Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Baiyuwa

According to Old Liu Tou, ever since that Cao Moyun showed him the so-called Ten Thousand Evil Calamity, he has been trying to figure out what is going on with that thing, because he suspects his father's motive for forcing him to become a monk, and Cao Moyun's The old man is the same, it's all because of harming that thing, but in my memory, the old man disappeared for a month, but it seems that he has never made the rotten persimmon described by Cao Moyun.Later, on the issue of Wanshajie, the old Liu Tou harassed the honest Ma Chunyi more than once. At first, Ma Chunyi was very secretive and didn't want to say anything. the truth.

Although the skills are extensive and profound, there are still many things that cannot be explained and problems that cannot be solved, such as the myriad calamities that Old Liu has been trying to figure out all day long.In fact, Wanshajie is not something in the category of pure Taoism, but something between injustice and disease. The earliest record about Wanshajie can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. Before the death of Tang Gaozong, the Tang Dynasty was originally a dynasty that emphasized Taoism and suppressed Buddhism. Even Tang Gaozu Li Yuan worshiped Lao Tzu as his ancestor. This period was also one of the most rapid developments in the history of Fulu and Danding.However, after Tang Wuzhou (that is, Wu Zetian period), the imperial court began to emphasize Buddhism and Taoism (the Tang Dynasty emphasized Buddhism and Taoism for more than 130 years since Wu Zetian, until Tang Wuzong Li Yan succeeded to the throne in 840 AD, but Li Yan was only in power for 6 years. After his death, Emperor Xuanzong Li Zhen succeeded to the throne, and the Tang Dynasty began the policy of emphasizing Buddhism and suppressing Taoism), which caused many people in the Taoist sect to lose their jobs. Even some master-level figures who used to call the wind and rain had to live The life of a quack warlock who made a living by tricks such as pulse pulse, doctor, Fengshui, design of tombs, etc., took jobs with doctors and Fengshui masters.In the theory of Chinese medicine, a large part of the yin-yang and meridian theories that have been passed down or have been lost are related to the integration of Taoist people in this period.

During this period, some Taoists even wrote some classics that combined the dual theories of Taoism and medical skills, such as "Miscellaneous Notes on Taoist Medicine" by Lu Xianlong of the Zhengyi School, "Sanqing Prescriptions" by Zheng Biyin of the Lingbao School, and "Main Pulse" by Feng Yunpu of the Shangqing School. "Shuo" and so on, among the large number of similar classics, it is not difficult to find records of Wanshaku or similar symptoms. Among them, the earliest record of Wanshaku is Lu Xianlong's "Taoist Miscellaneous Notes", which talks about the Kaicheng Yuan of the Tang Dynasty. In 836, Pang Yi, a eunuch in the Bingzhou government, returned to his hometown due to a strange disease, and was bedridden for a whole year without being cured. Dozens of them, and more than once sent the top imperial doctor in the palace to diagnose the pulse and prescribe prescriptions, but they didn't get better. Later, when Lu Xianlong traveled through Bingzhou, he happened to encounter a yellow list posted by the yamen offering a reward of 500 catties of gold for Pang Yi's medical treatment, so he also revealed the list. He was invited to the Pang Mansion as a doctor.

In the records of "Taoist Medicine Miscellaneous Notes", Pang Yi's symptoms are similar to those of the "Three Generations of Cao". Like a rag, it festers even if you don't touch yourself; the whole person is stupefied and doesn't answer (other people's) questions.After some conventional diagnosis and treatment methods, Lu Xianlong discovered that although this Pang Yi appeared to be suffering from a strange disease, his pulse condition was normal and his meridians were clear. Because of Pang Yi's special status as a "eunuch", Lu Xianlong did not ask the bottom line about what he did in the palace. This Pang Yi is rumored to be the most important subordinate of the great eunuch Wang Shoucheng, and what he does is nothing more than acting as Wang Shoucheng's thug Participating in the shady scenes of dogs biting dogs in the palace and so on. As a commoner, knowing those things may not keep your head. After considering the profit and loss, Lu Xianlong decided to start with Pang Yi's residence in the palace, hoping to try from the surrounding environment first. Finding the root of Pang Yi's "violation" is also due to the fate of Lu Xianlong. On the second day after entering the palace, he found a unique white jade tile from the roof of Pang Yi's residence.

The reason why it is different is first of all because of the texture of the tiles. From ancient times to the present, the raw materials for firing tiles in China are nothing more than clay and loess. I have never heard of anyone using white marble to make tiles; As for the tile itself, it was confirmed by Lu Xianlong with traditional Taoist methods afterwards that there were more than one hundred evil spirits and ghosts stored on this tile. This incident reminded Lu Xianlong of the "Manna Change" that shook the capital not long ago. Emperor Wenzong of the current dynasty hoped to take the opportunity to visit the so-called "Manna" to wipe out all the eunuchs in power. Ten people were killed, and no fewer than ten people were killed, and this piece of white jade tile was likely to be directly related to this incident, and it might be the product of revenge by relatives or close friends of the minister who was killed. That is, if some of the ministers really know the master who can make this piece of white jade tiles, why do they still want to use the "nectar" of Lao Mozi? Isn't it enough to just use the white jade tiles to get rid of the group of castrates?

After all, Lu Xianlong's mission is to cure diseases rather than solve cases, so the question of the origin of the white jade tiles was left unanswered in the end, so that Lu Xianlong could not figure out the principle of this piece of white jade tiles until the end. It can hold so many evil spirits and fierce ghosts; I don't know what kind of magic principle is based on this tile for storing evil spirits that can make Pang Yi's life so much worse than death, so in the end, he can only use one of the most stupid The most direct way to cure Pang Yi is to save the evil spirits and evil spirits in Baiyuwa one by one. This huge project took four years and five months for Yuan, and five years for Zheyangshou to make Pang Yi recover as before. , By the time Yuanyuan completes all the super-delivery rituals, it will be after the new emperor Tang Wuzong Li Yan succeeded to the throne in the first year of Huichang.In "Miscellaneous Notes on Daoist Medicine", Lu Xianlong defined Pang Yi's illness as the catastrophe of ten thousand evils, and the phrase "ten thousand evils" was spread from this: "One complaint can be resolved, but what can we do with ten thousand complaints? One ghost can be saved, but how can there be thousands of ghosts? There is a saying that ten sternness is like truth, ten truths are like evil, true and ten thousand evils are calamities, and true immortals are not good at abilities, and they are all self-absorbed!" The implication: You are the one today. Virtuous gods can't save you, you deserve it yourself.According to Lu Xianlong's cognition, Pang Yi's symptoms are also the pathogenic mechanism of Wan Sha Jie. This confirms Lv Xianlong's conclusion.

Of course, the reason why Lu Xianlong was willing to spend longer than writing a book to explain this huge manager who harmed Zhongliang was not just for the reward of five hundred catties of gold, but more because he wanted to use his own efforts to restore the imperial court's dissatisfaction. Taoist trust.Facts have proved that Lu Xianlong's efforts were not in vain. The news that Pang Yi's strange disease was miraculously cured without taking a pill or pill shocked the government and the public. Soon after Tang Wuzong Li Yan promulgated the policy of emphasizing Taoism and suppressing Buddhism, which brought Taoism In the short-lived revival of the fleeting years, the role played by Lu Xianlong cannot be ignored.

"Mr. Liu, are you saying that Axun has been retaliated against?" Hearing this, Sun Ting seemed to have caught a hint. It seemed that Axun had been plotted against. "Not necessarily!" Old Liu's face was solemn, "Lu Xianlong's statement is just one of them. There are other theories about this thing." In the decades of later generations, although the records of Wanshajie in "Taoist Medical Miscellaneous Notes" revealed the symptoms of Wanshajie to a large extent, it also revealed some misunderstandings for future generations, that is, Wanshajie The catastrophe is caused by the continuous harassment of the soul.It was not until the end of the Tang Dynasty that Zheng Biyin, a Taoist of the Shangqing School, gave a new definition of the causes and treatment methods of Wansha Calamity in his book "Sanqing Fang": In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, natural disasters continued and wars continued, and the whole country was turned upside down. The sign is that in a village in Laiwu (now Laiwu City, Shandong Province), dozens of people were rushed by the Wanshajie at the same time. Under natural circumstances, it is impossible for many souls to attack a person's body in three shifts in an orderly manner, unless it is possible under the interference and guidance of some man-made evil formations. It is understandable for political struggles to retaliate against eunuch leaders. How could anyone in the world be so bored that they would set up large-scale evil formations to play tricks on a few ordinary people?

Later, after some on-the-spot investigation, Zheng Biyin discovered that the time of this large-scale catastrophe is likely to be related to a mass grave left by the rebels who killed the rebels in a Tang army pit that was washed away by the mountain torrents not long ago. The rebels and ordinary people should have no What kind of grievances and grievances, let alone attack the common people in turn, the reason why many ordinary people will suffer ten thousand evil calamities is not caused by rushing to the body, but by the invasion of resentment. In "Sanqingfang", Zheng Biyin's conclusion can be said to have completely overturned Lu Xianlong's theory, and attributed the cause of Wansha Calamity to "resentment invading the body", and suddenly put this symptom into a position between Taoism and medicine. position between.

"The kind of resentment that Zheng Biyin mentioned is not the kind of resentment that kills people for their lives." Speaking of this, Old Liu began to add, "This kind of resentment belongs to scattered resentment, that is, resentment that is dispersed separately. Dispersed resentment does not affect people much. Big. But if there are too many gatherings, it will have a great impact. This point also makes sense in Taoism. In Zheng Biyin's view, only places where a large number of corpses gather, such as mass graves and mass graves In places where all the souls have the same kind of resentment because of the same thing, it is possible to gather a large number of scattered resentments. As I said just now, the mass grave was washed away by the flood, and thousands of souls had resentment because of the water. It is to dissipate resentment, this kind of resentment is the same as the turbidity and dampness in Chinese medicine, it will make people sick!"

In traditional Chinese medicine, many kinds of qi are listed as the root of disease, such as cold, damp, fire, turbidity, dryness, etc. Resentment is a kind of cloudy qi, just like other messy "qi" Similarly, it will also have an impact on the human body, and the impact is far greater than other types.With the level of medical treatment and people's understanding at that time, it is not easy to make such a judgment, but the fly in the ointment is that in the Laiwu Wansha robbery incident, Zheng Biyin only dealt with the case and did not use the main This precious clinical opportunity to carry out in-depth research has resulted in people's understanding of Wanshajie until now only staying in the category of resentment invasion. According to Zheng Biyin's theory, since the pathogenic mechanism of Wan Sha Jie is more medical, the easiest way is to take "medicine", but this "medicine" is completely different from conventional "medicine".At that time, Zheng Biyin divided grievances into five categories: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. The grievances that caused the common people to suffer were probably caused by the fact that the soldiers in the mass graves could not be buried in the earth.The mass grave was washed away by the flood, so this resentment should belong to the water resentment. Among the five elements, earth restrains water, so the earth should be used as a measure to quell this resentment. Then the people were mobilized to bury the corpse pit, and then the patients were asked to take the water under the eaves. Eat it from the soil, and sure enough, all of them are cured.At this point, the phenomenon of Wanshajie is no longer limited to the scope of Taoism, but some medical mechanisms have also been added, but one thing is for sure, that is, the resentment that caused Wanshajie is definitely not the grievance of one person.Only when a large amount of resentment gathers on a person, exceeding the critical point that the human body can tolerate, can it form the possibility of ten thousand evil kalpas. "Actually, the causes of Wansha Calamity are not fixed. Just like what Zheng Biyin said, they can be divided into at least five types: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth." Old Liu frowned, "However, Zheng Biyin's understanding After all, it is very limited, and there is only one case encountered. After Zheng Biyin, there are many examples that prove that the types of grievances are far more than the five types of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, but there is no clear diagnosis method, because only harmful Symptoms are similar to that thing, water resentment and fire resentment are both virtuous on the surface, and the patient can't speak, so if you are not sure what the cause of the resentment is, you can only take care of it like Lu Xianlong did. It has been treated for several years and decades. Just like the "Three Generations of Cao", my master and other capable people have nothing to do, so they have to be carried to Sichuan for treatment. I don't know how it is treated. I have asked me About my father, I asked him how my father treated it, and if someone else got infected with this thing, how to cure it, he would tell me, whoever gets infected, will ask the family to arrange the funeral, this thing can't be done now!" "Ah!" Sun Ting's face turned pale, his legs softened and he almost fell to the ground, "Then Asun..." "He just said that, he just didn't want us to use those shady methods!" Old Liu didn't bother to explain to Sun Ting the speaking habits of his master Ma Chunyi, "It's hard to find out the reason for this kind of problem, because People who suffer from this thing can’t speak or write, and it’s even more difficult to find any clues. At most, they can find a piece of jade tile like Lu Xianlong. Shameful way!" "Shame on people?" Hearing what Old Liu said, Sun Ting was stunned, "Saving people is not killing people, so what would be shameful?" "It's saving people in a way worse than murder!" Old Liu waved his hand, "Saving one person will harm two people, and saving one person will harm people in a village or a county. There are many such things." "Shall we go to America first?" Zhang Guozhong suddenly asked after a long silence. "No!" Old Liu said decisively, "There is no need to go to the United States first, first find out what he has done, where he has been, and who he has contacted since he came to China! It’s impossible for brother Ai to walk alone when he returns to China, he must have met someone!” "This..." Sun Ting frowned, "I have already checked his call records. His mobile phone number in the United States has never been dialed in China. It seems that he temporarily bought a local number after he arrived in China. threw." "Hey!" Hearing this, Zhang Guozhong also thumped the table, "Why is this person still like this?" To be honest, when he went to Burma to find the treasure cave in Fengwen at the foot of the mountain, Ai Erson almost killed him because he felt sorry for a few grenades. Life lost. "How about... how about this?" Zhang Yicheng's words seemed full of temptation, "I'm going to the United States to take care of Uncle Ai, sir, you and my father will check his whereabouts in China? I think Uncle Liu can help with this matter. .” "You stay at home honestly!" Zhang Guozhong glared at Zhang Yicheng fiercely, "Don't meddle in your children's business with adults!" "What's the matter with me?" Zhang Yicheng rolled his eyes, "I'm about to become a father too, in the old society, children are running all over the street!" "Okay, okay!" Old Liu sighed, "Young Master Sun, don't worry, brother Ai's disease is toads crawling on his feet-if you don't bite people and disgusting people, you can't die easily, and it won't be cured overnight. You Call Master Qin later, his spy skills may be useful. Also, don't be idle, go back to the United States immediately, and search for Brother Ai's residence carefully to see if there is anything that belongs to him this time. Brought it back from China." "Then... what about me?" Zhang Yicheng looked at Old Liu with extreme anticipation, "Master, don't even you treat me like a child?" "You listen to your father. The most important thing for you now is to study, and you will be useful in the future!" As a cultural person, Old Liu is well aware of the importance of the college entrance examination. Right now, Zhang Yicheng is in the final sprint before the college entrance examination. If Eilson has something to do, he and Zhang Guozhong should be able to handle it. If it is not a last resort, we must not delay the child's study at this juncture. "Study...cut!" Zhang Yicheng pursed his lips with disdain.