Chapter 32: Life and Death
"What?! Go to Qinhuangdao?! Qinglan's eyes widened in disbelief, thinking that she had misheard. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Hmm." Shu Lao Er nodded solemnly and sighed an affirmative answer.
The family sat cross-legged on the kang in a circle, and Brother He sat in the middle, burying his head in dismantling the nine rings, which was left over from Shu Dalang's play, and gave it to Brother He.
After a brief silence, Qinglan was the first to speak.
"Why, Dad!? Isn't grandma recovering well? Qinglan straightened her back, she didn't understand, what did Old Man Shu think!
"Your grandfather said yes... Go to that qigong master, your grandmother will not only be fine if she learns, but she will be better without taking medicine, and her body will be harder. Shu Laoer's tone was full of helplessness, these words...
"Fool?! Brother He doesn't believe it!! Qinglan was angry and raised her voice. That's what really sick! I don't take medicine well, I run to a place where birds don't, and find some qigong master?! Maybe it's just an old god who cheats money!
When Brother Huan heard his name, he subconsciously looked in the direction of his sister, and Qinglan hurriedly put away her angry face and gave her younger brother an expression to continue playing.
"Who told our father?" Pan Erniang leaned over to Shu Laoer's side.
"Who else can there be, our aunt, she told our father, there is someone in Donghenggou Village, it's not good, it's not good, it's not good. His family was also sick and rushed to the doctor, and when he heard about such a person, he went to Qinhuangdao overnight. When I came back half a year later, I was so good, I walked back by myself, and I was able to work in the field. said that the master is a miracle doctor, very powerful, and after studying for a long time, he may be able to become an immortal. Shu Lao Er told his wife and children all the original words of his father.
Qinglan: ...
Pan Erniang was also speechless, she had seen her father-in-law, and she was obedient to him, the eldest sister in the countryside.
"Grandpa, believe it!? Uncle also believes it?! "Mingyu thinks the world of adults is really wonderful, and the uncle is a doctor...
Shu Lao Er nodded with difficulty, the most difficult thing about this matter is that the eldest brother also agrees.
"What did the eldest uncle say?" Qinglan's question is exactly what Pan Erniang also wants to ask, Zhao Bingsheng is an understanding person, he can't look at the family being confused.
"The eldest brother-in-law doesn't agree either, but..."Shu Lao Er actually pinned his hopes on the eldest brother-in-law.
But Old Man Shu and Boss Shu were very resolute, so Zhao Bingsheng didn't say anything more, this is an occupational disease developed in the officialdom, Qinglan immediately thought of it.
"In other words, everyone else agreed except for our family? The third uncle didn't object?! Qinglan was particularly reluctant to admit this fact.
"Yes," Shu Lao Er sighed long, "Your second aunt also said that whether I agree or not, I will definitely send your milk away, if I stop it, it will be a big unfilial piety, and I don't want your milk to be good." "Second Aunt Shu only said half of it, he can't learn what Second Aunt Shu said later, too... Vicious.
"She!" Pan Erniang was angry when she mentioned Shu Ergu, the previous account had not been settled with her, she was fine, and she kicked her nose in the face, thinking that my Pan Erniang was pinched!
"Mother~" Qinglan interrupted Pan Erniang's words, "Now is not the time to meet her, the key is how to let grandma not suffer this crime!" ”
That's right, sin! At such an age, I only fell a few months ago, and my internal organs were also injured, so I didn't have a good idea at all!
"But isn't it," Pan Erniang answered: "What do these people think, how far is Qinhuangdao, there are cars and boats, who did our father say to accompany them?" ”
"Our father will send it, and the second sister and eldest brother will accompany me." Shu Lao Er frowned and said the arrangement of Old Man Shu.
"That's it." Pan Erniang didn't know how to describe it.
What Qinglan's family didn't know was that the patient who walked back from Donghenggou Village by himself was a famous Lai Han in ten miles and eight townships, who couldn't marry a daughter-in-law when he was almost forty years old, and relied on his brother and sister-in-law to support him. He actually pretended to be sick at first, lazy, and unwilling to work in the field, but after being sent to Qinhuangdao by his family, he really couldn't stand the crime, and he didn't give food all day and drank three meals of Fu Shui, and he couldn't stand it before he begged to come back.
And Aunt Shu still vaguely knows some of these things, she thinks that if she goes there, she must suffer some sins, but she can also save a lot of money, right? But she won't tell her younger brothers and nephews, anyway, she is out of kindness, whether she accepts it or not, whether she goes to school or not is her brother's family's business, and no one can rely on her at that time.
Since the last time Mrs. Shu dryly refused to give Aunt Shu money, Aunt Shu remembered this hatred and took the opportunity to vent the resentment in her heart. Besides, she can't get used to the current situation of her brother's family for a long time, and when her brother and sister see her, they shout that they have no money, and they don't even have the filial piety of twenty taels a year before, and they dare to give their younger brother a face in front of themselves, which was something that I didn't dare to think about before!
Aunt Shu felt in her heart that her younger brother should take care of it here, and set up the rules that should be established, now is a good excuse, and when her younger brother and sister leave, this family is still up to her younger brother.
Early the next morning, in the hazy morning light, Mrs. Shu was mixed into a mule cart by her children. Mrs. Shu took a deep look at her small courtyard, full of fear and confusion about the future journey.
"Grandma~~~! Grandma~~~ "It's Qingqing!" Mrs. Shu was overjoyed, and thought that she couldn't say goodbye to her second son's family. Old man Shu and the Shu family sisters and brothers are afraid of long nights and dreams, mainly because Mrs. Shu herself is unwilling to go, so this morning before dawn, Old Man Shu came out to hire a mule cart.
"Grandma!" Qinglan jumped out of Xiaobao's carriage and went straight to Mrs. Shu.
"Why did Qingqing come, don't go to school..."Old lady Shu lifted the curtain, and the tent on the mule cart was very simple, and there was no door.
"I'm in my classmate's carriage, grandma, why did you leave this morning?!" This is too anxious, their family has not received the letter at all! Qinglan's sweat came out, she just heard Xiaobao who came to pick her up from school said that her father was going east in a mule cart, and the three of them climbed into the car and hurriedly chased after her, fortunately, the little BMW was fast, otherwise it would not have been possible to meet at the city gate.
"Your father..."Mrs. Shu couldn't continue, how to explain it to the child.
"Milk, don't go." Qinglan's uncontrollable tears fell uncontrollably, I don't know why, she had a bad feeling in her heart, as if Mrs. Shu would never come back after leaving.
"Milk..."Grandma doesn't want to go, but this time, your grandfather is going to send me away after eating a lump.
"What are you doing here, you dead boy! I don't understand anything at all! Shu Ergu saw Qinglan blocking the car and didn't let her go, so she jumped directly in the carriage and scolded.
Xiao Bao and Thirteen in the carriage heard that they couldn't sit still and also got out of the car.
Shu Ergu suddenly saw the two of them, like a sewer that was suddenly blocked - there was no sound.
"Milk, don't go." Qinglan didn't know what to do to keep Mrs. Shu, so she could only grab the edge of the car and not let the driver drive.
"Your milk is going to heal! Why are you so unfilial! Boss Shu didn't look decent, and reprimanded Qinglan with a black face.
"It can be cured here! Milk, let's go to the provincial capital to ask for a doctor! Qinglan retorted loudly, and the passers-by on the street stopped curiously to look at it.
"You know what a!" Old Man Shu's saliva splashed everywhere, and the taste was salty and smelly, "Roll on, don't do this harm again!" Old man Shu snatched the coachman's whip and waved his hand at Qinglan, Qinglan subconsciously raised his hands in front of his forehead, and thirteen hands grabbed Qinglan's back and pulled it back, which was able to avoid the whip, but also made room for the mule cart.
"Qingqing!" Mrs. Shu was so frightened that in the next second, she fell backwards with an unstable center of gravity, and then the mule cart quickly went out of the city gate.
"Grandma!" Qinglan cried and ran up to chase after her, but the mule cart ran faster and faster, and Qinglan got farther and farther away from the car.
"Grandma'!!" Qinglan cried and shouted, she ran out of breath, her heart thumping and her lungs, and she could only watch the mule cart gradually leave her field of vision.
"Grandma..."Qinglan muttered to Mrs. Shu, and collapsed on the ground in despair.
Xiaobao and Thirteen followed her worriedly, and waited until she was tired of crying, and then the two helped her to walk towards the city gate.
Along the way, Qinglan was silent.
"Would you like to eat something?" Xiaobao looked at her worriedly. The three of them didn't eat breakfast in the morning, this food box is a recess meal prepared by Xiaobao, and the food in it is all A goods made by Ding's chef after Qinglan's recipe.
Qinglan shook her head.
"Don't worry, don't you just practice qigong, if you can't cure it, it won't be bad." Thirteen comforted her, don't have that kind of expression, it's not like she can't see it in her life.
I hope so, Qinglan secretly prayed, hoping that her grandmother would return safely.
The three of them were late, but Mr. Ji didn't ask anything, he saw the tears on Qinglan's face, and his eyes were red like peaches.
For a long time after that, Qinglan was depressed, and Xiaobao tried every means to make her happy, but it didn't work.
Old Man Shu sent Mrs. Shu down, and did not come back immediately, but stayed in Qinhuangdao for a few days, accompanying Mrs. Shu to practice every day. There is a place in Qinhuangdao called Qiuxian Mountain, legend has it that Qin Shi Huang sent people to the sea to ask for the elixir is the boat here, and the qigong master teaches here every day.
Old Man Shu admired that master very much, and when he came back, he also showed off the qigong he had learned to the children.
"Look at it", Old Man Shu held a knife in his right hand and cut the cucumber into two thirty-degree inclined planes, "These are two cuts." After speaking, he took a piece of paper in one hand and made a gesture to prove that the cucumber was broken. Then, he aligned the two cucumbers according to the cut section tightly, and used his hands to work on the cucumbers back and forth, "How is it," Old Man Shu put down his hand, and the broken cucumbers were glued back together.
Qinglan: ... Cucumbers secrete a tissue fluid, somewhat similar to human blood, which is called "qigong"? Qinglan thought in her heart that the so-called master was a liar.
Jiro and Saburo thought it was amazing and came up to inspect the cucumbers.
"Huh," Old Man Shu didn't enjoy it yet, pulled Erlang over and pressed him on the chair and sat down, "I'll give you a gong," he said as he put his hand on the top of Erlang's head, two inches away from his scalp.
After a while, Old Man Shu asked Erlang, "How is it?" Can you feel a breath of heat? ”
Jiro nodded in surprise, it does feel hot! Old Man Shu looked at everyone proudly.
Qinglan: ... The palm of the hand dissipates heat, the scalp is also the skin, and it can also dissipate heat and sense the temperature, the distance between the two is so close, after a long time, the heat will naturally be generated in the middle.
Qinglan can't stand it anymore, this is too stupid! Such a simple and superficial means blindfolded you and made you pay willingly? Let you leave a seriously ill old lady in such a remote country?!
Qinglan didn't want to give Old Man Shu popular science, and she couldn't argue with him, she just wanted to know how Old Mrs. Shu was, whether she was suitable for the environment there, whether she ate well, and whether she lived well.
Pan Erniang couldn't stand it anymore, she felt that her father-in-law was really stupid to the extreme, and at first glance, he was a person who didn't cook at all on weekdays, and the cucumber would stick to the knife after cutting, and there was no common sense at all, and she was blind to the food she had eaten over the years! She directly interrupted Old Man Shu's performance and asked Qinglan's heart.
"Your mother," Old Man Shu was stunned for a moment, and then his face changed, obviously extremely dissatisfied with Pan Erniang's interruption of his high-spirited performance.
Qinglan: It's hard for your old man to treat this as a tour!
"What's so good about it, living in the same place as other people, eating the same food." Old Man Shu said nonchalantly.
It turned out to be a collective dormitory manager, but Shu's family was obviously very dissatisfied with such an answer.
Shu Laoer: "Is that mother willing to study there?" ”
"What is she willing or not, it's a good guy, don't get sick!" Old man Shu was speechless.
"Who wants to be sick for a long time!" Pan Erniang was angry, "If you are sick, you should find a doctor, if the county is not good, let's go to the provincial capital and get such a broken place, my mother can't eat anything if she wants to!" ”
"Your eldest brother is there! He's a doctor, your mother is fine, nothing can happen! Old Man Shu raised the key by two points.
"Then what's my milk coming back?" Qinglan interjected.
"Come back what come back! I've only been there for a few days and I'm going to come back, and it's not money to pay those tuition! Wait, early, at least for the New Year! "Old man Shu doesn't like Qinglan, a girl, there are you everywhere, what do adults talk to and children interject, no big or small!
Less than two months after Mr. Shu said this, Mrs. Shu had an accident.
In October, the weather began to get colder and the leaves were gone. Qinglan looked at the bare tree trunks of Tingxiang Courtyard, worried about whether it would snow in Qinhuangdao further north.
"Shu Qinglan! Someone is looking for you! A little boy in a gray jacket shouted at the door of the Xiangyuan and ran away, and Qinglan's right eyelid suddenly jumped violently.
She walked quickly towards the gate, and on the way, she met Thirteen and Xiaobao who came back from the toilet, and the three of them came to the gate together.
It's actually the second of the season! What is he here for?
"Get in the car!" Ji Er saw her and hugged her to the car without saying anything. Xiaobao and Thirteen were shocked, thinking that they had met a kidnapper, and hurriedly stepped forward to punch and kick Ji Er, saying that the kung fu of these two brothers has grown.
"What are you doing!?" Qinglan struggled to kick her legs, made an arc in mid-air and was thrown into the car.
"Hurry up!" Ji Er jumped into the car while avoiding the kicks and beatings of the two boys, and he shouted impatiently: "Your milk is gone!" ”
What the!?! Qinglan's head went blank. (To be continued.) )