Chapter 32: The Gentle Immortal Venerable
Mo Heng squatted down, smiled and touched the little head of the child in front of him, his eyes were full of soft light and extremely gentle.
He took out a steamed bun from the paper bag in his hand and put it in the child's hand, and said with a smile: "Xiao Huan, eat quickly!" You must be hungry! ”
The boy was so happy that he grabbed the steamed bun and began to nibble on it.
Mo Heng stood up and shouted to the other five children in the hut, "Come and eat steamed buns!" I just bought it! Then the group of children rushed over like fish, Mo Heng took two out of the bag of steamed buns and handed them all the remaining steamed buns in the paper bag in his hand, and then the children all rushed to grab them.
Mo Heng squatted down and smiled at Xiao Huan in front of him and asked, "Xiao Huan, do you know where Brother Xiao Lu went?" Why didn't you see him? ”
Xiao Huan's action of eating steamed buns stopped, he lowered his head and blinked his eyes, frowned, and said lightly: "Actually, I don't know where Brother Xiaolu went, he has been going out for a while in the past two days, he was not like this before." ”
Mo Heng raised the corners of his lips, revealing a good-looking arc, and nodded: "I know, Brother Xiaolu may have something to do with himself......"
Unexpectedly, Xiao Huan immediately pursed his mouth after hearing this, and whispered a little angrily: "Brother Xiaolu is really strange, I always say that Brother Mo Heng is a ...... recently"
Seeing Xiao Huan's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Mo Heng asked, "What are you talking about me?" ”
Xiao Huan's face sank, and he muttered, "Say ...... Say ......"
Xiao Huan hesitated, as if something was blocked in his throat, he couldn't spit it out, he couldn't swallow it, and his face was swollen and red.
"Say what?" Mo Heng became more and more curious at this time.
Xiao Huan held back his flushed face and said angrily: "Brother Mo Heng, don't be angry after hearing this, Brother Xiaolu must be talking nonsense!" ”
"And what did he say?" Mo Heng couldn't help but laugh when he looked at Xiao Huan's serious appearance.
Xiao Huan said angrily: "He actually said that Brother Mo Heng is a monster!" Hum! Sling the bull! If he hadn't grown taller than me! I would have sewn his mouth with a thread a long time ago! ”
Mo Heng looked at Xiao Huan's indignant appearance and laughed out loud.
Xiao Huan looked at Mo Heng smiling violently, looked confused, turned his head to look at Mo Heng, blinked his eyes and asked, "Brother Mo Heng, what are you laughing at?" Look at Brother Xiaolu scolding you! Why are you still smiling so happily? ”
Mo Heng slowed down, smiled and lowered his body to scratch Xiao Huan's nose and said, "Brother Xiaolu's words must be a joke, why are you so serious!" You see I'm not angry, what are you angry about? ”
Xiao Huan frowned, and stopped talking: "But, but ......"
Mo Heng pushed Xiao Huan and said, "It's nothing! Go play with them! ”
Xiao Huan lowered his head, sighed, and looked back at Mo Heng, who smiled at him again, and Xiao Huan walked to the group of children to play together.
Mo Heng turned around, his back was a little lonely and sad, he let out a long sigh, his long and thick eyelashes drooped, and the smile he pretended to have before all dimmed. He walked outside the thatched hut, took out a handkerchief from his bosom and wrapped the two steamed buns that had just come out, he knew that Xiaolu would be hungry when he came back, and he would have to eat two steamed buns every time to fill his stomach.
Looking at the pile of firewood outside the house that had not yet been chopped, Mo Heng rolled up his white long sleeves, picked up the somewhat heavy machete, arranged the wooden blocks one by one, picked up the machete, and split the wooden blocks in his hand into several pieces.
Bai Shushu sat not far from Mo Heng's side, she raised her head and held her face to watch Mo Heng chop the firewood little by little. She wondered why Mo Heng didn't use his immortal skills to chop wood? But after thinking about it again, Mo Heng has never advocated the use of immortal arts among the people.
At this time, Mo Heng's smiling face is still so much, and it looks very warm, why is it so different from the Mo Heng I saw? And when did he experience this scene in front of him?
While she was thinking, a figure suddenly appeared in front of Bai Shushu, Bai Shushu's pupils suddenly contracted, and she was speechless in surprise.
The facial features of the person in front of him, his outline, and his body shape are exactly the same as the seventeen-year-old Mo Jiu?!
When Mo Heng saw Xiaolu coming back, he immediately put down the firewood in his hand that had not been chopped, walked to Xiaolu with a smile, and took out the two steamed buns from his wide sleeves.
Mo Heng looked at Xiao Lu with a smile and said, "Xiao Lu, these are the two steamed buns I kept for you, they are still hot, you can eat them quickly!" ”
Xiao Lu's eyes coldly swept over the two steamed buns held in Mo Heng's hand, and after taking them away with an expressionless face, he said coldly: "Thank you." ”
The expression of the speaker was extremely indifferent, Bai Shushu felt uncomfortable when he looked at it, but he didn't expect Mo Heng to still smile and continue to ask, "Xiaolu, where have you been recently?" ”
Unexpectedly, Xiaolu lowered his head and didn't look at Mo Heng, and said coldly: "I didn't go anywhere, I just felt bored staying here, so I wanted to go out for a walk." ”
"Well, yes, it's good to go out if you want to...... You can eat the steamed buns I gave you. Mo Heng smiled and admonished.
"Hmm." The man named Xiaolu replied indifferently, and then turned and went into the house.
Mo Heng walked to the stump of the wood cutting a little tiredly, he did not continue to cut the branches, but squatted on the ground, stunned.
Bai Shushu was very curious about what Mo Heng would be thinking, so he walked in front of Mo Heng and made all kinds of funny grimaces in front of him.
Mo Heng couldn't see her, still stiff and cold in the wind like a stake.
Bai Shushu really wanted to get into Mo Heng's mind to see what he was thinking, what would make him so unhappy.
After a long silence, as if he had figured it out, he stood up and patted the dust on his body, revealing a shallow smile, which seemed to comfort himself, he picked up the axe on the ground and continued to chop wood little by little.
It wasn't until it was getting dark that Yue'er climbed up to the treetops, and the sound of beating the watch sounded not far away, and the large pile of firewood was all chopped, and his forehead was full of beads of sweat the size of beans, and his back was also soaked.
He reached out and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his long sleeve, and then squatted down to pile up the firewood little by little.
I don't know what he was thinking, looking at the pile of wooden blocks that had been arranged, his face actually smiled, the corners of his lips slowly curved, revealing a beautiful arc, and his eyes seemed to be full of stars, both bright and gentle.
Bai Shushu sat on the ground, holding his face in his hands and looking at him stupidly, only to feel that he was so warm and gentle, like a warm breeze in March, gently blowing Bai Shushu's cheeks.
The children in the thatched hut were already asleep, and only a dim candle emitted a faint glow, and there was a lonely light in the dimly lit house.
The child named Xiaolu was sitting on a bed made of stones, holding a pair of tattered cloth shoes in his hand with his head down, stunned.
Mo Heng slowly walked to Xiaolu's side, lowered his head and looked at Xiaolu, his eyes were mixed with tiredness and gentleness, he lowered his voice and asked softly, "Xiaolu, what's wrong with you?" ”
Xiao Lu shook his head and said nothing, Mo Heng sat beside him, in the dim candlelight, the shadows of the two people were illuminated on the broken wall, becoming extremely large, with the fan of the candlelight, the shadows also shook together.
Xiao Lu was silent for a moment, there was some sadness in his eyes, but then he quickly disappeared into the darkness, he sniffed, raised his watery eyes and said softly: "This pair of shoes in my hand was made to me by my mother before her death, there was a famine in my hometown that year, and my mother was starved to death, this is the only thought my mother gave me, I didn't expect it to be broken like this, I'm sorry for my mother." ”
Mo Heng took the tattered cloth shoes from Xiao Lu's rough hands, and looked at them in his own hands, as if he could feel Xiao Lu's same sadness, and there was a thin layer of fog in his eyes.
"You miss her so much?" Mo Heng said softly.
"Well, yes, very much." After Xiao Lu finished speaking, he snatched the tattered cloth shoes from Mo Heng's hands, hugged them tightly in his arms, he turned his head and said to Mo Heng: "Brother Mo Heng, I'm a little tired today, I'm resting." ”
Mo Heng nodded with an "um" sound.
Mo Heng walked out of the house, sat on the ground, looked up at the dazzling stars in the sky, and was silent with one hand on his cheek. Bai Shushu walked slowly to Mo Heng's side, next to him, doing the same movements as him, holding his cheek with one hand, and looking up at the stars in the sky.
Suddenly, a bright meteor crossed the night sky, Bai Shushu was very surprised, she happily clasped her hands, closed her eyes and made a wish.
Usually when she was in the heavenly realm, she always pestered the star fairy to get off the meteor shower quickly, but the star fairy always told her that the meteor shower would come down once in more than ten years in the mortal world, and it was not that it could be down.
So Bai Shushu always got carried away by reading books at Jiheng, and missed every meteor shower.
The sense of surprise that she saw by chance this time made Bai Shushu even more excited, making her feel that it must be a very lucky thing if such a small probability could be encountered by herself.
Bai Shushu heard that there is luck in the mortal world, although sometimes luck is not very reliable, and it does not come every day, but the feeling of sudden and unexpected luck is really great!
As for what you wish, keep it a secret.
Mo Heng watched for a long time before returning to the house to rest, in fact, he didn't need to sleep and rest as an immortal at all, those were all things that mortals would do in order to replenish their physical strength and relieve fatigue.
However, Mo Heng has always behaved like a mortal in the mortal world, and it is not an exaggeration to do so.
The bed for sleeping in the thatched hut was not enough at all, just enough for the children to sleep, Bai Shushu walked to Mo Heng's side and saw him lying on the wooden table asleep, Bai Shushu smiled, sat down at the wooden table, and looked at him with his hands clenched into fists to support his chin, watching his long eyelashes tremble slightly in the candlelight, and his pale thin lips were pursed into a thin line.
She looked at him and smiled stupidly, she stretched out her index finger and touched the tip of Mo Heng's nose, and Mo Heng's brow suddenly frowned.
Bai Shushu immediately retracted his hand, thinking that he felt himself, and then waved his hand in front of Mo Heng, Mo Heng did not move, and Bai Shushu breathed a sigh of relief.
She learned Mo Heng's appearance, and also lay on the wooden table, pretending to sleep.
On the second day, she woke up immediately when she heard Mo Heng's movement, Mo Heng smiled at the children and told them something, and then put a piece of silver in Xiao Lu's hand, and said with a smile: "Xiao Lu, you take this money first, today I will go out to work to make money, you can help take care of them!" ”
Xiao Lu took the silver, just nodded, and didn't even say a word indifferently.
Xiao Huan hurriedly ran to Mo Heng's face, hugged his thighs enthusiastically and shook coquettishly: "Brother Mo Heng, you have to come back early!" Xiao Huan will miss you very much! ”
Mo Heng lowered his head and touched Xiao Huan's head, nodded and said, "Okay, well, that brother promised you to come back early." ”
Xiao Huan blinked his big eyes, his eyelashes flickered and nodded with a smile.
Then Mo Heng went out, he didn't go to the restaurant where he worked yesterday, but came to a pharmacy, doing a job of helping people catch medicine.
Mo Heng is very cautious in doing things, and when he weighs the medicinal materials, the weighing rod in his hand is carefully measured, he is afraid that if he has more or less money, the patient will have problems because of the amount of medicine.
The doctor in the medical hall looked at Mo Heng as honest, although he was more handsome, but he didn't have the fancy intestines that those handsome people have.
The doctor was sitting in the infirmary, waiting for the patient to come and treat him, when suddenly a strong man in a coarse cloth shirt ran into the infirmary with a gray-haired old woman on his back.
"Doctor, help save my mother!" The big man said anxiously.
The doctor glanced at the mother and son, his eyes rolled, he didn't know what he was thinking about, he walked up to the big man and asked the first question was not your mother's illness, but the first sentence he didn't expect was: "Do you have any money on you?" ”
The doctor hurriedly wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, frowned, and panted: "Doctor, I only have fifteen cents on me, do you see enough?" The big man hurriedly took out the black coins from his pocket and tried to stuff them into the doctor's hand.
Unexpectedly, the doctor looked displeased, and said with a solemn face: "How can this money be enough for the consultation?" What are you and I here? Go somewhere else for healing! ”
The big man's face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly said, "Doctor! You see my mother's illness is like this! Help save her! She was born with asthma, and her health is even worse when she is older, I heard that you have a medicine here that is very helpful for this disease! I'm going to beg you to help save her! After speaking, he knelt on the ground with a thud.
Mo Heng looked at the old man who was constantly wheezing because of his illness, and then looked at the big man who was sad because he had no money to pay for the consultation.
In fact, if you want to receive medical fees, the few pennies are actually enough, but it's just that this doctor dominates the township because he is the only doctor in the town, and he is close to those officialdom and magnates on weekdays, so he is even more arrogant.
The big man grabbed the doctor's arm and hurriedly begged, "Doctor! Help save my mother! If you don't save her, she's going to die! Looking at the appearance of such a big man who was about to cry, Mo Heng felt a twitch in his heart, he looked at the doctor's hesitant expression, and thought that he was going to agree, but he never expected that the doctor would shake the big man's hand hard and said, "No money!" It can't be cured! It doesn't matter to me if I'm dead! ”
Mo Heng froze in place at the moment, stiffened his body, he couldn't believe his ears at all, and even had a little suspicion that he had heard it wrong!
"Doctor! Doctor! The big man knelt on the ground and pleaded.
Mo Heng finally couldn't stand it, hurriedly walked out of the medicine cabinet, came to the doctor, and said sternly: "The money for this treatment will be paid by my salary!" ”
The doctor turned his body a little fat, looked up at Mo Heng, and snorted, "You are really a solid-eyed person!" After speaking, he turned his head to the big man, and without raising his eyelids, he said, "Remember the appearance of your benefactor, don't forget!" ”
The big man hurriedly turned around and kowtowed to thank him: "Thank you, benefactor!" The great kindness of the benefactor, we will never forget it for the rest of our lives! ”
Mo Heng hurriedly helped the big man up and said, "No need, no need, curing your mother's illness quickly is the most important thing now!" ”
"Thank you, benefactor! You are truly a reincarnated bodhisattva! The big man was about to cry as he spoke, and he looked like he was moving.
That day, Mo Heng walked out of the door of the hospital without taking a penny, originally he wanted to use the money he earned to buy a pair of insoles and fabrics for Xiaolu to make him a pair of shoes, but the day's salary was gone, he took out his shirt from the front of his clothes, and took out his last piece of broken silver, which he earned when he worked in a restaurant before, and originally planned to keep it in the future for emergencies, but now he thinks that now is the time to need it.
So he went to a fabric shop, walked in, and when he came out, he already had a pair of insoles and indigo cloth in his hand, and he gently tucked the needle and thread in his other hand into his sleeve, and then walked back happily.
Later, I used the rest of the money to buy some steamed buns.
Now he has no money on him.
Bai Shushu had been following him, looking up at Mo Heng, knowing that Mo Heng couldn't see or hear, so he was even more elated, and he usually didn't dare to say anything in the heavenly realm.
"Mo Heng! Did you buy the insoles and fabrics to make a pair of shoes for the kid named Xiaolu? I really didn't expect you to have such good craftsmanship, Mo Heng, when I can wear the shoes you made for me! Then I will definitely be moved to tears! ”
"Mo Heng, do you know that I like you? You won't know anyway! Then I'll say a few more times here that I like you! Hahahaha! ”
"Mo Heng, at this time, you are really gentle, so warm, so likable! But why are you always so cold when you go to the heavenly realm? ”
"Mo Heng, don't be so cold, okay? I wish you could be gentle and warm to me! ”
"Mo Heng, forget it, blame me for my crankiness, you know? Even if you're cold, I like you......"