“Cough cough!” The man lying on the ground coughed a few times and seemed to be waking up.
Like a sharp blade cutting through the tense air, all suppressed negative emotions burst forth.
“Take that beast away, cut it into pieces! Slice it bit by bit, feed it to the dogs!” The emperor, in a fit of rage, paced back and forth within the room.
People often say that Emperor Cheng of Jin has a soft temperament, but at this moment, what he saw was an emperor with a ruthless aura emanating from his bones. This might be a common trait of every emperor, whether cruel, incompetent, or benevolent – they all have multiple faces.
Seeing the seventh prince, Shao Huachi, blocking his path, he kicked him down. A disloyal concubine had caused him to lose face, and seeing this child was like having a fishbone stuck in his throat, not knowing where this seed came from.
Bang, Shao Hua Chi’s head hit the corner of the chair. He didn’t make a sound, as if this body wasn’t his. He got up again and knelt down properly, his movements still maintaining good manners and demeanor. His fine hair hung down, burying his face in the shadows, making it unclear and dark. This time, Fu Chen couldn’t see the young man’s expression either.
Then he respectfully kowtowed to Emperor Cheng, without pleading for mercy, without crying. His straight back bent over and over again, his forehead colliding with the ground, thump, thump, thump!
That sound seemed to be knocking on Fu Chen’s heart. Most people who could be so cruel to themselves were usually resilient. If they could grow up, they would be like a dragon emerging into the world, but the greater likelihood was that they would die halfway.
Emperor Jin Cheng had twenty-one princes. Excluding the underage and those without competitive ability, there were ten. These ten, from the fragmented news Fu Chen had received over the years, were divided into three factions, any of which could ascend to the throne.
Outside the door, a eunuch came to report that the empress and the fourth concubine were waiting outside for the summons.
“Let them all roll back to their places and wait!” Emperor Jin Cheng obviously had no mood to coax the beauties outside today.
This batch of new eunuchs had also come to be put to use. They invited all the noble sons of the harem back one by one. They also dragged all the eunuchs and palace ladies in the Weiyang Palace to the , and then the Jingshifang decided where to go. But Fu Chen knew that these people would probably “disappear” collectively tomorrow. He was almost mechanically moving, his body instinctively working with the other eunuchs.
After going back and forth like this, more than half of the palace was empty, and the body of the palace lady had been dragged away long ago, and the blood on the ground had also been washed away.
Except for the lingering smell of blood in the air, it was completely impossible to see what had happened here.
Emperor Jin Cheng sat at the top, his face gloomy, but he didn’t know what he was thinking.
By the time Fu Chen and the others returned to the main hall, in addition to the unconscious Concubine Li and the seventh prince who was kneeling with a numb face full of blood, there was an additional team of guards. The knives they wore reflected a chilling coldness in the night.
Fu Chen smelled a foul smell, looked left and right, and saw Chen Zuoren’s wet trace spreading from his crotch all the way to his trouser legs. There was still liquid dripping from his trouser legs. His face was pale and pale, and Chen Zuoren was trembling and wanted to pull Fu Chen’s clothes corner, but he couldn’t pull it because he was too nervous.
And the few little eunuchs who came with them were not much better. The place where they lived was just a corner of the palace. The fate of those people just now made them feel a fear of the rabbit dying and the fox grieving.
The emperor looked down at the unconscious Concubine Li from a high position, and then slowly opened his mouth.
“From today onwards, Concubine Li will be demoted to an eighth-rank dresser and moved to Jingyang Palace.” Jingyang Palace, equivalent to the cold palace of the Jin Dynasty, is the farthest from the emperor’s Yangxin Hall. It seems that he no longer wants to see the woman he once loved so much at his feet, and even selectively forgets the few children this woman gave birth to him.
Emperor Jin Cheng pointed at the group of eunuchs who were crouching and kneeling on the ground, and waved his big hand, “Deal with them all.”
A few simple words determined their fate, as if dealing with useless garbage, knowing that people who know this secret have no reason to live.
There were pleas for mercy all around, but they didn’t get any mercy from the person at the top.
The sense of urgency of life hanging by a thread made Fu Chen’s brain buzz, and his throat was dry and hot.
There must be a way, calm down! Details, what’s weird!!
“Your Majesty, Concubine Li is innocent, your has evidence.” In fact, Fu Chen was quite glad of this title, at least unlike many dynasties in the official history, where eunuchs and palace ladies were equal, and they called themselves .
Fu Chen, with his face covered in dried blood, looked up at the emperor who was about to leave.
The seventh prince, who had been like a dead man all along, also had some reactions.
Looking at this ant who was brave enough to struggle for survival, his bright eyes were like a spark in the dark, but they couldn’t even warm himself.
Ha, another fool who can’t learn to accept his fate.
It’s just a gamble, betting that the emperor is still special to Concubine Li. Even if something like this happened, he didn’t sentence the concubine who made him green on his head to death.
The emperor stopped, and indeed looked at this audacious servant.
“Speak! If you can’t speak out, you’ll go down with them and feed the dogs.” The emperor’s eyes were blood red, his chest heaving violently. This was not anger, but the time of the fifth watch was when he took the “elixir”, and every time he would get addicted.
Chen Zuoren and others on the side were even more swept by the emperor’s majesty and kept kowtowing, fearing that the smell on their bodies would offend the emperor. There were many rules in the palace, and there were always many taboos left by the old foundations of the past dynasties.
For example, they couldn’t urinate at will, and it was even more disrespectful to be scared to urinate in front of the emperor. If it weren’t for those who set the rules to be driven away, and the emperor didn’t care, they would have lost their heads.
Fu Chen had noticed from the moment he entered the door that although the emperor had destroyed it, there was still food left on the table, and the plate had not been removed… From the time point of view, this was illogical and against the rules.
The smell in the air, he thought for a long time, finally remembered what it was, this is a drug that has been used for hundreds of years in his previous life and is still being used in modern times. Colleagues are not in harmony with their married life, and they have spent a lot of money to buy it.
Fu Chen has smelled it once, and the taste is unique, so he remembered it. But in this harem palace, even if the imperial physician comes, he may not be able to identify this drug that has almost never appeared. It appeared relatively late, and mixed with celery and other things, the smell can be covered, making it almost impossible to detect.
“These dishes have been drugged, mixed with deer antler, seahorse, horny goat weed…” Fu Chen bowed his eyebrows and had a pleasing quality.
Not much talk, but every word hits the heart of peace, good at observing words and colors, indescribable taste, just makes people feel comfortable.
Slowly reporting dozens of medicinal names, Fu Chen’s life has been hailed as a genius many times, he knows that he is just an ordinary person, the biggest advantage is that his memory is particularly good.
And he said so much, the emperor didn’t interrupt him or get impatient, it was a rare spectacle.
The seventh prince, from the beginning of surprise, to deep, and gradually fell into deep thought looking at this little eunuch he had not noticed before.
Fu Chen, as a doctor who once had a good reputation in the field of psychology, later switched to human affairs, this is his occupational disease, the previous life through systematic and professional training, can make people relax physically and mentally, coupled with a deeper understanding of human nature in the palace, even the emperor’s one look he can guess seven or eight.
Seeing that the emperor was indeed attracted by Fu Chen’s high and low urgent voice, he gradually listened, Fu Chen felt quiet above, knowing that the first pass was over, the next is the key!
“These medicinal ingredients need to go through 9981 procedures, according to the principles of medicine’s unity of heaven and man, the way of yin and yang, and the law of the five elements. After being sun-dried, moon-cured, and morning dew, they are processed in a unique way, which can achieve body strengthening and yang replenishing…”
Fu Chen tried his best to combine what he knew with the emperor’s favorite alchemical principles. After refining, he made this medicine mysterious. The overall central idea is that this medicine is particularly difficult to make, particularly expensive, and particularly rare.
Fu Chen almost played the flattering strength of his superiors and mother-in-law, “Traditional Chinese medicine also calls it Guilingji, which means the longevity of the divine tortoise, overseas calls it the elixir of immortality…”
Sure enough, when he said the last sentence, an unprecedented heat burst out of the emperor’s eyes, longevity! Something that many emperors in the world care about the most.
Fu Chen knew that the second pass had also passed, at least the emperor would not deal with them too quickly on the basis of this “elixir of immortality”.
And at this time, Concubine Li had already woken up. When she smelled the bloody smell in the room and saw people kneeling all over the floor, she didn’t know whether she was glad that she didn’t die or lamented that she couldn’t escape this disaster.
She couldn’t help but resent the person who had harmed her. There was only the voice of the little eunuch with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes in the room. At this moment, he was weak at any time, but Concubine Li was a smart person. She guessed seven or eight, and she was also full of hope looking at Fu Chen.
“If a few more points of medicinal materials are added… it will be a strong aphrodisiac.” Only then did he throw out the key point.
Concubine Li trembled and leaned slightly, “Your Majesty, your concubine has not lost her chastity…”
Concubine Li is a person who knows how to seize opportunities. She clings to this gap and clears herself of suspicion. But the emperor who has completely lost his heart to her will not pay attention to her anymore. But the emperor who has been sucked away by the elixir of immortality has taken down the formula and said to Fu Chen, “If this medicine is really as you say, has such a miraculous effect, what reward do you want?”
A trace of cruelty crossed the emperor’s eyes, which were not always clear. He never lacked such advisers around him, and most of the little eunuchs came from poor families. It would be laughable to say that they knew the properties of medicines or had been physicians.
So the emperor just thought that this little eunuch had heard of this prescription, and if he wanted to flatter himself to the sky, he would be looking for death.
He still has confidence in the efficacy of the Guilingji. Although some of the medicinal materials he reported are rare, they are all strong and healthy, absolutely non-toxic, and have been certified by real people for a hundred years. As for the quota ratio, let those knowledgeable people study it.
Fu Chen performed a standard ceremony, completely permeating his respect for the emperor into his limbs and hundreds of skeletons. Even people who don’t know him can see his loyalty from his subtle movements. His respect reveals a trace of awe for the emperor, making the emperor who is surrounded by this kind of gaze all day feel that it is a pity to kill this loyal eunuch.
“The slaves want to continue to serve the emperor with their useful bodies, even if they die a thousand times. Let the emperor have no worries, not afraid of foreign invasions, iron hooves and lions trample all over the north and south of the river. Thousands of years, unify the mountains and rivers.”
Fu Chen calmly added the slogan of a certain cult leader in his previous life and applied it to the emperor who loves to do great things.
Originally, this kind of flattering words, if said by someone else, would seem not so sincere, but Fu Chen was serious, on that still immature little face, but sincere and loyal, Jin Cheng Emperor is a person who hopes that he can have the style of his father, hearing Fu Chen’s words, he immediately laughed happily.
He didn’t dare to go far, and was still waiting outside to prevent idle people from coming in. Li Xiangying was shocked. He actually heard the emperor’s laughter! The emperor who was just furious, how could he laugh?
Who doesn’t know that in recent years, Emperor Jin Cheng has become more and more moody, and he often punishes his subordinates.
It can’t be that his ears are deaf, he glanced at the little eunuch next to him, “Did you just hear the sound inside?”
“Slave… slave heard, the emperor’s laughter.” He was still laughing…
Dewy on BLPSG Chapter 86: The Emperor’s old illness: “I want QingCi to give this little wolf a big slap after healing him -__-” Oct 23, 13:18
