Chapter 88: Master Liao
Maybe someone came to look for Azanfeng when I was away, he took me to the downtown Chinatown, you can see Chinese shops everywhere, Shaxian snacks, yellow braised chicken, Lanzhou ramen and other four major snack bars, all eyes are Chinese, I feel like I have returned to the streets of China.
I asked Azanfeng what he was doing here, and he simply said that the Chinese were looking for him to do something, and I wondered a little, how did the Chinese in Chinatown find Azanfeng?
When I walked to Yaowarat Road, Azanfeng stopped, I smelled a strong smell of Chinese medicine, and when I looked up, there was a plaque of "Chaozhou Liao's Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum" hanging on the lintel, and when I looked inside, the store was full of people.
The front is a whole wall of medicine cabinets, there are many drawers on it, the shop guy is climbing on the ladder, hands and feet and use the open drawer to grab the medicine, the movement is flexible like performing juggling, there are a few shelves on the left side of the shop, there are a few bamboo flats on the shelf, which contains medicinal herbs, there is a row of stoves on the side, there is a casserole on the stove is smoking to boil medicine, the shop guy is holding a fan and keeps fanning back and forth, the right side is the place for consultation, the door hole is decorated into a fan-shaped shape with Chinese characteristics, hanging a gauze curtain, there are more than a dozen people waiting to see a doctor at the door, through the gauze curtain, you can see a white-haired old man is taking the pulse of the patient, a big oneThe word "De" is framed on the wall.
A shop guy wearing a traditional buckle horse coat greeted him in Thai, and after learning that it was Chinese, he asked us in Chinese whether we were going to see a doctor or take medicine, I said that the boss had made an appointment with us, and the shop guy went in to report that the white-haired old man came out, he looked at me and Azanfeng, and asked, "Who are you, when did I make an appointment with you...... β
"You haven't looked for Azanfeng, then why did he come here, could he grab medicine?" I looked at Azanfeng in confusion, and he didn't look like a person who could take Chinese medicine.
"Ah Zanfeng?" the white-haired old man muttered, and suddenly came to his senses and said: "I know, the two distinguished guests wait first, Ah Cai and Ah Wang, I have something important to do and I won't ask for a consultation today, you catch the medicine that should be caught, don't fry the medicine on the stove, close and call it a day!"
The two guys didn't come back to their senses and were stunned, and the white-haired old man politely sent the waiting patients away, and the patients sighed and left.
The white-haired old man took us into the consultation room, and there was a door next to the consultation room, only to find that it was a renovated antique lounge.
The white-haired old man took out the tea set and made it for us personally, he concentrated and didn't speak, it took seven or eight minutes just to make tea, and Azanfeng was very impatient, even I couldn't sit still, but fortunately, he quickly made it, brought the tea over, and a smell of tea suddenly came to my nose.
I picked it up and smelled it, it was really fragrant, I had heard people say that some friends who like the tea ceremony, are quite particular about tea, what is making tea, appreciating tea, smelling tea every link is particular, it seems that this white-haired old man is the person in this way.
The white-haired old man wiped the water stains on his hands with a towel and said with a smile: "You two taste our Chaozhou gongfu tea, which is China's intangible cultural heritage." β
Drinking a tea is also on the intangible cultural heritage, maybe I don't know how to drink tea, the fragrance is quite fragrant, but I didn't feel how delicious it was after taking a sip, Azanfeng reluctantly took a sip, and then put it down with a disgusted face, let me tell the white-haired old man to say something.
The white-haired old man probably knew what Azanfeng was talking about, so he sighed lightly and said, "Alas, I hope the Azan master introduced by Boss Huang will work." β
I was a little surprised, the white-haired old man's Boss Huang was obviously Huang Weimin, but I didn't expect him to introduce him, this guy has a lot of connections, so he asked: "Old man, do you know Huang Weimin?"
The white-haired old man nodded and said: "He is my patient, the last time I came to see the hidden disease, we chatted a few words, I heard that I have something at home, so I introduced Master Azan, I asked the guy in the store to go to the water market to find it several times, and the guy came back and said that Master Azan avoided the guests, but the guy had already said outside the door that it was introduced by Boss Huang, and he also stuffed my address note in the crack of the door." β
It turned out that Huang Weimin met when he saw venereal diseases.
The white-haired old man called himself Master Liao, his ancestral home was in the Chaoshan area of Guangdong, and his family came to Bangkok to open a Chinese medicine hall in the seventies and eighties of the last century, and he was very famous in Chinatown.
I asked what was going on, and Master Liao sighed and took out a photo from his pocket and handed it to me.
The photo is a girl, about seventeen or eighteen years old, quite handsome, with very Thai facial features, but with Chinese characteristics, like a mixed-race.
Master Liao told me that the girl in the photo is his granddaughter, named Liao Siting, studying at the International College of Bangkok University, born to his son's Thai wife, the relationship between the two was originally very good, but his son didn't know what was going on, and he was crazy and infatuated with another Thai woman, as if he had fallen into an evil spirit, and he was clamoring to divorce his wife, but his wife naturally disagreed.
Master Liao sighed again when he said this, saying that his Thai daughter-in-law was too kind, the idea of male superiority and inferiority was more ingrained than Chinese, he did not dare to disobey his husband, he was beaten and swallowed, even he couldn't see it, and he came forward to say a few words to his son, but his son couldn't listen at all, and even had to beat him, no way Master Liao could only care, after all, his son was in his forties, and such an adult couldn't manage it if he wanted to.
Seeing that his wife was not divorced, Master Liao's son simply moved out to live with Xiao San, and he hadn't been home for half a year.
I interrupted when Master Liao said this, because I noticed something in Master Liao's words that made me feel strange, so I asked, "There are many things about men changing their minds and cheating, why do you say that he seems to be evil." β
Master Liao said: "My wife died early, and Akai was raised by me, can I not understand him?" Akai is loyal and honest, when he was a child, he was shy when he saw girls, and then he became an adult, he was able to find this Thai wife, and he was still chased by people on the pole, not to mention cheating, even if he was given ten guts, I didn't dare to see him, and I taught him to be polite and honest since he was a child, and taught him to be modest, he grew up immersed in Chinese culture, with an elegant and docile temper, and never did such violent things as smashing things, let alone beating people, during that period he was like a different person, not my son at all, not like evil and whatοΌβ
I nodded thoughtfully, as the so-called three-year-old looks eighty, a person's character is qualitative very early, if it suddenly changes in a period of time, nine times out of ten it is stimulated, otherwise it is like Master Liao said that he is evil, after all, this is Thailand, and there are all kinds of strange things, but Master Liao's focus does not seem to be on his son.