The old man's yard is very dilapidated. There are only three broken houses. The glass on the windows is broken and sealed with plastic sheets.

After she invited us into the house, she limped around and poured water for Uncle Hu Zi and me.

I told her to stop working and that it was more important to treat her.

Then, the old lady sat across from me and rolled up her trouser legs. I saw that this was a typical rheumatism disease, and the knees were red and swollen, so I asked: "Old man, is your disease related to the weather?

Whenever it rains on cloudy days, the pain in these joints becomes unbearable, making it difficult to walk?"

Hearing this, the old man nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, yes, it has been cloudy for several days, and the pain in my knee is so severe that it is difficult to walk."

"Old man, if you have this disease, you should avoid living in such a humid and dark house. When the sun comes out, you should often go out to bask in the sun, and you should keep warm. Let me give you acupuncture first to relieve the pain. I will give you some acupuncture first.

I will give you another prescription, both for external application and internal use. As long as you take the medicine on time according to the prescription I prescribe, you can still recover within half a year."

The old man thanked him profusely, and then I took the silver needle from Uncle Hu Zi and inserted a few needles into the acupuncture points of the old lady's swollen joints. I also took out moxibustion and used moxibustion on the old lady's swollen areas.

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After about twenty minutes, I took off the silver needle and let the old man try to move around.

Soon, the old lady miraculously discovered that not only was the swelling in the joint reduced, but the pain was gone, and she could walk much more smoothly.

"Young man, you are so amazing. I have been suffering from this problem for a long time, and I have been to many hospitals but it has not been cured. However, after a few injections, the pain is gone," the old lady said excitedly.

I smiled and said: "This is only to temporarily relieve the pain. The medicine I prescribed for you can still be cured if you take it on time. But I have something to ask you."

"Young man, just ask if you have anything to say, don't be embarrassed." the old man said happily.

"I heard that every time Boss Wang comes to this village in the past few years, he has given money to the elderly over 65 years old, at least 10,000 yuan per person. It is said that you should also receive this money. Why don't you use the money to repair your house?

Look at the draft in this house, and the grass growing on the roof. Living in a house like this is not good for your health." I asked tentatively.

After hearing my question, the smile on the old lady's face immediately disappeared, as if she didn't dare to say anything.

Uncle Hu Zi said with a smile: "Old man, you don't have to worry about anything. We are not the same as the village chief. This time I came with Boss Wang just to have a casual look. In total, I didn't say a few words to the village chief."

In this way, the old lady relaxed a little and began to pour out her bitterness to us, saying: "The village chief is too unreasonable. He is still related to Wang Guilin and has several brothers. He is usually arrogant and domineering in the village. There is no such thing as

People dared to provoke him. Wang Guilin asked the village chief to give us the money. In fact, we didn’t have much money in our hands. Each old man only had one or two thousand yuan in his hand. The village chief said that the rest of the money would be used to build bridges and pave roads.

, but everyone in the village knows that Wang Guilin also gave the village chief a large amount of money to build bridges and pave roads, and we didn’t need our money at all, but no one dared to provoke him, otherwise they wouldn’t get a penny.

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Uncle Hu Zi and I looked at each other and already had some sense of balance in our hearts.

From the beginning, we felt that there was something wrong with the village chief.

What I didn't expect was that the village chief was really greedy. Not only did he take a large sum of money to build the bridge, but he also took most of the pension money given to the elderly.

"It seems that the village chief is really not a good person." Uncle Huzi said angrily.

"Who says it's not the case? You saw just now that his son fell off the bridge and drowned in the river. Just now, people in the village were still talking about this. The village chief has done so many evil things that even God can't stand it.

Already." The old lady said again.

"By the way, I thought I heard you say before that this is not the first time someone has died on that bridge. Several people have died before?" I asked.

The old lady relaxed her guard against us, and then said: "Yes, there used to be no bridge at the west end of the village, just a small bridge made of wooden planks. When it rained heavily, not even a person could walk across it. Later, Wang Guilin paid for it.

The village chief built the bridge, which was a great thing for the people in the village. However, after the bridge was repaired, strange things always happened. During the day, walking across the bridge felt eerie.

Within a year, five people fell off the bridge with their cars and drowned in the river."

"Are all those drowned people from your village?" I asked curiously.

"Well, they are all from our village, and they are all very close to the village chief. Some fell into the river while driving a tricycle, and others fell into the river while driving a tractor. Two months ago, there was a bicycle rider.

He fell into the river and drowned. Since then, people in the village have never crossed that bridge even if they took a detour. They don’t know why the village chief’s son Tie Zhu insisted on taking that bridge. The result was

Such a thing, this child is also pitiful, he died at a young age before he even married a wife." The old lady said with great regret.

"Then do you know why there are always troubles on that bridge?" I asked.

"It's really hard to say. When the bridge was being built, the village chief even asked a Feng Shui master to come over and take a look. When the bridge was first built, the concrete pillars couldn't be erected in the river and they kept collapsing. I don't know how it was built later.

, since I can remember, many people have drowned in that river. The villagers said that there were water ghosts in the river. After the bridge was built, it suppressed those water ghosts, so those water ghosts would

Harmful." The old lady said mysteriously.

"Old lady, I have one more thing to ask you. Is there anyone in your village who is in his thirties, looks dirty, has messy hair, and looks like a beggar?" I asked again.

"Is the person you are talking about a madman?" the old lady said suddenly.

"Who is Madman Ma?" I asked.

"Crazy Horse is a lunatic in our village. His brain was abnormal when he was born. His parents both fell ill and died a few years ago. Crazy Horse runs around the village all day long, giggling when he sees people."

If people see him as pitiful, they will give him something to eat, otherwise he would have starved to death," the old lady said.

"Where is Mad Madman now?" I asked quickly.

"I couldn't find him more than a year ago. He was crazy and running around all day long. Maybe he got lost," the old lady said.
Chapter completed!