At first, people thought that the disease was beginning to prevail again, and they still asked the miracle doctor to come forward to solve it. But this time they could not find the miracle doctor, and the number of dead people began to increase day by day.

The deputy commander and Cheng Shouwei were once again ordered to investigate the matter. The careful Cheng Shouwei suddenly discovered that these dead people had one thing in common - not only had the strange disease before, but were also treated by the miracle doctor.

At this critical moment, the deputy governor died overnight.

The anxious and scared Cheng Shouwei knew that he was not long after his life. After comparing all the investigation results, he came to a conclusion that the patient who had been treated by the so-called miracle doctor would die in a hundred days.

Li Yunfan said: At this point, the legend of the Hundred Days Demon Doctor began to prevail.

Tang Qianlin nodded: Then what? How did you crack it? Is that city guard dead?

No, the Cheng Guardian was not dead. In desperation, he had to ask for help from the shaman of his clan. Li Yunfan looked at Tang Qianlin, and the shaman told him that this demon doctor was the representative of the demon world. If he wanted to save his life, he could only die once.

Tang Qianlin wondered: What does it mean to die once?

Li Yunfan said: The meaning of dying once means that the shaman acted to deceive the demon, making the demon think that the city guard was dead. At the same time, the city guard needs to go to a special place to find the demon doctor, but he cannot kill him. On the contrary, he has to give him the most important thing in exchange for life.

Tang Qianlin shook his head: I was confused when I heard it.

At this moment, Yi Mochen walked out with a bottle of wine: Why didn’t he drink when telling a story?

Li Yunfan took the bottle and started pouring the wine: Let him tell me what happened next, he is the person involved, and he knows the best.

Yi Mochen picked up the wine glass and drank it all, then he said: The place where the shaman asked the city guard to go to was the burial place, but I only learned about this later. When I heard this story when I was a child, I was just a bedtime story.

The Cheng Shouwei went to the burial site according to the shaman's arrangement. He did meet the demon doctor there. The demon doctor seemed to know that he would come, so he asked him straight to the point, which part of his body would be used to exchange for his life span?

Speaking of this, Yi Mochen looked at Tang Qianlin and asked: Guess what the shaman asked him to exchange for?

Tang Qianlin thought for a while: One of the three souls?

Smart. Yi Mochen nodded and said, "Let's choose one of the three spirits, strength and wisdom." Because this city guard did not understand very well, because he was a military officer, he could not lose his strength and spirit, so he chose to hand over his wisdom."

Tang Qianlin nodded: Then the city guard became a walking corpse?

Yi Mochen said: That's right, the Cheng Shouwei has disappeared since that day. When people found him again, he was wandering around the night with no eyes, not remembering anything, not knowing anything, not understanding anything, only knowing how to eat, drink, and laugh, and sometimes even attacking anything that can move for no reason.

When Tang Qianlin heard this, he subconsciously said: Zombie?

Yi Mochen smiled and said: It was indeed a zombie capture, and the reaction was so fast. Indeed, this is the origin of the Manchu generation about zombies.

Tang Qianlin thought for a while and asked: You might not want to tell me that your fiancée has become like this, right?

Yi Mochen shook his head: My fiancée has not turned into a zombie, but she has also encountered a demon doctor. Let me start from scratch. Maybe my past experience will help you later, which is why I found the Shaman Palace.

Tang Qianlin picked up the wine glass: There are wine and stories, and it will be very fulfilling tonight.

Yi Mochen smiled bitterly and began to tell the story of him and his fiancee Xia Shuang—

Xia Shuang is a Manchu, and belongs to the prominent family in Harbin. Her original surname is Hong, and she belongs to the Zhenglan Banner of the Qing Dynasty.

Strangely, the genealogy of the Xia Shuang family was recorded since the 26th year of Kangxi. The first sentence written in the genealogy is that the original surname is never published. The ancestors who can be found are named Panliha and the Han people are named Hongya.

By the 21st year of Qianlong's reign, the Hong family changed their family to common people and changed their surname to Xia. The whole family moved to Harbin, which was called Xia capital at that time, and was Manchu-speaking Al Jin.

According to Xia Shuang, his father's speculation was that the surname changed from Hong to Xia should be related to the alias of Harbin, but she didn't know why.

The Yi family and the Xia family were neighbors, one was a wealthy businessman and the other was a prominent family. Before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, these two families were just friends. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the status of the bannermen plummeted, and the Xia family finally lost its shackles, which further brought the relationship between the two families closer.

Soon, Yi Mochen and Xia Shuang were born. When the two families were holding a full moon banquet, they made a marriage for children. They also grew up together, childhood sweethearts and had a great relationship.

Just as we were about to talk about marriage, Xia Shuang got sick and couldn't afford to get sick. Like that legend, she was exhausted and confused and lay in bed all day long. Yi Mochen frowned and recalled that I spent a lot of money to find the best doctor, but those doctors were helpless and could not even find out the cause of the disease.

Tang Qianlin nodded: You shouldn't say that suddenly the demon doctor came to the door, right?

Yi Mochen said: That's true

On the seventh day after Xia Shuang fell ill, a doctor walking around the street knocked on the door of his house and said he wanted to ask for saliva.

It’s strange to say that there were many strange things in Harbin that year, and rumors spread everywhere. Xia Shuang fell ill at that time, as if everything was going together.

When the doctor was drinking water, he suddenly asked: Is there a patient in your family who has a strange disease?

Upon hearing this, the servant quickly notified Xia Shuang's father. Xia Shuang's father immediately went to see the doctor, knowing that when there was no way, he would not let go of any hope.

The doctor followed Xia Shuang's father to the boudoir. After a while of diagnosis, he prescribed a simple prescription, saying that he would be cured soon after decocting the medicine according to the prescription.

Although Xia Shuang's father was unwilling to believe it, after looking for someone to see the prescription, he knew that the medicine was not harmful to people, so he could try it. So he decocted the medicine and fed Xia Shuang as the doctor said. After three days, Xia Shuang recovered, exactly like a normal person.

Tang Qianlin asked: Do you still remember what the prescription specifically wrote?

Yi Mochen took out a piece of paper and said: I still keep the prescription, you can read it yourself.

Tang Qianlin took the paper and looked at the details on it-

If you have five cents of a poplar root, don’t break iron, remove the stem and peel it.

Seven cents of honeysuckle.

Five points of pearls, boil tofu, and crushed cloth with hammer.

Use two bowls of water for the first two flavors, decoct for 80% of them, add pearl powder and take them together, and then take seven cents of lotus root powder.

After reading it, Tang Qianlin put down the prescription and shook his head and said: If I remember correctly, this is an incomplete prescription.

Li Yunfan asked: What does it mean?

Tang Qianlin said: This prescription is a folk remedy. It is included in the book "Secret Recipes Collection". It was written by Wang Menglan of the Qing Dynasty. It is used to treat crazy things. Moreover, the prescription is not written incompletely. Many things are wrong. Of course, I have never believed in the so-called folk remedy. If I am not careful, it will aggravate the condition and may even cause death.

Yi Mochen agreed: I also checked it later. It was indeed the same as you said, but just such a strange prescription did cure Xia Shuang at that time, but a hundred days later, Xia Shuang died.

Tang Qianlin was shocked: Dead?

Yi Mochen nodded: Yes, I was dead. I was there at the time, and she suddenly fell to the ground and was so angry.

Xia Shuang suddenly died at the dinner table. Everyone present was shocked, and Yi Mochen was even more heartbroken.

That night, while everyone was discussing the funeral for Xia Shuang, a servant suddenly said to her side: One hundred days, just over one hundred days, it’s a demon doctor, and the demon doctor is back!

After he said this, everyone remembered the legend of the Hundred Day Demon Doctor. Of course, Yi Mochen didn't believe it, but after careful calculation, he found that it was really a hundred days later.

The sad Yi Mochen went to the surrounding villages with the last glimmer of hope and found a shaman in the surrounding villages and asked for his help, because in the legend, it was also the shaman who prompted the city guard.

For him, as long as she lets her fiancée survive, it doesn't matter even if she becomes a walking corpse.

Wait a minute. Tang Qianlin interrupted Yi Mochen, do you know that shaman?

Yi Mochen shook his head: I don’t know you, I had no interest in these things at that time.

Tang Qianlin asked again: Then how do you know there are shamans in that village?

Yi Mochen explained: It was said by that servant, because there are very few shamans now, and he also heard that, so I went to search for them, but I didn't expect to find them.

Tang Qianlin nodded silently and said nothing.

After Yi Mochen found the shaman, he told him the cause and effect. The shaman told him that he didn't know if it was a demon doctor, but he was sure that Xia Shuang was pretending to die now and could save her within three days, but Yi Mochen needed to do one thing.

Yi Mochen asked quickly: What do I need to do? I can do anything and take my life.

The shaman shook his head: There is no need to trade life for life, you just need to go to one place.

The shaman used branches to draw a simple map on the ground and asked Yi Mochen to stay in that place for one night. When the third update arrived that night, he had to climb up a dead tree in the center of the place and pick a bone flower from the dead tree.

Tang Qianlin asked: What is bone flower?

Yi Mochen said: I didn't know at that time, and the shaman didn't explain. He just said that after picking the bone flowers, I rode south until the bone flowers withered. I didn't understand at all, but in order to save Xia Shuang, I could only give it a try.

According to the map drawn by the shaman, Yi Mochen finally found the deserted place. It was a cemetery, and there were no tombstones. It was all deserted tombs. There was really a huge dead tree in the deserted tombs.

Yi Mochen couldn't recognize what kind of tree the dead tree was. He looked under the tree for a long time but didn't find any bone flowers. So he sat down against the tree and waited patiently for the third update to arrive.

After the third update, Yi Mochen immediately stood up to see and was surprised to find that a so-called bone flower really grew on a branch of a dead tree.

Tang Qianlin asked: What exactly is bone flower?

Yi Mochen thought for a while and said: How can I say it? It’s just a claw, a claw made of three bones, standing there like a flower.

Tang Qianlin shook his head: What appeared suddenly? You saw what grew with your own eyes?

Yi Mochen shook his head: No, I have been sitting under the tree.

Tang Qianlin asked: You are not asleep?

Yi Mochen shook his head: I was not sleepy at all.

Tang Qianlin thought for a long time and asked again: When you climbed up the tree and picked off the bone flowers, did the bone flowers really grow on the tree?

Yi Mochen recalled for a while: It should be, and when I picked it, the bottom of the bone flower was bleeding, and a lot of blood kept coming out of the branches.
Chapter completed!