Chapter Fifty-Eight: Nine Needles
No wonder there are poisons such as arrows and snakes and dragon pythons in the jungle, which cover up all my marks, it turns out that this Mengzhi seems to have a good face, but with this poisonous plan, it rules over so many birds and beasts, and they are all some mysterious species now.
What makes me puzzled is that Meng Chi, like Meng Zhu, was originally a disciple of the Medicine King, but they are also proficient in medicine and poison, why is Meng Chi proficient in controlling these poisons.
Meng Zhu seemed to see my doubts, and he said: "The wife that Meng Chi married is the daughter of the King of Witch Gu, her name is Miao Mi, Miao Mi is proficient in the art of Witch Gu, and Meng Chi married Miao Mi precisely to use the Witch Gu combined with the acupuncture technique created by my Medicine King to achieve the goal he wants." The King of Witches is good at controlling birds and beasts, and Miao Mi is truly inherited. Alas, the acupuncture and moxibustion technique created by the king of medicine is the art of curing diseases and wounds, as for the world it is rumored that my door also created three needles, which add up to twelve needles, in fact, the other three needles were not created by the king of medicine, but the first generation of disciples of the king of medicine themselves, when the king of medicine was executed by the king of Qin, he handed over the nine techniques of acupuncture and moxibustion to the disciple, so that he could bring it back to Nanzhong, so that he could live for the benefit of the people of Nanzhong, because the king of medicine has only one disciple, if they all die in the palace, the nine needles will completely disappear from the world, so the king of medicine tried his best to make the disciple sneak back to Nanzhong. The other three needles are not on the needle spectrum. At that time, the medicine king had already understood the other three needles were the art of killing, and his disciples also knew about this, and the medicine king instructed ten thousand instructions not to draw the other three needles into a needle spectrum, but after this disciple returned to Nanzhong, he heard that the king of Qin not only executed the medicine king, but also hung the body of my ancestor at the south gate to show the world, in addition, there were ministers in the court, saying that the medicine king and the medicine ancestor Shennong's family, taste all the medicine, eat the meat of the medicine king, can live forever, so the king of Qin ordered to cook the medicine king, and gathered the concubines, ministers and others to eat the medicine king together......"
Meng Zhu said as he spoke, his face showing grief, not only tears on his face.
I have read some wild histories, saying that Qin Shi Huang was extremely cruel, and when he reached Qin II, he was even more brutal and unreasonable, but I didn't expect Qin Shi Huang to eat human flesh in order to live forever.
Meng Zhu paused and continued: "The disciples of the Medicine King were angry when they heard this, forgot the instructions of the Medicine King, had a heart of revenge, studied painstakingly, and drew the other three needles and nine needles together into a needle spectrum, and then passed down to this day, and the Medicine King Sect has an ancestral motto, that is, no matter which dynasty or generation, you must be the enemy of the imperial court. After that, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered Nanzhong, and the King of Dian pretended to surrender, and Yaowangmen found the King of Dian and wanted to use the Twelve Needles to murder Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty......"
"Does that gentleman know what kind of book the Heavenly Book left by the Medicine King?" I asked.
"It is a volume of parchment heavenly book, painted with stars and eight trigrams, corresponding to mountains and rivers, according to the view of bamboo, it is the heavenly machine of the Fuxi clan and the tomb of the medicine ancestor Shennong." Meng Zhu stroked his beard and said.
It's amazing, this Meng Zhu has fully realized the heavenly opportunity, and knows that it is the Tibetan map of the Shennong tomb, it seems that this person is really extraordinary, a hundred times smarter than Meng Chi.
"Can that gentleman see through the heavens and know the location of the Shennong's tomb?" I asked.
Meng Zhu closed his eyes and said: "The tomb of the ancestors, how can it be moved, the old man doesn't know." If anyone moves the tomb, people and gods will be angry! ”
This is obviously the idea that he knew, but didn't tell me, and gave me a warning, meaning not to let me hit the tomb of the Shennong clan.
Meng Zhu and Hua Tuo didn't know where I came from, and even if I said it, these two people might not be able to understand it, so I didn't say anything about Miao Xiaoxi and the modern Miao Jiang Twelve Acupuncture Organization, but Meng Zhu said after seeing the old lady's body: "It is true that he was killed by the Twelve Acupuncture Techniques, alas, now, the people who master the Twelve Acupuncture Techniques are not only Meng Chi, but if they kill innocent people, they will definitely be punished by God." ”
"Childe, this Meng Chi killed your relatives and approached you with kindness, there must be some intentions, Childe must be careful."
"I wonder what the old gentleman just dripped out of the gourd?"
"This is a rare medicine, shallots, leaves, and rue."
This shallot-leave-rue has such a wonderful use, no wonder that Mengzhi saw a small tree of shallot-leave-leaved rue and saw the jade dragon's eyes, suddenly like a hungry chicken, pounced on a few grains, three or two pecked over, I knew that Mengzhi was a merciful and ruthless person, I could still let him pick shallot-leaf rue, I heard Mengzhu say the beauty of this shallot-leaf rue, I suddenly decided, to go to the Yaowang Temple again, and stole Mengqi's shallot-leaf rue.
After listening to Meng Zhu's mouth, I also wanted to hear his evaluation of the Panlong Cave Cave Master, so I said, "Can the old gentleman recognize the Panlong Cave Master?" ”
Meng Zhu coughed and said: "Not only do you recognize, he and Meng Chi do not give in to each other, because there are rare medicinal materials in the Panlong Cave Valley, Meng Chi has long wanted to destroy Tu Mu, but Tu Mo and the King of Witch Gu also have some friendship, and that Tu Mo is in the Panlong Cave, there are seventy-two kinds of poisonous snakes in the cave, and there is a terrifying snake, chicken snake, and there is a snake king, legend has it that there is a goron banshee living underground, and Tu Mo is subject to the snake banshee, so Meng Chi can't do it. Meng Chi competed with me for the master of the Medicine King Sect, and Na Tu Mo stood up to support Meng Chi, because he knew that my acupuncture skills were higher than Meng Chi, so he secretly helped Meng Chi and drove me out of Nanzhong. ”
"Gorgon?" I exclaimed, I hadn't seen a gorgony when I entered the Coiling Dragon Cave, and besides, according to Dog Er, he hadn't seen anything like that either.
It stands to reason that the Gorgons are a thing in ancient Greek mythology, and Medusa is a banshee in Greek mythology, one of the three Gorgons, who lives on the other side of the ocean Okeanos where it meets the land of night. According to the poet Ovid's Metamorphosis, Medusa was a beautiful maiden who was cursed by Athena because she had an affair with Poseidon, the god of the sea (some versions say that Medusa was cursed by Athena because she was so beautiful that she couldn't compare herself to the goddess of wisdom), Athena turned Medusa's hair into a poisonous snake in a fit of rage, and cursed her, and anyone who looked into Medusa's eyes would be turned into a stone statue, and thus became an ugly-looking monster.
But why there is a medusa in Nanzhong, this is a bit puzzling, however, ancient Greek mythology is ancient Greek mythology, we also have the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", which has a lot of records about snakes, today you might as well pull out the symbol of the snake in ancient times, which will help us uncover the mystery of the gorgon in the dragon cave in the south.
As early as in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", we can see that the records of ancient people for snakes are beyond the ordinary. The snakes in the record are mostly the genus of gods and monsters, and one hundred and eighty miles to the north, called the mountain of Hun Xi, no grass and trees, and many copper and jade. The water flows out of the air, and the west flows into the sea. There is a snake with one head and two bodies, the name is fat, and when you see it, there is a great drought in its country.
Three hundred miles to the south again, it is said that Dushan, there are many gold and jade on it, and the water of the end of the beautiful stone is out of the Yan, and the east flow is poured into the water, which is much Yong, its shape is like a yellow snake, fish wings, there is light in and out, and it is a great drought in its town when it is seen.
In the Zhu of the East China Sea, there is a god, a human face and a bird body, two yellow snakes, two yellow snakes, and two yellow snakes, called Yu. The Yellow Emperor gave birth to Yu, and Yu gave birth to Yujing. Yujing is located in the North Sea, Yu is located in the East China Sea, and it is the god of the sea.
The name of the Gonggong minister is called Xiangxiang, nine snake bodies, self-ringing, and eating in nine soils. The place where it is is the source of Ze, not hard but hard, and the beasts can not deal with it. Yu annihilation flood, killing each other, its bloody stench, can not grow valley; The land is watery and uninhabitable. Yu annihilated, three and three depressed, thought it was a pool, and the emperors thought it was a platform. In the north of Kunlun.
Even in the Han Dynasty, we can see records of snakes. Most of these snakes represent a kind of authority, which is defeated by those in power, as a way to show that these people in power are in high power.
For example, we often mention in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Gaozu slashed the white snake and rose.