Chapter 9: The Witch Doctors
Situ settled his mind and urged the coachman to speed up a little faster, only to see that the only official road in the ranch was dusty, and the horses were whipping quickly, and the speed was unabated all the way towards Mengba Shangcheng, where Jiangbei's home was located.
Approaching the upper city, the original two fast horses were tired, Situ ordered someone to quickly replace the good horses with the car, in order not to let the horses be too tired to affect the speed when returning to the pasture, so Situ quickly considered it and decided to let one of the little servants named Xiao Liuzi camp on the spot and take care of the two tired horses.
At the same time, he asked the coachman Li Fu to leave him some sorghum, horse grass, and cold water for the horses, and told Xiao Liuzi to take the horses to eat some fresh grass to increase their spirits, and then returned to the car to urge them to set off on the road.
After two days and three nights of running and tiring, Situ finally arrived in Mengba Shangcheng, he knew that the Jiangbei family was a local dignitary, and after a little inquiry, he knew where the Jiangbei Mansion was located.
Since before he came, Situ didn't have time to pass the book to Jiangbei to inform him of his visit, so he brought the beaded treasure chest and tried his best to let Mending report.
After a while, I heard Jiangbei rushing all the way towards the gate, shouting loudly: "Situ, you actually came in person, I have received your flying pigeon message, grandpa has not lived at home for a long time, he is now living in a courtyard on the outskirts of the county, I have ordered someone to bring a letter to invite!" You can rest assured that you will be home in a few days. ”
I saw Jiangbei wearing a cloud-patterned blue and green tough robe, looking closely at the cloud-patterned seems to be different from the usual, this young man has thin eyebrows and apricot eyes, and his appearance has a rather flamboyant handsomeness, his eyes are disdainful but faintly with a hint of attack, and at first glance he is a fierce person who is straightforward and not dark and vicious.
Situ stepped forward and hugged the boy tightly, patted each other on the shoulder, and his eyes flashed with warm tears, it has been five or six years since the last time he saw each other, although there are occasional flying pigeons during this period, but after all, both have a lot of homework, especially Situ's father Si Jinyao forbade him to play with pigeons, birds, crickets and other things that will make people lose their minds, so there is little contact, and this longing is becoming more and more enthusiastic.
Jiangbei led Situ in, and only visited Jiangbei's mother, Jiangbei's father had not returned home for several days due to busy business, so he didn't mention it again, and the two of them hooked up and went to Jiangbei's house together.
Entering the room and sitting down, Situ took a sip of tea, picked up a piece of dim sum and swallowed it, and hurriedly explained the detailed reason to Situ, especially when it came to the words of Jiangbei's earnest advice before, he explained:
"I know the importance of what you told me, I have never revealed it to anyone for so many years, and I have never begged you, this time I was really anxious to come and look for you."
"As for the worries about the lives of your family, the illness of life and death, you can save each other, I also understand, but Keman, she... She is my favorite person, she is more important than my own life, if anything happens to her, I will have a broken stomach and liver, and I can't live in pain! ”
"Besides, my father also silently approved of the matter between me and Man'er, then she will be my wife in the near future, I will marry her, and she will be my family, isn't it? That's why I dared to ask for it. ”
"I know that you are afraid of saving many people, the more people who know, then the more danger will increase, this secret is worried that the more people will know, but you can rest assured, I promise not to tell anyone the true identity of the witch doctor, just say that the famous doctor in the capital traveled everywhere, and was found by your family and recommended to me. Definitely won't leak it! ”
In the end, Situ's face was blushing, and his ears were so hot that he didn't dare to look at Jiangbei, so Situ didn't notice that Jiangbei's face became more and more ugly the more he heard it, and he seemed to be slightly sad when he stared at Situ, but in a flash, he regained his handsome face with slight disdain. It wasn't until the end, when Situ raised his head to look at Jiangbei with a solemn face and a determined face, Jiangbei said rightly:
"Because this is my family's secret, after all, now the saint is also seeking people with advanced Dao methods to use for his alchemy, my family doesn't want anyone to know about this, so as not to bring disaster, and my family is a witch doctor, after all, it's not good to say it, people in the market always have fear and antipathy towards wizards and even have the potential idea of slaughtering them."
Jiangbei then said in a low voice: "Our family is also passed down from generation to generation, and only the eldest son and eldest grandson are passed on, and no one else knows, unless my father feels that he is worried about his life or other last resort, even my mother should not know." ”
"The reason why I told you is that I trust you, you are my most heartfelt person, and because I really have a fate with you, I didn't tell my father about this matter, so as not to cause extraneous branches, I am also a flying pigeon to pass the book and ask for thousands of things in the letter, grandpa only promised to come and talk to you, and when grandpa arrives, we will talk in detail."
Situ was very anxious, and he couldn't wait to see the witch doctor reappear at once, so he quickly pulled him to the pasture to be able to man, so he didn't care about Jiangbei's blazing heart at all, and his heart was full of Keman's closed eyes.
It was also lucky, just in time the porter Xiao Ding came to report that the ancestor had arrived at the door, and asked the little master to go and greet him quickly.
Hearing this, Jiangbei Situ quickly got up, tidied up his clothes, bowed accordingly, and then the two of them affectionately helped his grandfather into Jiangbei's house.
The witch doctor has white hair and hair, his eyes are blazing, and the green tendons on his hands are bursting up, but he does not tremble or tremble, and he looks like he is about sixty years old, it is hard to imagine that he is the ancestor of Jiangbei, and he is nearly 100 years old!
After Situ bowed, the witch doctor asked him to stand up and reply. Situ then bowed down again and said the matter roughly, especially explained, but Manhui was his wife who had not passed the door, so he knelt down and begged his grandfather to save him.
The witch doctor was displeased, and said to Jiangbei next to him with a cold face: "Didn't you beg me to come and go, saying that your sweetheart had a fatal worry, so you begged me to come over for help?" He also said that if I didn't come, you would die, and I wouldn't go to pick me up in person, saying that I needed to look at your sweetheart, and coaxed me in a mess, but it was someone's sweetheart who was worried about his life! You bastard! Did you lie to your grandfather like this? ”
Jiangbei's handsome face instantly turned red, and his ears felt even hot! glanced at Situ, and said: "Grandpa, Situ is my best friend, you help him is equivalent to helping me, please!" Grandpa, and I believe in him! He will never talk nonsense! ”
Situ glanced at Jiangbei gratefully, and once again knelt down in front of the witch doctor, who shook his head and said:
"Little Master Situ, it's not that I don't help you, but our family has family rules, and we can't save people other than our close relatives, so as not to cause trouble, this is also the method that our witch doctor clan can survive for thousands of years, we don't participate in the holy alchemy medicine to get rich, and we don't participate in the consultation of ordinary people to get wise, our witch doctor clan cultivates the way of freedom, and lives a free body."
"At the beginning, our witch doctor clan lived in the mountains, isolated from the world, but also lived peacefully in the world and enjoyed a lifetime, but later became known to the world for rescuing an outsider, and as a result, more and more people asked for help, and it was famous!"
The witch doctor took a sip of the new tea served by the little servant, then closed his eyes, and said slowly:
"Who knows that the more people are saved, the faster the disaster comes, one year, when the eldest son of the Chaozai Fu family suffered from an incurable disease, in danger, if his life is like a line, their family learned that there is our witch doctor family, so they sent troops to invite, when the witch doctor patriarch witch doctor woman Jinshan personally went."
"When the witch doctor girl arrived after casting a spell and obtaining the spirit, she found that this son did not fall down from illness at all, but relied on the power of Zaifu to do power, and even bullied the weak girl, and was punished by God."
"Although the witch doctor girl has cured countless diseases, this is also the first time in her life to go out of the mountain, so she doesn't know a lot of people's feelings, so she told Zaifu with the facts, but I didn't expect that when the court Zaifu was worried that she would spread this matter, then his official prestige and even his family's life may be lost."
"At that time, the witch doctor's medical skills were excellent, and they had already been spread outside, and seeing that the witch doctor girl looked like she had never been in the world, I was worried that even if I warned her, she would tell the cause of Zaifu's son because she was encouraged by others, and she was even more worried that her influence would be expanded because of her extensive connections."
The witch doctor sighed deeply, and said sadly: "Zai Fu this thief after a night of calculation, he gave birth to a poisonous plan, he lied that let the witch doctor girl cast a spell to save him, he couldn't bear his old tears and begged again, the witch doctor girl set up a witch doctor altar in the hospital, and wanted to dissipate part of the patient's yang spiritual power to comfort the female spirit who was injured to death by him, although it will weaken the patient's body for a while, but the spirit will gradually improve, and then through abstinence, doing good, herbal rescue, etc., there are still a few years to live a long life." ”
"Then I think that Zai Fu is dedicated to maintaining the reputation of the official, and he doesn't care about the life of this son, he is cold by nature, lewd and happy, where is there a lack of sons, although I like this one, but compared with his officialdom, this son is nothing, and there are many more who die!"
"When the witch doctor girl used her spiritual sense to dissipate some of the spiritual powers, he ordered the altar to be set on fire, slandering that the witch doctor girl was a yin spirit, obviously a witch and a yin master, and she was swaggering and deceiving under the banner, and even worse, slandering his son's illness was a witch doctor girl leading the yin spirit to haunt her, just to make the altar to earn ill-gotten gains, and it is more likely that in order to form a party and establish herself as the king of a rebellion!"
"The poor witch doctor was burned alive on the spot, because the witch doctor girl was resentful, so she forcibly left a spirit to turn into a bird, struggled to fly back, and warned the witch doctor to leave this place quickly, not to stay for a long time, and absolutely not to save anyone except those close to the family, otherwise it will be bad luck!"
"Since then, our witch doctor clan has been scattered and hidden in the world, and our Jiangmen has been exiled in the upper city of Mengba in this bitter cold place, in order to extend!"
"But we can't practice medicine again, so this witch doctor will remain in the world as a family secret as soon as he learns it." After the witch doctor finished speaking, he took a sip of strong tea, closed his eyes and meditated without saying a word.