Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1099 Bigu

Why many fortune tellers in later generations like to sit on the flyover, because the geographical location of the flyover is very special. On the overpass, even if you run the train with your mouth full, you will feel more at ease in your heart.

  The Han Dynasty still belonged to an era of mysticism, otherwise proverbs would not be so popular. From the princes and nobles to the common people, there are many people who firmly believe in the gods of heaven and earth.

  However, for Fei Qian, the matter of immortality...

hehe.

  To be honest, I don’t believe it at all. So when Zuo Ci said that there was a **** disaster and a great ominous omen, Fei Qian's first reaction was that the routine was coming again.

  Is Zuo Ci a fairy?

   Obviously, not.

   Even the vast majority of immortals, most of them exist in hearsay.

  Zuo Ci’s amazing deeds have been spread, such as how he can feed hundreds of people with a piece of dried meat and a pot of wine. In fact, it is just the best seduction for ordinary people who have been starving for a long time. Compared with other supernatural powers, this kind of ability is enough to make the hearts of the people. It is something that can't be eaten. This is the greatest dream in the hearts of people who have been hungry or half-starved for a long time. Naturally, they talk about it more. The purpose of spreading religion is achieved.

   What's more, most of these deeds appear in the books of alchemists or Taoist documents. Just look at the descriptions of the great flood to see how much water these religious documents contain.

   So when

   Feiqian looked Zuo Ci up and down, was silent for a while, and suddenly said: "Immortal Zuo, please have some tea."

   "Poverty Dao..." Zuo Ci waved his hand, with a slightly proud expression, and said slowly, "... absorbing the essence of heaven and earth is enough, no need for tea..."

  Fei Qian's expression remained unchanged, and he insisted on stretching out his palm to signal: "Immortal Zuo, please have some tea."

"This..." Zuo Ci looked at Fei Qian's expression and hesitated for a while, perhaps because he felt that Fei Qian's firm attitude and repeated refusals were somehow inappropriate, so he slowly picked up the tea soup again, symbolically dipping it lips.

   Fei Qian looked at Zuo Ci's movements, suddenly smiled, and said, "Immortal Zuo, I don't know how the taste of these 'Golden Elixirs' in my belly is?"

  Zuo Ci was still holding the tea bowl. Hearing Fei Qian's words, his hands couldn't help shaking.

   "Cough, what the general said..." Zuo Ci hastily put down the tea bowl, and said with a serious face, "This...poor, I don't know what it means..."

   Feiqian smiled and said: "There is no one else, tea has the effect of purifying the mind and cleansing the body. It is also a good intention...Come here, and bring a few more bowls of tea, please drink to the left!"

  Zuo Ci's face finally changed, he got up and shook his sleeves, and said angrily: "Pindao came here with good intentions, but he was neglected and teased by the general! In that case, I will leave!"

   Fei Qian also slapped the table and said: "A certain kindly invited you to drink tea, but you are so rude! You can leave if you want to, just leave after drinking! Come, bring a pot of tea, and serve Zuo Xianren to drink tea!"

Huang Xu, who was guarding at the side, was a little confused and didn't know why Fei Qian was so angry, but the habit he had developed for a long time made him immediately follow Fei Qian's instructions, greet him, and immediately took a few guards to general Zuo Ci was surrounded.

   Not long after, the attendant came with a crock pot of tea, and stood aside tremblingly.

Fei Qian pointed to the earthen pot in the attendant's hand, and then said to Zuo Ci: "Immortal Zuo, don't say that I don't know how to treat guests... When a distinguished guest comes, he doesn't even drink a bowl of tea. He is still Immortal Zuo after all." I look down on a certain talent! Let Immortal Zuo drink this pot of tea carefully..."

  Zuo Ci bulged his eyeballs, and stared angrily at Fei Qian.

  Fei Qian just smiled and looked at Zuo Ci...

  The Han Dynasty did not necessarily believe in all these immortals, and there were still a large number of people who held a skeptical attitude. However, when verifying whether these immortals have supernatural powers, they may not use some extreme methods, such as tying them to pillars, piled some dry firewood and thatch on fire...

Perhaps it is because the orientals are more introverted, and most of them like to use some bloodless methods. The most simple and direct way is to lock them up, cut off food and drink, and send soldiers to guard them for a few days. If they can still live well, then they are If a real person with some supernatural powers was starved to death, he would naturally be a liar.

  Soldiers can tell the truth without a **** blade, and even if they take a step back, they can have an argument. Finding a quiet room for real people to practice is obviously a good intention, how can it be said to be under house arrest?

Right?

  So, using diet to test has become a simple and effective method...

As soon as Zuo Ci came up, without saying a few words, he said that he was already in the body of a fairy, he could eat wind and drink dew, and he could not eat the fireworks of the world. In fact, it was an anchor for Fei Qian, although Zuo Ci might not know it. Anchoring such a theory of psychological effects, but completely irrelevant to his specific application.

  However, the so-called "bigu" must have flaws.

Without food, people can still do it for two or three days, but if people completely cut off water intake, it will last for three days because of the accumulation of a large amount of toxins that cannot be excreted through normal urine and accumulate in the kidneys, resulting in kidney disease. The failure of the kidney, and this kind of kidney failure is often irreversible even in later generations, let alone in the Han Dynasty when there was a lack of medical treatment?

  So it is absolutely impossible not to drink water.

  But the current Zuo Ci refuses to drink even a bowl of tea. Under Fei Qian's repeated invitations and insistence, he just sticks his lips to make a show...

  To be honest, not to mention a bowl of tea, even a crock pot of tea soup is actually not that big. Although it is said that tea was still the main thing in the Han Dynasty, it was not too bad, at most it was like a traditional Chinese medicine decoction.

   But looking at Zuo Ci's appearance, this tea soup is like poison, or drinking tea soup will ruin the Taoism, it is like breaking the practice, avoiding it like a snake and scorpion, it was like this just now, and it is the same now.

  Refused to drink tea, or refused to drink water, combined with Zuo Ci’s special words before, then there is only one possibility, Zuo Ci made preparations for "bigu" in advance...

There are many kinds of bigu. People who choose to go on a complete hunger strike are basically "become immortals" early. People who choose to go on a partial diet will not be so resistant to drinking tea and water. Then the only possibility is People who take the so-called "pill" for fasting, anyone who has eaten compressed biscuits in future generations will know that a piece of biscuit and a glass of water will give you a full stomach feeling, the reason is that these compressed biscuits will expand rapidly when exposed to water...

  Because of the impetus of curiosity in later generations, Fei Qian also approached Du Niang to hook up some information about immortals, one of which was about Zuo Ci Zuo Immortal’s special method that can keep him hungry for a long time. Because during the Jian'an period, famine was everywhere, Zuo Ci spread a special way of eating to his believers in order to prevent many people from suffering from hunger and pain...

   "Eat Bean and Bigu Big Fa", ahem, this name was of course created by Fei Qian, and it is not an official name.

   It is not complicated to operate. Eat a lot of raw beans. Note that this raw beans cannot be chewed, but can only be swallowed raw. In order to make these beans easier to swallow, Zuo Ci also specifically stated that he should use his hands to "touch the beans with light"...

   Stop eating beans when you feel full. At this time, pay special attention to absolutely not drinking a lot of water!

   Then in the next few days, try to keep as still as possible, that is, just sleep as much as possible, drink a small amount of water every day, and you won’t have to eat a second meal for ten days and a half months...

Therefore, whether you take the pre-refined "compressed biscuit" type of pills or eat a full stomach of raw beans, there is the same disadvantage. You cannot drink a lot of water, otherwise it will not only be a problem of satiety, It may even result in death!

Zuo Ci looked at the earthen pot brought in front of him, and after being silent for a while, he finally didn't dare to gamble with his own life, and understood that Fei Qian might have seen through the tricks he used, so he asked helplessly : "...General, what do you want?"

  Fei Qian waved his hand, and after the soldiers and attendants retreated, he motioned for Zuo Ci to sit down again.

   Seeing Zuo Ci's embarrassed look, Fei Qian said, "Immortal Zuo, um...do I still need to call him Immortal?"

   "Uh, no need, no need," Zuo Ci arched his hands and said, "Just call Pindao by his name..."

   "Good." Fei Qian nodded, then thought for a while, and said, "Let's call him Zhenren... Zuo Zhenren, are you Zhengyi, or Maoshan? Or Taiping, Tianshi?"

   Taoism in the Han Dynasty has split into many schools, each of which has some differences.

Zhengyijiao was created by Zhang Ling, and then continued to Zhang Lu, but when it came to Zhang Lu, there were some changes, and the method of "Five Dou Rice Master" Zhang Xiu was used, so it is also called Tianshijiao. , or Five Dou Rice Sect.

  As for Maoshan Taoism, which is more widely accepted by later generations, it is earlier. During the reign of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, the Taoist priest Mao Ying and his younger brothers Mao Gu and Mao Zhong collected medicine and made alchemy in Juqu Mountain to help the world and save the people. Taoist patriarch.

  Taiping, of course it is Zhang Jiao, but now Taiping Dao is positioned as an anti-government and counter-revolutionary mobilization organization, so ordinary people dare not claim to be followers of Taiping Sect...

  Zuo Ci cupped his hands and said: "This... the general is really familiar... To tell you the truth, Pindao belongs to the Maoshan School..."

   "Maoshan?" Fei Qian nodded, and asked again, "Since it is Maoshan, why do you come here?" Maoshan is located in Yangzhou, a big Han city. Although it is not far away, it is still some distance from Pingyang.

  Zuo Ci smiled awkwardly, and said: "Poverty Dao was originally in Luoyang...but unexpectedly Grand Master Dong moved the capital, and under the chaos of the army...he had no choice but to live here..."

   Zuo Ci hesitated a bit when he spoke, and Fei Qian could see that not all of them were true, but thinking about it, it could be regarded as a seventy-eight percent truth.

  In Luoyang, it is relatively reliable.

After all, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty also asked for a lot of alchemists and elixir in the later period. Dan, or high-level "supplements" like Wushi San, are not something ordinary people can enjoy...

   After knowing Zuo Ci's history in general, Fei Qian asked, "Since that's the case, what does Master Zuo want here?"

  What do you want?

  Zuo Ci is indeed good at two tricks, whether it is fortune-telling or scriptures, or a few tricks, or even some martial arts, but these things can't replace food...

  Although the fools in the country are easy to fool, these farmers don’t have anything to begin with. Zuo Ci is really tired of eating the sticky sticks from the bowls here and there.

so…

   But if you want to marry a rich man, you must naturally seek some goals.

  The Sanfu area of ​​Guanzhong is extremely corrupt, and it has not stopped until now...

  Hongnong was disabled by Dong Zhuo before, and now I heard that in order to welcome the emperor Liu Xie, he is doing hard labor everywhere to rebuild Luoyang. If he goes there, he will be arrested...

  Hedong, of course, is considered good, but how can it be compared with Pingyang? When Zuo Ci was in Hedong, he often heard people talking about the prosperity of Pingyang, and even those dishes that were refurbished in Pingyang set off an unprecedented craze in the food industry when they spread to Hedong...

   Therefore, Zuo Ci chose to come to Pingyang in the end. Unexpectedly, after careful preparation, he failed in front of Fei Qian before he could fully use it.

Zuo Ci said with a slight embarrassment: "I have heard for a long time that General Zhengxi Ping Baibo, defeated Xianbei, Fuyin Mountain, has a great reputation, and I have been in love with him for a long time... Therefore, I want to come here to see General Zhengxi's majesty... That's all, Nothing else…”

   Fei Qian smiled, noncommittal.

   "A certain real person transcends the mundane world, and regards prosperity and wealth as passing clouds..."

   Does it sound nice, who wouldn’t?

Fei Qian looked at Zuo Ci, saw that the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, smiled, and continued: "...However, in a certain place, a real person is really needed, and there is also a heavy responsibility to be entrusted to a real person...Now the real person can't do it. It's an honor to be here in person..."

  Hearing what Fei Qian said, Zuo Ci couldn't help but be overjoyed, finally a stone fell to the ground. However, Zuo Ci still maintained a reserved expression, and said slowly: "Poverty is an outsider, and should not care about ordinary things... But since the general is so sincere, it must be beneficial to the people's livelihood, and it can be regarded as a A meritorious deed... Pindao is willing to listen to the general's orders..."

  The word “merit” is not a Buddhist word. As early as in the Book of Rites, there was an article saying: “Those who have merit to the people will add to the law.” It’s just that later generations used it for Buddhist affairs, and gradually forgot the source.

   "Good!" Fei Qian nodded, and then said, "...It's getting late today, Zuo Zhenren is also tired from the journey, why don't you rest first, and invite Zhenren tomorrow to have a good discussion..."

  Zuo Ci Jishou said: "Everything is subject to the general's arrangement."

Since we want to cooperate, we can't oppress him too much. Although we know that Zuo Ci's name is not worthy of his name, Fei Qian still smiles, gets up to send Zuo Ci out, and personally asks people to arrange Zuo Ci's accommodation. , it can be regarded as giving Zuo Ci a face...

  Just as he was about to say goodbye, Fei Qian suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, Master Zuo, do you know if there is someone like Nanhua?"

  Zuo Ci was stunned for a moment, and said, "Well, Nanhua is Yu Jiyu's alias..."

   "Oh?" A strange thought suddenly popped up in Fei Qian's mind, and he couldn't help asking, "This... Yu Daoist, but a perverted person?"

  Zuo Ci looked at Fei Qian, and suddenly felt a little palpitating, thinking in his heart, how much does General Zhengxi know? But on the surface, he still replied respectfully: "Exactly, Yu Zhenren is a descendant of Semu..."

Since the opening of the Western Regions, there have been many Hu people, among whom Semu people are also common, and later there was the Great Qin Kingdom, that is, people from Rome came from the direction of Burma, and they also performed music and performed magic tricks to the emperor. Living people dismember their bodies, change the heads of cows and horses, etc. Anyway, according to the records of the Later Han Dynasty, at least in the Han Dynasty, thousands of Semu people settled in the Han Dynasty, so everything is possible...

  Thinking about it, Fei Qian couldn't help but feel a little weird.

   Like this...

   No wonder Yu Ji and Sun Ce would be beaten and killed by Sun Ce as soon as they met. This is really...

   Forget it, it’s better not to think too much...

  (end of this chapter)