In the depths of the clouds and smoke that do not disperse all day long, the Taoist temple is inaccessible. Guo Shao saw an old man with white hair.

Probably everyone present could be sure that he was a true practitioner, and that he was practicing penance here, accompanied only by two servants, one of whom was deaf and dumb; It is not easy to bring food up on the high mountains, so if people are for fame and fortune, even if they have thousands of family fortunes, what is the fun of living in this place?

The Mai Taoist sat at a stone table under a pine tree, with a straw mat lit on the stone bench and a paper, pen, inkstone, and paperweight on the table. Sure enough, he was dressed in shabby earth-gray linen clothes, and even the veil on his white hair was coarse linen.

"Master!" Qingxu ran over, her face was excited, the teenage lady really couldn't be as calm as a Mai Taoist, she was aggrieved, but her voice was very crisp and brisk, "Master left me on Shu Road, the officers and soldiers of Shu said that I was a spy and arrested me, this Guo Du envoy is a general of the Zhou Dynasty, he saved me, but he asked me to find the master to save his person." The master is in Mount Emei, and we can't get by, so we come to Huashan to find the master. ”

The Mai Daoist ignored his apprentice, but stared at Guo Shao's face, shaking his head slightly for a while, frowning for a while, with a slightly strange expression.

"Master, Master!" Qingxu called him coquettishly.

Mai Taoist said, "What do you say? ”

"Humph!" Qingxu was completely angry, "People have said so many things, why don't you listen to a word?" ”

The soldiers and men who accompanied the army were all in the courtyard outside, Guo Shao and Jing Niang were standing there, and no one greeted them. Guo Shao stepped forward to salute: "I am called Guo Shao, I have admired the name of Mai Daoist for a long time, I took the liberty to pay respects, and disturbed the cultivation of the old immortals, please bear with me." ”

Mai Daoist said, "You are so strange. ”

Guo Shao was stunned there, not knowing how to answer, he thought about it and said politely: "I don't know where the juniors are rude?" He suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and accompanied this person to talk nonsense here, he really couldn't say it, he was really pretending to be a grandson.

However, in order to meet Mai Daoist, it took a lot of effort and a lot of thought, and it was not easy to see it. I hope that Mai Daoist is indeed capable...... Guo Shao doesn't doubt this very much, first of all, this old Taoist priest is definitely not a person who deceives the world and steals fame and fortune, the world's Taoists are fame and fortune, and the person who can break fame and fortune is not an ordinary person.

Moreover, Guo Shao also wondered, how old is this old man?

It is said that the Fuyao son Chen Tuan was admitted to the Jinshi in the Tang Dynasty and was summoned by the emperor to reward the palace maid, these things are not known to be true or false, but at least it can be proved that Chen Tuan was an adult in the Tang Dynasty; I'm afraid I'm eighty or ninety years old by now! And this Mai Taoist is actually the master of an eighty or ninety-year-old Taoist priest...... It is conservatively estimated that the age of Mai Daoist is more than 100 years old.

In this era when he died in his thirties and forties, how did he live to be more than a hundred years old? People who live to be 100 years old can occasionally be seen in modern times, but Guo Shao has really never seen such an old person with a red face and bright eyes that are not cloudy...... I've never seen anyone like that even on TV.

Mai Daoist's indifferent and calm expression now seemed to be a little sad, and he said, "How is your face completely different from your aura? Could it be that the study of the dead and the whole life is the exact opposite? ”

Guo Shao then remembered that Chen Jian had also said this back then, and this Mai Taoist was even more powerful, and he said the same thing at a glance. He said Guo Shao was strange...... Guo Shao also felt that his theory was inexplicable, didn't the things in this world be composed of different material elements composed of atoms and molecules?

But Guo Shao is not afraid now, and it is impossible for the old Taoist priest to leave him to do any research now...... He, a Taoist priest, shouldn't be able to keep himself. It's just that there are some doubts in my heart: what invisible qi is really in people's bodies? To say that the contradiction between this body and "qi" also seems to make sense, Guo Shao's current thinking does not belong here. Not to mention that people who have traveled through this era can't understand this kind of thing, even modern people are afraid that they will only laugh it off...... Even if the Mai Daoist could really see it, no one would believe him.

"No, no......" Mai Daoist completely ignored Qingxu and Jingniang.

Guo Shao hurriedly said: "I beg the old-timer to go out of the mountain and save someone's life, she is going to die!" As long as you save her life, you can do whatever you want me to do in the future. ”

Mai Daoist asked, "Save whom?" ”

Guo Shaodao: "The empress of the Great Zhou Dynasty." ”

Mai Daoist suddenly said: "The eldest daughter of the Fu family? The old man had seen her. Fate is determined by heaven, and no one can save it. ”

Guo Shao hurriedly took out Xiang Xun's letter and handed it with both hands, the letter described the queen's illness and the imperial doctor's diagnosis in detail, he simply knelt in front of the Mai Taoist, bowed down and bowed: "I beg the old immortal!" ”

Qingxu looked at him in surprise.

Mai Daoist didn't look at the few pieces of paper, shook his head and said, "You go." Old decay really can't do anything to save people. ”

Jing Niang suddenly said coldly: "Humane Buddhism saves people, and Taoism saves oneself." But I didn't expect someone of such high moral standing as you to stand by and watch without even looking at it. If there is a destiny, we will also stand by and watch your disciples and grandchildren in Qingniling, will the fate of Qingxu still be like this? ”

Mai Daoist didn't speak. Guo Shao listened to it and said: Jingniang seems to belong to the Taoist side, which is a bad word for Taoism, and she is really not a sincere religious person.

Jing Niang said again: "I see that you are afraid of the worldly queen status, and I am afraid that if you can't save people, you may not only be implicated, but also affect your immortal name." ”

After listening to it, Guo Shao felt that what Jing Niang said was a bit excessive, but it was very much in line with his own thoughts. He had expected that the Mai Daoist would argue, or simply ignore it. Unexpectedly, Mai Taoist didn't mind and said: "Everything in the world should go with its own flow, not forced." The old decay doesn't care about fame and fortune...... But this benefactor is not wrong, the old man should see what happened to the eldest daughter of the Fu family. ”

Mai Daoist picked up the letter paper on the stone table, stroked the white beard of his chin and looked at it. After a while, he spoke again: "The eldest daughter of the Fu family is the queen, and the person who diagnoses the patient must be a famous doctor in the world, and the description should be unbiased. As the imperial physician said, she was destined to suffer from the heat, and then the torrential rain forced the heat poison into her body...... There is nothing to be done about this kind of thing. ”

Guo Shao said: "Can you think of a way again?" ”

The Mai Taoist sighed: "What the old man has learned all his life, in addition to the physiognomy, is the inner pill, and he has not dabbled in the study of the outer pill, and he has not refined the pill...... However, Chen Jian also refines the Outer Pill, if he is here, with a pair of Outer Dan and then the Inner Dan to cultivate the summer poison, maybe he can try. ”

Guo Shao hurriedly said: "As Qingxu Daogu said, Fuyaozi and she went south to Mount Emei, and now they should be in Shu. Shu is an enemy country, but the mountains are high and the road is far away, and I don't know where he is, even if I am lucky to find someone, I don't know what year and month it is. Can the queen last that long? ”

Mai Taoist said: "Then what can be done?" The old man said that you don't understand, and those who haven't practiced Neidan will be in vain to teach you the method of vomiting now, and the effect will not be great. People have fate, you don't need to be too sad, there are many births, old age, sickness and death, and everyone will die. ”

Guo Shao suddenly said busily: "I remember, Fuyaozi gave me an elixir a few years ago, saying that it can expel the fire in my body, so as not to tolerate internal and external contradictions." I didn't eat it, I still keep it! Go to the fire elixir, can you drive away the heat? Can you still eat it after a few years? ”

"What kind of elixir, what kind of smell, what kind of taste does it taste?" Mai Daoist asked.

Guo Shao looked dazed, how could he know what kind of elixir it was, he didn't eat it, and he didn't know what it tasted like, but he smelled it because of curiosity. At the moment, I described it with the impression that remained, but I really don't know what it tastes like...... Because I didn't know where to read a piece of information before, there are heavy metals in the pill of Dao Shi Lian, and it may be chronic poisoning if eaten, and it is not good for health if heavy metals remain in the body. How could Guo Shao want to eat this thing at that time?

Mai Daoist listened to it, neither uncertain nor negative. Guo Shao hurriedly said: "If you have to take the pill, it's too late now, how about using that one?" How to use it? ”

Mai Taoist said, "If you want to try, that's your business." ”

Guo Shao said: "Didn't you say that you still have to cultivate the Inner Dan?" If you don't teach us, no one will know how to do it. ”

The Mai Daoist finally glanced at Qingxu, turned his head and frowned, and said: "It is you who violates fate, you must sacrifice to the heavens, and you must not mention this matter in front of anyone that it is related to old decay?" It stands to reason that this kind of thing is not conducive to Taoism, and at least it will be a loss of longevity. ”

Guo Shao said without hesitation: "Whatever you want." ”

The Mai Taoist got up slowly and beckoned Qingxu: "You come with the master." ”

Guo Shao remained silent, it was not good to stop Qingxu from leaving, he was just pondering in his heart: there was only one way up the mountain, and behind the Taoist temple was a cliff. The sergeants guarded the courtyard and intersection outside, unless the Taoist priest of this Taoist temple really became an immortal and could fly, how could he avoid his own people and leave? What's more, Mai Daoist does seem to be a highly respected cultivator, so he can't talk nonsense and deceive others, right?

He was really in a mess in his heart, according to what Mai Daoist said, it seems that there are many kinds of pills, and the elixir given by Chen Shu before can really work? Looking back carefully, everything I did for Empress Fu was very unreliable, and I was simply sick and rushed to the doctor...... But what can be done? In this era, people can die if they catch a cold, and Lang Zhong only relies on traditional experience to summarize and cure diseases, and herbal medicine is the main means; Guo Shao is not a doctor, and even the current Lang Zhong is far inferior, he is really helpless.

Guo Shao stood beside the stone table in a daze, no one paid attention to them, no one entertained, he and Jing Niang looked at each other. It was so quiet in the mountains that he looked up at the sky again, vaguely not knowing where he was. I just feel that the surroundings are full of mystery and weirdness.

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