When Zheng Heng woke up, it was already night, the prince was already asleep, and a palace maid was applying medicine to his injured buttocks, crying silently while applying it. Zheng Heng saw that this palace maid was familiar, and when he asked, he knew that she was Chen's sister. In her long sighs, Zheng Heng finally understood what was going on.

Smallpox is a very difficult disease to treat, and it is very contagious, and among those who serve the prince here, except for two imperial doctors and two eunuchs who have suffered from smallpox before and will not be infected again, the rest of the people can be infected. What's more, there was a precedent in the palace that if the prince died of smallpox, all those who served in his illness would have to be buried with the dead prince.

Knowing what was going on, the little Zheng Heng broke out in a cold sweat. That Chen, why is he so vicious? learned from my sister that the prince was infected with smallpox, and he forcibly pushed Zheng Heng to this place at the junction of life and death!

Zheng Heng was locked up in this house and couldn't get out, plus he was injured, and the next day, he started to have a fever. By the third day, his face began to itch, and when he looked in the mirror, his face was already like popcorn, with many small red spots and blisters. He was infected with smallpox.

Zheng Heng was locked up in that house for two whole months, but fortunately, there was a doctor, he did not die, he was cured; Even more thankfully, the prince has also recovered, and everyone does not need to be buried with him. All of them were released, and each of them was given a hundred taels of silver because of their meritorious service in accompanying the prince.

Going home with a hundred taels of silver, Zheng Heng was overjoyed, who knew that as soon as he entered the door, he was slapped twice by his father.

Zheng Nianzu was furious and scolded: "Bastard thing, you dare to break in everywhere when you enter the palace, don't you think you can't cause trouble for your family?" ”

Zheng Heng was wronged, he told his father the whole thing.

Zheng Nianzu immediately called the Chen family and asked sharply, "Who asked you to send Zheng Heng to perform magic tricks for the prince?" ”

Chen was not timid at all, and raised his face and exclaimed: "No one, it's my own idea." ”

"What do you want to do?"

Chen's eyes rolled, and he sneered: "Let him be infected with smallpox, and make your son short-lived!" ”

Zheng Nianzu was so angry, he called Jiading, broke one of Chen's legs, and blasted her out of the door.

After experiencing this life and death catastrophe, perhaps Zheng Nianzu realized that Zheng Heng was pitiful and began to pay attention to Zheng Heng. With this attention, he found that Zheng Heng had a character that the other three sons did not have, Zheng Heng never said a word, did not make a sound, stood there without looking around, did not move his hands, and did not move his feet. This is exactly the timidity and calmness that court magicians need, you know, performing magic tricks for the emperor, if you are a little poor, you may lose your head and cause trouble for the family!

Zheng Nianzu has been concerned about Zheng Heng since then.

When Zheng Heng was sixteen years old, Zheng Nianzu was seriously ill, so he taught Zheng Heng all the magic skills of several housekeepers, and took Zheng Heng into the palace to see the emperor, and in this way, the position of court magician was passed to Zheng Heng. Zheng Heng's three brothers and three aunts made noise in front of the hospital bed, but the emperor had designated Zheng Heng's son to inherit his father's business, so what was the use of them making trouble?

After becoming a court magician, Zheng Heng, like all people who glorify their ancestors, the first thing he thought of was to let his mother follow the glory. He asked the housekeeper where his mother was buried and that he was going to help her rebuild her grave.

The butler's words startled him, and the butler said, "Your mother is not dead at all!" ”

"Not dead? So where is she? Where did it go? ”

"Your father broke his leg and blasted out the door. Chen, your biological mother! ”

The steward recounts the past. It turned out that the Chen family was just a maid, and one day Zheng Nianzu was drunk and disorderly, occupied her, and made her pregnant with a child. After the child was born, Zheng Nianzu felt that this incident would insult his reputation, so he forced Chen not to recognize Zheng Heng as his son, and could only call himself a wet nurse.

No wonder the Chen family hates Zheng Heng so much, it turns out that she is hating the Zheng family. However, tiger poison doesn't eat children, how could she trick herself into going to the prince in the first place? Zheng Heng didn't ask this question in person, he was really panicked, and he begged the housekeeper to find Chen.

The housekeeper really found it, after Chen was kicked out of the Zheng family, he has been working as a servant in a family, but he was seriously ill half a year ago and was dismissed, and now, she lives alone in a broken temple and is dying.

When Zheng Heng rushed over, Chen only had one breath left, but when she saw Zheng Heng, she still couldn't help but smile on her face, took Zheng Heng's hand tremblingly, and said, "Child, my child, you have finally come out, mother's thoughts, not in vain." ”

Zheng Heng didn't have a good tone: "You bothered to hit me and pinch me?" You sent me to the prince and almost killed me? ”

Chen nodded with difficulty and said intermittently, "Child, everyone will suffer from smallpox once in their life." You say, you are suffering from smallpox in the palace, and there is a doctor to treat it, so you have a good chance of survival? Or is it in the homes of ordinary people, there is a good chance of living without clothes and medicine? What's more, I won't let you get smallpox, you can, you can ...... now."

Zheng Heng was stunned there, and when he woke up, Chen had already lost his breath.

On the title page of the family tree, Zheng Heng's grandfather, the first court magician of the Zheng family, wrote a testament: "The position in the palace can only be inherited by one son, so you must choose carefully." People who have been infected with smallpox are preferred, and calm and timid children are second. If you are cowardly, you will not cause trouble, and if you have contracted smallpox, you will not die halfway, so that my Zheng family can always enjoy the emperor's grace. ”

Zheng Heng was stupid, so to speak, his father chose him to take over the position of court magician, but it was really because he had contracted smallpox. If a person who has never suffered from smallpox takes over the position of court magician and dies of smallpox in office, and has not had time to pass on his skills to the next generation, the glory and wealth of the Zheng family will come to an end......

So, did Chen peek at this testament and treat him like that? Pity the hearts of parents all over the world, Chen used the bitterness of half her life in exchange for the glory of Zheng Heng's life. Zheng Heng later married only one wife in his life, that was because he remembered his mother, and he didn't want others to repeat his mother's tragic fate.

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After hearing this, Li Tao couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "So, is it because of the great life of the king of Baling County that Zheng Langjun picked up a life?" ”

The king of Baling County that Li Tao said was Li Chengqi, the crown prince of Tang Ruizong. Tang Ruizong became emperor not long after he abdicated to his mother Wu Zetian, Wu Zetian was called the emperor, changed the country name to Wu Zhou, Tang Ruizong was demoted to the prince, the title of the king, Li Chengqi was also demoted from the prince to the king of Baling.

Zheng Heng smiled bitterly: "Sort of! ”