Liaozhai Ghost Story

Chapter 75 Oral Skills

A woman from the village, about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, came with a medicine bag and claimed to be a doctor. Some people came forward to ask about the disease, but the woman could not be diagnosed and treated by herself. She said that she would wait until the evening to ask the immortals for advice.

This night, the moonlight was bright. The woman closed the door, and the people listened to the noise, whispered to each other, and did not even dare to cough. There was no movement for a long time, and there was silence in the house and outside.

In the middle of the night, I suddenly heard the sound of the bead curtain. The woman asked in the house, "Has the ninth aunt arrived?" A woman replied, "I'm here." The woman asked again, "Did Lamei come with Aunt Jiu?" A maidservant replied, "I'm coming." Then the three of them said a word, and I said a word, gossiping.

After a while, the bead curtain sounded again, and the woman said, "The sixth aunt has arrived." The ninth aunt and the maidservant said in unison, "Did Miss Chunmei come with Mr. Ling with her in her arms?" A woman said, "This naughty child doesn't sleep in the middle of the night and wants to come out with me. My body was heavy. I walked and stopped behind his back. I was almost exhausted. Then there was the woman's attentive voice, the ninth aunt heard the news, the sixth aunt's greeting, the second maidservant's comfort, the children's laughter, all noisy.

A woman smiled and said, "The little boy is so funny. He has a cat from afar." Then the voice was sparse, and the bead curtain sounded again, and the room was full of uproar. The women asked together, "Why did the fourth aunt come late?" A woman whispered, "The journey is thousands of miles away. It took me and my aunt to arrive for several hours. My aunt walked too slowly." The women asked each other about the warmth and sat down one after another. Then there was the sound of chairs and stools moving, the sound of tea and water, which was mixed and noisy all over the room. It took a long time to be quiet.

The female doctor began to ask for medicine. The ninth aunt said that she should use ginseng, the sixth aunt said that she should use astragalus, and the fourth aunt said that she should use atractylodes. After a long discussion, the ninth aunt told the maidservant to "serve with pen and ink." After a while, the paper turned over, the sound of grinding ink, the brush collided with the bamboo tube, and then the sound of jingling, and then the brush hitting the table. The buzzing vibration; the sound of grabbing medicine and wrapping paper, rustling.

After a while, the female doctor opened the curtain and called the patient to come forward to get the medicine. Then she returned to the house and closed the door to say goodbye to the immortals. She only heard the children, the cat barked, and the group of voices gathered. The voice of the ninth aunt is clear, the voice of the sixth aunt is gentle, the voice of the fourth aunt is delicate, and the voice of the maidservant, each has its own characteristics. Once it enters the ear, it can be distinguished.

The people were secretly surprised and thought that there were really immortals on earth. But when I took the prescription and went back to fry the medicine, the condition did not improve at all.

This is the so-called ventriloquist, which is used to sell medicine, but the female doctor's oral skills are also amazing.

Before that, Wang Xinyi also encountered similar things. One day, when he passed by the street, he suddenly heard the crisp and pleasant sound of the strings. There were countless crowds onlookers. He squeezed into the wall and saw that a young man on the corner of the street sang a song. There was no musical instrument beside him. He just pressed his cheeks with his fingers, pressing and singing while singing. The song accompanied by music. The song is sonorous in the ears, which is no different from string music.

This is also the offspring of oral technicians.