Witchcraft Dark Ying
After Qi Qi finished speaking, she took Dan Ye out. The door was closed again, and the room was dark except for the small palm-sized lamp on the table emitting a faint fluorescent light.
Shi Yanqing glanced at the small lantern on the table, then turned around, lifted the curtain and walked inside.
The vision suddenly became darker, and it was pitch dark.
Shi Yanqing suddenly couldn't see anything. She frowned slightly, closed her eyes and waited for a moment to adapt to the darkness before opening them again.
Her vision was blurred, and she could only see a vague figure sitting on the bed.
"Miss Liu, I was invited by your father to treat you."
Shi Yanqing did not move, but stood there and spoke. Her voice was not loud, but it was particularly clear in this quiet room.
"Miss Liu?" Seeing that no one responded for a long time, Shi Yanqing asked tentatively.
Could it be that Liu Duoer fell asleep?
Just as she was thinking this, a female voice appeared.
"Come here, I'm on the bed." Liu Duoer's voice was weak, a little out of strength, and she seemed to have difficulty speaking.
Upon hearing this, Shi Yanqing walked towards the figure.
She groped in front of her with her hands, and her steps slowed down when she touched the table or chair, until she reached the bed.
Liu Duoer sat by the head of the bed, covered with a thin quilt. The room was too dark, and Shi Yanqing could only see the outline of her body, which looked a little thin.
"Miss Liu, let me feel your pulse first. Please extend your hand."
As Shi Yanqing spoke, he took out a pulse pillow from the medicine bag and placed it on the edge of the bed.
The pulse is thin and deep, yet beating violently like a drum.
Shi Yanqing's heart sank, and he took out a small bottle from the medicine bag, "Miss Liu, your illness doesn't seem to be an ordinary disease. I need to take some of your blood to confirm what disease you have."
"Okay, you can take it." Liu Duoer agreed.
Drawing blood was different from the procedure used by doctors in the past, but she wanted to know what disease she had that made her so shameful now.
Half a month ago, Liu Duoer suddenly found that her skin would become dry and wrinkled whenever she was in the sun. Over time, these dry and wrinkled skin would even fall off.
Where the skin has peeled off, there will be a layer of pink skin. If it peels off again, it will be bloody flesh.
When this happened, the people in the mansion thought she was possessed by evil spirits. Even the maids who served her were afraid of her and did not dare to get close to her.
Later, her father asked her to stay in the room and not come out to avoid the sun.
It was effective at first, but as time went on, even if she stayed indoors, her skin would slowly wrinkle and peel.
Finally, it is like this now. The doors and windows of her room are covered tightly with cloth, and not a single light comes in.
She hadn't seen the light or looked in the mirror for six or seven days.
Shi Yanqing carefully touched Liu Duoer's finger. After determining the location where she wanted to draw blood, she pricked that spot with a silver needle, and then placed the pricked finger into the mouth of the bottle.
Because she couldn't see, she could only feel the obvious difference in the touch between her fingers.
For example, when taking a finger, the skin on the tip of the finger is obviously more delicate than the skin in the middle of the finger.
However, the skin on the fingertips is often rougher. After all, the fingertips are used more often when writing or reading.
Shi Yanqing covered the bottle and said softly, "Miss Liu, I roughly know what disease you have. However, I can't confirm it directly now. I need to go back and check your blood before I can draw a conclusion."
"Really?" Liu Duoer excitedly grabbed Shi Yanqing's wrist and asked in a trembling voice, "Really, Doctor Shi?"
Shi Yanqing nodded, then realized she couldn't see, and answered, "Really. When I was studying with my teacher, he mentioned this disease to me."
"Miss Liu, I'm going back today. I'll come back to treat you tomorrow."
Liu Duoer's eyes were moist. She was saved. She finally didn't have to stay in this dark room all day.
When I opened the door, Qi Qi and Dan Ye were standing outside.
When the two saw her come out, they hurried forward.
"Doctor Shi, are you sure about my young lady's...her illness?" Qi Qi asked anxiously.
Shi Yanqing looked at her and nodded slightly, then closed the door.
"Your young lady's illness is a bit complicated, so I can't confirm it directly yet. I need to go back and test the details to confirm it. Then I will ask Dan Ye to come and tell you the results."
Qiqi had read it, but she replied sarcastically, "Doctor Shi is a skilled doctor and will surely be able to cure my young lady. I will be waiting for your good news."
It was still early when we left Liu's house.
Shi Yanqing took Dan Ye to the clinic. She was 80% sure that Liu Duoer had been poisoned by witchcraft. As for the remaining 20%, she needed to see her blood to confirm it.
In the clinic, Xun Lu was wearing a mask and treating a young man.
The young man covered his chest with his hands and seemed to be having difficulty breathing.
"This is a disease you were born with. It should flare up every year. Did you just start taking medicine not long ago?"
Xun Lu withdrew his hand, picked up the brush on the table and wrote the prescription on the paper.
"That's right. My mother said that I was not born full-term and was weak and sickly from birth. If my family wasn't relatively well-off, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to support me."
"Every time I have an attack, I feel difficulty breathing, chest tightness and coughing. If I don't take medicine in time, it will last for a while before stopping."
Xun Lu continued to ask, "Does the disease usually occur at night, early in the morning, or at some other time?"
“It usually happens in the morning, and it’s especially frequent in the spring.”
"Doctor Shi, you're here." He Sumu's voice came from outside.
After Xun Lu finished writing the last stroke, he put the brush aside and picked up the paper and shook it a few times.
"Your illness was brought from your mother's womb. It was curable when you were young, but it's not anymore. I can only help you alleviate the duration of the illness, but it will still recur when you encounter irritants."
"Thank you, doctor. Actually, I've been seeing you for so many years and I don't have any hope of curing my illness anymore." The young man took the prescription, stood up and thanked you.
When he walked out from behind the screen, he saw Shi Yanqing standing in front of the counter and talking to the pharmacist.
"lady."
Feeling someone approaching, Shi Yanqing stopped talking to He Sumu and turned to look over.
A boy of seventeen or eighteen was smiling at her.
Shi Yanqing felt that this person looked familiar, but she couldn't remember who he was. She nodded slightly and asked, "Who are you?"
"Madam, my name is Ning Jiao, and I'm a clerk in the government office. Madam, you gave me a pill a while ago, and told me that if I feel unwell, I can come here for treatment."
Ning Jiao smiled sincerely, "I took the medicine candy Madam gave me before, and my illness hasn't recurred for a while. This time I came here to see Madam, but Madam wasn't at the clinic, so I asked Doctor Xun to see her."
After hearing this, Shi Yanqing finally found the figure of the person in front of him from his memory.
She smiled and said, "Doctor Xun's medical skills are no less than mine. Just follow the prescription he prescribes."
"Okay, then I won't bother you, Madam." Ning Jiao bowed to Shi Yanqing and took the prescription to the pharmacy next door to get the medicine.
Shi Yanqing retracted his gaze and looked at He Sumu again, "I won't be in the clinic for the next few days. You and Yanrong will listen to Doctor Xun and do whatever he tells you to do."
"When Yan Rong comes back with the medicine later, tell her about this."
He Sumu: "Okay, Doctor Shi. I'll remember that."
After arranging everything, Shi Yanqing went into the small room in the backyard.
She took out the small bottle containing Liu Duoer's blood from the medicine bag, took a wooden stick tied with cotton cloth and reached into the bottle, staining the blood on the cloth.
This cotton cloth is soaked in a special potion. Once it comes into contact with blood containing witchcraft, it will emit a foul odor that is extremely pungent and unpleasant.
Shi Yanqing pinched his nose and threw the wooden stick in front of him into the brazier.
As she expected, Liu Duoer became like this because she was poisoned by witchcraft.
This kind of witchcraft is called An Ying, and it is an extremely special kind of insect.
It is the egg produced by the intercourse of two different kinds of witchcraft, one is the molting witchcraft and the other is the light-fearing witchcraft. This egg has the ability to molt when it sees light.
People who are poisoned by Dark Ying will shed their skin when exposed to light. As the poisoning lasts longer, their bodies will become weaker, and eventually they will shed their skin even without exposure to light.
Now that the cause of the disease has been confirmed, Shi Yanqing began to prepare the antidote.
She called Dan Ye and asked her to go to Liu's house and tell them that Miss Liu would come to treat her tomorrow.
After Dan Ye left, Shi Yanqing went to the drug store to get the herbs for detoxification, ground them into small pieces, and put them in a small piece of gauze.
An Ying's solution is not a one-step solution. It requires first killing the witchcraft poison in the body of the poisoned person, and then expelling the poison left in the body through a medicinal bath.
The treatment takes about half a month.
Shi Yanqing will not be in the city for the next few days, so she has to prepare the medicinal materials for the medicinal bath in advance to avoid interruption of treatment and affecting the effect.
"Doctor Shi."
Xun Lu's voice came from outside the door.
Shi Yanqing put down the gauze bag in his hand, stood up and opened the door.
"Doctor Xun, is there something wrong outside?"
Xun Lu shook his head and explained his intention: "I heard from Su Mu that you went to the Liu Mansion to treat a patient today. I have been in Yunshui County for some time and happened to hear that Miss Liu had a strange disease, so I wanted to ask if you need any help."
Shi Yanqing smiled slightly when he heard this, and accepted Xun Lu's kindness in his heart.
"Thank you, Doctor Xun. I'm somewhat confident about Miss Liu's condition. If I encounter any difficulties in the future, I will definitely ask Doctor Xun for advice."
"Since the doctor is confident that Miss Liu can be cured, I won't bother you for now."
After Xun Lu finished speaking, he nodded slightly to Shi Yanqing and left.
He turned around and went back to the clinic, sitting down in the seat behind the screen.
"If I had known earlier, I would have gone to the Liu Mansion to see Miss Liu first. Now the Liu Mansion is a blocked route, so I need to find another way."
Xun Lu picked up a pen and wrote down Liu Anan and Lu Tong's names on the paper.
He circled Lu Tong's name again, lowered his eyes, and his gaze fell on the name, with very complicated emotions in his eyes.
After a long time, Xun Lu sighed softly, reached out to fold the paper and put it into his sleeve pocket.
It’s been twenty years, will he still be the younger brother?
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