941, ‘Ghost Doctor’ (2/2)
Su Wu frowned slightly as he looked at the lines of handwriting on the yellowed paper.
From the patient's self-description on the paper, this 'patient' either had mental problems due to nervousness, anxiety and other reasons, which led to hallucinations, thinking that a woman in red hanged herself on the beam of her house in the middle of the night.
Or there really was a fierce ghost in the patient's home.
The dangerous level of that fierce ghost was low and weak, probably equivalent to the lowest 'evil-level' fierce ghost.
Evil-level fierce ghosts generally cannot kill living people directly, they can only affect living people for a long time, and then cause the death of living people.
If this 'patient' thought he had encountered a fierce ghost, he should look for someone who could suppress the fierce ghost. However, from the content recorded on the prescription, after the 'patient' and the 'woman in red' who was suspected to be a fierce ghost were face to face, he 'quickly turned over and got out of bed and fled in a hurry', and when it was dawn, he 'found the medicine shop and asked for help'.
The patient would do so because he must have thought that the doctors in this ‘Lao Lang Pharmacy’ could help him.
As we all know, mentally ill people generally do not think they are mentally ill.
Since he does not think he is mentally ill, it is very likely that he did not come to the ‘Lao Lang Pharmacy’ to treat his mental illness. It is more likely that he thinks that the doctors in the Lao Lang Pharmacy can help him suppress the ghosts on the beams in his home.
And the people in the Lao Lang Pharmacy did give him a ‘prescription’.
This prescription has nothing to do with anything related to medicine.
It is more like a kind of mysterious folk custom.
The prescription is still in the pharmacy, which means that it has not been taken back for use. In this way, Su Wu does not know whether this prescription has any effect, and whether its effect is mainly aimed at ‘people’?
Or is it aimed at ‘ghosts’?
If it is aimed at people, Su Wu thinks that this prescription may play a role in treating patients’ nervousness and anxiety. The practice described in the prescription can soothe people’s hearts to a certain extent, and ‘placebo therapy’ is also a method of treatment.
But if this prescription is for Gui, can such a crude method really work? Su Wu was skeptical about this.
He folded the prescription, put it in his pocket, and turned to walk towards the alley behind the medicine shop with the emergency can.
In this area made up of many wooden, stone and brick buildings, the paths are complicated. The front hall of one's house is connected to the backyard of another house, and the backyard of another house is next to the balcony of the opposite house. This situation is very common in the current area.
In such a place, it is normal to not find the way.
Su Wu knows too little about this place. He doesn't even know if this place really existed in Mingzhou.
He walked here mainly to try to find the cause and effect of Jiang Yingying.
After lifting the curtain of the back door of the medicine shop, Su Wu was about to bend down and walk out, when suddenly a gust of cold wind blew - he squinted his eyes and stuck to the corner of the wall, and the cold wind rushed into the medicine hall, swirled in the medicine hall, and suddenly stopped.
At this time, the feeling of being watched arose in Su Wu's mind.
The Eight Consciousnesses of the Heart King turned on their own, reflecting everything in the medicine shop.
The Six Heavenly Ghost Eyes opened and scanned the medicine shop back and forth.
—— Nothing unusual was found.
But the feeling of being watched in Su Wu's heart was real and real, and it was getting heavier and heavier, as if someone was staring at him and walking towards him!
Su Wu's thoughts turned——
A red talisman suddenly appeared in his palm!
The 'Godly Mantra of Tracing Causes and Creating Results' was spinning, and as Su Wu threw his palm lightly, the talisman flew around the entire medicine shop, and the hidden cause and effect in the dark was slowly revealed under the reflection of the talisman.
A very thin thread of cause and effect flew out from the 'prescription' in Su Wu's pocket, and then meandered into the void, lingering five steps in front of Su Wu!
Staring at the area with nothingness five steps away, Su Wu took out the prescription from his pocket and placed it on the counter.
Whoosh!
The cold wind that rushed into the medicine shop earlier now suddenly wrapped up the prescription on the corner of the counter, blew open the thick door curtain, and whistled away!
The thread of cause and effect reflected by the magic spell of chasing cause and effect also followed the direction of the cold wind!
What's going on? !
The 'prescription' is not something left in this old medicine shop in the past?
But it is a new prescription given to the patient by the pharmacist in the medicine shop? !
Now the invisible patient comes to get the prescription? !
Is the invisible patient a ghost, or the consciousness of the dead? Or something else that cannot be guessed?
Where is the pharmacist in the medicine shop now? But the paper man who was lying on the rocking chair and stroking the cat before? !
Su Wu was confused for a while.
The many secrets in this area that the eye ghost could not "look at" could not be revealed by Su Wu's eight consciousnesses and six heavenly ghost eyes!
As he turned his thoughts, he separated a strand of hair, which suddenly passed through the curtain of the back door, entangled in the fleeting thread of cause and effect, and followed it!
On the top of the alley, the withered and blackened grape vines were entangled on the grape trellis, and against the background of the black sky, the gloomy feeling of decay and withering was more prominent.
The messy shadows climbed wantonly on the brick and stone road.
Su Wu followed the thread of cause and effect, passed through the narrow alley, and climbed a high slope.
Under the high slope, a house supported by wooden pillars and covered with thatch stood there, with its door facing the west. Behind this "small thatched house" stood a two-story red brick western-style building.
The two-story red brick western-style building and the high slope framed the small thatched house in the middle.
Several long wooden boards were laid on the roof of the small thatched house, forming a "bridge" from the high slope to the two-story western-style building.
On the right side of the high slope, a row of wooden buildings with open doors stood silently. On the door lintel of the wooden building, there was a plaque with black background and gold characters, on which were written the characters "Hongfa Pawnshop".
The causal thread that passed through the void swam into the thatched house under the high slope.
Looking at the two-story red brick western-style building in front of him, Su Wu turned down the high slope and stood in front of the thatched house. There was a chicken coop in front of the thatched house, and in the coop was a pile of bloody chicken feathers. The blood on the chicken feathers had not yet dried up, and the color was red, as if the owner had just caught a chicken, killed it on the spot, and plucked its feathers.
Su Wu picked up a chicken feather, and the feather in his hand seemed to be subjected to hundreds of times the flow of time, and it quickly rotted and turned into nothingness.
He looked down at the emergency can under his armpit.
The emergency can raised its head high, and its black eyes stared at the thatched house, and the feathers on its neck exploded!
"If you feel scared, lower your head.
I will put you in a safe place." Su Wu whispered.
The big rooster in his arms was unmoved and still held his head high.
Seeing this, Su Wu held a peach wood sword in one hand, held the emergency can in the other, and pushed open the wooden door of the thatched house.
A stupid wooden bed came into view.
Above the wooden bed, on the beam, hung a blood-red dress.
The hem of the dress was still dripping with blood.
Plop, plop...
Drops of blood fell on the blue-gray coarse cloth sheets of the wooden bed.
A strong smell of blood lingered in the thatched house!
In addition to this bloody smell, a wisp of strange charm overflowed!
On the beam!
In the sleeves of the bloody dress, a pair of snow-white hands, stained with blood, with obvious creases slowly "grew".
The rope on the beam swung slowly.
A paper face with blush painted on it and long hair stuck on it stretched into the rope, and its lifeless eyes quietly looked at Su Wu who broke into the door - it was hanging on the beam, and it "saw" the uninvited guest coming, but it still didn't move - it couldn't move now!
There is indeed a fierce ghost in the thatched house!
The patient who went to the 'Lao Lang's Pharmacy' to get medicine did encounter a fierce ghost, who was now hanging on the beam of 'it' - the patient was probably 'curing ghosts' according to the prescription prescribed by the pharmacist of the Lao Lang's Pharmacy. As far as Su Wu saw now, the prescription really worked!
The fierce ghost was hung on the beam and could not move!
He could not show any killing rules to Su Wu who walked into the thatched house.
But why?
Why can such a sloppy prescription work?
What is the principle behind this? !
Also, where is the 'patient' who went to the medicine shop to get medicine now?
Su Wu could still sense the gaze of the 'patient' before, but now in the thatched house, he could not feel the existence of the patient!
He stared at the fierce ghost on the beam for a long time, and further confirmed that the fierce ghost gradually became silent. He could not find any other clues in the thatched house, so he held the big rooster and left the thatched house and closed the door.
Su Wu climbed up the slope again and searched the pawnshop on the opposite side.
He opened the locked wooden box in the pawnshop, but there was no valuable thing in the box as he imagined, only the arms, feet, heads, and even the heart, liver, and five internal organs of paper-made people neatly stacked in the box.
All these things were made of paper.
Moreover, the paper-making technique was very poor, and the folds on various organs and limbs were very obvious, which was far from the original shape of the organs and limbs.
How could there be so many "paper-made people" in a pawnshop?
Su Wu opened the last wooden box.
There was still a pair of paper-made eyeballs in the box.
There were many printed words stacked on the yellowed "eyeballs".
He picked up an eyeball and disassembled it.
A small piece of yellowed newspaper the size of a palm appeared in his hand.
Under the four bold traditional Chinese characters of "Jianghu Teahouse", there is a horizontal line, and under the horizontal line, there are densely packed Chinese characters: "It is rumored that September 29th is the day when the 'Ghost Doctor' practices medicine in the world.
The name of the Ghost Doctor does not mean that this person has strange medical skills and can cure all kinds of bizarre and difficult diseases.
It means that he is a doctor who treats the 'Ghost'.
This doctor is usually called 'Old Doctor'."