Liao Zhai Zi is silent

Chapter 157
Summer is muggy.

A few days ago, when the Leizu Temple was built, a thunderstorm passed by, plus the rain that Lin Zhuo asked for after the Qingming Festival, these two rains just happened to save the grain grown by the people in Jiangning.

There may be no harvest elsewhere, but there is still a little bumper harvest here.

Especially around Tongjing, it seems that they can harvest [-]% more millet than in previous years.

Although the common people had a tight life before, Ren Hongyou held the dragon boat fair, which made those wealthy businessmen spend a lot of money, and the money circulated out, causing the common people to have some spare money.

It's just a pity that Longhua would cause chaos and hastily ended the dragon boat meeting, otherwise it would be prosperous for a while even if there was a virtuous circle.

But even if the temporary drought and famine here are solved, there will be other natural and man-made disasters, which are even more terrifying.

Like the plague.

In the last years of the former dynasty, the world was plagued by a great epidemic. King Chuang attacked Beiping, but he saw dead bodies all over the place, and there was no one guarding the city...

Now that there is a drought, there are corpses everywhere in Huai'an Mansion, and some corpses are floating on the canal. Although some people are picking up the corpses, you can already see oily flowers on the water.

The government sent people to bury the hungry, but there was no food, no money, no strength, or they were buried, or they were buried too late, and flies, maggots, and plagues and evil spirits quickly bred out.

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Outside the Longevity Palace, some people had nosebleeds, high fever and convulsions.

Zhao Zhongxin hastily burned a plague-avoiding talisman, pried open his teeth, and poured it into him.

"During the Dragon Boat Festival, Senior Brother Lin drew some talismans to avoid plagues and gave them to these believers, and my son also gave copper coins, so there is some protection."

"It's only now that I realize that senior brother may have foresight, I'm afraid he has already predicted the occurrence of the plague."

Zhao Zhongxin poured the talisman water into it, but he felt a little fearful in his heart: "This disease is so fierce, I'm afraid it's unusual."

The patient with bleeding from the mouth and nose drank the talisman water, and the high fever on his body gradually subsided.

A doctor sat next to him and repeatedly studied the talisman paper: "Your talisman paper, but plant ash and cinnabar, how can you get rid of the epidemic, and my Maxing Shigan Decoction can only save some mild cases. This little talisman Burning paper into talisman water, can even this kind of people whose five internal organs have begun to bleed get better?"

"If you don't believe in Fu Shui's cure, it's useless to look at it again." Zhao Zhongxin said to the doctor, "Let's show them first."

The doctor's surname is Yang, and his name is Yang Guicai. He was originally a scholar.

When I was in my 40s, I became obsessed with the Book of Changes, and since then I have opened the door to a new world, and I feel that medicine and medicine are not separated from each other.

A few days ago, Yang Guicai discovered that after returning from the Dragon Boat Festival, many people had a fever.

At first I thought it was just common wind-heat, so I took medicine to treat it.

But soon there was a tendency to spread, and every household could hear the sound of coughing.

This made Yang Gui realize that this is a plague.

Just walking, I found that some people don't have the plague, and some people have the plague.

Even if the two are almost under the same roof.

Yang Guicai came to the house for medical treatment only to find out that the people who had participated in the Dragon Boat Festival prayer at the Longevity Palace did not suffer from the plague, so he soon went to the Longevity Palace to find a prescription to relieve the plague.

At first I thought it was some kind of senior expert, but I only saw Zhao Zhongxin.

Zhao Zhongxin's age is not too old, so Yang Guicai doesn't pay attention to him.

It was only after talking that I found out that the talisman to avoid plague was not drawn by Zhao Zhongxin at all, but a senior brother he mentioned.

But he has already gone to repair Lei Zhai on Longwang Mountain.

He knows that Longwang Mountain is a ghost place, very evil.

"You little Taoist, why don't you talk about your master Zhao Chengwen? Why do you always talk about your brother Lin Daoren?"

Yang Guicai recognized Zhao Chengwen. When he was learning Yi Dao, he visited Zhao Chengwen, but Zhao Chengwen didn't know many people, so they didn't meet much.

Zhao Zhongxin was silent.

"According to the rules, brothers need to fast for one month to count as practice, and you can't break the fast easily."

"However, saving people is the most important thing. Senior brother is compassionate and will definitely not stand idly by."

Zhao Zhongxin said, "Doctor Yang, look again, where is the source of the epidemic."

"This matter has been reported to the imperial court, but the imperial court just does not allow the population to flow freely, and there is no real way to cure the disease. As for finding the source of the epidemic, I am afraid it will be difficult..."

Zhao Zhongxin gave him the remaining few talismans: "Then use it first, and I will ask my brother to go down the mountain."

Lin Zhuming was on the mountain, and Longwang Mountain was full of evil spirits and bad feng shui.

Therefore, apart from Lei Zhai, Lin Zhuming was basically walking on the mountain, looking at the terrain and geography, and planned to use his knowledge of Fengshui to slowly resolve this dangerous place.

"This place was originally a corpse forest, and the earth's energy and the corpse's energy condense together. We need to plant some trees that can absorb the corpse's energy."

Absorbing corpse gas is a carrion-loving plant.

Plum trees, crabapple trees, cherry trees...

These are carrion-loving plants that can absorb the nutrients in the corpses.

But many of the tree species on Longwang Mountain are persimmon trees.

When the persimmon tree comes to autumn and winter, it will fall and rot, and it will have a bad smell.

There are many caterpillars in summer, and caterpillars are even more disgusting.

When Lin Zhuming observed the terrain before, he saw densely packed caterpillars.

There are many caterpillars, which means that there is "sickness", that is, there is a lot of poisonous gas in the mountain, which is suitable for the breeding of poisonous insects.

But for people, it is not very suitable to live in.

However, a few wild tea trees were dug up and transplanted to Leizu Temple.

The poisonous gas can be cured by drinking tea, but the spring water on Longwang Mountain can almost be called "corpse water", and Lin Zhuoming dare not drink it.

We can only use the Dharma door and provide some pure Dharma water to drink.

"Senior Brother Lin! Senior Brother Lin!"

Lin Zhuming was cutting the yellow paper. Hearing Zhao Zhongxin's voice, he stopped what he was doing.

"Junior Brother Zhao, what's wrong?"

Zhao Zhongxin trotted over: "Brother, you have only been away for a few days, and the plague has appeared in Tongjing, and many people have already been infected. There is no cure for medicine and stones. Just the plague-proof talisman you drew when refining the Liujia Seal during the Dragon Boat Festival." Some effect."

"plague?"

"After every severe drought and flood, there must be a plague, but isn't the plague more likely to occur in spring and summer?"

"Now that the Dragon Boat Festival has passed, the yang energy is getting hotter and hotter. If there is a plague, it must be a fever plague. The fever plague is terrible... I'm afraid."

Lin Zhuming frowned: "When did you find out?"

"There will be after the festival, but especially in recent days."

"Ah! Why not earlier?" Lin Zhuming quickly packed up his things.

"Brother, don't you practice Lei Zhai anymore?"

"No need, the five thunders method has already been practiced. Lei Zhai is more important than human life."

Lin Zhuming closed the gate and quickly led Zhao Zhongxin down the mountain.

"Tell me specifically, what is the disease."

"Brother, will you still see a doctor?"

"There is no distinction between medicine and medicine. I know some methods of diagnosis, but I just hope I don't need to use them."

(End of this chapter)