CHAPTER XXV
It didn't take long for Zhou Bin to leave, and when he left, his back was very gloomy, and he said that he wanted to go back to his master and go back to practice again, so as to calm his restless heart.
I opened my mouth to say something, but when the words came to my mouth, I found that I didn't know where to start, so I could only watch him leave like this, and silently blessed him in my heart.
This experience can also be said to have opened my eyes greatly. I was far from expecting that there was such a departure technique in the medical arts, this chaotic ape immortal possessed by Zhou Bin can be described as an old wild immortal, if I was allowed to do it, maybe it would take some effort, and there was no absolute certainty that it would not hurt Zhou Bin himself.
However, the fat man just used a few small silver needles to scare the so-called hybrid ape immortal into urinating, and he didn't dare to gasp, so he hurriedly left Zhou Bin's body. At the same time, it not only made me sigh from the bottom of my heart the profound and majestic culture of China.
According to the understanding of ordinary people, the medical skills in these five techniques are only the use of medicine to treat diseases and maintain health. However, who would have thought that this seemingly tangible discipline has unfathomable invisible power, which is not inferior to the drawing talisman of mountain arts.
Each of the five techniques has the effect of turning white bones into decay, and the things left by the ancestors are vast and profound. It's not that they're useless, it's just that we haven't understood the essence of it.
The crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed, the fat man and I cleaned up, supported Yao Yirong, who had an injured arm, and the group rested for a while before preparing to leave the park. And at this time, there was a very dramatic scene at the scene that made us cry and laugh.
An old woman in a plaid linen dress with a hunched back arched over her sixtieth year threw herself down before us before we could react, and clung to the fat man's sleeve
"This great immortal, please do well, save my poor granddaughter, right? Please," she begged, grabbing the fat man's shirt and kneeling as she pleaded
Her action frightened me and the fat man to kneel down together. Ordinary people still have a heart of respect for the elderly, how can we be Taoist priests exceptions. Let the old man kneel to us, this will be a long life
Therefore, when the old man knelt down for us, the fat man and I immediately knelt down together, and the three of us had a conversation from such a strange and equal angle.
"Daxian, I beg you, please save my granddaughter, she has been haunted by those ghosts and things so that people don't look like people, ghosts don't look like ghosts. I beg you, help us, help us. The old man clung to the fat man's shirt and sobbed loudly and pleaded.
Her hands were boring, with a thick layer of calluses, and they felt frosty to the touch. In addition to the broken sack she had placed aside, several empty plastic bottles could be faintly visible in the sack. It is not difficult to guess that this old man who picks up waste must have lived a very poor life, and he has been doing hard labor for many years
All of us were stunned for a moment, and we couldn't respond to our minds, but the old man misunderstood what we meant, and thought that we didn't want to care about it, so he continued to cry and plead, "I know that you are all people of the Way, so I beg you, be kind, be kind!" ”
"Grandma, you get up and talk first, we will promise you whatever you say."
Before we could speak, Yao Yirong took the lead in replying to the old man. If it had been before, I might have glared at her fiercely, but this time, I was unexpectedly silent. For if any other person encounters the pleading of this poor old man, I don't think he will have the idea of refusing. If it weren't for the last resort, how could an old man walk on his old body, kneeling on the ground and begging bitterly.
"Old man, don't cry first, you get up and tell us what's going on, and all of us who can help will definitely help you." The fat man's nose was not only a little sobbing, although the old man did not explain what was going on, but her hissing pleading really shook our hearts.
Si Lijing, Yao Yirong, Fat Man, and I, the four of them worked together to help the old man to the bench on the side.
"My granddaughter, when she was born, everyone praised her for being beautiful and smart, who knew that since five years ago, she went crazy overnight" Under the cry of the old man, we finally had a rough understanding of the whole story.
The old man's surname is Zhao, and he has a granddaughter who depends on each other, and the reason why she knelt down and begged the fat man this time was precisely because of this hard-working girl.
Her granddaughter has a very cute name, Shishi, but this lovely girl suffered something strange five years ago.
According to the old man's recollection, it happened very suddenly, and the night before, Shishi told the family that she had seen an old man who had passed away from her neighbor come to see her, and that old man wanted to take her away. At first, everyone thought it was a child's childlike words, or because it was too innocent, and they really saw the old man who passed away next door. At that time, Grandma Zhao also brought grapefruit leaves and some defiled things to wash Shishi.
But the next morning, Shishi went crazy for no reason. Yes, a smart and clever little girl is so inexplicably crazy, running around like crazy all day, or being silent all day long, or just making some strange movements.
Seeing such a situation, Shishi's parents and Grandma Zhao were very anxious, and even invited a Taoist priest to show Shishi. After the Taoist priest did the rituals, Shishi's body returned to normal, and she no longer spoke gibberish. At this time, the family's hanging heart was relaxed, thinking that the things on Shishi's body would be driven away, and there would be no more trouble
However, to everyone's surprise, it didn't take long for Shishi to change back to her original appearance, and she invited someone to see it, and it was okay, but it didn't take long for her to go crazy again.
Such a cycle repeats itself, leaving a five-year-old girl hovering between madness and normality. also because of Shishi's illness, it almost cost Grandma Zhao's family their savings. After all, if you invite someone to watch things, you have to send sesame oil money. Once or twice is fine, but if it goes on for many years, it is really an incredibly large expense for ordinary people.
Because of Shishi's illness, her mother couldn't bear to have a crazy daughter, and within two years, she remarried somewhere else, leaving only Shishi's father and Grandma Zhao to live together.
I have to say that Shishi's father and Grandma Zhao are very great, if they were replaced by some parents who have no conscience, they would have thrown the child into an unknown corner and let him destroy himself. But they didn't, not only endured the perennial life with a madman, but also worked hard everywhere to make money, hoping to cure the child's illness.
In this way, Shishi's father worked on the construction site during the day and served dishes to other people's restaurants at night. Because of overwork, it didn't take long for him to return to the West, leaving Grandma Zhao, a poor old man, to rely on each other.
Even if there was only Grandma Zhao left in the family, the only elderly person who could take care of Shishi, she did not give up. In order to take care of Shishi, in order to save money to take care of Shishi's illness, Grandma Zhao dragged her elderly body and went around to find a job, hoping to be able to feed the child, and save up the remaining money to see the child.
But what can an old man do? Grandma Zhao had no choice but to hold a hemp bag and pick up some mineral water bottles and confetti on the street during the day, and at night she pushed a small food cart to sell some white porridge and vegetables on the downtown streets, relying on these two things to make a living.
Sometimes, even in the wind and rain, Grandma Zhao has to drag a pair of rheumatic legs, a hat, and a hook to look for garbage abandoned by others all over the street. On a hot day, this lonely old man risked heat stroke, bent over, looked at the strange eyes of others, and ran into the restaurant with his head down to pick up the empty beer bottles that others had drunk.
A beer bottle can be sold for three cents a piece, and a hundred can be sold for three dollars. The weight of one beer bottle is not heavy, so what about a hundred stacks? Young people still feel heavy, so for an old man, that even life can't bear.
Even, Grandma Zhao is occasionally driven away by the owners of those restaurants ruthlessly and indifferently, even if it is an empty beer bottle for three cents, ordinary people would rather give her alms.
At night, Grandma Zhao pushed the porridge cart to the street in the middle of the night to sell it, and sometimes, she would be bullied by hooligans. When the chengguan came, she had to be like those young people, dragging her old body and being a ghost
"My poor son, sick in bed with a fever of forty degrees, only ate some herbs, and refused to go to the hospital. He said that the medicine in the hospital was expensive, and he had to save the money for Shishi's medical treatment, but he was so sick that he had no strength in his body, and he gritted his teeth to work in the construction site, and finally, he fell down from the third floor of the construction site and fell to his death. The unscrupulous boss refused to pay us a penny, and shirked the responsibility and said that my son was not from his construction site......"
When the old man told us the whole thing, she also thought of her hard-working son, and she couldn't help but feel sad, and wiped several handfuls of tears with her boring hands.
Not only did she cry, but we also cried as bystanders, and Yao Yirong sobbed in a low voice, grabbed my shoulder and bit me hard.
A lonely old man, in this highly competitive society, dragged his old and sick body, worked day after day, and took care of his crazy granddaughter year after year. None of us are in this story, but we all know that there are hardships in the story that we can't even imagine if we were killed. For the sake of his granddaughter, the gray-haired old man, in the last hours of his family, threw away all his dignity and bowed his head under the merciless and indifferent eyes of many.