Although Mu Sheng hoped that the two of them would stay and treat them well, Li Xiuyuan looked down upon this scholar with bad conduct and no friendship in his heart, so why would he stay?
If his senior brother Teng Yunzi had not followed fate, Li Xiuyuan would not have come to resolve the revenge of the fox spirit for Mu Sheng.
On the road, Li Xiuyuan rode a dragon horse, and Teng Yunzi followed the flying sword in no hurry.
"Where's Junior Brother's black tiger? Why isn't it with me anymore?" Teng Yunzi asked on the way.
Li Xiuyuan said: "We are not on the same road here. I asked Wei Hu to go back to Guobei County to see his mother. Senior brother, why don't we use the magic technique to catch up with the fox spirit as soon as possible and resolve the matter so that we can go to heaven as soon as possible."
Laoshan?”
"That's fine." Teng Yunzi nodded and used the magic technique to sit down on his donkey.
The donkey sped up and pursued the fox spirit without stopping on the road.
And not long after the two left.
In the Mu Mansion.
Mu Sheng saw that the fox spirit had been expelled. Although he was still a little frightened because he had not been killed, the capable young Taoist said that he would suppress the fox spirit for two hundred years, which made him relieved.
He was already dead within two hundred years, so what does it have to do with his descendants?
How can I manage things two hundred years from now?
Thinking of this, Mu Sheng felt a lot more relaxed, but he did not forget the words Li Xiuyuan left before leaving.
"If you want to get eight hundred taels of silver from my house, all you need is a pillow?"
Mu Sheng frowned deeply at this moment.
The fox spirit ran away, and his family's property was supposedly saved, but now that Taoist said this, could it be that he had already cast a spell on the pillow at home, and if the spell came true, his family would lose their money?
"The fox spirit matter has been resolved, and I have nothing to be afraid of. I don't believe it. I threw away all the pillows at home. How can the Taoist's words be fulfilled?" Mu Sheng thought secretly in his heart.
Immediately, he called for the slaves who had escaped before, and ordered his wife to throw away all the pillows in the house, and throw them away further, and he was not allowed to buy another pillow into the house.
Although Mu's wife was very confused about this matter, she still did as she was told.
After the work was done, it was already evening by the time the servants reported the matter.
"Husband, all the pillows in the house have been thrown into the woods three miles away and buried. Now there is not a single pillow in the house."
After Mu's wife finished speaking, she hesitated and said, "But husband, I'm afraid I'm not used to sleeping without a pillow this night. How about leaving two?"
"No, that Taoist today is an expert. He knows magic and can eliminate demons. What he said must be true. Don't leave even a pillow behind."
Mu Sheng shouted: "Without the pillow, the Taoist's words will not come true, and our family's property can be preserved. The fox spirit will not come again today. She has been completely driven away. Compared with this, there is no sleep."
The pillow doesn't matter. Don't mention it again. Not only will it not be mentioned today,
If you keep the pillow, you will never keep it again."
At night.
When Mu Sheng went to bed, he tossed and turned for a long time and couldn't fall asleep because there was no pillow on the bed, which made him really uncomfortable.
In the end, after struggling for a long time, I was very tired and then fell asleep.
However, the next morning, when Mu Sheng opened his eyes and just remembered, he found that his head was tilted to the side, and his neck was in unbearable pain, which was so painful that he could not even stand up.
"Ouch, it hurts me so much. I didn't sleep well this time. I actually had a stiff neck. Come on, go ask the doctor to give me acupuncture and massage. It's so painful that I can't even lift my neck."
Mu Sheng lay on the bed with his neck crooked, shouting out in pain. His whole body seemed to be paralyzed. Any movement involving his neck would cause him to gasp in pain.
Mu's wife said: "Yesterday I told you to leave two pillows, but you didn't listen. Now it's better. If you fall asleep, you have to go to the doctor."
"I'm asking you to invite me. What nonsense are you talking about? Do you want to watch me die in pain?" Mu Sheng cursed angrily.
Mu's wife had no choice but to ask a doctor.
However, after the doctor came, he tried acupuncture and massage, but he still couldn't cure Mu Sheng's stiff neck pain. Not only was the treatment ineffective, but Mu Sheng screamed in pain during the treatment.
"Doctor, are you treating a disease or killing someone? It hurts me to death. If you continue to treat me like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to save my life." Mu Sheng shouted in pain.
The doctor had no choice but to take back his hand: "Sir, your symptoms of stiff neck are really weird. I previously thought that the symptoms of your stiff neck were caused by the blockage of qi and blood in the meridians. I used acupuncture to activate the meridians, but the result was no improvement. I could only conclude that it was caused by bones.
It was not straight, so I used massage to set the bones, but after I started,
I found that the young master’s neck bones are intact.”
"If it's neither of the two, then there must be other causes. The doctor is the most famous in the area. Can't he find the cause of my disease?" Mu Sheng stiffened and asked, tilting his head.
The doctor shook his head and said: "Based on my many years of medical experience, Mr. Mu's stiff neck pain is not an ordinary injury. Medicine and stone cannot cure it. It is quite similar to a lame patient I once treated.
The patient's legs and feet were fine, but he became lame overnight.
No matter how you set the bones, acupuncture and moxibustion can't cure it. Later, I heard from others that the lame man was a rent collector, nicknamed Liu Yijiao."
"His feet are very powerful. He doesn't kick people or hurt animals, but he is good at kicking and fighting. He can knock down at least two kilograms of grain from a tax bucket with one kick. After collecting rent in a year, he can knock down several kilograms with one kick.
One hundred catties of grain."
"Later, his foot became lame and he could no longer play football. Some people said that Liu Yijiao's behavior was a violation of his moral character, so he got retribution and became lame overnight. Mr. Mu's stiff neck symptoms are somewhat similar to this.
,Did Mr. Mu provoke some ghosts and gods recently?"
Having said this, the doctor said no more.
There have long been rumors in the county that Mu Sheng went from a poor scholar to a small landowner in one year, from living with nothing to having a house and a farm, all because of the favor of a fox spirit.
Although the rumors are not credible.
But after observing the symptoms, the doctor already concluded that this was a disease caused by ghosts and gods, which was not something that an ordinary doctor like him could cure.
After hearing what the doctor said, Mu Sheng once again thought of the conversation between the two Taoists yesterday.
"Junior brother, what method did you use to take away the eight hundred taels of silver from his home?"
"It's easy, just a pillow."
Mu Sheng now understood the meaning of this sentence. If he could move, he would be beating his feet and chest angrily now. Because he believed what the Taoist said was true, he threw away all the pillows at home, but it was precisely because he lost them
That’s why I have a stiff neck today.
Is this what is called destiny?
Moreover, the little stiff neck problem turned out to be so serious that it caused him to lie on the bed.