Shaolin Bajue

Chapter 1254 Medicine King Mountain

Fang Jianming and his party left the city, because yesterday's heavy rain made the road muddy and it was inconvenient to run fast, so they could only move forward at a moderate speed.Although I was moving forward almost all day on this day, by the time of dusk, I had only traveled more than 150 miles, which was much less than in the past.

On the second day, the sky cleared up, and everyone rushed their horses to hurry, and even the speed of the carriage seemed to be a little faster than usual.Therefore, within a day, he had already arrived at Tongguan and settled down in Yao County.Tongguan, later known as Tongchuan, has a long history. In the Ming Dynasty, it belonged to Yaozhou.

Fang Jiuyao learned from Fang Qingyun that there was a Yaowang Mountain nearby. He was a medical student. Seeing that there was still some time, he asked Fang Qingyun for the way, and then took Fang Jianming to play on Yaowang Mountain together.After hearing this, Qianqian and Yanyan clamored to go, Fang Jianming thought that they had finally come out once, so he asked them to follow.

Qianqian and Yanyan, dressed in strong clothes and carrying swords, rode their horses and followed Fang Jianming and Fang Jiuyao.Along the way, he chattered and chatted non-stop, and when he saw something new, he always had to point it out.

The Yaowang Mountain is three miles east of the city, and it will arrive in a blink of an eye.Yaowang Mountain, originally called Wutai Mountain, is composed of five mountains. The top of the mountain is as flat as a platform, and it looks like five fingers from a distance.This mountain is named after Sun Simiao, the king of medicine.

As soon as the three of them arrived at the foot of the mountain, they saw a lot of pedestrians. After observing for a while, they were not tourists, but most of them were pilgrims burning incense and worshiping.Many pilgrims looked pious, held incense candles, and bowed every three steps, looking like a pilgrimage.

It turns out that this Yaowang mountain is not only related to the medicine king Sun Simiao. As early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were temples here. From Tang to Ming, there were many temples built here.There is a Yaowang Temple on the mountain, which is quite grand, and it has always been a place for people to burn incense and worship.

The four of them put their horses down the mountain and went up the stairs. As soon as they reached the Tianmen, two monks with fleshy faces jumped out from the side and blocked the way of the four of them.The four were slightly taken aback, not knowing what they were going to do.

The two monks first looked at Qianqian and Yanyan in a daze, then straightened their chests and asked, "Who are you? What are you doing at Yaowang Mountain?"

Fang Jianming thought to himself: "These two monks' voices are arrogant, why did they look half like monks?" He said indifferently: "Who are we, there is no need to tell you, we are passing by here, and we are here to play."

The monk on the left gave Fang Jianming a sideways look, and said, "Playing? Do you know where this is going?"

Fang Jianming said: "I heard it is the Hall of the King of Medicine."

The monk on the left snorted, and said: "Since you know, you should go down and buy some incense candles to worship, with your hands empty, why don't you take the King of Medicine seriously?"

Fang Jianming turned his head and looked down, only to find that there were six monks selling joss sticks at a place on the side of the road that was tightly surrounded.He has extraordinary eyesight, and he has seen clearly that the price of incense candles sold by those monks is five times higher than ordinary incense candles, and some even twenty times higher.Even if monks want to make money to live, they don't make it like this.

Fang Jianming was born in Shaolin, so he couldn't allow such things to happen, he rolled his eyes, thought about it, smiled, and said: "I don't know the rules, so I hope the two masters will give me pointers."

When the two monks heard this, they turned into a gust of spring breeze and said, "It's easy to say, easy to say."

The monk on the left smiled and said: "I think you are a good-looking talent. I think he is a pilgrim who came from afar?"

Fang Jianming made a haha, and said: "Master's eyes are like gods, you really hit the mark."

The monk asked, "Is someone in the son's family sick?"

Fang Jianming said: "Yes, my father has recently suffered from a strange disease and has been bedridden for several days. I am very worried." When he said that, a sad expression appeared on his face.

The monk laughed "haha" and said, "Young Master, don't worry. You must have heard that the holy water here can drive away evil spirits when you come here. No matter what kind of strange disease, just drink the holy water and keep the medicine until the disease is cured."

Fang Jianming pretended to be overjoyed, and said, "Really? Master Youqing can give you some pointers."

The monk gave a glance to the monk beside him, and the latter went away, probably because he saw that Fang Jianming and the others were not here to make trouble, and he was not needed anymore.

The monk led Fang Jianming and the others to the foot of the mountain, and said loudly: "Get out of the way, get out of the way."

Seeing that it was the monks here, the crowd didn't dare to offend them, so they stepped aside one after another.

The monk led the four people to the place where incense candles were sold, reached out and knocked on the table three times, and the six monks who sold incense candles knew what they meant.

The monk turned his head back, Fang Jianming smiled and said: "Master, buy some incense candles here first, and after worshiping in the hall, someone will come to greet you. The monk still has some things to do, so I will leave for the time being." After finishing speaking, he went away up.

The six monks were all smiles, and one of them came up from behind the table and asked, "What kind of incense candles do you want to buy, young master?"

Fang Jianming stepped forward to take a look, and saw that on the long table, there were all kinds of joss sticks, but each one was marked, thinking that he was afraid that pilgrims would bring joss sticks to worship without permission, breaking the rules.

The monk saw Fang Jianming's eyes flicking back and forth, as if he couldn't decide to pay attention, so he said with a smile: "I saw the young master's clothes, and I knew that he was definitely not an ordinary man. Please forgive my presumptuous question. Is anyone sick?"

Fang Jianming said: "My father has been bedridden for several days."

The monk said: "It turned out to be your lord. In this case, in order to show your filial piety, I bought this kind of incense candle to show your sincerity." After speaking, he stretched out his finger.

Fang Jianming followed his finger and saw that it was the most expensive incense candle in the venue.

The monk said: "To tell you the truth, my lord, Wang Yuanwai in the city fell seriously ill last month and almost died of it. Wang Xiaoyuanwai came to ask for holy water. At that time, this kind of incense candles were sold. After Wang Xiaoyuanwai worshiped, he asked for holy water. , Go back and give Wang Yuanwai a drink, and the next day, Wang Yuanwai’s illness will be cured.”

Fang Jianming said: "Is this really true?"

The monk said: "If you don't believe me, you can ask everyone present." As soon as the words fell, most of the people around said it was true.

Fang Jianming saw that these people were clearly pilgrims, not tolers, and thought to himself: "Since these people are not tolers, then tolers are the king's servants. Hmph, if you are really lying, I must drive you fake monks away." It’s not allowed to go out of Yaowang Mountain.” On the face, he was overjoyed, and said: “Everyone says so, it’s obviously true. Qianqian, pay.”

Although Qianqian and Yanyan had just come out of the Immortal Valley, after a few days of hearing and seeing, they already understood a little bit of the worldly ways of the world. When they heard that Fang Jianming wanted to buy joss sticks, they didn't ask much. He took out a piece of silver from his pocket, walked up and put it on the table, and said, "Is that enough?"

That ingot of silver was more than five taels, so naturally it was enough.

The monk laughed, picked up the joss stick, handed it to Fang Jiuyao, and said, "Your son is really rough, I believe your master's illness will recover soon."

Fang Jiuyao was startled for a moment, and then he took the incense candle away.So, Fang Jianming took Shang Jiuyao, Qianqian and Yanyan up the stairs again, walked through the gate of heaven, and came to the main hall.

Although it was afternoon at this time, there were a lot of pilgrims, one week after another.Fang Jianming was about to line up to offer incense, but a monk had already come, he put his palms together and said: "Amitabha, the almsgiver sells the best incense candles, so please do it yourself." After speaking, he led Fang Jianming into the hall to offer incense.

All the pilgrims thought they were used to it, but none of them came out to speak.According to etiquette, Fang Jianming burned incense and kowtowed, and then took a closer look at the statue, but saw that the statue was one foot tall, with a white face and long beard, gentle and dignified appearance, dressed in casual clothes, he must be the medicine king Sun Simiao.

At this time, the monk led Fang Jianming to the side, made fragrant tea for Fang Jianming to drink.Standing behind Fang Jianming, Fang Jiuyao, Qianqian and Yanyan looked like a follower and two guards, except that the two female guards were pretty and lovely, which was really rare.

After a while, a middle-aged monk came up and led Fang Jianming out of the Yaowang Temple.After walking for a long time, I came to a secluded place, and saw an ancient cypress in the field, which was very thick. According to legend, it was planted by Sun Simiao himself, and it has been more than 800 years ago.

There were three old monks sitting under the tree, with their eyes open and closed, the divine light leaked out, falling into the eyes of ordinary people, they only said that they were eminent monks who had attained the Tao, but in Fang Jianming's eyes, they were people who were proficient in martial arts and had profound inner strength .

Fang Jianming asked secretly: "Where did these three monks come from?"

Although the three old monks were proficient in martial arts, they were far behind Fang Jianming at this time. They didn't even see that Fang Jianming possessed martial arts, but they did see that Qianqian and Yanyan knew martial arts.In fact, Qianqian and Yanyan carried swords on their backs, and even experts would have guessed that they were martial arts learners.

The middle-aged monk went up, whispered a few words in the ear of one of the old monks, and stepped aside.

The old monk clasped his hands together, and the other party said sharply, "Amitabha, I don't know what disease your father is suffering from, what kind of holy water do you want?"

Fang Jianming was stunned, and said, "Master, is the holy water also divided?"

The old monk said: "There are sixty-six and 36 kinds of holy water in this hospital. The higher the number, the better the effect. Please tell me about your father's condition in detail, so that I can make holy water according to the symptoms."

Fang Jianming thought for a while, and said to Jiu Yao through voice transmission: "Brother Jiu Yao, leave this matter to me, remember, the more serious the better."

Fang Jiuyao is Fang Qigen's apprentice, and he has already left his teacher. For him, this kind of thing is probably not a piece of cake. He just opened his mouth and explained the illness clearly. It is so serious that the patient will die soon. die.

How could the three old monks not believe it?The three of them discussed for a while, and Fang Jianming, the old monk from before, said: "My father's condition is very serious. After the three of them unanimously studied and decided, the second kind of holy water should be used."

Fang Jianming originally thought he would use the first type, but when he heard that the second type was used, he couldn't help being startled, and said: "Master, please forgive me for being bold, my father's condition may have reached the most serious stage, why not use the first type of holy water Woolen cloth?"

(End of this chapter)