Eating Melons and Rising to Power, I Became the Tyrant’s Only Belief – Chapter 357

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第357章 指甲盖那么大
姜瑶和彤娘住在东客院,挨着花园。

周元德去请人的时候,姜瑶正在院子里打坐。

月光如水,白发映射银光。

周元德步子一顿,这怎么又变成白头发了?
许是听到脚步声,姜瑶睁开眼看过来,眼睛一红一灰,妖异得很。

周元德一个激灵,正想说点什么,却见白发瞬间转黑,姜瑶的眼睛也恢复正常。她歪了歪头,一双漆黑的眸子瞧着周元德:“有事?”

周元德定了定神,道:“少爷有请。”

“走吧。”姜瑶起身,随手将披散的发丝束起,对屋子里道了声,“不用跟来。”

刚亮起灯的屋子又黑了下去。

二人穿过花园,从侧门进入主院。

“少爷,姜观主到了。”

姜瑶从周元德身后走出来,问:“找我何事?”

“看看这个。”萧靖凡示意辰星将坛子递给她。

姜瑶没接,只是盯着看。

片刻后,她闭起眼,似在感受什么。

众人看看坛子又看看她,安静地等着。

几息之后,姜瑶睁开眼,偏白的嘴唇吐出两个字:“禁术。”

萧靖凡看了眼她变成灰色的眼睛,问:“何意?”

“这里面的东西——”姜瑶伸手,白皙的指尖触碰坛子,“吃人。”

众人一惊,忍不住倒退一步,就连辰星都把坛子放回了地上。

尸体她不怕,但吃人的东西莫来挨边。

见众人避如蛇蝎,姜瑶解释一句:“隔着坛子不吃人。”

众人心说万一没封好跑出来了呢?

冯景倒没那么怕,他指指坛子:“吃人的蛊虫不少,称得上禁术的却不多,坛子里的是什么?”

姜瑶回答得干脆:“红颜蛊。”

“红颜蛊?我好像听师父提过。”冯景望天,努力回忆。

萧靖凡竟然也觉得有些熟悉。

“姜观主,这红颜蛊有什么用?”问话的是楚流徵,害怕归害怕,好奇也是真好奇。

姜瑶歪头看她,楚流徵冲她笑笑:“能说吗?”

姜瑶不讨厌她,也愿意解答一二。

她道:“养成的红颜蛊能让青春之人容颜永驻,让年老之人恢复年轻时的容颜。”

“哇!”辰星捧腮惊叹,“这般神奇,岂非人人想要?”

姜瑶点头,曾经确实人人都想要,但并非人人要得起。

萧靖凡终于想起来为何觉得熟悉了。

“据史书记载,大雍朝的明珠公主曾用一座城池从一神秘人手中换取红颜蛊,只为让自身容颜不老。”他看着那坛子,有些感慨,“我本以为此事乃后人杜撰,没曾想世上竟真有这般神奇之物。”

“并非杜撰,那座城便是月城。”对着这位能帮自己杀了阴岚辞的人,姜瑶愿意多说两句,“那位神秘人就是月城的第一位城主,瑶姬。”

“瑶?”楚流徵忽然想到姜瑶的名字里也有一个瑶,“难道你的名字与瑶姬有关?”

“嗯。”姜瑶轻轻点了下头,“姜家家主会在下一代出色的女子中选一人赐‘瑶’为名,以此感念先主。”

冯景啧了声:“依你所言,你家的族谱上岂非有很多个姜瑶,如何区分谁是谁?”

姜瑶反问:“为什么要区分?”

冯景:“……”

反正他不愿意顶着别人的名字活下去,再荣耀也不行。

见话题扯远了,楚流徵忙拉回来:“红颜蛊真的能让人容颜不老吗?”

“只有养成的可以。”姜瑶道,“红颜枯骨,一蛊百命。青春者可享三年,年迈者可享一年。”

吕飞感叹:“几年青春竟要用百条人命来换,难怪会被列为禁术。”

姜瑶看他一眼,眼底带着些莫名意味。

萧靖凡道:“你方才一直强调要养成的红颜蛊,莫非养成红颜蛊的条件十分苛刻?”

姜瑶没答,蹲下来,屈起雪白的手指敲敲坛子:“打开看看就知道了。”

众人你看看我,我看看你,楚流徵自告奋勇:“我来——”

话音还没落就被几只手一起扯到了后面。

楚流徵和拽着自己的三人大眼瞪小眼。

【巳月和辰星也就罢了,暴君跟着凑什么热闹?】

萧靖凡:“……”

他就多余操这个心!

他松开手,将手往身后一背,一张脸黑得像阎王。

见他这样,巳月和辰星齐刷刷松开手,往后一退。

独自面对皇帝的楚流徵莫名气弱,指指坛子小声解释:“姜观主都那么说了,肯定没危险。”

萧靖凡冷着脸“嗯”了声,比起赞同更像是冷讽。

楚流徵当即倒了杯热水递过去:“您喝水?”

萧靖凡:“不渴。”

楚流徵保持微笑:“那我给您捏捏肩?”

萧靖凡:“不酸。”

“按按头?”

“不用。”

楚流徵:“……”

暴君怎么这么难哄啊!
等等!

楚流徵忽然反应过来,气的是暴君又不是她,她哄个什么劲儿啊?

萧靖凡还等着呢,半晌没听见声儿,不由斜眼看过去。

只见楚流徵微垂着头,杵那当木桩子呢,完全没有再开口的意思。

萧靖凡:?

萧靖凡:“……”

其他人安静围观,直到冯景忽然出声打破了这微妙的气氛:“还是我来吧。”

他蹲下来,伸手揭开坛盖,利落地拆上面的封口。

众人:“……”

辰星和巳月一起叹气,看吧,这就是娶不到媳妇儿的人啊。

冯景一边拆一边吸鼻子,嘀咕:“不臭啊。”

福伯不是说一股子腐臭味儿吗?
让他这么一提,大家的注意力也回来了,齐齐吸鼻子。

除了有点腥之外竟然真的不臭。

莫非他们猜错了,这里面没有尸体?
“开了。”冯景将封口的黑布解下,放到一旁,激动地招呼众人过来看。

除了萧靖凡被周元德和吕飞拦着不许往前之外,其他人都凑近看。

杜黔端着油灯往坛口照。

只见坛子里白莹莹一片,竟然全是雪白的骨头,不见半片腐肉或者脏污的血水,意外地干净。

“除了骨头啥也没有啊。”他伸长了脖子,顺手拿起刀想往里捅。

姜瑶幽幽地看了眼他抓着刀的手,看得杜黔后背一阵冒凉气,本能地就把刀放下了。

“这根骨头上好像有东西。”楚流徵一双大眼睛险些眯成一条缝,伸手指着靠近坛口的那根骨头,“也是白色的,指甲盖那么大。”

Eating Melons and Rising to Power, I Became the Tyrant’s Only Belief

Eating Melons and Rising to Power, I Became the Tyrant’s Only Belief

吃瓜上位,我成了暴君的唯一信仰
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Zhu Liuzheng, having crossed over into a fictional ancient dynasty, was forced by circumstances to enter the opulent royal palace of the Sheng nation. Unexpectedly, she bound herself to the "Gossip System" and was assigned to serve as a tea maid in front of the tyrant. Every day, she would sneak some time to indulge in gossip, while nothing in the past or the harem could escape the system's watchful eye. "Wow! The pure and lovely Zhao Yi has just obtained a manual for secret encounters, locking herself in the palace for three days to practice quietly, planning to give the emperor a surprise." Delicate and soft Zhao Yi: "I'm so embarrassed!" "Behind the greedy officials are a string of people, including Lu Jiarui, the Zhejiang governor, and Shi Zhongzhichen, the commander..." Greedy officials: "Please let us go!" "The princess's husband is using a concubine to replace the princess's own child and even wants to make the princess have a double demise!" The sincerely betrayed princess: "Damn scumbag!" "Xing Pin was diagnosed as pregnant, but the child is by her lover!" With a green hat on his head, Xiao Jingfan: "I will turn that lover into a human pig!"… One day, the surroundings of Xiao Jingfan suddenly became quiet. "Leave the palace? Who allowed her to leave? Bring her back to me!" "Forget it, I’ll go personally!" "I’m not going back!" Zhu Liuzheng, with a bundle on her back, extended her hand towards the palace gate, "I want to go home!" "Home?" Xiao Jingfan rushed forward to embrace her, "The palace is your home." Zhu Liuzheng: "…" Unable to resist the emperor’s decree and suffer calamity upon her family, she could only slack off and continue to survive. She still gossiped in the harem. Big news after big news erupted, the previous dynasty gradually being cleaned up, and the harem becoming increasingly peaceful, with the entire Sheng nation thriving. However… Zhu Liuzheng’s expression of disdain: "Why is the tyrant here again today?" Xiao Jingfan secretly perked up her ears: "What gossip is there today?"

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