Chapter 168: Starting from Scratch (1)
Flashing cold and heat, white and dark, bursts of indescribable stinging pain, tormented Xu Jun's body, making him tremble and convuls, in pain, struggling and wandering in the torment of ice and fire.
Silver needles were inserted into his body hideously, making him look a little weird, like a large hedgehog in the shape of a human, he lay on a bed made of 10,000-year-old warm jade, and was in a coma for three months before waking up.
At this time, the New Year has passed, the spring flowers are blooming, and the palace has long since restored its former tranquility. Xu Jun opened a pair of numb eyes and slowly glanced around.
He stayed in a room covered with frost, like an igloo made of ice, which made him a little strange, and he didn't know where he was. He vaguely remembered that before he fell unconscious, the Demon Ancestor walked towards him hideously, could it be that he was already dead and went to hell?
Heaven has never been a place for people like him. Hell is his home, because his friends and family are waiting for him in hell, so he would rather go to hell than go to heaven.
The door of the house was pushed open, and Hu Meier appeared at the door with a bowl of medicinal soup that had been boiled for three hours, Xu Jun was surprised: "You are also dead?" ”
Hu Meier screamed, the medicine bowl in her hand fell to the ground, looked at Xu Jun in surprise, and suddenly pounced, hugged Xu Jun tightly, and burst into tears.
"Tap, tap, you want to murder" Xu Jun made Hu Meierle breathless, which made him a little surprised, he was dead, how could he still feel like a man, it was incredible.
Hu Meier burst into tears and smiled: "You finally woke up, do you know, you have been in a coma for three months." ”
Xu Jun gasped, Niang Xipi, three months is too long, and in two months, it is estimated that he will develop towards a vegetative person. He blinked his eyes and said, "So Young Master Ben hasn't burped yet." ”
Hu Mei'er nodded, and Xu Jun said in surprise: "Then where are we now?" ”
"In the underground ice cellars of the Royal Palace."
"Isn't it!" Xu Jun was full of black lines, took Hu Meier's hand and jumped off the bed and said, "It's too dangerous here, you follow behind Young Master Ben, let's fight a bloody way out." ”
Xu Jun took Hu Mei'er's hand, but he didn't pull it, which made him quite surprised, and his face changed: "What's going on, how can Young Master Ben become so weak?" ”
Hu Mei'er sighed and said, "You went mad, it's a blessing to be able to save a life." If it weren't for the imperial doctor who gave you a large amount of elixir, and this 10,000-year-old warm jade bed for you to recuperate, you would have died a long time ago. ”
"So, Young Master Ben is a wasted person?"
Hu Mei'er nodded, Xu Jun's face was pale, and he was a fart. Sitting on the Wen Yu bed, he said, "Do you know what it's like for a person to fall from a height?" It's better to die. ”
"Why do you think so, if you want to restore your spiritual power, it's not completely impossible?"
"Oh, what's the solution, tell me about it?"
"Leiyin Temple has two peerless secret books of the I Ching, as long as you get these two secret books, you can reshape the meridians and restore your spiritual power."
"Leiyin Temple?" Xu Jun frowned, it seems that Leiyin Temple will not fall into the ground, and take the opportunity to kill him on Amitabha Buddha, where does he dare to expect Leiyin Temple to be so kind, those bald donkeys' hearts are much more vicious than those in the Demon Gate.
"Why didn't the court kill us?" Xu Jun asked.
"I don't know, after you were injured, a group of people came and took you and me here and took care of them. I began to think that they were going to do something against us, but no one beat and interrogated us, but someone would heal you every day. I see that you have never been able to wake up, so you can only stay in this place for the time being. ”
"Oh, there's such a strange thing." Xu Jun narrowed his eyes, puzzled. Daqin's punishment was extremely cruel, he made a big fuss in the palace, killing and injuring so many people, there was no reason to let him go. Could it be that Emperor Daqin hated him too much and didn't want him to die so comfortably, and wanted to skin Ling Chi after his injuries were healed, it would be too perverted. How much hatred does this have to be, so that he is reluctant to die.
He said with a gloomy face: "Except for you, I can't let the second person know that I have woken up, you can do what you usually do, don't show your feet, I will continue to pretend to be unconscious, and see what kind of medicine they sell in their gourd." ”
Hu Mei'er was stunned for a moment, and then understood Xu Jun's intentions. She is a very smart woman, acting and lying is a good trick, she nodded and said: "I know what to do, you lie down first, someone will bring food and pills later, don't let people see it." ”
Xu Jun hummed, turned his head and closed his eyes. But after sleeping for three months, he really couldn't sleep. In a daze, he felt that Hu Mei'er was unbuttoning his clothes, and suddenly opened his eyes in surprise and said, "What are you doing?" ”
"Scrub your body, you've been in a coma for three months, every day at this time, I'll wipe your body, change into a set of clean clothes, and when people see that I'm different from usual, they will definitely be suspicious."
Xu Jun felt a little burning in his throat and didn't know what to say. When people are in a coma, they will also excrete, and Hu Meier must have suffered a lot in the past three months. This made him faintly uneasy, and a little strange. In his impression, Hu Meier is not a girl from a good family, when did she become so virtuous. But no matter what, the grace of a drop of water should be reciprocated by a spring, but what can he take to repay the kindness that he has not given up for these three months.
His heart was in turmoil, and he was a little frightened. Hu Mei'er had an indifferent expression, took off his coat generously, stretched out his hand and wanted to take off his underwear, he said with a hot face: "It's good to be pretentious, Young Master Ben has woken up, just wipe your body by yourself in the future." ”
Hu Mei'er sneered, and the laughing Xu Jun was confused. The footsteps sounded, Xu Jun hurriedly closed his eyes and pretended to be unconscious, Hu Meier also pretended to have a sad expression, holding a hand towel and wiping it around Xu Jun's upper body.
"Haven't people woken up yet?" An old man with a childish face, carrying a medicine box on his back, slowly walked into the house with two medicine boys.
The medicine boy carried two food boxes in his hands, containing a plate of beef and two side dishes, as well as two steamed buns and a pot of wine. The medicine boy took out the food and placed it on the stone table in the center of the room. The old man sat next to Xu Jun, grabbed Xu Jun's wrist, and called the pulse.
The old man called for a long time and said: "His pulse is stable, it stands to reason that he should wake up, has his head been seriously injured?" ”
Hu Meier pretended to be sad and covered her face and cried: "I don't know, but he has scars all over his body, and his head must not be avoidable, and he may have suffered a heavy injury." ”
The old man stroked his beard and said, "Then it's no wonder, if a person is hit on the head, he may fall into a coma for a long time." Although Lao Yu has practiced medicine for many years, he is helpless against this situation. ”
"Isn't there any other way?" Hu Meier pretended to be tentative.
The old man pondered for a moment and said: "The medicine must be symptomatic, the head is hit hard and he is in a coma, the old man really doesn't know where he is sick, and he has no way to start, so he can only use silver needles to stimulate the acupuncture points on his head, I hope he can wake up." ”
As he spoke, the old man took out a silver needle and made a gesture on Xu Jun's head. Xu Jun's scalp was numb for a while, and his eyelids subconsciously jumped twice. The taste of needle is not pleasant, in Xu Jun's eyes, these silver needles are much more terrifying than swords.
"Hey, his eyelids seem to have moved just now, which is a precursor to waking up."
Hu Mei'er blinked her eyes and said, "Yes, why didn't I see it, is it that the imperial doctor is dazzled?" ”
The old man was a little angry and said: "Although the old man is old, his body is still healthy, and he is not old and dizzy, so he will not be mistaken." Also, Why is his face so red? ”
"It's too cold in the house, it's freezing."
"Then why does he still have beads of sweat on his forehead?"
"This" Hu Meier was full of black lines, and she didn't know how to make it up. Xu Jun is so immortal, what kind of cold sweat is there, he has no talent for acting at all.
She took advantage of the imperial doctor's lack of attention and twisted Xu Jun's calf fiercely, and Xu Jun almost screamed out in pain. Xu Jun knew that the imperial doctor was already suspicious, and if he continued to pretend, he would only bring humiliation on himself, so he simply opened his eyes and said, "Young Master Ben slept so soundly this night, what kind of place is this?" Who are you? ”
The old man was startled, and hurriedly shouted at the medicine boy: "This person is awake, notify the emperor quickly." ”
Xu Jun grabbed the old man's arm and said, "Slow, why do you want to inform the emperor Lao'er." Whether this young master is awake or not, what does it matter to him? ”
The old man pointed at Xu Jun, blew his beard angrily and glared: "You are so rebellious, how can you say such disrespectful words to the emperor, if it weren't for the fact that you were injured, the old man would have to teach you a lesson." ”
Xu Jun sneered and said, "Master, you teach me a lesson, make no mistake, do you know who Young Master Ben is." ”
The old man's eyes glared and said: "Old decay doesn't care who you are, since you are an old decayed patient, then you have to listen to the old decay."
Xu Jun was completely speechless, and immediately stopped cooking, this old man is fierce enough. But even if he didn't lose his spiritual power, he couldn't be disrespectful to his life-saving benefactor, he tilted his head, simply closed his mouth, and couldn't see it.
After a short time, a large number of guards and eunuchs came to the house, and a eunuch about forty years old said angrily: "The emperor wants to summon you, change your clothes immediately, and follow me to meet the emperor." ”
The two little eunuchs took a set of satin clothes for Xu Jun to change into, Xu Jun frowned, but did not resist. Man is a knife and I am a fish, he has lost his spiritual power, he is no different from ordinary people, and it is useless to resist. Since the emperor wants to see him, then he will see him. Anyway, he also wanted to know, why didn't the emperor kill him?
Xu Jun was escorted by eunuchs and guards, and walked in the ice cellar for a long time, and finally came to an extremely magnificent underground ice hall, an old eunuch with a hunched waist and gray temples raised his head coldly, glared at Xu Jun fiercely and said, "You are Xu Jun?" ”
Xu Jun nodded, and the old eunuch said expressionlessly: "The emperor is waiting for you inside, come in with me." ”
The old eunuch's face was not kind and quite hostile, which made Xu Jun a little strange, and he didn't know when he offended the old eunuch. He touched his nose and said, "Uncle, I don't know what to call it, do you know me?" ”
The old eunuch turned around and said with a grim smile: "How could I not know you?" My name is Zhao Gao, and I am Zhao Xiao's own brother, and you have killed my brother so badly. ”
Xu Jun looked dazed, thinking to himself who is Zhao Xiao? The figure of a eunuch came to his mind, and he immediately understood that Zhao Dwarf was Zhao Gonggong. He forced Zhao Dwarf to bring him into the palace, making Zhao Dwarf his accomplice. Now eighty percent of the east window incident has been punished.
"It turned out to be the chief eunuch of the palace, disrespectful and disrespectful. Young Master Ben is very sorry for Brother Ling's matter. ”
Zhao Gao snorted coldly, his face was not good, and he obviously hated Xu Jun in his heart. This made Xu Jun have a very bad feeling, he would rather offend the gentleman than the villain, these old eunuchs are narrow-minded, insidious and cunning, the best at flattery, and frame Zhongliang, he doesn't want to be killed inexplicably. He secretly made up his mind in his heart to find an opportunity to kill this Zhao Gao. It is safer to be dangerous or strangled in the cradle.
Xu Jun walked into the main hall, Qin Batian sat on a dragon chair at the end of the main hall, waved his hand at Zhao Gao and others, and the guards and eunuchs hurriedly left, and took the door of the main hall by the way.
Xu Jun stared at Qin Batian, wanting to see his appearance clearly, but he couldn't see anything clearly. Qin Batian's face was wearing a white mask, which was indescribably hideous and weird, making people shudder.
"Bold, why don't you kneel when you see me?"
Xu Jun shrugged his shoulders and said, "If you want to kill me, you will also kill me if you kneel." If you don't want to kill me, you won't kill me if you don't kneel. Then why should I kneel? ”
Qin Batian snorted coldly and said, "What a clever thief, you have injured so many guards, will you really let you go?" ”
"The moment my mother and unborn child died, my heart died, if you want to kill me, hurry up, I just happened to reunite with my mother."
Qin Batian stared coldly at Xu Jun's eyes, and the two of them looked at each other, not giving in to each other. After a long time, Qin Batian laughed and said, "I like young people like you, and my temper is very similar to when I was young. However, Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, do you know what happened to Zhao Dwarf who led you into the palace? ”
Xu Jun shook his head, Qin Batian pressed the mechanism on the dragon chair, and the ground in front of Xu Jun suddenly separated to both sides, revealing a tunnel.
"If you come with me, you will naturally see Zhao Dwarf."
As soon as he came, he was safe, Xu Jun followed behind Qin Batian without hesitation and walked into the underground secret passage. Bursts of cold air eroded his body, and if it was just cold in the secret passage, then it was frozen in the heart under the secret passage. Xu Jun wrapped himself in a shirt, not knowing where Qin Batian was going to take him.
The secret passage was dim and long, and after about half a cup of tea, Xu Jun came to a stone house. These stone houses were covered in thick ice, and they looked like igloos, Qin Batian pointed to the one at the end and said, "Zhao Dwarf is in that room, you can say hello to him." ”
Xu Jun frowned, not knowing which one Qin Batian was singing. He strode towards the stone house that Qin Batian pointed to, and before he could push the door to enter, he smelled a smell of urine. This made him a little surprised, and he pushed the door open, and was shocked to find that the stone house was actually a very large latrine.
The heads of Zhao's nine ladies were all cut off, frozen into ice sculptures, and hung hideously on the walls of the latrine, looking like postmodern artworks, while Zhao Dwarf was cut off limbs, gouged out his eyes, cut out his tongue, and planted in the thatched pit. Whenever someone is convenient on the pit, it will be poured on his head and provide him with a constant supply of hot food.
Xu Jun understood why Zhao Gao hated him so much, and what happened to Zhao Xiao made him cancel his plan to kill Zhao Gao. He tried his best to calm his anger, and walked out of the latrine and said, "If you want to kill someone, kill me, what is it to kill innocent people?" ”
"You are wrong, it is not I who killed them, but you killed them. When you forced Zhao Dwarf to take you into the palace, did you really not think about the consequences at all? You know that this will kill his whole family, but you insist on going your own way, do you say that I killed him or did you kill him? ”
Xu Jun was speechless, this was a quibble, but he couldn't refute it. Because he just wanted to rescue Xiao Yu'er at that time, he didn't care about Zhao Xiao'er at all. But killing people is just nodding, which is too cruel.
He questioned Qin Batiandao: "You can kill Zhao Dwarf, but why insult him, and why don't you even let his wife go." ”
"You're wrong again, it's not that I'm insulting him, it's that you're going too far. If I don't, I won't be able to convince the people. Do you know how many people you've killed? Because of you, the palace guards and the Praetorian Guards lost 1,271 dead and more than 3,000 seriously wounded, and it is difficult to count the minor injuries. The concubine* female eunuch died 842 people and seriously injured more than 2,000 people due to the thunderstorm. These people have parents and children, family and friends. If you die and your loved ones will be in pain, what will happen to the families of these people who died at your hands? ”
Xu Jun's face turned pale in an instant, he really hadn't considered these questions. His relatives and friends are human beings, and other people's relatives and friends are human beings, and he suddenly felt as if he was really a little excessive. He bit his lip and said, "Then why don't you just kill me?" ”
"It's useless to kill you, if you want to know the answer, then follow me"
Xu Jun frowned, these high-ranking people always like to make some dumb riddles in the clouds, it's good to say anything clearly, he is not a child, what do you want to talk about.
He followed behind Qin Batian and came to an ice cellar in the deepest part of the earth, where the temperature had reached the point where water was dripping into ice. Xu Jun was surprised for a while, he didn't understand what kind of hobby Qin Batian was, how could he stay in this ghost place all year round.
Qin Batian pushed open the door of the ice cellar, and a crystal coffin was presented in front of Xu Jun, the coffin was already covered with ice, Qin Batian waved his palm, and the coffin lid that was frozen into a lump flew to the side with a bang, and the ice chips flew sideways.
Xu Jun glanced at Qin Batian in confusion, looked into the coffin, and suddenly trembled. In the coffin, there was the body of Tan Caicat. The wounds and blood stains on her body had already been treated, and she lay there quietly, like a sleeping beauty.
Xu Jun's pupils twitched, he stretched out his hands tremblingly, gently stroked Tan Caimao's cheeks, and slowly turned around and said, "What do you want to do?" Why freeze her body? ”R1152