Chapter 9: Exhumation

After the red fish left, Wu Xiaofa stayed for two days, and then began to pick up the previous training, strength, bow and arrow, hidden weapon, lurking, assassination, etc., the old man was basking in the sun most of the time, and sometimes outsiders found him to show a few patients, the old man did not go to the clinic, most of the patients came to the door, and some people from the rivers and lakes came to him to treat internal and external injuries, so when the old man prescribed a good prescription, called Wu Xiao to dispense medicine, and soon Wu Xiao practiced a unique job, he did not use medicine, three fingers and a grasp is the specified amount, two money is two money, No more, no less, one or two is one or two by no means more, and the old man is full of praise for this.

Half a month passed, one evening, the old man suddenly put on a black tight clothes, pulled the donkey out, put on the car, threw two shovels and a small bag on the car, asked Wu Xiao to sit on the cart, and drove the donkey to the bamboo garden, Wu Xiao didn't ask, walked in the middle of the night to a cemetery in the wilderness, the old man stopped, he stuffed a shovel into Wu Xiao's hand, the old man took another handful, and looked for it in the cemetery, and stopped in front of a new grave for a while.

"Come here and dig up this grave" After speaking, the old man Shuai dug first, Wu Xiao hurriedly went over to help, one old and one young, you shovel and I shovel, and it didn't take long to dig up the coffin board, the old man took out a wedge and a small porcelain bottle from the bag, he took out a little white thing and touched it under Wu Xiao's nose, a cool and spicy breath rushed straight to his nostrils, the old man touched himself, and then skillfully pried the coffin open with a wedge, and a foul smell immediately emitted, if he hadn't touched the plaster in advance, it was estimated that Wu Xiao would have to spit it out.

The old man waited for the smell to dissipate, checked it in the coffin and said: "It's okay, it's still complete, it hasn't started to rot yet, come and help lift the body up and put it on the cart, let's pull it back", Wu Xiao hurriedly stepped forward to carry it together, the old man took out a long cloth bag and put the body in it, threw it on the cart, and the two of them filled the grave back and repaired it.In the second half of the night, the two went back to the bamboo garden, the old man opened the basement of the right wing, and carried the body into the ditch with Wu Xiao in a pool full of yellow liquid.

After coming out and locking the door, Wu Xiao asked: "Why do you want to dig up the body and come back", the old man laughed: "You finally asked, I thought you could hold it until tomorrow"

"I didn't hold back and didn't speak, I just felt that there was nothing to say," Wu Xiao retorted

"Corpses are for redfish, any skill has a price, and medical skills are no exception, redfish need these corpses to familiarize themselves with every organ of the human body, know the condition of the lesion and find a cure"

"I deliberately asked you to stay today to let you know about this matter, and the matter of finding the body will be handed over to you in the future, Wu Feng's son will definitely not be afraid of this" The old man stopped, and stared at Wu Xiaodao again

"Redfish has never done this, she's a good boy anymore, we're going to make her clean"

"Okay," Wu Xiao agreed when he heard this

"I'm an old bone, I'll be alive in a few days, and after I go, the two of you will depend on each other" The old man stretched his waist, and heard the bones quack, it is estimated that he had been tossing for too long just now, and the old man Bi Jing was old.

Two days later, Hongyu came back, and as soon as he got off the horse, he picked up a cloth bag from behind and shouted: "Xiaoxiao, come down, see what I bought for you", Wu Xiao came down from the second floor and ran to Hongyu, looked at Hongyu, his eyes flashed, Hongyu looked at him with a smile, Wu Xiao said: "My name is Wu Xiao".

Hongyu took his hand and walked to the stone table in the courtyard, untied the cloth bag, there were a few clothes inside, and at first glance it was Wu Xiao's figure, "Xiaoxiao, let's try if these clothes fit, let Tailor He make them when I left, he only finished it yesterday."

"My name is Wu Xiao"

"Xiaoxiao, grandpa, why didn't you see him"

"......, grandpa is taking a nap" Wu Xiao compromised and did not correct the problem of the name.

"It fits well, Tailor He's craftsmanship is really good" Hongyu neatly peeled off Wu Xiao's old coat, put on new clothes for him, and then asked Wu Xiao to turn around in front of her, Wu Xiao cooperated with difficulty.

"Now I don't call grandpa when I come back" The old man even walked out and joked, the red fish flew over like a swallow and took the old man's hand and said: "What did grandpa say, I also bought something for you, come and see".The red fish took a crutch from the horse's back and gave it to the old man, the old man took the crutch in his hand and looked at it and touched it and said: "This is not easy to find, it is made of mangten, and this dragon head is also carved well", the red fish said: "I see that you have been walking hard recently, and I saw an old man selling this on the road and bought it, it is so expensive", The old man tried it and it was very suitable, just matching his height. The old man smiled: "Yes, I am also old, I need to use crutches".

So Wu Xiao settled down in the bamboo garden, the red fish went out to patrol the rash, they would take Wu Xiao out together, ride together, the two walked together through Qianmo, the river bank and the foothills, the two walked together through the early sunshine, the wind and snow and the fog, on the road the red fish taught Wu Xiaomeng to learn, four books, five classics, Wu Xiao is very smart, learn fast and remember quickly, and can draw inferences from one another, the red fish is so happy that he often kisses his delicate little face, Wu Xiao is helping when the red fish sits in the hall, and his stunt of dispensing medicine amazes the guys in the medical hall, It didn't take long for the people of Jiangnan Province to know that the red fish girl brought a magical medicine boy.The two of them ate and slept together when they were out patrolling, the red fish liked to hug Wu Xiao, and the latter was slowly used to it, sometimes the old man would leave Wu Xiao behind, and go to help find the body at night, Wu Xiao has always been very strange The old man basically does not go out, how can he know exactly where there is a fresher corpse, Wu Xiao asked the old man, the old man smiled and did not answer, until one day, a thin middle-aged man came to see the doctor, the old man asked Wu Xiao to take ten taels of silver, which middle-aged man was given, The old man also explained that if he is not there in the future, he can inform this child of the news.Wu Xiao knew that the old man had been asking people to pay attention to him outside and help him deliver news, and Wu Xiao knew which middle-aged man was called Yin Rakshasa Qiao San.

In the spring of the third year, the old man died, the red fish cried so much, once fainted, Wu Xiao has been taking care of her, the second day of the old man's death, there were a lot of condolences people, Zeng Asheng was also among them, the peddler pawn, the small businessman, the big official Xiao Shi, Zeng Asheng and another Cao gang Ma Dahong helped to cook together, there was only a woman and a child left in the bamboo garden, there was really no one to take care of these aftermaths, the red fish was too sad and people couldn't recognize it, on the contrary, Wu Xiao had been on the side to thank the guests. Holding the red fish on the side, his expression is very calm.

Zeng Asheng and Ma Dahong helped arrange birthday banquets, received people and things, arranged all kinds of people separately, and ordered the people to build a lot of temporary sheds around the bamboo garden.

Buried three days later, the old man's tombstone is engraved with "the tomb of the great disciple of the medicine king", although the old man was driven out of the division by the medicine king in his early years, but this is the only wish of the old man.

The guests left one after another, Zeng Asheng said to leave a few people to take care of for a while, but also rejected by Hongyu, Zhuyuan is now only the two of them left.At night, the two of them were lying on the bed, Wu Xiao stubbornly said: "Grandpa said that we will depend on each other in the future, I will always follow you", Hongyu hugged Wu Xiao with tears and cried wet his head.