Chapter 933 Auntie is not a stepmother (8)
While Cao Shichu was living a comfortable and leisurely life in Taohua Village, Xun Xiu, who had long been forgotten by her, was having a hard time.
He already knew that he had become a useless piece of silver. At first, he thought that it was because Cao Shichu was burned to death in the street that left him with a psychological trauma, which led to his impotence.
He then found several concubines to try, but no matter how he tried, no matter how many tricks they used, he remained calm. The concubines who served him were frightened and turned pale, knowing that they had learned about Xun Xiu's shameful habit and that they would not have a good end, so they hurriedly begged for mercy.
But Xun Xiu's concubines had witnessed his most embarrassing and incompetent side, so how could he keep them? Therefore, no matter how they begged, they had their throats and hands destroyed. To make sure they could not reveal their secrets, they were thrown to human traffickers and sold far away.
However, there was a concubine among them who had a strong temper. Seeing that she could not escape the disaster even by begging for mercy, she decided to take revenge on Xun Xiu. Before her throat was destroyed, she shouted loudly that Xun Xiu was useless and not a man, and that he harmed his concubines when he was no longer capable of doing so.
Xun Xiu's eyes went dark when he heard this, and he almost fainted from anger. When the concubine revealed this big secret, she shouted with all her might, and many people heard it, including the maids serving in the room, the old women in the yard outside who were swearing, and the servants from other yards passing by...
Even though Xun Xiu immediately dealt with those servants who were implicated simply because they heard words they shouldn't have heard, there were still some who slipped through the net, and so the rumor that Xun Xiu was dying spread.
So after Xun Xiu became unmarried, he also gained a reputation as a bad person. Now everyone looked at him in a strange way.
When he went to the Hanlin Academy, his colleagues looked at him with sympathy and pity. Some of them were even more shameless and secretly hinted to him not to hide his illness and to see a doctor as soon as possible.
Xun Xiu couldn't face such looks and was extremely ashamed and angry. He was already devastated by his incompetence, and now the news of his incompetence had spread to almost the entire capital. How could he have the face to appear in front of others?
He couldn't face such a look, so he went to ask Shangguan for leave. Shangguan agreed very straightforwardly and sympathetically advised him not to lose heart. He was still young and there was still hope if he saw a few more doctors...
Xun Xiu almost fled in panic.
After he returned to the Xun family, he still faced the care of his parents.
Xun's mother came to him worriedly and asked, "Xiu'er, are you really dying? What should we do? You are still so young, and you still have to give birth to children for our family..."
Xun Xiu gritted his teeth and said, "Mom! My illness is only temporary! It has never been like this before..."
"When did it start?" Xun's mother asked hurriedly.
"It started from the day after the wedding, when Cao was burned to death in the bridal sedan." Xun Xiu subconsciously put the blame on Cao Shichu.
As expected, when Xun's mother heard what he said, she immediately frowned and said, "Cao! It's Cao again! Her elder sister is a short-lived ghost, and this little Cao is also an unlucky ghost. She caused you to become a widower on the day of your wedding, and people even said that you are a wife-killer... Bah! It's obviously the Cao sisters, both of them are jinxes. It's them who made you like this. They are the ones who bring bad luck to our family..."
Xun's mother angrily cursed the Cao sisters, but no matter how much she vented her anger and cursed, she could not get her son to walk.
After she was tired of scolding him, she finally stopped, remembering that the most important thing now was to make her son better, so she asked anxiously, "Have you seen a doctor? You need to see a few more. If there is really no other way, even if it is embarrassing, you should ask the palace's skilled doctors to treat him. Don't avoid seeing a doctor because you are afraid of being laughed at."
"Mom, I've asked a doctor to see me, but they couldn't find anything wrong with me. They said I was clearly healthy and not poisoned. But this is the case. It's very likely that I was frightened by what happened on the wedding day. We can only wait and see when I recover." Xun Xiu said, grabbing his hair in annoyance.
"Are you scared?! How about asking a master from the Huguo Temple to chant some sutras to suppress those demons and monsters?" Xun's mother immediately thought of an unnatural method.
Xun Xiu had already seen a doctor but to no avail. After hearing his mother's words, he decided to give it a try. After all, asking the master to chant sutras would not do any harm. The worst result would be that it would be useless and his condition would remain the same. But if the sutras chanted by the master were really effective, then his illness could be cured.
So he immediately agreed to Xun's mother's proposal and said, "Mother, the abbot of Huguo Temple, Master Liutong, has the most profound magical powers. Can you ask him to chant sutras for me?"
Xun's mother was immediately embarrassed and said, "Master Liutong? Xiu'er, mother also hopes to invite Master Liutong to chant for you, but Master Liutong is not something mother can invite whenever she wants. Before, the Queen Mother wanted to invite him to the palace to chant for the late emperor, but Master Liutong refused, saying that he was old and weak, and was afraid that he could not do it... Master Liutong did not even give face to the Queen Mother, how could he give face to mother?"
Xun Xiu was extremely disappointed when he heard this. His mother couldn't bear to see him like this, so she said quickly: "Xiu'er, don't worry. We can't invite Master Liutong, but we can invite his junior brother Master Wentong. Master Wentong's magic power is only slightly worse than Master Liutong, but he is the second most powerful master in Huguo Temple. It's the same if he comes to chant sutras for you."
"Well, then let's invite Master Wentong." Xun Xiu said reluctantly.
Soon, Master Wentong showed up at Xun's house, but he was only there to chant sutras. He also made it clear that he could not treat illnesses, and that it would be best for Master Xun to seek help from another doctor.
Xun Xiu had invited him with the idea of giving it his all, so even though he was disappointed, he had no choice but to kneel on the cushion and listen to Master Wentong chanting. He did not dare to be distracted at all, and only begged the Buddha to restore his vigor for the sake of his extremely pious heart.
Unfortunately, Master Wentong's chanting had no effect on his illness. That night, Xun Xiu found another maid to experiment with, but the girl couldn't even stay in his room for a whole night. She was taken out by Xun Xiu's men in the middle of the night.
Poor innocent woman.
Xun Xiu basically became a big joke in the capital. The news that he invited Master Wen Tong to his mansion to chant scriptures to suppress demons in an attempt to cure his incurable illness spread out and became a topic of conversation among people in teahouses and restaurants. Xun Xiu was even too embarrassed to go out.
Because of his illness, he was depressed, irritable and aggrieved. He stayed in the mansion, and his temper became worse and worse. The slightest mistake made by the servants would make him furious. Even if Xun Yiming accidentally said something wrong, he would scold him. Xun Yiming finally tasted the feeling of living in fear even in his own home.
(End of this chapter)
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