Chapter 106 It is true that good fortune is poor, and there is no immortal fate
As for the question on Ying Zheng’s bamboo slips, Li Nian’s answer is naturally no, since he really cannot guarantee that after cutting off a person’s hands and feet, he will definitely live. , and at the same time, he was also thinking that if the First Emperor mastered this method, would he do the same in the future?
He doesn’t want to have his hands and feet chopped off and then put into jars to make pickles!
However, whoever has provoked such hatred from the First Emperor would use such torture, cutting off a person's hands and feet but still letting him live, is obviously to make this person's life worse than death.
Could it be that Xiang Yu’s uncle and nephew were caught?
It shouldn’t be!
At this time, Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew are probably in Xiaxiang County, Sishui County or Wu County, Kuaiji County. The straight-line distance between Xiangyang and Xianyang is nearly a thousand kilometers, and Wu County is more than 1,300 kilometers away.
Even on the night after he finished talking about Xiang Yu, the First Emperor ordered the cavalry to quickly capture Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew. However, Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew were unprepared and were caught directly. There was no way they could come back so quickly. The journey is just too long.
If it’s not Xiang Yu’s uncle and nephew, who is it, Pei Gong, Xiao He, Zhang Liang, Han Xin?
It's impossible. The reason is the same as Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew. The journey is too far, and it can be said that there is no hatred between Xiao He, Han Xin and the First Emperor, so it's not like this.
Zhang Liang could make the First Emperor have such a motive, but at this point in time, even Li Nian didn’t know where Zhang Liang was. Moreover, judging from the First Emperor’s attitude towards Zhang Liang that day, he shouldn’t have dealt with it this way. Zhang Liang.
So, there should be one or a few people who have a deep hatred for the First Emperor and are nearby and can be dealt with. Zhao Gao, Li Si, Xu Fu, Lu Sheng, Hou Sheng and others.
‘With this speculation, Xu Fu, Lu Sheng and others are more likely. I told the First Emperor that Xu Fu, Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng escaped and never returned. Could it be that the First Emperor wanted to chop off their hands and feet because of this? ’
‘With the temperament of the First Emperor, he is capable of such a thing: You don’t want to run away, but now I’ve cut off your legs and feet, how can you still run? ’
‘The First Emperor probably still wanted Xu Fu to live. When he conquered Jiaobin Island in the future, he would take Xu Fu with him and let Xu Fu go and see the so-called overseas fairy islands. ’
‘What a ruthless First Emperor, this is a complete revenge for what I said was Xu Fu’s betrayal of him in history! '
The facts are somewhat different from what Li Nian thought. Ying Zheng did not cut off the hands and feet of Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng, but the two were not much better. They were imprisoned in a wooden cage each with their hands His legs, waist, and neck were all shackled, and his mouth was held open by a round tube.
The body cannot move, the mouth cannot speak, and even if you want to bite your tongue, you cannot commit suicide. There is always someone watching over you. Whenever it is meal time, they will feed the two people pills and water through a round tube. .
Except Xu Fu who was taken away by the First Emperor alone, the other alchemists, Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng were all imprisoned here.
Their situation is much better than that of Lu Shenghou. Although they are also imprisoned in wooden cages, they are not shackled and have no tubes in their mouths. They only eat...
At this time, it was just time for dinner, and there was only a "dang" sound. All the imprisoned alchemists all changed their faces, with frightened eyes. Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng, who were locked up, also struggled violently.
“Get up, it’s time to eat!”
A group of guards came in carrying several large wooden barrels, and a strange smell suddenly spread. The aroma of meat was mixed with the smell of putrid flesh and fur. The smell and so on make people want to vomit when they smell it.
Another group of guards held small wooden buckets, wooden spoons and chopsticks, and distributed the chopsticks and small wooden buckets to the alchemists in the wooden cages. Then they used wooden spoons to scoop food from the large wooden buckets and distribute them to the alchemists.
I saw a barrel of broth in the big wooden barrel. The meat had been boiled to a pulp, and many hairs were floating on the soup, rolling with the wooden spoon in the barrel.
These stewed meats are the chickens and rats that died from eating the elixir!
Looking at the broth that was spooned into his small wooden bucket, a sorcerer wanted to vomit, but he held it back because the consequences of vomiting were more difficult to accept, and it was not like no one had vomited before.
There were also people who would rather die than eat this food, and then those people were killed in front of them, and their bodies are still hanging in the wooden cage.
Other alchemists were eating, and Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng also began to use their "rice". I saw the wooden cage where Hou Sheng was, and two chamberlains entered it. One of the chamberlains was holding a tray with the elixirs and drinking water that Hou Sheng needed to take.
Another chamberlain took out the elixirs from the tray and fed them to Hou Sheng one by one through the round tube. In order to prevent Housheng from choking to death on the elixirs, the chamberlain also thoughtfully fed him water. In another wooden cage The same goes for Lu Sheng.
An alchemist secretly glanced at Lu Shenghou Sheng who was being forcibly fed the elixir, quickly looked away, and drank the chicken and rat stew in the wooden bucket in his hand.
Although they are also miserable, compared to Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng, their situation is much better. I just don’t know when this day will end and whether they can get out alive.
They couldn't help but think of Xu Fu. Lu Shenghou was already so miserable, so what about Xu Fu?
I’m afraid it will be even worse!
This, the alchemists thought wrongly. Xu Fu is now also imprisoned, chained and guarded at all times, but he is not tortured. Instead, he is well fed and well taken care of.
But because of this, Xu Fu was even more desperate. He should have committed suicide on that day, even if he hit his head on the ground, not like this.
Now that King Qin is not killing him, it is clear that he wants to keep him alive so that he can torture him more and make his life worse than death. This is what King Qin said when he asked him to "must live well".
But why is all this happening? Why did King Qin suddenly take action against them? Why do you hate him so much?
A few days later, Ying Zheng was handling government affairs in Zhangtai Palace. Suddenly a guard entered the palace and reported: "Your Majesty, Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng are dead!"
Ying Zheng's eyes immediately fell on the guards, and he sneered: "It seems that these two beloved ladies are really unlucky and have no immortal fate."
The way he gave Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng to eat, they both It would be strange if people didn't die so quickly.
Without food, only drinking water every day, and eating elixirs containing excessive heavy metals, who in the right mind can endure this?
Arriving at the place where the alchemist was imprisoned, Ying Zheng looked at the dead Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng.
The two men died in extremely tragic circumstances. Although it had only been five days, Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng could no longer see their original faces. They had almost changed into two different people. Their bodies were thin, their faces were black and blue, and they looked like ghosts. Too human-like.
Ying Zheng said: "Where are the records of the two people's symptoms in the past few days?"
After imprisoning the alchemists, Ying Zheng specially ordered people to record all the reactions of the alchemists in a book, especially Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng.
Immediately, a chamberlain came over with several scrolls of bamboo slips. Ying Zheng picked up one and started reading.
Seeing the records on the bamboo slips, Ying Zheng felt a chill in his heart. If Li Nian had not reminded him, if he had continued to take the elixir, the symptoms in the records would have happened to him.
Afraid to be followed by even stronger anger, Ying Zheng threw the bamboo slips into the tray, and Ying Zheng snorted heavily. Even if Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng were dead, it would be difficult to dispel his anger.
Anyone with knowledge can provide some information on the external symptoms of heavy metal poisoning after death.
(End of this chapter)