Chapter 16: Childhood Memories (1)
Since he subdued the cat spirit with Xin Susu, Ye Zhanyun's heart has not been able to erase all the plots about Xin Susu, her stubborn back, slender fingers, and when Xin Susu touched his eyebrows with his hand, he obviously had an urge to take this woman into his arms desperately, but he couldn't, reason told himself that impulsiveness would harm Xin Susu and himself. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info love between men and women is the only thing he can't get in this world. I remember that on his eighteenth birthday, the only birthday gift that the master gave him was to warn himself that you can't be tempted by all the women in the world, and that love is his death. Ye Zhanyun couldn't figure out the difference between himself and ordinary people.
Growing up in Ya'er Mountain with his master, the things that the master taught him were some jerky formations and some incomprehensible spells. The master never said a word to him, and never mentioned who his parents were. He also has something to worry about when he is a child, but he doesn't know who to tell him, all the flowers and trees in the mountains are the objects that Ye Zhanyun confided in when he was a child. Sometimes the master went down the mountain for several days, so he left the four- or five-year-old Ye Zhanyun to live in the mountains by himself, and he would wash and cook his own clothes when he was young, and even sew and mended his clothes when they were torn. When he had nothing to do, he often sat on the threshold in a daze, wondering why his mother was so hateful that she had thrown herself to a strange old man.
Ye Zhanyun and the master live in a Taoist temple but there is no shrine, there is a pool in the backyard where they live, there is a big round incense burner in the center of the pool, this pool flows all the year round, this flowing water does not know where it comes from to gather here, there are many people who come up to the mountain to get water, so the door of Ye Zhanyun's house is open all the year round, and the people who come to get water will spontaneously bring some incense candles to burn in the circular incense burner in the center of the pool every time, and the strange thing is that the incense burner never sees green smoke but never sees sparks. This is Ye Zhanyun's home, where he grew up. He is like a wild child who no one cares about and no one loves, and this environment has cultivated his stubborn character and never admits defeat. People who don't know him will think that he is very difficult to get along with, but he is a person who desperately wants to be loved in his heart, but he can't be moved by love.
Ye Zhanyun thought of this and hugged himself tightly and curled up in the corner of the room, he was like a wounded child, bandaging his wounds alone, for as long as he could remember, it had been like this for decades. He still remembered that in the autumn when he was five years old, the master went down the mountain as usual, and still left himself in the mountain, he was used to it. But I didn't expect that on the night when the master just left, a black bear somehow managed to get to Ye Zhanyun's house from the woods in the back mountain. He was terrified, he had no relatives around him at a young age, and he curled up in the corner of the room in fear, holding the small scimitar tightly in both hands. The five-year-old had no idea how to subdue a black bear that was a hundred times stronger than him. The black bear followed his breath and slowly approached him, and the little Ye Zhanyun knew that he could only rely on himself now, so he raised his small scimitar and slashed desperately towards the black bear. The black bear scratched his left wall, and the entire sleeve of his shirt was torn into strips. The black bear roared like crazy, Ye Zhanyun knew that he couldn't subdue the black bear with his strength at all, he closed his eyes in despair, he was going to die anyway, so let's have a good time. The black bear was stunned by the villain in front of him, this should not be a normal person's reaction, just as the black bear raised its front paws and pounced on Ye Zhanyun, the ranger's gunshots sounded These two gunshots scared away the black bear and saved Ye Zhanyun. When the rangers found Ye Zhanyun, he was bandaging his wounds. Under the dancing candle flame, this stubborn little figure endured severe pain and tore his bloody clothes from his arm, but he did not shed a single tear, the master said that tears are the gold of the strong and the saliva of the weak.
After the master came back, Ye Zhanyun didn't mention it to the master, but the ranger explained it to Ye Zhanyun's master. Ye Zhanyun's master didn't say anything when he heard about it, just thanked the ranger for saving Ye Zhanyun, and turned around and left, without showing surprise and distress. The ranger also confirmed people's opinions of Master Ye Zhanyun, and he was indeed a strange old man. The master just rolled up Ye Zhanyun's sleeve and looked at the wound, he saw that Ye Zhanyun cleaned his wound well, so he didn't say anything. Many years have passed, and the scar from the black bear's claw scratch has been left on Ye Zhanyun's left arm forever, growing up with Ye Zhanyun, and since then, Ye Zhanyun has not worn short-sleeved clothes, and he has less and less words with his master.
When Ye Zhanyun reached the age of going to school, the master actually sent him down the mountain to go to school in the Zhuangzi at the bottom of the mountain, which made the little Ye Zhanyun very excited. However, his childhood was spent in the mountains and forests, and the solitary personality he cultivated since childhood made him incompatible with the other peers in the school. His classmates often pointed fingers at him, and the teachers were not lukewarm to him. He didn't care about all this for Ye Zhanyun, because he felt that the world in the books was more attractive, and these were much more interesting than those jerky formations and tongue-twisting spells. In this way, in the alienation of classmates, the teacher's lukewarmness, Ye Zhanyun spent four years of primary school life, and when he entered the fifth grade of primary school, he had the first friend and best brother in his life, that is, Shi Yao.
Shi Yao's name was given by Shi Yao's grandfather, and when Shi Yao's mother was born to him, the grandparents who lived in the countryside were very happy, and they also found someone to measure the five elements for Shi Yao. There is a lack of soil in Shi Yao's five elements, so his grandfather took a Yao character for him, three soils, and this time there will be no shortage. Shi Yao is a student transferred from the city, not only wearing foreign style, but even the stationery he uses is something that children in small places have never seen, but Shi Yao has no sense of superiority at all, but he is depressed all day long. The reason why Shi Yao transferred from the big city to this small village to go to school was because of the transfer of his parents' work, both of whom were engaged in biological research, because a new project had been contracted with a foreign institution, and the foreign agency wanted China to produce a few outstanding experts. Parents could have taken Shi Yao with them when they went abroad, but Shi Yao's parents thought that it was not appropriate to take Shi Yao abroad, everything had just begun to go abroad, and it was impossible to take care of Shi Yao when they were busy with work all day, so they entrusted Shi Yao to their grandparents, so Shi Yao transferred to the primary school where Ye Zhanyun studied.
At first glance, when he left his familiar environment, Shi Yao was really uncomfortable, his good friends were not around, and the textbooks he studied were not the same as those here, everything had to be sorted out anew, which made the little Shi Yao have a great sense of loss, and he was depressed and unwilling to speak all day long. The other students all ran out of the classroom in groups of three or five after class to play. And there were only him and Ye Zhanyun in the classroom. The two of them have become good friends who talk about everything, maybe the two lonely children have found common ground in each other and comforted each other.
Ye Zhanyun cherishes this first friendship he was born with, they talk about missing their parents together, longing to be loved, he feels that he is no longer alone, he also has friends. Ye Zhanyun invited Shi Yao to his home for the first time, originally he thought that the master would oppose him to make friends, but the master was full of friendship with Shi Yao's arrival, and also picked mountain fruits for them to eat, which made him even more precious to this rare friendship.