Volume 3 The Appearance of the Dragons Chapter 42 The Pill
"After discovering this, how can a person like the emperor tolerate being deceived. Since then, I have had the idea of eradicating the prime minister surnamed Hu. At that time, the prime minister's cronies buried in the emperor's side played a great role, and the news was conveyed to the past as soon as possible, and the prime minister surnamed Hu got the news, knowing that time was running out, and the process must be accelerated. After choosing a time, he carefully planned a shocking drama, and the prime minister said that a spring gushed out of the well of his family's old mansion and invited the emperor to come and watch it. This is the auspicious fortune of the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor happily went, but when he walked to the Xihua Gate, a eunuch named Yun Qi suddenly rushed to the emperor's carriage and horses, grabbed the reins, and was speechless in a hurry.
The guards immediately took him down, and almost killed him with their sticks, but he still pointed in the direction of the prime minister's house and refused to retreat. Zhu Yuanzhang felt that something was wrong, and immediately returned, boarded the palace, and found that there were soldiers hidden in the walls and roads of the prime minister's house, and there were many swords and guns. He immediately ordered the prime minister to be arrested and executed on the same day.
The interesting thing about this point is that the eunuch named Yun Qi is actually a double agent, in today's terms, called a double agent, originally the emperor wanted to get rid of the prime minister surnamed Hu under the pretext that he was pointing at the street, but he never thought that Yun Qi had already informed the prime minister, and after thinking about it, the prime minister felt that this was a golden opportunity, so he planned and acted in a play, which almost forced the emperor to execute him. But in fact, the emperor only executed a ghost who had been trained for several years and disguised himself as a prime minister surnamed Hu who could replace the dead with a fake reality. And the prime minister himself had already secretly rushed here overnight with the people around him who were studying the art of immortality.
Things went as he expected, everyone in the world thought that the prime minister had died, but they didn't know that the real person was hiding here, alchemy, in order to live forever! ”
Hear out. I couldn't help but be speechless, if what Old Man Shi said was true, then this story of the battle of wits and courage between the king and the minister would probably be able to play a wonderful drama.
Xiu'er asked in a daze, "Then according to what you say, Prime Minister surnamed Hu is actually not a good thing, he hid here to study his immortality, but he was still killed by his own nine clans." and the killing of all those who had the slightest connection with him. It's just too selfish. ”
Old man Shi sighed, "What you say is true, it is also true, and if you say it is false, it is also false." I think, I'm afraid that the prime minister himself didn't expect the emperor to be so brutal, and killing his stand-in is not over, so he has to go his own way and kill all the people involved with him. It can only be said. Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, and the prime minister has been by the emperor's side for decades, but after all, he still failed to find out the emperor's bottom line. ”
Kuroko realized a problem and said, "Since you said that this is not an ancient tomb, what is it?" ”
The answer is very simple, this is the shelter that the prime minister has prepared for himself, or it can be said that it is another home, presumably he is very confident that according to the clues he has found by using his power before, he has successfully developed an elixir that can make him immortal. So I plan to stay in this place until the day of harvest. This would also explain the alchemy tripod in the center of the courtyard, as well as so many rare herbs. He's well prepared! ”
Xiu'er glanced left and right, "But it seems that this place has long been deserted." There are still so many herbs left. Does it mean that Prime Minister Hu has failed? ”
As soon as the words fell, I immediately added, "And there is still a little doubt, that is, the entrance of our entry, if this place is a cemetery, it is easy to explain." If it is the prime minister's temporary home in your mouth, where will the supplies they need for their life come from? ”
Old man Shi frowned when he heard this, and thought for a moment: "Whether the prime minister succeeded or failed, we can only know when we walk to the main hall where the coffin is placed." As for the channel. I think it's a good thing for everyone, in order to live, they will inevitably leave a hidden underground passage to the outside world, and if we find it, it will be much easier for us to get out of here. ”
The time to come. Everyone collected all the precious medicinal materials in the pharmacy on the left side until the backpack could not fit it, and then hurriedly walked to the right side, only to see that the room here was completely different.
If the left side is where the material is piled up, then the right side is the area where the work and success are shown. Although we walked through the room, it was clear that the place where the text records were stored had been cleared, and there were still some traces of burning on the ground, and it was clear that whoever was responsible for destroying them had gone in a hurry. So much so that the only pill pharmacy in Old Man Shi's mouth didn't know if it was because he didn't have time, or if he was negligent enough to leave three gray pills.
Old Man Shi carefully took them one by one in his hand, wiped off the dust covering them, and revealed the original appearance of the elixir. The three of us can only say that we have heard of it, and we have never seen it in real life.
At this time, the surface of the elixir was extremely smooth, and the whole looked like a round ball, but it was impossible to see the kind of scene of essence and light depicted in legends or those absurd novels with strange powers. It can be seen that hearing is false, and seeing is believing, which is the truth.
Out of curiosity, I leaned over my nose and sniffed it, there was a faint smell of herbs, and when I looked closely, the volume of the elixir seemed to have grown a little larger, and I couldn't help but think about how much courage it would take to put something of this size that I don't know what it was mixed with in my mouth.
However, Old Man Shi looked at the three pills carefully as if he was admiring a rare treasure, and sometimes gently pinched them and put them in front of him, which really made people unable to understand what he wanted to do.
Kuroko only looked at it for a while, then felt bored, and wanted to leave as soon as possible to move on to the next part, and find the goal of the trip as soon as possible.
Realizing his thoughts, I looked at the old man Shi who seemed to be out of a trance, and coughed lightly, "Isn't it time to go?" ”
"Oh, oh, good!" Old man Shi replied, reluctantly stretched out his hand and prepared to return the pill to us, only to see the sunspot shake his head, "Since you like it, just take it, it's useless for us to ask for this thing." ”
"Ahh Okay, thank you to the three bosses! When Old Man Shi heard this, he immediately smiled and took out a piece of silk cloth from his arms, carefully wrapped the pill, stuffed it back into his arms, and completed a series of actions before he followed.
Walking and walking, he was about to leave this courtyard, but the old man Shi suddenly seemed to remember something, and hurriedly shouted, "A few people, wait a minute, that ding, I'm afraid there are some doorways." ”
"What do you mean?" The three of us turned around and looked at the ding.
Old Man Shi pricked up his ears and whispered, "Since I entered the courtyard just now, I have noticed a sound of rustling from time to time, I originally thought it was caused by mice, but now, as the sound gradually increases, I can be sure that it seems to be something crawling slowly." ”
Hearing this, we immediately stopped the words and listened attentively, and sure enough, there was indeed a sound that intensified, and it came from within the ding.
"Three bosses, what should I do? Would you like to check it out?" Old man Shi asked tentatively.
Xiu'er and I had to turn to Kuroko and wait for him to decide. (To be continued......)