Chapter 10: The Cursed Plague
"This is the fire-breathing snake." The dragon spirit pulled out the snake and pinched its neck and presented it to the Great Wizard.
This fire snake is two meters long and weighs nearly ten pounds, but its mouth is tied, it looks half-dead, and it twists weakly.
The great wizard approached him, examined it carefully, and muttered for a long time with a solemn expression, then suddenly got up, walked to the corner of the house, opened a rattan box, and rummaged through a pile of stone and bone fragments.
These bone fragments are the 'documents' of the indigenous people to record important information, passed down from generation to generation, and the human history carried on them may go back thousands or even tens of thousands of years, which is a very, very precious thing.
The great wizard looked for a while, and finally came to the fire with a palm-sized stone shard, and looked at it over and over again.
The dragon spirit knew the preciousness of this stone tablet, and couldn't help but focus his eyes on it.
It is a grayish-green shale with a small amount of iron, and a clumsy figure painted with red pigment on it. It looks like an 'S' shape that has fallen asleep, with a few small forks, and the outline looks like the silhouette of a bird with its wings outstretched.
"Sure enough, it's it!" The Great Wizard looked at it for a while, smiled, put the stone tablet close to the fire snake and said, "Come and see if the pattern on this snake's neck is the same as the one on the stone." ”
The dragon spirit looked at the neck of the fire snake, and there really was a similar figure, although it was not exactly the same, but it was basically the same, and he was surprised: "There are still records of this kind of snake in the clan?" ”
The Great Wizard nodded and smiled: "The records I keep here are all very important things, and being able to find the record of this snake shows that it is not simple." ”
"Witch Crow, you seem to have said you were going to hand over these records to me." Cang Jizi looked at the stone fragment in the great wizard's hand and interjected. He was lazy, but he loved what he was writing.
The Great Wizard twitched his cheeks a few times, clenched the stone chips, and said with a smile: "When you are sensible, I will gradually hand it over to you." ”
"Don't interrupt!" He glared at Cang Jizi, looked at the symbol on the back of the stone and continued to explain: "This snake is called the Winged Fire Snake, its color is blue and white, and it lives in the country of fire. There are no wings to fly, the lips and teeth are on fire, the sound is like a baby's cry, and the food can be ......"
"Ahem, you don't need to know that." The great wizard avoided talking about the food effect, and continued to read: "Its fire and yang are prosperous, and the yin ghosts are afraid of it, which is the genus of Vermilion Birds. ”
"Well, now it can be determined that it is the winged fire snake of the Southern Palm Fire God Bird, the Vermilion Bird." The Great Wizard put away the stone flakes and said.
The winged fire snake is the name of a star, and the dragon spirit naturally knows it, but he didn't expect that such a strange creature really existed on the earth.
He thought about it again: "Vermilion Bird should be Vermilion Bird, one of the legendary four divine beasts, but I don't know if it also exists." ”
"Wu Crow Gong, why did the genus of the Divine Bird appear in my Hidden Dragon Valley?" Cang Jizi asked in a rare and serious way.
"I don't know."
"What is the sign of the winged fire snake coming out?"
The Great Wizard did not answer, but asked, "You are a prophet, what do you say?" ”
Cang Jizi put his hands on the ground and said nervously: "Fire is an auspicious thing, so it should be, it should be, it should be...... Good signs! ”
The Great Wizard shook his head when he heard this, sighed and waved his hand: "Forget it, your skills are low, so I won't embarrass you." ”
"Whether it is auspicious or evil cannot be predicted for a while, but I have to ask the gods before I dare to conclude that after you go out, if anyone asks, say that it is a good omen, so that the hearts of the people will not be disturbed."
The two nodded yes, and he said to the dragon spirit again: "The winged fire snake is a god, I don't dare to accept it, you take it, you must treat it well." There is also the matter of matching, I will change my words so that everyone will no longer pester you. ”
"Okay." The dragon spirit was trying to study it, and put the winged fire snake back into the burlap bag.
"You are all not lightly wounded, and I will treat you for your wounds."
After the Great Wizard had finished speaking, he went out into the courtyard and walked in with a few sticks of grass and a large piece of bark. He scooped up a scoop of water and washed it away, found a few materials in the house, put them on the side, and asked, "Which of you will come first?" ”
The dragon spirit bowed his head to Cangjizi and said, "Yutai Prophet, you are delicate and expensive, please first." ”
"Hmph." The noble-blooded, gray-faced Yutai Prophet glanced at the dragon spirit haughtily, pouting his ass and lying on the ground for the Great Wizard to inspect the injury.
"Dragon Spirit, you go and pound the medicine." The Grand Wizard handed over the medicinal herbs to the dragon spirit.
"Okay." The dragon spirit took a look and recognized a few of them, fresh andrographis, dandelion and sour berry grass, dried camphor leaves and dried notoginseng roots, all of which are herbs that reduce swelling and detoxify.
The others were unknown, and there were a few oddities: a small red clod of dirt and carapace, a dried caterpillar and eggs from an unknown animal. What is the use of these things, the dragon spirit does not understand at all.
He didn't think much about it, and as instructed, he put a bunch of medicinal herbs into the stone mortar and pounded it.
The great wizard checked Cang Jizi's burns and said, "It's okay, it's just that a layer of oily skin has been burned, and a few times of medicine can be fine." ”
He first washed the wound with water, then applied the medicinal paste pounded by the dragon essence to the back of Cangjizi's neck and buttocks, and finally peeled off a thin layer of tender skin from the inside of the bark and stuck it to the wound like plastic wrap.
The dragon spirit looked at his skillful technique and sighed in his heart.
The old man in front of him was very skilled in medicine, especially in the use of herbs. Long Jing often sees him treating people's diseases, regardless of internal and external diseases, using his herbs, most of them are very effective.
Although his medical skills are mixed with a large number of superstitions about ghosts and gods, which are far worse than those of Chinese medicine in the future, they are already very valuable in this era of ignorance. And these means of saving human life are the experience that countless generations of Chinese ancestors have tried with their lives.
"Shhh Cang Jizi shrunk her shoulders and kept moaning.
"Haha." The dragon spirit couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw that the short skirt behind his ass was burned out, revealing two red buttocks, like a big horse monkey.
When he was laughing, he suddenly remembered that his ass was also on fire, so he quickly reached out and touched it, and sure enough, it was also naked. He took advantage of the great wizard's inattention, and quietly took off a piece of animal skin from the wall and wrapped it around his waist to cover his ugliness.
The two of them applied the medicine, and the dragon spirit couldn't stand it in the house, so he was about to leave.
"It's not over yet." The great wizard wiped the medicine paste on his belly, picked up the bone staff and said, "Medicine alone is not enough, the plague is rampant in the jungle, and if you are not careful, you will be invaded by it, causing the wound to pus and fester, and you will die of high fever." Wait until I use a ghost-repelling spell on you before I leave. ”
"What a plague ghost, isn't it just inflammation and infection."
The dragon spirit slandered, did not refuse the kindness of others, and sat side by side with Cang Jizi, and the great wizard began to dance around the two of them.
"Ahh Alas, alas! Woohoo! Woohoo, woohoo!"
Surprisingly, he sang very rhythmically, and the spell tune actually had a rap feel like it, and it sounded very smooth and catchy.
"Woohoohoo! The body was slaughtered, and the enemy came to desecrate. The second husband was sore, and his blood did not dry up. The plague ghost eats and does not get rid of it. Two wounded husbands are stubborn, and one plague ghost has no love. Whew......"
The chanting of the great wizard was high-pitched and sharp, melodious and frustrating, and the whistle trembled, moving the heart. The dragon spirit had never heard such a magical tone, and his soul resonated with it, and he was fascinated by it.
"Woohoo...... Ahem, ahem! As he listened, a violent cough interrupted the chanting of the incantation, and the archwizard fell to the ground and coughed violently against his chest.
"Witch Raven, what's wrong with you?" Cang Jizi reacted first, jumped up to support him, and shouted with concern.
The dragon spirit also woke up from his trance, and hurriedly went over to pat him on the back: "Great wizard, don't be too tired, be careful of your body." ”
The Great Wizard breathed a sigh and sighed, "It seems that this old bone is no longer good, and it can't even complete a ghost avoidance spell. ”
Cang Jizi cried: "Wu Crow Gong, our injuries are not serious, you can just use the small spells that usually treat people, and you don't need to cast this kind of laborious big spell for us." ”
"You two are no more than ordinary people, and you must not afford to lose."
The Great Wizard was a little frustrated: "Originally, I had to cast a spell sixteen times, and the curse was complete only when I cursed all the plague ghosts in the southeast, northwest, green, yellow, black and red, but I only cursed twice, and I hope that the plague ghosts who have not been cursed will not find you." ”
Although the dragon spirit didn't think so, he was also moved, and said with a smile: "It's completely enough." The two of us are blessed by the gods, and even if we don't use spells, the plague ghosts don't dare to come to the door. ”
"Yes." The Great Wizard closed his eyes, waved his hand weakly, and said, "I want to rest for a while, you can go." ”
The two of them stood up, bowed to the thin old man, and quietly walked out the door.