382 Who can be worse off than me?
At the end of March, the grass in the South was already long and the birds were flying, while the North was still chilly. The winter snow had melted away, and the sun was still shining in the sky.
The spring day was still short.
In the city of Lakshmi Prefecture in the North, faint cries could be heard coming from a Blue Palace. The passerby seemed to be a little curious, but just as he looked over, he caught a glimpse of the mansion’s gold-painted plaque and immediately didn’t dare to look any longer.
It could not be compared to the prosperous and rich provinces like Dong Hai province, Tian Nan Province, and Zhong province. The vast northern lands only had three prefectures, which were the black water Prefecture, the auspicious Prefecture, and the Liaodong Prefecture. The three prefectures belonged to the “Great Han province.”
Within the great Han state, there could only be one king’s palace, and that was the “han King Palace.”
The Frost King of the northern lands!
Unlike those weakened princes, the Han King’s residence had always controlled a lot of military and political power in the North, thanks to the tougher folk customs here.
This was especially so for the current generation’s Han King, Ji bangying.
He did things according to his preferences and had always been unpredictable. The commoners were afraid that their careless actions would disobey the Han King, so they simply avoided him. As a result, the front of the Han King’s residence was often empty.
“If Wangye does not pity this servant, this servant will just return to the brothel. Why make me stay in this huge King’s residence and guard the boudoir every night? There are so many older and younger sisters who are trying to harm me. ”
At first, it was only a woman’s delicate cry, but it later turned into a loud cry, and it was even showing signs of becoming more and more intense.
Over the layers of high walls, one could see that in a side chamber of the Han King’s residence, in a rather large courtyard, a woman wearing a white brocade coat and a blue and white tight-fitting dress was sitting on the ground with the door open and her upper body leaning on a chair, shouting.
She covered her face with her hands, and her face could not be seen clearly. However, just by looking at her figure, she could be said to be curvaceous, full of ups and downs, gathered peaks, furious waves, and lustrous on the road of Tongguan.
People couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration. She was indeed a woman who could marry into the Wang family.
“Ai, ai, ai, ai.”
On the other side of the threshold, a man dressed in fine clothes frowned and shook his head. He didn’t look old, with white hair and a slight beard. If you looked carefully, he had a bit of a refined temperament.
This man was none other than the Han King himself.
Unlike the perverted appearance that the outside world had imagined, this arrogant Northern Han King looked more like a scholar.
“Wen Xiang, don’t make things difficult for me, okay?” Ji bangying looked at the woman in front of him and shook his head.”You say that the other Furens in the residence poisoned you but you can’t produce any evidence. You said you’re poisoned, but you’re fine. Aren’t you being unreasonable?”
“Who said I’m fine?”
The woman raised her eyes, revealing a naturally charming face. She pouted and said, ” “This servant’s chest has always been in pain, and my heart has also been beating very fast. If you don’t believe me, Your Highness, you can touch it.”
As she spoke, she stood up abruptly and walked towards the Han King.
ya ya ya ya ya ya! the Han King waved his hand and said, ” I believe you! I believe you!
Looking at the woman’s chest, he really believed that her heart was beating very fast, so fast that it was shaking outside.
“Wen Xiang, you know that the doctor has prescribed me some nourishing medicine and will make me abstain from sex for three months. Don’t seduce me.” The Han King said with a deep sigh.
“Bah, shameless.” The woman named Wen Xiang spat, ” did I stand up to seduce you? You know to call a famous doctor when you are a little uncomfortable. This servant has been poisoned for a few days and you have not found a famous doctor to see me, and even said that you are concerned about my Huahua.”
“Why is my life so bitter?”
“All the doctors in Lakshmi Prefecture have been invited for you, what else do you want?” The Han King spread his hands.
“What kind of rotten fish and prawns are those?” Wen Xiang placed her hand on her chest. I can’t tell where she’s uncomfortable.
“I can’t, I can’t.” The Han King closed his eyes and muttered a few Buddhist mantras. When he opened his eyes, he said angrily,”Men! Send the ninth lady to Yaowang town! Please seek eternal spring elder’s help! Don’t come back until I’m cured and I’m done with my abstinence!”
Ji bangying waved his sleeve and ordered the servants.
“Eh?”
Wen Xiang blinked her eyes as if she wanted to say something. However, Ji bangying seemed to be afraid that he would fail even if he looked at her one more time, and he quickly left the courtyard in big strides.
After a while, a few servant girls came to Wen Xiang with big and small packages. ninth mistress, let’s go? ”
“Hmph, let’s go.” Wen Xiang turned around and left with the servant, frowning.
After leaving the courtyard, he got into a luxurious carriage with a Golden Dragon pattern. The coachman cracked his whip and the wheels rolled away.
It was not until they had left the palace that the curtain of the carriage was lifted. A pair of beautiful eyes stared at the gradually moving han King’s mansion, as if in a daze.
It was meaningful.
……
Yaowang town.
It was located on the outskirts of Lakshmi Prefecture, in a remote and desolate area. In the beginning, there was no town here, but as more people lived here, it became a town.
And the reason why so many people had gathered here was actually because of one person, elder Chang Chun.
In the early years, the eternal spring elder found that the soil here was extremely good and suitable for growing some rare herbs, so he settled down here. After people found out about it, patients from all over the world swarmed in.
As more and more patients came, many doctors also aimed at this treasured land.
On one hand, it was because he could see how the elder of eternal spring planted herbs and treated people. Even if he could see more, it would be a blessing. On the other hand, there were many patients who did not even need eternal spring elder to personally treat them. Naturally, other doctors would be able to pick up the scraps. As time passed, it formed a group effect.
The eternal spring maidservant had a quiet personality, and he didn’t take in many disciples like the old man who built the hanging-pot village. He was also not like Duke Baishi, who had a wide range of concubines and used all his life’s knowledge on his nether regions.
However, a famous doctor like him was like a Whirlpool. Even if he didn’t do anything, there would be wind and clouds surrounding him.
Today, wails and howls could be heard everywhere outside the town of Yaowang.
The walls of the town were sealed off, and the only gate was closed. A young man stood on the gate and shouted repeatedly, ” those with minor injuries, minor illnesses, and non-incurable diseases, please leave on your own and don’t add to the burden of the town!
Despite his continuous shouting, there were still at least a hundred people gathered below, constantly complaining about their pain.
There were new people outside and they asked curiously, ” “What’s wrong with this town? Didn’t you always welcome anyone?”
The patient in front of him shook his head and said, I don’t know what’s been going on in the past few months, but the town only takes in ten patients a day, specifically picking out patients with difficult and miscellaneous diseases. They’re not even allowed to enter under normal circumstances. Even if they were all difficult-to-treat illnesses, they had to be treated according to their severity, and they had to be miserable enough to enter. He did not know what was going on. The people outside are all here to seek medical treatment but can’t get it. ”
“Ah?” The newcomer was shocked.
As they were talking, they saw a gorgeous carriage pass through the crowd. The coachman shouted for them to make way while whipping the people blocking the road on both sides. He was extremely fierce.
However, when others saw this, not only did they not dare to be angry, but they also avoided it.
The driver drove to the door and said to the top, ” “The ninth mistress of the Han King’s residence is here to seek medical treatment. Please open the door.”
Without any delay, the door opened with a creak. A row of neatly dressed young men stood guard at the door, pushing out the people who tried to sneak in with the car. After the carriage entered, the gate was slowly closed.
“Eh?” The newcomer was surprised again. why did the people in the carriage let them in without even looking? ”
“You’re new here, right?” The person in front looked at him and said, ” “That’s the carriage of the Han King, you dare to stop it?”
what a fellow. The Frost King of the northern lands. He’s really arrogant. The newcomer sighed.
The person in front turned around and carefully glanced at him.
He was tall and thin, with a dark face and a simple and honest appearance. He was also wearing a Daoist robe.
It was none other than du Lanke, the first and last disciple of little Daoist priest li from deyun temple in Jiangnan.
The man looked at old du and chuckled, ” “Old brother, I see that you don’t have any illness on your face. At your age, you must have come because of that disharmonious bedroom, wanting but not being able to. I advise you to give up on this idea, the eternal spring elder would never stoop so low as to examine such an illness.”
Old du was speechless for a moment. He rolled his eyes and said, brother, you’ve misunderstood. I don’t even have a wife. Why would I want to see this illness? ”
you’re already so old, but you don’t have a wife, Yingluo. the man looked at him carefully again. Oh, I understand. You’re here for plastic surgery, right? ” The eternal spring elder wasn’t proficient in this either. I advise you to go back and earn more money. It’s much more reliable than these crooked ways.”
“Brother, you’re really smart.”
Dulanke chuckled and turned to leave.
He left the crowd and went outside. Li Chu and Wang longqi were waiting there.
“How is it?” Wang longqi asked nervously as soon as he saw him.
it’s not good. It’s very serious inside. We can’t force our way in to seek medical treatment. I’m afraid we’ll have to ask seventh young master to do it personally. Elder du said.
According to the young miracle doctor’s information, the eternal spring elder shouldn’t be in Yaowang town. But there was no news of this inside or outside of the town, and even if they wanted to ask where he was going, they had to go in. When the three of them came, they didn’t expect to be stuck at the first gate.
“Alright, I’ll go!” Wang longqi gritted his teeth and staggered forward.
Actually, after the poison and illness in his body were frozen by the ice Spirit powder, his current physical condition should be better than usual. However, when a normal person finds out that his body has been poisoned with so many different types of poison, he will naturally become abnormal.
This was very reasonable.
……
“I! He had smallpox at the age of three, dysentery at the age of five, and a fever that damaged his head at the age of twelve. He still couldn’t do addition and subtraction within a hundred. Three years ago, a dog had bitten off one of his legs, and he had become a cripple since. I don’t know what illness he has this year, but he has been coughing up blood for 30 days! Cough cough cough!”
A shabbily dressed youth was speaking with fervour, but halfway through, as if to prove something, he began to cough heavily again. He coughed until he was aroused, as if his lungs were hanging on his upper jaw.
After a long while, he lifted the blood on his lapels, and with a disdainful expression, he said arrogantly,”How is it? Was it serious enough? was it tragic enough? Who else is there?”
“Ai, ai, ai, ai.”
Some of the patients behind him sighed, shook their heads, and left when they saw this. It was unknown whether they could not bear it or felt that they were no match for him.
“Hahaha! You’re trying to show off with just a minor illness! He really doesn’t know the immensity of the heavens and earth.”
A burst of laughter came from behind.
Everyone was bewildered. They looked up and saw four strong men carrying a stretcher, on which a man was lying.
I’ve come from the North of Dong Hai province, and I’ve seen countless seriously ill people on my way to seek medical treatment. What’s your problem? ”
After mocking him, he continued to speak loudly, ” “I! The strange bone and blood disease was passed down from my ancestors. Eight generations before me, all of them had short lives. My grandfather even died when he was six years old!”
“When I was twelve, my legs had a relapse, and I could no longer stand. At the age of sixteen, he couldn’t even straighten his spine, and from then on, he was completely useless. Until today, I have nothing else to use except for my mouth. Let me ask you, who can be more miserable than me?”
His words were full of contempt for the world’s heroes, but no one dared to stand up and refute him. This was because his strength was indeed the best.
“Hehehehehehehe.”
Just as all the patients were stunned by the stretcher, a sinister sneer sounded.
A hunchbacked figure slowly walked out with a walking stick. I said that all the men in the world are just so-so. Showing off in front of an expert, placing labels and selling their heads, and not many of them have any real talent.”
Everyone looked down and realized that it was a frighteningly short old woman. She had white hair and a face full of wrinkles. She was so old that she didn’t look like she was alive.
“I’ll only ask you one question and see if anyone can answer it.” The old woman asked, ” does anyone know how old I am this year? ”
The person beside her looked at her sickly face and consciously guessed, ” “Fifty years old?”
“Hahaha, far away.” The old woman laughed.
“Sixty years old?” Someone else asked.
“Even further.” The old woman curled her lips in disdain.
“Don’t tell me he’s in his thirties or forties?” There were voices of disbelief in the crowd.
“Hehe, you’re all idiots.” The old woman shook her head and said coldly,”I’m 28 years old this year. I’m 16!” You’re just in your youth!”
“Si si si …”
Everyone gasped in shock.
This old woman’s illness was so terrifying!
To be able to turn a sixteen-year-old girl into such a state, he was really a deterrent.
“My aging speed has been five to six times faster than ordinary people since I was young. He’s only sixteen years old, but his body is already like a ninety-year-old man. ”
“Everyone, who said that women are inferior to men!” The old woman’s back straightened a little as she arrogantly looked around.
“You guys, is there anyone worse than me?”
“……”
The people who were stared at by her raised their heads one after another, and no one dared to lower their heads to meet her eyes.
It was obvious that this old woman had already surpassed the realm that ordinary people could reach!
“Hmph!”
Wang longqi saw that the situation was not good, so he immediately stood up.
“Me!”
As soon as he spoke, everyone looked over in surprise. They wanted to see which young hero dared to challenge this strange old woman.
Under everyone’s gaze, Wang longqi felt great pressure, but he could only continue.
“I was fine the day before yesterday, but just yesterday, I was captured and poisoned with 32 kinds of rare poisons! Each of them was enough to kill an elephant. However, it was precisely because those 32 kinds of energy were mixed together that they didn’t explode immediately. I took the ice Spirit powder, but it could only extend my life for seven days. The worst thing is that I can’t even look at a beauty in the last seven days of my life! This is because as long as a part of my body is filled with blood, my blood flow will accelerate and I will die instantly!”
“This is the only hobby I have in my life. Yingluo has to restrain herself at the end of her life. I’m asking you, who can be worse off than me?”
As soon as he said this, everyone’s face turned pale and they retreated in shock.
Even the students of Yaowang town on the wall were shocked.
“This kid is extraordinary!”