What bad thoughts could a genius doctor have?

Chapter 191 The Emperor is Taking in a New Person

In the largest inn outside the capital, Ghost Doctor Fu Tu looked at the messenger crow that had returned empty-handed, his face gloomy and ugly, "Yu Yan dared to lie to me!"

The disciple behind him was full of resentment: "Master, Yu Yan is so audacious and presumptuous, he should be expelled from the sect and never allowed to return!"

Ghost Doctor Fu Tu sneered and said, "It's a good thing for her that she will never return. She has the guts to deceive me, so she should be prepared to bear the consequences. Spread my words, everyone should find Yu Yan from now on and bring her to me. I want to teach her the consequences of deceiving me!"

The disciples in the room bowed and responded, then dispersed in the blink of an eye.

The ghost doctor Fu Tu walked into the inner room. It was freezing cold and the temperature difference between inside and outside was huge.

There was an ice coffin in the room, and in the coffin lay a man with his eyes closed, surrounded by a table of ice to protect his body.

The man in the coffin looked extremely skinny and had a gloomy face, as if he had been dead for a long time.

Ghost Doctor Fu Tu walked to the ice coffin, bent down, and touched the cheek of the man in the coffin. "Yu Ze, you treated Yu Yan, the evil creature, with all your heart and soul. Now when you should use her, she has become ungrateful. Don't worry, Yu Ze, I will definitely seek justice for you and let Yu Yan know the consequences of betraying you!"

Ghost Doctor Fu Tu said with a sad expression: "Yu Ze, when will you wake up? Do you know how many places I have traveled for you? How many herbs have I developed? Do you know how much suffering I have endured while you were asleep? Haven't I treated you well? Why do you treat me like this?"

The ghost doctor spoke with great emotion, but the person in the coffin did not react at all.

After the ghost doctor finished speaking, he stood up and returned to the cold expression he had when he first entered the room. "Yuze, just sleep peacefully. I will definitely save you."

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Under a dark sky, deep inside the imperial palace, Emperor Jianxing followed two eunuchs and walked down the steps guided by the light of two luminous beads.

The long steps meander downwards like an abyss with no end.

The eunuch holding the lamp bent his waist and led Emperor Jianxing down step by step. When they reached a dark green iron gate, the three of them finally stopped.

Emperor Jianxing took out the key and opened the iron lock on the iron gate.

The iron gate was pushed open. Shi Zhou was looking up at the only place with light in the room. Hearing the movement behind him, Shi Zhou turned his head to look in the direction of the iron gate and saw Emperor Jianxing standing at the door.

Emperor Jianxing looked at Shi Zhou and said, "My Immortal, how is the progress of the Gu worm today?"

Shi Zhou opened the medicine box and found a jar in her hand. She asked Emperor Jianxing to come forward and open the jar to show him the most frantically twisting insect inside. "Your Majesty, the one you see is a Gu worm. However, if the Gu worm stays in a dark place without sunlight for a long time, it will be difficult for it to grow into a healthy Gu worm."

Emperor Jianxing paused, his face darkening, "What? Does the Immortal want to leave?"

Shi Zhou stretched out his hand to cover the jar. "How could that be? The whole world belongs to the king. Your Majesty is the most powerful person in the world. No matter where I go, I cannot escape your control. How dare I have such a ridiculous idea?"

Shi Zhou said: "The first Gu worm I raised lived in the mountains and absorbed the spiritual energy of the mountains and forests all year round. It could enjoy the morning sun and the magnificent mountains and rivers. Gu worms are born on the earth and can naturally feel everything around them. How can a Gu worm trapped in a hole, unable to feel a single blade of grass or tree, grow into a healthy and flexible living thing?"

Emperor Jianxing was silent for a while, "I will consider it now, just stay here peacefully."

Shi Zhou: "I wonder if Your Majesty can find someone who is physically strong and can help Your Majesty lock onto the Mother and Child Gu?"

Emperor Jianxing did not speak, but put his hands behind his back, walked around Shi Zhou, and then said, "I do have a reliable candidate."

Shi Zhou raised his eyebrows, "Shi Zhou would like to congratulate His Majesty first."

Emperor Jianxing chuckled, walked up to Shi Zhou, and suddenly reached out to hold her hand, whispering softly: "I met the immortal several years ago. I was still young at that time. After seeing the immortal, the immortal's face was engraved in my mind. I never thought that many years later, I would be able to continue my relationship with the immortal."

Shi Zhou lowered his eyes and glanced at Emperor Jianxing's wrinkled hands. People in this world, no matter how much they want to live forever, no matter how much they value rejuvenation, once they stretch out their hands, their true age can be seen.

Beauty can be preserved for a long time, but human hands can hardly prevent the loss of time.

Emperor Jianxing stroked Shi Zhou's hand, "The immortal's hands are so small and soft, how come there are calluses between the fingertips? It shows that the immortal has lived among the people for many years and has never enjoyed the blessings of the world!"

Shi Zhou chuckled, "Your Majesty, you don't know that doctors not only have to go up the mountain to collect herbs, but also go down to the fields to plant herbs. If they want to obtain rare and exotic herbs, it's easy to pick plants on cliffs or catch fish in the water. If doctors are trapped in the backyard, they will definitely not be able to be doctors, and they will not be able to see the sentient beings in this world suffering from diseases, and they will not be able to improve their medical skills."

Emperor Jianxing continued to smile and said, "If it were someone else, I would have nodded in agreement. But if it were an immortal, it would be different. Immortals are immortal. Immortals have lived in the world and must have seen all the patients in the world. How can they be compared with those inexperienced children?"

Shi Zhou said nothing.

Emperor Jianxing said, "I am able to meet the immortal again in my lifetime. I think this is the fate bestowed by God. I have already made up my mind that the immortal is immortal. If I take the mother-child Gu with the immortal, then wouldn't I be immortal? Apart from the immortal, there is no one else in the world who can do this!"

After saying this, Emperor Jianxing let go of his hand, took a step back and looked at Shi Zhou, his eyes burning with plundering surprise: "I want to make the immortal my concubine and let the immortal become a member of my harem. In this way, I will continue the immortal's immortal life!"

At this point, Emperor Jianxing's eyes showed fanaticism, "By that time, I will personally come to unify the princes and let the whole world fall into my hands. I want the history books to record my achievements and let everyone know that I am the only emperor in this world... cough cough..."

Perhaps Emperor Jianxing was too excited. At the end of his speech, he choked and coughed several times before he calmed down.

Shi Zhou looked at Emperor Jianxing calmly: "Your Majesty is a little excited today. Before the mother and child Gu is cultivated, please cultivate your body and temper, so as not to damage your body when the mother and child Gu is cultivated, and you will not be able to bear the heart-wrenching pain when the child Gu is first adapted."

The eunuch behind Emperor Jianxing raised his head slightly and said, "Your Majesty, the time has come. Your Majesty should go and pay your respects to the Empress Dowager."

When Emperor Jianxing heard this, he raised his head and said, "Please bear with it for now, Immortal. Once I give the order, you can leave this place."

After Emperor Jianxing finished speaking, he took the chief eunuch away.

Shi Zhou watched Emperor Jianxing leave, then he fetched some water and slowly washed his hands.

It turns out that the places touched by old and decayed people all have the smell of an adult corpse!

At this moment, a black crow suddenly landed on the only place where light could be seen, stretched its head inside and cawed twice.

Shi Zhou stretched out his hand: "As expected of a messenger crow raised by Master, you actually found it."

A crow flew in from the small window and landed accurately on Shi Zhou's hand.

Shi Zhou took off the bamboo tube tied to the crow's feet, removed the tube plug, and brought it to his nose to smell it. A strong smell of blood filled his nasal cavity. Shi Zhou opened the lid of the jar and poured the blood on the mother and child Gu.

The insect instantly calmed down in the jar and began to suck the blood near its body frantically.

After feeding the poisonous insect, Shi Zhou took a pen and paper and wrote a short message, stuffed it into the bamboo tube on the crow's leg, and released the crow.

The crow circled in the house for a while, flew towards the cave entrance, and disappeared from sight.

Shi Zhou watched the crow leave before he closed the lid of the insect again.

Both parties want this pair of mother and child Gu, so it depends on who can get it.

After all, poisonous insects are hard to find, and it is rare to encounter two at a time.

These two poisonous insects are not considered top-notch. The truly top-notch ones are the pair that she had to feed to Mu Xuan. They were truly born and raised in the mountains. She found them at the root of a poisonous grass. They are top-notch and survive on poison.

It's a pity that it's so hard to come across such a poisonous insect in many years.

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In the court, all the officials knelt and shouted "Long live the emperor" to the emperor sitting on the throne.

Emperor Jianxing was in a very good mood. He had spent the second half of his life pursuing immortality, and now that he had some hope of achieving it, he was of course happy.

The Taoist priests kept inside and outside the palace would offer "magic pills" every day. Every time Emperor Jianxing took it, he would feel refreshed and energetic, as if he had returned to his youth. Even the concubines in the harem were benefited by it.

Upon hearing that the imperial physician had diagnosed that the two concubines were pregnant, Emperor Jianxing became even more fond of all kinds of elixirs and miraculous medicines.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if his body could reach its best condition after taking the elixir before the immortal cultivates the immortality poisonous insect, and he could vomit the poisonous insect when his body is in the best condition?
Emperor Jianxing was naturally very happy as his long-cherished wish was right before his eyes.

For Emperor Jianxing, the only person who could take the Mother-Child Gu with him and achieve immortality was Shi Zhou.

Shi Zhou is an immortal from other world, and he has an immortal body. Is there anyone in the world more suitable than her to be his immortal partner, with whom he will live and die together?
Emperor Jianxing naturally knew Mu Xuan's thoughts, and the Empress Dowager had also mentioned it to him. At that time, he wanted to grant Mu Xuan a marriage, but Mu Xuan himself refused.

No matter what you say, you want to get Shi Zhou's response. Only when two people love each other can they be a true couple.

What do men and women in this world want from each other?
Which of the women in his harem was not sent in one after another? Which of the women who came in did not serve as his concubines peacefully?
Isn't it easy for a man to marry a woman?

With all the power in the world in his hands, what kind of woman could he not want?
Since Mu Xuan doesn't want it, don't blame him for grabbing it first.

For Emperor Jianxing, it was easy to put a woman in the harem. As long as the status of the major families was not shaken, putting a few women in the harem would not be a problem.

Emperor Jianxing first went to see the Empress Dowager and told her his ideas.

Unexpectedly, the Grand Empress Dowager said, "If the harem is peaceful and harmonious, and the palaces get along well with each other, you will insert someone in for no reason. No matter what her background is, as long as she is like the harem, someone in her family will naturally try to win her over. Wouldn't that disrupt the current balance and add to the troubles?"

Emperor Jianxing's face darkened. "What if the woman I want to take into the harem is a commoner?"

The Empress Dowager frowned, "Emperor, if she was a commoner, would she still have a chance to survive in the harem? Without power, influence, or support from her family, anyone can step on her. Apart from you, she has no one else to rely on."

Emperor Jianxing: "Isn't this simple? I have issued an order that no one is allowed to approach her residence. Who dares to disobey my order?"

The Empress Dowager sighed, "Emperor, you have heavy responsibilities for state affairs and are busy with government affairs. You don't know the twists and turns of the harem. In the court, the higher-ranking official can crush people, and the same is true for the harem. As the ruler of a country, you can't stay in the harem all the time. Who dares not to go if the queen gives an order or the imperial concubine passes on a message? I'm afraid that by then, you won't be able to enjoy the splendor and wealth of the harem, and will have to endure the abuse of others."

Emperor Jianxing's face darkened slightly. "So, if I insist on doing it, will I harm this girl?"

Emperor Jianxing snorted coldly, "I want to see who in the harem dares to disobey my order and take action against the people I protect without authorization!"

After hearing this, the Empress Dowager was stunned. Is the Emperor determined to take her into the harem?
The problem is, the emperor has lived in the deep palace for a long time and has no time to make private visits. Where did he see this common beauty that made him insist on bringing her into the palace?
Emperor Jianxing and the Empress Dowager parted ways on bad terms, and both the grandfather and grandson were very unhappy.

Emperor Jianxing felt that he was disappointed by the Empress Dowager, while the Empress Dowager thought it was ridiculous for an emperor at his age to take a concubine, especially a commoner woman with no background.

That's how the gap was created.

Emperor Jianxing drove her away, and the grandmother beside the Grand Empress Dowager couldn't help but speak up: "Grand Empress Dowager, you are just a common woman, why do you have to obey the saint's wishes?"

This was a direct conflict with him and it was very hurtful.

The Empress Dowager sighed, "I didn't expect him to be so angry. It seems that this common beauty is really to his liking. Let's wait and see. If he is just interested, he will forget his interest in a few days."

Ever since the emperor became obsessed with alchemy, his temper has become much worse than before.

Emperor Jianxing was a wise ruler when he was young, but now that he is old, his temper is getting worse and worse.

Once Emperor Jianxing had this idea, he never gave it up. He was indeed very unhappy that he did not get the support of the Empress Dowager, but this did not affect his decision.

Three days later, Shi Zhou was finally taken out of that dark place, and her medicine box and other belongings were sent to a quiet courtyard in the harem. The courtyard had an independent garden filled with various flowers and plants.

Although Emperor Jianxing issued a ban, forbidding anyone to mention this matter, there is no wall that is impenetrable in this world.

Just when Emperor Jianxing thought he had arranged all this without anyone noticing, the news that the emperor was going to take a new person into the harem first spread among the concubines and then quickly spread outside the palace.

It’s just that Emperor Jianxing himself didn’t know it.

The Ning Palace was tired. The first thing Zhao Heng did after hearing the news was to go to Mu Xuan. "Brother Mu, how old is the one in the palace? Suddenly there is news that they want to marry a commoner girl. Do you think this girl could be the boss?"

Mu Xuan had received the news earlier. "I have asked my spies in the palace to find out, but we still don't know who that woman is..."

Having said that, Mu Xuan clenched his fists. Shi Zhou's disappearance was sudden, and the emperor's timing of taking a new concubine was strange.

What's more, the emperor is quite old, and rarely turns over the cards in the harem. He only has a little interest after taking the elixir. How can he have the body and energy to accept new people?