Autumn has arrived, and it is the golden season for collecting medicines.

Mo Yan's ventriloquist is also a little successful, although he can't imitate the pronunciation of birds and beasts, but he also has eight points of similarity in learning other people's accents.

This time, when he was collecting medicine, he found a small piece of gastrodia under a reddish-brown cliff on a cliff, a yellow-brown single stem four or five feet high, with yellow-white inflorescences more than a foot long on the top, and white mushroom groups clustered on the ground, which is a kind of fungus that symbiotes with gastrodia.

Mo Yan put down the basket and planed it with a medicine hoe, revealing a few oval-shaped light brown tubers in the soil, with ginger-skin-like folds and brown-black sesame spots, which can be regarded as a good gastrodia. At the root of each gastrodia plant grew twelve tubers the size of ginger, which filled half of the basket.

Today's harvest is good, and Mo Yan is very proud in his heart.

Suddenly, his gaze stopped, and a few feet below the cliff there was a small patch of reddish-brown scorched earth, as if it had been burned by fire, and there was no grass. In the middle stood a brown stem more than two people tall and arm thick, without any branches and leaves, and the inflorescence more than two feet long at the top was white and black, like the gray hair of an old woman.

Strange, this gastrodia plant was so tall, he took a closer look.

"Sizzle......" A strange hissing sound suddenly sounded in his ears, and when he looked closely, he saw a venomous snake with the thickness of a wrist and covered with gray-yellow diamond-shaped patches coiled under the brown plant. The triangular head, the head, abdomen and throat are scattered with some black "rosary spots", the tail tip scales are erect like bone spurs, the eyes are vigilantly staring at Mo Yan, and the pink tongue is hissing and shaking.

"Buddha nails!" Mo Yan's heart suddenly tightened, he had heard the village hunters say that the most poisonous snake in the mountains is "five steps down", and the doctor called it the "white flower snake". It is said that after being bitten by a person, the hair will stand on end and die after walking no more than five steps, and the most obvious feature of this snake is the stinging on the tail, commonly known as "Buddha nails". The snake's surname is extremely strong, and when it is forced to have no way out, it will turn its tail hook and commit suicide by disembowelment, and its eyes will not fall until death.

Although this white snake is poisonous, it can ward off wind evil, and is a good medicine for hemiplegia and furuncles after stroke. The method of catching it is also very strange, you have to grab the sand from the ground and throw it on its body, and the snake will immediately shrink like flour meets water, and then you can catch it by holding its head with a wooden fork.

Xia Bashan once talked about the medicinal herbs in the mountains to absorb the essence of the moon, if it can grow for hundreds of years, its medicinal effect is comparable to that of fairy grass. However, most of them are hidden in the inaccessible deep mountains and old forests, and are guarded by poisonous insects and beasts, which are difficult for mortals to see.

The white flower snake in front of him must be guarding this gastrodia, so in this way, isn't it more than a hundred years old, thinking of this, I can't help but feel excited.

He swept the small medicine hoe in his hand, this handle is too short, he must not be able to fight the white flower snake, but how can he let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Mo Yan stood still in place, and he observed that the body of the white flower snake seemed to be a little stiff, and a translucent snake skin could be seen on its waist, which was slowly fading towards its tail......

It turned out that it was molting, and Mo suddenly realized. Adult snakes molt about three times a year, because the original skin can no longer cover the growing body, and each molt takes about half a column of incense, and this is also when its defenses are weakest.

Without further ado, Mo Yan quickly poured out the gastrodia in the back basket, dug up some sand under his feet with a medicine hoe, and grabbed several handfuls in a row and threw them at the white flower snake. The snake's slimy skin was covered with dirt, and sure enough, it curled up and hissed in menace.

Mo Yan rushed forward with the bamboo basket and under the hood, buckled the white flower snake in the basket, and then took out the machete from his waist, gently lifted the bamboo basket into a narrow slit, and waited nervously with bated breath.

The pink tongue of the white flower snake poked out first, and then the snake's head squeezed out hard...... It was too late, it was fast, Mo Yan's machete slashed down, and he heard a "click" sound, blood burst out, and the snake's head had already been cut off.

At this moment, something slipped in Mo Yan's arms and fell into the bloodstains, it turned out to be the book "Muhammad's Ventriloquism", he quickly picked up the book, but the cover was already stained with blood.

He caught his breath for a moment, and then began to plane the gastrodia. The soil was turned over to reveal a palm-sized white tuber with sparse white whiskers on it, and a faint aroma was smelled under the nose. Ordinary gastrodia has twelve tubers per plant, but old gastrodia only has this one, Mo Yan carefully kicked into his arms, he wanted to keep it for himself.

At dusk, Mo Yan returned to the city.

Xia Bashan saw half a basket of high-grade gastrodia, and he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth: "Gastrodia has the effect of killing ghosts and spirits, Gu poison and evil qi, long yin fat and prolonging life, this white flower snake is even rarer, 'four two can be worth ten thousand feet', it's a pity." ”

"What is a pity?"

Xia Bashan explained: "After catching the white snake, you should immediately disembowelment to remove the internal organs of the intestines, then wipe off the blood stains and form a ball, and then fix it with a bamboo skewer and dry it, the sooner the time, the higher the effect. "Hurry up and concoct this white flower snake.

At night, Mo Yan closed the door, took out the piece of old gastrodia from his arms, and looked at it for a while before wrapping it in yellow paper and stuffing it into the beam to dry.

Under the faint oil lamp, he took out the book of "Muhammad's Ventriloquist Technique" and looked through it, the blood stains on the cover had dried up, and the dirt was black, if Mr. Mu saw it, he didn't know how to feel. It's been almost a year in the blink of an eye, and there has been no news of Mr. Mu, what treasure has he found?

In the middle of the night, Mo was in a hurry to urinate, so he turned over and got out of bed to go out for a while.

When I went back to the house and went to bed in the dark, I inadvertently found that there were fluorescent dots on the pillow, and I leaned over to take a closer look, and it turned out to be the book "Muhammad's Ventriloquism". If you look closely, there are a few green and faint handwriting on the cover. Hey, what is this? He hurriedly lit the oil lamp, but he couldn't see anything but the dark bloodstains.

When he blew out the light again, the green handwriting on the cover reappeared, and when he opened the page, there was nothing.

He pondered that it was the blood of the white snake that stained the paper, so that the handwriting hidden on the cover was revealed, and the snake blood was not stained in the book, so he could not see anything.

"What is that, is it a pulse? I can't figure it out, is there another book called "The Essence of the Absolute Pulse" hidden in this book? It seems that if you want to know, you may have to get some snake blood to smear it. However, since snake blood can show characters, I wonder if other blood can also be used.

At this moment, it was the third watch, and in the dead of night, I could faintly hear the sound of sleeping snoring in the next Xiaba Mountain.

Mo Yan opened the book, gently bit his fingertips, squeezed out some blood, and smeared it on the first page from top to bottom. Suddenly, the smeared place in the darkness really revealed lines of green and faint handwriting, which read, "A disease falls from the sky, and the earth will give birth to a medicine." There are seven dead pulses in the world, and there is no doctor. As everyone knows, there is no doctor in the world, and there is no disease without a doctor, because there is no glimpse of the true way of the doctor......"

Mo Yan thought for a moment, and roughly understood the meaning of this sentence, to the effect that every disease in the world will have a medicine that can be cured, and the seven kinds of absolute pulses are incurable diseases, but he didn't know that there are only doctors in the world who can't cure diseases, and there are no incurable diseases, and that's because he hasn't learned the true way of healing.

Mo Yan didn't care about the faint pain on his fingertips, and squeezed out some blood and wiped it on the book. The following said, "The song says: The finch pecks again and again, and stops and does." The house leaked and fell in the middle of the hour. Play the stone and sink the string, press the finger to beat. At first glance, it is like a solution. The principal and interest are not shaken, and the fish is similar. The shrimp swims and suddenly jumps. The kettle is boiling and floating, and there is no root. The knife is urgent, and the blade is responsible. The beans are turned a lot, such as following the barley. The numbness is fine, and its pulse is distracted. There are ten kinds of veins, which have been heard since ancient times. ”

This paragraph seems to be talking about the various pulses of the absolute pulse, but I have never touched the pulse, so I don't know why.

Next, Mo Yan read a few more paragraphs, "There are ten absolute veins in ancient times, among which the three veins of 'Yandao', 'Zhuan Dou', and 'Ma Xuan' are among the seven veins, so the world is called "Seven Absolute Veins". The true way of medicine lies in the true medicine, and there is no medical Tao without the true medicine. What is a real medicine......

Helplessly, at this moment, Mo Yan's fingers were numb, it seemed that he would have to find a way to get some chicken blood or pig blood tomorrow, and it was not a way to squeeze his own blood all the time.

He closed the book, pressed it under the pillow, and closed his eyes, but he couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning.

Why is this book written by someone hidden in the "Muslim Ventriloquism", and Mr. Mu has never discovered it? It is no wonder that the ancestral book of the Mu family, who would deliberately smear blood on it, if he had not accidentally been stained with snake blood, he might never have discovered this secret.

In the early morning of the next day, when Mo Yan went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, he deliberately brought a big rooster back. When he killed the chicken, he took a small half bowl of blood, and then returned to his room, dipping his finger in the chicken blood and smearing it on the page. About seven or eight sheets of paper were painted, and when the blood stains were dry, the book was hidden, and not too many pages at a time, otherwise it would be easy to stick.

At dinner, in front of the wine and meat, Shabashan was in a very good mood.

"Sir, what is the Absolute Pulse?" Mo Yan asked at the opportunity.

Xia Bashan chewed on the chicken leg and explained: "In ancient times, there was a saying in the medical world of 'Seven Absolute Pulses', which refers to the pulse of death, the main liver of the finch pecking pulse, the leaky pulse of the house, the kidney of the bullet stone pulse, the spleen of the unraveling pulse, the heart of the fish Xiang pulse, the large intestine of the shrimp swimming pulse, the boiling pulse of the lungs, and the seven unique pulses of the elephant must die as soon as they come out, and they have not been treated." ”

"What kind of patient will have the Seven Absolute Pulses?"

"They are all terminally ill people, and when a healer touches the seven veins, he will tell his family to prepare for the aftermath. Shabashan swallowed a sip of wine.

"Will all the diseases in the world have seven absolute veins in the end?"

"Of course, when a person is about to die, there must be at least one of the seven kinds of liver, kidney, spleen, stomach, heart and lungs, and large intestine. Shabashan hehehe

"Sir, you know a lot. ”

"The seven absolute pulses are the pulses that doctors must learn, otherwise if they encounter the disease of the terminal pulse, they still prescribe medicine, not only is the treatment not good, but also give the patient's family a truth, saying that it is a cure for death, wouldn't it be troublesome? Shabashan sighed.

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