Meng Yan's Transformation

Zhan Yu's family suddenly had two more mouths to feed, and they were not ordinary mouths. These two mouths had an astonishing appetite. Moreover, they were meddling in Zhan Yu's family, picking on this and that, and stirring up trouble.

The appetite of this "Old Doctor Han" is comparable to that of the six people in Zhan Yu's family. The newcomer An Zhirui is even better than that "Old Doctor Han". It was okay to have only one "Old Doctor Han" in the house. Zhan Yu always let "Old Doctor Han" eat more first when he was with the "guest". Now there are two "guests" in the house. They sit at the table together. Once they get to the table, they are like competing. It seems that whoever eats less and does not come first will be a shame.

The children wanted to eat some of the leftovers of the two "guests", but the leftovers were becoming increasingly scarce, and the children dared not say anything but get angry.

That day, Zhan Ziqiang was hungry and saw the fat, shiny-faced "Old Doctor Han" coming over. "You little bastard, if you glare at me again, I'll call your dad to beat you up. I think you have a nasty head! You really don't learn your lesson. If it weren't for you, would your mother have been beaten? Now I have to go around looking for food!" The "Old Doctor Han" said angrily when he saw Zhan Ziqiang glaring at him.

Once, Zhan Ziqiang didn't have enough food, so Zhan Yu asked him to carry a sack of millet to the millet processing plant. Zhan Ziqiang was too hungry because he hadn't had enough food for many days, so he dropped the sack of millet on the ground. At that time, "Old Doctor Han" and An Zhirui happened to be there and saw it. They said to each other in a sarcastic tone, "Look, look, such a big guy can't even carry a sack of millet, it's really a waste of decades of eating!" "Oh! You can even drop a sack of millet, you are such a waste, when I was your age, I could easily take this sack of millet with one hand!"

When Zhan Ziqiang heard them talking about him like this, he glared at them and said, "You two 'guests' are going to eat up all the food in my house. No matter how much food my mother cooks, you two always eat up almost nothing. I have no strength because of you two starving. Since you two can eat so much, you must be very strong. Please carry this bag of millet to the processing plant!"

"Listen, listen, Brother Zhan Yu, how did you educate your children? How can you glare at your elders and speak to them so rudely?" said the "Old Doctor Han".

"Yes, yes! How can Ziqiang speak like that? Brother Zhan Yu, you have to teach Ziqiang a lesson, otherwise he will get into trouble in the future!" This time, An Zhirui also echoed "Old Doctor Han".

Since An Zhirui came to Zhan Yu's house, he and "Old Doctor Han" have been incompatible. In addition to fighting for food at the dinner table, they also hurt each other with their words. But this time they have united as a team.

Zhan Yu was embarrassed by what these two "guests" said, and his face turned red.

Zhan Yu found a wooden stick and walked towards Zhan Ziqiang angrily without any explanation.

"If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will beat you to death today for being disrespectful to your elders!" Zhan Yu said as he raised the wooden stick high and hit Zhan Ziqiang on the head.

In a flash, Yun Qing rushed to Zhan Ziqiang and said, "You can't fight me! Ah!" Yun Qing was hit hard on the back by Zhan Yu's stick. Yun Qing screamed in pain and fell to the ground! She couldn't get up.

"Sister-in-law, you are too ignorant. How can you interfere in Zhan Yu's child education?" The "Old Doctor Han" spoke again.

"Yes, yes! Sister-in-law, you are just messing around and asking for a beating for no reason," An Zhirui echoed.

Just as Zhan Yu was about to swing the stick to hit Zhan Ziqiang and Yun Qing again, Yun Qing let out a "wow" and spat out a mouthful of blood, which sprayed onto the face of An Zhirui who had come over to watch the fun.

Zhan Yu saw An Zhirui, who was stunned with blood all over his face, and threw away the wooden stick, picked up the unconscious Yun Qing and carried her back to the house.

Yunqing fell ill due to malnutrition caused by long-term hunger and a beating from Zhan Yu.

The hostess who cooked at home fell ill. Yingying could not cook anything, but porridge or hot sticky bean buns. So the children were hungry and full. Sometimes Mengyan could not stand the hunger anymore, so she went to the village to "beg for food". It was not "begging", but it was not really. The villagers liked Mengyan, who looked like a doll with big furry eyes, and gave her delicious food.

The two "guests" of Zhan Yu's house could no longer receive such thoughtful care because Yun Qing was ill, and they could no longer eat the delicious meals made by Yun Qing.

As the two of them began to travel around, visiting relatives and friends in the village, they would eat at home today and at someone else's house tomorrow.

On this day, "Old Doctor Han" happened to be returning to Zhan Yu's house from Aunt Zhang's house for a meal, and saw Zhan Ziqiang, whose stomach was growling with hunger.

Zhan Ziqiang had no time to respond to the provocation of "Old Doctor Han". Zhan Yu and Yun Qing asked him to find Xiao Mengyan. Because it was getting dark, Xiao Mengyan was frightened when walking at night, so he had to find Xiao Meng and bring her home before dark.

Because "Old Doctor Han" knew some Chinese medicine, he was always warmly received by the villagers in the village when he took people's pulses and treated diseases. In order to get a taste of good food and drink, An Zhirui wagged his tail and begged for mercy, and became "Old Doctor Han's" follower. "Old Doctor Han" also trained An Zhirui in medical knowledge and fortune-telling.

One day at noon, the warm sunlight was shining through the air. "Dr. Han" and An Zhirui saw a little boy sitting on a wooden bench in front of his house eating dog meat. The dog meat was so delicious! They were so greedy that they couldn't help drooling.

"Dr. Han" and An Zhirui shamelessly walked up to the child who was eating dog meat and said, "Good boy, can you let us have some dog meat?"

"I'm not full yet! Adults want to eat children's dog meat! How shameless! Shameless!" The child said, making faces at "Old Doctor Han" and An Zhirui and quickly ran back to his house, as if he was afraid that the dog meat would be snatched away by these two people.

"Old Doctor Han" and An Zhirui walked towards Zhan Yu's house disappointedly. As they walked, they discussed how to eat dog meat.

"Mrs. Liu has a big black dog, and it's quite big!" An Zhirui said to "Dr. Han" with shining eyes.

"Okay, okay, okay, let's go and take Mrs. Liu's pulse and examine her!" "Old Doctor Han" said happily.

"Let me tell her fortune again!" An Zhirui and "Old Doctor Han" smiled at each other.

"Old Doctor Han" and An Zhirui walked to the door of Old Lady Liu one after another.

An Zhirui went forward and knocked on the door.

Old Mrs. Liu enthusiastically let the two men into the house, and they explained their identities: one was a doctor, the other a fortune teller, both were Zhan Yu's fellow villagers, and were visiting Zhan Yu's home.

After listening to the two people’s self-introductions, Mrs. Liu happily chatted with them about family matters.

"Old lady, your forehead is dark. Are you suffering from a headache? Do your legs feel sore and heavy?" asked "Dr. Han".

"What a miracle doctor! How did the old doctor know my condition before even taking my pulse?" Old Mrs. Liu said admiringly.

"Old lady, our Chinese medicine practitioners talk about 'look, smell, ask, and palpate'. Palpation means taking the pulse, and look means observation. We conduct targeted observation of the patient's spirit, complexion, tongue, etc., so as to determine the lesions of various organs in the human body..." "Doctor Han" explained to Old Lady Liu.

"Old doctor, please take my pulse carefully and look at my condition more carefully!" Old Mrs. Liu said as she stretched out her arm to let "Old Doctor Han" take her pulse.

After "Old Doctor Han" felt Mrs. Liu's pulse, he gave her an accurate description of her symptoms, which convinced her to the point of submission.

Since "Old Doctor Han" did not bring any medicine, he gave a folk remedy to cure Old Lady Liu: stew black dog blood, add one egg to a bowl of dog blood, and take it three times a day, morning, noon, and evening.

An Zhirui made another fortune-telling for Old Lady Liu: "Old Lady, your fate is full of bad luck this year. You will suffer from health problems and disasters!"

"Mr. An, please show me how to crack it?" said Grandma Liu anxiously.

"Let me calculate again. If you want to be healthy and free from disasters, you must lay a black dog skin mattress to resolve the problem!" An Zhirui said again.

"That's easy. I have a big black dog at home. I will slaughter it soon. The dog's blood can be used to treat diseases, and the dog's bark can be used to cure disasters!" said Liu Laolao as if relieved.

Just now, Mrs. Liu was scared by two people, one talking about her illness and the other saying that she had bad luck in her life. Finally, she found a way to solve the problem. She breathed a sigh of relief and felt that she had escaped a disaster.

"This is really a case of searching for something without much effort, but finally finding it without any effort!" said An Zhirui.

Old lady Liu tied her big black dog's limbs to two carrying poles and stretched them straight, like the ancient way of dismembering a person by five horses. The big black dog stared with tears in his eyes: he didn't understand why he had such a tragic end after being loyal and guarding the house for so many years... The big black dog was skinned alive by old lady Liu. She heard that the mattress made from the skin of a dog was soft and effective.

The skinned black dog was bled again...

Dog meat was given as a reward to "Old Doctor Han" and An Zhirui.

"Dr. Han" and An Zhirui brought the dog meat back to Zhan Yu's house and cooked a big pot of dog meat. They ate until their stomachs were full...