Chapter 144: Human Trials
The Queen Mother said angrily: "She caused my son to have a dislike for his grandson, and she made my son angry with me." What is she doing with such a red face and trouble? I just feel a little late. ”
Chen Jianjun said in a cold sweat: "I don't believe it!" You are not such a person, Queen Mother! ”
When the Queen Mother heard him say this, she couldn't help but soften her heart and persuaded: "Emperor, you are now forty years old, not when you were seventeen or eighteen years old and just ascended the throne and took the government. At that time, you made trouble for the Jin family, you were young, and people in the world could still say that the emperor was young and affectionate. Now that you are so active for a young woman, how do you let the world see you? Emperor, you now have children and daughters, and there are many concubines, take care of your body! ”
When the emperor saw that the Queen Mother changed his tone, he knew that the Queen Mother did not give Zhang Weizhao to death as she said, and sank the imperial river. As long as the person is not dead, he can get her back.
He sneered and said: "You don't need to point to the people of the world to speak, I'm afraid that the one who looks at me the most is the queen mother, right?" I know, you never had this son of mine in your heart anyway. He brushed his sleeves away.
The Queen Mother was almost angry, and it took Xiangyu to beat her chest for a long time before she recovered.
Chen Jianjun returned to the Qianqing Palace and immediately called someone to summon Wang Zhi over, but he got a reply saying that Wang Zhi was resting today. These chief eunuchs of the twelve eunuchs, each of them has a house outside the palace, a grange, and can go home to live when they are resting, which is a common practice in the palace.
Chen Jianjun couldn't wait, and directly summoned several leaders under Wang Zhi of Xichang and ordered them to search for Zhaoming Zhenren in the whole city, but quietly without fanfare, and on the other hand, he ordered someone to inform Wang Zhi to find someone.
Wang Zhi is now on his grange in the eastern suburbs of the capital. He sat in a flower hall near the water in the backyard of the grange, and on the table in front of him, there was a stack of medical cases, and on the opposite side of the table, there was Zhang Weizhao dressed as a scholar.
Wang Zhi has been paying close attention to Zhang Weizhao. His cronies are all good at peeping and stalking. Not long after Zhang Weizhao disguised himself and went out of the city, he was stopped by Wang Zhi and "invited" here.
It turned out that yesterday, the Queen Mother found Zhang Weizhao and offered to send her away. If she doesn't leave, the knot between Chen Jianjun and Chen Youcong's father and son will not be untied. The Queen Mother knew that if she sent Zhang Weizhao away, Chen Jianjun would definitely blame herself. But it's better to blame yourself than to blame Chen Youcong.
Zhang Weizhao was locked up and was tired of the palace for a long time. Therefore, although she escaped from the palace and had to face an unknown fate, she was willing to take risks and try.
The Queen Mother made the appearance of annoying her and locked her in a single room. She quietly climbed out of the window, changed into the palace maid's clothes with the help of Xiangyu, hurriedly applied powder and rouge, and walked out of the Feixian Palace in the team of the palace maid. Who in the Feixian Palace dares to check the queen mother's entourage? No one knows how many palace maids the Queen Mother brought and how many she brought back. was mixed up by Zhang Weizhao in this way.
The Queen Mother found someone to send Zhang Weizhao out of the imperial city. Because the Queen Mother is not keen on scheming and has never intended to cultivate forces outside the palace, she gave Zhang Weizhao a silver ticket and sent her out of the imperial city, and the rest depends on Zhang Weizhao himself.
Zhang Weizhao was afraid that he would affect his master, so he didn't return to the Xuanmiaoguan, so he first found a place to change into a scholar's outfit and went straight out of the city. Unexpectedly, someone was secretly staring at her from beginning to end, and she was stopped not far from the city.
Zhang Weizhao was sent to a grange on the outskirts of Beijing. She didn't know exactly where it was, until Wang Zhi appeared the next morning.
Wang Zhi is still respectful to Zhang Weizhao on the surface, but the arrogance inside is becoming more and more obvious.
Now Zhang Weizhao is different from the past, the Queen Mother doesn't want to see her, the prince is locked up and has no time to care about her, and the emperor is angry with her. She escaped from the palace and no one will know where she died. Wang Zhi felt that he could pinch her to death now.
The medical case that Wang Zhi put in front of Zhang Weizhao was the surgical process of stem reconstruction for the boys who had cleaned his body and his wound had healed, but he had not yet entered the palace on an errand.
Zhang Weizhao knew that he was being held hostage at this time, and it was impossible for someone to save him. Therefore, he sat opposite Wang Zhi and kept silent, thinking about a way to get out.
At first, Wang Zhi put this stack of medical cases in front of her, she guessed that it was related to reconstruction, but she didn't expect that Wang Zhi had already started experimenting with real people when all the conditions were not mature.
She opened the medical case and looked at two pages, and her hands began to tremble, and the more she turned back, the more her hands trembled. After quickly flipping through the whole stack of materials, she raised her head and stared at Wang Zhi with a pale face: "Where are these four children now?" ”
Wang Zhidao: "Follow me." ”
As he spoke, he walked out of the flower hall and through the cloister to the door of a house with a heavy wooden door. Opening the door, a chill greeted me, and after a few steps forward, I turned left, and a downward staircase appeared.
This is supposed to be an ice room. After realizing this, Zhang Weizhao's heart sank more and more.
Sure enough, when I walked into the basement, there were layers of ice on both sides of the wall inside. In the center lay four rudimentary wooden beds, each with a thin figure covered in gray cloth.
Zhang Weizhao took a deep breath, mustered up his courage, and opened the cloth with a trembling hand to look at it one by one. The four boys, all twelve or thirteen years old, had their abdomen cut open, the skin on their thighs peeled off, and the lower part of their abdomen had been stitched with a segment of flesh made of their own flesh and ribs, but because there was no concept of blood transfusion and sterilization, the children should have died before the operation was done.
The most cruel thing is that these children were not fully anesthetized, and they should have been forcibly tied to the bed, and at the same time they were held down by their hands and feet, and they were forced to have their ribs removed and skinned. So the faces of each of them were contorted and hideous with great pain.
Zhang Weizhao covered them one by one.
Wang Zhi said earnestly to Zhang Weizhao next to him: "Zhaoming Zhenren, how is it, can you see what the problem is?" ”
Zhang Weizhao didn't answer, but quickly rushed out of the ice room, climbed the stairs, came to the ground, squatted on the ground and retched.
It's not that she hasn't seen corpses, and when she studied local autopsy in college, she didn't know how many fragments of corpses she had seen. She retched not out of fear and disgust for these corpses, but out of deep self-reproach and remorse.
Why did you write about the surgical process to Wang Zhi? Why use this means to take revenge and control him? He's a madman, why didn't he think about it? Why didn't you kill him when you had restrained him? So that he has a chance to continue to mutilate living beings?
Zhang Weizhao has always felt that she can take responsibility for her actions, but at this moment, self-blame and guilt are overwhelming, and they quickly overwhelm her. She just wanted to crouch on the ground and huddle herself into a small ball to escape this harsh reality.
Wang Zhi came to Zhang Weizhao's side quietly, and also squatted down and looked at her: "Zhaoming Zhenren, you should have seen a lot of corpses, right?" Doesn't your master Zhang Rongkun often buy dead people from Yizhuang to cut and cut? Why does this scare you? ”
Zhang Weizhao stood up to avoid him, there was no trace of blood on his cheeks and lips, and he leaned against the wall and did not speak.
This kind of scene made Wang Zhi feel an indescribable excitement and satisfaction in his heart. He admired it with satisfaction for a moment before he continued, "Don't mind, it's nothing. These boys, even if they don't die here, when they are on an errand, they are beaten with boards, starved, used as cushions to atone for their crimes, or when they are sick, they directly pull the graves, there are many chances to die, how many can live like a person? It's not a loss to use it for me, at least I can bury him well later. ”
Zhang Weizhao knew that Wang Zhi had developed from paranoia to madness. At this time, any manifestation of her pain can become the other party's spiritual food. She leaned against the wall, slowly adjusting her breath.
"According to your method, I went to the most brilliant surgeon, and I tried several times, but it was unsuccessful. Why do you say that? At first, I wondered, could it be that Zhaoming real people intended to deceive me? I thought about it again, can't you? With so many words written in such a dense and clear way, who can make up such a round shape in a moment and a half? That is, the doctor's means are not in place. Well, I have a few boys here, so how about you show them yourself? Wang Zhi said as he stared at Zhang Weizhao like a poisonous snake.
Zhang Weizhao took a deep breath, tried his best to keep his voice steady, and said, "You lack the necessary tools here. You must have all the tools before you can do the operation, otherwise even if Hua Tuo is alive, it will not be possible. ”
"What do you say, I'll prepare!" Wang Zhi is confident that as long as there are things in this world, he has the ability to get them.
Zhang Weizhao thought about how to delay as much time as possible, and said slowly: "First of all, you need a rubber tube for blood transfusion. You cut open the abdomen of a person, you lose too much blood, and you have to keep transfusing new blood to replenish it, otherwise the person will die. ”
"What is a rubber tube?" Wang Zhi frowned and asked.
"It's a hose made of rubber, hollow, and the liquid can be left behind, like soft wheat stalks." Zhang Weizhao explained.
It is said that the soft wheat stalks are as straight as Wang Zhi. After all the eunuchs cleanse themselves, they will insert a wheat stalk in the urethra, so that the urine can be discharged smoothly, and the urethra will not be completely blocked as the wound heals.
The cleansing surgery performed by the eunuchs of Great Yan was the most brutal castration in the world. In ancient Egypt and Europe, cleansing was usually done by crushing the testicles or surgically removing them, leaving two empty skin sacs,* the stems of which were retained.
But Da Yan's purification technique is that the entire set of phallic tools must be cut off by the roots, leaving nothing behind. The risk of surgery is also significant, with about 4 out of 10 boys dying on the operating table or from complications after surgery.
If the operation is not successful, there is a stump left, and it is found during the examination in the palace afterwards, and it will have to be cut again.
So Wang Zhi is no stranger to wheat straw at all. Not only is it not unfamiliar, but it is also full of disgust for this thing. But since Zhang Weizhao said that surgery was needed, he had to find it.