Chapter 914 (1/2)
A thin figure in linen quietly touched the deer terrace while it was getting dark. He carefully avoided the patrolling guards and walked outside the king's palace along the insignificant corners of the high attic of the deer terrace.
When the bodyguards didn't notice, he picked up the corners of his pants and skirt, ran forward with his bare feet.
In fact, even a slave is extravagant to run. There is no thick humus layer of deciduous forest land, nor the flat and soft soil on the plain. The garden of the palace is full of shrubs, raised roots and stones. Running faster will stab his feet.
Not to mention, in order to prevent slaves and Untouchables from sneaking into the garden, the king of Yiqu ordered people to sprinkle a lot of sharp gravel here. Anyway, the nobles and guards wore felt shoes on their feet, which were warm and comfortable. They could run freely in the gravel field, catch up with the slaves who couldn't run fast like the wind, and cut off their heads.
But the figure seemed to have ignored the rubble that might scratch his feet. He stumbled all the way and touched a hidden place. There was a dog Rong man in bodyguard clothes waiting there.
When the bodyguard saw the figure, he hurried to meet him and whispered, ”did you bring anything out?”
The skinny slave bowed to his knees, showing a flattering color and said, ”here it is! The king ordered people to take care of it strictly. The slave bribed the bodyguard on duty to get it. It's all good goods newly picked and dried, not the inferior goods that were taken off the ground and withered to fool you.”
”Take it out and have a look!” the guard scolded. Seeing that he hesitated, he was even more severe.
The thin slave had no choice but to take out the things wrapped in white cloth in his arms. The dark golden, air dried Datura flowers were huddled together like scattered gold grains, emitting a fragrant fragrance. The guard greedily gathered in front of Datura and sniffed deeply.
The thin slave looked at it painfully, as if this mouthful had absorbed the weight of a millet, but he didn't dare to stop it, but the guard knew that the matter was important and wrapped it up again soon.
He weighed the dried Datura flowers and said in a harsh voice, ”why is it so much this time? It's less than half an hour. This datura flower has been dried and weighs about two baht. Did you collect 120 Datura flowers these days? You said... Did you hide it privately!”
”I dare not!” the skinny slave heard that his legs were soft and said in horror: ”I dare not disobey the order of the great wizard, but the king was strict and ordered the close guards to make a Book of the Datura flowers. There are a number of golden flowers on each Datura!”
”The day before yesterday, the king executed a slave and maid who stole flowers. Now the mandala is controlled by the palace guards. We have to curry favor with bribes before we can hide some. Each one doesn't dare to steal too much. It's from the fingers of those noble guards.”
”The puppet king has such a plan?” the guard was surprised and angry. The smuggling of Datura from the palace is very important and related to the great wizard's importance to himself. If this line is tightened again, the future will not be optimistic in front of the great wizard. How can he stand out?
The slave next to him hated and said, ”it was all the suggestions of the Middle Earth merchant. He asked the king for the right of arbitrariness and wanted to bag all the Datura flowers in Lutai. He was allowed to sell them alone. The king was quite shaken and was still considering it!”
The bodyguard sneered at the speech and said, ”these Chinese natives will not make them feel better after the great wizard wins the throne!”
Put away the dried Datura flowers wrapped in white cloth. The bodyguard bowed his head and made a few turns. Then he went out of the palace and went straight to a mansion in the city. When he entered the mansion, he gave his things to a wizard and left. The wizard carefully held his things and came outside a main hall.
The great wizard Juyan looked at a wizard apprentice with a gloomy face and poured the dark golden Datura dried flowers in the white handkerchief into the gold bottle. Most of the bottle was full. The Datura flowers in the bottle were like scattered gold, emitting charming dark golden brilliance. Juyan reached out to carry the gold bottle and said angrily to the great wizards below who were greedy staring at the gold bottle: ”Are you satisfied with just a little witch medicine?”
He said in a harsh voice, ”the puppet king has tens of millions of times more Mandala witch medicine in his hand. Are we satisfied with what he leaked and compete like a dog?”
Juyan great wizard reached in and grabbed a handful of loose gold. With a slight force in his hand, he crushed the dried and withered Datura flowers into a mass the size of soybeans into powder, gathered them in front of his nose and took a deep breath. The dark golden tiny dust was sucked into his nose. Before a few seconds, Juyan great wizard's eyes changed.
His turbid and dim eyes suddenly brightened, as if he had injected a strong mind. He felt that his spiritual sense, which had become dull due to the erosion of witchcraft, ghosts and gods, darkness and toxins, was sharpened again, the touch of thin and loose skin became sensitive, and his consciousness was clear and divergent.
”What a magic medicine!” the Juyan wizard sighed.
”The spirit of our ancestors can communicate with us. It can help us, listen and see the traces of ghosts and gods everywhere. With their power, it can make us sensitive, sink into the spiritual realm and contact those great and immortal forces. See the soul and understand the ghosts and gods.”