Zi'an walked over, took the book from her hand and started reading.
Although it is called a book, it is actually a very thin book, and it is not printed with movable type, but hand-copied.
The handwriting is so blurred that I can hardly see the cover clearly.
There is a painting in the book, which is very crudely drawn. I guess the author is not good at painting.
The handwriting was very sloppy, like a snake winding on the paper, but it was still vaguely legible.
However, what shocked Zian was that the book was not written in traditional Chinese characters, but simplified Chinese characters.
She quickly deciphered the words. The book said that there was a mountain outside the capital, which was called Hanshan. On Hanshan was a pond, which was called Guichi or Yaochi. Two people lived next to the Yaochi. One was the Empress Dowager Long Zhanyan who had already passed away, and the other was her maid Ashe.
The book mainly introduces the function of the medicine pool. Hanshan is just named Hanshan, not an iceberg. Every blade of grass and every tree on the mountain is medicine. Mountain water seeps into the medicine, and drops down in the low-lying areas to form a pool. This pool is the medicine pool.
The water in the medicine pool can cure all poisonings and injuries. Even a dying person can be cured by soaking in the medicine pool for an hour.
Zi'an closed the book, shocked.
Because the last sentence says soaking in the medicine pool for an hour, not an hour.
The time unit here is chen, not hours.
Her heart was pounding as she asked Yuan, "Where did you get this book?"
Yuan said, "It was stuck in the golden needle technique before, and it fell out a few days ago, so I separated it."
"Who is this Long Zhanyan?" Zi'an asked.
Yuan said, "Long Zhanyan, Empress Dowager Long, was later named Grand Empress Dowager. She was the mother of Huizu, but Huizu was not born to her. There are many different opinions about Empress Dowager Long, but the more orthodox history says that she was sent to the palace to be buried alive with the emperor, but the emperor did not ask her to be buried alive with him. Instead, he gave her supreme power to rule the harem and support Huizu to ascend the throne. She was a very powerful figure. She also did not have a child. She was with the regent Murong Qingtian at the time. She did have a maid named Ah She by her side. After she died, Ah She also died."
After Yuan finished speaking, she paused and said, "There are also rumors in the streets that this Queen Mother Long is a monster."
"Monster?" Zi'an shook his head, "This is too absurd."
However, the fact that she traveled through time was absurd in itself.
"Yes, it is indeed absurd, so not many people believe it," said Yuan.
"Why do people speculate that Queen Mother Dragon is a monster?" Zi'an asked curiously. People would not spread rumors without any reason. There must be something going on.
Yuan opened the little book she was holding and turned to the last page. "Look here. There is a picture of a little snake."
"Here?" Zi'an looked carefully, "This is where the signature should be."
"Yes, back then, some people in the palace said that they saw the maid Ah She turned into a snake after the Empress Dowager passed away, and even carried away the Empress Dowager's body."
Zi'an couldn't help but wonder, this was spread in the palace? How could such a rumor be allowed to arise in the palace
"There is such a legend in the palace, so why not prohibit it?" Zi'an asked.
"Why not? Huizu made a rule that anyone who discusses this matter in the palace will be beheaded. However, every three years, someone in the palace is released and these rumors spread."
"Does this happen every time someone is released?"
Yuan shook her head. "I don't know. After all, so many years have passed. It has been more than 20 years since the Huizu Dynasty."
"How old was Huizu when he ascended the throne? After Huizu's death, the late emperor ascended the throne. How many years did the late emperor reign? How many years has the current emperor been on the throne?" Zi'an asked.
"Hui Zu seems to have ascended the throne at the age of sixteen. When he passed away, the sum of the three ages of heaven, earth and man was eighty-one, which means that the late emperor was already sixty-two. The late emperor passed away twelve years after he ascended the throne. It has been fourteen years since the current emperor ascended the throne."
Zi'an sorted out the years, "That is to say, when Queen Mother Long entered the palace, her husband, the emperor, had died, and helped Huizu ascend the throne. When Huizu passed away, the sum of heaven, earth, and people was eighty-one, so the correct age of death was seventy-nine. It has been about twenty-six years since Huizu's death, which means that if Queen Mother Long were still alive, she would be over a hundred years old."
"Yes." Yuan calculated, "Probably like this."
Zi'an was silent for a moment, "There are many people who can live to be a hundred years old."
"But the funeral of Queen Mother Long caused a great sensation. She is dead." Yuan waved her hand. "Don't dwell on it. This is just unofficial history and may not be true. Even if there is this medicine pool, the Regent can't get in with his current injuries."
"Mother, besides this book that records the medicine pool, have you read any other books that have recorded this?" Zi'an knew that she was well-read. If she hadn't read any books on the subject, probably few other people would know about it either.
Zi'an also felt that she was a little desperate and was trying all kinds of medical treatments, because, based on her understanding of Murong Jie's injuries, he would not be able to survive this, mainly because he had lost too much blood.
Although believing in something like a medicine pool is not in line with the theory of modern medicine.
However, she had also studied Chinese medicine and knew that every blade of grass, every leaf, and every drop of water in the world could be used as medicine, which was an indescribable mystery.
In particular, if geology, air, and herbs can be well coordinated, they can become holy water for healing and even detoxification, which is not unscientific.
Yuan thought for a moment, "I haven't heard much about Yaochi, but I have read about Guichi in a book. However, this book was written during the Daxing Dynasty, and it recorded Guichi. It said that Hanshan was not originally called Hanshan. I don't remember what it was called. At that time, there was a doctor named Lin Haihai, a woman, who opened a clinic in Beijing. At that time, many medical offices raised the price of herbal medicines, and she mostly provided free medical treatments, so she opened up a wasteland on the hill to grow herbal medicines. This hill was Hanshan."
"Then in this Daxing Dynasty, is there really a doctor named Lin Haihai..." Zi An paused. Lin Haihai? This name sounds so familiar.
Lin Haihai, Professor Lin’s granddaughter, she died...
Oh my God, could it be that I have traveled through time to that Daxing Dynasty
If someone had told her about time travel in the past, she would never have believed it even if they had beaten her to death. But after she experienced time travel herself, everyone she saw looked like a time traveler.
Murong Zhuangzhuang's personality was so straightforward and he didn't care about trivial matters. Regardless of the secularity of this era, she suspected that he was a time traveler.
Zi'an tried hard to convince himself that there really was a medicine pool in this world, and that way, Murong Jie could be saved.
However, she was a rational person after all. Although she had heard so much from Yuan and had seen the information, it was not enough to convince her to completely believe this matter. Therefore, it was impossible for her to really go against the public opinion and move the regent to Hanshan.
Although, even though the book was written in simplified Chinese and used hours as the unit of time, it was still not enough for her to make this decision.
And the most important thing is that other people don’t know about the medicine pool, they only know Hanshan. If she goes to Hanshan and there is no medicine pool, she will be committing a heinous crime.
(End of this chapter)