Chapter 8: Golden Lotus
Guo Zhongyong's request, the Empress Dowager Cixi naturally agreed quickly, and the white jade jar that was urgently asked for 800 miles was sent back again in an urgent 800 miles. I heard that eight horses were tired on the road, and after the white jade jar arrived, Guo Zhongyong took the green baby out for the first time. This green baby, wearing a small green jacket, looks like he has a cute feeling, everyone can see it, maybe it is because of Guo Zhongyong's guilt for the hanged old Taoist priest, or maybe this child is indeed very important, Guo Zhongyong is to this child. Treating it like his own child, he took the child out of the house, and the guards behind him took the white jade jar, and the place where they went was the eighteenth layer of hell next to the quicksand river.
A young man with a child, this is a lovely picture, waiting for the eighteen-story hell pagoda, they arrived at the quicksand river, Guo Zhongyong said to the green baby: "You will live here in the future." Good no good? ”
"Okay, yes, the question is, is there anyone to play with me?" The green baby asked.
"Maybe not now, there will be a lot of them in the future, and there will be a lot of children here to accompany you." Guo Zhongyong said. Liver perimeter blood.
The green baby nodded and said, "That's okay, then you have to come to see the green baby often in the future." ”
Guo Zhongyong touched his head, didn't speak, he beckoned to the soldier and asked the soldier to send the white jade jar over, this white jade jar is very large. can fit the whole green baby, Guo Zhongyong put the green baby into the jar, and said to him: "Remember, you are a green baby, you are also an old man, you live in a white jar, there will be a yellow skin here later, and there will be a beard in the future, and the yellow skin also lives in the white jar, and when the yellow baby encounters a big danger, the green baby will go to the bearded man and tell the bearded man to save the yellow skin, okay?" ”
The green baby nodded and said, "Then when are you going to pick up the green baby?" ”
"When I become an old man, I will come to pick up the green baby, if I don't come to pick up the green baby. There will be another old man to pick up the green baby. Guo Zhongyong said, after speaking, he closed his eyes, and threw the child into the boiling sand river with this white jade jar.
"Brother, may you be here, you can keep the peace of the Quartet, and the supreme fireworks will never be broken, whether you are an old man or a green baby, I want to say thank you for the people of the world." Guo Zhongyong bowed to the rolling sand river.
At this time, I don't know why, Li Lianying felt a little sad, whether it is a ghost baby or a goblin, this is a child. Maybe Li Lianying himself definitely wants to have no descendants, he is a little partial to children, so he is very unbearable at this time. But things are definitely not under his control, he wants to save this child, what if it affects the Queen Mother's longevity plan of Lafayette?
And the next thing is that Li Lianying used her identity as a messenger to say to the county magistrate and prefect here, saying that here, it must be used as a dead child post, and in the future, if there are dead children within a radius of ten miles, they will be thrown here.
As for the reason, you ask me and I ask who goes? I asked this Guo Zhongyong, he had to tell me, didn't he?
--At that time, the medical conditions were poor, and there would be a lot of stillbirths, even if the babies were not killed, and there were no family planning measures, and there were no entertainment programs at night, what should I do if I went to bed very early, and I couldn't sleep? Come twice, but don't you get pregnant soon after you come? There are many children who are born, and those who can't live are thrown away in the dead children's post, and those who want a son, give birth to a daughter and give birth to a daughter, and they should be lost, so when it is said that this is a radius of ten miles, the loss of children here, the speed is very fast, and even more, in order to curry favor with the minister, it is directly said that if the dead child is thrown here, ten copper plates will be rewarded!
Now, the people are even more lively, where is not lost? With the temptation of money, everyone's enthusiasm has been mobilized, so soon, countless dead children have been lost here, and it has become the most famous dead child post in Sanlitun'er Town.
And with the accumulation of dead children here like a mountain, here has become a gathering place for countless wild cats and wild dogs, wild cats and wild dogs that eat human flesh, the eyes are green, at the same time, there are many strange things here, although no one really sees the hell, but as soon as people come here, they can feel a cool air to the bone, which is absolutely fake. There are more frail people, as long as they go here, they will get sick when they go back, and they will be sick for a few months, and slowly, the legends here will increase, and it has become a forbidden place for ten miles and eight villages. At night, you won't even be here!
Guo Zhongyong and Li Lianying last time, after throwing the green baby into the water of the Shahe River, they went back to the capital, what happened over there, Li Lianying even danced and told the Empress Dowager Cixi what happened, the Empress Dowager heard it, and regarded Guo Zhongyong as a confidant, and her mood has also changed, and things have been done, so the next step, isn't she just waiting for the golden lotus to bear lotus seeds, and as soon as she eats it, she will live forever? Cixi waited every day, waiting for Guo Zhongyong to say that the lotus seeds were ripe, and within a few days, she would urge them once, and Guo Zhongyong said don't worry, the longevity fruit will bloom for three thousand years and bear fruit for three thousand years, but this will not take that long, it will take nine hundred and eighty-one days to mature.
The Empress Dowager Cixi is in a hurry, every day is counting the days, this looking forward to the stars and the moon, finally waited for nine hundred and eighty-one days, not yet, this time, Cixi, who has always felt that the world is not very peaceful, actually secretly went out of the palace, followed by the people, in addition to some masters of the interior, there are also Li Lianying and Guo Zhongyong, their goal, is to build this eighteen-story hell of Luoyang at that time, to come, is to pick Guo Zhongyong's mouth "immortal lotus seeds." ”
After they came here, when they saw the dead children's post, Cixi felt scared, not to mention how terrible the corpses were piled up, no one could bear the smell, if the lotus seeds that grew here, someone dared to let them eat, it would definitely kill his nine clans, not to mention that the lotus flower still grew on people's heads. However, if this lotus seed is made by Guo Zhongyong, he can endure it and eat it, who makes the medicine bitter and good for the disease?
But even so, they temporarily cleaned up the corpse, temporarily intercepted the quicksand river in the upper reaches, and dug up the eighteenth layer of hell that was buried below at that time, and Guo Zhongyong and a group of masters protected this old lady who was not the emperor but was definitely in power, and entered the eighteenth layer of hell.
When the Empress Dowager Cixi saw the pool of golden lotus, she was amazed, and she couldn't wait to immediately crown Guo Zhongyong as the national teacher. God opened his eyes and knew that I was strict in governing the country, so he sent a Guo Zhongyong to me?
I, Cixi, am the first woman who lives forever! In this world, my longevity is the same as that of the sky! I am ordered by heaven to get Yongchang!
The golden lotus in that pool, glowing with dazzling light, is definitely not a mortal thing at a glance, Cixi is a little impatient, immediately let people go to pick lotus seeds and come back, it is strange to say, the lotus flower in the pond, and the one that grows on Ci'an's head has a lotus pod to produce lotus seeds, and the others are just lotus flowers.
Guo Zhongyong stopped the others and said: "The people here, all of them are resentful spirits, no one can get close to the many golden lotus lotus, they can only sacrifice fearlessly, this matter, I can only go!" ”
After speaking, Guo Zhongyong jumped into the water, and after jumping in, countless pairs of miserable white hands stretched out, as if they were asking for their lives, and Cixi was moved, such a courtier, not only has excellent ability, but also risked his life to pick lotus seeds for me, God gave me Guo Zhongyong, what else can I ask for?!
And Guo Zhongyong was in the water, after a peachwood sword cut off a few pairs of outstretched hands, those hands also became afraid, and they all stopped, Guo Zhongyong swam to Ci'an and gave a salute, and many people are not to blame, right? After speaking, he stretched out his hand and picked the best, most vigorous, and only golden lotus flower that grew in the entire pool!
When Guo Zhongyong handed over the golden lotus canopy to the Empress Dowager Cixi.
At that moment, the Empress Dowager Cixi felt that this happiness was really like a flower.