Satisfied his curiosity, the middle-aged man waved his hand slightly and sent the guard back. As soon as the man walked away, a carriage stopped in front of the farmhouse on the back. A young man hurried in and asked, "Uncle, do you know about Uncle Zhongyong's mansion?"
"I know how, but what if I don't know?" The middle-aged man picked up a travel journal and flipped through it, his expression rather casual.
"You are self-professed to be knowledgeable. If you can't guess how that Lady Lin cured Marquis Yongxin, you won't be able to sleep at night. I guess you will send someone to watch Lady Lin recently, right or not? You must know about it." The boy bumped the middle-aged man's shoulder with a playful smile on his face.
"So what? For such a trivial matter, you ran out of the imperial city?" The middle-aged man put down his travel notes and his expression became serious.
The young man shrank his neck and murmured, "How could this be such a trivial matter? Lady Lin has cured Marquis Yongxin and her daughter one after another, which shows that her medical skills are very superb. She should be able to cure your disease too, right? Shall we go and have a look at her?"
The middle-aged man shook his head and did not speak.
The young man persuaded earnestly: "Uncle, the imperial grandfather has been dead for decades, and those demons have also been executed. You really don't need to have such a deep prejudice against Taoists."
"I have no prejudice against Lady Lin, she is a good person."
"Then why didn't you seek medical advice from her?"
The middle-aged man was silent for a while before sighing, "Let's take a look."
"How long do you have to wait? Summer will be over soon, and autumn and winter will come, and you have to... and endure the pain of life rather than death. My nephew is distressed!" Choked up. Uncle's illness was only to save him, how could he bear to watch him suffer in pain
The middle-aged man pinched the booklet out of shape, but he still said the same thing, look again.
The boy understood why he was so hesitant, because he had received a lot of hope and was driven into the abyss of despair again and again, so he did not dare to have any expectations for his fate. He moved out of the imperial city and came to this quiet mountain forest to live in seclusion, and he had no plans to sleep here quietly.
The more the young man thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt, and he wanted to tie him up immediately and take him to Xuan Qing Guan, but he couldn't do such a rebellious thing. He rubbed his red eyes, said in a sullen voice that he was going to wash his face outside, and then hurried out of the main room to the outside of the courtyard.
"Uncle Huang doesn't want to treat the disease, he probably already has the will to die." The young man said to his accompanying subordinates.
The man lowered his head and dared not speak.
"I think this lady Lin may be able to cure the uncle, but the uncle doesn't believe it. In this way, you can find some people who suffer from difficult and miscellaneous diseases, and send them to her to see how much she is really capable." The boy lowered his voice and said.
The subordinate took the lead and was about to send someone to do an errand. He heard the young man add: "Remember, we must look for the most bizarre disease, the kind that even the imperial doctor can't cure!"
"As ordered." The subordinates went quickly, and the young man wiped the corners of his tears with a handkerchief, walked back into the house, and said with a smile, "Uncle, let me boil a pot of hot water for you, it is now In late summer, the nights are much colder than the days, so remember to soak your feet before going to bed.”
"Okay." The middle-aged man, Prince Jin, did not reject his nephew's kindness. This kid used to live with him in Beihuang for a long time, and he did a lot of rough work such as cooking and cooking.
Prince Jin just moved in two days ago. The pots and pans in the kitchen are all new, and the firewood in the corner has never been used, and there is no life atmosphere at all. The young man walked in eagerly, first grabbed a few straws, stuffed them into the stove, then took out the flint and tapped it.
The two servants squatted beside him, sweating profusely, and said cautiously, "Young Master, why don't the servants come to set the fire? Would you go in and talk to the master?"
"No, you stand aside. I used to do these things a lot. I'll have to wait on my uncle to wash his feet later. I have to watch him fall asleep before leaving." The respect and filial piety of the boy to the man is by no means a fake. of.
The two servants failed to persuade him, so they had to go with him, but they did not dare to leave, but stood aside to take care of him carefully. After the straw was lit, the teenagers added firewood to the stove one after another. The procedure was correct, but for some unknown reason, thick smoke was poured into the kitchen, causing people to spit and cough.
The boy was dragged by two servants and ran out of the pantry, his face covered in black ashes, and he looked extremely embarrassed. The smoke was still pouring back, and even a lot of people entered the main room. Prince Jin couldn't sit still, and came out with a scroll of books, worried: "Did you burn the kitchen? Did anyone get hurt?"
"I didn't burn the kitchen!" The young man hurriedly defended, his face flushed red. It's only been a few years since he returned to the capital, how could he not even burn the fire
Prince Jin pulled his nephew to stand a little further away, and the two servants hurriedly carried buckets to scoop water into the lotus pond, ready to put out the fire, but heard a soft voice from outside the courtyard: "There's no fire in the kitchen, it's your chimney that's blocking it. already."
Prince Jin and the little emperor looked back, but saw Lin Dan holding Xu Miaomiao's little hand and standing on a path not far away. She was carrying a basket behind her, which was filled with herbs, and her smoky gray robe was stained with some mud, but there was no sign of embarrassment. Xu Miaomiao pursed her lips and seemed to want to laugh, but held back.
What big scene has Prince Jin and the little emperor never seen before? However, for some reason, in the face of this pair of master and apprentice, the tips of his ears turned red in unison, showing an embarrassed look.
"The chimney is really blocked, and the servant will use a pole to poke it." A servant rushed into the smoke-filled kitchen to check, and ran out again coughing.
"Come on, go, don't you all know about the inspection before uncle moved in?" The little emperor was a little annoyed.
The two servants did not dare to delay, and they found a bamboo pole and climbed up the roof.
"Wait a minute," Lin Dan suddenly raised his hand and said, "I seem to hear birdsong. Birds must have built their nests in your chimney. Are there any hooks and ropes? I'll help you take out the bird's nest."
"Is there?" Prince Jin looked at the two servants.
"Yes, yes, yes." The two servants hurriedly put down the bamboo poles to get the rope and hook.
After getting the things, Lin Dan jumped up on the roof with his toes, the tulle skirt was blown open by the wind, and his ethereal figure was like a flowing cloud. Prince Jin stared at her for a moment, and his heart, which had not been beating for a long time, was roaring at this moment. He originally thought that the so-called internal kung fu was a lie, but it turned out that his knowledge was too short.
The little emperor stared at Lin Dan dumbfounded. After a long time, he gasped for breath and said in awe, "Uncle, she, she is actually a top expert!"
Prince Jin nodded, but did not speak, but his eyes were brighter than ever. Every man worships power, let alone a man like him who once conquered a vast land.
Since Lin Dan made up his mind to be this living fairy, how could he hide his strength? It is said that the people do not fight against the officials. If she wants to completely crush the Wan and Xu families, she needs to climb to the top of the power as quickly as possible. For a middle-aged woman who was abandoned by her husband's family, it seemed more difficult than reaching the sky, but for Lin Dan, it was easy. She didn't need anyone's help to turn things around completely.
She carefully took out the bird's nest, flew down, and showed Xu Miaomiao a few fluffy chicks.
Xu Miaomiao touched their heads with her small hand and whispered, "Master, are we going to take them back to raise them?"
"No, their mother will come back." Lin Dan jumped up to a nearby tree, placed the bird's nest on a firm triangular branch, and dropped back to the ground to ask Prince Jin for a small bag of corn.
Prince Jin didn't ask much, and immediately asked the servant to give her the bag of rice.
After getting the things, she did not leave, but sat cross-legged on the side of the road and began to meditate. Xu Miaomiao squatted beside her, shaking her head and carrying the soup song on her back. She looked very cute. Seeing that she never left, Prince Jin invited her in a low voice to drink tea, but she waved his hand and refused. The little emperor observed her secretly through the crack of the door, and asked in a low voice, "Uncle, what do you think she's doing sitting on the side of the road?"
"Probably cultivating." Prince Jin's eyes were like a torch, and he could see through anyone, but only Lin Dan couldn't. She is like a huge mystery, uncovering the surface, and the inner layer, uncovering the inner layer, and what
Time passed slowly, seeing that the sky was full of red clouds, and the sun was getting westward. Lin Dan was still sitting on the side of the road and did not move. Xu Miaomiao was lying on her lap and slept deeply, and the little fat hand held her tightly. The belt, the dependence is beyond words. Prince Jin and the little emperor were reading books on the surface, but they were actually looking at Lin Dan through the window, not knowing why she was sitting at the door.
Suddenly, a kingfisher turned twice in the sky, fell into the chimney of the farmhouse, and flew out after a while, flapping its wings and whining. The two people in the house could not hear the panic hidden in the cry, but Lin Dan opened his eyes at this moment, then slowly opened the cloth bag, and sprinkled the corn on the kingfisher.
The kingfisher whined for a while, and finally, driven by the instinct to eat, fell on the clearing and pecking at the grain. Watching it gradually walk under the big tree where the bird's nest was placed, Lin Dan sprinkled another handful of rice, which made it fly away. It flew into the air, and finally saw the familiar bird's nest, and also saw the chicks waiting to be fed with their small mouths open, and immediately rushed over with joyful barks.
Lin Dan hung the tied rice bag on the bamboo fence of the farmhouse, picked up Xu Miaomiao, who was sleeping sweetly, and walked away unhurriedly.
It was only at this point that Prince Jin and the little emperor finally understood the purpose of her sitting by the roadside all afternoon.
The little emperor looked at Lin Dan's retreating back with a very complicated expression.
Prince Jin put down the book, walked under the big tree, looked up at the bird's nest, and showed a long-lost smile. He doesn't believe in religion, and is even a little disgusted, so he always scoffs at the so-called "dao". However, just now, he suddenly understood what "all things have animism and all living beings are equal". She stood there alone, her breath was cold and her face was flat, but as far as she could see, she even had feelings for every grass, tree, sand and stone.
This is the lady Lin who saved hundreds of thousands of people in Tanzhou by herself. The real her is far better than he imagined.
Prince Jin looked up at the bird's nest and laughed softly.
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After curing the father and daughter of Marquis Yongxin, Lin Dan really made a lot of money. The Marquis of Yongxin gave away 30,000 taels of silver notes, and Uncle Zhongyong also added 5,000 taels of sesame oil. Looking for craftsmen to repair the Taoist temple. Yao Bishui, who thought she was going to work hard with Sister Lin, turned her head and lived a richer life than the Xu family. Looking back on the past, she felt a little ironic.
"Sister Lin, do you know? If you don't come, I still want to die with that rotten person Xu Zuguang." Yao Bishui sighed while drinking the soup.
Lin Dan smiled and said nothing. She naturally knew, and this only happened in a previous life. But it doesn't matter, everything will be different in this life, and those who think they have won everything will eventually fall to pieces.
While thinking about it, the monk Huiming from Hanguang Temple swaggered into the Taoist temple and said, "Lin Guanzhu, the poor monk has something to discuss with you."
"What's the matter?" Lin Dan didn't get up to greet him.
Huiming walked straight into the side hall and saw several delicious dishes on the table, his eyes couldn't help showing covetousness. At some point, he really envied these Huoju Taoist priests, who could drink and eat meat at will, and could marry and have children. Unlike these great monks, they had to strictly abide by the rules and regulations.
Feeling a little uneasy in his heart, Huiming's tone became even worse, and he ordered: "The poor monk will pay one hundred taels to buy your Taoist temple, and you will be limited to move out within three days. Well, the poor monk has already brought it, Take it easy."
"Not for sale." Lin Dan said calmly.
"What did you say?" Hui Ming frowned.
"I said I won't sell it." Lin Dan put down the tableware and repeated word for word.
"You, you don't eat and drink fine wine, right? Do you know that if the prince wants to settle here, he needs to expand the temple. What you are blocking is not the road of Hanguang Temple, but the road of the prince. You are waiting for the steward of the palace. Come and talk to you in person!" Hui Ming bluffed.
"Okay, I'll wait." Lin Dan knew that Prince Jin lived in the farmhouse at the foot of the mountain and was not in Hanguang Temple, so how could he be fooled by Huiming's words? Besides, she could see that that Prince Jin was by no means a bully.
Huiming seemed to have never been so slack, pointed at Lin Dan's nose and cursed, all the fat all over his body was shaking, but Lin Dan ignored him at all, picked up the bowl and chopsticks and continued to eat. Yao Bishui was so frightened that her liver trembled, and she wanted to bow her head and apologize, but she saw that Xu Miaomiao had also imitated Lin Dan's behavior, just eating, without frowning, and then calmed down.
Huiming was so angry that he passed away, but at this moment, Mrs. Yongxinhou walked in with her daughter and said with a sneer, "Who am I here to scold the street, and when I walked in, it turned out to be a monk! Don't monks like to advertise being kind to others? How can you be so arrogant and unreasonable towards a few weak women
When the monk Huiming saw that the visitor was Mrs. Yongxinhou, his face turned pale with fright, and he quickly folded his hands to defend himself, read some scriptures on the clouds and mountains, and then smeared oil on the soles of his feet and slipped quickly.
Looking at his fat back, Mrs. Yongxin Hou said with disdain: "Hanguang Temple has been doing more and more outrageous recently, I'm afraid it will be renovated soon. They occupy tens of thousands of acres of land at the foot of the mountain and eat the whole city. The people's worship, but they do not work, and they recruit monks wantonly, and compete with the court for labor force, this is courting death!"
Lin Dan didn't say anything, just let Yao Bishui take the table and put two futons on it.
Mrs. Yongxinhou and Liu Yujie knelt on the futon and talked about their current situation.
"Master Hou is already well, she can eat three meals a day, and her body is getting stronger and stronger. My family's Yujie has never been attacked by evil, you see, her face is more rosy than before? By the way, you gave her the Talisman, the words on it suddenly disappeared today, take a look." Mrs. Yongxin Hou respectfully presented a blank talisman.
Lin Dan threw the talisman paper into the brazier and burned it, and said slowly, "It's alright, the evil has been eliminated."
The nervous Liu Yujie immediately bent down and kowtowed.
"The chanting must never stop." Lin Dan warned again.
"The believer will definitely follow the instructions of the immortal, and recite the scriptures every day." Liu Yujie said in a sincere tone. After reading the scriptures for half a month, her mood has become unprecedentedly calm, she can no longer hear her husband's romantic affairs, and her heart will no longer be disturbed and colic for him. It's like the difference between heaven and hell. She is crazy to let herself fall into the quagmire again!
Lin Dan nodded in satisfaction, and was about to get another volume of Taoist scriptures for Liu Yujie, when he heard Mrs. Yongxin Hou whisper: "Xianchang, are you free tomorrow?"
"Why?" Lin Dan looked up at her.
"The young son of Cai Guogong's mansion has hit the evil, and the specific situation is not clear. If you are free, the letter girl will tell the big lady of the Guogong's mansion, and she will come to visit you in person tomorrow."
"Then let her come." Lin Dan hasn't made a name for himself yet, so naturally he won't push the powerful and powerful people who came to the door. Although Cai Guogong died long ago, his eldest son supported the little emperor. The title, with the merits of the dragon, was able to inherit the title without demotion, and he was considered one of the best figures in the court. The young son of the Houfu Yongxin should be the youngest son of the new Duke Cai.
After getting the letter, Mrs. Yongxin Hou couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief, and asked for a few more soothing charms before leaving with her daughter.
The next day, the eldest lady arrived as scheduled, but she just knelt on the futon and cried without saying a word. Lin Dan couldn't ask anything, so he couldn't help but feel helpless: "Since it's inconvenient for Madam to speak, then I'll go down the mountain with you."
"Thank you, Daoist Master!" The eldest lady got up with gratitude, and gave Lin Dan a hand. Her modest attitude couldn't tell that she was Cai Guogong's wife.
A group of people took a carriage to the Duke's Mansion, but they never expected that Mrs. Cai would come to meet him at the side door in person, and his face was full of anxiety: "Is this the Taoist Lin? Oh, it really is immortal! Hurry, hurry, please come in!"
The old lady wanted to bring the guests into the main courtyard to drink a few cups of tea, and then lead them to visit her grandson's small courtyard, but she did not expect Lin Dan to be very resolute, and immediately waved her hand: "Old lady, don't be polite. , take me to see your son first. Saving people is like putting out a fire, and there is no delay for a moment."
The last sentence really touched the heart of the old lady, she hurriedly led people to the front yard, and said gratefully: "Thank you for your understanding! My grandson really hit the evil, and I was afraid when I saw it. A while ago, a monk from Hanguang Temple came to my house to perform a ritual, but it was useless; then I invited a few imperial physicians for consultation, but it was useless, and now I can only count on you!"
Lin Dan took the old lady's hand and walked slowly without saying a word. When he got to the courtyard where Mr. Cai was, and saw his appearance, he understood why everyone was so scared, because his hands reached from the fingers to the door. Elbow, all peeled off a layer of skin, blue blood vessels pulsing in the bright red flesh, making people numb the scalp.
The old lady Cai and the eldest lady walked into the house, watching Young Master Cai's hands weeping, but Young Master Cai, like a nobody, said to the maid next to him with a smile, "I want to drink water."
The maid hurriedly fed him a mouthful of water, and he licked his bright red lips, revealing a handsome smile.
Xu Miaomiao and Yao Bishui were dumbfounded when they saw Young Master Cai, who had a face like Guan Yu and a face like Pan An, but Lin Dan's brows were almost twisted into knots. She suppressed the change in her heart and walked in slowly. After a glance, she found that a lot of dander had fallen off the corner of the table and the ground, and some were even attached to a little bit of meat and blood.
Young Master Cai's hands were skinless, so Lin Dan couldn't take his pulse, and she didn't want to take his pulse at all.
Seeing that she was just staring at her grandson, Mrs. Cai had a gloomy face, but she didn't move, so she couldn't help urging: "Master, what do you think my grandson is in? You should have a solution, right? If the skin on the top rots further, it may spread to the whole body, so how can he live!"
"Wait a minute." Lin Dan lit a talisman.
After a while, everyone in the house was in a trance, and yawned one by one, wishing they could find a bed for a good night's sleep. Only Young Master Cai was full of energy and asked with big clear eyes, "You are the living fairy that Mrs. Wang said? Can you really exorcise ghosts? Are there ghosts in the world?"
"Yes." Lin Dan looked at him quietly.
"Really? I also think there are ghosts, so it's fun!" Cai Xiaogong squinted and smiled.
Xu Miaomiao and Yao Bishui were infected by him, and there were traces of smiles on their faces, but Lin Dan showed no expression at all, and walked slowly outside the door to check the flower beds. In two of the flower beds, the plants and trees are extraordinarily lush and the flowers are blooming beautifully, while the plants and trees in the other flower bed are growing in average, and even wither at the end of summer.
Lin Dan picked up the soil from the three flower beds, put it on his nose and smelled it, washed his hands, and walked towards Cai Xiao Gongzi's study. The old lady Cai and the eldest lady followed her step by step and did not stop her. Since it was here to exorcise evil spirits, she would have to look everywhere.
Young Master Cai didn't follow, just stood by the bedroom window and looked at him with a smile.
After entering the study, Lin Dan carefully checked the articles written by Young Master Cai, and stared at the brightly colored paintings hanging on the wall for a long time. One of the paintings is called "Remnant Lotus", and a large area of ink and gray occupies the field of vision. Another painting is called "The Setting Sun". The paper is full of blood red. Although it is magnificent, it is also eye-catching.
Lin Dan picked up the article that Young Master Cai wrote in her spare time and read it word by word. The old lady Cai waited patiently, but the eldest lady was a little uneasy, and asked anxiously: "Master, have you seen something? Has my house been invaded by evil spirits like Uncle Zhongyong's Mansion?"
Lin Dan shook her head and didn't speak. Her silence had hit the eldest lady's weak nerve, so she wiped her tears and sobbed, begging: "Old lady, since the Taoist priest can't see the problem, why don't you? Let your daughter-in-law take Yi'er back to her hometown! Maybe there is something wrong with this house, so I can get over it with Yi'er and leave."
The old lady was very reluctant, but also heartbroken.
"I'm not going back to my hometown! The imperial examinations will be in a few months. Mother, don't you think about my future?" Young Master Cai was standing outside the door at some point, and his always smiling face was completely cold. .
The old lady was shaken again.
"Mother, don't listen to him, whether the imperial examination is more important or his life is more important, you must think clearly!" Da Furen begged bitterly.
Hearing this, the old lady was heartbroken, nodded and said: "Okay, then you all pack up and leave tomorrow, otherwise it will rain every day in autumn, and I'm afraid it will wet his hands and make him sick. more serious."
When the eldest lady heard the words, she was overjoyed, and hurriedly led a few maids to pack her things, completely forgetting Lin Dan, who came to exorcise evil spirits.
Young Master Cai rolled his eyes and said loudly, "I can't go! In two months, it will be grandfather's three-year festival, and it will also be the day when our family will get rid of clothes. As a grandson, how can I be absent?"
The old lady made up her mind that she would not change, and waved her hands again and again: "Come on, if your grandfather has a spirit in heaven, he will forgive you. Your life is more important than anything else!"
Cai Xiaogong lingered for a while, seeing that his grandmother did not waver, suddenly he seemed to remember something, and ran away with a smile, no longer fighting at all.
Lin Dan watched coldly, frowning. The old lady didn't really believe in her supernatural powers. Seeing that she couldn't see the problem, she paid fifty taels of silver, sent her to the second door, and said some polite words. Lin Dan returned the silver and said cautiously, "Old lady, I advise you to send the young master away immediately, otherwise, within a few days, there will be a death between you and the eldest lady."
"What did you say?" The old lady looked at her in disbelief.
"I said, if you don't send your grandson away, you and the eldest lady will surely die." Lin Dan increased his tone.
The old lady raised her cane and smashed it at Lin Dan. Cai Guogong, who happened to be here to greet his mother, heard this and immediately ordered the family to kick the three out. His beard was shaking, obviously he was very angry. What kind of person was Yongxinhou recommending, but he opened his mouth and cursed his mother and wife, he must ask Yongxinhou for an explanation!