Chapter 238: Chapter 238: The Secret of Luo Qiujue_1
Seeing that Qin Feng had inserted two needles and a good half day had passed without a third needle being inserted, Luo Qiujue curiously asked, "Is that it?"
"Mm! The first treatment is complete.
Elder Luo, you can stand up and try walking a few steps to see if you’re satisfied with the treatment I’ve provided this time.
If you are satisfied, then give me a big rooster, and I’ll take it home to roast and eat."
Luo Qiujue stood up and tried walking a couple of steps.
She felt no pain in her feet at all, light as a feather.
She was immediately shocked.
Staring wide-eyed at Qin Feng, she asked incredulously, "Are you really more incredible than Immortal Zhen? Can you cure my son?"
"As I already said, your son is afflicted with a curse related to the Pei Family. You need to tell me what you know. I can only treat your son after I understand the truth."
Qin Feng wasn’t trying to deceive Luo Qiujue, but he genuinely needed to figure out the origin of Chen Youqiang’s curse first.
"Ah..."
Luo Qiujue sighed deeply but didn’t speak directly.
"If you don’t want to talk, then forget it, I don’t need your chicken either. Anyway, I’m just passing through Qiuniu Village, and I’ll be leaving soon."
Upon hearing this, Luo Qiujue immediately became anxious and quickly asked, "Leaving? Will you come back?"
"Come back for what? The Pei Family has nothing to do with me. Let them do whatever they want, I have no business with them."
Having said that, Qin Feng turned to leave.
Luo Qiujue hastily stopped him, "Wait a minute!"
Qin Feng turned back and asked, "Is there something else?"
Luo Qiujue walked to the door and peered outside before shouting at Chen Youqiang, who was sweeping the courtyard, "After you finish sweeping the yard, go collect the eggs, and be careful not to break them. Pick them up carefully."
"All you know is to make me work, you won’t even let me watch Ultraman."
"Do you want a beating? You’re too old to watch Ultraman. If you don’t work, how will you make money, how will you get a wife?"
After scolding Chen Youqiang like that, Luo Qiujue creaked the door shut and locked it with a click.
Qin Feng knew that the woman was ready to talk, so he consciously moved a stool over, sat down with a plop, and listened to her speak slowly.
"You can’t speak of what I’m about to say, you understand? If it gets out, you’ll be cursed too, and you might even lose your life," Luo Qiujue warned before starting her story.
"Elder Luo, rest assured, the words spoken here today will rot in our stomachs. We won’t utter a single word of it.
In traditional medicine, we rely on ’looking, listening, asking, and feeling.’ Without understanding the cause, we can’t find the root of the disease, and naturally, we can’t provide a thorough cure for your son."
"Can you truly cure my son’s condition?"
"Healing is a matter of fate, I can’t make any promises.
However, since I’ve spoken, as long as you explain everything to me without holding back a single word, I will naturally do my utmost to cure your son’s foolishness."
"Ah!" Luo Qiujue sighed deeply, blaming herself, "It’s all my fault, I brought this trouble upon us."
Qin Feng didn’t interrupt but quietly watched Luo Qiujue, waiting for her to continue.
"When I was three months pregnant, I sneaked to the back mountain of the Pei Family Courtyard. That mountain has many valuable medicinal herbs, and I wanted to gather some to supplement the household income.
There was a cave on the mountain behind, and I curiously crawled in. The cave was very deep, I walked about two or three miles inside, and I saw bones scattered all over the ground, human bones.
Then, a pair of blood-red eyes suddenly appeared in mid-air, staring straight at me.
When I took a closer look, I realized it was a giant snake, an enormous, pitch-black snake, as thick as a well.
I couldn’t see its length, but I never saw its tail. I guess it must have been at least a hundred meters long.
On the forehead of that giant snake, there was also a horn, a crimson horn.
I was so scared at the time!
When I came to my senses, I started running as fast as my legs could carry me.
Thankfully, the giant snake didn’t chase after me, and I managed to run out of the cave.
Ever since then, I’ve been having nightmares every day, always dreaming about that giant snake. Until Chen Youqiang was born. After my son was born, I never dreamed about the giant snake again."
After taking a pause and catching her breath, Luo Qiujue continued speaking.
"When Chen Youqiang was two years old, I noticed he was different from other children. He seemed a bit dull-eyed, and he wouldn’t even call out for his mom or dad.
So, I took him to see Immortal Zhen.
After examining him, Immortal Zhen said the child had been bewitched, and asked if I had experienced anything strange?
I just wanted to heal my son quickly, so I told him about encountering the giant snake in the cave."
"What did Immortal Zhen say?"
"He looked troubled at the time, and I even saw a hint of fear on his face.
He told me that he couldn’t cure Chen Youqiang’s sickness.
However, he had a method we could try.
But as for its effectiveness, he dared not guarantee. Moreover, the method was very dangerous."
"What was the method he told you about?"
"Immortal Zhen said the same as you did, revealing that Chen Youqiang was under a curse, the curse of that giant snake.
Right! Immortal Zhen also said that a giant snake with a horn on its forehead is called a ’Dragon,’ a demigod being that’s between a snake and a dragon.
Immortal Zhen had the child’s father go to the cave to talk to the Black Dragon. If he didn’t go, Chen Youqiang wouldn’t live past a month.
The Black Dragon was after human flesh, and having cursed Chen Youqiang, it would surely eat him. No matter where Chen Youqiang fled, it would find him."
"Didn’t Immortal Zhen tell you that your man might get eaten by that thing if he went to find the Black Dragon?" Qin Feng asked.
"He did say so. He warned me that sending my man to talk to the Black Dragon was essentially a case of the father paying the son’s debt."
At this point, Luo Qiujue’s tears suddenly flowed down.
With a look of regret, she said, "After I took my son back, I told his father that Immortal Zhen said to go and talk to the Black Dragon in the cave, otherwise, our son wouldn’t live another month.
Regarding the matter of the father paying the son’s debt that Immortal Zhen mentioned, I didn’t tell him a single word. At that moment, all I could think of was saving my son, fearing if I told him, he wouldn’t dare go.
Because my man has always been a coward. Knowing that he might get devoured by the Black Dragon, he definitely wouldn’t have gone."
Hearing this, Qin Feng didn’t know how to respond.
Luo Qiujue, with tears streaming down her face, continued, "When leaving Immortal Zhen’s place, he gave me a talisman and told me to secretly put it in Chen Ergou’s pocket.
That way, it might save his life. But in the end, Ergou never came back."
