Chapter 35: Autopsy
"What's going on here? Doctor, is Sister Tsang still alive? Can she still come to her senses?"
In Marquis Wu Wen's main residence, Mrs. Zhao was still holding the snow-white kitten in her arms, with the two maids standing beside her, but instead of idly resting her eyes with her eyes closed as she had done in the past, she owed it to herself to ask one of the doctors who was taking Sister Zeng's pulse.
Sister Zeng sat on a bench, supported by two maids, her eyes looking forward, dead fish-like.
The physician who took her pulse was an old man in his late sixties, with three willow long beards, his medicine chest placed beside him, and a smell of innocence leaking out of his body.
This was the most famous "Hui Chun Tang" physician in Yujing City.
"Ma'am, forgive me." The old man stood up: "Sister Zeng didn't have a stroke, but lost her spirit, now her body is just a shell, her brain is empty, in a few days, she will be completely cut off from life, and her blood and spirit will be dispersed to death, such a symptom is excessive panic, it is hard for even the immortals to save her, so forgive me for not being able to do anything about it."
Said, carrying the medicine box is going to get up.
"Is it hard to save even the immortals?" Mrs. Zhao stroked the white cat with her hand and waved her hand, "Xiaotong, you take the doctor to the account office to get two taels of consultation money, Xiaohui, place Sister Zeng, carry her to the manor outside of the city first, take the time to carry her out before she breaks her breath, or else in a few days when Concubine Yuan is coming over, it will be too unlucky, in addition, spend a thousand taels of silver to prepare her afterlife, make a forty-nine days of a land and water doxology, do it with a beautiful and bright appearance. be organized in a beautiful and bright manner."
Outside of the city, there are several manors of Marquis Wu Wen's residence, Sister Zeng is now hopeless, naturally carried out to prepare for the aftermath.
Next to the maids each secretly nodded, think Mrs. Zhao disposed properly, Sister Zeng naturally can not die in the mansion, in the manor to give her a thousand taels of silver to support, to do the land and water dojo, is also a graceful burial, do the master and servant affection.
"Go and ask Butler Wu, the Marquis didn't come back yesterday, is there any military affairs to deal with?" Lady Zhao called out to another maid.
That maid promised and then went out, coming back after a pillar of incense, "Butler Wu said that Master went to the palace yesterday by the Empress Dowager's decree to pay a visit to Concubine Yuan, and then went to the Cabinet Hall with a group of ministers to discuss the matter of using military force against Yunmeng, and he might only be able to come back once when Concubine Yuan saves her family."
"Hm? It's been twenty years, is Yunmeng going to make trouble again?" Lady Zhao closed her eyes once again.
After arranging all of this, Lady Zhao waved her hand, "All of you go out and leave me alone to clear my head."
A few maids knowingly retreated.
In the middle of the quiet hall, only Lady Zhao was left sitting alone, her face cloudy: "Indeed a scourge spirit, exactly like that bitch."
Wow!
A mournful scream issued from the white cat's mouth, the little white cat jumped violently and jumped out of Mrs. Zhao's embrace, cowering and hiding in the corner, looking at this master with a terrified gaze.
In Mrs. Zhao's hand, there was an extra pile of snow-white cat hair.
It was ripped off raw just now.
Outside the Jade Capital City.
Jade Capital Guan.
The Jade Capital Temple can be said to be the largest Taoist temple in the Great Qian Country, at the foot of the Jade Dragon Mountain more than ten miles outside of the Jade Capital City, at a glance, there are pavilions and red walled halls everywhere, layer upon layer, the eyes can't even see over.
This Jade Dragon Mountain situation a jade dragon, the Yujing City distant surrounded by half, mountains and beautiful water, is a first-class feng shui treasure.
After the new spring, the first month is already far away, the weather gradually turned warm, the Jade Palace is also a tourist incense weaving, showing a flourishing incense.
At this time, interspersed among the tourists there is an unusual middle-aged man, dressed in brocade clothing, sideburns white, there is a kind of great scholar's breath, but the glossy skin, deep as the starry sky general eyes, but shows the person's extraordinary.
This person is exactly the mainstay of the Great Qian Dynasty, Cabinet Minister, Crown Prince Crown Prince, Wu Wen Hou Hong Xuan Ji, but he should be in the Cabinet of the Imperial Palace at this time to handle the government.
Hong Xuanji slowly walking, seemingly random, but the steps are natural, there is a kind of cloud travel by fog flavor, came to the mountain sparsely traveled Da Dan Hall.
The Great Dan Hall is the place where the Taoist priests of Yujing Guan cultivate and refine pills, and tourists are not allowed to come up.
However, at this moment, on the mountain path of the Great Hall, there were two small Taoist children dressed in black silk Taoist clothes with whisks in their hands to greet them.
"Hmph." Hong Xuanji snorted coldly and ignored these two little Daoist children, walking straight up.
Along the way, one could only smell many, many medicinal qi, interspersed with sulfur, saltpeter, and other fire yao smells. Yujing Guan is the foundation of Fangxian Dao, Fangxian Dao Taoist, in addition to cultivation, is the alchemy of alchemy, but not like the righteousness of the Taoist preaching precepts, Taishang Taoist talk about Taishang forgetfulness Taishang forgetfulness.
In the Daqian Dynasty, there are three major Taoist sects that were enshrined by the emperor, the Fangxian Dao is favored by the princes and nobles for its alchemy and pills, while the Zhengyidao is supported by the court for its precepts to stabilize the people's mind. Taishang Tao is a mysterious and secretive Taoist sect that lives in seclusion in the mountains, practicing the Way of Forgetfulness. However, there are also those who come out of the world to practice, but they are few and far between. But they are still enshrined by the court.
As soon as Hong Xuanji walked into the middle of the main hall compound of the Great Dan Hall, he saw a Taoist priest with a light golden purple face and no beard, sitting under a huge snow pine in the compound with his eyes closed.
The main hall enshrined a huge Taoist ancestor phase, cloaked in starlight haze, holding a jade ruyi, the top of the green gas, the green gas rises to evolve the sun and moon, thunder and lightning.
I do not know what is carved into, this huge Taoist ancestor phase vivid, as if to come to life in general.
Look at this Taoist ancestor phase, people's hearts will produce a kind of heaven and earth, evolution of all things of God feeling.
There is no mistake, it is the feeling of "Transfiguration". After seeing it, it would be stored in one's heart and could not be forgotten like a knife carving, and it would come to life.
"Xiao Anran, what are you doing?"
Hong Xuanji took one look at the Taoist priest sitting underneath the cedar and recognized that this person was the leader of the Fang Xian Dao, Xiao Anran.
"Brother Xuanji, I invited you here today because I heard that Empress Yuan has recognized you as a benefactor?" Xiao Anran did not pay attention to Hong Xuanji's cold drink and smiled.
"You are well-informed." Hong Xuanji said in a cold voice.
"That's natural, I, Fang Xian Dao, have been in and out of the palace, refining pills and gold for the royal family, I still know this bit of information." Xiao Anran looked at Hong Xuanji.
"How dare you!" Hong Xuanji drank: "Since ancient history, the decline of the imperial court is by you monks and Taoist priests pretending to be gods and demons, compelling the human king, only the world declined, sooner or later I will report to the emperor one day, one by one you Taoist priests will be expelled from the imperial court."
"Hmph, brother xuanji, you this science everyone, holding yourself as a man of letters, want to drive out our daoist sect, there is no need to be hard on me, I heard that brother shenji of the Taishang dao has already refined and formed his body after three times of necrotic decomposition, and is going to come out once again this time, how did you treat his sister back then, he will naturally look for you to settle the scores. Let's see how you will withstand his wrath at that time!"
Xiao Anran returned a cold smile.
