Lower reaches of the Yangtze River, ancient city, Wu County.

Half a month ago, a large plague broke out in Wu County, and passers-by whose condition suddenly deteriorated in the streets and alleys died suddenly at any time. When people get up at dawn and open the door, they sometimes see a dead man lying in front of the door, and the screams of fear become the usual silence over time. There were also people who wanted to flee from this place, but the imperial court sent an army to surround the entire Wu County on the third day after discovering the plague patient. The dark clouds of death and terror hung over the entire city of Wu County.

"Mother, mother, what's wrong with you?

A young woman fell down the street, her moist eyes looking straight at the little girl in front of her with two pigtails calling to her, her mouth slightly open, but she couldn't make a sound. The woman turned her attention to nearby passers-by for help, she did not pray for someone to save her, she only hoped that someone could take care of her daughter.

The woman was disappointed to see that the passers-by had deliberately avoided their mother and daughter, and even when someone looked at them, it was a look of fear and hatred. The plague is so contagious that no one wants to risk being infected to help two strangers who don't know each other. The dead are also the main source of plague infection, but whenever someone dies of disease, their bodies will be cremated on the spot by the government.

Soon, people from the government arrived at the scene, holding torches and flammable materials in their hands, waiting for the woman to quickly cremate her body after her death. The little girl trembled when she saw a group of officers and soldiers standing in a circle and wrapping her and her mother in the middle.

"Don't! Don't touch my mother!"

The little girl threw herself on the woman's body, protecting her mother with her petite body, the woman knew what the arrival of the officers and soldiers meant, and when she saw the naughty and willful little girl holding herself, a tear slipped down the corner of the woman's eyes. A catcher next to him frowned, and just wanted to persuade the girl to leave, but was stopped by the head catcher led by him.

"Head, what's wrong?"

"You can't let this girl go, she's been in contact with the sick for so long, and she's also infected with the plague. Both of them are going to be cremated!"

"Head, what are you talking about? We haven't been sure if the girl has been infected, is it too arbitrary to do that. ”

"It is better to kill 10,000 by mistake than to spare one! If you let one go, the plague may get out of control. Can you bear the blame?"

“......”

The head catcher glanced at the poor mother and daughter, and there was no emotion in his indifferent gaze. He raised his hand and said coldly.

"Hands-on. ”

The officers and soldiers around them all looked at their leader with wide eyes and suspiciousness. The patient will be cremated after death, and now the patient still has his life, and at this time his hands are no different from the life of a child, not to mention that there is such a small girl on the patient's body.

"A woman is stricken with the plague, and the girl with whom she spends his days and nights will certainly not be spared. And the closer we are to the sick the sicker, the longer it drags on, the danger of infection among ourselves! Are you not afraid of being infected with the plague?"

Not afraid of being infected with the plague? Now the people of the whole city will have their teeth chatter when they hear the word plague, and contracting the plague is not much different from being sentenced to death for the people of Wu County. Is it cost-effective to let an unknown woman die later, to let a little girl who she doesn't even know survive, and to infect herself with the plague? Thinking of this, the officers and men stopped talking and threw the flammable materials on the little girl and the woman one by one.

The woman watched this scene in horror, it didn't matter if she died, but her daughter couldn't die. In a hurry, the woman finally made a "ah, ah" sound, she wanted the girl to get away from here quickly, she wanted the girl to live well. The little girl heard the woman's voice, and despite the oil that was sprinkled on her body, the girl hugged the woman's forearm and increased her strength.

"Mother, mother, you are still alive! My mother is not dead!"

The little girl's cry of joy only made the woman more desperate, and the woman closed her eyes in pain when she saw the torch about to be thrown out of the catcher's hand. God, save my child.

The headcatcher threw the torch out of his hand, and a cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. After seeing so many dead people during this time, the head catcher had a feeling in his psychology that he had not experienced before, as if the suffering of others could bring him a strange kind of pleasure.

"Hey. ”

A soft sigh sounded as if it came from the sky, and the officers and soldiers present and the mother and daughter on the ground were in a trance for a moment. By the time they had come to their senses, the torch had just fallen on the girl, but the oil on the little girl's body had not burned. The officers and soldiers looked at the torches on the ground in amazement, and the flames on the torches had inexplicably disappeared.

"How can the donors be so ruthless to deal with a woman and a child like this. ”

"Who? come out for me!"

The headcatcher looked around, looking for the owner of the voice. With many years of experience in capturing heads, he immediately judged that the extinguishing of the flame was related to the owner of the sound. Dare to stop Lao Tzu from doing something? After Lao Tzu catches you, you will not be able to cut you!

"You don't need to look for the donor, the poor road is here. ”

At the end of the street, a Taoist priest dressed in a gray Taoist robe walked slowly. Hearing a voice that seemed to ring only in his ears, a few drops of sweat secreted from the forehead of the head catcher. Could this be the voice transmission in the air? The person who can do this is definitely not something that he can afford to provoke as a small head catcher.

"This Daoist, do you have something to ask me for? If so, come and talk to the Daoist Master in detail when I finish my business here. ”

The head catcher looked the Taoist priest up and down, and the more he looked, the more he felt angry. I couldn't help but be shocked in my heart, I'm afraid this Taoist is not a local, but there is a heavy army outside the city, no one can go out, and no one can come in, how did the Taoist priest come in?

"Poor Dao is not here to find a benefactor. ”

"Why did that chief come from?"

"Save people. ”

"I see, the Taoist chief should have relatives and friends living in Wu County. ”

"Definitely. ”

Isn't there any relatives and friends here? So who is this Taoist priest here to save? You must know that many outsiders do not dare to approach Wu County even if their parents are here, because in the eyes of outsiders, Wu County is like a dead city.

"And who are you trying to save?"

The Taoist priest raised his left hand and pointed to the mother and daughter on the ground. Seeing this, the officers and soldiers all slandered the Taoist priest's duplicity in their hearts, and the mother and daughter were afraid that they were his wife and daughter before he became a monk, and he didn't want others to know about it, so he deduced that it was not to save his relatives. But then, the Taoist priest pointed his finger at the officers and soldiers, and when the officers and soldiers were stunned, he raised his hand high and pointed to the cloudless blue sky.

"Poor Dao came here to save the people of Wu County from fire and water. ”

Save the people of Wu County? Is this Taoist priest crazy? Isn't he afraid that he will be infected with the plague?

The officers and soldiers looked at the Taoist priest who had already walked in front of them in disbelief, and everyone wondered if the Taoist priest was talking nonsense. But their bodies unconsciously gave way to the mother and daughter.

"Years to years, to the present. Heaven gives birth to a saint, so that his words can be relieved of his illness without end. ”

As the Taoist priest walked, he recited something in his mouth. The officers and soldiers who heard it first looked confused, and then recalled an incident that someone had told him. It seems that in this year, there are often outbreaks of plague in cities in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but later those patients who have the plague have been cured by a Taoist priest, and the Taoist priest will recite a large number of unintelligible words before treating people, and the Taoist priest is called.

"It's him? He's Yu Ji Yu Dao Chang! We're saved!"

"Yu Ji Dao Chang? Is it really Yu Ji Dao Chang? I heard that only Yu Ji Dao Chang can cure the plague in this world, if it is really him, this disaster can be over. ”

The Taoist priest opened his left palm, and there was a gray streamer running on it. The streamer dissipated, and a gray and simple book appeared on the palm of the Taoist priest, and the three big characters of the Taiping Sutra were written on the cover of the book. The pages of the book are automatically turned without wind.

"Therefore it is that the true man may come and see me, and it will be a heavenly word. ”

The little girl looked up at the Taoist priest standing in front of her. Someone came to save her mother? According to what Zhu Kuai said before, this Taoist priest has the ability to save her mother.

"Dao Chief, please save my mother!"

"Reach out. ”

The Taoist priest squatted down, placed a green pill in the girl's outstretched palm, and rubbed the girl's head with his hand. The Taoist priest's gentle tone was like a touch of warm sunshine that melted away the sadness in the girl's heart.

"Divide it in half, half for your mother and half for yourself. ”

The little girl understood that this was the hope of saving her mother, and she immediately did what the Taoist priest said. After the woman took half of the pill, her lifeless face seemed to be a trick, from pale to dark, and then from dark to ruddy.

"Divine Pill!

The catcher, who recognized the identity of the Taoist priest at a glance, shouted excitedly, and his colleagues stood in place. The plague has been cured, and once it is infected, the plague that can only lead to death has been cured by half a small pill!

The appearance of the Taoist priest Xuan Youxuan before made many passers-by stop curiously. Hearing the Taoist priest say that he wanted to save the people of Wu County, most of the people shook their heads and smiled bitterly. From the moment you stepped into the city gate, you couldn't even protect yourself. But a miracle happened, and a pill that the Taoist priest took out saved the terminally ill mother. There were even passers-by who rubbed their eyes to make sure that all this was him, and saw it with his own eyes!

"Daoist Yu Ji is here to save us!"

Catch quickly guessed that the Taoist priest was Yu Ji when everyone had not come back to their senses, at this time when they saw the divine pill taken out by the Taoist priest, they remembered that not long ago the plague was raging in other cities, just when the people were killed and injured more than 10,000, a Taoist priest wearing a gray Taoist robe, crossed the official blockade line to the outbreak of the plague, no one knew who he was, nor did he know where he came from, but this Taoist priest saved tens of thousands of people in just three days, including those who stayed at home and waited for death because they could not go out of the city. Since then, the fame of the Taiping Taoist priest Yu Ji has spread throughout the Yangtze River Valley, and his name is equivalent to God in the hearts of those who have saved their lives.

Yu Ji stood up, flipped the gray and simple book with his left hand, and hundreds of green streamers swept out with the turning of the pages, falling on the hands of every fast catcher.

"This is my elixir for the treatment of the plague, and you will distribute it, half a pill for each patient. As long as there is still a breath, you can come back from the ghost gate. ”

Passers-by saw the green pill in the hand of the catcher, thought that half a pill could save a person's life, and thought that there were other relatives in the family who were seriously ill and bedridden, and they all shouted wildly. Some people are really anxious to save people, and there are also people with bad intentions, Yu Ji Daochang's divine pill, each one is priceless.

"My lord, give me one first! My eighty-year-old mother is suffering from illness and is dying!"

"I'm afraid my poor boy can't hold it anymore, so I beg you, my lord, give me one!"

"Yu Ji Daochang, okay, my wife is lying on the bed and dying, 100,000 urgent!"

The man who cried out to save his wife was recognized by an acquaintance, and laughter followed.

"Hey, isn't this Liu Lao'er? You have been single for more than ten years, where did your wife come from to be sick and bedridden? It's your old friend in Wanhualou. ”

"Heh, Yan Laosan, I didn't expect you to not only stink of farts below, but also the words that come out of your mouth smell of fart! You say I don't have a wife? Your mother passed away the year before last, how dare you say that your eighty-year-old mother was tortured by illness! How many fucking mothers do you have?"

More and more people came to hear the news, and almost half of the people of Wu County were blocked in the streets. Looking at the crowded streets in the blink of an eye, the heads of the headhunters are getting bigger. Yu Ji took a step forward, and a heavy sound sounded in everyone's hearts. Everyone stopped making noise, many of them didn't know where the noise came from, but they all subconsciously turned their eyes to the Taoist priests gathered in the middle.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, each patient can get half a pill. Believe in the poor way, and the monks do not speak. ”

Yu Ji's voice was not loud, but the people present, and even those who were still rushing to the street, heard what Yu Ji said without exception. Yu Ji lowered his eyes, held a book in one hand, stroked his chest with the other, and read softly.

"Save the dawn in the sea of suffering, and restore the peace of the world. ”

The people of Wu County all bowed their heads reverently, and their mouths silently recited Yu Jidao's grand wish. Save the dawn in the sea of suffering, and change the peace of the world. Only Guanyin and the Buddha have such a compassionate heart. Every time you read a sentence, there will be a little white light floating out of the person's body, and tens of thousands of people will read it, and tens of thousands of white lights will rise, converging to Yu Ji, who is being worshiped by ten thousand people. Tens of thousands of points of white light seemed to be being pulled and rushed into the book in Yu Ji's hand with the three big characters of the Taiping Sutra written on the cover. The people couldn't see it, and neither could the officers and soldiers, they just kept their heads down and kept silently reciting the words.

Save the dawn in the sea of suffering, and restore the peace of the world.

The influx of white light lasted less than ten minutes before it gradually dissipated, and the gray book absorbed the white light and then turned the pages to close. And its surface exudes a gray fluorescence, which looks ancient and mysterious.