"Yes, it is always appropriate to wear heavy makeup and light makeup. Whether it is the West Lake under the sun or the West Lake in the rain, it is always beautiful. It's a pity that you don't seem to be in the mood to appreciate it? You actually asked about the medicine at this time ?" Brother Chengxin said quite angrily.
After a month of getting along with each other, I know that Brother Chengxin is an elegant person. In ancient times, he must have been a romantic and talented person. He loves food, loves beautiful scenery, loves reading world famous books, and loves Tang poetry and Song lyrics... Not only love, And everything is very well researched. No wonder Uncle Chen always said that he studied too much in his spare time, but didn't learn enough about this line of medicine.
I feel that compared to Brother Chengxin, I am just a layman. I care too much and cannot place my affection on the mountains and rivers. The scar on my shoulder aches slightly, so of course I am only thinking about applying medicine today.
Unconsciously touching the mark on my shoulder, I said to Brother Chengxin: "I can't help it. Applying medicine is a kind of torture. Thinking about this, I can't enjoy the scenery with peace of mind. Besides, you brought me here to West Lake." It’s been ten times, and every time I can shout in surprise, how beautiful it is? Besides, don’t dream, can you wait for the White Snake?”
"Okay, don't mention the White Snake to me. It's such a beautiful legend. As soon as I mention it, you ask me if you want to see if there is a snake spirit suppressed under Leifeng Pagoda. There are people like you. ? Don’t compare the things you saw when you were a child with the legendary and beautiful White Snake. You are not allowed to mention her." Brother Chengxin said to me seriously.
If I don’t mention it, I won’t mention it. How can I still care about a big white snake? Speaking of the big white snake, I can only think of the big snake entrenched in front of the Hungry Ghost's Tomb. Well, it is also a white snake. The master said that it can drive away dragons and gave it a blessing.
After being ruined by me, Brother Chengxin didn't have any fun and took me directly back to the place where he and Uncle Chen lived. Originally, they wanted to open a traditional Chinese medicine shop in Hangzhou, but unfortunately people in our lineage were too wandering, so this idea was too much. I can only give up.
Fortunately, their house in the suburbs is big enough, and it is a farmyard in the south of the Yangtze River. Otherwise, I would really worry about them, where to store so many medicinal materials.
I have lived here for a month, but I haven’t seen Uncle Chen a few times. He always looks very busy. Except for the first few times when he applied the medicine for me personally, now Brother Chengxin does it for me.
Because he disliked the ugly X-shaped mark on my shoulder, Brother Chengxin personally 'repaired' it on my shoulder, using tattooing techniques to turn the X-shaped mark into a small, sideways hand. sword.
At that time, the atmosphere in China was not open. I looked at the marks on my shoulders and couldn’t laugh or cry. Come on, didn’t I just spend a few years as a bad boy in Beijing? Now that he has tattoos, he really looks like a gangster in a movie.
"No way, your mark will probably stay with you for the rest of your life, no matter how you change it, a fool can't put a cross on your body, right? You have to thank me for learning Puzzle and learning tattoos from others, otherwise you will I have to carry a cross with you for the rest of my life." Brother Chengxin explained this way.
The last time I applied the medicine, Brother Chengxin brought me a white towel to bite as usual. After all, the severe pain was not something ordinary people could bear. When I signaled that I could start, Brother Chengxin picked up his small plum blossom hammer. , and began to hammer on my mark carefully.
This hammer is specially made by Mr. Chen for my mark. Compared with the plum blossom needle hammer used for massage, the needles on it are much longer and can penetrate deep into my mark. As the hammer falls, I Tiny drops of blood appeared on the mark.
Different from the color of bright red blood, the blood droplets coming out of my mark are a very dark dark red, almost close to black. Brother Chengxin joked with me: "Whoever you want to hate, just give it to him." Take a sip of your blood, or he will regret coming to this world."
Yes, I am in so much pain that I almost regret coming into this world. You have to know that I only took medicine once every three days, and the blood scab that formed the scar was punctured and opened. What does it feel like? I suspect that my piece of flesh is almost turned into rotten meat.
After being knocked open carefully, what was even more painful was that Brother Chengxin started to touch a special grass juice to me over and over again. I heard it was a mixed venom. Only this venom can suppress those seedlings. The marks that people have made on me completely cover up the special smell it emits.
I don't understand this. I only know that the venom keeps smearing on the wound, and the pain is worse than cutting flesh with a knife. In addition, because the mark is so stubborn, smearing it like this is not enough, and you have to pierce my mark. There are many hollow needles, and some venom is poured into them.
Fortunately, everything has a limit. If it exceeds the limit, it will break the balance and poison me innocently. Today is the last time I do this.
After everything was done, the white towel I took out of my mouth was chewed to pieces as usual. Looking at the torn white towel, Brother Chengxin was silent for a long time. When I came back from the pain, he Then he said: "Chengyi, actually looking at these towels, I was thinking, even if those Miao people are not targeting you, as long as you are willing, I can teach you a lesson together, no, I will fight with those Miao people." . How can our lineage tolerate such anger? We have been bullied and we have to endure it?"
When I heard Brother Chengxin say this, I was moved and a little surprised. I always thought that Brother Chengxin was a gentle gentleman. I didn't expect that behind this gentleness like jade, there is also the rigidity of jade, which is even a little stronger than me. Son.
"I think we will have to step into that stockade one day. At least Uncle Master and the others didn't intend to endure it in their words. It's just that the time hasn't come yet." I have always had this hunch. That stockade and I Before the incident was over, they left a mark on me and had no intention of letting me go.
Uncle Chen once said that this mark is very strange, just like the human body has drug resistance. If this mark adapts to the suppression of the venom, it will still play its role again. At that time, we will always have to face it.
I feel that the masters and uncles are just waiting for my master, just waiting for my master. When my master returns, people in our lineage should go to the so-called Devil's Stronghold in person to settle the account carefully, and maybe there are more things.
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Master Wang asked me to go to Duyun City in Guizhou to meet him. I had never heard of this city, but with the nature of my little master uncle, it was a miracle that he could stay in one place with peace of mind. He asked me to go find him. After all, this place is a city, not some hard-to-find remote place.
At the train station, Brother Chengxin said to me with a smile: "You are lucky. Otherwise, when Uncle Wang became interested, he would look for some Feng Shui treasure cave. You might have to rent a donkey from someone else and ride on it all the way to the end." Let’s go to the mountains to find him.”
"If that's the case, forget it, I'd rather not learn any Feng Shui skills." I also said to Brother Chengxin with a smile. After a month of getting along, I was reluctant to say goodbye suddenly.
But I have also become accustomed to this kind of reluctant life. It seems that I have been like this since I was a child. I have always been wandering around. I have experienced so many separations again and again, and everyone is used to it.
"Give me a hug, Senior Brother. Once you leave and Master is gone, I will have to live alone again." Brother Chengxin said to me with a smile.
Senior brother? I laughed out loud and hugged Brother Chengxin happily. The two of us almost said to each other in the ear at the same time: "Take care!"
"It's okay. After two years with Uncle Wang, you will go to the village where Grandma Ling Qing lives. You won't regret going there, really." Brother Chengxin said to me when the train started. .
"Have you been there?" I shouted while sitting on the train. I was very confused. Brother Chengxin had been to a place that Uncle Master and the others could not find.
"No, I have met the people in that village and I will never forget them in my life." Brother Chengxin's figure standing at the station was already far away. He waved his hand and said loudly to me.
I withdrew my gaze and lay down on the sleeper berth of the train a little tired, teasing myself whether I should settle down on the train in the future.
There is a kind of person who is like a rootless duckweed. Even if he knows where he is going to float in the next moment, he will not have any peace of mind. Just like me, I know where I will go in the next moment, but I also know that I will not stay there. Where I am, I have to continue wandering.
Some people think that such a life is wonderful, but that is only because they cannot empathize with it. Otherwise, even the deep loneliness can push people to the edge of collapse.
Fortunately, I'm used to it.