The queen must start from the head

Chapter 161 The Amazing Truth
In the evening, in a tavern in the northern outskirts of the imperial city, a middle-aged man with a rosacea nose, drunk and flushed, staggered out of the tavern.

He staggered all the way home.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of his own yard, his mother-in-law heard familiar footsteps and came out to open the gate of the yard.

Seeing her husband who was drunk again and looked like a drunkard, the woman immediately became angry.

She pinched her waist with one hand, dragged him into the yard with the other, and cursed angrily, "Drink, drink, drink all day long! You should go out and earn some money!"

The man broke free from the woman's hand and muttered, "Make money? What money do you make?"

"You, you, thank you for being a doctor!" The woman cursed again.

Then, as if she thought of something, she glanced around at the quiet neighbors with a pair of slack eyes, and dragged her husband into the back room.

In the house, a bright oil lamp was lit.

It's autumn now, and there are fewer mosquitoes, but there are still some.Therefore, some mosquito-repellent herbs were hung on the four corners of the house, which have not been removed yet.

After entering the house, the woman's attitude improved a bit, and she poured a cup of hot tea for her husband to sober him up.

They are all people who have slept on the kang for decades. Once a woman's attitude changes, the man will know that she has something to say.

He first took a sip of hot tea, feeling his dizzy mind cleared up a bit, looked at his old wife and said, "Tell me, what are you thinking about today, what do you want to tell me?"

The woman rolled her eyes at him and said, "What do you mean thinking blindly? I did it for this family! Old Jia, you speak from your own conscience. I have been with you for all these years, but have I ever lived a day?" Wealthy life? There is an opportunity to get rich right now, if we don’t seize it, we will be poor for the rest of our lives!”

Dr. Jia raised his eyelids, and squinted at his old wife, "What kind of opportunity to make a fortune this time, did you find it?"

The woman didn't care about his attitude, and after getting closer to him, she said in a low voice, "Recently, there have been rumors in the city that people from the Wushuang faction spread poisonous gas outside, do you remember?"

"Such a big thing, I naturally remember."

Dr. Jia responded, but he was disdainful in his heart.

What kind of poisonous gas can float from the gate of the Wushuang faction to the West Market, to the East Market, and even to the northern suburbs?
These rumors can only deceive those ignorant ordinary people.

People like him, whose family has inherited medicine for three generations, will not believe these nonsense.

The woman didn't know what her husband was thinking, she continued to lower her voice, "Everyone said that poisonous gas can be passed from person to person, and now everyone is panicking and wants to get some medicine to prevent it." No, the Liji Pharmacy in the east of the city has launched a Coptis chinensis made of honeysuckle, baicalin and forsythia, which is said to be able to clear away heat and detoxify. The people in the city are all crazy Yes! I heard that the threshold of Liji Medicine Hall’s family was trampled down! I was thinking, you are also a doctor, or our family will come out with the whole prescription and earn some money to spend..."

"It's a woman's sight!"

Hearing this, Doctor Jia doesn't know what she means?He immediately patted the table angrily, telling her not to think about it.

The woman was also angry, "What's the matter? We don't steal or rob! I only let you prescribe medicine that can detoxify, so what's the matter with earning some money to support the family?! Why can other people make this money? Our family can’t make money?!”

Listening to her roar, Dr. Jia felt a throbbing pain in his head.

He lowered his voice and said, "This is different. It is other people's business to earn this money. We cannot earn it."

When the woman heard what he said, tears rolled down her eyes, and she cried with red eyes, "You can't make this money all day long, and you can't make that money. How can you live this day? Tell yourself, Neighbors in the neighborhood came to see you, when did you collect money from them? Those poor people who can't get rid of the pot come to see a doctor, and you can't give a copper coin to see a doctor, but you always give them money to buy food! Our family even There are mountains of gold and silver, but you can't help tormenting like this!"

Dr. Jia said in a hoarse voice, "There will always be money. Isn't our life still possible?"

Hearing this, the woman was so angry that she turned her face away, wiping her tears and not wanting to look at him.

Dare to feel that he is not in charge of the family and does not know the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt. She, a housewife who does housework all day, still said something wrong?
Seeing that his wife was really angry this time, Dr. Jia coaxed her, "Don't cry, why don't I go to the doctor tomorrow and earn some money for my family?"

"The big family won't let you in. What's the use of going to the poor's house for one or two consultations? How much copper can you earn? If you really want to benefit the family, you can prescribe a prescription for detoxification tomorrow. Make some money first..."

Dr. Jia's face immediately turned down again, "Is it okay if we don't talk about this prescription?"

When the woman saw his face change, she was about to cry again, which made Dr. Jia finally tell the truth in desperation.

"Don't cry. Those Huangliansan and detoxification prescriptions are useless. They can't prevent or cure bone diseases. In the future, everyone will know the truth. Let's talk , Can you feel at ease spending the money you got by defrauding others?"

When the woman heard this, she wiped her tears and said, "Why did the prescription lie to people? Everyone talks about the spread of poisonous gas from person to person. I think it's very credible."

"Oh, it's a long story..." Dr. Jia sighed.

If it hadn't been for a few black-armored soldiers carrying a pile of skeletons and passing by him a few days ago, he wouldn't have known the truth about the skeleton case that happened in the imperial city in the past few days.

That day, because there were too many skeletons on the stretcher, when passing by him, a small child's skeleton suddenly rolled down from the stretcher.

As a doctor, he has seen too many people die and all kinds of scars over the years.

He was very sure that all the imprints on the child's skeleton were eaten by something, not caused by the corruption of some poisonous gas.

The black armored soldiers at that time saw him staring at the skeleton, and stopped him to question him for a few words, but he shied away with the reason of "curiosity".

Afterwards, he pretended he didn't know anything, and left there as if he hadn't found anything.

After returning home, he took out several medical books, searched repeatedly, and finally confirmed that the bite marks on the skeleton he saw were all made by human teeth.It can be seen from this that the case of skeletons in the imperial city in the past few days was not caused by any terrible poisonous gas at all, but by someone eating people!
This astonishing truth frightened him into a cold sweat.

For the next few days, he tried to forget about it even more.So I ran to the tavern every day, and got drunk every day before coming back.However, the more the truth of the matter was kept in his heart, the more uncomfortable he became.

Today, it happened that his wife forced him to prescribe a prescription for clearing away heat and detoxification in order to make money, so he simply told all about it without complaining.

After listening to her husband's words, the woman's body also trembled a few times. She glanced at the latter with disbelieving eyes, but saw him nod heavily.

"What I just said is true."

The woman muttered to herself, "How could this happen? It's all right, how could there be such a thing as cannibalism? How could it be like this..."

The candlelight on the table cast two huge figures on the wall.

Outside the house, in the quiet night, suddenly there was a knock on the door.

The two people in the room were startled, and the couple carefully distinguished for a moment, making sure that someone was knocking on their door.

When the woman thought of what her husband said just now, she was so frightened that she began to tremble.

She got up and shrank into her husband's arms, and asked in a low voice, "Why don't we open the door?"

Outside the yard, the knocks on the door were still ringing one after another, slowly and slowly, as if with some special rhythm.

The two people in the room were silent for a long time. The knocking on the door outside finally stopped after waiting for no response for a long time.

Just when the two thought that the people outside had left, they suddenly found silhouettes appearing faintly in their yard.

Soon, one face after another was pasted on the window of his house, revealing the outline of the facial features.

Seeing this scene, the woman couldn't suppress the fear in her heart, and immediately screamed.

It was this scream that completely tore through the tranquility of the night sky.

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