"Really?" Despite being confused, Bai Zhi almost jumped up with joy, "Words count, don't regret it." ”

Mrs. Mu looked at her with a little pity, but she quickly straightened her face and pointed to the ground where the futon was laid in front of the tablet, "Lie down." ”

I didn't ask to know the truth, isn't it just a mouthful of things, why do you want to listen in a lying position, Bai Zhi just honestly lay down according to the words, pillowing a soft futon?, lying on the ground made of bluestone slabs, the refreshing cold through the clothes, scattered on the skin, a little cold.

And Mrs. Mu turned around, carefully took out a square brocade box from the corner of the table, and opened it to incense, the same color paste as a small box of rouge cream.

She lit incense with a reverent face, and the fragrance of unknown flowers overflowed the entire ancestral hall, making people drowsy, and she used the tip of her index finger to light some colored ointment, so that Bai Zhi closed her eyes, and carefully touched her eyelids and around her eyes little by little.

Bai Zhi was just about to ask her what she was doing, it was like a sacrificial ceremony, it was weird and scary, and a strong feeling of dizziness quickly hit her nerve center, and she didn't even have time to hum, so she fell into a deep sleep.

Almost the moment she fell asleep, the murals on the wall flowed as if they came to life, and the picture became more and more realistic, and then fell off the wall, turned into colored cloth, and flew to Bai Zhi's body, wrapping her tightly, like rolling spring rolls, only opening at both ends for people to breathe.

Mrs. Mu was expressionless at this strange scene, but she grabbed her husband's tablet more and more, "The Mu family has been buried for generations, and the truth of the thousand-year-old curse has finally come to see the light of day, I hope she can wake up." ”

And Bai Zhi woke up with her head propped up and found herself in a scene that was completely inconsistent with the modern world.

The surrounding people are full of voices, wearing Song Dynasty costumes, men wearing black and white robes with cross-collars or round necks, women wearing narrow-sleeved short clothes, long skirts underneath, and a long-sleeved gown with a placket, and she stands at the gate of the town called "Hemu Town", looking in, the commercial shops are open on the street, and there are many vendors on the street, shouting loudly......

"Come after me......"

She blinked, thinking she was hallucinating, until a few little urchins with horned hairstyles chased and played and rushed straight at her, and she had no time to dodge, but could only watch as the naughty boy passed through her, like through a fog mirror, and continued to run forward.

Walk through yourself?

Stunned, she walked a few steps, raised her hand to touch the rouge box on the hawker's shop, and went straight through, and the hawker continued to shout at the women passing by on the street, as if the vendor didn't see her.

Is this your own dream, or is your soul traveling to this place?

Bai Zhi was puzzled, but suddenly remembered that she was in the ancestral hall of the Mu family, and she was drowsy from the incense lit by Mrs. Mu, so she fell asleep, and her purpose was to find out the truth after the Mu family was cursed for thousands of years.

Suddenly, she looked back at the "Hemu Town" written on the town card, is this the town where the Mu family lived thousands of years ago?

"This girl, excuse me, is the main house of the Mu family at the end of the long street?"

?? An excellent voice behind her, still pleasant and clear in the crowd around her, attracted Bai Zhi's attention, and she looked back.

It was the scholarly scholar she saw on the wall painting of the Mu family ancestral hall that was extremely bookish and gentle, and he was peerless in a moon-white robe alone.

?? The girl who was questioned by him blushed in an instant and couldn't speak, so she had to point to the end of the long street with a red neck and nodded.

The scholar thanked him very politely, and walked gracefully towards the end of the long street, and when he passed Bai Zhi, he suddenly turned his head sideways, and his graceful side face brushed the corners of her lips that she couldn't dodge.

Like a dragonfly dotting water, Bai Zhi touched the bloodstone hanging on her neck, the softness of that moment, so real, was the first time she felt in this time and space that she didn't know whether it was a dream or a time and space.

And the scholar raised his hand and wiped his side face, and looked at the place where Bai Zhi was with some confusion, where there was no one but air.

He shook his head and continued to walk towards the Mu Mansion at the end of the road.

Bai Zhi bit her lip, thought about it, and walked up to follow.

After walking for almost an hour, Bai Zhi's feet were sore, and she finally reached the end of the long street, that is, the end of the town.

It was a large area of ancient mansions, except for a little less sense of antiquity, a sense of age, and two more statues of gluttonous beasts in front of the gate, just like the Mu Mansion that Bai Zhi saw in modern times, and even the patterns engraved on the bronze door have not changed.

The scholar walked up the stone steps and knocked on the bronze door.

"Who?" Someone inside the door asked arrogantly.

"Here is Mu Ziqing, who came to borrow it," the scholar paused, "Stay in the house for a year and prepare for next year's scientific expedition." ”

"Oh, it turned out to be Mu Gongzi!" The bronze door opened, and the middle-aged man who looked like a domestic servant greeted him warmly, "The master of the house has been waiting for you for a long time." ”

As he spoke, he motioned to the little slave behind him to hurry up to the study to report to the master, and then stepped forward quickly to take the luggage in the scholar's hand.

The scholar avoided it, but he couldn't avoid it, so he took it over by the servant, thanked him, and walked with his pace to the attic in the southeast direction.

The servant was almost overjoyed, "The master has calculated that Mu Gongzi, you will come in the next few days, vacate the attic for you to live in early, order someone to clean the floor, and rebuild it, but it is magnificent!" ”

"There is really an old man Lao Mu, and I must visit his old man's house to express my gratitude."

"Don't worry, settle Mu Gongzi first, and then go to take a bath, wash away the dust and dust on your body, and it's not too late to visit."

"Well, it's still ......" the scholar paused, a little embarrassed, "I don't know what this big brother is called?" ”

"Hey, my domestic servant is not worthy of being in the eyes of a talented man like Mu Gongzi, let alone your name," he said, but his demeanor was full of flattery that he expected the scholar to remember, "You just need to remember that whatever you do in the Mu Mansion in the future, you can tell Mu Bai to do it, just do it." ”

The scholar smiled, "Then I am new to the ramp, and I am not familiar with the place, and I may have Brother Lao Bai in the future." ”

"What big brother ......"

The voice gradually faded away, Bai Zhi rubbed her eyes, and the scene in front of her changed.

Still dressed in a moon-white robe, the scholar hurried into the inner room.

As soon as he entered, the sad-faced servants and family members in the inner room unconsciously smiled, "Why is Master Mu here?" These days, I'm not studying the Confucian classics, and I can't even take care of eating. ”

"I heard that Master Mu was sick in bed, and I invited several batches of doctors, but they were not cured. I happened to have some medical skills in the next meeting, so I thought I would take a look. ”

"Mu Gongzi has a heart," the sick and haggard Mu Master Mu reluctantly got up from the bed, "It's just that the old man's disease is an old disease, it has been treated for many years, and it is still the same, it hurts for a few days every year, anyway, if you can't die, you won't bother Mu Gongzi, you should concentrate on preparing for the scientific examination." ”

The scholar just smiled lightly, and his hand was already on the pulse of Master Mu that could not be refused.

Everyone held their breath for an instant, as if whatever he said must be right.

And he twisted his eyebrows, thought for a moment, and suddenly raised his eyebrows, "There is a way." ”

As he spoke, he put a pen on rice paper, his handwriting was handsome, and he wrote down a medicine list with a strong pen, and handed it to Mu Bai behind him, "Follow this prescription and get the medicine." At that time, I will personally fry it and drink it for three months to ensure that the medicine will be cured. ”

There was a smile on everyone's face, "Then there is Lao Mu Gongzi." ”

The scholar waved his hand, "Then I'll go to the pharmacy first to familiarize myself with it, and then I can decoct the medicine for Master Mu later." ”

Master Mu nodded, rarely did not refuse, nor was he polite, just thanked him gratefully, but the smile was on the surface, it always seemed to be mixed with impurities, and it was very strange.

Bai Zhi followed the scholar to the prescription, and after seeing him decoction the medicine, he retired all the servants, took out a dagger from his long sleeve, cut a hole in his index finger, blood overflowed, and he was forced into the medicine furnace together.

The blood is extremely fragrant, as soon as it enters the medicinal diet, it is originally black and mushy, and it is difficult to enter the throat when you look at it, the color is much brighter, and it has become an excellent swallow when you smell it.

The scholar bowed his head in satisfaction, and withdrew his hand back into his sleeve, only to find that his palm was as dense as a spider web of scars.

And when she turned around, she clearly saw a pair of eyes in the crack of the door, and she also saw this scene from beginning to end, she knew that it was Mu Bai, who pretended to leave a long time ago, and was peeking.

In fact, in less than three months, Master Mu's old illness was completely cured, and his spirit was getting better and better, and even the Mu family became more and more respectful and longing for Mu Gongzi, almost as long as he said it, the stars in the sky would be taken off for him.

Of course, it also brings more scenes where the Mu family asks scholars for treatment when they are sick.

A scholar who doesn't know how to refuse, and is always soft-hearted, can't stand pleading, and always responds.

As a result, the reputation of Wenqu Xing, another miracle doctor, also spread to the entire Hemu Town, bringing more people to come for treatment.

Seeing that there were more and more scars on the scholar's hands, and the pen was no longer stable, the scars began to move upward, arms, calves, and thighs...... Up and down the body, there are scars all over the body.

And all this, in addition to Bai Zhi, also sees Mu Bai in his eyes.

That day, Bai Zhi stood in the study, watching Master Mu and Mu Bai word by word, telling the shocking conspiracy.

"You saw him pour his own blood into the medicinal diet?" Master Mu played with the black jade wrench on his thumb and asked casually.

"The villain saw it with his own eyes," Mu Bai lowered his head, unable to see his expression clearly, "The real cure is not Mu Gongzi's prescription at all, but the blood that he put out when he decocted the medicine himself." ”

"In this way, he is really the sacrifice that the Mu family has been looking for for generations."

"Of course," the old lady of the Mu family came out from behind the bookshelf, and her whole person looked cloudy and earthy under the shadow of the book, "The life chart is a rare Wenqu star that is rare in a hundred years, and it also has the divine blood of the nemesis of all diseases, and the roots and bones are the most clear and pure, who else is besides him?" ”

After a pause, "The only way to change the predicament of the Mu family in ten years and to protect the fate of the Mu family's thousand-year-old prosperity is to completely sacrifice him to the ghosts and gods." ”

Mu Bai asked, "But now, Mu Gongzi's reputation in Hemu Town is getting bigger and bigger, he is not only enthusiastic about the learning of the children of poor families, he opened a free academy to teach them homework, and he is also a miracle doctor who cures all diseases, and he doesn't charge a penny, everyone respects him as if he were an immortal, how can we make a move on him in front of everyone?" ”

"It may be difficult to save someone, but it is easy to destroy someone." Mrs. Mu sneered, took a hosta from her head, and handed it to Mu Bai, "With this hairpin, you can completely destroy his betrayal and leave his relatives, and there will be no return." ”

After Bai Zhi listened, she was cold, and as soon as she went out, she followed her memory and hurriedly found the attic where the scholar lived.

But the scholar was not at home.

She ran around again and chased to the small academy that the scholar had paid for by himself.

There is a very deep lotus pond behind the academy, the lotus leaves are fields in summer, the lotus flowers are full of ponds, the fragrance is fragrant, it is very beautiful, but in winter, the silt bushes at the bottom of the pond are deep, the pool water is cold to the bones, the pool surface is covered with a thin layer of ice, and falling into it is a pond that is killing people.

But it's obvious that she was just on the way to find it, and it's still early autumn, why is it midwinter in the blink of an eye?

The goose feathers and snow fell on the shoulders, and through the shoulders, shattered on the ground, Bai Zhi clearly heard the backyard where the book should have been loud, and it was the exclamation of the whole courtyard.