"Intentionally sick?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned, in ancient times, there were some persistent pharmacists, in order to find out the cause or medicine of some unknown diseases or unknown medicinal materials, they did not hesitate to personally infect the disease or taste the medicine, but I didn't expect the old man Ma Sijia to do the same.

"Well..."Dai Jinshuang looked up to the sky and sighed, "At first, the master didn't expect it to be an evil way, because this disease seems to be an infectious disease, and any crooked evil method has not been contagious, so the master personally lived in those isolated barracks and contracted a furry disease..."

According to Dai Jinshuang's recollection, the disease first appeared in Jiangsu, the front line of the Battle of Xuzhou.

After occupying Nanjing, the army tried to open up the Tianjin-Pudong Railway and unite the northern and southern armies, successively concentrating about 240,000 people in 8 divisions and 5 brigades, and began to attack Xuzhou, a strategic point in East China, in late January 1938. At the beginning of March 1938, the defenders resumed their positions north of the Huai River, and for a time formed a confrontation with the Rì army across the river, and the first large-scale outbreak of the disease occurred in the barracks near the positions north of the Huai River.

At first, the Planters' military doctors mistook the disease for leprosy, but the symptoms of the patients were completely different from those of leprosy, and not only did the disease develop rapidly, but the rate of transmission was much higher than that of leprosy. Although the upper echelons of the army later took timely quarantine measures, the adverse impact of the previous epidemic on the entire battle was irreversible.

"The quarantine order was personally issued by Pang Bingxun*: all soldiers who are infected with the disease are to be quarantined on the spot, and no one is allowed to approach without permission." Dai Jinshuang said, "That is to say, at that time, as long as the barracks were found to be sick, they would be locked off on the spot, except for military doctors or sappers wearing isolation suits to deliver water and food, basically waiting for death en masse..."

Although the barracks where the outbreak occurred were quarantined, the spread of this strange disease did not stop there, and from March to April 1938, nearly 2,000 soldiers were infected. The Fifth Theater Command had to escalate the situation to Chóng Qìngzhèng Fǔ and at the same time take samples of the disease and ask American experts for help.

Ma Sijia and his five apprentices were assisting the guerrilla forces in secret resistance in the enemy-occupied area during this period, and they were also very puzzled when they heard the rumors of this strange disease, although he himself knew that Rì himself was accustomed to using methods similar to bacteriological weapons, but he was also suspicious of this strange disease that seriously interfered with the combat effectiveness and morale of our main force, especially after checking the pulse of a soldier suffering from furous disease, this suspicion was further deepened: first, the patient's internal organs were unharmed and all his internal organs were smooth. From the perspective of pulse, he is a healthy person, but from the perspective of "physiognomy", the patient's pupils are narrowed and his eyeballs are gray, but it looks like something is the way; Secondly, although the superficial symptoms of the infected patients are more serious than leprosy, but the condition is not as life-threatening as leprosy, since being isolated, the military doctors have not provided any special medicine to the patients in the isolation area (even do not know what the disease is, naturally there is no special medicine), but the patient's condition has not deteriorated in the slightest without taking medicine and treatment, and even said that after a few soldiers who were unwilling to wait for death secretly escaped from the quarantine area, the strange disease was inexplicably cured within a few days. It can really be said that the illness comes like a mountain, and the illness goes like a mountain.

In this case, Ma Sijia felt that the only way to find out the cause and treatment of the disease was to get infected himself.

After changing into a [**] military uniform and sneaking into the barracks of the quarantine place, Ma Sijia also had a tea of furles within two days, although it was painful, but with his own medical skills and previous experience in saving people, Ma Sijia felt more and more that this furous disease was not a "disease" at all: firstly, the symptoms of furous disease were only on the skin, and there were no uncomfortable symptoms in the internal organs, and secondly, Ma Sijia found that the "seven veins" in the body were blocked by the "five veins", and the other two veins had the symptoms of "yang qi reflux". According to the previous experience of Taoism, the seven veins are blocked or the yang qi is reversed, which is exactly the sign of resentment rushing to the body, but if the general animal or evil ghost rushes to the body, the symptoms are that the "seven veins" are not connected or the "seven veins" are completely reversed, and even the "Luo Descending *" is the same, basically there is no situation where the "five veins" are blocked and the "two veins" are reversed, so for a while, Ma Sijia couldn't figure out what was causing the disease.

In desperation, Ma Sijia had to send five apprentices to look for clues around the quarantine area, while he sealed the seven veins with a golden needle to temporarily help the sick.

Just when the rì army was stupid because of the chaos of [**], the eldest apprentice Li Zhenluan discovered an important situation, that is, the discovery of a plant that should not have grown here near the military camp in the quarantine area—rush grass.

This is a legendary plant, according to the theory of modern science, this kind of thing is more like a moss plant or fungus creature in terms of size and habit, and its raw xìng is like yīn, and it grows in wet places in the dark cháo. In the record of "Maoshan Shuzhi", "This grass is transformed by resentment, and gathers in yīn, all of which are born in the grave and formed in the sealed soil, and its leaves are shaped like fly wings, and there are two stamens in it, which climb and grow together, and the leaves can take root and evolve without decaying...", that is, this kind of thing is something that is transformed by (the deceased's) resentment, and likes yīn qi to gather in places, mostly growing between coffins or around tombs, and the shape and size of the leaves are similar to the wings of flies, and there are two "stamens" (in the middle of the leaves), which are intertwined with each other. It is not difficult to find the same account in the texts of other Taoist schools that it can take root and reproduce by relying on its leaves.

Since Li Zhenluan's discovery of the first rush grass, the five sons of Maoshan have successively found a lot of rush grass from the relatively concentrated places around the isolation barracks, all of which are parasitic on some dead woody plants, buried under the surface, and there are signs of artificial watering. At that time, there were not many places to gather yīn along the position, and if the discovery of a rush grass here was purely accidental, then the abundance of this yīn plant was by no means accidental.

As with the modern history of Western science, when Taoism developed into modern times, some later generations would also question the theories of their predecessors, and Ma Sijia was one of them. Taking rush grass as an example, Ma Sijia does not think that this kind of thing is really "resentment", but just an ordinary Xiyīn plant. Having said that, in Ma Sijia's view, this plant does have a characteristic that other animals and plants do not have, that is, it can be used as a medium for the transmission of yīn qi or resentment.

Although there is no theoretical basis for the theory that yīn qi can be transmitted by plants, according to Ma Sijia's field experiments in epidemic areas, it was found that this plant does have the effect of transmitting yīn qi or resentment, and the effect is much better than that of traditional mineral materials such as "limestone", and the effective distance is much farther. Considering all the circumstances, Ma Sijia judged that the breeding of strange diseases in the barracks had a lot to do with the overflow of rushes around the barracks, and the reason why this kind of thing could grow in places where the yīn qi was not very strong and there were signs of artificial watering was that there must have been Han jiān or enemy agents secretly spreading this kind of thing, and behind it, it was very likely that there were some evil people from outside the territory who were doing all this.

Later, Ma Sijia instructed his disciples to contact the brothers of the guerrillas and some junior officers in [**] to burn the dead wood with rushes around the quarantine area with kerosene and other flammable materials in the name of disinfection. As a result, within a week, the patient in the quarantine area where Ma Sijia was located was cured. Within a month, the disease that had stirred up the entire position had become erratic in the positions along the Huai River.

However, the Xuzhou Theater is not the only place where the "boil disease" appears, just during Ma Sijia's deep into the epidemic area, this strange disease also appeared in many places in China, although the method of "burning famine" is effective in the Xuzhou Theater, but some epidemic areas in other places are still waiting for the results of the Americans' research, and do not believe that "burning waste" can really cure the disease, even if some places believe in the method of "burning waste", but because they do not know that those places have the conditions to breed rushes, so they can only burn indiscriminately. The places that should not be burned have been burned over and over again, but the places that should have been burned have not been destroyed in the slightest, and in the end, it has taken a lot of manpower and material resources, and the epidemic has not been alleviated in the slightest.

"So Old Man Ma found Feng Kunlun?" Lao Liu Tou interjected.

"It's not the master looking for him, it's the master looking for him..."Dai Jinshuang glanced at Lao Liu, "The master never thought that Feng Kunlun would go to fight against him..."

What do you mean by that? What does it mean that 'Feng Kunlun will even go to fight rì?' Hearing Dai Jinshuang say this, Zhang Guozhong was also stunned, when he translated the "Detailed Record of the Confidential Records of the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression" written by Feng Kunlun after he became blind, he had wondered why Feng Kunlun, as a Kuomintang agent, would use those strange texts to write memoirs, and at this moment, listening to Dai Jinshuang's tone, this Feng Kunlun does seem to have some origins, and it doesn't seem to be serious. The clouds are deep and untraceable.

"You may not have heard of Feng Kunlun's master, this person is commonly known as Zhao Guanlu, and he was also a native of Taoism, a monk in Luohongguan in Guangdong, with the Taoist name Mingchuan, and he was also called Zhao Mingchuan before..."

A tragic smile appeared on Dai Jinshuang's face.

"Zhao Mingchuan...!?" A feeling of déjà vu suddenly flashed in Zhang Guozhong's head, "Let me think about it... It's a familiar name... Oh......!! I know this man! My friend looked into it! He broke the Chisel Dragon Array in Bashan, and he also sold the Zhentai Poison Jade to the British...! At this time, Zhang Guozhong suddenly remembered Qin Ge's investigation results that year*, "Feng... Feng Kunlun is... It's Zhao Mingchuan's apprentice... Apprentice...? Zhang Guozhong seemed a little incredulous.

"Oh? You actually know Zhao Mingchuan? Although he listened to Zhang Guozhong's account of the past Bashan, due to Zhang Guozhong's relatively general narration, Qin Ge's investigation results on Zhao Mingchuan were omitted, and at this moment, hearing Zhang Guozhong say that he knew Zhao Mingchuan, Dai Jinshuang was also a little surprised, "This person has two apprentices, one is his own son named Zhao Qingyun, and the other is Feng Kunlun..."

"So he'll descend... Descending Technique..."Zhang Guozhong's eyes widened.

"That's right! He's going to do it! And not the average would! Dai Jinshuang raised his head, and seemed to return to seriousness...

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Note:

Pang Bingxun: Born on October 25, 1879 in Nanyangzhuang Village, Xinhe County, Hebei Province, a famous general of the Anti-Japanese Army, he successfully blocked the southward movement of the Sakayuan Division of the Rì Army with inferior forces in the Battle of Taierzhuang, and was a lieutenant general of the Kuomintang Army at the time, the commander of the Fifth Theater Corps, and was subordinate to Li Zongren's department.

Although he made outstanding achievements in the War of Resistance against Bandits, he was also controversial because he compromised with the coercion and temptation of Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin to openly serve as the commander-in-chief of the "suppression of bandits" in Cha Province, and obstructed the "Anti-rì Allied Army" organized by the patriotic general Feng Yuxiang by force.

Physiognomy: Ma Sijia's self-developed method of observing the condition of the human body from the condition of the eyes, unlike "face physiognomy" and "palmistry", "eye physiognomy" is not a divination of future auspiciousness, but a method used by people to see if it is caused by resentment when there is an abnormality.

Luo descended: At the end of the Song Dynasty, Luo Youchang invented the descending technique, see "The Descendants of Maoshan Mountain" of the "National Treasure Seal".

Qin Ge's findings on Zhao Mingchuan: For details, see Chapter 48 of the "Inheritance of the National Treasure Seal" of "The Descendants of Maoshan": Zhongji.