Chapter 46: The Cold War
"Father-in-law, I heard Xiaoshui say that his eldest brother wanted to worship you as a teacher, why did you confiscate him?"
"I have to say that it's for you, it's definitely not that good." Cui Jiuan turned around and said with a smile.
"Don't believe it, you kid, that Quanjiang did almost become my apprentice."
"Then why didn't you take him?" Cui Ran couldn't wait to ask.
"That kid is first-class good in character and appearance, the only headache is the brain, right is right, wrong is wrong, I don't know the compromise, plus his parents who want him to seek fame, so I confiscate him."
"I think this is also very good, and he must be a good official who is diligent and loves the people in the future."
"This kind of person is difficult to mix with officialdom." Cui Jiuan couldn't help but complain.
"Second brother, you can't look at the world as a better place." Cui Ranxin felt that the other party's awkward illness had flare up again.
"This time my heart is right, there are always a group of people in this world who are willing to abandon their families and sacrifice their lives to create a bright sky for the people."
"Yes, you're right, I'm a villain." Cui Jiuan understands what the two of them mean, and he also believes in the beauty of this world, but there are some rules that are sinister that people with pure hearts rack their brains and can't imagine in their lifetime. They are conventional, they need not be said explicitly, everyone obeys them, and if you have no shade, you can only crawl on your own, and the hardships of them can repel thousands of enterprising hearts.
"Actually, what I really regret about my father-in-law is another child, that child is talented and cute, but it's a pity that he doesn't want to study medicine, otherwise he will be very successful with his qualifications."
Du Youjia recalled that the little boy in the Taoist temple stared at him with a pair of watery eyes and said, "Divine doctor, why can't you save my father?" β
"Father-in-law, let's hear it, otherwise it's so dark and the road is so difficult to walk, I'm a little scared."
Cui Ranxin didn't expect that the lies he made up at random were taken to heart by the people who opened the way in front.
"Come on!" Cui Jiuan was half-squatting, and the girl jumped up unceremoniously.
"I'm still afraid of being a teacher!" Du Youjia also pinched his throat and coquettishly towards Cui Jiuan.
"Ride your old scalper."
"I'm not too worried about you, my cow is walking too slowly, so I left it." Du Youjia pretended to be aggrieved.
"Father-in-law, tell a story! Tell a story! Cui Ran just wanted to listen to Du Youjia's interesting stories about the past, so as not to look at the two of them crookedly.
"It's been ten years! I went to the mountains to collect medicine, and then the road met a view, that Taoist temple was not there before, and then built, because I have to go there every few years to collect medicine, that road is the only way, the Taoist temple borrowed a family of three, the male protagonist was seriously ill, even I was helpless, I could only watch him get thinner and thinner, exhaust the last trace of strength, leaving orphans and widows, I see that the child is early and smart, and wants to take it with him, his mother agrees, but he himself does not want to, so this thing is done, and now the child should be sixteen or seventeen years old, I don't know what it looks like! β
"Father-in-law, if he is really as smart as you say, he will not have a bad time, don't worry."
"Also, that boy is as shrewd as a monkey, and I always call him Monkey." Du Youjia sounded the child's smart appearance, counting some sweet medicine in his pocket every day, which he made for children who didn't like to take medicine and were afraid of bitterness, who knew that he was eaten as candy by that little guy and deceived more than half.
"I really want to meet, the boy you said father-in-law." Cui Ranxin sighed.
Listening to the sigh of the person on his back, Cui Jiuan instantly wanted to let go and fall on her, so that she could have a long memory, and think about irrelevant people all day long.
"Father-in-law, if that's not the case, next time you go to collect medicine, take us with you!" Cui Ranxin turned his head and said to Du Youjia, his eyes lit up.
"Okay." Du Youjia is full of mouths.
In an instant, the person under him stopped, let go of his hand, and said coldly: "I'm tired, you come down and walk by yourself." β
Cui Ranxin raised her hand and touched the other party's forehead, obviously she didn't sweat, but at the moment when her fingertips touched it, Cui Ranxin's ass hurt, and she was actually thrown down directly by the other party.
"Stinky boy, what are you crazy about, she is not sensible, you are not sensible, what should I do if I break my baby daughter?" Du Youjia supported the people in the bushes.
"Come on, come on, he doesn't carry you, the father-in-law carries you, and the father-in-law has strength."
But no matter how Du Youjia persuaded Cui Ranxin, she only felt uncomfortable in her heart, and she didn't want to cry to vent, thinking about it, she felt that she couldn't let go of the other party like this, she didn't know what she had done wrong, she took a breath, stretched out her leg and kicked hard at the other party's popliteal fossa, Cui Jiuan was caught off guard and knelt on one knee, and the two looked at each other and didn't let each other go.
For a long time, the two of them turned their heads and ignored each other, but fortunately, the Valley of Hundred Medicines was in front of them, and as soon as they entered the valley, they both went back to the house, leaving Du Youjia, who was alone in the courtyard, to enjoy the moon and the wind, leisurely.
There are still words in his mouth: "It's good to be young!" β
Cui Ranxin just went out with his clothes in his arms, and after a while, the door of the next room also opened.
Seeing Cui Jiu'an coming out with his clothes in his arms, Du Youjia shouted loudly: "When I was taking a bath, I caught a snake when I caught it." β
The two left together, but one went to the hot springs and the other to take a cool bath.
Half an hour later, the young man who came back was sure to have a black sheath snake stuck in his short sword, and the snake's tail was still shaking slightly.
Dropping the snake, Cui Jiuan planned to go back to the house.
"Come on, come onβhave a drink with the master."
Du Youjia grabbed the person who was leaving, and sat on the stake chair by his shoulders.
"You say you're still young, aren't you? What to be angry with the little girl! Du Youjia poured a full cup for the other party as he spoke.
"I don't drink, I'm still mad at you." Cui Jiuan didn't take the wine glass.
"Master Cui, where did the old man make you unhappy?" Now it's Du Youjia's turn to be confused.
"I don't say it." Cui Jiuan turned sideways, picked up the wine glass he had just refused, and drank it all.
"You don't say how I know what I'm doing wrong and say it." Looking at Cui Jiu'an, whose eyes were a little sluggish, Du Youjia was seductive.
"Then I said, the master is not allowed to laugh at me." Du Youjia took the opportunity to refill the other party.
"Absolutely no joke."
Goo-toot - the boy is another cup.
"When I was a child, I would eat my mother when I saw her caring for my younger brothers, but I knew that my mother also loved me, but I just couldn't control my feelings. I thought I was the only apprentice of the master, but I didn't expect the master to have so many-"
Knock - the young man who had not finished his sentence lay on the stone table.
"Oops! One cup would have been enough. Du Youjia looked at the already drunk teenager and said with annoyance.
The night breeze hit, it was extremely cool, and the young man who had just bathed was thinly dressed, although the weather was hot, but he couldn't blow the cold outside, so he helped the young man back to his room and gently put it on the bed.
"Silly boy, the master understands that early wisdom is not necessarily a good thing."
Closed the door and walked out of the house, and the girl who stepped on the moonlight in the distance was fluttering, like a Yaotai fairy.
"No wonder this kid is so persistent at such a young age, the little girl has grown up!"