In a silk book left by the State of Chu during the Warring States Period, it was written: When there was no heaven and earth in ancient times, it was only like an invisible formless, a slender and a dark one, a mangqian desert Min, a Hongmeng Hongdong, and I didn't know its door.

There are two gods mixed, through the heavenly camp, Kong Hu does not know its ultimate, and it is impossible to know where it stops.

Therefore, it is not yin and yang, it is separated from the eight poles, the rigidity and softness are combined, and all things are shapes.

The ancients believed that the world began with a chaotic qi, and then the yin and yang were divided and all things were born, and the two gods here refer to Fuxi and Nuwa, representing yin and yang men and women respectively.

Similarly, in the murals and portrait masonry of a Han tomb in Tianshui, Gansu Province, Fu Xi holds the sun or sun gauge, representing yang; According to a Chinese legend, if the sun in Fuxi's hand and the moon in Nuwa's hand are together, they can open the key to the heavenly realm, become an immortal or even turn things around.

Coincidentally, there is also such a pair of stone carvings in Zhuangyuan Village, and the traces of the years have made it difficult to identify the age of the pair at that time.

It is placed at the entrance of the village, and there is a palm-shaped thing under it.

The sun-shaped thing on the left side of the mill, and the one on the right is a moon-like carving.

When he first came to Zhuangyuan Village, Cha Wenbin noticed this pair of stone carvings, and no one could tell the origin of this thing after asking people in private, some people said that when their ancestors came here to take root, this pair of stone carvings also existed, and they have not moved in that position year after year.

Today, Cha Wenbin came here again, he stayed in front of the pair of stone sculptures and watched quietly, it was no longer as smooth and spiritual as many years ago, and the dilapidated village made this stone sculpture only endless silence in addition to leaving the vicissitudes of history.

Just when he could see the surprise, a ragged old man who had just come back from collecting firewood stopped, he looked up and down at the young man who looked a little familiar, and said, "Aren't you the group of people who came a few years ago?" ”

Cha Wenbin, who was pulled back by the voice, looked at the old man who still had to work in his last years, and there were countless scars on his arms, as big as coins, and as small as soybeans.

The old man was wearing an old blue tunic suit, half of his trouser legs were gone, and the shoulders of the clothes were patched several layers thick.

"The old man still recognizes me?"

"Hmph, a bunch of evil spirits!"

After saying that, the old man threw the firewood on his shoulder again, and he seemed to be unrelieved of his hatred, as if he had a great complaint about this young offspring, and spat on the ground fiercely, "Phew! ”

Cha Wenbin still wanted to defend something, but looking at the old man's lonely figure and the exposed abscesses, he decided that it was time to do his best.

In his opinion, the outbreak of plague in a place is nothing more than three situations: one is the retribution of good and evil, in Taoism, it is also called the plague: the disease of heaven and earth.

In ancient times, medical conditions were not developed, and the arrival of plague would make almost everyone in an area lose their ability to resist in an instant, ranging from the loss of villages and tribes to the destruction of cities and countries.

However, the Taoist priests have always been obligated to deal with the plague, which may be related to the Heavenly Master Zhang Daoling back then.

According to legend, when Zhang Tianshi was preaching in Heming Mountain, it coincided with the local plague raging, and the lives were devastated, and the ten rooms were empty.

In order to save the common people from fire and water, the Heavenly Master integrated his own golden pill technique with his own Heavenly Dao thoughts, and developed a mysterious herbal formula for dispelling diseases and strengthening the body.

Therefore, most of the famous Taoist priests in the department know some medical skills.

In a classic book of the Zhengyi sect called "Zhengyi Plague Division Poison Divine Lantern Instrument", it is truthfully said: "Human temperament, and blessings and misfortunes come naturally; Therefore, Qingyuan is attacked by the family of goodness, and the blame will be more than the evildoer. Those who accumulate good will have more than a blessing, and they can be kept in peace; Those who accumulate evil will not escape condemnation if they have remnants. ”

This proclamation is the Taoist priests must read when the altar is opened to get rid of the plague, and people in the past often ask Taoist priests to do it when the plague cannot be solved, which was common in rural areas a few decades ago: a guy in a yellow robe holds a peachwood sword and recites words in his mouth, and the runic paper in his hand flies horizontally, and his mouth spews water to turn into fire...... The Taoist priests believed that the Heavenly Dao was the arbiter of the universe, and that if the evil was done by the individual, then the individual would be punished, and if the public did evil, then the public would be plagued.

The second outbreak of the plague is the imbalance of yin and yang.

Day and night alternate, cold and summer, endless circulation, continuous circulation.

Taoist priests worship nature, respect nature, and comprehend the mysteries of the universe from nature, which they call cultivation.

Sheng, Yang also; Pawn, yin also.

If the yin is too yang, it will cause the yin and yang qi to go against the tide and cause disasters; If a small matter is too big, it will cause both political rebellion and great disaster; Yin is better than yang, the lower is bullied, the ghosts and gods are thriving, and the daytime is humane, the diseases are endless, and the yang is impassable.

This is the record in the "Taiping Sutra", if there is an imbalance of yin and yang in a place, the yin energy exceeds the yang energy, it will cause trouble, the light will cause disasters, and the country will be ruined at the worst, and humanity is easy to breed diseases, including the yin and yang imbalance that we have been talking about in traditional Chinese medicine.

In the Taoist priest's statement, there are a total of five plague ghosts, namely: Dongfang Qing Plague Ghost, Liu Yuanda, Mu Zhijing, leading ten thousand ghosts to do evil winds; The southern red plague ghost, Zhang Yuanbo, the spirit of fire, led ten thousand ghosts to carry out hot and poisonous diseases; Western white plague ghost, Zhao Gongming, led ten thousand ghosts to inject black disease; The black plague ghost of the north, Zhong Shiji, the spirit of water, leads thousands of ghosts to do vicious diseases; The central yellow plague ghost, Shi Wenye, the spirit of the earth, led thousands of ghosts to do evil sores and carbuncles.

The five plague ghosts are the source of the five elements, representing five diseases, and each corresponding disease will have corresponding runes, spells, formations, and decoctions to cure diseases.

In Cha Wenbin's view, the outbreak of the plague here is a point for each of the above three situations, Zhuangyuan Village has long been numbed by money in recent years, and the theft of graves and graves is a deed for the ancestral graves of bad people, and they should be punished by God.

Second, the feng shui bureau of Zhuangyuan Village was broken, and the Bagua platform sank to the bottom of the water, yin and yang were out of balance, and the anger was numerous, which could also cause the plague to come.

Third, looking at the abscesses on the legs, feet and arms of the old man, it is also like the earth-running plague of the Yellow Plague and the like.

This has a spectrum in his heart, and Cha Wenbin also has a direction, although Zhuangyuan Village has had it, but it is not to death, and the punishment given by God is enough for them to pay for the mistakes they have committed.

In line with the righteous morality of saving people and doing the way of heaven, resolving grievances and not making enemies, Cha Wenbin also followed the old man all the way to his home.

Pushing open the courtyard door, I saw the old man fetching water in the well at the door, looking at the bucket for about a few minutes, the old man shook his head and poured all the well water back in the bucket, sighed and sat on the ground and smoked.

"Uncle."

"What are you going to do?"

Seeing that the man chased him to his home, the old man was even more angry, picked up the flat burden in his hand and limped to hit Cha Wenbin, "Hurry up!" If you dare to come again, I'll kill you! ”

"Uncle."

Cha Wenbin was not angry, but said kindly: "I know that my uncle has misunderstood me, and I came here today just to see a doctor for my uncle, and there is no malice at all." ”

"See a doctor?"

The old man looked at Cha Wenbin with a weak look, and couldn't help but snort coldly: "You still come to see a doctor, don't you know that you are harming people, do you want to see a doctor?" ”

The old man pointed to the mountain behind him and said: "Have you seen it, those white flowers are all paper money, do you know how many people have died in our village?" If you want to see the disease, you go there and show them, old man, I can still breathe, I won't have to worry about you people, and if you don't leave, I will break your legs! ”

Faced with this, Cha Wenbin also smiled bitterly in his heart, he knew that it would be boring for him to stay any longer, and he was about to turn around and leave when he saw a bare-bottomed child coming out of the house, and he was still holding a bag of snacks in his hand, which Cha Wenbin brought from the city.

The child looked at Cha Wenbin and giggled, as if he was pleased with his gift.

Seeing that the child's hands also had pus, the legs that Cha Wenbin originally wanted to walk were like being filled with lead...... "Where did you come from?" ”

The old man looked at the snacks in the child's hand and snatched them over, he looked at the stranger in front of him who refused to leave, and suddenly understood in his heart, "There is no good thing!" ”

As soon as he threw away the bag, the child was so frightened by the sudden rebuke that he burst into tears.

"Old man, you can ignore yourself, but this child is innocent, I see that the poisonous sores on his body are still early, you always want him to live well."

In the end, these words still worked, and the old man was also sour in his heart after hearing it, his son was gone, and his daughter-in-law had already run out of this village, and I heard that she had gone to another place and would never come back, leaving only this old man and young man.

A while ago, when the old man found that his grandson began to have that little bump, he felt bad, and wanted to send it out for treatment but no one dared to accept it.

He looked at this man again, he had seen this man two years ago, but in the short time of two years he seemed to have aged a little.

Seeing that the guardiness in the old man's eyes had eased, Cha Wenbin took advantage of the situation and said: "A dead horse is still a live horse doctor, you can't watch him go to a point of no return, let me try." ”

"You, aren't you afraid?"

The old man asked hesitantly.

"Don't be afraid, there's nothing to be afraid of."

Saying that, Cha Wenbin strode over, picked up the child, wiped the dirt on his face, and said, "Tell me, what's your name?" ”

The child was very close to this uncle who gave him delicious food, he hadn't seen a stranger for a long time, and said in a childish accent: "Zhou Yue......"