Tomb Raiders

Chu Yuyang's expression did not change. After eating, he called to Mr. Wu and asked, "Are there only two people in Mr. Wu's family?"

Old man Wu replied: "There are only the old man and the young girl. Her mother left early, and the two of us have been dependent on each other for almost eight years."

Chu Qianyang said: "Ling Ai must be very familiar with this mountain and wild things."

Old Man Wu's expression changed immediately when he heard the words, "Mr. Chu, what do you mean?"

Chu Yuyang didn't seem to see the angry look of Mr. Wu, and just said indifferently: "We followed Mr. Wu around the village today. Although the villagers in the village respect you quite a lot, their words always have the meaning of alienation. Afterwards I inquired with several villagers, and found out that the reason why the people in this village are unwilling to get close to you is not because of the old man, but because of your love."

Chu Jianyang paused, and his long and narrow phoenix eyes examined the expression of the old man Wu, "I heard that because Ling Ai entered the mountain when she shouldn't, she was punished by the mountain god and possessed by a demon? "

Old man Wu trembled slightly with his hands beside him, and after a while he said angrily, "You, you get out!"

Chu Yuyang didn't intend to move, he glanced at Qin Zhaonan, Qin Zhaonan sighed, stepped forward with a wry smile and said: "Old man, my friend has always spoken frankly, and he doesn't have any malicious intentions. It's Ling Ai, I don't know what happened What happened, so that such news that damages the reputation of my daughter's family is spread in the village?"

Old man Wu took a few breaths, obviously very angry, and sighed after hearing the words: "This is all fate..."

He sat down at the table and said in a low voice: "Our family is just me and my little girl, Ayun. In the early years, I still had some strength, and I was able to go into the mountains to hunt some prey for a living. In the past two years, my legs and feet have become more and more inconvenient. Relying on Lizheng's position and helping the family a little, Ayun often went to the mountains to pick some common medicinal herbs and mushrooms, and sold them to subsidize the family."

Wen Hao whispered: "It turns out that those herbs were picked by that little lady, it's really not easy."

The small room was silent for a while, the old man Wu beat his legs, and continued: "My legs and feet have never been good. Last winter, I got cold again, and the pain was unbearable. The firewood in the house was burned out, and I couldn't afford it. , Ayun went to borrow firewood, but it was useless. I was in pain day and night and couldn't get up. Ayun was anxious, so he ignored the taboos in the village. He entered the mountain in the middle of winter, and it took a whole day before he came out. When I came out, I brought a big Ganoderma lucidum."

Old man Wu frowned tightly, his aging face was full of pain, as if he was extremely unwilling to recall these things.

"She sold Ganoderma lucidum and bought me medicine. However, from that day on, when Ayun spoke, there would always be another voice sounding at the same time. It doesn't matter, but the further back, the louder the voice, now, even if Ah Yun is silent, the demon will imitate her voice to speak, this matter can't be hidden from the people in the village, they all say it is Ah Yun The cloud angered the mountain god, which caused such a disaster, so our relationship with the people in the village has become increasingly alienated."

The old man Wu rubbed his nose, stopped talking, took a few deep breaths, wiped his face, stood up and said: "If you think that this place is not clean, the old man has nothing to say." It was actually ready to see off the guests.

Qin Zhaonan took out the paper fan from his sleeve, tapped it lightly on Old Man Wu's wrist, and said with a smile: "Hey, what the old man said is off the mark. We don't believe in ghosts and gods, so how could we leave just because of such a trivial matter. About love, if we don’t let her come out and let Wen Hao take a look, it might be some kind of remote disease and we don’t know.”

Shen Liaobai glanced at Chu Yuyang who looked calm, and knew that the matter was not difficult.

"This..." Old man Wu looked at Wen Hao with some hesitation.

Shen Liaobai hurriedly said: "He is a well-known doctor in the capital, and his medical skills are superb. We also took a fancy to him and brought him here just now."

Wen Hao glanced at Shen Liaobai, Shen Liaobai didn't look at him, and continued to patiently say: "There are so many intractable diseases in the world, if you don't find a doctor to take a look, how can you conclude that this is demon possession? "

There are no people who are proficient in medical skills in this Yumu village. If anyone gets sick, most of them go to the mountains to collect herbs and take them. Old man Wu thought that Ayun really caused the trouble, so he didn't take her to the medical clinic in the capital to see a doctor. It was useless to just take Ayun to worship in the fairy temple at the foot of the mountain. Now hearing Shen Liaobai's words, his heart faintly moved.

He hesitated for a moment, probably because Shen Liaobai's delicate and elegant appearance was too believable, so he sighed and said: "Then according to Master Shen's words, wait a moment, everyone, I'll go and call the little girl."

Qin Zhaonan opened the folding fan with a "crash", slapped a few leaves and said, "Obviously I proposed it first, but in the end it was Shen Jun's credit?"

Hanzhang glanced at him lazily from the corner of his eye, and said, "It's no wonder that old man Wu didn't take your words to heart for still shaking his folding fan in winter."

Qin Zhaonan didn't take Hanzhang's words seriously, and laughed and played with the folding fan in his hand.

Shen Liaobai stood beside Chu Yuyang and said, "Can it really be cured?"

Chu Yuyang half-closed his eyes, and spit out two words concisely, "I don't know."

Shen Liaobai was startled, and said in surprise: "Didn't you discuss it before?"

Wen Hao on the other end heard it, and said with a bitter face: "Where did the discussion come from, Mr. Shen, you were too loud just now, a famous genius doctor in the capital... If my master hears about it, I will definitely lose a layer of skin."

Shen Liaobai wanted to ask again, but Chu Yuyang blocked it with his fingers. He shook his head, and Shen Liaobai had to remain silent.

After a while, the old man Wu came in, followed by a timid little girl with her head down, dressed in a barbarian girl's service, her hair tied in a hat embroidered with colored thread, and she was a pretty girl in profile.

Old man Wu said to Ah Yun: "Come on, I have met these nobles."

Ayun raised her head slightly, she moved her lips, but she couldn't make a sound, but after a pause, everyone heard a woman's characteristic high-pitched voice coming from her closed mouth, "I've seen you! "

Ayun suddenly covered her mouth with her hand, her face was extremely pale, her eyes were slightly red, but she didn't cry.

The old man Wu sighed, and said: "That's it. She obviously didn't speak, but there was still a voice coming from her body. If it's not a demon, what is it..."

Shen Liaobai comforted him: "That may not be the case, let Wenhao take a look first."

Wen Hao has never seen this kind of disease before, but at this time he can only bite the bullet and step forward, ignoring the differences between men and women, and put on Ayun's wrist. After a while, he looked up at Ayun in surprise, and let go Hand said: "There is indeed something else in her body, it is a living thing, but I don't know what it is."

"How is this good?" Old man Wu asked hastily.

Wen Hao's eyes wandered, and he didn't know what to do. He was good at difficult and miscellaneous diseases, but he was not good at treating these strange things, not to mention what was in Ah Yun's body at this time.

Just when everyone was silent, Ayun said again from his throat: "Zengsheng is good?"

Shen Liaobai frowned, he always felt that this sound was a bit louder than before, he hesitated for a moment, and asked: "I wonder if there is any discomfort in Miss Ayun, for example, there always seems to be a foreign object in her throat?"

Ayun raised his eyes to look at him, nodded, and then looked at Old Man Wu, who then said, "The voice was not loud at first, but Ayun also said that there seemed to be something stuck in his throat, which made him a little uncomfortable. , but it doesn’t hinder talking and eating, could it have something to do with it?”

Qin Zhaonan shook his fan and said thoughtfully: "In this way, it seems that I have seen this kind of illness before, but it is not as serious as Lingai's. At that time, the doctor had to go through a lot of anecdotes before healed the disease. patient.

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Shen Liaobai suddenly said, "Is it the responding insect?"

He also suddenly remembered that in all the books borrowed in the small building in the Chu Mansion, there were all mentions of Lingnan poisonous insects, and this strange insect was also mentioned in it. It is extremely small, and it will enter the human throat with the wind, and then use its mouthparts to pierce a small hole there, and absorb itself in it. As time goes by, it will gradually begin to imitate the voice of the host, and the sound will also It will gradually become larger, and later, if the host speaks, or someone talks to the host, it will make a sound, repeating the words of the host and others, so it is called a responding insect.

After Shen Liaobai explained it, the old man Wu hurriedly asked: "If it is really caused by this strange insect, how should it be treated?"

Qin Zhaonan asked suddenly: "Ah Yun can read?"

"Literate," Old Man Wu said, "Old man, I only have a daughter, Ayun, and I raised her as a man. She urinated and followed me to contact the Han people. In some respects, she was even better than me."

Qin Zhaonan nodded and said: "In my recollection, it seems that I took a medical book and read the name of the herb on it. Wherever I read it, the answer is that the worm should not respond, and the medicine is to cure it."

This is a very novel treatment method, so Wenhao went back to the house to fetch the medical books he had brought, and he handed the medical books to Ayun.Ayun clenched the book tightly and opened his mouth several times, but no matter what he didn't dare to make a sound.

Shen Liaobai said softly: "It's okay, we don't care about your weirdness."

Ayun looked at him timidly, bit his lip, and opened his mouth with difficulty. At the beginning, his voice was very weak, with a breathy sound, but later it became normal.

Every time she said a word, the responding worm would say it. Although the voice was similar, the scene was still a little scary.

After reading dozens of pages, when Ayun read out "Thunder Pill", he didn't hear the responding insect after a while. Ayun took a deep breath and read it again, but the responding insect was still silent. reaction.

Wen Hao murmured, "Then...is it Lei Wan?"

"What is Leiwan?" Shen Liaobai asked.

Wen Hao shook his head, "It's what you asked about this morning, Master. Zhu Ling's nickname is Lei Wan."

Wen Hao took back the medical book, read it carefully, and said: "It can be ground and decocted with water, and there is no need to add other herbs. Old man Wu, you can prepare it now."

Finally got the hope, old man Wu quickly agreed, went to the yard to fetch all the dried thunder pills, ground them into powder, boiled them with water, and soon brought a bowl of medicinal soup to Ah Yun.

Ayun stared blankly at the bowl of medicinal soup, then looked up at old man Wu, who patted her head and said softly, "Drink it."

The medicinal soup had just started to boil, and there was white steam coming out. Ayun didn't care about the heat, so he quickly drank the medicinal soup. Before he finished it, he frowned, covered his mouth and retched. .

Wen Hao immediately said: "Don't hold back, spit it out, it's good to spit it out."

Ayun hurriedly took his hand away, pressed his hand on his chest and vomited twice, a mass of red flesh mixed with turbid yellow water spit out from his throat.

The meat ball was not big, but its shape resembled that of a human being. Once it came out, it wriggled on the ground for a while, and then there was no movement, but a stench, which made Hanzhang who was standing at the door open immediately.

Shen Liaobai bent slightly, and said softly: "Miss Ayun, you can speak now."

Ayun hesitated for a moment, then said in a soft voice: "A... Dad." The room was quiet, and after a long time, Ayun suddenly burst into tears with a "wow", and the old man Wu hugged her in his arms, crying Zongheng kept saying in his mouth: "It's hard for you, my son..."

"I think the father and daughter must have a lot to say, we outsiders should go out first." Shen Liaobai sighed softly.

That night, Ayun cooked a lot of dishes, and Mr. Wu even opened a jar of wine, saying that he wanted to thank Shen Liaobai and the others.

Even though Shen Liaobai was not good at drinking, he couldn't refuse, so he had to drink a few glasses. Old man Wu drank the wine in the bowl, dropped the bowl, stood up and said: "Gentlemen, these thin wine and small dishes are really not enough to repay you." I have discussed with Ayun about the kindness of everyone, if there is really no one in this village who is willing to take you into the mountain, then Ayun will take on this task!"

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