Chapter 40: Xiu'er's Disciples
Breaking muscles and bones for a hundred days, this is an old saying left by the ancestors.
But the old woman in front of me actually said that my broken leg would be healed in 24 hours! I thought about it with a wry smile: I was really open-minded, this old woman didn't observe my injury, and she didn't even know what the situation of my calf was, so she just gave me a home remedy and treated me, I really believed it, and honestly pasted this black mud on my body!
Twenty-four hours is fine? It seems to have some effect now, but I won't believe it even if I kill it!
The old woman quickly brought two bowls of fragrant broth, and my saliva flowed when I smelled it, which was much more tempting than the big meal Xu Zeming invited us.
"Let's eat!" The old woman brought me another plate of bread and said with a smile.
I nodded, ignoring the chill in the back of my head, and the long baby kept staring at me, gobbling it up.
Ten minutes later, I patted my belly contentedly: "Grandma, what kind ......of meat is this?" It smells so good! I've lived so big, and it's the first time I've eaten such tender meat! ”
"Voles." The old woman's heart was not beating and her face was not red.
"Voles?! Mouse! My stomach churned, and I forced it down: "Grandma, ahem...... Can I eat this thing? ”
"Of course you can eat it." The old woman said while eating: "Pure wild, harmless." ”
I shrugged my shoulders and hurriedly changed the subject: "By the way, grandma, do you know the Qingyue View above?" ”
"Qingyue Guan?" The old woman was slightly stunned when she heard me say the three words of Qingyueguan: "I know, it's on the mountain." What are you looking for in Qingyueguan? ”
The old woman's reaction was beyond my expectations, and my mind quickly turned a few times, and I said in my heart, isn't this old woman the Xiu'er that Qingyue Taoist is looking for?!
"That, entrusted by someone, to repay a wish." I laughed.
"Wish? Who? The old woman didn't eat anymore, and looked up at me with all the wrinkles on her face.
"Qingyue Daoist, do you know?"
"Qingyue Daoist?!" When the old woman heard these four words, she was shocked: "Are you talking about Qingyue Daoist?" Is it the last master of the Blue Moon Temple? Yes and no?! ”
"Yes, yes!" I didn't expect the old woman's reaction to be so big.
"Well, this old man is really alive!" The old woman bit her lips and looked very fluctuating in her heart.
"You?" I asked tentatively, "Are you Xiu'er's senior?" ”
"Xiu'er?" The old woman looked dazed: "Who is Xiu'er?" I'm not Xiu'er. Child, tell me, where is the Qingyue Daoist? What does he want you to do? ”
"Hmm......" I saw that the old woman was not Xiu'er, so I hesitated and said: "Qingyue's seniors are now in Bear's Ears Mountain, let me find Xiu'er's seniors, and say that I want to lead them to meet." ”
"Xiu'er......" The old woman slowly stood up, paced two steps in the room, turned her head and asked, "Child, how can I trust you?" ”
I was stunned for a moment, then remembered the painting in my backpack, and hurriedly reached out and took it out from the backpack on the ground and spread it on the table: "Grandma, look, this is the Xiu'er senior that Qingyue's predecessor is looking for." ”
The old woman hurriedly walked over to look at it, and when she saw the person on the painting clearly, there was an indescribable look on her face, which could not be said to be sentimental, hateful or sad!
When I saw the old woman react like this, I felt that she was Xiu'er's senior, because Qingyue Taoist was disrespectful to her back then, so she showed this expression, so she asked tentatively: "Grandma, are you really Xiu'er's senior?" ”
"It's not!" When the old woman heard me ask this for the second time, she suddenly looked very angry and slapped the table: "I'm not a showman!" No! ”
I was taken aback, and subconsciously leaned back, thinking that it really didn't look like a show, but this reaction was like a rival in love! Could it be that the Qingyue Taoist also has multiple female seniors who like it? Alas, the adult world is really incomprehensible......
The old woman scared me like this, and I didn't dare to ask, so I sat and looked at the old woman in a daze.
After a few minutes, the old woman finally calmed down and sat down again, her eyes staring motionlessly at the baby lying on her right leg.
"Kid ......"
She raised her head to look at me, and I also met my gaze, who expected that before I could speak, I felt that my head was "buzzing", and it was blank in an instant, but immediately "ding", I returned to normal.
The old woman was stunned for a moment: "You? Who are you? ”
"Me?" Only then did I realize that the symptoms just now were caused by the old woman, and I was a little annoyed: "Senior, what kind of person do you think I can be?" My name is Gu Rui, and my ancestral home is Gujiazhuang, Pingyin. ”
"Gu Rui?" The old woman's face turned pale: "Your grandfather is Gu Xiansheng?!" ”
I was stunned this time, I really can't guess the identity of this old woman, to say that she is Xiu'er, but from this reaction it is not right, if you want to say that it is not Xiu'er, why does she know so much about this matter?
"Well, yes. My grandfather is Gu Xiansheng. ”
"Oh, it's really, really fate!" The old woman smiled bitterly: "It's been almost a hundred years, I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it!" Child, I'm not Xiu'er, I'm Xiu'er's apprentice. ”
Apprentice? That makes sense. But why did the apprentice behave like this when he heard Master's name?
"I'm an orphan." The old woman whispered: "It's Ximiao." At that time, I was displaced, and I had no relatives around me. One night, while I was sleeping in a dilapidated house, a young aunt suddenly broke in, with a big belly, as if she was about to give birth. I was six or seven years old at the time, and when I saw my aunt in so much pain, I was about to go out to call someone, but I didn't expect to be stopped by my aunt, and later, something happened that I will never forget......"
I saw that the old woman's expression had slowly returned to normal, and my heart was more steady. Seeing her stop here, she deliberately glanced at the baby who was already asleep on her lap.
"That aunt actually poured herself a bowl of decoction that I don't know what it was, and a few minutes later, she gave birth to a dead baby!" The old woman continued: "This aunt is my master, I don't know what her name is, until today you told me that her name is Xiu'er. However, what happened between her, Gu Xiansheng and Qingyue Daoist has been told to me. ”
"So, why are you here? At the foot of the Blue Moon Temple? I asked.
"After I worshipped my aunt as my teacher, I wandered the rivers and lakes for several years, and came here with Master when I was 12 years old. Master said that Gu Xiansheng would come to her. At that time, the Qingyue Taoist priest had disappeared, and the Qingyue Temple was already in tatters. So we built a room in this uninhabited forest, and Master would go to the Qingyue Temple every morning and evening, and left clues inside, but after waiting for ten years, I didn't see Gu Xiansheng come back......"
"Is Xiu'er's predecessor still alive?" That's the question I want to ask the most.
"I don't know...... there was a trace of melancholy in the old woman's eyes: "The last time I met Master was more than twenty years ago. ”
More than twenty years ago? So, Xiu'er's seniors left here, so why? I frowned and looked at the baby on the old woman's lap: "Senior, this baby...... Could it be? ”
The old woman shook her head: "This baby is not Master's child, but, mine. ”
"Your?!" I was even more surprised, although I have been surprised countless times in the past few months since graduation, but it feels strange to see a seventy or eighty-year-old woman lying on her lap with a baby, or a baby who looks like a blood baby.
"Yes, it is also because of this child that I have become enemies with Master." A trace of fierceness flashed on the old woman's face: "When I was twenty-two years old, I fell in love with a man, but because the master warned me, as long as I am her apprentice, I can't like a man in this life." So I didn't dare to say it until a few months after I was pregnant, when Master found out...... That day, Master was furious, scolded me, and then punished me to kneel on the ground, but she went out herself......"
Speaking of this, two lines of turbid tears appeared in the old woman's eyes, which should have touched the softest place in her heart: "By the time she came back, I had been kneeling on the ground for a day, and she asked me if I knew anything wrong, and I kept shaking my head stubbornly, and the master snorted coldly and threw me a package." I opened it tremblingly, and what I saw and saw was my lover's head! I would never have thought that the master, who loved me the most, would kill the man I loved the most......"