I felt my legs go weak. In an instant, I didn't even have the courage to push open the courtyard gate.
"Damn it! I knew that so - called Prefect of Mount Tai wasn't a good thing!"
Behind me, Lu Tianchang roared out of frustration. From the very beginning, he thought it was strange that a proper deity with a canopy on his head would possess a mortal's body. Now that he found out the Prefect of Mount Tai had taken Lu Ling away again, he was so angry that he jumped up and was about to chase after him. It was Bai Yu who reached out and grabbed his arm, persuading him to calm down.
At this moment, I had no time to care about anything else. With a trembling hand, I tried to push the not - so - heavy door.
"Creak."
With a soft sound, the door was actually pushed open from the inside. Si Jiangchen walked out slowly, holding someone in his arms.
"Si Jiangchen!!"
The moment I saw him, my heart felt as if it had been fished out of a boiling oil pan. I rushed to his side, tightly grabbed his arm, and burst into tears.
Si Jiangchen had never seen me so emotionally vulnerable. He was slightly stunned for a moment before smiling faintly, "Xiao He, are you so afraid that I'll die and you'll become a widow?"
"Woo... Who cares whether you live or die!"
While crying, I just grabbed his sleeve and sobbed loudly. If it weren't for the person in his arms, I would have rushed into his chest and punched him.
My crying woke up the person in Si Jiangchen's arms. She let out a non - human howl and grabbed my collar, trying to bite my cheek.
"Ah!"
I knew that the person Si Jiangchen was holding was that innocent little nurse. The Prefect of Mount Tai had just taken Lu Ling away in the form of a soul out of his body. I thought the little nurse had been smashed to pieces in the fight between him and Si Jiangchen!
Who would have thought that Si Jiangchen had actually saved her.
But why did this person turn into a crazy dog as soon as she woke up, biting anyone she saw?
When we were in the Beijing hospital, I just splashed my blood on her clothes. As long as it didn't enter her body's circulation, she shouldn't have turned into a zombie!
I saw Du Wenzhong dealing with the blood when I was injured, and he was fine.
Seeing the relatively clean teeth of the little nurse getting closer, I didn't have time to act coquettishly with Si Jiangchen. I immediately reached out and firmly held her lower jaw, pushing her mouth back forcefully.
"Oops!! She's turned into a zombie!"
Behind me, Lu Tianchang was held back by Bai Yu and wasn't allowed to chase the Prefect of Mount Tai. As soon as he turned around, he saw the little nurse baring her fangs at me. His Taoist instincts kicked in immediately. He reached out and grabbed a handful of raw glutinous rice from a purple copper bowl on the counter and quickly stuffed it into the little nurse's mouth.
"Hiss!!"
In an instant, those crystal - clear white glutinous rice grains quickly became moldy, turning green and then black.
Si Jiangchen then gently placed the little nurse on the ground. As soon as Bai Yu saw his grandfather taking action, he skillfully twirled out a silver needle and quickly stabbed it into the Fengfu and Lingtai acupoints of the little nurse. These two acupoints controlled a person's mind. It seemed that Bai Yu had helped Lu Tianchang deal with all kinds of spiritual possessions and other strange events quite a few times.
With the silver needle in her back and glutinous rice in her mouth, the little nurse's already disheveled hair was even more in a mess, looking extremely miserable.
"I... I didn't infect her!"
Afraid that Master Lu would misunderstand, I quickly defended myself, "I just soiled her clothes, and she's already changed them!"
"… It's not your fault, Xiao He."
Si Jiangchen behind me reached out and pulled me back into his arms. He gently stroked my hair and said, "It's the fault of that Prefect of Mount Tai."
"What Prefect of Mount Tai? He's just a lonely ghost pretending to be someone important."
Lu Tianchang also said disdainfully, "Invading a mortal's body like this is no different from a ghost."
As he said this, he grabbed another handful of glutinous rice and slapped it on the little nurse's wrist, where there was a bloody and flesh - torn wound oozing dirty red blood.
"Did you bite her?"
I turned my head to look at Si Jiangchen. In my impression, he had never shown his fierce side in front of outsiders.
Before Si Jiangchen could speak, Master Lu took over, "This wound wasn't caused by a zombie bite. I'm afraid that the Prefect of Mount Tai, trapped in the mortal body by your man and unable to get out, bit his own artery to escape his soul... Moreover, in order to hold your man back, he deliberately infected this poor little girl and managed to keep us occupied so that we couldn't chase after him."
As he spoke, the blood oozing from the wound on the little nurse's wrist where the glutinous rice was applied dyed the rice grains red, and then quickly turned them black and moldy.
"She'll be okay, right?"
I looked at the little nurse, who was staring blankly into the empty air with wide - open eyes, and felt sorry for her.
Originally, she was just an ordinary little girl, but she had been implicated by us and suffered so much. Now her life was in danger.
"What could happen?"
Master Lu proudly curled his lips and said, "With me, Lu Tianchang here, even a real zombie can be cured obediently."
"Cough."
Bai Yu beside him quickly coughed a few times.
Both Si Jiangchen and I were the so - called zombies in Master Lu's words. Bai Yu was afraid that his grandfather would say something else embarrassing for the two of us.
"I'll leave this to you and Bai Yu."
Si Jiangchen didn't care about Master Lu's words. He pointed at the poor little nurse, then put his arm around me and walked out of the shop.
"Hey, where are you two going?" Master Lu quickly turned around and asked us.
"…"
Si Jiangchen remained silent, but I already understood what he meant.
He had never been tricked before. He was probably going to find the Prefect of Mount Tai again to avenge the little nurse!!
"Master Lu, you just focus on helping us save the sick and the injured! We'll be back soon!"
Since Si Jiangchen was too lazy to speak, I had to explain everything to prevent Master Lu from having any more misunderstandings.
"Hey! I'm not an emergency doctor..."
Behind us came Master Lu's somewhat unwilling shouts. He had been driven back home by his daughter Lu Xiyu to help us deal with the Prefect of Mount Tai and those evil ghosts, not to save lives!
He had done this kind of job of removing corpse poison countless times. Where was it as interesting as fighting with fierce gods and evil ghosts?
However, the mature - beyond - his - years Bai Yu stopped him again, "Grandpa, saving lives is to accumulate blessings for Xiaolu. He has a noble fate, but he had a lot of hardships when he was a child..."
"… Sigh!"
As soon as Bai Yu mentioned that doing good deeds was to accumulate blessings for his grandson, Master Lu sighed and gave up the idea of following us to fight. He focused on treating the little nurse...
Si Jiangchen held my hand and walked out of the shop. In front was the square of the Great Avalokitesvara Temple. In front of the three - entrance gate with red walls and yellow tiles were two stone statues of boys riding celestial dogs guarding the gate.
It was Monday today, and there were no pilgrims or tourists in the temple. So no one could sense the faint, dirty evil qi lingering around the huge and sacred white jade Avalokitesvara statue.
"… What's that?"
I was looking at the five - story - high white jade Avalokitesvara statue and was about to ask Si Jiangchen when a strange whirlwind blew by. The red silk on the face of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva was immediately lifted...