frightfiction Chapter 536 Face Changing
Chapter 536 Face Changing
Once the Yuan Dynasty was pushed to that position, the impact would be immeasurable.
I am afraid that Empress Dowager Yuan and the Imperial Master will regret it later.
At this moment, a black shadow flashed past the door quickly. Just as Xie Liuzheng picked up the sword, he saw Hua Feixue sitting in front of him.
He was wearing a black nightgown and had no time to change. He picked up the tea on the table and took a sip.
Ji Yuntang asked, "Your Highness, how is it going? Have you found anything?"
Hua Feixue gave her a thumbs up and said, "You are really smart. You can find problems from the old witch's words. This prince followed the direction you said and actually found some clues."
"I went to look up the old witch's cousin and found a man with the word 'fan' in his name. His name is Jiang Yanfan. He is the son of the old witch's aunt. He is two years older than her and has had a good relationship with the old witch since childhood."
"Later, the old witch was sent to the palace at the age of sixteen, and Jiang Yanfan found a suitable young lady to marry. The two of them loved each other and lived happily. A year later, they had a pair of twins."
Xie Liuzheng asked, "What happened next?"
Hua Feixue said: "Later, Jiang Yanfan followed his family's caravan out to buy cloth. On the way back, he encountered bandits and accidentally fell off a cliff. He has been missing since then."
"The Jiang family sent people out to look for him for a long time, reporting to the authorities and asking for help from General Yuan. The authorities searched for him for a month but still couldn't find him. They only found some bloodstains and a token that belonged to Jiang Yanfan."
"Captain Yuan told Master Jiang and Madam Jiang that Jiang Yanfan had fallen from a cliff a hundred meters high and was in grave danger. He might have been taken away by wild animals below. He asked them to handle the funeral as soon as possible and to mourn for him."
"When Jiang Yanfan's wife, Cao, heard the news, she couldn't bear the shock and fainted. After waking up, she cried all day and knelt in front of Jiang Yanfan's tablet and cried."
"At that time, Jiang Yanfan and Cao's twin children were less than one year old. Mr. Jiang and Mrs. Jiang were already old, and Jiang Yanfan was the only son in the family. Almost everything fell on Cao, a woman."
"She not only has to deal with Jiang Yanfan's funeral, but also has to take care of the two elders and her own two children. She also has to take care of the Jiang family's cloth business."
"This Cao is also a powerful woman. Not long after she fell into depression, she personally took over all the businesses of the Jiang family. In fact, these businesses have performed better after she took over than when Jiang Yanfan was in charge."
"Now, seventeen years have passed. Cao raised her two children all by herself, took care of Mr. Jiang until his death, and nursed and served medicine to Madam Jiang. She never complained about anything, let alone thought of remarrying."
"She felt that now that Jiang Yanfan was dead, if she remarried, the Jiang family would collapse. She had to protect the things Jiang Yanfan left behind and take good care of the two children her husband left behind."
Ji Yuntang tapped the table with his fingertips and asked Hua Feixue.
"Do you think that the missing Jiang Yanfan is actually the Imperial Master?"
Hua Feixue nodded, "This prince's inference is not without basis. According to what I have heard, Jiang Yanfan is usually superstitious and likes to read some Taoist books. He wants to cultivate immortality and become a god, and live forever."
"He once mentioned to Master Jiang that he wanted to go to Mount Taibai to learn Taoism, but Master Jiang scolded him and told him not to even think about it."
"He has just given birth to a pair of children, and he has to raise them. He also has to inherit the family's cloth business. How could Mr. Jiang agree to let him practice Taoism in Mount Taibai?"
"So, if he wants to be with the old witch, he has to find other ways, such as escaping death."
As Hua Feixue spoke, he took out a portrait from his arms and spread it out on the table.
"By the way, I also found an old portrait of Jiang Yanfan. Take a look."
Ji Yuntang looked at the portrait, then took out a photo of the Imperial Master that he had secretly taken before and put them together for comparison.
She studied medicine and was very familiar with the skeletal outlines of the human body. She could tell the difference between the two almost at a glance.
"Don't tell me, the outline of his eyebrows and eyes really does resemble that of the Imperial Master, but upon closer inspection, the shape of his nose and mouth are not quite the same. What went wrong?"
Hua Feixue glanced at her, pointed at the photo of the national teacher, and said: "Of course you don't think it's similar, because the owner of this face is not Jiang Yanfan, but Ling Ce, the disciple of the master of the Taibai Mountain Taoist Temple."
"As everyone knows, the state teacher of Western Shu is a Taoist master invited by the old witch from the Taoist temple in Taibai Mountain. He is called Lingxi Zhenren. They dare not lie about this."
"Therefore, if he wants to hide from everyone, he must change his face."
"Face transplant?" Ji Yuntang was shocked. She had only seen plastic surgery and had never heard of face transplant.
Hua Feixue asked her and Xie Liuzheng, "Have you heard of a kind of poisonous insect called the face-changing insect?"
Xie Liuzheng seemed to have thought of something and said, "I've heard that this is a forbidden technique in witchcraft and the process is very cruel."
"The person who wants to change his face must feed the insect with his own blood every day until he has fed it for a full 100 days. Only then can the face-changing insect be considered to have been raised and become recognized as its master."
"Within the next seven days, the person who changes the face must put the poisonous insect into the body of the person whose face is changed, and let the poisonous insect gnaw on his head and face until all the skin on his face is eaten away."
"This process usually lasts three to five days. Some people die from the pain during the process. If a person dies, the face-changing bug will also die, and the face-changing will fail."
"On the other hand, if the person whose face was replaced is not dead and the poisonous insect has eaten away his skin intact, then the second step is complete!"
"The third step is to place the face-changing bug inside the body of the person whose face is being replaced. It will gnaw off the skin of the person whose face is being replaced bit by bit, and then spit out the skin of the person whose face was replaced. It will take 49 days to repair the skin, and then the face-changing will be complete."
"It is basically difficult for people whose faces have been replaced to survive."
Hua Feixue's eyes were dark, and she said in a deep voice: "Master Xie is right. This forbidden technique is very cruel. The person whose face is replaced will be tortured to the point of being worse than death, and eventually die in pain."
"But the key point here is that the person whose face is being replaced must be someone who has already been disfigured, or someone who has suffered facial injuries. Otherwise, the face replacement will be ineffective and may even backfire."
"It just so happens that Jiang Yanfan once fell off a cliff. I suspect his face was injured, so this face-swapping is reasonable!"
Ji Yuntang asked Hua Feixue, "Have you ever been to Taibai Mountain to investigate?"