Chapter 29: Second Senior Brother

“I was bewitched when I was a child…”

“My mother-in-law knows a little about witchcraft…”

“Oh, I’ve never been to that village. My mother-in-law never talks about it…”

In the paralysis of being unable to move my whole body, I finally remembered this person, the person I met on the train when I returned from Beijing to Sichuan.

How could it be him? If it weren’t for my amazing memory, I wouldn’t even have a familiar feeling for this person.

This sudden realization made me extremely emotional. If I wasn’t paralyzed, I probably would have been shaking all over. If it really was this person, then just as I felt, there was an invisible net gradually closing in on me, and I had been unaware of it.

I can’t move or speak, I’m a vegetable. Even if I knew, what would I do?

The days passed in a bland manner. I was lying in bed, gradually becoming less lucid and more and more sleepy. I had a terrible realization. I realized that at first I was only paralyzed physically, but my mind was still relatively active. But now, I even feel a little paralyzed in my thinking. Otherwise, how could I have been asleep for so long?

And the feeling of thinking is like a drunk person trying to think about a complicated matter.

Not only me, when I was awake, I heard Su Rou and Qin Huai talking, and I knew that their situation was not much better. The numbness was getting heavier and heavier. Qin Huai and Su Rou described it as if someone had been stripped naked and thrown into a snowy field, with the whole body feeling stiff.

I don’t know much about medicine, but I find it very strange. In theory, anything that has a numbing effect should gradually subside over time, right?

Or is it an overdose of paralysis? God knows.

The paralysis of my thinking made me feel sleepy whenever I thought about it. Finally, I fell into a deep sleep again.

When I woke up again, I suddenly felt a strong sensation all over my body, as if someone was massaging and kneading my limbs. Then I heard a very gentle voice, like a warm breeze, saying, “That should be enough. The strong pain will soon wake him up.

“Chengxin, this is a bit too harsh, isn’t it?” I heard Qin Huai’s voice.

“Yes, Chengxin, are you sure you want to do this?” The voice of Su Rou.

Who is that? I recognized the voice immediately. It was my second senior brother, Su Chengxin, who was gentle and charming.

Hearing the words of Su Rou and Qin Huai, I had a bad feeling, but I couldn’t move or speak, and I couldn’t resist at all. My second senior brother was very gentle, and he said to Su Rou and Qin Huai in a concerned tone: “Sometimes you have to take strong medicine to achieve the final effect. You don’t understand. If he continues to lie down like this, his body functions will decline, and this is not something that medicine can make up for.”

My second elder brother and second uncle lived in Suzhou and Hangzhou for a long time, and their Suzhou and Hangzhou-style Mandarin was originally soft and lingering. Originally, men’s speech was inevitably a bit effeminate, but my second elder brother’s speech was very persuasive and soft-spoken.

I can’t count on Qin Huai and Su Rou to save me. Next, I felt something hammering into my body. I felt a tingling sensation throughout my body, and I instantly broke out in a sweat.

“Something’s wrong. Why isn’t he waking up? I guess I need to hit harder.” The second senior brother said to himself. Then there was another hit, and it was heavier than the first. I heard the sound of Su Rou and Qin Huai gasping for air, and then I couldn’t hold it in anymore. It was like the sound forced its way through my throat, and I let out a cry.

“It worked! It worked! Brother Chengxin, do it again!” Su Rou and Qin Huai shouted almost at the same time.

After I said the first word, it was as if my vocal cords had recovered their function. I was finally able to speak. I shouted with all my might, “No!”

After shouting, I broke into a sweat, and my eyelids, which had felt so heavy the previous few days, opened all at once. At the same time, I heard my second senior brother say, “That’s good. If he wakes up, he won’t need it. Prepare some hot water for him to drink. This kid must be starving these days. He’s so paralyzed that he can’t even swallow on his own. Poor thing.”

Then I heard Su Rou say something that almost made me collapse: “Yes, he’s like a child, coming to urinate and all that.

I guess the words of Su Rou stimulated me, and my consciousness quickly recovered. My vision became clear, and the first thing I saw was a man wearing glasses, gentle and refined, with a very gentle and good-looking smile standing in front of me. If it wasn’t my second elder brother, who else could it be?

I couldn’t say anything, but I had regained a little strength, so I tried to look inside the quilt. Fortunately, everything was still clean. It was really miserable to be a vegetable. I didn’t want to experience it again.

Qin Huai brought me some hot water and fed me a few sips. After drinking a few sips of hot water, I felt my stomach was empty and uncomfortable. I was so hungry that my eyes were green and I wanted to swallow the bed under me.

My second senior brother sat down by my bed and asked me, “Do you feel better? Are you hungry? Don’t rush to eat a lot. Take it slowly. Drink some porridge first. Eat less and more often these days to let your stomach and intestines get used to it.”

This is the kind of person my second senior brother is. I, as a man, think he is so considerate that a girl in front of him would immediately feel a wave of spring water in her heart. Thinking of this, I hate it.

From the first contact, I felt that my second brother was the type of person who was bad and bad. The smiling face of spring breeze hides the essence of the ‘devil’, otherwise I wouldn’t have taken a thing I didn’t know what to fix me.

Lying down for a few days is actually a tiring thing. Energy needs to be restored slowly. Before I had a chance to say anything, I heard my second senior brother say to me, “Chengyi, I’m afraid I’m going to have to run with you to Miaojiang this time.”

Me: “…”Taoist priest

After two days of recovery, my body finally got better. Together with my second senior brother, the four of us also communicated a lot during these two days.

For example, I told them what I thought in my sleep, and my second senior brother also told me that I was suffering from a paralytic poison. The most special thing about this poison is that when it comes into contact with human skin, it will cause a special reaction, and it will gradually become more and more intense.

Even my second elder brother didn’t know the details. After all, there are so many unique and special aspects to the art of raising gui in Miaojiang.

The most important thing is that I know what my second elder brother used to hit me with that day. It was a plum blossom hammer used for massage, covered in needles. It would have been strange if it didn’t hurt when he hit me hard.

The explanation my second senior brother gave me was that I had been lying down for so many days that my blood circulation had become a bit sluggish, and that letting some blood out would help to improve it.

Damn! I had no way to refute him.

In addition, he forbade me to call him “second elder brother” in the future. Of course, he didn’t mean it kindly and wanted me to call him “first elder brother,” but he said that “second elder brother” always reminded him of Pigsy, so he asked me to call him “Chengxin Ge,” and he called me “Chengyi.”

The reason is also irrefutable, because he is older than me. Sure enough, the devil is in the bones.

However, no matter how ridiculous it is, the person we met on the train is still the one that gives us the most headaches. In theory, I met that person on the train from Beijing to Sichuan, and it should have been a chance encounter. How is that possible? This is something that makes people very confused.

Since we couldn’t figure it out, we decided to go to the place the next day, the place that the person on the train and Master Chen had mentioned.

Of course, the first stop was to enter Xiangxi.

Before we left, Brother Chengxin did one more thing, something very important, which was to wrap my shoulder in gauze soaked in herbal medicine. He said, “I can’t find any medicine that can remove the mark on your shoulder right now, but I’ve researched it and this herbal medicine can neutralize the mark a little bit and it won’t smell as strong. Don’t doubt it, the mark on your shoulder was drawn with the juice of a special kind of grass.”

Yes, you researched it, and I bled my shoulder. I endured it.