Chapter 8: Golden Lotus
Guo Zhongyong's request, Empress Dowager Cixi naturally want to rush to agree, eight hundred miles to expedite the white jade altar, once again eight hundred miles to send back. I heard that the road light horse are exhausted eight, white jade altar arrived, Guo Zhongyong with the green child first out of the door. This green child, wearing a small green jacket, looks surprisingly cute feeling, who can see, perhaps because Guo Zhongyong on the hanging of the old Taoist guilt, or perhaps this child is indeed a matter of great importance, Guo Zhongyong on this child, with their own children as much as the same view, he took this child out, behind the guards with the alabaster altar, they go to the place, exactly that! The place where they went was the eighteen layers of hell next to the river of quicksand.
A young man with a child, it was a lovely picture, when they passed the pagoda of the eighteen layers of hell, they arrived at the river of quicksand, Guo Zhongyong said to the green waifu, "You're going to live in this from now on, okay?"
"Good is good, the problem is, is there anyone to play with me?" Green Wazi asked.
"There may not be any now, but there will be a lot of them in the future, and there will be a lot of little kids over here to keep you company." Guo Zhongyong said.
Green Wazi nodded and said, "That's fine, then you have to come to see Green Wazi often in the future."
Guo Zhongyong touched his head and didn't say anything, he beckoned to the soldier and asked the soldier to send over the white jade altar, This white jade altar was so big that it could fit the whole Green Wazi, Guo Zhongyong put the Green Wazi into the altar and said to him, "Remember, you're a Green Wazi and you're a senior, you live at the white altar, and after this place there will still be Yellow Pi, and even more so later on there will be a bearded guy. Yellow Pipes also lives at the white altar, when Yellow Pipes is in great danger, Green Wazi will go to Big Beard and tell Big Beard to save Yellow Pipes, is that okay?"
Green Wazi nodded and said, "Then when will you come to fetch Green Wazi?"
"When I become a senior, I will come to pick up Green Wazi, if I don't come to pick up Green Wazi, there will be another senior who will come to pick up Green Wazi." Guo Zhongyong said, after finishing, he closed his eyes and threw this child with this white jade altar into the rolling water of the sand river.
"Elder brother, may you be here, you can keep peace in all directions, and the smoke and fire of the Supreme View, will definitely not be cut off, no matter if you are the Elder or the Green Waifu, I want to say thank you for the world's living beings." Guo Zhongyong bowed to the rolling water of the Sand River.
At this time, I don't know why, Li Lianying felt a little sad, this is a child no matter whether it is a ghost baby or a goblin. Perhaps it is Li Lianying himself is absolutely to have no descendants, he is a little partial to children, so at this time very intolerant. But things are definitely not in their own control, they want to save the child, can in case it affects the Empress Dowager's plan for longevity that can do?
And the next thing, is that Li Lianying with the identity of the imperial envoy, to the county officials of this place governor and what not, said here, must be as a dead child post, in the future within a radius of ten miles of a dead child, are to be thrown to here.
As for the reason, you ask me who do I ask? If I ask Guo Zhongyong, he will tell me, won't he?
–The medical conditions at that time were poor, dead babies happen a lot of things, even if it is not dead babies, and no birth control measures, there is no entertainment at night to go to bed very early, can not sleep what to do? What can we do if we can't sleep? Let's have a couple of rounds of sex, but won't we get pregnant soon afterward? Born more children, can not feed the dead children are thrown in the post, want a son, give birth to a daughter to give birth to a daughter, but also should be thrown on the throw, so a ten-mile radius, throw the child here, that speed is very fast, and even more, the local officials in order to ingratiate themselves with the minister, that is directly said, if the dead child thrown here, but also rewarded ten copper plate!
Now, the people are even more lively, where is not to throw? Throw here can also change ten copper plate, with the temptation of money, everyone's enthusiasm is mobilized enough, so soon, this place was thrown countless dead children, became the three miles of Tuner town, the most famous dead children post.
Along with the dead children piled up here as a mountain, here became the gathering place of countless wild cats and wild dogs, ate human flesh wild cats and wild dogs, that the eyes are green, at the same time, the strange and bizarre things here are more, although no one really see ghosts, but people can feel a bone-chilling coolness when they come here, which is absolutely not false. More weak, as long as the walk over here, go back to get sick, a disease is a few months, slowly, the legend of this place is more up, into the eight villages of the forbidden land, who is not to lose a dead child, will not say to come here. At night, it is even more death will not come to this side!
Guo Zhongyong and Li Lianying last time, in the green baby thrown into the sand river water, back to the capital, over there, what happened, Li Lianying is more hand in hand with what happened to tell the Empress Dowager Cixi, which the Empress Dowager heard, Guo Zhongyong that is more as a minister of the heart, the mood has changed for the better, things have been done, then the next step is not waiting for that golden lotus lotus, they ate it, that is! Eternal life? Cixi every day, waiting for Guo Zhongyong said lotus maturity, not a few days, to urge once, and Guo Zhongyong said don't be anxious, the fruit of immortality are three thousand years to three thousand years of blossoms and three thousand years of results, this is not so long, to nine hundred and ninety-one days, before maturity.
Empress Dowager Cixi on the anxious ah, every day is counting the days to pass, this hope starry-eyed, finally waiting for nine hundred and ninety-eight days, has not yet arrived, this time, has always felt that the world is not peaceful Cixi surprisingly secret out of the palace, followed by people, in addition to a number of masters within the country, as well as Li Lianying Guo in the middle of their goal, is to build this eighteen layers of hell at the time of the Luoyang, to come, it is to pick Guo in the mouth of the middle of the middle of the middle of the middle. Picking Guo Zhongyong mouth "everlasting lotus."
They came to this side, after seeing the dead children Gang, Cixi feel afraid, not to say that the corpses piled up like how horrible, on the stench on no one to suffer, if the lotus fruit here, someone dares to let himself eat, it is absolutely to kill his nine clans, not to mention that the lotus is still long in the head of the people. However, if this lotus seed is Guo Zhongyong to get out, they can bear to eat it, who let the good medicine bitter taste is better than the disease?
But even so, they still temporarily cleaned up the body, in the upper reaches of the river temporarily intercepted this quicksand river, dug up the eighteen layers of hell buried underneath, by Guo Zhongyong, there are a group of masters, escorting this although not the emperor but is definitely the power of the dynasty, the old lady, into the eighteen layers of hell.
When the Empress Dowager Cixi saw the pool of golden lotus, are in awe, can not wait to seal Guo Zhongyong for the State Master, all generations of emperors want to live forever, but where is the long life? God's eye, know that I rule the country strictly, so sent a Guo Zhongyong to me?
I, Cixi, am the first woman to live forever! In this world, my longevity is equal to that of Heaven! I am commanded by Heaven to have eternal prosperity!
That a pool of golden lotus, glowing blinding light, a look is absolutely not mortal, Cixi are a little impatient, immediately let people go to pick the lotus back, it is strange, full of pool of lotus, that Ci'an's head on the growth of that one has a lotus seed lotus, the other, are still just lotus.
Guo Zhongyong stopped the other people, said: "This inside the people, each for the spirit of grievances, no one can approach that much golden lotus lotus, they can only go to the fearless sacrifice, this thing, or only I go!"
Finished, Guo Zhongyong jumped into the water, jumped in, that countless pairs of white hands reached out, seems to be in the life of the general, look at the Cixi are touched, such a courtier, not only the ability to excel, but also risk their lives for me to pick the lotus, God gave me Guo Zhongyong, what else do I ask for?
And Guo Zhongyong in the water, a mahogany sword cut off a few pairs of outstretched hands, those hands have become fearful up, all subsided, Guo Zhongyong swam to Ci'an change, gave a salute, the gift of many people are not strange, is not it? Said, he stretched out his hand, picked that a whole pool in the best growth of the most exuberant is also the only long out of the lotus flower of the golden lotus!
When Guo Zhongyong handed over this golden lotus flower to Empress Dowager Cixi's hand.
At that moment, Empress Dowager Cixi felt, this happiness na, really like flowers.