Chapter 145

Xiao Yu had long inquired about Divine Physician Min's situation.

Divine Physician Min's real name is "Min Gensheng," and he has a brother named "Min Genfu"; the Min family has practiced medicine for generations.

Min Gensheng married at sixteen and became a father at seventeen, but a plague took away his wife, young son, and the two elders in his family.

Unable to bear such a huge blow, especially since he and his own father were both doctors and the whole family died of illness, it was a direct blow to the head; Min Gensheng abandoned his family and business and ran into the mountains to seek immortality and ask for the Dao.

Decades passed, and the neighbors even forgot that such a person existed in the world.

Even those who remembered him thought he had died long ago.

As a result, one day, Min Gensheng, nearly sixty years old, returned quietly and changed his name to "Min Genren."

His eldest brother Min Genfu had long since passed away, but there were two nephews guarding the Min family medical hall.

The two old nephews were considered filial; not only did they want to take their old uncle home to enjoy his old age, but seeing that their old uncle was strong and healthy, they also pondered helping their old uncle find an old aunt.

Min Genren, however, had truly found an immortal fate, although he had no immortal blessing and did not cultivate to become an immortal.

Let alone letting his nephews support him in his old age, he even refused to redistribute the Min family property with his nephews.

He didn't even want the old house and moved by himself to the foot of the west city wall, opening a Bao'an Hall.

When he came down the mountain, he didn't bring a single copper coin of capital, but he brought a set of great skills.

He only chose a long-term sick squire in the city and used the consultation fee to take over the Bao'an Hall storefront, and still had more than enough.

However, he didn't find an old companion for himself.

Before, everyone thought he was old, and the Min family had nephews to inherit the incense, so there was no need to force offspring.

Now Xiao Yu understands that Divine Physician Min simply didn't want to descend the mountain into the mortal world.

Opening a medical hall is to display what he has learned and save the world, not to make money to support a family.

So when she came to the back courtyard of the Bao'an Hall and outside Min Genren's bedroom in the middle of the night, she wasn't worried about disturbing the mistress or seeing any inappropriate hot scenes.

She knelt on the cold bluestone slab with both knees and could hear that the snoring inside was very faint, but the breathing was very even, and the rhythm was very slow.

For a good while, the rhythm of the snoring didn't change at all.

Xiao Yu muttered in her heart: "Is the old man pretending to be asleep, or did he really not discover my arrival?"

She moved forward with her knees, and the whole process didn't use any internal skill techniques.

This time there was a reaction.

The snoring inside stopped instantly.

Xiao Yu complained in her heart: So he really didn't discover me before! How can you say you cultivated immortality on the mountain for a lifetime, how can your perception be so poor?

Not even as good as me, a mortal.

No wonder your master drove you down the mountain; you are indeed a "useless mediocrity" with no blessing (immortal blessing) and no talent (immortal root).

"Who is outside?" Divine Physician Min shouted.

"Teacher, it's me!"

"Little Fengxian?" There was surprise in Divine Physician Min's voice, and he also quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

He was also a little afraid of encountering bad people before.

"What are you doing here in the middle of the night?"

After the rustling sound of putting on clothes, the door creaked open.

"Teacher, didn't you call me here?" Xiao Yu deliberately looked confused.

"Did you have a dream?" Divine Physician Min was puzzled.

Xiao Yu said seriously: "I cracked the mystery of the darkness in your plate. You sighed three times this afternoon and left through the back door with your hands behind your back; wasn't that hinting for me to sneak through the back door at the third watch tonight to find you?"

Divine Physician Min's dark, thin face twisted into a ball, "Are you a brain-wind? Why would I let you sneak through the back door in the middle of the night? And the mystery of the darkness in the plate—I really admire you for thinking of that."

Xiao Yu sighed: "So I misunderstood. I thought you saw that my ears are sharp, my eyes are bright, and my talent is high, so you planned to take advantage of the time when there were no six ears around to secretly teach me the great method of medical Dao!"

Divine Physician Min glared at her fiercely, and just as he was about to scold her, a thought occurred to him, and he calmed down, sat on the threshold, and said: "I have no great method to teach you.

If your eyes are really bright and your ears are sharp, don't just put your ears and eyes on me.

You should look more at the heaven, earth, mountains, and rivers, look at Western Shu, look at Tianmen Town, look at the people around you...

Whether it's you or me, we are just one member of the crowd, a part of Tianmen Town, a tiny component of Western Shu, of heaven and earth."

Xiao Yu waited for a while, and seeing that the old man didn't intend to continue, she wrinkled her face and said: "Teacher, you said you wouldn't play any mysteries of the darkness in the plate, but these words are even harder to understand than the mystery in the plate."

Divine Physician Min said: "I ask you, if you were the Monarch, and the country now has a disease, and treacherous officials are in power, how should it be cured?"

If it weren't for such a serious occasion, Xiao Yu would have blurted out: If treacherous officials are in power, just kill the treacherous officials.

But she understood that this was clearly not the answer Divine Physician Min hoped for.

"If I were the Monarch, I would remain calm, first understand the situation in the court, secretly cultivate trusted people, and then slowly inquire about the real situation of the country from outside the palace.

It would be best to visit the common people in disguise a few times to feel the life of the commoners.

Then combine the information collected by trusted people to have a correct and complete understanding of the national situation.

If treacherous officials are the root of the disease, then kill the treacherous officials.

Do not move unless necessary; strike to kill with one blow.

If treacherous officials are only the manifestation of the disease, then do not put energy into how to remove the treacherous officials.

Even treacherous officials can be used by me.

After all, those who can be treacherous officials certainly do not lack the ability to be capable officials.

The key is to find the crux, prescribe the right medicine for the illness, and not drink medicine blindly."

Divine Physician Min was a bit surprised and said: "No wonder the envoy from the superior state wanted to go to Shaqiu to capture you personally.

If you had stayed in the Northern Wilderness, the 'Western Sand Destroying Shu' star sign he saw in the Luodu Imperial Observatory would likely have come true."

"You even know this?" Xiao Yu was also a bit surprised.

She thought Divine Physician Min didn't care about the world outside and only focused on being a good physician!

Divine Physician Min didn't say where he knew the secrets of the Shu Kingdom, stroked his beard lightly and said: "Treating a disease is like governing a country; the disease qi is the treacherous official.

Why can I judge the situation of a person's family and neighbors through the person in front of me?

When you confirm that someone is a treacherous official, can't you determine whether his disciples and party members in the court are treacherous or loyal?

And vice versa; his family is greedy and insatiable, can he be a capable and honest official?

Treacherous officials are not independent individuals; treacherous officials and loyal officials are all part of the court, part of the country.

Patients are also part of the whole of heaven, earth, and all things.

Any single individual in the whole is connected to the qi mechanism of the whole.

If a treacherous official appears in the court, there must be party members around him!

If a patient appears in your family, you, who are connected to his qi mechanism, and even your neighbors, will also be infected with the qi mechanism of the disease.

You know that governing a country cannot just focus on a certain treacherous official, but must seek the root and find the crux.

Why only use your eyes to stare at me and the patient, instead of locking onto the disease qi first, then following the mechanism of the connected qi, observing the whole world, and then finding the lesion?"

"This..." Xiao Yu's mind shook violently, and she was speechless for a long time.

She finally understood why the old man said: If your eyes are really bright and your ears are sharp, you should look more at the heaven, earth, mountains, and rivers, look at Western Shu, look at Tianmen Town, look at the people around you...

Xiao Yu bowed three times and said: "Thank you, Teacher, for your guidance; now I know the direction, but I don't know how to reach the other shore."

Min Genren sneered: "Do I look like a petty person who breaks his word?"

He stood up, closed the door, lay back on the bed, and before long, snoring sounds started.

Xiao Yu knelt on the ground, feeling a bit awkward and also a bit troubled.

She understood the old man's meaning.

When she became his apprentice, he clearly stated that he would only teach her medical skills and would not teach medical Dao supernatural arts to anyone.

The reason he gave was that his ability was insufficient and he wasn't qualified to teach disciples.

That was probably the truth, but this "truth" likely came from his master.

Out of some worries, such as the disciple's descendant going astray and using medical Dao supernatural arts to harm others and lose their foundation, thus implicating himself in cause and effect, his master forbade the "unpromising" disciples who descended the mountain from teaching their own supernatural arts to outsiders.

"Bang bang bang~~"

Xiao Yu's forehead touched the ground lightly, she kowtowed three times, used internal power techniques, and her knees moved backward silently.

She did want to learn medical Dao supernatural arts, but she couldn't force the old man to break his oath.

She was already very grateful that he could explain the root of medical Dao to her tonight and point out the correct direction for her.

Just as her toes moved to the edge of the steps and her body was about to stand up, Xiao Yu suddenly had a flash of inspiration and froze in place, motionless.

The rhythm of the snoring in the room was wrong!

Before disturbing Divine Physician Min earlier, his snoring was very faint, and his breathing was even and long.

At this time, his snoring was still very faint, and his breathing was very long, but it was no longer even, as if it carried a certain rhythm...

Xiao Yu's heart beat wildly, her face showed no signs of it, but she prepared to stand up, and instead continued to move backward.

Her soles left the steps, hung in mid-air, then slowly landed, stood on the steps, and her body slowly stood straight.

Finally, she stood in place, tidied her skirt and sleeves, patted the dust off her skirt lightly, tucked the hair at her temples behind her ears, bowed and saluted the door several times, and then leaped away, leaving the Bao'an Hall.

"Hahaha, I finally understand the feeling of Wukong seeing through the mystery of the plate of Bodhi Patriarch; it's so cool!"

Xiao Yu's face remained calm, but her heart was blooming with joy, and even her footsteps were much lighter, as if she were really flying in the sky.

"Who is flying on the roof!"

Just as she was overjoyed, a stern shout came from below, followed by a sense of crisis that made her hair stand on end.

"I'm not a bad person!"

She saw it; there was a team of patrolling soldiers in the alley below, and they were even holding rapid-fire crossbows.

"In the middle of the night, flying over eaves and walking on walls, if not a great thief, you must be a fierce person! Surrender quickly!" The leading general shouted angrily.

When Mother Zhang took the initiative to let Xiao Yu take her flying over eaves and walking on walls, she had inquired about the rules of Tianmen Town from Auntie Liu afterward.

As long as one doesn't wear black clothes, doesn't cover their face, doesn't carry weapons, and doesn't enter the interior of someone else's residence, the city guards generally won't pay attention.

Even if suspected of being a bad person, as long as one explains the situation on the spot, states their identity, and then registers, there won't be any big problems.

Of course, it was indeed too late, and only the music hall was still lit, and the night market stalls on the side of the road had long since disappeared.

Flying over eaves and walking on walls at this time is indeed easy to make people suspicious.

Xiao Yu wasn't wearing black clothes, wasn't covering her face, wasn't carrying weapons, and the key was that "Righteousness-Reaching-the-Heavens Yu Fengxian" was famous throughout the world; if she reported her name, even if they hadn't seen her, they must have heard of her.

So she didn't accelerate to escape, but shouted "I'm coming, don't shoot arrows," and jumped down from the roof.

As soon as she landed, Xiao Yu's heart sank; this group of patrolling soldiers was all wearing steel armor, steel helmets, and face masks.

In the middle of the night...

Suddenly, her pupils contracted, and she looked at the alley wall behind the armored soldiers.

There were three people standing on it, the one in the middle was tall, wearing black official robes, with a long knife hanging at his waist, and a cold, cruel, and sinister smile on his face.

"Dog-fucker..."

She recognized him and couldn't help but curse.

"Little girl, clean up your mouth!" The surrounding armored soldiers shouted angrily.

Ge Qing on the wall, however, had a greatly changed expression, "Zhu Tong, do it, she can actually see me!"

"Clatter!"

The soldiers who had surrounded Xiao Yu were not stunned or sluggish; at the order, their armor clattered together, and their movements were uniform.