"Is that a crane?"
Princess Yuzhen stood on the bluestone path outside the temple and was amazed as she watched the birds hovering over the ancient trees and then diving into the valley among the rolling sea of clouds.
Cranes usually forage in low-lying swamps, and her junior sister at Ganlu Hall had a few of them.
This kind of crane that can fly into the sky is some years old and has developed spirituality.
The Taoist nun accompanying her explained: "This is a rare bird raised by Taoist Priest Yuan Danqiu and layman Qinglian of Shangqing Palace in the next valley. It is not afraid of people at first. It often hovers and roosts on the ancient trees in various temples. It once flew down to eat the food fed by pilgrims."
"I think the eldest princess has just arrived at Zhenwu Palace, and she is still a little acquainted with life."
The Qinglian layman I met on the mountain path today, apart from his swordsmanship, could he also know how to tame birds?
Princess Yuzhen looked at the crane hiding in the sea of rosy clouds, and looked back from the direction of Shangqing Palace: "At this hour, the birds should also return to their nests..."
Qingcheng Mountain is full of Taoist temples, and there are numerous Taoists!
The addition of a female Taoist priest from Chang'an to the Zhenwu Palace is like throwing a stone into a vast lake. It doesn't seem to cause any splash, but for some people, it causes ripples in their hearts.
For example, the layman Qinglian, who is a good drinker, went to Yizhou and returned to Shangqing Palace, and plunged into the bamboo sea in the mountains of Shangqing Palace.
The prefect of Guanghan came to visit the Shangqing Palace. Yuan Danqiu searched the Taoist temples and couldn't find anyone. He raised his head and roared towards the sky. A crane broke through the sky and hovered over the Taoist temples.
Yuan Danqiu took out the pine nuts in his pocket and spread them in his palm. The crane flew down and landed on the stone table of the Taoist temple. After pecking at the pine nuts in his hand, it circled and flew into the sky again, and whistled towards the depths of the bamboo forest. .
"Pindao knows where Taibai is!"
Yuan Danqiu said to the prefect of Guanghan: "My lord, please follow Pindao to the bamboo forest to look for him."
Yuan Danqiu, who was dressed in a green Taoist robe, led the Guanghan prefect through the stream in the bamboo forest, and finally found Li Bai lying on the bamboo at the end of the bluestone road.
I saw him holding a wine jar, drilling holes and pouring wine into the bamboo through reed pipes.
The prefect of Guanghan was surprised: "Taibai is really a strange person. He actually feeds bamboos wine?"
"No! It's not feeding wine to the bamboo, it's making wine."
"A few days ago, I went to Yizhou and returned to Qingcheng Mountain. I met a Taoist friend on the road. She said that by injecting the best base wine into the growing bamboo, the bamboo can absorb the essence of heaven and earth to make wine. The finished product will be like amber, with a sweet and mild taste. Mellow fragrance.”
"I've drunk all the good wine from Shu, but I've never heard of bamboo tube wine, so I used the method she said and poured wine into bamboo to try it."
"Don't worry about brewing yet!"
The weather was hot, and even though the bamboo forest was shady, the prefect of Guanghan was still sweating when he walked out.
He said anxiously: "Someone in the city has cholera. I would like to ask you and Taoist Priest Danqiuzi to open an altar together to induce cranes to hover over Guanghan to calm people's hearts."
Cholera, a disease that can be transmitted from person to person, makes your face change when you hear it!
If it accidentally spreads, not only will the official position of the Guanghan governor be in danger, but Dan Qiuzi and Li Bai who helped in the practice will also be in danger.
Knowing that the prefect of Guanghan wanted to use the thousands of birds raised in the Shangqing Palace to calm people's hearts, Dan Qiuzi could not make the decision alone.
He could only bring the prefect of Guanghan to discuss with Li Bai in person.
Li Bai's face was horrified: "Did you isolate the patients with cholera first?"
"Taibai heard that the little princess who developed the vaccination method to prevent smallpox used herself to test the medicine and sowed smallpox seedlings on her body to cause jaundice, so she quarantined herself in the Royal Courtyard."
Li Bai explained: "Therefore, Taibai believed that in infectious emergencies such as smallpox and cholera, the source of infection should be isolated. Anything vomited and diarrhea by cholera patients may be transmitted to healthy people."
"The doctor in Guanghan City has already reminded me of this. However, although I isolated the person who got cholera first because he had been in contact with others before, there were still people who got sick in the past two days."
The prefect of Guanghan was worried: "People in Guanghan City are now panicked, and I have no choice but to think of a way to appease people. Only by giving the people a reassurance and letting them see the fairy birds flying in Guanghan City will they believe it." Cholera can be cured quickly and it won’t wander around causing catastrophe.”
They thought of first appeasing people's hearts and finding ways to stop those who were latent with cholera but had not yet attacked from running around. Both Li Bai and Yuan Danqiu thought that the prefect of Guanghan was a responsible and good official.
Just by trying to calm people's hearts, I'm afraid we won't be able to control the cholera that everyone talks about.
Li Bai proposed his idea and then told the prefect of Guanghan: "Taibai believes that in order to contain this cholera, the old man and the young man are willing to take action."
Not only the prefect of Guanghan wanted to know, Yuan Danqiu also wanted to know who it was.
He asked Li Bai: "Which one is the old one and the young one?"
"It's the little Taoist friend Taibai met when he came back from Yizhou, and the old man beside him."
Li Bai asked Yuan Danqiu: "Are there any rumors in Qingcheng Mountain recently, especially the rumors about the little miracle doctor?"
"Indeed there is!"
Yuan Danqiu thought about it carefully: "In the Zhenwu Palace in the next valley, a little miracle doctor came. She treated the pilgrims. The poor people did not take any money from them, while the wealthy pilgrims donated money after she performed acupuncture and prescribed prescriptions. Just some incense money, no matter how much."
"Her methods of treating diseases were also bizarre. For example, patients with persistent high fevers were given plantain juice. Women with menstrual bleeding mashed leek juice, mixed it with children's feces, steamed it and took it hot. The most bizarre thing was, These methods are all effective in curing diseases, and were widely spread among pilgrims."
"She takes pulses every day for consultation in front of Zhenwu Palace. The pilgrims spread the word by word of mouth. Now everyone knows that there is a good-looking little miracle doctor in Zhenwu Palace. The popularity of Zhenwu Palace is several percent higher than before."
"It's her!"
Li Bai threw down the wine jar: "The cholera in Guanghan City can't wait. You are fast on your feet. Go and get my bamboo flute."
Wearing a Taoist robe, with only a single agarwood hairpin on her head, Li Sixu looked presentable when sitting in the clinic at the entrance of Zhenwu Palace, except that she was younger.
The woman at the consultation table hesitated to talk about her irregular menstruation.
Li Sixu took her pulse and gave her a prescription. Worried that she was illiterate, she specifically told her: "Punch a small hole into one egg, add five minutes of saffron, and take one egg a day after menstruation until the body is clean." It only takes a few months and all your illnesses will be cured."
The prescription is really weird!
They were all telling the Taoist nun in the Martial Palace that she was a miracle doctor. Although the woman came here because of her reputation, she still didn't believe it.
"Just take this prescription, no need for acupuncture?"
"No, you don't need acupuncture for this disease."
Seeing that the woman was still hesitant, Li Sixu asked her: "If you don't believe me, sister-in-law might as well ask a doctor in the city to ask if I made the wrong prescription?"
"No, it's not!"
The woman then took the prescription and left with a sullen look on her face.
