Although they looked calm on the surface, their eyes showed surprise.
I thought it would be good if this man could give me some clues, but I didn't expect that he would reveal such shocking news.
It is not a secret that the guarding eunuchs helped Emperor Jianwu find the art of immortality and immortality. Almost everyone in the Xia Dynasty knew about it, and many eunuchs even used this to make money, causing many local families to be destroyed.
What surprised Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai was that Xu Wei, under the instruction of Big Eyeball, gave the guarding eunuch a sinister and evil method to increase the life of his descendants...
Thinking of the previous deaths of Emperor Jianwu's princes under mysterious circumstances, Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai had to wonder whether there was a connection between the two incidents.
Could it be that the death of the prince was because Emperor Jianwu performed this evil method and took away his son's life so that he could live a hundred years and live forever?
But Emperor Jianwu doesn't seem to be very old, right? He is only forty or fifty years old now.
Xu Wei came up with this idea to the guarding eunuch more than ten years ago. At that time, Emperor Jianwu was only about thirty years old and in his prime. Why did he start thinking about longevity?
If you think about it carefully, it is not impossible.
After all, it is very unlikely to become an immortal, so you must first accumulate your lifespan before exchanging time for opportunities.
Although they had these speculations in their minds, Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai did not discuss this.
This time and place are not suitable to discuss this matter.
Qin Shaoyou just asked the man: "Xu Wei even wants to tell you such a thing?"
Under the observation of [Mingmu], Qin Shaoyou determined that this man was an ordinary person. Under the influence of Zhu Xiucai's mantra, he would definitely not lie.
But these questions that confused him still needed to be clarified.
When the man heard Qin Shaoyou's question, he continued to answer uncontrollably:
"After Xu Wei gave an idea to the guarding eunuch, he received a heavy reward and was very happy. He bought good wine and food and came back.
We had always had a good relationship, so he invited me to his house for a drink. After he got drunk, he boasted that he would soon become a successful official and become a marquis.
I asked him why and he told me about it."
Many people like to brag after drinking, and Xu Wei was no exception.
"What happened next? Why did Xu Wei not become an official, but went to work as a steward in a cloth shop?" Zhu Xiucai asked.
"Don't say he didn't succeed in his official duties. He was soon killed and even I was almost implicated."
The man looked frightened when he told what happened next.
It seems that even after many years, this incident is still a nightmare in his heart that cannot be shaken off.
"A few days after Xu Wei drank, a group of people came to our village and killed everyone. They didn't spare any old people or children. They even killed the chickens and dogs in the village.
A clean one.
Xu Wei died the most miserable death, not only was his head cut off, but he was also quartered by five horses..."
"Why aren't you dead?" Qin Shaoyou suddenly interrupted and asked.
The man swallowed and replied: "I went into the mountains to cut firewood that day and was not in the village, so I escaped the disaster.
When I went down the mountain, I saw people burning, killing and looting in the village from a distance. I was too frightened to go back to the village. I hid in the mountain for several days. I waited until I was sure that all those people were gone before I went back down the mountain.
At that time, there was no one alive in the village.
I wanted to report it to the officials, but on the way to the county seat, I heard someone discussing our village, saying that our village had been looted by bandits. The officials were very angry and determined to go into the mountains to suppress the bandits, so I did not dare to enter.
Go to the city to report to the official."
"Why is this?" Zhu Xiucai asked.
The man explained: "I went back to the village and saw that everyone was dead, but no one's property had been touched. How could it be possible that bandits looted it?"
Besides, bandits come down the mountain either for money or for food. Unless they are severely offended, they usually won’t massacre the village. After all, if every village is slaughtered one by one, how can they rob families in the future?
Moreover, our county magistrate has always been weak and afraid of death, and has always kept a respectful distance from bandits in the mountains.
But this time, he made a very quick decision to suppress the bandits, and also invited troops from the nearby guard station to appear. He seemed to be determined not to give up until the bandits were eradicated. Obviously something was wrong."
When Zhu Xiucai heard this, he couldn't help but marveled.
The common people also have the wisdom of the common people.
Under the influence of the mantra of "telling everything you know, and saying everything you know", the man preached eloquently:
"The most important thing is that that night, I had a dream.
Xu Wei found me in the dream and told me that the people who massacred the village were not bandits, but people sent by the guarding eunuch who had promised him a high official and a generous salary.
He begged me to help him resurrect, and asked me to return to the village, take out a bone flute from the sacred tablet he enshrined, and bury it next to the official road.
He also made a promise to me, saying that as long as I help him resurrect, I will enjoy all the glory and wealth for the rest of my life.
After waking up, I thought that this incident would do no harm to me, so I plucked up the courage and returned to the village the next day.
Sure enough, I found a bone flute among the sacred tablets enshrined in Xu Wei's home. Following Xu Wei's instructions, I buried the bone flute next to the official road outside the county town.
A few days later, a stranger came to me and claimed to be Xu Wei. I didn’t believe it at first, but he told many old stories and told me that he had made this person a scapegoat and took his body to gain
Rebirth.
The person whose body he took away was a steward of Ma family's business.
After being reborn, Xu Wei mastered some spiritual skills and wanted to seek revenge on the guarding eunuch, but failed. After asking around, he found out that the guarding eunuch had entered the capital.
So Xu Wei returned to the Ma family's cloth shop and used the magic he had mastered to control many people. Soon, although the cloth shop was still owned by the Ma family on the surface, the actual owner had become Xu
涭.
I was also recruited into the cloth shop by Xu Wei, became a steward, and lived a good life.
Later, through his connections, Xu Wei found out that the guarding eunuch was executed with a stick not long after returning to Beijing, and his family was also implicated. It was said that he was accused of embezzling military pay..."
Greedy for military pay?
Qin Shaoyou raised his eyebrows slightly.
Obviously, this is just an excuse to deceive others.
In order to keep the secret secret, the guarding eunuch could kill Xu Wei and everyone in his village. Similarly, in order to keep the secret, Emperor Jianwu could also kill the whole family of the guarding eunuch.
After all, even Emperor Jianwu would not dare to let others know about the sinister magic of increasing life through the longevity of his descendants, otherwise his throne would probably be unstable.
This kind of unruly behavior will definitely cause shock in the court and uproar among the people.
The man continues to talk endlessly:
"After Xu Wei took control of Ma's family business, he used the business's financial and manpower to collect spiritual objects and cultivation materials everywhere, and even bought people in places that were plagued by famines...
But the people he bought disappeared in the end.
I once asked Xu Wei, and he said that all these things and people were sacrificed to God... that's the big eyeball.
According to Xu Wei, Big Eyeball is sick and needs treatment. These things and people are the medicine.
Once the big-eyed disease is cured and he breaks out of the prison, as a believer, he will surely follow the chickens and dogs to ascend to heaven and become a god.
When that time comes, he will also make me a shaman, or at worst a flute player..."