Chapter 50: The Ghost Town
The doctor pushed the door out and asked Xue Daochan in the corridor about his relationship with the patient, and they finally decided to operate on the surgery, which required the signature of the immediate family member.
"Meow." Mei Niang listened and stared at Xue Daochan eagerly, and kept waving her hand to signal him to refuse.
"Are you saying don't have surgery?" Xue Daochan lowered his head and asked.
Mei Niang nodded vigorously.
The doctor looked at Xue Daochan and the old female cat in surprise, not understanding what was wrong with the family, it seemed that there was something wrong with the spirit.
"No surgery, please continue to observe." Xue Daochan rejected the doctor's proposal, and the doctor shook his head and muttered back.
At dusk, a nurse suddenly screamed, everyone hurriedly gathered around, Xue Daochan and Mei Niang also rushed into the house, but saw that the hoarfrost on Youliang's body was rapidly fading, and the skin was no longer the original hard, it began to become soft and moisturized, and he slowly opened his eyes after not doing much
"I'm a little hungry." He opened his mouth to speak, and sat up on his own.
The medical staff looked at each other, they had never seen such a situation before, it was too unbelievable.
"Meow." Mei Niang shouted happily.
Seeing this, Mr. Xue smiled slightly and said, "Okay, I'm hungry too, let's go to Quanjude for a big meal." ”
"I can't move, and the patient still needs to be hospitalized for observation." Doctors rushed to stop it.
"No need." Xue Daochan ignored them, stretched out his hand and dragged Youliang to leave Union Hospital with Mei Niang, and took a taxi to Qianmen Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant.
This is a well-known time-honored store in the capital, the store was built a century ago in 1864, the hall is antique, and the two of them found a seat by the window to sit down. Xue Daochan ordered three roast ducks and some lotus leaf cakes and hollow sesame cakes, Mei Niang's one had no piece of meat, and the whole one was handed over to him to hold and eat.
The chef and the diners looked at the three of them with strange eyes.
Xue Daochan turned a blind eye and asked Youliang directly what was going on?
"I don't know what to say," Arira shook his head, "I've had this problem since I was a child, and every once in a while I would suddenly get chills and fall unconscious, as if I was frozen, and after a while, I would recover and be a good person." When I was a child, my father and mother once asked the old Chinese medicine doctor in the neighboring village to take a look, and no one knew what kind of disease this was. ”
"Well, no wonder," Xue Daochan nodded, "It is very likely that the meridians are different from ordinary people, and the weather field is mutated, so I have never heard of such a strange disease in the earthly world." ”
The first time I ate Peking duck, I felt that it was really fragrant, the jujube red and crispy duck skin, the meat was salty and fragrant, and the mellow aftertaste was endless.
Mei Niang squatted in the corner of the dining table to eat, biting the duck bones "rattling", and the sharp claws quickly tore off a strip of tender meat and dipped it in sweet noodle sauce before swallowing it, and by the way, she also bit a small piece of chives
The surrounding diners were dumbfounded, and even the eagle-nosed and blue-eyed Westerner couple at the adjacent table were dumbfounded.
"Youliang, now Professor She's whereabouts are unknown, I heard you say that Sun Yifeng once taught in the capital, right?" Xue Daochan asked him.
"Huaxia Qigong and Acupuncture School, I listened to the class there." Arirashi swallowed a piece of fatty duck meat and said.
"You can go to the school and ask."
"Okay, I'll go tomorrow."
That night, the two stayed in a hotel, took a hot bath and slept beautifully. The next day, after breakfast, Arira went to the Temple of Heaven alone and walked into the gate of the Huaxia Qigong and Acupuncture School.
"Youliang, are you back in class?" Sister Du was very happy to see him.
"There was something going on at home a while ago," Arira lied awkwardly, and then asked, "Is Professor Sun back now?" ”
"Alas, since the last time that old woman brought her children to make trouble, Professor Sun has not heard from him until now, even the qigong master Li Lin is gone, and it is not a way to find someone to substitute for teaching, depending on the situation, I am afraid that this school will close sooner or later." Sister Du sighed.
Youliang thought for a while and said, "Professor Sun's relative, didn't that old woman call the police?" Haven't the police found a clue yet? ”
Sister Du shook her head: "The Public Security Bureau has issued a notice to assist in the investigation, and the school has provided a photo of Professor Sun, but there has been no news, so I'll call again to ask." ”
She picked up the phone and dialed the phone of the Chongwen District Public Security Bureau, found a familiar police officer and talked a few words, and then put down the microphone and said excitedly: "They said that someone saw Professor Sun in the photo two days ago, and there was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl with him. ”
"Where are they?" Youliang hurriedly asked, thinking in his heart that the little girl must be Erya.
"Fengdu County, Fuling Region, Sichuan." Sister Du walked to the wall and pointed to the middle of the "Map of China's Administrative Regions".
"What is he doing there?" Youliang was puzzled, looking at the map, it was not far from Wushan, could it be that Sun Yifeng and Erya had never left Sichuan at all?
"It is said that the two of them are carrying bamboo baskets to buy some food and daily necessities, and the police believe that Professor Sun may live in that area."
"Oh, Zhilu said, Sister Xie Lu, Sister Xie Du, I haven't finished my family's business, and I can't come to class for the time being." Arirashi said apologetically.
Sister Du is very reasonable, and told him to finish his errands and come back to school as soon as possible, young people must always learn a skill, so that they can have a foothold in society in the future, at least to be able to support themselves.
Youliang looked at her gratefully, since the first day he came to school, Sister Du has taken good care of him, which is naturally grateful for an orphan who has lost the love of his parents since he was a child.
At this moment, in his mind, Sister Du, who was originally mediocre, suddenly became good-looking, but her bare skin and face showed a sickly yellow, like a jaundice patient.
"Sister Du, are you sick?" He asked uneasily.
"No, it's just that I've been feeling powerless lately, alas, single women, always a little lonely." Sister Du smiled, and there was a kind of hot and strange look in her eyes.
Feeling a little flustered in his conscience, he left the school with a slightly red face.
Back at the hotel, Xue Daochan was waiting for news.
"You mean Fengdu?" He was surprised.
"Yes."
"They have never left Sichuan since they came down from Wushan," Xue Daochan inferred with a deep groan, "Professor She must have gone to join them." ”
The two immediately packed up and hurried to the train station to board the express train to Chongqing.
In the car, looking at the fields and farmhouses speeding by, I had a conscience and hated to fly to Fengdu, Sun Yifeng killed Erya's adoptive father and Li Laohan, the two had a deep hatred like the sea, and her situation was too dangerous.
"What are you thinking?" Xue Daochan looked at the contemplative Youliang and asked.
"I'm worried about Erya."
"Since Professor She's devouring needle has already arrived, he still has this little girl, which means that he still needs Erya, so Sun Yifeng doesn't dare to rashly attack him." Xue Daochan comforted him.
"But what does Professor She want Erya to do?" Arara muttered.
"It's not clear yet, but I won't know until I find them."
"Mr. Xue, are you sure that you have won Professor She and Sun Yifeng? One of them is a snake demon and the other is a cat demon. Youliang asked tentatively, through this period of getting along, he felt that this person was not as vicious as the cat demon Sun Yifeng, nor as insidious and cunning as Professor She, and it seemed that his heart was not bad.
"The way of civil and military affairs lies in fighting wisdom, the ovary blows the Chu army, and Zhang Yi persuades the soldiers of the six countries, all of which are examples of winning with wisdom. In today's society, the red dust is rolling and materialism is rampant, and the peaceful coexistence of people, corpses, and demons is the right way. There are good and evil people, but isn't this true of corpses and demons? ”
"I understand, Professor She and Sun Yifeng are both bad demons, and Mei Niang is kinder than them, and she belongs to the good demons."
"Meow." Mei Niang sat next to her and nodded.
"Professor She, what if they don't listen?" Arara then asked.
"Then we have to teach them a lesson." Xue Daochan said expressionlessly.
Fengdu, also known as "Bazi Beidu", belonged to Ba County in ancient times, located on the eastern edge of the Sichuan Basin, and has a history of more than 2,000 years. According to legend, the first generation of the ghost emperor Tubo of the Bashu Qiang tribe lived here, and the tribe was called "Ghost Clan" and advocated witchcraft. Zhang Daoling of the Eastern Han Dynasty absorbed the witchcraft of the Qiang ghost clan to drive away ghosts and avoid evil, so its Heavenly Master Road is also called "Ghost Road", and Fengdu is naturally known as "Ghost Country".
The ghost city is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, with thousands of stone steps leading directly to the riverside, ancient trees on the mountain, temples and winds, and folk legends say that this is the place where the soul of a person returns after death.
There is a tour group of tour guides leading a group of elderly tourists are slowly ascending the stone steps, they are coming by river wheel, although out of breath but still listen to the tour guide in the commentary: "According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, Yin Changsheng and Wang Fangping successively cultivated on this Pingdu Mountain and became immortals, and flew away in the daytime. In the Tang Dynasty, some people mistakenly connected the surnames of 'Yin' and 'Wang' together, and became the 'Yin King', and then falsely rumored to be the 'King of the Netherworld', so Fengdu became the 'Yin Cao Difu' in the eyes of the world. After the great poet Li Bai visited this place, he left a warning quote of 'laughing at the sergeant of the world, sinking the soul of Beifengdu', which revealed the philosophy of life about life and death, coming and going. ”
"Oh, that's the case, even the great poet Li Bai has been here, this ticket is worth it." There was a lot of talking.
At this time, someone in the crowd angrily rebuked: "Soaring in the day? If everyone comes to cultivate the Tao, who will grow grain, who will weave cloth, and who will run the country, won't they all be naked and hungry? That's why Chairman Mao said, 'All erroneous thoughts, all poisonous weeds, all cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods should be criticized, and they must not be allowed to run wild.' ”
"Xianggong, you know a lot about that chairman, and this is far inferior to Shen." The young woman beside her said with affection and flattery.
Everyone's eyes looked at the pair of men and women who spoke, and wanted to refute them, but they really couldn't find fault, and they only looked at them with contempt.