Chapter 53: A Strange Case – Standing Chopsticks

The master sat next to me and didn't speak for a long time, I also looked at the emergency room, and my heart was very worried, suddenly, the master approached me and said softly: "Boy, no, do you see anything?"

I turned my head to look at the master suspiciously, but I heard the master say, "If you think about it, I always feel that something is wrong."

After listening to the master's words, I gradually frowned, thinking about everything just now, even what the man said, after a while, I slapped my thigh and hurriedly whispered to the master: "I know, master".

The master also looked at me, and we got the same answer from each other's eyes, and the master nodded and said, "I'll go in and have a look later, and I can help if I can."

I nodded, and after I don't know how long, the door of the emergency room was finally pushed open, only to see a doctor walk out, take off the mask and ask, "Which of you is a family member?"

The man and the woman hurried over and said, "I am the father and mother of the child, how is my son, doctor?"

The man wiped the sweat from his forehead, and the doctor said at this time: "I have checked, your son did not show any symptoms, all the data are normal, at first we suspected polio, but in the end it was not so, and he had to stay in the hospital for a few days for observation."

After hearing this, the man suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Is it true, is my son okay?"

"We've all checked, your son is really fine, don't worry, you can go in and have a look."

After saying that, the doctor passed through the two and walked forward, the couple glanced at each other and hurriedly walked in, the master also glanced at me, I nodded, and followed the couple.

As soon as the woman entered, she ran to the side of the bed, touched her son's face, and said, "Elementary school, my elementary school, you scared me and your father to death, woo."

The woman said at the end, sobbing a little, but I saw that the woman's face was shocked again, and she panicked and said: "No, why is it still so cold, didn't the doctor say it's okay, Lao Zhou, go and call the doctor over, go quickly."

The woman hurriedly pushed the man surnamed Zhou, and the man's heart was pinched again, and he was about to turn around and run towards the outside of the ward, but the master stood next to me and stopped him, and the man was stunned for a moment, and said, "Benefactor, what are you doing, what's wrong?"

The master shook his head, pointed to the child on the hospital bed and said, "Your son's disease cannot be saved by normal medicine."

Maybe the woman was too anxious, and when she heard the master say this, she scolded directly: "What the hell are you talking about, why can't my son be saved, Lao Zhou, leave them alone, hurry up and call the doctor, hurry up!"

The woman was really anxious, the expression on her face was desperate and panicked, she stood up and pushed the man out with her hands, but the master said again: "You should calm down first, your son's illness cannot be saved by normal medicine."

"Can't be saved? Benefactor, you sent us to the hospital, I thank you, I kneel for you, but why do you say that my son's illness cannot be saved, what do you mean". The man surnamed Zhou spoke.

The master sighed, but heard the woman shouting: "Old Zhou, leave them alone, go and call the doctor, if my son has three long and two short, I will not live."

Lao Zhou nodded hurriedly, turned around and rushed out of the ward, but the master's movements were faster than him, and he flashed to the door of the ward, closed the ward, and said: "I have a way to save your son, if you believe me, let me try, if you can't believe it, your son will die if he drags it on, you decide for yourself."

After speaking, the master looked at Lao Zhou, let go of a way, Lao Zhou was stunned directly, the woman sat on the ground with a dead face, the master stood aside and waited for Lao Zhou's answer, after a while, Lao Zhou held the mentality of trying, looked at the master with suspicious eyes and said: "You... Can you save my son? Are you also a doctor".

The master shook his head and said: "I am not a regular doctor, but I am also a doctor specializing in this condition, your son has been dragging on like this for a long time, and it is only you who regret it, if you really want to try, just listen to me."

The master patted Lao Zhou's shoulder and comforted his heart, Lao Zhou was silent again, frowning tightly, looking at his son and his daughter-in-law, thinking that his son had been delayed for so long, and the doctor could not find out the cause, and it was estimated that something would happen to his son if he dragged it down, and after a while, Lao Zhou seemed to have made up his mind and said: "If you can really save my son, I will repay you as a cow and a horse, and my family has no money, just this son is our hope, if he has something, Lan Fang and I really don't know how to live anymore, can you really save my son, can you really do it."

Lao Zhou said in the end, took the master's hand and shook it, the master patted his arm, nodded and said, "Don't worry, you just listen to me."

"Good, good, benefactor, what do you want me to do". Lao Zhou hurriedly said.

The master thought for a while, and then said: "In this way, you immediately go out to buy a bag of rice, to be raw, in a pot of water, if you can, it is best to have well water, as well as a pair of chopsticks and two ceramic bowls, in the purchase of three sticks of incense and a few pieces of yellow paper, that's all."

After the master finished speaking, Lao Zhou was directly stunned, which is the tool needed to see a doctor, but seeing that Lao Zhou is also from a rural area, after hearing these things, he only hesitated for a while, but he still nodded and rushed out of the ward.

The master stepped aside, opened all the windows a little slit, dimmed the lights a little, closed the bathroom door, and then said to the woman, "Don't cry, your son will be fine, believe me."

But this woman named Lan Fang ignored the master, sat on the side and cried incessantly, the master and I sat on the side, looking at the child on the hospital bed, I opened my mouth and asked, "Master, what are you going to do here."

The master looked at me and said softly: "This is called standing chopsticks, also called watching the water bowl, is a kind of folk common exorcism, if someone is inexplicably sick, the medicine is ineffective, according to folk customs, this person is a ghost."

I nodded, and then asked, "Hey, master, aren't we engaged in this business, wouldn't it be good to use your skills to directly defeat the ghosts."

The master patted my head and said: "You kid, tell you to remember, have you forgotten again, you look at this child, his hands and feet are cold, his face is dull, obviously he is entangled by ghosts, and it is estimated that this posture has been for several days, it should be completely changed like this today, if you forcibly exorcise ghosts, although this child can survive, but after it is good, it will also become a fool or IQ to stay in the present, I also thought about using other methods, but it doesn't work, the best is to use this local method."

I nodded, touched the back of my head and said, "Oh, I see, do you know what the hell is haunting?"

"Huh? This, in general, in this case, it is a dead relative or a relative, and the reason for pestering the child is nothing more than to ask for a little ghost coin, that is, the dark paper and some tribute sacrifices, and wait for Lao Zhou to come back and get it."

The master spoke.

I said that my life is good, after a while, Lao Zhou finally ran back with a big bag of things, the master stood up, took the bag from Lao Zhou's hand, opened it and glanced inside, but heard Lao Zhou say: "Benefactor, you have bought all the things you want, but I really can't get the well water you want, I can only buy a bottle of mineral water, you see if it's okay."

Lao Zhou wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, the master took out everything, handed it to me, and said: "It's okay, you take your daughter-in-law to sit in the back first, keep the door tight, don't let anyone else in, you can watch here or go out to guard, by the way, what is your son's name."

"Oh, benefactor, my son's name is Zhou Shengxue." Lao Zhou said.

The master nodded, walked to the bedside table, lifted the bedside table, put it in front of the bed, and took various tools such as ceramic bowls and chopsticks from my hand and placed them on the table.

"Old Zhou, can they really do it?" The woman said with a sob.

Lao Zhou hugged the woman's shoulders and said, "Try it, didn't the old people in the village also like to use some local methods before, don't worry about it first, maybe it's really useful."

In fact, when Lao Zhou said this, he didn't have any confidence in his heart, so he could only try it as a dead horse doctor, and the master did not disappoint them, put the two ceramic bowls in the middle, poured two bowls of mineral water, and threw off the three incense sticks, and the three incense sticks were directly ignited, and the master found a gap, inserted it at the end of the hospital bed, grabbed a handful of rice from his pocket, and threw it into another water bowl.

After these things were finished, the master picked up the chopsticks from the table, held them with both hands, put the chopsticks into the water vertically, and said: "The road to block the king, the bridge to hit the king, no matter what kind of cause of death you are, I had no intention of colliding, don't be surprised, since you have found Zhou Shengxue, I will offer you a little water and rice, let Zhou Shengxue go."

After speaking, the master slowly removed his hand, and what shocked me was that the pair of chopsticks actually stood upright in the water bowl, without the slightest sign of falling, and the husband and wife standing behind were also stunned.

The master beckoned and called the husband and wife over, but the woman was too scared to come up, so Lao Zhou had to walk in front of us alone, and the master whispered to him: "Have you died in the three generations or have you filled in new graves in recent years?"

Lao Zhou thought for a while and said to his master: "Yes, my eldest brother fell to his death while working on a construction site a few years ago, my grandfather died, and my aunt's son, who fell into the river across the bridge a long time ago, was washed away by the flood and drowned, what's wrong benefactor."