Chapter 22: The Echo of the Mysterious Worm (8)
said that Yang Si was sitting on the edge of the bed, envious of Yang Congxun's amazing adventure, and suddenly saw the red-haired fox on the opposite side who could speak human words squeezing his eyebrows at him and asking: "The skeleton ghost the night before yesterday, are you still right?" ”
As soon as he heard the word "skeleton ghost", Yang Si suddenly trembled like a sifting chaff, and hurriedly raised his hands to his chest and shook them desperately: "Don't want it, don't want it, definitely don't want it!" ”
"That's right."
The little fox nodded with satisfaction when he heard this, and suddenly stretched out a paw, and pointed behind Yang Si with a frightened expression: "Look, skeleton ghost!" ”
Yang Si, who was startled by the little fox's panicked appearance, subconsciously turned his head in the direction pointed out by Hu San, and at this moment, Hu San suddenly jumped in front of Hu San like a red lightning, and his left paw slammed into the braid on the back of Yang Si's head with lightning speed.
Then I heard the little fox fairy burst out into a burst of extremely happy cheers: "Caught it, it's great, it's still alive!" ”
Needless to say, Xiao Hu San's appearance of holding a paw and jumping in joy made the two masters and servants of the Yang family stammer, and their eyes were straight.
After being stunned for a while, Yang Congxun, who was the first to react, hurriedly asked Hu San: "Brother Xian, what did you just catch from Yang Si?" The skeleton ghost? ”
"But not how?"
As he spoke, the little fox carefully pinched a small thing about the size of a broad bean and looked black and white with two long nails on his left paw and handed it to Yang Congxun.
"But the real name of this thing isn't a skeleton ghost, it should be the legendary famous echo worm!"
After that, Xiao Hu San shook the echo insect in his hand vigorously, and saw that the beetle that had been stiff and pretending to be dead between Hu San's claws suddenly came to life, twisting its body back and forth, "buzzing" and flapping its wings to escape from Hu San's fingertips.
It's just that the little fox fairy has already used a pair of sharp nails to hold this beetle in the middle of the front and back of the beetle's heart, no matter how desperately it struggles, but where can it escape?
At this time, Hu San's voice sounded again: "I once heard from my family that this kind of echo insect is completely black, and there is only a circle of white lines shining with cold light on the back of the abdomen.
After that, every 30 years of life, the insect will have an extra white circle on its ventral back or hind wings.
Since Fourth Brother Yang said that this echo worm looks like a skeleton that opens and closes at night, it must be an old worm that has lived for sixty years. ”
"Yes, echo worms? The echo worm that 'speaks out and responds, doesn't say anything'! ”
"Exactly. Hey, brother, aren't you only dedicated to reading the words of the sages of the Four Books and the Five Classics? Where does my brother see the name of this echo worm? ”
"This ...... Hi! Don't hide it from the virtuous brother, that's the case! ”
It turned out that Yang Congxun had loved to listen to mysterious and surprising stories such as demons, ghosts, gods and monsters since he was a child, and whenever he had time, he would pester the servants at home who could tell the ancients to give him two enjoyable paragraphs.
After becoming enlightened and literate, Yang Congxun's addiction to learning from others became more and more intense.
As long as he saves a few styles, he will take them to the bookstore to buy books such as "Zi Buyu", and then hide them in his arms and take them to the school to read secretly.
For this reason, Yang Congxun also asked Mr. Angry to hit the ring ruler on the palm of his hand a few times, and the palm of his hand was swollen to the point that it looked like a cake.
"It's really ashamed to say that time, brother, I easily picked up an embroidered image of "Yi Jianzhi" from the bookstore, who knew that I didn't wait for my brother to look through it. This expensive "Yi Jianzhi" was searched and burned by Mr. Alas, what a pity for those five cents! ”
After that, Yang Congxun also smacked his lips with regret: "The story of this echo insect is from that book "Yi Jianzhi". ”
Speaking of this, Yang Congxun gently knocked on his head with his hand: "I remember that the book said that Yang Mian, a native of Huaixi, suddenly had a strange illness when he was middle-aged, as long as he spoke, a small voice in his stomach repeated what he said." ”
It is said that Yang Mian couldn't cure this strange disease by asking for medical advice everywhere, and it dragged on for four or five years in a row, and the voice in his stomach became louder and louder.
Later, one day, a traveling Taoist priest who happened to pass by went to Yang Mian's house to ask for water to drink.
As soon as this Taoist priest saw Yang Mian, he was very sure that he had to point to his stomach and say, "You have a sound worm in your stomach, and if you don't heal it, it will bring disaster to the whole family." ”
As soon as he heard that the Taoist priest knew the origin of his strange illness, Yang Mian hurriedly asked the servant to take out a plate of scattered gold and silver and give it to the Taoist priest, begging him to heal the echo worm in his abdomen.
Who knew that the Taoist priest pushed back the plate handed by the servant with a wry smile: "It's not a secret, Poor Dao has only heard people talk about this kind of echo worm, and he doesn't know how to cure this disease, so he doesn't dare to be respected for gold and silver."
However, Poor Dao has heard people mention that this echo insect often responds to people's voices, and it is quite humane; Perhaps he could take a medical book and read the names of the medicines listed in the book one by one. The name of the medicine that this echo insect does not dare to respond to should be the antidote to restrain this worm. ”
After speaking, the Taoist priest bowed down and thanked Yang Mian for giving water to quench his thirst, flicked his sleeves, and went away like this.
Although Yang Mian felt that the method given by this Taoist priest was not very reliable, for the sake of his own life, he had to give it a try anyway.
At the end of this story, it only said that Yang Mian took a copy of "Shennong's Materia Medica", read the names of the drugs contained in it one by one, and then really found a drug that blindly responded to the insects that did not dare to respond to cure the worm disease in his abdomen.
However, the book "Yi Jianzhi" does not record the name of this medicine that restrains the sound worm, do you know what kind of drug it is? ”
"It's nature. I've heard my father say that this insect likes yin and yang, and it is best to stay in a place where yin qi gathers such as graves and earth pits to absorb yin qi. Such a yin and obscure thing should be struck with lightning speed, so the herb to restrain the echo insect is the thunder pill! ”
Listening to Hu San, this thunder pill is a kind of gray-white straw mushroom that grows on the grass pile and dead wood in the forest after a heavy thunderstorm.
"Compendium of Materia Medica" has a cloud: "Thunder pills are born in the soil, there is a foul smell, there are no seedlings and leaves and kill insects and chase away evil, which is the aftermath of bamboo, so it is called Zhu Ling, and this Ling is also." ’
"In my opinion, this echo worm should be hiding in that pottery urn to absorb the obscure evil qi on the bones in the urn, but unexpectedly, he was alarmed by Fourth Brother Yang's soak of urine full of popularity, so he followed the hole in the pottery urn and followed Fourth Brother Yang.
This echo insect is originally an evil thing full of yin energy, Fourth Brother Yang, you are possessed by this thing, and if you extinguish the yang fire of the body, you will naturally suffer from the disease of wind paralysis due to the invasion of cold and evil qi into the body.
As long as you get rid of this echo insect attached to your body in time, and wait until the yang fire of the body is prosperous, this wind paralysis will naturally be cured without medicine.
But you don't have to look for this thunder pill, Hu San, my fart is much more smelly than that thunder pill, ahhahahahaha! ”
After that, the little fox held the echo worm with one paw and his stomach with the other, and he was so happy that he rolled on the bed, leaving only Yang Congxun and Yang Si looking at each other on the side.
This is exactly what 'cease to say that the world is unfair, and right and wrong are all based on one's own self; The world does things in the sky, and urine causes trouble and fart is a doctor'.