Chapter 252: Punished
Su Qiubai knelt on the ground and didn't dare to look up at Su Renhuang's eyes, and Su Renhuang didn't speak for a long time. After a long time, the Su Renhuang finally flicked his sleeves and left the room.
Su Qiubai didn't know what his grandfather meant, whether he insisted on driving himself away, or if he had relented. Therefore, he knelt on the ground and did not dare to get up, nor did he dare to kneel for a while, and knelt until the afternoon of the next day.
"Well, get up."
Su Renhuang's voice finally came from behind him again, Su Qiubai was overjoyed when he heard this, but he didn't get up immediately, but asked, "Grandpa, don't you drive me away?" ”
"Hmph, you rabbit cub is so thick-skinned, I have to drive it away." Su Renhuang said angrily.
Although he had relented, he still couldn't give Su Qiubai a good look.
Su Qiubai stood up as if he had been amnestied, but because he knelt for too long, he almost fell down and was helped by Su Renhuang.
Su Qiubai saw Su Renhuang's subconscious actions, and knew that his grandfather still loved him, but he couldn't get over his face, so he still spoke ill of him.
Seeing Su Qiubai's expression, Emperor Su Ren glared at him, and then let go of his hand again.
"Don't think I'll forgive you lightly, you can live in this house if you want, and leave if you don't want to live. I will neither drive you nor stop you. After Su Renhuang finished speaking, he turned around and was about to leave.
Su Qiubai grabbed his grandfather's arm and said, "Grandpa, in fact, I have one more thing to ask you when I come back this time." ”
Emperor Su glanced at him and said, "It seems that I was right, if you hadn't asked me, you probably wouldn't have come back to see me, an old man." ”
Su Qiubai heard the words and said hurriedly: "Grandpa, you misunderstood me!" In the past six months or so, I often think of you as an old man, and I know that I should have come back to see you a long time ago. Trouble, I was able to get out of here and come back to see your old man. ”
"If you hadn't asked me, would you really come back to see me even if you had time?" Su Renhuang said in a light tone.
Su Qiubai knew that he was at a loss, he had indeed played wild at the foot of the mountain for most of the past half a year, and he always felt that his grandfather had cultivated to a high level, and he could live well without his own care, so he never had the intention of coming back.
"What, can't you answer?" Su Renhuang asked.
The expression on Su Qiubai's face darkened, and he said, "Grandpa is right, I have no conscience and have failed my grandfather's nurturing grace for many years. ”
Su Renhuang snorted and did not speak.
"But grandpa, I really have something very important to ask you when I come back this time. A friend of mine, who was victimized by an adulterer, is now lying in the hospital and is brain dead. Ordinary medical skills can't save her at all, I know that grandpa is very knowledgeable, so I want to ask you, is there any way to bring the dead back to life, save my friend? Su Qiubai said stubbornly.
Su Renhuang really didn't buy it, and said, "Your friend is dead, what does it have to do with me?" Why should I help you? ”
"Because...... You're my grandfather. Su Qiubai replied hesitantly.
"Now you know I'm your grandfather? Why did you go earlier? "Emperor Su is still unrelenting.
Su Qiubai lowered his head and didn't speak, even in the face of an opponent who was strong in cultivation, he would not show such a depressed look, even in the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, facing the stone dragon that was almost a god, he dared to insist on asking him for Shennong Ding. But in front of the Su Emperor, he had no way at all, firstly, he was really at a loss, and secondly, he also knew his grandfather's temper, the more he forced him, the more he would not give, so for a while, he didn't know what to do.
Seeing that he had already embarrassed him, Su Renhuang suddenly lost a lot of anger, and said with a sigh of relief: "If you want me to help you, it's not impossible." ”
Su Qiubai came to his senses again when he heard this, and said with great joy: "Grandpa has any requests, even if I want to dig up this mountain, I will never refuse!" ”
Emperor Su looked at him with slanted eyes and said, "It seems that your friend is very important to you." ”
Su Qiubai nodded and said: "She is also my ......" Speaking of this, Su Qiubai suddenly stopped, he wanted to say that Ruan Yu was his apprentice, but suddenly thought that if he sued his grandfather for taking in his apprenticeship privately, in case grandpa changed his mind in anger, it would be a waste of his efforts, so he changed his words again: "It's my sister, plus I was injured because of me, if I don't care about her, can I still be a man!" ”
Emperor Su didn't notice his abnormality, but said: "I don't care if she is your sister or the person you like." In short, if you can't do what I ask, don't expect me to sue you for half a word. ”
Su Qiubai nodded and said, "Grandpa, what do you want me to do?" ”
Su Renhuang turned his head and glanced at the room opposite, which was the room where he stored ancient books, which was full of books, I am afraid there were thousands of them.
"You don't have to move mountains and reclaim the sea, you just need to copy all the books in my library, and after I review them, I will tell you how to save people." Su Renhuang said slowly.
Su Qiubai was shocked when he heard this, when he was a child, he often went to the book house to peek at those ancient books, and his miscellaneous knowledge was also learned from there, but he also knew that what he had read was just a surface, and there were so many books in that house, he was afraid that he might not be able to copy them all after a month of non-stop copying day and night.
"What, you regret it?" Emperor Su looked at Su Qiubai and said.
"Why, it's just copying books, it's a little meaning!" Su Qiubai said strongly.
Su Renhuang smiled, didn't say anything, and went to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone for Su Qiubai.
When Su Qiubai sat in the study room, he really felt that his head was big. This room is almost the size of a bookstore, and there are rows of bookshelves in a neat and orderly manner, and the shelves are full of all kinds of books, not to mention copying, even if you look at ten lines at a glance, it will take a long time. What's more, Emperor Su prepared a brush for Su Qiubai, which was even slower to copy.
But in order to save Ruan Yu, he also let go, and he didn't forget to comfort himself, but he was just copying books, if his grandfather really asked him to dig up this Yunyin Mountain, he would really cry.
In the process of copying books, Su Qiubai did not waste the opportunity, and read all the contents of the copied books, which can be regarded as an increase in knowledge, presumably the condition mentioned by his grandfather has been considered in this regard.
More than half a month has passed in a blink of an eye, Su Qiubai has been copying books day and night, only to feel that his right hand is not his own, at first he still copied neatly, and later, the scribbled handwriting can only be recognized by himself.
"If you fool me with such scribbles, you won't be able to pass my inspection at that time, but you will have to copy it again." When the Emperor of the Su people came to "inspect the work", he reminded.
Su Qiubai had no choice but to correct his handwriting with a bitter face, and try to make his writing as neat as possible. He felt that if he continued to copy like this, he would either become a great calligrapher, or he would never write calligraphy again.
After a month passed, most of the books in the book house were finally copied, Su Qiubai looked at the mountains of paper full of words in the courtyard, and suddenly felt a sense of accomplishment, and he worked harder to copy the books.
At this time, he couldn't care about reading the content of the book carefully, and the speed of his hands was faster than the speed of reading the book with his eyes, so his thinking couldn't keep up for a while. When he finished copying a page of the book and was about to replace it with another one, he suddenly remembered that there seemed to be some words in the content he had just copied, "returning to the soul" and "resurrecting the dead".
Su Qiubai hurriedly went back and took a look, and sure enough, he saw a story recorded in detail in the book, about a person who lost his soul and was about to die, and looking at the symptoms of that person, it was quite similar to Ruan Yu.
Su Qiubai only thought about healing Ruan Yu's body before, but he didn't expect to start with the soul, and when he thought about it, Ruan Yu's symptoms did look more like he had lost his soul.
It is recorded in this book that the body and soul are indispensable for human survival. If the body stops functioning, the soul loses its attachment and re-enters samsara, which is death in the traditional sense. But if the body is still alive and the soul leaves the body for some reason, although it seems that it is not dead, if the soul cannot be retrieved in time, then the body will also become a walking corpse, and its soul can only turn into a lonely soul and a wild ghost, and even reincarnation cannot be entered.
Because most of people's memories are stored in the brain, the soul only has fragments of memory, and once they are separated from the body, they will wander the world in a chaotic way, and may repeat something they have done in life according to the fragments of memory, but they cannot rely on their own strength to return to the body.
The spell recorded in this ancient book is called soul resurrection, and it is this kind of soulless disease that is cured, and the method is simple, just summon the soul of the soulless person, and then use a spell to revive the soul, but the spell is difficult and obscure, very difficult to understand, if you don't accidentally see this book, you can't think of this way in your life.
Now that he has found a way, Su Qiubai naturally has no intention of continuing to copy books. He didn't dare to move his grandfather's book, so he took the part he had copied and left the bookstore.
When Emperor Su saw him running out with an excited face, he knew that his goal had been achieved. He didn't expect Su Qiubai to really finish copying this room of books, the reason why he asked him to copy the book was to punish him, and secondly, to let him find this soul rejuvenation technique by himself. And he also knew that since Su Qiubai had found a way to save people, he was not far from leaving again.
"Grandpa, I've found an ancient book that records soul restoration! That's what you really asked me to copy! Su Qiubai said excitedly. He is not stupid, so it is naturally not difficult to guess what grandpa thinks.
Su Renhuang smiled, but did not answer his question: "Why, if you find the soul restoration technique, you are going to break the contract?" The book behind me is not going to be copied? ”
Su Qiubai was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that what his grandfather said before was to let him finish copying a room of books before telling him the method of returning his soul. Now that he has found the secret of soul resurrection, he really can't say anything if he doesn't fulfill his promise.
Although he copied the book for a month, he was about to vomit, but he didn't want to make his grandfather angry, so he was ruthless and said: "I said that I would finish copying, of course I won't give up halfway." Don't worry, Grandpa, I will definitely do what I say. ”
Su Renhuang waved his hand and said, "Forget it, the broken words you wrote are even more ugly than what I wrote with my feet, and it's useless to copy them, so don't waste my paper." ”
Su Qiubai knew that this was his grandfather who had relented and let himself go, and he didn't care whether his grandfather would be angry at the moment, so he stepped forward and hugged Su Renhuang, and said excitedly: "I know that grandpa is the best for me, how can I be willing to punish me like this!" ”
Su Renhuang was hugged by him and almost didn't catch his breath, and said angrily: "Pull it down, I'm reluctant to let me have those papers!" ”
The grandfather and grandson looked at each other and smiled, and the last bit of estrangement before finally disappeared.