Li Kai and Xie Yanran set off east, and within a few days arrived at City A, one of the most prosperous cities with a large population and a lot of traffic. Li Kai and Xie Yanran walked through the downtown area, the streets were crisscrossed, and they couldn't help but feel a little dizzy.

Li Kai searched all the way according to the map, and it was not difficult to find Changqing Street, but the "Muketu" clinic written on the card could not be found. The two of them looked along the street, from store to door, and there was no clinic with this name, and they inquired about the residents and neighbors here, but there were no clues, and the two wondered in their hearts, could it be that the "Buddha" made a mistake or the card was written wrong.

It was noon, the two decided to go to eat first, and continued to look in the afternoon, the two found a restaurant to ask for a few home-cooked food, when Xie Yanran was halfway through eating, she inadvertently looked up and saw that there was a small signboard hanging on the fourth floor of the residential building opposite, the signboard was very shabby, and it seemed to faintly say "clinic".

The two wanted to try their luck, so they went straight to the clinic after eating.

When I came to the fourth floor, there were only two residents on the fourth floor, and there were no signboards at the door, just like ordinary houses, if I hadn't remembered the location of the clinic before, I really couldn't tell the difference.

Li Kai knocked lightly on the iron door, and after knocking for a while, no one answered. Li Kai looked at Xie Yanran, Xie Yanran was looking forward to Ming Shuhui's clues behind this door, so she was very excited at this time, so Li Kai knocked on the door again, this time increasing his strength, knocking on the iron door with a clang.

"Who's looking for death!" finally someone in the door answered.

"Hello, is this the 'Muketu' clinic?" asked Li Kai.

There was no sound in the door.

After a long while, the iron door creaked open, and it was a young man in his twenties, with unkempt hair, red and swollen eyes, and an angry expression, as if he had not woken up yet, and was woken up by Li Kai's knock on the door.

"What the hell are you knocking on, it's noisy!" said the young man lazily and angrily.

"I'm really sorry, someone gave me the address of the 'Muketu' clinic and asked me to come and find ......," Li Kai said embarrassedly.

"I haven't heard of it, you're looking for the wrong one!" the young man slammed the door shut.

"It was the 'Buddha' who asked us to come. Li Kai shouted outside the door.

The door is firmly closed......

"Forget it, maybe it's the wrong one again, let's go somewhere else. Xie Yanran pulled Li Kai and prepared to leave.

"Okay, the place that the 'Buddha' asked me to find shouldn't be so shabby, let's look for it again. Li Kai was also helpless, and the two turned around and left.

Just as he was about to go downstairs, the door opened again and the young man poked his head out.

"Who are you, 'Buddha'?" the young man asked, his eyes no longer sleepy.

"We are our friends. Xie Yanran heard the young man talk about "Buddha", and felt that he should have found the right place, and his heart became excited again.

"Oh...... Come on in. The lad hesitated, beckoned, and left the door open.

When the two walked into the house, a strong smell of Chinese medicine came to their faces. The room was dimly lit, and there was a huge medicine cabinet facing the door, and there were many drawers on the medicine cabinet, each of which was marked with the name of some Chinese medicine, and next to the medicine cabinet was a low table, which was cluttered with some old books. Not far from the low table was a simple stove, under which was a fire, and a small pot was frying, and the pot was supposed to be Chinese medicine, and the strong smell of Chinese medicine emanated from this pot.

"Sit down. The young man yawned.

Li Kai and Xie Yanran looked around, but they didn't find the chair, so the two of them still stood in place very awkwardly.

"How is the 'Buddha' doing?" the young man asked absentmindedly, "The old immortal has not ascended to heaven yet?"

He ...... He's very good......" Li Kai felt funny in his heart when he heard this young man say "Buddha", but he didn't dare to laugh out loud.

"Did the Buddha tell you what you were going to do?" the young man asked again.

"He told us to find a hunchbacked monster old man. Li Kai replied.

"Oh, oh......" The young man was surprised at first, and then seemed to understand, and nodded.

At this time, the young man's eyes moved back and forth between Li Kai and Xie Yanran, and finally locked on Li Kai. The young man stared at Li Kai and circled around him a few times, until Li Kai's heart was furious.

Suddenly, the young man reached out and grabbed Li Kai's left wrist.

"You...... What are you doing?" Li Kai was taken aback.

"Don't talk!" the young man roared, and Li Kai was so yelled that he didn't dare to make a sound.

The young man grabbed it for a while, then put it down, bowed his head and thought about it.

"It's kind of interesting...... It's kind of interesting......" the young man muttered to himself.

"What's wrong?" asked Li Kai cautiously.

"You'll be waiting a minute. The young man said, turning and walking into the inner room.

"Old man, someone has come to see a doctor!" shouted the young man in the back room.

"You can't see the disease!" An impatient voice came from inside.

"I can't see that the 'Buddha' asked me to come over!" replied the young man angrily.

Li Kai and Xie Yanran wondered that the "Buddha" didn't let them come to see the doctor, why did this young man say this.

After about a stick of incense, they heard the sound of footsteps slowly moving towards them. At this time, an old man walked out of the back room, this old man hunched back, leaned against the wall, limped, and slowly walked in front of the two.

"'The Buddha' called you?" the old man asked.

"Yes. Xie Yanran replied, "'Buddha' asked me to ask you about Ming Shuhui's whereabouts, and he said that you have his clues. ”

The old man thought for a moment and smiled.

"Yes, yes, I know, but I can't tell you right now. The old man nodded.

"When will you tell us?" Xie Yanran said hurriedly.

"Sit down and talk. As he spoke, the old man moved to the low table beside him, flicked his arm, lifted all the books on the table to the ground, pointed to the low table, and motioned for the two to sit here.

The two looked at the old man's sloppy behavior, and their hearts were even more amused, and they were not polite, so they sat down at the low table.

The old man, like the young man before, glanced left and right at the two of them, but only stared at them, and then his eyes fell on Li Kai.

"Are you sick?" the old man asked with a frown.

"I ...... Be...... I'm sick ......" Li Kai was overwhelmed by this sudden question.

"Give me my left hand. The old man didn't ask much.

Li Kai stretched out his left hand, the old man's four fingers were pulsed, and as soon as his hand touched Li Kai's wrist, Li Kai felt that the old man's hand was very cold, this season was not cold, and the decoction in the house felt even hotter, but the old man's hand was like an ice cube.

The old man began to check the pulse with four fingers, but then put his hands together, and the expression on his face became cloudy, and Li Kai looked dazed.

"I took off my shirt. The old man said suddenly.

"This ......" Li Kai hesitated, because Xie Yanran was still beside him, he was a little embarrassed.

"It's not for you to take off your pants, how can you look like a woman! If a woman sees a doctor, she has to take it off with me!" said the old man contemptuously.

Xie Yanran was also interested, and half-turned her back to Li Kai, Li Kai was helpless and took off her shirt.

The old man first tapped Li Kai's chest with his fist, knocked about twenty or thirty times, and then turned behind Li Kai, knocked on his back, and twenty or thirty times, and it was heavier than the other.

After knocking, the old man suddenly put his face on Li Kai's heart, which frightened Li Kai.

"You...... What are you doing?" asked Li Kai after a pause.

"I'm not taking advantage of you, what are you hiding?" said the old man angrily.

"Yes...... It's senior...... It's just that...... It's just that your face is too cold......" Li Kai said tremblingly.

"Bear with it!" said the old man.

The old man's ears were tightly pressed against Li Kai's heart, allowing Li Kai to take three deep breaths, and then gasp three times, alternately a few times, and then get up after listening for a while.

"Put on your clothes. The old man said, "What did you just say, 'Buddha' asked me to tell you?"

"A man named Ming Shuhui, his current whereabouts!" Xie Yanran turned around and said.

"All right, no problem!" replied the old man, "and I will tell you when this boy is cured." ”

"But ......," Xie Yanran said hurriedly.

"But what? I just think about your lover, but I don't care about the life or death of this kid?" the old man had been in the world for a long time, and at first glance he saw that these two people were not a couple, so he blamed.

This sentence made Xie Yanran's face turn red suddenly, she has been with Li Kai for the past few days, and she has been taken care of by Li Kai everywhere, Xie Yanran is grateful. She thought that Li Kai's illness was not a big deal, so she didn't care too much, and always put the search for Ming Shuhui in the first place, at this moment the old man compared these two people, one is to say that Xie Yanran is in her heart, and the other is that Xie Yanran feels guilty, and she is suddenly embarrassed.

"You misunderstood, my illness is nothing serious, finding Ming Shuhui is an important matter, we want to find him as soon as possible. Li Kai explained.

"I don't know what your illness is, you can treat your illness well with me, don't even think about going anywhere if you can't cure it!" said the old man holding Li Kai's shoulder with his hand.

After the old man finished speaking, he turned and walked to the back room.

"What's your name?" asked the old man as he walked slowly.

"My name is Li Kai, and her name is Xie Yanran. Li Kai replied.

"Okay, you two have stayed with me for the past few days, and if you need anything, tell Xiaobai that he is my apprentice. The old man had already walked into the back room.

"Don't call me Xiaobai! it's like a dog's name!" the young man said angrily at the old man, "I have a name, my name is Gao Yibai." ”

Li Kai and Xie Yanran almost laughed, but they still held back.

"What should we call this old-timer?" asked Li Kai.

"His surname is Sun, and his name has long been uncalled, and those who are grateful to him call him Sun Miaoshou, but most people call him 'Wang Ba Veterinarian'. Gao Yibai said.

"Wang Ba, veterinarian?" Li Kai exclaimed.

"'Wang Ba' means that he is the same as 'Wang Ba', shrunk in his shell all day long, and he is still old and immortal, and this 'veterinarian' is not a veterinarian who treats animals, but describes this person as shame......less as a beast," Gao Yibai said mockingly.

"Don't listen to him! you just call me Sun Miaoshou!" Sun Miaoshou shouted in the back room, and then there was a heavy sound of the door shut, and there was no sound.

Li Kai and Xie Yanran couldn't cry or laugh, they had no choice, they wanted to know Ming Shuhui's whereabouts, so they had to stay here for the time being.

I didn't expect this room to be quite spacious, Gao Yibai took the two to the inner room, there were actually five or six compartments here, Sun Miaoshou lived in the innermost room, Gao Yibai's room was next to Sun Miaoshou, Li Kai and Xie Yanran were arranged to live in the two rooms outside.

Early the next morning, Li Kai and Xie Yanran were woken up by the sound of pounding medicine, and the two came out and found that Gao Yibai had gotten up early to prepare medicine.

"Senior Brother Gao, it's so early!" Li Kai greeted Gao Yibai.

"It's not because of you, otherwise Lao Tzu would have been able to sleep until ...... afternoon," Gao Yibai complained as he pounded the medicine fiercely.

"Right...... I'm sorry......" Li Kai felt very embarrassed.

Li Kai and Xie Yanran went downstairs to buy some and came back early and gave Gao Yibai a share.

"We also brought one for Senior Sun and told him to come out and eat together. Xie Yanran said.

"No, I'll send it in, he's eating inside. Gao Yibai picked up breakfast and walked in, saying as he walked, "Oh, by the way, next time you buy food, you can buy more, Old Man Sun can eat it very well." ”

Li Kai and Xie Yanran agreed awkwardly.

After a while, Gao Yibai pounded all the medicines, put them in a small pot, and began to boil them over a slow fire.

"Senior Brother Gao, what kind of medicine is this?" asked Li Kai.

"Thirteen spices with dark soy sauce aged vinegar. Gao Yi replied without raising his head.

"Thirteen incense?" Li Kaiqi said.

"Do you smell like thirteen incense? Ask some nonsense and tell you the name of the medicine, can you remember?" Gao Yibai said impatiently.

Li Kai was bored with himself and walked away.

After the medicine was decocted, Li Kai drank it while it was hot, this medicine did not have the bitterness unique to traditional Chinese medicine, and there was no special taste in the mouth, and there was a trace of sweetness in the mouth.

After drinking the medicine, Li Kai felt hot all over his body, the room was originally stuffy, and Li Kai was so hot that he wanted to go out for a walk.

"Don't go out and walk around. Gao Yibai warned, "In case of a cool breeze, the medicine will be counterproductive!"

"Then what should I do?" asked Li Kai uncomfortably.

"Bear with it! Hypocrisy!" Gao Yibai said in exactly the same tone as his master.

Li Kai felt that his body temperature was rising little by little, as if he had entered a furnace, sweating like rain, and his close-fitting clothes and pants were already soaked.

"Don't move, it's time to do it, I'll give you acupuncture. Gao Yibai saw that Li Kai's skin was red, so he said to him.

Gao Yibai led Li Kai into the back room, and Li Kai took off his clothes and lay on the bed. Gao Yibai took out a needle and started acupuncture.

Gao Yibai's technique is extremely skilled, he gently rubs Li Kai's acupuncture points with his right hand, each acupuncture point is rubbed five times clockwise, and then the needle is pierced, so that the technique is connected to forty or fifty needles before stopping, at this time Li Kai is like a hedgehog, and his back is covered with silver needles.

Every time Gao Yibai took a stitch, Li Kai felt a very subtle coolness, and entered the body along the needle hole, and his body was a little lighter, and when all the forty or fifty stitches were pierced into his back, Li Kai only felt that his body was immersed in the sea breeze, very cool, indescribably happy.

After about half an hour, Gao Yibai took out the silver needle and put it away, Li Kai got up from the bed after getting dressed, and felt that the heat in his body was gone, and only a warm current was left between his limbs and torso, especially the chest tightness that had been going on, and he felt much lighter. Li Kai shook his arms and legs, and there was a burst of relaxed pleasure.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Gao!" Li Kai bowed to Gao Yibai.

"Hmph!" Gao Yibai said coldly, "It's not over yet, the afternoon therapy is even more uncomfortable, you should be ready." ”

"Yes!" Li Kai was very grateful and replied sincerely.

After eating at noon, Gao Yibai began to decoct the medicine, and this time Li Kai was interested and avoided from afar to disturb him.

The medicine was decocted, and Li Kai took it while it was hot, this time the medicine was bitter and unusual, and there was even a faint smell, which made Li Kai frown again and again, and he was in great pain.

After drinking, Li Kai only felt dizzy and dizzy, as if he had drunk **.

"I'm going to give you acupuncture, you sit down. Gao Yibai said.

Li Kai sat down obediently and wanted to take off his clothes.

"You don't have to take off your clothes, the position of my acupuncture this time is your head. Gao Yibai said.

Li Kai heard that it was the head of acupuncture, so he sat up straight and waited.

Gao Yibai took out another pair of needles this time, this pair of needles was shining with golden light, the needle body was extremely long, and the tail of the gold needle was faintly painted with a few small characters.

Gao Yibai's technique is extremely slow and steady, massaging and inserting needles on Li's head.

After the first stitch, Li Kai only felt sad from his heart, recalling his separation during this time, and now in the end he still knows a little about his identity, wandering alone in the rivers and lakes, a sense of loneliness arises spontaneously, and tears can't help but slide down his cheeks.

After the second stitch, Li Kai wanted to laugh again, remembering that he was deceived by Minglang, thinking of Zhao Songjian's fun, thinking of Luo Mochen's arrogance, and thinking of Xie Yanran's company, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

The third needle went down, Li Kai felt proud again, Luo Bin appeared in front of him to resist a strong enemy, Ming Shuhui was arrogant and uninhibited, he was not afraid of danger, he only felt that although he was alone in the world, as long as he had a brave and firm heart, he could be invincible.

......

Stitch after stitch, Li Kai continued to experience the joys and sorrows of life, and his mind gradually became chaotic, and his consciousness gradually blurred.

"Don't sleep! Hurry! Hurry! How many have you written?" the cloaked figure reappeared, this time, his hands pressed tightly on Li Kai's shoulders, shaking his body vigorously.

"You...... You...... Who the hell is it?" asked Li Kai in horror.

"You can't sleep! When you fall asleep, it's all over! Wake up!" the man with his cloak shook even more violently.

"Kai'er, Kai'er, sleep, you're too tired......" The familiar and gentle voice sounded, Li Kai was so tired that he really wanted to take a good rest.

No, I can't sleep, he's right, I'll be all over when I fall asleep!

Li Kai suddenly realized that he had to stay awake, and he tried his best to open his eyes.

Li Kai came to his senses, opened his eyes, and saw Gao Yibai packing up the golden needle, while he was lying on the bed.

"I ...... Am I asleep?" asked Li Kai strangely.

"I didn't fall asleep, I fainted, next time it's better to hold on, don't faint, so that the effect will be better." Gao Yibai said lightly.

Li Kai sat up from the bed, only to feel a splitting headache, he rubbed his temples vigorously, the things in front of him were staggering, and he felt nauseous in his stomach, and he almost vomited.

Bang bang bang bang ......

Suddenly, there was a violent knock on the door.

Gao Yibai raised his hand to signal not to make a sound.

Click!

There was a loud bang, and the door was slammed open.

"Old ghost! If you can hide for a while, you can hide for a lifetime? You can find me so hard! Get out!" a voice said fiercely.