Hu Zongren asked me quietly, didn't Old Man Situ say that this yin jujube has to be raised by a virgin? I said yes, what's wrong. He said that the doctor said that the person who supplied him was a woman in her forties, what did it mean? I thought about it and said, a virgin in her forties...? Hu Zongren shook his head and said, Master Yao, what kind of cases are you looking for for me to do. The words are full of unhappiness.

The doctor stood up and found a pocket, intending to put all the dates in the drawer, but I stopped him and said don't worry, let me check it first. So I scattered those yin bezoars and put them on the ground, and examined them one by one with a compass, and luckily, only a few of the more than 20 yin bezoars in this pile had the same supernatural reaction as the one we brought. And the magnitude and manner of the reaction look the same on the compass, which indicates that the origin of these dates is the same. So I just put the one we brought with me before the reactive connection and put it in a plastic bag. I asked the doctor when he was leaving, and he said don't worry, wait until I have prescribed the patient's prescription for today.

So Hu Zongren and I waited in his office, and it took about ten minutes before the doctor was done. After he took the small drawer and led us out of the office, he said to the older guy who was talking to us just now, let's leave first, remember to lock the door, from now on if someone comes to buy the bezoars, it will be said that they are out of stock, and the remaining bezoars here are no problem for the two little brothers who have checked them, but don't sell them for the time being, we can't hurt people anymore until we understand the problem of things. The guy took the drawer and said yes to the doctor, and we went out.

My car was parked in front of the pharmacy and I took the doctor's car, which also saved me a lot of time to ask for directions. On the way, the doctor told me that he had studied medicine from his ancestors, and that he had not studied medicine through the school system, and that his medical license had been obtained in an examination for folk medicine practitioners held by the state in the early years. He told us that in his father's generation, although there was no such thing as a medical license, but the doctors at that time were much more honest, and they often only charged a little fare for carriage and horses, and they were also considered famous doctors in the local area, and sometimes the patient's family was poor and had no money to give, so he sent a few eggs or invited his father to have a meal at home or something, which was considered to be a reward, and his father had always instilled in him the idea that a doctor should not only be able to heal others, but also be able to heal himself, the so-called heal himself. Just don't let praise and money buy your heart. The doctor said, hanging the pot to help the world, this idiom that has been passed down for thousands of years, is specifically about doctors, who are so poor that they can help people in the world.

I admired what the doctor said in the car, and then I asked him, why do you make such a very niche thing as a yin jujube. The doctor said, I have been open for decades, and there are many people who have died from my hands, and the so-called treatment can only treat the part I see, that is, the superficial place, and now the big hospitals have formed a business scale, and the pharmacies have been opened one after another, and the Chinese medicine decoction has gradually been replaced by those pills, although many of those pills are also Chinese medicine ingredients, but many people no longer accept this way of grasping medicine decoction, trying to save trouble, so the business is indeed not as good as a year, I have a store rent, There are families and children to raise, and the income of the guys must also be guaranteed, so I started to make yin dates. There are few materials for yin jujubes, but the profits are high, although it sounds quite disgusting, but things are indeed good things, and they are relatively rare. The doctor paused and said, these people who offered me yin dates were also old customers when my father opened the store in the early years, so I can rest assured that the things they sent, we can't do business without conscience, there is a problem with this date, if I ignore it, then it is really impossible, and Master Zu will not forgive me.

He mentioned Master Zu, which should be the clay statue of Hua Tuo that he saw in the office. There are many gods in traditional Chinese medicine, some worship Guanyin, some worship Bian Que, and some are Zhang Zhongjing, but Zhang Zhongjing is mostly worshiped by people who inherit Taoist medicine. There is a saying in the circle of traditional Chinese medicine that people with bad intentions cannot learn medicine well, so the inheritors of traditional Chinese medicine must be the same as the doctor in front of them, even if they are kidnapped by the current situation, they are also a doctor who has a bottom line in his heart and is a righteous person.

As he spoke, he came to a low house. The style of the house is very similar to the style of the 90s of the last century, there is no elevator, the floor is not high, and the corridor is full of small advertisements such as unlocking and applying for certificates. When he reached the third floor, the doctor banged on a fence-like iron gate, and inside the iron gate was a wooden door painted yellow. The doctor said that those problematic yin jujube are from this family, Hu Zongren and I stood behind him, thinking about what this forty-year-old virgin should look like, but after opening the door, I saw a woman who was a little hunchbacked, with a sad face, wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, and a lot of white hair, her hair was not long, and she pressed her hair with a headband, which looked very similar to the style of Cai Ming, the eldest sister of the idler. Hu Zongren and I looked at each other silently, and we couldn't accept this fact in our hearts. When the doctor saw this woman, he said to her directly, "Sister, I have something to do with you, and there is a problem with the dates you gave me recently."

The doctor should be older than this woman, but this woman looks much older than her actual age, so the doctor still calls her eldest sister. After entering the house, the doctor directly introduced me and Hu Zongren, saying that we were the ones who found the problem this time, and then I told Mr. Zhang and Sister Zhou about what happened at home. When she had heard this, the woman looked frightened, sighed, beckoned to us, and led us to one of the rooms. The bed in this room was covered with newspapers, and there was some dust on the table, and it seemed that no one had lived in it for a long time, but judging from some comic book characters and celebrity posters posted on the wall, this should be a girl's room, and when I scanned the room, I found that at the end of the table, there was a small vase, and there were some fake flowers in it, and behind the flowers was a portrait of a black silk cloth.

The portrait is a stupid-looking girl, who looks sixteen or seventeen years old, so Hu Zongren and I realized that the girl on the portrait is the one who made these yin dates. But since his daughter is making yin bezoars, and the doctor bought the batch of yin bezoars from this woman, does that mean that this woman instructed her daughter to make them?

The woman walked to the statue, lit incense and burned incense, and then bowed, then folded her hands, frowned sadly, and muttered in an apologetic tone, good daughter, you can go, why is it still ghostly, you can do well, don't make trouble, go where you should go... Her words, Hu Zongren and I both felt that something was wrong, this daughter died, don't care how she died, how to say such things when worshipping, as if her daughter was a burden and trouble. Hu Zongren couldn't help it first, and after the woman put the incense on, he asked her, so you asked her to make yin dates to sell?

The woman looked at Hu Zongren and nodded, and said You have also seen the conditions of our family, poor like this, the man dies early, and the eldest daughter doesn't care about her mother when she gets married again, I have no source of livelihood, I don't rely on my daughter to sell some yin dates every month, I work as a handyman, how can I support this family? I observed when I entered the house, and the family looked quite poor, but that wasn't a reason to use my daughter's body to make money. Hu Zongren said, you yourself are a woman, you let such a young child do this kind of thing, what kind of mother are you? He said a little excitedly, maybe because the girl was dead, although Hu Zongren didn't know who this girl was at all. The woman saw that Hu Zongren was angry, and she also became spicy, she raised her chin, crossed her waist with her hands, and said to Hu Zongren in a menacing manner, who are you? You came to our house to tell me about our affairs, what does it matter to you? I couldn't help it, I said to the woman, eldest sister, don't be so fierce, if it weren't for the ghost of our employer after eating your daughter's yin dates this time, we wouldn't have bothered to take care of these dirty things in your family! Do you know that your daughter is dead, but the soul is still there, and she is still on someone else's body, so that the family can't live normally now, we could have directly beaten your daughter's ghost away regardless of so much, but it was because we didn't understand the situation that we came to your house to ask you to understand, and see what your daughter's wish is gone, you are good, you yourself are so reasonable to your daughter, right?

The woman looked like a person who was always quarrelling with people and liked to sprinkle. Sure enough, as soon as I said this, she began to approach me aggressively again, scolding in her mouth, pointing to my nose and saying, what's the matter, I just like this, my own daughter, I have the final say, I give birth to her and raise her, doesn't this cost money? Does she grow up without money? When the daughter's mother shares a little of the burden of the family, what's wrong, this family also has her share, do you know? I'm afraid that a few of you outsiders are in the wrong place, and you actually came to my territory to point fingers, how old are you, and you have to take care of my family's affairs.

I also got angry all of a sudden, I said loudly, your daughter's ghost is not gone, fortunately she met us, and when she meets others, she may be scattered directly, why don't you talk about it at all, are you your own mother? The woman suddenly became irritable and said, "If your soul is gone, your soul will be gone!" Those who have died are still afraid of their souls scattered? If you have the ability, you can arrest the old lady and take it to the police station! The old lady just can't be called today!

Yizhao, in Sichuan dialect, probably means to submit to softness or yield. Hu Zongren and I are not in a good temper, we really don't have anything to say in the face of this shrew, we are used to using violence to solve problems in emergency situations in the past, but this middle-aged woman who is menopausal and unreasonable, it is true that you are not good at what to do to her, people are right, it is indeed their own business, what position do we outsiders have to intervene.

The doctor also came to persuade us, saying that both of you should calm down, and if you have anything to say and other problems, you will rush like this as soon as you come up, and the eldest sister will definitely not cooperate with you! He said it so well that I was almost moved. At this time, the woman suddenly snorted and fell on the bed, I saw Hu Zongren holding down her neck with one hand, and grabbing the woman's two hands behind her back with the other hand, Hu Zongren's left foot stepped on the ground, and his right foot kneeled on the woman's waist, pressing her firmly on the bed, Hu Zongren said to me, why are you talking so much nonsense with her, wasting saliva, quickly take away these things from the spiritual position.

So I walked to the table, put everything away on the table, and when I picked up the girl's picture, I said to the girl, "Sister, there is no way, we can only do this."