One night in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, the huge black clouds that covered the sky gradually dispersed, and the jade disk-like moon appeared at one end of the sky. The moonlight was quietly sprinkled on the empty streets of Wutong Road, and from a distance it looked like a silver-white river flowing in the darkness. The silence of the night, broken by the sound of footsteps at the end of the road.

Several black-clothed people who seemed to be treading water walked on the Wutong Road in a hurry, and their steps seemed very flustered. There were three of them in total, the tallest one at the front, looking around from time to time, as if reading the door number, and the other two following behind him, holding each other's hands. If you listen closely, you can even hear the suppressed sobs of the two people behind you.

Qin Sanyou, who was sleeping, was woken up by a few hurried knocks on the door, hurriedly got dressed, looked at his sleeping wife beside him, and then walked towards the gate with light steps. The helper surnamed Liu, who lived in the room on the west side of the courtyard, was also woken up by the knock on the door at this time, followed Qin Sanyou to the gate, and picked up a thick wooden stick under the courtyard porch.

"Is Mr. Qin at home?" Outside the door, a man shouted in a thick voice.

Qin Sanyou glanced at the helper and responded vigilantly, "Who is it?" ”

There were small footsteps outside, and the man who was knocking the door of the Qin family stepped aside, and a woman's voice came in: "Sanyou, Sanyou is me!" The woman's voice sounded like she was in a hurry.

Hearing this, Qin Sanyou hurriedly opened the gate, letting the three people who had been uneasy in the dark for a long time enter the courtyard, and then closed the gate tightly.

The helper led them to the small living room in the middle room, poured tea for the three uninvited guests, and then went back to the house to go back to sleep.

Under the soft light of the living room, the three of them calmed down as if relieved, especially the man, who picked up the tea and poured it violently. Qin Sanyou looked at them with a slightly wolf appearance and hurriedly asked what happened.

"Mr. Qin, you can hurry up and save my son, he... He's dying! The woman, who was about seventy or eighty years old, began to cry loudly again, and was quickly stopped by the young woman on the side.

"Mom, be quiet! This will hurt Mr. Qin! As she spoke, she took out her handkerchief and wiped the old woman's tears, frowned and said to Qin Sanyou: "Lao Zhang, he seems to have fallen into evil, can Mr. Qin help me take a look?" ”

"Where is it," Qin Sanyou said, "How can I not care about Lao Zhang's matter, tell me, what is his current situation?" ”

"He's like he's gone crazy now, scratching his whole body desperately, and his mouth is still saying, 'I'm going to come out, I'm going to come out!' "But his eyes were still closed, as if he were talking in a dream!" ”

Qin Sanyou frowned after hearing this, stood up and said to the person in front of him: "The situation is a little bad, I'll prepare and go with you!" After that, Qin Sanyou went to the west side of the courtyard and called the helper over, and told him to let him watch the door at home, protect his wife and children, and don't open the door except himself. If he doesn't come back at dawn, he will send someone from the Zhang family back to tell him.

In the night, the group hurried through Wutong Street and went straight to Zhang's courtyard. At this time, the moon had risen overhead, and all living beings had fallen into a deep sleep, and there was still a deathly silence all around.

The lights in the Zhang family's house were on, and Qin Sanyou walked straight into the bedroom and saw a familiar face. The young woman hurriedly said, "I went to Dr. Xu first, and Dr. Xu said that it is useless to look for him now, and I have to call you here!" ”

Doctor Xu on the side stood up and moved his seat to Qin Sanyou, and said softly: "Sanyou, I relieved his symptoms, the situation is not very good, I can only look at you." ”

Qin Sanyou nodded and immediately stepped forward to observe the patient's condition.

Zhang Jianguo, who was lying on the bed, seemed to have just experienced a big battle, gasping for breath. Beads of sweat hung down his neck, his eyes were tightly closed, and his limbs were tied to the bed frame with strips of cloth by his family. He was covered with red marks that he had grabbed by himself, some of the red marks were just protruding from the surface of his body, and some of the red marks had penetrated deep into the flesh and had thick blood scabs. Despite this, Zhang Jianguo still kicked his hands and feet, trying to scratch his body with his hands. He was large and powerful as an ox, and the strip of cloth that tied him made a sound of crumbling, and the bed creaked. Dr. Xu had applied ointment to the red marks, and some of them seemed to have disappeared somewhat, but overall the situation was still not improving.

Seeing this, Qin Sanyou took out a piece of paper from the small bag he was carrying, dipped a brush in black ink and wrote something on it, and then concocted two more sheets in the same way, and pasted them on Zhang Jianguo's shoulders and forehead respectively.

Zhang Jianguo, who was pasted with rune paper, immediately stopped scurrying around with his hands and feet, and gradually quieted down. Seeing this, the family was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked Qin Sanyou, but Qin Sanyou still frowned, telling the family not to be in a hurry to be happy first.

"Mr. Qin, is there anything else with Lao Zhang?" The young woman asked cautiously.

"I can only silence him for a while. Is there anything wrong with Lao Zhang recently? Or have you been to places you shouldn't go? ”

Hearing this, the old woman immediately grabbed the young woman's hand and said sharply, "I said that I can't go, I can't go!" You're going to let him go! ”

Not to be outdone, the young woman cried out, "What can I do!" If he doesn't go, our family will be finished! ”

Other family members hurriedly came over to dissuade him, and Zhang Jianguo's father sighed and said to Qin Sanyou: "Sanyou, it's not that you don't know our current situation. If there's an order from above, we have to carry it out, right? A few weeks ago, a man was executed on the west side, Mr. Li on the other side of the river. It is said that Mr. Li wrote something that should not be written and was reported. Before he died, he ate all the things he wrote at home, and by the time he was dragged to the west side, he was already dead. So, his body was dumped on the west side, and no one cared about it. After a few days, the little ass scurrying around here saw that the corpses on the field began to flatulate, and the contents of their stomachs were sprayed everywhere, and a group of birds flying in the sky saw it, so they came down to peck at it, and the scene was really disgusting and terrifying. The old man said these words, as if something was happening right in front of him, paused, and continued: "Then someone proposed to clean up the field, otherwise there will be no way to do things in the future." As a result, this dirty work fell to the founding of the country. ”

The Zhang family, who had lost power, was assigned such a task, so they could only swallow their anger. Although Zhang Jianguo's mother strongly objected, but this was an instruction, he still went to clean it up. As a result, after he came back that day, his whole body was like a lost soul, in a trance, he couldn't eat well or sleep, and he always said that there were people around him staring at him. Afraid that it was taboo to say that cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods were taboo, his family felt that he should have been stimulated by seeing that scene, so they asked him to take sick leave to rest at home. Who knew that Zhang Jianguo's condition did not improve, but he yelled to take a bath every day, saying that he was itchy on his body. In the end, it became what it is now.

The family has always been silent about this, until now that people are almost dying, they found Dr. Xu and Qin Sanyou.

"I said, it's the injustice of Mr. Li's death!"

"That's it! I think too. Eighty percent of the people who reported him had a grudge against him! ”

"That's it! Don't argue, listen to Sanyou! The old man scolded the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who were talking in a whisper.

"Did he say anything when he came back that day?" Qin Sanyou asked.

"Yes! He said he never wanted to go to that place again, and he threw up. There were also a number of birds that pulled bird droppings on him, and when they came back, they lost their clothes to me! The women stopped fighting and responded to Qin Sanyou instead.

Qin Sanyou nodded, as if he understood something, and immediately asked his family, "Do you have anything about Teacher Li at home?" ”

When he asked, everyone pondered for a while, but no one answered for a while. It was still the man with a rough voice, and he said to Qin Sanyou: "Yes, yes! I remember. Didn't Xiaofeng learn from Teacher Li? I had sent the Youth League to Mr. Li for my family before, and Mr. Li gave me a booklet to thank me, saying that he copied it by himself and showed it to Xiaofeng! When everyone heard him say this, they hurriedly went to Xiao Feng's house to rummage through the boxes and cabinets to find the booklet, and handed it over to Qin Sanyou.

It is a manuscript of "The Legend of the Giant", and the translation is Mr. Li himself. Qin Sanyou took the book and looked at it, although it was a manuscript, it was extremely exquisite, in addition to the text, there were also illustrations and a few blank pages depicted by him himself, for the reader to write some experiences. In order not to damage the book, Qin Sanyou tore off the blank pages, which had nothing on them except the page number written by Mr. Li in the lower right corner. Then he wrote something on the paper he had brought with him, and instructed his family to put it in a pot and cook it in porridge.

It didn't take long for the porridge that was cooked through with paper to be brought to Qin Sanyou. He took out another clean brush, dipped it in the porridge, and with a stroke of the pen, it was painted into Zhang Jianguo's red mark, whether it was broken or just rising, it was painted with this porridge. Then, he got up and picked up the remaining porridge in the bowl and poured it into Zhang Jianguo.

Qin Sanyou tore off the talisman on Zhang Jianguo's shoulders and forehead, and sat aside and quietly observed. It didn't take long for Zhang Jianguo's limbs to start dancing again, and then his whole body began to twitch, muttering some unintelligible words in his mouth. The porridge applied to the red mark was immediately absorbed, and the bottom of the seal began to swell up, turning into a bag the size of a coin. The pouches swelled outwards as if they were alive, as if trying to break through the flesh and skin to be free, and some even showed claw-like marks. Immediately afterwards, these small bags all gathered together and moved towards Zhang Jianguo's stomach, and Zhang Jianguo's already round belly suddenly bulged high.

After a while, the big bag suddenly deflated like a deflated ball, the red marks faded a little, and the color began to darken. At this time, Zhang Jianguo's nearest family suddenly exclaimed and hurriedly asked everyone to come and see. It turned out that from between Zhang Jianguo's two strands, a strange bird's egg rolled out. The egg, the size of an adult's fist, was covered in black patterns like a spider's web.

Zhang Jianguo's illness was cured in this way. Everyone in the Zhang family, including Qin Sanyou and Doctor Xu, was tight-lipped about this matter. The sky gradually began to turn white, and it came back to life.