Chapter 35: The Shrimp Toad Survivor
After Mo Yan knew the cause of Miss's illness, his mood suddenly brightened, and he turned to Du Yuanwai and said, "Ming said that I asked someone to try to get a live poisonous snake back, and Miss's illness has been cured." ”
Du Yuanwai was overjoyed when he heard this, and ordered his subordinates to do it overnight.
In the guest room, Liu Youhuai couldn't wait to ask Mo Yan: "Mr. Mo, what's going on, can you tell me?"
Mo Man smiled faintly and said lightly: "I have been different from ordinary people since I was a child, and sometimes I see some strange things. ”
"I can't imagine that you have such skills at a young age, the old man has been a doctor for decades, although he can guess the cause of the disease, but there is no way to treat it, I am really ashamed. Liu Youhuai sighed.
"How did the seniors see that I wasn't old?" Mo Yan asked.
Liu Youhuai said with a smile: "Your disguise technique is very unsatisfactory, just by sticking a beard, but there is not even a trace of wrinkles on the face, the skin is smooth and delicate, of course the clear-eyed person can see it." ”
It seems that Mr. Xia's method can't fool people, Mo Yan thought in frustration.
"In fact, the real disguise technique is different from makeup, to achieve the face can be deformed at will, of course, it is just less to get older or old to become less, the appearance is still me, some acting Youling takes Yirong Dan, and in a play of more than two hours, you can gradually change from a teenager to an old man, and achieve a popular stage name. ”
"Is there really a Rong Dan?" Mo asked curiously.
"Of course there is, but most of the people who know this technique are secret, so ordinary people in the world don't know about it. ”
"Do the seniors know how to concoct this disguise pill?"
"A little bit of it. Liu Youhuai replied.
Although Mo Yan wanted to know the secret recipe of Yi Rong Dan, he also understood that when he met Liu Youhuai Pingshui, people would never easily tell outsiders.
Liu Youhuai saw Mo Yan's thoughts, so he said: "The old man happens to have a pair of Yi Rong Dan here. ”
Mo Yanyan's heart was moved when he heard this, and he asked tentatively: "Senior, don't you know that this Yi Rong Dan is sold?"
Liu Youhuai smiled: "This thing is hard to buy, does the little brother really want it?"
Mo Yan blushed and nodded.
Liu Youhuai turned over and got out of bed, took out a small cloth bag from the medicine box, and after unraveling it, there were seven black wax sealed honey pills inside.
"This is the Yi Rong Dan that the old man bought from a high-ranking hermit in Zhongnan Mountain many years ago, and he originally planned to leave it for himself if something happened in the future, but he didn't expect it to be useless when he was old, if the little brother wanted to take it. Liu Youhuai said generously.
Mo Yan was stunned, where is there such a cheap thing.
Sure enough, Liu Youhuai continued: "If it's convenient, please ask the little brother to tell him frankly and solve the confusion in the old man's heart." Are you really able to see things that others can't see since you were a child?"
Mo Yan nodded and said, "Yes, seniors can take a closer look at my eyes, are they different from ordinary people?"
Liu Youhuai poked his head over, staring at Mo Yan's eyes, and sure enough, the black pupils were larger than ordinary people, and they exuded a faint black light.
"It turns out that people in the world are really born with yin and yang eyes," Liu Youhuai was relieved, so he handed it in his hand, "These seven Yirong Dan don't need it anyway, so I will give it to the little brother." ”
Mo Man hurriedly said: "No merit, I still have some silver tickets here to give you." ”
Liu Youhuai shook his head and said: "How can the old man be a profiteering person, little brother must not be like this, seeing that since you want to disguise your true face, there must be something unspeakable, maybe this thing is just the right thing to use." ”
"Don't hide it from my seniors, I have something to do in the government's house, so I think"
"Needless to say, the old man understands. ”
Mo Yan got out of bed and opened his medicine box, took out three wax pills from the bottom and handed them to Liu Youhuai, and said: "The white one is the Hundred Worm Warehouse, which can treat the finch pecking pulse and liver extinction, the cyan one is the Turtle Armor that can cure the stone vein and kidney, and the black one is the Pupil that can also cure the liver terminality, they are all concocted by medicinal herbs that have grown for hundreds of years." ”
Liu Youhuai was shocked when he heard this: "Are you saying that they can heal the seven absolute veins?"
"That's true, please take it. ”
"Alas," Liu Youhuai sighed and said, "This is the most precious thing in medicine, the little brother is so generous, the old man will also tell you the secret recipe of Yi Rong Dan." Remember, to make Yirong Dan, you need to find a hundred-year-old woodpecker on the sixth day of June every year, and feed it with dansha and green millet or rice or rice, and insist on one year of medicine without interruption. In the second year, the bird feathers are mashed and added to the realgar for a penny, and seven pills are made, and one pill is swallowed to the water in the early morning, and after seven days, the face can be deformed according to one's own thoughts at any time. ”
"Hundred-year-old woodpecker?" Mo Yan thought that this was the real medicine again.
Liu Youhuai said: "Yes, where do you usually find woodpeckers that have lived for more than 100 years, so it is not easy to find the materials for production." Little brother, what did you see in the ancient well in the backyard, can you tell me?"
"It's a shrimp toad. Mo replied.
At noon the next day, the servant came back with a cloth bag, and finally got a live Tugong snake, also known as Grass Flying, which is a famous poisonous snake in the local mountains and forests. Of all the snakes, it is the only one that is viviparous, and its poison is so strong that it bites its feet, bites its hands and hands off its hands, and in a moment its whole body begins to erode. In July and August, when the poison is at its peak, it often bites the tree to vent its poison, and the small tree will wither and die in a moment, if it spits saliva on the grass and trees, people will be infected with sores and swollen bodies, called snake toad sores, which is the most difficult to treat.
Mo Yan asked the servant to cut off his head and take half a bowl of fresh snake blood, and then came to Miss Du's bed.
Huilan lay on the bed and sniffed, and then shouted and started to go crazy, no matter what, she refused to drink snake blood, Du Yuanwai had no choice but to order someone to catch her and forcibly pour it in.
Not long after, Hui Lan began to vomit, all of which were filthy, and fell asleep.
Mo Yan opened her eyelids and looked into the depths of her pupils, the black long-tailed living master had fainted, but it had not completely disappeared, it was still there.
Impossible, after the woman of the Miao family drank the blood of the poisonous snake, the golden toad was forced to appear, and the shrimp toad in the form of the old yin that Miss Du was possessed by should also be dispersed.
"Daddy. Miss Huilan woke up and shouted softly.
Du Yuanwai was overjoyed, tears came out of his eyes, this was the first time his daughter called her father since she was sick.
Liu Youhuai was also overjoyed on the side, this little brother was really unusual, and he was able to save Miss Du with a bowl of snake blood.
"Daddy, I'm hungry. Hui Lan sat up and said.
"Okay, come on, get it for Miss. Du Yuanwai hurriedly ordered his subordinates to go to the kitchen.
But Mo Yan still felt that something was wrong in his heart, Miao Jiang's golden toad had been cultivated for hundreds of years, and it was still forced out of the body by a bowl of poisonous snake blood, and the shrimp toad in the ancient well was just a gathering of yin qi, how could it be impossible to disperse?
"Little brother, what's wrong, what's wrong?" Liu Youhuai looked at Mo Man's worried appearance and asked quietly.
"There's nothing that toad can't get rid of. Mo Mo frowned.
"You mean the toad is still there?"
"No, it's just a larva 'living master'. ”
Du Yuanwai approached and thanked him uncontrollably: "Mr. Mo, it's really a miracle doctor, how many famous doctors in Jingzhou City are helpless, and they were easily cured by you, I really don't know how to thank you." ”
"Du Yuanwai, I want to stay another night tonight. "Mo Yan decided to go to the ancient well again tonight.
"Okay, as long as you want to stay. ”
Du Yuanwai immediately ordered someone to prepare a banquet to treat this foreign miracle doctor Mr. Mo well.
Back in the guest room, Mo Yan and Liu Youhuai discussed Miss Du's condition.
"I think the living master is just fainting, but it is not dead, and it may wake up soon, and Miss Du will be sick again at that time. Mo Yan said.
"Well, the old man thinks that Miss Du's pulse is peculiar, and the mother and child pulse are contradictory, especially the child pulse is menacing, as if it is not all the way with the mother pulse, and it is the first time that she has encountered this kind of strange thing in decades. ”
"The whole thing needs to be sorted out again," Mo Yan said, "Miss Du disappeared in the middle of the night in the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, and found out that she was pregnant three months later, Lang Zhong said that the fetus was five months old, but Du Yuanwai was very sure that Miss had not left the house for several months before her disappearance." The seniors said yesterday that the pulse had been diagnosed for six months, so the only possibility is that Miss Du was conceived two months before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it was in this house. If you exclude the descendants of the family, only the shrimp and toad in the ancient well are the most suspicious, but these unclean things will only possess you, how can it be possible for Miss Du to conceive a child?"
"Could it be that the young lady is pregnant, and the shrimp toad yin qi invades the abdomen, causing the fetus to deform and become a living teacher?" Liu Youhuai analyzed.
Mo Yan thought for a while and reminded: "The maid Luju said that on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, she met a scholar in brocade clothes at the Lantern Festival, and she was delirious after seeing the green ring on the man's hand, and then the young lady disappeared, if the young lady was pregnant that night, it was only four months now." ”
"Yes, all in all, it's not right to calculate the pregnancy. Liu Youhuai sighed.
At the dinner, Miss Du heard that a miracle doctor from a foreign country had saved her, so she personally came to toast Mo Yan. Mo Yan stared at her pupils and found that the living master seemed to have a small paw that moved slightly.
"Miss Du, I want to ask you something. Mo Yan said.
Although the doctor asked, the little woman would tell the truth if she knew. Miss Du replied.
"On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, can you remember anything about the middle-aged scholar in brocade?"
Miss Du's face turned slightly red and said, "That man is about thirty years old, and he is polite to people, as if he showed us a green ring on his hand, and then I can't remember what happened later." ”
"Think again, what did he say?"
"It seems that his surname is Shen, he is a wealthy businessman in Yangzhou Prefecture, and his family is in the tea business, so I can't really remember anything else. ”
At night, when Haizi was on the watch, Mo Yan and Liu Youhuai quietly slipped out of the door and came to the backyard.
In the moonlight, the shrimp toad was still lying on the edge of the ancient well, breathing into the night sky.