There is a white bone spirit in the village

Chapter 39

When Lin Jiao returned to the store, most of the customers in the front hall had dispersed. Sister-in-law Wang and her staff were busy. Seeing that there were still many things to do, they helped clean up until the end of the Xu Dynasty, and then they took a rest. Sister-in-law Wang was sent back , because the foot shop was open all night to wait for customers, the guy named Niu Erlen was left guarding.When Lin Jiao went to the small private courtyard behind where she and Neng Wu lived, King Tiger was about to follow her into the house with her trousers in his mouth, but Lin Jiao drove her to the front hall and told him to lie down under the counter to accompany Niu Er Leng.After the tiger king healed from his self-injury, he ate and drank a lot these days, and he grew up a lot, looking like a watchdog.

Neng Wu's eyes have been looking at Xu Shun for nearly a month and a half, with decoction every day and acupuncture once every three days, rain or shine.Xu Shun collected the money first, and knew that Yang Jingxuan was the uncle of the family, so naturally he didn't dare to neglect him, so he still has some real skills.A few days ago, Lin Jiao heard Nengwu say that there was a halo in front of her eyes, and it was not as dark as before, so she was naturally happy.The next day happened to be the day of acupuncture treatment. After going in and out of the counter early in the morning, Lin Jiao personally sent Neng Wu to Fenglin Medical Center.After Nengwu acupuncture treatment, he was about to leave when he happened to meet a woman from Peach Blossom Village.This woman is usually on good terms with Widow Shi, and she helped Lin Jiao together when she moved last time, so she naturally greeted her, only then did she realize that she was arrested for Widow Shi.She said that when she washed her feet by the river a few days ago, she stepped on a clam shell, and a big hole was cut on the sole of her foot.Widow Stone didn't take it seriously at first, she went back and grabbed the firewood ashes and wrapped it up indiscriminately.Unexpectedly, there is pus coming out now, even the ankles are swollen, and it hurts from stepping on the ground. Then I thought of the doctor, but there was a lot of farm work in the field and he refused to leave it. It happened that this woman had something to do in the city today, so I entrusted her to go Xu Shun grabs the medicine here.

After Lin Jiao heard this, she felt that the injury on the sole of Widow Stone's foot could be big or small, and if it was big enough, it would be tetanus.Shi Qingshan was not at home to go to the exam, she knew that Widow Shi was reluctant to spend money, and the weather is still hot, if the infection gets serious and something happens, it would be bad.After all, I have received a lot of help from her before.After thinking about it, he asked Xu Shun to take the medicine box and go down to Taohua Village with him.Xu Shun was a little reluctant at first, thinking that the road was far away, but seeing Lin Jiao's insistence and willingness to pay, he had no choice but to agree in the end.Lin Jiao sent Neng Wu back to the foot shop, and hired a mule to take Xu Shun out of the city.When I arrived at Taohua Village, I went straight to Widow Shi's house, and saw that her ankle was swollen like a bun, and she pressed a finger mark and didn't come back for a long time.

Widow Shi was very surprised when she saw Lin Jiao brought Xu Shun to the door. She insisted that she was fine and had to walk a few steps to show her.Lin Jiao knew that she felt sorry for the money for the doctor's visit, so she pushed her back on the stool.Xu Shun cleaned the wound and applied medicine, and left the decocted medicine to drink it. After a while, it was good.When collecting the money, Lin Jiao went out on behalf of Widow Shi.Only then did Widow Shi breathe a sigh of relief, but she even said that she was going to take the money back to Lin Jiao, but was stopped by Lin Jiao, and said with a smile: "Auntie, what are you doing so far away? Usually you help me a lot, and my land also needs you There is no shortage of seeds. Since I called the doctor, I will naturally pay for it."

Widow Shi stopped arguing, and asked a few questions about the business of the foot shop. Seeing that Lin Jiao and Xu Shun were about to leave, she suddenly remembered, shook her head and said, "Ah Jiao, I saw Mr. Xu heal my leg. I think of Zhaodi. This Zhaodi used to annoy me, I wish she would be quiet when she is not around. Now I hear that she is lying in the earth temple, dying of illness and no one cares about her. I feel a little pitiful. You said that Taigong Yang’s family is not So wicked? The old one was punished and died, but the young one has a heart of stone. Why hasn’t Mr. Yang returned to the village these days? If you want him to come back, you might be able to take care of him. Others are powerless.”

Lin Jiao was a little surprised, and after asking a few words, she got a general idea.It turned out that after the previous flood, the villagers all drank the medicines sent by the county government, and the whole place was safe, and no one was heard of dying of floods, but this was the trick. She was originally a healthy Sai Niu, and she hadn't caught a cold for several years The people who came back have been a little sleepy since the flood, and their work is not as much as before.On the night of the flood, Taigong Yang didn't believe Lin Jiao's words, so he put on a cane and sat in the main room yelling, waiting for the flood to come.Yang Tongbao and his wife were vacillating at first, but when they saw that all the villagers had run away, they felt guilty, and they were scolded by Yang Taigong after a few words of persuasion. After returning to the room, they made up their minds, left the old man to clean up Xiruan, and took their son to escape first. important.Later, after Yang Taigong was drowned and caused a scandal, his family couldn't hold their heads up, and they didn't come out to hang around much.Seeing that Zhaodi coughed and couldn't work every day, she scolded her for being lazy.Originally, what she was asked to eat was black-faced bean buns, but after a flood washed away the granary, it was even more embarrassing. A few days ago, it was said that Yang Tongbao's wife asked someone to wrap it in a broken mat and carried it out to the end of the village. In the earth temple, only two black buns are thrown in every day, saying that her daughter has tuberculosis and is not clean, and she is afraid of dying and the house will be dirty.

This trick was used by his father to sell half a bag of grain to Yang Taigong's family when he was fleeing famine and passed by here. The Yang family doesn't care about it now, and no one in the village is willing to take over this problem.The kind ones just went around to see what the bowl of water and steamed buns were for, and they just waited for Yang Jingxuan to come back and deal with it.If Yang Jingxuan couldn't survive this trick, she would just wrap her up in a torn mat and bury her in the back mountain after she died.

"Mr. Xu, since you are here, go over and see if there is any help?"

Widow Shi yelled, and Xu Shun shook his head.Lin Jiao thought for a while, then hesitated.

This trick is a stupid girl.In the past, he made things difficult for her because he competed with him for eating Shi Qingshan's jealousy. Last time when Da Shui saw Chun Xing, he left her and just ran for his life.But most people in this world, including Lin Jiao herself, are probably not much more noble than her.

If Yang Jingxuan knew about this, he would definitely take care of it.It's just that now that he's not here, if he goes back to report to him, it's too much trouble if he comes again.Anyway, the doctor is ready-made, why don't you go over now and see, if you can save it, save it.Yang Jingxuan knew that she saved people, so he thought she was good or not.If Zhaodi wasn't completely confused, she should be more or less grateful for saving her.Anyway, the foot shop happens to be short of people right now, so Niu Erleng keeps vigil every night.He didn't say anything himself, but she felt a little sorry.If there are more recruits who can do a few jobs per person, the manpower will be almost enough...

Lin Jiao made up her mind, and felt that this person should be saved, and now she only had to see if she had this life.He asked Xu Shun to go there together.Xu Shun had no choice but to follow.On the way Lin Jiao exhorted him, although Xu Shun was puzzled, he complied.

Almost every village in the countryside has an earth temple, and they are all as small as chicken coops.When Lin Jiao arrived at the earth temple at the end of the village, she saw Zhaodi lying on a broken mat, with a thick bowl with a gap beside it, and there were two black buns in it. Flies were buzzing around her head and face, and she hadn't seen her for several months. , lost a lot of weight, and looked dying.Hearing Lin Jiao's voice, he opened his eyes with difficulty, opened his mouth but couldn't make a sound.

Xu Shun pinched his nose and squatted next to Zhaodi, opened her eyelids to look, then touched her stomach for a while, and said: "It's not tuberculosis, the whites of the eyes of tuberculosis are so clean. Take some medicine and eat some good food." Just make up your body."

Lin Jiao breathed a sigh of relief.At this time, some spectators also rushed over.Lin Jiao then turned her head and said, "Master Yang found out about Zhaodi and couldn't do it by himself, so he sent Langzhong Xu. The doctor just saw it and said that Zhaodi was seriously ill. Boss Yinzi. Before Mr. Xu and I came here, Mr. Yang ordered us to ask Zhaodi’s boss if he still wants him. If you want him, take him home and treat him well. If you don’t, he will treat him. To be damned."

The villagers talked a lot.Soon someone went to call Yang Tongbao and his wife, but the man didn't come, his wife ran over panting and said, "My family doesn't want him anymore, Mr. Yang just wants to pick him up. This is the document she sold my family before, and there is her father on it." Take her fingerprints together, and she will have nothing to do with our family in the future."

Lin Jiao took it and looked at it, put it away, and asked someone to help carry Zhaodi to the mule cart hired at the entrance of the village, and left with Xu Shun while the villagers watched and discussed behind her.After returning to the county seat, Zhaodi was settled in an empty room. Xu Shun showed her carefully and prescribed medicine to take. Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Ma helped her wipe her body and change her clothes, and did as Lin Jiao ordered. After eating porridge and two meaty dishes, he soon fell into a deep sleep.

As the sky was getting dark, people who were staying and eating came to the door one after another, and the lights were turned on, illuminating the front hall brightly.Those men had witnessed Lin Jiao's ruthlessness in chopping off her hand yesterday, even if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes at the time, they would have heard about it later.Lin Jiao's reputation as a poisonous thorn flower spread like wildfire overnight.Seeing her smiling and talking now, who would dare to take advantage of her anymore?It's just to watch it a few more times in the open and in the dark.

Lin Jiao had been busy for quite a while, the meal time had passed, the people in the front hall gradually thinned out, she asked Neng Wu to drink some medicine and rest, guessing that Yang Jingxuan was about to come.Looking down, she saw that she was wearing a bib around her waist and looked like a working woman. Yesterday was an emergency and there was nothing to do, but today was a formal date. How could she pass by like this?Hastily explained the matter, went back to the room in the backyard, took a shower from head to toe, changed into a new summer shirt made after entering the city, combed her hair in a bun in front of the mirror, smeared a little rouge on her lips, and looked at herself in the mirror After a while, it feels quite glamorous.When Yang Jingxuan sees him proudly, he will definitely grab his attention.Before coming out, he looked at the mirror again, and felt that something was missing, and after thinking about it again, he remembered it.He hastily took out the velvet flower he gave him last time from the dressing box and put it on the side of the bun, and then looked in the mirror, only then did he feel perfect.

After Lin Jiao finished dressing up, she prepared the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and then went to the front hall in peace, only to impress him.As soon as he opened the curtain and came out, he really attracted a lot of attention, but Yang Jingxuan was nowhere to be seen.Ignoring the gazes of others, he sat behind the counter and waited. Seeing that the time was getting later and later, Yang Jingxuan didn't come and didn't say anything. Instead, there were many tenants in front of him who were sitting at tables and chairs, drinking tea, talking without moving their buttocks, and looking at him from time to time. , Depressed in my heart.I thought that if he really let him go, then this outfit would really wink at the blind man.

At the end of the Xu Dynasty, Lin Jiao looked outside the door, but there was no sign of anyone else.Deciding that he will definitely not come tonight, let out a breath of suffocation in his chest, first went to see Zhaodi, saw her sleeping peacefully, and went back to his room.As soon as his hand touched the door, there was a sudden pause, and he cursed himself for being so confused.

If he, Yang Jingxuan, would come, he would definitely not have passed away in a big way.It's just that I didn't make it clear yesterday.He hurriedly put up his skirt and ran to the small door in the backyard. He faintly heard a low whining sound that sounded like the tiger king. When he opened the door, he saw him squatting in the alley opposite the door and patting the tiger king's head.

As the name suggests, Tiger King Dog has grown in stature and temper recently. Except for Lin Jiao, no one else is allowed to touch its head. If a guest sees it is cute and teases it a few times, it will not bite, but it will definitely bark its teeth He grinned intimidatingly before resting.Now he was lying under his palm but did not move, only whimpering and grievance, suddenly saw Lin Jiao appear, whimpered as if she had been rescued, immediately broke free and rushed into the courtyard, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

The back alley was dark, and there were no lights, only the moonlight overhead.Seeing him slowly getting up and looking at her without speaking, Lin Jiao's eyes flickered slightly, she suddenly felt her heart beating, took a breath, and then pretended to say casually, "How long have you been waiting here?" The man opposite said: " It didn't take long, just arrived. Seeing the Tiger King jumping up, I stayed with it for a while."

What Yang Jingxuan said was actually not the truth.The real situation is that since he separated from Lin Jiao last night, he can no longer concentrate on everything as usual.I didn't sleep well, and eating was tasteless.Thinking of Ying Xia going there to teach her how to read tonight, my heart shudders.At this moment, I still hope that the sky will get dark soon, and at the next moment, I suddenly feel that the sky should not be dark.Worrying about gains and losses, he finally waited until it was dark, and wandered around in front of her shop, seeing people coming and going, he didn't dare to go in openly.After a long circle outside, I finally decided to wait in the alley behind her house.It is a good place to wait for people because there are few black people passing by at night.If you can wait for her to come out, then fulfill your promise and teach her how to write.If he couldn't wait for her to come out in the end, he felt that he should breathe a sigh of relief.After waiting for a long time, there was no movement inside.He felt that he should go, but he still couldn't make up his mind.Just as he was hesitating, the Tiger King rushed past, and the bored Yang Jingxuan took the opportunity to catch him.It seems that with its company, I have a reason to continue to wait.King Tiger couldn't do anything to him, so he stayed with him aggrievedly until Lin Jiao finally opened the back door.

Of course, Lin Jiao didn't know the twists and turns, so she just whispered to him, "Come in."

Yang Jingxuan stepped across the threshold with a huff, Lin Jiao closed the door and went to her room first, and he silently followed behind.When she passed the hallway to her door, Lin Jiao saw that his footsteps had slowed down, and she seemed to be hesitant, so she turned her head and said, "I wanted to learn it in this hallway. Ah Wu's room is just across the street. Sleeping, I was afraid that the voice would disturb him, so I put the table in my room." After speaking, he pushed the door and entered, and when he reached the table, he lit the lamp, and the room suddenly lit up.

Yang Jingxuan originally thought that she would set up a desk in the outhouse.Seeing that he was about to enter the boudoir at night, he subconsciously stopped.Hearing her explanation, I had no choice but to follow in.The lights were lit, and the eyes suddenly lit up.

I didn't see her clearly at the back door just now, but now I saw the bright lights in the room, and I was stunned.He was used to seeing Lin Jiao's simple clothes, even when he saw her wearing pink clothes at his sister's house last time, they were all in the style of shirts and trousers that were easy to move around.It was the first time to see her wearing a skirt.In the light, I saw her dressed in green, standing tall and graceful.Thin powder, red lips and cheeks.Her eyes are shining, her smile is shallow, and an indescribably charming and graceful person rushes towards her face.

(End of this chapter)