Chapter 17: Ning Yuan
Her homemade diet meal, and dandelion flower tea, the effect is very obvious. Phlegm and dampness constitution, the inability to discharge moisture in the body is also one of the causes of obesity. Dandelion is diuretic, and the body excretes a lot of water these days. Yam and Poria cocos nourish the spleen and stomach, black rice and black sesame seeds nourish the kidney, and hawthorn reduces fat. In just 5 days, I lost 10 pounds.
Now that my spleen and stomach are not so hot, I don't always want to eat. Eat diet meals three times a day and don't feel hungry. On the contrary, he is energetic and clear-headed.
I got up and moved my body, and I felt a lot lighter. When doing yoga, Fang Jingrou found a set of health guidance techniques similar to Baduanjin from Feng Mingyue's memory. So I got up at 5 o'clock in the morning every morning and went to the mountains and forests behind me to practice.
Such a month passed quickly, and Fang Jingrou also decreased from the original 167 catties to 132 catties. Although it's still a little fat, it already looks much slimmer than before, and it's like two people. The face has lost a lot of weight, and the facial features are much deeper than before, especially the nose.
One of the obvious benefits of practicing channeling every day is that you breathe longer and your energy increases a lot. And he lost weight quickly within a month, and there was no obvious sagging of the skin on his body. The mind is also becoming clearer and more agile. Delighted, she ran to town to buy herself some well-fitting sportswear.
After falling asleep every day, she still often appeared in that city, and it was still dark everywhere, lifeless, like a dead city. Fang Jingrou walked leisurely in the city every day, she never felt afraid, the city was not big, the radius was no more than one kilometer, she walked by candle every day, and she didn't find anyone.
It's time to go outside, Fang Jingrou is confident that even if she lives together every day, she won't recognize her when she meets her on the street, and as long as she is careful enough, she will definitely not be found by Jiang Beichen.
On the night before leaving, Fang Jingrou talked to Grandma Hu for half a night, telling Grandma Hu that she was actually not the biological child of the current family.
Grandma Hu stroked her head and said, "Jingrou, if the family treats you badly, you can come to grandma, grandma is not poor now, I heard that the ancestral house in our town is going to be demolished, and it will cost a lot of money." Grandma has no children, and other relatives have not moved around for many years because I used to be poor, and now I am equal to just one of your relatives. If you don't dislike grandma, go back and move your household registration to grandma. When I'm gone, I'll leave these houses to you.
Fang Jingrou's tears couldn't stop flowing, she took her grandmother's hand and said, "You have to live at least, a hundred years old, there are still twenty or thirty years, it's too early for you to say this." ”
Maybe it was because she slept too late, Fang Jingrou had no dreams all night.
Early the next morning, Fang Jingrou embarked on her journey of exploration.
Before leaving, Jingrou said to Grandma Hu: "Grandma, this will be my home in the future, and I will come back after I go back to deal with some things." ”
"Okay, don't get into trouble with your parents, whether it's good for you or not, after all, I've raised you for so many years."
"Well, I'll do my best to repay them for their kindness." Fang Jingrou held back the tears in her eyes and left Fenglin Village.
She still chose to travel by long-distance bus, although it was harder, but she did not need to buy a ticket with her ID card. Junting Group is a large commercial organization, and she believes that if Jiang Beichen wants to find her, he can find out her travel records, monitoring in public places, and even changes in bank cards, so she must be extremely careful.
After more than 8 hours of long-distance bumps, it was already 3 o'clock in the afternoon when I arrived in Ningyuan City. This small northern town is drizzling with the early spring drizzle, and the tender green willow branches are swaying in the rain. Taking a deep breath of moist and slightly cool air mixed with the faint sweet fragrance of spring flowers, squinting her eyes and letting the drizzle hit her face with a trace, Fang Jingrou's chest was inexplicably happy. I felt that everything in front of me was so bright and friendly, and a long-lost sense of familiarity stirred in my chest.
Holding an umbrella, following the guidance of passers-by, Fang Jingrou quickly saw the city wall of the ancient city of the Ming Dynasty. With just one glance, Fang Jingrou recognized that it was the city in her dream.
Although the city in front of her was even older, and the pavilions at the four corners of the city wall were gone, Fang Jingrou was still very sure that they were the same city.
With complicated feelings, Fang Jingrou slowly walked into the ancient city from the south gate of the city. The wooden city gate is long gone, only a gatehouse remains, and the bluestone under the feet has been worn without corners due to age, and after being wet by the rain, it is a little slippery to step on it.
Standing on the inside of the city gate, looking at the center of the city, the bell and drum tower in the center of the city can be faintly seen, and the sense of familiarity is even more overwhelming.
Fang Jingrou did not rush to the center of the city, but stroked the city wall with her hand and walked around the city. In addition to the battlements, the other parts of the city wall are made of stones, most of the stones have been rounded by the years, there is a faint moss growing between the cracks of the stones, occasionally there will be one or two flowers and plants mixed with the period, in the drizzle with the breeze gently swaying, light purple, tender yellow to this ancient city that has experienced the vicissitudes of life to add a trace of charm.
Rubbing these stones, as if caressing the face of the years, the marks of the vicissitudes of life passed through the fingertips one by one.
Memories of the past are constantly diffusing in my mind, and pictures are flashing in front of my eyes, all of which are memories of the city.
It turned out that Feng Mingyue was born here, and in her mind, Fang Jingrou saw Feng Mingyue's childhood, and later the scene when she returned to live here as an adult. Everything is vivid, everything is as vivid as yesterday.
While Fang Jingrou inherited Feng Mingyue's memory, she also gave up part of herself. She is no longer the same Fang Jingrou, she doesn't know what she will become in the end, she doesn't care whether it's good or bad, because she needs to change.
Fang Jingrou lowered her head and walked silently, thinking about what made Feng Mingyue so painful, she only saw one fragment in her dream, that is, the picture of the man putting a collar on Feng Mingyue, that time Fang Jingrou clearly felt Feng Mingyue's laziness and discouragement, and the last scream was still in her ears, what kind of pain was it?
She warned herself in her heart, don't be curious, even Feng Mingyue can't bear the pain, you must not touch it. It's better to heed the warning, find the secret room, and live the second half of your life like a rice worm.
Thinking about walking, I arrived at the east gate of the city before I knew it. There happened to be a tour group of more than 20 people, coming in from the east gate, and the tour guide who led the way in front of him was introducing as he walked with a megaphone.
The direction they were moving was in the direction of the bell and drum tower in the city, and Fang Jingrou followed behind, walking slowly.
After following for a while, Fang Jingrou found that this tour group was copying Taiwanese Mandarin and communicating with the tour guide, it seemed that this was a Taiwanese group.
The rain was heavy unconsciously, and the rainwater on the bluestone road had already collected into a trickle and flowed down the small ditch on the side of the road to the outside of the city.
"The design and location of this city is very unique, the bell and drum tower in the middle of the city is the highest, and the city gates on all sides are slightly lower, and every rainy day, the water will automatically flow out of the city, even during the worst period of the flood in 85 years, the outside of the city has been flooded, and the city has not entered a single drop.
And there are five wells in the city, and no matter how dry they are, the wells do not dry up. It can be seen that the ancients were very particular about the location of the city.
It is a miracle that the city has been in constant war since the day it was built, and it has survived countless battles over the past 500 years. ”