In the flickering candlelight, the three people sat together on the Kang. Because the Taoist priests were acquaintances, the three of them were not at all restrained.

Although they were familiar with each other, the male host's father only knew that this Taoist priest was very good at medicine. As for the Taoist priest's other experiences, he didn't know much about it. Moreover, every time the Taoist priest came back from collecting medicine in the mountains and stayed overnight at their home, the male host's father would Everyone will be surprised to find that the medicine collected by the Taoist priest is very strange, because the male host’s family also owns a medicine shop, and the male host’s father is very familiar with common herbal medicines, but the medicine collected by this Taoist priest is something he has never seen before. I wanted to ask several times, but I felt it was inappropriate, because medicine is also a craft, and everyone has their own secret recipe, and you cannot tell others casually. The father of the male host is a thoughtful and considerate person. In order to avoid embarrassment, I never asked.

After the Taoist priest saw his son's illness at a glance and miraculously cured it, the male protagonist's father suddenly felt that this Taoist priest had such unfathomable abilities. Of course he wanted to find out about his son's strange illness. I can only turn to Taoist priests for help.

Under the sincere eyes of the father and son, the Taoist priest indifferently twirled his beard under his chin, squinted his eyes, nodded slightly, and then asked the male host: "Young Master must have experienced something strange, but he has never told anyone, right? "

The male host's face suddenly turned red, his lips moved a few times, and no words came out for a long time. The Taoist priest and his father did not urge him, but just waited silently. After a long time, the male host finally summoned up the courage. , told the story exactly as it happened when I was fourteen or fifteen years old.

After hearing this, the father of the male host opened his mouth, while the Taoist priest said nothing, his eyes still narrowed, as if he was deep in thought. This was the first time the father knew that his son had such a strange experience, and he was shocked. He didn't know what to say for a moment. My father never thought that the mountain where they had lived for generations was so mysterious. When he was a child, his grandfather had scared him, saying that there were monsters in the mountain and that he should never run around in the mountain. He thought that his grandfather I was just scaring him, fearing that he would be in danger if he wandered alone in the mountains when he was young. I didn't expect that my son would encounter that kind of strange snail in the valley not far from home. It was really a ghost.

After talking about these strange experiences, both father and son looked at the Taoist priest with pleading eyes, as if they wanted the Taoist priest to explain all this. The Taoist priest breathed a long sigh of relief and said: "There are some things that I didn't intend to say. However, I have always been treated warmly by the benefactor, and I am extremely grateful. I also know that the benefactor is an extremely kind person, so I should just tell him frankly."

Then the Taoist priest told the father and son all the secrets of the mountain in detail.

It turns out that this Taoist priest was a failed scholar. When he was young, he was admitted as a scholar, but he repeatedly failed in the college entrance examination. It happened that a plague was prevalent in his hometown, and his parents and newlywed wife all died in the plague. Death, this series of blows, finally made him discouraged, so he became a monk and became a Taoist priest.

The Taoist priest has been interested in medical skills since he was a child, and he has read a lot. After becoming a monk, he spent almost all his time studying medical skills. Especially when the plague destroyed his family, it increased his need for learning. He had the motivation to become a doctor and hoped to use his medical skills to free more people from suffering. Although his imperial examination did not go smoothly, he was extremely talented when studying medicine. When he was young, he was already very famous in his hometown. It is well-known that in addition to being good at treating common difficult and complicated diseases, Taoist priests are best at treating infertility. Because this disease is extremely special, there are often monks and ordinary doctors who treat this kind of disease under the guise of treating it. , rape and molest women.

On the other hand, there are also some people with bad intentions who deliberately use this kind of medical treatment as an excuse to blackmail doctors, saying that the doctors have molested and raped their wives, which has left many doctors with no choice but to knock out their teeth and swallow them. Be obedient and pay to settle the matter, lest your reputation be damaged.

In order to avoid these situations, Taoist priests are very different from ordinary doctors when treating such diseases. He will usually see the man first. If it is not a problem with the man, then he will see the woman. However, when diagnosing and treating the woman, the man must be present, and The examination of the woman was limited to pulse diagnosis.

But I don’t know why, he can always cure the disease. Soon after taking his medicine, you will get pregnant within a few months. In most of the cases he treats, he does not need to see the woman at all, but just directly diagnoses and treats the man. , just leave some medicine for the woman after giving up, and everything will be fine.

Because of his unique treatment methods and miraculous therapeutic effects, his reputation has become more and more popular. From time to time, dignitaries from the court would send people all the way to invite him. Of course, he was making more and more money, and no one knew about it. Who did he learn this medical skill from? Who was the master who taught him such a miraculous medical skill?

Among his patients, the highest-ranking official in the border area, and even a prince came to him, and he cured all the diseases. It is conceivable that his unique skills in this area allowed him to make friends with many powerful people, and of course, the money was even more important. He earned a lot of money, and the local officials were even more courteous to him. They would take the initiative to visit him during the New Year and holidays. Sometimes, the Taoist priest himself couldn't help but sigh secretly, feeling that even if the imperial examination was successful and he entered the official career, in terms of respect and income, No matter how many times he is, he may not be like what he is now. It is a blessing and a curse.

So how did he learn this unique skill in treating infertility? This must start from when he first became a monk.

After the Taoist monk became a monk, he traveled around and visited famous teachers in various places while practicing medicine. One day, he came to a Taoist temple at the foot of the mountain in our area and lived in that Taoist temple for some days. Even during the days of wandering outside, The Taoist priest often stayed up all night studying medical books. On a moonlit night, it was already midnight. The Taoist priest was a little tired from reading, so he got up and walked outside for some exercise. Seeing the quiet mountains under the moonlight, he couldn't help but think of Wang Wei's poem Poetry:

The sweet-scented osmanthus falls when people are idle, and the spring mountain sky is quiet at night.

The moonrise scares the mountain birds, and they sing in the spring stream.

Thinking that his state of mind coincided with the atmosphere in the mountains at this moment, the Taoist breathed a long sigh of relief. He felt that he had finally got rid of the turmoil in the world for the time being, and could find a quiet place to study what he had always liked. If you have good medical skills, this can be regarded as a rare blessing.

Suddenly, he heard a shrill scream, which was very similar to the heart-rending scream that a person would make when being stabbed. This made his heart shrink suddenly, and every muscle in his body shrank. , they all tensed up instantly. Could it be that someone was stabbed.

The Taoist priest looked around nervously and tried to distinguish where the scream just came from, but he saw nothing. The surrounding area was calm and there was nothing abnormal. Then, there was another scream, this time. This time he seemed to notice that the scream seemed to be coming from a tree not far away.

Then, several more such screams came from the tree, and he suddenly thought that this was the cry of a bird. This kind of bird is called "Jiyin Bird", but he has only seen it in ancient medical books. I have never encountered this kind of bird in real life. Medical books say that this kind of bird is "extremely yin" in nature. They will never appear during the day. When building their nests, they also choose dark places, such as caves. In rock crevices, in the hollows of big trees, etc.

This kind of bird can never see light. If it is exposed to light for too long, it will die. That is to say, it leaves the darkness just like a fish leaves water. This kind of bird also looks very strange. Its It has eyes like an owl, but its body is like a crow. It smells like a corpse. Like a vulture, it likes to eat all kinds of carrion, especially the carrion of human corpses.

The reason why this bird is mentioned in medical books is not that the bird itself has any medicinal value, but that it has an important symbolic role. The place where this bird grows is the "extremely yin place".

The Taoist priest told the male host and his son that this mountain is a "place of extreme yin". The snail the male host ate, as big as a piglet, crawled out of a cave in this kind of mountain and absorbed the extreme yin in the cave. It takes Yin energy to grow so big, so this kind of snail has extremely heavy Yin energy. This Yin energy hurts people, not like poison, which directly damages the human body, but also greatly damages the person's Yang energy, making people Becoming gloomy and lack of energy.

When you are young, your yang energy is strong and you can resist it, but once you reach middle age, the yin energy that invades your body will slowly turn you into a walking zombie. Even when you are awake, you will feel like you are sleepwalking. , you cannot clearly know what you are doing, and your soul will leave the body before the body dies. This is the most terrifying thing.

The host and his son felt chills running down their spines. Although they could not fully understand the Taoist priest's words, they knew that the Taoist priest not only allowed their family to continue their family lineage, but also saved their son's life.

They didn't expect that this mountain where they have lived for generations would have such a weird and gloomy side. But what they didn't understand was what relationship this mountain had with Taoist priests' treatment of infertility. Why did the Taoist priests always I have to come to this mountain to collect medicine.

When they raised this question, the Taoist priest smiled and explained to them that everything in the world always has advantages and disadvantages. This kind of mountain has a very strong yin energy, so if the yin insects on this kind of mountain can get into the inside of the mountain, they will In the cave, if you grow up in that extremely yin-qi environment, they will complement each other and be fully developed, so the negative insects will grow to be very big, just like the snail. This mountain not only has this kind of effect on negative insects The effect is also the same for negative herbs, and this herb will have miraculous effects as long as it is taken by women suffering from infertility.
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