Aggrieved Fish Sprite

One night passed, and there was no more earthquake.

The people in Zhushan County were still in shock. As soon as the dawn broke, they were busy preparing incense candles and ingots, and kowtowed to the gods and ghosts they trusted, praying for safety.Every household smells of incense and candles, and the big and small temples in the streets and alleys are full of people and smoky.

"Ah!"

Detective Qin sneezed heavily, rubbed his nose and complained, "These gods eat incense every day, and they are not afraid of choking."

The yamen guard behind him quickly winked, telling Catcher Qin to keep his voice down.

Although the folk customs in Zhushan County are simple and honest, it is better not to say these eye-catching words in front of the temple gate.

"My big family, my mother believes in Buddhism, and knocks wooden fish with a bracelet; my daughter-in-law, she offers incense to Lishan's old mother all day long, saying that it can turn me from bad luck to good luck... Our Zhushan County is a few kilometers away from Lishan. Not one hundred and eight thousand miles?" Captain Qin didn't hold back at all, and said angrily, "As for my father, every time he passes by the Baiyan Mountain Temple, he has to kowtow to burn incense, and I'm not Orion woodcutter, what does the mountain god bless me?"

"These gods, Buddhas and immortals may know each other!" The yamen servant next to him laughed and said casually, "It's like your big family, who don't see each other when they look up, eat and push Pai Gow around a table, who is with whom! "

Detective Qin was busy all day yesterday. Not long after he fell asleep, there was an earthquake in the middle of the night.

"All right, all right, these felt cloths that Master Li told us have to be delivered to the village, let's go back early."

Captain Qin quickly covered his nose, stepped on the snow and said as he prepared to leave the city.

It just happened to be such a coincidence that he saw the ink carp as soon as he turned around.

"Doctor Mo?" Inspector Qin asked in surprise, "Where are you from?"

It was still early, and the pharmacy hadn't opened yet. Although Mo Li didn't carry anything in his hand, there were traces of snow on the upper of his shoes, as if he had walked a long way. All of them have never been changed.

"There was an urgent matter last night, so I left the city." Mo Li said casually.

He is a doctor, and it is common for him to visit the doctor in the middle of the night, and no one else will get to the bottom of it.

Detective Qin quickly asked Mo Li for a home remedy for clearing away heat and relieving fire, and left with a smile.

After walking not far, Mo Li heard the yamen servant ask Catcher Qin in a low voice: "Dr. Mo didn't go out for a visit, did he? He didn't even take the medicine box, and there was some dirt on the back of his clothes..."

"Okay, what about you to solve the case? People don't want to talk about it, what are you doing with so many questions, hurry up, and finish the errands and still be able to catch up with the meal in the yamen." Detective Qin said angrily.

Doctor Mo silently picked up the hem of his clothes, and sure enough, there were stains from the cave last night. The teacher was right, since he specialized in surgery, he didn't have the talent to tell lies. When he was in front of Detective Qin and others, he would be exposed as soon as he exposed it.

Mo Li spent the night in a daze, he thought of dragon veins for a while, and monsters for a while.

He didn't know why Taijing Jinlong asked him to go to Xianyang.

He has lived in Zhushan County for nearly 20 years, and he is very familiar with everything here. Now that he suddenly knows his true identity, Mo Li can't recover, even——can't accept it.

Because this means that if he wants to find the same kind, he must leave Zhushan County and Qimao Mountain.

Doctor Mo couldn't help but think of what the yamen servant said just now that the gods, Buddhas and immortals in the world belong to one family, and secretly sighed that it would be great if it was true.He also doesn't want big men who can control the wind and rain, according to the county chronicles, those mountain gods, a nest of fluffy foxes, and weasels who like to tease people, anyway, as long as they don't like to eat people, they live together lively, cooking tea and drinking wine every day, Playing chess and planting ginseng, going outing in spring, boating in summer, listening to the wind in autumn, enjoying snow in winter, all the year round, it is a lot of fun.

—but no, nothing.

Mo Li walked back to the pharmacy with heavy steps, and saw Mrs. Ge holding dried willow branches, slapping around the courtyard wall, reading a sentence at a step, and sprinkled a handful of black things after taking five steps.

"...Ah, Doctor Mo is back." Aunt Ge was still holding a dustpan in her hand, which contained pot bottom ash, and when she turned around, the ash inside was just blown up by the wind, covering Tang Xiaotang's face and body.

The freshly baked black doll wiped her face blankly.

"puff."

Mo Li couldn't help laughing, Tang Xiaotang pursed his mouth, and tears rolled in his eyes immediately.

"When did you run behind me, Tangzi?" Aunt Ge quickly put down her things, dragged Tang Xiaotang and walked into the house, "Don't rub your eyes, don't touch them, Auntie will find water for you to wash."

Mo Li followed into the door, Mr. Qin was slowly punching in the yard, saw Tang Xiaotang being carried in like a black monkey, and said with a smile: "Shizhi, you brought this monkey from the mountain ?”

When Qin Lu saw his disciple come back safely, he immediately regained his nervousness.

"Teacher." Mo Li put away his messy thoughts and saluted respectfully.

Tang Xiaotang, on the other hand, was so squeezed that he couldn't hold back any longer, and burst into tears.

Aunt Ge was in a hurry, and Mo Li helplessly picked up his junior brother, and said to Qin Lu while coaxing him, "Xiaotang is just at the age where he wants to save face. If he is said to be short on weekdays, he will be angry for a long time. Why should the teacher tease him? .”

Old Mr. Qin knew he was wrong, stroked his beard and stopped talking.

Aunt Ge kept saying that it was all her fault. She poured hot water first, then took a clean cloth, and then took Tang Xiaotang into her arms to wipe her face.

Tang Xiaotang's face was crying black and white, making it even more funny to watch.

Fortunately, Mrs. Ge took him to the room to change clothes, so Mo Li didn't have to bear it any longer.

"What is this for?" Mo Li asked, looking at the half dustpan bottom ash on the ground.

"It's a way to exorcise evil spirits."

Uncle Ge, the accountant of the pharmacy, smiled shyly, "Willow branches dipped in water, as well as this old pot bottom ash, walking around in circles can drive away the bad luck in the house. This is the way to ask for the blessing of the Kitchen God. Now It's freezing cold, and we can't find fresh willow branches, and we can't splash water, so we can only get more ash from the bottom of the pot."

Mo Li looked at Qin Lu silently, and Mr. Qin shook his head with a smile.

——Even a well-learned person does not know the prescriptions for praying to God and worshiping Buddha in every household in Zhushan County.

Everyone has their own set of rhetoric, each believes in their own, and they have divided the jurisdiction and responsibilities of each god.It sounds very lively, but in fact there is nothing, Mo Li sighed.

On the table in the main room was a plate of vegetable buns, held in a bowl, for fear of escaping the heat.

Mo Li went to the kitchen to fill a bowl of porridge by himself, and when he returned to the main room, he found that only Mr. Qin was eating slowly.

"Have you eaten the little candy?" Mo Li glanced at the food on the table. According to Qin Lu's habit, he could count how much he ate for each meal.

Qin Lu nodded.

Without eating or sleeping, Mr. Qin put down his chopsticks, and then asked inquiringly, "What did you see in the mountains? Did you encounter any danger when the earthquake happened?"

Mo Li didn't know how to answer, he thought about it in his heart, swallowed the last mouthful of porridge, rinsed his mouth again, and then said in a low voice: "The student is safe and sound, it's just about the dragon's veins, I don't understand at all, I want to go again The yamen asked Master Li for advice."

"Shizhi, you have something on your mind."

Qin Lu could tell at a glance that Mo Li wasn't telling the truth. Usually he wouldn't ask questions, but now that visions are frequent and his student is sick, Mr. Qin has no choice but to ask.

"Shizhi, for a student like you who is smart, studious, talented, and good-natured, there is almost nothing to worry about, but the teacher has been worrying about you all the time."

"teacher?"

"I suggested that you become a doctor in Zhushan County. You agreed, and you did a good job. Everyone here respects you very much, even Xue Lingjun is no exception. Two years ago, I suddenly wanted to accept Xiaotang as a student. His age Little, I have neither the energy nor the time to teach him, so I put him in the pharmacy, and you took good care of him. But do you know why I arranged it this way? "

Qin Lu is a very polite person. Every time he uses "I" to talk to Mo Li, Mo Li knows that this is a serious conversation. Qin Lu will talk to him like a peer, and no longer treat him as a child who has no ideas and is not sensible. He will only give suggestions in everything, and will not force him to do what he must do, so Mo Li sincerely wants to Respect Qin Lu.

Some things may be born with it.

But there are some things that Qin Lu taught him through his precepts and deeds, which made him understand.

"Teacher is as kind to me as a mountain, and she sees the world more clearly than I do. There must be a reason for you to make these arrangements." Mo Li really didn't know Qin Lu's intentions, but he also had his own guess, "The Art of Qihuang In order to be diligent, people need to constantly treat illnesses and save people. People are born, aged, sick and die. Illness is inevitable. A doctor can see all kinds of things in the world, and tempering his mind is also good for his internal strength. As for Xiaotang, the teacher doesn't want to see him go to waste. talent."

Qin Lu listened to the movement by the door and confirmed that Tang Xiaotang was not nearby, then shook his head and said: "You are right, but not all. Xiaotang's talent is good, but it is much worse than you, and my age I don’t know how many years I can teach him when I’m old.”

A few days ago, Mo Li gave Qin Lu a pulse, and said in disbelief, "Teacher is in good health, and there will always be ten or eight years of good life. It is no problem to live long enough to write Xue Lingjun's epitaph."

Qin Lu couldn't laugh or cry, if Xue Zhixian heard this, Xue Zhixian would suffer from insomnia again.

"Shizhi, I do this to hope that you will live your life safely and without worries. When you were young, you were bored and didn't like to play with other children. When you grow up, you are still a bored gourd. If you don't go to practice medicine, I'm afraid You don't know how to talk to strangers at all."

Old Mr. Qin sighed, "Now, you have a home in Zhushan County, you have your own life, and I left Xiaotang... It's hard for a doctor to heal himself. You are brothers, so it's good to take care of each other. Zhi, you are always very lonely, it seems that what you have can’t make you fit in, you have a lot of words hidden in your heart, and you still have a lot of worries, what are you thinking?"

"..."

Qin Lu felt very sorry for the bewildered expression of his students.

In the early years, he thought that Mo Li's loneliness was because he had no father or mother, and he didn't know how to live, so he took pains to arrange the current life for Mo Li. He didn't need to worry about it, and Mo Li could do his best by himself, but Mo Li The loneliness and loneliness in Li never disappeared.

Mo Li sat at the table, he didn't know how to explain himself.

He likes Qimao Mountain, Zhushan County, the people and things here.

Xiaotang is very good, and so is the teacher.Everyone in the county government office is very nice, including Xue Lingjun and Master Li.

But——no one can stay with him forever, Mo Li will use the art of transformation to make himself old for a year, but there is always an end, he can't stay "dead" forever.

The teacher will leave, and so will Xiaotang.

Because they are humans, and he is a demon.

He wants to find his kind.

The author has something to say:

Mo Li not only wants to find monsters, but also wants to live with them in Qimao Mountain

But it’s not enough if the same kind is a dragon vein, everyone has their own territory

This is why the ink carp is attached to the yokai and continues to be attached to the yokai