The tension filled the room, and the cold air seemed to freeze the flow of time, and everyone felt that time passed so slowly.

In order to alleviate this atmosphere, and even more so to let Aunt Wang not worry so much, everyone began to talk about the heroic deeds of Ning Guofu when he was young, driven by the village chief

"Ning Guofu, this guy, when he was young, he could eat five large bowls of rice in one meal. ”

"Uncle Ning used to help my family work, and I didn't want to be paid, because my family was short of food at the time, and in the end I left without even eating. At this time, Ning Guofu's former nemesis, Ning Yaofa, also said proudly

"Ning Guofu, this old guy, I don't accept him, there is no one in the village who can compare to him in terms of drinking," Ning Yaofa, a native of Ningjia Zhuangren, a craftsman, the only shaver in the village, when he was a child, his family often couldn't open the pot, and the father of the big landlord Ning Guofu helped his family, and then the Ning Guofu family gradually began to decline, and the two of them rarely interacted, which is also the real contradiction between Ning Guofu and him.

Everyone smiled and said to Ning Yaofa

"You old immortal, didn't you like to fight with Guofu for a win or loss in drinking, but how did you become humble now?" replied Ning Yaofa

"My character, everyone knows it, I like to be competitive, and now that I'm at this age, I should be honest, I'm really not as rich as the country when I drink. The village chief responded to Ning Yaofa

"It doesn't matter, after the country is rich in a few days, the two of you will compare again, and I will personally serve as a side soldier for you. After speaking, he looked at Aunt Wang next to him, hoping that she could give a reaction.

Aunt Wang thought to herself, in a few days, a few years may not be better, she knows better than anyone about her wife's condition, and Aunt Wang didn't say anything on the side, just reluctantly replied to everyone's conversation with a stiff smile, because she didn't want everyone to disappoint, she didn't want everyone to worry about her, her wife has been receiving help from the whole village since the day she was bedridden, especially the village chief, who always doesn't forget her home when she goes to the house to eat.

For example, now, she felt that because of her family's affairs, she couldn't get over it because of her family's affairs, and she couldn't get over it because of others in such a cold day, so she urged these relatives and friends to come back and rest first

"Everyone go home, it's not good to catch a cold on such a cold day. "The women with the children you look at me, I look at you, and say to you

"It's okay, the babies are asleep, let's go first, let the men stay here, wait for Uncle Ning to finish the doctor and then leave, if you need to lift, they can also take a hand" After speaking, everyone got up, in order not to wake up the sleeping children and cause unnecessary crying, they all left quietly, some lived behind the lemon's house, and some lived in front of the lemon's house, although they were not far apart, but the sensible Aunt Wang still came out and sent them away one by one before entering the house.

Tianyin Jingchen is full of snow, the ground leads to the dust on the ground, the lights go out when people will return, and the lemon trees will send the villagers.

The snow outside has long since stopped, but the cold wind and the heavy snow seem to be in a group, and whoever is tired will continue to change to another to continue to ravage this small village with many elderly people and children.

The footsteps of passers-by, the sound of stepping on the snow, and the sound of poofing and poofing when stepping on it, seemed to be the only resistance people could make against the demons of winter, even if it was useless.

Next, there were still the village chief and Ning Guofu's brother Ning Guoqiang in the house, as well as the father of Erpang and Juanzi, almost the only young people in the two villages, and Aunt Wang After this day, her mood began to calm down, and she took the initiative to talk to everyone as soon as she entered the house.

"Otherwise, you should go back first, Brother Guoqiang will stay here, in case something happens, I will inform you.

"If not, we'll wait a little longer, maybe Doctor Huang will be there soon," the village chief replied. The winter in eastern Sichuan is very cold, especially on this mountain, if a person stays outside for a night, there is a possibility of freezing to death, although the old doctor Huang in the outer village is only separated from Ningjiazhuang by a bend, but if it is really walked, it is still a little difficult to measure it step by step.

But Dr. Huang is not stupid, his visits are often several times more expensive than other doctors, and there is a reason for this, mainly because of the medicines prescribed by Dr. Huang

"Strange", no one else has, only he has. This time, I can't afford to give up the doctor in the village, but because Huang Lao Yi healed a dead person last year, and according to legend, they were all put into the coffin, but the old guy didn't know what he did to the coffin, and the people inside came back to life.

But the person who came to life was none other than the elder brother of Huang Laoyi, and since then the name of Huang Laoyi has resounded throughout the township, although he is often suspected by his peers in the township health center, but his business has not been affected at all.

In the second half of the night, the whole village officially began to frost, and it was also the coldest time of the day, the dog outside was not so cold that it whined, and the cat on the roof also launched a miserable cry, like a child's cry, it turned out that Lu Xun hated cats It is not unreasonable, in short, these two voices are called panicked.

People in the countryside believe in superstition to some extent, and everyone knows that this is a bad omen, and no one will say it.

"This cat is really annoying," the village chief said and threw it over. The cat stopped biting, although the house was clean, the dog outside began to bark again, and when I went out, it turned out to be Dr. Huang who came.

Seeing this, Aunt Wang said

"Old Doctor Huang, you must save my wife, you know that you are a living immortal in the world, you must have frozen along the way, hurry up and enter the house" Although he is from another village, Old Doctor Huang still knows the Ning Guofu family.

"Alas, Sister Wang, please rest assured that since I am here, I will definitely not go in vain, and let me show the Guofu brothers. A few years ago, when he first went there, the doctor said that he would go to the county hospital for examination, because the facilities here were not complete, but the stubborn Ning Guofu just refused to go, always felt that the doctor was exaggerating, and his body was able to work harder than anyone else. As soon as Dr. Huang arrived at Ning Guofu's hospital bed, he began to check the pulse, and he said that it was still the old rule, so the village chief prepared a cup of hot tea, a bowl of chicken blood, and the hot tea was drunk by himself, and the chicken blood was drunk

"Taizu" drank, saying that he had received the favor of Taizu, so that the pulse was more accurate. Who knows, now several old men and Aunt Wang in the house are looking at Huang Lao Yi with expectant eyes, but if he can do it, he will agree to his request, such as chicken blood, the only chicken in the family can also kill him, from laying eggs to hatching shells, this chicken survived, Ningguo Fusheng was so sick that he was reluctant to kill him to eat, saying that he would wait for the children to come home for the New Year before killing.

Dr. Huang sipped his hand in chicken blood and sprinkled it on the ground while sipping tea. this

The "sacred" atmosphere made everyone dare not make a sound, only the voice of Ling Guofu shouting out due to illness was very desolate, with the long smile of Huang Laoyi, everyone felt full of hope, only Lemon was frightened by this strange laugh and hid behind his grandmother.

It lasted for about ten minutes, and no one dared to break this sacred atmosphere, even if Aunt Wang wanted to ask how her wife's condition was, but every time she looked at Doctor Huang's serious face, she wanted to stop talking.

I heard that Dr. Huang had a strange temper, especially when he was treating people, and it was said that once when he was treating people, because someone interrupted him on the way to check his pulse, he asked the family for double the usual price when he left.

Now maybe because the tea is cold, he stopped and said to Aunt Wang

"Guofu's illness is not small, why didn't you come and invite me earlier, now the soul has been taken away by the two ghost officials of black and white impermanence," Old Doctor Huang said in a reproachful tone.

Frightened, Aunt Wang didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly asked

"Can I still get it back? I can exchange my soul for him, and they all say that you have great powers, and you must help us." Aunt Wang's request was immediately denied

"Don't use your soul, your longevity is still long. Under the explanation of Dr. Huang, he finally gave a life-saving plan

"I have an old sister who has learned Yin and Yang Dafa since she was a child, and you have to find her for such incurable diseases, and now I can prescribe him some soothing soup, although the soul is gone, but the god is still there, if there is no god anymore, it is not a living immortal. Several of the big men in the room also said with sincerity

"Old Doctor Huang, you are a living immortal, you must get Uncle Ning's soul back. ”

"Of course, of course, it is our duty as doctors to cure diseases and save lives, but now that it is getting late, I am afraid that the medicine I prescribe to you is not easy to find. After speaking, Doctor Huang handed Ning Guoqiang a list, which said a small bowl of yin mud, a small bowl of yang water, and finally five grams of sour jujube kernels, wheat winter, and Yuanzhi to boil them into water.

"We all know the last three, but what is yin, earth and yang?"

"Don't worry, wait for me to come, the yin soil, the soil closest to the netherworld, is the soil buried under the coffin, the yang water, the urine of the person with the most yang energy on the body, and it is best to be a child who was born early. Doctor Huang said seriously.

Everyone thought in their hearts

"Doctor Huang is worthy of being called Doctor Huang, you can see from the medicine he prescribes, it is really down-to-earth" This time everyone's confidence has been made even more sufficient, and the god who has the yin and yang water to save the wealth of the country should be able to settle down!

Everyone went out to find the medicine primer, because the three flavors of medicine, the village pharmacy has it, so everyone went to find the yin soil and yang water, several people decided to dig the ancestral grave of the Liu madman in the village after discussion, he was crazy all day long, as long as he was not found by others, it must be fine, if it was not for the dwarf of his tomb, even if he was busy until dawn, he couldn't finish it, with a rooster crow, and finally dug to the bottom of the coffin, Guoqiang filled the bowl with water Yin soil, everyone said that the Yin soil is different, so much darker than the ordinary, and then they covered the soil, in order not to leave a trace, it was sprinkled with snow。

Everyone has gone home, and now it's almost a taste of yang water,

"This is easy to do, Ning Guofu's brother's newborn granddaughter, this must work, it's only been 2 months. I don't know who said that.

Everyone agreed. The sky was getting brighter, and all the roosters began to crow, as if they were competing to make a louder noise.

After looking for the medicine primer, Dr. Huang also began to get up, after seeing the doctor in the early hours of this morning, because the weather was too cold, so he stayed at Ning Guofu's house, Ning Guofu's bed happened to be opposite, although Ning Guofu didn't call it when he slept yesterday, but for some reason Huang Lao Yi didn't sleep well all night, what is the reason only he knows.

"The medicine is dispensed, go and boil it first, remember to take it hot, it will have no effect when it is cold. As he spoke, the mustaches on both sides fluttered in the wind, like a cunning businessman, and he carried in one hand the bag that he had taken when he went to the doctor, and others usually filled the bag with medicine, but he was loaded with books, and there were all kinds of messy forbidden books.

Standing at the door and refusing to leave, Aunt Wang seemed to understand something. Look at how I forgot this stubble with this memory, you wait.

After speaking, he immediately entered the house and took out a thick zero ticket from under his wife's bed, old and neat, as if he had been pressed on the bed for five hundred years, usually reluctant to use it, but today Huang Lao Yi seemed to play his real role, and unabashedly gave him all of it. Doctor Huang took the money with one hand and said to Aunt Wang

"You prepare dinner today, and when I go back, I will invite my old sister over, and you can arrive in the afternoon." With that, he left.

Everyone watched him leave, as if looking at the back of a very important person.

"That brother, you all go back to rest first, and then you will give the old man a soothing soup, and there should be no danger. ”

"Okay, you must inform us of something, don't be reckless. "The whole courtyard is left with lemons and grandma, lemons play with the snow on the ground, and Aunt Wang after giving the soothing soup to his wife to drink, she also feels overwhelmed, because after Ling Guofu drank the medicine prescribed by the old doctor, he vomited it all in less than three seconds, although he couldn't bear to see his wife so uncomfortable, but he still had to pour it down.

Ning Guofu, who drank the medicine, not only did not get better, but also aggravated the condition, Ning Guofu clearly knew that his disease had to go to the big hospital in the province to be treated correctly, others could not see through the quack doctor Huang Laoyi, Ning Guofu understood, he was also a person who had been to a private school for several years, what can be done, if you tell the family the truth, with the character of Aunt Wang, she will definitely pour her family property to send him to the provincial hospital, the doctor in the town health center told Ning Guofu that his disease treatment fee plus surgery fee must be at least 300,000 yuan, Ning Guofu has been working hard since the accident occurred in the family, hoping that his family can live a good life, Now it's finally spelled out, but he has this disease again, how can he be willing to use most of his life to fight out of the family business to treat his disease alone, and how can he bear to suffer his family again, he tried his best to open his eyes, but he could only squint, knowing that his life was short, lying on the bed and looking at the eaves, now it's like seeing a few of his descendants, and he will die without regrets, the only thing to worry about is the young lemon.

Lemon is the most uneasy of the wealth of the country, not at ease before death, may be even more uneasy after death, lemon has lived with his grandparents since he was a child, in local terms, is not to fight heaps, often fight with other children, but always divide for a long time, for a long time must be divided, this child's character is better than anyone else when he is good, and he can't pull back ten cows when he is stubborn.

When grandpa was there, he served grandpa, but Ning Guofu was worried that he would go, and others were afraid that they couldn't control it.

After returning home, Huang Lao Yi began to plot something with his sister, his sister is also well-known in the local area, good at fortune telling and feng shui, according to legend, the county magistrate also came to her to calculate, my sister in the village others call him Huang Xiangu, not acquaintances to find her generally do not go.

"How much money did you make from going to Ningjiazhuang?"

"Don't mention it, I thought that Ning Guofu was a minor illness, but I never thought that his pulse was too weak, ten days at most. "But we have to make a fortune before he dies, last night I helped him prescribe some medicine, Aunt Wang gave me some more or less, I will give you the rest, you go to Ningjiazhuang to do a ritual for him now, I have arranged the rest for you, you go now quickly"

"Okay, I'll go right over. "At noon, the sun shyly hides in the clouds, looms in the sky, slowly revealing its whole body, its brilliance shines all over the whole Ningjiazhuang, printed on the snow, penetrates the frozen ice under the eaves, and is extremely beautiful.

Lemon climbed up the lemon tree in his yard to bask in the sun, looking at his grandmother who was busy with her work, waiting for dinner.

When everyone in Ningjiazhuang had lunch, they all came to Ningguofu's house, and even the volunteer teacher of the village school, Mr. Wang, also came, I don't know who I heard that Huang Xiangu was going to come to summon the soul of Ningguofu in the evening, and the whole village spread it all over, plus after the sun melted the snow, the mud was all over the ground, and it was not good to work in the field, so it was better to come and see the excitement.

When the sun is about to set, Huang Xiangu finally arrived, according to the old rules of Huang Laoyi, a good meal has already been prepared by Aunt Wang, after eating, everyone has put the tools needed to do things have been placed, specifically in the east, west, north and south directions of the Ning Guofu bed put four basins and incense in turn, everyone lifted the Ning Guofu to the middle, and the Ming Guofu was also left to Huang Xiangu to fiddle, about an hour after the ceremony, Mr. Wang, who was standing on the side, took off his glasses, took a few breaths of heat, wiped it with his clothes, smiled and left。