Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Bell Must Be Tied to the Bell (14)
"I'm going to eat sugar candy." Hu Yinbao is cute and coquettish like a three-year-old child.
The golden blind man reached out and touched the earthen kang, and after touching something, he said, "Is this it?"
"Yes, yes, that's it, can you help me unwrap the skin? It is not delicious to have skin. Hu Yinbao nodded happily and frantically, telling him that he had taken it right.
The golden blind man frowned: "How to dismantle it?" Is it to tear this layer of paper apart? ”
"Yes, yes." Hu Yinbao took two steps forward and began to instruct the blind man on how to unpack the wrapping paper.
The golden blind man has dexterous fingers and has been blind all year round, and he has long known how to touch the texture of objects, so he tore off the sugar skin in less than three seconds and handed the candy to Hu Yinbao who was squatting on the edge of the kang.
"Thank you." Hu Yinbao carefully took the candy, not letting the hair on his body touch the hand of the blind man.
The golden blind man put his hands on his knees awkwardly: "Can you help me see what else?" I don't know if the village chief bought me anything too valuable, but if he did, he would not be worth the money he owed me. ”
"There's canned fruit, there's compressed biscuits, there's a small bag of pork jerky, and date cakes...... Jujube cake is my favorite food! I've eaten a small piece before, and I can't forget the taste until now, it's so fragrant! "Hu Yinbao is worthy of being a foodie little gluttonous cat, well-informed, and knows all the snacks in the baggage, but he can't change the essence, and he especially wants to eat.
The golden blind man nodded: "It's not too valuable, where is the jujube cake?" I'll take it apart for you and give it for you to eat. ”
"Let's eat together, such delicious food, I will eat it by myself, Brother Jinbao will scold me to death." Hu Yinbao thought that Jinbao's brother once scolded her, she didn't know how to share, she only knew how to eat alone. So now we have to change our past mistakes, after all, being open-minded is a good thing for spiritual practice.
The golden blind man turned around and groped for the most easily distinguished canned fruit, picked up the canned fruit, buckled the lid of the canned in the palm of his hand, slapped the bottom of the bottle three times and then came back to take it, twisted it hard, unscrewed the lid of the can, and put the canned fruit with the lid in front of Hu Yinbao: "Just eat the sugar water of the canned fruit, don't choke, give me the jujube cake."
"Here you go." Hu Yinbao took a sip of sugar water, smashed it, smashed it, and put the jujube cake in the hands of the golden blind man.
The golden blind man opened the oil paper that sealed the jujube cake, put the jujube cake next to the canned fruit, took out a handshake cigarette without a filter from his pocket, put it in his mouth, lit it with a match, took two puffs, and sighed: "If I were not blind, I could go to the county town to earn money to save food stamps and buy you more delicious food."
"No, no, these are enough, I used to eat these delicious foods during the Chinese New Year! Ay? Is this thing you smoke called a cigarette? I've heard my second grandfather say that we have to call this thing a grass roll, and when he was there before, he liked to smoke it. Hu Yinbao held a piece of jujube cake in his hand, sniffing his nose and smelling the smell of tobacco.
The golden blind man smoked a cigarette and sighed a lot: "Smoking is not good for your health, but sometimes you have to smoke, take two more puffs, feel more comfortable, and be less depressed, it can be regarded as a way to relieve your mood...... ”
"If you are not in good health, you still smoke, where do these big truths come from." Hu Yinbao complained stupidly, chewing the jujube cake, and his heart was still beautiful.
The golden blind man's hand puffing out the cigarette had nowhere to be placed, he seemed to be caught in some unsightly memory, and said to Hu Yinbao in a rambling voice: "I didn't smoke until that time on the battlefield, I saw my comrades-in-arms being knocked over by bullets, and their limbs were blown off by their hands in the trench, and the blood sprayed me on the spot, I was very scared, I was afraid that I would die incompletely, and I couldn't even find the way home."
"At the end of that war, I killed one enemy with ten bullets, and when I fought with bayonets, I killed two enemies. And my brethren, except for me and the squad leader, all the rest are dead, dead. ”
"The squad leader and I slept all night in the pile of dead, and it was not until the next day that the enemy was beaten away by the main force before we dared to show our heads, and we dared to clean up the stumps of our dead brothers and bury them intact. When I was picking up the organs, I vomited three full times, and then I didn't vomit anything, so I became numb. ”
"The squad leader didn't say a word, but I could see the tears on his face, and he told me to go and rest for a while, dig the pit myself, and put all the brothers in it, and those young lads, just like that, were gone."
"I sat in the trench, crying and crying, until the old squad leader came over and handed me a cigarette, this is the dead still have a cigarette seized before his death, the cigarette is much hotter than the current cigarette, I retched, the squad leader comforted me next to me, smoke, goodbye to the dead, just smoke a cigarette, I don't have any thoughts, and I won't be afraid."
The golden blind man's eyes widened, and it seemed that those images appeared in front of him, but he could not see them now.
When the cigarette was almost burned and his hand was burned, he woke up from his memory: "I also think that cigarettes are not a good thing, after I am blind, I will smoke two or three cigarettes every day to support me to live, because there is still hope, there is hope, it is good."
"You've been a soldier?" Hu Yinbao silently listened to the heartbreaking story.
The golden blind man lit another cigarette depressed and told his thoughts: "I have been, I have been a big soldier for four years, and after beating the little devils, I will leave the team with my old squad leader, and neither of us wants to face each other with our own people."
"And how old are you?" Hu Yinbao looked at the golden blind man in surprise, how can he see that the golden blind man is not too old, there is twenty-five or six in the sky, and he has lived in the village for a few years, how old do you have to be to be a soldier!
The golden blind man smiled slightly: "Guess how old I am."
"Twenty-four?" Hu Yinbao tentatively reported the age number.
The blind man grabbed his hair: "I'm forty-six years old."
"What's the fun? Are you forty-six years old? Why are you so young? I haven't gotten old at all! "Hu Yinbao can't believe that the golden blind man is forty-six years old, and the immortal family cultivation can't control the aging of his face, what is the situation of this human being? Is there a way to stay on the face? What is an old man doing in his face?!
The golden blind man smiled and explained the mystery: "Before the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression started, I accompanied my old squad leader to his hometown in the northeast, and when I just crossed the Shanhaiguan, I passed by an ordinary mountain range, and suddenly an old man in his sixties appeared, saying that today he has a hexagram in his heart, knowing that there are two destined people who will pass by here, and he will accept two destined people as apprentices and grant the art of immortality."
"Long ...... Bear? Hu Yinbao recited these two words carefully, and shouted incredulously: "Then you have cultivated the art of immortality?" No wonder you have the ability to catch water monkeys, I see! ”
The golden blind man continued: "I and my old squad leader, have worshiped the old man as a teacher, since then the old squad leader has become my senior brother, we have been in the mountains with the master to learn the art of immortality for four years, after the cultivation, my appearance has been maintained as it is now, has not aged, my body function is not reduced, but more and more cultivation more and more strength, until the founding of New China, the master said that he will teach us, he has some important things to do, and he will not come back for a long time, so let us go down the mountain, After practicing the Dao Heart in the red dust, I was separated from my senior brother, and I came to Longjiang Province, waiting for my senior brother to come looking for me, and I knew that my senior brother would find me one day. ”
"Your master is really powerful, he can teach such an excellent apprentice as you, so why are your eyes blind?" Hu Yinbao listened to the story patiently, and then poked the golden blind man in the sore spot without emotional intelligence.
The golden blind man sighed lightly, rubbed his eyes, and didn't say the reason why he was blind for a long time, and finally raised his head and said in a low tone: "I won't mention this, it's not a glorious thing, I'll talk to you when I have a chance in the future, let's eat first, you finish eating, I'll sleep."
"Okay." Hu Yinbao was slightly disappointed and ate the jujube cake in his paws.