Thinking of this scene, Li Qingluo felt warm in his heart.
"grandmother."
Li Qingluo followed Nangong Di over, and Madam Pei immediately held out her hand: "Come quickly, Luo'er. Grandma has prepared your favorite date paste cake for you. Come and try it."
Old Madam Pei held Li Qingluo's hand affectionately. After getting her hand back, Old Madam Pei cherished the relationship between herself and Luo'er even more.
In her heart, the only hope for the rest of her life is her Luo'er.
So if anything happened to Luo'er, she would feel worse than if she died, and she valued Li Qingluo even more.
"Did you sleep well last night? Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere?"
Mrs. Pei rarely showed her gentle side as she showed concern for Li Qingluo. Doctor Luo Shen and Nangong Di beside her also smiled slightly.
During the two days that Li Qingluo disappeared, although Nangong Di and Doctor Luo did not accompany Old Madam Pei to Duke Pei's Mansion, they were also running around the streets looking for Li Qingluo.
Now that she has returned safely, the two of them are naturally extremely happy. They treat her like their own younger generation and have some feelings for her.
After sending the servants away, Doctor Luo Shen spoke of rabies: "I also encountered this disease over thirty years ago when I followed my master around the mountains and rivers of the continent, practicing medicine and learning from him."
"At that time, the disease was discovered in a small village on the border between the Western Regions and Daliang."
"At least half of the people in that village seemed to have gone crazy, chasing and killing each other with knives."
"If someone is hacked to death, the others will immediately swarm over him and suck his flesh and blood."
"But after eating this flesh and blood, they seemed to dislike each other and didn't seem to like the taste."
"My master and I were passing by when they spotted us. They immediately chased us with all sorts of knives, wanting to kill us. We were so frightened that we ran deep into the mountains. Once we were there, we met another group of villagers and learned the truth."
"It turns out these people are the other half of the normal villagers in that village."
"They said that just a year ago, every family had a family member suddenly fall ill overnight with this strange disease. It's rabies, a disease that causes people to go crazy and drink human blood."
"They all seem to be under the spell of an evil spirit. When they are normal, they can still speak, but when they are sick, they cannot control themselves and completely lose their humanity."
"Later, some of them would become ill and accidentally eat the flesh and blood of their family members. After that, they would become completely lucid for a few days. However, most people who regain consciousness cannot accept the truth and would immediately commit suicide with a knife to apologize."
"Furthermore, every person who suffers from this condition will only feel a strong desire for the flesh and blood of the opposite sex. They will feel that a normal member of the opposite sex, just passing by, smells sweet, and this will trigger their body's greatest desire for blood."
“The flesh and blood of the same sex, animals, and even those with the same disease, has no taste to them, but tastes bitter when they enter their mouths.”
"Not long afterward, the normal people in the village had no choice but to abandon their families and hide in the mountains to survive. They set up some traps at the entrance, and only then did they have peace for a few days."
"My master and I were very curious about this disease, so we stayed in the mountains for a while."
"At the same time, my master and I also found another healer here, a female witch doctor from the Western Regions."
After Doctor Luo finished speaking, he looked at Madam Pei.
Madam Pei was shocked: "Could it be her? Zaina!?"
Li Qingluo asked, "Grandma, who is this witch doctor Zaina?"
Madam Pei seemed to be lost in her memories, her voice filled with emotion: "She is a witch!"
"Back then, your great-grandfather was completely bewitched by her...!"
"This Zaina is from the Western Regions. She is extremely beautiful and charming."
"They met on the battlefield. Those Western Regions people wanted to kill Zaina, saying she was a lunatic who would do anything to achieve her goals. It was your great-grandfather who fell in love with her at first sight, as if he was possessed. He not only saved her but also brought her back to the barracks."
"At first, he still had some sense and knew to lock Zaina up and not allow her to run around, fearing that she might be a spy."
"But later, when a strange plague-like disease broke out in the military camp, it was Zaina who took the initiative to help and resolved the crisis."
"From then on, your great-grandfather completely ignored her and kept her by his side."
"However, Zaina hasn't done anything bad while being with my brother. On the contrary, she has saved many people."
"I hate her because I've let your great-grandmother down."
"Your great-grandmother, my sister-in-law, is dignified, beautiful, graceful, and generous. She has devoted her heart to me and everyone in the Pei family."
"But since Zaina showed up, my eldest brother's mind is no longer on my sister-in-law."
"He even brought Zaina with him several times when he returned to Jinling City, and even blatantly brought her back to the Duke's Mansion."
"My sister-in-law is so tortured that she feels like she's lost in despair. It's not that she's not open-minded, but when they were young, they were deeply in love. But now, my brother's feelings change so suddenly... Sometimes mental torture is more cruel than having no feelings at all."
"However, because the woman was from the Western Regions, my elder brother was unable to make her his equal wife, and she also didn't want to be his concubine, so the two of them have been together without any official status."
"Later, Jinling City could no longer accommodate that woman, so they spent most of their time at the border, living a life that was not quite like a couple, but better than a couple."
"A few years later, your great-grandmother fell seriously ill and passed away."
"Two months before his death, my family wrote a letter asking your great-grandfather to come back, but he didn't come back to see his first wife for the last time."
"Why……"
"Luo Bai, are you saying... Zaina also went to that village at that time?"
"Could it be that my eldest brother's blood disease is related to her?"
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