The real daughter died tragically and was reborn, and the whole family cried and begged for forgiven
Chapter 256: Massacre of the Village? The Witch Missing!
The more Mrs. Pei spoke, the more excited she became.
"When I led my last armored general to the frontier to rescue Luo'er's grandfather on the battlefield, I didn't see Zaina... No, when we left Jinling that time, Zaina was no longer by my brother's side!"
"I was surprised at the time. These two have always been inseparable, and Zaina prefers life in the frontier. Why didn't she go with us that time?"
"Back then, I didn't think much about it, and I didn't ask my brother... But now that I think about it, my brother's illness might really be related to this witch!"
Seeing that Madam Pei was so anxious, Doctor Luo poured her a cup of tea first. After watching her drink it, he slowly said, "That witch doctor is indeed her."
"However, judging by the time, she probably hadn't met Duke Pei yet and was still just a free-spirited witch doctor."
"Do you still want to hear me continue?"
Madam Pei quickly replied, "Of course! Tell me now, don't keep me in suspense!"
Doctor Luo sighed and said, "Back then, my master and I temporarily settled down in the mountains, but in order to understand this disease, it was not enough to just study the literature."
"We ventured down the mountain to the village several times, hoping to observe or capture a mad blood patient, but we failed every time."
"Later, we spotted Zaina. She was walking around the village like an ordinary person, even living there. She seemed to be trying to make medicine and treat these people, but strangely, no one attacked her."
"Why is she an exception? Master and I are extremely curious."
“So, we took advantage of an opportunity to find Zaina who had left the village and asked her how she did it.”
"She took out a glass bottle from her body and showed it to us. What do you think is in the bottle?"
Madam Pei lost her patience again: "Guess what? Just tell me!"
Doctor Luo Shen smiled and said, "Don't worry. This bottle is filled with a slippery worm. It's flesh-pink, with no head or tail, and no eyes, only a mouth."
"Zaina feeds it with her own blood, one drop at a time, and the worm wriggles happily in the bottle."
"Zaina said she fished this worm out of a well outside the village. All the villagers who were poisoned contracted rabies because they accidentally ate its eggs."
"After she fished out the worm, she wore it on her body all day. Strangely, the villagers who were sick stopped attacking her. Even when they were nearly dying of pain from the attack, they didn't dare to get close to her."
"So she stayed, hoping to find out more secrets about rabies and even research a cure."
"A doctor, willing to plunge into danger in order to find the truth behind illness and suffering, is worthy of admiration. Moreover, she is a woman, and navigating this world must be even more difficult."
"My master and I originally praised Zaina very much, but later we discovered that she was using fresh human blood as a medicine inducer, and these were all normal people she had deceived from the mountains or other villages."
"Her methods make my master and I shudder."
"At the same time, the sick villagers at the foot of the mountain, under Zaina's instigation, began to use various means to trick their relatives down the mountain, and then killed them to draw blood for Zaina."
"My master and I wanted to save these villagers, but we could barely even protect ourselves, let alone save those who knew there was a tiger down the mountain, yet chose to walk down into its mouth."
"At the same time, we also realized the strangeness of this disease, so we immediately decided not to investigate it further and left the place in a hurry overnight."
Li Qingluo was puzzled. "From the symptoms and the blood-clotting pills Yanming took, they're exactly the same as Old Duke Pei's. But what's with Butterfly? She seems to have symptoms of rabies, but it doesn't seem to be completely the case."
So far, the butterfly will go crazy immediately when it sees the opposite sex, but it will not go crazy as long as there is no opposite sex present.
Doctor Luo Shen shook his head. "As far as I know, a patient with rabies will have a second attack after a full month of illness. Then, it will occur every half a month, then every ten days, and then every five days."
"If you don't take human blood for more than three days, you will die suddenly in extreme pain!"
That's why the people with rabies in that village would attack each other with knives when they got sick.
Even if we share the same disease and it tastes extremely disgusting and bitter, it is better than doing nothing and waiting to die.
Mrs. Pei felt very uncomfortable.
So, brother, you have been suffering from this disease for thirty years?
But considering his personality, this disease has turned him into such a monster, and he has even killed so many innocent women. He will not live in this world!
Why on earth was he reluctant to leave this world?
Mrs. Pei was very sad.
She knew that she might never see her elder brother again.
She also knew that even if her eldest brother met a miserable end, he deserved it.
But when she thought about how such a heroic man ended up like this... and Madam Pei only had this one brother, how could she not be sad?
Seeing her grandmother's expression of deep sorrow, Li Qingluo quickly asked Nangong Di, "But how come Master seems to know about this disease? Has Master also encountered rabies?"
Nangong Di looked at Doctor Luo Shen and kicked him: "Go on."
Doctor Luo was still looking at Old Madam Pei when he was kicked out of the blue, and he felt great pain.
"You reckless man! Are you trying to break my bones with that kick?"
"It's clearly your disciple's turn to answer, but you don't even want to say it. What a lazy guy."
"Forget it, forget it. I've already said so much to you. Why not continue?"
Doctor Luo continued, "After my master and I left the village overnight, we unexpectedly ran into Nangong Di on the road, who was looking for his missing fellow apprentice."
"Luo'er, this is when your master and I first met, so our friendship has lasted for over thirty years."
"At that time, we suspected that your master's junior fellow apprentice, oh, the person you should call uncle master in the future, was also deceived and taken to that village, so we accompanied Nangong Di back again."
"When I returned this time, I found that all the people with mad blood disease in the village had been killed."
Li Qingluo was shocked: "The whole village was massacred? Could it be my uncle?"
Nangong Di: "You guessed it right, it's your uncle. He couldn't stand the filthiness of this village, so he killed all the troublemakers with one knife."
"But I found him later, and he said the witch ran away with the worm."
Li Qingluo: "I see. So Master also knows about mad blood disease."
Madam Pei said, "Zaina must have returned to the Western Regions. She had that worm with her. My brother got sick later, so it must have been her fault!"
"And didn't Pei Bu say that my brother always has his own doctor by his side? This doctor must be Zaina."
"But this time, such a big thing happened in Pei Guogong Mansion, but she was nowhere to be seen. I heard that Pei Sanlang only took my brother away, so where did Zaina go?"
Li Qingluo thought of Pan Li.
Ask her, maybe there will be clues about this Zaina.
Li Qingluo thought of the butterfly again.
Butterfly's age doesn't match, so she's not Zaina.
But who could the butterfly be?
Li Qingluo was still worried that Butterfly would suddenly fall ill, so he stood up and hurriedly said goodbye to the three elders and quickly returned to Zizaiju.
Fortunately, Butterfly did not get sick.
Li Qingluo was considering whether to put handcuffs on Butterfly.
But what's the difference between this and imprisoning her in a dungeon?
"Forget it, let's lock her up in the room for the next few days. Wait for ten days or half a month, and then we'll see if she doesn't get sick."
Li Qingluo immediately gave the order, and Que'er did not dare to neglect the matter and hurried down to do it.
Fortunately, after we brought Butterfly a bunch of interesting and strange things that she had never seen before, she stopped making a fuss and went into the room obediently.
Li Qingluo was busy all day.
By the evening, Prince Su's big shoes had been washed clean by her own hands and hung under the windowsill to dry.
The moonlight shines on the shoe surface, making the satin glow with a faint moon-white luster.
Li Qingluo held his chin and stared at the shoes in a daze.
Suddenly, Que'er knocked on the door and poked its head in.
"Miss, do you still want to continue listening to the story I didn't finish telling you during the day?"
"You key is not listening, and the servant has not finished talking. I can't sleep at all."
Li Qingluo never asked servants to keep watch by his bedside.
She was used to and preferred having her room all to herself at night.
But tonight, there might be an exception.
Li Qingluo: "Why don't you come in?"
Li Qingluo lay on the bed and let Que'er get into his quilt.
The two of them lay side by side, and Que'er couldn't wait to continue talking about what happened during the day.
"Miss, did this servant mention that Wu Da was the only servant who was not beaten to death after being imprisoned?"
Li Qingluo: "Yes. And then?"
Que'er chuckled and said, "Then, yesterday, I heard that Madam went back to her parents' home."
"Young lady, you don't know that before the old lady and you came back, because the lady was not capable enough to manage the household, she always asked the old lady Qu, your grandmother Youshi, to come and help with the affairs of the harem from time to time."
Li Qingluo: "How foolish! This is how the Qu family got their hands on the General's Mansion."
Que'er: "Isn't it? I heard that Yu Shi used to act so arrogantly in the General's Mansion, thinking she was the old lady."
"But she didn't dare come after our own old lady came back, especially after she was humiliated during the Mid-Autumn Festival. She didn't dare to make trouble again."
"This time, the eldest son of the family has encountered such an incident, and the master is away with no one to take charge of the situation. Who would have thought that the lady would run back to her parents' home to ask her mother for advice?"
"But this time, Madam didn't end up well when she returned to the Qu family."
"I heard that Madam He from the main house of the Qu family heard her coming and called her over to the main house. Then she returned to the general's mansion dejectedly with five red fingerprints on her face."
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