Eight spirits
Each city has its own characteristics, just like people for the fashion models who are active on the stage, in addition to the strict requirements in terms of measurements, they are also required to show a certain artistic temperament.
Speaking of temperament, it is an ethereal thing that no high-end clothing or precious jewelry can pile up, and it is only after nightfall, in the dimly lit Tuojiang River, that the small city of Phoenix shows its heaviness to strange travelers.
"The beauty of the phoenix, the river lantern that sways most in the Tuojiang River, is to be savored in the light candlelight. It was a situation that no brush could depict, and the hustle and bustle of the riverside bar could not disturb her unique elegance. β
Ye Er had just gotten up from the bed after some tossing, and said this drunken word to Zhu Tong; The premise is that the fake doctor, in his conversation with Miss Mei, revealed that he criticized the business atmosphere in the small town too strongly.
Huang Hai walked in, with a brush, ink, and a stack of paper, and the small dish in his hand was used to dip the pen. The pen and ink were bought on the street, and the plates were asked for by the shopkeeper.
This is an ordinary family hotel, located on the edge of the Tuojiang River, with six rooms on three floors, and they live in the same two rooms on the second floor as last time.
The boss is very kind to the two elderly people, both of whom are local old households, perhaps related to Xiangxi feng shui, who are not tall and very real.
An hour ago, as soon as a few people entered the door, the enthusiastic shopkeeper and an old couple with a blessed statue recognized Ye Er and Huang Hai; Zhu Tong saw that the oil painting hanging in the foyer was the handwriting of Ye Er.
Ye Er took out the yellow paper written by the old man and spread it out on the small table, and the spirit word was displayed in front of everyone.
Ye Er looked at the strokes carefully, pinched the brush and didn't know how to put it down. In fact, in her heart, she still doesn't believe in such a mysterious thing. With a modern education, how could she believe that just writing could cure diseases?
Zhu Tong is also examining the word "spirit", in his eyes, this word represents introverted and ethereal; When the old man wrote, he understood the beginning of each stroke, and also knew the meaning of each stroke. Zhu Tong was thinking about how to say these mysterious things, and he was still thinking about how useful this word would be for Ye'er's illness.
Ye Er grabbed the brush and wrote a spiritual character upright.
"Miss Mei, how do you see this handwriting?" Zhu Tong knew from looking at Ye'er's posture of lifting the pen that she had not practiced calligraphy seriously.
"Not bad." Mei Lanting smiled and praised, "Miss Su has a good understanding. Mei Lanting's last sentence told the truth, Ye Er's words were not strong at all, and they were exaggerated.
Zhu Tong saw Ye'er's face blushing, and took the brush from her hand with a raised face.
When writing this word, you should meditate and meditate, and every stroke of writing is born from the heart, and it will be unrestrained. Don't care if it looks good or not. The old gentleman wrote this word with a sense of uprightness, and you have to learn to be the soul of the word; Miss Su, when you start writing, you don't have to care whether the words look good or not, the important thing is to keep the internal and external breath coherent, and you can't hold your breath. See, the spiritual character begins with this horizontal, representing the righteousness in your body, and every stroke that follows is to nurture and nurture it. β
Saying that, Zhu Tong also finished writing the word "spirit", and when he stopped writing to the last point, his heart shook, and he turned his head to look at Huang Hai and Mei Lanting.
At this moment, Zhu Tong had an impulse to go back to that town and see the mysterious old man again, he must have hidden his strength with the word "spirit", that should be a very clever Zhumen senior.
After Zhu Tong finished writing the word "spirit", the state of the three people around him was wonderfully displayed in his perception, and he found that Miss Mei Lantingmei's inner breath was condensed, which was a solid foundation since childhood, but it was an authentic Taoist mind.
"Not bad." Mei Lanting commented again, "If Dr. Li didn't become a doctor, he would definitely become a calligrapher." Miss Su, you are blessed, if you can write this word with Dr. Li, you will not have to go to the hospital in your life. β
Ye Er wrote it again, but she still didn't get the point; Zhu Tong walked behind her, reached out to hold Ye'er's hand, and led her to carry the pen with her intentions.
After the words were written, the two looked at each other and smiled, Zhu Tong was sweating profusely, and Ye'er's face was even redder.
The mysterious word "spirit" connected their minds together, Zhu Tong could feel the Gu worms in Ye Er's body being compressed, and Ye Er could also feel the redness and swelling of the wound on Zhu Tong's shoulder fading.
Zhu Tong also noticed that the glamorous light floating between Ye Er's eyebrows and eyes had also converged, and the beautiful aura that originally belonged to her had the upper hand again.
Ye'er is mixing well here, it's dark outside, Ye'er has just cleaned up, and the chubby shopkeeper is here to invite.
There was a sumptuous meal in the foyer, and the hostess stood beside her with a smile and greeted: "Two days ago, I was still talking about Miss Su, we have opened the store for so many years, you are the most beautiful guest, and it is rare to talk to the two of us every day; Lao Chen was also so happy, he went to buy river shrimp and duck, as well as blood porridge, and asked me to make blood porridge duck, saying that he wanted to treat you well. β
Ye Er was embarrassed, smiled and pulled Huang Hai to sit down; Zhu Tong and Mei Lanting were also persuaded to sit down, and Ye Er whispered that politeness would make the master unhappy.
Mei Lanting crawled into Ye'er's ear and said something, and the two girls laughed happily. The pot in the middle, with a layer of red oil floating with soup and water, is the phoenix name eating blood duck. When I see it, I feel warm even if I don't eat it.
The winter in Xiangxi is cold, but there is no habit of burning heating like in the north, and the way to heat is the necessary brazier for every family, burning charcoal, and placing it under the table when eating.
Boss Chen took out three wine glasses: "Drink two glasses, happy today, the old woman has no opinion, right?" Grandma Chen pouted and didn't speak.
The six of them sat down at the dinner table, eating hot bloody duck and fried wax pork, drinking local workshop wine, and Zhu Tong also liked the atmosphere here.
There was a melodious sound of the huqin outside, and Ye Er asked, "He still plays the piano every day." β
Grandma Chen nodded: "The rain has stopped, he must play the piano." β
Only then did Zhu Tong realize that there was really no sound of rain on the stone street outside.
After eating, Ye'er shouted to release the river lanterns, and Grandma Chen also advised: "Be careful, the rainy place is slippery, and if you fall into the river, you will spoil the scenery." "Very kind and casual, just like my daughter.
Walking on the quiet stone road of the ancient city, Zhu Tong somewhat understood Ye'er's feelings,
Turn the bridge hole, cross the alley, just out of the north gate, you can see the lights of the river floating in the river, that is the river lantern.
Both sides of the Tuojiang River are quiet and warm, the stilted buildings near the river are hung with red lanterns, and the strings are reflected on the river surface in rows, the brilliant light, the dense halo, decorate the Tuojiang River as a beautiful bride.
Ye Er and Mei Lanting ran to the river, and several children sat on the stone steps, each guarding a bamboo basket, which was full of light petals, made of paper, and a small candle in the middle. When there are no guests, they will occasionally put a few lamps to attract business and add some scenery to the Tuojiang River.
The two girls each held a handful and called Zhu Tong and Huang Hai, but they asked for the lighter on their bodies.
Zhu Tong watched Ye Er and Mei Lanting jump onto the jumping rock in the river, and a light set off from them.
The wind blew the lights down the river tremblingly, flashing brightly and darkly, like stars falling into the Tuojiang River.
"There's a bar over there, and we're going to sit and wait for them; Ye'er is particular about putting lamps, ninety-nine lights each time, it takes a long time. Huang Hai pulled Zhu Tong across the jumping rocks to the bar on the other side of the Tuojiang River; There weren't many people, they sat down by the window, and from here they could see Ye Er and Mei Lan Pavilion with lights placed below, and they could also hear their laughter.
After the waiter brought a dozen beers, he returned to the bar and whispered to the little girl, Huang Hai picked up a bottle and drank it, pushed open the bamboo window and looked at the leaves in the river.
Huang Hai was silent all day today, and after drinking some rice wine just now, he seemed to be more cheerful, and then he was silent again.
Zhu Tong could feel what he was about to say, in fact, Zhu Tong had already made Huang Hai understand that he knew that the girl named Blossom had entered his room last night.
After drinking the two bottles of wine, Huang Hai turned his head and took out his cigarette.
The waiter came over and lit it for the two of them, and threw it on the table and the improvised lighter. It seems that as a waiter here, he understands what happened to two men, and the bar is next to the Jumping Rock, which is the best place to put river lights.
"Dr. Lee, thank you." Huang Hai took half of the cigarette in a few puffs and said a wordless without a head.
Zhu Tong didn't speak, for an opponent like Huang Hai who is not an opponent, he now has an absolute hole card, and now silence is the best gesture.
"Six years ago, I was the bully of our school;" Huang Hai began to speak, but it was not as Zhu Tong thought, and talked about the past.
"Fighting, pickling girls, and even stealing my wallet, not for money, but to experience that kind of excitement. If I had been expelled by school rules, the principal tolerated me only because he looked at my father's face.
"That year, Ye'er transferred from Suzhou to our school, and she sat next to me, and I didn't know why I was alive until I saw Ye'er ββ,; But can you understand? It was because of her that I began to change. In the first three months, Ye'er didn't even say a word to me, I used to hate going to school the most, because of her appearance, I never skipped class again. Even my mother was strange, thinking that I had suddenly learned well, Dr. Li, have you ever felt that way? β
Zhu Tong opened a bottle of beer and handed it to him, but still didn't speak.
People who are on alcohol generally don't have much of an eye; Huang Hai had drunk a lot of rice wine just now, and now he had drunk a few bottles of beer, and Zhu Tong hoped that he would be more drunk.
"Ye Er is so beautiful and pure, she is a gardenia, and someone will pay attention to her wherever she goes. It's not just me, but a few of our big brothers have taken a fancy to her. Because of Ye'er, I fought with them one by one, I was really desperate, and I didn't dare to stab people with a knife before. Since then, I have been determined to be a policeman, just to protect a girl like Ye'er, I will also be a policeman. β
Speaking of this, Huang Hai laughed: "Maybe now they don't know why they are so unlucky, I arrested them all in the second month of being a policeman, and now, those big brothers are still serving their sentences in prison." But Ye'er knows that she is the smartest girl, knows everything I have done for her, and that's enough, I am more happy than winning awards for meritorious service, I, I went to the police academy, Ye'er is smarter than me, she came to me after she was admitted to college, and she only said - two words: thank you. β
Obviously it was three words, Zhu Tong looked at the two fingers stretched out by Huang Hai in front of his eyes, judged that he was drunk, and gently took the wine bottle in front of him aside.
"I was so real that I didn't even dare to look at her, and Iβand I was in tears, no, no, no, no, not what you think, I was really blinded by the sand. When Ye'er came, I was playing football. Later, we started to write letters and make phone calls, she went to school in Nanjing, I was in Shanghai, she asked me to write a letter to her every day, and I paid for my classmates to write it, and I copied it. As a result, I don't have time to go outside at allββ, I have to go to Nanjing every week, by train. Ye'er likes me to wear a police uniform to meet her, saying that I feel safe, and I haven't worn civilian clothes at all in those years. I asked Ye'er why she liked me, and she said that I was soft-hearted. She said it was the first time she had seen a man cry. Butβbutβdamn it, I'm just soft-hearted. β
Huang Hai reached out to grab the wine bottle, and Zhu Tong held his hand: "Officer Huang, drinking can't solve anything." β
"If there is a problem, there is a problem, it's not Ye'er, it's me who has a problem. Ye'er said I'm a man, me. Huang Hai didn't insist, his eyes looked at the Tuojiang River outside the window.
Jumping on the rock in the river, Ye Er happened to look back here, stretched out his hand and waved a few times, and then bent down to put the river lantern; Zhu Tong gestured to Mei Lanting and asked her to delay Ye'er for as long as possible, he hoped to let Huang Hai finish speaking.
Mei Lanting turned around and ignored him, but Zhu Tong knew that she would do it, and that was also a smart person.
"But how can you sleep with an angel? You say, "Do you dare to take off the clothes of the angels?" Doctor Li, I didn't dare to touch her, if it wasn't for Ye'er taking the initiative to accommodate me, I wouldn't dare to hold her hand. I'm not very benzene! Every time I come back to Shanghai from Nanjing, I have to find another woman, but - me. β
"It's not benzene, you're stupid." Zhu Tong looked at Huang Haitong's red eyes and said, "No, no", but what he was thinking in his heart was not the nonsense he said.
"My mother, she likes Ye'er very much, saying that only Ye'er can control me, and saying that Ye'er saved me; She asked me to get married as soon as Ye'er graduated, and I was already a full-fledged police officer at that time, you know, I graduated a year earlier than Ye'er. If it weren't for the trip, if it wasn't for this illness, maybe we would have been married. β
"What's going on here?" Zhu Tong finally asked, and he saw that Ye Er had already finished putting the river lantern and walked here with Mei Lanting.
"Here I learned that there are many angels in the world, and angels are not the same as angels. Oh, Dr. Li, Ye'er is here, I can't say any more; I'll take you to a place tomorrow so you can meet someone, remember. β
Huang Hai was not really drunk, he saw Ye Er walking into the bar, and immediately shut up.
But Ye Er didn't shut up, seeing that Huang Hai was drinking too much again, his face immediately changed color, obviously he had an opinion on Zhu Tong, but he didn't know what to say. Only beating the Yellow Sea: "Haven't you ever drunk?" β
Mei Lanting waved her hand at Zhu Tong and grimaced, meaning that she couldn't help it.
Zhu Tong thought about what Huang Hai said and decided to bear this grievance; Ye'er will always understand one day, and that day will not be far away. Zhu Tong knew that the more he suffered now, the more he would be able to take advantage of it when the time came.
Suffering is a blessing; In the matter at hand, there are no two truths.
"Return, return! The Soul Returns! Don't be confused and spoil the scenery. β
Zhu Tong twisted out the silver needle, pricked a needle at the tip of each of the ears of the Yellow Sea, his fingers were like wheels, and he flicked them in others, Yintang, and temples.
Huang Hai woke up from a coma, Ye'er was a little embarrassed, she wanted to say something but didn't know what to say; Only then did she realize that people were obliged to help her see a doctor.
Zhu Tong smiled: "Two young ladies, return you to the flower messenger, I want to clean up alone and accompany less." "Get up, turn around and go.
Only Mei Lanting could see the strength shown by Zhu Tong's hand, which was a clever technique based on deep internal force; And Ye Er and Huang Hai only admired Dr. Li's miraculous medical skills.
said that he wanted to be clean, and the little liar went to a lively place, the Tianwang Temple in Phoenix City, which was the temple contracted by his second senior brother Zhu Yun in this famous scenic spot, and it was also the place where the owner of Xiaoyun Village fell here.
If a woman gives birth to a pair of almond eyes, Bacheng is a beauty, and the owner of Xiaoyun Village also has a pair of standard almond eyes, but he is a bold and strong Angzang man; Almond eyes make him feel less rude and more gentle and shrewd to outsiders; The only thing that was wrong was his thinning hair, which was almost completely naked in the middle.
Zhu Tong had just stopped outside the Tianwang Temple in the Phoenix Ancient City, and Zhu Yun, the owner of Xiaoyun Village, walked out with two personal disciples and a fat monk.
"Hello uncle, you are old and handsome." A well-behaved little monk greeted Zhu Tong with a smile, his name was Zhu Chengfeng, with a pair of black and bright snobbish eyes, he was Zhu Yun's most proud disciple, seventeen or eighteen years old, but he was very clever. Another person who was older than Zhu Tong was called Zhu Chenghu, but the Taoist priest was dressed very solidly, with a short and sturdy figure and a wooden face, and the uncle stood aside with the shouting.
"The old handsome guy is the same as the old **, it's not a good thing, pay attention not to talk nonsense in the future." Zhu Tong played a flick on Cheng Feng's head and looked at Cheng Hu: "You are becoming more and more like Master." β
"You go to eat and drink, Master Shifeng is not polite, find a place to relax after eating. When you come back, remember to read that scripture well. Zhu Yun saw Zhu Tong and waved his hand to the three people beside him to say a few words.
The fat monk was dressed in a robe, and there were several incense scars burning on his shiny bald head; Said politely: "Amitabha, thank you boss for taking care of it." Put on a leather coat and say a few polite words, and went to look for the lamp under the beckoning of Zhu Yun's two subordinates.
"Let's find a convenient place to eat, haven't you been here? I know of a place that's very lively. Zhu Yun grabbed Zhu Tong's hand and left.
Zhu Tong looked at the monk's huge body and asked strangely, "Senior brother, please come to the real monk?" β
"What true monk fake monk? A laid-off worker who just came from Hebei. I want his fat body; Today's business is not good, the fat monk sells well, and the pilgrims recognize this, and they are also willing to pay for it. β
"How many fat people are among your disciples?" Zhu Tong smiled and looked at the casual clothes on the second senior brother, "Your hair is less again, and you have a bit of fairy spirit when you change your body." β
Zhu Yun touched his half-bald head, not caring much about Zhu Tong's ridicule: "Senior brother, how can a few fat people be enough?" We have twenty-three dojos this year. A monk must have a wide heart and a fat body to be presentable, and a Taoist priest must have a thin and immortal spirit. Brought him here for training, Phoenix is now off-season, and he can't make money. , just these fat people have to eat me a lot of money every day. This fat man used to be an official, and he didn't do anything at home, so it's good to talk nonsense, and it's just right to do this. As soon as I pleased, I didn't talk nonsense, but I didn't want to serve, I like to drink and take a bath the most, and I always want to find a young lady. β
The owner of Xiaoyun Village took Zhu Tong across the Hongqiao Bridge, and was greeted by a lively night market.
The whole street is full of various food stalls, and the barbecue is the hottest, with thick smoke billowing and the aroma of meat blowing in the face; Even if Zhu Tong has already eaten and drunk, he can't help but be infected by the atmosphere of eating.
The owner of Xiaoyun Village was really chic, and when he came to the small shop selling rice wine at home, the shopkeeper moved out of the table and chairs, and asked with a smile: "Or the old rules?" β
"The wine should be hot, the meat should be tender, the peanuts should be boiled, and other bosses will do whatever they want."
The shopkeeper went to the stalls and came back with a hot drink.
First, the barbecue seller brought a charcoal stove, and after a while, the food sent by each family was set on a table, and the rice wine was also heated, and it was served in an aluminum pot.
"Senior brother, you're in big trouble." After Zhu Yun and Zhu Tong drank a glass of wine, they looked not far away and said.
"I know, but it's not very troublesome for someone to fight with us this time. When they left the train, most of their ability was lost, senior brother, Xiangxi is our hometown, and they are the ones who should be afraid of trouble. β
Zhu Tong looked across the street.
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