Chapter VIII. [Case 2] Touching melons along the vine

Red dates, I think everyone has eaten them, and I can't resist the taste of red dates. Jujube itself has the effect of nourishing the stomach and spleen, nourishing qi and nourishing blood, every time I went out to donate blood, after donating blood, Sister Cai would always let me eat more jujube when I got home. It was originally a good fruit and a good medicinal herb, but at this moment, under Mr. Zhang's actions, it seemed so weird.

I quietly asked Hu Zongren if there was something wrong with this jujube. Hu Zongren frowned and said to me, this shouldn't be, we have all seen many examples of possession, but what kind of ghost would be stupid enough to possess a jujube, this is really something I have never heard of. I really can't figure it out, but when I saw Mr. Zhang leaning sideways against the railing, that comfortable and complacent appearance, I always felt that this man's abnormal behavior was mostly closely related to the red dates he was chewing in his mouth.

Earlier, when I was inspecting the herbs, I noticed that the number of other herbs was quite large. But there are very few dates, and in the plastic bag, there is also a thin layer of paper, there are some greasy things on the paper, and the red dates are easy to oil, presumably the paper is specially used to absorb oil, just like the layer of paper wrapped outside the old moon cakes. I pulled out the toilet paper in my nose, the nosebleed was gone, and then I walked up to Sister Zhou and said to her, can you think of a way to take your husband off the balcony first, I want to carefully check this pile of medicinal herbs here. Then I turned to Hu Zongren and said, when I inspected the house just now, who would have thought that there might be some problems with these medicinal materials?

Sister Zhou nodded, then walked up to Mr. Zhang, reached out and stroked Mr. Zhang's back, as if she was brushing the mane of a horse, and then leaned into Mr. Zhang's ear and whispered something. Mr. Zhang first twisted and shook his waist, then made that reluctant "um~" sound, then sucked his fingers, and then took Sister Zhou's wrist and entered the house. When Sister Zhou passed by us, she made a lip shape for us, and that lip shape meant, you guys hurry up.

When they were blocked by the walls of the corridor, I quickly took out the compass and drew a knotted rope array on the ground, taking down all the herbs and putting them in the area, including the pile of red dates. I began to use the compass to play back and forth, and the actual result was that those large bags of medicinal materials were actually not people and problems, it was normal, but the package of dried red dates, there was a relatively strong supernatural reaction, not only that, I picked up one of the red dates, couldn't help but eat it without opening my mouth, and smelled a fishy smell mixed with jujube fragrance in my nose.

This fishy smell is different from the ghost smell I have smelled before, this one is more like the smell of sewers or stinky gutters, but it is clear that this smell can never belong to the dried red dates themselves, which means that this bag of red dates is the main reason for the great change in Mr. Zhang's personality. But I carefully took out each grain and compared it individually, because the quantity was not very large, and the dates were easier to take one by one. The same thing is that each jujube has the same or similar fishy smell, but there are a few of them that have a supernatural reaction, and this reaction is not weak.

When I was wondering, Sister Zhou walked out of it. So I asked Sister Zhou, does your husband have to eat red dates every day? Sister Zhou said yes, since he brought these medicinal herbs home, he has been eating them almost every day. I said there weren't many left, did that mean he ate fiercely? Because as far as I know, although red dates are good, they can't be greedy. Eating too much can easily cause flatulence and raise blood sugar, so everything must be done in moderation. Sister Zhou told me that she didn't eat much, and every time she ate, she would choose to eat, instead of grabbing it and eating it.

So I understood that Sister Zhou's so-called selection was actually choosing to eat those red dates that were stained with supernatural reactions. So I took out all the red dates that had reactions, took out the remaining herbs and red dates and put them out of the scope of the dress, and let the dressing only close those abnormal red dates, and carefully identify them, from the appearance, they are plopping dates, but from the color of the skin, there are some slight differences. Some are darker in color, while others are much lighter. I stretched out my hand and pinched the dates, and found that these dates were different from other dates, softer, but not the kind of shriveled softness, but bulging and swollen, as if something was filling inside. And these dates don't have a date pit.

I gently peeled off one of the bezoars to form a small opening, and I actually wanted to make sure that there were no pits in the bezoars, because some of them were very small. But after peeling it off, I found that the jujube meat, which was supposed to be white or pale yellow, was bright red, like the color of blood.

I have traveled all my life from south to north, and I have read countless dates, with more water and less water, and from Xinjiang dates to Fujian dates, I have tasted them. But at least in my own impression, I have never seen the jujube flesh as blood-red jujubes. So I started to use my mobile phone to check the Internet to see if there were any special varieties like this, and by the way, to see if its efficacy would cause overflow caused by excess qi and blood, so that the ghost could take advantage of the possibility of loopholes. But after a long time of investigation, there is still no result. Hu Zongren proposed, why don't we ask Master Situ, he is well-informed, maybe he knows what this thing is.

I thought to myself, although things are not very dangerous now, but after all, I lack knowledge, so why don't I ask knowledgeable people. So I called Situ and told him the general situation of the matter, mentioning this strange red date in passing. Situ also felt a little strange when he heard this, so he asked me to take a picture of him and send it to him by MMS. To my surprise, Mr. Situ even knew such things as MMS. So after hanging up the phone, I took a picture of Situ.

After a while, when I was still thinking hard about talking nonsense with Hu Zongren without saying a word by the way, Situ called back. I asked him, have you figured out what kind of jujube this is, does it cause qi deficiency and ghosts? Situ said, well... It's just not, this kind of jujube is a big supplement. I said it shouldn't be, haven't you ever seen a ghost attached to some water ghost before? Situ said, to be precise, this jujube is not a so-called "variety", you may see dried jujubes, but it itself is actually ordinary dried red jujubes, which have become like this after special treatment. I asked Situ what kind of special treatment. Situ hesitated and said, well... Well... This jujube is a yin jujube.

Yin jujube? What kind of date is that? So I asked Master Situ, is it like yin rice, soaked in water and dried in the shade? Because I like to eat yin rice, there are not many places to sell yin rice in Chongqing, every time I am hungry, I will drive a long time to the old street of Longxing to buy a lot of them and come back to eat slowly. Situ said to me on the phone, do you smell and see if those dates smell fishy? So I picked it up again and put it to my nose and smelled it vigorously, and it still smelled of the stinky ditch, the kind of foul that had accumulated water stains in the ditch and had not dried for many years. So I said to Situ, yes, how can you eat it if it stinks. Situ said that most of the yin dates have this taste, because, that is raised by women?

What does it mean that a woman raises it? Situ told me that since ancient times, the eunuchs and eunuchs in the palace would go to all parts of the country to find some girls who had entered the menstrual period but were virgins, and stuffed the dried and dehydrated dates into the lower body of the girls, relying on the yin qi and menstrual affairs of the virgins to raise dates. Situ said, that's how the fishy smell you smelled just now came from.

I almost cried, Situ, how can you play with an ignorant teenager like me like this, and deliberately let me smell your age, why are you so badly beaten. I thought about nausea, so I quickly threw the dates in the dressing, but I couldn't help but show it, I turned my head and said to Hu Zongren, Master Situ said to let you smell the smell of the dates.

What is a good brother is to be blessed and enjoy hardships together. Hu Zongren squatted down and sniffed it, and then said, this smell is so chic, a bit like the smell of my armpits when I sweat. I smirked and said, don't you smell familiar? Hu Zongren said that of course, stinky tofu still stinks, but it is not as delicious. So I told him a cruel truth, this is a yin date, which is raised by a woman with her lower body. Then I told Hu Zongren that he was raised by a virgin, so you should be relieved.

Hu Zongren stuck out his tongue and retched, and then threw the yin jujube back. Although my mischief psychology was satisfied, I still had no clue. Situ told me, you have to find a way to find the pharmacy where the medicine was caught, and then ask the guys in the store how they found these yin dates, and try them by touching the vine, but at least one thing, the girl who made the yin dates must be no longer alive.

After hanging up the phone, I relayed Situ's words to Hu Zongren and Sister Zhou, who obviously felt that if this thing was used for aphrodisiac, it still had too much taste. I explained to her that it is likely that the girl who made these yin dates in the first place has died, but this date has almost collected some of the essence of her lifetime, and there are parts of her body everywhere in this date meat, so it is very likely to happen if you want to stay, I asked Sister Zhou, do you know where your husband grabbed the medicine at the beginning?

Sister Zhou shook her head. Hu Zongren said to me at this time, come and see this. I walked up to him and squatted down, he was rummaging through the plastic pockets of the ordinary medicinal materials that we had moved aside, and each pocket clearly read, XX Pharmacy, small print: a century-old brand, and a row of telephones and addresses underneath.

Hu Zongren smiled at me and said, Look, isn't this found?