Chapter 14: Corpse Poison
It's no wonder that the current famous mountains and rivers have long lost the charm of ancient times, there are parks everywhere, and tickets are required everywhere.
After a while, Wu Jianguo fell two or three big fish, and I also caught a big fish and a few small fish, leaving the old man alone with an empty fish basket, Uncle Li sat there anxiously staring, but there was no way, the fish always didn't bite his hook. So Uncle Li threw the rod and threw the hook into the distance, "plop" a light sound, the fish ditch just fell into the water and there was a fish bite hook, Uncle Li was excited, and hurriedly pulled to the meeting, slipped a fish, and then pulled it up suddenly, a small fish less than half a foot long was dragged up, but everyone was happy to take a closer look, it turned out that what was caught was only a fish head, and the body and tail seemed to be bitten off by a big fish.
looked at this fish-headed Uncle Li so angry, but his mouth was very soft and said: "Sins and sins, I really can't bear to slaughter living beings." Fish, I'll go back first!" After saying that, he threw away the fishing rod, and walked away in spite of my consolation.
In the evening, I came to Uncle Li's house with a big carp, "Master, why did you leave? Later, we caught several more, no, I brought you the biggest one!"
"As a teacher, I rarely kill, and I really can't bear to catch the fish that are free in the water, so it's enough to feel the fun of fishing today. After Uncle Li finished speaking, he looked at the big carp in my hand, smacked his mouth and said, "But since you have already caught it, do you plan to braise it or steam it?"
I shook my head helplessly and went straight to the kitchen with the fish.
After a while, a dish of braised fish with sauce was served on the table, and then I made a few small cold dishes, and the master and apprentice began to sit around the table and drink each other. I told the results of the game while eating, Wu Jianguo caught 4 big fish, 1 small fish, I caught 2 big fish, 6 small fish, on the quality of Wu Jianguo won, the number of discussions is my victory, the two sides do not distinguish between victory and defeat, decided to compete again tomorrow. The most interesting thing is that I also caught a fish with only half a head, and it was a big fish, Wu Jianguo said that there must be a disciple if there is really a teacher. In the end, they put the small fish back, and each of the big fish took home three big fish, and the big fish head I caught was also taken back by Wu Jianguo to make fish head soup.
"Master, let's go with me tomorrow, Jianguo saw that you didn't catch a fish today, and he was very sorry not to go, so you must go again tomorrow, and let you go to another fish pond alone, how about it?" At dinner, Uncle Li and I chatted over tea.
"Alas, if you don't go, you can't go, you can just help me catch one tomorrow and bring it back. Uncle Li said while shaking his head.
"You're going there once," I begged, "there are a lot of big fish in that pond, and if you just shake the rod, you'll be able to catch them, and I'll say yes, maybe you'll catch a few soft-shelled turtles." ”
"There are soft-shelled turtles in there?" Uncle Li's eyes lit up, "Alas, don't promise others casually in the future, since you have already agreed, you will go again tomorrow for the teacher, and you will not take it as an example." "I was very happy to hear it.
The next day, after lunch, the master and apprentice went to the fish pond. But Wu Jianguo did not wait for them there as agreed. After waiting for half an hour, the two of them still didn't see him, so I was a little anxious, so I went directly to Wujian Country to find him. There is a large high platform not far from the northwest of the fish pond, on which more than a dozen families live, and the outermost row of blue brick houses is his house.
I came to his house and saw that the door was open, so I went straight into the courtyard, "Jianguo, is Jianguo at home?" I asked as I looked into the house.
"Who? I, come in!" came the voice of Jianguo's mother from the north house. As soon as I entered the house, I saw Jianguo and his father lying on the bed for infusions, while Jianguo's mother sat on the side and carefully watched over them.
"Auntie, what's the matter?" I asked in surprise when I saw the dark looks on the faces of father and son.
"I don't know what's going on, I was fine yesterday, after dinner, the two of them started to play chess, and after a while, Jianguo began to feel dizzy and nauseous, and his father too, he felt cold, and his lips were blue after a while, so I quickly invited the doctor to buy these medicines overnight. Jianguo's mother was very anxious.
"I, I'm really sorry, I can't accompany you to fish today," Wu Jianguo lay on the bed and said tremblingly: "The fishing rod is in the yard, you can fish by yourself." ”
"What are you talking about, don't think about fishing when it's all like this, hurry up and take care of your illness first, and then we'll compete in the future." After speaking, I turned to Jianguo's mother and said, "Auntie, did you eat something unclean last night?"
"No, we ate together yesterday, if there is something unclean, how can I be fine?" Jianguo's mother recalled carefully, "By the way, yesterday I was in a hurry to turn on the oxygen machine in the fish pond, and I left without drinking soup, could it be that there is something wrong with the fish head soup?"
"Fish head soup? The fish head soup that Jianguo took back yesterday? shouldn't it, it was just caught yesterday afternoon?"
"yes, I don't think it should be a problem. ”
I looked at the father and son on the bed, "Don't worry, they will be fine soon, if there is anything I can do to help, just say it, I will do my best." ”
"Okay, thank you, eldest nephew! It's nothing important now, let's talk about it after the infusion for a few days," Jianguo's mother sighed helplessly and said.
"Oh, that's all there is to it, then I'll go back first. I remembered that Uncle Li was still waiting in the fish pond, and I had to go back and tell him quickly, so I hurriedly left the martial arts house and rushed to the pond.
Uncle Li had been waiting impatiently for a long time, but after I explained the situation, Uncle Li seemed to suddenly remember something, and suddenly returned to his usual calm state, carefully inquired about the symptoms of the martial arts father and son, and then thought for a while, "Impossible, it can't be that kind of disease, go, I, I'll go to his house with you to have a look!" Uncle Li seemed to be worried about something.
When I arrived in Jianguo, after I introduced the two sides to each other, Uncle Li carefully inspected the father and son of the Wu family, and finally, he said worriedly: "Alas, I am really afraid of something, it seems that one of them is really corpse poison!"
The liquid in the hanging bottle was flowing into Wu Jianguo's body little by little, but this did not make his condition better. The color of the muscles seemed to spread to the skin, and the entire arm was blue-black.
"Corpse poison?" I was surprised when I heard Uncle Li say these two words: "Impossible, how could they be poisoned by corpses?"
"yes, I don't think it's likely, we don't usually have access to these things. Uncle Li was thinking carefully about something.
"Corpse poison, what is that?" Jianguo's mother felt very scary when she listened to their conversation.
"Auntie, don't worry, it's like this, corpse poison is a kind of germ that lives on the dead person, also called yin worm, think about it, did they both go there yesterday? Have they ever been to a cemetery or something?" I comforted
"Graveyard? Yesterday....no, Jianguo and you were fishing yesterday, and his father took care of the fish fry at home and didn't go out for a day, how could he come into contact with corpse poison?" Jianguo's mother said as she recalled.
"Oh, I haven't been there..."Uncle Li thought for a while, "By the way, is there any fish head soup from yesterday?" ”
"Yes, I was busy all night yesterday, and I haven't cleaned up anything, you wait, I'll go get it." After speaking, Jianguo's mother turned around and walked out of the house. After a while, an aluminum basin came in and put it on the table, and Uncle Li walked over and carefully examined the big fish head in the soup.
"I have a silver hairpin here, do you need it?" said Jianguo's mother.
"Hehe, don't use that for the time being, silver can only detect toxins containing sulfide, corpse poison is a kind of bacteria, silver can't be detected, do you have any small fish at home?" Uncle Li asked.
"Yes, yes, I just bought a batch of fish fry, because it's too small to put it in the pond, you wait for me to get it. After a while, Jianguo's mother came in with a pot of small fish fry.
"His eldest aunt, he doesn't need so much, one or two are enough. After speaking, Uncle Li fished out two small fish from the basin and put them in the fish soup. It was really hard for him to come up with an idea of letting the fish drink the fish soup.
After about fifteen minutes, the fish in the soup turned its belly up and died. Uncle Li carefully observed the two fish, the original white belly has now turned blue-black. "It seems that there is really a problem in this fish soup!" Uncle Li turned to me and said, "You hurry back to my house, bring the yellow paper, cinnabar, brush and Jiang rice, by the way, and the jar of wine soaked in pheasant neck, hurry up." ”
"Okay, I'll go right away!" I turned and ran out. With my current foot strength, although I can't catch up with the iron pillar, it is still much faster than ordinary people, plus I practice fetal breath every day, and I will come back in a while.
Uncle Li handed Jiang Mi to Jianguo's mother and asked her to grind Jiang Mi noodles from the tofu room next door. After she went out, Uncle Li laid out the yellow paper, picked up a brush and brushed a few runes, then burned it and wrapped the paper ashes.
"Master, what kind of talisman are you?" I asked. Uncle Li looked at the martial arts father and son on the bed and saw that they were already asleep, so he whispered: "Hehe, this is called a Gu exorcism, the charm can not only drive away ghosts and avoid evil, but also can be used in other aspects, the charm is generally divided into four categories: prayer, suppression, tricks and healing, now it is used to heal, and you can pass on a few ways as a teacher in the future."
"Thank you, master," I said, "how can you say that this fish has corpse poison on it......?"
"Shhhh
Uncle Li used the rice wine in the jar to wash away the Jiang rice noodles, blended them into a paste, and when Jianguo's mother was not paying attention, he put the wrapped rune paper ashes into it, and then divided it into two bowls, so that Jianguo's mother could feed the father and son on the bed and drink.
After a while, Wu Jianguo and his father's stomachs began to gurgle, Uncle Li asked my mother to hurry up and prepare the phlegm bucket, as soon as the two phlegm buckets were put in front of the bed, the father and son began to vomit out some black things, and a fishy smell immediately came out of the phlegm bucket.