Chapter 230 ?? The truth
Li Zheng said: "Okay, this is not difficult, because the registration has been done before. I just need to check the issues mentioned by the adults again to see if there is any such thing as vomiting blood. I will go door to door."
Qiu Wuhen was overjoyed when he heard that the Ming Dynasty had a strict household registration system. This kind of household registration management still seems to have its role. After Qiu Wuhen made the arrangements, he immediately returned to Taoist Temple with Qian Jinzhi. Qian Jinzhi was a little puzzled.
, asked Qiu Wuhen: "Why do you want to check their relationship and whether they are vomiting blood? What is going on?"
Qiu Wuhen said: "I can't explain it to you right now. I need to get the evidence first. This is my idea. Then you will know when I tell you."
"It's still so mysterious, then where are we going now?"
"Temple, I want to conduct an investigation in the Taoist temple as well. Many Taoist priests in the Taoist temple are local people, and I also want to find out the family relationships between them."
Qiu Wuhen arrived outside the Taoist temple. At this time, Feng Sanqiang was already conducting rituals and preparing to burn the body of Taoist Master Lingxu. A pile of firewood had been set up.
The firewood was placed not far from the old locust tree where Taoist Yehe was tied and died.
Feng Sanqiang knelt on the ground and took the lead in reciting the scriptures. Then he stood up and said loudly: "Master, your spirit in heaven will take back your life and cancel the blood curse. Don't let everyone go through the suffering of this blood curse. The people who are already dead are enough."
Many people have died in the Taoist temple in the town. Don't let more people die. Your grievances have been vindicated. Including the Orion who tied you up and paraded around the streets is also dead, and his son is also with you now.
If you kowtow in front of me to apologize and take your descendants with you, please let everyone go."
"I am your only disciple and your only relative. Now that I have become the abbot of the Taoist temple, please help me so that my disciples can maintain everyone's safety. This is the only way for me to hold this position well and securely.
Otherwise, why should people respect me? Just have mercy on me and help me."
He was kneeling there, talking, chanting sutras and praying.
Qiu Wuhen found that Zhang Orion and his family were also kneeling next to the old locust tree and kowtow. Qiu Wuhen did not go over, but lit a fire, and the flames quickly engulfed the body.
Everyone was chanting sutras together, and while they were chanting sutras, they suddenly saw two Taoist priests spurting out blood and falling straight to the ground.
Now everyone was panicking and asked Feng Sanqiang anxiously why the blood curse hadn't been canceled yet. Everyone had done everything they could, so why were they still harming people one after another?
Feng Sanqiang had no answer at all. He could only kneel on the ground and kowtow to the old locust tree in the blazing flames, praying loudly for the master to let everyone go. The two Taoist priests Qiu Wuhen who were vomiting blood had already used silver needles to stop the bleeding.
The bleeding soon stopped, and he also extracted DNA from the blood of these two people.
Qiu Wuhen saw that everyone in the temple was here. Taking advantage of everyone's gathering, he stood on the high platform and said: "I have discovered the mystery of the blood curse, but now I need evidence to confirm this.
.I hope that each of you’s lay identity and relationship, as well as whether your immediate family members and collateral relatives have ever experienced vomiting blood in the stool and corresponding hemorrhage, will be written down on a piece of paper, and then handed over to me.
."
Then he asked the Taoist priests to prepare pens and papers and distribute them to everyone. These Taoists didn't know why Master Jueyi needed everyone to prepare these things. He wanted to check everyone's family relationships and whether they had blood vomiting or blood in the stool, so they knelt down and asked everyone to prepare pens and papers.
He spread the pen and paper on the ground and started writing. After he finished writing, he handed it over to Qiu Wuhen one after another. Even Feng Sanqiang also wrote, but he wrote very simply, because his parents died when he was very young, and he followed his master to wander around the world.
, he couldn’t remember his family at all.
After writing it, give it to Qiu Wuhen.
He picked up a pile of paper and took it to Li Zheng's house. He handed the plate of paper to Li Zheng and told him to include these people in it and make a complete table, clearly marking the relationship between each person.
Zheng Zheng had attended a private school before, so he was quite smart and understood Qiu Wuhen's arrangements quite well. He spent two days making this list and glued a lot of paper on it.
Together, make a big table.
In the past two days, people continued to vomit blood in Chaozhen Town and Chaozhanguan, and there were more and more people, one after another. Qiu Wuhen was running around like a rescue team member. He had already informed everyone to notify him immediately if they appeared, even so.
, it was still too late, and several of them bled to death by the time he arrived. You know, heavy bleeding can kill people within a few minutes, and no matter what the reason was during this period, there was no time to treat them.
Among the next few people, some were in critical condition because they bled too much. In ancient times, it was impossible to perform blood transfusions because there was a lack of corresponding equipment.
Zhang Orion's family was as frightened as a bird crossing the street. They no longer dared to stay at home. Qiu Wuhen arranged for them to be moved to a temple and asked the bald monk to bring a dozen Taoists to protect their family's safety. The people were very hostile to their family.
They were lynching people, and these people had gone crazy. They thought it was Zhang Orion's family that had caused the disaster, which made Mr. Yehe refuse to give up and issue such a terrifying blood curse. But now they have tried their best to do nothing.
To solve the problem, I am afraid that only by using the souls of Zhang Orion's family to pay tribute to the souls of Taoist Yehe can we save everyone's safety, so their family has become the target of public criticism.
Qiu Wuhen finally waited until Li Zheng made a big list of the relationships between the people in the town, including everyone in the Taoist temple.
Of course, on this form, only the head of a household should be written down, and those who are married to each other should be written down. Those who have not left the house, have no children, and do not have symptoms of vomiting blood are omitted. This is slightly better.
Even so, it is also densely written, but fortunately it is all pieced together with paper. If a piece of writing is wrong, you can rewrite it and re-paste it, so that the whole village will not have to start over.
After the entire list had been sorted out, it was laid out in the yard. Qiu Wuhen took off his shoes, walked on it wearing only socks, and checked each one one by one, and compared it with every dead and dead person he had extracted in his mind during this period.
He compared the people who were vomiting blood and used a pen to mark out the relationship between them. After about an hour, he finally waved his fist and said to Li Zheng: "Now that I understand what's going on? You go and find out.
The Taoist priests, the abbot of Transcendental View, and the main monk officials in the town have all been called. I have something to say to everyone.
Soon the top-ranked squires in Chaoran Town, as well as the abbot, monks and Taoist officials from Chaoran Guan all gathered in the courtyard of Li Zheng's house, looking at Qiu Wu in confusion as he walked around on a large list of names.
Hen, I don’t know which song this Master Qiu sang.
Qiu Wuhen said: "I have marked all the people who vomited blood and those who died of vomiting blood in our market town these days, circled them with red pen, and outlined their relationship. Take a look.
What is the relationship between them?"
Everyone was watching the research with their heads swinging around. Suddenly an old country squire squinted his eyes and said to him: "I think that although these people who vomit blood are scattered far apart, in the final analysis they all seem to come from the same ancestry."
, their great ancestor should be the same person."
Everyone did not gather at the generation of the Great Ancestor, so the top ones were a few branch-like protrusions, but the squire made a guess that the path of their objects came from the same direction.
Qiu Wuhen raised his thumb and said: "Yes, some people have family trees and some people don't. I didn't mark it on the family tree. I don't want everyone to get the wrong idea. Now that the old squire has discovered this problem, this
That's right. According to current surveys in market towns, a considerable number of people are related by kinship, because everyone lives here and intermarry with each other. The further down the line, the more intermarriage relationships develop, and the kinship relationship is
The wider.”
"But I roughly figured it out. There are probably more than twenty sources in the whole market town, but there is only one that vomits blood. All of them are named Zhang. They were passed down from Zhang. Later, after branching out, some of them had other names.
surname, but in the end they all come from the main line of the surname Zhang. This should be their great-grandfather. They come from the same bloodline. In fact, if all of us keep pushing up, we will have a common main line. This
It’s too profound to say, and I can’t explain it clearly, and everyone can’t understand it either. Anyway, there is a saying that can help everyone understand that five hundred years ago, people with the same surname were members of the same family.”
This statement is very common, and many people have heard of it, so it is easy to understand. Everyone nodded frequently, and Qiu Wuhen continued: "It will be easier if everyone has this impression in their minds. Now I can say that I
This is the answer to the mystery. These people who vomited blood all come from the same ancestor, and the number covered below is estimated to be less than a thousand, including Taoist priests in Taoist temples."
"That is to say, those who will have symptoms of vomiting blood or vomiting blood in the future will be from this branch passed down by this surname, and there will not be cases of such acute blood loss and death from other branches. Of course, there may be other forms of hemorrhage, but
There will be no hemorrhage similar to this one, because this hemorrhage is special, we call it hemophilia."
The word hemophilia is a modern medical vocabulary, but no one could understand it in ancient times. Qiu Wuhen said: "This disease is inherited in the family. In Europe, that is, in another land far away, this disease is also popular there.
The disease is called a royal disease. Because it exists among royal intermarriages and comes from the same ancestor, their children are prone to a kind of hemorrhage, and the bleeding can easily stop and cannot be stopped at all. Therefore, they are very careful
, I dare not have any wounds. Once there is a wound, the bleeding cannot be stopped and it will be life-threatening."
"This is the same disease that happened in our market town this time, but this time it was much more severe than the similar diseases I knew before. I still don't know what is the reason for this? Because I lack specialized knowledge.
After testing the equipment and using the information I currently have, I confirmed that it is this disease. And this disease has a very strange phenomenon, that is, it is transmitted from male to female, which means that this disease is only spread among men and not among women.
Chapter completed!