Chapter 7, March 21
I fainted from excessive blood loss, and by the time I woke up, I was already lying on the earthen kang of Mr. Ye's house.
Mr. Ye was sitting in a place not far from me, and I was first happy when I saw Mr. Ye, and then my heart was gloomy - after so many years, does Mr. Ye still remember that he saved a child in Abacus City, and does he still remember the agreement with me?
Mr. Ye seemed to see my thoughts: "We meet again." My name is Ye Sanqi, and I said that if I see you again and save you again, I will take you as an apprentice. Are you still willing to worship me as a teacher? β
"You'll answer when you're ready."
I struggled to sit up and ran my finger over my wrist. Ye Sanqi took out my money bag: "Are you looking for this?" β
I took the money bag only to find that the corner of the bag leaked when I didn't know when, except for the one yuan that someone rewarded when I delivered the food box, there was not even a big son.
I could only take out the one yuan, hold it in front of Ye Sanqi with both hands, and said incoherently: "I don't have a name, they all call me Xiaoqi...... Mr. Ye, this is my apprenticeship...... I would have had some money, didn't I...... Mr. Ye, don't dislike it. β
Ye Sanqi confiscated my apprenticeship and didn't let me kowtow to him before I was not counted as his apprentice.
I was holding the one dollar, and my heart was still poundingβthere was so little apprenticeship. The greater the master's ability, the heavier the apprentice's apprenticeship will be, Mr. Ye's great ability, my yuan is definitely not enough!
I've heard before: someone came to the door to worship the teacher, and because the apprenticeship was not enough, they were kicked out, and the apprenticeship ceremony they brought was thrown into the street.
People who watch the excitement will not laugh at the master, but only at the person who apprentices, and dare to apprentice if they have no money, isn't that trying to eat fart?
But that's all I can come up with.
As if I had done something wrong, I lowered my head and didn't dare to look at Ye Sanqi, for fear that he would slap my one yuan out of the air.
Ye Sanqi took the money from my hand and solemnly put it in his personal pocket: "I accepted your apprenticeship." From now on, I am your master. β
"You don't have a name, just follow my surname Ye! You are the one who was sent back by the dragon wave, and in the future, you will be called Ye Jinglong. β
On that day, Ye Sanqi accepted my apprenticeship, and then for many years that the dollar remained in his personal pocket, and he never left. He said that it was a testimony of our master-apprentice relationship.
On that day, I also had a name - Ye Jinglong. I am no longer rootless duckweed, an ownerless lonely soul.
That day was March 21, which was also my birthday as I later recognized.
When I first arrived at Ye Sanqi's house, I was still a little scared, and I always felt embarrassed to live in his house for nothing.
When people accept apprentices, they all use apprentices as small workers to call you to eat, and they don't ask you whether you are full or not.
Ye Sanqi didn't let me do anything, and brought it to me directly after the meal was cooked, seeing that I didn't dare to pick up the vegetables, he put the pot directly in front of me: "Open it to eat, it's enough." β
"Since I have accepted you as an apprentice, you are just like my son, my son eats his father, it is natural and righteous, and there is no need to be restricted. Although I only have coarse tea and light rice here, I can't starve you. β
Ye Sanqi suddenly made fish and meat for me, what is coarse tea and light rice? The more he said that, the more embarrassed I became, but I couldn't stop him from cooking deliciously, and I couldn't stop eating a few bites.
Ye Sanqi probably saw my thoughts, so he said to me: "If you really can't be idle, just help me wash my clothes and clean the house." β
"When you're healed, I'll think about what to teach you?"
"Hmm!" I was relieved when I heard that there was something to do.
Ye Sanqi didn't teach me anything right away, and I don't think it's strange. At that time, the master taught the apprentice to keep a hand, even if he really regarded his son as an apprentice, he had to see if the apprentice was filial piety, and then decide whether to teach him.
After I stayed for three or four days, I felt that the injuries on my body were almost healed, so I began to help Ye Sanqi work, he didn't let me at first, but later saw that I couldn't be idle, so he grabbed a handful of money in the drawer and stuffed it into my hand: "If you can't be idle, go to the street to buy some food, buy what you like to eat, and keep the rest of the money to buy something you like." β
I looked at the money in my hand and was stunned, I grew so big, I haven't taken so much money. Ye Sanqi just gave me the money? Doesn't he avoid me wherever he puts his money?
In the past, when he was in the boy, he didn't even know where to put the money he bought, and even his woman didn't know.
Ye Sanqi is not afraid, I will take his money away?
I went out in a daze with the money, and wandered around the street for a long time, only to realize that I had been taken to the northeast by the Whitefish Gang.
Because, there is a cup rhino lake in the town that is more than ten steps wide and looks like a sheep's horn cup to get its name, and it is said that the cup rhino lake is named by Yongzheng Ye himself.
Five years ago, Ye Sanqi opened a medical clinic here, which is known as Beixi Town.
I listened to others talk about Ye Sanqi's fame, and at first I was still proud for a while, but then I realized that something was wrong. Why do those people look at me when they talk?
I subconsciously touched my head a few times before I asked a meat seller, "Uncle, why do you always look at my head?" β
The man smiled: "Young man, there is no one now, you tell me, did your master change your head?" β
"What?" I was stunned: "What is the change of head?" Can this person's head be replaced? β
"You young man is not honest!" The man was unhappy: "When you were brought back by Qi Ye, your brain-pulp was knocked out, so you can still live?" β
"Qi Ye, the night I brought you back, I went to Cihang Temple on the edge of the Cupxi Lake. The next morning, the old monk in the temple found that the Buddha's head in the Daxiong Treasure Hall was missing. β
"If it weren't for your master taking the Buddha's head and replacing your head, would you be able to live?"
The man seemed to have seen it with his own eyes: "That old monk of Cihang Temple is still jumping to find your master to play with his life!" β
When I heard this, I hurriedly took the bones and ran home, and when I went back and asked, Ye Sanqi smiled: "Why don't you put your head in the water and try to see if you can float?" If you can float up, it's a wooden head. β
I just wanted to put my head in the water tank and I understood, Ye Sanqi was playing with me!
Ye Sanqi said with a smile: "What's the matter, I'm afraid that idlers will spread it around, and there will be no score when it is passed around." If you really hit the brain-pulp, I can't save you even if I'm a god. β
"Don't believe what outsiders say."
I thought about it, it is impossible for a human head to be replaced with wood, I subconsciously touched the top of my head, but found that my hair was missing.
When I looked at Ye Sanqi inexplicably, I saw him smile at me.
Is it Ye Sanqi who shaved off a piece of my hair?