Chapter 362: One Drink, One Peck

What is the inner demon? What is karma?

When I embarked on this path of cultivation, I always heard my master mention these words, what cause and effect, what karma, I was always confused.

Until I cut off the dragon vein and was buried in the soil, I understood what cause and effect is.

Now, I gradually understand what the inner demon karma is. It is not as mysterious as the words seem, nor as obscure as imagined. It is dormant around us, inseparable from everyone. In the final analysis, it is our own experience and encounter, whether it is good or bad. When it has a huge impact on you and makes your mind nailed to this matter like a nail, you will sink forever, draw a cell for yourself, and never get out.

This thing is the devil, which will push people step by step towards the abyss of hell.

It seems that there is something blocking my heart, and I can't feel relieved unless I vent it. The endless hostility will burn me into ashes at any time.

I am not a kind-hearted person, but I don't think I am a bad person. I saw an old lady fall on the road and didn't help her. It's not because I am cold-blooded. I also want to help her, but I am more afraid of losing everything. The premise of helping others will never affect myself.

People are selfish, I think it's nothing.

However, there will always be some dark and vicious things in this world that are beyond people's imagination, tearing your fragile heart, making you immersed in endless darkness, and never being able to be reborn, leaving only a full heart of indignation, just wanting to pick up a knife to kill all the evil in the world, and then shouting at the other person's corpse-why can't you live your own life well, and have to hurt people who have nothing to do with you? Do people have to fight to the death?

I returned to the room exhausted and slammed my body on the kang. The hard kang was incomparable to the Simmons bed. My back hurt, but I didn't seem to notice it. I stared at the dim light bulb, as if that ray of light could save me. I kept muttering to myself: "I will not become a Buddha until hell is empty."

This is the famous saying of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. When I heard this sentence before, I just thought that this monk was so determined, but now I tasted something different - it was a kind of gnashing hatred and a deep hatred for the cruel side of human nature! !

I comforted myself that I would just have a good sleep. When I opened my eyes, the sun was shining, and I was a lively and funny guy again!

But when I really closed my eyes, I found that I couldn't sleep. As soon as I closed my eyes, I saw the despair of Old Man Qi and the fear of Da Huang, not to mention the piles of corpses under the feet of the yamen.

I turned over and sat up, slapping myself in the face, cursing inwardly, "You are such a nosy bastard. They are all irrelevant people. Why do you hate them so much?"

However, I couldn't stop hating them. Maybe I was really such a bastard. Although I was very tired, I got up from the kang and curled up in the corner, staring straight ahead, thinking about the whole story in my head.

Ya Jue was seriously injured and could only hide in crowded places!

This is an important point to find her!

However, as long as we leave the Zhenwu Temple, there are people everywhere in the world. What is this clue?

I decisively gave up this idea and began to think about the person that Ya Jue tried so hard to save.

A person with congenital deficiencies is actually a useless person who can't do anything, a weak and sick person. This kind of person must be taken care of in the best way possible, with drugs to keep him alive, and someone must take care of him 24 hours a day. The tooth dealer is busy collecting the twelve zodiac signs, and it is absolutely impossible for him to take care of this sick person.

"Hospital!!"

I sat up all of a sudden: "This sickly person must be in the hospital!! Old Man Qi's grandson was lost twelve years ago, and now he has come back for revenge. This is a long process, more than ten years. A person with congenital deficiencies has been lingering for such a long time, and must need the most advanced medical conditions and meticulous care, which are exactly what Taiping Dao cannot provide. These grandsons can harm people, but they can't save people. Only hospitals can do this!!

Since Ya Jue is so concerned about this sickly person and has done so many cruel things for this, it must be impossible for him to be too far away from this person!

Since Ya Jue is active in Taiyuan, this means that this hospital must be in Taiyuan!!

So, which hospital is it?"

I patted my forehead and cursed myself for being a fool. The fourteenth ancestor has been talking to me about congenital deficiencies, but the question is, what are the diseases caused by congenital deficiencies? At least we have to know what disease this sickly person has, so that we can know which hospital this guy is in!

I felt like I was alive again. I got up and moved all the documents from the bookshelf and drawers to see if I could find one or two medical books.

I have a lot of books here. In addition to the books passed down in my family, my master also moved many documents from the Zhenwu Temple to me, asking me to study them when I have nothing to do. The Taoist sect has five arts: mountain medicine, life, divination and physiognomy. The fourteenth ancestor said that my ancestor was the best at medicine. I don't believe that there is no medical skill in these books my master gave me!

Click!

A scroll suddenly fell at my feet. It was the scroll of Tao Wangqing. When I was terminally ill, the person I had been thinking about all the time put this scroll away. After all, this painting was not very elegant, and it was not good to always put it on the bedside. After hiding it, I almost forgot about it.

Looking down at the painting at my feet, I was moved. I quickly bent down to pick up the painting and unfolded it. I was struck by lightning and my face turned pale. I stepped back in a daze and sat down on the ground. I stared at the person in the painting and muttered to myself, "She's here. She actually came to see me..."

In the painting, a pretty lady took off her clothes, lifelike, as if she was about to walk out of the painting at any time, with her eyebrows raised and her mouth slightly raised. She was really in high spirits.

Tao Wangqing at this time might be the happiest time of her life.

At that time, Liu Qu, the King of Guangchuan, loved her the most. Although she was not the queen, for a woman, the love and care of her husband is the best rain and dew, which made her bloom brightly. Only the real joy and happiness can be engraved on paper, showing me, a man two thousand years later, how beautiful she was.

Perhaps, she could not have imagined at that time that the imperial family was the most ruthless, and there was no love in the eyes of the Liu family? Today you have an unparalleled face, he painted eyebrows for you in front of the mirror, and tomorrow he will turn against you, fall from the nine clouds to the bottomless abyss, and finally spit at your corpse viciously, leaving a cold and cruel smile, as if the love in the past had never happened. First, Chen Ajiao was a beautiful woman in a golden house, but she fell into Changmen Palace in a blink of an eye and became depressed. Later, this poor woman was chopped into meat paste by the vicious woman next to her lover. It was just like what the Han people often said in the poems they sang in those days - they could not keep me, but regarded me as an enemy. Since they blocked my virtue, Jia Yong would not sell me.

I shook my head and waved away all the pity. I don't know how many times I have looked at Tao Wangqing in the painting over and over again. Only today, the smile in her eyebrows and the slightly raised corners of her lips suddenly became blurred, and gradually overlapped with a chubby and chubby little face.

"Like, too much like!"

I closed my eyes gently, and the scene of Tao Wangqing dying to save me in the demon tomb reverberated in my mind. In the light and rain, she danced gracefully, and then the scene changed, a pitiful little girl huddled in the dark alley, looking at me timidly: "You told me that your name is Zhi Niang'er, and now I meet another child named Xiao Zhi, why didn't I think of it? The names are similar, and even the appearance is like carved from the same mold. Is it really you who came back to find me? As the saying goes, one flower withers and another blooms, and there is a destiny in the dark!"

After saying this, I sighed softly.

Tao Wangqing is a painted Rakshasa. When she was killed, she was too resentful and struck by five thunders. Only a wisp of residual soul escaped and entered the painting. Because of the later generations' thoughts, she came back again with the blessing of telekinesis. In the end, what I saw of her was only a part of her residual soul.

When Old Man Li talked to me about her, he also said something that went against common sense and was almost impossible.

Five thunders struck, and a remnant soul escaped. Logically, the remaining souls should have been annihilated in the endless power of heaven. However, after careful investigation by the previous generation of ferrymen, they were shocked to find that another remnant soul of Tao Wangqing actually went to reincarnation! ! !

This is unprecedented.

The ferryman was puzzled and didn't even know what the remnant soul that went to reincarnation would become. Old Man Li said that the remnant soul reincarnated, and the person who was born without soul was probably a fool. However, since this kind of thing has never happened, it is not ruled out that there will be accidents. It is possible that the reincarnated body will have some strange and weird abilities, and it will definitely not be a normal person, but the probability of this is very small.

The fact is obviously going in the direction of the very small probability.

Xiao Zhi can occasionally see the fate of others. He is gifted. Could it be that this is the ability brought by the remnant soul reincarnation?

The previous generation of ferrymen said that the reincarnated body would instinctively approach another remnant of its soul, so I didn't need to take the initiative to look for it. As long as I held the scroll, the reincarnated body would come to me. Xiao Zhi also said that he came here inexplicably and couldn't get rid of me no matter what. However, I didn't have the scroll with me at that time. Could it be that... Tao Wangqing entrusted himself to me, and the cause and effect had been transferred to me?

"I can't see clearly, I can't understand..."

I shook my head, feeling that this matter was complicated. After hesitating for a moment, I still quietly put away the scroll, not intending to let Xiaozhi know about this. When I closed the drawer, I looked at the hall where the Zhenwu flag was enshrined, and I couldn't help but say to myself: "You have withered in the previous life, and you are here with me again in this life. The previous life is the previous life, and this life is this life. Why should you let the dirty things of the previous life be dirty in your heart in this life? Just live happily. I owe you a life, and I will do my best to repay it. When the time is right, the cause and effect will be resolved."

Tao Wangqing's greatest hope is that her soul can be complete. Zhao Xin is cruel and poisonous. Not only did he cook her into meat sauce, but he also let the sorcerer suppress her body, so that she would never be reborn. She came to me because the ritual officer is good at breaking this situation. Only by unlocking the suppression of the body can her two souls be perfectly integrated.

But this matter is too important! !

Five thunderbolts struck the top of my head, a wisp of residual soul escaped, and a wisp of residual soul reincarnated. This kind of thing is too weird and basically impossible to happen. I don't think it's a coincidence. The reason may be Tao Wangqing herself. She herself doesn't know what's going on. What kind of special method is she, God knows! !

As the saying goes, every drink and every bite has its own destiny. Maybe the two residual souls cannot merge. This is destined by heaven. I broke the killing situation of her physical body and helped the residual soul merge. This is against the will of heaven. The cause and effect may be so great that I can't imagine it.

However, since I promised her this matter, I decided to try my best to find her physical body in the future, but it's better not to tell Xiaozhi about these things.

This time I took over the matter of Old Man Qi. When I went down the mountain, my master saw the prophecy again in seclusion, but it became blurred all of a sudden, as if something major happened, affecting my destiny, which is a huge variable.

The variable my master said, is it referring to the demon obstacle in my heart, or does completing Tao Wangqing's entrustment affect my destiny?

Both of them seem to be possible!

I don't understand these things, I can't figure them out, so I just don't think about them, throw them aside, sit cross-legged on the kang, and look through a pile of books.

There are indeed many medical books here, not to mention Huangdi Neijing, Compendium of Materia Medica, Treatise on Febrile Diseases and other Chinese medicine books, there are all that should be there, in addition to this, I actually found many classic works of Western medical frameworks such as systematic anatomy, pathology, medical genetics, etc.

Undoubtedly, this should be left by my master. He was obsessed with medicine all his life. It seems that he is not only proficient in Chinese medicine, but also has tried to understand Western medicine. This is the attitude of studying.

In addition, there are some strange medical books that I have never heard of, and there are even many handwritten books, which are obviously unique. They should be the medical notes and experiences written by many famous doctors.

After a simple arrangement, I was completely dumbfounded when I saw the pile of medical books that was nearly half a person's height in front of me...

If I want to finish reading these medical books, wouldn't it cost me my life?

At this time, the sky outside was slightly bright.

With a slight "creak", the door opened, and a small head poked in. It was Xiaozhi. Seeing that I was not asleep, he immediately showed a sweet smile, called Jingzhe brother crisply, and then ran in happily, holding a huge food box in one hand and a thread-bound book under his armpit.

"I saw the light in your room was still on, so I knew you must not have eaten. I ran to the kitchen and searched for a long time, but I only found some millet, so I made some porridge for you. You haven't eaten all night, so drink some porridge first. Sister Xinya and Brother Wushuang went down the mountain. They said they made some money recently and bought a second-hand car. There were no more medicinal herbs in the mountains, so they went to buy some, especially licorice. My master said that you hurt your heart meridian, and now you have demons in your heart, and you are easily depressed. You must take medicine." Xiaozhi put the lunch box and the books under his arm on the kang table in front of me, climbed onto the kang and began to pick up the books scattered on the kang, while chattering about the situation outside. Da Huang was settled in the woodshed. Lao Bai and Yaozi went out after dawn, saying that they were going to patrol the mountains to see if the thief had left any tricks. The Taoist temple was already overcrowded. There were not many houses in the Zhenwu Temple, so Old Man Qi and his children could only squeeze into Old Man Bai's room. Fortunately, after a few days of recuperation, Yin Di and his wife were basically fine now. It didn't matter if they lived in the quiet place of the Taoist temple. I'm afraid they would wake up soon.

A little child was busying around, I couldn't bear to see it, so I pulled her to sit next to me and asked her if she had eaten.

Xiao Zhi said with a blushing face that she had eaten, but her stomach started to call. I felt sour in my heart, knowing that we had been out for so long, and Old Man Qi had not come to deliver food. The rice and flour in the Taoist temple had run out. Zhang Xinya and the others must have gone out to purchase things, and the only remaining food and drink was left to me by this silly child.

With a sigh, I opened the food box and forced Xiaozhi to drink porridge with me.

Xiaozhi was very kind and wanted to leave some for Dahuang. I smiled and said that he was forced by the tooth-eater to live in the mode of tiger. How could this little food be enough? The situation is not good now. Zhang Xinya and the others will not stay at the foot of the mountain for a long time. They must have bought food and returned early. It's okay for the tiger to be hungry for a while.

Xiao Zhi finally calmed down and drank a bowl of porridge happily. Suddenly, she glanced at me sideways and asked timidly, "Sister Xinya said that there are only two girls in the temple, and she wants me to live with her, but I don't want to live with her. I always feel comfortable staying with you. Brother Jingzhe, can I live with you in the future?"

I know that it is because of the scroll, and it may also be because of that cause and effect. This child is particularly close to me. After thinking about it, I always feel that Tao Wangqing's matter is my successor, and this child is naturally my responsibility. So I nodded and said half-jokingly and half-seriously, "If you like it here, you can live here. I will go to Zhang Xinya's place to talk to her. There are many beds and mattresses here. You are a child, and there are no such things. But if you grow up to be a big girl, it won't work. Once you enter the Taoist family, you will be a Taoist nun. What's the big nose Taoist and the gray robe Taoist nun living together?"

Xiao Zhi wrinkled her nose and hummed that it is natural for the gray robe Taoist nun to stay married and eat and live with her brother.

I couldn't help laughing. Only by being with her could I get rid of the dark side of this turbid world and feel more cheerful, not so depressed that I almost suffocated. With a slant of my eyes, I finally noticed the thread-bound book on the table on the kang. There were three big characters on it - Huang Ting Jing.

"Is this what the Fourteenth Ancestor gave you?"

I exclaimed softly, picked up the Huang Ting Jing and took a look at it, but after taking a look, I couldn't move my eyes away. I was afraid that I had seen a ghost! !