Chapter 4 Acquaintance (4)

By the time the sarcophagus was filled with water, the sky had already dawned, and Morris wiped the sweat from his forehead and knew that the little animal would not leave its owner no matter what, so he led the girl in white back to the tower. After a brief freshening and dressing, Morris called his two daughters and asked them to go out with him for a few days. After cleaning up, just about to get out of the tower, he saw 'Tai Chi' running quickly, and Merris saw it pointing in the direction of the sarcophagus, and then pointed to himself, and kept shaking his head,

"You want me not to tell anyone about you and that little monk, do you?" Morris asked.

'Tai Chi' nodded his head after hearing this.

"This little creature is so spiritual that it seems to be able to understand us." The girl in red said in surprise, "Daddy, can I adopt it?" She continued.

"Nonsense, do you have nothing to do?" Morris said with a serious expression.

"Hey, it's a pity, look how cute it is, go ahead, go with your former master." The girl in red scratched Tai Chi's chin, then patted it on the ass and stood up with a smile.

In a dream, a beautiful woman sang to a boulder every day, and one day the stone turned into a man, and the woman who sang to the stone became a boulder. The man carried boulders to many places, vast deserts, majestic mountains, isolated islands, and even deep seabeds, and wherever he went, he got rid of the local rulers and ordered the people to either build a tall altar or erect a strange stone henge to perform some mysterious ritual on the stone that the woman had turned into. In a dense jungle, he also obtained a 'thing' that could turn living people into gold. At last he returned to the place where he had been, and offered the 'strange' thing to the local monarch, who was so pleased that after a sacrifice the monarch and the man disappeared together, leaving only the boulder lying quietly by the lake.

"He's awake, he's awake, Daddy, come and see, he's awake." A pleasant voice reached Dao Yan's ears.

"Where am I, how can I hear the voice." Dao Yan slowly opened his eyes, feeling a wave of dizziness, his throat was like a fire, and he couldn't speak.

First I saw the little furry face of 'Tai Chi' smiling at me, and then the girl in white and Morris, the girl in white seemed to be particularly surprised, and Morris was also looking at her with incredible eyes.

"Chess, bring a bowl of warm water." Morris.

The girl in red brought a bowl of warm water, and after the girl in white fed a small amount of warm water to Dao Yan with a spoon, Morris tested his heartbeat and breathing.

"Allah willing, his life should not be in danger." After Morris finished speaking, he looked much more relaxed.

"Shall we continue to soak him in this sarcophagus?" The girl in white asked.

"He's just woken up, so let's keep watching for the night. Let's go back first and let him have a good rest. With that, Morris took the two maidens and left.

At this time, Dao Yan found out that the sarcophagus was actually in a room, 'Tai Chi' climbed into the sarcophagus, smiled and asked Yan in sign language if he wanted to know what had happened these days, Dao Yan thought: This little guy is really spiritual, he even learned sign language, it should have been taught by the Morris father and daughter, could it be that he has been in a coma for a long time. So I tried to answer, but found that my body couldn't move, so I had to nod. 'Tai Chi' for a long time, Dao Yan generally knew that he had been in a coma for more than 70 days, during this period Morris had asked Zong Kai to ask him to give an explanation of this matter, Zong Kai said that it must be because of the disappearance of his junior brother Zong Zhen, Dao Hua and others took the opportunity to bully Dao Yan, did a little too much, worried about being punished, so they also said goodbye. Morris had the government gather many craftsmen and men to repair the ancient pagoda, cultivate the vegetable garden, build a barn, and at the same time build a wooden house for them, and no one knew about the sarcophagus because it was always wrapped.

Early the next morning, Dao Yan smelled a sweet smell, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that the girl in white was carrying a bowl of steaming white liquid ready to wake him up. Seeing Dao Yan wake up, the girl in white tried to feed him a small sip, the liquid was smooth in the mouth, and the fragrance was strong. The girl in white peeled another egg and broke a small piece to feed to Dao Yan, but saw him close his lips tightly and keep shaking his head. Seeing this, the girl in red smiled and told Dao Yan in sign language: Silly boy, don't eat eggs to replenish your body, when will you get better. The precepts of your Buddhism are really troublesome, isn't the goat's milk you just drank also produced by sheep, what is the difference between this and the eggs laid by chickens, it is rumored that Shakyamuni Buddha also drank goat's milk back then, and you have not received the ordination, so it is not easy to save you, and if you don't eat and kill yourself, this is not a crime of killing. Seeing that Dao Yan still didn't speak, the girl in red turned behind the white girl with a smile and said in sign language: If you die, you will never see her again, and then jumped away. After eating the eggs and goat's milk, the girl in white fed him some warm water and left, and after a while, the pleasant sound of the piano came from the ancient tower.

After more than ten days, Dao Yan was able to sit up from the sarcophagus on his own, and although his lower limbs could not be moved, his hands were moving freely as usual. The Morris father and daughter still used sign language to talk to Daoyan, and Daoyan was used to it, so it was still the same. When Morris asks him what happened that night, he tells him what happened and what happened to him. After listening to this, Morris said that he already knew a little about some of these things when he taught 'Tai Chi' sign language, but he was puzzled as to why Dao Yan's fatal injuries could be healed by the sarcophagus, and he himself had deliberately cut his fingers to see if the sarcophagus really had a healing effect, but the result was not as expected. Dao Yan said that he didn't know why, but after being injured by Daohua before, he accidentally realized that this sarcophagus could treat his injuries. Morris didn't ask much, and through conversation, Dao Yan knew that the girl in white was named Mo Qinling was the eldest daughter of Morris, and the second daughter was the girl in red named Mo Qimiao, both of whom were older than Dao Yan, and although their family was from the Western Regions, they loved Han culture. Mo Qinling is good at playing the qin, Mo Qimiao is proficient in chess, the reason why Mo Li chose to live here is to find a secluded place to concentrate on teaching them, and he also studied some Han manuscripts by the way.

As winter turned to spring, and Dao Yan had recovered, he begged Morris to allow him to grow vegetables and cook for their father and daughter. Knowing that Dao Yan wanted to repay their father and daughter, Morris agreed in order not to make him feel guilty, and allowed him and Tai Chi to live in a wooden house on the edge of the forest. Dao Yan served the Morris father and daughter wholeheartedly every day, did not disturb their lives, and everyone got along relatively well.