Chapter 59
"Before, my wandering master once mentioned to me: all the patients who were healed by the master of the Ninth Hall were all cured by the medicine! But..."
The tone of Jiu Xiaohan's words was very firm, and Liang Ziyu really admired and admired her for her serious attitude towards people and things.
Just listen to what she said next, and continued:
"But, of course...Actually, these should all be based on my hearsay. It's not because my master said all kinds of good things about him, and before I have verified it with my own eyes, I can't casually Believe it easily—the reason is the same. Therefore, this is the reason why I must go to Yi'an County to meet him...Ziyu, can you understand?"
"Yeah, I got it."
Liang Ziyu nodded and responded.
However, both of them knew that the legendary master of the Hall of Nine Generations was often not in the main hall in Yi'an County; , is also true.
"However, Miss Xiaohan, after hearing what you said just now, I am also somewhat puzzled: Since the hall master is always running around outside, how can everyone know that this person's medical skills are unparalleled Woolen cloth?"
"Well, of course, many people have seen his ability with their own eyes!"
"I……"
The corners of Liang Ziyu's mouth curled up slightly, and she smiled shallowly and lowly, but it was fleeting, and Jiu Xiaohan didn't notice it at all.
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As the son of Xiaoqi County in Yi'an County, Huangfu Yi has not only witnessed the medical skills of the Ninth Hall Master with his own eyes, has he? !
If, at the beginning, it wasn't for the "authoritative diagnosis" made by the Hall Master of the Ninth World Hall, coupled with the "bewitching rumors" of the Taoist hunter Wu Weizi, how could he, Huangfu Yi, be in his current situation?
The two of them are like dogs of a feather, and they both decided that Huangfu Yi's spare heart and liver can be used as the best nourishing ingredients for medicine.
They also wrote it into the "tribute" to Huangfu Yi's father, Wang Yi'an County City Lord Huangfu Ruozhou, who used it to prolong life and even promoted it as a "magic" prescription with the effect of "immortality".
——One is the master of Qingxin Temple, who slays demons and demons, and benefits the common people, and the other is the hall master of the Nine Generations Hall with a prominent reputation, letting his father feed on the heart and liver of his own son. How can they actually write it well? !
However, on the other hand, it would be biased to say that the head of the Ninth Hall has no real abilities and is only a name.
He and Wu Weizi jointly developed the royal family's folk prescription, which is called "Quanyin Yangyuan Dabu Decoction", in terms of its nourishing and conditioning effects, it is indeed very powerful.
Not only did it make Huangfu Ruozhou, who had just passed his forty years, his original short white hair gradually turn back to thick black; moreover, even the aging wrinkles on his face gradually faded away.
Even, in the next three consecutive years, Huangfu went to his own backyard one after another like a boat, and brought in the twelve new concubines one after another. All of them were young and beautiful, as beautiful as flowers and jade.
Almost every three months, there will be a big wedding banquet in the city mansion; and, every season, there will be brides coming in, and it has already become a gossip that everyone knows in the streets and alleys inside and outside Yi'an County. It's time for a "beautiful talk"!
Not only the servants who were watching the night outside the bedroom door, but also the patrolling guards with knives, were getting tired of hearing the joyous sound coming from the inner garden every night.
Slowly, everyone tacitly formed an unwritten rule: as long as those endless voices start, that is, they can sneak around, take a nap, avoid detours, and move around freely. It's time.
If, if we say that the female relatives in the county prince's mansion can generally be as lively as the big palace in the famous imperial capital, it seems that it is not an exaggeration.
The father devours (eats) the heart of the child.
——This is the "God-given" secret recipe for Huangfu Ruozhou to "rejuvenate his youth" and revive the man's "magnificence".
However, how could he take the initiative to publicize such a thing?Otherwise, it would be too detrimental to his demeanor and virtue as the city lord of the "Border Commandery".
--Humph!That old immortal guy, does he still have any virtue and conscience at all? !
Also, the Hall Master of the Nine Worlds Hall, who was originally famous, relied on the "appearance" of Huangfu Ruozhou, the city lord of Ngee'an County, and the "credible endorsement" of real cases in the name of the city lord. ", when treating other royals, nobles, and officials, he slowly infiltrated this unique "secret remedy" for them, openly and secretly.
Gradually, more and more people knew about this evil prescription in private; later, more and more people came to meet Huangfu Ruozhou in private, secretly looking for traces, relying on connections and looking for ways .
However, Huangfu Yi's heart that can continuously regenerate is becoming more and more different from person to person, and the price is set on the ground, and it goes with the market!
Huangfu Ruozhou would only tell those people:
In this prescription, there is an extremely rare and rare medicinal material, which is not suitable for oneself and cannot be passed on to others; those who need it can only follow the rules and go to his house to eat alone, and cannot bring other servants, attendants or guards with them.
Those visitors who sat at the same table with Huangfu Ruozhou, regardless of their names and backgrounds, have one thing in common:
That is, they can all form a chain of benefit transmission or exchange with Huangfu Ruozhou.
Or, the rich merchants who monopolize one side’s resources, some are for daily use of agricultural products, some are for transportation channels, some are for prosperous stores, etc.;
Either, the dignitaries of the places where the sole power is in power, some have military reserves, some have checkpoint permits, some have factional connections, and so on.
However, it took about ten years of hard work before Huangfu Ruozhou, according to his own plan, infiltrated the network of rights and relationships with himself as the core, step by step, in an orderly manner, into the famous palace less than a hundred miles away from the imperial capital. in town...
No one knows that his faint and infinite longing for the supreme position and his growing self-confidence in seizing the position are all based on the fact that he must drink a bowl of his own son's heart and liver as medicine on the anniversary of his death every month. Based on "Full Drink Yangyuan Dabu Soup"!
Therefore, after Huangfu Yi escaped from the city of Ngee'an County without permission, how could he, a frenzied and power-hungry father, send wave after wave of dead servants in the name of offering rewards to find children all over the city? And mercenaries, dig three feet to capture Huangfu Yi alive, can't you? !
Let's go back to one of the instigators who created the "Great Tonic Recipe", the master of the Ninth Hall.
It is rumored that 30 or [-] years ago, he was still a man who only dared to set up a booth with a small table and a small sail flag on the corner of the most prosperous commercial street in Ngee An County on the first and fifteenth day of each month. Passers-by calculate their fortunes, look at the simple symptoms of wind and cold, and then look for opportunities to sell a few bottles to visitors. Even he himself does not know what ingredients are in it, so he grinds it out and sells it on the market. ".
Just like that, he really lived a miserable life of living without a fixed place for several years, walking around the streets, and cheating and selling "medicine".
For him, it was really lucky. Later, he ran into that wandering Taoist named "Wuweizi" by chance on the street. The two hit it off very much when they first met.
At that time, if Wuweizi hadn't shown him this "bright road" that could connect him with Huangfu Ruozhou, I'm afraid that the future head of the Ninth Hall would have "starved to death" long ago? !
Without Wuweizi's patronage and support, there would be no Jiushitang, which is large and famous today, and naturally, there would be no such "good man from all directions" who can cure almost all diseases.
Gradually, thanks to the "coincidental coincidence" that Huangfu Ruozhou, the city lord of Yi'an County, was cured of the ills left by years of fighting, the name and art of the Hall of Nine Generations masters became more and more well known.
On weekdays, when he went to the clinic, he never had any daily anecdotal cases that could not be cured; in this way, over time, even if he wanted to keep a low profile and not be famous, it would be difficult for him to succeed. It's blue...
Therefore, don't just look at it, right now, Huangfu Yi's body is just a 17-year-old, handsome and sickly boy.
However, everything he has experienced in and out of the Yi'an county mansion in the past is far more than other men of the same age, much more!
At the same time, Huangfu Yi still doesn't quite understand that in his body, there have always been two traces of immortal and demon remnant souls that should not belong to him at all!
One is the "old and immortal" God of War who can be truly called "long live", as always, honor and disgrace are not surprised, and happiness and anger are invisible;
Li Wu, that was the ruthless lord who was able to sacrifice to the sky with a single sword for the stability of the Three Realms, Seven Clans, Eight Desolations and Liuhe.
The other one is the old demon king who is not afraid of the sky and the earth, and even the God of War is only a tie with him. As always, he has a dark heart and cruel means;
Rong Xiao, that is the infatuated seed who has broken into the fairy world and made troubles for his most beloved woman, and has been in charge of the demon clan for tens of thousands of years!
However, his personality, behavior, ideas... It's hard not to be influenced by these two people who used to sit at the top of the world of immortals and demons.
The reason why Liang Ziyu deliberately concealed from Jiu Xiaohan, what he knew about the true origin of the rumored "miracle doctor" hall master, he had his own plans and considerations.
On the one hand, he has already told Jiu Xiaohan a few lies before, and next, he must cover them with bigger lies one after another, and the lies must be seamlessly connected with each other. kind of.
Liang Ziyu's "wolf boy" identity, he must continue to play without any flaws.
However, he is bound to continue to make good use of Jiu Xiaohan, who is willing to protect him with his body.
Because, Huangfu Yi must take revenge, not only for his mother, not only for himself, but also before his father Huangfu Ruozhou rebelled, he must commit the crimes committed by the Ninth Five-Year Master in the famous mansion of the imperial capital behind his back. All kinds of crimes committed by him are made public to the world, so that he will be punished as he deserves.
I'm afraid that at this very moment, Huangfu Ruozhou, who was still enjoying the night with those dozens of wives and concubines, never thought of:
I was planning when to turn against the man in the famous mansion in the imperial capital, and my own "Yao'er", who had been abandoned by me long ago and put his heart into soup, was also trying my best, secretly planning when to turn against him!
In this world, Huangfu Yi has long understood a truth:
If it is, everyone around you is queuing up, salivating, baring their teeth, trying to occupy your heart and soul; even if you try your best, you will eventually die.
Within the high walls of the majestic and heavily guarded city of Yi'an County, Huangfu Yi has been fighting alone for too long, and has tolerated those beastly beasts for too long!
If it wasn't for him, he would have taken the opportunity to escape long ago because he was alone in order to be with his mother.
The biological mother, Zhao Jinling, was in the fire and gave up trying to survive. Perhaps, it was also to help Huangfu Yi make up his mind to leave the city of Yi'an County completely.
Previously, it was not that Zhao Jinling had thought of the so-called "untie the bell and tie the bell" method to stop her husband Huangfu Ruozhou who never loved her at all from doing more crimes!
She had tried to plead with the head of the Nine World Hall, and even pleaded with Taoist Wuweizi at the Qingxin Temple, hoping that they could get rid of the heart-eating formula that they had provided to Huangfu Ruozhou before.
Perhaps, in that case, Huangfu Yi would no longer have to bear the crime of being "gouged out of his heart" by his biological father and brother.
It's a pity that Zhao Jinling at that time was still too naive...
At the beginning, she mistakenly believed in Wuweizi, thinking that as long as she obtained from Wuweizi, that piece of protective jade that could suppress the outbreak of evil energy in Huangfuyi's body, Huangfuyi would be able to get rid of the bad luck of becoming a biological father. !
——No, to be more precise, Zhao Jinling still misbelieved in human nature itself.
She couldn't even imagine that the greed and crime of the nobles of the royal family could reach such a level!
After personally experiencing the death of his biological mother Zhao Jinling, Huangfu Yi became even more loathe and hated this world.
For him, the so-called true feelings are the most unreliable and unreliable things.
Therefore, at this moment, all kinds of intimacy that Huangfu Yi showed to Jiu Xiaohan were full of his various calculations behind him, to cover up all kinds of black belly in his heart.
Once, in the future, if Jiu Xiaohan repents, makes a slip of the tongue, and wants to part ways with her "Liangziyu brother" because of some irrelevant people or things, then Huangfuyi will definitely not make it easy for her.
One day, he will let Jiu Xiaohan see with his own eyes how shameless and despicable the good master she keeps talking about, and the "good man from all directions" she is about to meet!
In the end, there are not many loves in the world, who decides what is right and what is wrong, the grievances and resentments in the previous life have not been resolved, and both good and evil are wrong...
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(End of this chapter)
"Before, my wandering master once mentioned to me: all the patients who were healed by the master of the Ninth Hall were all cured by the medicine! But..."
The tone of Jiu Xiaohan's words was very firm, and Liang Ziyu really admired and admired her for her serious attitude towards people and things.
Just listen to what she said next, and continued:
"But, of course...Actually, these should all be based on my hearsay. It's not because my master said all kinds of good things about him, and before I have verified it with my own eyes, I can't casually Believe it easily—the reason is the same. Therefore, this is the reason why I must go to Yi'an County to meet him...Ziyu, can you understand?"
"Yeah, I got it."
Liang Ziyu nodded and responded.
However, both of them knew that the legendary master of the Hall of Nine Generations was often not in the main hall in Yi'an County; , is also true.
"However, Miss Xiaohan, after hearing what you said just now, I am also somewhat puzzled: Since the hall master is always running around outside, how can everyone know that this person's medical skills are unparalleled Woolen cloth?"
"Well, of course, many people have seen his ability with their own eyes!"
"I……"
The corners of Liang Ziyu's mouth curled up slightly, and she smiled shallowly and lowly, but it was fleeting, and Jiu Xiaohan didn't notice it at all.
▽▽▽▽
As the son of Xiaoqi County in Yi'an County, Huangfu Yi has not only witnessed the medical skills of the Ninth Hall Master with his own eyes, has he? !
If, at the beginning, it wasn't for the "authoritative diagnosis" made by the Hall Master of the Ninth World Hall, coupled with the "bewitching rumors" of the Taoist hunter Wu Weizi, how could he, Huangfu Yi, be in his current situation?
The two of them are like dogs of a feather, and they both decided that Huangfu Yi's spare heart and liver can be used as the best nourishing ingredients for medicine.
They also wrote it into the "tribute" to Huangfu Yi's father, Wang Yi'an County City Lord Huangfu Ruozhou, who used it to prolong life and even promoted it as a "magic" prescription with the effect of "immortality".
——One is the master of Qingxin Temple, who slays demons and demons, and benefits the common people, and the other is the hall master of the Nine Generations Hall with a prominent reputation, letting his father feed on the heart and liver of his own son. How can they actually write it well? !
However, on the other hand, it would be biased to say that the head of the Ninth Hall has no real abilities and is only a name.
He and Wu Weizi jointly developed the royal family's folk prescription, which is called "Quanyin Yangyuan Dabu Decoction", in terms of its nourishing and conditioning effects, it is indeed very powerful.
Not only did it make Huangfu Ruozhou, who had just passed his forty years, his original short white hair gradually turn back to thick black; moreover, even the aging wrinkles on his face gradually faded away.
Even, in the next three consecutive years, Huangfu went to his own backyard one after another like a boat, and brought in the twelve new concubines one after another. All of them were young and beautiful, as beautiful as flowers and jade.
Almost every three months, there will be a big wedding banquet in the city mansion; and, every season, there will be brides coming in, and it has already become a gossip that everyone knows in the streets and alleys inside and outside Yi'an County. It's time for a "beautiful talk"!
Not only the servants who were watching the night outside the bedroom door, but also the patrolling guards with knives, were getting tired of hearing the joyous sound coming from the inner garden every night.
Slowly, everyone tacitly formed an unwritten rule: as long as those endless voices start, that is, they can sneak around, take a nap, avoid detours, and move around freely. It's time.
If, if we say that the female relatives in the county prince's mansion can generally be as lively as the big palace in the famous imperial capital, it seems that it is not an exaggeration.
The father devours (eats) the heart of the child.
——This is the "God-given" secret recipe for Huangfu Ruozhou to "rejuvenate his youth" and revive the man's "magnificence".
However, how could he take the initiative to publicize such a thing?Otherwise, it would be too detrimental to his demeanor and virtue as the city lord of the "Border Commandery".
--Humph!That old immortal guy, does he still have any virtue and conscience at all? !
Also, the Hall Master of the Nine Worlds Hall, who was originally famous, relied on the "appearance" of Huangfu Ruozhou, the city lord of Ngee'an County, and the "credible endorsement" of real cases in the name of the city lord. ", when treating other royals, nobles, and officials, he slowly infiltrated this unique "secret remedy" for them, openly and secretly.
Gradually, more and more people knew about this evil prescription in private; later, more and more people came to meet Huangfu Ruozhou in private, secretly looking for traces, relying on connections and looking for ways .
However, Huangfu Yi's heart that can continuously regenerate is becoming more and more different from person to person, and the price is set on the ground, and it goes with the market!
Huangfu Ruozhou would only tell those people:
In this prescription, there is an extremely rare and rare medicinal material, which is not suitable for oneself and cannot be passed on to others; those who need it can only follow the rules and go to his house to eat alone, and cannot bring other servants, attendants or guards with them.
Those visitors who sat at the same table with Huangfu Ruozhou, regardless of their names and backgrounds, have one thing in common:
That is, they can all form a chain of benefit transmission or exchange with Huangfu Ruozhou.
Or, the rich merchants who monopolize one side’s resources, some are for daily use of agricultural products, some are for transportation channels, some are for prosperous stores, etc.;
Either, the dignitaries of the places where the sole power is in power, some have military reserves, some have checkpoint permits, some have factional connections, and so on.
However, it took about ten years of hard work before Huangfu Ruozhou, according to his own plan, infiltrated the network of rights and relationships with himself as the core, step by step, in an orderly manner, into the famous palace less than a hundred miles away from the imperial capital. in town...
No one knows that his faint and infinite longing for the supreme position and his growing self-confidence in seizing the position are all based on the fact that he must drink a bowl of his own son's heart and liver as medicine on the anniversary of his death every month. Based on "Full Drink Yangyuan Dabu Soup"!
Therefore, after Huangfu Yi escaped from the city of Ngee'an County without permission, how could he, a frenzied and power-hungry father, send wave after wave of dead servants in the name of offering rewards to find children all over the city? And mercenaries, dig three feet to capture Huangfu Yi alive, can't you? !
Let's go back to one of the instigators who created the "Great Tonic Recipe", the master of the Ninth Hall.
It is rumored that 30 or [-] years ago, he was still a man who only dared to set up a booth with a small table and a small sail flag on the corner of the most prosperous commercial street in Ngee An County on the first and fifteenth day of each month. Passers-by calculate their fortunes, look at the simple symptoms of wind and cold, and then look for opportunities to sell a few bottles to visitors. Even he himself does not know what ingredients are in it, so he grinds it out and sells it on the market. ".
Just like that, he really lived a miserable life of living without a fixed place for several years, walking around the streets, and cheating and selling "medicine".
For him, it was really lucky. Later, he ran into that wandering Taoist named "Wuweizi" by chance on the street. The two hit it off very much when they first met.
At that time, if Wuweizi hadn't shown him this "bright road" that could connect him with Huangfu Ruozhou, I'm afraid that the future head of the Ninth Hall would have "starved to death" long ago? !
Without Wuweizi's patronage and support, there would be no Jiushitang, which is large and famous today, and naturally, there would be no such "good man from all directions" who can cure almost all diseases.
Gradually, thanks to the "coincidental coincidence" that Huangfu Ruozhou, the city lord of Yi'an County, was cured of the ills left by years of fighting, the name and art of the Hall of Nine Generations masters became more and more well known.
On weekdays, when he went to the clinic, he never had any daily anecdotal cases that could not be cured; in this way, over time, even if he wanted to keep a low profile and not be famous, it would be difficult for him to succeed. It's blue...
Therefore, don't just look at it, right now, Huangfu Yi's body is just a 17-year-old, handsome and sickly boy.
However, everything he has experienced in and out of the Yi'an county mansion in the past is far more than other men of the same age, much more!
At the same time, Huangfu Yi still doesn't quite understand that in his body, there have always been two traces of immortal and demon remnant souls that should not belong to him at all!
One is the "old and immortal" God of War who can be truly called "long live", as always, honor and disgrace are not surprised, and happiness and anger are invisible;
Li Wu, that was the ruthless lord who was able to sacrifice to the sky with a single sword for the stability of the Three Realms, Seven Clans, Eight Desolations and Liuhe.
The other one is the old demon king who is not afraid of the sky and the earth, and even the God of War is only a tie with him. As always, he has a dark heart and cruel means;
Rong Xiao, that is the infatuated seed who has broken into the fairy world and made troubles for his most beloved woman, and has been in charge of the demon clan for tens of thousands of years!
However, his personality, behavior, ideas... It's hard not to be influenced by these two people who used to sit at the top of the world of immortals and demons.
The reason why Liang Ziyu deliberately concealed from Jiu Xiaohan, what he knew about the true origin of the rumored "miracle doctor" hall master, he had his own plans and considerations.
On the one hand, he has already told Jiu Xiaohan a few lies before, and next, he must cover them with bigger lies one after another, and the lies must be seamlessly connected with each other. kind of.
Liang Ziyu's "wolf boy" identity, he must continue to play without any flaws.
However, he is bound to continue to make good use of Jiu Xiaohan, who is willing to protect him with his body.
Because, Huangfu Yi must take revenge, not only for his mother, not only for himself, but also before his father Huangfu Ruozhou rebelled, he must commit the crimes committed by the Ninth Five-Year Master in the famous mansion of the imperial capital behind his back. All kinds of crimes committed by him are made public to the world, so that he will be punished as he deserves.
I'm afraid that at this very moment, Huangfu Ruozhou, who was still enjoying the night with those dozens of wives and concubines, never thought of:
I was planning when to turn against the man in the famous mansion in the imperial capital, and my own "Yao'er", who had been abandoned by me long ago and put his heart into soup, was also trying my best, secretly planning when to turn against him!
In this world, Huangfu Yi has long understood a truth:
If it is, everyone around you is queuing up, salivating, baring their teeth, trying to occupy your heart and soul; even if you try your best, you will eventually die.
Within the high walls of the majestic and heavily guarded city of Yi'an County, Huangfu Yi has been fighting alone for too long, and has tolerated those beastly beasts for too long!
If it wasn't for him, he would have taken the opportunity to escape long ago because he was alone in order to be with his mother.
The biological mother, Zhao Jinling, was in the fire and gave up trying to survive. Perhaps, it was also to help Huangfu Yi make up his mind to leave the city of Yi'an County completely.
Previously, it was not that Zhao Jinling had thought of the so-called "untie the bell and tie the bell" method to stop her husband Huangfu Ruozhou who never loved her at all from doing more crimes!
She had tried to plead with the head of the Nine World Hall, and even pleaded with Taoist Wuweizi at the Qingxin Temple, hoping that they could get rid of the heart-eating formula that they had provided to Huangfu Ruozhou before.
Perhaps, in that case, Huangfu Yi would no longer have to bear the crime of being "gouged out of his heart" by his biological father and brother.
It's a pity that Zhao Jinling at that time was still too naive...
At the beginning, she mistakenly believed in Wuweizi, thinking that as long as she obtained from Wuweizi, that piece of protective jade that could suppress the outbreak of evil energy in Huangfuyi's body, Huangfuyi would be able to get rid of the bad luck of becoming a biological father. !
——No, to be more precise, Zhao Jinling still misbelieved in human nature itself.
She couldn't even imagine that the greed and crime of the nobles of the royal family could reach such a level!
After personally experiencing the death of his biological mother Zhao Jinling, Huangfu Yi became even more loathe and hated this world.
For him, the so-called true feelings are the most unreliable and unreliable things.
Therefore, at this moment, all kinds of intimacy that Huangfu Yi showed to Jiu Xiaohan were full of his various calculations behind him, to cover up all kinds of black belly in his heart.
Once, in the future, if Jiu Xiaohan repents, makes a slip of the tongue, and wants to part ways with her "Liangziyu brother" because of some irrelevant people or things, then Huangfuyi will definitely not make it easy for her.
One day, he will let Jiu Xiaohan see with his own eyes how shameless and despicable the good master she keeps talking about, and the "good man from all directions" she is about to meet!
In the end, there are not many loves in the world, who decides what is right and what is wrong, the grievances and resentments in the previous life have not been resolved, and both good and evil are wrong...
▽▽▽▽
(End of this chapter)
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