Yang is only in her early forties this year, and she is already as haggard as an old woman in her sixties. She raised her hand and gently lifted the hair hanging down from her temples. She didn't care to arrange it carefully. Seeing that the firewood in the stove was about to go out, she quickly grabbed the cattail leaf fan next to the stove and gently shook it. The fire in the stove was rekindled. .
Probably because the temperature was a little high, Yang's forehead was slightly sweaty. She wiped it casually with the back of her hand, not knowing that it was stained with soot.
She looked at the door of the thatched house, with worry in her eyes, and sighed slightly.
After a while, the medicine was cooked. Yang wrapped the edge of the casserole in a rag and put it on the ground. After extinguishing the fire, she poured the medicine into a bowl and carried it into the thatched house.
"Old Lin, it's time to drink medicine."
The thatched house was very simple, with only a kang and an old table that looked a little older.
There was an old man lying on the kang, who was Yang's husband. At this time, his face looked very scary. His entire face was rotten, especially his lips, which were half rotten. You could even see pink gums and white teeth.
Yang's face was very calm. She put the medicine on the table, bent down and picked up the wooden basin placed by the kang, went out, fetched a basin of water, came back, twisted a facekerchief and wiped Lao Lin's face.
Carefully avoiding the ulcerated skin, she rubbed it carefully and gently, as if she was afraid of hurting the other person.
"Stop wiping it... just let it get rotten... so as not to drag you down..."
Lao Lin, who was lying dying on the kang, whispered feebly. His eyelids were also a little bit rotten and could no longer be fully opened. If he forced them to open, they would burst and bleed, so he could only look at Yang through half-squinting.
When Ms. Yang heard what he said, her heart ached. She suppressed her sadness, forced a smile, and said angrily: "What are you talking about? I asked the doctor, and the doctor said that as long as you take the medicine well, you will be fine soon." Get better!"
Lao Lin looked at Yang's stiff smile and felt very painful in his heart. He even hated why he contracted such a strange disease... His son had already died of this strange disease, and now he also had to... lose two people at once. The dearest one was a huge blow to Yang. How would she live in the future?
"Come, drink the medicine and you'll be fine..." Mrs. Yang helped Lao Lin up, put a cushion behind his back so that he could lean on it, took the medicine and blew on it gently: "The medicine is not hot anymore, come here I feed you..."
Lao Lin vaguely saw a bowl appearing in front of his eyes. He slowly shook his head and said feebly: "... or... I'll do it myself..." He raised his hand to take the bowl.
As soon as he touched the bowl, his hand no longer had the strength to support it, so he fell back onto the kang shaking.
Yang quickly pretended to be angry and said: "What? You dislike me? If you don't want me to feed you, just say so..."
"It's nothing...just feed me...just feed me...oh..."
Yang forced a smile and said, "I won't argue with you this time. Come on, drink it! It's not bitter..." He picked up a spoonful of dark brown thick medicine and gently brought it to Lao Lin's mouth.
Lao Lin opened his mouth slightly and Yang fed him in.
The concoction flowed down the ulcerated part of the lip. Yang quickly put down the spoon and grabbed a facekerchief to wipe the corners of Lao Lin's mouth. She felt sour in her heart and almost shed tears.
"Is the medicine not bitter? I added rock sugar to it...I know you don't like bitter taste..."
Lao Lin wanted to smile at Mrs. Yang, but when he thought that smiling, a simple action, would cause his skin to be torn, he would have to take medicine again. The family had already spent all their savings treating him and his dead son. He suddenly I can't laugh anymore.
Yang fed him the medicine spoon by spoon, very skillfully. Whenever the medicine flowed down, he could wipe it clean with a facekerchief in time.
After giving the medicine, Yang helped Lao Lin lie down and took the bowl out to clean.
Looking at the medicine residue in the casserole, Yang's eyes finally got wet. She didn't dare to cry out for fear that Lao Lin inside would hear and worry.
In fact, the family had no money for a long time, so she borrowed the medicine money from her brother Dongzi. Lao Lin wanted to be strong. Even if his family was in trouble, he never borrowed money from anyone. This time, Yang kept it secret from him.
Yang's younger brother Dongzi was a good man. When asked to borrow money, he gave it to him without saying a word and did not mention when he would pay it back.
Because of this strange disease, people in the small town are not living very well. Ms. Yang once saw someone kick their parents out of the house who were suffering from the strange disease, threatening to ask their parents not to be a drag on the whole family and to find a doctor as soon as possible. No one knows that a place where no one goes is left to fend for itself, and it is a good thing to avoid harming everyone.
At that time, Mrs. Yang cursed in her heart after hearing this. He was simply an unfilial son and a rotten-hearted beast.
But she had no way to control it. Her son was also ill at the time, so she couldn't care about the life and death of others.
Not long after, her son died. She was heartbroken and also learned that the parents that the man had driven out died in a cemetery in the suburbs, and their bodies were exposed in the wilderness.
It is said that the skin and flesh of the two old men were stinking and rotting, soaked in rotten water and pieces of flesh, and the two corpses were stuck together, indistinguishable from each other. In the end, a kind person paid for a thin coffin to bury them together.
After that incident, Lao Lin also contracted a strange disease not long after.
While thinking about the past, Yang poured the medicine dregs on the roadside, hoping that the trampling of passers-by would dispel Lao Lin's illness.
Several men and women came from a distance, all dressed as farmers.
Yang looked at them with bad thoughts flashing through his mind.
"Old Lin, listen carefully!"
The leading man shouted loudly, with a righteous look on his face.
Yang frowned, this man was the vicious beast who drove his own parents out of the house.
She stared at the few people closely and asked carefully: "I wonder why you came to my house?"
The man seemed very excited and his face was flushed with blood. He said loudly: "Of course we are here for your own good! Before you knew it, an immortal master appeared in our town! The immortal master's magic power Wu Bian, he told us that he has a way to cure the strange disease! We are here to tell you that if you want to cure Lao Lin's strange disease, please let us send him to the immortal master's mansion in the town!"
It's not that Mrs. Yang wasn't worried about Lao Lin's strange illness, it's just that when her son was sick, she went to the mountain temple to kneel down and pray. In the end, her son still left her. Now, can this immortal master be better than the mountain god?
Moreover, she hated the shameless man in front of her very much, and what the man said further deepened her inner suspicion.
But she also knew better than to refuse immediately, otherwise she really didn’t know whether the man would do something more vicious. How can a beast who can abandon his own parents and not care about his life and death be kind to outsiders?
Yang smiled and said: "That's great! Since everyone said so, the immortal master must be extremely capable! Well, I won't bother you all. I'll go to my brother's house and borrow a bullock cart. , then we will bring Lao Lin to the town for treatment by the immortal master. I really bother you all to make such a trip..."
The man smiled proudly, thinking that he wouldn't be happy if he didn't have to come into contact with the patient himself. He had seen it before. People suffering from strange diseases looked ugly and disgusting, with festering flesh... He felt like vomiting every time he thought about it, and he was glad that he had wisely driven away those two old guys who wasted food earlier. Got out.
"That's good! Having an ox cart to pull us saves us energy. That's it. You hurry up and bring Lao Lin to the town. We have to rush to notify the next family!"
After the man finished speaking, he glanced at the thatched house with disdain and left with a few people.
When Yang saw that the person was gone, she relaxed. She had to go to her brother Dongzi to discuss it.
After entering the thatched house and seeing Lao Lin sleeping soundly, Yang concealed her door and went to her younger brother Dongzi's house, where she repeated the man's words.
After hearing this, Dongzi immediately said angrily: "That's unreasonable! What a bullshit immortal! He's just a liar!"
Although Yang had some doubts, he was not as sure as Dongzi, so he asked, "Brother, why are you so sure that the immortal master is a liar?"
"this……"
Dongzi hesitated for a moment and then said: "You will know it later anyway, so I'll tell you in advance...Didn't Daniel's uncle leave?"
Yang nodded, indicating to continue.
Dongzi swallowed his saliva and said, "Oh, it's a sin... When Uncle Danuo was about to be buried, a cat crawled over the coffin!"
"Ah!" Yang exclaimed, "Isn't that——"
"Yes! The corpse has been raised! Uncle Daniel has become a zombie! I was not there at the time and didn't see it. Daniel told me that everyone was scared away at that time! The zombie was chasing a Taoist priest, guess what? Who is that Taoist priest?"
Yang hesitated and said: "...immortal master?"
"That's right! It's this liar! Daniel told me that this liar was so frightened that he fainted after being chased by zombies! It can be seen that anything that can cure strange diseases is fake! He can't even conquer demons and cure diseases. Do you know how to do it? I don’t believe it! And besides—”
Dongzi drawled his voice and said with a mysterious face: "I guess the master who conquered the zombies is at Daniel's house!"
Yang opened her eyes wide and asked curiously, "How do you know?"
Dongzi looked incomprehensible, and after being urged again and again by Mr. Yang, he slowly said: "Daniu had guests at his house recently. I went to his house that day when his uncle was seriously ill, and I saw a few angry faces. I know him. He has an extraordinary demeanor! You can tell he is not an ordinary person at a glance! Later, Daniel asked me to help him in the evening. Two of his guests were also there, so the zombie was not nearby! I asked quietly Da Niu, although Da Niu didn’t say it clearly, it’s certain that they were the ones who conquered the zombies!”
Yang nodded, looking thoughtful.
Dongzi glanced at his sister and said: "The same goes for Daniel's wife, and those few may also go to him. To expose the liar's lies, we need all of us to work together. Let's go to Daniel's house now. Discuss with him!"
Yang agreed. She also wanted to see what kind of master her younger brother said she was.
The two set off without delay. When they arrived at Daniu's house, they found that those people had already arrived, and it was the man who was the representative and was loudly lobbying Gao Daniu.
However, Gao Daniu looked impatient, which showed that he didn't take it seriously.
The man was very dissatisfied with Gao DaNiu's attitude and gradually became harsh and harsh.
In the room, a woman opened her eyes.
At the same time, Zhu Yuanyu, who finally succeeded in getting rid of the second spiritual intelligence after spending all his energy, was being carried by Qi Ao towards Gao Daniu's house.
