Bloodstained Hero's Clothes

Chapter 26

Wutai School is located on the top of Beitai, also known as Ye Doufeng, which is the highest peak of Mount Wutai.

"The reason why Beitai Peak is called Ye Doufeng is because its peak is connected to the handle of the Big Dipper." Linger met a young Wutai disciple on the way. Introduce to Linger.

Along the way, Linger has a deeper understanding of Beitaiding.

At noon, Linger arrived at Beitaiding and met her friend Mu Qingping.

Mu Qingping is the daughter of Mu Zhixuan, a lay disciple of the Wutai School.

"Have they left?" Ling'er was surprised.

"Yeah, my master, Master Wuchen, and several senior brothers went down the mountain early this morning." Mu Qingping said.

Linger pinched her fingers in despair. Today happened to be the day she agreed to leave, so she could only be blamed for being late.

"Linger, you've never been to Mount Wutai in the past. Let me show you around in the past few days! Don't you really like spring water? We have Baishui Pond in the south of North Taishan Mountain, Jinsha Spring in the south, and the legendary nine in the back seven miles. Where is the Nine Girls Spring where the fairy does laundry!" Mu Qingping said enthusiastically.

Ling'er looked at her friend and shook her head, and said glumly, "Sister Ping, I really want to go to Luoyang."

Mu Qingping took her hand and persuaded: "Linger, they have been gone for some time. Even if you chase now, you may not be able to catch up."

"Yeah! Why didn't I think of it! I started going down the mountain all the way, and maybe I could catch up with them." Ling'er was about to set off after saying that.

"Linger, why don't you leave after lunch!" Mu Qingping said.

"No, I have dry food." After saying that, Ling'er said goodbye to her friend.
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"How can this be?" Halfway up the mountain, Ling'er looked at the three paths down the mountain in confusion.

She remembered that one of them was the road she had just taken up the mountain, while the other two went west and one went south.

"Luoyang is in the south, so we must take this southward mountain road." Ling'er made a hasty choice.

After running all the way, Linger stopped in an open space to rest for a while. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and inadvertently found a door beside this open space. The wooden sign on the door read "Nine Girls Spring".

After passing the Nine Girls Spring, the mountain road suddenly became steep, and Linger had to slow down.

Although the mountain road is difficult to walk, there are many people coming and going, which is very different from the previously unpopulated mountain road.

"These should be the people living at the foot of the mountain. They move in a hurry and look flustered, but they don't seem to be good men and women who want to go up the mountain to worship God." Ling'er thought to herself.

She also noticed that many of them were holding water tanks, while others were carrying gourds.

Curiosity returned to curiosity, Linger had no time to delay, she left the hurried crowd all the way.
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"What place is this?" Ling'er finally arrived at the foot of the mountain, and there was no road in front of her, not even a flat path.

Looking at the potholes that could barely be called roads, she gradually understood a cruel truth: she was going the wrong way.

"It's impossible to catch up with the Wutai faction. Going to Luoyang is now on your own." Ling'er patted her luggage and encouraged herself, "I can definitely do it!"

As far as the eye can see, there are small villages along the way.

In this wild place, there are no martial arts figures, and Linger's feeling of loss is even more increased.

But soon, this loss dissipated, and Linger was intoxicated with this simple country style.

Ling'er travels through unknown villages, smelling the smell of the villagers' cooking fires, basking in the early summer sunshine, watching the dog sleep lazily in front of the farmhouse, and a few village women sitting at the entrance of the village chatting and doing girl red .

Walking through village after village, although it is not the martial arts that Linger yearns for, it is the nature she loves.

Outside the village is the farmland.White clouds draped in gold rims floated in the sky, the old farmer worked in the fields with sweat, and the bright yellow flowers were scattered all over the loofah.

The farmland at dusk and the curling smoke of cooking in the distance give the travelers a peaceful and quiet warmth.

Ling'er grabbed the luggage on her shoulders and looked at the scenery in front of her, she was a little reluctant to leave.
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After sunset, the villages were replaced by a gray tone.

Relying on the guidance of the lights in the farmhouse, Linger found the next village where she would stay.

Unlike the villages I passed by before, this village is very noisy and cluttered.

Although the sky is getting dark, the villagers are running around in a panic, and the cries of children are one after another, which is disturbing.

Dry vegetable leaves and rotting melon and fruit peels were scattered on the ground in a mess. The firewood pile beside the house no longer existed.

Everything seemed disorganized, as if something major had changed.

Linger wanted to find a villager to inquire, but how could the anxious people stop their hasty steps?
Ling'er had no choice but to carry the sword and walk into the village to inspect.

A teenage boy sat on a big rock by the side of the road, staring blankly at the village.

Linger hurried forward to ask him.From the boy's mouth, Linger learned that this was Liujia Village.

"It wasn't like this before," the boy said. "A little over a month ago, someone in the village got sick, and then more and more people got sick. My dad said it was the plague."

"Plague?" Ling'er was startled and asked quickly, "Have you invited a doctor to come see it?"

"The doctors near and far have heard that it is a plague, and it is too late to hide!" said the boy sadly.

"To tell you the truth, my sister is the doctor, can you take me to see it?" Ling'er said.

"Really?" The young man hurriedly took Linger to a relative's house.

"How many people in the village are sick?" Ling'er asked as she walked.

The boy replied, "As long as a few families are fine, my parents and I will be fine."

"I'm afraid this is not a plague." Ling'er thought to herself.

Walking into a farmhouse, under the dim light, all three of the family were lying on the bed, dying.

"Uncle, aunt, the doctor is here!" The boy shouted excitedly.

As soon as Ling'er saw the patient's face, she knew that it was not a plague, they were just poisoned.

After careful diagnosis, Linger knew that the poison among them was called "Yushengcao".

This kind of little poison couldn't be difficult for Ling'er at all, she quickly prescribed a prescription and gave it to the boy.

"It's strange that it has been poisoned for a long time, why hasn't the toxin penetrated into your body yet?" Ling'er said to the young man's uncle.

The middle-aged man replied weakly, "The girl doesn't know anything. Since we got sick, we have been drinking the water from the Jiu Nv Spring on Mount Wutai, so our condition has not deteriorated."

"Nine Girls Spring?" Ling'er recalled that there are indeed several types of spring water in the medical books. Because the spring source is far and cold, the mountain where it is located has precious medicinal materials, which can maintain health and cure diseases. If you drink it, it can inhibit the spread of toxins in the body.

Many places in Mount Wutai are rich in exotic medicinal materials, and it is not surprising that the spring water in the mountain has such a miraculous effect.

"Yes, thanks to the spring water, most of our villagers' illnesses have been brought under control." An old man in sixty-six walked in and said to Linger, "This old man is the village chief of Liujia Village, I heard that the girl is willing to treat everyone, especially Come and thank you."

"It's the doctor's responsibility to save the dead and heal the wounded, and the village chief needs no thanks." Ling'er said.

Under the leadership of the village leader, Linger went from house to house to diagnose and treat the villagers.As she expected, they were all poisoned by the same poison.

"The villagers are all poisoned or not poisoned by the whole family, young and old. The little girl thinks that the toxin should come from the diet." Linger analyzed.
"The old man told everyone to pay more attention to the three meals." Village Zheng said, "This time, thanks to Dr. Gan."

"No, thanks to the Nine Girls Spring, if it weren't for the magical effect of the spring water, the toxins invaded the internal organs, even if Hua Tuo was alive, he would not be able to return to the sky. By the way, Muramasa, how did everyone know that the Nine Girls Spring Water can inhibit the spread of toxicity what?" Linger asked.

"It's also a coincidence. When someone in the village fell ill, a young woman passed by the village. It was she who told the effect of the spring water that we went up the mountain to get the spring water." Muzheng said.

"What a coincidence!" Ling'er suddenly remembered the scene she saw when she went down Wutai Mountain yesterday. People rushed down the mountain to fetch water.

"If I had stopped to inquire at that time, it would have saved the patients from suffering for a while." The more Ling'er thought about it, the more regretful it became.
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After seeing the villagers overnight, Linger felt exhausted.

But she was very happy to see the villagers' pain gradually eased.

When Linger finished her lunch and was about to take a break, the boy from yesterday came to call her in a hurry.

"Sister, someone has been poisoned again. It's the same symptoms." The boy said anxiously.

"Take me to have a look." Ling'er said hurriedly.

Linger understands that detoxification is important, but it is more important to find the source of toxins.

"We were eating and suddenly felt tightness in the chest, shortness of breath, and then felt unbearable pain in the abdomen." An old lady who just got sick said in pain.

Linger carefully inspected the food they ate and found that the source of the toxin was a fish.

"This fish was caught early in the morning from the Qingshui River," the aunt said weakly.

Without further ado, Ling'er immediately led the young man down the Qingshui River.

(End of this chapter)