, after the death of the princess of the former Zhao Guomin, the lord of the harem has been vacant, even if it is the beauties of the six countries who have been plundered and filled with the harem, he is only for the sake of the successors of the Great Qin River, and the feelings cannot be talked about, just a physiological and inheritance needs.
But right now, this woman called Gentle described her heartfelt feelings to this Chen Lang in the book, and every word was unmoved, which actually touched a ripple in his heart, and in an instant, Qin Dada missed a woman a little.
Chen Lang said: When the fake is true, the truth is also false, and there is sometimes nothing to do. This sentence made Rou toss and turn and couldn't sleep......"
Chen Lang said: People have joys and sorrows, and the moon is cloudy and sunny, and this matter is difficult to complete. Ponder the ...... of the night"
"Chen Lang said: That West Kunlun Mountain, there is the West Queen Mother Yaochi Imperial Garden, everywhere Yao grass Qionghua, is the holy realm of the immortal family, soft heart yearning, day and night looking forward to going to the ......"
Chen Lang said: ......"
Qin Shi Huang sat quietly in front of the desk, page by page, line by line, word by word, looking at and figuring out, his eyes were sometimes confused, sometimes flashing, and his face was sometimes happy and sometimes surprised.
These words and sentences are all recorded by Shui Shui gently and Chen Xu's words and deeds for a few days, because of the depth of love, so almost everything is also recorded, and mosquito nets, toothbrushes, toothpaste, stone grinders, noodles, etc., everything Chen Xu made, she recorded almost every bit of it.
"Chen Lang's yam and poria honey cake has been received, it is delicious, Rou likes it very much, I just hope to get along with Lang Jun day and night as soon as possible, accompany Chen Lang around, hug and talk about his heart, and think about it very much, but I don't know if Chen Lang knows it!"
The last sentence is obviously the last record, and the feelings of longing are even more than before, revealing the gentle thoughts of the water.
For Qin Shi Huang, this record made him feel more clearly than the previous myths and stories that this young man named Chen Lang was definitely not an ordinary mortal, because of the things recorded between the lines, Qin Shi Huang was the emperor, but he had almost never heard of it, let alone seen it.
And the yam and poria honey cake mentioned in it, Qin Shi Huang was very moved, and then his eyes fell on the bamboo tube tied with twine in the package.
The bamboo tube is an old bamboo, with a diameter of four inches, two feet long, knots at both ends, about one-third of the straight cut, untie the hemp rope, remove the cover on it, reveal the snow-white round cake inside, and instantly exude a faint medicinal fragrance and sweet taste.
Only half of the Poria cake was left, and the other half had been eaten as a snack when the water was writing softly, but she obviously cherished this gift and the delicacy she had never tasted, so she cherished it very much, and if she gave it to a foodie, it might not be gone in ten minutes.
Looking at this half-cylinder of round cakes, smelling the sweet medicinal fragrance, Qin Shi Huang was about to reach out and take a piece to taste, but hesitated for a moment and retracted his hand and said, "Call the Taiguan Order and the Taiyi Order to come immediately!" ”
"Huh~" A Xuanjia guard at the door turned and left.
Soon, a middle-aged man in his fifties and an old man with a white beard hurriedly came, and after entering the room, they bowed together: "Your Majesty, I don't know what you want to call us urgently?" ”
"You come and see this kind of pancake, I want to eat it, but huh?" Qin Shi Huang pointed to the snow-white round cake inside the bamboo tube and said.
"No!" The two exclaimed almost simultaneously.
Taiguan Ling is the head of the Catering Department of the Shaofu, who is responsible for the food production of the emperor and the inner palace, as long as anything the emperor eats must be strictly tested by them.
The Imperial Physician Order is responsible for the safety of medication for the emperor and the inner palace, and all medicines must also be strictly reviewed by them.
And at the moment, this vulgar bamboo tube is used by the folk to hold food, and the contents can naturally be imagined, the origin is not clear, once the emperor eats poison or infection, neither of them can afford it.
However, seeing that Qin Shi Huang was still about to move, the imperial physician ordered him to take a step forward, "Your Majesty, why don't you let the old minister try it first!" ”
"Accurate!" Qin Shi Huang nodded.
The white Imperial Physician Ling slowly walked to the desk and knelt down, looked at the round cake in the bamboo tube for a long time, carefully picked up a piece and sniffed it, and then broke off a small piece and put it in his mouth.
"Hmm~" The old man was shocked, and then his face showed an extremely surprised look, and then ...... I broke off a large piece and put it in my mouth, chewed it and tasted it slowly.
"There are yams...... There's Poria cocos, well, and honey! The old man turned his head to look at Taiguan Ling, "Lord Zuo, you can also taste it!" ”
Taiguan Ling also hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down, picked up a piece and put it in his mouth, and nodded slightly after tasting it for a long time: "What Taiyi Ling said is good, this cake is made of yam poria and honey, it tastes very beautiful, and it should be safe to eat!" ”
The Taiyi Ling and the Taiguan Ling were talking, and they kept stuffing the pancakes into their mouths, and soon the two pancakes were eaten cleanly.
"Can I eat it now?" Qin Shi Huang asked with a calm face.
"Your Majesty, wait a minute, although there is no peculiar smell in the entrance of this cake, the origin is unknown, so you can't eat it rashly!" Taiguan Ling said as he licked his mouth.
"The things that the disciples of Liezi eat, maybe they were made by the disciples of the Immortal Family, and there is nothing wrong with the food you eat, why should I stay for a long time!" Qin Shi Huang said as he reached out and picked up a piece of Poria cake, broke off a piece and put it in his mouth, and immediately moved after tasting it, and praised it with infinite surprise in his eyes, "This cake melts in the mouth, crispy and sweet, and has a faint medicinal taste, which is more added to the stomach than the pill, and it is really a good thing." ”
For Qin Shi Huang's big nerves, the Taiyi Ling and the Taiguan Ling were helpless, but as senior foodies, the two of them also knew that the ingredients of this cake were safe after tasting it, and they did not taste the peculiar smell, so there should be no problem with safety, so they could only smile bitterly, stand up and retreat to the side to watch Qin Shi Huang eat.
In the eyes of future generations, Qin Shi Huang should be an unsmiling and majestic emperor, but in essence, he is still an ordinary person, and his prestige cannot reduce his demand for delicious food as an ordinary person, and it is more important to consider that he has an extremely strong heart for immortality.
Today's theory of traditional Chinese medicine is not mature, the nature of various medicinal materials has not yet been systematically qualified, and the ability of those medical and Taoist warlocks can naturally guess one or two, and it is still in a semi-primitive state, between the doctor and Wu Bu, in the stage of jumping the great god, in order to have enough convincing power, pharmaceutical alchemy uses the theory of yin and yang and the five elements, so there are various components of gold, wood, water, fire and earth in the pill, and the highly toxic things naturally dare not be eaten by Qin Shi Huang, but throughout the later dynasties, the emperors who want to live forever are the same, and the effect must be seen when taking medicine, Therefore, when these warlocks are alchemizing medicines, they will put some refreshing and aphrodisiac or stimulating and exciting central things, and the results will be immediate after one pill, and they will feel very cool after eating, and they will be tossed around the concubine for half a night.
In later generations, several emperors in the Song and Ming dynasties were tossed to death by alchemy warlocks in this way.
And the further the alchemy goes, the more terrifying it becomes, in order to make the pill look good, it is necessary to put lead, mercury and cinnabar and other things, so the elixir has become a poisonous pill, eat and eat, so he died early.
Qin Shi Huang was a little better, he didn't like women very much, because there was a shadow in his heart, and the elixir of this era was not so perverted, the formula used did not put too poisonous substances, and the popular theory of lead and mercury in later Taoists had not yet formed a theory.
Although I don't know what lead and mercury mentioned in the Taoist Dan Dao in later generations is, some people later pointed out that the lead and mercury mentioned by the first person who put forward the theory of lead and mercury are not really lead and mercury, but use their colors to represent the yin and yang of Taiji, lead is black, representing yin, mercury is silver, representing yang, and the combination of yin and yang is Dan, but the Taoist priests who made alchemy have gone astray.
More brainy netizens speculated that the earth race came from alien immigrants, and they originally directly devoured and digested various natural elements, so there was a saying that the ancient gods were infinitely powerful, moving mountains and seas, taking the moon day by day, belonging to the high-intelligence creatures of half-machinery and half-biology, but the ability to eat elements was degraded after being inherited, so it can only be supplemented by eating plants and animals, otherwise why do humans still need to supplement copper, iron, zinc, calcium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, and carbon, and these things cannot be lacking in the body. Otherwise, you will get sick and die, so the Taoist inherits the ancient Huang Lao's alchemy, adding lead and mercury and other toxic metal substances just to replenish the body, maybe once the hidden ancient bloodline is activated, then you can become an immortal and a god.
Although it was not popular in the Qin Dynasty to eat the natural elements of lead and mercury, it was still a popular and popular practice to eat some of the five elements to pray for immortality.
Not only Qin Shi Huang did this, but countless magicians were doing this, which was the inevitability of the times.
Qin Shi Huang chewed slowly, and quickly ate three pieces of Poria cakes, although he was still a little unsatisfied, but after thinking about it, he still stopped and wiped his mouth with his sleeve.
"Well, it's delicious, it's fairy food!"
"Your Majesty, yam has the effect of strengthening the body, Poria cocos has the effect of replenishing qi and channeling, honey has the effect of warming and nourishing the intestines, in addition to opening the yam, the other two things are extremely rare, this cake also has great benefits for a long time, but Your Majesty also please moderate, do not eat too much at a time!" The Imperial Physician Ling saluted and said.
"I naturally know, you go down and arrange to collect more of these three items, see if you can make the same taste, I have to eat some every day, and the harem concubines and princesses also distribute some daily"
"Obey the order!" The Imperial Physician ordered to quickly agree.
"Go ahead!" Qin Shi Huang waved his hand, and the imperial physician and the imperial official retired together.
"There is fairy tea to refresh the body, and this cake is full of hunger and fitness, this son is really extraordinary! I must find, I ...... You must go to him in person and pray for the way of immortality! ”
Qin Shi Huang had already made up his mind, and instantly equated the Poria Cake and Ziyun Immortal Tea with Chen Xu, and then looked at a blank book again and carefully rubbed it before ordering: "Xuanjiang is a Shaofu Order!" ”
"喏~"
Ao Ping hurried out soon after entering the palace, returned to the palace with a bound blank book, and then quickly summoned the officials of the various offices of the government, and soon after, many bamboo carpenters and weavers in Xianyang City were taken by the soldiers into a closed high-walled compound in the north of the city, and began to study the production method of cracking the book.
This kind of convenient and lightweight writing, if it can be copied successfully, will completely change the way the text is recorded, as one of the nine Qing, Ao Ping knows the meaning.
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