Chapter 7: The Little Gray Monkey
The water from the shower head flowed down his cheeks, Li Fan closed his eyes, held his hands on the wall, and kept echoing the words in his heart: "I, Li Fan, have killed someone!
A stream of sour water poured out of his stomach, and Li Fan fell on the toilet next to him and vomited.
Returning to his room from the bathroom and lying on the bed, Li Fan thought about the things by the river just now, sometimes feeling happy, sometimes sad, sometimes calm, sometimes gloomy.
After tossing and turning for a while, Li Fan took out the satchel, took out a small wooden knife, and asked in a low voice: "Qiaomei, are you still there?" The room was silent, and there was no response for a long time......
After a sleepless night, when the sky was bright, Li Fan reluctantly closed his eyes, and just fell asleep for a while, the mobile phone rang.
"Hey...... Who?"
"Li Fan, can you hear my voice?"
"Are you...... Xu Yingjie: What's the matter with calling me so early?"
"Lazy worm! Get up, go for a run with me in Central Park!"
"I'll have to go to work later!
"You're confused, it's Sunday! Get up, I'll pick you up downstairs in fifteen minutes!"
Without waiting for Li Fan to say anything, the phone had already hung up, Li Fan looked at his phone, and the time was six o'clock in the morning.
Today is Sunday...... Ling'er seemed to say that she was going to be on duty in the inpatient department on Sunday...... Running, should you go and soothe your mind......
Li Fan got up and washed up, put on a sportswear and went downstairs.
When he came downstairs, Xu Yingjie was sitting on a red Ferrari convertible on the side of the street waiting for him. Li Fan dragged his casual steps listlessly, opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat.
"My new car, is it beautiful?"
"Beautiful. ”
"Do you usually run?"
"I don't run much, I have to go to work, and time is tight. ”
"How can you do it without exercising! The body is the capital of the revolution!"
"Oh. ”
"Why don't you have any energy at all, you didn't sleep well last night?"
"I had a little bit of insomnia last night......"
Xu Yingjie was talking excitedly while driving, while Li Fan leaned back on the seat and coped with a few sounds half-asleep.
After a while, the parking lot of Central Park arrived, Xu Yingjie parked the car, pulled up Li Fan, who was already asleep on the seat, and the two entered the park and jogged along the quiet forest path.
"You didn't have the spirit to play chess that day, and you ran like this today, old classmate, you weren't like this before!"
"I didn't have the energy that day because I didn't want to play chess with Ding Feng, and I got up too early today......"
"There are many excuses, it's because you have a problem with your own mentality!"
"Maybe......"
"My dad said that the most important thing to be a man is mentality, maintain a good attitude, face life and work happily every day, and a sad face can't solve any problems!"
"We're not like you, you're smooth!"
"I've got a lot of things to worry about!"
"What's the fuss about you!"
"The most annoying thing is forced marriage, my dad introduced me to a high-ranking official's son yesterday, saying how handsome he is, and he is knowledgeable, and the result is a vase!"
"What? You don't like vases?"
"I like men who are thoughtful, responsible, individual, and sincere enough!"
For the sake of the old classmates, let me help you pay attention to it, you can't get married in the province, and it will affect social stability!"
"you!"
The two chatted while running, and Li Fan's mood gradually improved. After running, the two drove to a small time-honored restaurant for breakfast.
Originally, Xu Yingjie also asked Li Fan to accompany her to go shopping to see her clothes, but Li Fan was scared when he heard it, and slipped away under the pretext that there was something at home.
Back at home, Li's father and Li's mother were not there, Li Fan returned to his room, sat in front of the computer as usual, and was about to watch a movie to change his mood, when he turned his eyes and saw the small wooden knife on the table, he recalled Su Qiaomei's words in his mind: "After the exercise, the body and mood will be very comfortable......"
Exercises that can improve your mood......
Li Fan, who was in a depressed mood, curiously opened Su Qiaomei's net disk, looked around, and found a document called "Meditation Gong".
It seems that this is the only possibility that is more likely......
Li Fan downloaded all the files, emptied Su Qiaomei's network disk, and clicked on the document called "Jingxin Gong".
The documents are written in ancient Chinese, it may be that Su Qiaomei memorized the original text of the exercises, worried that she would forget, and kept it in the network disk.
Li Fan liked ancient poetry and was no stranger to classical Chinese, so he began to study and translate it.
After spending a morning, after repeated deliberations, and referring to some qigong and taijiquan exercises that he practiced with his classmates when he was in college, Li Fan finally translated the full text of "Jingxin Gong" before lunch, and was about to read it carefully, when his mobile phone rang.
Li Fan picked up his mobile phone and looked at the caller ID, it was his mother calling.
"Hey, Mom!"
"Li Fan, are you at home?"
"Yes!"
"Your father and I will go to the pagoda temple for a day, and we can only go back at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, and you can find a way to solve the two meals today!"
"Oh......" After saying that, the phone hung up.
Li Fan walked into the kitchen wearing slippers, took out some frozen dumplings from the refrigerator and cooked them, and couldn't wait to return to the computer after eating.
After reading the newly translated "Meditation Gong" several times, Li Fan leaned back in his chair and pondered with a puzzled expression.
Could it be a mistranslation...... Why is this exercise so different from the qigong and tai chi I practiced in college? The exercise only has the main text, no preface, and I don't know where it came from......
Most people rely on the chest cavity to breathe heavally, this exercise requires the abdomen to breathe heavally, and it is said that after a certain stage of practice, you can rely on the skin to relax and breathe, then the lungs are not used?
General qigong should absorb the vitality of heaven and earth and condense it in the dantian, and this exercise should guide the vitality of heaven and earth to gather in the muscles and bones of the whole body, and constantly circulate in the body......
Li Fan thought about it for a while, and felt that since Su Qiaomei said that it was useful, she should be able to try it, so she ignored the abnormalities of the exercises and practiced them seriously.
At first, it was jerky, but fortunately, Li Fan had experience in practicing qigong and tai chi, and soon entered the state.
In the afternoon, Li Fan groped and practiced, and after finishing work, he felt that his body seemed to have no change, and his mood had improved a little, but it didn't seem to have much to do with the exercises themselves, but focused on studying the exercises and diverted his attention.
Looking at the watch, the time was six o'clock in the afternoon, Li Fan got up and walked into the kitchen, thought for a while, he couldn't eat two meals of boiled frozen dumplings, so he got dressed and went downstairs, and found a restaurant nearby for dinner.
I was about to go upstairs, but I thought about it again, I had already come down anyway, so it was better to walk around casually and relax, so I walked along the road.
Walking and walking, he saw a group of people surrounded by an open field on the side of the road in front of him, Li Fan walked over curiously, squeezed into the crowd and saw that it was a group of people who were setting up stalls.
A big man with a big shape performed a stone pier, another sharp-beaked monkey played with a set of knives, and a short man performed a bench skill, and the crowd let out bursts of cheers.
A tall man came over with a tray and said, "Everyone is happy to look at it, brothers also want to eat, rich friends should have a money field!" After speaking, he walked around with a plate.
As soon as the onlookers seemed to ask for money, some of them scattered, some of them were cheeky and didn't give it, and only a few generously gave a few dollars.
Li Fan saw that no one gave money, so he took out Zhang Twenty from his pocket and handed it over. The tall man saw that Li Fan had given twenty, smiled at him, and walked towards others with a plate.
After asking for a few laps, but not much, the tall man was slightly disappointed, put away the plate and opened his throat and said, "Maybe you don't like kung fu, then I'll change and play monkey for a while!" After speaking, he took out a small gray monkey from an iron cage covered with canvas.
I saw that the little monkey was tied to the neck by a fine steel chain, and his body was covered with scaly wounds, and he was looking at the crowd around him in horror, when he suddenly received a whip in his back, and suddenly screamed in pain.
From time to time, the tall man gave instructions to let the little gray monkey walk on a tightrope, drill the ring of fire, and serve with a leather whip if he was disobedient, and the little gray monkey was tired of walking around, and occasionally took the time to take a break and received a few more whips.
The surrounding crowd felt very fresh when they looked at the monkeys that they rarely saw, and they saw that the little monkeys would walk tightropes, drill fire rings, and point and laugh at the little gray monkeys.
Li Fan couldn't laugh at all when he saw the little gray monkey who had been abused, and the mood of a few days ago came to his heart again, it seemed that the little gray monkey in front of him represented an ordinary person at the mercy of others, and the tall man with the whip was a powerful man on the top, seeing that the little gray monkey continued to be whipped, a nameless fire finally broke out.
"Stop!"
The crowd was stunned and looked at Li Fan one after another. The tall man rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "What's wrong with this brother? It's just a wild monkey, you can't die after a few hits!"
Li Fan was excited for a moment just now, and couldn't help blurting out a shout, but now he was stared at by the eyes of a group of people, but he paused a little, thought about it for a while, and said: "Cruelty to wild animals is a crime, do you know?"
The big man who lifted the stone pier was an anxious man, and when he heard Li Fan say that they had broken the law, he immediately became angry, walked over and glared at Li Fan angrily, and said:
"You're going to beat it today, and you'll kill it when you're in a bad mood later, what's the matter, you want to find your stubble?"
Li Fan thought for a moment and said, "Find fault? I don't know you." The monkey is quite pitiful, so, I bought it, you can make a price!"
When the big man heard that Li Fan wanted to buy a monkey, he had no idea and looked at the tall man behind him.
The tall man rolled his eyes, and said with a dark smile: "Brother, our monkey is begging for life, if you really want to buy it, we can't sell it, a fixed price, 100,000!"
"100,000? Famous dogs are only a few thousand, and you will sell me 100,000 yuan for a wild monkey?"
"Famous dogs are raised for fun, and our monkey is used to make money, 100,000 yuan, a penny is a lot!" A few entertainers looked at Li Fan and laughed wickedly.
Li Fan was difficult to ride a tiger for a while, 100,000 was indeed too much, but seeing that this little gray monkey who could only understand human words looked at him with a pair of pitiful eyes, and he couldn't bear to leave, when he was in a dilemma, a voice came from the crowd.
"You don't need to give them 100,000, just 3,000, I see who of them dares not to sell!"
Li Fan followed the voice and saw that it was his client and chess friend who spoke, Lao Sun Tou.
Without waiting for Li Fan to say hello, the big man spoke first: "What kind of thing are you bad old man, you dare to take care of your business, you are tired of it!"
After listening to the words of the big man, he knew that the two sides were going to clash, and the crowd dispersed.
The old grandson glanced at the big man coldly, walked to the middle of the field with his hands behind his back, looked left and right, pointed to the stone pier on the ground and said, "How heavy is this stone pier you lifted just now?"
The big man looked up and down at the skinny old man in front of him, pursed his mouth, and said: "This is not an ordinary stone, granite, more than 500 catties, not everyone can play casually!"
"Oh?" the old grandson snorted coldly, saying that it was too late, it was fast, I saw that his right foot was against the stone pier, and he flicked the stone pier with one hand, and the stone pier had reached his feet, and then his right foot was picked up, and the big stone pier of more than 500 catties immediately flew up more than one person high.
Lao Sun Tou stretched out a hand, supported the big stone pier that flew into the air with one palm, and then said to the big man with a blushing face and a heartbeat: "You dare to come out and show off your ability!"
When the big man saw the old man, he casually held up the big stone pier with one hand, and he couldn't say a word in a daze.
The tall man saw that the inconspicuous old man in front of him was actually a hidden master, and immediately put on a smile on his face and said: "Senior, if you say three thousand, three thousand, he has never seen anything in the world, don't be like him!"
Seeing this, Li Fan went to the ATM next to him to take out 3,000 yuan and handed it to the tall man, and took the stainless steel chain tied to the little gray monkey from his hand. The little gray monkey seemed to know that he was out of the sea of suffering, and happily jumped around Li Fan.
"Go to other places to set up stalls in the future, don't come to the coal city to obstruct the old man's eyes, do you hear it!" After saying this, the old grandson threw the big stone pier he was holding casually, only to hear a "boom", and the stone pier smashed a big pit with a diameter of more than two meters on the ground.
"Yes, yes!" a few entertainers hurriedly loaded their belongings onto the pickup truck on the side of the road and walked away.
After the showman left, the old grandson pulled his hands, and the stainless steel chain ring on the little gray monkey's neck immediately expanded twice. Li Fan threw the chain ring into the trash, turned back to Lao Sun and said, "Lao Sun, I didn't expect you to have so much strength!"
"Hey! It's just a bit of brute force! I haven't played chess with Li Fan Xiaoyou for a long time, go and kill a few games with me?"
"Okay!
The little gray monkey had a good impression of the big man who rescued him, the two of them walked in front, it followed behind, and there was no intention of escaping, and half an hour later, Lao Sun's house arrived.
Lao Sun lives in a few tiled houses in a small forest, and the surrounding area has been demolished, probably thinking that these tiled houses have not been demolished without affecting the construction of the road, and he is the only one who lives alone.