When Li Rongjun was very young, he learned about a kind of person who seemed extremely feudal and superstitious by modern standards.
That was a Taoist priest.
Although there were plenty of fraudulent wandering Taoists in the world, Li Rongjun had once spent some time playing near a mountain cemetery because he was young and mischievous.
After he returned home, he came down with a very strange illness.
He had a fever and a cough, but no matter how he was diagnosed, the doctors could find nothing wrong.
The doctors could only attribute it to the child's poor constitution and tell him to take better care of himself.
But his cough grew increasingly severe, eventually making Li Rongjun cough up blood.
A few days later, he was sitting outside his house and playing with mud when he encountered someone dressed rather strangely.
That person gave him a cup of talisman water and said that drinking it would stop his coughing.
Li Rongjun was still young at the time, so he did not think too much about it and drank it.
To everyone's surprise, the strange illness actually got better. This shocked not only his parents but the doctors as well.
However, when that strange person left, he specifically warned Li Rongjun not to tell anyone about what had happened.
So Li Rongjun buried the matter deep in his heart.
It was not until he grew up and gained some understanding of such things that he began to suspect that the symptoms he had suffered as a child... had probably been caused by an evil spirit.
And that strangely dressed person had most likely been a Taoist priest passing by.
The memory abruptly ended. Li Suqin slapped the table and said in great displeasure,
"Hey! Officer Li, are you even listening