The first Taoist priest of the Tang Dynasty

No one knew why Zeng Deli suddenly fell to the ground and foamed at the mouth.

The middle-aged man who was with him thought that Zeng Deli was suffering from epilepsy, so he backed away in fright, as if he was afraid of being infected.

A quarter of an hour later, a doctor from Zeng's mansion came slowly.

And within a quarter of an hour, Zeng Deli's complexion had already turned blue, yellow, black and white, and he died of poison.

"Quick, hurry up and inform the old lady that the master's house was poisoned and died."

The doctor of Zeng's mansion judged Zeng Deli to be dead within a few breaths of time.

Zeng Deli's face at this moment is extremely ugly, his pulse and heartbeat are gone, except for some body temperature, if he is not dead, what is it?

Some of the nearby servants rushed away after hearing Langzhong's call, heading for Mrs. Zeng's bedroom in the inner courtyard.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the Zeng Mansion started to go into chaos, and Mrs. Zeng even collapsed on the ground, crying and wiping away her tears.

The chaos in Zeng's mansion lasted from the time of the ugly to dawn, and all the servants and guards were walking on eggshells. Once the main family died, they would also become the targets of suspicion of poisoning.

At this time, Zhong Wen had already returned to Longquan Temple.

However, he didn't go for a morning run.

After a night of running around, he was already as tired as a dog and wanted to sleep.

After returning to the temple, Zhong Wen went directly to his room, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep.

Li Daoling and the others are still asleep, and no one in the temple knows what happened that night.

Time, like running water, passed day after day.

The people in Longquan Temple are still as usual, doing what they should do.

The same is true for the villagers at the foot of the mountain.

Among them, only Zhong Wen was slightly worried, worried that the Zeng family would send someone to investigate.

Of course, these days, he has not seen anyone sent by the Zeng family to interrogate, or the government sent Yamen to interrogate.

As for Lizhou City, after Zeng Deli was poisoned and died that day, there was indeed a huge turmoil.

Numerous doctor doctors and foremen checked and verified the cause of Zeng Deli's death.

In the end, it was concluded that he was bitten by some kind of poison, which caused the poison to die.

Speaking of that day, after Zeng Deli died of poison, the Zeng residence was in chaos.

The doctor's first judgment was that he was poisoned.

After checking the neck, I found a wound. My first feeling was that I was assassinated.

The old lady of the Zeng family invited the governor to come over and began to investigate the entire Lizhou City, but she couldn't find out who did it.

Another two or three days later, the officials of the government and those doctors and doctors were inspected again.

From the very beginning, everyone basically agreed that Zeng Deli was assassinated to death.

After several inspections, until the night ugly time, Zeng Deli's symptoms at that time.

However, according to the recollections of the middle-aged man present and several servants, there is basically no possibility of being assassinated in everyone's dictation.

The tiny arrow needle left in front of the house had already been swept away, so where can I find that needle.At that time, the servants who cleaned it didn't pay attention at all. It was small, like a twig, except for a little fluff at the end.

In the end, Zeng Deli's death could only be attributed to being bitten by some kind of poison.

Although there are many doubts about Zeng Deli's death, there is no evidence that he was assassinated.

In the end, the government also classified the incident as a poison bite.

The old lady of Zeng's mansion felt unwilling, and went to the government office several times to complain about her grievances.

But no matter what the old lady of Zeng's mansion is, the government has nothing to do.

What's more, the current Zeng Mansion is full of chaos.

Whether it was Zeng Deli's cousins, relatives, or his half-brother, they began to compete for the entire Zeng family's property.

Originally, if Zeng Deli had an heir, it would be impossible for the Zeng family to end up like this.

The bad thing is that Zeng Deli did something bad, and God punished him. He married so many concubines, but none of them gave birth to him.

The daughter gave birth to a bunch of them, but there was none of them.

Heaven has the virtue of good life, but if all the bad things are done, this virtue will be defeated.

The chaos in Zeng's mansion did not affect one Zeng's family, but the entire Deli Prefecture.

The Zeng family had many properties, and Zeng Deli's death led to the division of the Zeng family's properties. No matter how high the status of Mrs. Zeng was, she was only a female generation. With so many relatives in the Zeng family, it was inevitable that the wolves would come to share the food.

The Zeng family's industries, ranging from ordinary textiles and silk embroidery, restaurants, to grain, salt and iron, and even the county officials under Lizhou Prefecture, have had a great influence.

Although the Zeng family has no senior officials, there are quite a few members of the Zeng family who are officials in the county under the Lizhou Prefecture.

From the big county captain to the small government officer, they criss-cross each other, otherwise, how could the Zeng family be called the local tyrants of Lizhou?

Zhong Wen's assassination this time directly turned the entire Lizhou Mansion upside down.

Some people complained, others applauded, and some people fanned the flames everywhere, hoping that after the collapse of the Zeng family, the behemoth would never rekindle.

Of course, the matter behind this must have come from the hands of those foreign gentry.

In such a big turmoil, only these foreign gentry could have such great energy.

As for Zeng Deli's death, no one would care too much about it.

Profit is the biggest show on this battlefield.

No one wants to be on top of this big show and fall behind.

The officials of the government office who sat high on it were also happy.

The Zeng family, who did not dare to offend at will, from now on will not have so many scruples.

No matter which official it is, they don't want such a huge local gentry to oppress them under their own rule.

Just don't drive Zheng Zhi from the Lizhou capital, he hopes that after the Zeng family falls, they can still beat him up.

By the way, don't drive Zheng Zhi in Lizhou. After hearing that Zeng Deli died, he held a big banquet at home to celebrate.

And the people he invited were basically people who were close friends with him. After all, it was really unreasonable to hold a banquet at this time, but he, Zheng Zhi, really held a banquet.

Although he held a banquet just to celebrate, this name cannot be said like this.

He, Zheng Zhi, was so happy that he couldn't find the north.

As long as Zeng Deli dies and he is in office, it will be much easier to do. There will be no bosses, and all official duties will come naturally.

He also suspected that Li Daoling of Longquan Temple did it, but after thinking about it, he rejected this idea.

After all, Li Daoling is an expert, so he doesn't bother to do this kind of assassination.

But the governor who had a good relationship with the Zeng family went out for an outing at the moment, just to avoid being entangled by the old lady of the Zeng family.

Although the governor had a good relationship with the Zeng family, it was based on interests.

Once Zeng Deli dies, this benefit will also collapse. Who cares what happens to your Zeng family, whether it collapses or splits up, as a governor, he doesn't want to participate in it, so as not to cause a lot of trouble.

This really fulfilled that sentence, and everyone pushed the wall down.

As for Longquan Temple and Longquan Village, it seems that there is no change at all.

Even the death of Zeng Deli has not affected this place. After all, this place is dozens of miles away from Lizhou City.

"Jiu Shou, you've been busy in and out recently, and it's rare to see you practicing swordsmanship, why is that?"

One day, Li Daoling caught Zhong Wen who was about to leave Longquan Temple.

"Master, am I memorizing medical books? I only know the names of a lot of herbs, but I don't know what they are. That's why I went to the mountains to look for some herbs, so I can identify them. I don't know much about swordsmanship. Practiced a little bit, but it never stopped every day."

Indeed, Zhong Wen has been looking for some medicinal herbs in the forest recently.

These days, he rarely practices swordsmanship as much as before, but he still spares one or two quarters of an hour every day to practice swordsmanship and spear skills.

For nearly a month, he has been in and out every day, busy identifying herbs.

In fact, this is also what Zhong Wen needs to focus on learning in the next time.

Ever since his uncle and aunt were injured, he felt very powerless.

If it wasn't for his master and Chen Feng, he probably wouldn't be able to cure his uncle and aunt.

Therefore, these days, Zhong Wen has focused on learning medical skills.

However, at present, he did not go to Li Daoling to ask questions, but began to identify some medicinal herbs.

In other words, the area where Longquan Temple is located belongs to the Daba Mountains in the southwest, where the vegetation is lush and there are many medicinal herbs growing there.

Although there are many types of medicinal herbs that grow in the Daba Mountain Range, there are also many types of medicinal herbs that cannot be found in the Daba Mountain Range.

Plants and herbs have different habits. Some like the environment of Daba Mountains, some like plains or cold places, and some like hot and humid environments.

Although there are some sketches drawn in the medical books that Zhong Wen memorized, it is really difficult to identify them.

After all, it was indeed difficult for Zhong Wen, who was used to seeing color photos, to find and identify medicinal herbs with a simple map.

However, no matter how difficult it is, he must learn and recognize all the herbs in this medical book.

Otherwise, a doctor who only knows his name but not his identity must be a fake doctor.

This is not the 21st century, this is the seventh century, the Tang Dynasty, but there is no systematic medical school or hospital.

The doctors in the previous life only needed to study pathology, and did not need to study chemistry and pharmaceuticals at all.

And Zhong Wenxue is Chinese medicine. Of course, Zhong Wen also knows some simple things about Western medicine.

For example, he still knows a general idea of ​​surgical procedures, disinfection, and even some first aid methods, but he really doesn't know about other methods of Western medicine.

"Nine Poems, then don't be so busy, just calm down, practice and learn the Tao, what you pay attention to is meditation, you come in and out every day, it is difficult for a teacher to find you."

Li Daoling was not worried about any accidents happening to his disciple, but just hoped that his disciple would not be exhausted.

Furthermore, after entering the Taoist sect, one must naturally learn to be calm.

"Master, I am getting older and older. If I don't study hard now, I am afraid that my memory will not be good enough when I get older."

Zhong Wendao is really not afraid that his memory will not be good enough because he is getting old.

In fact, he has his own ideas, firstly because of his uncle's affairs, secondly because he wants to go down the mountain as soon as possible to venture into the rivers and lakes, and thirdly, of course he also wants to be a famous doctor or something.

"Sigh..." Li Daoling sighed softly, not knowing what to say, should he continue to dissuade such hard-working disciples?Isn't this a blow to the self-confidence of the disciples?

Seeing that the master had nothing to do, Zhong Wen took his leave and left, heading for the mountains and forests.

Another month later, Zhong Wen and his son sent Xu's family back to the second village.

After Zeng Deli's death incident, Xu Mao's family was honestly a little outrageous.

Even Xu Yao, who married Zeng Deli as a concubine, was sent back to her mother's house, and started to behave like a human with her tail between her legs.

That day, when Xu Cai saw Zhong Wen sending the Xu family back to the Second Village, he began to close the door tightly, not daring to take half a step out of the house.

Speaking of the men from Xu Mao's clan, except for Xu Da and Xu Qian whose legs were crippled by Zhong Wen and could not be cured, the others have healed their leg injuries in the past few months.

As for Xu Da and Xu Qian, they can only lie in bed for the rest of their lives.

Although Xu Hao is the head of the Second Village, but after knowing that Zhong Wen was the murderer who came to the Second Village again, how could he dare to make noise? Not working.

After all, Zeng Deli, the biggest backer of their family, died of poisoning a few months ago. Without a backer, how dare they run rampant in the countryside like before.

In the early morning of the second day, Xu Mao's family came to Xu's house in an ox cart with one hundred guan coins on their backs, saying that they wanted to make an apology.

How dare the Xu family accept the compensation money from the Zheng family of the second village.However, Zhong Wen directly moved the hundred copper coins into Xu's home.

Don't be a fool if you have money, not to mention that my grandmother's family is poor and doesn't have a penny.

With the compensation of one hundred guan, the family can live a better life in the future.

However, Zhong Wen was not so generous. Although the [-] Guan coins were paid as compensation, Zhong Wen forcibly kept the ox and cart carrying the copper coins.

Xu Mao's family didn't dare to say a word of nonsense, they kept begging for mercy, and left with their tails between their legs.

At this point, Zhong Wen estimated that Xu Mao's family, with their prestige in the second village, would no longer dare to bully the villagers of the second village at will.

After the incident, Zhong Wen and his son stayed at Xu's home for a day, returned home, and continued their daily work.

Time flies, time flies, and in a flash, the footsteps have entered the seventh year of Zhenguan, the third year of 630 AD.

During these few months, Zhong Wen was busy going in and out every day, either to ask Li Daoling for medical advice, or to identify medicinal herbs in the mountains and forests.