A hundred flavors of life

Palace commander's mansion, study room.

Gao Qiu's servants informed him that Lin Chong, the instructor of the Forbidden Army, wanted to see him. He said with a gloomy face:

"please!"

Just yesterday, his cousin Gao Lian came in a hurry from Gaotang Prefecture. Gao Qiu did not say anything about being coerced, and first let the other party see his condition.

Gao Lian was originally a gangster on the street like Gao Qiu. Later, he joined others in digging graves. By chance, he found a Tai'a sword and a bamboo slip recording Taoism in a Han Dynasty tomb. With the help of bamboo slips, he was able to learn magic without any teacher.

When Gao Qiu became successful, one man attained enlightenment, and chickens and dogs ascended to heaven, he also recommended his cousin to become an official.

However, Lieutenant Gao also kept a cautious eye. He knew that his master, Zhao Ji, an official of the current court, was obsessed with Taoism, and he was afraid that his uncle would fall into the eyes of the officials in Bianliang and treat him as his elder brother. Being squeezed out, he simply sent his cousin to Gaotang Prefecture to become the prefect.

This time I wrote to ask Gao Lian to come back, not because he thought Gao Lian was more capable than Lin Lingsu and Xu Zhenren, but because he knew his own affairs, and Gao Qiu also knew that he had a bad reputation, and was afraid that the two Zhenren would not be able to deal with them casually. If you are willing to be careful, just find this brother who can also teach Dharma to come back and have a look.

When he thought about it, his own brothers could never be more reliable than outsiders.

However, Gao Qiu did not tell anything about Lin Chong. He only asked Gao Lian to see how he was doing and whether he was being plotted by others.

Gao Lian helped Gao Qiu check it out, started a ritual, paid homage to the ancestor, asked for talismans, and finally confirmed that there was nothing wrong with his brother.

Seeing Gao Qiu frowning as if he didn't believe it, Gao Lian explained:

"Brother, you are a prince of the current dynasty, with a gold seal and purple ribbon. He is blessed with the luck of the court. Demons and ghosts cannot get close to you at all, and evil spells cannot harm you. Don't worry, brother!"

Gao Lian did not say that if the fortunes of the court declined in the last years of the dynasty, that situation would have to be discussed separately.

However, although the Northern Song Dynasty is not far from the end, it is also at its peak and has not yet turned into decline. Although Gao Lian cannot see clearly the fate of the court, looking at its current situation, he also believes that based on the current situation, there is no one at all. The possibility of using sorcery to harm the current prince.

Gao Qiu understood what he heard, but was worried. After all, he had personally experienced the taste of the life and death talisman, so how could he fake it? He immediately asked:

"Brother, have you ever heard of the Talisman of Life and Death?"

Gao Lian shook his head and said: "No, but judging from its name, it should be a Taoist magic method. When I go back and check the classics, I should be able to gain something!"

He made a common-sense mistake and thought it was a real spell after hearing the name. Little did he know that the whole thing was going astray.

Seeing that Gao Lian couldn't help, Gao Qiu didn't talk about Lin Chong's matter, so as not to cause trouble. If the life and death talisman was real, he would be asking for trouble if he hated Lin Chong.

He asked Gao Lian to go back first. If he found out the details of the life and death talisman, he would write to him and let him know.

Hua Twelve was waiting in the concierge. After a while, someone came to invite him, saying that the Taiwei was meeting him in the study.

Walking all the way inside, I saw that even though the palace commander died, there was no change. Even Jin Su was not prepared. It seemed that this adopted son was not as good as his own son after all.

Hua Twelve didn't know that Gao Qiu hated his adopted son now. After that day, the more he thought about his adopted son, the more he became a scourge. Since he accepted him as his son, he had wiped his butt countless times. What if this time? If it wasn't him, how could he have offended Lin Chong and turned him from an honest man into the murderous star he is now?

Therefore, Gao Qiu did not ask anyone to prepare a coffin for Gao Yanei that day. He simply ordered people to sweep it up with straw and throw it into a mass grave outside the city to feed wild dogs.

When he arrived at the study, Gao Qiu had already put on a smiling face, invited Hua Twelve to sit down, and asked someone to serve him tea. After his servants left, he said with some humility:

"I have expressed my gratitude to the coach, and from the Ministry of War, there will be a reward for promotion in the near future!"

Hua Twelve nodded: "I wonder what position it is?"

Gao Qiu said directly: "There is still a fifth-grade dragon forbidden officer in the forbidden army. I wonder if the instructor is satisfied?"

"Long Lieutenant?"

Hua Twelve was confused for a while, it sounded familiar, but was there such an official position in the Song Dynasty?

He didn't think much about it and just asked: "Can I lead a battalion by myself? Lin is tired of the idle position of instructor. He wants to be a full-time general leading troops. Please ask the Lieutenant to help find a way!"

Gao Qiu had a wry smile on his face: "Instructor, please note that you have to eat this meal one bite at a time. You must first become a high-level military attaché so that it can be easily operated in the future!"

Hua Twelve nodded and accepted the other party's statement: "Then let's take this Long Jinwei!"

Gao Qiu said somewhat sarcastically: "The antidote to the talisman of life and death."

Hua Twelve took out a pill:

"No, this is it. If you eat it, you will be safe for a year!"

Gao Qiu quickly took it and held it in his hand, but did not take it immediately. He only said:

"If nothing happens, instructor, just go back and rest for the next few days. When the reward comes, it won't be too late to get back on duty!"

Hua Twelve seemed to be smiling but not smiling: "Then why didn't the imperial doctor take the antidote? Do you want to wait until Lin is gone and take it to the imperial doctor to study the properties of the medicine before the talisman of life and death takes effect?"

"No, no, I have no such intention!"

Gao Qiu really thought so. He thought that if the hospital could decipher the prescription, he would not have to be held hostage by Lin Chong in the future. However, he did not expect that the other party would see through his mind, so he had to put the pill into his mouth in front of Hua Twelve. , and swallowed it with a sip of tea.

Hua Twelve nodded with satisfaction: "This is not an antidote, but another method of coercion, called the 'Three Corpse Brain Pill'!"

Gao Qiu's face turned dark, and he turned around and picked his throat, trying to spit out the pills he had just taken.

Hua Twelve didn't stop him, he drank tea and watched the show with a smile.

As a result, Gao Qiu vomited out his breakfast, and there was no sign of the elixir.

At this time, Hua Twelve said leisurely:

"There are three kinds of corpse worms in these three corpse brain magic pills. There is no abnormality after taking them. However, at noon of the Dragon Boat Festival every year, if the antidote to restrain the corpse worms is not taken in time, the corpse worms will break out and enter the body. Brain, those who take this medicine will behave like ghosts and demons, and even their parents and wives will bite them and eat them."

Gao Qiu: "." I thank you for eight generations of ancestors.

Hua Twelve asked Gao Qiu to bring a dog in, took out a three-corpse brain pill, peeled off the shell, and fed it to the dog in front of Captain Gao, demonstrating the effect of the pill.

The elixir lost its shell and immediately went into trouble when it entered the dog's belly. The good dog went crazy in an instant. If Hua Twelve hadn't been protecting Gao Qiu, the imperial officer would have been killed on the spot.

Even so, the dog tore a Taishi chair in the study to pieces. Even though the dog's mouth was pierced by many wooden thorns and his mouth was full of blood, it still refused to stop as if it couldn't feel the pain. In the end, it struggled for half an hour until the corpse worm After eating the dog's brain, the dog bled from its orifices and died on the spot.

Hua Twelve smiled and said, "You see, the pill you took is the same as the one the dog took!"

Gao Qiu was shaken all over, his legs were no longer working, so he slowly knelt down:

"Coach Lin, please spare me!"

Hua Twelve crossed his legs and said with a smile: "Don't worry, as long as you are obedient and don't use tricks, I will give you an antidote every year to keep you safe, but if you don't obey, hehe."

Gao Qiu said quickly: "You must be obedient, you must be obedient!"

Hua Twelve then took out another pill and said, "Take it!"

Seeing that the pill was different from before, Gao Qiu understood that this time it should be the antidote to the talisman of life and death. He took it and swallowed it with water with a bitter look on his face.

Hua Twelve coughed lightly: "This one is called Baotai Yijin Pills!"

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Gao Qiu was so aggrieved. The name didn't sound like the antidote to the talisman of life and death, let alone a good thing. He couldn't kneel down, collapsed on the ground, and asked in a trembling voice:

"What's the trick this time?"

Seeing him like this, Hua Twelve couldn't help but laugh:

"Don't worry, Taiwei. This medicine can be regarded as a tonic. It was a recipe accidentally made by a strange man who wanted to rejuvenate his youth. However, the effect of the medicine is not as expected. When the medicine takes effect, it can reverse the original characteristics of the body. According to the truth, within one year of taking this medicine, people can strengthen their health, but if one year is over, the antidote is not taken on time.” Gao Qiu felt warm all over at this time, and he had indeed taken the tonic. I felt that what Hua Twelve said was true, and when I heard him talk about the antidote, I quickly asked:

"What will happen?"

"It won't matter. There once was a pair of brothers. One was eight feet tall, tall and thin, and the other was more than three feet tall, short and fat. One time, he was delayed in taking the antidote because he went to sea. In just one month, the tall man was short and fat. The man shrank from eight feet tall to a dwarf of less than three feet, and the three-foot fat man was stretched to eight feet, becoming taller and thinner. The two of them actually exchanged. You said this medicine is too much interesting!"

Gao Qiu even cried. He didn't find it interesting. Whether it was a tall man who was crushed into a dwarf, or a short man who was pulled out into a tall man, you can imagine the pain he went through, which was worse than death.

He asked in a trembling voice: "What will happen if I delay the antidote?"

Hua Twelve told the truth: "It's hard to predict. If you're lucky, you might actually be young again!"

"What about bad luck?"

"It's possible to become a woman!"

Gao Qiu: "."

Hua Twelve saw the expression on his face that his whole family was dead, and comforted him with kind words:

"Think of the bright side in everything. What if you become a woman? Then you won't have to worry about having no children. You can find a man to give birth to yourself!"

Gao Qiu felt a chill, and with tears in his eyes, he squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying:

"Teacher, please stop playing with me!"

Hua Twelve looked disgusted: "Do you think you are Master Li? Why should I play with you!"

As he spoke, he took out another pill and stuffed it into Gao Qiu's hand:

"Eat it!"

Gao Qiu really cried: "What kind of pill is it this time?"

Seeing his cowardice, Hua Twelve said with a smile: "This time it's really the antidote to the talisman of life and death. Take it quickly!"

Although Gao Qiu didn't dare to believe it, he also didn't dare not to believe it. Thinking that he was already in such a bad state, what could he do if it was worse? He was about to put it in his mouth, but suddenly thought of an important question and hurriedly asked:

"I've heard that there are conflicting properties of medicines. If I take these medicines continuously, will the Sanzhi Nao Shen Dan or Leopard Tai Yi Jin Wan cause the same attacks as before?"

Hua Twelve: "."

He coughed lightly and said a little embarrassedly:

"What about that? I haven't thought about this problem. If it triggers the drug's effects, then you are unlucky and you can't blame me for it, don't you think so?"

Gao Qiu really wanted to say, ‘It’s your ancestor’ but he didn’t dare. He sat on the ground and cried:

"What should I do?"

Hua Twelve waved his hands and said, "It's okay. I'm also good at medicine and can disembowel you. If the medicine triggers it, I'll cut you open before the corpse worm enters your brain, take out the corpse worm and sew it up on you." That’s fine, at least I can leave you with a whole body!”

Gao Qiu was stunned.

The two of them waited for more than an hour and felt relieved when they saw that Gao Qiu was fine.

Hua Twelve stood up and said:

"It's been an hour, and I think there's no conflict of properties. Just take the antidote yourself. I'll go back first!"

After speaking, he cupped his hands towards Gao Qiu, who looked desperate, turned around and left.

Gao Qiu's tears have dried up, and now he really wants to cry without tears.

As soon as Hua Twelve left, Gao Qiu was cautious and did not take the antidote immediately. Instead, he called his trusted butler, put the antidote on the table, and told him not to panic if he complained of pain later. Just give him this elixir.

The housekeeper repeatedly promised to do this well.

The master and servant waited for almost two hours, and Gao Qiu's expression gradually became distorted:

"How dare you deceive me, thief!"

Seeing that it was already the time for the life and death talisman to be cast three days ago, and the life and death talisman had not yet taken effect, he concluded that Hua Twelve was lying to him, and he was still thinking, no wonder Taiyuan and Lin and Xu didn't see anything wrong. It turned out that It's actually fake.

In this case, the Sanzhi Brain Divine Pill and Leopard Fei Yijin Pills cannot be taken seriously!

Gao Qiu picked up the antidote, crushed it with his foot while it was still on the ground, and then ordered to the housekeeper:

"Go and pass the order from this captain to mobilize five hundred forbidden troops to arrest him, ah"

Before he finished speaking, his whole body felt like being bitten by thousands of ants. The pain and itching were unbearable. He immediately fell to the ground and rolled over. In an instant, even his internal organs seemed to be itching. He immediately shouted:

"Medicine, give me medicine quickly!"

The housekeeper panicked and said, "Master, you crushed that pill."

Only then did Gao Qiu think of the stupid thing he had done. He hurriedly crawled to the ground and started licking it tremblingly, regardless of whether it was dirty or not. As expected, the antidote was taken down, and the pain and itching gradually subsided. Finally, he collapsed on the ground and took a big mouthful. Panting, it took a long time to recover.

The butler on the side was already panicking: "Master, do you want the imperial doctor to come over?"

Gao Qiu stood up slowly: "No need, give me the sword on the wall!"

After all, the Taiwei was a military attache, so even in the study room, there was a sword hanging as a decoration.

The steward took off the sword and presented it to Gao Qiu, who had just climbed up. The latter pulled out the sword and pierced the steward's chest. Under the steward's disbelieving eyes, Gao Qiu said viciously:

"If you want to blame, it's your bad luck, but don't worry, after you go, your family, Lieutenant Ben, will take good care of you!"

The steward saw his ugly dog-like appearance just now, so naturally he could not be left alive. After saying this, he drew out his sword, and a stream of blood spurted out from the steward's chest. He was already lying in a pool of blood. When the guards were called, this In Gao Qiu's words, the housekeeper has become an accomplice of Lu Qian's dog thief.

Hua Twelve left the Palace Commander's Mansion, humming, "Today is a good day, anything you want can come true." He knew that the crisis was over, and Gao Qiu, the current imperial commander, would be completely at his disposal.

With three layers of insurance, I don’t believe that this old thief can escape from his grasp.

The first two times he went to the street, he was in a hurry and did not have time to appreciate the splendor of Bianliang in the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival". At this time, he was in a good mood. On the way back, Hua Twelve walked along the market and saw restaurants and tea shops of all kinds. Shops are lined up in rows, market promotions are high, and business is booming.

In the market, scholars, farmers, merchants, men, women, old and young, on foot, on horseback, and in sedan chairs, crowded shoulder to shoulder and were bustling.

With the money Mrs. Lin gave her, she bought rice wine, roast duck, roasted rabbit, and naan cakes. She took them back to the vegetable garden. She first informed a few people that the crisis was over, and then had a good drink with her father-in-law, Coach Zhang and Lu Tiha.

After they had had enough wine and food, they left Luda for the time being, passed through the Jujube Gate, sent their father-in-law home first, and then returned home with Mrs. Lin and Jin'er.

After taking refuge for several days, the family did not have a good rest in the vegetable garden. Hua Twelve was fine, but Mrs. Lin felt sorry for her husband. After returning, she asked Jin'er to boil water and help Lin Hua Twelve take a bath to relieve his fatigue.

Hua Twelve: Is this good? .Okay!

While bathing, the mist rose. Hua Twelve looked at Zhang Zhenniang's shy and pretty appearance, which was indistinguishable from Nie Xiaoqian's. He couldn't help but think of the last line of Ning Caichen's poem, "I only envy mandarin ducks but not immortals", and so on. It just makes sense, he also likes to eat mandarin ducks!

Two days later, Gao Qiu sent an appointment from the Ministry of War, and promoted Lin Chong to the rank of fifth-grade Longjing Lieutenant. He asked him to train for three days, and then go to the front office of the palace to receive his official uniform and be a handmaiden.

Hua Twelve was lazy at home for another two days. Before he could officially go to work, he was waiting for a letter.

That afternoon, someone called the door, and Jin'er went to answer. After a while, Zhang Zhenniang came in with a letter:

"My lord, this is a letter from my uncle from Yangzhou."

"uncle?"

Hua Twelve was a little confused. He couldn't get Lin Chong's memory these days, so he gave up completely and got some insinuations about Coach Lin's life experience from Zhang Zhenniang. He didn't hear that there was an uncle alive.

When I opened the letter from home, I saw it written in small letters:

"Chong'er is a wise nephew, and he sees words like his face."

The handwriting is strong and strong, strong yet graceful, the method is ancient and has the style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Well, these adjectives were all imagined by Hua Twelve. Anyway, I think the writing is beautiful!

Hua Twelve didn't read the content. He looked down at the signature first. It didn't matter. He was so surprised that he couldn't speak for a long time. He suddenly felt that the world was not simple.

I saw the signature: "Uncle, Lin Ruhai!"

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