The 7th A Chinese Ghost Story

  Under her very broad and generous bosom, she agreed to let Li Chengqian go in and monopolize the empress dowager for a while. After a while, she would go in to see the empress dowager again, and then have Li Chengqian leave.

  Li Chengqian had just come down when the eunuch pulled Li Zhi, who was covered in sweat, onto the carriage. Then, Li Zhi summoned a eunuch and pushed them to go for a stroll.

  Su Hong just came back and saw two little kids sitting in the high-tech wheelchair of the Tang Dynasty, was surprised for a moment, then was pulled by Li Chengqian to go in together to see his mother.

  "Your Highness, you should call her Empress Dowager. Wait a minute, it can't be wrong." Su He corrected him.

  Li Chengqian scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. "Okay."

  After entering, the queen lay on the bed, having just slept for more than an hour. She now looked much more spirited. The imperial physician had also left, leaving only two duty guards sitting in another room outside. The queen's bright eyes gazed at Li Chengqian and the other person.

  Li Chengqian: "Mo......mo......" The first time he called out, it was a bit hard to open his mouth.

  The queen said with a spoiled tone: "Call me mom one more time, I love hearing it!"

  Li Chengqian let out a sigh of relief and excitedly shouted: "Mom!"

  "Ah."

  Su Hei bowed to the empress and said, "Su Hei has seen the Empress Dowager."

  "Ah."

  Li Chengqian sat on the edge of the bed and asked with concern: "Mom, don't you want to get up and sit for a while? Lying down for too long isn't good for your body either."

  The doctor said you can't sit.

  "Then sit up for a while." Li Chengqian had someone bring over a quilt, "You can't listen to all those imperial physicians' words!"

  Then he and Su E helped the Empress sit up, and the palace maid piled up quilts behind her to support her back.

  As soon as she sat down, the queen immediately felt refreshed and took a deep breath: "It's really much more comfortable, hehe, Chengqian is indeed considerate."

  She gazed deeply at Li Chengqian, "Just now, I almost passed out for a moment, and I felt that the dream was very dark and gloomy. I wanted to call out but couldn't, I wanted to move but couldn't. Then I heard you calling me 'Mom' and my body shook slightly. When I opened my eyes, I saw you! It was you who pulled Mom back from the gates of death, did you know that, Chengqian?"

  "Mom!"

  "As a queen, I'm afraid that if I leave, no one will know how to handle things after my death." The empress looked somewhat perplexed. "But this body of mine can't move today, and tomorrow it'll be about the same..."

  "Mom, you'll get better." Li Chengqian comforted.

  Su He interrupted, "Empress Dowager, Your Highness knows that there is a divine doctor in the folk, and someone has been sent to find him. I believe he will surely bring her back to life!"

  The queen smiled slightly, thinking they were just comforting her.

  "Mom, you should talk less and take care of your body more now. Let me tell you a story to lift your mood!"

  "Oh, Chengqian can tell stories." The empress was somewhat surprised.

  "Ah, let me tell you a story about 'The Legend of the White Snake'. The ghosts and spirits in it are all fake. This is a story that an old man (Lao Bo) told me, he made it up himself, haha..." Li Chengqian began.

  "It is said that in the first year of the Sui Dynasty, a strange stone monument appeared in the sacred Shiku Cave of the famous Taoist sect 'Xuanxin Zhengzong'."

  Su He pulled at Li Chengqian's sleeve, and Li Chengqian turned around to see Su He looking curious but not asking any questions. The empress also had a thoughtful expression on her face. He hastily said: "Xuanxin Zhengzong is just a casually made-up name, don't take it literally, as long as you know it's a place name, that's enough."

  Two serious women exchanged a glance, and Li Chengqian continued: "The stone tablet not only records the major events of the previous dynasty's founding, but also predicts that when 'Tianmo Chong Qi' appears, the seven grievances will be reborn, and the demonic path will use the power of two people to dominate the world. Therefore, the master of the 'Xuanxin Zhengzong', Jin Guanglian, together with his fellow disciples Yan Chixia and Sima San Niang, seized the newly born seven grievances before the demon sect, after a great battle between good and evil..."

  "Empress!" A little loli interrupted Li Chengqian's story, ran in and hugged the empress, then stuck out her tongue at Li Chengqian, made a face, and said to the empress: "Empress, rest well, I won't disturb you anymore."

  Then he ran away.

  You're just making excuses for yourself, saying nice things but actually you've gone crazy playing around. Li Chengqian rolled his eyes.

  Li Zhi came over to pay his respects and then followed his sister's buttocks.

  The queen gazed lovingly at the little girl as she left, then turned to Li Chengqian and said, "Chengqian, you continue."

  "Oh, where was I...?" With Su He's reminder, he continued, "Right, after a great war, the female infant of the Seventh Grievance Couple was snatched away by Mo Dao Liu Jun, but Mo Dao Liu Jun also died from his injuries, and the world was temporarily at peace. 18 years later, the male infant of the Seventh Grievance Couple grew up to be Ning Caichen, a poor scholar who made a living by selling paintings, while the female infant Nie Xiaoqian became a female ghost who searched for true love but died young."

  The two met at the Lanruo Temple, starting a destined fate... Li Chengqian's voice lowered, becoming very magnetic, filling the story with a faint sense of oppression.

  Two women stared at Li Chengqian with shining eyes, and Li Chengqian felt that the light on his body had increased by three or four degrees!

  He felt that he had chosen this story too correctly. Thinking of his grandmother, mother, little aunt and wife in his past life, all the women liked these sentimental love stories, with their ups and downs, a melodrama! Women, your attributes haven't changed for thousands of years!

  The audience's professional quality is very high, allowing Li Chengqian, the radio host, to perform beyond his level. The radio version of "Nie Xiaoqian" was officially tested in the summer of the 10th year of the Tang Dynasty's Zhenguan...

  Li Chengqian was so into the story that his enthusiasm grew higher and higher, he started to gesticulate wildly, with saliva flying everywhere, completely immersed in the role. When he got to the part where Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian were kissing in the water bucket, he stared intently at Su Hong's small mouth, wanting to kiss her. Su Hong's face turned bright red, while the Empress on the bed had a amused expression on her face.

  Next, when the thousand-year-old tree demon forced Nie Xiaoqian to absorb human essence, Li Chengqian clearly heard two women grinding their teeth fiercely. If the thousand-year-old tree demon were here, she would definitely be bitten by these two women with hatred.

  That's exactly the effect, with the movie's plot being extremely tragic and joyful! Li Chengqian received the greatest encouragement, continuing to perform beyond his level, from the height of Mount Tai to the height of Mount Everest, then to the South Heavenly Gate, even breaking through the sky!

  “…Ning Caichen glanced back at the little Qian standing beside him, and with a sudden realization, he picked up his brush and wrote a poem on the edge of Little Qian's portrait: Ten miles of flat lake, frost fills the sky, every inch of green line is a year of splendor. Facing the moon alone, they gaze at each other, only envying the mandarin ducks, not envying the immortals...”

  Li Chengqian found that there were more spectators, not only several princesses surrounded by people, but also a dozen palace maids standing outside the door.

  As they reached this point, including the queen and the crown prince's consort, they all took a deep breath together. Li Chengqian felt that the air in the bedroom was suddenly sucked out by them, and he almost suffocated.

  "Ning Cai Chen gazed at Nie Xiao Qian, who was hiding in the sunlight that couldn't reach her. Nie Xiao Qian also gazed back at him, their eyes entwined in a reluctant and difficult farewell. Amidst Yan Da Xia's urging voice, they knew...their fate in this life had come to an end..."

  Surrounded by the sobbing of women, Li Chengqian woke up from the host's halo and found that not only were the people around him crying, but also the queen's tears were constantly falling. A palace maid who was also shedding tears was wiping away her tears. Su Hong had already leaned on his shoulder, crying so hard!

  You women are the most annoying! It's just a story, why cry like that? If you're going to cry, then don't listen. Every time you finish crying, you still want to hear it, and sometimes you even watch while crying, honestly!

  The queen and Su He seem to have no intention of stopping, Su He doesn't matter, but the queen can't cry too much!

  "Cough..." Li Chengqian coughed once, instantly drawing the attention of all the women. He pretended to be deep in thought, "The story is not over yet..."

  "Ah......" Another intake of breath.

  Knocked over and sucked all the air out of the bedroom!

  "Ten years later, in front of a thatched hut, Ning Caichen was wearing peasant clothes, with his pants legs rolled up revealing muddy calves, spanking a seven or eight year old kid who had been pulled out of the mud. The kid's buttocks were red from being spanked, but the rest of his body was covered in mud. It seemed he had been pulled out of a mud pit. At this time, Nie Xiaoqian came out wearing a woman's headscarf and said: Old man, I'm going to fight you...". Li Chengqian added another episode.

  All the women stopped crying, and when they heard Nie Xiaoqian's last line, they burst out laughing. They all laughed happily with tears in their eyes, I really can't understand these women's properties!

  After laughing, someone raised doubts.

  "I don't know who this little girl is: 'Imperial brother, didn't they say that their fate in this life has come to an end? Why did they have a child again?'"

  "Yes, yes, where is their little grass hut?"

  "Why has the scholar stopped painting and gone to be a farmer instead? How ridiculous!" This girl still discriminates against farmers!

  Li Chengqian raised his hand, and the whole room fell silent: "The answer is in the story..."

  As soon as this was said, all the women began to guess and discuss it one after another, even the queen and Su Pei had a heated discussion about it, almost turning into an argument.

  Li Chengqian found that the Empress's mental state was much better than before and smiled happily.

  "Your Majesty, dinner is ready!" A eunuch walked in.

  Unexpectedly, it's already the beginning of spring.

  Li Chengqian waved his hand to shoo people away: "All of you, disperse! You, bring the meal in for my mother. Also, prepare a portion for me and the Crown Prince's consort."

  At dinner, Li Chengqian and his wife ate with the Empress. The Empress's dishes were all very light and suitable for her as a long-time patient. Several times, the Empress put down her chopsticks, saw Li Chengqian gobbling down his food, smiled, and then picked up her chopsticks to continue eating.

  After dinner, the palace maid who came to collect the bowls and chopsticks had a smile on her face that she couldn't hold back. Li Chengqian asked: "What are you laughing at?"

  It's probably the queen's personal palace maid who said: "The queen ate a lot today, usually she just takes a little and then doesn't eat anymore!"

  As soon as he heard this, Li Chengqian began to educate the empress, who was ill, on the principle that she needed to eat more in order to recover. The empress smiled but did not speak, allowing Li Chengqian to lecture her to his heart's content. But just as he was halfway through his lecture, without having repeated a single phrase, a eunuch outside shouted: "The emperor has arrived."

  Li Chengqian was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, his body straightened up immediately, and he hastily said: "Mom, I'm leaving first."

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  Thank you to two Baidu Knows netizens: lovely and earth rogue old lady. They helped me modify the title of the empress.

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