Medicine in Song Dynasty

Chapter 21 Old Daoist
Even Su Tong, I'm afraid Liu Shi is so shameless. She is standing in a hidden corner in the alley outside the back door with a smile, looking at the old Taoist priest.

At this time, the old Taoist lost the demeanor of Liu Shi at that time, drooped his head, and his snow-white beard became wilted. He looked at Su Tong for a while, and said with a wry smile: "I said Mrs. Su , I told you, I’m really not a liar, I fooled Zhou Xiaolang that day to cure his illness, and now he’s alive and kicking, I’m an old man, I’m kind and doing good deeds!”

Su Tong laughed: "What a lot of nonsense! You are doing good deeds, and it is the same now. It is time to show your kindness. Liu is really sick. Although I frightened her, I can let her find out early and treat her early. She should thank me for taking her old life."

This is not bad. If Liu's illness is discovered late, he may lose his sight. This is still mild, and sudden death on a certain day is not impossible.

The old Taoist smiled wryly and shook his head, sighing: "Forget it, forget it, the old Taoist must have owed you in his previous life."

When Su Tong went shopping a while ago, he originally wanted to buy a quilt for his younger brother. After all, the weather was getting colder and colder, and Erlang's linen quilt was becoming more and more useless.

But she really didn't expect that these quilts are ridiculously expensive now, and it takes a full [-] yuan to buy a new one, and it's not made of new cotton wool. She looked at the cotton wool, which is not commonly used in later generations The ones, but black, rather ugly.

Su Tong looked at the price, and then remembered that it is the Northern Song Dynasty now. Although there are already quilts, quilts are definitely a luxury. If any woman in the countryside gets married and can accompany the quilt, it will be the best dowry. The bride makes offerings.

With the little money in her hand, she couldn't buy a quilt. However, after she finally came out once, she couldn't help but wandered around. In the end, she ran into this old Taoist Gao, Daoist Gao.

At that time, the wealthy Zhou family in Xixi Town invited him to open an altar at home to catch demons. This old Taoist priest was quite decent, dancing swords and talismans. A demon fox even showed the image of the demon fox on the yellow paper, which made a group of onlookers cry out in shock, and a few of them collapsed to the ground in fright.

Not to mention, after catching the demon fox, the old Taoist gave Zhou Xiaolang a soup made from talisman paper. Zhou Xiaolang actually sweated profusely, his condition improved, and he was able to get out of bed at that time.

Zhou Guanren was so happy that he bowed to thank him again and again, gave the old Taoist three hundred guan in one breath, and promised to go to Baiyun Temple to repair the Taoist temple for the old Taoist.

The people around only said that this real person has profound Taoism, but who is Su Tong?These messy tricks used by the Taoist priests are crude methods that the juniors of the Su family who have just left the house don't even bother to use.

However, Su Tong herself came from a family of liars. Although she is not a liar, her three views are not right. As long as the rules of the world are not broken, she has no intention of being a messenger of justice and troublesome liars .

This Taoist priest didn't do too much, and he was still a little bit capable. She cured Zhou Xiaolang's illness, so she didn't need to expose him, she just saw it as a scene of excitement.

Curious afterwards, Su Tong inquired about the female shopkeeper of Qingchun Hall, but unexpectedly, he heard a lot of praise. Everyone praised this Gao Zhenren in unison as a master and a half-immortal. Unknown to everyone, he is quite a famous person.

Su Tong was amused in his heart, and felt that the common people at this time were too simple, but with so many praises, it also showed that the old Taoist priests were not only good at deceiving, they must have some tricks.

At least the medical skills must be good. At this time, people pray to gods and worship Buddha. In addition to asking about the future and solving disasters, there are more people who want to ask gods to heal their illnesses. several dying patients.

After this incident, Su Tong also forgot about it and didn't pay much attention to it. Later, when he wanted to punish his stepmother, he suddenly thought of such a person.

She took the time to go to Baiyun Temple and talked to this eminent monk. It was not so easy to meet this man. Su Tong spent money to buy two pots of good wine in a restaurant and bribed the little Taoist boy of Baiyun Temple. .

After the meeting, it was easy to say, Su Tong played all kinds of tricks in front of the old Taoist priest, and frightened the calm old Taoist priest, half threatening, half persuading, how is Miss Su? The old Taoist couldn't hold back his tongue, and was forced to agree to help the little girl in this play!
"Don't frown, you're really doing a good job!" Su Tong smiled and supported the old Taoist's arm, sent him to the entrance of the alley, and said with a smile, "Be careful on the road, your old arms and legs are old, but Don't fall."

The old Taoist looked helpless, but he was not angry at all.

Su Tong has inquired about it a long time ago and observed it carefully. Although the skill of meeting people she learned before is not particularly subtle, it is still accurate most of the time. Although this old Taoist priest is an old liar, he is not a bad person. It's not particularly ruthless to cheat money. Under normal circumstances, when helping poor families with rituals, they usually don't receive money, so they just accept some food instead. When they meet rich families, they will charge high prices.

Moreover, this man's heart is soft, and he has money in his hand. When he meets those who are in distress and needy, he will disperse more. I heard that he has raised more than a dozen girls and boys who escaped, and saved many girls who were about to drown. It is also because of this that this person is always short of money, and his Baiyun temple has been in disrepair for a long time, and it is almost collapsed. Then he went back to Zhou's house to find some money to repair his own Taoist temple.

Only such a person would Su Tong dare to come to his door. This is about 'bullying the weak and fearing the hard'.

The old Taoist staggered away. Although his words were not pleasant, he still sympathized with the little lady Su Tong. He felt that even though she was young, she was full of calculations, and it was not appropriate to calculate her stepmother. Look, it's really unfilial.

But since this old Taoist priest is a liar, he is not considered a particularly upright person. After hearing about Su Tong's situation and about the personality of the Liu family, he followed suit and agreed.

Anyway, to him, it was just a trivial matter, and Su Tong grabbed his braid, so even if he wasn't afraid, there was no need to have trouble with this little vixen.

The old Taoist is well-informed, and he still knows what is good or bad. One is a clever little lady with a head full of strange knowledge, and the other is an ordinary village woman. Since he is involved, which side should he stand on? Think about it?

After seeing off the old Taoist priest, Su Tong turned around and went home, but as soon as he entered the door, he saw Xue Min standing at the door with a smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)