The story is about the old man, there is an old Tao, named Ma Taiqing, born in Haiwei, Ma Laodao was seventeen or eighteen years old, there was no serious livelihood, the parents died early, and the six relatives had no support, I heard that the emperor loved Taoism, and the rich people were willing to scatter good wealth in the old Taoist temple, it happened that Haiwei had a Zhenwu Temple, so he became a Taoist child, and many of the brothers of the same generation had the same family background as him. Therefore, there is a big age gap between large and small, regardless of age, and there are also little brothers and sisters. There are even "heroes" in the green forest who killed people and sold goods, committed crimes, and were investigated for fugitive officials, and they also became monks. The old mage in the temple is mysterious, but he is not easy to show people, and the things of subduing demons and exorcism are all handled by the senior brother. The elder brother's name is Liao Taihe, he is enthusiastic, generous, with a wide heart and a wide body, nearly 1.9 meters tall. Alchemy and lectures are in charge of the second senior brother. The second senior brother is called Zhang Taizhen, with a polite style, thick eyebrows, big eyes, sharp edges and corners, not tall, and fairy bones. The two brothers are about the same age, both in their thirties. One article and one martial arts are two senior brothers, and their personalities are reversed. The senior brother adheres to the way of subduing demons, that is, defending the way, and is a little paranoid, calculating where there are demons, and no one needs to ask for it. The second senior brother is a medicine and reasonable, and he is proficient in medical skills, and often goes out for free clinics. In addition to these two senior brothers, the rest of the senior brothers are either less and more important, or have bad intentions.

However, Ma Lao Dao is still kind-hearted, and he wants to learn the Taoist immortal method well, and one day he can become a national teacher and refine the elixir of immortality for the emperor. Therefore, I followed the second senior brother all day long to learn medical skills and alchemy, followed him out for free clinics, and saddled up before and after the horse.

At that time, the sky was not beautiful, the epidemic in the city was everywhere, Ma Taiqing followed the second senior brother out for treatment, in Haiwei City, it should have been full of traffic, very lively, selling and selling, a prosperous scene, but this came out, it was basically "ten thousand empty alleys", the two walked near the house, an old woman saw them, and quickly grabbed the second senior brother,

"Zhang Daoye, you are here, just waiting for you to save your life!"

"Aunt Liu, what are you talking about! Take me to see the patient!"

"Hey, come up into the house."

Pick up the curtain and walk to the edge of the kang, and point with his hand to the man lying on the kang,

"Look at it, Master Dao, this is my son, you see that his hands and feet are sores and pus, and he is too weak to do it. ”

"When did you get sick?"

"Just a few days ago, when I got up in the morning, I said that I was not feeling well, and my body was weak, and in the evening, my hands and feet were swollen, and I said to use hot water to compress it, and it didn't take long to get sores. ”

"Oh, I have a few herbs here, you take them to decoction, I'll go to another house first. ”

When I came out, I saw that all the patients were weak in their limbs, sweating all over their bodies, and their hands and feet were ulcerated and difficult to heal. Zhang Taizhen opened the treatment accordingly, although it did not eliminate the disease, but it also relieved the patient, but the number of patients was large. I had to teach the undyed people the prescription and decoction by myself. A few days of schedule, all over the city, all the way the people sang praises of virtue, at this time Ma Taiqing was happy in his heart, yes, shouldn't cultivators be like this? Learn the method of alchemy well, and you can really make a name for yourself. But when the two Taoist leaders returned to the vicinity of Aunt Liu's house, they found that the epidemic had not been alleviated, and the people who had not been sick before also fell ill, so they found Aunt Liu again, and Aunt Liu said: "The medicine you gave was good at the time, but the other day, it was still like that." When the second senior brother heard this, he felt that it was wrong, this disease was too strange, so he pinched his fingers and calculated, "Oh! That's the case, Taiqing, you and I are going to meet this strange rakshasa for a while today." Ma Taiqing was shocked when he heard this, and he listened to the senior brother every once in a while, what kind of monster had fallen, but he had been following the second senior brother for alchemy and free treatment, and he had never seen a monster, so he frowned, and asked:

"Second Senior Brother, will you? ”

The second senior brother said: "I travel the world with compassion, what is the use of exorcism?"

Ma Taiqing thought about it, the second senior brother is the most compassionate Taoist in the world, just follow the second senior brother, and it is in vain to ask so much, so he said, "Yes, the senior brother must have his way." The second senior brother smiled: "Taiqing, you can come with me." "The two of them came to the cemetery in the north of the city, at that time there were many Haiwei cemeteries, everywhere, the common people were poor, there were no ancestral graves, and there was no money to buy particularly good coffins, they were all thin-skinned dogs to meet, and some mass graves even became different places, after all, the detective methods of that era were not very clever, and many prisoners could not help but torture, and torture them into tricks, resulting in many death row prisoners were unjustly killed, and no one collected the corpses, and threw it into this mass grave, this mass grave is very likely to become a different place, even if the reconstruction of this place is changed to other use, it is also endless nonsense。 In this cemetery in the north of the city, there are mostly mounds where descendants go to the grave to plant willows, but I have never heard of any ghost rumors. In addition, it was noon, so Ma Taiqing was not so afraid. And the second senior brother is still as leisurely as ever.

Walking and walking, playing far away, I saw an animal as big as a mule, black all over, without a single miscellaneous hair, staring at the green and faint eyes, the book endorses, this is a Rakshasa demon, black hair and green eyes, everywhere you go, the plague is raging, also known as the plague Rakshasa . Resembles a black cat. This rakshasa had already found the two Taoist priests, twisting their heads and staring, looking at them like wolves, and when the two of them were still about twenty steps with it, this thing stretched its front legs and bowed its hind legs, and was about to pounce, and the second senior brother shouted, "Let's do it slowly!" This rakshasa was slightly shocked when he heard it,

"I said that you are old people with bull noses, and you will fight when you see demons. ”

"Monks, compassion and convenience, do not want to take the lives of any living beings. ”

"Fart! If you don't take the lives of living beings, why do you take the lives of my whole family? Why do you think I'm here? I went out to visit friends, and when I returned home, I didn't leave a single living mouth, if it weren't for my little child, with half of your ghost talisman in his mouth, I would know that it was you well-dressed beasts who did it? Don't make a fool of yourself there! Come and die!"

Ma Taiqing was scared enough just now, like a black panther, with green eyes, and talking about people, he panicked at that time, and he couldn't hear what the goblin and the second senior brother said at all, and he was so scared that he was stupid, and the goblin came back to his senses, and his legs and stomach tendons were twisted, and he sat on the ground with a poof.

"Wait!" the second senior brother said as he flashed to the side, but the goblin's speed was so fast that he couldn't dodge it for a while, and the clothes on his chest were stabbed, leaving a big gap. At this time, this rakshasa didn't know when, and his body was wrapped in a cloud of green gas. Everywhere I went, there were green footprints.

"Do you know cause and effect, do you know why I am here?" Zhang Laodao stood still, and said with a straight face.

"I don't know! I know that the old man of the bull nose is my enemy!" After saying that, Zhang Laodao saw this demon and evil, and under his anger, the reason did not make sense, and then he recited words while hiding. I don't know what I'm reading, but the black guy is slowly not so excited, but he still keeps scratching. Slowly, blood and tears came out.

"Three hundred years of cultivation must be difficult and dangerous, so why bother to find a way to die?"

"My family is young, I have practiced hard, and I have never hurt anyone, so why do Taoist priests suffer?"

"It's a long story. With that, he sat down on a nearby rock, patted the stone next to him with his hand, and motioned for him to sit down.