Chapter 408: Classless (Non)

The story itself is more like a market legend, in which there are many traces of imagination, exaggeration, and even false rumors, and Chang Siting was only listening to the story at the wine table at first. The friend who happened to tell him the story happened to know the old man, and at the banquet, everyone was already half drunk, so naturally some people and Chang Siting's friends argued about the authenticity of this matter, and finally everyone unanimously decided to go to the old man's house the next day to see if it was true or false.

The next day, Chang Siting finally understood that this matter was not simple.

Although Chang Siting did not learn much about the things of the Chang family, he had some experience in the market, and he could see people very accurately, which may be the intuition of the Chang family's inheritance, right? When he saw the old man for the first time, Chang Siting understood that he was not a liar at all. And this matter, the wife and daughter of the old man can testify, after the old man disappeared, Li Zheng in the fang also came, and the cause and effect are clearer. The most important thing is that the old man can't get out of bed, and there is no one to help, so how can he run out by himself?

But if you want Chang Siting to believe that the old man let people carry it to Chengdu Lumei Mountain, thousands of miles away, it is absolutely impossible. Not to mention whether there is such a way in the world, why didn't the man in black take the old man to the temple near Lin'an, but went to Chengdu? And this big move was just to satisfy the old man's wish to respect the Buddha? But the old man probably didn't know that there was such a Donglai temple before. This is absolutely unreasonable, and those two men in black must have a reason for doing this strange situation.

The method used by the man in black must be some kind of unheard-of illusion. The old man Mu Ne, who also believes in Shinto, is easily confused by illusions, maybe the old man did not leave Lin'an City at all, but was hidden by the man in black in a secluded place near the left for a few days. Thinking like this, Chang Siting's curiosity was aroused, and he simply stayed in Lin'an for a few days, visiting and inquiring.

But to Chang Siting's surprise, there was no news of the two men in black at all, as if those two people had never appeared in Lin'an. Coincidentally, Chang Siting was in the small lonely mountain outside Lin'an City, and unexpectedly heard a story.

There is a small village at the foot of the small lonely mountain, located in the depths of the mountain col, very remote, only one path communicates with the outside world, but there is a doctor in the village who hangs the pot to help the world, which is very famous. This doctor's surname is Zhang, and he has been studying to consult and dispense medicine to save people for more than 40 years. There is a path behind the small lonely mountain leading to a place called Luoqiu Mountain, Luoqiu Mountain is not high, but it is unusually steep, the forest is flourishing, and there are no traces of people for more than 100 years.

However, there are many rare and exotic herbs in this place, and it is a place where Dr. Zhang often goes to collect medicines. Almost every month at the end of the month, he took the child up the mountain, followed the path opened by the woodcutter into the depths of the Luoqiu Mountain, and each time he had to stay on the mountain for a few days, and the two medicine baskets were full before coming down, and so on for more than ten years.

But about three months before the accident of the old man in Lin'an, Dr. Zhang took the boy up the mountain to collect medicine, but only two days later, the boy ran back alone and told the villagers that Dr. Zhang was swallowed by a strange fog in the Luoqiu Mountain and could not be found.

Dr. Zhang has a high reputation in the village, and when he heard the boy say this, dozens of villagers put down their work and followed the boy up the mountain to find someone. But in front of the mountain and behind the mountain, the roads and trails were all searched, and I didn't even see a single figure. Later, not far from the place where the strange fog said by the boy appeared, the villagers found Dr. Zhang's back basket.

The place was surrounded by cliffs, the trail had come to an end, and the ground was so slippery that one villager slipped and almost fell into a mountain stream. Everyone speculated that there must be a heavy fog on the mountain, and Dr. Zhang couldn't tell the direction, so when he groped his way, he accidentally fell into the mountain stream next to him, leaving only a backpack.

But the mountain stream is bottomless, the cliff is unusually smooth, it is difficult to climb down the cliff, and there is a stream at the bottom of the cliff, it is the season of rising water, the water is turbulent, and it is difficult to enter from the outside.

Everyone returned to the village disappointed, because Dr. Zhang was alone, and there were no other relatives in the family except for the boy who was taken in in the early years, so everyone began to spontaneously build a mourning hall for Dr. Zhang.

When did you think that the mourning hall had not yet been built, Dr. Zhang walked back to the village by himself, and seeing that his clothes were clean and tidy, and his spirit was also very strong, where did he seem to have been trapped in the mountains and walked back after all kinds of hardships? Everyone was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly asked Dr. Zhang how he got out of danger.

Dr. Zhang just said a few words lightly, roughly because he encountered a heavy fog on the mountain that day, couldn't distinguish the path, and was in a dilemma, suddenly two black-clothed people came out of the fog, looking slightly taller than ordinary people, with beautiful faces, and they were in their twenties.

The two young men told Dr. Zhang that there was a high-ranking man living in the nearby mountains who also had the ability to resurrect from the dead, and that they had heard of Dr. Zhang's fame and sent them to invite Dr. Zhang to come over for a discussion. I didn't expect to run into it in this fog. At this time, the road was difficult to travel, and Dr. Zhang was also old, so he was afraid of any danger, so he insisted on carrying Dr. Zhang on his back.

Dr. Zhang couldn't refuse, so he lay on the back of the man in black, but who would have thought that the man in black would take off into the air and fly with Dr. Zhang for half an hour to a beautiful mountain. The top of the mountain is very flat as if it had been cut by an axe, and there is a small Taoist temple on it. The Taoist temple is surrounded by cliffs, and I don't know how the people who built the temple climbed up and how the bricks and stones used to build the temple were transported.

The Taoist temple looks very old, and there is an old man with immortal wind and dao bones in it. The two not only talked about medicine and medicine, but also talked about a lot of subsets of scriptures and history, anecdotes, and talked about love, and Dr. Zhang stayed in the Taoist temple for a few more days. Later, the two men in black took him into the air, galloped all the way, and sent him back to the village.

After listening to Dr. Zhang's statement, everyone was surprised, thinking that Dr. Zhang must have met a fairy, and it was also because of his good deeds that the fairy sent someone to help him get out of danger when he was most in danger.

In the following month, Dr. Zhang was carried by the man in black to the mountain to meet the old Taoist priest three times at night, and each time he would stay for a day or two. Once, Xiao Tong also saw the man in black carrying Dr. Zhang into the air with his own eyes, and everyone was surprised when he was too many times.

Chang Siting was surprised when he heard this, so he directly hired a car, pulled his friend who told him about it, and ran to Xiaogushan to visit Dr. Zhang. It's a pity that Dr. Zhang went to a nearby village to help the patient, and usually he may not return after a month or two. Although there are some regrets, Chang Siting still confirms this story from the mouths of his neighbors in the village.

There are witnesses and testimonies in this matter, but the most important thing is that Dr. Zhang is indifferent by nature, has no skills, and is in his 60s, so there is no need to win people's hearts by means of selling fame and reputation. So what was the purpose of the man in black taking Dr. Zhang? was it really just to let Dr. Zhang meet the legendary master of Taoism?

When Chang Siting was about to leave Xiaogushan in a daze, he overheard another thing from the villagers. This time, Dr. Zhang was not so much going out to treat patients and save people, but rather looking for patients. It seems that since that adventure, Dr. Zhang has locked himself in a small courtyard, as if he was preparing some kind of prescription, and asked the villagers to help him find a few special medicinal herbs, including mandala flowers for anesthesia and several poisonous mushrooms that have never been used in medicine.

Dr. Zhang is a miracle doctor in the eyes of the villagers, although he thinks these things are a little strange, but no one doubts them, but he tries his best to prepare the medicinal materials. In those days, Dr. Zhang's small courtyard was filled with a strange smell, like something rotten, and like the lacquer that had been left for a long time was soaked in the rain.

After Dr. Zhang prepared the medicine, he told the neighbors that he would find some symptomatic patients to test the effect of the medicine, and that it might take some more time, so he left the village in a hurry with the boy.

Naturally, the people in the village began to say that Dr. Zhang must have met the old fairy, and the prescription he got from the old fairy may be the legendary recipe for bringing the dead back to life, and his eyes were full of excitement and anticipation when he mentioned this.

Chang Siting then returned to Gangneung from Lin'an. This trip to Lin'an made him feel that the so-called walking against the wind is not enough to make people believe, why can't he use this skill generously in the daytime, like the ancient columns? This kind of practice is more like the illusion that was popular in the Tang Dynasty, but there is also a point that Chang Siting is puzzled by: if it is an illusion, then the person who casts the spell must have a purpose, either it is a means to make a living, or it is to use illusion to set up a game to deceive, and of course, there is also the use of illusion to gain fame and enter the mansion of a person in a high position.

Sometimes, he even wondered if the old fairy might not have taught Dr. Zhang anything, but Dr. Zhang saw something from it, after all, he was very sensitive to medicinal pharmacology and special smells, and he was also doubting the authenticity of this matter, and he was restoring the situation that happened at that time by preparing his own medicine?

It's a pity that all this can't be verified by Dr. Zhang, but Chang Siting thought of a way to verify it, that is, to go to Meizhou on Sichuan Road to see if the Donglai Temple mentioned by the old man in Lin'an really exists.

(Fu Liezi walked against the wind, and he was good, and there were five days in ten and then reversed.) He is not counted among those who are blessed. Although this is not to be done, there is still something to be treated. If the husband takes advantage of the righteousness of heaven and earth, and the argument of the six qis, and swims in infinity, he will be treated as evil! Therefore, it is said: To man without self, God and man without merit, and saint without name. --Zhuangzi)