Chapter 11: Strange Living Wood
There is a corner alley in the ancient town of Liulidi, and there are two ancient pines at the mouth of the alley, which can be regarded as a witness to the development of the ancient town. It is even rumored that this is the manifestation of the tentacles of the centipede great sage......
Two ancient pines in the town, a feng shui bridge, but have become a place for people to pray to God and worship Buddha, the traces of incense paper are clearly visible, after all, there is still a concept in everyone's consciousness "long in the essence", the willow tree by the bridge that has been burned many times by the fire may be such a thing.
The wrinkled bark, the scar is clearly visible, some are naturally falling, some are famine years, the common people go to deliberately rip off to satisfy hunger, but also the witness and victim of the bitter history of the ancient town, fortunately, the ancient pine is neat, tenacious survived.
The ancient pine is evergreen in all seasons, and the branches are like dragons, which is the so-called green frog old pine. In the middle of summer, there are many green worms on the trunk of the tree, and the strangers who drove the rivers and lakes in the early years will come here to catch the green worms. Frogs are a good thing, people eat them, they can make up for the middle, beauty, and there is a saying that frogs pay back.
Later, when the worms were gone, the people scattered, leaving two frog pine trees standing alone. Occasionally a few people, otherwise more often it will become a paradise for dogs, a foot on the tree, but this is fine, maybe the ancient pine can grow so tenaciously over the years, and the nutrients provided by dogs, cats and cats are still related.
Many years ago, this tree was a treasure in the eyes of the woodcutters, and the frogs laid eggs and attached to the leaves and called: Wing Mo, which is a miracle medicine. There is a faction of thieves in the outer eight gates, and there is a sheep under the thief door, and this is how the sheep came about. Wing Mo is even more rare in the eyes of the people who lead the sheep and pick up treasures, and it is said that it can be matched with Dadan.
If the frogworm lays eggs on the trunk of a tree, that is extremely rare, and the woodcutter will not encounter it once in his life. The part of the tree that has been attached is called wing boil, and the wood will be harder, and the tree will die, but the wing will not die, and it will become a living wood. In the woodcutter, this wood can be used to make plums, which are not eaten but a tool, and in the old days, carpenters paid a lot of money to buy plums.
If Zixia Zhenjun is still alive, the winged boil is a treasure that will never be let go, and now the bear blind man is bent on curing the disease, and he knows in his heart that the green worm old pine has winged boils, but he is unwilling to move it.
As the saying goes: the doctor must be guarded, and the phase must be gone.
Physiognomy can be fake, but medical skills can't run away!
The Huangquan Pharmacy is just behind the frog pine. On weekdays, there are not many passers-by in the alley, and the people who enter the alley are either residents, or looking for the old pine, looking for the bear blind man to see the sick number, which is in line with the old saying: real gold is not afraid of red furnace fire, and the fragrance of wine is not afraid of deep alleys. What is blood sweat, bleeding from the mouth......
Even in the blind bear's medical work, the most bizarre thing is his "stretching legs and staring pills", which is simply the mud pill on his body. One time I went out, and I met a child who was seriously ill, so I invited Langzhong, but it was not good, and the blind bear passed by and followed the child's crying: "I can cure this disease!" ”
When I entered the house, I was not in a hurry: "The old man is a little tired from walking today, give me some foot washing water first!" When the master heard this, he was unwilling, but the reputation of the blind bear was not fake, and the master did as he said. But he still looked determined.
After more than ten minutes, my feet were washed, and there was another problem: "It's a little cold, take a fire!" "The owner is patient, otherwise if it were someone else's house, the blind bear would have been kicked out at the moment. Let's go! More than ten minutes passed, and the blind bear sighed: "It's done!" "Take out a tan pill from your hand" and give it to the child, cover it with a thick quilt and sleep, and take care of it! ”
Now the master was suspicious and gave the pill to the child, and after a while, the child was sweating, and the high fever subsided, and the owner called a passion: "Thank you to the old gentleman, thank you to the old fairy!" All in all, all the compliments were spoken!
"Old man, what kind of medicine are you!"
The blind bear smiled: "The mud pill on the leg!" ”
In the era of ignorance, the host even felt that this bear blind man was a master: "Can the old gentleman give a few more grains, and spare them in the future, the price is easy to say!" ”
The blind bear smiled: "What kind of panacea is this, you have it yourself!" Of course, the blind bear didn't make it clear to them, this was his secret technique for eating, and told others what to do with himself. This is a typical master in ancient society who always has to keep a hand, worried that the apprentice will be full-fledged in the future and rise up to rebel, which also causes this master to keep one hand, that master to keep one hand, and now there is no one left!
In fact, the blind bear didn't have any secret tricks, and thought to himself: This child is nothing more than being drawn by the water, getting cold, rubbing a mud pill from his leg, baking it by the fire, absorbing the heat, the mud pill into the body encounters cold, cold and heat are overcome, this is not the end. This is a simple pharmacological knowledge, but how can ordinary people know!
The sky was bright, the chickens were crowing and the dogs were barking, and the sky was just red.
Xiong Xiaoyun opened the door of the shop, holding the bamboo pole, and was about to hang the medicine fan of the "Huangquan Medicine Hall" on the pine tree, when he saw Tang Mu and Li Xiaochun from a distance and turned in from the mouth of the alley, and immediately leaned the bamboo pole against the door of the store, smirked and waved his hand, one tiger tooth contains frost and dew, and two dimples bloom in the wind, there is a kind of indescribable and inexplicable beauty.
There are many things in the world that are surprising. The blind bear's face is like a clam skin, short and ugly, I didn't expect the only daughter, but the eyebrows are clear, slim, and a pair of breasts Although they are not so proud, they are still extremely attractive, as for the feel, it is unknown - such a stark contrast between father and daughter makes people have to believe in such statements as karma.
Xiong Xiaoyun Zhang Luo and the two of them entered the house, forgot to hang the medicine flag, and took out the hawthorn medicinal candy and invited the two to taste it.
Tang Mu shook his head and waved his hand, urging her to call the bear blind, saying that she had an urgent illness to see. Li Xiaochun next to him saw Xiong Xiaoyun, rolled his eyes, sulked in one stomach, swallowed three pieces of medicinal candy in one mouthful, grabbed two lumps in his hand, bared his front teeth and said: "It's sour, it's unpalatable!" ”
provoked Xiong Xiaoyun's face to be pink, so he had to say: "It's not for you to eat, don't eat it if it's unpalatable!" Choke you! With a flick of his sleeves, he turned around and went to the backyard to call his father bear blind.
Tang Mu turned his head to see Xiong Xiaoyun open the door curtain and walked away fiercely, the figure of her taking a bath in the spring river came to mind, where to warp and where to concave, which side to protrude and which side to fall, grapes and big peaches, Tang Mu could see it clearly, and couldn't help but laugh.
Li Xiaochun was puzzled and asked Tang Mu what he was laughing at, Tang Mu shook his head and said nothing, laughing more and more cheaply, as if he was stunned.
The 100,000 blind bears look down on the scattered people in the rivers and lakes who are full of horses, flamboyant tongues, peddling spring recipes, and selling power pills, Tang Mu occupies all of these, and often peeps at his daughters to wash, which is really annoying. When he heard that it was Tang Mu who came to the door, he fell with a pockmarked face, similar to a dead man who was about to be buried: "No, no, no!" ”
This hasn't passed the door yet, just towards Tang Mu.
However, Xiong Xiaoyun grabbed his ears, the blind bear couldn't, he didn't care about brushing his teeth and washing his face, and he went into the pharmacy with his face full of feces, he saw Tang Mu and Daya with red faces, knowing that they were coming in the morning, and they knew that there must be something important, and the personal grievances of the past were temporarily put aside.
The blind bear glanced at the two of them, and after many years of medical practice, he was able to judge the physical condition of people from their faces and breathing.
Nonsense aside, the bear blind man was unequivocal, personally started, lightly picked the black cat birth door, the black cat immediately reacted, the cat's mouth was wide open, the tongue stretched straight, and spit out a breath of smoke. This kind of qi is called "mourning qi" in metaphysics, which is similar to the tears of the earth dog, indicating that the owner is going to be changed, which is quite an unfortunate thing. However, the black cat can suppress the ominous, and the "mourning qi" that comes out of the black cat's mouth is much more terrible than the tears of the earth dog.
"It's broken! Broken! ”
When the blind bear saw that the black cat did not move, he was shocked, and screamed strangely, telling Xiong Xiaoyun to quickly bring the gossip mirror, and then the sun that had just risen at the door, refracted the sunlight to the black cat's womb.
Seeing such an operation, the two juniors were dumbfounded and admired, this old guy still has such a means!
At this sight, the blind bear trembled all over his body and sighed: "The black cat is a stillborn baby in its belly, and it is not a cat boy at all!" ”
Li Xiaochun saw that the blind bear's face changed, and asked him what was wrong? Life is a man, a mouse is a mouse, what else can a cat be in the fetus if it is not a cat?
The blind bear shook his head, lay on the ground, put his nose on the cat and sniffed it for a long time, and said, "Inside this cat's womb, it looks like another piece of wood!" ”
Tang Mu gasped, isn't this: "Don't target us, talk well, I've heard of raw stones, but this wood is ......"
Li Xiaochun explained the origin of the black cat to the blind bear, and the blind bear pondered for a moment, remembering a pile of tattered books left by his master Zixia Zhenjun many years ago.
At that time, there were no mothballs, and decades later, the books were even more tattered, the content of the transcription was blurred, and there were subtle insect eyes. The blind bear blew the dust, and there was a book in it, with four thin gold ancient characters written on the cover: "Qiao Shu Gu Theory".
After opening and reading "The Theory of Woodcutting Gu for a while", the blind bear glanced at Li Xiaochun twice, his eyebrows were knotted, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Tang Mu and Li Xiaochun didn't know what was going on, Xiong Xiaoyun asked, "Daddy, what's wrong?" Can you save it? ”
The blind bear closed the ancient book, hurriedly asked Xiong Xiaoyun to fetch a shovel, and led everyone to trot all the way to Li Xiaochun's ancestral house: three dilapidated houses that had fallen into disrepair.
"The black cat dystocia has something to do with my house?" Li Xiaochun was puzzled.
The blind bear did not answer, and asked Li Xiaochun to dig a hole under the threshold of the hall with a shovel. At the threshold, there are often people who go in and out, and the land is cast iron, which is very difficult to dig.
The hole was dug five feet deep, and a palm-sized piece of wood was exposed in the mud. The wood is boxy, and the eight sides are engraved with strange characters twisted and twisted like earthworms, and at a glance, it is clear that it is artificially buried under the threshold.
"It's better to find me, otherwise you won't survive this year's frost!" The blind bear said to Li Xiaochun, scared Li Xiaochun into goosebumps, and begged the blind bear to give him a life-saving strategy.
Xiong Blind has a good reputation and high medical skills, so he comforted Li Xiaochun not to panic first.
Several people passed the wooden block, but they couldn't say why, and finally passed the wooden block to the blind bear. Li Xiaochun was holding the black cat, he had never seen such a wooden block, he felt like a cursed thing, and he was scared to look at.
The blind bear stroked his white beard, pointed to the black cat, and said, "There is a piece of wood of this size in the cat's womb!" This wood is alive, and it is called the gall wood of the ridge! ”