"Liangsheng, hahahaha, the master is back!"
The Toad Taoist crawled into the gap in the corner of the room, stuck out his butt, kicked his short legs hard a few times, and tightened his belly before he squeezed in. He saw the figure sitting in front of the window under the dim oil lamp, and ran over excitedly, jumping and flapping his webbed feet on the spot.
"Liangsheng, is there anything to eat? I haven't eaten for a day. Please give me some..."
Um
The Toad stopped talking and saw that the disciple sitting over there was motionless, as if he couldn't hear him. He climbed up along the foot of the bed and saw a slightly blue oil lamp and Qu Yuanfeng lying flat on the wooden couch, his bean-sized eyes narrowed into a slit.
Seven-star life-extending lamp, Disciple Qu has no breath left... Toad Taoist pondered for a moment, tilted his head to look at Lu Liangsheng who was sitting on the edge of the bed, and said: "Even if you call back his soul, his body is already dead, and if he comes back to life, he will just be a corpse, and will still rot."
However, the scholar sitting over there stared at the corpse on the bed with a dull look in his eyes, his lips moving as he chanted the resurrection spell.
"Liangsheng, did you hear what the master just said?"
The Toad Taoist jumped over, walked on the edge of the bed, stretched out his webbed feet and flapped his webbed feet. His round webbed head went straight through his disciple's body. It was an illusion. Then, he raised his head and saw Lu Liangsheng's self-portrait hanging in the corner of the house reflected in this side.
"Hush, old Toad!"
On the window frame at the corner of the house, outside the crooked, charred wooden frame, Zhu Ganglie tiptoed, lowered his head, and looked in through the window, and asked in a low voice:
"What happened to your apprentice?"
"It's okay, Illusion, you wait here for me." The Toad Taoist waved his flippers to tell him not to come in, jumped off the bed, spread his flippers and ran outside. The old donkey crawling at the door opened his eyes, saw the short figure running out, shook his long ears, grinned, stuck out his long tongue and neighed.
The latter ran over, climbed onto its back, and looked around for a few times.
"Where's Liangsheng?"
The old donkey tilted his head and wagged his tongue, roughly indicating a direction. Not far from here, there was a light of fire under a few big trees in the village that were still smoking.
There were clay pots on several campfires, from which the sound of boiling water could be heard, along with an unpleasant herbal smell.
The wind blew, and the flames fell down. In the bright yellow light, half of a handsome face was illuminated. Lu Liangsheng squatted on the ground, concentrating on grinding some hemostatic drugs. His white robe was stained with a few patches of deep red and dark blue. At this time, he did not care about the distinction between men and women. He carefully lifted the corner of the pale woman's clothes at the waist. Two wounds that cut the flesh were visible, and the whole body was covered with blood.
A village woman who was helping nearby took one look and cried out "ouch!" She quickly covered the eyes of the woman's daughter and closed her own eyes as well, turning her body away.
The surviving men in the surrounding villages naturally could not get close. They stood a few feet away, stretched their necks, and saw the scholar here spreading out the bandages.
"Sir, can you cure Xiaohua's mother?"
"I think it's difficult. The wound on Hua's mother's waist is too deep. She has been working all year round and is in good health. If it were another woman, she would have bled to death long ago."
"Alas... What a sin! Her husband was burned to death by the Turkic barbarians, and she was raped. The children watched helplessly..."
Amid the mournful voice, Lu Liangsheng placed the pounded herbs on the bandage, and supported it with his other hand. He used his magic power unnoticeably, and a faint white smoke floated up from it.
When the woman's wound was pressed, a soft "hissing" sound was heard. The woman, who had lost blood and fainted, frowned slightly in her sleep, and a moan suddenly came from her dry lips.
The little girl, who had been covered and turned aside, heard her mother's voice, broke free from her aunt's hand and shouted in surprise, "Mom!"
He rushed over, knelt on the ground, held the woman's head in his arms, and cried out.
"Mother... Mother, Huaer thought you were leaving too. Don't want Huaer anymore..."
A group of villagers in the distance stood up and looked at the woman who moved her arm and touched the child. They wiped their tears and swarmed around her.
"Sir, thank you so much!" "Yes, thank you for your help!"
"I have clean water here, sir, drink some water quickly and don't get tired!"
Some people also ran to the front of the crowd with their children in their arms, knelt down, and kowtowed repeatedly: "Sir, please save my child too. He was hit by a Hu man's horse and hasn't woken up yet."
"Hold me here quickly!"
Lu Liangsheng asked the man to bring the child to his side. After bandaging the woman, he asked the villagers to help carry the woman to the ward while he checked the child's head.
He was knocked down by a war horse and his internal organs were displaced. Fortunately, he had read some medical books, and when he was in Wanhe County, he also met the ghost doctor Li Yishu for a few days and asked him about medical knowledge. He dare not say that he can cure all diseases, but this kind of dislocation of organs can be restored with the help of magic power. As for losing consciousness, it was probably because he hit his head after being knocked down.
After sorting out his thoughts, Lu Liangsheng began to treat the child, and the treatment went much more smoothly. His magic power moved around the back of the child's head. To outsiders, it looked like he was massaging acupuncture points. In less than a moment, the child, who had his eyes closed and breathing intermittently, slowly opened his eyes, making the man cry and laugh, and he kowtowed to Lu Liangsheng with his palms clasped together. After persuading him for a long time, he took the child back and sat aside.
Farmers in mountain villages are already poor, and they are reluctant to see a doctor when they are sick, especially for external injuries. They usually just apply some pot ash or grass ash to treat it simply. Seeing that the scholar had treated two people in a row, it was inevitable that more people would come.
Lu Liangsheng also knew their difficulties and the predicament they were in at the moment, so he would naturally help if he could.
The crowd was gathered together, and the Toad Taoist, who had been watching from afar, could no longer see his disciple. It happened that he had something to say to him, so he slipped into the shadows while no one was paying attention, and slowly moved along the outside of the crowd. His heel touched that of a retreating person, and that person turned around and lowered his eyes.
The moment the Toad Taoist quickly lay down, the man bent down and reached out to grab him—
Under the old tree that was emitting black smoke, when Lu Liangsheng was treating the third person's wound, a voice suddenly shouted from outside the crowd: "There's a big toad here!"
Holding a giant toad by its leg, he hung upside down and squeezed through the crowd.
"Sir, look, I caught a big toad. Can I use it as medicine for you?"
The Toad Taoist had bulging cheeks and webbed feet wrapped around his chest. He was hanging upside down in someone's hands, staring at the scholar opposite him. Lu Liangsheng saw his appearance and chuckled. He stood up, took the Toad from the village man's hands with both hands, and put it next to the campfire.
"Not for now. By the way, pour out the herbs in the pottery jar and distribute them to everyone to drink. It can dispel evil spirits and strengthen blood and bones."
The villagers took down a few pottery jars and went to distribute the medicine soup to each household. Lu Liangsheng lowered his voice and asked with a side face: "Master, where did you go when you came back from the battlefield?"
"I was invited to drink by a monster."
Thinking of what happened today, the Toad Taoist felt quite ashamed. Seeing that his disciple was staring at him, he sat on the ground, turned around, and said, "Here you are being kind again."
Then he said, "It is the wolf demon that I mentioned to you before. It wants me to stay in the northwest."
But he was afraid that if he said too much, he would bring up the time when he went on a killing spree and ate people and monsters everywhere, so the toad stretched out his webbed feet and waved them quickly, changing the subject.
"When I'm done with my work, I have something to tell you, and your disciple. That's it. I'll go into the house and wait for you."
Lu Liangsheng looked at his master and yawned. While no one was paying attention, he trotted to the old donkey, climbed over the donkey's back and dived into the room.
"Master was invited by the wolf demon to drink? I'm afraid it's not that simple."
Soon, as the night deepened, they treated a few more people and considered that they had dealt with most of the injured in the village, so they returned to the dilapidated house.