Chapter Twenty-Four: A Heartbreaking Past

Cheng Shi sealed it with one hand and pressed it on the top of the fool Xiao Wu'er's head. Xiao Wu'er was originally tyrannical and abnormal, but after pressing the handprint, she actually cried, crying very sadly, sitting on the ground like a child who had made a mistake.

Cheng Shi slowly raised his hand, he looked like he was a teenager old, and his full head of white hair looked particularly vicissitudes in the afterglow of the setting sun.

He staggered over and pulled me up from the ground, and I had palpitations: "Teacher Cheng......"

Cheng Shi waved his hand and said, "Xiao Feng, I can't keep you at home for the time being." Well, you go outside and find a restaurant called 'Good Luck Lai', I have an old acquaintance with the owner, and you say that I introduced you. You open a private room, drink tea and wait for me, and I'll talk to you when you have anything to say. ”

I didn't dare to stay any longer, it was just what I wanted.

I looked at Xiao Wu'er, who was sitting in the yard in a daze, with goosebumps all over his body, and hurriedly left his house. I went out along the alley and inquired all the way, and many people knew that good luck was coming, so I pointed me in the direction, and I looked for it.

Good luck is a home-cooked restaurant, don't look at the door is not big, the business is quite hot, full inside and out. A woman dressed as a proprietress came up to me and greeted me warmly: "Sir, have something to eat." ”

I said, "I'm a friend of Mr. Cheng Shi, and he asked me to open a private room here and wait for him, and he will come over later." ”

When the proprietress heard that it was Cheng Shi who introduced her, she became even more enthusiastic, which made me wonder if these two people had a leg. She took me up to the second floor, where several private rooms were full, but there was a small private room around the corner.

The environment here is good, facing the window, she asked me to sit and let the waiter make tea.

I said, "Boss, Cheng Shi is a frequent visitor here?" ”

"Lao Cheng is our great benefactor," the proprietress said, "no matter when he comes, the private room will be reserved for him." ”

"What's going on?" I'm interested.

The proprietress smiled, her eyes were a little blank, and said: "That kid in my family was infected with an evil disease, which was cured by Lao Cheng, and now he has married a daughter-in-law and has a child, and our whole family is grateful to him." ”

"It's the first time I've come to visit him," I said, "he's a fragrant boy who opened his mouth, so why don't you do it now?" And there are so many mentally ill people in the family. ”

The proprietress looked at me: "What did Lao Cheng say?" ”

I said I hadn't had time to ask him yet.

The proprietress smiled: "You should ask him this question, he has a lot of stories, and it's not for me, an outsider, to interject casually." ”

The proprietress is also a good person, and I will leave after entertaining me. I leaned against the window, drank tea slowly, fiddled with my phone from time to time, and waited for an hour.

I couldn't sit still, secretly thinking, it was not a way to wait like this, seeing that the sky was about to get dark, I had better find a place to live first.

At this time, the waitress came to refill the tea and asked me what I needed, and I asked her if there was a hotel nearby. As we were talking, we heard heavy footsteps from the stairs, and as we approached, the door opened, and Cheng Shi walked in with a tired face.

He sat heavily on the chair like a noodle pocket, didn't want to move anymore, panted and said, "Tell the proprietress to serve the food, the guests are in a hurry." Tell you that the proprietress is still the same, plus your home-brewed liquor. ”

The waiter walked away with the menu.

Cheng Shi squeaked and drank the tea, and did not speak, and let him drink all the tea in a while. The atmosphere in the private room was very depressing, and I coughed and said, "Teacher Cheng, what about those patients?" ”

Cheng Shi said "oh": "All of their families are here, and they are all taken home." I'll send it back tomorrow morning. ”

In order to open up the topic, I racked my brains and thought about the question: "Is there anyone in the family who doesn't come to collect it, and just throws the patient at you?" ”

"Why not." Cheng Shi smiled bitterly: "I've seen a lot. But they don't dare to play tricks on me, and my reputation is okay here. ”

"What happened to the set of handprints you dealt with Xiao Wu'er just now?" I asked.

At this time, the waiter began to serve the food, and brought a wine jug and two wine cups. Cheng Shi picked up the wine jug: "Xiao Feng, try this." ”

He poured a cup in front of me, and I looked at the wine, it was actually crimson, reflecting the light, and there were a lot of impurities in it, and I was a little afraid to drink it: "This is?" ”

Cheng Shi said: "This is their family's home-brewed medicinal wine, using fox bones. ”

I took a sip, it was spicy and fragrant, and my limbs were indescribably comfortable. I fainted after taking a sip, and I rubbed my head: "Good wine!" Mr. Cheng, what kind of bone did you just say? ”

"Fox bones," Cheng Shi took a sip, his pale face stained with a hint of ruddy: "Fox bones." ”

"What's that?" I almost threw up: "Can this thing make wine?" ”

"Hehe, what can't be soaked," Cheng Shi smiled: "The most outrageous medicinal wine I have ever drunk is soaked in coffin fungi." ”

I was dumbfounded: "What the hell is that?" ”

Cheng Shi said: "The hundred-year-old coffin dug up, scraped out of it a fungus that grows on the coffin board, similar to a mushroom, and taking it with that soaked wine is a great tonic and aphrodisiac for men." ”

I wiped the sweat from my head, this old man was really not mortal.

Cheng Shi took a bite of the dish, spicy fried pig ears, and nodded: "Xiao Feng, tell me your story, why do you want to come here to find me." ”

In front of the real person not to tell lies, I will pay off the debts of the second sister, I want to inherit the mother-in-law of the wind eye to save people and take revenge, but she refused, Aunt Hong wrote me the address, let me point out the maze and say it again.

Cheng Shi listened while eating, squeaking and drinking wine from time to time.

I said sincerely, "Mr. Cheng, I came all the way to visit you just to ask for an answer. ”

Cheng Shi looked at the hazy black outside the window, and said for a long time: "There are many things in the world that cannot be judged in words. For example, if you ask my mother-in-law's question, what is the purpose of practice, I know the answer. ”

I hurriedly listened: "Please also ask Teacher Cheng for advice." ”

Cheng Shi waved his hand: "But I can't say it." ”

I looked at him in amazement, puzzled.

Cheng Shi said: "The answer to this question is not spoken, but made. This answer encompasses my nearly thirty years of experience, including my entire life up to this point. Language is a thing that has limitations, if you don't talk about it, it is a whole existence, and once you talk about it, it becomes a fragment of words, and you can't say it completely. I have experienced a lot of things, my wife and family are separated, and I can't talk about it for three days and three nights, but now when I recall my whole life, I just sighed in the end. ”

His eyes were moist, and his hands were trembling with his glass, and he could tell that he was old, and this old age was exhausting and weary.

He drank his wine in one gulp: "That's it, Xiao Feng, I'll inform the patient's family when I go back later, don't send the patient here tomorrow, I'll take a day off and take you to Dagu Mountain." ”

"Okay," I said, "I haven't been to Dagu Mountain yet, are we going to worship the temple?" ”

"Worship the temple? Hehe," he smiled, "I'll take you to scold someone!" ”

"Swearing?" I was stunned.

Cheng Shi said: "I have to scold him every three or five times, and this person should also be scolded." ”

"He'll honestly let you scold?" I wondered.

Cheng Shi laughed: "He has a big temper, but he coaxed me when he saw me, because he was at a loss!" Not only did I scold him, but I also pointed my nose at him! ”

I had a very good conversation with Cheng Shi, but when it came to him, he waved his hand and told me that he would tell me after scolding this person tomorrow.

I was so drunk that I didn't think much about it and let him arrange it. We are like long-lost brothers, and finally hugged each other's necks to make friends, I just remembered to go to see the hotel, Cheng Shi was unhappy: "Brother Feng, come to me and go to live in the hotel, you are scolding me, how can you gain a foothold in the rivers and lakes after it is spread." ”

After we finished eating, we stumbled out of the restaurant, and the town was empty at night, and the yellow street lamps were on. Cheng Shi speaks the Northeast vernacular, and sings two people vigorously. I drank okay, helped him to go home, Cheng Shi sang and sang, suddenly cried, leaned against the wall and vomited, and then squatted on the ground and cried silently.

I endured the sour smell, and I had to soothe him and pat him on the back.

Cheng Shi cried very loudly: "Son, my son, Dad is sorry for you!" Then he made a move that I didn't expect, and slapped himself in the mouth so hard that he saw that he was really drunk. I remembered that he had said at the wine table that his family had lost and his wife had been separated, and it seemed that his son had nothing good to come of. I tried to ask, "...... your son?"

"Dead!" He began to cry.

I hurriedly said, "Teacher Cheng, don't be sad, your son's spirit in the sky probably doesn't want you to blame yourself and be too sad." ”

Cheng Shi nodded: "Yes, yes, you are right!" My son has a good heart, he is the reincarnation of a fairy child, he is very merciful, he doesn't want to see me sad. ”

I took the opportunity to ask, "Teacher Cheng, what happened to your son?" ”

Cheng Shi's face was like a heavy jujube, his eyes were straight, and he stared at the depths of the dark alley: "I attached the goblin to him, and he was tortured to death......"

I gasped and looked at him, goosebumps all over my body. As the saying goes, tiger poison doesn't eat children, how can this Cheng really harm his own children?

Even if there is a hidden secret here, his behavior is chilling. I'm a little scared to go to his house, if he goes crazy and cleans up with me, where can I reason.