Chapter 34: The Ghost Doctor, The Medical Ghost

  Confronting a female body so directly, although it's just a female ghost, is no different from a human being, and it's beautiful and enchanting. I'm not to blame for losing my composure like this; after all, I'm a normal man who knows how to appreciate beauty. In short, my eyes were deeply attracted by those two mountain peaks, as if they were two magnets that had sucked in my eyeballs, and I couldn't move them away for a while. It wasn't until the red-clothed female ghost urged me that I came back to my senses, hastily saying sorry, I was just paying attention to your wound earlier, it's quite serious, you need to have a major surgery.

  The red-clothed female ghost's expression was gloomy, saying that the entire rotten meat had to be cut off. I said no way, cutting off the whole thing? Isn't that cutting off... everything? The red-clothed female ghost nodded. I felt extremely distressed, saying how could this be cut, it would hurt so much. The red-clothed female ghost said that a short pain is better than a long one, go ahead and cut!

  I grasped the yin-yang knife, and although it was icy cold to the bone, compared to the pain of being cut by the red-clothed female ghost, I believed this was just a small spell seeing a big spell. Therefore, I tightly gripped the yin-yang knife and slowly cut towards the wound.

  "Hmm!" The red-clothed female ghost suddenly groaned, and I stopped my hand, looking at her and asking: "Does it hurt?" The red-clothed female ghost didn't make a sound. I knew she was in pain. I put away the knife and said, "Isn't there another way? Must we cut it off?" The red-clothed female ghost said, "We can only cut it off. I'm not in pain."

  It's unbelievable that it doesn't hurt.

  I saw black blood flowing out, since I had already made the first cut, I might as well cut to the end, so I took a deep breath, gripped the knife tightly and lightly slashed again.

  "Ah!" The red-clothed female ghost let out a faint cry, her face turning even paler, and her body trembling nonstop. I couldn't bear it in my heart, wanting to stop, but also deeply knowing that this couldn't be stopped. My movements were slower, and she would suffer for longer. As a novice, the red-clothed female ghost was injured there, although it was quite firm, it still wasn't easy to make the cut. I had no choice but to use my other hand to grasp that breast, finding it extremely stiff, without the legendary softness.

  Along my yin-yang knife, I cut downwards, and the dark blood flowed down, accompanied by a faint but extremely foul stench of death. The red-clothed female ghost was in extreme agony, constantly moaning.

  Suddenly, a gentle melody floated over, and I looked up to see Zhang Yunhao playing his ancient lute. What was strange was that after he played it, the red-clothed female ghost stopped wailing, and her expression gradually calmed down. I secretly admired this, wondering if this tune had a calming effect on ghosts?

  Since the red-clothed female ghost stopped screaming in pain, my psychological pressure also decreased. With a burst of energy, I swung my knife and cut off that black breast, which fell to the ground. Strangely, as soon as it hit the ground, it transformed into a pool of black liquid, which quickly seeped into the earth and disappeared. The dark blood from the red-clothed female ghost's wound continued to gush out, making her look even more terrifying. She furrowed her brow, gritted her teeth, and tore off a piece of red cloth from her body to bandage the wound. Perhaps it was too painful, she tried several times but couldn't wrap it properly. I had already put away my yin-yang knife and hurried over to help her.

  After the wound was bandaged, I thought about the scene of the operation just now and still felt worried. I asked her if it hurt, and the red-clothed female ghost nodded, saying that after hearing the young man's tune, she didn't feel as much pain. I said to Zhang Yunhao, "Did you hear that? She praised you!" Zhang Yunhao stopped playing his tune and asked who had praised him. It was only then that I realized seven minutes had passed, and he could no longer see the red-clothed female ghost.

  The tune stopped for a moment, and the red-clothed female ghost groaned again, covering her wound with her hand and bending down in pain. I told Zhang Yunhao to continue playing the melody.

  It was blowing, I heard my mother outside asking who was blowing the tune. Zhang Yunhao quickly stopped and I gestured to him to continue blowing. Then I opened the door and went out to tell my mother that it was my friend blowing, and I was learning music from him. My mother said not to blow at night, or ghosts would come. I said I knew, just one more time and then I wouldn't blow anymore, and I pushed her back into the house.

  When I returned to my room, the red-clothed female ghost had disappeared. I called Zhang Yunhao to stop and asked him what was going on with this tune, why it couldn't kill ghosts but could subdue them. He said he didn't know either, that this tune was passed down from his ancestors, and he only learned a little bit of it. He once accidentally discovered that it had a calming effect on ghosts, which is why he played it when he saw the red-clothed female ghost in pain earlier. I suddenly realized that no wonder this tune couldn't kill the small ghost - it didn't have any lethal power against ghosts to begin with. I said if I had known that earlier, I wouldn't have asked him to play it in front of the small ghost. Zhang Yunhao chuckled and asked what happened when I treated the red-clothed female ghost's illness earlier - after she took off her clothes, was she like a human? Was she white or not? Was that part big or not?

  "Despicable!" I ignored him, because just now holding the yin-yang knife for too long, my right hand was icy and numb, and had almost lost all sensation, so I had to use my left hand to rub it.

  Zhang Yunhao looked at my hand and said with a smile that he wanted to learn medicine from me, and he also wanted to be a ghost doctor. He asked me to teach him, but I didn't know how to explain it to him. In fact, I wasn't really a ghost doctor, I just happened to have obtained the yin-yang knife by chance, and my knowledge of medicine and ghosts was limited. So I flatly refused. Zhang Yunhao wouldn't give up, he slapped his hand on my shoulder and said: "Alright then, from now on I'll be your little follower, you go out to see patients, and I'll escort you. Is that okay?"

  I think this kid's Requiem Aeternam has a calming effect on ghosts. When I operated on the ghost, he played this tune, which was no less than giving the ghost an anesthetic injection. This is a great blessing for the ghost, so I agreed to it.

  But am I really going to be a ghost doctor from now on? Do I have to spend my whole life treating ghosts like my father did?

  And where has my father gone? How come it's been so long and he still hasn't returned, without even a message.

  In the middle of the night, Zhang Yunhao suddenly sat up in bed and exclaimed: "There's a ghostly aura!" I was startled and asked if he had a nightmare? Zhang Yunhao said in a low voice: "There's a ghostly aura, it's that female ghost, she's come again!"

  I looked out the window and saw a black shadow, so I turned on the light and went outside. It was indeed the red-clothed female ghost. I asked her what she wanted this time. The red-clothed female ghost said that she had gone to find that little ghost and learned about its situation. It turned out that the little ghost had died in the womb before birth and became a water saint, filled with resentment towards its parents. For years, it had been wandering around this area, trying to avoid dying every seven days, so it hid inside pregnant women's wombs. As a result, many fetuses in this area were stillborn. This time, the water saint discovered that the seven-day period was suddenly up and hastily hid inside a pregnant woman's womb, only to find out it was a female fetus. Due to its panic, it mistakenly attached itself to the female fetus, causing the pregnant woman severe abdominal pain, and it also sucked dry all the water in this area. Because I like to meddle in other people's business, it wanted to come and teach me a lesson. However, it was injured by my yin-yang knife. The red-clothed female ghost went to make peace with us, but it ignored her and vowed to take revenge on me to vent its hatred.

  After listening, I was secretly shocked. That little demon turned out to be the Water Saint Son, and the well being dry was also caused by him. He had actually sucked up all the underground water! How could he drink so much water at once? It's too unbelievable, could it be that he is the reincarnation of the Dragon King?

  I asked the red-clothed female ghost if there was any way she could help me deal with the Water Saint Child, and the red-clothed female ghost said that she was also powerless. To thank me for performing two surgeries on her, she decided to give me a jade pendant. As she spoke, she took out a jade pendant from her body and handed it to me. I looked at the jade pendant, which was shaped like a crescent moon, green in color, crystal clear, and extremely delicate and beautiful, probably worth a fortune that could buy a city.

  My father taught me from a young age, to be a doctor is to heal people. In other words, the responsibility of a doctor is to cure illnesses, it's an inherent duty, so don't think that just because you've helped someone, you can consider yourself their savior and become arrogant.

  Now I think of it, my father's words can be extended to mean "ghost doctor" or "doctoring ghosts". A ghost doctor is also known as a witch doctor. The responsibility of a witch doctor is to treat illnesses for ghosts, which is a sacred duty bestowed by heaven. Therefore, for a witch doctor, treating a ghost's illness does not require the ghost to give him any reward.

  I told the red-clothed female ghost that I couldn't accept this jade pendant, and advised her not to linger in the mortal world any longer, to go reincarnate as soon as possible, lest her soul scatter. The red-clothed female ghost wiped away her tears and said that this jade pendant was actually given to her by the man she had been waiting for. Since she couldn't wait for him anymore, and she wouldn't be able to wait much longer either, in case she scattered or reincarnated, this jade pendant would be buried deep in the earth. So, she hoped I could take this jade pendant, and if one day I met that man, I could pass on a message from her.

  Since that's the case, I had no choice but to take over the jade pendant and ask her what message she wanted me to convey. The red-clothed female ghost let out a soft sigh, spoke in a faint voice, then wiped away her tears, slightly bowed to me, turned around and walked away, slowly disappearing into the night.