Mantra

Chapter 73 Resurrection Pill

My name is Tian Buer, and I am the cook of Wuzang Temple. I learned from Zhao Haipeng and my uncle Zhao Haikun. According to others, there is probably a "grand master" named Zhao Qingshan.

To be honest, the name "Wu Zang Temple" is actually not very nice, and I don't like it either.Because it is easy for others to misunderstand that we are demon monks who resell human organs or do black-hearted business.

But in fact, we are really just cooks, we are the cooks in the "Wu Zang Temple".

Is it easy to be a cook?In good conscience, I used to find it easy, but now, I find it difficult, especially after I met a "fox-faced ladyboy" named Old Nineteen, I suddenly found out that his life was in danger? !
The ladyboy with four eyebrows told me that on our way to Shirengu to find my master, we accidentally bumped into a "glutinous rice table", and then offended the monster "Huoweilian" that everyone in the cook industry avoids. .

According to legend, that thing led a group of wild cats to fight against the cooks in the Wu Zang Temple.

If a cook offends this "God of Wealth at the Fire Tail", he can only commit suicide, or "stop working" as a cook for the rest of his life, otherwise he will take revenge on you for three generations, and his wife and family will be destroyed.

Why!Being a man is hard, but being a cook is even harder!The "free food Gu poison" that was placed on me before has not been undone until now, and another disaster has come, which has provoked such a group of wild cats.Damn, you want to take revenge on me for three generations, it's too nonsense!

But what happened next made me have to see the reality clearly.

Because of our reckless fight with "Huo Wei Lian, the cat man", my comrade-in-arms Wang Hou suffered from the "eating curse" and is still in a coma until now. My friends Zhao Hong, Ah Si, and He Xian Hongye are all... Wearing red and hanging colors, with injuries on the body, several times, almost lost his life.

Along the way, before we reached our destination, Shirengu, the group had already lost their soldiers and generals.

Hey~ I am ashamed of my comrades-in-arms, my old squad leader, and my training of the organization!
However, I don't believe in evil, because I am a soldier. I believe in the power of people from the bottom of my heart, and I believe that people can conquer the sky.

Moreover, I have the old squad leader as my backer, he is the top "abbot" in the Wu Zang Temple, he cooks with a spoon, eats and drinks with ghosts, and dispels Gu and spells, everything is easy!

So I firmly thought that when I arrived at the Stone Man Gu's Zhaojialou and found him, everything would be fine!
However, when we actually arrived at "Shirengu, Zhaojialou Village", I realized that things might not be that simple.

Because, when our pickup truck parked in the streets of this "Zhaojialou Village", everyone immediately realized that this Zhaojialou seemed like a "ghost village"!

Along the way, I found that in this village, every house is locked and closed at this time. No matter how I shout and search, I can't see a living person at all!
In the huge village, it seemed that we were the only four outsiders.

In the end what happened?
On the flat stone road, we were forced to stop the car, and looked at the lonely and dead streets in the village for a while, feeling a little dazed and at a loss.

Looking at all this, Zhao Hong couldn't help scratching his head and asked me, "Why is there no one? You can't remember the address wrong, right?"

I shook my head and said yes, this is Zhaojialou. If you don’t believe me, you can use your mobile phone to navigate. He introduced his hometown to me.

Fearing that they would not believe me, I simply told everyone what I knew.

I heard from the old squad leader that Shirengu is just an ordinary Table Mountain, surrounded by three villages, four valleys, and one building.And this "building" is the so-called Zhaojialou.

In fact, there are no "buildings" in the Zhao family building for a long time, and there are only a small village with a hundred families.

However, to tell the origin of this village, we have to start with the "Zhao Family Ancient Building" that has disappeared.

Legend has it that the founder of the Zhao Family Building was a cook named Zhao in the court of the Ming Dynasty. However, the name of that person is unknown. When the old squad leader told me about his ancestor, he only said him. He is a cook, nicknamed "Zhao Shaji".

Zhao Shaji is the imperial chef of the "Guanglu Temple" in the palace, but his status is so low that he can only kill chickens with a knife, and he has been an imperial cook for more than ten years. He has killed chickens for more than ten years, but he has never I have seen the eunuch or official in charge, let alone the emperor.

During this period, because Chef Zhao was doing one thing year after year, "killing chickens", he was nicknamed Zhao "killing chickens" by others.

Such days did not change suddenly until he was in his 50s.

At that time, the emperor who was in power suddenly got a strange disease, and he would wake up from time to time, sweating all over his face, and uttering nonsense, but medicine and food didn't work, acupuncture and moxibustion didn't work.

The emperor was seriously ill, but the "imperial doctor" and "medicine provider" of the Manchu Dynasty were helpless to deal with the emperor's strange disease.

In desperation, the queen adopted the minister's suggestion and issued an imperial edict throughout the world.He paid a lot of money to hire a famous doctor to treat the emperor's illness, and promised a thousand dollars, saying that as long as the emperor's strange disease was cured, he would be rewarded with a hundred hectares of fertile land and half a lifetime of glory.

But more than half a month after the imperial edict was announced, no doctor came to take over the baton for consultation, let alone cure the emperor's illness.

Of course, there are many factors involved in this, the emperor's strange illness is one reason, and the risk that the doctor may take is another reason.

After all, it was the emperor's life, and his life and death was no joke.It's easy to talk about it if it's cured, but if it's not cured, you have to bear joint and several responsibilities.

Perhaps it was also because of the worry of the famous doctors in the world that the emperor's condition was getting worse day by day, but none of the doctors dared to stand up for consultation.

At this time, "Zhao Shaji", who had killed chickens all his life, suddenly stood up. He volunteered to tell the officials, the queen, and the world that only he can cure the emperor's strange disease, and he is the only one who has the ability to cure the emperor. Panacea for sickness!

So, he was urgently summoned into the palace by the queen and ministers.

In the court hall, Zhao Shaji took out an apricot-yellow, half-jade, half-wax "elixir" from his bosom without haste.

Afterwards, he shook the elixir and said to the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty: "Only the medicine in his hand can save the life of the Holy Majesty!"

Zhao Shaji also briefly explained the origin of the medicinal material.

Zhao Shaji told Wen and Wu of the Manchu Dynasty that this pill was a "resurrection pill" that his ancestors got by chance from an immortal. It can bring the dead back to life and strengthen the body. Well, it is guaranteed to bring the emperor back to life, and make him ten years younger.

Zhao Shaji's words immediately divided the court into two factions.

One group of officials belonged to the kind who went to the doctor indiscriminately when they were sick, thinking that now the emperor was only half breathed, and he had to try every method, and if he was not sure, he might be able to save his life.

Another faction of officials believed that Zhao Shaji was just messing around!Moreover, the emperor used to take a lot of pills, and the names of the rounds are all very mysterious, such as "Da Huan Pill", "Longevity Pill", "Returning Pill", "Bliss Pill", etc., each one is better than another, Taoist alchemy Everyone also said that they are gods, half gods, and at last they are earth gods. Isn't it still impossible to cure the disease now?Those things can't cure the disease, and now I have to take a medicine that kills chicken cooks, it can only be a joke.

So, the two sides started a back-and-forth discussion about whether the emperor should take the medicine.

But the result of the discussion is that a dead horse is a living horse doctor!
After all, now the emperor is only half breathed. After discussing it, it is not a question of whether to take medicine or not, but a matter of whether to take tribute.

Soon, the old emperor's nose was pinched by the courtier, and the somewhat hard yellow pill was poured down.

After the emperor took the medicine, it really took effect that night, but what he saw was not the curative effect, but the ineffectiveness!

Gu Neichen heard that when the emperor finished eating Zhao Shaji's yellow rejuvenation pill, he immediately started vomiting and diarrhea, and after vomiting and diarrhea, he actually started vomiting blood again.He spit out more than two liters of turbid blood, then rolled his eyes and passed out.

The emperor fainted, and the internal officials panicked and hurried to touch their breath, and then found that the emperor was out of breath!
Now, things got serious.

Zhao Shaji was a cook in the first place, and it was something he had to do to offer medicine.It's okay to go beyond the system, and the emperor was put to death.It is simply unforgivable!

The officials were furious, and Zhao Shaji was thrown into prison. He was sentenced to a heinous crime of regicide that day, and he was still executed. He only waited for tomorrow morning to be buried with the emperor.

But at [-]:[-] on the second day, when he was about to be executed, things suddenly took a turn for the better.

Before the execution, the emperor's courtiers suddenly rushed into the execution ground, rescued Zhao Shaji, and announced an exciting good news.

He told the ministers that the emperor had suddenly returned to life.

Afterwards, the revived emperor praised Zhao Shaji, employed him as a special imperial cook, and granted him an official title. Since then, the Zhao family has gradually embarked on the business of a family cook, and gradually prospered.
When I heard this, Xian Hongye asked me in disbelief: "Is it true? Is there really a elixir that can bring people back to life in this world?"

I smiled slightly, and immediately shook my head and said, "Not at all. The emperor survived purely because Zhao Shaji had a good life!"

Afterwards, I told them the other side of the "truth" about what the old squad leader said.

I told them that Zhao Shaji didn't have any ancestral elixirs at all, and the things he used to treat the emperor were pure medicinal materials called "Chicken Lingbao"!

"Chicken Lingbao?" Hongye and Ah Si said at the same time in astonishment.

I nodded and told them that after living for a long time, creatures absorb the aura of heaven and earth, and occasionally produce a kind of semi-jade "concretion". This kind of concretion is different from ordinary concretions, and is similar to pearls. Medicinal value.And the formation conditions are also very harsh.

This kind of thing, formed on humans, is called "relics", and formed on cattle, it is called bezoar.Formed on pigs and horses, they are called pig treasures and horse treasures.And formed on the chicken, it is called chicken Lingbao!
After listening to my words, Hong Ye suddenly realized: "That is to say, the elixir that Zhao slaughtered chickens to offer to the emperor is actually the 'Chicken Spirit Treasure' that he accidentally discovered during more than ten years of killing chickens."

I nodded and told them that this is the blessing of fools!After Zhao Shaji got the Ji Lingbao, he knew that it had the effect of "drawing life and detoxifying", so he gambled his future with this thing.But I didn't expect him to hit the right one.

From then on, Zhao Shaji made a fortune and worked as a cook for the emperor. In his later years, he returned to his hometown in southern Shandong with all his clothes.He also bought a house and land under this stone mangu, and built a three-storey "Zhao Family Building" with a lot of money to settle down the whole clan, from generation to generation.

"So? Everyone in Zhaojialou Village is surnamed Zhao Bei?" Ah Si asked me.

But I shook my head and said: "No, I heard from the old squad leader that they are the only family with the surname Zhao in the current Zhao family building, and the Zhao family has long been very lonely, far from the glory of their ancestors. "

And all of this started with the disappearance of the landmark building "Zhao Family Ancient Building".

(End of this chapter)