At this moment, his newly married concubine Mei Jiaojiao, a woman with skin as white as snow, was standing on the scene. When she heard Lu Zuolin coughing, she said with concern or flattery, Oh, have you caught a cold? I went back and told my mother that I would boil a pot of brown sugar and ginger tea for you to drink to dispel wind and cold.
Lu Zuolin, who was choking and almost crying, had nowhere to vent his anger. He thought of Mei Jiaojiao pestering him all the time, and he was already a little upset, so he yelled at her, "I don't have a cold. What are you talking about?" Get away from me.
Mei Jiaojiao blushed and said angrily, "You bitch Lu Dongbin, you don't know a good heart." Then he lowered his head and quietly left the smoky yard where the millet was burned.
That night, Lu Zuolin still felt discomfort in his throat. When Mrs. Xu heard her son coughing, she asked her daughter-in-law Liu Yingai to make ginger tea. He drank it, but it still didn't work. He always felt that there was a small thing stuck in his throat, which could not go up or down. So he went to the cupboard to get some vinegar and drank it, hoping to drink it. The thing turned into vinegar and swallowed like a fish bone, but it was still in vain.
In the second half of the night, Lu Zuolin fell asleep in a daze, and vaguely saw a tall man in a straw-yellow robe coming over, slapped him in the face, and cursed, "You are inferior to a pig or a dog, how dare you burn the rice."
Lu Zuolin touched his painful face, took a step back and asked, "Who are you?" He actually took care of the affairs of the Lu family manor.
The big man snorted, raised his neck, tilted his head and said, I am the god of crops. Recently, the Jade Emperor received two indictments against you. One was submitted by the king of the city of the underworld; the other was submitted by the god of earth. You In the past, the rancid overnight porridge was given to beggars, causing them to fall ill and die. Now your family has piles of food, and you don't even give out the moldy rice to the victims. You would rather burn it than do any good deeds. You should be punished and die. When you are burning the rice, I have put poison in the smoke. If you inhale it into your throat, you will suffer from serious diseases and your death is near.
Lu Zuolin was so frightened that he woke up again in a daze, covered in cold sweat.
It was already daybreak, and the words of the harvest god in his dream were still ringing in his ears. He seemed to believe it but not believe it. Could he really be suffering from a serious disease? At this moment, his throat still felt neither pain nor itching, but discomfort, as if someone was pinching his trachea and he was in immediate danger of suffocation.
At dawn, he quietly told his mother about his dream, avoiding Liu Yingai and Mei Jiaojiao. The mother consoled her, "Son, most of the things you dream about are the opposite. Don't be afraid."
Mrs. Xu was still worried and immediately ordered her servants to invite a well-known local doctor to show her son's throat.
The doctor is in his 50s, thin and very capable. He asked Lu Zuolin to lie down on a bamboo bed and opened his mouth. He took out a spoon-like medical tool from the open medicine box beside him and put it into Lu Zuolin's mouth. He pressed the protruding tongue base and carefully went into the throat. Lo and behold, I found a pea-sized gangrene growing on my throat.
The doctor has seen this kind of patient. If the gangrene can be controlled and does not increase in size, it is easy to treat. If it continues to grow, it will be difficult to treat. If the gangrene continues to grow, the patient will no longer be able to eat dry food, and can only be fed liquid food such as gruel. If the gangrene continues to grow, the throat will ulcerate. At that point, it means that the disease has spread. When it reaches the internal organs, the patient cannot eat anything and will die soon.
After seeing the gangrene on Lu Zuolin's throat, the doctor showed off his cards on the spot and said to Mrs. Xu, "Your son's disease is quite serious. I am not sure of curing him. Please ask someone else!"
Are you afraid that we won't pay you? Money is not an issue. You can give me whatever you want, as long as you cure my son's disease. When Mrs. Xu said this, she was very anxious, because her son told her about the unlucky dream early in the morning, and she was really afraid that it would come true.
Now that the doctor is about to leave, Mrs. Xu holds down his medicine box and refuses to let him go, saying that if you don't want to cure him, I have a problem with it. This area recognizes that your medical skills are the most brilliant and amazing. ?
Old man, it’s not that I don’t want to treat it, this disease is too risky. The doctor said in embarrassment.
As long as you cure me of this disease, I will give you half of the land in the manor. Lu Zuolin, who was lying on the bamboo bed, sat up and said sincerely.
Master Lu, I don’t want you to give me any land. I will prescribe a herbal prescription for you. According to this, you can go to the drugstore and boil it in water. Take it once in the morning and evening. After taking the medicine, if the gangrene in the throat is not there, If it increases or shrinks, you can continue to take the medicine and decoct it in water according to my prescription. If it gets better, you can ask me to prescribe the medicine. Otherwise, don't ask me, and I won't come. As the doctor spoke, he took out a pen and paper from the medicine box and listed a dozen medicinal materials.
Is there a safer treatment method? Xu asked, staring at the doctor.
This is the only way, otherwise, please hire someone else. The doctor left the prescription for Chinese herbal medicine, picked up the medicine box and went out.
At this time, Mrs. Xu took some coins and chased him and said, this is your reward. The doctor waved his hand and said that there is no need to pay. If your son's illness is cured, you can pay me again and I will be happy to accept it.
Mrs. Xu felt uncomfortable after hearing this. She looked at the figure of the doctor who had not asked for payment, drifting away and slowly disappearing. She felt lost and disappointed, and her heart was full of worries for her sick son.
After getting the prescription, Lu Zuolin read it again and again. He didn't understand medicine, so of course he couldn't make a name for himself. I just feel that my throat is getting more and more uncomfortable, and I am getting more and more nervous.
Mrs. Xu was still a little suspicious of the doctor who left in a hurry, so she told her son not to use his prescription for medicine. Instead, she sent two servants to accompany her son out of the manor and seek medical treatment from famous doctors from various places. However, the famous doctors and the doctors who came to see him at his home saw similar symptoms and methods. In the end, they all declined, saying that there was no guarantee that the disease of gangrene in the throat could be cured.
The two servants had no choice but to help Lu Zuolin return to the manor. Due to the delay of two or three months, the gangrene in Lu Zuolin's throat increased, which made him almost mentally collapsed and made him restless. The two servants were careful when talking to him, otherwise they would be scolded harshly by him. So as soon as the two servants returned him to the manor, they felt relieved.
The people who take care of his diet in the manor are Xu and Liu Yingai. Now he can no longer eat solid food and can only drink semi-liquid or full liquid food. Moreover, instead of drinking from a bowl or cup himself, Liu Yingai mostly feeds him with a spoon. Sometimes he would be impatient and overturn the milk in the bowl or cup, causing it to splash on Liu Yingai's pants, which made Liu Yingai feel depressed and had to ask her mother-in-law to take care of it.
The person who took care of his daily life was Mei Jiaojiao. He could hardly sleep. He screamed in pain all night and had a bad temper. He sometimes urinated and defecated in the middle of the night. Mei Jiaojiao moved the toilet to the side of the bed so that he could use it later. , for some reason, he kicked the toilet like crazy, and the smelly feces and urine splashed out, inevitably staining the quilt or Mei Jiaojiao's body. What made her even more unbearable was that it got on her face.
This happened several times in a row, and Mei Jiaojiao secretly shed tears. She was such a conceited person. Because of her good looks, she was married by Lu Zuolin as his second wife. She lived a life of fine clothing and fine food, and was envied by women of her age. Unexpectedly, the good times would not last long. Long, after Lu Zuolin got this strange fate, everything changed. The romance and favor he received between us before the flowers and under the moon seemed like a world away, gone forever.
Mei Jiaojiao couldn't stand looking at Lu Zuolin who was so skinny and sick. One night, she quietly cleaned up her clothes, took some private money that Lu Zuolin had given her before as payment, and fled from Lujiazhuang without knowing her whereabouts.
On the night of the escape, Lu Zuolin waited for a long time but still did not see Mei Jiaojiao, who had lied to him about going out to relieve himself, to come to accompany him, so he yelled and cursed at the top of his lungs. Mrs. Xu heard the sound and came over to see that Lu Zuolin was the only one there. She searched the room and called Mei Jiaojiao, but there was no response.
There was no makeup box where she used to dress up, and the back door, which was usually closed tightly at night, was open. It was estimated that she had left the house through the back door.
