Chapter 43: The Secret
At this moment, a pair of strong arms wrapped around me, and I felt as if Junko was right next to me, and the moment I closed my eyes completely, I was sure that it was my wishful thinking.
By the time I woke up, twenty minutes had passed.
"Uncle, uncle...... Hear me? A gentle voice woke me up.
I slowly opened my eyes and saw a young girl in a nurse's outfit looking at me with a smile on her face. "Who are you and where am I?"
The young girl poured me a glass of warm water and said, "This is a community clinic, uncle, do you think it's okay?" ”
The warm water moistened my dry throat and eyes, and I exhaled it in one gulp, only to find a young man with a stethoscope standing at my feet. "Did you save me?"
The young girl smiled and said, "Actually, it was Dr. Qiu who saved you." ”
Apparently she was referring to the young man.
Dr. Qiu said, "I have checked for you, it's not a big deal, it's just a little heat stroke, just rest for a while." Xiao He, put the uncle's head a little higher. Then he walked to the open office.
"Your name is Xiao He?"
"yes, what about you?"
"My surname is Xiong."
Xiao He skillfully raised my head slowly and straightened the pillow at the same time, giving me a place to lean.
I saw that the clinic was more than 30 square meters, in addition to the bed where I was lying, there was another empty bed, and then there was Dr. Qiu's open office, he was inputting a computer, and next to him was a shelf full of medicines, all in sight.
"Uncle Xiong, are you here alone, do you want to call your family?" Xiao He interrupted my observation and asked about me.
"No need." I raised my voice, a little annoyed. I don't know how I could have such an emotional reaction, and as soon as I said it, I regretted it.
Xiao He was stunned, he didn't expect me to be angry, so he stepped back, intending to leave.
My voice reached Dr. Qiu's ears, and I thought that my condition had changed, so I hurried here, only to find out that it was a false alarm.
I think my reaction may have something to do with the laurel tree, or maybe I was asked about my family, but I couldn't say it for a while. After Dr. Qiu left, in order to break the embarrassment, I asked Xiao He, "Do you want to hear the story?" ”
Xiao He was stunned again, showed a restrained smile, and said, "Okay!" ”
I smiled and said, "It won't delay your work, will it?" ”
Xiao He spread his hands and signaled that there were no other patients here except me. I smiled heartily, and the conversation began again, telling her a story that I had never mentioned, the strange things in Mizusawa Village......
It was half a month after Runzi and I returned from Shandong, during which I memorized the various Taoist techniques in the "Thirty-six Techniques of Taoism", but found that the last page had traces of being torn apart. While I was puzzled, the loudspeakers in the village had been broadcasting the same content for almost a week -- the people's commune's decision-making and the institutional arrangement of the integration of government and society.
Of course, this is not something we can figure out for a while, but I think the most important thing is to have a full stomach in the future.
It's the season of osmanthus blooming again, and the old and young in the village will pick osmanthus to boil sweet porridge and drink during this time, or make osmanthus cake and make tea, which are all good choices. However, the laurel trees in the village do not grow well, and almost all of them are scattered with a height of only one person, and they are basically taken away by the villagers in early August, and they are almost all bare trunks by now. Runko and I were not reconciled, so he came to me and wanted to go outside the village to see if there were any bigger and more laurel trees. I was in favor of his suggestion, but where to go became a problem. After discussing it for a long time, it was still at a loss. One morning, Runko led Dabao and hurriedly knocked on my door. "Twelve, I've found osmanthus flowers, and there are a lot of them." Junko looked so excited that she couldn't wait to fly over immediately. I don't know where he got the news, but when he brought the treasure, I know what's going on. "Really, where is it?" I asked suspiciously. Runko was immediately asked, and turned her head to look at Dabao. "I don't know the specifics, you ask Dabao." Dabao, who has a short figure, is like a big oil drum, standing beside Runzi, extremely uncoordinated. He said to us mysteriously: "I don't know much about this matter, and a year has passed, and I don't know if there is still ...... Well...... Think about it...... I also listened to my second uncle. That year, he came back late, and rested in the black bamboo forest behind the mountain behind our village, and somehow fell asleep, but when he woke up, he found that he was not in the black bamboo forest, guess where he went...... Hehe...... You must not guess that he actually fell into a tree hole, and it took an old nose to climb out of it, and you say that he is not stupid! I hurriedly stopped, and after talking for a long time, without mentioning the laurel tree, I asked him: "What do you say have to do with our search for the laurel tree?" Dabao said: "Oh, don't worry, that tree hole is the tree hole of a big laurel tree, my second uncle said that after he climbed out of the hole, he saw that there were patches of osmanthus forests, yellow osmanthus flowers all over the mountains, fragrant ah...... "I imagined this scene, it was so desirable, I was moved by what he said, and asked: "Since you know, why haven't you seen your family to pick it?" "Hmm...... What ...... this?" Dabao looked straight ahead, and stopped talking. Runzi was anxious, and patted Dabao's shoulder, which scared him to jump up and down, making Runzi on the side laugh. I was baffled by his actions and motioned to Junko not to interrupt. Dabao continued: "Actually, this matter is a secret between me and my second uncle, and he told me not to sue others. If it weren't for Runzi forcing me to ......" Dabao glanced helplessly at Runzi beside him. It is conceivable that it must be Runzi who "forced" Dabao to agree to speak out. A few of us have played since childhood, and whoever has a little secret can't escape Runzi's muscles, and it seems that Dabao has suffered a lot. I thought that it was understandable that his second uncle would not let others know, but compared with the strange things I had encountered before, I vaguely felt that there would be a follow-up to this incident, so I asked him: "Then did your second uncle go there again?" "No, oh...... No, it seems that he went alone, it was a few months later, and he mysteriously ran into the black bamboo forest. However, he came back very early that time, and he didn't bring any osmanthus with him, just some loess. Dabao nodded, convinced of his words. Loess, is there anything special about it? I asked. The strange place is here, he secretly told me that this is of great use, saying that he can pick osmanthus whenever he wants in the future, but when asked why he refused to say it, that's all I know. Dabao looked at me with wide eyes and stupidity.