Poor children

Chapter 30

一
After lunch in the kitchen, the poor man went out of the corner door to see Master Sanyang. This was an unwritten agreement between the master and the disciple, which has never been interrupted in the past seven years.
She had just walked out of the door and walked a few steps when she seemed to hear someone calling her "Hey! Hello"

Pao'er turned around and looked around, and saw a person squatting in the shadow of the corner door, calling her. Pao'er walked over and asked, "Who are you?"

"Don't you remember? You gave me steamed buns to eat outside that door that night. I'm an iron egg..."

Only then did the pauper realize that he had never seen his face clearly because it was too dark that night. "Tiedan, it's you. Has your mother gone home?"

"My mother is probably not coming back! My father went out again and never came back." Tiedan rubbed his hands, "You...do you still have something to eat? I haven't eaten for a few days."

The pauper went back to the kitchen to get some steamed buns for him

"It's just that where did your mother go after not returning for so many days? Where did your father go?" the poor boy asked
Tiedan stuffed the steamed buns into his mouth randomly and said incoherently, "Let me tell you, my father sold my mother, and then used the money from selling my mother to gamble. If he lost the bet, he would come back to eat." Drinking, I went to gamble again after I sobered up. Maybe I haven’t lost all my money yet, so I have no home to go to…”

"Why are you selling your mother? How could there be such a person in the world?"

"That day, my father came back drunk after losing a bet. He said that he exchanged my mother and my unborn younger siblings for twenty pieces of silver." It turns out that the son in the third lady's belly was obtained from the mother's blood of the mother who gave birth to the iron egg. , that Huang Chong sold his wife to Mr. An for money, leaving Huang Tiedan alone and he didn't bother to take care of him. He went out for a few days. Poor Tiedan had a child, and there was no grain of rice to cook at home. At first, the neighbor's I could eat a few mouthfuls, but everyone was poor and couldn't eat anymore. That night, Tiedan went out to look for his father and fainted from hunger at the gate of the yard. Fortunately, the poor boy saved him and barely survived, but he was hungry again. In the past few days, I really have no choice but to come to the poor again to beg for food

"Then if your father never comes back, you will be hungry all the time?" Pao'er asked.

"Yeah! I've stripped all the bark off the trees in my yard, and my neighbors are scared of me eating them. There's nothing left to eat," Huang Tiedan said.
"Then you can come here when you have free time. I'll leave some food for you to eat."

"I have time! I have time every day." Tiedan swallowed the last mouthful of steamed buns and choked so hard that he hit his chest.
"Then you come here at this time every day. I will give you something to eat so you can go see my master." After saying this, the poor boy said goodbye to Tiedan and went to see Master Sanyang.

two

"Grandpa?" From a distance, the poor man saw a man who looked like a man at the Sanyang Zhenren Gua stall. When he got closer, he saw that it was none other than the old god Wang.

"Ah, Immeasurable God! Here comes the pauper," the old god laughed.

"Yes!" The poor boy hurriedly saluted, "Greetings to grandpa, greetings to master."

"I heard that you were the one who cured the golden poison?" the old god asked

"My disciple has never seen that poison before, nor has he cured it. He just saw some records in the book, so he wanted to try it, but to his surprise, he was cured of the poison."

"Hahaha! It seems that you have taught this child very well," the old god said to Master Sanyang.
"I'm trying my best, and it's because she is smart. She can understand everything and draw inferences from one instance. If the disciple is smart, it will be easier for the master," the Taoist priest said.

"Did you know that their brothers still have two human bones in their pockets?" the old god asked the poor boy.
"Disciple knows" "Then why didn't you do anything about it?"

"The poor child has been with the master for many years, and the spells that the master usually uses are... er, mostly... bluffing, so I think those tricks and witchcraft are all unfounded things, so there is nothing to be afraid of." The poor child said
"Nonsense! How come my master's magic has become a bluff? Isn't there a time when there is a spirit?" Master Sanyang was very unhappy.

"Master doesn't rely on magic. It just happened that the medicine he used was right for his disease, right?" Paoer asked, "Did Master forget to go to Wang Yuan's house in Dongtou to catch monsters last month? You just said that he The old lady was a fox demon. After trying for a long time to catch the demon, she almost broke off her fingers. It turned out that there were no monsters at all in her house. It was just the wild wind trapped in the wellhead in the backyard that made strange noises every day. , just fill up the well, but the master was really embarrassed when people came to ask questions. He was kowtowing and bowing, and actually gave them the courtesy of worshiping the three gods."

"Traitor!" The Taoist Master's face turned red and white with shame. "You still have the nerve to mention that day, you saw someone knocking on the door and didn't help the master. But you kowtowed to the master and even handed over a futon. What's your conscience?" where?"

"Don't I have any conscience when I hand the futon to Master? I'm also worried about Master's knee injury." The poor boy arrived
"Hahaha" the old fairy stroked his beard and laughed, "Let's not talk about whether there are demons or not, but the witchcraft of the Miao people in southern Xinjiang is not the same. People have nightmares, it's hard to deal with"

"What about Cheng and the two of them?" Paoer was so busy

"Witchcraft is different from poison. Poison occurs quickly, but witchcraft takes some time. The human bones in the purse were found early, so the two young masters were not affected," the old god said

"Senior brother, how come there are things from the Miao people in our Central Plains area?" Master Sanyang asked.

"There is a person in Baiyun Temple who is a master of this middle school," the old god said, "I know her origin, I think this posture is to guard against someone making trouble, I am worried that poor children will be robbed, I will stay in the palace for a few days, and I can teach you She has some resolving techniques"

three

"Go back to the master, the two young masters from the North Courtyard are fine." Yun'er arrived.
"I knew that the two of them would not die, and I just wanted to make them suffer. It took only one night for them to recover. Didn't the old bastard arrive in the morning? He detoxified him so quickly? " asked the third lady
"It's not the old fairy who healed me," Yun'er said as he served the snacks, "It's the poor boy."

Only then did the third lady pick up the snacks and throw them back into the plate. "Poor child!? Huh! I have forgotten about her in the past few years. It would be too comfortable for her to live. Why would she go to that courtyard?"

"They said they just happened to give me something made in the kitchen, but she saw it. Who would have thought that after a few nonsense words, it actually came to light?" Yun'er arrived.
"How can it be such a coincidence!" The third lady was thinking about something in her heart. Suddenly she felt an unbearable abdominal pain, and her lower body turned red. Yun'er was so frightened that she helped her to lie down on the collapse, and then hurriedly sent someone away. Go and ask Gongsun the Imperial Physician

four

When Dr. Gongsun arrived, he happened to meet the prince at the door who had just returned from the imperial court. The two of them came together. Dr. Gongsun carefully checked the pulse of the third lady and then went to the outer hall to write a prescription.

"Doctor, how is my wife?" Wang Ye asked

"Returning to the lord, the third lady's fetal gas is really unstable. Her fetal gas was also extremely weak when she gave birth, and she suffered from dystocia and blood collapse during childbirth. She managed to save her life. Originally, she lost a lot of vitality, so there is nothing better now. The solution, I prescribed a prescription to calm the fetus, warm up the vitality, and ask the third lady to stay in bed and rest more, not to get angry or frightened, otherwise the lives of the mother and the child may not be guaranteed..."

(End of this chapter)