In the dream, Shi Zhijian returned to Hong Kong, and his elder sister Shi Yufeng, his three wives Bertie, Nie Yongqin and Su Youwei went out to greet him.
The little black dog raised in the tenement building also rushed over, jumped into Shi Zhijian's arms, stuck out its tongue and licked Shi Zhijian's face.
Shi Zhijian pushed it away, and it came over again and continued to lick it with his tongue. It was numb and cold!
"Uh, shouldn't a dog's tongue be hot?" Shi Zhijian was stunned for a moment, then woke up from his dream, only to find something crawling on his face——
Shi Zhijian grabbed it with his hand and screamed: "Snake!"
It turned out that the thing crawling on Shi Zhijian's face and squirming back and forth was actually a small green snake.
The little green snake was thrown out by Shi Zhijian and hid in a flash.
Tang Long was also awakened by Shi Zhijian, "Snake, where is the snake?" If he hadn't been half disabled, he would have jumped up in fright.
Even if he is a famous boxing champion, he is still afraid of some things in the weakest part of human nature. For example, some people are afraid of snakes, dogs, rats, and even frogs.
"What's the ghost's name?" Axiang's voice came, and soon she ducked in. The little green snake ran out, crawled onto her body, climbed along her legs, onto her arms and then to her wrists...
"My little darling, it turns out you came here!" A Xiang glanced at the little green snake and smiled kindly.
Shi Zhijian looked stupid and said, "Hey, you think you are a white lady, and you want to accept a green snake as your little sister?"
A Xiang then looked at Shi Zhijian and sneered: "A grown man is actually afraid of a snake - and besides, I told you not to mess around when you sleep. I have drawn a circle for you. What are you doing here blindly?"
Only then did Shi Zhijian realize that he had rolled from the floor to outside the golden circle.
"Fortunately, it was Xiao Qing who showed up. If there were other poisonous insects, snakes and ants, you might be dead, and I would have to collect your bodies for you."
Shi Zhijian felt a chill and hurriedly hid in the circle made of gold powder, "You have a lot of those things here?"
"What do you think? My grandfather is a shaman, a Thai magician. He keeps some poisonous snakes, centipedes, toads, scorpions, geckos and the like. It's normal!"
"What a ghost!" Shi Zhijian almost cursed. Ever since he became rich, he has never suffered such a hardship, let alone living with a group of poisonous creatures. They are not allowed to hide in that corner.
.
"Don't be afraid, as long as you stay in the circle I drew and don't move around, nothing will happen to you!"
"What should we do when we go to the toilet?" Shi Zhijian said, "Don't those babies you raise avoid automatically?"
"Well - it depends on your luck!" Ah Xiang shrugged and played with the little green snake and said, "It's already dawn. Let me go to the pawn shop first to see how much your watch is worth." After saying that, he turned around and
Leaving the place where Shi Zhijian and the others lived.
Shi Zhijian wanted to curse, but he felt that a grown man and a little girl were a bit narrow-minded.
At this time, Tang Long, who was lying on the stretcher, suddenly said: "That's what I said..."
Shi Zhijian looked at him.
Tang Long said a little embarrassedly: "I asked you if you could help me..."
"What to do?"
"I want to...pee!"
"Huh?" Shi Zhijian was stunned for a moment, "Can't you just bear it?"
"I can't help it anymore. Sorry!"
"Hold on!"
Shi Zhijian took a look inside the room and saw that there was no chamber pot or anything like that. There was only an earthen jar in the corner, and he didn't know what it was used for.
Shi Zhijian walked over and picked up the earthen pot and took a look. It was dark like some black rice and had a rancid smell, so he tipped the earthen pot upside down!
Wow!
Those black rice flow out!
At the same time, a big scorpion also crawled out of it!
"Fuck you!" Shi Zhijian shook his hand, threw away the jar and hid in the circle.
Tang Long was even more frightened when he looked at the big scorpion with its fangs and claws. If Shi Zhijian hadn't shaken the scorpion out, if he had stuffed the earthen pot into the bed...
So dangerous!
Shi Zhijian saw that the scorpion was arrogantly facing them and refused to leave, so he didn't care much and hurriedly grabbed the leather shoes beside the bed and plucked up the courage to slap them twice!
Just smash that unlucky scorpion into a pulp!
Tang Long looked at Shi Zhijian.
Shi Zhijian gasped and used his leather shoes to pull at the dead scorpion again. He was relieved when he saw that it made no movement and was obviously bloody and dead.
All monsters and ghosts are nothing but paper tigers in the face of the absolute power of leather shoes!
"Get out! Don't be discovered!" Tang Long said.
Shi Zhijian understood immediately, so he wrapped the dead scorpion in Tang Long's socks and threw it into the river!
When Shi Zhijian turned around, Tang Long was looking at his foot with only one sock left, and asked Shi Zhijian: "Why do you use mine instead of yours?"
Shi Zhijian said: "You can't stand up anyway, maybe you won't be able to use it in your life!"
Tang Long lay on the stretcher and thought for a while. He couldn't help but feel that it made sense. Before he could feel sad, he said to Shi Zhijian: "Please, can you bring that earthen pot first? I can't hold it in anymore..."
…
At noon.
Master Ma, the master of Jiangtou, cooked some glutinous rice porridge for lunch. When they saw the glutinous rice, Shi Zhijian and Tang Long looked at each other and thought of the big scorpion hidden in the rice pot. They didn't know if they were feeding the fish at the moment.
"Wow, now that I think about it, I almost forgot to feed my pet Xiaoqiang!" Master Ma slapped his forehead, got up and walked towards the bedroom where Shi Zhijian and the others lived.
Shi Zhijian and Tang Long suddenly felt excited.
As expected——
"Hey, where is my Xiaoqiang? And why is this earthen pot so sexy?"
Master Ma took the earthen pot and walked out with a suspicious look on his face, and came to the dining table.
Shi Zhijian hurriedly moved his body away.
Tang Long couldn't move, so he tried his best to turn his head away.
Master Ma raised his nose and sniffed at the jar: "Weren't you so naughty before?"
Then he looked up at Shi Zhijian and Tang Long: "By the way, you live in that house, have you seen my Xiaoqiang?"
"Xiaoqiang? He looks very handsome just by his name, but he doesn't know what kind of treasure he is?" Shi Zhijian said calmly.
"It's a scorpion, there are many of them!" Master Ma gestured, "It's as big as a fist!"
"Oh, it turns out to be a scorpion as big as a fist..." Shi Zhijian nodded, "Maybe the weather has been hot recently, and Xiaoqiang couldn't stand the heat and wanted to go to the river to take a bath..."
"No way, Xiaoqiang doesn't know how to swim!"
"How is it impossible? There are so many weird things in this world!" Shi Zhijian said, "Besides, your little guy is so big, he is almost a spirit. Not to mention bathing in the river, even if you say he eats fast and chants Buddha's name, I will believe it...
"
Just when Shi Zhijian was talking nonsense, Axiang came back in a boat, jumped off the boat and said: "Grandpa, it's done! That watch is really valuable -"
"It's not valuable, it's very valuable!" Shi Zhijian corrected, "I bought it in the United States for 130,000 US dollars!"
"Uh, 130,000?" Axiang was stunned.
Shi Zhijian looked at her and stood up suddenly: "Don't tell me that you only pawned tens of thousands of dollars!"
"Uh, tens of thousands of dollars?"
"Could it be that--" Shi Zhijian pointed at Ah Xiang, "You didn't even pay tens of thousands?!"
Ah Xiang blushed at the comment and hurriedly argued: "Does anyone know that your broken watch is so valuable? Are you a liar? The pawnshop told me that the maximum price is eight thousand U.S. dollars. Because I know you well, I gave you one thousand dollars more."
The total is nine thousand, plus your one thousand can just cover the medical expenses!"
"Nine thousand? I'm going to give you an extra thousand because I know you well? Are you a fish in water? You don't have a brain?" Shi Zhijian said with a smile, "They are just playing tricks on you and treating you as a scapegoat!"
A girl from Axiang was told this before. She got angry and said, "So what? I'm happy with it! Anyway, what if you don't want the money?"
Shi Zhijian shrugged and said it didn't matter: "Of course! At worst, I can redeem the watch when I make some money! As for you, you will gain wisdom every time you go through it!"
"Ahem, do you want to redeem your watch?" Axiang looked strange.
Shi Zhijian could see clearly and pointed at Axiang's nose: "Don't tell me that what you are doing is a dead-end scam that cannot be redeemed?"
Ah Xiang's chest puffed up and she said confidently: "Of course it's a dead giveaway! Otherwise, why would they give me an extra thousand US dollars?"
Shi Zhijian rolled his eyes and was speechless.
Ah Xiang was still quibbling: "Besides, when it comes to pawning things, you have to haggle over the price. Even if you bought it for 130,000 yuan and you are in urgent need of money now, you still have to sell it even if I give you 3,000 yuan? What do you think I said?
Isn’t that right?”
Shi Zhijian spread his hands: "You are right! Can I call you grandma? You are so capable and good at doing things. When those pawnshops meet you, they really meet grandma, the God of Wealth..."
Master Ma couldn't stand it anymore. Knowing that his granddaughter was at fault, he coughed and changed the topic: "Since you have the medical expenses, then I will help your friend see how the injury is..."
…
"Western doctors in the United States say that because of his spinal injury, he may not be able to stand up for the rest of his life and is half-paralyzed!" Shi Zhijian said from the sidelines as he watched Master Ma examine Tang Long's body.
Master Ma turned Tang Long over, touched his spine with his hand, and said: "How many years have those ghosts been practicing Western medicine? Our Chinese medicine has a history of five thousand years, and what's more, plus my lowered head
Even though his disabled body cannot be cured by magic!"
"What? You said he can be cured?" Shi Zhijian said in surprise.
Tang Long was also excited, "Master, you said... I can still be saved?"
Master Ma nodded: "No one else can save you, but I can!" There was an unfathomable look on his lean face.
Granddaughter Axiang next to her interjected: "My grandfather is very good at joining muscles and bones!"
Shi Zhijian didn't expect that a blind cat would encounter a dead mouse, but he found the right person. It seemed that the ten thousand US dollars was not wasted.
"Then please master, please take action to save him!"
"Don't worry, since I took your money, of course I will save him!" Master Ma continued to be inscrutable.
A Xiang continued to interject from the side: "For serious injuries like his, the only way is to use the secret recipe passed down by our Ma family——"
Shi Zhijian was excited: "What's the secret recipe?"
"Black Jade Intermittent Cream!"
"Ahem!" Shi Zhijian almost choked to death and glared at Axiang: "Young lady, you also read "Eternal Dragon Sword"?"
"Uh, you read it too?"
“Dabble occasionally!”
"Oh, shame! I don't read much!"
"Don't be ashamed, you put what you have learned to use!"
A Xiang blushed: "I'm just borrowing it - you're welcome!"
Tang Long didn't know what Shi Zhijian and Axiang were talking about. When he heard that there was hope for his disability to recover, he couldn't help it anymore: "Mr. Shi, I heard that this black jade intermittent ointment is very effective. Why don't you give it a try?"
Shi Zhijian spread his hands: "If you want to try it, then go ahead! Anyway, I've already paid for it!"
Master Ma: "Young man, there is no such thing as trying to cure diseases and save lives in this world! As a doctor, especially as a witch doctor, I will only do my best!"
"Well, thank you!" Shi Zhijian clasped his fists towards Master Ma, and then looked at Miss Axiang: "As for your ancestral secret recipe, I think it's better to change its name!"
"Why?"
"Because it's too famous! You know, people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. The same goes for your secret recipe!"
…
Master Ma first gave Tang Long acupuncture and massage for three days and three nights.
On the fourth day, Master Ma found a lot of herbs, boiled some of them into soup, and gave it to Tang Long to drink.
Master Ma chewed some of them with his mouth and gave Tang Long a hot compress!
Ten days later, Master Ma finally took out their ancestral "Black Jade Intermittent Ointment" and used a few chopstick heads to apply it evenly on the skin of the ointment, just like the black jade paste. Then he slapped it on Tang Long's spine.
!
More than half a month passed in the blink of an eye.
Tang Long was actually able to move slightly on the stretcher, a miracle!
But what’s even more miraculous is yet to come.
Don’t forget, Master Ma is a witch doctor and a master of head-dressing!
The US$10,000 Shi Zhijian spent also included money for Tang Long’s medical treatment.
Shi Zhijian didn't believe in this crooked way of treating diseases at first.
But when Master Ma sat down cross-legged, chirped at the statue, and threw a lot of snakes, insects, rats, and ants into the clay pot that was smoking white, and then after another chirping, Tang Long began to sweat all over and make crackling sounds.
, Shi Zhijian, was shocked!
"Why, does it feel magical?" Axiang's voice sounded from behind Shi Zhijian. "Actually, the head-lowering technique comes from Miao witchcraft, and Miao witchcraft is similar to the traditional Chinese Zhu You technique!"
"When many scenes that we cannot understand with science appear, you will understand how amazing our ancestors are! The simplest one, there is a kind of bone removal method in Zhu You's technique. If the fish bones are stuck in the throat, the master needs to cast a spell to spray a sip of water.
, the fish bone will disappear automatically! There is also a hemostatic spell, which only needs to be recited to the injured, no gold sore medicine or anything else is needed, and the bleeding of the wound will automatically stop... Do you think this can be explained scientifically? "
Shi Zhijian, stunned!
Indeed, he knew very little about traditional national culture, and even felt that these things were just pretentious and untrustworthy!
But watching Tang Long slowly push himself up on the stretcher in front of him, and listening to Axiang's explanation of Miao witchcraft and traditional Zhu Youshu next to him, for the first time, he felt that the world was too big, and there were many things.
I don’t know, or have never been exposed to it!
"It takes a hundred days to break the muscles and bones, and someone like him needs to rest for at least half a year!" After Master Ma finished doing the method, he looked a little tired and said to Shi Zhijian, "Now you know, I charge you 10,000 US dollars, yes
