Shen Cui thought for a moment and said, "I still don't think it's some ghost, let's go to the locust tree at the entrance of the village and take a look."
It was already completely dark now, and in less than a quarter of an hour it would be completely dark.
Lao Buyu shook his head subconsciously, but when he turned around, he found Mu Erpang looking at him. He turned his head and gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go and take a look!"
Seeing how scared he was, Shen Cui had no choice but to take out the candlestick she brought from home in the afternoon and light the special candle in advance.
The flickering warm candlelight dispels the fear and darkness, and also brings a touch of warmth to people's hearts.
Lao Buyu was the most frightened of the three, so Chen Cui handed the candlestick to him and asked him to hold it.
Lao Buyu reached out to take it, but just as he touched the candlestick, he retracted his hand and said righteously, "Madam Mu is a woman of her generation, so naturally you should hold this candle."
He is quite gentlemanly?
Shen Cui raised her eyebrows in surprise, but she was in a hurry to go to the village entrance to check the situation, so she didn't say much.
After the group of three left the old house, Chen Cui discovered something was wrong - the person holding the candle had to walk in front, responsible for exploring the way and lighting the way for the people behind!
This guy is silent!
She shook her head in a ridiculous manner, and Mu Erpang soon discovered this, looking up at Shen Cui and saying, "Mom, let me get it, you follow behind me."
He was the youngest, had just started to learn, and had little experience, so naturally he was afraid.
But when Chen Cui said that she wanted to come out to see the situation, Mu Erpang did not shrink at all, and acted like a brave little man.
"It's okay," he said, stroking his head with his hand, "Just walk over like this."
In less than half a minute, the three of them arrived at the village entrance.
The temperature difference at night is large in early spring, and there is a strong wind at night. All you can see are the swaying shadows of the trees and the rustling of the leaves. As Lao Buyu said, there was no one under the tree at this time.
The candlelight flickered, the light and shadows were mottled, and it was quite creepy when combined with the bizarre story that Lao Buyu just told.
Just when Shen Cui was about to go under the locust tree, Lao Buyu waved his hand to signal her to stop.
Chen Cui looked at him in confusion, thinking that he wouldn't give up halfway after coming this far, right?
Lao Buyu swallowed his saliva twice and asked with trembling lips: "Did you... hear any crying?"
"Master, you must have heard it wrong. It should just be the sound of the wind sobbing."
Mu Erpang also whispered: "I, I seem to have heard it too."
Chen Cui listened carefully again and actually heard a faint, miserable sobbing sound mixed in with the sound of the wind.
"Look, there really is...there's that thing!"
If it weren't for the fact that men and women shouldn't touch each other, Lao Buyu would have wanted to grab one of them each and run away with them.
Shen Cui said seriously, "Master, please stop making trouble. There is indeed crying sound. It is a human voice, not a ghost. Let's go and take a look!"
After saying that, Shen Cui immediately followed the sound.
Soon, she found a hole next to the locust tree.
The hole was not big, only half a meter in diameter. It is not something that has just appeared today, it has been around for quite some time.
The age of the locust tree in the village is unknown. As the old saying goes, old trees are spiritual, and no one knows when the villagers began to make wishes to the locust tree and beg for blessings from the tree spirit.
People’s living conditions were limited nowadays, and it was impossible for them to throw copper coins like in modern times, so they dug a deep hole under the tree. During festivals, if there is leftover food at home, they would pour it into the hole as an offering.
Of course, this kind of traditional offering would easily emit a foul smell due to the decay of food, so the pit was dug deeper, about two meters deep.
However, there are many children in the village, and people are afraid that children will fall into the pit while playing, so the pit is not only covered with a wooden board, but also surrounded by a low fence. I don't know how a person fell in.
Hearing someone approaching, the people in the pit stopped crying and shouted "Help!" in a hoarse voice!
Although it was unknown how long the person had been shouting and his voice had become hoarse and out of tune, it was at least possible to tell that it was a human being.
Lao Buyu finally recovered completely and touched his face in embarrassment and said, "Why is there a pit here?"
He had just moved to Shuiyun Village and had not looked at the place carefully during the day. In addition, it was half dark at that time, so he was frightened and naturally did not notice it.
He didn't let Shen Cui interfere with the rescue work, and quickly ran back to the house to find a hemp rope.
Soon Ma Shen was thrown down, and the people in the pit grabbed one end, while Lao Buyu and Mu Erpang grabbed the other end outside and pulled the people up.
The man looked quite thin, with leftovers hanging from his head and body. When he came up, he stank of rotten food, and his clothes couldn't even recognize their original color. He sat on the ground, gasping for breath.
"It was you who followed me and gave me a scare. Tell me, are you a thief or..."
Before Lao Buyu could finish his question, the man fell back limply and fainted.
Lao Buyu also felt a little guilty. Although the other party was the one who followed him first, if something happened to this person under his nose, he would also be indirectly responsible.
"Don't worry, I've read a few medical books, let me see if he's pretending or what's wrong." Lao Buyu asked Chen Cui and Mu Erpang to stand back. He went forward and felt his breath and pulse, then he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's nothing serious, he was just scared."
After confirming that the other party was fine, the three people's eyes naturally moved to the other party's face - isn't this person in front of them the younger brother with 88 points of qualification among the pair of brothers?
She felt it was difficult to find him before, and he even asked her to deliver the goods to her door?
"It's him!" Shen Cui, Lao Buyu and Mu Erpang spoke at the same time.
After saying this, the three of them looked at each other, and they were all a little confused as to why everyone knew him.
But now was not the time to talk, so Chen Cui was responsible for lighting the room with the candlestick. She also searched under the tree and found a wooden board to cover the hole to prevent anyone else from falling.
Lao Buyu carried the man on his back, and Mu Erpang helped him, and together they sent the man back to the old house.
The young man at the back was put on the kang but had not woken up yet. Chen Cui was not confident in Lao Buyu's half-baked self-taught medical skills, so she asked Lao Buyu to change his clothes while she hurried to find the barefoot doctor in the village.
The barefoot doctor's medical skills certainly could not compare with those of the regular doctors in the city, but it was already dark and the city gates would be closed soon, so the doctors in the city would not leave the city to treat patients at this time. Let's just hire a barefoot doctor to take over first.
Not long after, the old doctor was invited over by Chen Cui.
He had much more experience than Lao Buyu, that half-baked guy. When he heard them say that the person was rescued from a pit, he knew that the person probably didn't have any internal injuries - every year there were some particularly playful children who fell into the pit, but there was a thick layer of leftovers underneath, so he had never heard of anyone being seriously injured.
But there are no serious injuries, but there are other external injuries.
He carefully examined the boy's body, hands and feet, and finally touched his ankle and said, "It's nothing serious, just a sprained ankle. You don't even need a splint. Go find some medicinal wine to rub it, and it will be fine after it's loosened up."
Later, Chen Cui paid fifty cents for the consultation and sent the patient away.
Mu Erpang was in charge of looking after the young man, while Chen Cui and Lao Buyu, who had changed his clothes, sat in the main room to talk.
Lao Buyu has the deepest connection with him, so let’s start with him.
However, Lao Buyu did not know his specific name - the other party must have mentioned it, but he did not remember it specifically. He only knew that he was from the capital and was sent here by his family to study at Qingzhu Academy.
But he accidentally learned that Lao Buyu was accepting students, so he changed his mind, found Lao Buyu, and said that he had read his articles when he was young and admired him very much and wanted to become his disciple.
At that time, Lao Buyu was so obsessed with the business that required no capital, that he had forgotten the original intention of setting up the competition and only treated him as a fat sheep to be slaughtered.
Didn’t I say it before? No one is stupid enough to compete with Lao Buyu in poetry, songs, and the six arts of a gentleman.
This young man is an exception, and those are what he compares himself with Lao Buyu.
They would compete with each other for one or two points each time, and he would go to compete with him every few days.
In a competition involving these things, it was naturally impossible for Lao Buyu to lose to a teenager like him.
After he paid in more than ten or twenty taels of silver, Lao Buyu nicknamed him "Little Fat Sheep" in his heart. He didn't know when he only remembered this nickname and even forgot the other person's specific name.
It wasn't until the Chinese New Year that the little fat sheep stopped looking for him. Lao Buyu thought that even he had given up on him, so he thought about moving to another place.
"Ah, it's a continuation." Chen Cui took over the conversation, "That day on Academy Street, when I went to look for Master, I heard him and his brother arguing. His brother wanted him to go to Qingzhu Academy, but he resisted. From their conversation, I learned that Master...I guess he didn't give up, but was detained by his family."
"That kid is the same. Why didn't he just say hello when he saw me? Instead, he followed me secretly. If you hadn't dragged me to have another look, it would have been so windy outside today that no one would have heard his mosquito-like humming call for help."
This is also the point that Shen Cui didn't understand.
Coincidentally, when they were talking about this, Mu Erpang's brisk voice came from the house, "Mom, sir, he's awake!"
Shen Cui and Lao Buyu immediately went into the house without saying anything.
The young man on the kang had woken up. Just as the old doctor said, he did injure his foot. After sitting up, he frowned unconsciously and took a breath of cold air.
Then he smelled the stench emanating from his body. When he saw Chen Cui and Lao Buyu coming in together, his face turned red in an instant, with an expression of shame and anger.
He was so shy and afraid of being embarrassed, so Shen Cui consciously stood at the door and didn't go forward.
Lao Buyu said quickly, "I just asked a doctor to check on you. He said you sprained your foot and you need to lie down. Don't move for now."
The boy nodded obediently, put his feet, which had begun to swell, flat on the ground, and then bowed to Lao Buyu to express his gratitude.
Although Lao Buyu was terrified before, he now had one hand behind his back, looking like a calm scholar. He waved his hand and said, "Don't thank me. You should thank Madam Mu. If she hadn't reminded me to go back and take a look, you would have probably stayed in that cave for half a night."
Upon hearing this, the young man turned around, bowed deeply to Shen Cui at the door, and said seriously: "Thank you, Madam, for saving me."
No one doesn't like a well-educated and polite person, especially since he is very handsome. Chen Cui really has a little more appreciation for this young man - many literati nowadays are arrogant, especially those with high qualifications and talents. It is good enough if they don't have their eyes on the top of their heads.
"Tell me, Xiao Fei... Xiao Langjun, what happened today?"
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