"It just looked at me like that," Old Lady Yan stared at Yan Qingcheng for a long time, until his scalp was numb, then she suddenly smiled, and continued, "If Bai Lin hadn't reacted quickly and snatched the red cloth and put it on the mouth of the urn again, it would have really come out." Bai Lin, Bai Lin saved me. ”

At this point, the expression on her face changed again, her eyes rolled a few times, and a sad look appeared on her face. Her mouth moved a few times, and she let out a dry howl, "They said that Bai Lin went, I know, Bai Lin was still killed by it, it was going to kill the Yan family, otherwise, it would never stop." ”

Yan Qingcheng was shocked by these words, and after a long time, he came back to his senses, grabbed Old Lady Yan's shoulder, shook it lightly, and said in a trembling voice, "Mother, what is it?" Father...... Father, can he tell you? ”

Old Lady Yan used her two shriveled hands to desperately rub on her thighs, repeating the same action rigidly, and after a long time, she turned her head slowly again, and snorted at Yan Qingcheng as if crying and laughing.

"Evil, he did such a hurtful thing, he should have thought that this retribution would come sooner or later."

***

The ancestor of the Yan family is named Yan Qing.

Of course, he didn't suddenly open his mind because he slept in the Guandi Temple for one night and met the guidance of the gods, the reason why he was able to become a famous miracle doctor was all due to a bowl of soup, a bowl of soup that is said to be able to cure all incurable diseases.

It's just that the medicine in this bowl of soup is very rare, not because it is rare and difficult to find, but because it is too cruel.

The medicine of the red jade soup is a human being, a living person.

When a person is still alive, soak it into medicinal wine, let his internal organs, flesh and blood, tendons, skin and bones slowly dissolve in the wine, and then add a strange fragrance to seal it for three months, so as to get an urn of red jade soup that can cure all diseases.

Yan Qing didn't put much thought into the choice of medicine introduction, because it could only be that person—Tao Huan, the young man who lived next door to his house, the one who told him the secret of the red jade soup.

That year, Tao Huan was preparing to take the township exam, so he was bored at home all day to study and didn't go anywhere. But one day, he suddenly found his neighbor, Yan Qing, who was also in the village, and asked him for a question.

Tao Huan said that he happened to get an ancient book, which recorded in detail the production method of a decoction, that flavored medicine, called red jade soup.

Red jade soup uses human flesh as medicine to cure terminal diseases all over the world......

But Tao Huan felt that the production method of this medicine was cruel and weird, so he looked around for medical books to find out whether the medical theory was true or false. However, he didn't know how to heal after all, so he found Yan Qing and asked him about the principle of red jade soup.

Yan Qing, who got the prescription, was stunned, he had only heard of the red jade soup before and knew its medicinal effects, but he had never seen such a detailed record. He held the book and studied it for a few nights, and found Tao Huan again, telling him that in fact, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" also has a human department, and it also records the strange curative effect of human flesh, so the red jade soup is by no means a false rumor without roots, but a real prescription.

He also cited many examples, such as the Tang Dynasty Chen Zangqi's "Materia Medica", which said that human flesh cures diseases, which means using human flesh to treat incurable diseases. However, the "Collection of Materia Medica" has been lost, and what I see is only some quotations. There is also the practice of "cutting shares to cure relatives" has a long history, and the earliest appearance in official history can be traced back to the "Old Tang Dynasty Book • Yinyi Biography". According to records, at that time, a person named Wang Youzhen listened to the doctor's words in order to treat his mother's illness, and actually cut a piece of the meat on his buttocks and fed it to his mother. The next "fantasy" thing happened: after eating the meat on her son's buttocks, Wang's mother was really well.

And this is not the only one with similar records, such examples are not uncommon in the official history alone, but they are all a few strokes, and there is no detailed description of the prescription, let alone the use of living people as a medicine guide like the red jade soup.

The more Yan Qing spoke, the more excited he became, and he didn't notice that Tao Huan, who was listening on the side, unconsciously changed his face, looking at the ancient book in his hand and falling into deep thought. By the time Yan Qing finally reacted, Tao Huan had already walked to the stove with the book and threw it into the blazing flames.

"I can't keep this evil book." Looking at the pages of the book being burned to ashes, the expression on Tao Huan's face finally relaxed, "Using a living person as a medicine guide violates the code of ethics, even if you can cure all diseases, it is also a life for life, where is there any kindness of a doctor?" Brother Yan, you and I should have never seen this book, so forget about it completely. ”

Tao Huan looked at Yan Qingpi's smiling face and exhaled deeply. He naively thought that the matter would end here, but he didn't expect that Yan Qing's innocence had long been sharpened by life, and he didn't expect that he had evil thoughts about himself.

The next day was Shangyuan Festival, and before it got dark, Tao Huan's family went to the city to see the lights. Tao Huan didn't go out because he wanted to participate in the township test that year, and he was studying at home alone. He also asked his sister to help him bring a carp lantern back, because the carp jumped over the dragon gate, which is the meaning of auspiciousness.

But the lantern was bought, but Tao Huanren was gone. At first, the Tao family thought that he was tired of studying, so they went out for a walk, and they didn't pay much attention to it. But in the second half of the night, Tao Huan hadn't come back yet, so the Tao family was in a hurry and panicked to find the neighbor's house and the back mountain. But I searched all the places I could think of, but I didn't find Tao Huan.

He was gone, leaving nothing but a box of books.

After Tao Huan's disappearance, the life of the Tao family was completely shattered, and the family didn't even care about the work in the field, and went to various places to look for him as adults.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that Tao Huan had never left Zhaitang Village at all. In the Yan family, which is separated by a wall, he was sealed by Yan Qing in an old urn and made "red jade soup." ”

On the night of the Shangyuan Festival, Yan Qing secretly came to Tao's house, knocked Tao Huan, who was concentrating on reading books, knocked him unconscious, dragged him away, hid him in his cellar, and then pretended to be casual and looked for Tao Huan with the Tao family. Two days later, when Tao Huan was about to wake up, Yan Qing threw him into the prepared medicinal wine and sealed the mouth of the urn with lime mortar.

Yes, Yan Qing had already copied the prescription, and he could only choose Tao Huan as the medicine guide, because in this world, apart from himself, only Tao Huan knew the secret of the red jade soup, so he had no extra choice at all.

Of course, at the beginning, Yan Qing was also afraid of repentance, he sat paralyzed next to the old urn all day, confessing to Tao Huan vaguely, he even felt that he could hear Tao Huan's nails scratching the wall of the urn, "click, click", which shocked him all day, so that his family thought that Yan Qing had epilepsy.