In the early morning of the next day, the yellow oriole sang green, and Xiao Qing woke up amidst the twittering noise, but there were no shadows of Lu Jinzhi and Zhou Wei beside him, and he should have gone out for morning exercises.

The temple in the mountain is indeed the best place to practice. Xiao Qing lay on the bed in a daze for a while, and then got out of bed, dressed, opened the door and went out after his brain cleared up.

Although the layout of this temple is simple, it is very large. Most of the people in the border villages are crowded in the temple, and each family has a room to live in.

Walking to the front hall where the gods are worshiped, the disciples who chanted in the morning just dispersed, just like the students who had their morning class poured out of the hall door, Xiao Qing stood aside and waited for them to finish before walking into the hall.

What is enshrined on the altar is not the Buddha, but a man in green clothes and long hair, wearing a bamboo hat and a seven-star long sword at his waist. Even if it is a stone statue, it is full of extraordinary appearance.

Xiao Qing looked up and was wondering which god in the eight thousand gods scroll looked like this, when an old voice sounded behind him: "This is the God of Simu, Jumang."

Xiao leaned over, with blue hair scattered on his shoulders, and the abbot held the prayer beads and twirled, saying: "But few people know that Jumang is in charge of spring, Zhu Rong is in charge of summer, Rushou is in charge of autumn, and Baigao is in charge of winter. A temple should not There is only one god to worship.”

Xiao Qing raised one corner of his mouth and said, "Isn't it up to the host to decide what gods are enshrined in the temple?"

The host shook his head and sighed long and long: "The people of the Southern Border Kingdom are too persistent in their beliefs, and they cannot allow a second god to be enshrined."

While speaking, a disciple suddenly rushed into the hall and shouted loudly: "The host is not good! An old lady suddenly foamed at the mouth and fainted early this morning!"

The host was silent for a while, then turned to Xiao Qing and said, "Will the benefactor come with me to have a look?"

Xiao Qing didn't know what the old man was up to. There were only three of them in the temple who could use their spiritual power to temporarily support dying ordinary people. If they went to watch the excitement together, they would definitely get into trouble in the end. Xiao Qing didn't need to ask for trouble for irrelevant people, so he said simply: "I don't want to, the host can go on his own."

The host said no more, and rushed to the wing room with the disciple.

However, he didn't want to cause trouble, but trouble always came to him automatically.As soon as Xiao Qing returned to the room and hadn't rested for a while, someone knocked on the door vigorously and shouted anxiously from outside: "Prince Daoist, please open the door. Priest Daoist, please open the door."

Xiao Qing was so annoyed by the noise that he opened the door, but his angry voice was choked in his throat after he saw the face of the person coming. The child who knocked on the door was A Yao who had taken them in from a border village. Follow a plainly dressed villager.

Ah Yao naturally couldn't recognize his appearance at this time, and when he saw him open the door, he knelt down and kowtowed, with a strong cry in his voice: "I beg you, the Taoist priest, the host said that only you can help me, please save my grandma, I will repay you like a cow or a horse!"

Xiao Qing gave him a gloomy look, turned around and sat on the stool, looked at him with his chin propped up, and couldn't help laughing when he saw the tearful face of the child: "Why should I help you?"

Ah Yao was still kowtowing, and she kowtowed while saying: "I have been praying for you, I know you are a good person, as long as you are willing to help me, I will do whatever you want me to do."

Xiao tilted his head and smiled brightly: "You are the first one in the world to say that I am a good person."

He walked over, squatted in front of the child, stretched out a finger to hook his chin and raised the child's face, smiling very indifferently: "You can see clearly, I am a heartless person, a heartless person , that is, when you see others unhappy, you will feel very happy in your heart, you say, why should I help you?"

A Yao still stubbornly said: "You are a good person."

Xiao Qing: "..."

Xiao Qing stood up and looked down at him coldly: "You said that you are willing to do whatever I want you to do?"

"willing!"

"Murder and arson?"

Ah Yao hesitated, but still said: "Yes."

The villagers who followed him said angrily, "Don't be fooled by this man!"

Ah Yao ignored him and looked at Xiao Qing with determination.

Xiao Qing chuckled: "You can't even tell a lie, that's all, as long as you lick my shoes clean, how about I save your mother?"

Hearing the words, the villager glared at Xiao Qing angrily, and went to pull rumors: "Forget it, even if you really lick this kind of person clean, he might not help you."

Xiao Qing glanced at the man, raised his eyebrows, noncommittal.

But Ah Yao turned a deaf ear and still lowered her head slowly.

A look of unbearableness flashed in Xiao Qing's eyes, but he quickly gritted his teeth and held it back. He couldn't be destroyed.

But when Ah Yao completely lowered her head, Xiao Qing took a step back, with a somewhat contemptuous look on her face, hiding her unnaturalness: "Forget it, I feel disgusted by things touched by people like you."

Ah Yao looked at him in astonishment, and the villager also felt that he had guessed right, with such an expression on his face: "I said it all, why don't you beg him to find a doctor now."

Xiao Qing casually added: "But I promised you before, I will not break my promise and lead the way."

Villager: "..." His face hurts a bit.

Ah Yao was still in a daze, as if he didn't understand the meaning of what he said, Xiao Qing glared at him impatiently, and said angrily, "Why, don't let me save you?"

Ah Yao woke up suddenly, scrambled to stand up, and was so excited that she said incoherently: "Dao, Taoist priest, this way, oh no, this way please, thank you, thank you!"

When passing by the villagers, Xiao Qing sneered: "Instead of following a child to watch the excitement, you might as well check yourself for any diseases."

The villagers were choked up and their faces turned red.

When they arrived at the wing room where the pilgrims lived, a large group of people were forming a circle, muttering and discussing something.Ah Yao repeatedly said "Let's let" and led Xiao Qing through the human wall to the center of the surrounding area. He saw a white-haired old woman lying on the mat, convulsing all over her body, spitting out turbid blood from her mouth. Bloodshot white foam.

Xiao Qing stepped forward to check her eyelids, and held her wrist to feel the beating of her pulse. In fact, he did all this just for show, the key is to transmit spiritual power into the old woman's body. Walk around the body to find out the cause.

Xiao Qing shot out a spiritual flow with his fingertips, running around the old woman's wrist, but found that the spiritual power flowing into the old woman's body suddenly dissipated, and was finally slowly eaten away by an unknown force. , lifted the cloth wrapped around the old woman's body, and saw small bags bulging with withered flesh, still moving, as if there were insects crawling under the flesh, he pointed like a knife, and forcibly cut a bag of meat, There was an arrogant black air under the skin and wanted to escape, but Xiao Qing caught it in time.

The onlookers watched with chills, but couldn't help but want to continue watching. Ah Yao didn't understand this, but she also knew that it was definitely not a good thing, so she timidly asked, "Master Dao, is this wisp of black smoke causing harm?" Did you miss my grandma?"

Xiao Qing looked at him jokingly and said, "A wisp? No, it's just a strand of her body. Have you seen these meat buns?" He lifted the cloth from the old woman's body a little, and the skin and flesh came out. Several bulging meat buns were fully exposed.

Ah Yao was shocked, she knelt down at the first disagreement, and begged, "I beg the priest to save my grandma."

Xiao Qing squeezed the wisp of black smoke away from his palm, let it disperse in the air, ignored A Yao, and said directly: "Your grandma has an epidemic, which is the pest epidemic that breaks out every year, and there are still ways to suppress it. My son, go find all the medicines for her to take, and you can always breathe a sigh of relief."

The onlookers heard that it was an epidemic, and they all receded for several meters like a tide. They were all discussing in low voices: "Insect plague? Isn't that a disease that only insects suffer from? Why can people get it?"

"There is a way to suppress it, so it shouldn't be that scary, right?"

"But I saw those people in the capital suffering from the disease, and the symptoms were not as serious as this old woman."

"Maybe it's because the old lady is old, and maybe she can't stand it."

After the onlookers finished the discussion and got everyone's approval and the answer they wanted, their expressions all softened.

People are cowardly. They are always willing to believe in things that make them feel at ease in the face of disasters, and they don’t think carefully about right and wrong. Those who understand and oppose them are sinners who stand on the opposite side for them.

After Xiao Qing finished his treatment, he turned around and wanted to leave, but Ah Yao grabbed the hem of his clothes. When Xiao Qing looked back, Ah Yao hurriedly withdrew his hand cautiously, with an uneasy expression on his face: "Dao... Daoist, I Grandma, is she really alright?"

Xiao Qing looked down at him, eyes eager to get the answer he wanted, and said as he wished: "It's okay, as long as you can find those few medicines."

But in fact, only Xiao Qing knew that it was not all right, but very serious. Pest plague was not an ordinary disease, and now it was caused on people, and smart people could smell the coming disaster.

He didn't say it clearly, because he was afraid of causing more people to panic. No one knows what terrible things people will do when they face death.

But he is not lying, the Southern Border Kingdom will be destroyed sooner or later, and no one here can escape. For Ah Yao, his grandma is still alive before his death, which is fine for him.

The reality is almost cruel.

Back in the disciple's room, Xiao Qing just opened the door, when Lu Jinzhi came back from the outside and grabbed his hand, led him to the back of the mountain, and whispered in his ear on the way: "Master, this disciple will take you to eat meat."

His eyes were full of smiles, and Xiao Qing couldn't help but temporarily forget about the unhappy things when he saw it, and he dragged himself all the way to the back hill for a trot.

Zhou Wei was sitting in front of the fire and looked around in fear. When he saw the two, he was relieved and got up and said, "Senior Brother Lu, if the masters of Changsheng Temple saw this, they might beat us out with sticks."

Lu Jinzhi smiled nonchalantly, put a handkerchief on the stone pier, asked Xiao Qing to sit down, and said, "They abstain from meat, how can they ask others to follow them?"

Zhou Wei sighed helplessly, but Xiao Qing picked up a stick on the ground, poked the lotus leaf chicken buried under the fire, and said softly, "It's pretty good."

Lu Jinzhi was close, and although the voice was very soft, he heard it, turned around and asked, "What's good?"

Xiao Qing stopped answering him.Soon the fire was extinguished, and the chicken with lotus leaves gave off a mouth-watering aroma of meat. After the fire was extinguished, Lu Jinzhi took it out, peeled off the mud on the outside, poured the sauce on the chicken wrapped in lotus leaves, and divided it into three portions. One serving per person.

I don't know where Lu Jinzhi learned this skill, but the roast chicken is very delicious, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with golden oil dripping from the skin, it is extremely delicious.

Lu Jinzhi quietly distributed his chicken wings to Xiao Qing. When Xiao Qing looked over, he grinned at him. Under the sun, the young man was full of vigor, with handsome eyes.

At that moment Xiao Qing's heart was beating wildly, he didn't know why, he just stared blankly at Lu Jinzhi's smile, then lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

Inside a handful of lotus leaves, the golden chicken wing dyed with sauce was still quietly lying inside.

In Liu Yiyi's illusion of memories, when Lu Jinzhi broke into him and stared at him tenderly, he didn't feel anything; in the psychedelic circle of Suiyu Village, there was lightning and thunder outside, and the two fell asleep hugging each other in the dilapidated house, but he didn't feel anything; In the Cliff Cave of Qingmen, when he rescued him from the cold pool and hugged him tightly to convey the warmth of his body, he didn't feel anything.

Even before at the [-]th level, Lu Jinzhi held his hand tightly to prevent him from falling off the cliff, and when he looked up at the determination in Lu Jinzhi's eyes, Xiao Qing was still calculating how to escape.

But now, because of a chicken wing, her heart beats wildly and she panics.

The system revealed the truth: [So this is a foodie. 】

Xiao Qing: "..." The good intentions disappeared as soon as they were gone.

The news that an old woman in Changsheng Temple got the plague spread with lightning speed. After all, the plague was only a disease caused by Gu insects, but now people have it. More or less, everyone thinks it is a bit funny, so It was passed on from ten to hundreds, and soon it spread to the palace.

High-ranking people are always overthinking, and always like to think about the side that ordinary people can't see. Ordinary people don't understand them, and high-ranking people think these people are very dull.

So when Princess Yushang's sedan chair stopped outside the Changsheng Temple, the villagers who stayed here were very unbelievable, and they flocked to the gate eager to see the royal face from a distance.

They were all rejoicing, but Princess Yushang looked solemn.

She was still wearing a colorful dress, her bare jade-white feet fell on the ground, and there was a ring of golden bells around her ankles, which clanged as she walked.

The host got the news early in the morning, and waited outside the door. After seeing the person, he folded his hands and said the dharma call. He didn't dare to stop, and immediately took Princess Yushang to the courtyard where the old woman lived. symptom.

Yu Chang stepped into the more crowded side room than usual, and saw the ashen-faced old woman on the bed, and the child wiping the old woman's sweat beside her, she frowned and looked around the room, stepped forward and reluctantly let the old woman She showed a gentle smile: "Excuse me, I want to take a look for this grandma."

The child turned around in astonishment, and when he saw people wearing colorful clothes, he knew that he was either rich or expensive, so he quickly got up and obediently stood aside.

Yu Chang sat on the bed, held the old woman's wrist, frowned and searched for the pulse, but her eyebrows became more and more wrinkled.

After a while, she gently put the old woman's hand back into the quilt, sighed and said, "It's best to be cremated immediately."

As if struck by lightning, Ah Yao knelt down on the ground with his legs limp, and kowtowed repeatedly: "My grandma is just sick, she is not dead, how can she be cremated if she is not dead, please, the fairy said my grandma can still live of,"

He didn't even know Yu Chang's identity, so he knelt down and kowtowed in fright. This was a conditioned reflex for those who are humble enough to be in the dust.

Yu Chang looked at him, his eyes were a little sour, and he asked in a hoarse voice: "Do you know that this disease is contagious, if it is not cremated, the people of Southern Border Kingdom will explode like those Gu worms that died of the plague?" Unprecedented disaster."

Ah Yao didn't understand the righteousness of his family and country, he only knew that Grandma was his last relative in the world, he understood Yu Chang's words, but he couldn't understand them either, so he just kowtowed and begged for mercy.

The people who eavesdropped outside heard about the cremation and the plague, and they all scolded Yushang for being a snake at a young age, and wanted to burn the old woman who was still alive, but they retreated faster than anyone else, like a house. What scourge is there.

Yu Chang looked up to the sky tremblingly and closed her eyes. She knew that she should be ruthless. Only by being ruthless can she secure the throne and govern the Nanman well, but she remembered what her mother told her before she died.

——As superiors, our responsibility is to protect the dust under our feet.

After a while, she opened her eyes, bent down to help the child up, rolled up her sleeves and wiped away the tears on his face, and made a decision that would make the world curse for thousands of years.

"Then let's not cremate it, and find a doctor to develop a prescription together, maybe... maybe there is a chance of survival."

She is the one who is cruel and ruthless, and she is the one who is kind to women, and she is the only one who scolds.

The author has something to say: Taoist temples should be offered to gods, and temples should be offered to Buddhas. However, due to the local culture of southern Xinjiang, the temples offer their most respected Jumang (which is purely private)

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