Chapter 25
In the water-reducing village, large areas of sweet peppers were planted in the fields, and a small wooden house was built nearby, with a guard on duty inside.
Yanrong had her hair loose and a white veil covering the lower half of her face.
She was walking from a distance. The guards in the wooden house heard the footsteps and hurried out to check.
"Greetings, Saint." The guard knelt on one knee and saluted.
Yan Rong waved her hand casually, signaling the guards to stand. She turned back to the plants in the field, looking at the peppers that had already produced fruit, a flicker of joy in her eyes.
"The High Priest asked me to check on the peppers. They're all ripe. Tomorrow, find a few people to pick them all and deliver them directly to the courtyard in the back mountain."
Isn't the courtyard in the back mountain where the previous Saint lived? The guard looked up in confusion but met Yan Rong's cold gaze. He was startled and didn't dare to look at her again. He immediately lowered his head and replied yes.
After saying that, Yan Rong didn't stay any longer. She turned around and walked down the mountain.
Only after she left did the guard dare to raise his head. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and turned back to the cabin.
The fields outside the cabin were a sea of red.
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It rained again yesterday, washing away all the rumors that had arisen in the county over the murder case.
Shi Yanqing went out after breakfast.
She thought today would be another day without any patients coming to the door, but she didn't expect someone to come shortly after she opened the door.
"What happened?" Shi Yanqing saw Qingfeng running in staggeringly, holding his right arm, and hurried forward to ask.
"I got hurt accidentally." Qing Feng's lips turned pale and he didn't say much.
But he quickly realized what was going on and said, "Doctor Shi, I won't bother you to treat me. I have something else to do later. I can just buy some medicine and apply it myself."
Shi Yanqing didn't say anything, but quickly rolled up the clothes on his arm and gave him a few injections to stop the bleeding.
He picked up the medicine prepared by Dan Ye and applied it on the wound, then bandaged it with cotton cloth.
It was so fast that Qingfeng didn't have time to refuse.
"Okay, these medicines are not cheap. A total of ten taels of silver." Shi Yanqing put his hands into the clean water beside him and washed them. The light red blood color drifted from the water surface.
Qing Feng didn't know what to say for a moment. He took out ten taels of silver from his pocket and placed them on the table, then stood up and put the medicine bottle against his chest.
He finally said with emotion: "Doctor Shi, your medical skills are really good."
After Qingfeng left, Danye took the basin to the backyard and poured out the blood inside.
When she came out again, she saw Yan Rong had already arrived and was standing beside Shi Yanqing, holding his arm and talking.
The two seemed particularly close.
Seeing this, Dan Ye curled his lips and looked a little annoyed. This Yan Rong was really clingy.
"Doctor Shi, when I came here just now, I saw someone leaving the clinic. He looked quite tall. Is he sick?"
Yan Rong raised her hand to lift the hair beside her ear and asked casually.
After she left the Lin family, she received an order from the priest to investigate who had solved the problem of the sterile worms in Liu Anan's body.
In the end, all the clues pointed to Shi Yanqing.
Therefore, she deliberately approached Shi Yanqing in order to find out the truth. However, she hadn't found anything wrong during this period. Could it be that she was investigating in the wrong direction?
Shi Yanqing replied without changing his expression, "The man just now came to buy wolfberries. He likes to make tea with them and drinks a cup of wolfberry tea every morning."
"You've been feeling tired lately, so why don't you ask Dan Ye to make you a pot of wolfberry tea later?"
Yan Rong thought about her recent unusual health, so she didn't refuse and nodded in agreement, "Thank you, Doctor Shi."
In this way, the previous topic was lightly covered.
Dan Ye then walked forward and pulled Yan Rong to the backyard.
"Is Doctor Shi here?" A woman's voice came from the door, and a faint cough could be heard.
Dan Ye was making tea for Yan Rong in the backyard when the medicine boy who was cleaning the clinic walked over.
He had just arrived three days ago, so he didn't know how many patients the clinic usually had.
"Ma'am, please come in first. Doctor Shi is reading inside. I'll ask her to come and see you."
The woman raised her hand to cover her mouth with a handkerchief and coughed softly.
After coughing a few times, she felt much better and smiled and nodded to the medicine boy who had been looking at her.
"good."
After hearing the noise at the door, Shi Yanqing closed the book in her hand and put it in a small wooden box beside her. She stood up and walked out, but before she took two steps, she saw the medicine boy leading two young women in.
The woman walking in front was wearing a purple dress. She had a sickly face, picturesque eyebrows and eyes, and she was holding an embroidered handkerchief in front of her nose with her fingertips.
The woman walking behind had her hair combed into spiral buns and two thin hairbands tied on her head. Her eyes were bright and her steps were brisk, making her look a little lively.
"Doctor Shi, this lady is here to see you for medical treatment." The medicine boy stopped and said, then turned and left.
There was still a small area outside that had not been cleaned, so he had to continue working.
"Please sit down first." Shi Yanqing spoke first and asked the two to sit on the pearwood chairs beside them. There was a small table in the middle of the wooden chairs, on which were placed some snacks and tea.
The space here was separated from the outside by a wooden screen. There were only three of them here at this moment, and it was very quiet and comfortable.
The purple-robed woman sat down as instructed, and the other person followed suit. Neither of them touched the tea and snacks on the small table.
"Let me take your pulse first."
Shi Yanqing saw that neither of them spoke, and knew that this disease might be difficult to explain, so he had to take the initiative.
The woman in purple nodded slightly when she heard this.
She stretched out her hand and placed it on the pulse pillow, revealing the sandalwood beaded necklace on her wrist.
Shi Yanqing's eyes flickered slightly when he saw this, but then he quickly restrained his expression and concentrated on taking the pulse.
She asked, "Has your appetite decreased recently?"
The woman replied: "Yes, it has decreased. I just thought the food was not to my liking."
"Do you have a lot of dreams at night and wake up easily?" he asked again.
The woman nodded: "Yes."
"Do you feel soreness in your lower body?"
The woman hesitated and nodded again: "Yes."
With just a few questions and answers, Shi Yanwen basically understood the situation.
Finally, she asked, "Do you always feel weak and have poor memory?"
The woman replied softly, "Yes."
"What happened to my sister?" Lin Duo, who had been silent all the time, asked anxiously. She had taken her sister to seek medical treatment and medicine everywhere in the past few months, but no one knew what disease her sister had.
This time, I found Shi Yanqing because I heard on the way that she was the disciple of the Medical Immortal and had very advanced medical skills.
Lin Duo had originally given up hope, but the questions that Shi Yanqing had asked just now were so to the point that every one of them hit the nail on the head.
Shi Yanqing looked at Lin Duo and said, "Your sister is beset by a peach blossom nightmare."
"Peach Blossom Nightmare?" Lin Duo was a little confused.
Lin Yun also looked confused.
Shi Yanqing explained: "Peach Blossom Nightmare is not a disease in the conventional sense, it is a means of deception."
"Let's say I use some kind of object to bewitch your sister's mind, and then she'll do whatever I ask her to do. That's called a peach blossom nightmare."
"But, but how did you know that?" Lin Duo felt a little scared and uneasy after hearing this explanation.
She quickly grabbed Lin Yun's hand, and their skin touched each other, which made her feel a little relieved.
Seeing her sister so uneasy, Lin Yunhui held her hand.
"Doctor Shi, since you can see what's wrong with me, can you treat me?"
Of course Shi Yanqing can, but she can't do it now.
"It's not difficult to break the Peach Blossom Nightmare, the hard part is finding the object that caused it. Before I find it, I can't completely break it, I can only suppress it for a while."
"It's good to be able to suppress it for a while," Lin Yun's brows were relaxed, and it could be seen that she was somewhat happy.
Lin Duo, on the other hand, frowned, wanting to say something but not daring to.
"Then when you find the item to cast the nightmare, you can come back here to find me. If I'm not in the clinic at that time, you can go to the county government office to find the county magistrate. He will know where I am."
Lin Yun and Lin Duo looked at each other after hearing this.
Lin Yun: "Doctor Shi is talking about the newly appointed Lord Zhou. Are you acquainted with him?"
"I'm talking about him. He is my husband." Shi Yanqing explained.
"That's such a coincidence." Lin Duo said with a smile.
"My sister and I came to Yunshui County this time with a letter. The messenger said it was to be delivered to the new county magistrate, Lord Zhou. We originally came to see a doctor, so we came to your place first and planned to go to the county government office after seeing the doctor."
letter?
Shi Yanqing thought about who might have sent the letter, but she knew very little about the people Zhou Hanzhang was familiar with, so she couldn't figure it out for a while.
Could it be that it was sent by Han Gui?
Since he couldn’t think of it, Shi Yanqing stopped thinking about it.
She suggested, "How about I take you to the county government office? I can talk to you about the peach blossom nightmare in detail on the way."
"Okay, okay." Lin Duo agreed.
The clinic is not far from the county government office, and it takes about quarter of an hour to walk there.
Shi Yanqing went to the backyard and gave Tan Ye a few instructions, asking her to look after the clinic and if any patients came, to send them to Xinglintang next door for treatment.
After leaving the clinic, Shi Yanqing took the two of them and walked towards the county government office.
After they left Xiang'an Street, a beautiful woman with a garland on her head came to the clinic.
The woman had a piccolo on her waist, and the sound she made was particularly shrill.
Pull Dan Ye, who was reading a book, out of the arms of study.
"Who is playing the flute outside? It's so harsh and unpleasant." Dan Ye put down the book, covered her ears and cursed. She stood up and walked towards the door. The closer she got to the door, the more she cursed in her heart.
When she walked out of the clinic, she saw a woman in red leaning against the wall beside the gate, looking lazy and unrestrained.
Seeing Dan Ye coming out, the woman raised her fingertips slightly and stopped playing the flute.
"Long time no see, Xiaoye'er."
This familiar name brought back childhood memories for Dan Ye. She opened her eyes wide and exclaimed in surprise, "It's you! Bai Fenghua."
"Why are you here? When did you come to Yunshui County? We haven't seen or written to each other in so many years. How did you know I was here?"
Questions bombarded Bai Fenghua one after another. She held her forehead with her hands, smiled bitterly, and shook her head, whispering, "Xiao Ye'er, let your sister Fenghuang go in and get some rest. I haven't slept all night."
Dan Ye really wanted to say no, but she had no choice but to accept this matter.
She looked at Bai Fenghua with half-closed eyes, blinking at her, and couldn't help sighing in her heart.
"Come in."
"Okay, thank you Xiaoye~"
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