Chapter 001: Horror
In Meizhou, Shuzhong, at the beginning of March, there was a sudden unprecedented rainstorm.
In the courtyard of the Chen family in Liucun at the foot of Er'e Mountain, suddenly, a man with a hoarse voice shouted: The corpse has changed, Chen Qiuniang's corpse has changed.
The sound was so frightened that it cut through the sound of the rainstorm and made the neighbors reluctant to care about the rainstorm. Everyone gathered around, and someone asked in a long voice from afar: "Three babies, what?" ”
"Chen Qiuniang, the corpse has changed." The three children replied loudly, stumbling open the fence gate of the Chen family and running out.
Jiang Yun woke up to this terrible scream.
After a while, the neighbors were all crowded under the eaves of the Chen family corridor, pointing at the nine-year-old girl sitting under the old door panel under the old locust tree from a long distance.
Chen Qiuniang originally went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables in the morning, but was bitten by a seven-step snake, and when she found out, she was out of breath. Chen Qiuniang's grandmother Chen Liushi insisted that Chen Qiuniang was not dead, and the fortune teller said that it was a rich life, so she dragged her lame leg and knelt down at the door of Liu Langzhong's house, asking Liu Langzhong to save her granddaughter.
Liu Langzhong is benevolent, and he is not taboo when the doctor encounters a dead person, so he came to do a complete set of processes for Chen Qiuniang to repel snake venom: tying silk, cutting wounds and rinsing, dressing **, and feeding antidotes.
Chen Qiuniang, who was out of breath, naturally did not come back to life. According to local customs, when a nine-year-old child dies young, there is no mourning hall or gatehouse, and it is directly dragged to the top of the mountain for burial. All of a sudden, the rain was pouring down. Before Chen Qiuniang's body had time to be buried, it stopped under the big locust tree in the courtyard.
The only labor force of the Chen family is Chen Qiuniang's father, Chen Quanzhong, who is addicted to gambling and can't find it for a while. The village chief thought that the corpse could not be buried tonight, so he asked the three idlers in the village to help, and buried it when the rain stopped.
Who knows, as soon as the rainstorm came, Chen Qiuniang sat up and was so scared that the three babies were half dead.
At this moment, Chen Qiuniang was sitting on the door panel, her body shrunk, trembling slightly, and occasionally raised her hand to wipe the rain on her face.
Chen Liushi, who had already cried and fainted in the house, heard that his granddaughter had changed his body, so he stumbled out on crutches and shouted: "It's not a corpse, it's not a corpse, it's my granddaughter who has come back to life." ”
No one spoke, she nagged to herself: "Even if she was born with a life, she is rich and rich, I said that she will definitely survive." ”
"Third grandmother, that's a seven-step snake, and if you bite it, you'll die." Someone couldn't stand it and reminded Chen Liu.
Chen Liushi ignored it, and only shouted: "Qiusheng, Qiusheng, go and invite Liu Langzhong to come, just say that your sister has eased up." ”
Five-year-old Chen Qiusheng was very happy when he heard that his sister had come to life, and he didn't care about the heavy rain, so he rushed out of the hospital and went to Liu Langzhong.
The Chen family's neighbors also immediately calculated that they should not only find Liu Langzhong for this matter, but also let Li Yinyang find out to see if there would be danger in the village. So he asked Li Butcher, who had a fast footpath, to invite Li Yinyang.
Although Li Butcher was careful, it was a matter of the survival of Liujia Village, so he immediately ran home without saying a word. The rest of the people crowded under the eaves of the porch and looked at Chen Qiuniang in the rainstorm, whispering, pointing, and not daring to step forward. And Chen Qiuniang tried to stand up several times, but she seemed to have no strength and sat down weakly.
Not long after, Chen Qiusheng ran back and said, "Liu Langzhong's father and son have been on the clinic and haven't come back yet." ”
As soon as his words fell, Li Yinyang came in a hurry. Everyone described Chen Qiuniang's corpse transformation process to Li Yinyang like they saw a savior. Chen Liushi couldn't listen to these people's slander, and shouted vigorously: "My Qiu Niang is not a corpse, but has recovered." ”
That Li Yinyang also ignored Chen Liu's family, only listened to everyone's narration, looked at Chen Qiuniang carefully, stroked his beard, and said matter-of-factly: "The anger is very heavy, open the altar." ”
A cadre immediately built a shed for Li Yinyang. Li Yinyang held a peachwood sword, and there were words in his mouth, and he was sprinkling rice, sprinkling dog blood, and burning charms. Until the rain stopped, Chen Qiuniang still sat there upright.
"Li Yinyang, how is it?" Someone finally couldn't help but ask.
"It's too angry, wait for me to continue casting spells. If not, I have to go to the Taoist temple in Wulipu and ask my master to help. Li Yinyang said as he waved his peachwood sword and shouted: Retreat, retreat.
"Qiu Niang was just a momentary poison and faked her death, but now she is relieved. Where is the corpse? "Liu Langzhong didn't come, but Liu Langzhong's son Liu Cheng came with a medicine box. This Liu Cheng is deep in the mantle of Liu Langzhong, and he is a famous young man in these ten miles and eight towns and even five miles of towns, although he is only fifteen years old.
"Yo, Xiaoliu Langzhong, you are unfilial, and you are free to slap your father's face. Chen Qiuniang was bitten to death by a poisonous snake, and it was your father who judged that she was out of breath. Li Yinyang jumped over with a peachwood sword and scolded.
Liu Cheng ignored Liu Langzhong, strode over, stood in front of Chen Qiuniang, raised his hand to touch her forehead, and then took a pulse, and then looked at her complexion.
At this look, Liu Cheng was taken aback, not that her face was slightly blue because of the snake venom, but that her eyes were calm and calm, and she seemed to have precipitated vicissitudes in her indifference, how could a child have such eyes. What's more, Chen Qiuniang has had a very hard time, and she has always been sad.
Is it really a corpse? He looked at Chen Qiuniang and had doubts in his heart. But after a while, Liu Cheng was relieved, thinking that although this Qiu Niang is a little girl, she has always been very sensible, and this time she experienced death, which must be different from before. How can I forget the family motto of the Liu family, and the strange force is confused.
"Yo, Koyanagi Langzhong, what's going on?" Someone asked in a weird way.
Liu Cheng stood up and said loudly: "I stroked Qiu Niang's forehead, took the pulse, and watched its color." There is temperature on the forehead, the pulse is weak but also there, and the face is bloody. How could this be a corpse? ”
"Today is the fierce month, today is the most yin, and the rainstorm in March is a change in the sky, and it must be a corpse change." Li Yinyang immediately retorted.
Liu Cheng ignored Li Yinyang, but bowed to the neighbors and said, "Fellow neighborhood elders, my family has practiced medicine for generations, and I will never say anything. In the afternoon, Qiu Niang was bitten by a poisonous snake and was on the verge of death. My father came to Qiu Niang to surround the silk to prevent the spread of snake venom, cut the poisonous blood, apply the **, and feed her the antidote pills, but when I found her, it was a little late, and some poison attacked her heart for a while, she was out of breath, in a state of suspended animation, and everyone mistakenly thought she was dead. As soon as the rain washed away, the toxicity weakened, and Qiu Niang eased up, which is not surprising, let alone a corpse transformation. ”
"Fake death? Don't be a fool of you, kid. Someone immediately retorted.
"My Liu family has been practicing medicine for generations, and I have always guarded 'saving lives and helping the wounded, being benevolent, and being upright'." Although Liu Cheng is young, he has been obsessed with medical skills since he was a child, and has always been elegant and quiet, and in the face of the accusations of his neighbors, he continued to quote scriptures, "The phenomenon of fake death also has precedents in history. For example, the phenomenon of suspended animation is recorded in the "Heart Sutra of Nangu". There is also a record in "Hedong Strange Chronicles" that a woman hanged herself and rose from the coffin in the mourning hall. Moreover, in the funeral, the mortuary is set up for seven days, and the coffin is not nailed, which is also a way for doctors and relatives to prevent suspended animation.
Li Yinyang didn't do it, and asked sharply: "Liu family child, I can ask you, if the corpse changes, it will be angry and affect the surrounding relatives and neighbors." Do you dare to take the lives of the whole village? ”
Li Yinyang's question was very vicious, and he took the life and death of the whole village to pressure Liu Cheng. But although Liu Cheng was in line with the benevolence and excellent medical skills of a doctor, he said without hesitation: "I dare." ”
"You dare?" Li Yinyang sneered and said, "Your Liu family doctor cites scriptures for medical skills. But in the scriptures handed down by my master, if the corpse changes, the world will be in chaos. ”
"She has a vein, and a blood, and a breath, and a temperature, and she will be alive. I can swear by the reputation of the Liu family's doctor lintel, and everything I say is true. "Liu Cheng is a teenager in the end, and he reasoned with this group of ignorant people, but in the end he still lost his elegance, swore a curse, and his tone was eager.
"I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what happens." It was said.
Someone chimed in: "yes." You don't want to live, and you can't drag the people of Liucun. ”
"Do you want to take human life? She is a living life, if it is your family-" Liu Chengyi retorted rhetorically, but he couldn't help but take a step back and stand in front of Chen Qiuniang with a protective attitude.
"Yes, after all, it's human life, saying that others think about themselves. What if it's your own family? Liu Cheng's medical skills have also been recognized by Shili and Eight Townships. Let's just believe it. The old village chief, with all white hair, finally came on crutches.
"Thank you, village chief." Yoo Seung happily saluted the village chief. The village chief ignored Liu Cheng, and only said to Li Yinyang: "You also monitor and inspect every day, if there is any change in Qiu Niang, come and tell me in time, although everyone can't afford to eat in these chaotic years, Liu Cun can still pay some sesame oil money." ”
"How can I be? This demon hunt and exorcism is the duty of my generation. Li Yinyang put on the shelf, straightened his beard, and adjusted his tone.
The village chief didn't pay attention to Li Yinyang, but said to Chen Qiuniang, who was shrinking and trembling: "Qiuniang, if there is any disaster in Liucun because of you, don't blame us for being ruthless." ”
Chen Qiuniang shrunk, made a "um, um" sound from her mouth, and nodded vigorously.
Liu Cheng saw that this matter was finally resolved satisfactorily, so he asked the fat woman next to him for help and said, "Second aunt, please help me carry Qiu Niang to my house." She recovered from this situation, and she had a high fever in the rain and needed to recuperate. Uncle Chen has been away from home for a long time, Qiusheng Qiuxia is still young, and the third grandmother's legs and feet are also inconvenient. Yoo Seung asked the short and fat woman next to him for help.
The woman screamed and refused, saying that Chen Qiuniang was an ominous person, and whoever was contaminated was unlucky. Liu Cheng asked others for help again, and everyone said the same.
In desperation, Liu Cheng had no choice but to ignore the admonition of the man and woman who did not kiss, and turned to Chen Qiuniang and said, "Qiuniang, I have wronged you, I will take you back." ”
"Hmm." Chen Qiuniang nodded at him.
Liu Cheng was stunned, Chen Qiuniang at this moment, her eyes were bright, her eyes were like autumn water in the long sky, and she was calm and calm. Liu Cheng panicked for no reason, and hurriedly lowered his head, but his face was still hot.
His heart was beating hard, he bent down to pick up Chen Qiuniang and strode home.
At this moment, Liu Cheng didn't know that the thin body he was holding had changed owners, no longer Chen Qiuniang, but Jiang Yun, the standard foodie who was obsessed with food.