Strange Tale

The Hao family is a well-known family in Yancheng, Si Ren naturally knew about it long ago, and Long Jiu also heard about it before entering the city.

When they arrived at the Hao Mansion, the leader of the Hao family went in to report, and the rest watched Si Ren and the others at the door.Daoist Liu had already been let go, but Si Ren was in front of him and Long Jiu was behind him, and both of them could see him, so he didn't dare to run away, so he could only obediently follow.

Soon Si Ren and Long Jiu were invited into the mansion, and Mr. Hao welcomed them out from the inner courtyard.

"You are the gentleman they said?" Mr. Hao stared at Si Ren as if he didn't believe it.

Si Ren bent down and saluted, "Yes, the junior's surname is Si."

Master Hao looked at Si Ren up and down, "I didn't expect to be so young. You said you want to see my grandson, are you sure you can cure his illness?"

"You won't know until you read it. Well... But I can guarantee that if it doesn't work, I can find another expert to treat the child."

Master Hao nodded after pondering for a while, "Since you said so...then come with me."

In a main room in the inner courtyard, there were many servants standing inside and outside.Si Ren and Long Jiu went all the way in, and everyone they saw was frowning.In the inner room, a woman sat at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed, and the older one was wiping away tears with a handkerchief.In the arms of the young man was a boy with his eyes closed. Although he was not crying, his eyes were swollen like peaches.

Si Ren speculates that they are the child's grandmother and mother.

"Let me have a look?" Si Ren stood beside the bed.

Probably Mr. Hao has been in this room all the time, and the person who came in to inform him just now has made it clear why Si Ren came.At this moment, Si Ren felt the boy's forehead, chest and stomach and felt his pulse again, but the child's mother kept her gaze blank and said nothing.It seems that hope has been given up.

After the call, Si Ren opened his eyes and looked again, the child was motionless, it seemed that he was too weak and fell asleep.

Si Ren suddenly turned his head, "The pills you gave back then were made from leftover bones of dog's arrows, right?"

Except for Long Jiu, everyone was stunned. It was really hard for others to realize his existence if he couldn't see him.

Si Ren quickly waved his hand, "I didn't ask you."

Daoist Liu nodded silently.

Si Ren frowned, "There is a wizard who said that the leftover bones of the dog's arrow can cure epilepsy in children. But why don't you also check whether the child's epilepsy is caused by collision with evil spirits?! Dirt can Randomly use it?!"

The Taoist bowed his head and did not dare to speak, and the members of the Hao family began to quietly discuss what the "remaining bone of a dog's arrow" was.

Si Ren opened his backpack, which he almost never left his body, and after tossing and turning for a long time, he took out a glass bottle from it, "This is the parking circle recorded in the secret recipe of the ancient court. It is mainly made of medicinal materials such as Coptis chinensis and dried ginger. For polydysentery. The child is very weak now, and the diarrhea must be stopped first. Go get some rice soup and feed this to him."

The old lady over there who was still wiping her tears stopped crying, "I've been unconscious since noon, how can I give medicine?"

Si Ren tried the child's breath, "I'm going to use moxibustion to wake him up forcefully. It's best for everyone in the house to go out, especially the relatives at home. Otherwise, I'm afraid you won't see it."

Hearing this, the child's mother finally reacted, she hugged the child's body tightly and looked at Si Ren in horror.

Si Ren looked up at Master Hao.

Master Hao gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, "It's already like this, let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor! Come on, come out with me!"

Half an hour later, the rice soup was served, and the child woke up.Soon there was crying in the room, and Mr. Hao couldn't help but took the lead and entered the room.

Si Ban had just finished force-feeding the medicine, and the child leaned against the rice soup all over his body and cried fiercely, "Ah, it's so bitter... Mom! I want mom... Ah... Vomit── "

He vomited.

A group of adults surrounded him, and Si Ren took a few steps back.

Finally, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.The child's mother finally returned to a normal state. She gently touched her son's stomach and asked gently: "Xiao Bao, how do you feel? Does your stomach still hurt?"

The boy looked at his mother's hand with tears in his eyes, and calmed down, "No...it doesn't hurt anymore."

Xiaobao? !Si Ren was startled, thinking of Huan'er who met on Yuying Mountain last night.

... I went to Xiaobao's house to play hide and seek.The other kids couldn't find me all the time, I fell asleep waiting in the well...

"What's this child's name?!" Si Ren grabbed a servant of the Hao family.

The one who was caught was taken aback, "Little... the young master's name is Xiaobao, Hao Xiaobao. What's wrong?"

Si Ren pushed away the person in front of the bed and squatted in front of the child, "Be good, little treasure, tell brother, do you know a little girl named Huan'er, who is about your age?"

Hao Xiaobao nodded, "Yes. It's my cousin... the little girl I brought to play with."

The child's voice was weak, and Si Ren couldn't ask too many questions, but he felt that this "Little Treasure" should be the "Little Treasure" that Huan'er mentioned.

Si Ren stood up a few steps and walked to Taoist Liu, stretched out his finger between his brows, "Hurry up and show yourself!"

Daoist Liu stared at Si Ren, not understanding why he suddenly became anxious when he was doing well.But knowing that it was meaningless to hide any longer, he whispered a few formulas, Taoist Liu's body grew from nothing, from light to thick, and he "gradually" appeared in front of everyone.

Everyone sighed for a while, and finally no one doubted whether Si Ren was an accomplice who cheated with the Taoist priest.

"Before you came, they said that you once filled some abandoned well in the Hao Mansion with stones, didn't you?"

"Uh...I..." Daoist Liu felt guilty, and he hesitated as soon as he opened his mouth.

"This liar did have someone fill a big rock into the abandoned well in the back garden. What's the matter? Mr. Si, is there any problem?" The person who spoke was a middle-aged man, and he must be in charge of his clothes in the mansion. .

the child's father?Si Ren thought, "Then can I trouble you to take me to see that well?"

"It's okay to look at the well, but my nephew's illness..."

It turned out to be uncle.Si Ren took out a prescription, "I have already treated my nephew Ling's epilepsy when I gave the acupuncture just now. This is a medicine that needs to be taken for another three days. Just let someone take the medicine according to this prescription. The child is now If you need to rest, I suggest that you go out first if you have nothing to do except the mother of the child."

The man took the prescription and looked at it, "If it's an ordinary infantile convulsion, why can't the doctors who came here before cure it?"

"Convulsions are usually caused by exogenous six evil poisons entering the body. Of course, there are occasional cases of sudden onset of shock. But I have checked carefully just now, and I can confirm that the young master is not frightened, but ordinary convulsions. Convulsion epilepsy is divided into Yin and Yang syndromes. If the first diagnosis is wrong and the medicine is improper, it will not only aggravate the condition, but also cause other doctors to misdiagnose. I guess you didn’t find a good doctor at the beginning, and then easily listened to Taoist Liu’s words, which caused the delay. The illness is incurable."

In fact, people who don't know medical skills can't understand Si Ren's words, but he is convincing and convincing. In addition, he caught Taoist Liu again. In the end, the members of the Hao family looked at each other. No more objections.

Hao's backyard.

There were a lot of people around the abandoned well, some of them were there as soon as Si Ren arrived and probably knew what happened, and some of them heard that a new mage with real skills had come to watch.

Si Ren squatted on the edge of the well with his butt pouted and watched for a while, "Where did that stone come from?"

Daoist Liu hurriedly pointed out, "It was moved from the rockery in the garden."

Si Ren still looked at the well, "I didn't ask you."

Master Hao came over, "The stones of the rockery were all moved from Yuying Mountain in the west of the city when the mansion was built."

No wonder Huan'er's soul went to Yuying Mountain.Si Ren stood up straight, "What about this well? Why was it abolished?"

"There is no water. Three years ago, there was no water."

"Huh? Didn't someone look at such a strange thing?"

"No, at that time the wells in the yards of many people stopped producing water. I thought that since it was a matter of the whole city, it would be of no use even if I asked someone to look at it. And at that time, City Lord Shi quickly arranged for someone to stop the wells from producing water. Some people re-dig the well for free, so I thought it might be a problem with the groundwater in Yancheng, so I didn’t think too much about it.”

"A lot of people's wells are out of water?" Si Ren frowned, "You said it was three years ago?"

Master Hao nodded, "Yes, three and a half years ago to be precise."

"Well... do you remember any other special things that happened in the city at that time?"

"Other special things?" Master Hao began to think seriously.

"Father." The man who asked about Si Ren's prescription and Hao Xiaobao called his nephew just now called out.

Si Ren already knew that he was Hao Xiaobao's uncle and Master Hao's eldest son.

"I remember that the day before the well water dried up, it was Shi Cheng who hosted the wedding."

"Oh! That's right!" Mr. Hao slapped his forehead, "The day before the well water was gone, City Lord Shi married Mrs. Jinji. Later, I heard that it was Mrs. Jinji's intention to re-drill the well for free. At that time, I thought that the new lady was so considerate of the people, and that City Lord Shi was blessed. By the way, I just remembered that the new General Dragon occupied Yan City overnight, and City Lord Shi was killed. Where did Mrs. Ji go?"

This kind of topic is always more likely to arouse everyone's interest. As soon as Mr. Hao's voice fell, the people next to him answered him and immediately started talking about it.

"It must have been taken over by the new city lord."

"Well, yes, Mrs. Jinji is so beautiful, which man wouldn't be tempted?"

"But I don't know what that General Dragon looks like. City Lord Shi is tall and healthy with a heroic look."

"What does it matter what you look like? They have the army and foreign guns and cannons, even if they are blind and lame, women like it too."

"Cut! You think everyone else is like you because you have bad legs and feet?"

"you……"

……

Si Ren looked at Long Jiu, who had been silently following behind him amidst the gradually lively noise.He was a little worried that Long Jiu would scare people when his hair and eyes changed color when he was angry.

But Long Jiu didn't change much except for a weird smile on the corner of his mouth.

Si Ren breathed a sigh of relief, and just about to turn around, Long Jiu said, "Hmph! When monsters enter the city, there must be visions, especially water and fire. Stupid!"

Everyone in the Hao family calmed down and looked at Long Jiu, Si Ren wiped off his sweat, and quickly got back to the topic, "Cough──Master Hao, can I trouble you to find some people to throw him into the well now? Can you lift the stone out again?"

"Hmm..." Mr. Hao twitched half of his face in embarrassment, "Although it takes a little work to lift it out, if the master says it must be lifted, then I will let them lift it. But... since it is filled in the waste well The stone is a way for this Liu surname to bluff, so now that Xiaobao is fine, do we still need to take care of that stone?"

"Actually... how should I put it?" Si Ren glanced at Taoist Liu, "The Taoist priest is not bluffing, there is indeed something strange in this well."

The author has something to say: Dog bones: In fact, it is the bones in the dog poop that the dog has not digested cleanly.It is recorded in a famous ancient book that this thing can cure convulsions in children.It's too cheating, so I won't say the title of the book.

Parking circle: treat severe dysentery.Coptis, dried ginger, donkey-hide gelatin, angelica.Make it the size of phoenix seeds, or the size of pockmarks for children, [-] yuan each time, drink warm rice before meals, three times a day. "Zengguang Taiping Huimin Mixture Bureau Prescription".