Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 528 Stiff Neck
Li Xiuyuan and Teng Yunzi left the Mu Mansion.

Although Mu Sheng hoped that the two of them would stay and treat them well, Li Xiuyuan looked down on this scholar with bad conduct and no love in his heart, so why would he stay.

If senior brother Teng Yunzi hadn't followed fate, Li Xiuyuan would never have come to resolve the fox spirit's revenge for Mu Sheng.

On the way, Li Xiuyuan rode a dragon horse, and Teng Yunzi followed the flying sword in no hurry.

"Where's the black tiger of Junior Brother? Why isn't it by your side?" Teng Yunzi asked on the way.

Li Xiuyuan said: "It's not the same road here. I asked Wei Hu to go back to Guobei County to see his mother. Brother, why don't you use the magic trick and I will catch up with the fox spirit as soon as possible. After this matter is resolved, I will go to heaven sooner." Grandma Shan?"

"That's fine." Teng Yunzi nodded, and cast a magic trick on the donkey for himself to sit on.

The donkey speeded up, never stopped on the road, and chased after the fox spirit.

And not long after the two left.

In Mu Mansion.

When Mu Sheng saw that the fox spirit had been expelled, although he still had some lingering fears that he hadn't been killed, he was greatly relieved when the capable young Taoist said that he would suppress the fox spirit for 200 years.

In 200 years, I have already died, so what does it matter to me if only the descendants of future generations have anything to do with me?
How can I manage things that will happen 200 years from now?

Thinking of this, Mu Sheng's mood relaxed a lot, but he did not forget the words Li Xiuyuan left before he left.

"If you want to withdraw 800 taels of silver from my house, all you need is a pillow?"

Mu Sheng frowned deeply at this moment.

The fox spirit ran away, and his family's property was supposed to be kept, but now the Taoist said this, could it be that he has already cast a spell on the pillow at home, and when the spell is fulfilled, his family will lose money?
"After the fox spirit's matter is settled, I have nothing to be afraid of. I don't believe it. I lost all the pillows in the house. Can the words of that Taoist be fulfilled?" Mu Sheng thought secretly.

Immediately, he went to call the servants who had escaped before, and ordered his wife to throw away all the pillows in the house, and throw them farther away, and the house was not allowed to buy a pillow again.

Although Mu's wife was very puzzled about this matter, she did it anyway.

After the work was done, it was already night when the servants reported.

"Husband, all the pillows in the house have been thrown into the woods three miles away and buried, and now there is not a single pillow in the house."

After Mu's wife finished speaking, she hesitated and said: "But my husband, I'm afraid I'm not used to sleeping without a pillow tonight, why don't you keep two?"

"No, today's Taoist is an expert. He knows magic spells and can eliminate demons. What he said must be true. Don't keep a single pillow."

Mu Sheng shouted: "Without the pillow, the Taoist's words will not be fulfilled, and our family's property can be preserved. Today, the fox spirit will not come again. She has been completely driven away. Compared with this, there is no need to sleep. What's the matter with the pillow, don't mention it again, not only will you not sleep today.
Keep the pillow, and never keep it in the future. "

By night.

When Mu Sheng went to sleep on the bed, he tossed and turned for a long time and couldn't fall asleep, because there was no pillow on the bed, and he was really uncomfortable.

In the end, after tossing and tossing for a long time, I was very tired and just fell asleep drowsily.

However, the next morning, when Mu Sheng opened his eyes and just remembered, he found that his head was tilted to one side, and his neck was so painful that he couldn't even stand up.

"Oh, it hurts me to death. I slept so hard that I have a stiff neck. Hurry up and ask the doctor to give me acupuncture and massage. It hurts so much that I can't even lift my neck."

Mu Sheng lay on the bed with his neck crooked, screaming in pain again and again, his whole body seemed to be paralyzed, and his neck was painful when he moved casually, and he gasped for breath.

Mu's wife said: "Yesterday I told you to keep two pillows, but if you don't listen, it's all right now. If you sleep on your pillows, you have to go to the doctor."

"If I ask you to invite me, I just invite you. What are you talking about? Do you want to watch me die in pain?" Mu Sheng cursed angrily.

Mu's wife had no choice but to ask a doctor.

But after the doctor came, he used acupuncture and massage again, but he still couldn't heal Mu Sheng's stiff neck pain.

"Doctor, are you treating the disease or killing me? It hurts me to death. If you continue to treat me like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to save my life." Mu Sheng yelled in pain.

The doctor had no choice but to withdraw his hand: "Young master, your stiff neck symptoms are really weird. I thought that your stiff neck symptoms were caused by the blockage of Qi and blood in the meridians. I used acupuncture to activate the meridians, but the results did not improve. I can only deduce that it is the bones. It is not right, so I massage and set the bone, but after doing it, I feel
It was found that the son's neck bones were intact. "

"Since neither of the two is true, there must be other causes. The doctor is the most famous in the local area. Can't he find out my cause?" Mu Sheng stiffened and asked with his head sideways.

The doctor shook his head and said: "Based on my many years of medical experience, Mr. Mu's stiff neck pain is not an ordinary injury. There is no way to cure it with medicine stones. It is quite similar to a lame patient I once treated. The patient's legs and feet were also in good condition and he limped overnight.
No matter how the bone is set, acupuncture and moxibustion can't cure it. Later, I heard from others that the lame man was a rent-collecting servant, nicknamed Liu Yijiao. "

"His feet are powerful. He doesn't kick people or hurt animals, but he is good at kicking. A kick of a tax-collected grain bucket can knock down at least two catties of grain. After collecting rent for a year, he can kick down a few catties with one kick." A hundred catties of grain."

"Later, he became limp and could no longer fight. Some people said that Liu Yijiao's behavior was detrimental to his virtue, so he got retribution and then he limped overnight. Mr. Mu's stiff neck symptoms are somewhat similar to this kind. , is it true that Mr. Mu has provoked a class of ghosts and gods recently?"

Having said that, the doctor stopped talking.

There have long been rumors in the county that Mu Sheng has changed from a poor scholar to a small landlord within a year, and from a family with four walls to a house and land, all of which have been favored by a fox spirit.

Although the rumors are not credible.

But after looking at the symptoms, the doctor has decided that it is a disease of ghosts and spirits, which cannot be cured by an ordinary doctor like him.

After hearing what the doctor said, Mu Sheng recalled the conversation between the two Taoists yesterday.

"Brother, what method do you use to take away the 800 taels from his house?"

"It's simple, a pillow will do."

Mu Sheng now understands the meaning of this sentence. If he could move it, he would beat his feet and chest in anger. Because he believed what the Taoist said, he lost all the pillows in the house, but it was precisely because of the loss. That's why I have today's stiff neck.

Is this the so-called fate?

Moreover, a small stiff neck was so serious that he directly spread himself on the bed.

(End of this chapter)