a school of fox talk

The pattering rain has been falling intermittently for several months. It is not a good thing for Tongling, a small town with poor drainage and a high possibility of flooding. Traveling merchants are not willing to stay in this place.

The business in the teahouse is definitely not as good as before. The clerk joked with three or two quacks in the restaurant when he had nothing to do: "It really rains in Tongling Town, once a year, once in the second half of the year."

The Jianghu guest sitting in the lobby nodded and said, "It's only been two years, there's been a lot of rain, and even the river has swelled."

The man sighed and said, "Perhaps the Dragon Lord is not happy. It's really strange. It wasn't like this before."

The Jianghu guest took a sip of tea, slapped the table and smiled, "Maybe! I went to guard the darts a few days ago, and I heard from a woodcutter in the mountains that he saw a dragon flying across the sky. The Dragon Lord should not be in the sea." Can you swim? Can you fly?"

That's right, isn't it written in the novel that the dragon kings live in the Crystal Palace?Just as the guy was about to answer the call, there was a soft knock on the door on the second floor of the teahouse, and someone opened it quickly.

A slender young man stepped out of the room. He was wearing a light-colored long gown, his black hair was curled up like ink, and a small box was hanging on his shoulder. When he stepped on the stairs, there was a sound of creaking footsteps. Everyone in the lobby raised their heads and looked together, and then they couldn't look away anymore.

The man behaved like a nobleman, but when he turned around, everyone found that there was a scar running from the cheekbone to the jaw on the right side of the man's face!What a pity, what a pity...

With a smile on his face, the clerk asked politely: "Doctor Bai has worked hard, how is the old man? How come he was still energetic two days ago, but today he just fainted."

The person who was called the doctor smiled warmly and said: "It's nothing serious. The weather is not good these days, and the upper body is often wet and poisonous. Let the old man rest more on weekdays and don't worry about it."

Even the voice is as pleasant as the clear spring in the mountains.

The man nodded repeatedly, watching the man slowly hold up the oil-paper umbrella and walk out of the gate of the teahouse. When the hem of his clothes was blown by the wind with rain, he had an illusion of being out of the world.

When the figure of that person disappeared into the rain, the quacks in the lobby seemed to have recovered from a dusty picture scroll, discussing a lot.

The sky seemed to be covered with a layer of gray cloth, and the dark clouds rolled over the cloth, and when they clustered together, it rained continuously. It has been like this for half a month. Bai Ke walked through the most spacious street in the west with an umbrella , there were few people on the street, he walked into the alley, and returned to the back door of Huangqitang Medicine Store in a short while.

Bai Po opened the door and went in, and he sent all the servants in the yard back. Anyway, it was raining, and there were not many people seeing the doctor.

Bai Po raised the corners of his mouth and smiled. The first thing he did was not to take off his muddy shoes and soaked clothes, but went straight to the kitchen, licked his lips while watching the white smoke rising from the kitchen steamer, deeply Take a deep breath.

It was full of the sweet aroma of sugar cakes, and firewood had been added to the stove since he went out, so the steamed cakes must be soft and glutinous right now.

He put two servings on a plate, then walked back to the backyard, knocked lightly on the door of one of the rooms and said, "Candy?"

After a long while, there was no answer, so he pushed open the door and walked in. The room was soaked with water vapor and was wet. Instead of lifting the quilt that was in a mess on the bed, he put one of the plates on the table and said: " Go to the kitchen when you’re hungry at night, and I’m still cooking mushroom chicken.”

After he finished speaking, it took a long time for a "hissing" sound to be vaguely heard from the quilt, which was muffled, as if mixed with some kind of dissatisfaction and grievance.

After hearing this, Bai Po couldn't laugh or cry and said: "No, you can't sleep with me, I feel uncomfortable when you are wet."

"Hiss..."

"Be obedient." After Bai Ke finished speaking, he couldn't wait to eat his share of candy and left.

After the white scorpion went out, a black snake with a length of several feet slowly swam out from the quilt covered by the bed curtain. The head of the black snake was triangular, and a scale on its back was not very smooth. A small horn like a wing, it swam blankly to the window and looked at it for a while, until the figure of Bai Ke disappeared from sight.

After a few more days, the weather finally cleared up a little bit, and the number of pedestrians on the street also increased.

The door of the Huangqitang pharmacy was open, and the girl fetching the medicine was so busy that she couldn't have her hands full. On the other side, Bai Ke was sitting in a corner against the wall, with a planning table in front of her. He warmly asked the old woman who was sitting opposite to see a doctor: "When did the sores appear on your body?"

The old woman couldn't hear clearly, so Bai Po asked patiently again, and then she said slowly: "It was when the rain started to fall continuously last month, and my body felt hot on and off... Then I found out I got these... ah..."

Bai Po paused, but he didn't ask the old woman why it took so long to see a doctor. Instead, she checked the prescription carefully before handing it to the farmer standing beside the old woman. He warned: "On weekdays, you need to protect yourself from humidity. When the weather is better, take out more of the old man's bedding and dry it in the sun. Later, I will ask the buddy to pack some ointment for you and apply it on the sores. It doesn't cost money."

"Thank you! Thank you doctor!"

Bai Po nodded, brushed the hair hanging from his forehead behind his ears, and said softly, "Next." However, before the person in front of him could sit still, he heard a sudden exclamation in the lobby.

People who came to see a doctor to get medicine avoided one after another.

Bai Po searched for his reputation, and saw two officers carrying a man covered in blood hurriedly in. One of the officers glanced at the lobby and shouted eagerly: "Doctor Huang, Doctor Huang!"

"Doctor Huang isn't here." Bai Po came out from behind the desk, glanced at the man who was obviously seriously injured, and said, "Take him into the inner room, and I'll come and see."

The officer looked up and glanced at Bai Po in a daze. Although his expression was full of astonishment, he quickly frowned and said to his companions: "Look at it first, and then I will go to the medicine shop at the end of the East Street. Doctor Liu called over."

Dr. Liu and Dr. Huang went far away together, okay...

Bai Po glanced at him, and didn't say much. Anyway, those who got in the way could be dismissed one by one. He further lifted the curtain separating the inner room, and two officials quickly carried the people in.

However, the man could only lie on the frame that carried him, and he could no longer move it. His right arm was empty from the bottom to the bottom, and his clothes were soaked in blood. There were marks of injuries on his chest and thighs, but the clothes covered him up. It's not clear how deep the wound was.

The bloody smell in the inner room spread for a while.

Bai Po immediately frowned and asked, "Is this bitten by a beast? You go outside and bring in my medicine box."

The official who said he was going to find Dr. Liu had already left, and the remaining official hurried out again after hearing the words.

Bai Po squatted down, picked up the scissors and cut off the man's clothes. The wound on his right arm was a laceration.

After the official took the medicine box in, he had already cut off all the clothes that were in the way of the man, and while feeding the man the elixir, Bai Ke asked the official next to him, "Is his broken arm still available?"

The officer shook his head and said, "I can't find it. The situation was very dangerous at that time. It's lucky that he was rescued."

"You hold him down for me." Bai Ke tied the man's right arm and leg tightly with a rope, and then said: "The teeth are very strong, but the claw marks are very small, strange..."

The officer just nodded, covered in sweat, "We couldn't see what kind of beast it was."

The man lying on the shelf hadn't completely fainted yet, his face was as white as a sheet of paper when he heard it, and said with a wry smile: "I also... didn't see clearly... what it is... but it looks like a monkey."

Bai Po nodded, took out a clean cloth towel, folded it, put it near the man's mouth, and said, "Bit on it later, you left something in your stomach, find it."

Panicked eyes flashed across the man's eyes.

Even the lips of the officer turned white. Looking at the calm young man in light clothes from the beginning to the end, he tentatively asked: "Then...the doctor...is he okay?!"

"Bite."

The man's eyes were red, and he quickly bit the cloth towel tightly.

Only then did Bai Po shook his head and replied, "It will be fine. The claws and teeth of the beast that hurt him are not poisonous, and he took the life-extending pill." The flame burning outside the core burned the blade, and then took a cloth towel dipped in wine and wiped around the wound on the man's abdomen.

The official was sweating from the corner of his forehead, and the wound under his eyes was so horrible that he didn't dare to look at it.

The people in the Huangqitang pharmacy were surrounded by the tightly drawn curtain, and they could only vaguely hear the people inside talking, but they couldn't make out what they were saying. It was just when they were holding their breath curiously and nervously, suddenly, There was a scream like killing a pig!

"Ah----!!!" followed by another sound!

Everyone was shocked and almost shouted.

He ran out to find old man Liu, but found out that the official who had been tricked had just stepped into the gate of Huangqi Hall. The scream made his liver and gallbladder tear apart, and he rushed into the inner room immediately.

In the inner room, Bai Ke wiped his hands unhurriedly, and put aside the black nail pieces and mane that he had taken out. The man who was biting the coarse cloth before and screaming had already passed out completely. He immediately took out the needle and thread in the medicine box, and said calmly to the officer next to him who was also too frightened to faint: "It's enough to sew it up, go out, I'll do it myself."

The official got up with a grimace on his face. He could have gone out just now, but he watched the whole scene of disembowelling, which was more terrifying than killing people.

In a trance, before he had time to step out of the door, the official outside rushed in with teary eyes and said, "Xiao Chang! Are you still alive---!!!"

Bai Po paused for a while when he was moving the needle, then turned his head and said helplessly, "If you shout again, it won't be certain."

On the window sill, at some point, a big black snake climbed up. It swallowed a scarlet letter. While speaking, it slowly reached the unconscious man.