Emperor Emperor,

Emperor of the Earth,

There is a night cryer in my house,

The gentleman passing by reads it again,

Sleep until dawn.

In a small village in the mountains, a group of innocent children, under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village, jumped and read aloud, and the immature and piercing children's voice woke up Zheng Ye, who was taking a nap in the thatched hut next to him.

"Whose doll did the night star again?" Zheng Ye looked sleepy-eyed, with the boredom of being woken up in his sleep, he hurriedly covered his ears with a pillow, turned over and wanted to continue sleeping.

Sun Yu, who was lying on the bed reading a book, immediately put down the book and got up to go out to see what was going on when he heard this so-called "night cry".

I saw that under the big banyan tree, a hunchbacked old man with white hair pointed to a piece of red paper pasted on the trunk with his skinny hand, and was teaching seven or eight children to read this "night cry" aloud.

"Uncle, whose doll is crying at night?" Sun Yu stepped forward and greeted the old man very politely.

"It's you, young man." Seeing Sun Yu coming over, the old man also nodded politely and said:

"The village chief's own grandson, not yet a year old, I don't know why, these nights as soon as it gets dark, I can't stop crying, until dawn, and the family is exhausted, no, let's put a night cry post first, see if you can drive this damn night star away tonight, if not, then you can only ask Aunt Li to come and catch the night star."

After hearing this, Sun Yu shook his head helplessly and said: "Is there really a night star, uncle, the child cries non-stop at night, it should be unwell, the child is small, he can't say it, he can only express it by crying, he has to go to the doctor if he is sick." ”

"Young man, what do you know, the baby is easy to let the night star go up, and as soon as he gets up, he can't stop crying all night; So you can first use the night cry sticker to drive away, if you can't drive away, then you can only ask Aunt Li to set up an altar to catch, this Aunt Li, the spell is clever, famous far and near, once you catch it, the baby will not cry after catching the obstacle. ”

After the old man finished speaking, he didn't pay attention to Sun Yu, and just taught the children to read the night cry sticker loudly.

Sun Yu is a junior at China University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, majoring in traditional Chinese medicine. I heard Zheng Ye say that he had a cousin who lived in the mountains, and there were many Chinese medicinal materials in the mountains, and they often went into the mountains to collect medicines, so they came over to pester Zheng Ye to take him into the mountains as soon as they were on vacation, to get to know his cousin, and to practice the knowledge they learned in school by the way.

"Fatty, don't worry about it, the transportation in this big mountain is inconvenient, isolated from the world, most people are closed-minded, and it won't work if you want to come over and promote your advanced ideas."

Sun Yu has a slightly chubby figure, a round face, and Zheng Ye has always called him fat, while Zheng Ye is just the opposite, with a thin body, a fleshless face, and towering cheekbones, Sun Yu called him a toothpick when he was young.

"You toothpick, why don't you sleep, I can't get used to it, obviously I'm not feeling well, and I don't go to the doctor, I have to pretend to be a ghost to deceive people."

"How can there be such good conditions here, the nearest town clinic is also more than 20 kilometers of mountain roads, the whole village is only my cousin often goes to collect medicine to understand a little pharmacology, the doctor has to go to the next village to have one, but there are also ten kilometers away from here mountain road."

"I can't imagine that there is such a place where the level of medical care is underdeveloped, and this is a place where people live."

Sun Yu said that this place is Daxing Mountain, there are seven or eight natural villages scattered in the mountain, there are three big villages, Zheng Ye and his cousin live in this village called Nanxi Village, it is the largest village here, there are more than 100 families, here is isolated from the world, the people are fierce, and there is a natural resistance to new things outside the mountain.

"You are studying medicine, or you will come here to hang the pot to help the world after graduation."

Seeing Sun Yu sighing, Zheng Ye made a joke.

"What is difficult for me to do on my own depends mainly on the strength of the local government, build a big road into the mountain, let the mountain communicate with the outside, so that new things and new ideas can be integrated, and the people's customs will be civilized."

Sun Yu and Zheng Ye said while going back to the thatched hut, the thatched hut was built by Zheng Ye's cousin, which was propped up with four big wooden sticks, and then pasted up the four walls with the yellow mud of the straw ditch, and then used the straw to cover a roof is considered a thatched hut, however, this kind of thatched hut is really good in the mountains, warm in winter and cool in summer, but afraid of strong wind and rain, the rain will wash away the yellow mud in the straw on the four walls, and the wind will also lift the thatched hut cover, so every time it encounters a strong wind and rain, it must be repaired.

"It is estimated that the local government is also poor, and there is no power, fatty, you don't see, there are basically old people and children left here, and young people have gone out to work in the city."

"Yes, the old man is backward and ignorant, and he doesn't go to the doctor when he is sick, but looks for ghosts and gods."

"If it weren't for my cousin's agility that night, we would have been crippled by them."

"Alas, don't mention it, the child cries and makes trouble at night, Chinese medicine believes that it is caused by spleen deficiency, heart heat, and panic, according to this characteristic, with the spleen, heart heat and calming the nerves of the Chinese herbal medicine boiled into juice, applied to the child's navel, can tonify the spleen and dispel the effect of heart heat, that night, you did not see the goddess on the child's stomach with a brush to draw."

"I saw it, but I don't know if her brush is stained with ink."

"That's definitely not ink, it's their special potion, which specializes in treating night crying syndrome, and after I came back, I turned over the information, and there are many prescriptions for treating night crying syndrome, which can be boiled with white poria cocos, white chrysanthemum, light bamboo leaves, cicadas and other medicinal materials."

"By the way, I remember that the goddess also stuffed a bag of things into the child's pillow, I guess that the bag of things also came from medicinal herbs."

Zheng Ye sat on the edge of the bed and lit a cigarette.

"It is a medicinal pillow, which also has the effect of calming the heart and relieving fever, extinguishing the wind and calming the nerves, and relieving the shock and calming the nerves." Sun Yu pointed to his medicine book and said.

Sun Yu: The night they were talking about was what happened a few days ago in Dongtou Village where the goddess caught the night star, and that goddess was Aunt Li that the old man said just now.

Aunt Li is a native of Xiangxi Village, about forty years old, short stature, black hair, her spell comes from her mother's true biography, her mother is also a famous old witch, died a few years ago, she is now a female inheritance of her mother's business, because Aunt Li and carp homonym, so people call her carp essence.

When the carp spirit was young, she recruited a son-in-law from the next village, and the man also died a few years ago, leaving a pair of children to depend on her. She also has a partner, who is a bachelor in the same village, who has a sharp beak and monkey gills, a roe deer, and is born with an evil appearance, because of his relatively white complexion, he looks like a mouse, and is called a white mouse.

The white mouse and the carp essence naturally have an unclear relationship, every time the carp essence goes out, he is with him, is her good helper, of course, in this deep mountain, you can also keep her safe.