"Mother." Xiao Chunmian's eyes suddenly turned cold, "You have fallen ill again."
The woman ignored him, regardless, slapping his left cheek was not enough, then raised her hand again, and wanted to slap his right cheek.
Seeing his benefactor encounter such a thing in his own home, Yu Qiu naturally couldn't bear it. But this was the other party's mother, Yu Qiu didn't want to make trouble, so she had to rush over to stop her, and let the slap land on her arm hard.
However, Yu Qiu hadn't eaten until now, and his cultivation at the first level of Qi Refining was like a layer of floating clouds. He was hit by this slap and his body was tilted, and he was about to fall to the ground.
Fortunately, Xiao Chunmian helped him in time.
In the end, this support actually stimulated the woman again.
"Where did you come from, a wild boy!" The woman scolded Yu Qiu, and then pointed at Xiao Chunmian and yelled, "You ran out of the house, did you just want to meet this wild boy? How dare you meet a man in private... How decent is it? How decent! The Xiao family's face has been completely humiliated by you!"
Listening to the scolding, Yu Qiu always felt that something was wrong.
Xiao Chunmian ignored her, and only looked up at the servants around, "Are you just watching Madam get sick here? Take her back soon!"
The servants shrank their necks, looked at me and looked at you, they didn't seem to want to mess with this body.
"This is outside, not in the mansion!" Xiao Chunmian's face turned cold again, "Father will be back soon. If you let him know what happened today, do you think he will be very happy?"
The servants had no choice but to move forward, pushing forward against Mrs. Xiao's punches and kicks. This one was holding Mrs. Xiao's left arm, and the other was holding Mrs. Xiao's right arm. Under Mrs. Xiao's repeated curses, He carried her and picked an unobtrusive path, trying to carry her all the way back to Xiaofu.
"I'm sorry, Xiao Qiu." Xiao Chunmian lagged behind, showing an embarrassed smile, "Today I let you watch a joke."
Yu Qiu didn't know what expression to use to face the other party's messy family affairs, so he could only smile innocently.
It's just right for him to pretend this silly smile. Xiao Chunmian thought he was really still ignorant, sighed, and wanted to say something more, but Mrs. Xiao behind her became agitated again, so restless that the group of servants couldn't stand it, and it was quite difficult to take Xiao Chunmian with her. Don't give up when you go back.
Xiao Chunmian frowned helplessly, but Yu Qiu looked at the wound on his face that had just been scratched.
Yu Qiu thought, it would be a pity if such a beautiful face was ruined by just one injury. He couldn't help stretching out his hand, almost touching the other person's face, but he felt that his dirty five fingers were really embarrassing, so he turned around to find the bucket of water brought up yesterday, and put his His hands were washed well.
After washing, the thin and yellow hands were still thin and yellow, but they were clean and tidy anyway.
"Hey...Xiao Qiu..." Xiao Chunmian was rushing to bid farewell to him, but seeing this scene, she couldn't laugh or cry.
Yu Qiu quickly ran back in front of him, stretched out his washed fingers again, and wiped Xiao Chunmian's face. Xiao Chunmian only felt a chill on his face, and before the wound had time to feel the pain, Yu Qiu had already flinched.
In this seemingly light swipe, Yu Qiu tried his best to gather his little soul power to his fingertips, and drew a pattern at an extremely fast speed. This pattern is naturally not a meaningless drawing, but it is not a talisman either. If there are monks who also specialize in talismans, they can probably recognize that this is a part of the rejuvenation talisman, a very small part, it can be said to be just a stroke.
With a mere level of Qi Refining cultivation, drawing a mere stroke without materials should have no effect at all.
In fact, Xiao Chunmian really didn't feel anything, the injury was still the same injury.
But this is the best Yu Qiu can do now. Such a seemingly simple stroke actually condenses the essence of Yu Qiu's understanding of talismans for hundreds of years, and it involves his unfinished project - how to simplify talismans to the greatest extent under limited conditions, so that their Only do what is most needed.
And Yu Qiu staggered again after retreating with such a touch. Half of his soul power was already consumed by yesterday's ghost painting talisman, and he didn't take much rest in the middle, and now the remaining half was almost consumed by this blow, and he felt a splitting headache all of a sudden.
This is a symptom of excessive consumption of soul power. This is not the first time Yu Qiu has experienced it, and he is already mentally prepared.
Xiao Chunmian didn't know the reason, she was startled, and quickly grabbed his hand to make him stand still.
Yu Qiu said with a smile, "This way there should be no scars left."
Xiao Chunmian was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled, "I see, Xiao Qiu is really amazing." She didn't take it seriously, she just coaxed Yu Qiu like a child.
After going back and forth like this, Mrs. Xiao was no longer restless, but started to riot.
Xiao Chunmian sighed, and finally stuffed a few pieces of silver into Yu Qiu's hand, telling him to use it where it should be used, then turned around and ran to Mrs. Xiao's side.
Seeing him approaching, Mrs. Xiao really calmed down.
Yu Qiu wanted to chase after him and push Yinzi away, but Mrs. Xiao saw him as if she had seen some kind of scourge, and tried her best not to let him get close to Xiao Chunmian. Qiu invited back.
It seems that the feeling that something was wrong when Mrs. Xiao scolded her before was not an illusion. Mrs. Xiao Fang Yuqiu was really like a mother-in-law Fang Ye who approached her daughter.
After watching the group leave, the corners of Yu Qiu's mouth twitched: What is this...
Yu Qiu couldn't help thinking: Could it be that Xiao Chunmian is actually a woman disguised as a man
Not to mention, just looking at such a beautiful face, with such a gentle name, coupled with such a gentle personality, the possibility seems really not small.
Yu Qiu pondered, and returned to the house from the yard.
After waiting for a while, Doctor Zhang finally opened the curtain and walked out of the room.
"How is it?" Yu Qiu asked hurriedly.
Doctor Zhang frowned and glanced at him, obviously disgusted. But he was invited by Xiaochun Mianhua Yinzi, and he had to be responsible for his own patients. In the end, he patiently explained the situation to Yu Qiu. Generally speaking, although the old man had a fever after being injured yesterday, the injury was only a trigger. The root cause was that the old man was too poor, malnourished, depressed and sick, and had been drinking for many years. .
In the end, Dr. Zhang made a list, saying that although he had rescued the old man now, the foundation had to be repaired slowly, otherwise something would happen sooner or later.
Yu Qiu took the list and thanked Dr. Zhang out of the door.
Then he weighed the broken silver stuffed by Xiao Chunmian. Although Yu Qiu doesn't want to have too many karma with the same person at once, he is not an overly stubborn person either. Since he couldn't refuse, and he really needed a sum of money now, it's better to accept it carefully, remember the amount clearly, and just pay it off later.
Fortunately, the karma formed with money is the easiest karma in the world.
Yu Qiu went to the bank, exchanged one of the ingots Xiao Chunmian gave for a handful of copper coins under the strange eyes of everyone, and bought a few white flour steamed buns on the way back.
After eating half of the steamed buns and keeping the other half, Yu Qiu felt as if he had come back to life, and he felt more grateful to Xiao Chunmian in his heart.
After returning home, Yu Qiu repaired the broken chair yesterday, dragged it into the room and placed it by the old man's bedside, and put the remaining steamed buns on it. Then Yu Qiu looked at the small bed, not wanting to crowd the old man, so he picked a corner by himself, and fell asleep with his arms folded.
His soul power was running low and he urgently needed to rest.
Originally, he was supposed to continue his practice of qi refining while resting, trying to integrate the process of qi refining into every aspect of his daily life, but now... let's wait for the soul power to recover first.
After sleeping until midnight, Yu Qiu was awakened by a rustling sound. When he opened his eyes, he saw a black shadow bow there, chewing something with his back turned to him.
Yu Qiu was startled, and jumped up quickly, only to find that she was already lying on the bed at some point.
"Qiu'er?" Hei Ying turned around and called vaguely.
It turned out that the old man had already woken up and was killing those steamed buns blindly.
Yu Qiu was both surprised and happy, "Father! Are you okay?" Surprised, Yu Qiu also lamented that he hadn't woken up after being put into bed, how vigilant he was...
As a result, when he yelled, the old man froze there, not even responding to the crumbs falling out of his mouth.
After a while, he asked tremblingly, "What did you call me just now?"
"Father... isn't it right?" Yu Qiu was at a loss.
Before he finished speaking, the old man had already pulled him into his arms. He was inexplicably pleasantly surprised, "That's right! Father, that's father! Haha... Qiu'er, Qiu'er, you finally know how to call me father again!" Laughed till the end , The old man actually cried out.
Yu Qiu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt a pang of sadness in his heart.
Yu Qiu put his hand on the old man's back and patted it lightly.
"Father..." Yu Qiu asked, "Did I...didn't know anything before?"
The old man raised his head and looked at Yu Qiu in surprise, with tears still hanging from the corners of his eyes. After a while, he suddenly pushed Yu Qiu away and backed away in panic, "Qiu'er, are you really Qiu'er?"
Yu Qiu was surprised, "Otherwise?"
The old man still looked at him in surprise, "Are you really Qiu'er? Isn't it... someone else?"
Yu Qiu understood a little bit, the co-author of his own old man regarded himself as a spoiled one. Well, it's not the old man's fault, the situation in front of him is a bit bizarre, when Yu Qiu just woke up, he almost thought that he had taken the house.
"If, if you are really someone else, you tell me directly, you must tell me directly." The old man was still there and continued to panic, "I won't do anything to you, and I can't do anything to you, As long as you never, never pretend to be my Qiu'er..."
Yu Qiu looked at him dumbfounded and talked for a while, then threw himself into the old man's arms.
"Father, it's me." Yu Qiu wrapped his arms around the old man's back, "I'm the one who woke up, Father."
The old man was stunned for a long while, then he hugged Yu Qiu tightly, and suddenly started howling. I don't know how long it took, but the old man was still crying like a child.
After all, he believed Yu Qiu easily. How could he really doubt it? This is his son, the most cherished son he has kept on his heart since he was a child, no matter what happened. That little suspicion, in the final analysis, is because he cherishes it too much, cherishes it so much that he has no reservations, so a little trouble can scare him, let alone such a big surprise
In the end, Yu Qiu had to pat the old man on the back to help him calm down.
In the intermittent narration of the old man, Yu Qiu finally knew his life experience.
Sure enough, as Yu Qiu guessed, when he was very young, he once fell from the carriage and hit his head. Since then, Yu Qiu has become a demented fool.
Yu Qiu reckoned that he must have hurt his consciousness at that time. And this kind of spiritual injury can be healed naturally in the process of cultivating the Tao. It's a pity that Yu Qiu recovered too late in his previous life, and he never even let this father who cherished him so much leave a trace in his mind. Fortunately, this life was reborn with memories, and he got a chance to make up.
The old man went on to say that the one who fell off the carriage with Yu Qiu that day was also Yu Qiu's mother.
It doesn't mean that Qiu sighed for the mother he had never met, but the old man said another thing that made him care.
"It wasn't just our family that suffered that day." The old man laughed at himself, "It was too chaotic that day... Even the magistrate's house couldn't please him. A concubine and a concubine died. And his prefect Ma'am, at that time she obviously took her son out and didn't encounter anything, and the two who died had nothing to do with her, but after she came back, she went crazy, do you think it's strange?"
"Madam Zhifu? Crazy?" Yu Qiu frowned, thinking of Xiao Chunmian's crazy mother, "What's the prefect's family name?"
Sure enough, the old man quickly replied, "The surname is Xiao."
Is Xiao Chunmian a child of the prefect's family? Yu Qiu recalled the young man who was probably disguised as a man, recalled the exquisite clothing of the other party as well as his face, and the refreshing words and deeds, and felt that this was actually not a surprising answer.
However...Yu Qiu looked at the four walls in the room that had nothing but stains on them, and couldn't help asking, "Then what does the prefect's family have to do with us?" Why did Xiao Chunmian help them so much
The old man smiled narrowly, "Want to know?"
Yu Qiu hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded.
Immediately afterwards, the old man said, "But this is a bit long to say, and I am a little thirsty now."
"..."
Yu Qiu resisted so much that he didn't roll his eyes, but obediently jumped to the ground and went to the yard to fetch water for him.