Wanqingsi

Chapter 153 Case Study

The room is emptier than I imagined, and there are no extra furnishings in the house. A [-]-fold mahogany carved screen is facing the door. When the screen is turned around, there is a bucket-shaped iron cauldron filled with black thick Chinese medicinal juice, and a burning fire is placed below it. The red charcoal fire heated the medicinal juice in the tripod.The medicinal juice was steaming white in the cauldron, and the strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine made my stomach queasy, and a mouthful of sour water came out of my mouth.I suppressed the feeling of nausea, and saw the pink curtain on the mahogany hollow carved round arch in the inner room on the left hanging down. I walked over and wanted to open the curtain, but Yunde whispered behind me: "Young Madam, wait a minute No matter what you see, please don't come forward and disturb Mr. Fu's diagnosis and treatment."

I nodded, and Yunde opened the curtain for me.There are six braziers rising in the room, making the room look like the scorching sun in midsummer.There is only a small copper bed in the inner room. There is no bedding and curtains on the bed, just a bare bed frame, not even a bed board, only a few thick copper pillars like bamboo poles as support.Yun Zheng was lying naked on the copper pillar, his eyes were closed tightly, and he was obviously still in a coma, his limbs were opened in a big shape, and a round and smooth copper ring was locked on the wrist and ankle, and the copper ring was welded There are heavy copper chains, and the other ends of the chains are put on the pillars at the four corners of the copper bed.I was startled and angry, and wanted to rush over, but Yunde immediately stopped me: "Young Madam, you promised not to affect Mr. Fu's diagnosis and treatment."

I paused, and then I noticed that Mr. Fu, who was only wearing unlined clothes, was baking silver needles on the candle. I turned my head and stared at Yunde: "Why did you lock Yunzheng up? What are you going to do to him?"

"Young Madam, the diagnosis and treatment process is very painful. Lock up Master Zheng so that he will not hurt himself." Yunde explained in a low voice.But I heard Yunzheng suddenly let out a muffled snort. I quickly looked over and saw that Yunzheng was twitching all over his body, his hands were clenched into fists, his joints were cracking, and he was struggling hard. The copper chain and copper pillar were being pulled There was a crisp "ding ding" sound from the impact, and the black lines on his face kept sprouting and growing like weeds, gradually growing into tattoo-like patterns.I was stunned by this weird scene, Yun Zheng suddenly opened his eyes and let out an uncontrollable cry of pain. "Yunde! Hurry up!" Mr. Fu suddenly said, Yunde had already rushed to the head of the bed when the black line grew just now, when Yunzheng opened his mouth to cry out in pain, he quickly pulled a white cloth through Yunzheng's mouth and passed it over Yunzheng. The back of the head is tied into a tight knot.Yun Zheng struggled violently, but no sound came out of his mouth, only a muffled hum of "woo woo". "Yunzheng..." Tears welled up from my eyes, and I ran to the copper bed, trembling and squatting down.My Yun Zheng, what kind of punishment are you suffering?Yunde said in a low voice: "Young Madam, this is just to prevent Master Zheng from biting himself..." "Yun Zheng..." Tears surged like a spring, and I just felt that my heart was also struggling and churning with him in severe pain.Yun Zheng struggled violently, shaking the copper bed to creak, and the crisp sound of the copper chains colliding with the bedpost reflected the pain he was enduring.His eyes are red, but his eyes are slack. Although his eyes are open, it can be seen at a glance that his mind is not clear.Mr. Fu stuck a silver needle into his body, his body froze, his eyes closed, and he fainted again.

"Yunzheng..." I didn't dare to reach out to touch him, for fear of affecting Mr. Fu's injection.There are more and more black threads on Yunzheng's body, swimming under the skin like worms. Mr. Fu picked up another silver needle and quickly stuck it into a black thread. The black thread seemed to be nailed to the head. The squid no longer moves fast, but twists its body non-stop, as if struggling violently, and immediately a peanut-sized pimple appears on the skin where the silver needle has been pricked, and it grows bigger and darker , Yun Zheng still groaned in pain in a coma.The black threads all over his back began to run wildly. Mr. Fu raised and lowered the needles and applied them non-stop. In an instant, dozens of silver needles had been pierced into Yunzheng's back. Every time a needle was applied, Yunzheng groaned in pain. , there are more and more black weeds on the back with their heads nailed tightly, and more and more black bumps appear on the skin. At a glance, it is densely packed, bumpy, and scary. The bumps where the needle was first applied are already black. The blood soaked out from the edge of the silver needle, winding and crawling all over Yun Zheng's pale back, it was too horrible to look at.My scalp was numb, my feet were itchy, and my heart was filled with worry and fear.The stench of corruption filled the whole room, Yun Zheng's body began to convulse and twitch slightly, the further he got to the back, the more he twitched, even though his mouth was strangled by a white cloth, broken moans still came out of his mouth intermittently.

Mr. Fu's face turned pale, big beads of sweat slid down his face, the single clothes on his body were almost soaked, Yunde wrung out a towel and kept wiping his sweat away.As time passed, more and more silver needles were on Yun Zheng's body, and they were densely pierced all over his body, including his back, neck, arms, and legs. At first glance, it looks like a huge needle bag.More and more black blood leached from the edge of the silver needle, and the terrifying black leached a strange picture on Yun Zheng's white and transparent skin.

The tattoo on Yunzheng's face stopped growing, and the black line pattern was like a strangely shaped vine, if I hadn't watched it grow out under Yunzheng's face so horribly, if it hadn't brought Yunzheng Intense pain, the shape of the vine can even be called beautiful.Mr. Fu took out another set of needles, but this time they were not silver needles, but gold needles.After he sterilized the golden needles, he unscrewed a small jade bottle, which exuded a strong fragrance, diluting the stench in the room.He inserted all the golden needles into the jade bottle, and when he took them out again, the golden needles were covered with a fragrant transparent liquid.Mr. Fu raised the needle and stuck it on Yun Zheng's face, not directly on the weird pattern, but near the top of the growing vine.The black threads that made up the pattern moved suddenly, as if they were extremely afraid of the golden needle, or the fragrance of the juice carried by the golden needle, and retreated to the neck.Mr. Fu applied needles continuously with sharp eyesight and quick hands, forcing the black threads back step by step until all the black threads receded from his face like tangled hemp and retreated to his body, then Mr. Fu raised the silver needle again and used the black threads just After finishing all this, he let out a long breath, as if his body had experienced a fierce struggle, and he relaxed from the high tension.

Yunde also breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly wiped Mr. Fu's face with a towel.I looked at the poor Yunzheng who was unconscious on the bed with tears in my eyes. The dirty blood from the edge of the silver needle gradually dyed Yunzheng's whole body black, but I didn't dare to cry or reach out to touch him, for fear that my crying would hurt him. To trouble Mr. Fu, I am afraid that my inadvertent actions will cause confusion to the diagnosis and treatment.My Yunzheng, my Yunzheng...

There was a slight cracking sound from Yunzheng's back, and the pimple where the needle was first injected was burst by the black blood, and the dirty blood gushed out all at once.I raised my eyes to look at Mr. Fu in a panic. He calmly took out a gourd with small eyes, pulled out the stopper, pointed the mouth of the gourd to the dirty blood lump with broken skin, and pulled out the gourd at the same time. silver needle.After a while, a small rhombus-shaped snake head protruded from the gourd. There was a blood-red symbol-like pattern on the snake's head, and its two eyes were also bright red. The little snake crawled out of the gourd. Snake letter swallowing blood, smelling the smell of dirty blood, the little snake became excited, opened its mouth wide, and bit on the ruptured blood lump.

"Ah!" I exclaimed.Mr. Fu glanced at me indifferently, without making a sound, Yunde hurriedly said: "Young Madam, don't be afraid, this snake is specially used to treat Young Master Zheng."

Looking at the snake carefully, the snake seemed to be swallowing the dirty blood in the gore, and after a while, it swallowed up the black dirty blood, and red blood oozes out.The little snake let go, twisted its body lazily, and the second crack came from another blood lump. Mr. Fu pulled out the silver needle, and the little snake nimbly avoided the densely packed silver needles on Yun Zheng's body. , put his mouth on the broken blood lump, bit it again, and swallowed blood in big mouthfuls.

I was shocked by this strange scene, and watched the little snake swallow the dirty blood one by one.Its snow-white jade body gradually turned gray, and then slowly turned black. The more dirty blood it drank, the black became deeper and deeper, until it changed from a small white snake to a small black snake with a whole body black.The silver needles on Yun Zheng's body became less and less, and the little black snake's belly gradually swelled up, like a balloon filled with water, getting rounder and rounder.In the end, it couldn't move at all, so Mr. Fu pushed it in front of those dirty blood bumps, probably because it had eaten too much, it swallowed the dirty blood with great effort, I just felt that it took another bite, its stomach It would burst, but it swallowed mouthful after mouthful, and its stomach was still intact, like a greedy glutton.

The last silver needle was pulled out, the little snake swallowed the last mouthful of dirty blood, its body was already rounded into a ball, it couldn't move anymore, it suddenly rolled off Yun Zheng's back and fell to the ground.Mr. Fu breathed a sigh of relief, pulled the golden needle from Yunzheng's face, and said to Yunde, "Turn over."

Yunde untied the copper rings that locked Yunzheng's limbs, and turned Yunzheng's body flat, face up.It was only then that I saw dozens of dazzling golden needles pierced in front of Yun Zheng, which were the same as the ones on his face before, presumably they should have the same function as the golden needles on his face, to force back those black threads, Let them concentrate on the back, which is convenient for Mr. Fu to operate and treat.

Mr. Fu pulled out all the golden needles in front of Yunzheng, and said in a deep voice, "Hold Master Zheng into the medicine cauldron." Yunde picked up the unconscious Yunzheng and walked out of the inner room. I followed him out quickly. See him put Yunzheng into the steaming medicine cauldron.Yun Zheng groaned slightly, and I rushed forward: "Yun Zheng, you're awake..."

However, he saw that his eyes were still tightly closed, his face was pale, without a trace of blood and vitality.Yunde raised his eyes and looked at me: "Young Madam, Mr. Fu used a silver needle to prick the young master's sleeping point, and the young master won't wake up until the routine examination is over."

"Is he alright?" I whispered, "How long will he soak?"

"From now on, let's soak until tomorrow morning." Mr. Fu came out from the inner room, "It's all right now, young lady is inconvenient, please go back and rest."

"No!" I refused straight away, "I want to stay here with him."

"Young Madam..." Yunde wanted to persuade me, but I looked at him firmly and said firmly, "You don't need to persuade me, I won't leave!"

Yunde turned his head to look at Mr. Fu, Mr. Fu glanced at me, and said to Yunde: "Move a soft couch for Young Madam."

Yunde heard the words and went out. Mr. Fu reached out to test the temperature of the concoction, and added a few pieces of charcoal to the brazier under the iron tripod. I saw that his unlined clothes were soaked with sweat, so I thanked him. A gift: "Mr. Fu, thank you!"

He was startled, and then smiled faintly, with a lonely expression on his face: "Young Madam, you don't need to be polite, Fu is not talented, and can't cure Master Zheng's illness, so I dare not thank you."

"What disease did Yun Zheng suffer from?" I finally couldn't hold back the doubt in my heart.Is Yun Zheng really sick?Is there such a strange disease in this world?His appearance is more like the poisoning described in martial arts novels or...

Mr. Fu looked at me and said indifferently: "Young Madam, it is inconvenient for me to tell you. If you want to know, you can ask Master Zheng when he wakes up."

I know he won't say anything to me anymore.Yunde asked Tiewei to move the soft couch in, and I sat on the couch, looking at Yunzheng who was soaking in the medicine cauldron, and Mr. Fu who was observing the temperature of the medicine water and adding charcoal to the brazier from time to time, and sat there worriedly until dawn.

(End of this chapter)