Chapter 315 Hairpin

The old monk recited "Amitabha" and immediately turned around and walked towards the hall gate. Kong Liqiang glanced at Song Xiangdi and followed. Song Xiangdi hesitated for a moment, followed Kong Liqiang, and went to the door to watch the fun.

Four people carried an old woman over, and put the woman flat on the corpse-up board of the salvation room in a familiar way, and then knelt in front of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and kowtowed. Once they could not bow, the three of them begged in unison, "Please the Bodhisattva to show their spirit, save my mother!"

One of them said to the old monk: "Zhao Adamu's mother was bitten by a grey snake, so she could only carry it to the Bodhisattva to save her."

It turned out that Zhao Ada, a native of Zhaozhuang, Wangting, a neighboring village, had three brothers. His father had passed away. His mother went to the vegetable field to pick vegetables early in the morning and was bitten by a snake. Kong Liqiang came back to life in Wangting Hall. He was verbally rumored by his neighbors as the reason why Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva appeared. He became more and more divine. He believed it. Brother Zhao Ada was in charge of the family. After hearing the rumors, he called his younger brother A Er, A San and a neighbor to carry his mother to the hall to pray for the Bodhisattva's protection.

Seeing this, Kong Liqiang asked, "Why don't you invite a doctor to come and see you?"

The big neighbor shook his head gently, and the old monk chanted "Amitabha" and put in the incense burner.

Song Xiangdi whispered: "You go to the town to ask the doctor for money. It is better to ask the Bodhisattva than to take medicine."

Kong Liqiang was about to say the word "ignorant", but he didn't say it at the mouth, but walked closer to the corpse-pin board and saw his left leg swollen and a thin line under his knee joint. While looking at where the injury was, he asked, "Auntie, where was the snake bitten?" As he asked, he began to look for the memories of reading medical books in Liantang Town.

The aunt's tongue was already big and she was a little confused. She half opened her mouth and said something she couldn't hear clearly.

Just as Kong Liqiang lowered his head to look for the wound, Zhao Ada suddenly strode over and pushed Kong Liqiang roughly and said, "What do you want to do?"

Unprepared Kong Liqiang took a few steps back, but if he hadn't been blocked, he would have fallen to the ground. This move suddenly aroused Song Xiangdi's potential stinginess, and pushed Zhao Ada desperately with both hands, shouting: "I want to hit someone! Come on, you beat me!"

Zhao A said angrily: "Who told him to block the way of the gods? If my mother can't save her, I will never finish it with him." He pointed at Kong Liqiang.

Song Xiangdi was not showing any weakness, and thrust her mind and said loudly: "You dare! If you have the will, try touching one of his fingers."

Kong Liqiang quickly said, "Don't make a noise, listen to me."

Zhao A shouted: "I don't miss him. If you dare to get close to my mother, I will break your legs."

The old monk and everyone heard the noise and immediately surrounded him.

Just as Song Xiangdi was about to speak, Kong Liqiang pulled her arm and said loudly: "Don't make noise. I have studied medicine and let me see where the wound is!"

Everyone was stunned and looked at Kong Liqiang in disbelief. The scene was silent for a moment.

The old monk recited "Amitabha", clasped his hands on his chest, and said, "The Bodhisattva has appeared! Amitabha!"

Zhao A-san responded quickly and immediately said, "It bites on his calves."

Kong Liqiang immediately went up, tore open the leg of his trouser, and carefully looked at it. He saw three blood-stained teeth marks on his calf. He tried his best to search for the records in the ancient medical books, frowned and stared for a while, stood up and said to Song Xiangdi, "When I was carrying water, I saw that there was a land money grass by the river."

Song Xiangdi nodded and said, "Yes! I know."

"You go and dig a few for me and wash the roots and leaves."

"Um!"

Kong Liqiang saw Song Xiangdi's long braid tied around her head and said, "I want to ask you to borrow something."

Song Xiangdi asked in surprise: "Borrow something?" She patted her pocket, "I don't bring anything."

"I want to borrow the hairpin on your head." Kong Liqiang raised his hand and pointed.

Song Xiangdi was extremely pleased: "Oh! I thought why!" She didn't ask what the use of borrowing hairpins was. She was about to take it, but she quickly put down her hand and lowered her head, "If you want to use it, you can get it!"

Who is Kong Liqiang? He is an agent who has been hiding in the devil's cave for many years! He can't hide his eyes from any details. Seeing Song Xiangdi say this and do this, knowing that there is a different meaning, he took a breath: "This..."

Zhao Asan was anxious and reached out and pulled out his hairpin and handed it to Kong Liqiang, asking, "What are you doing?"

Zhao Ada saw it and was too late to stop it.

Song Xiangdi was both ashamed and angry. She raised her kick and kicked Zhao A-san to the ground, and said hatefully: "Who told you to move!"

The old monk's face was expressionless and he chanted "Amitabha".

There is such a tradition in the countryside that men cannot easily touch the hairpins on women's heads, unless men with a reputation. Especially the hairpins on the heads of unmarried girls, strangers cannot touch them. Unless the girl is willing, the man touches the hairpins with his hand, which can be considered a love affair and a lifelong life.

Zhao Ada thought of such a conventional rule, but unfortunately he didn't have time to stop it. Zhao Asan also knew that he was just anxious and did not take it seriously!

Kong Liqiang pulled Zhao A San, took the hairpin, and said to Song Xiangdi: "Go quickly, I'm waiting for it."

Song Xiangdi glared at Zhao Asan and turned around and left.

Kong Liqiang untied the thin rope tied to his legs, found the venous blood vessels near the wound, and used a hairpin to bleed. Kong Liqiang squeezed with his hands, and a little blood stasis was squeezed out from the source of the wound. Zhao A-san's temper was indeed impatient and did not speak. He stepped forward and opened his mouth and sucked it in the bleeding mouth.

Soon, Song Xiangdi dug up the land money grass.

Kong Liqiang squeezed the white juice from the roots of the earthen monsoon grass on the wound, and asked Song Xiangdi to help him mash the earthen monsoon grass and apply it on it with incense ash. After he treated the wound, he carefully observed the aunt's face. It was blue and purple, and the silver rings of the earlobes were dark. He quickly looked at his palms, and the palms were also silted. He couldn't help but think secretly, was it because of the snake's venom that attacked the heart? He called "auntie", and the aunt still could only respond "hum, haha", as if she was in danger.

There are few highly venomous snakes in the south of the Yangtze River. The venom of the earth-gray snake should not be fatal so quickly. Kong Liqiang thought of this and asked casually: "What did you eat for breakfast?"

Zhao A San’s mouth is quick: “A bowl of porridge, pickles.” This is the most common breakfast in rural areas.

Zhao A'er, who had not spoken, suddenly said, "I heard from my mother that she beat the snake to death on the spot, and the sickle dug out the snake gallbladder and swallowed it whole."

Kong Liqiang understood that the aunt was poisoned by snake gallbladder. He remembered that he often used his fingers to urge his throat to vomit, so he found a chopstick, which stimulated the aunt's throat and spit out the remaining stomach. Then he silently remembered the folk remedy for detoxification, went to the river to find Diaozhu, dinosaur, radish leaves, scattered green, seven-leaf gold, and four-leafed leaves, and asked Song Xiangdi to help torture it, and fed the aunt with spoonfuls of spoonfuls.

Kong Liqiang learned that the three brothers of Zhao were all bachelors, and he felt unconscious and found an excuse to ask Song Xiangdi to take care of the aunt for a few days. The Zhao family naturally thanked him very much. When Song Xiangdi saw that Kong Liqiang spoke, he nodded and agreed. However, when she saw that the three brothers of the Zhao family were waiting by their mother and refused to leave, she hated Zhao Asan to pull out her hairpin, so she started to angry at Asan: "Get out! Don't let me see you."

Zhao A-san knew that he was wrong and lowered his head and hummed: "I can't look at my mother? This is not your place."

Song Xiangdi was angry and said, "Okay, what you said! If you don't leave, I'll leave!"

Zhao Ada hurriedly stopped him and said, "My sister of the Song family, you can do good things! My mother may not be able to turn over for a while, and it will be inconvenient for us to urinate or defecate..."

Zhao Aerze said: "You have a good heart. I know you have a good heart. Please help us and save people to the end. We will owe you the kindness we will always owe you."

The old monk seemed to have guessed Kong Liqiang's thoughts, recited "Amitabha" and said to Zhao Ada: "You take the third brother back first! Just let the second brother stay and help."

Kong Liqiang quickly wrote a prescription for removing snake venom and asked Lao San to go to the pharmacy in the town to prepare medicine.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!