Song Yi

Chapter 196 The Haunted House
But the young mistress didn't look at Du Wenhao. After saying that, she closed her eyes again, opened her nostrils and panted heavily.

Du Wenhao raised his wrist to check the pulse, and he was relieved when he could already feel the pulse.

Pu Ling asked: "Mr. Du, what should I do about my wife's illness?"

Du Wenhao originally wanted to come here this time to ask the young mistress what disease she had before, and find out how she transmitted the disease to the child in her stomach, but now seeing the young mistress's neurotic appearance, I'm afraid he won't be able to ask anything, so he must first Cure the young lady's mental illness and let her return to normal before asking about the child's illness.So Du Wenhao said: "Mrs. Madam's illness is caused by the child being taken away, causing discomfort, overthinking, liver depression turning into fire, injuring yin and depleting fluid, and deficiency of both the heart and spleen. Originally, it can be treated with flavored Ganmai Dazao Decoction. In short, as the saying goes, a heart disease needs heart medicine, and she must see her child before she can be cured, otherwise she will have another attack after being cured."

Pu Ling said sadly: "My mother sent someone to take the child away. I asked my mother where the child was. My mother said she gave it away, but she refused to say who it was given to. Where can I find it? "

Du Wenhao whispered: "Your child is in my pharmacy!"

ah?Puling and the old lady were both surprised and happy, and asked, "Why is the child in Mr.'s drugstore?"

Du Wenhao made up casually: "It was sent by Imperial Physician Lin. The old lady sent the child to him for treatment. He said he couldn't cure it, so she sent it to me for treatment. The child is very sick."

"It turned out to be like this. I thought my mother had really given away the child, but it turned out that she was looking for a doctor to treat the child. Is she seriously ill? What is the illness?..."

Suddenly, the young lady hissed as if going crazy: "My son! Where is my son? Give me back...!" As she spoke, she got up and was about to run outside.

The old lady hurriedly hugged her and comforted her repeatedly.

Du Wenhao said: "You can send Mrs. Zun to my pharmacy to reunite with the child. This will help Mrs. Zun recover from her illness. At the same time, it will also be convenient for me to treat his mother and daughter."

Pu Ling said: "This..., I'm afraid my mother won't allow it!"

Du Wenhao was furious, and said in a deep voice, "Will you not tell them?"

"Ah? Then..., my mother knows, she will..."

"You! You are a real person! Your wife has become like this, and you are still afraid of jackals and tigers. You have to wait for your wife to go crazy before regretting it?"

The old lady also said: "Yes, young master. Anyway, after the young lady gave birth to her daughter, the old lady and the old lady never came to our yard. They won't find out for a while. I will take care of it here. If there is anything I will cover up. .”

Pu Ling gritted his teeth, nodded and said, "Okay! I'll take her there! Then come back and face it. Doctor Du, how many days will it take to cure their mother and daughter?"

"Mrs. Zun's illness should recover soon, but the child's illness is very difficult. I don't know when it will be cured."

Puling heard that the doctor Lin could not cure him, so when he sent it to Du Wenhao, he knew that the disease must not be mild.Nodding sadly: "It's not too late, then let's go."

In order to avoid alarming others, he dared not set up a car or use a sedan chair, so he could only use Du Wenhao's little donkey to carry the young lady on his back. Under the cover of night, he quietly left the house through the side door and returned to Wuweitang.

Entering the pharmacy, she came to the inpatient department, pushed open the door of the room where the child was hospitalized, and saw the child lying on the small bed, the young mistress immediately lit up, screamed, staggered over, knelt down beside the small bed, trembling He hugged the baby in his arms, hugged him tightly, kept kissing the child's face, kept moaning and screaming, tears rolled down, and snot and saliva covered the child's face.

Pu Ling also went over and touched the child's face: "Xizhi, our child has been found!"

"En!" The young mistress hugged her daughter and nodded happily.

Seeing this scene, Du Wenhao was very happy. It seems that the young mistress' mental disorder is only temporary, and recovery is expected.Let them stay with the family for a while, and then ask the cause of the convulsion when the mood calms down.

Du Wenhao watched and left the room, went to the pharmacy in the front hall, wrote a prescription and handed it to Sha Pang, asking him to find a prescription and make a decoction for the young mistress.

Afterwards, Du Wenhao returned to the inner house.

As soon as the inner courtyard door was opened, Du Wenhao saw the happy and disappointed faces of Pang Yuqin, Xue Feier and Yingzi, and his heart sank: "Sister Qingdai hasn't come back yet?"

Yingzi nodded, her eyes were red.

Du Wenhao patted her on the shoulder: "Don't worry, your shopkeeper is very skilled in martial arts, no one can do anything to her, maybe something is delayed, and he will come back after finishing it. ——How many days?"

"Five watch"

"It's almost dawn..." Du Wenhao said he wasn't worried, but he couldn't help but feel worried when he heard that it was the fifth watch.

Xue Fei'er said: "Why don't we go and have a look?"

"We don't know how to fly over walls, do you?"

Xue Fei'er blushed: "I..., I won't."

"Then we just have to wait."

Pang Yuqin said anxiously: "Then what if Sister Qingdai never comes back?"

Du Wenhao was stunned for a moment, and said decisively: "If you don't come back at dawn, you can go to the door and ask!"

The three girls nodded together.

Sitting in the living room for a while, Du Wenhao guessed that the Pu family's young mistress had calmed down, so he decided to check the situation here first, so that Pu Ling could go back first.

When Du Wenhao came to the inpatient department, Pu Ling and his wife Su Xizhi were looking at the child in their arms and talking. There was a medicine bowl next to it. It seemed that the medicine had been decocted and taken.

Seeing Du Wenhao push the door in, Pu Ling and his wife Su Xizhi hurriedly stood up to greet him, saying that they were very grateful to the divine doctor for saving his life.

Du Wenhao forced a smile: "What kind of genius doctor. Sit down, I have something to ask you."

The two sat on the small bed, Su Xizhi still hugged the baby tightly and did not let go.

Du Wenhao asked: "Think about it carefully, during pregnancy, have you ever been sick and taken any medicine?"

"No!" Pu Ling said with certainty, "My mother has studied medicine and knows that illness and taking medicine will harm the baby in her stomach, so she is very considerate in taking care of my wife, even if she usually has a headache, she will not take medicine. , Carried it over. Until before the delivery, Imperial Physician Lin said that the fetus in the stomach died, so he took the abortion medicine. Could it be that this time hurt the child?"

"No! The child's convulsions should have occurred before this. Think about it again, is there any other things that may cause the child's illness? For example, what strange food has been eaten, what strange place has been to, etc. wait."

Pu Ling thought for a while and said, "No more..."

Su Xizhi poked him with her elbow, and said in a low voice, "What about Taoist practices? Doesn't it count?"

Du Wenhao wondered: "Taoists practice? What's going on?"

Pu Ling slapped his thigh: "Yes! Taoist practice, I forgot if you didn't mention it, it's a bit strange, it's like this, when my wife was pregnant for about six or seven months, one day my parents and I took her to Daxiangguo Temple offered incense to pray for a son, and came out after offering incense. The old Taoist stared at my wife’s stomach and said, “Nie Yi!” My father was very angry and asked him why he said that. He said that my wife is too sinister. Heavy, so there are evil spirits pestering my wife, trying to enter the womb to harm the fetus. I called him nonsense, he sneered and said, he can prove it to us. Ask him how to prove it, he said he knew that there is a ghost in the capital House, at three o'clock tonight, he will wait for us outside the door, and then he will open my wife's dark eyes to see ghosts. Hearing what he said seriously, this kind of thing is of course more believable. So We went that night, and my wife really saw a ghost!"

Du Wenhao frowned, and asked Su Xizhi, "Ma'am, did you really see a ghost?"

"Yes!" Su Xizhi said affirmatively, "He took me into the house, walked in, and passed by a pond. I suddenly felt nauseous, so I vomited by the pond. When I raised my head after vomiting, I saw someone in the air in front of me. A man in white, headless, floating in the air, I fainted from fright on the spot. When I woke up, I was already at home."

Du Wenhao turned his head and asked Pu Ling, "Did you see it?"

"I saw it too! At that time I went to help my wife, but what I saw was a hanged ghost, sticking out its long tongue, hanging above the pond!" Pu Ling recalled the past, still terrified, "I was also scared. I was paralyzed. But my parents later said that they didn’t see anything at the time. I didn’t faint from fright at the time, but I covered my face and dared not look at the ghost. My parents hurriedly helped me and my wife back home, and took the Taoist priests were also invited to the house. After my wife woke up, she kept shouting that there was a ghost, and her face turned pale with fright.

"Are you sure you read it right?"

"I must have read it right, it was floating above the pond! Later, I heard people say that the house is indeed often haunted by ghosts. Many members of the original owner's family have seen ghosts in the house, and even frightened two maids to death. Don’t dare to live in it, the whole family moved away, the house can’t be sold, it’s cheap and no one wants to buy it, who would buy a ghost house with their lives.”

"Go on and talk about what happened next."

"Well, my father asked the Taoist priest how to exorcise ghosts. The Taoist said that he didn't expect that I was also very dark and saw ghosts. Both of us had to perform rituals to expel ghosts. I asked for a silver tattoo of 10 taels for us husband and wife. It will be fine after two rituals. My father and mother discussed it and thought it was too expensive. My parents called me aside to discuss it. Although my family could afford the money, it was too expensive. My parents said, so much If you take a hundred concubines and take home all the money, there is no need to save such a sinister daughter-in-law. If you can’t, you can take a concubine. So I told the Taoist priest that it was too expensive, and I only gave me 5 taels for doing things alone. The Taoist priest So he did the ritual for me, and then walked away. Unexpectedly, the child is really sick, if I knew this, I should have let that old man do it."

Su Xizhi said softly: "If I knew that I was pregnant with a girl, even if it was a penny, the elders would not agree to do it."

Pu Ling was stunned for a moment, and said: "Why do you say that...?" Remembering the attitude of parents after they knew that their daughter-in-law had given birth to a daughter, it was indeed possible, Pu Ling couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and shut up.

(End of this chapter)