Chapter 34: Beloved Things
Huang Langzhong said to Yi Xingchen: "Take care of your master, there is still a little time before dawn, you can lie down for a while, rest and rest, and let him calm down." ”
Huang Lang and the others left Tongpu. Lao Zhangtou closed the door again, and several guys saw Gongsun He's lost soul, and both of them came to comfort him. Gongsun He ignored their words, and still sat there dumbfounded, staring at the opposite wall without saying a word. Yi Xingchen waved his hand at everyone, signaling not to disturb him, let him calm down first. The men went back to their bunks and lay down.
Yi Xingchen also lay down, only Gongsun He was still sitting on the edge of the kang, looking at the wall in a daze, and muttered vaguely: "The gold hexagram represents the rich and noble, judging from the hexagram, the Xinghua girl should marry a rich and noble family, this is the hexagram passed down by Shao Yongxian, how can it be wrong?" Why did you die......? ”
Yi Xingchen thought to himself, of course the hexagram will not be wrong, but the hexagram is dead, and the hexagram is alive. The gold hexagram represents wealth and nobility, but the lower and upper hexagrams are all dry gold hexagrams, which also represent swords and other murder weapons. If the Xinghua girl can avoid this disaster, she may really be able to marry a person who can speak well and be rich, but unfortunately, the bloody disaster of the two mutual hexagrams in the process interrupted this good marriage.
Gongsun He sat there stupidly, muttering a few words from time to time. For a long time, I heard him sobbing and crying.
Yi Xingchen sighed, he knew that the master was frightened, and at the same time remembered that the Xinghua girl who had had a skin-to-skin relationship with him before was actually killed by someone, although the two only had a short moment of intimacy, it was also the first woman who Gongsun He had a skin-to-skin relationship since he was a child.
The first time is always the most memorable and unforgettable.
Gongsun He sat in a daze until dawn.
It's dawn.
The guys all got up to wash, and Lao Zhangtou asked the guys to bring hot water for Gongsun He and them to wash. After almost an hour of calmness, Gongsun He gradually regained his senses, washed silently, still did not speak, and walked out of the pharmacy.
Yi Xingchen followed out, and in the courtyard, he saw Huang Langzhong standing under the porch talking to his daughter, and when he saw the two of them coming out, the two of them walked quickly to them.
Huang Langzhong looked at Gongsun He's face and said, "Mr. Gongsun, are you okay?" ”
Gongsun He nodded, arched his hand and said, "Thank you Huang Shopkeeper, the old man is leaving." ”
Gongsun He walked a few steps, suddenly remembered something, turned his head and said, "How much does the medicine cost?" I forgot about it. As he spoke, he reached for his purse.
Yi Xingchen hurriedly said: "Master, I will pay for the medicine, I have money here." ”
Gongsun He was taken aback and looked at him: "Where did you get the money?" ”
"Last night, we went to Cuixianglou to tell the Xinghua girls their hexagrams, and when they left, they gave a hundred hexagrams. Yesterday you were sick, so I didn't give it to you. Speaking of this, he took out the money bag and handed it over.
Hearing the words of the Xinghua girl, Gongsun He's body shook again, trembled his hands, took the money bag embroidered with gold wire, and rubbed it in a pair of rough hands, his expression was gloomy, and his eyes were red.
Yi Xingchen sighed secretly in his heart, he couldn't imagine that the master was still a lover at his age, and he almost cried for her because of such a little **.
Huang Langzhong turned his head to the old Zhang Tou who was standing at the door and said, "You accompany Mr. Gongsun to the front to drink a cup of tea to suppress the shock, and settle the account by the way." I'm here to talk to Brother Yi. ”
Lao Zhangtou hurriedly came over and helped Gongsun He to walk to the front hall. After they entered the front hall, Huang Langzhong turned around, clasped his fists at Yi Xingchen and said, "I haven't had time to thank Brother Yi, if it weren't for you, Meizi would only be afraid of her life." I already know what happened, thank you very much. ”
Huang Langzhong bowed. Yi Xingchen hurriedly returned the salute and said that he was not polite.
Huang Langzhong said again: "You are Meizi's life-saving benefactor, and I won't hide some things from you." Meizi is my nephew, and her master is my sister, so I am entrusted to take care of her. This time, if she has any strengths and weaknesses, I can't explain it to her master. And her master has a violent personality, and she loves this apprentice very much, if something happens to her, her master will never let me go, I will be miserable, therefore, you not only saved Meizi, but also saved me, so, here, I also express my gratitude to you on behalf of myself. ”
After that, Huang Langzhong bowed again.
Gongsun He muttered in his stomach: What's the use of just saying thank you verbally? It's a matter of taking some action, getting some money and spending money, that's the right thing. I am very poor with my master, and what I lack most is money, but I don't lack gratitude.
He thought so in his heart, but he heard Huang Langzhong clasp his fists and arch his hands and said: "Meizi said, I don't thank you for saving my life, if Mr. Gongsun and Brother Yi have a place for us in the future, even if we speak, we will definitely go to the soup and fight the fire." ”
Yi Xingchen was stunned for a moment, and smiled bitterly in his heart, it turned out that the other party had this idea: he helped them, and they would also do themselves a favor in return in the future, so that the two would be even. As for money or something, it's something outside the body, and if you don't pollute your ears when you say it, you won't mention it. This man is really picky.
Thinking of this, Yi Xingchen didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, and lazily clenched his fists and said, "Then thank you first, farewell." ”
Yi Xingchen stepped into the front hall, the master had already paid the medicine bill, but he didn't drink tea, so he must not have this thought. So he stepped forward to support the master, walked out of the pharmacy without looking back, and went straight home.
After walking more than a dozen steps, Tang Xiaoqi's voice came from behind him: "Brother Hexagram, wait a minute." ”
Yi Xingchen stood still and looked back at him.
Tang Xiaoqi ran to them, smiled at Gongsun He, and said, "Grandpa, you go first, I'll say a few words to Brother Gu'er, okay?" ”
Gongsun He nodded, and walked forward with a gloomy expression.
Seeing that Gongsun He was walking away, Tang Xiaoqi stretched out his clenched fist in front of Yi Xingchen and unfolded it, and inside was a jade pendant the size of a fingernail, worn with a red thread. The jade pendant is carved with a shallow statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Xingchen didn't know what she meant, and looked at her suspiciously.
Tang Xiaoqi sneered: "This is Sister Meizi's, she asked me to transfer it to you, saying that she has this value on her, talk about it, thank you for saving your life, please accept it." ”
Yi Xingchen took the jade pendant, looked at it over and over again, and could feel the body temperature on it, so he said curtly: "This thing should be Sister Meizi's beloved thing, right?" ”
"You still have some eyesight. Tell you, this jade pendant was worn by her mother when Sister Meizi was born, and she has been by her side for twenty years, just because you are his savior, she has nothing to repay, and she has been practicing with her master in the mountains since she was a child, and she has no money. Half of the money with you has been given to you yesterday, although there are still dozens of dollars left, but it is impossible to express the dozens of dollars for saving your life, and only this piece of jade pendant is worth a little money, express the gratitude in your heart, you accept it. ”
Yi Xingchen doesn't understand jade, but this piece of jade should look good, and there can't be artificial jade or anything in the Ming Dynasty, it must be natural, judging from the appearance of this piece of jade, it should be worth some money.
Yi Xingchen is indeed very short of money, but after listening to Tang Xiaoqi's words, he knew that Mei Lengxiang, a stunning beauty, was actually poor and not much richer than herself. Since she was a child, she has practiced with her master in the mountains, and she must have no money, and even the jade pendant equivalent to a talisman that her mother gave her since she was a child was taken out as a gift, there must be no money, and there is nothing else enough to express her heart. If you even accept something like Mei Lengxiang's amulet, then you really can't say it, but fortunately, since you have the ability to calculate hexagrams, it won't be too difficult to make money, so there is no need to covet such precious things as others.
Thinking of this, Yi Xingchen returned the jade pendant to Tang Xiaoqi and said, "You take it back and return it to Sister Meizi, just tell her that I will really help her when she is a sister." If she were an outsider to me, she wouldn't have to come to me for anything in the future. That's it. ”
Tang Xiaoqi was overjoyed, and her face was full of excitement: "I'll just say it, I said that my brother will never ask you for such a precious thing, my brother is a good person, he is sincere in helping you, not for your money." Sure enough, I was right. I'm going to go back and talk to her. Thank you, brother Hexagram. ”
With that, Tang Xiaoqi ran back to the pharmacy in a hurry.