After returning from Helu Pavilion, Li Chongrun plunged into the warehouse previously used to store medicinal materials and rummaged through a pile of old things.
"Remember what I saw before, where did it go?" Li Chongrun was looking for two medicinal materials that were often used by Taoist priests to make elixirs. The gall alum was still in its original location. He just rummaged through several rooms, but couldn't find the turmeric.
arrive.
"Brother Run, what are you looking for?" The hunchbacked cousin came over and asked very curiously, "Tomorrow, the bachelor said that he will take a test on the recitation of the Great Cloud Sutra. If you don't hurry up, you will get slapped on the palm again."
"That's what my brother said. I'm just looking for some medicinal materials, but I can't find them." Li Chongrun's fat face looked worried. If there was no turmeric, his previous plan might have to be changed, fearing that there would be more trouble.
.
"You can't be looking for sulfur, right? Someone from the palace came over a few days ago and said they needed it for the celebration to ward off evil spirits, so they took it all away."
The hunchbacked cousin has grown up and no longer needs to go to Helv Pavilion for classes on weekdays. There is just no place to go and the brothers are young. In addition to practicing calligraphy all day long, they are like housekeepers, doing daily sweeping and organizing.
.
"Did you take away the turmeric?" Although the sulfur that was taken away was also very important to Li Chongrun, he just couldn't use it today, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
"I took the turmeric to marinate the grouse a few days ago. It should still be in the alchemy room." Li Chongrun remembered that he tried to make curry chicken a few days ago. Although it failed, he forgot to put away the ingredients.
"It's good that you're still here. Brother Fan was hit on the head by his cousin today, and he saw a big bump. I thought about boiling some turmeric water to help him remove the blood stasis."
"It's Xue Chongxun again. Now that we are in peace, a man with a foreign surname has climbed on top of us." The hunchback cousin's expression was a little gloomy. "It's just that the situation is stronger than the person. At the moment, we should just endure it. As the saying goes.
A gentleman takes revenge. It is never too late in ten years."
"Brother, I'm only eight years old now. I'm still a little man. I can't be called a gentleman."
A gentleman's revenge is never too late in ten years, while a villain's revenge is naturally from morning to night.
I boiled water with turmeric and applied it firmly on Brother Fan's forehead several times. I don't know if this is really effective or if the child has a strong recovery ability and the lump gradually disappeared.
"Brother Fan's forehead is golden and has a bulge, just like the Golden Horned King in Journey to the West." Li Chongrun blew on the turmeric water he applied for the last time to make it dry faster, but his brother's
The look is really funny, I can't help but laugh.
Brother Fan was not angry after being laughed at by his brother. He raised his head proudly: "If it weren't for this bag, I wouldn't be able to eat snacks today."
Dinner was delivered on time today. Li Chongrun brought a bowl of porridge himself. He excused himself that he was a little tired and went back to his room to sleep. Everyone didn't think much about it. They each recited today's homework and dispersed.
Because it rained heavily yesterday, it was particularly cool this night. The sky was overcast and the stars and moon could not be seen.
Wrapping a few things that he had just prepared with oil paper, Li Chongrun sneaked out of the Five Kings Palace. The reeds beside the creek and Jiujiang Pond had not yet been cut down, and his fat figure was completely covered. Several patrol teams
The guards passed by but didn't notice the little fat man hiding inside.
The hazy night gradually darkened. After seeing that no one was around, the little fat man Li Chongrun touched the wall of the small courtyard where cousin Xue lived. He didn't know whether it was cold or nervous, but he took out the things tremblingly.
Wrapped in oil paper were several pieces of yellow paper, a bamboo tube, and a small ball of tinder stained with lamp oil and alum, which looked a little bluish in color. A few silk threads simply strung these things together, and it was vaguely a large
The shape of a small funnel.
Li Chongrun peed a stream of boy's urine on the ground. He found a small wooden stick, dipped some of it on the yellow paper, and a few words written with turmeric water gradually appeared on the paper.
Li Chongrun opened the bamboo tube again and blew it gently, and a little spark shone like a firefly on a summer night. It turned out to be a fire fold.
Because some alum was sprinkled on the tinder, the flames were not the usual bright yellow, but a very strange green, swaying faintly, and the silhouette of Li Chongrun's fat little face was very strange.
Opening the funnel made of yellow paper and carrying the heat of the flame, a simple version of the Kongming Lantern rose up slowly. It was only pulled by silk threads and was only as high as the second floor.
Cousin Xue is still awake at the moment and is playing around with a palace servant on the bed.
A few days ago, when he went to the newly built Princess Mansion with his mother to introduce himself, he met a few future relatives, played together for a few days, and learned some very happy tricks. When he came back today, he wanted to be a member of the palace.
Show it on your body.
Cousin Xue felt a little angry when he heard noises outside the window. He didn't want to pay attention to it, but the sound of knocking on the window several times really annoyed him. So he held up his pants with one hand and pushed the window open with the other.
He also muttered something: "Young master, I want to see which blind thing dares to ruin your good deeds?"
But as soon as the window was opened, a green will-o'-the-wisp was seen outside floating tremblingly in the air. Above the will-o'-the-wisp were several bloody characters: Xue Chongxun, take your life! The words seemed to be getting redder and redder.
It was so deep that blood seemed to be flowing down.
Accompanied by a sharp meow, Cousin Xue rolled his eyes, made a growl in his throat, turned over, and fell down. A cloud of moisture spread faintly from under him, and he actually peed out of fear.
Hearing the movement in the courtyard, Li Chongrun loosened his hands, and the Kongming Lantern flew into the sky.
While lamenting that my arrogant cousin was really unlucky, who knew that opening the window would scare the civet cat wandering by the window, but at the same time I secretly felt that my cousin actually fainted when he saw a Kongming Lantern. This was too cowardly.
some.
Hearing the increasingly noisy voices inside, Li Chongrun was very satisfied. Humming a little tune, he slipped along the wall and entered the tall reed marsh.
"Get up, get up, get up quickly!"
Early the next morning, Li Chongrun was woken up by a loud banging on the door.
After sleeping late last night, Li Chongrun felt as if he had lost his soul when he woke up. His head hurt terribly. He walked out of the room in a daze, only to find that other brothers were already standing in the courtyard, all wearing the same clothes.
The untidy and desolate look must have been caused by being woken up. Only my hunchbacked cousin, who was used to getting up early, took care of himself very well.
"Brother, what's wrong?"
"I just heard from the guards on patrol that the boy named Xue saw a ghost last night." The hunchback cousin lowered his voice and whispered in Li Chongrun's ear.
"As the old saying goes, if you walk too much at night, you will eventually encounter ghosts." Li Chongrun sighed, but felt that it would be too old-fashioned to say so, so he swallowed the sentence "If you do evil, you will be killed", and temporarily changed it to
He said: "I must have sneaked out to play last night, and that's why I met the ghost."
"I said I bumped into him in my room. The imperial doctor was notified at that time, but he didn't recover until dawn. Now he has been sent to the temple to pray for blessings and exorcise evil spirits." The hunchbacked cousin's expression became more relaxed.
"Then what are they searching for? Is it possible that they can also find ghosts?"
You definitely can't find such things as ghosts.
Several palace people searched inside and out, and the sky was three feet higher when they left. However, the Five Kings Palace was so poor that even mice would starve to death if they came in, so there was really nothing to gain.
"Princess has an order. Someone from the Witch Gu Nightmare Town is causing harm to the harem. No one is allowed to leave until the murderer is found!" A young palace official announced Princess Taiping's order with raised eyebrows, and his voice was very sharp.
"promise!"
After respectfully sending several palace guests out, the two guards locked the door tightly with livid faces and left. There was no one else in the courtyard, so the hunchbacked cousin spread the news he had just found out.
The atmosphere in the courtyard instantly became much happier.
When it was time to deliver dinner, several brothers looked out of the windows on the courtyard wall eagerly, but they never saw the ugly and fat man delivering the food. Instead, they saw a group of honor guards walking away in the distance.
come over.
The wind was getting stronger and stronger, blowing the ceremonial guard a little topsy-turvy. It wasn't until they got closer that everyone saw clearly that it was the luan frame of their aunt Princess Taiping.
"Princess Taiping has arrived!" With a shrill voice from the small yellow door, the door that had been closed for a day was suddenly opened from the outside. Without making any stop, the princess's Luan frame went straight into the middle as if she were going home.
The alchemy room in the main hall.
All the young gentlemen were kneeling by the gate to greet her, but before they had time to get up, someone from the palace came to convey the princess's decree and asked everyone to go to the main hall to talk.
Because the princess had just remarried the emperor's nephew, Li Chongrun really hadn't seen much of this aunt who once lived with him in the west city in recent times. When he saw her today, she seemed a little unrecognizable.
Maybe it's because the newly married prince-in-law is more to his liking. Princess Taiping no longer looks like the harem-like woman in her previous impression. She has become much plumper, and she is more and more in line with the Tang Dynasty's advocating for a round sky and a round earth.
Aesthetics. The worries that were as cold as ice between my brows in the past seem to have dissipated a lot.
She was wearing a half-sleeved skirt, and a transparent sleeveless gauze gown with an open placket. Not only was half of her arm exposed, but even her surging career line was exposed. Although for Li Chongrun,
For an old pervert who has been bombarded with information in the previous life, it can only be regarded as commonplace. But for young people of this era, it is very bold.
But at this moment, Princess Taiping's delicate willow-leaf eyebrows were tightly gathered together, and the flame-shaped goose-yellow flowers between her eyebrows made Li Chongrun feel as if he was standing in front of a pile of blazing torches, radiant and scorching.
It's too hard to get close.
"I have met Her Royal Highness Princess Taiping!"
Except for Li Chongrun, who has been demoted to common people, the remaining brothers are either princes or county princes, so they don't need to pay homage. However, facing my aunt, a princess who is very favored by the emperor, she only dares to behave like a commoner in white.
, kowtowed obediently in greeting. Especially the two older brothers wanted to tuck their heads into their crotches, for fear of making this noble woman feel a little disrespectful.
"Get up, we are all a family, we don't need so many rules." Princess Taiping waved her hand lazily, treating it as a return gift.
But before the brothers could stand up, the princess asked in her somewhat lazy voice: "I have heard some bad news, do you know about it?"
Li Chongrun hadn't gotten up yet, but after hearing these words, he gave up his plan to get up. His aunt probably had no intention of letting everyone get up today.
The brothers glanced at each other, but they all just shrank their heads and continued to kneel honestly.
"I'm asking you a question, do you know or don't you know?" A little Huang Meng said in a shrill voice, very piercingly.
Li Chongrun had a stiff neck and wanted to answer, but his hunchbacked cousin Li Shouli replied a little faster than him: "Your Highness, Princess Qi, we don't know."
"I haven't asked anything yet, and you just said you don't know. Are you determined to hide it from me? Come here, please go and strike ten sticks first to kill the majesty of my eldest nephew." Princess Taiping's voice was still soft and waxy.
Lazy, but the words are very cold.
The hunchbacked Li Shouli was silently escorted out by the two small yellow doors. He seemed to be used to it and did not even dare to say a word of grievance or injustice.
A moment later, a burst of flesh-piercing sounds and hoarse screams came from outside the hall. Hearing this, Li Chongrun's whole body tensed up, a cold air surged out from deep inside his body, and his body began to tremble involuntarily.
Li Shouli collapsed on the ground after being forked back. He tried to struggle to get up on his knees, but his wound was only involved. He climbed up several times without success.
Brother Fan is the youngest and has a crybaby temperament. When he heard that his cousin was being beaten, he had already started sobbing. Now seeing such a tragic situation, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he burst into tears.
"You dare to cry before I speak. Who taught you the rules of such unbecoming behavior?" Princess Taiping's eyes widened and her voice became much louder. It was not as lazy as before, but full of emotions.
There was a hint of hostility: "Hit him with ten sticks and teach him etiquette and rules."
A bolt of lightning pierced the increasingly bleak sky and hit the observation deck high beside the Kyushu Pond. With a deafening sound, two voices rang out at the same time.