new year book

Chapter 5

"Apprentice, life is endless and practice is endless. If I were you, I would hurry up and study hard and practice hard to serve the country!"

"Master, it's one o'clock in the middle of the night, don't use those words in the inspirational book indiscriminately."

"That's right, for us, the essence of the sun and the moon is just as important."

"Ok."

Yang Xiangzi struggled to get up, and looked up at the moon in the yard. He had read a book, and it was only the monsters that sucked the essence of the moon. The master was nagging behind him again, and he was always nagging these days.

"Sit down, no, no, don't raise your head and stare at the moon like a fool, no! I'm not telling you to exude poetry. Cross your legs, yes, five hearts..."

"so?"

"That's right, sit down...breathe slowly, absorb the essence, send those essences into the meridians, slowly...slowly..."

"Apprentice, apprentice, the plan for a day lies in the morning!"

"Master, I have to go to bed!"

"Sleep? What are you doing sleeping?"

"Then I'll cook."

"What are you cooking for?"

"Yesterday you were not allowed to sleep, and today we are not allowed to eat. Excuse me, master, even if we don't sleep or eat, we can't become gods. Really, within three days, I will go to the hospital first, and then I will go to the hospital." You, it’s nothing we went, the question is who will deliver our meals? It’s the first month now, don’t trouble the doctor.”

"This is bigu, the path that every practitioner must take."

"butt?"

"Bigu...bigu, bigu!"

"Wheat grains? Wheat husks? You are not allowed to eat, and you will eat wheat husks instead? My grandma used wheat husks to make pillows. Speaking of which, it is not as good as buckwheat husks, and there will be sharp things coming out. This is what I used in my hometown when I was young. One thing happened, the whole family was terrified at that time, everyone woke up in the morning, with a few long scratches on their faces! You know master, there are superstitions in the countryside...Speaking of it, master? Are you sure it's not superstition ?”

"apprentice?"

"exist."

"Go to sleep...or eat, it's up to you."

Xue Run accepted his apprentice, wishing to give this child the best in the world.It's a pity that that child regards him as the master's elder brother.Although this logic is somewhat confusing, apart from not loving going out, the apprentice is actually in charge of the house now.As for the master, he has a thousand thoughts every day, and occasionally tells some stories about attaining the Mahayana to lure his apprentices. As for the teaching plan, there is no such thing at all, basically he talks about whatever comes to mind.

Yang Xiangzi has a deep affection for his little master, like a relative. At the very least, he basically accepts everything he asks of him without killing anyone.Of course, it would be even better if he ate less of those black balls. His stomach had broken down a long time ago, and if he didn't pay attention, he would run away with diarrhea. These days, he almost regarded the toilet as his home.Those kind of black balls are very strange, each one is as big as a small quail egg, and it is difficult to swallow.One time I accidentally dropped one on the ground and it bounced back.

It really bounces, it can be more than a foot high.

He still ate, most afraid that the master would open a pair of innocent short-circuited eyes every time and look at him full of emotion.

Xue Run has gone to the secret realm several times in the past few days, turned on the stove, and practiced the basic elixirs handed down from his family, "Yiqi Yangyuan Pill" and "Fuyuan Medicine", and some bath medicine mixtures to wash his disciples. marrow.

Yang Xiangzi is very busy these days. Apart from cleaning up the house and cooking, he just holds a piece of silk to worry about. He is a science student. These ancient Chinese characters are as complicated as oracle bone inscriptions to him. Let alone understand, most of the words are unknown to him.Every time he read a sentence, he had to go to Xue Run to ask him. Xue Run had a good temper and was bothered by the questioning.Once, he was so angry that he hit him on the head with chopsticks.

"Fool!" Yang Xiangzi had been with him for a long time, and he didn't take advantage of it in the slightest. Although he was young, this guy knew more than him, and opening his mouth was to educate him.After a long time, the slavishness has passed, but it reveals a freshness that has long been forgotten.

"Master, don't bully science students with ancient prose." Quite aggrieved, covering his head.

"In the current school, it's useless to learn as much as you can." Ignored the apprentice's complaints, but picked up a chopstick of mushrooms and put them into his bowl and ordered: "Take your time, don't rush. Don't leave any leftovers..."

With the last five yuan, Yang Xiangzi went to a second-hand bookstore and bought a book of ancient and modern characters to study. When he got up the next morning, he put the wallet on the table, and there were five extra one hundred yuan in it.Yang Xiangzi twirled the banknotes, feeling aggrieved, hid in the bathroom and cried.

"Five hundred is enough to cry like this. If I give you five thousand, will I cry to death!" Xue Run suddenly appeared and laughed at him through the door.

"Say... what are you talking about!" Yang Xiangzi twisted his nose in depression, and continued to cry in the bathroom.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Xue Run cut down two large fruit trees, hooped them into wooden barrels and put them in the back room.

From this day on, there are fewer pills, but taking a bath for eight hours a day is not a good feeling!

On the street today, it is full of gongs and drums, and the drums and music are singing together.Yang Xiangzi and Xue Run took a medicinal bath in the bedroom, and the master and apprentice lay naked in the tub, leaning comfortably against the wall of the tub, chatting casually, and occasionally gossip, watching gossip on the Science and Education Channel.

"Master, do you know that in 1955, a plane from New York disappeared. After 35 years, these people returned home. Their children and wives are old, but those people are still young."

"This is a normal disciple. Those people first went to practice cultivation and became outer disciples for 35 years. Later, they were all returned because they were unqualified."

"In the last program, they said that there is a place called the Gulf of Aden, and there is a space-time tunnel where you can travel through time and space."

"Apprentice, masters never leave traces and can travel through time and space at any time, that is a low hand, don't learn from him in the future."

"Master...those are just TV shows, we are discussing unsolved mysteries, can you not link these things with yours?"

"Apprentice, you must follow the Dao in everything, and everything has an explanation after enlightenment."

"...Then let the master say that, Spain lost 1711 soldiers in [-]. How can you explain it? Come on, master, explain! Use your logic to explain!" Yang Xiangzi was very angry, and he stood up from the bathtub and shouted.

The master just glanced at him lightly and waved his hands: "Sit down first, the bird has to hide, it's not good to catch a cold."

Yang Xiangzi immediately sat down, slapped the water twice angrily, and the master whispered in his ear: "You are not fair, so why do some masters, masters, experts, who can explain natural phenomena, come out on TV every now and then? Can it explain marriage phenomena and social phenomena? All things can be applied to religious theories. Ah, it doesn’t count if they finish explaining, and they threaten people, what, they will be retribution for being unmerciful, what is fate, this is Cause and effect. Allow them to explain the reality, master, I can’t explain a mystery? You are not fair, apprentice.”

Yang Xiangzi opened his mouth to speak, but the master didn't give him a chance: "Why are you angry? There are different sects. The one who took them away must be a great sect. Tsk tsk, 4000 people, Linggu didn't know how much it cost, and took away a group of them." Devils, or Spanish devils, have you taken them to raise cattle? Besides raising cattle, what else can they do..."

Yang Xiangzi is not interrupting, the master has nothing to say.

"Apprentice, why don't you like to go out?"

"...Master, I have a bad reputation. If I go out and be recognized, I will implicate you."

"Trouble me? I don't know them well. Can they come to the house to be upset? Or can they drive me out of the village? Can they stop the water, electricity and gas in our house? Or can they send us to prison, whoever has a life, don't What you think is too important, you should go out and go out."

"Master... Master." It's over 30, and it's helpless to ask a child to be a master.

This side is rather complacent, soaking in the medicated bath feels comfortable, and lazily replied: "Huh?"

"Where is Lao Palace?"

"On hand."

"What about the twists and turns?"

"...still in hand."

"Close the pond?"

Xue Run fell silent.

After a medicinal bath, layers of white skin appeared on the bodies of the master and the apprentice.It took more than an hour to wash the lotus pod before peeling it off. When it came out, the body was as smooth as the green of a boiled egg. The body was so light and feather-like. It felt like a newborn fresh.

Yang Xiangzi looked into the mirror and sighed at his younger appearance: "Chinese medical skills are extensive and profound..." He still felt that he was receiving medical education, and he would probably play the role of a barefoot doctor in the future.

Although I understand the current education, the old saying, the acupuncture points of the human body are things that cannot be touched.But Xue Run still hopes that the apprentice will be less cranky and more serious.His apprentice had a big bomb in his heart and didn't know when it would explode.What is that word called? "Otaku", it would be even better if he could not be an otaku.

Years later, after the shops opened, Xue Run came back from a professional Chinese medicine shop with a dummy acupuncture point more than one meter long. There is one more job, worrying about the acupoint model of the human body.

As the new year passed, some small changes began to take place on the streets.Epidemic prevention stations, police stations, tax offices and other units come to rectify every now and then.Over the years, the prosperous and lively phenomenon gradually dissipated in Fucun Village, and the people who wandered from south to north have changed their battlefields.It seems that this time it's real, and the demolition is about to start.

Fucun Village has been waiting for relocation for seventeen or eighteen years. The doorway here is not clear. Besides, the relocation office has already studied this place thoroughly. The streets are full of illegal buildings. Who can divide how much and how to calculate the area? ?Every day under the big elm tree at the entrance of the village, there are small groups everywhere studying relocation policies.

Yang Xiangzi still didn't go out. In fact, when he went out now, everyone didn't have time to talk to him. His face was completely different from the past, and he was more than ten years younger.But these are useless. Yang Xiangzi's problem is in his soul. He just feels that he has shortcomings, and he just feels that if he goes out, he will be pointed at.

Such a good day is like a dream every day. Yang Xiangzi sometimes dreams that the good things he encounters are all fake.I often wake up crying in my dream, and when I wake up, I can't help but sigh and feel extremely sad.Compared with now, he didn't think about those sufferings a long, long time ago, and only hoped for God's mercy. From then on, he lived his life so peacefully, so what if he became a monk!

In April, Yang Xiangzi finally felt the air in his body, and finally knew that he was not studying medicine.On the first day he got the benefit, Yang Xiangzi jumped to the roof and stood there to see the panoramic view of Fucun. Since then, he said goodbye to the world of mortals. He sat on the straw mat all day long and felt different time and space. He felt less and less like a human from the earth.

Xue Run became busy. A real estate company sent a representative to talk to the house every day, and the village also had private talks several times. It was nothing more than meeting certain conditions before moving.

Xue Run left Fucun as he wanted, and went to buy property in Cangshan.

Cangshan Mountain belongs to the urban area, because it is close to the mountain and there is a river beside it, so it has the right time and place. The houses there are called villas, and the housing prices are not low.The most important thing is that it is close to the secret realm, and it will be convenient to guard there in the future.There is another one, the apprentice will not stay at home there, he will be like a free person, forget the knots in his heart, and live a frank life.

This morning, after finishing breakfast, Yang Xiangzi went to the back room very diligently, Xue Run called him to stop.

"apprentice."

Probably because he was in a good mood, Yang Xiangzi turned around and joked, "Master, you can call me Wukong."

"Go, you're messing around. Come here." Xue Run scolded with a smile, but he was satisfied in his heart, and the apprentice would joke around.

The two went to the house together. Xue Run took out an old wooden box from a drawer on one side and opened it. Inside the box were two gold-plated golden hairpins inlaid with five-color gemstones and flowers in the shape of a phoenix. On the pendant chain, there were three glittering pendants, and he didn't know what kind of beads they were strung on. Yang Xiangzi dazzled his eyes.

"This small street is about to be relocated. I want to buy property in the urban area. There are villa lands there, and ready-made houses cost 300 to [-] million yuan. You can sell this and exchange it for money. I will live here soon. .” Xue Run pushed the box to Yang Xiangzi.The memory of this body is no different from that of an idiot, who doesn't understand anything, only knows how to use an ATM, and can't fill out forms to go to the bank window.Some things have to rely on apprentices.The apprentice is very smart, he knows how to go to the bank and how to save money with a high interest rate, and of course the apprentice will also fill in the form.

Yang Xiangzi was shocked, the shock was completely moved, this trust from the little master was enough to make him feel uneasy for the rest of his life.He put away the small jewelry box and put it away carefully.

"Success, I'll find a reliable auction company, ask someone to appraise the price, and then auction it off. It will take a little longer, but it's safe. Do you think so?"

Xue Run nodded. The apprentice knew a lot, and he knew about auctions.

He had seen an auction on TV, where a group of idiots held up a sign, and whoever won the auction would get a kiss, and if he was lucky, he would get the love of a woman.As for those who are unlucky, if they win the filming, they will get bullets in a car accident or something. Anyway, they are acting like this, and they are tired of watching.

Yang Xiangzi left, Xue Run sat in the yard, affected by his previous thinking, he was a little reluctant to part with this place.While reminiscing, his cousin and uncle came to the house.As soon as he entered the courtyard, he was satisfied with the cleanliness of the house, and he felt relieved when he saw Xue Run's neat and handsome appearance.

His cousin sighed: "You child, you are finally sensible." Xue Run accompanied him and sighed.

Xue Run was very grateful to these two old people, let them into the house, poured two glasses of water, and soaked two vitality pills in it.He hopes that these two old people live a long life. It is always a good thing that two people miss you.

The cousin and the uncle came to talk about two things. The first one is that the eldest cousin of the family is not working in another province.After they got married, the house was also bought there.As soon as Chinese New Year this year, the eldest cousin is pregnant.My uncle retired early this year, and the old couple wanted to spend time with their son in other provinces.The two first things were that they found a developer privately, settled the house at a good price, and asked Xue Run if he would like to talk with him.How the villagers make trouble is the responsibility of the villagers, and they are not prepared to participate.

Xue Run is very obedient, everything is according to his cousin and uncle.As for the new house, he also said that he wanted to buy it in the city of Cangshan.Aunt Biao persuaded him a few words, he is still young now, it is better to buy in the city center, and it is better to find a job, and in the future, he will go to work and be close to home, the future fixed income of this family will be gone.

Xue Run said that he wants to study for a few more years and take some qualification certificates.In the hearts of the elderly, as long as the children love to read, they are doing business.Aunt Biao expressed her relief and confirmed her support.In their heads, they think that having a diploma means everything.

After seeing off the cousin and his wife, Xue Run went out and called the three-wheeler who collected old electrical furniture.With so many sundries in the house, it's time to collect them and sell them at a low price.He is not good at doing this. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but admire his act of recruiting disciples, and leave it to disciples to do it.This apprentice is very interesting, every time he trembles because of his trust, he can't wait to repay himself with his life.In order to express himself, he never went to the room where the money was kept on the second floor, and every time he went upstairs to clean, he asked for instructions before going up.That kid was really careful.

In the evening, when the apprentice came home, he smelled of alcohol, probably because of entertainment.Xue Run didn't ask him how much the things sold for, but just sent him to bed early.The apprentice was very honest, he said yes, tomorrow he needs his identity certificate to go through the formalities, the pair of hairpins are worth a lot of money, a lot of money.When the apprentice said this, there was a sense of confidence after being trusted, and Xue Run was very happy.

"Isn't it good to use yours? It's all from our family, you think too much." Xue Run patted him on the shoulder with a smile.The apprentice was stunned, and after standing in the yard with his head bowed for a long time, he entered the room and said to him, "Master, I have been in prison before."

Xue Run smiled indifferently: "Well, I see."

The apprentice was very angry: "It's commercial fraud and embezzlement of public funds. I have lived there for two years."

Xue Run couldn't help laughing. Seeing his anxious expression, he couldn't help feeling a little distressed. As an apprentice, he was stimulated before. As long as others treat him a little better, he would like to kill others.

"It's all over, and it will be fine in the future." He patted his head, and the apprentice threw himself into his arms and cried faintly.

Xue Run was stunned, and slowly patted his apprentice on the head to comfort him: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, there is a master."

Early the next morning, the apprentice took Xue Run's ID card and went out, Xue Run generously gave it to him.

In June, the demolition of Fu Village officially started, and the apprentices were very busy every day.Busy selling old furniture, busy going to the suburbs to see the decoration of new houses.After the price evaluation of the family house was done by the demolition office, a large sum of money was paid.With the previous savings of the family, I bought a pretty good second-hand villa in the suburbs. Although it is an old house, it is still in a community, but it is quite good to remodel and decorate it.There is also a small courtyard in that place, surrounded by mountains and water, and the air environment is first-class.

Xue Run doesn't care about these nonsense, and he doesn't understand.Sometimes, it was his apprentice who spoiled him.He was concentrating on alchemy, and recently he felt that he was about to break through again.

At the end of June, my cousin and his family went to other provinces, and before leaving, they brought over some old things from the family.Xue Run helped clean it up, and prepared to take it to the new home and help preserve it.Those things may not be worth much, but my cousin is not willing to throw them away, just like the patched cotton jacket and trousers that my cousin wore when he was a child.

Not long after my aunt's house moved out, the auction company called and the pair of phoenix hairpins were sold for more than 500 million after tax.Xue Run still didn't care, his apprentice ran to the bank for a few days and helped save a few books.After getting the money, Xue Run took the initiative to go out, opened a passbook for the apprentice, and deposited some money in it.

"You are so old, you can't just carry a few dollars with you every time you go out and use it as a bus."

Hey, his apprentice is crying again.

Xue Run and his apprentice moved in at the beginning of July. When they left, no one told them. They left quietly, saying goodbye to Xue Run and Yang Xiangzi's past.The people in Fucun also scattered in this city with the relocation, and there may be no intersection in the future, and it has become a memory!