Qi Xiaoting's mood was heavy, she knew that Gu Jinming must have heard correctly, that person had also come to his house. It is likely that the same person who went down to the yard where he lived. It's a pity that the heavy snow buried the footprints, and there is no way to find out.

There are two clear lines of footprints on the snow, one coming and one going. The villagers all got up late on a snowy day, this must have been Gu Jinming's.

The early morning wind was cool, blowing on the face like a knife. Qi Xiaoting put on an oversized mask and walked forward following the footprints, paying attention to her surroundings.

The footprints went downhill, through the frozen river, into the woods.

Qi Xiaoting did not follow up with the woods. She had been here in this woods last night, and she had collected Ah Mei here. Her footprints had already been covered with snowflakes, and she knew what they were for.

She walked a little west along the path on the edge of the woods, and came to the big mansion that Gu Changzhu said, in front of the Zhijia compound.

She subconsciously looked up, and her gaze met a man's eyes in the distance.

The man stood at the gate of the branch compound, his hands on the handle of a shovel, staring at Qi Xiaoting thoughtfully. It looks like he's cleaning the snow at the door.

This man is in his thirties, and his temperament is completely different from that of country men, and even from the city people nowadays, giving people a sense of independence from the world.

He wore a dark blue robe with a purple cotton horse jacket and a beige cashmere scarf around it. The angular face was a little pale, but there was a coldness in the eyes that rejected people from thousands of miles away.

Could it be that this person is what people call Dr. Zhi?

Qi Xiaoting guessed in her heart, "squeak" "squeak" stepped on the thick snow, and walked slowly step by step, she had a strong curiosity in her heart, and she wanted to know how the medical skills of this doctor with a good reputation were! Why did the little tiger sister and brother, and Ah Mei get lost last night, all happened around his house!

The man watched her come over, didn't say hello, didn't move, just stood like that, quietly waiting for Qi Xiaoting to approach little by little.

Qi Xiaoting stood in front of the man, smiled lightly, and said in a muttered voice: "I heard that there is a doctor surnamed Zhi here, who has a cold and wants to buy some Chinese herbs to ward off the wind and cold." As he spoke, he sneezed loudly.

"You're not from Linbian Village." The man said, turning his head and walking back.

It seems that this is it.

Qi Xiaoting was overjoyed, and coughed twice with her hand on her chest: "No." Yesterday the snow was big, and it was blocked here, but I didn't expect to suffer from the wind chill. ”

The man opened the door on the west side of the door and rushed out, and the smell of Chinese herbs wafted out.

Qi Xiaoting followed and walked in.

This is a small clinic with an area of about 10 square meters. On the south side is a row of Chinese medicine cabinets. There is a table and two chairs in front of the medicine cabinet, on which are placed hand pillows for pulse diagnosis, as well as some wrapping paper and smashing mortars.

There is a single bed under the west wall covered with white sheets.

On the east side there is a small gate leading to the courtyard, which is now closed.

The man grabbed a few herbs in the small drawer of the Chinese medicine cabinet very quickly, wrapped them neatly, and handed them to Qi Xiaoting.

"How much?" Qi Xiaoting took off her mask and asked while taking out the money.

Qi Xiaoting looked up and saw that the man was looking at her with a squint, and a trace of cunning light flashed in his eyes.

Qi Xiaoting's heart sank, and she hurriedly put a few copper plates on the table: "Is it enough?" ”

"No, don't do it, grow it yourself." The man returned to his cold face, and politely pushed the copper plate in front of Qi Xiaoting:. "Say don't want it, you pick it up!"

Qi Xiaoting smiled at him: "I don't know my life, how can I take your life-saving medicine for nothing." After saying that, he left as if he had fled.

It seems that what people say is true, just by these few words, this attitude, there is no patient who does not praise him.

But this attitude is incompatible with the cold face and the sly gaze that flashes away, and it is difficult to soften the three aspects together.

What kind of person is this?

Qi Xiaoting walked back, and felt the man's gaze stick to her back all the time, like a spider's web. Quickly told Ryuichi about this feeling.

"He wants to see you through." Long Yi replied, "Until now, I have been staring at you closely. ”

"I want to let Ah Mei out and take a look in the compound." Qi Xiaoting said.

She had to ask for Ryuichi's consent first, because the purpose was to make Ryuichi look at it. I didn't say it to Ryuichi in advance last night, and Ryuichi's eyes didn't follow at first, so he didn't know where the woods were.

Ryuichi: "You can try. ”

Qi Xiaoting coughed twice, pretended to wipe her saliva, untied her scarf and released Ah Mei, and told her to go around the compound with a voice.

However, Ah Mei disobeyed Qi Xiaoting's "will" for the first time, and only flew around Qi Xiaoting, refusing to leave a single step. No matter what Qi Xiaoting ordered, she just refused to go.

"Put it away!" Long Yi transmitted: "There must be a reason here, only you, Li Hong, and Jiao Na secretly went to see it." ”

There were eyes staring at her back, Qi Xiaoting had to return the same way, and after walking to the residence, she dodged into the space.

"It's just a few ordinary wind-dissipating and heat-dissipating herbs." Long Yi looked at the Chinese herbs that Qi Xiaoting caught and said, "Even if there are ghosts, he won't put them in the medicine that people take back." ”

Qi Xiaoting: "Did you see his eyes?" When I was in the house to get the medicine, it was lost in a flash. ”

Ryuichi: "I see, it's a little unpredictable. ”

Qi Xiaoting nodded, and asked again, "What's the matter with Ah Mei?" What is there to prevent it from entering the branch compound? This has never happened before! ”

Ryuichi: "There must be a reason. We'll decide again this night. If the problem is really in the branch compound, don't let Xiaohuzi jump off the wall in a hurry when he comes back from the dead! You must be more vigilant. ”

Qi Xiaoting nodded and flashed out of the space.

The news of Xiaohuzi's rescue soon spread in the small mountain village. People rushed to tell each other, and those who knew about it all came to visit Xiaohuzi.

But more often than not, I want to see the female Taoist priest who brought Xiaohuzi back to life. If there are incurable diseases, they also take the opportunity to ask Qi Xiaoting for medical treatment. Qi Xiaoting was surrounded by people.

Qi Xiaoting saw that Gu Jinming's family was relatively narrow, and Huzi and his mother were still very weak, so she said to the people: "Go to the place where I live, everyone can say anything, and I promise to do what I can." ”

He also sent Li Hong to Gu Jinming's house and asked him to chat with Gu Changzhu, but in fact, he secretly protected Gu Jinming's family.

Most of the people who came were women, and when Li Hong left, people spoke their minds even more freely. Ask about any kind of sickness. Especially for gynecological diseases, people are talking about all the diseases that they dare not say to male doctors.

Qi Xiaoting answered one by one, and everyone gave them a hand of twisted gourd ambergris herbal water, and asked them to take it orally in person or back.

And said, "This is the divine potion I ask for, which will cure all diseases." Especially in gynecology, a gourd is good. I'm not going to go, no matter what, you're going to smash my stall. ”

Those families who had lost people, seeing that Qi Xiaoting had "ability", also talked about the situation and begged Qi Xiaoting to find their relatives for them.

The first one is a middle-aged woman whose daughter has been missing for more than a month. When asked about the reason, the middle-aged woman said that her daughter had a cold and went to Dr. Zhi to get a few Chinese herbs to eat. Since then, I have met Dr. Zhi.

After she got better, her daughter often went to Dr. Zhi's place to play and watch Dr. Zhi treat people.

She felt that her daughter was too old to be afraid of people gossiping, so she said a few words to her, and her daughter went out in anger and never came back.

"I regret it, I regret it so much that my intestines are blue. Actually, it's nothing, it's just that my daughter is willing to go there to see a doctor and treat people, and every time she goes, she has a little friend.

"The doctor has a daughter-in-law, and he is also very kind to people, and he never plays poor and bickering with the girls.

"It would have been nice to let her through the door earlier. My mother-in-law's house was about to pass through the door, and I was stunned, wanting to wait until she celebrated her sixteenth birthday. I didn't expect it to be more than a month away, but something like this happened. ”

Qi Xiaoting: "When you left, you were not yet sixteen years old? ”

Middle-aged woman: "No, it's a virtual age." We don't talk about the first year here. It's only here now, but she's been gone for more than a month. ”

Qi Xiaoting: "What's your daughter's name?" ”

Middle-aged woman: "Gu Guiping." ”

The second one is an old lady, and the one who went missing was her little daughter-in-law, Yan Caihua. Less than 100 days after I got married, I got sick, and after taking a few pills, I suddenly disappeared. I searched my mother's house and relatives' houses, but no one said they had never seen it.

For this reason, the mother's family also made a big fuss, saying that the mother-in-law's family had killed their daughter, and they had to see people dead and corpses.

Later, I went to the government and investigated for a while, but I didn't find out the cause of her harm, so it was over.

The son couldn't bear it, so he went out to work, and only came back for the Spring Festival for the thirties and the first day of the new year.

The third is a girl who is only 14 years old and is named Gu Ailing. After her disappearance, people found her shoes on the edge of the creek west of the village, believing that she had fallen into the water and drowned. I fished for three days and three nights, but I didn't catch it.

The fourth is looking for a brother-in-law. The brother-in-law's name is Gu Tiejun, a tall man, and he does not lose his strength. As soon as she got married, she disappeared, and the new daughter-in-law returned to her parents' house and never came back. The old woman also died for this.

One family moved away after losing their daughter. Legend has it that this girl had an affair with Dr. Zhi, but there is no evidence, and Dr. Zhi does not admit it. Moving away is also a loss of people, and his face is not good-looking, and he can't speak.

This girl's name is An Fengqiao.

The sixth is Gu Jinming's daughter Gu Zhenzhen.

Qi Xiaoting asked Gu Jinming again if Zhen Zhen had any illness before leaving. Gu Jinming said that he had never been sick, but he had a little cold, and he took some Chinese herbs and he was fine in two days.

Qi Xiaoting: "Did you also get it from Dr. Zhi?" ”

Gu Jinming grinned: "Except for him, there are no doctors nearby." ”

Qi Xiaoting summed up the six missing people, five of whom were women, three of whom had eaten Dr. Zhi's Chinese herbal medicine, and one was rumored to have had an affair with Dr. Zhi.

Could it be that the problem really lies with Dr. Zhi!