Chapter 83: Witchcraft and Witch Doctor

In the Jianyuan period, the Emperor and Empress had been married for more than four years, but the Empress had never been pregnant. At first, there were rumors in the palace that the Empress could not be pregnant. Aunt Guantao didn't know where she found a folk prescription to adjust the Empress's body.

Later, beauties entered the palace one after another and received favor, but these beauties could not get pregnant. So the pressure came to Liu Che, and everyone began to suspect whether the Son of Heaven could not give birth.

During that time, Liu Che really had bitterness that he couldn't speak, so he could only favor more beauties to prove that he could.

A Jiao once argued with him because he favored those beauties. At that time, he said to her: "You and I have been married for many years, but you haven't given birth to an imperial heir, so why don't you let me favor others?"

Today, such rumors appeared again, but this time he faced these from A Jiao's perspective. He finally understood that rumors like not being able to conceive were such a great pressure for A Jiao.

After the Emperor and Empress left the Changle Palace, they boarded the imperial carriage and prepared to return to the Weiyang Palace. Because of the Empress Dowager's reprimand, A Jiao frowned, thinking about how to solve the matter of being impotent.

She couldn't learn from Liu Che of that year, and also take in a batch of beauties, and then favor them one by one to break the rumors that the Son of Heaven was impotent.

A Jiao suddenly thought of Beauty Yin, and couldn't help but feel a bit sad in her heart. Now that she was like this, even if she let those beauties enter the palace, she couldn't perform the matters of the bedchamber with them.

It might make this rumor intensify and confirm the fact that the Son of Heaven was not capable.

Just when A Jiao was distressed about how to solve this rumor, Liu Che, who was sitting beside her, suddenly turned and leaned over. He reached out and pressed A Jiao against the carriage wall behind her, a pair of phoenix eyes staring straight at her.

A Jiao's breathing stopped, her back leaned tightly against the carriage wall, looking at Liu Che who suddenly leaned close to her. She smelled the faint fragrance on him, and couldn't help but swallow her throat: "What are you doing?"

Because the two were close together, their warm breathing entangled with each other. Liu Che subconsciously licked his dry lips, then whispered: "A Jiao, let's... have another child."

Hearing Liu Che say this, A Jiao opened her eyes wide abruptly, thinking she had heard wrong: "What did you say?"

Liu Che said seriously: "I said, let's have another child."

A Jiao: "..." She blinked her eyes, carrying a bit of confusion: "Are you sure?" Didn't he resist having children very much before?

"Mother Empress is right, now the only way to break the rumor that the Son of Heaven is impotent is for me to be able to give birth to an imperial heir again." Liu Che said, stretching out his arms to hug A Jiao's waist, tilting his head and leaning into her arms: "And... I need an imperial son."

They had exchanged bodies for more than a year, but they didn't seem to have any signs of switching back. Liu Che was already thinking about the possibility that they would never switch back.

If he really had to spend this life in A Jiao's appearance, then he had to consider his future. Although the two imperial sons in the Weiyang Palace were his own sons, they were not A Jiao's children.

The biological mother of the Imperial Eldest Son Liu Ju was Wei Zifu. If he was established as the Crown Prince in the future, then his position as Empress would have to give way.

The Imperial Second Son Liu Hong had no mother, and he was only a year old, not yet enlightened, which was suitable for the position of Crown Prince, but the problem was... Liu Hong's mother was personally executed by A Jiao. Would A Jiao be willing to let Liu Hong become the legitimate imperial son?

Thinking about it, Liu Che suddenly felt that Liu Ling was right before. He indeed needed a son of his own to consolidate his position as Empress. Moreover, if he could get pregnant, he could also break the current rumors.

A thing that kills two birds with one stone.

"You..." A Jiao gently hugged him but hesitated.

"What?" Liu Che raised his head slightly: "Do you have other ways?"

"No, just didn't expect you to take the initiative to tell me." A Jiao felt funny in her heart, Liu Che actually took the initiative to tell her to have a child.

Liu Che said gloomily: "We already lost a child before. This time I have experience, and I will definitely be able to give birth to this child safely."

A Jiao also thought of the child who died prematurely, but then thought of what A Li told her about genes, and her heart became a bit uncertain.

—You and the Father Emperor are cousins with blood relations, in our modern society you cannot get married.

—Because you have a set of similar genes in your body, if you must combine to have children, this child may be unhealthy.

—Because the child in the Father Emperor's belly was inherently unhealthy, it died in the womb in the end.

Because of this reason, A Li was born with congenital deficiency. Did she have to let Liu Che give birth to another child with congenital deficiency?

Even if she didn't have to give birth to this child herself, it was after all from her belly. A Jiao couldn't bear to see another child with congenital deficiency appear and experience the grievances A Li once suffered.

Thinking of this, A Jiao sank her voice and said: "Let's talk about this later."

It was hard for Liu Li not to know that the rumors in the Weiyang Palace had spread like this. She didn't expect that the night Liu Che took the initiative to go to the Wenshi Hall to find A Jiao, such a wonderful thing happened.

Liu Li showed a teasing smile and asked A Jiao for verification: "That night, Mother Empress, were you really impotent?"

A Jiao was slightly stunned. Then she laughed and said: "A Li, why are you curious about such things? You are only seven years old, don't ask too much."

Liu Li was righteous: "Although I am only seven years old now, I was already twenty-something in my previous life, and I have seen no less than you, so Mother Empress doesn't have to treat me as an ignorant child."

A Jiao thought that Liu Li indeed knew many things. She hesitated for a while, then told her daughter the specific situation that day.

Liu Li was stunned for a long time after hearing it: "You and the Father Emperor actually already did it?! When?"

A Jiao coughed uncomfortably: "If you don't ask me such things, how would I take the initiative to tell you?" Even if she knew that A Li was actually twenty-something, in A Jiao's heart, she was a seven-year-old girl, her daughter.

"I always thought that you two just covered yourselves with a quilt and slept at night, after all, you are facing yourselves..." Liu Li said and giggled.

Didn't expect them to have already done it, and it was woman on top and man on bottom, so exciting.

"It was indeed like this originally." A Jiao answered truthfully: "After you disappeared and came back last time, Liu Che... took the initiative to... and then we..."

Liu Li blinked her eyes, asking like gossiping with a best friend: "Interview, what is the feeling of doing it with your own body?"

A Jiao touched her nose and blamed: "I don't know how to describe it, just... it was okay."

"Eww." Liu Li held her face and laughed: "Mainly because the Father Emperor is very good, hehe."

A Jiao stared at Liu Li's expression and asked: "A Li knows so much, do you have similar experiences?"

Liu Li puffed her lips, but said frankly: "That's not it, but I have watched many small videos, and my theoretical experience is still very rich."

"Pfft." Although she didn't understand what the small video she mentioned meant, A Jiao felt it was inexplicably fun in her heart.

The two returned to the topic, A Jiao told Liu Li that Liu Che took the initiative to suggest wanting to get pregnant and have children. A Jiao said: "You said about genes last time, I'm afraid that even if he gets pregnant, it will be an unhealthy child."

Liu Li thought thoughtfully and nodded: "But now, you need the Father Emperor to get pregnant, so that you can break the rumors in the palace."

A Jiao nodded.

Liu Li raised an eyebrow: "No need to be so troublesome, I have a way to solve this matter."

"What good way do you have?"

"If you want a matter not to be paid attention to, then make a more sensational matter." Liu Li fully moved the modern entertainment circle rules over, she raised her hand and snapped her fingers not very loudly: "At present, the matter we are about to engage in, I think no one will pay attention to whether the Son of Heaven is impotent or not."

Liu Che was indeed concerned about the matter of pregnancy, and he had been pestering A Jiao every night for the past two days. A Jiao also cooperated with him, but after a long time, she couldn't take it anymore.

She was even afraid to return to the Jiaofang Hall to see Liu Che

Seeing the two of them like this, Liu Li laughed until her stomach hurt. Finally, under A Jiao's plea for help, she decided to step forward and started the pit-father plan.

With Liu Che's attitude of being so keen on having children, Liu Li felt that the first step could still follow Liu Ling's previous idea, making Liu Che believe that Chu Fu had a way to help him get pregnant as soon as possible.

After Liu Che pestered A Jiao to have sex again, A Jiao was a bit powerless: "Liu Che, I think if you continue like this, I might really become impotent."

Liu Che twitched the corners of his mouth when he heard this, coughed awkwardly and said: "Fine, don't do it tomorrow."

A Jiao: "..."

She turned to face Liu Che, and Liu Che also cooperated and leaned into A Jiao's arms. A Jiao said in a weak voice: "We have been having sex every day for these few days, but your belly doesn't seem to have any movement. Didn't A Ling leave that female doctor named Chu Fu to you before? Why don't you ask her to treat you?"

Liu Che nodded after listening: "Fine, let that female doctor take a look at me."

A Jiao breathed a sigh of relief in her heart: "En en."

The next day, Liu Che really called Chu Fu to his side to take his pulse and treat him.

Chu Fu said to Liu Che according to Liu Li's arrangement: "Little Lord, your body seems to have no major problems, and it should be easy to conceive."

Liu Che nodded slightly: "Then why has it been so long, and there is still no movement in my belly?"

Liu Che hadn't considered children before, so he hadn't paid much attention to it since he had been having sex with A Jiao for so long without getting pregnant. But now that he wanted a child, he realized that so much time had passed, and his body had no reaction.

Clearly, before they switched bodies, A Jiao's body was pregnant after only that one time.

Chu Fu said: "Just now, the slave found from the Little Lord's pulse that there seems to be a Yang energy in the Little Lord's body. This Yang energy caused the Little Lord's body to be out of Yinyang harmony, so it is difficult to conceive now."

"Hmm?" Liu Che was confused after listening: "What Yang energy?"

"Since ancient times, men are Yang and women are Yin. Yin is flat and Yang is secret, and the spirit is treated. But the slave seems to have detected a trace of masculine energy belonging to a man in the Little Lord's pulse." Chu Fu said mysteriously: "This Yang energy seems to come from another person."

Liu Che was shocked when he heard Chu Fu say this: "You mean, you can feel Yang energy in my body?"

Chu Fu nodded: "Yes."

Wasn't this Yang energy himself? Liu Che naturally connected Chu Fu's words to the fact that he and A Jiao had switched bodies. He thought to himself, could this Chu Fu be so powerful that she could see through these things?

Thinking of this, Liu Che suppressed the joy in his heart, narrowed his eyes and decided to test Chu Fu again.

He took Chu Fu to find A Jiao, and then asked Chu Fu to take A Jiao's pulse. A Jiao also cooperated very well and stretched out her hand for Chu Fu to check. Liu Che stared at Chu Fu's expression nervously.

Chu Fu frowned slowly, and a strange expression appeared on her face: "Strange, the Son of Heaven's pulse seems to be opposite to the Little Lord's pulse."

Liu Che hurriedly asked: "What does opposite mean?"

"There seems to be Yin energy in the Son of Heaven's body. Normally, there should be no Yin energy in a man's body, and there should be no Yang energy in a woman's body."

Liu Che's eyes became brighter and brighter. He and A Jiao had switched bodies, so there was Yin energy belonging to A Jiao in his body, and there was his Yang energy in A Jiao's body. In this way, this Chu Fu was truly powerful.

"Does the female doctor have a way to solve this problem?" Liu Che asked impatiently.

Chu Fu's face showed a trace of hesitation and embarrassment.

"Female doctor, just say it." Liu Che urgently wanted to know the solution.

"The slave knows a kind of witchcraft from ancient times, which can use a wooden puppet as a guide to help the Son of Heaven and the Little Lord draw out the Yin and Yang misplaced energy in the body." Chu Fu's face carried a bit of panic: "But the slave cannot guarantee that it will definitely succeed."

When Liu Che heard that there was such witchcraft, his eyebrows were already wrinkled. Obviously, he hated witchcraft very much in his heart. Looking at Chu Fu again, Liu Che's expression already had a bit more suspicion.

"You know witchcraft?"

Chu Fu nodded truthfully: "Back to Little Lord, the slave is a witch doctor."

A witch doctor is a person with dual identities. It is said that they can communicate with witchcraft and also understand some medical principles. In the Great Han at this time, there was actually no formal medical system. Generally, those who treated people called themselves witch doctors.

And half of the medical officials in the palace were disciples of Chunyu Yi, who were relatively formal medical practitioners.

Liu Che looked at Chu Fu for a long time, his eyes gradually becoming sharp, and he asked: "Liu Ling specifically left you by my side, what is her purpose?"

Facing the Empress's questioning, Chu Fu's heart jumped, and her emotions tightened.

Seeing this, A Jiao hurriedly smoothed things over: "Isn't this Chu Fu here to help you get pregnant as soon as possible?" Saying that, she forcibly pulled Liu Che to the side and whispered: "Since this Chu Fu can detect the abnormality in your and my bodies, it shows that she has some ability. Do you think she can let us switch back?"

They had switched bodies for a year and a half. Just when Liu Che was ready to give up, hope appeared again.

It was just that Liu Che was Liu Che after all. Even if Chu Fu could see the appearance of the Emperor and Empress being out of Yinyang harmony, due to Chu Fu being sent by Liu Ling, he would not believe it completely.

Liu Che turned to look at Chu Fu and said: "You go out first, I have something to say to the Son of Heaven alone."

Chu Fu hurriedly said: "Nuo."

After Chu Fu left the hall, A Jiao said: "Before you secretly looked for sorcerers and witches, none of them had results. How come now someone can detect the abnormality of you and me, but you don't believe it?"

If Liu Che didn't believe Chu Fu and didn't engage in this witchcraft, A Li's plan wouldn't be able to proceed.

"I just think that the appearance of this Chu Fu is too strange." Liu Che frowned: "She was sent by Liu Ling, I have to suspect that she has other purposes."

A Jiao: "..."

Failed. I didn't expect Liu Che's vigilance to be so high. A Jiao lowered her eyes and thought for a while: "Since you suspect Chu Fu like this, why don't you send her back to the Huainan Kingdom."

Liu Che raised an eyebrow: "Although I suspect Chu Fu, it cannot be denied that she is still very capable. Others can't see the changes in you and me, but she can."

A Jiao raised an eyebrow: "So?"

"Keep her for a period of time first, wait until I confirm that she has nothing to do with Huainan, then I can try according to the method she said." Liu Che looked at A Jiao with a smile: "A Jiao, do you think we can switch back?"

From Liu Che's tone, it was not difficult to hear his expectation. A Jiao curled her lips slightly: "If Chu Fu's method really works, I think we should be able to switch back."

Liu Che raised his eyebrows, but there was a very subtle feeling in his heart.

It's strange, he once longed so much to switch bodies with A Jiao, but now that there was a way in front of him, he actually hesitated.

Perhaps it was still related to Chu Fu's identity. This matter must not be taken lightly.

After Liu Li knew that the development of the matter was not smooth, she laughed: "It seems I overestimated the Father Emperor's obsession with switching back." She originally thought that after Liu Che knew that Chu Fu had a way to let him and A Jiao switch back, he would impatiently let Chu Fu perform this witchcraft.

Didn't expect Liu Che's vigilance to be quite high. Thinking of Emperor Wu of Han in history, it seemed to be the same shrewdness. Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che was addicted to immortality, so many sorcerers wanted to get ahead in this way.

The most famous were two people, Li Shaojun and Luan Da. One summoned the soul for Emperor Wu of Han to see his beloved, and the other became Emperor Wu of Han's son-in-law. As for other sorcerers who wanted to pretend to be gods and ghosts, they were basically discovered and beheaded.

"Liu Che might investigate Chu Fu." A Jiao said: "After he confirms that Chu Fu has no problems, he should believe Chu Fu."

Liu Li nodded: "We don't have to worry about this point. Since Liu Ling left Chu Fu, she must have already handled Chu Fu's previous traces, we just need to wait."

A Jiao took a deep breath, and couldn't tell whether she was looking forward to it or what, but she was a bit contradictory.

Liu Li supported her chin and looked at A Jiao: "Mother Empress, actually, in the past year or so, the Father Emperor has changed a lot, do you feel it?"

A Jiao heard this

and blinked her eyes, responding lightly: "Hmm."

Liu Li curled her lips and didn't say anything more. Some changes need to be felt by the parties themselves. Just like the relationship between A Jiao and Liu Che, it is not what she, an outsider, says it is.

Liu Li went to the Imperial Academy to attend classes as usual during this period, and her days seemed leisurely but actually quite busy.

The paper made by the papermaking workshop in the Shanglin Park was more exquisite batch by batch. Now not only did the students in the entire Imperial Academy use Jianling paper, but the counties around Chang'an also used it.

Hearing about the Jianling paper from the center of the Great Han, the feudal kingdoms sent envoys one after another to seek papermaking methods, wanting their own feudal kingdoms to have paper to use.

The "profiteer" Sang Hongyang made full use of his talent and did not tell the papermaking method, but sold the Jianling paper to them, adding another sum of income to the national treasury.

Liu Li tried to organize these Jianling papers together and bind them into the appearance of a book. Originally, she used glue to stick the papers together one by one, but she found that this method was not good. In the end, she could only choose the thread-binding method to barely make a book.

Next, when she had free time, she would use the 【Encyclopedia】 skill to record some knowledge points she didn't know into books. When she recorded, she even used the Small Seal Script, which was convenient for others to learn.

Of course, these knowledge points were also the most basic. Even if they were known, they would not affect the changes and development of this era. For example, some planting methods for crops, the best planting time and region. There were also some cooking methods for delicacies, as well as the discovery of various ores, etc.

She wrote down whatever she could think of first. After a book was written, maybe it could provide reference for future generations.

Time passed to March, the severe cold faded, and spring flowers bloomed.

According to the historical process, it was already 129 BC. Liu Li always thought that after the New Year, it would be the sixth year of Yuanguang. After thinking carefully, it was still the fifth year of Yuanguang.

It wouldn't become the sixth year of Yuanguang until after October this year.

Should she suggest to A Jiao to bind the era name and the year together, using the first month of each year as the beginning of a new era name? This should be much more convenient than it is now.

But Liu Li remembered that correcting the first month as the beginning of the year seemed to have been proposed by Sima Qian after he became the Grand Historian. If she proposed it now, would she steal Sima Qian's credit?

In the future, this first month calendar was the lunar calendar that lasted for thousands of years. Everything like the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches and constellations were included in it, which was very particular. Liu Li didn't know much about these, so she thought carefully and decided not to mention it.

The profoundness of Chinese culture was not something she could comprehend alone. Let history be returned to the people who should belong to it. She only needed to be a witness and harvest a wave of points.

The spring hunting and traditional military parade were about to begin again, and the Shanglin Park was also preparing, waiting for the arrival of the Son of Heaven.

Liu Che arranged for people to investigate Chu Fu's background thoroughly, and sure enough, no clues were found. This Chu Fu seemed to be a very simple witch doctor.

Because there was a chance to switch back now, Liu Che no longer pestered A Jiao to have children, and he put more energy into examining Chu Fu.

Chu Fu's Yinyang School was a bit mysterious. Anyway, Liu Che was about to be convinced by her. ===== CHAPTER 84 =====

Chu Fu's Yinyang school of thought was rather esoteric, but regardless, Liu Che was almost convinced by her.