Anhui County is neither the seat of the county nor the hub of thoroughfare, so the market on weekdays is not lively at all. But on the day Zhou Yu arrived, he didn't know why he became shoulder to shoulder.

After saying that after the restaurant dined, Zhou Yu and Xiao Qiao rode together and wandered the streets of Anhui County. Under Piao'er's decision, they unconsciously found themselves in a crowded market. Surprisingly, the people in the bazaar are not buying things. They stood in the street, whispering in pairs, as if waiting for someone to arrive. Around the corner of the bazaar, there is a table with several baggage on display.

"Shuang'er, the bazaar in Anhui County, is it possible that the market is opened with idle talk?" Zhou Yu said.

Xiao Qiao had never seen such a scene, and he didn't know what was going on at the moment, so he had to sigh "hey": "It's weird, I don't know what's going on today!" ”

At this moment, not far behind them, someone suddenly stepped forward and said, "Master Zhou, we meet again." ”

Before Zhou Yu could speak, Xiao Qiao exclaimed, "Second brother! ”

"Shh

Qiao Zhan glanced back and said, "Be quiet, the eldest brother is nearby, if it alarms him, Zhou Gongzi will be embarrassed again." ”

With a hint of doubt, Xiao Qiao quietly glanced back, only to find that Qiao Yuan was really chatting with others more than twenty feet behind him.

"Get off the horse."

She dragged Zhou Yu and hid in the crowd.

"Second brother, what's wrong with today's market?"

"It was the eldest brother who invited me to come with him, and he said that there were foreign masters who came, and as for the rest, I don't know much about it."

When I was young, I saw a group of Taoist priests in blue robes, lined up in a neat queue, and slowly walked out from the corner of the market. They unfolded in front of the table, and another Taoist in a black robe walked out from around the corner. The man was skinny and gray, and he should have been over the age of six. The man came to the table and sat down, and said, "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious." ”

"It's them!"

Zhou Yu frowned and muttered: "Yellow Turban Uprising, Taiping Dao, Yu Ji ......"

The cause and effect of all this goes back a long way.

Many years ago, a warlock named Zhang Jiao founded a sect called Taiping Dao with Taoist scholarship as the core. They preached the ideal of "bringing peace to the peace", used the "Taiping Sutra" to educate the people of the world, and used Fu Shui to cure the diseases of the people, and the sick were cured, and the accumulated followers were very wide. After more than ten years of development, Taiping Dao finally became a climate, and its influence involved all states of the Han Dynasty, and its followers numbered hundreds of thousands.

During the seventh year, Zhang Jiao led his Taiping Daoists to launch the world-famous Yellow Turban Uprising. The slogan of the Yellow Turban Army at that time was "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is lucky." ”

After the uprising was suppressed by the Han Dynasty, Zhang Jiao and others died, and Taiping Dao also declined. The black-robed Taoist in front of him is named Yu Ji, he was the fish who slipped through the net back then, and he was also the creator of the "Taiping Sutra".

Yu Ji appeared in Anhui County this time in order to preach the "Taiping Sutra" and restore the Taiping Dao. However, before Ji preached the "Taiping Sutra", a woman stepped forward and knelt down and said: "Yu Daochang helps, Yu Daochang helps!" ”

"Don't panic, if you have anything to ask for, just get up and say."

Under Yu Ji's reassurance, the woman gradually calmed down and said, "A month ago, my husband suddenly felt unwell and was bedridden, with hot and cold all over his body. Later, the doctor diagnosed that it was malaria, which was contagious. The doctor prescribed some medicine, but it has not improved so far. I heard that your sect's talisman water cures all diseases, and I asked the Taoist chief to give him talisman water to save my husband's life. ”

Yu Ji pointed to the two paths on the side and said, "You carry him here," and the woman carried her sick husband with the path. The man's face was purple and red, unconscious on a stretcher, as if his days were numbered.

Yu Ji glanced at the patient, touched his white beard, and said, "It's indeed malaria." ”

"Cast spells to save people."

Yu Ji shouted, and the trailpers took out copper bowls, porcelain bottles, water bags, and yellow charms from their baggage.

Yu Ji closed his eyes, recited two Taiping scriptures, and said "lead the water of heaven into the world", and poured the water in the water bag into the copper bowl.

When everyone stared at each other, Yu Ji recited "In the name of heaven, ask for the Dan of Sanqing", he opened the porcelain bottle and took a pill into the water.

Then, he recited the "heavenly nectar" and pasted the yellow talisman on the copper bowl.

In the end, Yu Ji looked up to the sky and sighed, "Tianshui has been completed", and then ordered Xiaodao to pour it into the patient.

This farce-like scene made Xiao Qiao a little uncontrollable, she wanted to rush up to stop it, but was stopped by Qiao Zhan, and said: "Big brother is behind, if you are not afraid of causing trouble to the Zhou family, you can go." ”

"This ......"

At the moment when Xiao Qiao hesitated, the runic water had already been poured down.

Seeing this scene, the people also discussed:

"Can this water really heal?"

"The talisman water of Taiping Dao has always worked."

"More than ten years ago, my mother was cured by this runic water, and Taiping Dao is my family's lifesaver!"

After a while, the patient was still unconscious, the people gradually became anxious, and the scene gradually became noisy. I don't know if it's really happening, or if it's a plan to delay the army, Yu Ji threw down the sentence "After an hour, the patient will wake up" and began to preach the "Taiping Sutra".

"Let you be arrogant for an hour." Little Joe silently read.

An hour later, when Yu Ji reached the end of the scripture, the sick man lying on the ground miraculously woke up after vomiting blood. Seeing this, many of the people present flocked to ask for medicine. Zhou Yu and his entourage stood in place in a daze. Xiao Qiao couldn't help but muttered again and again in a panic: "Impossible, impossible......"

Qiao Zhan said to Zhou Yu, "Take care of my sister", and took advantage of the chaos to squeeze next to Yu Ji, and picked up the copper bowl of Shicai to observe. When a strong smell of plants poured into his nose with the breeze, he finally saw through Yu Ji's trick. While silently reciting "Changshan, grass fruit, calamus, mung bean, letter stone", he walked back to his sister and said, "This person's mastery is not Taoism, but medical skills. ”

"Is it the pill?" Little Joe said.

"Yes, that's malaria." Joe said.

"What is malaria?"

Under Zhou Yu's inquiry, Qiao Zhan said in detail: "Malaria dan is a fierce medicine for malaria, which is concocted by Changshan, Caoguo, calamus, mung bean, and letter stone. Because the stone contains so much poison that ordinary healers don't dare to use it. ”

Somehow, Zhou Yu actually called him "second brother" and said, "Where did you learn from?" ”

Qiao Zhan grabbed his sister's shoulders and said, "My brothers and sisters' homework is all taught by my father Qiao Gong", and glanced at the eldest brother who was asking for medicine, "Alas", "Your second brother, if Qiao Yuan hears it, you will cause trouble again." ”

Zhou Yu didn't know what he wanted, so he had to stand still and remain motionless, as if time had been frozen.

"What are you waiting for, waiting for trouble!"

Under Qiao Zhan's hint, he pulled Xiao Qiao and rode on Piao'er. Before leaving, Zhou Yu looked back and said, "Thank you, second brother." ”

Qiao watched them, and it wasn't until their backs disappeared into the bazaar that he said to himself, "If it weren't for the eldest brother......

"What do you say about me? What's wrong with me? ”

This sentence happened to be heard by Qiao Yuan, who was returning from asking for medicine.

"Ahh

Qiao was stunned for a moment and said, "If it weren't for the eldest brother, I wouldn't be able to listen to the Taiping Sutra." ”

"Not to mention the Taiping Sutra." Qiao Yuan then spread out his palms and said, "This is the six elixirs obtained for my brother to spend six taels of gold, which have the effect of prolonging life." ”

"Whatever!"

Qiao Zhan amazed, picked up a pill and examined it.

I saw that the Dan Pill was about half an inch in diameter, and under the brown appearance, it also revealed a shiny shine. He couldn't distinguish the substance in the pill by its appearance and smell, and he was afraid that the pill was a golden pill containing toxic substances such as lead and mercury, so he had to distinguish it by tasting it. He licked it cautiously before putting the pill in his mouth. In just a few moments, he tasted the ingredients of the pill: Codonopsis, Atractylodes, Poria cocos, Boiled licorice, Angelica, Chuanqiong, White Peony, Rehmannia Rehmannia, Burnt Astragalus, and Cinnamon. These pills are just big tonic pills that have been carefully concocted. Even so, Qiao Zhan still kept a straight face, because the price of six taels of gold was enough to buy thousands of Great Tonic Pills.

After Shuang and Yu got out of the bazaar on Piao'er, they walked eastward and chatted: "Has Gong Qiao taught the second brother medical skills?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Qiao laughed and said, "Medical skills? He doesn't know how to be an old man himself, let alone teach my second brother. ”

"But ......"

Zhou Yu hesitated.

"But what?"

Under Xiao Qiao's questioning, Zhou Yu said euphemistically: "However, it is indeed a pity that your second brother does not go to hang the pot to help the world." ”

"Hanging pots to help the world? I think he's a quack doctor who harms people. Little Joe blurted out.

"If you don't know how to heal, can you use your sense of smell to distinguish medicine? Can you explain the efficacy and characteristics of the pill in one word? ”

Under the guidance of Zhou Yu, many small details in life came to Xiao Qiao's heart at once. She pursed her lips and said:

"The day you and I met, I sprained my foot. You sent me home, and my father seemed very anxious. But the second brother was on the side and said lightly that my injury was fine. At that time, I thought that the second brother was comforting my father.

Also, every season of Meng Yue, the second brother will go out for about half a month. When his father asked him where he was going, he said that he was out playing. ”

"Oh!"

Zhou Yu said: "Think about it carefully, when did the habit of second brother Meng Yue go out? ”

"What did you just call him? Do you call him second brother? ”

Xiao Qiao's words really choked Zhou Yu hard, he snorted "um", and said: "Brother Ling is kind and kind, and he has the skill of saving people, he is a person that Zhou Yu admires." It's okay to call him a second brother. ”

Xiao Qiao Yanran smiled, let out a meaningful "oh", and brought the topic back to the topic, saying: "Second brother Meng Yue's habit of going out started five years ago. In the early spring of that year, some Huns went to Nanyang to sell horses. The second brother has always loved horses, so he went to have a look. The second brother has been gone for more than a month. Since then, the second brother has had the habit of Meng Yue going out. ”

"Could it be Hua Tuo!" Xiao Qiao said, "No, judging from the second brother's reaction at the time, they should have never known each other." ”

"If you want to know what happened during the second brother's absence, I'll go and find out; If I don't want to, I'll act like I haven't heard anything. ”

Although Zhou Yu had a strong interest in Qiao Zhan's encounter, out of respect for Qiao's family, he still asked Xiao Qiao's opinion.

"When you find out the results of your investigation, you must tell me as soon as possible."

Xiao Qiao doesn't care very much about whether the second brother can heal, and whether the second brother is related to Hua Tuo, what she really cares about is that Zhou Yu appears in front of her again.