Chapter 80: Wong Tai Sin Returns a Favor
Su Che was picking up dead branches everywhere as firewood when he suddenly heard a "cracking" sound mixed with a voice that sounded like "help me". Su Che was stunned. He had met many ghosts along the way, but very few goblins.
Even if there was, he would be beaten to death with a stick by Monkey King who was guarding in secret.
Su Che didn't think much about it and followed the sound to a drainage ditch. This was the drainage ditch of the mountain temple. It had been completely abandoned, buried in mud and overgrown with weeds. One could only barely recognize its original appearance. Inside, a yellow thing was curled up.
Su Che held up the torch and shone it over, looking at the little thing with great interest. He asked curiously, "Were you asking for help just now?"
Under the light of the fire, it was a Huang Daxian, a weasel!
This weasel looks quite cute. It doesn’t look like a mouse, nor a wolf. It looks more like a squirrel, but not quite like that. Su Che didn’t know how to describe it for a moment, but it was quite cute anyway.
The weasel looked up at Su Che with pleading eyes, then turned around and bit the trap, motioning Su Che to help open the trap.
This is most likely a trap set by villagers, specifically to catch weasels, and sell the weasel's fur as mink. Once it is sold, the profit can be considerable.
Weasels are good at catching mice. Although they also like to eat chickens, mice that harm crops in the fields are also a delicious meal for weasels. A weasel can kill many mice in a year, which is beneficial to farmers.
Su Che casually dismantled the trap, allowing the weasel to escape successfully.
The weasel ran away in an instant, and in the blink of an eye it was three or four feet away from the trap. However, it suddenly stopped not far away, stared at Su Che in a daze, and then stood up, with its hands hanging down, and saluted Su Che.
Seeing this scene, Su Che laughed dumbly, waved his hand and said, "You can go."
After hearing this, the weasel turned around and ran away, and soon disappeared.
Then Su Che took the firewood and returned to the mountain temple, telling the guards about this incident as a funny story.
The guards' eyes lit up when they heard this, and they joked with a smile, "Then you better be careful tonight, because that yellow-skinned guy might come to repay you."
Stories like the yellow-skinned fox repaying a favor and the fox demon repaying a favor are widely circulated among the people, but Su Che did not take them to heart. He took out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, placed them on the ground, and began to write facing the light of the fire.
During these few months, Su Che traveled around and gained a lot of knowledge. He also obtained many folk prescriptions that were not passed on to others. In exchange, he passed on the contents of the book.
Under Su Che's influence and the continuous training of his medical school, many villages have seen a large number of barefoot doctors.
It's quite funny to say that when traveling, the villagers didn't believe at first that a young boy like Su Che could know so many medical skills. But once Su Che revealed his alias - "Wu Cheng'en", the group of farmers instantly believed in Su Che's medical skills!
The influence of the Journey to the West mythology far exceeded Su Che's expectations. Although many illiterate farmers could not read books, they had heard about it. The stories of Journey to the West were divided into fragments and became interesting stories for them to tell after dinner.
In this era, farmers had very and there was nothing to do during the slack season. The emergence of the book Journey to the West filled their free time to a great extent. Over time, they also remembered the author of Journey to the West, Wu Chengen!
In the eyes of the aristocratic families, Wu Cheng'en's pseudonym was just that of a low-class novelist. But in the eyes of these farmers, it was different. Every time Su Che revealed this identity, he would attract a crowd of onlookers, especially the children in the countryside, who would excitedly ask Su Che questions. The most frequently asked question was, "Have you seen the Monkey King?"
They had indeed seen it, but the stone monkey seemed a little different from what these children imagined!
During these days, Su Che has seen many people and experienced many things, and these stories alone can be written into a book.
However, what Su Che was writing at the moment was not a story, but the content of the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual". He already had an idea and knew how to write it, and now he had to complete the last piece of the puzzle.
Chapter title: Contagious Disease!
The infectious diseases of this era were collectively called typhoid fever, and what Su Che had to do was to break down typhoid fever into various symptoms so that the right medicine could be prescribed. This was what Zhang Zhongjing had done in "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases".
In this book, Su Che not only writes about how to treat typhoid fever, but also how typhoid fever is transmitted and how to control and eliminate it.
In the blink of an eye, it was late at night and the guards could no longer hold on and fell asleep first.
Su Che also stopped writing and carefully put away his pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
At this moment, the flames of the fire swayed without wind, and a figure slowly walked out from the darkness. The person was wearing a light yellow dress. After walking in, he bowed to Su Che earnestly and said gratefully: "Thank you for saving me today."
Su Che looked at this man and his eyes widened immediately.
This is definitely the weasel repaying a favor.
But here’s the thing…
How come it’s a male one???
In those folk stories and legends, there are stories about foxes repaying favors and weasels repaying favors. They are basically charming creatures, good-looking, with good personalities, good at managing the household, and bringing good luck to their husbands and families. What's more, some of them can even predict good and bad luck. These stories are simply exaggerated to the sky.
I don’t know who made up this. Su Che was looking forward to what this weasel girl would look like.
But the fact is that there are males and females, so why is it that the females always repay the favor? Gender is a 50-50 thing!
Unfortunately, Su Che ran into a male weasel.
The handsome young man in yellow looked shy as he looked at Su Che and said earnestly, "Young Master, you saved me. I have no way to repay you. I am willing to be your servant and serve you at your side!"
Su Che: “…”
Feeling Su Che's gaze, the young man in yellow felt a little scared. He mustered up the courage to say, "Young Master?"
"What's your name?" Su Che asked.
"Huang Silang."
"What?"
"Huang Silang, what's wrong?" Huang Silang asked cautiously, "Is this name strange? It was given to me by the elders of the clan."
"Hmm... nothing, this name is good." Su Che nodded and asked a key question: "Since you can transform into a human body, why are you caught by an ordinary animal trap?"
