It happened on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival last year.

Jingzhou City holds an annual half-moon lantern festival as usual, and at night, the maid Luju accompanies Miss Huilan to go to Guandi Temple to enjoy the lanterns. According to Lu Ju later recalled, the temple was lit up with a sea of people, and Miss and she met a middle-aged scholar wearing a brocade robe and a peculiar green ring on his finger in front of a stall selling roasted sweet potatoes. When she woke up, the scholar and the young lady were gone, and the young lady still couldn't be found until the end of the lantern festival, so she had no choice but to come back and tell the master.

The maid and the old man went out to look for it without success, and at dawn, the young lady walked back to the house in a trance. The old man asked her where she went, and Huilan couldn't tell clearly, and only after three months did she find out that Miss Huilan was secretly pregnant.

After Lang Zhong checked the pulse, he said that he had been pregnant for more than five months, and the old man did not believe it, so he invited several famous doctors, and the results were the same statement. At the same time, the young lady's condition worsened, and at first she only talked madly, and then she became so mad that no one even recognized her.

Since these days, Du Yuanwai has invited famous doctors in Jingzhou City, and he has eaten a lot of decoction but has never seen any improvement, so he posted a notice to seek medical treatment.

After listening to Du Yuanwai's narration, Liu Youhuai fell into deep thought.

At this time, Hu Xinglin, a famous doctor in Jingzhou, said: "The old man thinks that Miss Du is caused by the external invasion of evil qi, and the evil qi is nothing more than the six evils of wind, cold, summer, dampness, dryness, and fire, which naturally leads to lack of qi and blood, and the face is gloomy, fatigue, weakness and insomnia. ”

"I don't dare to agree with this, if it's just an infection of wind evil, how can the pregnancy be inconsistent? Another Lang Zhong retorted.

The old man carefully checked Miss Du's pulse, if the pulse of pregnancy is small at the beginning, the breath is five to, and the pulse is slippery and heavy by hand, then the fetus is already three months. Now that the pulse is pressed, it is enough to breathe in May and June, maybe the young lady is pregnant, but others just don't know. Hu Xinglin glanced at Du Yuanwai.

"This is impossible, the little girl Huilan is knowledgeable, she has been studying at home for several months before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and she has never left home. Du Yuanwai said categorically.

"Can you let me take the pulse for Miss?" asked Liu Youhuai.

"Please follow me. Du Yuanwai led them through the flower corridor to the backyard boudoir, and in the silk tent of the bed lay a girl with a cloak and a dark yellow face, staring blankly at the roof.

"Huilan, don't be afraid, Lang Zhong is sick. Du Yuanwai said softly to his daughter.

Liu Youhuai stretched out his hand and pressed the three levels on Huilan's wrist, and said suddenly: "Miss's pulse is like a number of strings and astringent, judging from the mother's vein alone, she is really about three months pregnant, but the child pulse shows more than half a year's fetal breath, and it is sonorous and powerful like Chengren, which is really suspicious." ”

"Then how many months is she pregnant?" Du Yuanwai asked him eagerly.

"Three months. Liu Youhuai's tone was affirmative.

Isn't it a contradiction to say that there is more than half a year of fetal breath and that there are only three months of pregnancy? Someone muttered behind him.

Liu Youhuai ignored it, pinched the roots of Huilan's middle fingers with his thumb and index finger, and then said "Huh" in his mouth, and said to himself: "The 'two doors' moved, it turned out to be caused by the invasion of external evils. ”

Hu Xinglin said on the side: "The old man has long said that it is an evil wind and cold. ”

"Mr. Liu, what are the 'two doors'?" Mo Mo is not taboo for others to look down on him, and he asks if he doesn't understand.

Liu Youhuai glanced at Mo Yan approvingly, and said in his heart that this person is humble and honest and shameless to ask, unlike some Lang Zhong who are indiscriminate but pretend to be high.

"The 'two doors' are through the strange acupoint outside the meridian, and if the evil qi invades, this acupoint will definitely be reflected. He explained to Mo Yan.

"Mr. Liu, is there a cure for the little girl's illness?" Du Yuanwai asked cautiously.

"Take a green capsule pill first, intercept the evil qi, and then talk. Liu Youhuai took out a cyan pill from the medicine box, his eyes met Mo Yan unexpectedly, and the two smiled knowingly.

The maid brought a bowl of water and served the young lady to swallow the pill, while Zhong Langzhong returned to the living room to drink tea.

"I have heard for a long time that the Jianghu bell doctor uses yellow crane pills for men and green capsule pills for women, curing all diseases, and now I see it and it really deserves its reputation. Hu Xinglin's words were quite sarcastic.

Liu Youhuai just laughed when he heard it.

While everyone was chatting, they suddenly saw the maid Luju hurriedly running in, and said with a nervous face: "Master, it's not good, Miss is crazy again." ”

Everyone hurriedly returned to the boudoir with Du Yuanwai, and saw Huilan lying on the bed, her hair was scattered, her face was blue, her mouth was foaming, and her limbs were twitching.

Liu Youhuai was shocked, hurriedly took out the silver needle, and stabbed her left and right hands together and Yintang acupoints, and the needles did not improve for a while, so they added the two acupoints of the stabbing people and the Shenting, and Huilan slowly calmed down, but she was still delirious, and there was a green halo in the middle of the Yintang.

"Mr. Liu, what's going on?" Du Yuanwai wondered.

"All diseases in the world are different, and they need to be treated differentiated, if you blindly take Huanghe Green Capsule Pills, it will be strange if nothing happens. Hu Xinglin said in a rumbling on the side.

Liu Youhuai wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and said suspiciously: "This shouldn't be, let me check the 'two doors' again." With that, he took out two thin needles and gently twisted them into the root of Huilan's right middle finger.

The two needles first shook slightly, and then they swung rhythmically, at first from side to side, and then in a continuous trembling pattern, like the strings of a piano. Liu Youhuai's fingers pressed on Hui Lan's wrist, and after a while, his face became more and more pale, and cold sweat fell drop by drop.

"Miss's fetal breath is manic and weird, and it is by no means an ordinary six evil invasion body. He groaned.

Mo Yan stepped forward and pressed Miss Huilan's wrist, and saw that the pulse was different from any of the seven absolute veins, so he relaxed a little, at least there was no danger to his life.

"It's not an ordinary six evil invasion body, what could it be?" asked Youlangzhong.

Liu Youhuai glanced at Du Yuanwai and said slowly: "I'm afraid that there is an evil thing." ”

Hu Xinglin laughed and said: "If the doctors in the rivers and lakes can't cure the disease, they will say some nonsense to fool people, which is simply ridiculous and generous." ”

Du Yuanwai also had doubts about Liu Youhuai at this time.

Mo Yan approached the bed, stared at Hui Lan's eyes tightly with his dementor eyes, looked in her eyes for a long time, and finally found that there was a wriggling black flesh mass in the depths of the black pupils, with short limbs and a long flat tail, and he couldn't tell what it was.

Zhong Langzhong looked at Mo Yan's strange behavior and felt puzzled.

"Du Yuanwai, this is an old mansion in your house, right?" asked Mo Yan.

Du Yuanwai thought for a while and said: "This ancestral house is still in the Xuande period of the previous dynasty, and it has been nearly four hundred years. ”

"Can I look around?"

"Of course, that's what people can do with you. Du Yuanwai instructed the servants to lead him around.

Mo Yan walked along the side of the blue brick road, while paying attention to the old trees and the like, and finally came to the back courtyard, where there was an ancient well. Looking down at the wellhead, the water surface is about a few feet away from the wellhead, and the edge of the well has been ground out of a deep groove by a rope over the years, and the wall of the well is covered with moss, which looks like it has been around for many years.

He found that the location of this ancient well was not far from the back window of Miss Du's boudoir, and intuitively felt strange, and after thinking for a while, he returned to the living room.

"Du Yuanwai, I wonder if I can stay at your house tonight?" asked Mo Yan.

Du Yuanwai felt that Mo was mysterious, so he asked him first, "Mr. Mo, is there any problem?"

Mo Yan replied: "Yes, but you need to observe it again at night, and maybe you can know the cause of Miss." ”

"Oh, yes, of course. Du Yuanwai immediately ordered someone to clean up a guest room and ordered dinner to be prepared.

"Can Senior Liu also stay, I can ask you some questions. Mo Yan invited.

"Well, I'm just thinking about Miss Huilan's condition. Liu Youhuai readily agreed.

Lang Zhong in the city all said goodbye and left, and heard Hu Xinglin muttering in a low voice when he left: "Now the two of them have saved money for staying in the hotel." ”

The wine and food for dinner were very rich, Liu Youhuai sat down, Mo Yan sat down, and Du Yuan went out to accompany him.

"Mr. Mo, have you noticed anything unusual?" asked Liu Youhuai.

"Yes, the senior is right, Miss Du is indeed possessed by evil things. ”

Du Yuanwai was anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Sir, please tell me, what kind of evil thing is it?"

Mo Yan said: "It's not clear at the moment, but I may be able to find something tonight." In addition, I would like to ask, have there been any abnormal changes in Miss Du's eating habits since she became ill?"

"Abnormal?" Du Yuanwai thought for a while and said, "The maid Luju once said that there was a strange thing, once she found that Huilan was catching mosquitoes in the room to eat. ”

It was night, a bright moon hung high, the moonlight was as cool as water, and the crickets chirping from time to time came from the corner of the old house, and people were already asleep.

In the living room, Mo Yan, Liu Youhuai and Du Yuanwai were drinking tea and waiting.

Mo Yan looked at the sky and said, "Haizi has passed, you can go and take a look." With that, he took the lead and went to the backyard.

The faint moonlight sprinkled on the ancient well, which looked desolate and quiet.

Mo Yan's pupils widened, and he paid attention to the movement of the wellhead. After a while, a white mist slowly rose from the ancient well, accumulating more and more thickly, gradually condensing into a white air mass in the shape of a shrimp toad on the edge of the well, and then opened his mouth to inhale and exhale at Yuehua.

And these, Liu Youhuai and Du Yuanwai can't see either.

It turned out to be a shrimp toad doing tricks, Mo Mo thought to himself, the old house of the Du family has been around for 400 years, and there was probably this well when this house was first built. Ni Oh said that the old house ancient well and old trees are the easiest to accumulate yin qi, and over time the old yin gathers and takes shape, and this ancient well absorbs the yin qi of 400 years and transforms into a shrimp toad.

At this moment, he finally figured out that the black lump of flesh with a long tail that he saw in the depths of Miss Huilan's black pupils turned out to be the larva of a shrimp toad, commonly known as "Living Master".

A mysterious and inexplicable expression appeared on Mo Yan's face, which was all seen by Liu Youhuai.