I'm taking the imperial examinations in Liaozhai

"Hey, the gate is open, where have everyone gone?" Ji Zihe asked suspiciously.

As soon as he stepped into the yard, a little milk dog rushed out from the kitchen with a whoosh, pressed his front body and pouted his buttocks, barking fiercely at Ji Zihe.

"Hey, where is the little dog?" Bone looked at the little dog curiously, he had never seen such a small dog.

"Maybe it was born by my aunt's rhubarb." Before Ji Zihe finished speaking, a big yellow dog also ran out of the kitchen. It didn't shout when it saw Ji Zihe, and ran over wagging its tail to wrap the puppy's neck. Bite it and put it in your mouth.

The puppy was caught in the back of the neck by his mother, and suddenly he became less aggressive, and he was extremely honest.

"Hey, Xiaohe is here." Hearing the sound, a woman was still holding a small hoe and looked into the yard from the back door.

"Auntie, look that Dahuang doesn't bark when he sees me!" Ji Zihe smiled and walked towards the back door. Seeing that no one was paying attention, the big yellow dog ran back to the kennel in the kitchen woodpile with its cub in its mouth.

"It recognizes people." The woman smiled, entered the door, put a hoe or something behind the door, and patted the ashes on her body.

"Auntie, what are you doing?"

"I was just busy in the vegetable garden at the back, weeding. Don't stand here, come in and sit in the house." The woman beckoned several people into the house.

Although Ning Caichen's family lives in the town, there is wild land behind his house.There is no poultry in the family, but his aunt, who is diligent and thrifty, has cultivated a vegetable garden behind the house to provide vegetables for the family and reduce expenses.

"Who is this young man next to you?" asked the aunt.

"He is the bookboy my grandfather bought at Xihe with my cousin a few days ago. His name is Xiao Jiu." Ji Zihe introduced.

Huang Jiulang didn't know why, but kept his head down, looking very shy.Putting down the pannier on his back, he bowed to his aunt, "Greetings to Madam."

"He's an obedient child." My aunt nodded. After knowing his identity, she stopped paying attention to him.

"By the way, aunt, where's my eldest cousin?" Usually he should be studying in the study at this moment, why is there no one there today.

"Oh, your sister-in-law is ill, and she hasn't seen her well for a long time. No, I heard that there was an imperial physician surnamed Qi in Banqiao Village who recently returned home. You know the imperial physician, he is a doctor who treats the emperor in the palace. It's very clever. He just wanted to invite this imperial physician Qi to treat your sister-in-law, but this imperial physician has made it clear since he returned to his hometown that he will no longer treat people. There is no other way, your cousin will go there every day Running up to Banqiao Village, waiting in front of his house, begging him to change his mind." As soon as she mentioned this, the aunt's face revealed a look of distress.

"Don't worry, aunt, sister-in-law will be fine. Oh, by the way, grandpa specially asked me to bring you some chickens, ducks and chicken eggs. These chickens are old hens. You stew them for sister-in-law's supplement." Ji Zihe brought the bamboo basket over.

The chickens and ducks in the bamboo baskets were all tightly tied up and could not move.The eggs are placed underneath and covered with thick straw to prevent chickens and ducks from breaking the eggs.

"Father, really, how many times have I said, don't bring things here, there are everything sold in the town. You study every day to waste your brain, and you need to mend it, so you bring it to me. Sooner or later, there will be a hen laying eggs at home." nothing."

"One or two chickens are nothing. You have to spend money to buy them when you live in the town. Anyway, you have them at home, so why waste the money. Besides, the ones you sell are not as good as the ones you raise at home." Ji Zihe knew that even though his aunt was complaining, But my heart is still happy.

My aunt didn't let them bring things, not because she looked down on them, but because she didn't want her natal family to spend money.She doesn't have many brothers and sisters, only Ji Zihe and his father are brothers, and they left early.Now her father only has her one daughter left, and it is too late for her to honor her father.How can I keep asking my father to help me?Furthermore, old hens are quite valuable and highly nutritious, so they don’t have to worry about selling them. After all, in the countryside, hens are used to lay eggs, and they usually don’t want to eat eggs, let alone kill chickens to sell them.

"Don't take it with you next time, the road is so far and you've been walking for so long, you must be tired." Auntie pretended to be angry.

"Understood, I'm tired." Ji Zihe agreed, heck, anyway, this is not the first time he has made a promise, seeing him like this, you can tell that he is a skilled worker, everything is just difficult at the beginning, and if there is one, there will be another.His aunt loves him, so why doesn't he like his only aunt?

"It's getting late, I'm going to cook for you."

"Okay, sister-in-law is in the room, I'll go and see her." Ji Zihe asked.

Aunt grabbed a few walnuts and stuffed them into Ji Zihe's hands, "Go, come out as soon as you say hello, don't stay too long, your sister-in-law needs to rest."

"Okay." Ji Zihe put the walnuts in his pocket and ran to the room of Ning Caichen and his wife.

Ji Zihe often came to his aunt's house, and he was familiar with her family. He even knew where the Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness were in Ning Caichen's library.

Ji Zihe stood at the door and patted on the door, "Sister-in-law, I'm Zihe, I'm here to see you."

"It's Zihe, come in."

Ji Zihe pushed open the door, and a bitter smell of medicine came over his face.He led Huang Jiulang into the door, and saw his sister-in-law was propping herself up and about to sit up, so she hurried over to help her.

Although they are of the same generation, Ji Zihe and Ning Caichen are ten years behind.Ji Zihe was not very old at all, and his aunt's family always treated him as a child, even his sister-in-law, so there was no need to be taboo against men and women.

"Sister-in-law, what kind of sickness are you suffering from? Why haven't you recovered?" Ji Zihe moved a stool and sat by the bed, while Huang Jiulang stood behind him.

"The doctor said it was a lung disease, cough." The sister-in-law suddenly coughed violently as she spoke.She hurriedly picked up the handkerchief and covered her mouth. When the handkerchief was removed, Ji Zihe saw blood on it.

"Blood, what kind of lung disease is it? It's so terrible."

The sister-in-law waved her hand weakly at him, "You go out first, the room is very sick, don't stay for a long time."

Originally, his sister-in-law was a little fat, with a fleshy and round face, who knows how long she had been ill, and her chin was so thin that she became a weak woman with a weak willow and a strong wind.Beauty is beautiful, but it is a kind of sickly beauty, which makes Ji Zihe unable to appreciate it.

"Let me talk to you for a while."

"Ahem, get out." The sister-in-law was about to push her with her arms outstretched, but Ji Zihe had no choice but to take Huang Jiulang out of the door first.

"Bone, what disease do you think my sister-in-law has?" Ji Zihe asked.

Bones shook his head, "I'm not human, how do I know what disease she has."

"I'm human, but I still don't know." Ji Zihe squatted in the yard and rolled his eyes at the bone.

"Master, your sister-in-law is in such a hurry to drive you out, is this disease contagious?"

"Xiao Jiu, do you know what kind of disease this is?" Ji Zihe looked at Huang Jiulang.

"I heard that there is a folk disease called tuberculosis. When you get it, you will cough for a long time, become thin, cough up blood, and have no strength. I heard that people who have this disease may also get tuberculosis if they stay for a long time."

"Then how can this disease be treated?" Ji Zihe asked hastily.

Huang Jiulang shook his head, "I heard that this disease will kill you once you get it. I have never heard of anyone who survived."

"Is there no way to cure monsters?"

Huang Jiulang shook his head, "I don't know medical skills, but even if they find monsters who are good at medicine, they may not be willing to save mortals, so as not to cause karma and mess up their practice."

"Is that so, can that ghost be cured?" Ji Zihe looked at the bones again.

"I think your sister-in-law seems to have an extra piece of meat in her lungs, how about I cut it off for her?" Bones thought for a while and said.

"Don't mess around, don't act blindly if you don't understand." Ji Zihe didn't want to do bad things with good intentions, what kind of unreliable doctor he is.

"Tsk, if she's a ghost, if I give her some spiritual power, maybe she can heal herself. But your sister-in-law is an ordinary person with no cultivation. If I give her spiritual power, what if she... um, What should I do if it explodes with a bang," Bone said.

If they set foot on the cultivation base or other monsters, they would not get common diseases at all, and most of the cases that needed treatment were injuries.The self-healing ability of a cultivator is not a little bit higher than that of ordinary people. For ordinary trauma and internal injuries, as long as there is enough spiritual power, they can heal themselves, so the bones say that they need to lose spiritual power.

"Then is it too late for my sister-in-law to start practicing?" Ji Zihe asked.

"Temporary hugging Buddha's feet, do you think it's feasible?" Bone asked back.

"How will you know if you don't try?" Ji Zihe's eyes were burning.

"Do you think all immortal cultivators are Chinese cabbage? Those are all people who need to have immortality to practice. Besides, how can we, a ghost and a vixen, know how human beings practice cultivation?" Bones did not hesitate shattered his illusions.

Ji Zihe lowered his head, "Then what should I do?"

"Didn't your aunt say that Imperial Physician Qi is very powerful, maybe he has a way." Bones didn't show up, and patted his head.

"That's all it takes."

Ji Zihe's uncle was always in the bookstore during the day and would only come home at night, so there was no need to wait for him to come back for lunch.During the meal, the sister-in-law did not come out, but the aunt brought it in for her to eat alone.

In fact, Ji Zihe's sister-in-law's illness has not been diagnosed. After seeing several doctors, some said it was tuberculosis, and some said it was lung accumulation. Ning Caichen and the others couldn't tell which one it was.Anyway, the treatment has no effect, so Ning Caichen will continue to look for famous doctors.

In the evening, Ning Caichen came back dejectedly, and Ji Zihe knew at a glance that this time he went out again without success.

After staying at Ning's house for one night, Ji Zihe planned to take Huang Jiulang back the next day.As a result, as soon as he went out, he saw the man surnamed He wandering not far from Ning's house from yesterday, Ji Zihe hurriedly took his feet back.Fortunately, the Ning family had a back door, so Ji Zihe and the others left through the back door. As for that surnamed He, well, his uncle's biceps are not for nothing.

After returning home, Ji Zihe began to ask around, wondering if he could find a way to get in touch with Imperial Physician Qi so that he could help his sister-in-law.

"Master, I found out that Imperial Physician Qi and a man named He Wanwan are good friends and have a very close relationship." Huang Jiulang hurried back and said.

"He Wanwan, why does this name sound so familiar to me?" Ji Zihe thought.

"It's the father of that eccentric He Zixiao we met a few days ago."

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