Chapter 8: Life and Death (I)

In the blink of an eye, after three or four years, Mu Feng became a handsome guy of fifteen or sixteen years old, in the past three or four years, Mu Feng learned medicine from Grandpa Baicao, and has achieved something. On weekdays, Grandpa Baicao taught him a set of health movements.

With my grandfather's exercise every day, I feel light and soft, walking in the mountains and ridges on weekdays, walking like flying, although it is not as magical as the volley fit described in the martial arts world in my dream, but it is also an experience that I have never had in the dream world. In this way, Mu Feng underwent physical and mental changes under the teaching of Grandpa Baicao.

On this day, when it was almost cool in autumn, my grandfather saw that some medicinal herbs in the mountains and fields were ripe, so he took Mu Feng up the mountain to collect medicines. At the same time, Mu Feng's mastery of medicinal herbs will also be investigated. Whenever I encounter medicinal herbs, or plants, or soil and stones. After careful identification, Mu Feng can always distinguish between cold and warm sweetness, and then use common diseases as examples to illustrate how to use medicine. It will also teach some means of preserving the medicinal properties of medicinal materials, either steaming or drying.

"Feng'er, over the years, you have followed me to the heavens, to observe the landform, to perceive the changes of the four solar terms externally, and to explore the balance of yin and yang in the human body internally, can you know what is the foundation of a doctor?" Mu Feng suddenly asked when he saw his grandfather. First of all, reflect on whether there is any rudeness in what you usually do, and after thinking about it carefully, bow down and say respectfully, "Please grandpa teach." ”

Mu Feng followed his grandfather to the side of the road and sat down on the rocks, Mu Feng handed over a bamboo tube filled with clear water, Grandpa Baicao took a sip and said to Mu Feng: "In nature, when yin is prosperous, yang is declining, and when yang is prosperous, yin is declining, and yin and yang have their own fixed number. There is a way, which is the way of heaven, and there is more than enough to make up for what is lacking. Human beings are born between heaven and earth, and they should follow the way of heaven and earth, and the law will naturally lead to immortality.

The origin of the medical Tao is to first experience the growth and decline of yin and yang in the world, and then to the human body, the so-called shun of the birth and the death of the reverse, must not be careless, for the doctor of the medical Tao is not only the merit of helping the world but also the way of self-cultivation. But just as heaven and earth have yin and yang, and people's hearts are divided into good and bad, if you do evil things, medicine will also have the purpose of destroying the world, and it will be self-destructive. How to use it is only in the artificial.

Today I set a precept for you, you should walk in the world in the future, you should have the heart of helping the world, and do not be harmed by life. Mu Feng had some insights after listening to his grandfather, but he couldn't tell what it was. Mu Feng respectfully knelt beside his grandfather and said, "Feng'er remember, you must strictly abide by this precept when you walk in the world in the future." Grandpa Baicao looked at Mu Feng and said, "In this case, you can worship this world and people." Mu Feng got up and walked to the side of the cliff on the mountain road, looked at the bottom of the mountain, and looked at the heaven and earth in the distance and the endless people between heaven and earth, knelt down and bowed three times to the heaven, earth and people.

Grandpa Baicao waited for Mu Feng to finish worshipping and stepped forward to personally help Mu Feng up. Mu Feng helped his grandfather to sit back on the stone, and his grandfather said again: "Feng'er, I feel today, the year is coming to an end, and the limit is approaching." Mu Feng listened to his grandfather say this, his eyes were full of tears, his face was full of sadness, and he lowered his head, and there were thousands of reluctances in his heart.

Grandpa Baicao looked at Mu Feng and said, "Don't be sad, everyone in the world has this catastrophe." Before leaving, I have something to entrust to you, after I die, you will cremate my body, send my ashes back to Shennong Valley, and bury me next to the evening apricot pavilion in the apricot forest. Mu Feng didn't know where Shennong Valley was, nor did he know whether Xinglin and Evening Xingting existed, so he agreed without hesitation.

For the next period of time, Mu Feng accompanied Grandpa Baicao every day to talk about medical theory and appreciate the autumn colors, as usual. Unknowingly, it was almost late autumn, and one day, Grandpa Baicao said to Mu Feng that he remembered that the wild chrysanthemums on the mountain should be picking medicines at this time, so he asked Mu Feng to go up the mountain to pick some back.

Mu Feng saw that his grandfather was no different from usual, and his spirit seemed to be better, so he went to the mountain to collect medicine with peace of mind. This little sister's surname is Chen, her name is Qingjun, and she looks like a small jasper, which is very cute. Usually everyone calls her Qing'er, her mother died early, and she has been dependent on her father since she was a child.

Before Mu Feng woke up, Qing'er was about eight or nine years old at that time, her father went to the mountains to hunt, accidentally was bitten by a poisonous snake, and was quickly sent back by his companions, his face was dark, Qing'er saw that his father, who usually loved him, was unconscious at this time, his face was black, and he felt that the sky was dark in an instant, and he was about to fall into a coma, Grandpa Baicao quickly hugged Qing'er for her, and said to Qing'er before she was unconscious: "Qing'er, don't be afraid, I will save your father." "Qing'er seems to have seen the light and found support. A mouthful of blood pressure went down.

Qing'er lost her mother since she was a child, so she is stronger and more sensible than children of the same age, and her father loves her very much, so she is more well-behaved on weekdays. It's just that when no one is around, I think of my dead mother, and I'm more afraid that my father will have an accident. Seeing her father in a coma, as if she was about to leave her, she was so sad that she had nothing to love and almost died. If it weren't for Grandpa Baicao, who found out that Qing'er's face was abnormal, he quickly smoothed her down, but he was afraid that if she vomited out a mouthful of blood, the vitality of her whole body would be dissipated, and her life would be short.

Later, she was relieved to watch Grandpa Baicao rescue his father with trepidation. Since then, I have been grateful to Grandpa Baicao, and I usually take good care of Mu Feng, who is demented. Later, Mu Feng woke up, and when he woke up, he seemed to be fully sane, Qing'er saw that Mu Feng acted like a big brother next door after waking up, his mind was mature, and he no longer looked like he was demented before, and after contact, he liked to play with Mu Feng more and more. In addition, Mu Feng had no father and no mother, and later he was able to treat people like Grandpa Baicao. Qing'er admired Mu Feng more and more, as if she couldn't leave him. In this way, the two played together from childhood to adulthood.

Now Mu Feng looked at Qing'er's crying appearance with the medicine basket on his back, as if he suddenly understood something. His voice trembled and he asked weakly, "Qing'er, what happened?" Qing'er cried and said, "Brother Feng, Grandpa Baicao, he's gone." Mu Feng looked at Qing'er in a daze, the medicine basket slid off his shoulder, and suddenly felt that the world was quiet. Qing'er's cry disappeared, the autumn wind in the mountains was weak*, even the light gradually disappeared, and it was pitch black all around, as if he was alone.

In a trance, Mu Feng seemed to see a bright light in front of him, and the smiling Grandpa Baicao stood in the middle of the light and looked at him, still dressed as usual, wearing a coarse sermon suit, silver hair, clean beard, and a smile and amiable. Mu Feng's eyes were blurred with tears, and he muttered to his grandfather, and Grandpa Baicao said to him: "Child, I'm leaving, you have to take care of yourself." And then it slowly dissipated. Mu Feng stretched out his hand, as if to grab his grandfather, and then he felt the sky shook.

When he came back to his senses, Qing'er was standing beside him supporting herself, shaking herself with worry in her eyes and constantly calling Brother Feng. Mu Feng came to his senses, and suddenly felt as if something was pressing in his heart, his heart was churning, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and after spitting out, he found that he had strength, his body was no longer weak, and he pushed Qing'er away and pulled his legs like running down the mountain.

Mu Feng only wanted to be faster, faster, and he couldn't wait to return to his grandfather as soon as he took a step. When you encounter a slope along the way, you will not slow down, and if you fall, you will roll down, regardless of whether your nose is blue and your face is swollen. When encountering thorns, he did not bypass them, and rushed headlong over, regardless of whether there were blood marks all over his body.

Finally, the valley came to him, and finally Baicaolu was in front of him. Mu Feng saw that there was no grandfather under the tree in the courtyard, and with a heart-rending cry: "Grandpa!", Mu Feng rushed into the house, and looked at his grandfather lying peacefully on the couch, his eyes naturally closed. Grandpa was right in front of him, but Mu Feng knew that his grandfather was far away from him, out of reach, and life and death were separated.

Mu Feng stood inside the door, and the house was also full of villagers, and when they heard a wail, they made way before Mu Feng could enter the house. At one end of the passage is the lying grandfather, and at the other end is the standing Mu Feng. Mu Feng burst into tears, and slowly walked towards Grandpa Baicao step by step, he hoped that Grandpa was just asleep, he hoped that during the time he walked over, Grandpa was really just asleep.

When he walked to his grandfather's side and leaned down on the couch to call grandpa, grandpa could open his eyes, look at him with a smile as before, and then said, "Feng'er is back, how is the medicine?" Mu Feng looked at the peaceful grandfather, as if he saw the smile that made people feel the spring breeze. Mu Feng leaned down, propped his hands on the couch, wiped away his tears, looked at his grandfather, and called softly: "Grandpa." Grandpa Baicao lay peacefully and silently.

Mu Feng shouted again: "Grandpa" This time the voice was crisp and powerful. Grandpa still didn't answer, for a long time, there was still no sound. Mu Feng's tears kept rolling down. In the end, Mu Feng cried and shouted: "Grandpa······." This shout seemed to have exhausted all of Mu Feng's strength. seems to have despaired, like a helpless recognition of reality, and like a final farewell to grandpa. Mu Feng threw himself at his grandfather's side, buried his head beside his grandfather and trembled silently.

At this moment, he finally began to release his emotions. Mu Feng cried for a long time. It hurts to cry, both painful and painful. When his body stopped trembling, he raised his head and carefully arranged his grandfather's clothes.

Uncle Chen next to him is Qing'er's father. Holding a wooden box, he patted Mu Feng's shoulder, and waited for Mu Feng to turn his head and hand over the wooden box. Mu Feng took the wooden box and called Uncle, Uncle Chen said to Mu Feng: "This is what Grandpa Baicao entrusted me to give to you before he died, everyone will take care of the old fairy's funeral, your Uncle Li and Xiao Lizi have gone to Dongshantou to prepare a burial place for the old fairy."

"Grandpa Baicao lived for two years, that is, at the age of one hundred and twenty, on weekdays, he helped the world, and there were many old people who acted unfavorably after knowing the destiny of heaven. And Grandpa Baicao is older, but he is still energetic and powerful. So the people in the valley called Grandpa Baicao an old fairy. Mu Feng took the wooden box with both hands and said to Uncle Chen, "Uncle, please find someone to call Uncle Li and Brother Li back." Grandpa wanted me to send the ashes back to Shennong Valley. ”

Uncle Chen learned after hearing that the old fairy wanted to cremate his body, although he was a little puzzled, but he still did what the old fairy ordered. Uncle Li received a notice and knew that the old immortal wanted to be cremated. He did not come back, but went with his son to prepare firewood. Mu Feng put the wooden box and began to respectfully tidy up Grandpa Baicao's remains, someone in the middle wanted to help, but Mu Feng refused, Mu Feng carefully wiped his face for his grandfather and cleaned his hands. It seems that I am afraid of hurting Grandpa Baicao. In fact, Grandpa Baicao pays attention to his demeanor on weekdays, and he doesn't need to clean it up at all.

But Mu Feng slowly cleaned up. The sky was getting dark, and I saw that only Mu Feng and Grandpa Baicao were left in the room, and Grandpa was still lying peacefully, Mu Feng slowly wiped Grandpa's hands, as if there were only Grandpa and him left in this world. Other villagers were outside, many with torches. He shines the night as the day. "Brother Feng, let's send grandpa away.

Qing'er walked into the house with tears on her face, stood beside Mu Feng and said to Mu Feng. Mu Feng still kept wiping his hands for his grandfather, Qing'er said again, and Mu Feng came back to his senses. Get out of Grandpa's side.

At this time, a few young and strong young people walked in, and steadily carried the wooden couch out of the house. Mu Feng wore a sackcloth filial piety robe and followed him to the cremation place. As everyone lights the fire. The fire grew stronger, and finally devoured Grandpa Baicao's body. Mu Feng looked at the sky-high flames, looked at the night on the flames, lost the light in front of him, closed his eyes, and fell softly.

Mu Feng was haggard and overly sad, and finally couldn't hold it out at this moment and fainted. The body automatically enters a state of self-protection. The villagers still erected a mound for Grandpa Baicao to thank Grandpa Baicao. There is no name on the stele, only these few lines: a hundred years of vicissitudes, the great doctor is sincere. Just for life and death, dare to fight with Yama. The world is selfless, and the hanging pot is natural. Sincerity feels heaven and earth, and stays in the world forever.