Chapter 20 Arrival in Beijing
At the station, I was still immersed in grief and couldn't extricate myself, but I found that Master was already waiting for me in front, Master took my luggage, did not speak, and then patted me on the head. Then I walked forward, Dad stopped, I didn't look back at him, I followed Master forward.
"Well-off, some things don't just look at the present, life is always divided and combined, and now you don't understand. Although parting is bitter, although lovesickness is bitter in the future, the cause and effect between you and your parents will not be disconnected, and you will always meet again. Master shook his shoulders and didn't look back, and said to me
Will I be helpless in the future?
Looking at the back in front of the master, the tears I had endured for so long finally flowed out and slid across my face, but there was a little more expectation in my heart, I shouldn't be obsessed with the present, because I will come back eventually, right?
Perhaps Master is accustomed to this kind of unruly life, and I once heard him sigh that this small mountain village of my family is the place where he has stayed for the longest time in his life, because he is looking for me as a disciple.
For Master, the peaceful life I yearn for may be a luxury, right? Master is also old, but he is still running for me.
It sounds good to say indifferently, the Tao is natural, I understand, but I can't do it, it's just an empty sentence in a book for me.
Master took me by the hand and suddenly turned a corner, came to an inn and said to me, "Let's stay for the night." ”
"Why stay one night?" I don't understand.
"For your farewell, although you kid didn't grow up with me, he knows you best, and he always hesitates in parting and emotional matters, of course I will fulfill you." Master said so, and pulled me in.
With a light sigh, I followed, the wheat fields on the mountain, the clear springs in the col, the apple trees in that area, the pine forest on the top of the mountain, every place is my memory, I laugh here, grow here, even angry and sad, they accompany me through my childhood......
"Xiaokang, do you want to go for a walk after eating?" Master threw down his luggage and asked me.
"Nonsense, of course." I said out loud that I wanted to see the place where I was born and raised.
"Haha, I think so too, Xiaokang, do you remember that lonely grave." Master said with a smile.
How could I possibly forget? It was that time that I heard poignant love for the first time, when I was young and didn't know what love was, and now I'm eleven years old, although I haven't experienced love, but I can understand some of it. Every time I think about it, there is a trace of sadness.
Master is a simple person, and since he has made a decision, he strides with me like the village. But when I got to the entrance of the village, I didn't dare to take half a step forward.
"Xiaokang, let's go." Master stood at the entrance of the village without speaking, and when he saw me standing at the entrance of the village for a long time, he finally reminded me that it was time to go.
I didn't cry this time, but smiled, because I figured out that these memories are mine, I have them, they belong to me, no one can take them away, I have nothing to be sad about, and on the way to growth, we have walked together together.
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Finally, Master and I left, that morning.
No one came to see each other off, and no one knew, Master and I left like this, life in this village will not change, except for my parents, the rest of the people may remember the existence of Master and me, maybe they will not remember.
However, I must not forget, because this is my home, and if I return to my roots, it is my roots.
Many years later, I heard Xiaoqi talk about how he once squatted and cried at the station where he was very unproductive.
"Xiaokang, you fuck, you didn't say anything to me when you left, I thought I didn't care about separation, but the fuck still cried without a trace." This is a passage that Xiao Qi told me.
I didn't know that Xiao Qi had been here, but I only knew that at that time, on the train, Master suddenly said to me, "Xiaokang, we have left Shandong." ”
Finally, I left.
After getting off the train, a military vehicle picked us up at Beijing Railway Station, I made a military vehicle for the first time, full of curiosity, and then drove for about half an hour and came to a courtyard. Master casually threw his luggage on the ground, and then said to me, "Anyway, from today onwards, I will pass on to you the secret techniques of our mountain range, and some methods of practicing Qi and Neidan, and I will also start to teach you slowly." Master didn't know why, but suddenly became serious.
"Mountain Secrets?" I'm curious.
"Well, don't you envy my ability? The secret art of the mountain range is to draw talismans, hand tricks, step gangs, etc., you have to learn it hard from today. ”
"Good!" I am very happy in my heart, I have wanted to learn these things since I started apprenticeship, and I can finally learn them from today.
"Let's start with who I am." My master suddenly became mysterious to me.
Identity? What identity? I was stunned for a moment, in my heart, my master is a capable and obscene old man, but he doesn't do anything serious every day, is it possible that he still has a great identity? Shouldn't it, I still took my mother's money with an identity? But I suddenly thought of one thing, my dad told me that when I went to my master for an accident, the mysterious hotline for calling was definitely not available to ordinary people.
I didn't think about this matter before, but now I really feel that my master is very unusual.
When the driver heard what my master said, he left the courtyard and took the courtyard with him, and the master waited for him to leave before he said to me, "Although you see that I am very idle, we are indeed doing things for the country!" ”
"The country? Big official? I asked, star-eyed.
"To put it in detail, when the country is in trouble, when you are desperate to find me, I will take action. But at the beginning, I still had your uncle's request that I not do things for individuals, but the country is in trouble, and we have to take action. ”
I nodded, but I didn't understand it at the time: "Master, your official is very big?" "I remembered the special line at that time and immediately asked.
"I'll tell you something about this later, but now that you're too young, you just know that I'm going to do things for the country." Master didn't answer my question.
"Then Master, why do you want to help the country? It's good to be free, and it's a lot of money to help others catch ghosts, right? ”
"By the way, those who have attained the Tao will be helped, and your Tao Te Ching has been copied in vain? Actually, this is the order of your ancestor, and I can't help it, he said that we do things for our family and country, for the nation, and the people's affairs are great good. ”
"You don't have to copy the Tao Te Ching anymore, how much you understand is yours, understand?" Master immediately changed the subject.
But if I don't copy the Tao Te Ching, it doesn't mean I'm idle! Something like a book on that day is the beginning of the nightmare.