He walked over and squatted down by the cage, thought for a moment, and put his hand in to touch. The tiger cub shrank back, let out a weak growl, and made no other movements. He opened the tiger cub's eyelids with his hands and found that the white inner eyelids could not be retracted, and he looked like he was about to die.
He stood up and walked into Tao Wenbao's room. Chen Sangu was twisting a handkerchief with hot water to wipe his face. Li Bochen saw that Tao Wenbao's face was livid and his lips were white. Could he be pretending to be ill?
When he saw Li Bochen walking in, he only squinted his eyes and said feebly: "Mr. Li, this is ridiculous."
Li Bochen sighed: "Mr. Tao, are you so sick when you wake up early in the morning?"
Tao Wenbao waved his hand, seemingly unable to speak. Chen Sangu then said: "I still had the strength to listen to my boss's words through the door this morning, but after a while I'm like this. Don't worry, my boss, I've sent for the doctor again."
Li Bochen walked to the bed and saw that Tao Wenbao was covered with three layers of quilts and six charcoal stoves were placed at the head and end of the bed. He seemed to be extremely afraid of the cold. He asked: "Third aunt, is Mr. Tao having a fever?"
After wiping his face, Chen Sangu tucked him in and washed the handkerchief and said, "That's strange. Common illnesses are usually cold-sensitive, usually due to fever. But my boss is very cold."
He wiped the corners of Tao Wenbao's mouth again and picked up the basin: "Mr. Li, please look after it while I go get hot soup."
When she left the door, Li Boxen said, "Mr. Tao, let me take a look."
He put the back of his hand on Tao Wenbao's forehead. It was winter now, and when he walked in from outside, his hands and feet were cold. But Tao Wenbao's forehead felt even colder, like a piece of ice.
He thought for a while and whispered: "Mr. Tao, what do you think is so cold? Does it feel like there is wind blowing around you?"
Tao Wenbao opened his eyelids slightly, thought for a while, and said weakly: "Mr. Li, do you think...my illness...is weird? I feel cold all over my body, but it's not like the wind blowing around me, but like it's in my body." blow……"
Li Bochen let out a sigh of relief: "Mr. Tao is also doubting the people of Kongminghui?"
Tao Wenbao said: "I didn't expect them to have such courage... but they didn't dare to kill me. It's just that Chen'er and I have suffered."
Li Bochen nodded: "Then I'll go check on Dingchen. Don't worry, Mr. Tao. If the next doctor comes and still can't diagnose and cure it, please ask the mage in the city."
Tao Wenbao closed his eyes: "...Mr. Lao Li, thank you for your trouble."
Li Boxen went to see Tao Dingchen. The child's condition was not as good as Tao Wenbao's, and he had already fallen asleep. He touched it and found it was cold. I only got along with him for three days, and I can't really say that I had any deep feelings for him. But even if those people from all three religions and nine schools in Sui Ziang's mouth knew that trouble would not harm their wives and children, if this matter was really the work of the Kongminghui, it would be really despicable.
Li Bochen had an idea in his mind and went to the kitchen. Chen Sangu happened to walk out with hot soup, so he went down to the cellar in the back kitchen, found a small jar of wine and hid it in his arms, and returned to his house in the front yard.
He didn't know if there were other diseases in the world that could cause "coldness in the body" and "feeling like the wind was blowing", but he knew that it would be like this if he was haunted by a ghost. Last night Sister-in-law Zheng sent a tiger cub... I heard that there is an evil spirit in the world called a ghost, and it likes to possess tigers. Now the tiger cub is dying, perhaps because the evil spirit that possessed it has left.
He drank down a small jar of wine in one breath, lay down on the bed to collect his thoughts, and after a few breaths, the Yin spirit left his body.
First, I walked around Tao Zhai. There were only sparse pedestrians, cars and horses on the street, and they all looked normal. Then he went back to the house through the wall and looked straight into the backyard. When he passed the small gate of the backyard, he looked up at the evil-proof bronze mirror under the eaves of the door and found that the original faint glow was gone.
His heart sank—it was indeed not a real illness.
Then he went straight into Tao Wenbao's room, thinking that if it was the legendary evil spirit, maybe he could try to drink it away. But when he entered the room and looked at Tao Wenbao, he was stunned.
The house was clean, not even a ghost.
He transformed into a Yin spirit and could see the vitality in strangers. Ordinary people who are not seriously ill will have a very faint glow on the surface, and you have to look carefully to notice it. But right now, Tao Wenbao's body glowed brighter than ordinary people, as if he was particularly full of vitality.
But if that’s the case, how could he get sick?
He went through the wall to Tao Dingchen's room and found that the child was in the same condition.
Not giving up, he checked the entire house again, but still found nothing unusual. As for the outside of the wall, there was no one around. I could only hear the sounds of cars and horses passing by on the street, the whispers of pedestrians, and the sound of iron ropes that I heard when the Yin spirit left the body last time. The sound made Li Boxen feel a little uneasy, but he already knew from Chen Sangu that the people in the courtyard next door were businessmen, maybe it was the sound of harnessing carriages and horses. He could only leave the body for a few hundred steps and couldn't see.
He had no choice but to go back into the house and wake up.
The smell of alcohol was very strong on him, and he was afraid of being misunderstood, so he changed his clothes and went to the water room to wash his face and rinse his mouth. After a while, Tao Chunxi and Lao Xu brought a doctor over.
She asked Lao Xu to take the doctor to the backyard, and she walked to the door and whispered to Li Boxen: "Mr. Li, Zheng Er's shop is closed. I asked the neighbor and said that her son complained of leg pain last night, and Zheng Er's wife took him I went out of town to see a doctor."
Li Bochen frowned: "Going out of the city to see a doctor?"
Tao Chunxi sighed: "The neighbor said that it was her son who said that there is a doctor who specializes in bone setting somewhere outside the city. But I asked if I knew where the doctor was, and the neighbor said he didn't know - as expected."
It is indeed expected. It seemed that there was indeed something wrong with the tiger cub that was delivered last night. Li Bochen thought for a while: "Miss Tao, I'm afraid Mr. Tao's illness is caused by the magic."
Tao Chunxi was stunned: "Mr. Li... did you see it?"
"I am half a cultivator and know a little bit." Li Boxen said, "I don't think this doctor can see anything. Mr. Tao must have a lot of contacts in Zhangcheng. Does Miss Tao know if there is any mage in the city who can do this?" Please come to exorcise evil spirits?"
Tao Chunxi thought for a while: "Yes. Just Mr. Li, there are two more things."
"Speaking."
"When I went out with Uncle Xu just now, we actually got lost. We walked around in a circle before we walked out." Tao Chunxi frowned slightly and said slowly, "I thought I was anxious and panicked. But when I came back, It’s come full circle.”
Li Bochen's heart skipped a beat: "What else?"
"I met Sui Ziang. I was afraid that this was what Kong Ming would do, so when I went to Zheng Er's butcher shop, I stopped by a few other shops to let them know that my father was sick, and he was very ill. I met Sui Ziang on the road. He asked me if my father was feeling better. I thought he heard it from someone else, but on the way back I thought that he was supposed to be studying martial arts today, and he would never interact with people from the pig trade. How did he know? "
Li Bochen thought for a while: "Is he also a member of the Kongming Society?"
Tao Chunxi shook her head slightly: "He's not, but I heard that he has a cousin who is... Dad said that it was his cousin who blocked the road a few days ago."
Li Bochen's heart skipped a beat: "His cousin is a young man, about as tall as my ears, a little dark, and has a unibrow, right?"
"Yes, that person's name is Fang Yu."
Li Bochen thought for a while and sighed: "Miss Tao, I'm afraid Sui Ziang already knows that I live in your house, or at least have a close relationship with your father."
