Chapter 37 Section five

One night, as if Gu Tiancheng had just woken up, he opened his eyes, only to feel that the eyes were full of golden flowers, but his head was still groggy, so he quickly closed his eyes again.Ears heard some buzzing sound.After a while, the voice became indistinct, as if someone was talking, separated by a wall.After a while, I heard clearly, and indeed a person said in a rough voice: "...no matter what you say, I insist on going back to sleep tonight! Don't make me sick, that's just ridiculous !" Another loud voice: "Sister-in-law Zhong Yao, you've only stayed up five nights!..."

Mrs. Zhong Yao also stayed up five nights, why?She was still saying: "...It seems that it doesn't matter anymore. The fever has subsided, so I won't talk nonsense. If you don't believe me, go and feel it." If there is a person walking over with heavy steps.He opened his eyes again.A big yellow flat face was facing him, it turned out to be Ah San, he recognized it very clearly. "Oh! Sister-in-law Zhong, sister-in-law Zhong, come and see! Your eyes are open, blinking!" The one walking beside Ah San was indeed Mrs. Zhong Yao, who had round eyes, a fat face, and long eyelashes, and he also recognized it very clearly.

She looked at his face, seemed very happy, stood up and patted Ah San's thick arm, and said, "I'm right? Don't you think he's awake?...Ah! Three Lord Gong, do you recognize me? I am really blessed by the Bodhisattva! Your illness is very good! I have stayed up for five nights to watch over you. You see, these people must be good people!" He was still a little dizzy, and wanted to ask her something out of nowhere, and thought he had said it, but it sounded like a suckling cat meowing to himself. Aaron rushed in and shouted loudly: "Is he alright?..." Mrs. Zhong Yao stopped him and said, "Stupid thing, what are you doing with such loud noises!... He just woke up, don't bother him! Let's all walk away, let him wake up, and talk to him again!... Amitabha I should go back too!...Aaron go and simmer some porridge, lest he be hungry and want to eat! Don't put anything else in the porridge, just a little sugar!..."

Ah San sat on the edge of the bed, picked up his thick calloused hand, touched his forehead, and said with a big smile, "You're really well!" He could see clearly that the square table was full of things except for a bright tin lampstand. It seemed that there were a few small glass bottles, which were transparently reflected by the light.The bed cover is hung on the horn hook at the head side, and the bottom end is still down.I was lying on my back, and there seemed to be a lot of things covering my body, which was very heavy. He looked at Ah San, and tried his best to ask: "How long have I been sick?" He could already hear him talking, but his voice was low and hoarse.

Ah San naturally heard it too, nodded and said, "Yes! It's the fourth day of the lunar new year, and you've been sick for fourteen days on the 20th day of the first lunar month!... Don't be too busy talking! Do you want some porridge? Fourteenth I haven't eaten anything all day, this makes me urge Aaron to go!" After being fed half a bowl of porridge, he fell asleep again.This night is a deep sleep to rest after illness, not indulging and fainting during illness.So at dawn the next day, Gu Tiancheng woke up very clearly.According to Ah San, who was on guard at night, he really slept well and snored in the middle of the night.And I also felt hungry, washed my face, ate porridge and pickles, and found it very fragrant.

After the meal, Ah San asked him if he still took foreign medicine? "Foreign medicine?" He asked in surprise, "What foreign medicine?" "Ah! I forgot to tell you! Your disease is cured by foreign medicine!" "What kind of foreign medicine is it? Where did it come from?" His voice became louder and more forceful. "Don't you know? It was taken from Mrs. Zeng.... Uh! I forgot again, you are so sick, don't you know? I'll just listen to you..." Ah San's words were always sloppy, and she couldn't figure it out. It was thanks to Aaron who came in and helped Gu Tiancheng understand.

What happened was like this: When Gu Tiancheng almost fell down and was carried on the bed by Ah San and A Long, he was already unconscious.Aaron was so frightened that he could only cry. The neighbors heard it and came to see him, but there was nothing he could do.The old man who had taken care of his wife's funeral told Ah San to go to the scene to find a doctor.The doctor was the lunatic Ma San who sold pills. When he came to see him, he said he had an evil wind.After giving a few Xiefeng pills, he didn't want to drink them, so he started talking nonsense.Everyone believed that they had encountered an evil spirit, so they found a Duan Gong to make a talisman, and gave him a flower plate, and he talked nonsense even more fiercely.The old man didn't dare to make up his mind, so he called his wife's elder brother and sister-in-law. Not only did they not come, they even scolded him, saying that he deserved retribution, and guessed that he had deliberately lost his younger brother in order to please his new wife.Don't let a neighbor's sister recommend another flower-watching woman, who spent three hundred yuan, a meal, and a flower-watching show.He said that there was a female ghost standing under the flower tree, and she wanted three taels of silver to explain it to him.Ah San didn't know where his silver was kept, so he asked everyone to borrow it, but couldn't lend it, so he ran into the city to find his uncle.It happened that the second young lady was in labor that day, and she said that there was a ghost in the dystocia, and she couldn't give birth. Three or four birth examiners were invited, and a Taoist priest was invited to draw amulets.Fortunately, when he was about to leave the city, he suddenly ran into Brother Zhong Yao and his wife.They paid New Year's greetings to their master, went to the Shijing Temple, and stayed at the master's house for two days when they came back, and they were about to go home.When they talked about his illness a few times, Mrs. Zhong Yao said that there was a foreign doctor treating her daughter's illness at her master's house, Mrs. Zeng.So, the three of them ran to Zeng's house on Xiyu Street, first looking for Mrs. Zhong Yao's sister, and then saying goodbye to Mr. Zeng and Mrs. Zeng.Mrs. Zeng was also really enthusiastic, and immediately took Ah San to the Si Sheng Temple, where she met a very tall foreigner.Mrs. Zeng spoke foreign dialect, so she told Ah San one by one.He took some medicine powder, put it in a glass bottle, and said to take this first, and then go to get the medicine after eating.As soon as Mrs. Zhong Yao came back, she was busy serving him. This is what Mrs. Zeng taught her, how to serve patients, what to eat, and how to clean up the room. There is only one thing that Mrs. Zhong Yao did not follow. Hold up the window; she said, "It's no different than Zeng's house. Even though the window was open, it was on fire. The wind in the country is so strong that the sick are blown away!" Brother Zhong Yao is also good, because Ah San doesn't know the streets very well, he So I volunteered to get the medicine every time.However, when Ah San brought back the foreign medicine for the first time, the neighbors all said that they could not eat it and that it might be poisonous.The older man was the most vicious. He said that he had lived for more than 70 years, and he had never heard of foreign devils’ medicines that could cure people, or that people were sick. He was so sick that he talked nonsense. Those who cannot be cured will be cured by foreign devils.Foreign devils are ghosts, and ghosts are only willing to kill people, and they will cure people there.Mrs. Zhong Yao fought with him so badly that she almost got into a fight.Later, it was Ah San who came out and patted his chest and said, "Take a dead horse as a living horse doctor! The master is dead, and I will die!" Then they gagged the mouths of the crowd and poured down the foreign medicine.That night, when people came to inquire about his dead letter from time to time, Mrs. Zhong Yao sat down in front of the bed and stayed up all night.

This is the origin of the foreign medicine, and it cured him by itself! Gu Tiancheng was also surprised, so he said: "Is there any foreign medicine left? Show me." Aaron brought over a half-sized glass bottle from the square table and said: "The first two times it was flat and filled with medicinal powder, and later it was this liquid medicine." A kind of light yellow fresh water, the stopper was opened, but there was no smell, and there was still a small half bottle left. He asked: "What to eat?" Aaron said: "Every two meals, I will give you half a spoon. This spoon is also brought back by Brother Zhong Yao." He also showed him a long spoon wrapped in paper on the table that looked like silver.

He said curiously: "Pour a little and taste it to see what it tastes like." Sister-in-law Zhong Yao was walking in, took the bottle from Aaron's hand and said, "Don't eat it! The foreign doctor said that if a person wakes up, he needs to change his own medicine. The people in front of my door let the cow go. Go.... Lord Sangong, you should be clear today? Oh! You are really scary! Thanks to you for this serious illness!" In the eyes of Gu Tiancheng today, Mrs. Zhong Yao is really a living Bodhisattva.I feel that it is not as dark as usual, my face doesn't seem so round, my eyes don't seem so bulging, and my mouth doesn't seem so quivering either.Naturally, he thanked her very much. She said a few words modestly, and then said: "It's also your chance! If Brother Ah San hadn't met me, who would have found a foreign doctor? But it's also thanks to the fact that I met someone like this at Zeng's house." One thing. It seems that there is really a Bodhisattva blessing! I went to Shijing Temple with the people in front of me to pray for a son, but I didn’t want to burn incense for you!”

Followed by a burst of haha. The news of Gu Tiancheng's sobriety spread all over the world. The neighbors all came to see him, they were all surprised, they all looked at the foreign medicine, and they all talked about it.Take a ward cleaned up by Mrs. Zhong Yao, and bring in the soil from the ground, filling the room with leaf smoke.Only the elderly male neighbor didn't come because he didn't want to believe that Gu Tiancheng was cured by foreign medicine. But Gu Tiancheng didn't want to win him over, insisting that he got better day by day because of the foreign medicine.Eight days later, the foreign doctor said that there was no need to take any more medicine, but only a refined diet.

It was also thanks to this illness that the thought of missing Zhaodi gradually became cold, and he was able to talk to Mrs. Zhong Yao in detail about Zhaodi's situation in those few days after he lost his life.However, the scars are always there. One day, he was on the threshing ground, basking in the rare and warm spring sun in mid-February.Seeing the surrounding trees, they are all green and sprouting new leaves.A peach blossom on the corner of the fence also burst out with red petals.In the field, the soybeans are about to be harvested, the wheat is already so tall, and the rapeseed flowers are gradually turning yellow.Bees are flying everywhere and buzzing everywhere.The eagle circled very freely in the clear sky, probably couldn't help the turmoil of the yang energy, and called twice from time to time, scaring the chicks on the ground and falling down under the hen's wings.There is a lot of business everywhere, and the voices of children are heard from time to time. In a trance, I feel that Zhaodi is also there. He never knew how to think about things, and he couldn't help but think back to what happened on the East Street on the eleventh day of the first lunar month.The first thing that reappeared in front of his eyes was the provocative woman, Ping Ping Tingting's body, a cute face, and a pair of sparkling eyes, he still remembered it clearly.Compared with Liu Sanjin, she is not so wild, but not very solemn.Then I asked myself in my heart: "Who is this Luo Waizui? Doesn't he look like a bitch, maybe he is his wife?... Wives are not good things! The last time it was Liu Sanjin, this time This woman again, the root of the curse, the root of the curse! The revenge of the previous round has not been repaid, and I have suffered such a big loss!... Alas! Poor my recruit, I don’t know whose hands it fell into. Is it a job?..." Thinking of recruiting a younger brother, the more he hated Luo Waizui and others, the more he wanted revenge.Because I also thought about the matter of discussing with Mrs. Zhong Yao last year to find Mrs. Zeng. The leopard jumped over from under its feet, but it didn't bark, it was still wagging its tail.When he turned his head, Aunt Zhong Yao brought him a pot of stewed chicken. ——Since he got up, Mrs. Zhong Yao has been very kind to him, washing his clothes and mending the bottom of his socks.He also said that Ah San and A Long didn't know how to stew chicken, so he cooked it himself at home and served him.It's really like his family.He was very grateful, and promised her in person that when she recovered from her illness, he would give her something, but she said no. ——He then stood up, walked into the kitchen with the two dogs, and while they were eating while it was hot, he mentioned that he wanted to find Mrs. Zeng. She sat by the side, put one elbow on the table and said with a smile: "Now, you can go to her directly. Prepare some gifts and give them to her as a way of thanking her. When you meet her, it will be nice Tell her about you and beg her to talk to Shi Yangren, wouldn't it be right?" He shook his head and said, "It's not good, I'd better ask you to ask her for help! First, I don't want to ask her for help. Second, my mouth is blunt and I can't speak clearly." She also shook her head and said: "For your illness, I have already helped you a lot, and you still have to trouble me!" "I know, you are my great benefactor. You care about me very much. Don't you understand that my illness is caused by me? You just cured my illness and didn't think of a way to avenge me. Then you are just a Half a benefactor! Sister-in-law, good sister-in-law! I will always thank you for bothering you this time!" She looked at him and said: "You open your mouth to say thank you, but keep your mouth shut to say thank you. Please explain clearly first, what are you thanking me for?" "As long as you like it, I'll buy it!" She poked his forehead with her finger and said, "Are you pretending to be crazy? I want you to buy it?"