Record of Yin and Yang

Yongping County is smaller than Wuxi County, and Gu Jiu and the others stayed in Yongping County for a relatively short time.

The two brothers and sisters drove the donkey cart leisurely and embarked on the road to the next city, Shangyang County. The first two days were uneventful, and then slowly, some people who were driving in the opposite direction with burdens on their backs and frowning faces appeared on the road.

One or two didn't think so, but four or five Gu Jiu and Shao Yi felt a little strange, so Gu Jiu stopped an old man and asked what was going on.

The old man looked at the direction they were going, and when he learned that they were going to Shangyang County, he sighed and said: "You guys should wait a little longer, Shangyang County is not peaceful now, there is a plague in the city, the government has closed the city, when will it open again?" The city gate is not yet known."

"Plague?" Gu Jiu squeezed his cold fingertips, "Typhoid fever?"

"Treatise on Febrile Diseases Essentials" says: Spring is warm, summer is hot, autumn is cool, and winter air is often cold. The four seasons of the injury are normal illnesses, and qi epidemics are a disaster.In ancient times, plague was a general term for severe and acute infectious diseases, which could occur all year round.Colds in spring, summer diseases in summer, malaria in autumn, and typhoid fever is the most common disease in winter.

Typhoid fever has the characteristics of strong contagion, and it is a frequent group, regardless of men, women and children.But even in ancient times when medical technology was backward, typhoid fever was not considered difficult to treat. How could it be so severe that the city would be closed? Could there be some mutation in the middle?

The situation seemed serious, but after discussing it with Shao Yi, Gu Jiu and Shao Yi decided to go and have a look.

Seeing that they insisted on going, the old man shook his head worriedly and stopped persuading them.

Saying goodbye to the old man, the two speeded up their journey a bit, and it was already noon three days later when they arrived in Shangyang County.

The gate of Shangyang County was closed tightly, and there was a roadblock ten meters in front of the gate, guarded by officers and soldiers.They surrounded some people in front of them, most of them came from other places like Gu Jiu and wanted to enter the city, many of them were locals, and they had relatives in the city, because they were worried, so they quarreled with the officers and soldiers to let them in.

Officers and soldiers have seen many people like this who don't care about the seriousness recently, and they waved the spears in their hands to drive them away unceremoniously: if they make trouble, they will be arrested first, and the punishment will be discussed after the matter is over.

Gu Jiu and Shao Yi stood behind the crowd and did not go up. Both of them looked a little dignified. This city in the eyes of ordinary people was almost submerged in gray and black fog in their eyes.Above the city, there is a cloud of mist as black as thick ink lingering around. It is changing at any time. If you look closely, it looks like a figure with teeth and claws.

Gu Jiu and Shao Yi thought of a word at the same time: Plague God.

There are five plague gods, Zhang Yuanbo in Spring, Liu Yuanda in Xia, Zhao Gongming in Autumn, Zhong Shigui in Winter, and Shi Wenye in Zhongwen.Whenever there is a sudden epidemic in a certain place, the local people like to hang wormwood at the door of their homes to prevent the plague god from approaching, for safety.But because although people fear God, they actually don’t believe in God. They basically seek peace of mind by doing this. The plague gods in their mouths refer more to those people or forces who do evil things.

Although there is a lot of talk about the plague god among the people, it is not reliable in Taoism. In their words, the so-called plague god is only transformed by the hostility of the local dead people. This hostility is cruel and violent. It is also a kind of paranoid extreme gas.Anyone who is full of hostility is a person with a strong intention to kill, so the hostility of a dead person also contains murderous intent, and it is designed to kill the living and angry.

If the yang energy and anger are killed, people will get sick and die, and the plague will break out, which is the most normal.

The plague in Shangyang County was obviously caused by hostility.I don't know who left it behind, but there was so much murderous aura in his life that it almost turned into a phantom.There is a phantom sitting in the sky, as long as it doesn't leave for a day, the situation in the city will only become more serious.

Gu Jiu and Shao Yi stayed at the gate of the city for a while, and then dispersed with the other people. They walked back for a certain distance, and Shao Yi suddenly pulled the reins, turned the cart in a different direction, and parked the donkey cart in the moat Under a big tree next to it.

The winter wind is cold and quiet, and the branches are depressed. Fortunately, the trunk is big enough.

Using the cover of the tree trunk, Shao Yi took out a blank talisman paper from the cloth bag and asked Gu Jiu to fetch water from the river.

Gu Jiu, who was carrying a small bowl of river water, came over and said solemnly, "This river water is also dirty."

Dirty here does not refer to the cleanliness of the water, but the air in it.Water is what the human body needs, and it is the source of all things, so it carries vitality, and the cleaner the water in the flow, the stronger the vitality.In addition to a small amount of vitality, this bowl of river water is also mixed with a large amount of hostility from the dead.The river water is like this, and the well water in the people's homes in the city is probably not much better. Drinking this kind of water for a few days will almost kill the two qi of life and yang.

This also shows that the hostility in the city has begun to spread outward, which will gradually affect the surrounding people.

Fortunately, the river is flowing, and although the hostility of the dead will be taken away if mixed in it, the amount taken away will not be much, and will eventually be washed away by the huge vitality of the flowing water.However, dissipating does not mean disappearing. Drinking a small amount of these hostile qi will not cause serious illness, but the body will inevitably feel uncomfortable.This kind of discomfort, the closer it is to Shangyang County, the more serious it is, and vice versa, the farther away it is, the less affected it will be.

Shao Yi took the bowl, frowned and ignited a water purification talisman, then poured some water and cinnabar on it, then held the talisman pen in his hand, made a desk on the front of the car, and quickly drew a piece of talisman paper out.

Putting the drawn talisman paper into two fingers, Shao Yi faced the direction of Shangyang County, made a formula with both hands, and read: "The world is suffering forever, and there are three ways of troubles. The fire comes out of the roaring department, and hunger and thirst are always hanging. Willow nectar Water drives away the heat and cools you down. The method of purifying the vase gives birth to each other, and the soul and god give birth to the Daluo. Compassion crosses all waters and moistens everything. The nectar sprinkled on the world will relieve the suffering of a hundred lifetimes."

This is the nectar mantra, which is actually a Buddhist mantra, but both Shao Yi and Gu Jiu were taught by Fang Beiming, a man of miscellaneous learning, so they are also good at Buddhism and Taoism.

Manna can cure all diseases and sufferings. Of course, Shao Yi did not have the legendary manna water. He replaced it with the water from the moat of Shangyang County, because these rivers guard the people in the city day and night, and they themselves have the will to protect the people in the city. , so it is best to use it to relieve disasters under the blessing of spells.

The talisman paper was twirled, and Shao Yi held a fresh branch that was folded off the roadside just now. The wooden stick representing vitality guided the smoke from the talisman paper into a thread. With Shao Yi's wrist turning, the wisp of smoke Then it floated quickly along the direction of the wooden stick rushing to the sky above Yangjun, and hit the middle of the phantom, like a stone entering the water, slowly swaying waves, washing away the gray fog and phantom surrounding it over and over again.

But the phantom hovering here is not for a day or two. It is so powerful that Shao Yi can't simply clean it up with a piece of talisman paper. The situation here will not get worse.

All they have to do is enter the city and pinch the source before they can be eliminated.

It was already noon, and the two of them hadn't eaten yet. Gu Jiu didn't like to eat cold food, especially in winter.Finding a leeward side, Shao Yi put out the stove, drew some river water and lit a few water purification charms.In this weather, the snake has basically hibernated, the younger brother slipped around, successfully removed a snake's nest, captured the sleeping brother Snake, and threw him at Shao Yi's feet.Although the younger brother was short, his eyes were very domineering. He cast a disdainful glance at Shao Yi, jumped onto the donkey cart and lay down on his stomach, waiting for lunch.

"I pulled out the whiskers of the last cat that dared to look at me like that." Shao Yi dared not speak out in anger, and took the snake to the river to deal with it.

At noon, I ate delicious snake meat to relieve the meat. In the afternoon, the two brothers and sisters went around the neighborhood and passed a village.This village is the closest to Shangyang County. They don't drink the water from the moat, so they are not affected by the hostility.However, the severe situation in Shangyang County has affected the village. There is a smell of herbs everywhere in the village, and the villagers are brewing medicine to prevent diseases.

The two bought some fodder in the village, and then stored the donkey cart in the village. Before leaving, they asked the village chief not to use water from rivers or lakes near Shangyang County for drinking or washing, so as not to get sick.

The two returned to the previous place, and in the evening they lit a fire to heat the dry food for dinner.

At night, it was time for the officers and soldiers guarding the city gates to change their guards again.

The gate of the city was opened from the inside, and a group of ten people came out holding long guns. They had a short conversation with the previous wave of officers and soldiers, and this wave of officers and soldiers retreated, turned around and walked into the city.

Suddenly a gust of wind hit, blowing all the people present here and there.

"What a big wind!"

"Where does the demon wind come from?"

The wind and sand blinded them, and all the officers and soldiers present covered their eyes and yelled. Taking this opportunity, Gu Jiu, the instigator, swaggered past them with his younger brother and Shao Yi in his arms, and entered the city gate that was still open.

When they entered the city gate, Shao Yi threw a piece of burning talisman, and the talisman flapped in the air, and the strong wind outside suddenly stopped.

Shao Yi and Gu Jiu's figures were hidden in the darkness, black ash fell from the burnt talisman paper, and no trace could be seen in the night.

The officers and soldiers outside the city blinked their red eyes, completely confused by the strong wind just now.

The city was empty, and the houses on both sides of the street seemed to be uninhabited. They had to walk a long way to see a light occasionally.As soon as they knocked on the door, the light went out suddenly, and there was no more sound.

The two walked on such a dark street, the huge city seemed to be a dead city, only their inaudible breathing and footsteps rang in their ears, the emptiness was shockingly silent.

Hostility is everywhere, but both Gu Jiu and Shao Yi are equipped with magical weapons, so these floating hostility can't do anything to them. When they are about to be touched by them, they will quickly spread to both sides, and then will not be reconciled behind them. Gather.

Gu Jiu and Shao Yi consciously followed the anger in the city, and after a long walk, they tracked more and more anger.Finally, the two stopped at the intersection of a street.

Barricades were also set up at the entrance of the street, guarded by officers and soldiers.There is light here, there are voices, and the two of them have not disappeared, and the officers and soldiers can see them at a glance.

The first person pointed his gun at them and warned loudly: "This is an isolated area. People outside the isolated area, if they try to get close to make trouble, they will be shot!"