Text "Chapter 14: Night Talk"
Gu Changsheng has never thought about this question of Gu Congsheng, maybe in Gu Changsheng's subconscious, he may spend this life with his brother in this small village.
Gu Changsheng also knew very little about the outside world, and from childhood to adulthood, the farthest place Gu Changsheng had been to was a small town outside the village. The perception of the outside comes from the growing number of old books at the head of the bed.
Gu Changsheng was at a loss in his heart for walking out of this place where he had lived for more than ten years, Gu Changsheng suddenly found that he didn't know how to answer, and Gu Changsheng couldn't figure out what he thought.
Gu Changsheng suddenly felt a little flustered in his heart, Gu Changsheng didn't know why his brother asked like this, but Gu Changsheng had a bad premonition.
"I, I don't know, if my brother wants to see it, I'll go with him. Gu Changming replied.
Listening to his younger brother's answer, Gu Congsheng didn't say anything, just stretched out his hand and touched Gu Changsheng's head petfully, and then put his hand on Gu Changsheng's shoulder.
"If there's anything you want to ask, just ask. Gu Congsheng looked at Gu Changsheng and said.
When his brother turned his head to look at him, Gu Changming suddenly found that his brother's face was pale, and Gu Changming knew that this was definitely not caused by the reflection of the moonlight, because he found that there was a thin blood mark on his brother's forehead.
Gu Changsheng choked up suddenly, tears rolled in his eyes, and his intuition told him that this was definitely related to the night and day when he was asleep.
Gu Changsheng is not stupid, on the contrary, Gu Changsheng is extremely intelligent. Gu Changming has heard the villagers talk about his illness when he was a child, and he has also heard the villagers talk about the Taoist priest, plus some strange things about the elder brother in daily life, since he was a child, Gu Changsheng has never seen his brother suffer any injuries, and even once he took a firewood knife to dry the branches of the hundred-year-old tree at the head of the village, and fell from the tree, the elder brother caught himself under the tree, and he obviously saw the firewood knife cut his brother's shoulder, and he fainted, and when he woke up, he did not see any injuries on his brother, and there were countless strange things that happened to his brother from childhood to adulthood。
Gu Changsheng had long known that his brother was not an ordinary person like himself and the villagers. The elder brother is likely to be one of those practitioners in the Persona books.
As for what the elder brother said to himself, it was natural that the elder brother didn't want to tell him yet, and of course he took what the elder brother said as the truth.
Maybe the elder brother has already seen his thoughts, but the two brothers have tacitly understood it. Gu Changming, no matter whether his brother is a human, a ghost, a demon or an immortal, his brother will always be his brother.
And what happened in the past two days shows that the brother is ready to tell himself the truth, and once the brother has made this decision, it means that the brother has been able to solve his physical problems.
Gu Changsheng knew his physical condition, although he was only two years old when the serious illness broke out when he was a child, but that pain he will never forget.
Although he has not been sick again since he was healed by the Taoist priest, his body has been weak, and he can feel that his illness is not getting better, although his brother is very indifferent to this, but Gu Changsheng knows that his illness has always been a pimple in his brother's heart.
Although Gu Changsheng didn't know what his brother's method was, Gu Changsheng was sure that if he wanted to heal his body, he would inevitably have to pay a huge price.
Gu Changsheng saw his brother's pale face and the blood mark on his forehead at this moment, and couldn't help but think of the strange dream he had a few days ago, and Gu Changsheng's heart was suddenly numb.
Gu Changming quickly got up and ran quickly to the thatched hut, pulled out a small wooden box from under the wooden bed in the dark, took out a small bottle from the corner of the box, and then ran outside the house to open the bottle, and applied the powder in it to the fine blood marks on Gu Congsheng's forehead. During the whole process, the two brothers did not make a sound, one sat quietly on a bamboo chair, and the other quietly applied medicine.
After applying the medicine, Gu Changsheng still sat on the small bench next to Gu Congsheng, and he didn't speak, just lowered his head and wept silently.
Gu Congsheng wanted to touch Gu Changsheng's head again with his hand, but he retracted in midair, because he found that the tendons and veins of his hand began to tremble, and in just a short moment, the originally white hand suddenly turned red.
The old cow lying on the side gently touched Gu Congsheng's leg with the stump, in fact, there was no need for the old cow to signal, this piercing pain also made Gu Congsheng know that it was the residual murder in his body.
Fortunately, it was only this momentary pain, because an inky black word "auspicious" appeared from the back of the saint's hand, and as soon as this word came out, the red light under the skin and flesh of the ancient saint's hand slowly scattered and retreated, and the ancient saint's hand gradually returned to its original state, and the word also faded away.
It turned out that one of the words that the old-timers left on his body this afternoon was the word "auspicious", which was also reasonable, but I don't know if there were other words? If so, what should it be? Gu Cong couldn't help but think of it in his holy heart.
In this short moment, Gu Congsheng's head was sweating and his back was already sweaty, because Gu Congsheng was sitting next to him, Gu Congsheng didn't make any sound, and even quickly wiped the sweat off his head.
And Gu Changsheng, who was bowing his head and crying, didn't notice it at all, Gu Changsheng lowered his head and choked for a while and asked, "Is the injury on your forehead because of me.......?"
"I'm fine, don't worry. Gu Congsheng smiled and comforted. "Do you remember that Taoist priest?" Gu Congsheng did not answer his question directly.
"I remember, but I can't remember what he looked like. Gu Changming raised his head and wiped his tears and replied.
"Yes, you were only two years old, and you were just around three years old when he left, and more than ten years have passed. Speaking of this, Gu Congsheng paused.
Gu Changming didn't answer, because he knew that his brother would continue to speak, and his brother was just a little sad when he stopped.
Sure enough, Gu Congsheng paused for a moment and began to speak: "When you were two years old, you were seriously ill, I thought I was going to lose you, I thought that my last relative in this world was going to leave me, I thought I would be a complete orphan, I thought that my only concern was going to be gone, I thought I was going to bear my mother's entrustment. Thankfully, I met him, and he saved your life, and he saved mine.
After that, during the year he gave you treatment, he taught me medicine, taught me to read and write, taught me how to control the heat when cooking, taught me how to be gentler when washing clothes, and taught me how to grasp the thinness of the eye of a needle when sewing clothes and supplements...... He endures the pain to make you pull his beard in order to amuse you, and he can give you a horse to ride......"
"But he is always very strict with you, and he has to teach you all kinds of things, and you have to do it yourself. Gu Changsheng added, Gu Changsheng was a little sad, because his brother has been like this all these years, no matter what he does, he also requires himself to do it, this is a good life that the elder brother wants to live when he is alone, and the elder brother should have planned to leave him a long time ago.
Gu Changsheng was very worried about such a day, but it was still coming, but it was still a little difficult for him to accept, and he had long been accustomed to his brother being by his side.
"You remember, yes, he rarely does anything other than heal you. I could see that he really wanted me to call him master, but he never allowed me to do so. He's afraid, he's afraid I'll get contaminated with his cause and effect. Actually, I don't care about cause and effect, I think of him as my teacher from the bottom of my heart. ”
"I also regarded him as a relative, but he still left, and he never looked back. Gu Changsheng couldn't help but say.
"He said he had something to do, and I guess it was a very important thing, and I thought I might never see him again in my life. But thinking that fate should not be broken, I decided to go out to find him, and by the way, to see the outside world. ”
"I'm with you. "This time, Gu Changming said extremely firmly.
"No, I can't. "Gu Congsheng said very decisively. "You can't leave outside the town until you're sixteen, and if I haven't come back after sixteen, it's up to you, of course, I still want you to live like you now, and live like this forever, but without me. ”
Hearing his brother's words, Gu Changming didn't argue with his brother, because he knew that it was useless, and his brother must have a reason for saying this. However, Gu Changsheng still stubbornly lowered his head and didn't look at Gu Congsheng, Gu Changsheng was not angry with his brother, but complaining about himself. Since I was a child, my brother has been worried about everything, and now my brother wants to do what he wants to do, but he still has his own burden to worry about his brother.
Gu Changming knew that his brother would never leave him easily, leave this place where he was born and raised, and now that his brother wants to do this, he can only say that the only thing that brother is worried about outside is that something happened to the Taoist priest. Outside the town, the only people who are related to him and his brother are Taoist priests and fathers, and for the father who left when he was born, the brother has not mentioned it since he was a child, and his mother is sick because he went out to find his father in vain.
Seeing his younger brother like this, Gu Congsheng smiled and rubbed his younger brother's head, and comforted: "It's okay, brother will go out for a walk, you take good care of this field at home, the medicine field next to the house should pay attention to weeding, pay attention to replenishing seedlings, and follow Master Wang Er to learn the craft well." Moreover, your illness has finally been completely cured in the past two days, and you will have to eat more in the future, and grow stronger, so that I will not be so weak the next time I see you. ”
"My illness, brother, you ......," Gu Changsheng said as he looked at Gu Congsheng's pale face.
"It's okay, it's just a loss of qi and blood, it's not a big deal, I'll just boil some big tonic for the past two days." Gu Congsheng said with a smile.
Gu Changming knew that although his brother said it easily, it was definitely to comfort himself, and the blood stain on his brother's forehead was still a little shocking. As for some things, my brother doesn't tell me, and I won't pester and ask, my brother has his brother's reasoning, and if he can't help his brother, he will only make his brother embarrassed.
However, Gu Changsheng had a sprout in his heart.
Suddenly, Gu Changming's stomach gurgled, breaking the dull atmosphere, the two brothers laughed, and Gu Changming volunteered to go to the kitchen to get food.
At this time, the night was deep, and the autumn night was still a little cold, Gu Changsheng let Gu Congsheng enter the house, Gu Congsheng said that he still wanted to sit, Gu Changsheng wanted to come to his brother since he was a child, he was not afraid of the scorching heat and cold, so he didn't force it, and went to the hut to get food.
At this time, the moon was obscured by dark clouds in the night sky, and only a few sporadic stars were twinkling in the sky. Gu Congsheng sat for a while, but he couldn't stand the coldness, and he couldn't even endure the little autumn cold after the loss of cultivation.
Gu Congsheng got up, picked up the green turtle and the medicine bottle that had just been put on the ground by Changsheng, and muttered in his mouth, "It's going to rain." Turning and walking towards the hut, the old cow returned to the barn.
Only the cool autumn night and the starry sky are scattered.