Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-two The Inner Demon of Chief Linghu
The so-called method of refining immortal medicines mentioned by Zhenning obviously had the color of witchcraft. In the Tang Dynasty, he was very disgusted with witchcraft, especially the witchcraft passed down from the Turks, which made the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Tang Dynasty even more disgusted.
Because the Turkic witchcraft often curses someone, especially there is a kind of witchcraft that gets someone's hair or nails, sometimes a drop of blood, or something else, and then makes witchcraft supplies and casts various spells. It is said that this way you can curse and die.
If you encounter a wizard with profound magic power, you can not only curse and die, but also make the cursed person fall into hell, never turn over, be reincarnated, and suffer forever in hell!
This kind of witchcraft was so magical on the grassland. Of course, the people who know this kind of witchcraft are all super wizards on the grassland. Because there are countless khans of Turks, there are many. In order to compete for the pastures and herdsmen, some khans would invite great wizards, and then use various methods to get some of the khan's nails or hair, so that the wizard could make magic weapons and curse the great khan.
This method is said to be very effective. Many great Turks died under this kind of witchcraft, which is much more powerful than the slaughter.
The high-ranking officials and nobles in Chang'an especially disliked this kind of witchcraft because they also believed that this kind of witchcraft was good, and no one was willing to be cursed maliciously. Of course, there was no good intention to curse such things. Therefore, the court directly ordered that anyone who used this kind of witchcraft must be handed over to the government for handling. Those who committed a minor crime were sentenced to imprisonment, and those who committed a serious crime would be beheaded directly.
After hearing Zhenning's words, Li Rizhi asked, "Was Linghu Changqing asked you to prepare this... this kind of elixir? Whose child's hair and nails did he take you?"
Zhenning shook her head and said, "I haven't brought it yet. However, when my master was alive, I said that if the baby has a noble status, the better the effect of the medicine. But I have never refined this medicine, so even if I get something, I am afraid that I will not be able to refine qualified immortal medicine. I am ashamed, ashamed!"
Peng Ji's face became extremely ugly. He glanced at Li Rizhi, and Li Rizhi also happened to see him. The two of them thought of one thing at the same time. If Linghu Changqing was particularly eager to be a normal man, then he would be very likely to do some crazy things. He was working in the palace, and there were actually several little princes in the palace!
Li Rizhi thought to himself: "There are little princes or little princesses in the palace. Will Linghu Changqing be crazy and cut the hair and nails of the little princess? Then he is really going to be killed in the nine clans!"
Peng Jihudi stood up and said, "No more trial, go back to the city immediately. I know where Linghu Changqing's house is, so I go directly and catch him off guard!"
Li Rizhi said, "Peng Shibo, just because we go in and search, I'm afraid there is not enough manpower. Linghu Changxiu must be in that house now. If he lets his servants resist stubbornly, wouldn't that bewilderment? When we rush in, all the evidence of crime will be destroyed!"
Peng Ji frowned and said, "Then I'll send someone back first and then transfer a group of yamen runners to come. However, I'm afraid that the news will leak out, and it will be even more troublesome at that time. If no evidence is found, I'm afraid Linghu Changqing will bite him back and say that I deliberately framed him!"
Li Ri knew: "If you just collect evidence, it doesn't require too many people, because the evidence is definitely placed in the most secret place, usually either in the bedroom or in the study, so you only need to go to these two places to check. The key is how to get in. My nephew has a way, that is, it's not feasible or not!"
Peng Ji said: "What are you going to do? Let's talk about it!"
Li Rizhi first called the yamen runners in and took Zhenning out. Of course, he blocked her mouth again so that she would not talk nonsense.
Li Rizhi then said: "Uncle Peng, according to my nephew, it is better for us to send someone to Linghu Changqing's house and set a fire. When the fire starts, you will take us in to put out the fire and turn over the evidence. If an accident occurs afterwards, you cannot punish Linghu Changqing. You can also have an excuse to make excuses and not be defeated!"
This is quite straightforward. If a person with a status like Linghu Changqing is raided by Peng Ji, the matter will definitely not be settled and he will definitely be retaliated. So he advised Peng Ji to leave a way out for him at least on the surface, at least not let Linghu Changqing take revenge on the surface. As for private matters, that is something else.
Peng Ji was overjoyed when he heard this. He slapped Li Rizhi on the shoulder and smiled, "This trick is good, I didn't expect it! OK, just use this trick, but who should I find to come into his house to set fire? This is more difficult. Not only should I be good at skill, but I also have to be trustworthy!"
There is definitely not such a person among the yamen runners. Li Rizhi hurriedly said: "I have a good friend named Cheng Zizai. You have seen him as well. He is very good at it. He can let him go to Linghu's house to set fire. As long as the fire head is together, we can rush in!"
Peng Ji nodded repeatedly and smiled, "Cheng Zizai, okay, it's him. Let him go back to the city first and prepare. When we are almost here, let him set fire!"
He called Cheng Zizai, said the address of Linghu Changqing's house, and said a few places to pay attention to. Finally, he encouraged him a few words and asked Cheng Zizai to go. Li Rizhi followed Cheng Zizai out and gave him a few more instructions, which made Cheng Zizai go on the road.
Peng Ji was anxious and ordered his yamen runners to take the female Taoist priests back to Chang'an. Of course, Rong Liu was also taken back together.
Chang'an, the palace.
In a side hall, Linghu Changqing stood on the steps and looked down at the people in the yard. At this time, dozens of young women were standing in the yard, and there were a few eunuchs standing beside Linghu Changqing. Judging from his clothes, they were all eunuchs with great identities.
Linghu Changqing has a very handsome appearance, a melon-shaped face, slender eyebrows, a straight nose, and a small mouth. What is most impressive is that as soon as he wants to smile, two dimples will appear on his cheeks. If he changes into women's clothing and Linghu Changqing uses rouge and powder, he will be more beautiful than a woman.
In terms of appearance, Linghu Changqing is a boy and a girl. In addition, he is a eunuch, and his voice becomes more feminine. Sometimes he cannot even tell whether he is a man or a woman.
It is precisely because of this appearance that many people look at Linghu Changqing in a wrong way. The look of despicable people look at him will be very dirty, while the look of Taoist gentleman looks at him is full of contempt. Even those who are not prejudiced to him will sometimes inevitably show ambiguous expression in their eyes.
Linghu Changqing is a very sensitive person and attaches great importance to others' attitudes towards him. He hates most people's attitudes, but he has no choice but to not only not express disgust, but also has to greet him with a smile. Who made him a eunuch? What he does is to serve people.
But it was precisely because of Linghu Changqing's appearance that he received great attention in the palace and was promoted very quickly. It only took a few years from entering the palace to being seen by the emperor, and then becoming the chief supervisor.
For eunuchs, as long as they can be noticed by the royal people, they will be promoted quickly, because eunuchs are not court officials, they do not need to make contributions, do not need good poetry and books, and do not need high martial arts skills. Eunuchs are promoted without reason. As long as the emperor likes him, they will still be a tragic eunuch who swept the floor in the morning and can become the chief supervisor of the hall at night, which is so fast!
Linghu Changqing did not enter the palace voluntarily. Of course, there are not many people who can enter the palace voluntarily these days. Even those who voluntarily enter the palace as eunuchs will have no way to choose this path. Linghu Changqing is the most miserable type, and he was sold by human traffickers, resold several times, and finally sold to the palace.
The palace was short of small eunuchs at that time, so he bought a batch of children. After Linghu Changqing entered the palace, the first thing he did was to starve him for three days. When the things in his stomach were empty, he was sent to a small dark room. An old eunuch held a knife in his hand and waved it. Linghu Changqing's magical power was achieved. However, the old eunuch might have drunk that day and his hands were unstable, so he didn't cut it well, leaving some sequelae for Linghu Changqing, that is, he always had a very hard time urinating.
Of course, this old eunuch did not end well. When Linghu Changqing became powerful, the old eunuch was ordered to be tied to the field outside the city and buried alive!
Linghu Changqing started from the bottom of the labourer, doing the work of cleaning the toilet, and sometimes he would go to dig the toilet. After working for a long time, he actually practiced a unique skill, that is, the toilet was brushed very cleanly, not only without a trace of strange smell, but also looked like it was new. No one was as good as him in this unique skill.
Seeing that he was so talented in cleaning the toilet, the manager sent him to the emperor's bedroom and asked him to wash the toilet specifically for the emperor. Once the emperor saw him by chance, he thought that this little eunuch with a low eyebrows was good-looking, like a little palace maid, and was diligent in his work, so he promoted him to be a manager.
From then on, Linghu Changqing's good luck was out of control. From the manager to the leader, to the general manager, and then to the general manager, he rose all the way up. Today, he became one of the most powerful people in the palace. Even if the court officials saw him, they had to respectfully call him Linghu Chief Manager, because they were afraid that his attitude would not be respectful enough, which made Linghu Changqing unhappy.
From the air-feeding bag in the bottom house, the errand eunuch who was brushing the toilet, to be promoted to the chief supervisor, Linghu Changqing would inevitably have the idea of "he was so amazing". He often wondered, if he was not a eunuch, would he become prime minister, or even a prince?
After having the idea of not being a eunuch, the idea of regaining his body's completeness has never stopped. To be a real man is his greatest wish!
Linghu Changqing had even thought about it. Although he had not been a chief executive for a long time, he had made a lot of money. When he became a real man, he would fly away, find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, marry several beautiful women, and then have a lot of children!
He had suffered in the first half of his life and had to make good compensation for the second half of his life. In order to achieve this goal, he dared to do anything and take any risks, which had reached the level of magic. Of course, he was just a magical thing in this matter, and other things were normal.
It’s caused by the inner demon!
Today is the day to choose palace maids in the palace, which is to choose the lowest-level palace maids. This kind of thing is done by eunuchs like Linghu Changqing.
Linghu Changqing stood on the steps, looking at the young woman in the yard below, without saying a word, looking at him thinking about things. Behind him were several eunuchs, one of whom was named Tong Guinu, the deputy general manager Tong who Li Rizhi once wanted to meet.
Tong Guinu stood behind Linghu Changqing and hated him. He looked down on Linghu Changqing, a guy who was neither male nor female, but he was also a eunuch. In terms of being neither male nor female, he was no longer much better than Linghu Changqing. He didn't have to laugh at him if he had to take fifty steps.
Tong Guinu thought to himself: "Linghu bastard, sooner or later, I will kick you away, and I will be the chief executive!"
He thought so in his heart, but Tong Guinu's face was filled with a smile. Although he stood behind Linghu Changqing, Linghu Changqing could not see his smile at all, but he still smiled brightly.
Tong Guinu said softly: "Master, can you start?"
Chapter completed!