Chapter 51: The Old Woman
Lu Liangsheng had only skimmed a few medical books, but he was not proficient in them, and he didn't dare to rush to help others heal at this time.
After the conversation outside had fallen for a while, he got up and walked out with the books, and said goodbye to the old man who spoke under the eaves.
Zhou Yao nodded, walked to the front yard with this junior, and sent him out, probably also had a distraction.
“...... Originally, I wanted to talk more with Liangsheng, but there was something trivial at home, but I have already asked the kitchen to prepare a dinner, and during the meal, I sent someone to look for you, I don't know where Liangsheng is staying?"
The old man is still good.....
Lu Liangsheng sighed in his heart, at least among the people he met, of course, except for the dead Lu Erlai, the father and son of the Chen family, who were rich and unkind.
Thinking of the conversation I heard in the study before, I couldn't help but open my mouth.
"Just now..... I heard Zhou Lao talking to the steward, which was a bit presumptuous, but I still wanted to ask, what happened in the house?"
The old man didn't seem to want to be known about the affairs of the family, but now that he was exposed, his cheeks bulged, and he hesitated for a moment, but still sighed.
"There is indeed an incident in the family, the old man has two sons, a daughter, the youngest daughter, and he also has a family in the city.......
In the old man's words, he slowly told the ins and outs of the matter.
About three months ago, the old man's daughter suddenly fell ill with a strange disease, and every night she fell asleep, as if there were countless people talking in her ears, including men and women, and even the sound of horses neighing and chariots, as if she were in a busy city.
At first, I didn't care, thinking it was just a strange dream, but after the third day, I began to have a splitting headache, and the whole person fell on the bed and it was difficult to get up, and most of my energy retreated.
Hearing this, Lu Liangsheng couldn't help but think of the dream technique that his master had used on him before.
Could it be that someone used the evil art of absorbing people's yang energy on Miss Zhou's family?
Walking out of the porch, he asked casually, "The steward also talked about an old woman...... What's going on here?"
At the mention of the word 'old woman', Zhou Yao pursed her lips, as if she was in recollection, and continued for a long time.
"That old woman doesn't know ..... up and down the house, it's like out of thin air, as long as the little girl is sick, it will inevitably appear, going around the house, the maid and servant in the house have seen it several times, and the mouth and nose keep squirting water. ”
"Can Old Zhou see it?"
The old man didn't see it once, but he thought it was too weird, so some maids and servants were wrong. ”
An old man and a young man had already walked to the courtyard while talking, and a servant caught up behind him, panting and shouting: "Master, Miss is very sick this time, and people seem to be crazy, smashing things." ”
"I have a good life and go by myself, I can't accompany him more now. ”
Zhou Yao was also a little flustered in his heart, and summoned a nurse to send the scholar out of the house, and then turned around and followed the servant back.
The sky gradually sank, and the wind blew, Lu Liangsheng looked at the back of leaving, and then looked at the book in his hand, and without waiting for the nursing home next to him to speak, he followed the old man quickly.
Before arriving at the side yard, far away, I could hear the screams of a woman, the movement of ping pong smashing things, several maids in the courtyard stood outside the door and did not dare to enter, one of them had blood stains on his head and face, presumably by Miss Zhou.
Seeing Zhou Yao coming, he stood on both sides in a panic and hung his head respectfully.
"Sir. ”
At this time, Mrs. Zhou in the backyard also heard the news and rushed into her daughter's boudoir with her husband.
I saw a bang, something was thrown out, a bronze mirror jingled and fell to the ground, Zhou Yao also retreated to the door with his wife, and was still persuading his daughter in the room.
In the crowded gap, I could vaguely see Miss Zhou's family, her hair was fluffy and disheveled, she was wearing obscene clothes and pants covering her head and screaming wildly, her originally dignified face was twisted and hideous, and her feet were in a mess, all of which were swept down books and decorations.
"Ahhh......h
Strands of hair were ripped between his fingers, blood was dripping on the side of his face, and his delicate face was distorted and he cried.
"Dad..... mother..... Rong'er hurts so much..... it hurts...... Ahhh
Suddenly fell to the ground, tears and snot stained with dust, and writhed like maggots, making the faces of Zhou Yao, his wife and the maid outside pale.
"Daughter...... My Rong'er, old immortal, you quickly find a way!!"
"The old man is not Langzhong, how can there be a way!?"
"What should I do..... Miss becomes like this, what should I do....."
......
In the panicked speech, Lu Liangsheng carefully looked at the writhing figure, between the loose hair, in the wide-open eye sockets, the whites of the eyes were more than black, and the pupils were out of focus.
“...... Maybe it's really evil, let her be quiet for a while. ”
Under the wide sleeves, he pinched out his fingers, and pointed to the house, and a warmth spread all over the writhing woman on the ground, and after struggling and screaming a few times, it gradually quieted down.
"Rong'er!"
Mrs. Zhou shouted, and when she rushed in, Lu Liangsheng withdrew the spell, turned around and left quietly, all the way out of Zhou's mansion, and returned to the Furui Inn.
In the noisy sound of everyone eating in the hall on the first floor, when I went up to the third floor and opened the door, I saw Sun Yingxian sitting at the table, the toad Taoist standing on the table, stretching out his frog flippers, the two were playing fists, and there was a jar of wine next to him.
"You ......"
Sun Yat-sen patted off the mud seal at the mouth of the altar, poured two bowls of wine, and smiled.
"The two of them are really a little bored, this Taoist toad master drinks and fights, it's just the beginning, do you want to come?"
By the window, Nie Honglian, who was looking at the night street outside, floated over and closed the door.
"Didn't Childe say that he would come back after eating over there? Why is it so early?"
Lu Liangsheng put down the books, walked to the copper basin to wash his hands, turned around and sat down at the table, picked up chopsticks and grabbed a peanut.
“...... Something happened over there, and Zhou Lao's daughter seemed to have fallen into an evil spirit, so naturally she didn't have dinner. ”
As he spoke, he looked at the Taoist: "This is what you are good at, come with me to help, right?"
"Don't go, this kind of daughter, you can't touch it, and you have to perform tricks every two or three zhang, and you look down on people!" Sun Yingxian seemed to be a little unhappy about this, thinking that he had encountered this kind of thing before.
At the moment, he was still pulling the toad Taoist to drink and punch, and he didn't pay attention to Lu Liangsheng's proposal at all, but he still added.
"Besides, you have a good relationship with that family, and it's logical to make a move, maybe you can still achieve a marriage..... ouch!"
Bang!
The bronze mirror placed on the dresser suddenly flew and smashed on Sun Yingxian's head, who held his head and jumped up from his seat, his eyes swept around.
Nie Honglian looked at her nails intently, flipping through them.
"Some people, be careful what you say...... I can't tell if the next time it flies is a knife. ”
"You!" Michigan was speechless, snorted, and sat down again, just in case this time it was in the direction of the female ghost, so that it was convenient to stare at the other party.
Lu Liangsheng looked at them angrily, what he wanted to say was held back, and his eyes had to be cast to the master, and the toad Taoist waved his hand directly.
"Such a trivial matter, is also worthy of being a teacher?"
After drinking a little wine, the Toad Daoist's interest became high, urging Sun Yingxian to come and punch again.
The house was noisy and loud with the shouting of one person and one toad, and the female ghost stood in front of the window waving her long sleeves and humming operas, and occasionally poked her head over the wall, causing a scream from the next door.
Lu Liangsheng was lying on the bed, thinking about what happened in Zhou's mansion before, as well as the old woman Zhou Yu talked about...... After a while, there was a knock on the door.
The room was suddenly quiet, Sun Yingxian's face was flushed, and he opened the door with the smell of wine, and an old man in Tsing Yi stood outside the door, looked inside, and arched his hand.
"May I ask Lu Liangsheng, can Lu Lang be here?"
Sun Yingxian turned around and shouted to the bed, "Looking for you." ”
Then, back at the table, the scholar had already walked to the door and arched his hand to the old man in Tsing Yi: "Down there is Lu Liangsheng." ”
"The old man is a servant in the Zhou Mansion, and the master of the family has prepared a banquet and invited Lu Lang to the mansion for dinner. ”
"Well, here we go!"
Lu Liangsheng asked the old man to go first, returned to the house and took the brush he carried with him, and told the Taoist again: "Don't let my master drink too much, otherwise there will be trouble." ”
The Taoist waved his hand impatiently.
"If you go, the way knows. ”
After the people left, he stood up, stepped on the stool, and rolled up his sleeves: "Old toad, come! If I don't overturn you today, I won't be surnamed Sun ......."
"Haha..... old man hasn't lost yet!"
......
The night breeze blew across the long street, and the old pines sticking out of the courtyard wall swayed.
Lu Liangsheng knocked on the door of the courtyard, and was soon invited in by the steward, and the voice of someone gradually came out of the hall in the front yard, and the maid who delivered the food walked past the lantern light under the eaves.
A round table in the hall is set up with a rich set of dishes.
"Liangsheng is here..... in the afternoon, he was entangled by some at home, come, sit down. The old man in the hall calmed down a little because of his daughter's condition, and his mood was much more relaxed.
As soon as the two of them sat down, a maid came over to pour wine.
Lu Liangsheng took the first step to pick up his wine glass: "Elder Zhou said that these things are a bit out of sight, in the future, I will be in Hegu County, as well as in my studies, there are many places that need to be consulted." ”
Saluted, touched the edge of the cup with the old man, and drank it all in one gulp.
"Good...... It is also a beautiful thing to have a young talent like you around to discuss knowledge. Zhou Yao put down the wine glass with a smile, let the maid next to him fill it, and continued: "Back then, the old man also drank and talked with your teacher like this, and a few years have passed, and he and I are so old......
As he spoke, he sighed, and drank the full wine glass in one go, thinking that before Lu Liangsheng came, he had drunk a lot alone.
"I used to laugh at him, but in the end, I envied my uncle and father-in-law, who had no children and no daughters, and had no worries...... The only distressed daughter suffered such a hardship again, and the old man really didn't know what he had provoked God. ”
On the other side, Lu Liangsheng waved the maid, took the wine jug, and poured it for the old man with his own hands.
"Old Zhou envies my teacher, and my teacher may not envy Old Zhou's children and harmonious family, but Miss Zhou's matter, maybe there will be a turnaround soon. ”
"Haha, the old man borrowed good words. ”
The old man went down another cup, and after talking for a while, the conversation became stronger, and the old and the young talked about the autumn and academic things around the round table.
Soon, the dog in the mansion suddenly barked a few times.
In the hall, the firelight shook in the lampshade, and the flying insects slammed on it, and Lu Liangsheng turned his face sideways to look at the wall, and the direction that could not be seen behind the wall.
put down the wine glass, smiled at the old man with a drunken smile: "Old Zhou, the juniors will step aside for the time being, and come over later." ”
On the other side, the old man was also drunk, thinking that the young man was going to the toilet to release water, and recruited a servant to lead the way for the scholar.
Walking outside, the night breeze was slightly cool, hitting his face, Lu Liangsheng's expression sank, where was he still drunk.
"Master Lu, please come here. ”
When the servant saw that he was not moving, he hurriedly ran to the side and made a gesture of invitation against the wall.
Lu Liangsheng nodded and followed him to the back of the hall.
.......
The branches of the courtyard trees swayed in the wind, burning with warm yellow lights, and in the window lattice, Zhou Rong was in her sleep, moaning loudly, and her head slowly swayed with the green silk.
“..... Don't come to me......"
"Don't come over ......"
"Help..... Help ......"
Mrs. Zhou, who was guarding in front of the bed, was woken up and called softly: "Rong'er." When I got up to look at my daughter, I suddenly felt a slight noise outside, and for a moment, the dog in the yard barked wildly.
Turn your head to look.
The hanging branches outside reflect the paper windows, and the shadows are like demons shaking wildly.
Rustle rustle......
Rustling.......
In the darkness, the footsteps of people approached the window lattice, and a bloated figure walked slowly on crutches, with each step, there was a puff puff....... The sound of water spraying.
Faces that could not be seen in the shadows, drops of water fell to the ground, struck the ground tiles, and stepped on a series of shallow footprints as they followed.