Chapter 52: Elixir
Early the next morning.
Lin Zhiya got up from the bed, his face still glowing. Thinking about the scene of traveling with Xian Yunxia last night, he felt radiant. He only felt that he was different from the past.
But as soon as I walked out of the yard, I felt something was wrong. The entire Lin Mansion was silent, and none of the servants and concierges who usually got up early in the morning were missing.
When I opened a door, I saw everyone in the family lying on the bed, sleepy and weak in breathing.
The remaining ones were also groaning and wailing, and they had to hold on to the wall if they could barely walk.
When I returned to the bedroom of the compound, I saw that my parents were already pale and looked like they were barely alive.
"father!"
"mother!"
Lin Zhiya let out a mournful cry and knelt directly in front of the bed.
His father, who was still very angry yesterday and was trying to beat him with a broom, looked like he was not going to die very soon, and he might die at any time.
Not long after, almost all the doctors from the county came to the Lin Mansion with their disciples, and all the patients in the house moved into the hall and the room, looking like they were wailing.
Yunbi County is such a big place, and the tragedy of the Lin family immediately became known to the whole street. Countless people gathered in front of the vermilion gate.
"What's going on?" Someone was jumping up and down outside, wanting to see what was going on inside.
"Last night it was said that the entire Lin family was ill. It seems that Mr. Lin and his wife are the only ones who are fine." The person next to him explained immediately.
"How could this happen? Yesterday, I saw everyone was fine?" A shopkeeper holding an abacus was in a shop that had something to do with the Lin family. He was shocked at this moment.
"How's it going? It's retribution, I heard. I heard that Lin Youcai had no money. The county magistrate asked him to provide disaster relief, so he donated a few bags of rice. It was really a knock on the door." The aunt on the corner said that the Lin family was so rich.
Hu had long been disillusioned, and now he was talking arrogantly, as if he was full of resentment.
"Don't tell me, it might really be retribution. Otherwise, why would only Mr. Lin and his wife be fine? Because he was the only one with a kind heart!" The crowd still agreed with this argument.
"But what happened is that the kind-hearted Mr. Lin suffered a lot. He is a very good man!" Some villagers who had benefited from Mr. Lin still recognized him.
How many people were pointing inside, some were worried, some were gloating, some had nothing to do with themselves, ate dried fruits and threw garbage on the ground in front of the door. Anyway, no one in the Lin family can come out to take care of it now.
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Several doctors checked the pulse, and everyone looked troubled. After some discussion, everyone looked away from the bed with shocked expressions on their faces.
"Mr. Lin, this is not a disease! It's more like being poisoned or suffering from the plague!" One of the older doctors pulled Lin Zhiya aside in a low voice.
"Poisoned?"
Lin Zhiya suddenly thought of the scene where the immortal took out the elixir from his sleeve last night and what he said.
"This elixir is called the Living Death elixir. It can revive the flesh and bones of dead people. It can be dissolved in water and can also detoxify hundreds of poisons."
"You can take it back, it will be of use to you."
Only then did he understand the meaning. It turned out that the immortal had already predicted that a disaster would happen to his family and came to save his family last night.
He also vaguely understood that if he hadn't had a kind heart, the immortal would not have given him the elixir, and his family would really be hopeless.
"I understand, please wait for me for a while."
Lin Zhiya took a deep breath, and his originally flustered expression gradually calmed down, then he turned around and asked his newlywed wife, who was also a little confused, to go back to their small courtyard and take out the elixir.
Arrange for someone to fetch clean water and dissolve the elixir in the water.
He summoned several long-term workers and the doctor's apprentices who often helped: "Come, give it to the patients, and everyone must drink it."
A doctor immediately stepped forward to stop him: "This medicine must be suitable for the symptoms. Not all medicines can be taken casually. If you take the wrong medicine, good medicine can turn into poison."
"Don't worry, everyone, I have a sense of discretion in this matter."
Lin Zhiya's face was firm, and many of the doctors didn't say much. They just looked at each other and shook their heads, not optimistic.
It's just that they have no other options and are powerless. At this moment, they can only treat the dead horse as a living horse.
Strangely, after everyone drank the water made from the elixir, they gradually regained consciousness, tilted their heads and spit out a puddle of black filth on the ground.
After a while, everyone woke up and turned around.
All the doctors were surprised: "What kind of panacea is this? Is it so effective?"
"I have been practicing medicine and saving people for so many years, but I have never seen such a magical medicine."
All the doctors came forward to check their pulse, one after another: "This is really strange. Is it really better?"
Several doctors went to take a look at the remaining elixir, dipped their fingers in it and licked it. Their eyes lit up, and they looked at Mr. Lin in surprise, extremely curious about the elixir that he had taken out earlier.
But at this moment, Lin Zhiya had no time to pay attention to them. He was overjoyed to see his family members waking up one by one.
He helped his parents sit down and told his wife to look after them carefully.
At this time, the housekeeper who had just woken up weakly supported the wall and said to Lin Zhiya.
"Sir, I'm afraid this matter has something to do with me."
"Yesterday evening, a man suddenly came over at the door of the house. When I opened the door, he slapped me on the head. Then I fell unconscious. I just felt like I was fascinated and led him in."
"Then this happened."
The housekeeper looked regretful and remorseful, and even more frightened: "That man is tall and strong, with a short head and a square face. By the way, he also has a mole on his left eyebrow."
Lin Zhiya immediately knew who it was and stood up immediately, with a look of shock and fury on his face.
"It's that liar!"
"He couldn't lie to me, but he turned out to be so vicious and wanted to harm my whole family."
Lin Zhiya punched the wall and said bitterly: "If I don't avenge this revenge, I will be a son of man in vain."
At this time, an old doctor checked Lin Youcai's pulse, put it down and said: "Mr. Lin is fine. He just needs to rest for a while. But can I ask Mr. Lin what kind of miraculous medicine was used just now? It has such a good effect."
Magical effect?"
Lin Youcai and Lin's mother also looked at Lin Zhiya. Lin Youcai had just woken up. At this moment, he was also surprised and scared: "Why didn't I know that there was such a miracle medicine at home?"
Lin Zhiya didn't hide anything and directly told the story about his encounter with the immortal last night.
Everyone present was surprised, even those who had just woken up were a little shocked. It turned out that what they had just drank was the elixir given by the gods.
But the magical effect of the elixir cannot be faked.
"Sir! The people from the warehouse just came over and said that all the grain in our warehouse is gone. It's all gone." The Lin family's clerk from the grain store rushed in in a hurry.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he realized that something was wrong. He didn't even know what happened last night, so he rushed back in panic all the way early in the morning to report the news.
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone looked at him blankly, as if he said something extraordinary.
Now, everyone present really believed it.
Mr. Lin really met the immortal last night, and flew with the immortal on the clouds. Finally, he took the food from the grain store and was given the elixir by the immortal.
"So it turns out to be true? Don't forget the kindness of the immortals in the future, and go to the temple more often to burn incense!" Mother Lin liked this kind of thing the most, and she immediately felt that in the future she would go to the Taoist temple more often to worship the immortals.
"Is there really an immortal in the world?" Mr. Lin thought it was just rumors before, but now that it happened to him, he found it even more unbelievable.
"Could it be Mr. Yun? A few days ago, they said that Mr. Yun came down to earth and took away the fairy wall." Someone remembered what happened a few days ago.
"So, Mr. Lin met this immortal." Everyone agreed.
Everyone else was in shock, but at this moment, several doctors quickly surrounded the bucket just now, and the middle-aged and old men coaxed me to grab it, hoping to scrape away every last drop of water.
Mr. Lin knelt in front of his father: "Father, please forgive me for giving away all the rice in the granary last night."
After this incident, Lin Youcai suddenly felt a little different from his previous thoughts.
If it hadn't been for his son's kindness and the immortal's favor to give him the elixir, I'm afraid his family would have died this time. So what could he do no matter how much money and land he had?
"Forget it, I'm not the kind of iron rooster who would seriously risk his life rather than his wealth."
"A little food, if it's gone, it's gone! Think of it as doing good deeds and accumulating virtue!"
Behind Sun's Grain Store.
Early in the morning, the head of the Sun family learned that the Lin family, their long-time rival, had suffered a disaster. Without the Lin family, they would be the biggest local gangsters in Yunbi County. Moreover, Lin Youcai was dead, and no one could stop the Sun family from swallowing up the Lin family.
family property.
In the ecstasy, he was even more respectful and fearful of Master Wutong's methods, so he immediately took Master Wutong towards the warehouse of his grain store early in the morning to fulfill his promise.
Several waiters and shopkeepers followed, and the head of the Sun family pointed to the warehouse door and said, "Put all the food here. Later I will arrange for carriages and horses to be sent to the place you mentioned."
As soon as the door opened: "Master, please look, this is..."
The head of the Sun family just turned around, and what he had not finished suddenly changed into a stunned expression and said: "What's going on?"
The entire warehouse was empty, not a grain of rice in it.
The head of the Sun family looked at the waiter and shopkeeper behind him. The shopkeeper He rushed to the front, looked left and right, and then looked at the angry and suspicious head of the Sun family.
The shopkeeper immediately knelt on the ground, shocked and frightened: "Master, I really don't know!"
"Obviously it was still there yesterday."
"You were obviously still here yesterday."
Master Wutong wiped the floor with his fingers and smelled it: "There was indeed a lot of food piled here last night, but it seemed that it was taken away in the middle of the night."
Looking at the empty warehouse, Master Wutong looked extremely ugly.
This time, the first stop in Yunbi County was not smooth sailing. First, the Lin family failed, and now the Sun family failed in their efforts.
"Who did it?"
The Wutong Master clenched his fists.
Not only the Sun's Grain Store, but also the large grain dealers who were hoarding goods at this moment opened their doors for inspection early in the morning, and each one found that their grain warehouses were completely clean, with nothing left overnight.
I don’t know how many people were panicked and at a loss, as if they had seen a ghost.
Chapter completed!