Chapter 111: Pretend to be dead
"Fuck, fake corpse!"
The thinly dressed girl was thrown out by the frightened yamen runner.
When the girl's mother heard the word "corpse", she ignored the fear of the people around her, dragged her shackles and rushed towards her daughter.
"Zhao'er!"
It was almost dawn, and Zhou Yunjia, as the children's new teacher, was responsible for taking care of them.
When Zhou Yunshu and others heard the noise of the "corpse resurrecting" outside, they packed up and went to the door.
"Is he really alive?"
"But we checked before and found that Li Zhao'er was really dead. How could he be alive again?"
"Could it be that something unclean has taken possession of his body?" someone said fearfully.
In folk ghost stories, many people are possessed by demons and ghosts. Li Zhaoer, who is resurrected from the dead, is a bit like the situation in the stories. Otherwise, how could someone who is clearly dead come back to life?
"It's possible. I saw a weasel looking this way yesterday. Maybe it was looking at Li Zhao'er."
As soon as these words fell, the woman holding her daughter who had finally woken up yelled at the man, "Your daughter was possessed by an unclean thing. Our Zhao'er was never dead. She was never dead!"
Perhaps to verify the woman's words, the girl in her arms covered her head and said in pain: "Mom, I'm so cold and my head hurts."
Upon hearing this, the woman hugged her daughter tightly in her arms and said to the yamen runners who had been examining her, "Sir, please give us a cotton-padded jacket. My daughter really can't bear it any longer. Please!"
"Please save her! I'm willing to do anything to save her!"
The yamen runner who was about to drag Li Zhao'er away recovered from his shock and, looking at the tearful Madam Li, angrily said, "Who do you think you are? How dare you ask for cotton clothes? It's our kindness that we didn't leave you naked!"
He looked coldly at Li Zhao'er in Madam Li's arms and continued, "If you want to die, then die quickly. After you die, I'll cut off your ears and let you go. You've spoiled me!"
After saying that, the yamen runner went straight back to the side room. The remaining yamen runners took a few more glances at Li Zhaoer, who had come back to life in the woman's arms, and returned to the side room without saying anything.
If it weren't for this woman making such a fuss, they could have had a nice late night's sleep today.
After the yamen runners entered the wing room, the woman turned her gaze to Zhou Yunshu and others in the main hall of the dilapidated temple.
Without saying a word, she knelt down in front of Zhou Yunshu and other female relatives, kowtowed again and again.
"Oh." It was Doctor Xue who sighed.
He turned to look at Zhou Yunshu and said, "I'll go take a look."
Old Doctor Xue was also somewhat curious as to whether this girl named Zhao'er had really come back to life. He had lived to this age, and apart from hearing about it in ancient books, he had never seen such a situation with his own eyes.
Zhou Yunshu nodded, took one last look at the girl next to the woman, suppressed her doubts, and returned to the dilapidated temple.
The yamen runners also noticed that Doctor Xue was treating Li Zhaoer, but they didn't say anything.
Anyway, they are just watching. If they want to treat you, they can treat you. If they don’t want to treat you, they can just leave you there. As long as you are not here to rescue prisoners, they don’t care.
After Dr. Xue finished examining Li Zhaoer, he was stopped by other people. When he came back, breakfast in the dilapidated temple was almost ready.
"Is Li Zhao'er really faking his death?"
In the past, when the Zhenbei Palace and the Li family were still in decline, they had met several times at gatherings in the capital. If Wu Yue remembered correctly, Li Zhaoer was the only daughter of the Li family's eldest wife, and she had just turned fifteen this year.
For people who know each other, especially when encountering such a strange situation, everyone wants to know what is going on.
"I wasn't with her when she passed away, and I didn't feel her pulse. But when I went to check her pulse just now, she was weak, had a cold, and had a fever, but she didn't have any other symptoms."
"So they deliberately said they were dead before, in order to let the bailiffs find a doctor for them, right?" Wu Yue asked.
"No." Uncle He said while eating a bun, "The woman's crying while holding her daughter didn't look fake."
Doctor Xue nodded and explained, "It could also be a case of fake death."
"suspended animation?"
Doctor Xue nodded and said, "Bian Que encountered this situation when he was practicing medicine in Guo State."
"Bian Que happened to come across the funeral of the crown prince of Guo State, so he carefully inquired about the prince's sudden death and believed that the prince was likely suffering from 'corpse paralysis', which is commonly known as suspended animation. After discovering this, Bian Que requested to enter the palace to treat the prince. He found that the prince still had an extremely weak pulse and was able to revive him."
Li Jialan said after hearing this, "You mean that Li Zhao'er might have had a weak pulse before, but because it was too shallow and they were too anxious, they didn't notice it, right?"
"That's possible."
While Grandpa Xue, Wu Yue and others were excitedly discussing this strange event, Zhou Yunshu was thinking of something very inappropriate, even with a hint of ghost stories.
That is, this person named Li Zhaoer really came back from the dead.
Zhou Yunshu dared to think so because of her own bizarre experience. She could die and travel to another world, and then be reborn back to her own body from another world, so it was not strange that Li Zhaoer came back to life.
But obviously Mr. Xue, Li Jialan and others didn't think so.
After breakfast, when Yan Shilei and Hu Zi were packing up the carriage, the yamen runners had already driven the fugitives out of the yard of the dilapidated temple.
From the time she arrived at the dilapidated temple yesterday until she left in the morning, Zhou Yunshu, who observed carefully, found that the yamen runners only distributed a piece of mixed grain steamed bun and a bowl of water to this group of prisoners, nothing else.
It's getting colder now.
This group of fugitives had traveled a long distance and were wearing thin clothes. Zhou Yunshu estimated that by the time they reached the Southern Barbarians, there might not be many of them left.
If Zhou Yunshu didn't feel that they were in a difficult situation, she could actually lend a hand.
After all, in some ways, this group of exiled people is also a resource.
But she doesn't have the ability now.
As for Li Zhaoer, who almost died last night, he was in pretty good spirits when he left.
However, can a person really recover so quickly just by eating a steamed bun?
The yamen runners took the fugitives on foot, while Zhou Yunshu and his group rode either in a horse-drawn carriage or a mule-drawn cart, so in less than half an hour they caught up with the yamen runners and fugitives who had left earlier.
When passing by this group of people, Zhou Yunshu silently lifted the car curtain and her eyes fell on Li Zhaoer who was leaning on her mother.
Perhaps her gaze was too direct, or perhaps Li Zhaoer, who had died once, was too sensitive to everything around him. Not long after Zhou Yunshu looked at Li Zhaoer, Li Zhaoer looked up at Zhou Yunshu.
Li Zhaoer looked at the curtain that had been lowered again, clutched his mother's hand, and thought about how to escape from the hands of these yamen runners.
If you don't escape now, you won't be able to escape once they leave Tingzhou.
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