The strange story of Huai'an Inn

Before going out, the shopkeeper once again called Chong Liu to his room and cleaned him up.Chong Liu looked in the mirror again, and he was already a well-mannered medical apprentice in a plain cotton cross-neck gown, a black scarf on his head, and a medicine box on his back.

Today, the shopkeeper also changed from the elegant style of dressing in the past, wearing a light white shirt, a candy gauze beige on the outside, and a soap and green scarf on his head, just like a handsome young doctor.

"Boss, if people ask which hospital we belong to, what should we say?" Chong Liu asked nervously.

The shopkeeper carefully arranged his scarves in front of the mirror, and replied inattentively, "Just say it belongs to Sanshuang Medical Center."

"Ah? The reputation of Sanshuang Medical Center is not small... If there is a servant with a bad mouth who reports it to Shen's side room or Master Shen, what should they do if they send someone to ask the gang?"

The shopkeeper smiled softly, and the laughter reverberated in his chest.He slightly turned his head and looked at Chong Liu, "You are quite thoughtful. Don't worry, I have already told Dr. Wu who opened the Sanshuang Medical Clinic. He has done business with me, and he is an old acquaintance. This is a lie." The shopkeeper's network is really wide... Chong Liu secretly admired it.

But today the shopkeeper's complexion is obviously not as good as before, as if... a little sick.

Chong Liu's heart was up and down, and he was a little worried.

He saw the shopkeeper pinch his face hard, trying to make himself look a little more complex, and feel a little distressed. "Boss... are you really okay?" The shopkeeper finished packing, turned around and walked in front of Chong Liu, staring at Chong Liu with a slight bow, until Chong Liu looked away uncomfortably.

"Liu'er, you've already asked me for the third time. I didn't expect you to care so much about me." The shopkeeper smiled half-smile, with a trace of teasing.

Chong Liu regretted being talkative, so he touched his neck and said, "It's mainly you, a doctor, how embarrassing it would be if you look sicker than the patient..."

The shopkeeper was amused.Chong Liu's mouth is usually sweet and warm in hospitality, but if he owes it, it is really owed.

The shopkeeper sized him up carefully, then suddenly reached out and grabbed Chong Liu's right hand.

Chong Liu trembled, but did not withdraw his hand.

Shopkeeper, this is...

However, shopkeeper Zhu only carefully inspected his nails, seeing that the bulging granulation was almost invisible, and then hummed in satisfaction, "Is the smell of the purse still there?"

"Yes, yes, I wear it all the time." As if to prove his words, Chongliu took out the sachet from his pocket and showed it to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper was quite satisfied, nodded, and let go of Chong Liu's hand, "Very good, I guess the spices in it will be replaced in half a month. If I forget, you have to remind me. Okay, let's go , or it will be too late." Chong Liu followed behind the shopkeeper, but the hand that was just pulled by the shopkeeper was slowly opening and closing.The fingertips seemed to still have that brief touch.

Xiao Shun helped them drive the car to the vicinity of the Shen family's mansion in the south of the city, and the two came to the side gate of Shen's residence.The boy who opened the door seemed to know that the doctor would come, so he didn't ask any more questions, and asked them to wait in the servant's room for a while, and Xizhu hurried over after a while.

"Zhu...doctor, I kept you waiting." Xizhu said apologetically, turned her head to look at the young man, and said in a low voice, "Wenkang, it's all right here, I'll just take Doctor Zhu in."

The boy hesitated a little, but left obediently.Seeing that there were no outsiders, Xizhu said to the shopkeeper and Chongliu, "There are not many people in the mansion now, but there are still servants after all. When you two are 'seeing a doctor'...can you keep your voice down as much as possible? To avoid being... Listen to it."

The shopkeeper said, "Of course I know that."

"Well... there is one more thing..." Xizhu hesitated, but she had to say, "My grandma... due to her illness recently, her mood is unstable...sometimes she talks nonsense. You must be careful ..."

"Don't worry, I have seen what will happen to the grate if it is misused before." The shopkeeper sighed, "This time, I can only do my best. Whether it can be done or not depends on whether she has this good luck. "

"My grandma is counting on you!" Xi Zhu suddenly knelt down again, kowtowing.Chong Liu hurriedly went up to stop her, "Oh girl, it's unnecessary, it's unnecessary."

It seems that Xizhu has a deep affection for Yan Lvzhi, and he is really a rare and loyal person.

They followed Xizhu across the huge courtyard in a hurry, as if trying to deceive others.

Yan Luzhi and Qi's family lived in the same yard.It's just that the main house where she lives is covered with a sense of decay, which is far less neat and bright than the east wing.

When they passed by, the window of the east wing moved slightly.When Chong Liu noticed it, he knew that someone was quietly watching them go in the room.

It seems that Qi's servants are spying on him.

Before entering the door, Chong Liu smelled a strong earthy smell.

It's the smell of the black soil that has buried countless animal bones and squirming insect eggs in the forest.After the door was opened, the smell was ten times stronger, making it difficult for Chong Liuyi to breathe for a while, and he coughed a few times.

The shopkeeper glanced at him.

Chong Liu wanted to hold his breath, but he still had to breathe after holding it for a while, so he could only inhale as little air as possible.

But even so, there is still a sticky feeling condensed in the air in the house, as if there is an invisible film covering everything.

Then, a low cry of pain came from the back room.

That voice suppressed the endless pain and despair, which made Chong Liu's heart pick up.

"The madam is inside." Xi Zhu said, and opened the curtain.

The wide bed was covered by paper curtains depicting magpies and peach blossoms on all four sides, and behind a layer of translucent curtain that was scattered, a protruding figure could be faintly seen.

The smell became stronger, apparently coming from Yan Luzhi's body on the bed.

Xizhu walked to the bed and said softly as if she was afraid of disturbing something, "Madam, I wish the boss is here."

The painful moaning suddenly stopped, and the figure on the bed moved.A thin and pale hand yanked open the curtain, but the pair of bloodshot eyes that appeared shocked Chong Liu.

The whites of her eyes were almost filled with dense blood, and the black eyes were filled with bottomless fear and a trace of unquenched hope.Her face was horribly thin, with sunken cheeks, and the outline of bones could almost be seen.

She was so thin that she was out of shape, as if she was just a skeleton covered with a thin layer of skin.However, her belly was frighteningly big, pushing up the bedding high up.

It's not that Chong Liu has never seen a pregnant woman, but even if it's an October fetus, it shouldn't be this big, right? !What's more, based on time, even if Yan Luzhi is pregnant, it should not be more than six months by now.

The scene in front of me is like a boulder crushing a white bone...

"The shopkeeper... save me! Save me!" She managed to hold herself up, stretching out her dead branch-like hand to the shopkeeper as if she was overwhelmed.

Chong Liu was stunned, but the shopkeeper's expression did not change, and he was even gentle, and went forward to hold the hand.

"Lu Zhi, don't be in a hurry." The shopkeeper's voice was calm, like the deep and wide salt water in the sea pushing into the house layer by layer, with a soothing power, "Let me take a look at your stomach, okay?"

Generally speaking, men and women are as fierce as tigers, not to mention stomachs, even doctors can't directly touch the skin of rich women.But obviously, none of these rigid rules hold true here.

And Midori, who was already frightened enough to ignore the others, simply nodded, and even agreed anxiously.She pushed down her quilt, revealing her only son who could no longer be covered by the undershirt.

Chong Liu only felt that his scalp was hairy and his hairs were standing on end. It took a lot of willpower to keep his expression unchanged.

Her skin has been stretched to the limit, and it seems to be broken.The purple lines are densely packed, wrapping the entire lower abdomen like the skin of dead wood.Even in some places, the skin has cracked and oozes blood, those wounds cannot heal, and the scabs are stretched again, obviously showing signs of inflammation and suppuration.

The fetus sucked all the life out of her body.

None of this frightened Chong Liu. The most frightening thing was that at the moment the quilt was lifted, he clearly saw something in the stomach pushing outward from the inside of the skin, and... the thing was long strips. of.

That was never the shape a baby would have.

"It's already grown too big." The shopkeeper's face was serious, looking into Lu Zhikong's terrified eyes, "If it was born, it would bite through your stomach and crawl out, and you wouldn't be able to survive. I must... make it disappear .”

"But...but he is my son! He is my last thought!"

"Look at your belly! Do you think there is a person inside?!" The shopkeeper said with a hint of anger, "Your life is more important, or your wife's status is more important?!"

Lvzhi stared blankly at the shopkeeper, then wept mournfully.Tears wet the pillow, "The shopkeeper... without him, I have no way out!"

"Is there a way to survive after giving birth to a monster?" The shopkeeper whispered, "Only by living can there be hope, and only then can there be room for a new start. If you die, you will lose everything."

Midori was still crying bitterly.And Xizhu also knelt down, begging over and over again, "Boss Zhu, you must save our grandma!"

Chong Liu didn't expect that Yan Luzhi would still fantasize about giving birth to a "child" for this sake.

How on earth did the Shen residence push a lady with both talent and beauty into such a situation step by step?

The shopkeeper looked at the two crying, and sighed, "If I want to save you, I must clear the contents of your stomach... Do you want to live or die?"

Seeing that Lvzhi still didn't speak, just shed tears, the shopkeeper frowned slightly.Just as he was about to say something more, Chong Liu came up and said cautiously, "Mrs. Shen, you have had such a hard pregnancy and been so seriously ill. Master Shen must be very worried. He will accompany you every day to greet you?"

His words seemed to touch something in Yan Luzhi's heart.Her face contorted in pain, and a cluster of hatred erupted from her eyes.

"He hasn't come in to see me for more than a month..." She gritted her teeth, but the hatred supported endless heartache.

"Madam, if you don't care at this time. Even if you have a son, what can you change? The husband you miss in your heart, the husband you used to look forward to marrying in the future when you read the love stories in books and dramas, Is it like this?" Chong Liu lowered his eyes and asked very humbly, "Are you willing to leave it like this?"

Luzhi stared at a pair of blood-red eyes, fixedly staring at a certain place above her head, but her crying was nothing but sobbing.

She bit her lip hard.

The shopkeeper glanced at Chong Liu approvingly, and said, "If you are worried about the way to survive in the future, I can show you a way. You are full of filth now, even if you survive, it will be difficult to get rid of the influence of filth for the rest of your life. But Your calligraphy is so good, if you can be guided, you may be able to make a living through it. Although it may not be as rich as before, but at least you don’t have to be trapped in this mansion.”

Xizhu was shocked, "Boss Zhu, this is..."

Shopkeeper Zhu raised his hand and sighed, "If you are afraid of gossip, you can find a clean place, and I can also connect with you to help you arrange it. Just think about it, do you want to live like this for the rest of your life?"

Chong Liu blinked a few times and looked at the shopkeeper.

Calligraphy...dirty...

The shopkeeper is developing new craftsmen?

At this moment, the shopkeeper is still able to expand his business by every stitch? !

Chong Liu couldn't help being amazed.