Hundred Ghosts

Find scissors, raise the knife and drop it, the baby's forehead is like a plowed field...

Miserable.

The fisherwoman still couldn't bear to see her new son's appearance, so she invited a barber to shave his head bald.

He Huai smiled awkwardly, and rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. He took the initiative to sweep up the hair that had fallen on the ground, put a dustpan around the door, lit it, and the hair immediately burned, and he could smell a faint smell. Strange smell.

I don't know if it was because of the comfort of shaved hair, but the baby stopped crying and slept soundly in the fisherwoman's arms biting his thumb.

The fisherwoman breathed a sigh of relief, "This little ancestor is really not to be offended!"

He Huai smiled, but didn't answer.

Lin Zi's illness came and went quickly. He took the medicine at night and woke up sweating under the blanket. His whole body was in good spirits.But He Huai was worried about him, fearing that he would have a relapse, and they had nowhere to go, so he stayed at Dr. Cai's house for a few more days.

After these two days of getting to know each other, He Huai knew that Dr. Cai often went to the city to buy and sell medicinal materials with the doctors in the city, and he must have seen the portraits of the two of them on the city wall. If Dr. Cai didn't ask, they had to talk, otherwise they would not kind.

He Huai took advantage of the time when he was making medicine for Lin Zi, and told him about the two escaped.

Dr. Cai is a good person, so he didn't ask any further questions, thinking that these two guys are not bad people, so he took them in, and said that it is best for them not to go out in these difficult times.

If you don't go out, you're too busy.

In fact, there are not many such things as ghosts. Some guests are very suspicious. At first, it was just a physical problem, but he felt that he was possessed by evil spirits. Usually, he would not accept the doctor's treatment very much.

So Lin Zi and his brothers had studied medicine with their master for a few years since he was a child. He could not be said to be skilled in medicine, but he could still deal with minor ailments.

Now the little tricks I learned finally came into play. He Huai pounded all the dried herbs piled up in the medicine box, and Lin Zi sorted the pounded medicinal powders into the medicine box to remove the heat and dispel the cold. Yes, whoever banned the mouth was marked carefully.

After half a month like this, Dr. Cai went to the city to buy and sell medicinal materials again, and they stayed to look after the shop. Except for people like him and the shopkeeper, no one else in the village would go to the city for a year and a half. If you don't go out and wander around, you won't be discovered.

He went early and returned early, so it shouldn't be a big problem...

Dr. Cai left the house worriedly, having the illusion that he had raised two illegitimate children.

However, not long after he left, the guests came over.

The guest was a woman with a slightly rich figure. Her face seemed to be rubbed against the bottom of a pot. She was black, and her hands were also black. There was a big wound on the palm of her hand, which seemed to be cut by something, and it was still dripping with blood. It hurts just looking at it.

"Hiss... where is Dr. Cai? Are you his apprentices?" She glanced left and right and found that Dr. Cai was not here, so she asked them.

"Uh...well, doctor Cai has something to go to the city, Madam's wound is not serious, let me help you deal with it." Lin Zi replied softly.

She held out her hands.

Lin Zi took out warm water to wash her hands first, sprinkled painkiller powder on her wound, and wrapped it carefully with a bandage.

He Huai fetched a basin of warm water again, "Madam, do you want to wash your face?"

"Oh... I need to wash, I need to wash."

Lin Zi thoughtfully wrung out the water from the towel and let her wipe it herself. She didn't wash her face until the whole basin of water turned black.

He Huai coughed lightly, and couldn't help but ask, "Well... can I ask? How did Madam get this face?"

"I got that firewood when I was cooking for my dead ghost husband. I couldn't light it up, so I glanced at the stove..." Her face was full of fear, "Guess what I saw .”

Lin Zi shook his head.

"I saw a monster in the stove! Its body and face were as black as the bottom of a pot, and it had armor on it! It even breathed on me, so I hid behind and accidentally touched the firewood placed next to it. On the knife... hiss, it hurts me to death!" Seeing the two people looking at each other, she sighed again and said, "Hey, just think I'm talking nonsense, to be honest, I don't even believe this kind of thing! "

"No, no, of course we believe it!" Lin Zi rubbed his chin and said, "If my guess is correct, the ghost you ran into is a guardian hungry ghost."

"what?"

"Do you often not turn on the stove at home?"

She blushed, and argued in a low voice, "My husband is a shopkeeper, he often brings me food, and I don't need to cook."

Lin Zi thought it was so.Hungry ghosts who protect themselves like to get close to poor people, and often make women lazy and not cook, so that they can live in a cold stove.

"How about this," Lin Zi said, "I'll go back with you and have a look, I know a little bit of Taoism, and see if I can get rid of it, how about it?"

She nodded quickly, "Thank you, thank you, this is of course the best!"

He Huai pointed to himself and asked, "What about me?"

"You stay to help Doctor Cai take care of the store!"

He Huai was not happy when he heard that, he had stayed in this store for several days, and if he didn't go out for a walk, he would have raw mushrooms on him!

"What are you going for?"

"I'm afraid you won't be able to beat the bodyguard hungry ghost. If you also sprayed a layer of pot ash on your face... then I won't be laughed to death by you... Haha, it's interesting to think about it." He Huai held back Can't help smiling.

Lin Zi glared at him, "I'm not that stupid!"

"Okay, okay, let's go together. Dr. Cai went out early in the morning, and it's already afternoon, so he should be back soon, right? Let's go out for a while, it's okay." He Huai desperately encouraged him to bring himself along Walk.

Lin Zi thought for a while, "Okay."

Now that the weather is getting warmer, the grass buds along the way are lovely and green, and the sun is very warm on the body. If there is no one here, He Huai really wants to expose his body and bask in the sun.

In the past few days, he has also started to sprout. He took a peek and found that although the leaves are only the size of a fingernail, they have sprouted a lot. After half a month at most, they will definitely turn into dark green leaves, and then they will bloom.

Unlike other thin little pagoda trees, its flowers can cover the entire canopy, squeezed one by one, and clustered in clusters, the fragrance is tangy, and the flower buds taste sweet and delicious.

Anyway, after flowering, I would pick a few bunches for Lin Zi to steam and eat.

Compared with the beautiful scenery outside, her house looks much more desolate. Her house may be for business. The house is very big, with boxes of goods piled up in a mess, dust on the ground, and other things in a mess. It also smelled musty.

Doesn't she usually clean up the house...

She seemed a little embarrassed, Lin Zi took the initiative to say, "Let's go to your kitchen first."

The kitchen was even worse, with a lot of dust and cobwebs in the corners, like a dilapidated house that had been abandoned for several years.

Lin Zi walked over to the stove. Fortunately, there were firewood and hay next to the stove. Lin Zi grabbed a handful of hay, lit it with a torch, and threw it into the stove without even looking at it. However, the hay was extinguished as soon as it entered the stove.

Lin Zi smiled nonchalantly, took out a talisman paper, wrapped it around the top of the firewood, and threw it directly into the stove.

The flame burst out instantly, and Lin Zi turned to the side. Not long after, black smoke rose from the chimney outside.

"It's all right now, you can tidy up here again, and you should be able to cook something for your husband." Lin Zi looked at the messy kitchen, "By the way, do you have any food at home?"

She dragged a vegetable basket from the main room, which contained several white radishes, and small green vegetables that seemed freshly picked, looking juicy and crisp.

She asked in a low voice, "It's that... Will the monster appear again?"

"It's uncertain."

"what?"

Seeing her panicked, Lin Zi said softly again, "The guardian hungry ghost is most afraid of smoke and fire in the stove. If you cook more, it won't come back."

"Then I'll clean the pot..."

"That's good, you go and get it, we'll leave first." The two big men treated the woman's house improperly, Lin Zi was going to drag He Huai to leave quickly.

But unfortunately, as soon as the two of them went out, they ran into the peddler who was returning with the goods.

He watched two men with extraordinary looks come out of his house, one of them still had a mysterious embarrassment on his face.

The shopkeeper's face darkened suddenly.

Looking at his appearance, it seemed that he wanted to raise his shoulder pole and hit the two of them. Lin Zi quickly explained, "We are repairing the stove for your daughter-in-law, please don't get me wrong!"

"Why does my wife ask you to repair the stove?"

"I'll cook for you."

"You fart! My daughter-in-law never cooks!"

His wife is the daughter of the owner of the largest grocery store in the city. Her family background is good. She is not living a princess-like life in the novel, but she is pampered. She's good, let alone cooking, I don't even want her to wash the dishes!

Of course, there are no dishes to wash. He is usually busy, and he is not a good cook. Most of the time, he gives money to the family and asks them to send a bowl to their daughter-in-law when they eat, or bring some food to their daughter-in-law.

"..."

He Huai raised his hands to express his helplessness, "Really, really, if you don't believe me, ask your wife!"

He rushed into the house in a rage to look for his wife, and as soon as he turned around, they both ran away.

After returning home, Dr. Cai has already returned. He came back in a bullock cart with the shopkeeper. He brought a lot of things. The shopkeeper picked some for him on the way and said he came back.

Dr. Cai was so anxious that he didn't see the two of them at home, he even thought about being arrested and beheaded...

"Where did you two go? Didn't I tell you not to go out soon before I left?"

"We didn't run around, we just helped someone repair a stove! Really! Few people saw us along the way." Lin Zi honestly explained the day's itinerary.

"Nothing else?"

"No, absolutely not."

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