Chapter 2 White Jade Tile

According to Lao Liu Tou, since Cao Moyun showed him the so-called "Ten Thousand Tribulations", he has always wanted to figure out what was going on with that thing, because he suspected that his father's motive for forcing him to become a monk was the same as Cao Moyun's father, all because of the harm to that thing, but in his memory, it is true that the old man disappeared for a month, but it seems that he has never gotten to the point of the rotten persimmon described by Cao Moyun. Old Liu Tou also harassed the teacher Ma Chunyi more than once, at first this Ma Chunyi was also secretive and didn't want to say anything, but later it wasn't until Liu Ziwei passed away that Ma Chunyi told the truth to Lao Liu Tou......

Although Taoism is broad and profound, there are many things that cannot be explained and problems that cannot be solved, such as the "Ten Thousand Tribulations" that Lao Liu Tou wants to figure out all day long, in fact, the Ten Thousand Tribulations are not pure Taoist things, but a kind of thing between resentment and disease, and the earliest record of the Ten Thousand Tribulations can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.

Before the death of Tang Gaozong, the Tang Dynasty was a dynasty that emphasized the Tao and suppressed the Buddha, and even the Tang Gaozu Li Yuan also worshiped Lao Tzu as the ancestor, this period is also one of the most rapid periods in the history of Fu Zheng and Danding two factions of various techniques, but after the Tang Wuzhou (that is, the Wu Zetian period), the imperial court began to emphasize the Buddha and suppress the Tao (the Tang Dynasty from Wu Zetian to the Buddha and the Tao for more than 130 years, until the Tang Dynasty Wuzong Li Han ascended the throne in 840 AD, but Li Xiao reigned for only 6 years, after the death of Xuanzong Li Chen ascended the throne, the Tang Dynasty began the policy of heavy Buddha and Tao suppression) Even some grandmaster-level figures who used to call for wind and rain had to live a life of a warlock who used to see a doctor and design tombs with a pulse, and Langzhong and Mr. Feng Shui grabbed their jobs. In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, a large part of some of the theories of yin and yang and meridians that are in circulation or have been lost are related to the integration of people in the Taoist sect during this period.

During this period, some Daomen people even wrote some classics that integrated the dual theories of Taoism and medicine, such as the "Miscellaneous Records of Taoist Doctors" by Lu Xianlong of the Zhengyi School, the "Sanqing Fang" by Zheng Biyin of the Lingbao School, and the "Pulse Theory" of Feng Yunpu of the Shangqing School. A powerful eunuch Pang Yi returned to his hometown due to a strange illness, and was cured in bed for a whole year, and in this year, more than 500 years of "national treasure" level ginseng was used no less, and more than once sent the top imperial doctor in the palace to diagnose the pulse and prescribe the prescription did not improve, and then Lu Xianlong traveled through the state, and happened to meet the yamen to post a yellow list to reward 500 catties of gold for this Pang Yi to treat the disease, and he also unveiled the list and was invited to Pang Mansion as Langzhong.

In the record of "Miscellaneous Records of Taoist Doctors", Pang Yi's symptoms are similar to those of the "Cao Sandai", "the skin is like a wrinkle, it is not touching and ulcerating, it is like a chicken, and the words do not answer" means that the skin (texture) is like a rag, even if you don't touch yourself, it will fester, the whole person is stunned, and does not answer (someone else's) question”。

Between Pang Yi's special status as a "eunuch", Lu Xianlong did not get to the bottom of what he did in the palace, this Pang Yi is rumored to be the most important subordinate of the great eunuch Wang Shoucheng, and what he did was nothing more than to act as Wang Shoucheng's thug to participate in the shady scenes of those dogs and dogs in the palace and so on, as a civilian, I am afraid that I will not be able to keep my head if I know those things, after weighing the profits and losses, this Lu Xianlong decided to start with this Pang Yi's residence in the palace, hoping to try to find the root of Pang Yi's "crime" from the surrounding environment, should also have a good fate for this Lu Xianlong, and on the second day after entering the palace, he found a unique "white jade tile" from the roof of Pang Yi's residence.

The reason why it is said to be "different" is first of all because of the texture of the tile, from ancient times to the present, the raw material of the Chinese firing tile is nothing more than clay loess, I have never heard of someone using white marble to make tiles, and secondly, this tile itself, after being confirmed by Lu Xianlong with traditional Taoist means, this tile has attracted more than 100 evil ghosts.

This incident reminded Lu Xianlong of the "Manna Change" that shook the capital not long ago, when Emperor Wenzong, the son of heaven, hoped to take the opportunity of visiting the so-called "Manna Dew" to eradicate all the eunuchs in power, and the matter was revealed, resulting in dozens of civil and military people being killed, and there were no less than ten people who were beheaded all over the house, and this piece of white jade tile is likely to have a direct relationship with this incident, maybe it is the product of revenge of the relatives or close friends of the killed minister, inferred so far, the only thing that Lu Xianlong can't figure out is, If there are really people among the ministers who know the cattle who can make this "white jade tile", why do they still have to engage in the "nectar" of those Laoshzi, and just use the "white jade tile" to get that group of castrations?

I can't figure it out, after all, Lu Xianlong's mission is to cure the disease rather than solve the case, so the question of the origin of the white jade tile is only unresolved in the end, so that Lu Xianlong couldn't figure out what principle this white jade tile uses to store so many resentful ghosts until the end; I don't know what kind of magic principle this piece of resentment and ghost is based on to make that Pang Yi so alive and dead, so in the end, he can only use the stupidest and most direct method to cure Pang Yi, that is, to surpass the resentful ghosts and ghosts in the white jade tile one by one, this huge project took Lu Xianlong four years and five months, and five years of life to make that Pang Yi recover as before, and when Lu Xianlong completed all the transcendent rituals, it was already after the new emperor Tang Wuzong Li Han succeeded to the throne in the first year of Huichang. In "Miscellaneous Records of Taoist Doctors", Lu Xianlong defined this Pang Yi's illness as: the catastrophe of ten thousand evils, and the phrase "ten thousand catastrophes" also spread: "One grievance can be resolved, but what ten thousand grievances?" One ghost can be saved, but what is ten thousand ghosts? There is a way that if it is true, if it is really a catastrophe, the true immortal is not good at it, and he will take the blame for it, all of them are themselves! "The implication: You can't save you today, the virtuous immortal, you deserve it. According to Lu Xianlong's cognition, Pang Yi's symptoms, that is, the pathogenic mechanism of the "Ten Thousand Tribulations", seem to be the result of the continuous harassment of many souls, and after surpassing all the souls, Pang Yi's illness is the result of self-healing, which seems to confirm Lu Xianlong's conclusion.

Of course, the reason why Lu Xianlong was willing to spend more time than writing a book to rescue this huge manager who had killed Zhongliang was not only for the reward of 500 catties of gold, but more to redeem the trust of the imperial court in Taoism through his own efforts. The role played by Lu Xianlong cannot be ignored.

"Mr. Liu, you mean, Ah Xunhe...... Retaliated against!? Hearing this, Sun Ting seemed to hear a little eyebrows, as if Ai Erxun had been plotted by someone.

"Not necessarily!" Old Liu Tou's face was solemn, "Lu Xianlong's statement is just one of them, there are other things to say about this thing......"

In the decades of later generations, although the record of "Ten Thousand Tribulations" in the "Miscellaneous Records of Taoist Doctors" revealed the symptoms of "Ten Thousand Tribulations" to a large extent, it also created some misunderstandings for future generations, that is, "Ten Thousand Tribulations" was caused by the continuous harassment of the soul, until the end of the Tang Dynasty, Zheng Biyin, a Taoist of the Shangqing School, gave a new definition of the causes and treatment methods of "Ten Thousand Tribulations" in his book "Three Qing Prescriptions": In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, natural disasters continued to war, and the whole country was turned upside down and full of signs of supergeneration. In a village in Laiwu (now Laiwu City, Shandong Province), dozens of people were rushed by the "Ten Thousand Tribulations" at the same time, which made Zheng Biyin question Lu Xianlong's statement that the "Ten Thousand Tribulations" were "ten thousand ghosts taking turns to rush to the body", under natural circumstances, it is impossible for many souls to rush a person's body in three shifts in an orderly manner, unless it is possible under the interference and guidance of some man-made evil arrays, if it is forgivable to find capable people to set up evil arrays to engage in political struggles to retaliate against the eunuch leaders, How could someone in the world be so bored that they would set up such a large-scale evil formation to trick a few ordinary people?

Later, after some on-the-spot investigation, Zheng Biyin found that this large-scale "ten thousand catastrophes" incident is likely to be related to a Tang army pit that was washed by a flash flood not long ago to kill the mass grave left by the rebel army, and the rebel army and the people should have no grievances, let alone take turns to rush the people's bodies, and the reason why many ordinary people will harm the ten thousand catastrophes is not caused by "rushing to the body", but by the "grievances".

In "Three Qing Fangs", Zheng Biyin's conclusion can be said to have completely subverted Lu Xianlong's doctrine, attributing the cause of "ten thousand calamities" to "resentment invading the body", and suddenly pulling this symptom to a position between "Taoism" and "medical skills".

"The kind of grievance that Zheng Biyin said is not the kind of grievance that kills people to pay for their lives......" Speaking of this, Lao Liu Tou began to add again, "This kind of grievance belongs to 'scattered grievances', that is, the grievances that are dispersed separately, and the 'scattered grievances' have little impact on people, but if there are more gatherings, it will have a great impact!" This point also makes sense in Taoism! In Zheng Biyin's view, only in places where a large number of corpses are gathered, such as 'mass graves' and 'mass graves', all souls have the same kind of grievances because of the same thing, and it is possible to gather a large number of 'scattered grievances', just like I just said, the mass graves were reopened by the flood, and tens of thousands of souls were resentful because of the water, which is the 'scattered resentment', and this kind of 'scattered resentment' is the same as the 'turbidity' and 'moisture' in traditional Chinese medicine, which will make people sick! ”

In traditional Chinese medicine, many kinds of "qi" are listed as the root cause of diseases, such as "cold", "dampness", "fire", "turbidity", "dryness", etc., for example, cold qi invades the body is prone to wind cold, dampness invades the body is prone to "bone paralysis*" and so on. With the level of medical care and people's understanding at that time, it can be said that it is not easy to make such a judgment, but the fly in the ointment is that in the Laiwu "Ten Thousand Tribulations" incident, Zheng Biyin only dealt with this case, and did not use this precious clinical opportunity to conduct in-depth research, resulting in people's understanding of the Ten Thousand Tribulations to this day only staying in the category of "resentment invades the body".

According to Zheng Biyin's theory, since the pathogenic mechanism of the catastrophe is more inclined to medicine, then the easiest way is to take "medicine", but this "medicine" is completely different from the conventional "medicine", at that time, Zheng Biyin divided the grievances into five categories: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and the grievances that led to the suffering of the common people were probably because the soldiers in the "mass grave" could not "enter the soil for peace", and the mass grave was washed away by the flood, so this grievance should be a "water grievance", and the soil and water in the five elements, so the "soil" should be used as a measure to quell this grievance, So he mobilized the people to bury the corpse pit, and then let the patient take the soil under the eaves to eat, and sure enough, the coefficient was cured, so far, the phenomenon of "ten thousand calamities" is no longer simply limited to the category of Taoism, but also added some medical mechanisms, but one thing is certain, that is, the resentment that leads to the ten thousand calamities is by no means the resentment of one person: only when a large amount of resentment gathers on a person and exceeds the critical point that the human body can tolerate, can the possibility of forming a "ten thousand calamities".

"In fact, the cause of the Ten Thousand Tribulations is not fixed, just like that Zheng Biyin said, it is at least divided into five kinds: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth" Old Liu Touyi frowned, "However, Zheng Biyin's understanding is very limited after all, and there is only one case encountered, after Zheng Biyin, there are many examples that prove that the types of resentment are far more than the five kinds of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, but there is no clear diagnosis method, because as long as it hurts that thing, the symptoms are almost the same, and the 'water resentment' is the same The ten thousand calamities of fire resentment are all virtuous on the surface, and the patient can't speak, so if you are not sure what the 'resentment' is caused by, you can only be like Lu Xianlong, according to the treatment of several years and decades! Just like that 'Cao Sandai', my master's capable person has no problem, and he must be carried to Sichuan for treatment! And I don't know how to treat it, I also asked my father about it, asked him how my father cured it, if someone harms this thing again, how to treat it, he told me, whoever is infected, he will ask the family to arrange the funeral, this thing can't be made now......! ”

"Ah......" Sun Ting's face turned white, his legs were weak and he almost collapsed to the ground, "Then Ah Xun, ......?" ”

That's what he said! He just doesn't want us to use those shady methods! Old Liu Tou didn't bother to explain to Sun Ting that Master Ma Chunyi's speaking habits were too late, "It's hard to find out the cause of this kind of problem, because because of this thing, people can't speak or write!" It's even harder to find any clues! At most, you can find a jade tile like Lu Xianlong! In case you can't even find the jade tile, you can only use the unsightly method! ”

"Ugly!?" Hearing what Lao Liu Tou said, Sun Ting was also stunned, "Saving people is not killing people, what will be unseemly?" ”

"It's to save people with a method that is less virtuous than killing!" Lao Liu waved his hand, "Saving one person has to harm two people, saving one person has to harm people in one village and one county, this kind of thing is ......."

"Shall we go to the United States first?" After being silent for a long time, Zhang Guozhong suddenly said.

"No need to ......!" Lao Liu Tou said categorically, "There is no need to go to the United States first!" First find out what he has done, where he has been, and who he has come into contact with since he arrived in China! Young Master Sun, can you start by phone? It is impossible for Brother Ai to wander around alone when he returns to China, he must have come into contact with someone! ”

"This ......" Sun Tingyi frowned, "I have checked his call records, and his mobile phone number in the United States has not been dialed in China at all, it seems that he temporarily bought a local number after arriving in China, and threw ......it away after using it."

"Alas......" Hearing that this Zhang Guozhong was also a hammer table, "Why is this person still ...... like this" To be honest, when I went to Myanmar to find the treasure cave of Yamashita Fengwen, this Ai Xun almost lost his life because he was distressed by a few grenades.

"Or ...... Or ...... like that? Zhang Yicheng's words seemed to be full of temptation, "I'm going to the United States to take care of Uncle Ai, uncle, you and my dad are going to check his whereabouts in China?" I think Uncle Liu can help with this......"

"You stay at home honestly for me!" Zhang Guozhong glared at Zhang Yicheng fiercely, "Don't get involved in adult affairs, you children!" ”

"What's wrong with me?" Zhang Yicheng rolled his eyes, "I'm also about to become a father, let go of the old society, and the children are running all over the street......"

"Okay, okay......" Old Liu Tou sighed, "Young Master Sun, don't worry, Brother Ai's disease is a toad crawling on the surface of the feet - if you don't bite people, you can't die easily, and if you treat it, it won't happen overnight, you go back and call Qin Ye, his spy skills may be useful!" Besides, don't be idle, go back to the United States now, and give me Brother Ai's residence carefully, and see what he brought back from China this time......"

"That'...... What about me? Zhang Yicheng looked at Lao Liu Tou with extreme expectation, "Uncle, you won't even treat me as a child, right?" ”

"You listen to your dad, the most important thing for you now is to study! When I can use you in the future! As a cultural person, Lao Liu Tou knows the importance of the college entrance examination, and now Zhang Yicheng is in the final sprint stage before the college entrance examination, even if there is something wrong with Alexun, he and Zhang Guozhong should be able to cope with it.

"Learning...... Cut ......" Zhang Yicheng pursed his lips with a look of disdain......

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Note*:

* Bingzhou Capital: Bingzhou is one of the ancient "Kyushu", and its geographical location is about Baoding, Hebei Province, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, and Datong area.

* Bone palsy: i.e. arthritis.