In the flickering candlelight, the three people sat around the kang, because the Taoist priest was an acquaintance, so the three of them were not restrained at all.

Although it is familiar, the man's father only knows that this Taoist priest is very good at medicine, and as for the other experiences of the Taoist, he does not know much, and every time the Taoist priest comes back from collecting medicine in the mountains and stays at their house, the man's father will be surprised to find that the medicine collected by the Taoist priest is very strange - because the man's family also runs a pharmacy, and the man's father is very familiar with ordinary herbal medicines, but the medicine collected by this Taoist priest is something he has never seen. I wanted to ask several times, but I felt that it was very inappropriate, because medicine is also a craft, everyone has their own secret recipe, and you can't just tell others, the man's father is a thoughtful, considerate and thoughtful person, in order to avoid embarrassment, he never asked.

Since the Taoist priest saw his son's illness at a glance and was miraculously cured, the man's father suddenly felt that this Taoist priest had such unfathomable skills, and of course he wanted to find out about his son's strange illness, so he could only turn to the Taoist priest for help.

Under the earnest gaze of the father and son, the Taoist priest indifferently twisted his beard under his chin, squinted his eyes, nodded slightly, and then asked the man: "Childe should have experienced any strange things, but he has never told others, right?" ”

The man's face suddenly turned red, his lips moved a few times, and he didn't say anything for a long time. The Taoist priest and his father did not urge him, but waited silently. After a long while, the male protagonist finally mustered up the courage to tell the experience when he was fourteen or fifteen years old.

After hearing this, the man's father opened his mouth, and the Taoist priest did not say a word, his eyes still narrowed, as if he was in deep thought. It was the first time that his father knew that his son had such a strange experience, and he was so shocked that he didn't know what to say for a while. When he was a child, his grandfather scared him, saying that there were monsters in this mountain, and he should not run around in the mountains, he thought that his grandfather was just scaring him, afraid that he was small, and it would be dangerous for him to walk around in the mountains alone. I didn't expect my son to encounter that kind of strange snail in the valley not far from home, which can really be regarded as a ghost.

After talking about these strange experiences, both father and son looked at the Taoist priest with a pleading gaze, as if they wanted the Taoist priest to explain this qiē. The Taoist priest breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "There are some things that I didn't plan to say, but I have always been treated warmly by the donor, and I am very grateful, and I know that the donor is extremely kind, so I will tell the poor Dao directly."

Then the Taoist priest told the secrets of this mountain to the father and son in detail.

It turned out that in this Taoist priest, he was a fallen Xiucai, when he was young, after winning the Xiucai, and then when he went to the exam, he repeatedly failed, and it happened that his hometown was plagued, and his parents and newly married wife died in the plague.

The Taoist priest has been interested in medicine since he was a child, and he has read a lot, and after becoming a monk, he spent almost all his time studying medicine. In particular, the plague ruined his family, which increased his motivation to study medicine, hoping to use his medical skills to free more people from the torture of illness. Although his imperial examination is not smooth, but whenever in the study of medicine, but very talented, when he was young, he was already very famous in his hometown, in addition to being good at treating general incurable diseases, Taoist priests are the best at treating infertility, because this disease is extremely special, and there are often some monks and ordinary Langzhong, under the banner of treating this kind of disease, **molesting women.

On the other hand, there are also some people with bad intentions who deliberately use this kind of disease as an excuse to blackmail Lang Zhong, saying that Lang Zhong molested his wife, so that many Lang Zhong could not speak, so he could only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, and obediently pay money to calm things down, so as not to damage his reputation.

In order to avoid these situations, the Taoist priest looks at such diseases very differently from ordinary langzhong - he usually looks at the man first, if it is not the man's problem, then the woman, but when he treats the woman, the man must be present, and the examination of the woman is limited to the pulse.

But for some reason, he can always get rid of the disease, and soon after taking his medicine, he will conceive a child within a few months, and in most of the cases he treats, he does not need to see the woman at all, just directly diagnose and treat the man, and then leave some medicine for the woman, and there will be no problem.

Because of his unique treatment method and miraculous treatment effect, his fame is getting bigger and bigger, and from time to time there will be high-ranking officials and nobles in the court, who will send people all the way to invite him, and of course, he earns more and more money. No one knows who he learned from in this area of medicine, and who taught him such a miraculous medical skill?

And among his patients, there is a feudal official at the highest level, and there is even a prince who has come to him, he has been cured of the disease, it is conceivable that his unique skills in this area have made him make friends with many powerful people, of course, the money is not less. The magistrate was even more courteous to him, and he would take the initiative to visit him during the New Year and festivals. Sometimes, the Taoist priest himself couldn't help but secretly sigh, feeling that even if the imperial examination was smooth and entered the official career, in terms of respect, Cheng Dù, and the amount of income, it may not be as good as he is now, it is really a blessing and a curse.

So how did he learn this skill of treating infertility? It all started when he first became a monk.

One day, he came to a Taoist temple at the foot of the mountain in our area, and lived in that Taoist temple for a few days. On a moonlit night, it was already midnight, and the Taoist priest was a little tired from reading, so he got up and walked outside the house to move. Seeing the quiet mountains under the moonlight, he couldn't help but think of a poem by Wang Wei:

People are idle and osmanthus falls, and the night is quiet and the spring mountain is empty.

The moonrise frightens the mountain birds, and the spring stream sings.

Thinking of his state of mind, which coincided with the atmosphere in the mountains at this moment, the Taoist priest breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling that he had finally temporarily gotten rid of the disturbances in the world, and could find a quiet place to study the medical skills he had always liked, which was also a rare happiness.

Suddenly, he heard a terrible scream, very similar to the heart-rending scream that a person makes when he is stabbed. This made his heart shrink suddenly, and every muscle in his body instantly tensed. Could it be that someone was stabbed?

The Taoist priest looked around nervously, and tried to discern where the scream just now came from, but he didn't see anything, and the surroundings were calm and there was nothing abnormal. Immediately afterwards, there was another scream, this time he seemed to notice, and the scream seemed to come from a tree not far away.

Then, a few more such screams came from the trees, and it occurred to him that this was the call of a bird, and this bird was called the "Extreme Yin Bird", but he had only seen it in ancient medicine, and had never encountered such a bird in reality. Medical books say that this kind of bird nature belongs to the "extreme yin", they will never appear in the daytime, when building a nest, but also choose a dark place, such as a cave, in a rock crevice, in the hollow of a big tree, etc.

This bird must not see the light, and if it is exposed to the light for too long, it will die. That is, it leaves the darkness like a fish leaves water. This bird is also very strange-looking, its eyes are like owls, its body is like that of crows, and it smells of corpses all over its body. Like vultures, they like to eat all kinds of carrion, especially carrion from human corpses.

The reason why this bird is mentioned in medical books is not that the bird itself has any medicinal value, but that it has an important symbolic role - the place where this bird grows, that is, the "place of extreme yin".

The Taoist priest said to the male owner father and son, this mountain is the "land of extreme yin", the snail that the male owner eats is the size of a piglet, it is from the cave of this kind of mountain that climbs out, it is to absorb the extreme yin qi in the hole, in order to grow so big, so this kind of snail has extremely heavy yin qi, this kind of yin qi hurts people, not like poison, directly damage people's flesh, or greatly damage people's yang energy, so that people become dull and depressed.

When you are young, you can resist the yang energy, but once you are middle-aged, this kind of yin energy that invades the body will slowly make people become like walking corpses, and even when you are awake, you will be like sleepwalking, and you can't clearly know what you are doing. Your soul will leave your body before you die, which is the most terrible thing.

The father and son of the male host, hearing this, felt a chill on their spines, although they could not fully understand these words of the Taoist priest, but they knew that this Taoist priest not only allowed their family to pass on the lineage, but also saved their son's life.

They didn't expect that this mountain, where they had lived for generations, would have such a weird and gloomy side, but what they didn't understand was that this mountain had anything to do with Taoist priests treating infertility. Why do Taoist priests have to come to this mountain every time to collect medicine?

When they asked this question, the Taoist priest smiled and explained to them that things in the world always have advantages and disadvantages, and this kind of mountain yin qi is extremely heavy, so if the negative insects on this kind of mountain can drill into the cave inside the mountain and grow up in that extremely heavy yin environment, they will complement each other and be fully developed, so the negative insects will grow to a very large size, just like the snail. This mountain has this effect not only on the negative insects, but also on the negative herbs. And this herb, as long as it is given to women who suffer from infertility, will have miraculous effects.

Only then did the father and son understand that some of the herbs on the mountain had such miraculous effects, which was unheard of, and they were also very grateful for the Taoist priest's frank confession. But the man's father understood that even if he knew this, it was almost impossible to find the herbs picked by the Taoist, because when he was young, he used to follow the master in the pharmacy to collect medicines for many years, but he had never seen those picked by the Taoist, and he knew that the Taoist priest must know those herbs and where they grow, and if they were looking for them in such a short time, the Taoist priest would never pick them and come back in such a short time.