Chapter 11 Zhu Yushu
Around Shen Shi, Bandoutoutuo invited Master Chen to come to the bedroom to lie down, leaving only the goose cage containing the monkey and Feng Sanyan as an assistant in the room, and the idle people all drove out, and asked the housekeeper Chen Qi to guard the door and not allow others to disturb.
Bandoutoutuo asked Feng Sanyan to lay an incense case near the window in the bedroom. Feng Sanyan couldn't help but wonder in his heart, and couldn't help but ask: "Master, this healing and saving people is not a practice of exorcising evil spirits and disasters, why do you still need to set up an incense altar?"
Tou Tuo smiled, and whispered mysteriously: "Master Chen's eye disease is caused by spells, and ordinary medical needles naturally can't cure it. Don't hide it from my little brother, I plan to use the long-lost magic of the witch doctor in the thirteen branches to treat Master Chen. ”
Zhu Youke, also known as Zhu Youshu, has existed since ancient times, originated from witchcraft, and was first seen in the ancient medical book "Su Wen", which is a special medical science that combines medical skills and spells. During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the Tai Hospital specially set up the Zhuyou Department, which ranked thirteenth in the medical department, commonly known as the Zhuyou Thirteenth Department. Later, because it was too mysterious and obscure, it gradually disappeared from the world, but there are still some folk remedies that can see the shadow of Zhu Yushu.
"Zhu by the Thirteen Branches? I've never heard of such a medical skill. Feng Sanyan looked dazed.
Bandoutoutuo said: "This medical skill is very wonderful, but now it has long been broken, and my ancestors have been taught some by masters, but it is only a fragment, and I have not been able to learn it all." Then he gave Feng Sanyan an analogy: "If there are children in ordinary people's families who often cry at night, they will cut red paper and write words and post them at street intersections. You've always seen this, right? ”
As soon as Bandoutoutuo said this, Feng Sanyan suddenly remembered, if there is a baby crying at night in the countryside, the old man in the family will cut out the palm-sized red paper and ask someone to write "The sky is panicking, the earth is panicking, there is a night crying man in my family." The gentleman passing by thought about it and slept until the dawn of the day. It is said that the more people who see the recitation, the faster the child's night cry will get better.
"That's Zhu Yushu?" Feng Sanyan said curiously.
"Zhu Youshu has been passed down for thousands of years, and although it is almost extinct now, some partial methods have long been integrated into the lives of ordinary people." Half Doutoutuo nodded and sighed.
Feng Sanyan naturally couldn't appreciate the wonder of Zhu Youshu for a while, and he didn't bother to think about it, only being able to cure Master Chen's eye disease was the right thing at the moment, so he didn't ask more, and just acted according to Bandoutoutuo's instructions.
After the incense table was arranged, Bandoutoutuo took out a packet of medicinal powder from the blanket on his shoulder, put it in the incense burner and lit it, and sent it to Master Chen and the monkey in the goose cage to smoke it.
Feng Sanyan took the monkey out of the goose cage and put it on the bed in the bedroom according to Bandoutoutuo's instructions, lay down side by side with Master Chen, and covered the eyes of one person and one monkey with a towel.
"I wish you magic to drive away the plague. Immortal Master Shennong and Chi Youfa drove on top to help the disciples get rid of the disease. Bandoutoutuo stood in front of the incense case, his hands knotted a strange handprint, his mouth chattered for a while, and after reading, he picked up a handful of black horns and blew it three times.
With the sound of the bull's horn, the flames of the two candles burning on the incense case suddenly rose to a high level, and Ban Doutou Tuo asked Feng Sanyan to hand over a pair of scissors, picked up a piece of yellow paper on the incense case, closed his eyes and began to cut it.
Bandoutoutuo's body was short and fat, even his fingers were short and thick, and he looked clumsy, Feng Sanyan watched him cut his scissors faster and faster, for fear that he would accidentally injure his fingers.
Not long after, Ban Dou Tou Tuo began to sweat all over, and his breathing began to be heavy, Feng Sanyan was at a loss, Ban Dou Tou Tuo closed his eyes and licked his dry lips, and said to Feng Sanyan: "Bring water, quickly!"
Feng Sanyan didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly picked up the big teapot on the bedroom table and handed it to Bandoutoutuo, who took the teapot, directly held the spout in his mouth, and drank the tea in a big gulp.
It wasn't until a pot of tea was drunk that Bandoutoutuo exhaled, and the scissors in his hand continued to fly, and it took about half a pillar of incense before he finally stopped and slowly opened his eyes.
Ban Dou Tou Tuo shook the cut yellow paper on his hand, and the shredded paper fell, Feng Sanyan saw that Half Dou Tou Tuo had been busy for a long time, and actually cut out two paper figures half a foot high. The two paper figures are delicately cut, and the image is the old man Chen and the wild monkey lying on the bed.
Toutuo did not stop, spread the paper figure on the incense table, picked up a cinnabar pen, drew a charm on the paper figure, and after painting, he used scissors to cut off the eyes of the paper man, and asked Feng Sanyan to hold the tea bowl.
"Remember, no matter how the tea bowl moves, you must hold it down, and you must not let go, otherwise it will be a failure!" Bandoutoutuo gave Feng Sanyan an instruction, his expression solemn.
Feng Sanyan was just about to agree, but the tea bowl in his hand suddenly moved, at first it was only beating slightly, and then it became more and more intense, as if something was struggling to rush out of the bowl!
Feng Sanyan gritted his teeth and used his strength to hold down the tea bowl, for fear that he would accidentally ruin Master Chen's big deal.
Ban Doutoutuo pointed to the two hands like a sword, standing in front of the incense case and pointing to the two fast-burning candles, and there were words in his mouth, which seemed to be very difficult.
Sanyan was trembling with the tea bowl all over his body, and just when his strength was almost exhausted, the candle on the incense table burned out, and two flames burst out, and the teacup under Feng Sanyan's hand immediately stopped.
Bandoutoutuo gasped, held the incense case and said, "It's done, Master Chen's eyes have changed." His broken eyes are in the teacup you clasp under your hand. ”
"Huh? Didn't touch Master Chen, and his eyes were changed as soon as he touched it? Feng Sanyan secretly didn't believe it in his heart, and opened the tea bowl that was being held.
Sure enough, there were two flesh-and-blood eyeballs in the tea bowl, staring at Feng Sanyan roundly, Feng Sanyan was startled, and almost didn't drop the tea bowl to the ground.
This pair of eyeballs has a layer of black color on the eyeballs, and the most bizarre thing is that there is a silver needle as thin as a cow's hair inserted in the pupils!
Tou Tuo walked to the bed in the bedroom and uncovered the towel covering the eyes of Master Chen and the monkey. Old Man Chen's eyes didn't see anything abnormal, and the monkey's eye sockets were low and collapsed, obviously without eyeballs.
Toutuo asked Feng Sanyan to carry the monkey back into the goose cage, and called to Master Chen a few times, Master Chen woke up slowly, and when he opened his eyelids, his eyes were bright, but the color of his eyes was gray, and he was really similar to a monkey.
"I saw it, I saw it!" Master Chen cheered for a while, blinking his eyes and cheering loudly, and the housekeeper Chen Qi broke in when he heard the sound, and he was also excited to see the old man see the light again.
The monkey in the goose cage was also awakened by the sound of a human being, and suddenly found that he had lost his eyes, and screamed in anger.