Chapter 7: Childhood Friendship
The sky was only slightly white, and the big rooster of Huzi's family was crying hoarsely.
Rubbing his sparse sleepy eyes, Xia Yifan stretched his waist and got up from the bed, and glanced at Huzi, who was still dripping and sleeping fragrantly.
Walking out of the house, seeing Huzi's father picking up a hoe and preparing to work in the budding rice field, Xia Yifan smiled and asked early.
"Get up so early," Huzi's father looked tired, obviously not resting well last night, and then instructed, "I went to work in the field, and I boiled some porridge in the kitchen, and you and Huzi ate it while it was hot."
"Uncle Huzi, I know. Xia Yifan replied respectfully.
Thinking of yesterday's thrilling scene, Xia Yifan said with concern, "Is Auntie feeling better?" Huzi's father touched Xia Yifan's head.
"Well, your Aunt Huzi is much better, your Aunt Huzi will cook lunch for you at noon, Huzi has to go to school in the morning, and Jingya's family will trouble you."
"Okay, uncle, don't worry."
Seeing that it was still early, Xia Yifan played a set of Tai Chi boxing in the courtyard, and Huzi woke up and came out of the house. Called Huzi's mother and the three of them had breakfast together.
looked at the figure of Huzi walking away with his schoolbag on his back. Xia Yifan was very envious of Huzi who could go to school and play with his friends of the same age.
Xia Yifan thought about going to the back mountain to catch some fish, and found a bamboo basket and a firewood knife from the kitchen.
Because Xia Yifan grew up in the mountains, he knows the terrain in the mountains very well, and knows which river in the back mountain has big fish.
Xia Yifan's method of catching fish is different from the general hanging with a fishing rod or fishing net.
When he came to the back mountain, he did not rush to the river, but came to a small forest by the river.
The early morning sun fell on Xia Yifan's face through the gaps in the leaves, and suddenly he jumped up suddenly, put his hands together, and went up to a big tree.
With his backhand, he took out a firewood knife from his waist and slashed it, and a branch as thick as a baby's arm was cut off.
Xia Yifan turned over and got off the tree, picked up the branch he had just chopped, and used a firewood knife to cut off the bark to make a javelin, and then walked to the river, the water source of this river comes from the convergence of the mountain top stream, so it is exceptionally clear.
There were a few carps swimming slowly in the river, Xia Yifan saw one of the largest carps, and threw a branch javelin violently, inserting it into the riverbed like an arrow.
Suddenly, there was a white splash of water in the river, and there was another churn, and a carp weighing about two pounds was pierced by a branch javelin.
Scooping up the fish from the river, Xia Yifan recited the "Taishang Salvation Sutra" in his mouth to surpass the carp that had just been killed by himself.
The carp that was still fluttering was put into a bamboo basket prepared in advance. His eyes were aimed at another target, no wonder the old Taoist scolded Xia Yifan for not having the virtue of a cultivator.
Follow suit. The second and third carp were stabbed one after another and put into the bamboo basket.
Xia Yifan was satisfied and ready to go down the mountain, looking at the three carps that had returned with a full load, but he was thinking about how to cook these fish.
Back in the village, Xia Yifan took some fresh mushrooms from Huzi's house, and the people in the mountains have never lacked these mountain goods, as the saying goes: rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water.
After preparing the ingredients for cooking carp, Xia Yifan rushed to Jingya's house.
When they came to Jingya's house and rang the doorbell of the iron gate outside the courtyard, Jingya's parents knew that Xia Yifan was coming, and when they heard the doorbell ringing, they hurriedly walked out to open the door.
He also said: "Xiaofan, you are here, I really trouble you this time."
Xia Yifan scratched his head shyly, "Don't bother, uncle and aunt, your body is still weak, go back to the house and rest."
Jingya's parents saw Xia Yifan carrying a bamboo basket full of carp, which seemed to be here to be a cook, and let a child take care of his family, Wang Guofeng's face couldn't hold it, "How embarrassing is this, Xiaofan, you go into the house and sit, wait a while and stay to eat, and your uncle will cook braised fish for you."
Xia Yifan still insisted, "Uncle and aunt, you are now when your body is weak, so don't get out of bed and move around more."
In the Taoist temple, I am also used to cooking and washing for my master. You two should recuperate well and recover soon."
"What a sensible and capable child, our family Jingya has been spoiled by us, and she can't do housework when she grows so big.
Then uncle and aunt thank you. Xiao Fan, you sit for a while, drink saliva and rest, and then get busy."
Xia Yifan waved his hand, "You two are too polite, it looks like it's going to be noon, and you won't be able to make lunch later."
Hearing Xia Yifan say this, Jingya's parents were not polite, and took Xia Yifan to their kitchen to inform the storage of condiments and chopsticks, and Jingya's parents went back to the room at Xia Yifan's request.
And Xia Yifan said that he would dry it, remove the fish from the guills and internal organs, scrape the scales and wash it, put it in the pot and add water to boil, and the other side was not idle, wash and slice the mushrooms, and stir-fry.
After the fish soup is boiled milky white, pour the fish soup into the rice that has been washed beforehand, and then add some glutinous rice to make the porridge softer and smoother.
Then add a little salt, chopped green onions, and finally put the previously fried mushroom slices into the porridge. Because it is an all-natural ingredient, it is delicious without the need for MSG or other seasonings.
And the last fish was made into vinegar fish fillets by Xia Yifan, just look at the crystal clear and uniform slices to know that he is a master with a knife.
Xia Yifan put the freshly cooked delicacies on the dining table in the living room on the first floor, and shouted in the direction of the second floor, "Uncle and aunt, lunch is ready, let's go downstairs to eat."
Jingya's parents walked downstairs and looked at a table of carefully cooked dishes, but they were indescribably moved.
Xia Yifan sank two bowls of mushroom fish porridge and brought them to Jingya's parents, Jingya's mother tasted it and asked in surprise, "Did you make this fish porridge?"
Xia Yifan nodded yes, he thought that a fifteen-year-old child would cook anything, it was just nonsense.
However, seeing that Xia Yifan is so resolute and sincere, it is not good to hurt the child's heart as an adult. So let him go.
didn't expect Xia Yifan's cooking skills to be so good, and Jingya's mother was also secretly impressed in her heart.
Wang Guofeng listened to the simple questions and answers between his wife and Xia Yifan, and asked quietly, "Is it your master who taught you the cooking skills?" Xia Yifan heard the meaning of Jingya's parents' words.
He said calmly, "Uncle and aunt, you also know that I am a master of medical skills. Therefore, the master is also very familiar with pharmacology, and put forward the principle that medicine is not as good as food.
"The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" says: "If you don't treat the disease, you can't cure the disease, and if you don't treat it, you can't cure it." "It's a medicine that is poisonous, so it's more important to take care of your body than to treat it after you get sick.
At present, I am also learning how to match herbs and ingredients with my master. So it's a little bit of cooking.
As he spoke, Xia Yifan casually sank another bowl of fish porridge and went up to the second floor, which was sent to Jingya.
Because Jingya just experienced a scene of being possessed by a female ghost in the palace yesterday, and being exorcised by the old way, such a toss angered the female ghost to fight back, so the damage to Jingya's body was very great, and she is still unable to get out of bed to eat.
Coming to the second floor, Xia Yifan knocked on the door of Jingya's bedroom, and after a while, Jingya's weak voice came from the bedroom.
"Please come in",
Pushing the door in, a delicate and pale face appeared in front of Xia Yifan's eyes.
Jingya was wearing pajamas, leaning on the head of the bed weakly. Looking at Xia Yifan bringing the fish porridge to herself, Jing Ya was about to sit up and take the fish porridge.
"Lie down and don't move, now it's inconvenient for you to drink porridge by yourself, I'll feed you."
Hearing that Xia Yifan was going to act like this, two red glows climbed on Jing Ya's little face in an instant.
His whole face was like a ripe apple, and he muttered in a low voice, "No, no need." I'm not hungry right now."
"How can you skip food at lunchtime when you're weak and need to replenish nutrients?"
Jing Ya saw Xia Yifan, insisted again and again, and she was weak and unable to move, so she stopped making a sound, and watched Xia Yifan feed herself porridge with a red face.
In order to break this awkward atmosphere, Jingya suddenly asked, "Did you make this fish porridge?"
Xia Yifan was stunned that the mother and daughter could ask the same question on a bowl of porridge.
"Well, yes, it's not to your taste"?
"No, no, no, it's delicious, but I've never eaten such delicious fish porridge. By the way, how did you and Xiaohu meet?" Jingya looked at Xia Yifan and continued to ask.
In fact, Jingya is a more introverted girl, and she never knows how to refuse. I can only ask some questions for Xia Yifan to answer, so as not to be embarrassed.
Xia Yifan looked out the window and recalled, "When I met Huzi, it was five years ago.
Because I saw that Huzi was being bullied, I helped him beat away a few people who bullied him, and then we became friends.
Since then, I have been practicing on the mountain, and if it weren't for the evil in your family, Huzi's parents would have found my master and left the mountain, and I wouldn't have come down the mountain."
In this way, Xia Yifan fed Jingya porridge, and the two of them answered without a word, but when it came to Xia Yifan growing up in the mountains, they also talked about Qingyunguan and Xia Yifan's master.
At this time, Jingya, like a curious baby, kept asking.
"Then when you are well and have strength, I will take you and Huzi to the mountains to play, since I was a child, I have no playmates, so I run around in the mountains all day long.
Let me tell you, the scenery on the mountain is beautiful, and it is a rolling mountain.
The mountainside is surrounded by a tortuous and steep solid wood plank road, like wisps of streamers entwined between the green water and green mountains, becoming a unique and beautiful scenery, and in the deep canyon, there is an unpredictable mountain atmosphere.
Such as a magical light gauze curtain, delicately and gracefully painted into a landscape painting, I don't know whether people walk in the scene, or the scene moves with people, extreme to the top of the mountain, the wind is leisurely and empty valley, the fog is deep and the stream is smoking, looking down at the sea of clouds and rolling waves, overlooking the mountains and ethereal, it can be said that people walk in the heavenly court, and the chest is full of clouds.
Jingya, who only listened, unconsciously fell into a trance, and when she woke up from her fantasies, she found that Xia Yifan was looking at her, and her little face couldn't help but blush again, and her shy expression did not reveal a strange feeling.
But then Jingya said, "Then we have made up our minds, when I recover, you must take me to the mountain where you live to see, how can it be as good as you say, I don't believe it."
When she said this, Jingya herself didn't realize that her strong personality had changed slightly, although Jingya was weak on the outside, she had always been a strong child on the inside.
She was an honor student in her class and even in school, but after seeing Xia Yifan, everything seemed to have changed.
It may also be a change in the family after meeting a female ghost. Or after being attacked by a female ghost, he struggled weakly, and even at this moment, he didn't even have the strength to pick up a bowl of rice to eat, and a sense of helplessness rose in his heart.
But Xia Yifan and his master saved her whole family, and now they are feeding themselves carefully, enlightening softly, and coaxing themselves to be happy. As long as you are in the company of the boy in front of you, you will feel safe.
In the next few months, Xia Yifan took care of Jingya's family carefully.
Jingya has also been cultivating at home, because Jingya's academic performance has always been excellent, and the school has also approved Jingya to study at home. Thanks to Xia Yifan's care, Jingya's physical recovery is also very good.
After dinner, Xia Yifan and Huzi would often accompany Jingya for a walk in the village, and the people in the village gradually became familiar with Xia Yifan's child.
In the village, occasionally I will meet Wang Xibin, Wang Ping and Wang Wanglai and their gang, but it seems that they were scared by Xia Yifan last time, and the three of them did not dare to find fault, and after seeing Xia Yifan from a distance, they slipped away.
As in the past, the three of them still went out for a walk after dinner, Huzi chatted with Jingya with a courteous face about the interesting things that happened in school, while Xia Yifan listened on the sidelines, and couldn't say a word.
Huzi only has Jingya in his eyes at this time, where can he take care of Xia Yifan.
And although Jingya listened to Huzi's endless nonsense, her attention looked at Xia Yifan from time to time, as if she wanted to know how happy she was chatting with Huzi, and what Xia Yifan's reaction was.
Huzi and Jingya are both seventeen or eighteen years old, the age when love first blossoms, the age when they are ignorant of the opposite sex, and the thoughts of girls can be known by boys. Isn't there a pop song?, called "Don't Guess the Girl's Thoughts".
I don't know, the two boys are stupidly kept in the dark. It wasn't until late at night that Xia Yifan and Huzi sent Jingya home, waiting for Jingya to enter the house.
Huzi hurriedly said, "Xiaofan, what do you think of Jingya, this girl", "It's good, what's wrong", Xia Yifan replied in surprise. And Huzi asked nervously, "Then you don't have any thoughts about Jingya."
Xia Yifan was even more surprised, "What do you want to say, just say it, don't beat around the bush with me."
You must know that I am a Taoist priest of the Quanzhen School, and the so-called monks are not close to women." Huzi let out a long sigh, "I'm relieved."
Xia Yifan scolded with a smile, "Look at your unpromising appearance." His mind was broken, and Huzi smirked and continued to ask, "You are at Jingya's house during this time, do you know what Jingya likes." ”
"Why are you asking this?" Xia Yifan wondered.
"In a few days, it will be Jingya's birthday.
I don't know what to give him, Xiaofan, you give my brother an idea.
Perhaps, I have a good relationship with Jingya, and I will marry Jingya home in the future and be your sister-in-law."