The court was full of turmoil, Kangxi was busy all day long, and he had long forgotten about the concubine De in prison. But he forgot, but his subordinates did not dare to forget, they were still trying to pry De Concubine's mouth open. Because Concubine De's confidantes confessed a lot of things about her, they discovered that Concubine De had placed three people there because her grandfather had worked in the imperial kitchen! This is a very dangerous thing for the emperor, and they naturally have to find out if there are other fish that slipped through the net.
Even though Concubine De had spiritual spring water to nourish her body, the pain and torment she endured every day was real. Day by day, Kangxi didn't show her dignity at all, and didn't care about her being the biological mother of two princes and two princesses. She finally experienced the feeling of despair, and collapsed and revealed her last hole card.
"I can make the emperor live forever! I want to use this... to exchange for the glory and wealth of the rest of my life."
As Concubine De said, she raised her hand to the broken bowl in front of her, allowing people to see the spiritual spring water appear out of thin air at her fingertips and slowly flow into the bowl.
The person who interrogated her looked at her in surprise, and immediately reported the matter to the public, and the bowl of spiritual spring water was also taken by the Supreme Hospital for inspection. They have long been surprised by Defei's condition. According to the strength of their torture, even a strong man should die, but Defei can recover a lot soon after returning to the prison. Because of this, they even suspected that Concubine De was a nail in the prison, and had been trying to get him out, but they didn't expect Concubine De to show her demonic skills now!
The Taiyuan Hospital is secretly doing various experiments, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the Lingquan water is very beneficial to the human body. Although it cannot live forever, it can indeed strengthen the body and prolong life. It can even cure some minor diseases, and has excellent curative effects on internal injuries, plague, smallpox, etc. If you can take it for a long time, you will definitely become a healthy and long-lived person. It's absolutely fine to be a hundred years old.
In an era when most people die in their forties or fifties, living to a hundred years old is an irresistible attraction, and Kangxi is no exception. He went to the dungeon in person, and seeing the embarrassed but not haggard Concubine De, he said calmly: "I never thought you would have such good luck."
Concubine De smoothed her hair, sat upright, and put on a negotiating posture, "I can stay out of the Yonghe Palace for the rest of my life, as long as I eat, dress, and treat you like a queen, and I will provide you with a bowl of spiritual spring water every day until you grow old safely. Your Majesty, Compared with life expectancy, my little request is not too much, right?"
It's really not too much, if there is a Taoist who can help the emperor prolong his life, it's not too much to be named a national teacher, let alone a woman who only wants food and clothing and is willing to ground her feet. But when Kangxi thought of Concubine De's cruelty to Yinzhen and such a confident attitude, he felt unhappy, and immediately sneered, "I want to live a long life, but I don't like being threatened. Sinister Wu Ya, you You underestimated my means too much."
Under the surprised and puzzled eyes of Concubine De, Kangxi left without looking back, no matter how much she shouted, there was no slight pause. Immediately afterwards, Concubine De was knocked unconscious by a masked man in black and took her away. When she woke up again, she was in a small, quiet and empty room, completely dark, except for the locked iron door, there were only cold walls. She panicked and yelled, but no one paid attention to her, let alone brought her food. If it wasn't for her spiritual spring water that could hang her life, she might starve to death!
Moreover, in such a closed and dark environment, she couldn't feel the passage of time, she became more and more empty, more and more suspicious of herself, and suddenly regretted why she had such big ambitions? If she lived her own life honestly, relying on the nourishment of the spiritual spring water, would she not be able to grow old safely? Maybe she can become the empress dowager smoothly when she gets old, so why do you have to fight for your own? The appearance of Little Fourteen was blurred in her mind, what was the meaning of everything she did
After regretting, she began to resent again. Hate Tong Jia's immortality, hate Six Elder Brothers for being playful and falling into the water, hate the emperor for not remembering old love, hate Yinzhen for being unfilial and unfraternal, hate Xiao Shishi for not recognizing his mother, hate his daughter for being closer to Su Yuanyuan, hate the family for being trash …
The man in black is the strongest hidden guard around Kangxi, observing Concubine De from the small hole in the iron gate every day. Ten days later, Concubine De was on the verge of collapse and reached the edge of madness, so he opened the small window on the iron door and put the porridge and pickles outside the door, "Just put a jar of spiritual spring water, and these are yours. "
Concubine De stretched out her finger without even thinking about it, and filled the jar to the brim, even overflowing! Then when he got the porridge and pickles, he gobbled them into his mouth hungrily, without even the slightest desire to negotiate or resist.
The man in black carefully picked up the overflowing spiritual spring water, used it as an imperial doctor's test medicine, and then sealed the jar and sent it to Kangxi. Concubine De couldn't do anything, so the Lingquan water was naturally fine, so Kangxi drank a bowl and gave the crown prince, Tong Jiawanxian, Yinzhen, Su Yuanyuan, and the twins a bowl each. Of course, they made excuses to subdue them without any trace, and no one knew about it except Li Dequan, who handled it. Su Yuanyuan tasted it in one sip, and looked at Kangxi calmly, only thinking that Concubine De might be mistaken for her cleverness.
In the next few days, Kangxi continued to drink the spirit spring water with them, until the jar bottomed out, the man in black opened the small window of the iron gate again. Concubine De saw hope after eating white porridge once, but several days of darkness and claustrophobia made her even more desperate. This time, when I saw the small window open, I immediately rushed over and stretched out my finger, and shouted in a broken voice: "Here you! Here you are! Spirit spring water! Give me something to eat! Give me something to eat!"
This time the man in black put chicken porridge and egg custard outside the door, and the smell wafted into the door, making Concubine De even more urgent, "Give it to me! Give it to me every day! Please, please!"
The man in black put out ten jars, Concubine De quickly filled up the ten jars without waiting for him to speak, and then drank the shredded chicken porridge contentedly. The man in black narrowed his eyes and said bewitchingly: "If you confess the method of water diversion, you can go out to see the light again and eat every day."
"The method of diverting water? No, there is no method of diverting water. I let it come out and it will come out." Concubine De stuttered while holding the bowl, and replied inarticulately, "The water of the spiritual spring is in my soul. It doesn't matter if I tell you, it doesn't matter. People can take it."
After she finished eating, she threw herself on the iron gate again, hoping to say: "Let me out, I dare not make any more conditions, simple tea and light meals are fine, anything is fine, don't lock me here alone, it's so dark, so scary, I'll I can't take it anymore, I really can't take it anymore. Give you as much spiritual spring water as you want, don't lock me up, please! I am useful, I am very useful, without me, Kangxi can only live to sixty-nine, six Nineteen he will die, I can make him live to one hundred and two, really, I'm really useful... "
The man in black's face changed drastically, and his cold and sharp eyes almost pierced her!
"Presumptuous! How dare you curse the emperor?! I don't think you have been punished enough!" The man in black closed the small window and was about to leave.
Concubine De was terrified, and slammed on the iron door, "No! I don't have a curse, and what I said is true. He can only live to sixty-nine, but I have spiritual spring water, and I will make him live longer. I Useful, let me out, let me out! I'm going crazy, I won't remember the spiritual spring water when I'm crazy, no one can get the spiritual spring water from my body, then the emperor can't live long! Please, put I can be locked in an ordinary cell, please don't lock me here!"
The man in black didn't dare to underestimate every word the mysterious woman said, and when he gave the ten altars of spiritual spring water to Kangxi, he hurriedly reported the matter. Kangxi was furious, and got angry for a long time, but after calming down, he found that there were many doubts. Why did Concubine De say she was sixty-nine years old? He is forty-two years old this year, if Concubine De wants to use Lingquan to prolong his life to make him value, wouldn't it be better to say that he died in his forties? Why do you say that he will not die until more than 20 years later? Thinking about it, sixty-nine years old is indeed his lifespan. After all, he has worked hard for many years and fought in the battlefield, so his body will be damaged to some extent.
So how did Concubine De know his life expectancy? Could it be that they can pinch and count like monks and Taoists? Thinking of Concubine De's spiritual spring water, it seems that it is not too unusual for her to pinch and count. And why did Concubine De want to harm Yinzhen? He investigated many times and found that Yinzhen was really her own son. Since she has such extraordinary abilities, wouldn't it be better to win over her two sons and two daughters? What did Yinzhen do to take risks? Could it be that Yinzhen is a hindrance to her
Kangxi paced slowly before the imperial case, thought for a long time, and ordered the man in black to interrogate Concubine De, no matter what method he used, he must know what Concubine De had figured out, especially about Yinzhen and Suo'etu. He thinks that Concubine De will cooperate with Suo'etu, maybe because Suo'etu will be more powerful, this must be clarified.
Concubine De didn't know that Kangxi regarded her as a witch. When she found the man in black opened the small window, she rushed over happily, "Did the emperor trust me? Is he going to let me out?"
The man in black said coldly: "Aside from the emperor's lifespan of sixty-nine, what else do you know?"
Concubine De suppressed her eagerness to collapse, and quickly shook her head, "No, I don't know, I only know his life expectancy."
However, the fact that she was about to go crazy made her unable to hide it anymore, and the man in black knew that she was hiding a lot just by looking at the expression in her eyes. The man in black didn't talk nonsense, he just opened a few bags, threw them in and closed the small window.
"Don't! Don't go! Let me out!" Concubine De knocked on the door in astonishment, and suddenly felt something touch her ankle, and she fell to the ground in fright. things, and cold and greasy things.
"Ah-ah, help--" Concubine De jumped up and rushed towards the iron door, slamming on the door frantically and screaming. She felt a lot of snakes, a lot of rats, she didn't know what else, but in the dark room, she felt nothing but fear.
"Help! Let me out! Let me go!" Something was climbing up her prison clothes, she frantically slapped it off, turned around and ran, but stepped on something and fell onto many living creatures!
"Ah—don't! Get out!" She screamed and got up, scurrying away. The small space made her bump into walls everywhere, and those things seemed to be everywhere, her hairs were standing on end, her scalp was numb, her dizziness and tinnitus were ringing, and her prison clothes were soaked in cold sweat!
She threw herself on the iron gate again, crying and screaming, "Let me out! I say! I say everything! Help me—"