Volume 2: The Journey of the Distant People One Hundred and Ten: Heavenly Street
"Doctor, he's alright?"
The woman said worriedly.
"It's okay, he just fell asleep and woke up." Qiu Shaohu comforted the other party, and the woman finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, Qiu Shaohu was in the couple's house, and the house was poor, but it was not leaky; The décor is also very simple, but it is very clean. In Kang Jingzhong, it is enough for commoners who are not wealthy to have such a small home.
Qiu Shaohu also noticed that there was a large yard behind the house, but there was no direct door, which should have been rented by the family alone. The yard is full of all kinds of coarse charcoal, half of which has been processed and ground into charcoal powder, and in addition to kitchen utensils, there are also various tools for processing charcoal.
It seems that this family is selling charcoal for a living, the dignitaries and nobles in the capital are particularly particular about charcoal burning, coarse charcoal can not be burned directly, it must be processed well, mixed with honey, clay and various spices, pinched into a variety of good-looking animal shapes, so put it into the fire to burn charcoal for heating, which is both elegant and can reduce soot.
After thinking for a moment, Qiu Shaohu said, "What symptoms did your husband have before?" ”
"Symptoms? There is nothing else, but since he was a child, compared with others, he has always been mentally weak and physically poor, and he has not been able to raise his body well after watching how many Lang Zhong. This doctor, you see his illness......" The woman still had a glimmer of hope for Qiu Shaohu.
After hesitating for a moment, Qiu Shaohu still said: "Grind the sour jujube kernels into powder, decoct water every day, and take a little more soothing medicine if you have the opportunity." Also, don't let him get irritated in any way. After a year or two like this, I may get better. ”
"Thank you, thank you, doctor." The woman was grateful.
Qiu Shaohu sighed quietly in his heart. He naturally knows what the symptoms of this man are, and it is mentioned in the classic book "Divine Spirit Sutra" on the island of Forgetfulness that this is a natural incompleteness of the three souls and a weak soul, so it is often taken advantage of by demons and evil spirits, and doctors often call this "soul disorder", although there are differences, but they are similar. Of course, the resulting physical weakness cannot be nourished by relying on tonics, because the root is in the spirit.
Such a person is born with a defect in the soul, just like a natural disability in the limbs, which can only be alleviated and cannot be cured even if he takes medicine. After all, there are some diseases, even if the doctor who rejuvenates him, he can't cure them.
"I'm going to give him a little more recuperation, and I have to be quiet in the meantime. Go out and shut the door, and do not come in without my command. Hearing Qiu Shaohu's words, the woman immediately nodded in agreement, quickly left the small room, turned around and closed the wooden door tied with ropes.
There was no one else around, Qiu Shaohu stretched out a finger, gathered the vitality in it, and suddenly clicked on the eyebrows of the sleeping man, his consciousness was all invested, and his whole spirit was like swimming in the sea, constantly looking for something in it.
The "Sutra of Divine Spirits" not only mentions that people are divided into three souls and seven spirits, but also that the three souls transform into gods and seven spirits enter the body, which is one of the fundamentals of Shinto practice. It also mentions a "soul search method", which can use the root of the soul to probe the memories of others and find what you need.
Qiu Shaohu wanted to know what this man had experienced, every time the moon was full, there would be moon disciples, and with the stinging sensation he had seen before, Qiu Shaohu guessed that someone must be making trouble during this period.
Searching other people's memories is actually not like most people think, and it will be displayed in front of people's eyes in a complete image situation. In fact, even for the person concerned, memories are very scattered, and important things are often forgotten.
Therefore, this kind of soul searching method is only useful for ordinary people who are asleep. A sober person's mind is chaotic and easy to confuse his memory, while a monk can consciously shut down his mind so that people can't find the source of memory.
In Qiu Shaohu's field of vision, he has only one peculiar dot in the other party's spirit, and each point is a link of memory, jumping one by one into a line, and then connecting the lines together, it is intertwined into a complete memory. Many of these points are missing, which proves that this place has long been forgotten.
It can be intuitively seen that some memories are luminous, which proves that this memory is very beautiful to the person concerned; Others, even more bleak, are unpleasant meetings with the parties.
When Qiu Shaohu inquired about the other party's memory tonight, there was only one point, which was bleak. The time also coincides with the full moon.
And the moment Qiu Shaohu touched that bleak point, it disappeared.
The consciousness returned to the main body, and Qiu Shaohu immediately took out the star map again and used it to restore the scene he had just seen. That little memory was already blurry in the other party's mind, and Qiu Shaohu had to find out what it was before the other party completely forgot about it.
The stars twinkled, eventually intertwined, but empty.
But in Qiu Shaohu's ears, a voice faintly appeared, exactly the same as the psychedelic scriptures he heard in the full moon. Sanskrit chanted sutras, but did not solve people's worries and problems, but tortured them to the point of pain.
"This voice again? Does it come with a full moon? Qiu Shaohu frowned.
The restored voice is actually more indistinct than what I heard with my own ears at the beginning, and I still don't know what this is saying.
This man was born with a defect in his soul, and his spirit was more sensitive and fragile at the same time, so even if he heard some voices that were not as clear as his own, he could still drive him crazy.
I don't know how many people are the same, and if every full moon will be like this, I'm afraid it will be enough for the government to have a headache for a while.
"Alright, you can come in." After putting everything away, Qiu Shaohu beckoned the woman into the house.
The trembling of opening the door was particularly acute in Qiu Shaohu's perception.
The power of the seven killings, but I also felt a little bit of a different tremor from it.
Even though it was extremely small, as small as a flying insect flapping its wings in the air, Qiu Shaohu still noticed it.
Because I've seen it more than once before.
Qiu Shaohu quickly turned around and saw a black insect next to the window, next to the window frame, observing himself.
Its eyes were so small that they couldn't see at all, but Qiu Shaohu seemed to be able to feel it, scanning his gaze.
Qiu Shaohu was suddenly alert, but the insect quickly crawled out of the window and disappeared.
Like Changhong, Qiu Shaohu quickly chased out, leaving the woman standing in place with a stunned expression.
In the corners of the streets, there is no afterglow from the long-letter lamp, and the remote alleys are dim.
In the eyes of Qiu Shaohu, who was galloping, the yellow brilliance was like a torch, and he stared at the black worm that was sneaking quickly in the dark, like a lone wolf locking on his prey.
It's a worm in a resting place! Originally, Qiu Shaohu had suffered from them in Chaomen, but he didn't expect to meet them again when he first came to Kangjing.
Under the cover of the night, the black worm kept changing its tracks. At the same time, the small body can leak through the gap if you are not careful. And although it is small, it is really fast.
After chasing several streets and alleys in a row, Qiu Shaohu swept through several houses in a row like a shocking shadow, chasing the light shadow of the dark night. The power of the "Fengbo Luan Piao" was used by him to the extreme, and he had to catch up with it several times. But the black worm was extremely tricky, taking advantage of its small size and flexibility, constantly changing its position, and continuing to play a game of cat and mouse.
Not far away, a faint light and shadow emerged, and it was about to chase to the main street, and the noisy voices of people were gradually heard again.
In the field of vision, the thin black line that escaped suddenly changed its direction again and went straight forward.
Where was Qiu Shaohu willing to let go of this opportunity, accelerated again, and chased after him. At the same time, he looked at the black worm walking straight, and went deep into the placket with one hand, planning to take out the hidden crossbow machine, runes and the like to use.
The light is bright, the lights on both sides of the main street are bright, and you can see the lively pedestrian streaming, chattering and discussing something around a white jade bridge in front of you.
The black worm quickly burrowed under the bridge and was about to disappear behind the shadows.
Seeing this, Qiu Shaohu was about to take out some weapon as an aid. However, I suddenly noticed another thing, but my hand did not move.
With just this delay, the black worm fell directly under the bridge and disappeared completely.
Qiu Shaohu was in a hurry, and immediately swept past everyone, and looked under the bridge in the surprised and confused eyes of the surroundings.
The bridge is divided into multiple layers, folding down in turn, like a pavilion staircase, intricate, how can you see where the black worm ran at this time, and it was completely lost.
"Hey, what are you doing, don't just approach the palace official road, retreat!" A heavily armed guard on the side of the road waved a long lance to drive Qiu Shaohu away. The guard's armor is neat, his breath is calm, and he is obviously one in a hundred elites, and he was specially chosen to be the royal guard.
Qiu Shaohu was silent and left here silently. He didn't use a weapon just now, just because he saw that this was an official road of the palace, and he didn't want to make trouble.
The official road is wide, more than twice as wide as the normal main street, and there are enough cars to walk side by side. They are usually strictly guarded, and it is strictly forbidden for private individuals to walk at will, and commercial vehicles are not allowed to pass by. This is not only to reflect the royal majesty, but also to keep it smooth at all times, and to build so spacious, it is to accommodate all the ceremonial teams when the emperor travels.
Every time the emperor goes out on patrol, hundreds of people need to carry the sedan chair under the emperor's chariot, there are thousands of fine riders in front of the road, and there are hundreds of guards guarding on both sides, the drums and songs and dances are constantly on the side, and the momentum is often several miles away and can still be heard clearly. It attracts countless people to watch, and it is an unprecedented spectacle. Such pomp can be called the "Son of Heaven". It is also for this reason that this official road is often called "Heavenly Street" by literati in the past dynasties.
But at this time, across the wide official road, looking forward, you can't see the walls of the palace, and you don't know how many secrets are hidden in the deep palace.
"Now the guards of the palace seem to be under the sole control of the Xuanzhen Division?" Qiu Shaohu thought about it for a while, and soon thought about the black worm again.
There was no doubt that it was the worm Gu of the resting place, the same as their previous methods.
But why are they spying on themselves? What exactly do you want to do?
I came to Kangjing this time, and as soon as I came, I encountered the strangeness of monsters and the full moon, and then I saw the insect Gu in the resting place, is it related?
But no matter what, they and the resting place are friends and foes, and this time they also appeared in Kangjing, proving that they must make more preparations.
It seems that the matter of visiting his mother can only be postponed for the time being.
Qiu Shaohu took out the letter he had given to his mother again, looked at it, and put it away again.
And what was taken out together was the old letter from before.
Since coming to Kangjing, Qiu Shaohu has always carried these two letters with him.