laughing soul

At dusk, Huadu North City Gate ushered in a unique guest.

This man was riding a snow-white and robust stallion. This horse was much thinner than ordinary good horses, and its legs were much longer than other horses. You could see the tight and powerful muscles between the legs when it was moving or moving. No half fat.Although the owner of the horse described him as thin and tall like this horse, his face looked sickly and sick.The clothes are also nondescript, the long cotton gown hangs down to the kneecap, and the solitary calf is wrapped in a pair of white trousers, as if a young man has grown taller in a year, but he is still wearing last year's old clothes.But looking at his thin cheeks, he doesn't have the vigor of a young man at all, he should be too early for a long body.

This person is the Pavilion Master Chu Yu who threw off the Liu brothers and sisters.

The little flowered quilt was ugly, but it was just enough to cover his embarrassing short blouse.This is good, do a good deed every day, and put yourself into the pit.The people of Huadu have always been simple and warm. Although there are few people at the North City Gate, there are already three grandmothers and grandmothers with needlework and cloth in their hands who stop to ask him to repair clothes.

Although Chu Yu didn't know the world in Changliu Mountain these years, he also understood that it was not a good thing to take off his clean clothes in the street.

Fortunately, Gu Wei made this clothes for him overnight.He didn't care about the shoddy clothes full of hemlines, but the idiot pretended to measure him for him, and in the end he gave him such a shocking rag. Fortunately, he found out that he had prepared a pair of trousers. Zhu Jingui's calf ran naked all over the Central Plains.

The little flowered quilt thrown to him by emotion was for such a purpose.Chu Yu was heartbroken, and watched the fourth amiable grandmother walking towards him with a needle and a cloth and a smile. She couldn't dodge, so she had to go head-on.

"Young master's clothes are probably a little too small. I'm busy with my errands, so I'll make them up for you."

Chu Yu thought about his pitiful purse, and nimbly shrunk his legs to avoid his grandma's hand: "No grandma, Xiaosheng, I came all the way from Qingzhou. Bandits and robbers looted Xiaosheng's 200 taels of silver notes, I'm afraid I don't have the good fortune to trouble you." In line with this fabricated story, I deliberately put on a grievance face that I can't help feeling sorry for.

"Ah, unlucky child." If the first few mothers were naturally enthusiastic and attentive within the scope of soliciting business, then this one is probably Liu Shi's seven aunts and eight aunts who have been lost for many years.Before Chu Yu could react, she took Xue Qianli's thin rein and walked into her shop, "Don't be afraid of the child, when you come to Huadu, there is a government office that handles practical things for you. Get off your horse and sit here. Take your money."

Chu Yu was not good at rejecting people in the first place, and if he didn't raise his hand to hit someone with a smiling face, he was even less able to deal with this grandma who looked like Guanyin Bodhisattva.I hope that Xue Qianli will have some backbone, but unfortunately this beast does not have the ability of the pavilion master to fill his stomach by drinking northwest wind. He throws a handful of dry straw over, and if he has milk, he is a mother. He immediately recognizes the thief as his father and is led by the nose gone.

Chu Yu was heartbroken again, and realized that the evil consequences of ineffective discipline are no better than putting peach blossoms indiscriminately.

However, seeing the injustice and pulling out the needle to help in this situation, he really couldn't bear to hurt the old man's kindness, so he had to sit down and accept a free service by accident.

Chu Yu was flattered for a while, and after a while, he regained his composure.

At least I don't have to be blindsided all the way, very good, very good.

"Son, what are you doing here from Qingzhou?" Fearing that he would be bored, Grandma asked for something to relieve him.She has long gray hair, and she is not deaf and blind, and she is full of spirit when she speaks, "Could it be that you are here to find flowers and ask willows?"

Chu Yu had just found his balance on the narrow stone bench, when he heard this, he almost knelt down for her.

People in Huadu are really unique, even old people are so...open.

"The younger generation is here to seek medical treatment," Chu Yu said, "Grandma, do you know any Mr. Xu, Mr. Liu, and Mr. Zhao around here? Especially this Mr. Xu. The family members of the younger generation are suffering from strange diseases. There was no one around for a while, but I heard that these famous doctors are in Huadu, so I came here to visit."

"Mr. Xu, Mr. Liu, Mr. Zhao?" Grandma pulled the corner of Chu He's clothes with one hand, measured the length visually, took the long scissors and cut a piece of white cloth for comparison. I don't know, but it's Xu Liushan..." After finishing the stitches carefully, she squinted her eyes, cut off the end of the thread, turned around to take the second roll of white thread, and shouted to the medical clinic next door, "Mr. Xu head! Someone is looking for it!"

Chu Yu was startled, and followed the other person's gaze, only to see an old man with white beard and disheveled topless breasts squeezed out of the low door frame holding a half cup of Kuding. A barefoot doctor who can cure all diseases with a dog skin plaster inside.

But people can't be judged by their appearance, let alone the masters are among the people, that idiot Gu Wei said.

So, ignoring his half-repaired clothes, he stood up and saluted: "Young man Chu Yu, I have met Mr. Xu."

The old man sipped his tea one by one, squinted at the tall and tall Pavilion Master, and scanned his exposed parts clearly, and then the old man met Chu Yu on the ground. Looking at each other: "Young man, is your body weak, your liver and kidneys are not good?...It's not a chronic disease, so don't be embarrassed to speak up...Don't mend your clothes, let's go first."

After speaking, he turned sideways and slipped into the crack of the door, leaving Chu Yu with an inscrutable smile.

Chu Yu: "..."

Grandma didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, so she quickly stopped the needle, and patted his shoulder comfortingly: "Good boy, go quickly."

Chu Yu: "...Thank you, grandma." With the package on his back, he dodged the eyes of passers-by who were glued to him, and walked into the house in embarrassment.

The internal structure of the hut is quite different from the cramped appearance shown on the outside. Once you enter the hut, you will find a very spacious hall.Looking inside, there are neatly arranged cubicles on both sides of the deep corridor, and in front of each room is a small pill box filled with various medicines.

Old man Xu was sitting on the kneeling mat in the middle of the hall, and several rows of extremely small and delicate utensils were placed on the wooden table in front of him. He wiped his hands carefully several times with a white cloth towel, and after wiping his hands, he sat upright and waited for him, as if The old man who was fooling around just now is another person.

Chu Yu became serious after examining the situation, and knelt and sat on the opposite side of Xu Liushan: "Mr. Xu, the junior came to bother me this time, not...not because of liver and kidney diseases..."

“我知道，刚刚是逗你玩，”十分欠揍地说完，许留山开盒取了一副布手套小心戴上，又端端正正地在鼻梁间架了副眼镜，瞬息间从不靠谱The wretched old man turned into a full-time job as a learned man, "Put the corpse over here, and I'll see."

Chu Yu was dumbfounded.

It stands to reason that he shouldn't have revealed anything, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to run all the way to Huadu without hindrance.

"What are you in a daze for? Silly boy, you can deceive others, and you can deceive your grandpa, Xu Liushan?" The old man frowned, and smiled disdainfully, "I've smelled it a long time ago, it smells like a rotting corpse...I just lied to you Cover for you, brat, don't know what to do!"

Chu Yu wanted to explain a few words, but raised his head to meet Xu Liushan's three-white eyes that had been magnified several times through the glass, watching the other party keep blowing air out of his nostrils in order to show his contempt, like a thousand-year-old man. The bastard became a spirit, so he didn't dare to argue with the old turtle spirit anymore, fearing that the old monster would spew out rivers, lakes and seas from his nostrils and drown himself, so he hurriedly put down the package and opened the quilt.

As soon as the quilt was lifted, a smell of rotten eggs and latrine immediately wafted away, making Chu Yu shiver with nausea.

The corpse that had traveled all the way with the Pavilion Master was covered with green spots, its belly was slightly bulging, as if it was three or four months pregnant, its entire torso swelled a little, and its face was stretched and deformed.Somehow, the warm, fishy and sweet blood had rotted into a translucent gray-green juice, which was slowly flowing out from the slightly enlarged seven orifices of the deceased.The slurry stimulated the little lives living in the eye sockets, forcing them to scramble to escape one by one.For a moment, the empty body was colorfully painted up and down, and the description was very wonderful.

Even though Xu Liushan was well-informed, he also took a step back in shock from the scene in front of him, took a few deep breaths, and managed to stabilize his body.Not to mention Chu Yu, he has never seen anyone die so virtuously when he grows up. He is full of cold water that has just been poured on the road and screams to burst his throat. Most of his body leans on the pillar for a long time. move.After finally suppressing the strong feeling of vomiting, and struggling to turn his mind, he felt strange.

The date Gu Wei instructed was within two days, but it was less than one day for him to travel from Kunlun Mountain to Huadu.Even if that idiot cheated him, it wouldn't rot so quickly, right?

Besides, back then, it took four full days for my mother to die...

"Old Xutou! Don't take out your dog fur herbal medicine to embarrass yourself! It's killing people!" Grandma shouted at the door, and Chu Yu was startled, and raised his eyebrows to look at the wide open window.

"Go and close the window." Xu Liushan hesitated for a long time, but still didn't stuff his nostrils with paper balls, "There are two incense sticks in the cabinet, let's light them together."

Chu Yu agreed, found some rough paper at the window, immediately twisted two pieces to plug his nose, then turned around and asked, "Mr. Xu, do you need it?"

"Forget it, different corpses have different smells. If you can't smell it, it will affect your judgment," Xu Liushan fixed the corpse with a knife in one hand and fixed the corpse in the other, looking like an old-school gangster, "Silly boy, grandpa, I did it. Stay away." The blade wandered around the surface of the persimmon skin-like corpse, and finally selected a thumb-sized corpse spot, raised the tip of the knife slightly, and poked sideways along the edge of the corpse spot.

Chu Yu turned his eyes away, and inevitably heard a soft sound of gas bulging from the closed environment.

He slowly closed his eyes.

How long?How long has it been since you heard this voice?

Dirty green rotten skin, a dilapidated shell that lost its soul, a face that was swollen beyond recognition... the unrecognizable beauty stretched out her white tongue, and the same dirty and dirty liquid flowed from the empty eyes.

Why did you come to kill me?

On August [-]th of that year, eleven children were born on the entire hill, why was it you?

"Hey silly boy! Come here!" Xu Liushan stopped the knife and called to Chu Yu who was beside him. The man's face was so pale that it was scary, as if he was the dead man who was lying on the ground and was knifed. "You come to ask me for an autopsy. this?"

Chu Yu blinked, trying to restore some blood color, and looked closely at the bloody corpse, only to see that under the corpse spot were two lung lobes that had been corroded to almost no outline, and the remaining part was shocking black.

"Mr. Xu, this is..."

"This is the lungs! You silly boy!" Xu Liushan, who took the lead, rolled his eyes and took the meaning out of context, "Even if the lobes of the lungs are rotten, they shouldn't be this color. It's more like..."

He deliberately stopped and refused to say any more, Chu Yu could only follow up with a good temper: "What is it like?"

"It's like a plague that started in Kyoto three years ago. It was because of this that I escaped to Huadu before the plague reached me. At that time, even Qiu Yang, the unlucky rabbit, died, ah, that's it. The original prince," Xu Liushan seemed to be quite emotional when recalling the past, "now that little monkey boy is in charge... Hey silly boy, where did you get this dead ghost?"

Chu Yu didn't have time to deal with Xu Liushan's old and disrespectful thing, and he offended the nobleman all over the place with just one mouthful. He remembered that Liu Shi had also mentioned the fact that the former prince was deposed and the third prince ascended the throne, but what the two sides said seemed to be inconsistent. Not small.

What's going on in this capital city?

"Mr. Xu, this is a friend of mine." Chu Yu decided to avoid the minor and deal with the major issue of the plague first. "My junior's hometown has been plagued by the plague recently, and dozens of people died. Can you give me a prescription to cure this disease?" ?”

"Dozens? Very few... But the plague in Kyoto three years ago... Where is your hometown?"

Chu Yu: "Qingzhou...on a high mountain."

"Oh," Xu Liushan nodded, spreading paper and ink, "So it's a savage living on the mountain."

Chu Yu: "..."

If he hadn't asked for this person, he could hardly restrain the urge to wring this old immortal's head off and kick it like a ball.

"Hey boy!" The ball ball opened his golden mouth, "Grinding the ink and your hands are sore, you come to grind it for me... Hey, don't come over here! Cover your friend first, didn't you watch the incense burn out? ?”

Chu Yu folded his arms and stared at him indifferently for a while, grinding his white teeth from side to side, making a slight grinding sound.

Hui Lau Shan...

On the Kunlun Mountains, Cui Wei waited on him every day with both hands. Pavilion Master Chu, who was used to being served by Cui Wei, grudgingly studied the ink, while silently sketching in his heart how to torture this old turtle to death when he finished writing the prescription. .

"Your surname is Chu?"

Chu Yu responded vaguely.

"From Qingzhou mountain..." Suddenly, he pinched a small piece of skin at the temple with two fingers, and raised his head suddenly after a while, "Kunlun Mountain?!"

Chu Yu didn't even bother to respond this time, so he just nodded in acquiescence.

"Good boy," Xu Liushan wrote halfway through the prescription, and looked at him with those seven-pointed old eyes, "you look much more energetic."

Chu He paused.

Just then, he was eager to ask for a prescription to solve the urgent needs of everyone in Kunlun Mountain, and he didn't consider many trivial matters. Now that he thinks about it, this old man who is full of cannons seems to have shown an extraordinary mouth from the very first meeting. This person is by nature, and it is impossible for him to trip up a young boy from a foreign land that he has never met.

Those sentences "I am your grandpa" and "You brat" were repeated repeatedly because this person wanted to take advantage of him deliberately.

Which serious old man recognizes his grandson all over the street?

Chu Yu was only in a daze for a moment, and then continued to study the ink under his hand: "Mr. Xu, I don't know what metaphysics you want to teach Xiaosheng... It's hard to say in your previous life, but with this face, it must be a thousand times better than your youth. .”

This is pretending to be crazy and selling silly human words.

"You boy!" Xu Liushan unexpectedly didn't get entangled with him on this matter, and finished his errand with two strokes on the paper, "Come on, don't worry about it, I've finished writing your grandpa...take it away, hurry up roll."

Chu Yu took the rice paper handed over by the old man. Although the handwriting was provocative, he could still read it clearly. He carefully collected the note and made sure that the old turtle would not snatch it away. "The order was nothing, and he sat down proudly: "Xu Liushan, don't you care if I want money?"

"You kid, how dare you call your elders by their first names!" Xu Liushan opened his triangular eyes wide, and raised the ratio of white eyes from seven to eight. , "Aren't you a poor boy without money?"

"Oh," Chu Yu withdrew the normal smile on his face, and his whole face looked quite chilling, "Then you know that you have no money to collect, and you are still kind enough to do things for me? I brought such a stinky thing myself. I hate you all, why are you willing to lower your status to be an assistant and write such a detailed and appropriate prescription for me? You are not the reincarnated Tathagata Buddha, and you have the important task of helping the common people in the world, "

Xu Liushan was taken aback by Chu Yu's face-changing skills, so he didn't say a word.

"Mr. Xu, why?" Chu Yu guessed that he would not respond, so he took his time and quietly added the second half of the sentence.

"Have you seen me in the past? Junior Chu Yu."

"you…"

"I'm a stinky boy." Chu Yu snatched his text, "Is it your grandson? The only one who is so happy to train me is..." Almost lost his word, the pavilion master swallowed the "Gu Wei" behind him alive Stomach.

"Chu Yu," Xu Liushan was finally willing to call his name properly, and Chu Yu hurriedly responded.

"Cui Wei... I know everything about the plague..."

Chu Yu looked at him expressionlessly, and his heart tightened.

"Cui Wei can't... because of a plague. I've been waiting for you here for a long time..."

Xu Liushan stood up, and Chu Yu's gaze was fixed on him. The old urchin who was still flying like a stick of incense a few minutes ago actually bent his knees and knelt straight in front of him.

It is expected that this person is ice-snow and smart, but he doesn't know that just these short contacts will inevitably show his flaws.

He stretched out his hands and put them on the ground, bowing his head reverently, revealing the nape of his neck, which had been covered by his clothes before, where there was a scarlet red scar similar to a burn.

Chu Yu's throat moved, but he remained silent.

After Xu Liushan kowtowed his head, he straightened his back while maintaining his kneeling position, and slowly raised his head: "Pavilion Master."