Chapter 65: My Worldview Shattered
The little girl who suddenly darted to the hospital bed startled the nurse. She hurriedly raised her hand to block Nan Yuanman, shouting, “Whose child! Take her away quickly!”
The middle-aged man was also startled and hurriedly ran over to stop Nan Yuanman: “Hey! What are you messing around with, kid!”
Nan Yuanman was small in stature and had trained in the countryside with Old Master Nan, so her movements were exceptionally agile. The nurse and the middle-aged man couldn’t catch her for a moment.
Nan Yuanman was anxious inside, her steamed bun face flushed red: “Aiya! Don’t stop me! If you keep stopping me, that auntie will be in danger!”
The nurse was exasperated by this brat: “You’re talking nonsense…”
Before she could finish her words, another nurse glanced at the woman lying on the hospital bed. Her face suddenly turned blue-purple, her body convulsed violently, her eyes rolled back, and her breathing became exceptionally rapid.
Nurse: “!!!”
“Doctor Tao! The patient is in an emergency!!”
Doctor Tao, who was explaining precautions to Yao Xianglu, hurriedly ran over, with Yao Xianglu following closely behind.
Doctor Tao checked the woman’s pupils, which were already dilating. He directly turned over and sat on the hospital bed to start artificial respiration: “Quick! Back to the first aid room!”
Yao Xianglu’s legs went weak, nearly kneeling on the ground, her expression pale and panicked: “Mom…”
Nan Yuanman was so anxious she spun in circles, hopping in front of the hospital bed: “This won’t work! This won’t work! Let me go up! Let me go up!”
The middle-aged man got annoyed and pushed her: “You kid! Stop messing around here!”
Nan Yuanman wasn’t prepared and staggered back a few steps on her short legs. Yao Xianglu timely supported her back, preventing her from falling on her butt.
“Kid, stop making trouble.” Yao Xianglu hugged Nan Yuanman tightly, her voice dry as she spoke.
Nan Yuanman turned her head and saw Yao Xianglu, her eyes lighting up. She hurriedly grabbed her hand and said: “Big sister, I can save the auntie! They can’t save her like this!”
Yao Xianglu didn’t believe Nan Yuanman at first. After all, Nan Yuanman was only five years old; whatever she said was purely from watching too many cartoons.
But at the moment the hospital bed was pushed back to the first aid room, the nurse’s startled cry came: “The patient has stopped breathing!”
Yao Xianglu’s mind buzzed, going blank. Her hands holding Nan Yuanman trembled, and her whole body weakly sank to the ground.
Nan Yuanman was extremely anxious and patted Yao Xianglu’s hand hard: “Big sister, let me try! I guarantee I can save the auntie!”
Yao Xianglu looked at the pure, clear black-and-white eyes of the child in her arms. Her mind heated up, and she really hugged Nan Yuanman and ran over, placing her on the hospital bed.
Doctor Tao, still kneeling on the hospital bed doing first aid, saw a shadow flash before his eyes. A kid darted over from the side and smacked something onto the patient’s forehead.
Doctor Tao was shocked and scolded: “What are you doing!”
The nurse beside him hurriedly reached out to pick up Nan Yuanman and take her away, but her movements weren’t as fast as Nan Yuanman’s. By the time she lifted her by the armpits, the small coffin in Nan Yuanman’s hand had already been smacked onto the woman’s forehead.
Doctor Tao hurriedly observed the patient’s condition, and a shocking scene occurred.
The patient, who had been blue-purple in the face, foaming at the mouth, and had stopped breathing, suddenly took a huge gasp of air. The terrifying blue-purple color on her face rapidly faded, and her complexion quickly returned to normal.
Doctor Tao: “!!!”
The nurses: “!!!”
The middle-aged man who rushed over: “!!!”
Yao Xianglu, who had treated a dead horse as a live one: “!!!”
Everyone looked in shock at the kid who was lifted up by the nurse grabbing her under the armpits. Nan Yuanman raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead and let out a big sigh of relief.
Good thing, just made it.
Almost, this auntie would have been suffocated to death by ghost energy.
Doctor Tao squeezed his eyes hard, then rubbed them. The small coffin stuck to the patient’s forehead still hadn’t disappeared.
Doctor Tao: “…”
His materialism, upheld for nearly forty years, was shattered just like that?
The nurse was dumbfounded too. Looking at the woman whose vital signs were gradually stabilizing, she asked Doctor Tao: “…Doctor Tao, still send to the first aid room?”
Doctor Tao pinched his slightly aching brow, got off the hospital bed, his mind buzzing: “To the observation room, observe for one night. If no issues, transfer to a regular hospital room.”
As he spoke, his gaze involuntarily fell on the small coffin on the patient’s forehead. He hesitated, then looked down at the well-behaved Nan Yuanman: “Little friend, that… what is that thing? How did you do it just now?”
Nan Yuanman looked at him innocently and grinned foolishly: “I don’t know either hehehe…”
Doctor Tao: “…” Did he really think he couldn’t tell she was playing dumb?
Forget it, this was someone else’s secret. He shouldn’t pry. Prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony…
Doctor Tao recited in his heart as he followed the patient to the observation room. Nan Yuanman also trotted after them on her short legs.
Before entering the observation room, she took Xiao Hong off Yao Xianglu’s mother’s forehead. As she turned her head, she met Yao Xianglu’s sparkling eyes.
She excitedly grabbed Nan Yuanman’s little chubby hands with both of hers: “Little friend, how did you do that just now? Why… when you put the small coffin on my mom’s forehead, she was saved?”
A notion that shattered Yao Xianglu’s worldview for over twenty years faintly emerged in her heart. She lowered her voice and asked: “Could it be… there’s a ghost on my mom?”
“There are no ghosts, but there is ghost energy.” Nan Yuanman put the small coffin into her shoulder bag and answered her.
“Ghost energy?” Yao Xianglu’s expression froze.
“Not just that auntie has it. You and he have it too. It’s just that the ghost energy on that auntie is the strongest.” Nan Yuanman pointed her little finger at the middle-aged man squatting behind Yao Xianglu, ears perked up eavesdropping.
The middle-aged man instantly exploded. He shot to his feet, expression panicked: “What? I have it too?”
“Xianglu, could it be your mom brought something back from outside?”
He couldn’t help complaining: “I told her to stop going to those messy fortune tellers, stop pasting talismans at home. Now look, her life is calculated away, right?”
Yao Xianglu gritted her teeth and growled lowly: “Shut up! Didn’t you hear her say there are no ghosts!”
Nan Yuanman glanced at the middle-aged man and said: “People can get ghost energy. One reason is provoking lonesome ghosts from outside. The other is a problem with the family grave. People from the underworld are messing with you.”
The middle-aged man and Yao Xianglu were both stunned: “This… what does it mean?”
“It means the ancestral grave has a problem. The ones below can’t live in peace, no merit or money to send dreams to the descendants, so they mess with you desperately in the underworld.” Nan Yuanman said: “That auntie has the heaviest ghost energy, meaning the ones below resent her the most.”
Nan Yuanman asked Yao Xianglu: “When did the auntie start getting sick? Have you all been having a tough time lately?”
Yao Xianglu looked dazed: “My mom started getting sick a year ago. Since she got sick, how have I not had it bad…”
She almost took herself away with a pack of rat poison.
This year had been nothing short of a year of disaster for Yao Xianglu.
