Chapter 24: The Iris Feast
Materia Medica has a record, iris taste bitter and flat, poisonous, kills ghosts, and breaks Gu poison and evil spirits. It is common in the countryside of Jiangnan.
- "Notes of the Good Jade Master"
Outside the door were Li Jian and Su Laishi.
Su Lai received a text message from Lao Hou, and when he heard that Lu Xiaoqi had arrived at the teahouse, he brought the angry Li Lian to look for him, because Su Lai believed that Lu Xiaoqi would definitely be able to give a reasonable explanation.
The two walked to the door, and happened to hear an important conversation, and when the door opened, they saw Lu Xiaoqi beside him, Lao Hou, who was more than ten years younger.
Li Jian shook his head and rubbed his eyes, carefully identified, and went straight to the past when Su Lai.
He looked at the old marquis, whose expression was a little stagnant, and asked and asked, before he slowly turned around and looked at the partner who grew up with him, and looked at the eyes of strangers.
"Are you really Lu Xiaoqi, not an alien?"
Lu Xiaoqi pursed his lips and sighed: "You've watched too many movies!" ”
Su Laishi observed his words and looks, and really breathed a sigh of relief: "It's really you, but my cousin ...... him"
"What is he? It's something that belongs to him, I'm a big god, and it's just a small means to get it back, and it's not a trick out of nothing, so you don't have to worship me so much. ”
Su came and smiled with white teeth: "I'll just say, from peeing and mud with your bare ass to now, what do I don't know about you?!" What kind of profundity is pretending to be here, when did you meet the horse fairy, you teach me a few tricks, and I am also majestic! ”
When Lao Hou and Li Jian looked at Su Lai, who had no scheming, they couldn't help but admire him a little, and the two looked at each other, thinking back to the past, and were speechless for a while.
Li Lian's heart was like a mirror, he walked up to Lu Xiaoqi, bowed and pleaded:
"Since the master dares to do this in front of us, can I ask the master to save my father again?"
Lu Xiaoqi likes Su Lai's innocence, and he also likes to talk to smart people like Li Lian, and it is not difficult.
He already knew that Li Jian and Su Lai were outside the door, and the reason why they were unscrupulous was precisely because he had already counted Li Lian's money. What he heard and saw in front of him was enough to make him believe in himself, and then he didn't have to cover it up, he Lu Xiaoqi could generously treat Lao Li, and after this incident, for the sake of his family and himself, none of them would say it, everything would come naturally, and the merits would be complete.
Lu Xiaoqi waited for Li Lian to speak, and after listening to him, he immediately agreed:
"Without further ado, let's go!" He looked back at Lao Hou, and when he saw Lao Hou talking to Su Lai, he said, "Stone! Go with them! I'm not in good spirits and need to rest alone. ”
Su Lai looked at Lu Xiaoqi, who gave him a lip sync: Don't worry.
The three of them soon arrived at the sanatorium, picked up the old man, and went directly to Li Lian's house.
When Su Lai, he saw that it was a small courtyard, a single family, and no one at home, which was very strange, Li Lian explained that this was their family's old house, which had been vacant for a long time, if he returned to his current home, in the community, there was a large population, and he was afraid of being inconvenient, Lu Xiaoqi nodded silently when he heard it.
Old man Li was very happy, pacing around in the small courtyard with a bird cage, looking at the flowers and grass, not at all like a sick person. The red brick wall, the cicadas chirp and the frogs chirp, and the old man paced, and the picture was harmonious.
"Where's the piano? When will Daqin come back, and no one will cook for me? The old man smiled and said, "A few guests, let you see and laugh, Daqin can't walk as soon as he sees the night market, he may come back later to cook, drink tea first, drink tea!" ”
Li Jian sighed lightly and explained: "Daqin is the mother of the family, and she has been gone for a few years. The old man's recent memories were all from a few years ago. He doesn't remember me now, and this is, counts me as a guest! ”
After his brief narration, Lu Xiaoqi knew that Li Lian was not a fully blessed person, his eldest daughter was very favored by the second elder, so he stayed with them, Li Lian's wife only took care of the younger son, and later the eldest daughter Yuanyuan chased the puppy into the water, and his mother Daqin jumped down without hesitation to save the child, and the last two did not come up. After that, they moved out of this sad place.
Lu Xiaoqi nodded, so that he didn't have to be anxious, he slowly approached the old man, and took out the blue water jade pendant around his neck, Li Lian couldn't help but approach, and said suspiciously: "This is a pendant of a big arowana, how did it become plain noodles?" ”
"Huang Fu sent it?" Lu Xiaoqi asked casually, the big fish is gone, this jade pendant bare stone is a safe and sound card without any carving.
When Li Jian heard this, his face turned angry.
Lu Xiaoqi was not busy talking, and the jade spirit that stored the memory was transferred back to the jade pendant intact, the jade spirit has now woken up, Lu Xiaoqi is to wake up as a contract, let it slowly return to the memory to the old man, and the matter will be round, so that the old man himself and his relatives will not be suspicious, and they will only feel that he is slowly getting better.
"This jade pendant is fine, and you have to wear it every day lately, but in a month, your father will be cured. In order to keep it safe, Mr. Li has to take care of him a lot recently. I'm here, and that's it! ”
Li Jian and Su Lai only saw him touch the jade pendant, and put it down in less than a moment, the two of them were confused, and Su Lai asked directly: "What did you do?" ”
I didn't see anything!
The old man suddenly put down the bird cage and happily pulled Lu Xiaoqi's hand: "Tingzhou! Why haven't you left yet, the last time you walked with me, didn't you say that you were going to the Snow Mountain to find Snow Lotus! Why do you have time to come to me? ”
The other three all changed their faces.
Su Laishi and Lu Xiaoqi both knew that the "Tingzhou" in his mouth was Lu Tingzhou, Lu Xiaoqi's father.
Lu Tingzhou's real name is Lu Zifang, and Tingzhou is his cousin; The Lu family acts old-fashioned, using the word Runde, thinking that water is good for all things, and the words are related to water, even Lu Xiaoqi, who is wandering, also has a table word "galaxy" that his father has already prepared. But there is no such thing as a table word, which is not used at all in modern times, and it will only tell people close to each other that the relationship between Old Man Li and Lu Zifang is really good.
And Li Jian felt that his father was talking nonsense again, but then he saw his father turn his head and say to him: "Son, why are you stunned, invite guests to the living room, this little brother, you came with Tingzhou, right?" ”
What he was referring to was Su Laishi. And Li Lian heard him change his words and call himself his son, and he was overjoyed.
Lu Xiaoqi was stunned at first, then reacted and hurriedly asked, "Lao Li, I remember you, come and see you, how long have we not seen each other?" ”
Old man Li enthusiastically led him to the living room, and muttered in annoyance: "I don't clean the house, where did Daqin take me to kiss Yuanyuan......
He suddenly remembered, suddenly stopped, and his eyes were cold: "Daqin, Daqin is gone...... How did I forget, how did I forget such an important thing. Son...... Didn't we move, why are we still here? ”
The moonlight poured in, reflecting the shadows of several people standing in the quiet dust, and the neat and empty living room did not have a trace of fireworks, which was a little weird.
Li Jian was very excited, and his voice trembled a little: "Dad, it's my friend, they want to come and see you, so they brought you here." When you say that you touch the scene like this, you will remember a lot of things, and it really works! ”
Old man Li reacted quickly: "Nonsense, when did I get sick?" It's just that you're busy, and you don't come to see me, and you suffocate me! Or my friend is reliable, better than my son! Tingzhou ......"
He thought of Tingzhou, turned around and saw Lu Xiaoqi's face, and wondered again: "Are you really Tingzhou?" Tingzhou is not a few years younger than me, are you? ……”
Lu Xiaoqi smiled relaxedly: "Old man, I am indeed not the Tingzhou in your mouth, I am his son." Lu Xiaoqi. ”
Li Jian was surprised, he looked at his father and then at Lu Xiaoqi, but he didn't expect Lu Xiaoqi to really have a relationship with their family.
Lu Xiaoqi took a step closer and said: "It's rare that my uncle still remembers my father, the younger generation really wants to hear about your old things, and there is one more person, Huang Fu, do you still have an impression, uncle?" ”
The old man frowned and thought deeply, Lu Xiaoqi estimated that he couldn't recall much for the time being, thinking that the future would be long, and when he was about to give up, the old man gestured to him and waited: "Huang Fu? Huang Ming! It's really in this house, you're a coincidence today, wait, wait and don't go. ”
A few people were suspicious, watching the old man walk into the wing, and after a while, he took a photo album and sat on the sofa and flipped it up.
Li Lian pushed open the electric switch, turned on the light, and several people came over to watch it together.
The old man paused, pulled out a photograph, and placed it on the coffee table.
Lu Xiaoqi looked at the photo carefully, and Su Laishi exclaimed in surprise: "Look, there is really your father!" I really look like you, I'm so young, I don't dare to look at the camera at the very edge, this is Huang Fu! This kills a thousand knives! Hey, the first row in front of me is Uncle Li, this smile hasn't changed from now! ”
This is a black and white photograph of a long time, although it is well preserved, but due to technical problems at the time, it is still yellowed today, and the lace of the ancient taste is cropped, enveloping the memory of that moment.
The background of the photo is like a garden, a group of people are divided into two rows, standing in front of the bamboo forest for a group photo, the flower beds on both sides, are full of blooming irises, although this photo is only black and white, but you can see that the weather is sunny that day, people are smiling brightly, the flowers are delicate, and the garden is full of fragrance.
It's a April day on earth.
"When was this filmed?" Lu Xiaoqi couldn't help but ask softly. In the photo, except for the people mentioned by Su Laishi, he really didn't know any of the rest, and he had no clue.
The old man also seemed to fall into the memory: "Very early, in 1975, I remember very clearly, it was the year when the educated youths went to the countryside, there was a young couple in the countryside to collect something, found a strange stone, and brought it back, we participated in this so-called iris feast together, everyone pooled money to eat and drink together, and carefully admired the stone, in fact, it was only to gather everyone to have fun, and later I heard that the stone cut is nothing, and it is just a magnet." ”
Lu Xiaoqi thought to himself, in 1975, before he was born, Huang Fu had already appeared around them, I don't know how many people he had deceived and harmed, and now he was folded in his own hands, which was considered retribution.
At the same time, the old man suddenly remembered: "Son, am I confused, how do I seem to remember that I saw Huang Ming on the street, exactly like in the photo, still so young...... Later, he came to me and said that it was Huang Fu, a descendant of the Huang family, and he also sent me this piece of jade, saying that it was a thousand-year-old jade, which was very precious. ”
Before Lu Xiaoqi could speak, Li Lian hurriedly nodded: "Exactly, he has recently left here, and he told you to take good care of yourself, and I will come to see you when I have time in the future." The jade is still there, you see, it's good to wear it, and it's also someone else's mind.
The old man frowned again, as if he was confused. A worried look appeared on Li Lian's face.
The cool breeze blew in, or Su Laishi proposed that it was not early, and it was more dewy, since he had already come to visit, it was better to go back today. Come back in a few days to catch up, and don't delay.
Lu Xiaoqi was urgent in his heart, and he still had a lot of questions to ask, but after listening to Su Laishi's words of respecting the old and loving the young, he also felt that now was not a good time. He nodded, and agreed that it would be better to go back early today to rest, and it would not be too late to talk about it another day.
At that moment, several people were excited, and said goodbye to each other amidally, Li Lian respectfully sent the two out of the hospital, called a car for them and paid for the car in advance.
In the living room behind him, in front of the thoughtful old man, the photo on the coffee table was lifted by the night breeze, turned over slightly, and fell back on the dust, with clear small words under the bright moonlight:
"Lu Xinghe on April 13, 1975".