Chapter 35: The Story of Burning Books and Burying Confucians
We turned our nervous and numb heads to the clay pot, and there was already a faint red light reflected in the clay pot.
We looked down and saw three eyeball-sized pills sitting quietly at the bottom of the clay pot.
The elixir of life is bright red, the color is not only beautiful, it is simply stunning.
The faint red light reflected the warmth inside the pottery pot. The light of the Immortality Pill was constantly flowing and moving, as if it was alive.
But we didn't reach out to take the elixir. Even Jia Dao, who was most eager for the elixir of longevity, didn't do it. We still haven't recovered from the fact that the book boy lost his hand.
I looked at Lu Sheng and then at Shutong.
I suddenly discovered that the heads, faces, necks, and exposed hands and wrists of the two people were all black. At first, we thought that their bodies were blackened due to alchemy, but it seems that is not the case at all.
Looking at their bodies as black as charcoal, I thought to myself, could their whole bodies have been burned into charcoal? If so, what kind of alchemy method is this? Could it be that they are using themselves as firewood?
Do you use yourself to make elixirs? And if they really turn into charcoal, they can move freely. This is indeed not only magical, but also weird.
Lu Sheng looked at us without moving, and probably guessed what we were thinking, and said gently, "You common people, why are you always confused by external appearances? Come on, please take pills. There are not many opportunities like this."
ah."
Lu Sheng said the same thing. Sometimes people are indeed confused by superficial things. For example, the boss is glamorous and drives a luxury car, but do you know the loan he owes the bank? We don’t know. Sometimes
Don’t even want to know!
I thought for a while, stretched out my hand, and thought, why don't I take one first?
When Jia Dao heard this, he agreed even more, and without hesitation picked up a pill that could give him immortality from the clay pot.
Xu Huizhu and I looked at it, nodded, and each of us took the longevity pills one by one in our hands.
The elixir of longevity kept spinning in my hand. The pill was warm and smooth, and felt particularly comfortable to the touch, but it really didn't look like an ordinary thing.
"Eat, why don't you eat it? It's very delicious. This is an elixir made specially for you. How can you not eat it?" Lu Sheng's words were very gentle.
But to my ears, it sounded a little creepy, like the old witch who tricked Snow White into eating the poisoned apple.
I lowered my head and looked at the Immortality Pill carefully. It was bright in color, but it made me feel uncomfortable.
At this time, Jia Dao put the pill into his mouth and started chewing it.
Suddenly, I shouted to Jia Dao, "Don't eat!"
Because when I lowered my head to look at the elixir, a pungent smell of blood penetrated my nostrils. The longevity elixir did not have that slightly bitter fragrance at all.
But Lu Sheng became ferocious and shouted, "Eat! You must eat the pill!"
I raised my head and wanted to glare at Lu Sheng, but I was startled.
Because the behavior of Lu Sheng and Shutong changed again.
When they first met Lu Sheng, Lu Sheng was plainly dressed and elegant in appearance. The book boy was lively and cute, with diligent hands and feet. After refining the elixir of longevity, the two of them turned dark, but they still looked like the same person.
But at this moment, they are no longer human at all.
The clothes of Lu Sheng and Shutong were already covered in sparks, and large chunks of their clothes were melted, exposing the skin of their bodies and limbs.
Sure enough, just as I guessed, their bodies had become like charcoal.
The charcoal fire on the bodies of Lu Sheng and Shutong was burning. There were only two pieces of red charcoal fire in the place where the two eyes were, but the charcoal fire here was burning brightly, much redder than other places. The noses of Lu Sheng and Shutong were also burning.
It's gone, only a slightly raised bag.
Lu Sheng couldn't help but sneer and roar at us, but we didn't pay attention to what he was shouting at all. Because in Lu Sheng's open mouth, the white teeth and red tongue were no longer visible, and there was only a piece of it left.
Pitch black.
Xu Huizhu and I looked down at the longevity pills in our hands. We both yelled in unison and threw the longevity pills in our hands to the ground.
Because the Immortality Pill is no longer the Immortality Pill, it is a human eyeball, it is bleeding, bloody ~ human eyeball.
Jia Dao looked at the eyeballs thrown away in our hands and suddenly remembered the pill he was chewing in his mouth. He couldn't help but let out a "wow" and vomited until there was nothing left to vomit.
, still retching non-stop, and the body became bent like a shrimp due to the violent vomiting.
I'm scared, I don't know what happened?
At this time, the surrounding scene has changed.
The house we live in is no longer an exquisite ancient building, but in ruins. The four beams and eight columns supporting the house are tilted this way and that, and the exquisite window lattice carvings are badly damaged.
The walls have collapsed, the roofs are exposed to the sky, and there is a black scorched earth underground. All of these have one thing in common, that is, they are all black. It is like someone set a huge fire here, and here is
It looked like it had been burned, and there was even thick smoke rising from many places.
The slips and slips on the ground had been burnt into a mess, and most of them had been burnt to ashes. It was hard to tell how many of them there were.
Jia Dao groaned and walked behind Xu Huizhu and me in a panic. We stared at Lu Sheng and Shutong in a daze, not daring to say anything.
Lu Sheng raised his head and kept yelling at the sky, screaming "Ah!"
I have already taken precautions. This monster named Lu Sheng will never let us go easily, but we will never sit back and wait to be killed! Because I am Young Master Long, the famous Young Master Long!
Xu Huizhu, who had regained consciousness, asked the scholar in a slightly trembling voice, "Who are you? We have no grudges in the past and no grudges in the near future. Please don't embarrass us!"
"You blind guys, I won't let you go! I want you dead!" Lu Sheng continued to roar, disapprovingly.
"But we don't have any hatred? By the way, with you looking like this, someone must have harmed you like this?" Xu Huizhu and Lu Sheng talked to delay time, while I looked around to check the situation and prepared to run out.
"Yes, I am like this because someone harmed me. I hate it so much, I hate it so much!" Lu Sheng's voice was filled with tears.
"What's going on? Who is that?" Xu Huizhu asked.
"Qin Shihuang! Xu Fu! You all have been stabbed a thousand times, I will not let you go! I want revenge!"
"Qin Shi Huang? Xu Fu?" Not only Xu Huizhu was curious, but I also felt very strange. What does this have to do with Qin Shi Huang and Xu Fu? My curiosity couldn't help but be aroused.
"Lu Sheng, are you saying that you were harmed like this by Qin Shi Huang and others?" I asked.
"It's not them or who is it?" Lu Sheng gritted his teeth and said, "For the sake of books and articles and cars on the same track, he burned us and our books under Xu Fu's instigation, and even buried us! They are so cruel.
!Woooo!" Lu Sheng started to cry as he spoke. The cry was horrifying and the howling made us uneasy.
However, Lu Sheng said that Qin Shihuang burned them and their books and buried them for the sake of the same text. Could it be that they were...? And that familiar person named Xu Fu was the one who was looking for the elixir of immortality for Qin Shihuang.
Woolen cloth?
Xu Huizhu and I looked at each other, and Jia Dao also turned his gaze towards us. At the same time, we thought of a famous event in history - burning books and humiliating Confucians!
The burning of books and the entrapment of Confucians is a real thing in history.
It is said that Li Si, the Prime Minister of the Qin Dynasty, proposed to Qin Shihuang to burn the private books other than "History of Qin" because the Confucian scholars at that time were discussing the government affairs indiscriminately, kill the Confucian scholars who were discussing the government affairs indiscriminately, and then bury the bodies of the Confucian scholars, so as to achieve the purpose of writing the same text in the books.
There has been a lot of criticism about this incident in history, and it has become one of the symbols of Qin Shihuang's cruelty.
And now someone has verified it, saying that there was no printing technology in the Qin Dynasty at that time, and a large number of "private schools" emerged. Articles were written on slips. Everyone who wrote a book had his own ideas, which made every book
Books with the same content turned out to be completely different in the end. Therefore, the books must have the same text, and books other than "official" books must be burned.
The Confucian scholars who were tricked were just alchemists. It is said that the leader was named Lu Sheng. He was tricked by Qin Shihuang for making random elixirs. Is this Lu Sheng the same Lu Sheng? But what does it have to do with Xu Fu?
Putting these things aside for now, it was Qin Shihuang who killed you, Lu Sheng, not us, so why can’t he get along with us?
I treat Lu Shengxiao rationally and emotionally, "We did not do this. Every injustice has its owner. If you want revenge, go to Qin Shihuang and Xu Fu. Yes, it has nothing to do with us. Since this matter
The matter has nothing to do with us.
I looked at Lu Sheng and said sympathetically, "You don't need to keep us for dinner. We have other things to do, so we won't bother you anymore. We'll keep in touch when we have time. Goodbye!"
After saying that, I grabbed Xu Huizhu and Jia Dao one by one, ready to take the opportunity to leave.
But Lu Sheng looked at us and burst out laughing, making us laugh so hard that we didn't understand why.
Lu Sheng said to us, "You can't leave!"
I wondered, "Why can't I walk?"
Lu Sheng's voice suddenly became gentle, "I need you, I need your yang energy!" After saying that, he couldn't help but laugh, the laughter was dry and harsh!