Chapter 17: The Witch (1)

After the sacrifice last night, Pei Suyun was restless all night and couldn't sleep. She just had lunch the next day, and she began to sit restlessly. Although she tried her best to maintain peace on the surface, every sound at the gate of the courtyard did not escape her ears. In this way, it was finally time to get to the gate of the courtyard, and the sound of knocking on the door knocker came from outside the courtyard.

Pei Suyun stood up "lively". A Yue'er was about to open the door, but was startled by her. He quickly stopped and looked at Pei Suyun. Pei Suyun whispered: "Go and open the door." "Oh!" A Yue'er ran out. Pei Suyun pressed the hot face with the back of her hand, sorted out her dress, and sat down again.

Li Yuanfang and A Yueer talked a few times outside the door, then the footsteps sounded, and the bead curtain was raised, and A Yueer said, "Mother, Mr. Li is here." Pei Suyun did not stand up this time, but looked up at him stepping in from outside the curtain. Today, Li Yuanfang did not wear a black captain uniform, but changed into a blue coarse casual outfit, without a hat, and only a black silk ribbon tied around her waist, instead of the usual leather belt, which swept away the martial arts spirit of the past, and she looked gentle and elegant. Pei Suyun looked at his outfit and smiled unexpectedly.

Li Yuanfang was a little embarrassed by her smile and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong? Why are you laughing?" Pei Suyun shook his head quickly, then stood up, greeted him, bowed quietly, and said with a smile: "Suyun has seen Mr. Li. You seem to have become a different person, and I can't recognize you." Li Yuanfang also smiled and returned the favor: "No matter how much I change, I will not become better than you." Pei Suyun's face turned red again. He was right. Today, she also changed into Hu's clothes, put on a turquoise skirt with a light pink gauze on the outside, and was dressed in a genuine Han lady from head to toe.

Pei Suyun was about to ask Li Yuanfang to sit down, but he pointed to the door and said softly, "Wait, I'll bring someone." Pei Suyun looked along his hand in surprise and saw a boy about ten years old standing at the door, looking into the room with a clever face. Li Yuanfang still lowered his voice and explained, "He must follow me, I really can't resist him, so I have to bring him. If you think it's not possible, let's leave now." Pei Suyun looked at the boy with a smile and asked, "Well, is he your child?"

"No, he is my little brother, named Bin'er." "Oh, Bin'er." Pei Suyun nodded and thought for a while and said, "He can stay here, but when I treat you, he can't enter the house, he can only play in the yard." Li Yuanfang said, "That's great. I saw your child in the yard just now. His name is An'er, right? You can let Bin'er play with him." Pei Suyun hesitated, "But An'er, he doesn't know how to say a few words in total, and he doesn't know how to pay attention to others. I'm afraid your brother and An'er can't play once..." Li Yuanfang smiled faintly and comforted: "It's okay, Bin'er is very good at taking care of people, so don't worry."

A Yue'er led Han Bin to play with An'er. Li Yuanfang then sat at the table with Pei Suyun. Both of them were silent. After a while, Li Yuanfang asked in a low voice: "This disease... how to treat it?" Pei Suyun's starry eyes flashed, and his lips pursed and chuckled, "I have to know what disease you want to treat first."

"Oh." Li Yuanfang nodded, thought for a while, and stretched out his right hand to put it on the table. Pei Suyun blinked and said in surprise: "What are you doing?" "Well, don't you take the pulse first when you see a doctor?"

Pei Suyun was stunned for a moment, her cheeks flushed, her cherry lips smiled, and she said with a teasing: "Mr. Li, you are here to see a shaman today, and you are not a doctor from the Central Plains." Li Yuanfang looked at her in confusion: "So what?" Pei Suyun glanced at his wrist and replied disdainfully: "Looking, listening, asking and touching is the medical skills of the Central Plains, and Suyun doesn't know."

Li Yuanfang suddenly realized and muttered softly: "I was abrupt." Then he shrank his hand back. "But... if you don't take the pulse, how can you treat the doctor?" Pei Suyun's tone was still sarcastic: "No need for those, I can do it to cure the disease." "Oh, the method." Li Yuanfang nodded, looked at Pei Suyun's eyes, and asked quietly: "Can you do it even if you dress like this?" Pei Suyun's face turned red again, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Of course." "Okay, just do it for me."

Pei Suyun was both angry and funny. He looked straight into the other person's eyes and said word by word: "But until now, Suyun still doesn't know what Mr. Li wants to cure, what's wrong with him? Where do you do this method? "Li Yuanfang frowned: "Do you have to say it yourself?" Yes." "But I hate talking about this the most." Pei Suyun smiled slightly: "If Mr. Li insisted on not saying it, Suyun would be helpless, and Mr. Li would not have to waste time here." As she said that, she raised her hand and made a gesture of asking for help.

Li Yuanfang let out a sigh of helplessness and began to say, "I... often feel very tired, but the more tired I am, the harder I can fall asleep. Even if I fall asleep, I have nightmares and wake up frequently, so I always feel that I don't have enough rest, and I don't have much time to rest..." At this point, his voice was already low and I couldn't continue. Pei Suyun stared at him. Although his heart was beating violently, he still tried his best to ask in a plain tone: "That's all? Is there any?" Li Yuanfang lowered his head and muttered, "No more... I'd better go." As he said, he wanted to escape in a panic. Pei Suyun raised his voice a little and ordered: "You, don't move!"

Both of them turned a little white because of nervousness. Pei Suyun bit her lip, calmed down a little, and said, "Okay, that's all. I'll do it for you. But before that, I still have a condition." "What conditions?" "From now on, you must listen to me." Li Yuanfang looked up at Pei Suyun, and smiled bitterly, "Of course."

Pei Suyun got up and walked to the window, closed the window sashes, and took out a flat small jade bottle from the red sandalwood cabinet beside the couch. On the long table under the window was a blue-yellow glazed spherical aromatherapy furnace. Pei Suyun turned his back to Li Yuanfang, poured out a few drops of oil from the jade bottle and put out the aromatherapy furnace. As soon as it was lit, a strong fragrance immediately spread out from the stove. The doors and windows in the room were closed tightly, and the fragrance quickly filled the entire room.

Li Yuanfang sat at the table, feeling uncomfortable all over, and bursts of strong fragrance came to his nose. He had never been used to smelling such things, and suddenly felt dizzy and his chest was stuffy, and he wanted to rush out immediately. He looked up at Pei Suyun. She was still standing in front of him with her back. The jade bottle in her hand had been replaced with an exquisite small gold box. She was pouring some powder out of the gold box, busy mixing something in the glass cup in front of her, and she had been tinkering with mysteriously for a long time. Li Yuanfang's head became heavier and heavier, and bursts of black fog floated in front of her eyes, almost unable to support it.

Pei Suyun finally finished fiddling with the things in the cup, walked back to the table, looked at Li Yuanfang, who looked pale, handed the glass in his hand to him, and whispered: "Drink it." Li Yuanfang took the cup, and drank it all without looking at it. After drinking it, she realized that the taste was extremely strange and she immediately became even more dizzy. Pei Suyun looked at his face carefully, smiled slightly, and said softly: "Let's go to the couch and lie for a while."

Li Yuanfang followed Pei Suyun to the bedside under the window. As soon as she sat down, Pei Suyun had already squatted in front of him, helped him take off his cloth shoes, and helped him lie down. Li Yuanfang closed her eyes and fell asleep. Pei Suyun sat next to him, dazed for a while before coming to her senses. While looking at his tired sleeping face, she gently pulled his hand, bent her fingers slightly, and floated on his wrist to concentrate on her pulse.

This sleep lasted for nearly two hours. When Li Yuanfang woke up, he opened his eyes and saw that all the windows in the room were wide open. The stagnant fragrance had almost dissipated, with only a little aftertaste. He sat up from the couch and felt his mind still heavy. He couldn't help but raise his hand and press his forehead. Then Pei Suyun beside him said warmly: "Don't hurry up, lean on it for a while, the fragrance of the peace of the god I used for you is a little bigger."

Li Yuanfang leaned back to the pillow, and Pei Suyun brought the glass to him again. He took it and drank it all. This time the taste was very sweet and delicious, so he asked casually: "What is this?" Pei Suyun laughed and said: "You are so interesting. You will ask what it is after drinking it. It's too late if it's poison." Li Yuanfang also laughed: "I just ask casually, it's very delicious, it doesn't matter if it's poison."

Pei Suyun twisted a hot towel and handed it to Li Yuanfang to wipe his face, and then sat down beside him. Both of them were silent, but there was no more anxiety and cramping as well as two hours ago, as if they became very familiar with each other. After a while, Li Yuanfang said softly: "Actually, there is no need to be so troublesome. Just give me some of the things you just put into your mouth, and this calming fragrance will be useless." Pei Suyun was shocked: "Did you see it?" and muttered softly: "The eyes are really sharp." Li Yuanfang mocked himself: "Well, I seem to have only such a little ability left now." Pei Suyun shook her head slightly and chuckled: "What I hold is musk, which can indeed resolve the effect of the calming fragrance, but... you don't have to."

Li Yuanfang nodded as if he understood, leaned against the couch and stopped talking. There was a window facing the couch, which was wide open at this time. Looking out from where he was lying, you could see the steep peaks of the Tianshan Mountains, rising and falling in the clouds and mist. It was almost the hour of You, and the sky was a little dark. On the far side of the mountain peaks, the towering snow peaks shone brightly under the setting sun, and the silver light like a sharp sword penetrated the gray sky, splitting the mountains and breaking the sky, and penetrated into the sky. The scenery was so magnificent and powerful that he was a little stunned.

Pei Suyun also looked out according to Li Yuanfang's eyes and sighed leisurely: "I have loved to sit here since I was a child, and I grew up looking at the snow peaks of Tianshan Mountain. When I was a child, I always heard my father say that the snow sea and glaciers above were rare beauty in the world. Unfortunately, Su Yun was born as a daughter and had no chance to get close to the rare pure and tough, so he had to worship from this window." Li Yuanfang withdrew his gaze and turned to Pei Suyun's side face and asked: "Did you come to the outside of the Great Wall with your parents since you were a child, or were you born here?" Pei Suyun still looked out the window with a dazed expression: "Suyun was born in Tingzhou, and my great-grandfather had already come from the outside of the Central Plains to the outside of the Great Wall."

Li Yuanfang said "um" and did not ask any further, just said, "It's not early, I should leave." He sat up, and Pei Suyun was still squatting in front of him and putting his shoes on for him as before. Li Yuanfang didn't thank him, and stood up and walked out, but stopped in front of the divine case under the window. The black cat Habibi had been entrenching on the golden five-star divine talisman. At this moment, he heard the movement and jumped out with a "meow".

Pei Suyun stood beside Li Yuanfang and saw that he was curiously looking at the golden five-star talisman on the divine case, and explained: "Well, this is the magical artifact of our shamanism, called the five-pointed star." "Oh, I have seen almost the same... but it is a little different." Li Yuanfang said, unable to help but reach out to touch the golden five-pointed star. Pei Suyun gently held his hand and shook his head and said: "This is not a playful thing. The five-pointed star has an up and down position. Random arrangement will attract evil spirits." She put the five-pointed star that was turned by Li Yuanfang back to the right position.

Li Yuanfang was a little embarrassed and quickly retracted his hand and said, "I'm sorry, but the five-pointed star talisman I've seen has texture in the circle in the middle, and there is nothing inside you, so it's a bit strange." Pei Suyun was stunned: "Where have you seen it? What is the texture inside?" Li Yuanfang took out the paper with the talisman from his arms and handed it to Pei Suyun, explaining: "I have seen two different ones, all drawn on it." Pei Suyun took the drawing and looked at Li Yuanfang with his eyes shining: "You are here to find me today, not just to treat the disease, right?"

Li Yuanfang smiled and did not answer, saying, "Since you are a shaman's witch, you must know what this figure means?" Pei Suyun pondered for a moment and whispered: "This... is quite complicated. In addition, you have to tell me where you saw these talismans." Li Yuanfang shook his head: "This... is quite complicated." He looked up at the window. After the sunset had sunk to the snow peak, the silver light on the top of the mountain gradually subsided, and the chill became stronger. He said, "Since it's a long story, let's find another time." He turned around and walked out the door again, asking, "Where is Bin'er? What has he been doing for such a long time?"

Pei Suyun followed him and replied with some joy and confusion: "It's really strange that he has been playing with An'er. This child seems to be very close to An'er. I have never seen anyone An'er play with for so long." Li Yuanfang stopped and turned his head to Pei Suyun and said: "Actually, it's not surprising at all. Bin'er knows how to get along with someone like An'er, and he has experience."

Pei Suyun was stunned: "Why?" Li Yuanfang said: "This is a long story, let me tell you together in the future." As soon as the two of them walked to the door, they heard A Yue'er shouting outside the house: "My God, An'er, Bin'er, you two little ancestors, come out quickly!" Pei Suyun and Li Yuanfang hurriedly stepped up and stepped into the yard together.

Li Yuanfang glanced at the yard, but did not see A Yue'er. Then she heard her voice sounding from behind the house. Pei Suyun had already gone around the backyard, and Li Yuanfang followed closely. In the small backyard, there were several tall spruce trees along the wall, dense branches intertwined with each other. Below the spruce was a whole row of short sand holly. The vast leaves were so green that they were black. The entire courtyard wall was covered from top to bottom without any gaps. A Yue'er stood in front of the back wall and stamped her feet at the holly trees. Pei Suyun quickly came to her and asked, "How long have they been in?" A Yue'er's face turned red and she replied breathlessly: "It's been a long time since I was so anxious that I can't, but you told me not to go to the house..." As she said that, she glared at Li Yuanfang angrily, as if she was still a little angry at him.

Li Yuanfang was about to ask what was going on, but when Han Bin's voice came out of the holly bushes: "Sister A Yueer, we'll come out soon." Li Yuanfang took a step forward and asked softly in Pei Suyun's ear: "What's going on? Where are the two children now?" Pei Suyun's shoulders trembled slightly, turned around, and smiled reluctantly, "There is a small garden behind this holly tree, which... is a bit mysterious. Only children can climb in. Moreover, it's not easy to come out after entering." Li Yuanfang locked his eyebrows and stared at Pei Suyun.

Pei Suyun lowered his head, his face pale and stuttered: "No, it's okay. An'er has been playing there since he was a child, and they must be coming out." Before he finished speaking, the short holly in front of them rustled, and An'er and Han Bin's two little heads came out from behind. Li Yuanfang took this opportunity to see that behind the holly bush was not a pink and white courtyard wall, but a pitch-black hole. It seemed that there should be an affiliated courtyard behind this courtyard, or as Pei Suyun said, it was another small garden.

A Yue'er stepped forward and picked up An'er. He saw the mud and leaves all over his body, his face was red and his forehead was covered with sweat. He looked very tired, but he grinned and kept laughing. He was dancing in A Yue'er's arms, screaming non-stop. Han Bin looked similar, but the difference was that he was bare-legged, holding two small leather boots in his hand, and his expression was also very happy. When he saw Li Yuanfang, he shouted happily: "Brother!" and ran towards him.

Li Yuanfang frowned and pointed at Han Bin's barefoot: "What's going on?" Han Bin sat on the ground and put on his boots while yelling: "An'er and I played hide-and-seek, he hid my boots there!" He turned his head to the holly bushes: "I went in and looked for it, my god, it was dark, and I couldn't find the way to turn the bend in the song! I was so scared... Hehe, fortunately An'er came in too. He was so powerful, he was hiking from everywhere, and finally crawled out, huh!"

While listening, Li Yuanfang looked at Pei Suyun. She hugged An'er from A Yue'er's arms and kissed the child's little face, but her eyes were a little distracted. As soon as she met Li Yuanfang's gaze, she quickly avoided it. Seeing that Han Bin had already put on his little boots, the soil and leaves on his body were also slapped cleanly, Li Yuanfang greeted Pei Suyun: "Since it's okay, we'll leave."
Chapter completed!