Chapter 56: Surfacing
When the frustration he had suffered turned into a wave of ridicule in the darkness of the night, an unexpected reward fell from the sky.
He found that every two or three days, Yulan would go out after lunch and return to Wu's house within half an hour, coming and going sneakily and panickingly, for fear that someone would find out.
If the stone is a treasure, it is ready to follow the magnolia to find out.
After lunch, Yulan closed the door of the young lady's house, walked to the courtyard as usual and looked around, and saw that there was no one else and hurriedly walked out of the courtyard door.
The stone followed closely.
The warm autumn sun is scattered, the empathetic breeze lingers everywhere, and the strong-willed carrier pigeons rush by, none of which show the way for the stones.
Magnolia often disappeared from his sight, as if it was an earthworm, unexpectedly burrowing into the soil and poking its head out unexpectedly.
Finally, at the end of the narrow valley, Magnolia walked into a deserted farmhouse courtyard.
The stone waited for it.
Soon Yulan came out of the small courtyard of the farmhouse, did not cherish the trek all the way, and walked straight back in the direction of the Wu family.
When Magnolia's figure disappeared again, the stone stepped into the small courtyard of the farmhouse.
In the courtyard, a dark brown crockpot is scorching on the flaming stove, exuding a strong pungent smell of traditional Chinese medicine, and the medicinal soup "puff puff" flutters against the lid of the clay pot, occasionally breaking free and dripping down the edge of the crockpot.
There was no one in the hospital.
The stone probe poked behind his head and felt that there was no need to sneak around, straightened his waist and shouted, "Is anyone there?" Is anyone there? β
"Who?" An old Taoist priest came out of the back room. The long gray beard and long hair were messy and sloppy, and they had lost the aura of the Dao Bone Immortal Wind that they should have.
A pair of eyes that are small but focused, as if they can see through anything. But he likes to tilt his head half-sideways, and never block out his hearing while looking.
The old Taoist priest caught a glimpse of a young girl, his face was surprised, and he wondered if the rough shout just now came from the mouth of the stone, and he said in a strange voice: "Do you know where this is?" β
"Dao Chief, what did that girl do when she came in just now?" Stone held his throat, unable to regret his carelessness just now.
"What's the girl? I have always been a doctor and a doctor, but there are only patients here, and I have never seen any girls. The old Taoist priest walked up to the crockpot and lifted the lid with his bare hands, as if he had cultivated an invincible iron sand palm.
"Yes! Governor. Did the patient come in and grab the medicine? β
"What are you doing here? Are you here to grab medicine? If not, please come back. "The old Taoist priest is conscientious in his duties, and as a langzhong, he cannot divulge the information of other patients.
"I'm here to grab the medicine, and the owner of that girl just now is also my master. The master took the prescription of the long prescription, but it did not get better. She suspected that Magnolia had done something and asked me to grab another pair of pills. β
Seeing the move, the stone was secretly proud of his innate agility.
The old Taoist priest blew out a breath of "exhalation", trying to spread out the stiffened beards, and the beards stuck to the old Taoist people in unison, refusing to fly.
The old Taoist priest rolled his eyes and roared with a tragic anger that made matters worse: "Grab another pair? That would eat the dead! He waved his sleeves and resolutely turned away.
"The master of our family suspects that the Taoist chief has even misdiagnosed the disease." The stone added fuel to the fire.
"What? Will I be diagnosed with the wrong disease? The male voice and appearance of your master are actually a disorder of yin and yang, and the disease of yang and yin decline. When ginseng, vitex, ligustrum and wolfberry are used to raise yin and lower yang, what is wrong? β
"Male voice and male appearance?" The stone was stunned.
"Since you can't believe in the old way, don't come back in the future!" The old Taoist priest turned around and grabbed the fan next to the stove and drove the stone out of the door like a fly.
The stone slowly combed through his thoughts.
According to the words of the Taoist priest, it is inferred that Miss Wu Jia's yin and yang are out of balance, and the yang is prosperous and the yin is declining, so as to show the male voice and male appearance, ginseng, vitex seeds, ligustrum seeds and wolfberry seeds must be used to raise yin and lower yang.
He had read about similar illnesses and cures in medical books. This disease was an unspeakable disease at the time, so Yulan always sneaked here to get medicine. It's no wonder that Miss Wu doesn't go out of the door, she doesn't step out of the second door, and even her family is hiding.
Is Uncle Hai treating Wu Pingzheng or Miss Wu's treatment? Uncle Hai shouted Wu Pingzheng, what the hell is going on?
On the night of his return to Wu's house, Shi went to rummage through the dregs of medicine that Magnolia had dumped.
Sure enough, as the old Tao said, there are vitex seeds, ginseng, wolfberry seeds, and ligustrum seeds in the medicine residue. This is indeed the medication for the disease of male voice and male physiognomy.
Stone decided to look for an opportunity to meet Miss Wu and listen to her voice in order to be further sure.
After lunch, Yulan went out to find the old Taoist priest to grab medicine, and Shi brought a bowl of lotus seed fungus soup to the front of Miss Wu's house. He knocked on the door.
"Magnolia, you're back so soon?" It was a voice that was originally rough but tried to hide it with a shy tone and nasality.
Stone was shocked, he hadn't thought about the symptoms of male voices and male appearances so concretely. When the sound reached his ears, he felt some debris in his eardrums, and it was the resonance of fear and heart-wrenching.
Shi didn't answer Miss Wu's words, he was worried that Miss Wu might not let him enter the house when she heard that the person was not Magnolia.
He pushed the door open, lightly holding his breath.
Miss Wu sat on the edge of the bed, her head bowed, holding an embroidery in her hand and concentrating, her eyes wandering among the silk threads, her fingers rising and falling, without hesitation, like flowing water.
"Miss, it's me. The kitchen stewed lotus seed fungus soup, and I brought a bowl to the young lady. β
"Oh." Miss Wu answered, and then realized that it was not Yulan and began to panic. She quickly stood up, her back to the stone, her head bowed all the time.
"Put it there, you get out!" Her body trembled slightly, and despite her best efforts to control it, it didn't work.
The stone slowly approached the table, her eyes fixed on Miss Wu, her side barely caught into the stone's eyes.
Miss Wu's Adam's apple protrudes outward, her chin and lips are shaved, and although her skin is white, it is still slightly rougher than that of a woman.
The stone slowly put down the lotus seed fungus soup, trying to find an excuse to linger for a while: "Miss......"
"Get out!" Miss Wu was annoyed and angry, and her undisguised voice was exposed. She covered her face with her wide sleeves, turned to the side, and threw the embroidery at the stone. The embroidery draws a graceful arc in the air and falls on the lotus seed fungus soup.
The porcelain bowl containing the lotus seed fungus soup shook violently a few times. The soup quickly spread to the four corners of the table, lingering around the edge of the table for a moment, and then continuing their path of no return.
"Right...... I'm sorry! Shi knew that he should leave immediately, and he couldn't even care about the lotus seed fungus soup on this table. He fled from Miss Wu's room in a hurry.
The stone heart palpitated, not because of the lotus seed fungus soup that would cause the owner to scold, but because of Miss Wu's voice, Miss Wu's Adam's apple, and Miss Wu's stubble that she wanted to hide but couldn't erase.
What does it feel like to have these in a woman?
Stone has mixed feelings, fear, sympathy, worry, and doubt. The answer he wanted still didn't find.
What does Miss Wu's male voice have to do with Wu Pingzheng, and what does it have to do with Uncle Hai's heart disease?
These many questions were like countless little snakes slowly wriggling around him, disturbing him day and night.
More than half a month passed, and he did nothing, and there was no progress in what he wanted to investigate.
Yulan still went to the old Taoist priest every two or three days to grab medicine. Miss Wu forbade him to step into her door again. Master Wu and Mrs. Wu may have listened to the gossip, or maybe Master Wu touched the girl's butt and was seen by the stone, and they no longer had high hopes for the stone.
A month ago, he was ambitious to find the cause of Uncle Hai's heart disease, and it seems that all this was the naΓ―ve idea of this boy who grew up in a golden nest and had no worldly affairs.
He can't help anything, he can't be a hero.
After a nightmare of falling into the abyss, the listless Stone intends to leave the Wu family at dawn.
He packed up his baggage and pushed open the door, the half-light and the air that was almost frozen were refreshing.
He took a deep breath of the cool autumn air, originally just to lift his spirits, never expected that this breath would turn into a knife, stirring mercilessly in his abdomen.
The stone clutched his stomach and ran to the latrine.
At the door of the latrine, he bumped into a man. The man was about to come out of the latrine, and the two bumped into each other.
In the darkness, the other party screamed, which was enough to wake up more than a dozen people in the courtyard.
The person who collided with the stone was Magnolia.
She cares a lot about carrying things in her hands. When she stumbled, she used her other hand to protect the thing tightly, and the thing was saved.
The cloth covering it slipped down.
A copper night pot shines brightly in the dawn of dawn.
This light awakened the jasmine in the flower garden, awakened the swallow under the eaves, and pierced all disguises.
Magnolia picked up the cloth on the ground, and before she could cover the glowing night pot, she turned around and ran. What could be more important than running? If there's a hole in the ground, she'll jump into it right away.
Stone left the Wu family, and he was lucky to find the answer.
Uncle Hai's madness, the Wu family, the Zhang family, the Wang family, the Geng family, and the Qian family that he and Qingmin visited, the special banquet that Master Wu sent to see off Wu Pingzheng, and the male voice and male appearance of Miss Wu family, finally, he strung them together into a complete story, and knew why it happened.
Qingmin saw the stone heart bloom and turned all her thoughts into endless questions.
"You've been in the Wu family for so long, I'm worried about dying. They didn't see through your disguise, did they? How did you get back? Did they drive them back? What did you find? Why does Uncle Hai keep calling 'Wu Pingzheng'? β
"I ...... Drink saliva. Stone had dry lips and swallowed hard.