Bureau of Anomalous Biological Countermeasures Chapter 18: Change
The queen mother who received the elixir returned to her bedroom surrounded by a group of tigers and beasts. The current queen mother can be sure that the elixir in her hand is undoubtedly the elixir of life. The middle-aged woman didn't even want to find someone to test the medicine, she took one elixir herself, and the other elixir was directly given to Emperor Ping. Their mother and son continue to rule the world forever and ever.
However, just to be cautious, after the Queen Mother screened the crowd, she found her most caring maid to test the medicine. This palace maid also knew the various reasons, and she was still ecstatic that she could be blessed by the queen mother and become an immortal.
But just moments after she took the elixir, the palace maid gasped. Because the death was so fast, the maid did not even feel the pain of death, and ended her life hastily.
Seeing that the elixir of life that I had obtained through all kinds of hardships turned out to be an instant death poison, if someone hadn't tried the medicine, the eighth percent who died now would be me and his son Pingdi. After being extremely frightened, the queen mother couldn't bear it anymore, and she lost her normality and became crazy.
At a glance, Wu Mian knew what had happened. At the moment, the white-haired man sneered and said to the queen mother, "How is it? Do you know the taste of immortality?"
This voice called the queen mother back from her chaotic thinking, and the woman glanced at Wu Mian and the others in astonishment. It took a long time to remember what had happened, and he muttered to Wu Mian: "Didn't you say... this is an elixir of life? Why... why did she die after eating it?"
"Because she's too greedy" Wu Mian's rare words became more and more, glanced at the already bewildered queen mother, and the white-haired man continued: "Before ordinary people take the medicine, they also need to ask about the contraindications and medicines of this medicine. What is Yin? Ordinary medicines to treat wind-cold can kill people if they don’t eat well, but she is so courageous that she doesn’t even ask about taboos when she takes the elixir of life, isn’t that damned?”
"Taboo... Damn..." The Queen Mother repeated these words over and over again. After a while, she said to Wu Mian, "Then... what is the taboo? How to eat to live forever?"
Wu Mian saw the Queen Mother's tightly clenched right hand. After a pause, she said, "Take the medicine. Immortality is taboo. After that, immortality."
"Well, if I eat it, I will live forever. If I eat the medicinal pill, I will not age..." Mumbling to herself, the queen mother put the medicinal pill into her mouth, her throat surging up and down After that, he swallowed the broad bean-sized medicinal pill.
Just as the pill was swallowed, a satisfied smile appeared on the Queen Mother's face. She turned around and looked at herself in the bronze mirror, and said to herself, "I'm not dead... I'll live forever... No..." Before the last word was finished, the Queen Mother's body had fallen to the ground. With just the blink of an eye, the queen mother who almost made the Han people's country's land and mountains died.
Looking at the Queen Mother's body lying on the ground, Guangzhi frowned. Recalling the pain he suffered when he became an immortal body, the first disciple of the great master of Baidao broke out in cold sweat. Compared with cultivators with certain skills, ordinary people who have no basic skills will die extremely quickly after taking the medicine pill, and they will not feel any pain at all.
But the more skilled the cultivator is, the more painful it is to die when resisting the medicine. Even if he is lucky enough to survive, he will lose a layer of skin. Guangzhi, who has experienced it once, has personally experienced this experience, and now he turned his eyes to the side, and looked at the corpses of the queen mother and the palace maid. And Wu Mian, who had also experienced all this, seemed to be fine.
"Actually, you don't need to waste that pill." Guangzhi glanced at Wu Mian, who had not changed, and continued: "If you don't want to get blood on a woman, just take the pill. Tonight. She has been defeated in this matter, and the power in the court is still in Wang Mang's hands. When Da Sima contacts the Empress Dowager in the palace, the two will join forces and she will be thrown into a doom. Why do you bother to be this villain? What a waste A pill..."
"Because the medicinal pill is mine, I can give it to anyone I want, no matter if he is dead or alive." Wu Mian glanced at Guangzhi and continued slowly: "This matter is not over yet, the next Who should I give this pill? The emperor? Or Wang Mang..."
In the early morning of the next day, news came from the palace that Empress Dowager Fu had an emergency and died in the palace. Different from the previous practice, after the death of the empress dowager, there was no national uniform for a year according to the rules. On the contrary, the emperor issued several imperial decrees in succession, for Duke An Han and Da Sima Wang Mang to increase the number of slaughter and heng, and to be above the slaughter kings. A few hours later, Emperor Ping's second imperial decree followed, and Wang Mang added Jiuxi's ritual utensils. At the time, this was the highest reward.
After half a month, Queen Ding was deposed. Emperor Ping married Wang Mang's daughter Wang Yan as his queen, and added Wang Mang's grandfather, the highest official position since the founding of the Han Dynasty.
On the other hand, Wang Mang did not refuse anyone who came. It took more than a month of tossing and turning, and the government was stabilized. But since then, no one has mentioned the sudden death of the Empress Dowager, as if everyone had forgotten that Emperor Ping's biological mother had passed away.
During this period of time, Guangzhi, who was accustomed to being quiet, couldn't stand the guests that were greeted and sent from the Da Sima Mansion. After finding a chance, he said goodbye to Wang Mang. What he didn't expect was that this time Da Sima did not hold back, but only sent a lot of gold and silver gifts, and personally sent Guangzhi out of Da Sima's mansion. Guangzhi also lived in Yan Jie's private house.
During this period of time, Guiwugui never showed up. Bai Wuqiu was still nervous at first, but there has been no news of the old guy's death for so many days. Under the guidance of Xiao Ren San. This idiot slowly got used to it. It also guessed that the old guy didn't know where to wave at this time. Either he had enough waves, or the magic on his body was empty again, and he would appear again.
It's been three months after this kind of life. Although it doesn't look like a big deal, there are still a few small things that look weird. One of the small things, Yan Jie went home more and more times. When Wu Mian and the others first arrived in Chang'an City, Yan Jie was busy as if he was the clone of the Great Sima. He often came back occasionally to say hello to Wu Mian and the others, and he would go back to guard the big Sima before he could say a few words.
Now it has completely changed. After Wang Mang's daughter became the queen, Wang Mang sent Yan Jie back to his house to rest every few minutes. What he said was not to neglect the great monks like Wu Mian and Guangzhi, but after a long time, Yan Jie found that as long as he was not in the Grand Sima Mansion, there would be several new faces guarding Wang Mang.
Yan Jie had a hobby of defecting to the dignitaries as a disciple. At the time, he thought it was because Wang Mang didn't want to keep him. Immediately, he found an opportunity to resign from the Great Sima, but he did not expect Wang Mang to try his best to retain him after hearing it, and would not let Yan Jie leave.
Looking at the world, apart from the emperor, which one can compare to Wang Mang's mansion? With the kindness of Da Sima, Yan Jie cancelled his plan to leave. Anyway, Da Sima still treats him with courtesy, and there is nothing wrong with him except for constantly giving himself vacations.
At the moment, Yan Jie also gave up his plan to leave the Grand Sima Mansion. Anyway, the political situation in the DPRK is stable, and there is no need to stay by the side of Da Sima for protection. Yan Jie is also happy to chat with Wu Mian and Guangzhi in his private house every day.
A few days later, news suddenly came from the palace that the emperor was seriously ill. Seeing that the day is not as good as the day, I can't even get out of bed in the blink of an eye. The imperial physicians in the palace have read it all over, but they can't see what the emperor has.
In the past few days, Yan Jie finally started to get busy. Wang Mang stayed in the palace every day. Yan Jie stood by Wang Mang's side to prevent the emperor from kicking his legs, and someone took advantage of this opportunity to suddenly attack and peep at the emperor's seat.
Finally one day, Yan Jie sent someone to send a message, Ping Di Yan Jia. Wang Mang, who took over the power alone, did not welcome the establishment of a new monarch, but only made Liu Ying the crown prince. Considering that the prince was young, Wang Mang acted as the emperor and was called the emperor.
After the news came, Guangzhi and others were extremely surprised by Wang Mang's change. Only Wu Mian sneered and said, "The next step is to get the elixir..."