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This monk has white beard and hair, and his face is full of wrinkles. He looks like he is sixty or seventy years old.
No matter what sounds were heard outside, he remained motionless.
Encountering such a situation in a ruined temple in the wilderness, even Li Zian couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
Li Zi'an said very politely: "Amitabha, Master, I forgive you. We have no intention of disturbing your spiritual practice. We are just passing by here to take shelter from the rain temporarily. We will leave when the rain stops. We hope you will forgive us."
But the inner palace showed no reaction at all.
Shen Tianshu felt strange when he heard it outside. He walked to Li Zian and lifted up the gauze in front of the curtain hat to look inside.
"The person doesn't seem to be breathing. Could it be that he has passed away?
When Li Zian heard this, he put up a simple torch and held it up to check.
There was thick dust around the futon, and no one had moved around for a long time.
The monk was indeed not breathing. Although his features were still lifelike, his body was already stiff.
It turned out to be a master who had passed away.
Li Zian checked around the inner hall and found that there was no danger before letting Shen Tianshu in.
After Shen Tianshu came in, he noticed with sharp eyes that there was a letter pressed between the monk's body and the futon.
She slowly pulled it out and saw the words on the envelope: From the person you are destined to send.
Shen Tianshu clasped his hands and bowed to the monk, then opened the letter and whispered softly: "The world will turn into ashes, leaving no fetters in the world.
"I would like to see some kind-hearted people who believe in me and burn my body to the ground.
"I have no worldly possessions and nothing to repay. I only have a map on my body as a reward.
"Before we leave, let's help Master fulfill his wish."
"That's natural." Li Zian nodded.
Because Princess Fengrong was a devout believer in Buddhism, everyone in Prince Rui's palace was more or less influenced by her.
Especially after Prince Rui woke up, even Li Zian, who was quite rebellious before, became much more pious.
Meeting this eminent monk now is a fate, not to mention it is just a matter of effort, so naturally he will not refuse.
"Let's go out first. Don't disturb the master's purity here. Let's wait until the rain stops tomorrow to see how we can help the master."
The two people exited the inner hall. The woman's eyes suddenly lit up and she said: "You, you are not the one at the door of the inn before..."
She ran to Shen Tianshu with her child in her arms.
"What are you doing? Stay away!"
Li Zian immediately reached out to stop her and protected Shen Tianshu behind him.
The woman anxiously said to Shen Tianshu, "Madam, do you know medical skills? Didn't you diagnose my Guoer's pulse before?"
"You, you said at that time..." She tried hard to recall, but couldn't remember Shen Tianshu's original words, so she could only continue to plead, "Please help me again, why did Guoer suddenly become like this?"
"What's wrong with the child?" As soon as Shen Tianshu heard that there was something wrong with the child, he immediately became concerned.
The woman said anxiously: "I started to have a fever after being exposed to the rain. I also had vomiting and diarrhea. Now I can't wake up."
Shen Tianshu frowned when he heard this.
When she checked the child's pulse at the entrance of the inn, she found that the child's body was filled with weak fire.
So I specifically told the woman to keep her child warm, drink plenty of hot water, and avoid catching a cold.
But now both mother and daughter were soaked by the heavy rain like drowned rats...
Shen Tianshu found a piece of his own dry clothes from the car and gave it to the woman, saying, "First, take the child to the fire to keep warm, and then change out of her wet clothes."
When the woman heard this, she quickly took the child and went to wait by the fire.
Although she didn't know who Shen Tianshu was at all, but now there was no village or shop, and it was pouring rain outside, and there was nowhere to find a doctor, so she could only seek medical treatment urgently.
After changing clothes for a while, the child vomited again.
At this time, there was nothing in the child's stomach, and all he vomited out was yellow water.
The child's breathing was very rapid, and he hummed softly from time to time with his eyes closed.
Although this woman seemed unreliable, she seemed to really care about the child.
She kept coaxing the child, and when she found tears streaming from the corners of the child's eyes, she couldn't help but cry too.
"Guo'er, don't scare me. She only has you. If something happens to you, my mother won't want to live anymore..."
After checking the child's pulse, Shen Tianshu sighed and said, "I've already reminded you to keep warm, don't freeze the child, and drink more hot water.
"It's a good thing for you, carrying your child outside in the cold and rain."
Shen Tianshu helped the woman dry the child and wrap it in clean clothes. He found that although the child was averse to cold and high fever, he was not sweating at all, and little red rashes began to appear on the front and back.
Although according to the woman, she had had diarrhea several times on the way, the child's belly was still swollen and he was starting to feel a little confused.
We are now in the wilderness and there are no medicinal materials at all.
And even if there is medicine, judging from the child's current vomiting and diarrhea, he will definitely vomit it out immediately after feeding it.
Seeing Shen Tianshu's serious expression, the woman gradually had a bad feeling in her heart.
She fell to her knees with a plop and kowtowed to Shen Tianshu desperately.
"Please save my daughter! She is still so young...
"I was the one who bumped into you rudely before, please don't remember the villain's fault.
"If you do anything wrong, you will be punished for me. My family is innocent..."
Shen Tianshu was also very embarrassed. He thought for a moment and thought that now he could only try folk remedies.
"If I can find a few things, I can give it a try."
"What are you looking for?" the woman asked quickly.
"It's best to have flour, eggs and white wine. If you don't have flour, cooking soil will do."
"We do have liquor in the car, but we don't have flour or eggs." Li Zian frowned and said, "Maybe we can find it in the Zaotu Temple.
He said to the woman: "Go and look for her in the kitchen behind."
Although the other party seemed to be just a helpless woman and child, it was impossible for Li Zian to leave on his own, leaving Shen Tianshu alone in the house with them.
The woman was originally scared to death, but for the sake of her daughter, she gritted her teeth, held the torch, and went back.
Li Zian went to the car to get some liquor and handed it to Shen Tianshu and asked, "Does it have to be eggs?"
"If you can get cooking soil, you can try it first if you don't have eggs."
After a long time, the woman came back from behind carrying a lot of stove soil with a really disgraced look.
After Shen Tianshu pounded the stove soil finely, he used white wine to knead the stove soil into a fist-sized mud ball like kneading noodles.
Then she untied the little girl's clothes and wiped the rash on her chest and back with a hot towel. After making the skin somewhat moist, she put the mud ball on it and kept rubbing it.
Due to the effect of hot water, the surface of the mud rolled on the skin adheres to the skin.
Shen Tianshu kept repeating the two actions of rubbing the body with hot water and rolling the body, rubbing the little girl's front and back for half an hour before finally stopping.
What was very strange was that the mud ball in her hand not only did not get smaller, but actually seemed to be larger than it was at the beginning.
Shen Tianshu dressed the child and stretched out his hand to break up the mud balls.
Li Zian and the woman were surprised to find that there were a lot of white hairs of different lengths appearing in the mud.
"This is..." The woman was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she thought to herself, could this be all stuck out of her daughter's body?
"The child probably has woolly scab." Afraid that the woman wouldn't understand, Shen Tianshu tried his best to explain to her using folk sayings, "Although woolly scab usually occurs in summer and autumn, it doesn't mean that it can't occur at other times. .
"Children are exposed to wind and cold, have dense internal organs, and cannot express their hair, so they become depressed and turn into fire.
"I told you to keep your child warm before because I was afraid of such an emergency.
"Although the situation has been temporarily alleviated with local methods, after dawn tomorrow, you still have to return to the city quickly to prescribe medicine for her to take for a few days."
As Shen Tianshu spoke, he wrote a prescription and gave it to the woman: "When the time comes, take the medicine according to this prescription and take it for at least three days. You can stop taking the medicine when your diet and excretion are normal."
The woman put the prescription away, thanked Shen Tianshu repeatedly, then held the child and observed her condition from time to time.
Fortunately, Shen Tianshu's crude method worked quite well. Before dawn outside, the little girl's fever had gone down quite a bit.
Most of the rash on my body has disappeared, and I no longer feel uncomfortable.
When Shen Tianshu woke up in the morning, the rain outside had stopped. The woman held her daughter in her arms and came over to thank her before leaving and hurried back to the city to get medicine.
Li Zi'an and Shen Tianshu stayed to have something to eat, preparing to help the eminent monk who passed away in the back hall fulfill his last wish.
There is a grassy open space behind the ruined temple. It seems to have been a vegetable plot cultivated by the monks in the temple. Now it has been abandoned for a long time, which is perfect for burning corpses.
But it rained so hard last night that everything was wet and I couldn't even pick up dry firewood.
Li Zian could only go back to the ruined temple to look for useful things. Fortunately, there was still half a pile of dry firewood in the woodshed inside the temple, and he even found half a barrel of lamp oil.
Now I finally don’t have to worry about not starting a fire.
Li Zian built a shelf with firewood, then carried the eminent monk and placed it in the middle, and then surrounded it with firewood until all the firewood in the woodshed was used up.
Finally, he poured the lamp oil on the firewood, opened the fire handle, and lit it.
With the help of lamp oil, the flames jumped up.
Li Zian watched the fire in the backyard to prevent it from burning other places.
Shen Tianshu returned to the ruined temple, walked around a few times, and finally found a relatively complete porcelain altar with a lid. He simply cleaned the dust on it and prepared to use it to hold the ashes of the eminent monk.
The two of them had discussed it just now. Although they didn't know where the eminent monk was from, the ruined temple was now in dilapidated condition, and even the Buddha statue was missing.
The two of them took it with them and set off together. If they encountered a temple with great incense on the way, they would enshrine it there.
If it doesn't work, take it back to Wuchang Mansion and enshrine it in Tian'en Temple.
What the two of them didn't expect was that the fire burned for a whole day and night.
Finally, after all the firewood was burned to ashes, Li Zian used tree branches to dig out more than a dozen longan-sized, off-white balls with a halo.
"Could this be the relic?" Shen Tianshu had only heard of it before, but had never seen it with his own eyes.
"It should be so." Li Zian was also a little unsure.
There was no need for the porcelain altar now. Shen Tianshu directly found a handkerchief, wrapped all the relics properly, and put them into a purse.
Li Zi'an said: "When we return, we will just hand it over to the abbot of Tian'en Temple. He will definitely enshrine this eminent monk properly."
After being delayed here for one more day, the two of them could only stay one more night in the ruined temple before continuing on their way.
Because the eminent monk's wish had been fulfilled, Shen Tianshu opened another thing in the envelope, which was the map mentioned in the eminent monk's letter.
"There's not even a single word labeled, so where exactly is this painting?"
Shen Tianshu turned around and looked for a long time, but still couldn't see any clues.
"What is it?" Li Zian asked, sitting on the shaft of the car.
Shen Tianshu leaned out and unfolded the paper to show him.
"It's a bit like a treasure map. Look, there's a red dot at the end!"
Li Zi'an inexplicably found Shen Tianshu's words very cute.
Don’t only children believe in treasure maps and stuff like that?
So he followed Shen Tianshu's words and said, "If it's really a treasure map, then you can get it
Put it away, I will take you to dig for treasures later! "
As soon as Shen Tianshu heard this, he knew that he didn't believe it at all.
"That's what I said!"
The two of them completed the monk's will originally not to get anything, so they didn't take this map to heart.
Shen Tianshu folded the map and stuffed it into the purse containing the relics, planning to hand them over to the abbot of Tian'en Temple when he returned.
