HLnovel Chapter 244 The Kings in History Who Died After Falling into a Cigarette Pit
Chapter 244 The Kings in History Who Died After Falling into a Cigarette Pit
Lin Ke continued, "These are the prizes we're giving away. Please check your accounts after the broadcast. Okay, this episode's content is rather lighthearted, about the unofficial histories and gossip of our ancestors. Just take it as entertainment!"
"Let's start from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. The first one to appear is the ruler of the State of Jin, Duke Jing of Jin, Ji Nu. To describe his most notable feature in one sentence, it would be: he was the first ruler in history to fall into a cesspool and drown."
A farming whiz in the Song Dynasty: What the heck?! How could such a high-ranking official fall into a cesspool?!
A bystander from the Ming Dynasty: Wow... that's really heavy-handed! This kind of scene probably doesn't even exist in traditional storybooks!
"The whole thing is like this: After a nightmare, Duke Jing of Jin, Ji Nu, like other people who went to the Duke of Zhou to interpret their dreams, also consulted the shaman of Sangtian to ask what the dream meant."
"This Sangtian shaman, besides knowing some metaphysical arts, probably also knew a little about medicine. After examining Duke Jing of Jin, he told Duke Jing that he would never eat new wheat again."
"At that time, wheat was the staple food of the people of Jin. So what Sangtian Wu meant by saying this was, to put it bluntly, that Duke Jing of Jin was about to die and wouldn't live much longer, so he wouldn't be able to eat the new wheat!"
"No one would listen to something like that. What kind of talk is that? How can you say someone won't live long just because of a dream?"
"Duke Jing of Jin was furious. He believed that the sorcerer from Sangtian was trying to frighten him, so he had him arrested and thrown into prison!"
A spoiled young man from the Song Dynasty: I was in my twilight years at the time, so that's probably normal!
A bystander from the Ming Dynasty commented: "If this Sangtian shaman had any understanding of the art of language, things might not have turned out this way!!"
A romantic scholar from the Tang Dynasty: That makes sense, it's just because of a nightmare that he has to get to the bottom of it!
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"Shortly after this incident, Duke Jing of Jin sought out a physician from Qin, likely because Qin was a powerful state at the time."
"His medical skills were also a bit more advanced than theirs, but before the Qin physicians arrived, Duke Jing of Jin had another dream."
"In his dream, his illness manifested as two children, one of whom was saying: 'This doctor from Qin might be highly skilled, but he could endanger me. Should I run away?'"
Then another child said: "What's there to be afraid of? We're above the blindfold and below the plaque, there's no way he could reach us!"
"This ointment usually refers to the area around the heart, which is a difficult place for doctors to prescribe medication because it's a very sensitive area."
"So this dream is quite magical. Later, there was an idiom called 'the disease has reached the bone marrow,' which probably originated from this."
"When the Qin physician arrived, he felt Duke Jing of Jin's pulse and said frankly that he could not cure the disease, that no medicine could be used, and that it had reached a very serious stage."
"These words are not much different from what Sangtian Wu said, but Duke Jing of Jin's attitude towards the two is completely different. He not only rewarded the Qin physician with treasures, but also specially sent people to escort him back to Qin."
A skilled farmer in the Ming Dynasty: ? ? ?
A scion of a prominent family in the Tang Dynasty: It seems his illness is truly incurable!
A spoiled young man from the Song Dynasty: I just don't understand why he doesn't believe in the Sangtian witchcraft, even though the doctors in the Qin state say the same thing!
A bystander from the Han Dynasty commented: So he really didn't get to eat a single bite of the new wheat?!
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