Under the wooden bridge, there is a life lurking with red eyes, a small pond of stagnant water, what kind of monster lurks underneath? Could it be that Mr. Yue's sister's strange illness was caused by it?

Before he could finish his thoughts, there was a loud bang, and the pond water was wrapped in silt and rose into the air, and then an earthy yellow striped creature as thick as a human arm and about two meters long jumped out, and its fist-sized head slammed straight into Lu Shangqin.

Lu Shangqin didn't panic, opened his mouth and spewed out a mouthful of wine mist, which was full of puffs on the monster's head, and its body gliding in the air immediately spasmed, its strength disappeared, its body was not moving forward, and it fell into the water again with a plop.

After that, the pond seemed to open a pot, and the monster writhed violently in it, breaking the lotus leaf and lotus canopy, stirring up the underwater silt, and the originally clear pond water suddenly turned black, and the air was filled with a rancid smell.

Lu Shangqin sprinkled the wine on the guardrail of the wooden bridge, calmly looked at the monster struggling in the pond under his feet, I walked to him, in addition to the smell in his nose, he smelled a fishy smell, he also saw the monster in the pond, it was actually a large loach, no wonder no monster has been found in the pond, because loaches are fish living under the silt.

At this moment, Mr. Yue bowed to Lu Shang and Qin's five bodies, but I really couldn't understand how he explored the mystery of this place, so I asked respectfully: "Teacher, what is the reason for the appearance of such strange things here?" ”

Lu Shangqin smiled and said: "I really don't know why it's here, as for why I can see through this mystery, I have to start with traditional Chinese medicine." There is a leading doctor named Li Chuntang in Qinggong Tai Hospital, who is good at preparing powder, soup and pills with miraculous effects. There was once a decoction called "Tianhe San", which had a miraculous effect in treating the stubborn disease of internal fire attacking the heart, and the root of this medicine was the blood of a giant loach. ”

"Traditional Chinese medicine divides life into yin and yang, yang gives birth to evil fire, and yin gives rise to cold poison, so traditional Chinese medicine treatment is the process of regulating and balancing yin and yang, but some lives are born with a lack of yang, such as cold-blooded animals, they only have yin and no yang in their bodies, so in ancient Chinese medicine theory, cold-blooded animals are regarded as yin ghosts living in the yang world and having a physical body. Ancient Chinese medicine says that the loach is evil, afraid of light and likes yin, but in order to avoid being frozen, it will inhale yang energy, as for the "source of yang energy" may be light, it may be heating, but the most terrible one is the qi from the warm-blooded creatures near it. ”

"Although the so-called Three Souls and Seven Spirits are the mystical words of cultivators, Chinese medicine has an induction of qi, specifically "qi" belongs to the laryngeal position, which is known to those who practice miraculous skills, so according to the theory of ancient Chinese medicine, when you are close to a loach, when you breathe and breathe, the yang number contained in the qi will be perceived by the dormant loach and quietly absorbed for its own use. Li Chuntang is based on this theory to find the mud pond that is rarely visited by people, and then judge whether there are giant loaches from the biological signs around the mud pond. ”

He found a bubble field in the grassland on the outskirts of Beijing, where the surrounding plants are barren, and the land near the bubble field is scattered with the bones of many dead animals, and there are many fierce beasts in the corpses of these animals, and some of the animal corpses that have not yet decayed show a pre-death state of being a dry corpse, weakened to the point that only the epidermis and bones are left in the body, and occasionally some hares and squirrels can be seen are also old, without the agility that this kind of wild thing should have, and even if the wolf fox chases the prey, it will be grounded when it enters dozens of meters around the bubble field, Even the male wolf with red eyes is like this, so Li Chuntang put sulfur in the quagmire, and then forced out a giant loach that lived in the quagmire, it was this loach that sucked up the Yuanyang qi of the surrounding creatures and turned this place into a place of death, so the bigger the loach, the greater the demand for "yang number", which would naturally cause harm to nearby people and animals, and the unbearable weakness of Mr. Yue's sister was caused by the loss of Yuanyang. ”

"But the most feared thing about the loach is sulfur, as long as the human body has a sulfur loach, it will be far away, so I want you to buy a cannon battle to ask for the sulfur contained in it, and the loach is a kind of strange thing, its blood is taken by some wizards and Taoists as a magic weapon for casting spells and preaching, because the loach blood is extremely cold, and it can attract some unusual strange things. But loach blood is also an extremely mysterious medicine, it can stimulate the medicinal properties of some miracle medicines, Li Chuntang is to use loach blood to configure Tianhe San, dissipate heat poison, save people's lives. ”

"Although I am a Taoist, I know a little bit about the methods of Chinese medicine treatment, and I happen to know Li Chuntang and the prescription he invented, so Mr. Yue, it is also your sister's luck that you found a Taoist priest at random, and it happens to be the person who prescribes the right medicine."

Mr. Yue laughed happily and said, "Mr. has worked hard, it's really hard for you." ”

Later, under his sister's narration, we learned the origin of this loach, a year ago it was a small loach, it had a little white spot on its head, as if it had a meat crown, it looked so different, the chef was about to slaughter, his sister saw that the loach was abnormal, so he moved his heart of compassion, so he saved it from the cook's hands and kept it in the pond in the backyard.

But soon the kind woman forgot about the little loaches, but the ponds were inevitably infested, the eels were not short of food, and the thick and fertile silt layer also provided a protective layer for the loaches to survive the winter.

After a winter, the loach's physique has changed dramatically, it has "become bigger and stronger", and can vaguely feel the vital signs passing around it.

And these lives without exception will emit a trace of "warm current", every time inhaling this warm current, the loach's cold body will feel extremely comfortable, so a small loach will quietly grow into a behemoth in the loach under the nourishment of the human body's Yuanyang.

The shady back of the pond and the south wall block the sunlight, this gloomy environment further contributes to the evil and poisonous qualities in the loach's body, and it becomes more and more greedy to absorb the Yuan Yang of all living creatures here, "adding longevity and blessings" to itself.

Lu Shangqin said: "This is the principle of species restraint, because each life has its own characteristics, these characteristics are mutually reinforcing, is nature's way of balancing its own yin and yang, no matter your wisdom is outstanding, it is impossible for your ability to jump out of this boundary, so go back and get some dog blood for your sister to drink, and you can keep the medicine until the disease is eliminated within ten days." ”

In the sound of praise, Lu Shangqin said a little proudly: "Today's interest is good, although the matter of that grimace noble man is just a legend, it is indeed a matter in history, and it is also related to a Chinese medicine doctor, this person is called Liu Quan'er." ”

In the process of his study of ancient medicine, he found a traditional Chinese medicine formula called "Jade Muscle Soft Bone Pill", which came from the hand of Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, and was later found by the Tang Dynasty Imperial Physician to make a pill to pay tribute to the peerless beauty Yang Yuhuan, and Yang Yuhuan took this medicine The result is really ice muscle and jade bones without sweating, especially after taking a bath is more beautiful, there is Bai Juyi's famous sentence "Hot spring water slippery washing cream." The waiter helped up the delicate and weak" as evidence. ”

Liu Quan'er checked the formula and felt that the medicinal properties of this medicine belonged to the aphrodisiac, once the consequences were unpredictable in the palace, it was sealed in the cabinet, but he did not expect the formula to be discovered by a student of him, this person was greedy for money, and the noble person was new, eager to seek a good emperor, the two hit it off, but this person's medical Tao is still shallow, how do you know that the way to pick medicinal materials is different in the morning and evening, and the different genders of the pickers will cause differences in medicinal properties, not to mention the difference between Chang'an City and Beijing after a hundred years, the difference between the era and region, the water and soil are different, and the medicinal properties are naturally different. He used medicine according to the book, so the aphrodisiac became poison, and the noble person's body accumulated and poisoned, so that there was such a strange image, but ordinary people didn't know the secret and thought it was haunted. ”

He Ziyu and Yue didn't think it was strange, the two of them listened with relish, but I felt that it was wrong, Lu Shangqin was just a Taoist priest, and it would not be surprising if he said that he knew more about it, the problem was that he said that these things were as if he had seen them with his own eyes, and that expression was completely narrating a thing that he had experienced, the more I thought about it, the more strange I felt, and suddenly I heard a burst of laughter coming from the roof.

Following the prestige, I saw a short and fat middle-aged man squatting on the roof, and he said to Lu Shang Qin: "Lu Dao Chang is so knowledgeable, and his explanation is really shocking, and you must be the most knowledgeable among Taoist priests." ”