Fairy bath

In the early 1980s, a local hospital admitted a patient named Hu Bao to the emergency room. The initial diagnosis was food poisoning, and the doctor decided to lavage his stomach immediately. At that time, the patient was still somewhat conscious, and when he heard that he had to have his stomach pumped, he refused to agree, saying that he was not sick and had to go home immediately. The doctor had no choice but to consult with the family, who saw that the patient was already dying and said that the stomach had to be pumped immediately.

After gastric lavage, Hu Bao's condition was under control. However, the next day he woke up, he learned that he had lavaged his stomach, but was a face of frustration, and could not stop saying: "It's over, it's over". His attending doctor surnamed Liang, although not old, but very conscientious and responsible, has been very careful to take care of him. When it was time for Hu Bao to be discharged, Dr. Liang said, "Congratulations, your illness has been cured." Hu Bao, however, shook his head and said, "It's all because of you guys that I lost my immortal fate." Dr. Liang was amazed to hear that and asked what was going on. Because he was familiar with Dr. Liang, Hu Bao finally told him.

It turned out that the country was conducting a comprehensive census. This census is very detailed, to reach the grassroots, Hu Bao has always wanted to be promoted, so the performance is positive, grabbed to go to remote places. This day he was going to a very remote mountain village, and halfway down the road it suddenly started to rain. The mountain road was narrow and difficult to walk, and because the rain became slippery, Hu Bao even fell several times, fell full of bruises, not far from the edge of the cliff. He was scared out of his mind when he suddenly heard an old man behind him say, "Little brother, what's wrong?" He turned his head to look, only to see an old man with a stretcher walking over, see a passer-by, Hu Bao was overjoyed, said his intention, the old man said, "I am exactly this village, you come with me." Although the road is still the same, because there is a companion, talking all the way, it is also much better to walk.

After walking for half a day, when he reached the village, the old man saw that Hu Bao was soaked to the skin and invited him to go to his house to rest. The old man's home is also very simple, but clean, there is a small vegetable patch in the backyard, and then past is a stone pool, usually watered from there to carry. At this time also stopped raining, Hu Bao saw not many people in the village, registered by the way, unexpectedly found that this remote village in the longevity of many people, more than eighty years old abound.

Back to the old man's residence, the old man has cooked a bowl of porridge, although only a point of ordinary savory white porridge, eat but taste endless. After eating the porridge, Hu Bao asked about the old people in the village, the old man sighed: "The village is partial, the girls from outside the village are less willing to marry over, the young people are naturally less." Speaking of so many long-lived people, the old man smiled, "They are not considered long-lived, my grandson left last year older than the oldest of them all." Hu Bao was even more surprised, although the old man was old, he looks like 60 or 70 years old, how his grandson would be more than eighty years old? Hu Bao did not dare to blindly guess the old man's age, and asked, "Your old man high life?" The old man said he could not remember, only remembered that his parents said originally lived in Jiangning Province, Chang Mao attacked with their escape here.

Long Mao is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as for the year, in the end, Hu Bao is not clear, a rough estimate is also more than 100 years ago. Look at the village of the elderly are rosy cheeks, thinking that people say longevity depends on good water, it seems that the village water is very good, asked the village is not an ancient well? The old man said that the village people planted food and watered vegetables with the water in the stone pool, the stone pool called the immortal pool, and not big, the water is very clear, but also very shallow, people step in less than a calf. Near the top of the stone wall there is a spring, usually no water, the legend says that the immortal midnight to take a bath before the water will suddenly emerges. The village is also free from droughts and floods, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, so the villagers still do not want to move outside the village, although it is remote.

Hu Bao listened to the novelty, went to the stone pool to see the stone wall of five or six people high place has a spring, the spring also grew a tree, really do not know how to grow to the stone wall up, this time also no water spray out. That night, the old man had long been asleep, but he could not sleep. Was tossing and turning, suddenly heard the sound of water from outside. Hu Bao hurriedly ran to the pool, and see the pool on the stone wall has a curtain of water falling. Follow the curtain of water to look up, but amazed, the original at the spring, shadows, there is a palm-sized figure with the water spurting out of the spring, as if it is in the bath. After a while, the water in the spring suddenly stopped, and the little man also suddenly had flash and disappeared. Hu Bao thought to himself, "Isn't this the Ginseng Fairy? No wonder the village people live so long.

When he was a child, he heard the elders tell such stories, saying that ginseng or He Shou Wu and other elixirs on ten thousand years can be transformed into the shape of a child, if people can eat, immediately become immortal. Although Hu Bao went to high school, but very much believes in these, and at this time is more moved. The next day at midnight, he came to the pool again, waiting for the spring to have watered down, the small figure appeared again, Hu Bao suddenly smashed up a paper bag in his hand. The paper bag is he grabbed the rice from the old man's rice altar wrapped in paper because the legend says that these immortal medicines that can take human form are most afraid of the grains, and can not change when they are touched.

Sure enough, the paper package impartial, is smashed in the little man, "pop", rice scattered splash, a small thing also fell straight down, fell into the water pool. Hu Bao hurriedly crossed into the puddle to fish that thing up, a look is a human-like plant block root. Legend has it that the ginseng immortal can not see iron, to steam seven times with a casserole, and then cut open the bamboo knife to eat. Hu Bao went home and saw that the root had become dry and hard, and thought it was so, so he put it in the casserole and steamed it seven times, and it was soft, so he ate it without saying a word.

That night, his stomach hurts like a knife, and his mind is a little confused, and his family rushed him to the hospital, but Hu Bao still thinks he is eating because the magic medicine is being transformed, refused to wash his stomach. After the coma, his stomach was washed, and he still felt that he was badly immortalized.

Dr. Liang listened to Hu Bao's narrative, a little crying, and laughing, but he saw Hu Bao so obstinate, so he went along with him and said, "Fate is determined by heaven, and the immortal medicine can not be forced, most likely because you do so offend the immortals." Hu Bao listened, for a long time before saying ruefully, "It seems to be so, immortal destiny is unattainable."

Dr. Liang's colleagues heard him say this to Hu Bao, blame him should not promote the patient's superstitious thinking. Dr. Liang said, "If a superstitious person can't turn around for a while, it's better to go along with his enlightenment, which is also a kind of homeopathy."

After a while, Dr. Liang was transferred to the countryside to carry out epidemic testing, and he happened to go to the village where Hu Bao had been.

It turns out that the spring is an intermittent spring, which happens to spray water at intervals of twenty-four hours. As for the so-called ginseng fairy, it is even more laughable. The plant that grows in the spring, he knew at first glance is Aristolochia. Hu Bao saw the fairy, in fact, as the Aristolochia tuber. This root originally grew in the spring, because the spring washed out of the hole, and the intermittent spring stopped, this root naturally also shrunk back into the hole, it seems to have disappeared. Aristolochia can be used as medicine, but it is also poisonous, especially the root. The good thing is that Hu Bao will be the root of the block steamed and steamed, the toxicity is greatly reduced, or ate probably have to lose their lives.

As for the village elderly longevity, it is even simpler. Deep in the mountains less pollution, coupled with the daily mountain road work, and no labor of the mind, naturally people also live long. Just Hu Bao met the old man who is not a hundred and thirty years old, At this point Dr. Liang also did not say, I think he can not say it.