Chapter 11: The Poison Scheme
A mountain is secluded, flowing water, green bricks and blue tiles, small and exquisite.
This is Zhou Cheng's newly built small Taoist temple, and the small Taoist temple is only a few rooms, not much larger than the ordinary small landlord's mansion, but it is exquisite enough.
If it weren't for Dao Xiu'er and the old man, Zhou Cheng would have found a cave to live in.
The small Taoist temple is hidden in a mountain forest, which is sheltered by the mountains and forests, and the environment is quiet. If it weren't for the long stone road at the bottom of the mountain, ordinary people would not have seen that there was still a small building in this mountain.
Moreover, in this era, most of the Taoist temples were built at random, and the shrines enshrined were also varied, far from forming the regulations of later generations.
This is not so much a Taoist temple, but the home of Zhou Cheng, Xiu'er and the old man.
The ancients said: Spring is not a day to read, summer is just sleeping, autumn is frost and winter is snow, if you want to study for the next year!
Xiu'er thought that Zhou Cheng was joking at the time, but she didn't expect Zhou Cheng to really do what he said!
Just after the New Year, Xiu'er didn't have time to breathe the breath of spring in the mountains, so she was restrained by Zhou Cheng and began a difficult study career.
I can't even get out of the gate of the Taoist temple.
The name is beautiful: thousands of high-rise buildings rise from the ground, and you must concentrate on reading "enlightenment".
Xiu'er is not young, her relatives are unfavorable, and she has no reliable mother's family. Regardless of whether Xiu'er is willing to accept the glory and wealth given by Zhou Cheng, the old man and Zhou Chengdu think that Xiu'er can no longer go wild in the mountains.
To put it simply, Xiu'er needs to read and write, even if she can't become a lady, she also needs to have a belly of poetry and books, and learn some ways to protect herself.
It may be painful at first, but with the pressure of skills, Xiu'er can live with dignity like a tree, instead of being ignored or clinging to survive like a weed or vine.
Mountain, Medicine, Life, Phase, Divination. In addition to mountain techniques, Xiu'er chose medical skills by herself. After all, Xiu'er herself has followed the old man to collect herbs in the mountains all year round, which can be regarded as a rough understanding of pharmacology.
So Zhou Chengcheng simply used medical skills to help Xiu'er enlighten.
"Muscle release to adjust the camp guard, the appearance of self-sweat is suitable for use. Daqinglong is stored with cinnamon ephedra, apricot grass gypsum, ginger jujube. Too, the sun does not sweat and, and... In the small courtyard, Xiu'er shook her head and recited the book, although the old man didn't understand, he still sat next to him and smiled in place of Zhou Cheng's supervision.
The old man couldn't climb the mountain anymore, so the "heavy responsibility" of collecting medicinal materials in the mountain fell on Zhou Cheng.
And Zhou Cheng also regarded all this as a practice.
Mountains have a hundred shapes, medicine has a hundred flavors, diseases have a hundred kinds, and people have a variety of states. After throwing away the meaningless "immortal" posture, he simply looked at the life and death of the world as a doctor, bitter and sweet, Zhou Cheng understood how to complete the Tao more than before.
The medical Tao is of the same origin, and the medicine is easy to understand. The ancients did not learn the Tao, but first studied medicine. Herbs, trees, gold and stone can be used as both medicine and pill.
The healer lives and dies, and the Tao lives and dies. Therefore, there are few famous people in ancient times who are not famous doctors.
What's more, the search for herbal medicine also requires the way of yin and yang, and the principle of shengke. What kind of herbs like yang, what kind of herbs like yin. What kind of medicinal herbs are born in the land of a hundred poisons, and what kind of medicinal herbs are born in auspicious and blessed shade.
A grass and a tree, a mountain and a water, is not another interpretation of the avenue.
At least Zhou Cheng is now much more free and easy than before.
So in the days when he was pretending to be a medicine farmer in the mountains, Zhou Cheng was making up for the lessons, not to mention that there was a show to teach behind.
"The sun is sweatless and irritable!" Zhou Cheng came back from collecting medicine, and as soon as he entered the door, he heard Xiu'er tying a knot there, and immediately lowered his face to help Xiu'er answer a sentence.
"Can you concentrate!" Zhou Cheng said angrily. A decoction song can be memorized for three days, I really don't know where the person is here, where the heart goes?
"Ahh
"Alas!" Zhou Cheng and the old man glanced at each other, and both sighed helplessly.
"Today, the old patriarch asked someone to carry a letter saying that now the Hu people outside the mountain are in more chaos, killing and killing, and no one treats the Han people as human beings. Yesterday, a lot of Han people broke into the Taolin outside, some old and some young, all of whom were driven into the Taolin by the Hu people. Until now, I have been trapped in it and can't get in, I can't get out. The crying in the peach forest shook the sky, and it was really miserable. He wants to ask you, what should I do?" After the old man sent Xiu'er away on the pretext of preparing soup and rice, he immediately said to Zhou Cheng with a straight face.
"How many thousand?" Zhou Cheng gasped, obviously a little embarrassed.
Zhou Cheng couldn't solve the troubled times outside the mountain, and Zhou Cheng couldn't save the countless Han people who died every day outside the mountain. Zhou Cheng's ability to protect the peace of dozens of miles under Qingyang Mountain with the peach forest array is already the limit, how can he shelter the people of the world.
At least the old and weak Han people trapped in the peach forest immediately made it difficult for Zhou.
If they don't, thousands of people will starve to death in the peach forest. If they were expelled, they would not be able to escape the swords and spears of the Hu people.
You can't let them in!
How big is there and how many fields are there at the foot of Qingyang Mountain?
A small piece of land. There is still a place for them. Even if they are allowed to live in the mountains and forests, it will not be a long-term solution! Qingyang Mountain is not a big mountain, and the rocks in the mountains are many and the soil is thin, so it is not a land for crops. With so many people pouring into the mountains, it is impossible to feed so many people, except for destroying the mountains and forests and causing disasters to the beasts.
After all, there are still hundreds of years of troubled times outside the mountains!
"They were forced in to explore the way!" Zhou Cheng said after being silent for a while.
"Are you going to leave it alone, then? are there thousands?" the old man hurriedly asked.
With the old man's understanding of Zhou Cheng, Zhou Cheng seems to be such a hard-hearted person from time to time?
"Old man, you take Xiu'er to guard the door, I'll take a look!" Zhou Cheng thought about it and sighed helplessly.
In order to complete the Dao heart, meritorious deeds are indispensable! Those who cultivate the Tao are called Taoists in the first place, and virtue in the other. How can Zhou Cheng really sit idly by?
After all, the peach forest circle outside the mountain was born and arose because of him. You can't really starve so many people to death in the peach forest!
The body is the way of the heavens, and the salvation of all sentient beings. It's not just talking.
The golden light on Qingyang Mountain rose to the sky, and Zhou Cheng jumped into the clouds and headed out of the mountain.
In a few years, a large area of peach trees outside the mountain has become a forest, and the forest has become a formation. Zhou Cheng laid down these more than ten miles of peach forests in order to isolate the inside and outside and shelter the villagers under the mountain.
It's just that the knife can defend oneself and kill people!
This peach forest eight formations, since Zhou Cheng was the scum of the Taoist sect, the old Taoist priest, and sacrificed to the sky into a formation, it has already started to operate. Whether it is inside or outside the peach forest, they all know that this peach forest will "eat people", and they will not break in when they are idle. Unexpectedly, since the Hu people were so vicious, they drove the Han people into the battle, and it was clear that there was a conspiracy.
Zhou Cheng stood above the clouds, overlooking the inside and outside. In the peach forest, countless villagers have already gathered to discuss, and there is obviously no agreement. In the peach forest, thousands of Han people are helping the old and the young, and they are trapped in the forest, with no way to advance or retreat, and the crying is shocking. And outside the peach forest, Hu rode back and forth, murderous.
In the distance, a large number of Hu soldiers came one after another with swords and guns to press the Han people.
There were tens of thousands of people.
Zhou Changcheng took a breath of cold air. Instantly figured out what these Hu soldiers wanted to do!