Chapter 7 Eating Sweet Potatoes
Guangfu Town once had the reputation of 'lakes and mountains, caves and blessed land'. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It is located 25 kilometers west of Suzhou City, which is a famous historical and cultural town in the south of the Yangtze River. It is located on the shore of Taihu Lake, at the foot of Dengwei Mountain. It is like a pearl of the peninsula inlaid on the shore of Taihu Lake.
The places of interest and historic sites of Guangfu are dotted all over the place, there are Tongguanyin Temple, Situ Temple, Sheng'en Temple, etc., the human resources are very rich again, the landscape is picturesque, flowers and fruits are everywhere, the Southern Dynasty Datong period is the temple of Jiuzhen Taishou House, take its "Guangfu" two words, this is the historical origin of Guangfu Ancient Town!
However, the country is broken, and the once prosperous town is now under the double ravages of devils and landlord bullies, dilapidated, and has lost its former glitz.
There is a medical hall called 'Jingdetang' in Guangfu Ancient Town, the owner of the medical hall is called Fan Jichun, in his forties, looking like an old pedant, with a slightly bald forehead, speaking slowly and methodically, gentle and elegant, and looking like a gentleman.
Fan Jichun is not a native of Guangfu, which can be easily distinguished by his thick Wuxi accent.
Yes, Fan Jichun is a native of Huazhuang, a native of Wuxi, who was taught by the famous doctor Wang Youren in his early years, and has been practicing medicine in Guangfu Ancient Town since he was twenty-one years old.
Jingde Hall has two facades, one side is an elm medicine cabinet, a diagnosis and treatment bed, and on the other side of the wall is hung a plaque of 'hanging pot to help the world, benevolence and virtue to practice medicine'.
Early that morning, Fan Jichun had just finished receiving a patient who came to seek medical treatment, and he had just been idle for a while, but he saw a young man slowly walking into Jingde Hall.
The teenager's clothes had obvious traces of water stains, as if they had been dried with body temperature after being soaked. On his head, he had a messy, chicken's nest-like hair, and a few straws stuck in his hair.
Fan Jichun was stunned, then smiled, and asked in a local dialect with a strong local accent: "Young man, where are you uncomfortable?" ”
His voice was very kind, and he did not have the slightest contempt or contempt for the poor and depressed appearance of the young man.
"I'm not here to see a doctor, nor am I here to get medicine." The young man glanced up at Fan Jichun and smiled slightly.
Those eyes full of spirituality, with a mature temperament that did not match the age of the young man, surprised Fan Jichun.
"If you don't see a doctor, you don't get medicine...... So what are you doing in my hospital? Fan Jichun smiled quietly, but his eyes had been secretly observing the young man's every move.
"Looking for you!" The boy said calmly.
"Looking for me?" Fan Jichun was a little confused, and said with a smile: "I'm a doctor, you don't see a doctor and don't take medicine, is it the baby of a distant relative of mine who came to me?" ”
Nowadays, in these chaotic years, it is common to defect to relatives, and the younger descendants of some distant relatives really don't necessarily know each other.
"You and I wouldn't necessarily be a family five hundred years ago." The young man grinned: "Actually, I arrived in the middle of the night last night, and I was afraid of disturbing your dreams, so I spent the night in the pyre behind the house." I waited until you had finished reading the patients in the queue in the morning before I came in. ”
Fan Jichun was taken aback and said, "You slept on the firewood ladder at the back of the house last night?" You ......"
"Well, those things you and Madame Zun said and did at night...... I know it all! The boy said with a smile.
Fan Jichun breathed a little, his face was embarrassed, and he asked crampedly, "You...... What do you hear? ”
The young man laughed and said, "When it was almost early in the morning, you were hungry, so let Mrs. Zun get up in the middle of the night to bake sweet potatoes, and then the two of them ate roasted sweet potatoes together in the bed!" ”
Puff......
Fan Jichun smiled dumbly, thinking that the young man in front of him was clever and interesting, listening to him speak Wu Nong's soft Suzhou dialect, he should not be a foreigner, although he was dressed very tattered, and he looked like a sloppy country boy, but he could speak in a crepe.
-- A simple and upright boy in the countryside, as soon as he opens his mouth, he must be 'afraid of waking you up', 'whatever', 'your mother-in-law', what words such as 'afraid of disturbing your dreams', 'will', 'Mrs. Zun', etc., are by no means something that a reckless country boy can say!
Fan Jichun settled down and asked, "What are you looking for me?" ”
The young man didn't talk much nonsense, and said: "Doctor Fan, my surname is Zhu, everyone calls me Ah Ling, from Wangting." It was Mr. Xue who asked me to come here to find you and let you take me to meet someone! ”
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On the second floor of the medical hall is the bedroom of Fan Jichun's family.
In a bedroom on the west side of the second floor, a young man in his thirties with sword eyebrows sat on a stool next to the small round table, looking at the handwritten letter written by 'Mr. Xue' to himself, his expression was extremely rich, he was sometimes surprised, sometimes hesitant, looked at the letter in his hand, and then looked over the letter paper, and glanced at the young man in front of him who called himself 'Ah Ling', and the last expression was fixed in confusion!
Fan Jichun stood behind the young man with an extremely serious and respectful attitude.
"Your name is Ah Ling? Commander Xue asked you to come here to find me? The young man squinted his eyes and looked Ah Ling up and down.
Ah Ling didn't speak, just nodded.
"I've read it, it's indeed the boss's handwriting, but ......" The corners of the young man's mouth rose slightly, revealing a helpless arc, and said with a wry smile: "It's just a matter of letting you join the martial arts team, and let you be the pioneer killer of the martial arts team, specializing in assassinating the head of the devil and local bullies, this is ...... The boss isn't kidding me! ”
looked at the young man in front of him who had not dried up, and saw the sentence on Mr. Xue's letter, 'worthy of Jing Ke in the world', and suddenly couldn't cry or laugh.
The young man in front of him can be a great hero, a great knight, and a great assassin Jing Ke in the world? That's ridiculous, isn't it?
But he knows Mr. Xue and his rigorous style of acting, and at the moment of the enemy, Mr. Xue will never make such a joke with himself.
It is said that heroes are teenagers, but he really can't see anything strange about the teenager in front of him! It looks stupid and cute, silly...... Just such a kid, can he be Jing Ke in the world?!
Since Fan Jichun walked into the room with the young man, he had looked at this young man named Ah Ling from head to toe more than thirty times, and he really couldn't see what was different about this young man!
The young man has a special identity and has read countless people, and he is confident that his eyes will never be wrong, let alone look away!
What kind of dumb riddle is Mr. Xue playing with me? The youth was greatly confused.
"Mr. Xue admires you very much!"
The young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes and sword eyebrows slapped the letter paper in his hand with a smile, and then took out a 'foreign fire' to ignite the yellowed letter paper, and the flames rose, instantly burning the envelope and letter paper into flying ashes.
From the other party's tone, Ah Ling couldn't hear half of the taste of 'admiration', and only tasted a faint contempt.
Ah Ling didn't speak, just smiled, counting as a response.
"So, you're pretty good, huh? Hey, why don't you put on a show here? Let me and Lao Fan open our eyes and see the world? The young man said with a smirk.
Ah Ling's eyes widened, he looked at the young man, and said in a deep voice: "I'm sorry, I don't know how to perform, and I don't know how to perform!" If you mean my skills and means...... Sorry, but the killing technique is for killing, not for show. ”
The young man paused for a moment, as if he didn't expect Ah Ling to fight back with such a strong attitude, he and Ah Ling looked at each other, there was no contempt on their faces, but there was a little more fortitude that would rather bend, and said without showing weakness: "What if I have to see it?!" ”
"I advise you not to look at it! Because...... Those who have felt it have become dead! Ah Ling was-for-tat and did not back down.
The atmosphere in the room was tense to the extreme.
"Don't, everyone is gay......" Fan Jichun saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly stood up to play a round.
"Nonsense, you are only comrade with him!" Ah Ling was angry and blurted out without thinking.
"He and I were originally comrades, and we were all anti-Japanese comrades." Fan Jichun said with a smile.
Tuk Tuk ......
At that moment, there was a sudden knock on the door three times from the outside.
All three people in the room were alert.
Fan Jichun and the heroic young man glanced at each other.
"Who?!"
Fan Jichun asked in a deep voice.
"Old man, it's me." A woman's voice rang out outside the door.
Fan Jichun breathed a sigh of relief, smiled apologetically, and said, "It's my mother-in-law." ”
As he spoke, he walked to the door and gently opened the door.
Ah Ling saw a dignified-looking middle-aged woman through the crack in the door, she should be the 'Mrs. Zun' who hid in the quilt with Fan Jichun last night and ate sweet potatoes!
Thinking of the movement of the two of them 'eating sweet potatoes' in the house last night, Ah Ling was very emotional.
- Sure enough, thirty is like a wolf, and forty is like a tiger!
The woman glanced into the house, and seemed a little surprised by the strange boy who suddenly appeared in her house.
She approached Fan Jichun and whispered something in her husband's ear, and after about two minutes, she turned and left.
Fan Jichun closed the door, turned around and returned to the house, and walked straight to the young man. During this time, he had been looking at Ah Ling, and his gaze was clearly different from before.
He walked up to the young man, bent down, and whispered something in the latter's ear.
The young man had been frowning at first, and when Fan Jichun said a name, his body shook slightly, and he raised his head and glanced at Ah Ling.
Until Fan Jichun straightened up after speaking, the young man's eyes were still focused on Ah Ling's body, staring at Ah Ling to the bottom of his heart.
Swish!
The young man stood up abruptly and walked straight towards Ah Ling, but before the person could get close, his hand had already stretched out.
"Comrade Ah Ling, did you kill one of the captains of the devils in Taihu Lake last night?" The young man shook Ah Ling's hand and said excitedly.
Ah Ling didn't deny it, and nodded slightly.
"Oh, what a hero!" The young man shook Ah Ling's hand and said apologetically, "Don't bully the young man into being poor...... It's because I don't know Tarzan with my eyes! ”
Fan Jichun also stepped forward, held Ah Ling's other hand and said: "Fan is also confused, the dog's eyes look down on people, and he doesn't know gold and jade!" ”
Ah Ling's two hands were held, and after listening to what the two said, he really couldn't cry or laugh.
"Comrade Ah Ling, hello!" The young man was sitting precariously, holding Ah Ling's hand with a serious face, and said seriously: "I am Zhang Zhendong. ”