Chapter 24: Eternal Life

When people are lonely, they will always hesitate. When the place of wandering is full of darkness, it will gradually turn into panic.

On the first day, Jiang Baochan sat on the bed in a daze, except for the time when he endured eating those tasteless meals every day, the rest of the people sat in a daze.

On the second day, he groped step by step, surveying the whole room, and finding scratches from his fingernails on the sealed windows and wooden boards.

On the third day, he had memorized how long and wide the room was. In addition to going around in circles over and over again, just looking forward to catching up on the time to eat, what he wanted was not the bowl of white rice, but the ray of sunshine that came in with the white rice.

On the fourth day, from Hua Guoan to Ma 13 to Xie Xingyan, I recalled it over and over again. He even forced himself not to think about the blood-covered appearance of those who died next to him. Occasionally lying on the cold ground, thinking of the life and death of his family outside, he felt as if someone was holding a knife and slashing his heart.

By the fifth day, he had gone completely mad, banging his head against the door and the wall, over and over again.

On the sixth day, he suddenly fell silent, and just as the outsiders wondered if he was dead, he occasionally raised his head, still the same slightly emaciated face, but his eyes were glazed.

On the seventh day, Jiang Baochan, who could no longer stand the loneliness and darkness, sang loudly the war song of the army that he learned from nowhere, roaring one after another, like a beast trapped in a cage.

On the morning of the eighth day, the gates, which had been closed for eight days, opened again.

Outside the door, the distressed Hou Ye stood there alone, Jiang Baochan couldn't hold back the bitterness in his heart anymore, pounced on him, hugged his father, and cried.

The little marquis was released from prison, and it should have been a time for a group of fox friends and protégés to come to congratulate him. But except for the big housekeeper Zhou Yu, who took the golden beads and held a brazier at the door, in front of the entire Guangyi Hou Mansion, not even half of the ghost shadow could be seen.

Stepping over the brazier, he was beaten all over his body by Guangyi Hou with a wattle stick, accompanied by the nagging of Steward Zhou, the little Hou finally stepped into the house.

For a few days, the little marquis never went out for a single step.

In addition to reading books every day, he squatted by the pond to feed the fish, and as for how he came out, Dad never said, and he never asked.

I only know that the room where the iron scroll of Danshu is used is now locked, and there is a little dust on the lock.

Occasionally, I met the cousin who was never on the wrong path in the courtyard, and I nodded and said goodbye. forcibly held back the mocking words that Xie Xingyan had prepared.

Everyone praised the current little marquis, and even the prefect Zhang, who occasionally came to visit the door, was also a strong boast.

Today's Governor Zhang has changed into a peacock brocade robe, and there are a few more entourages who go out. Occasionally, I personally carried some various specialties of Huaiyin City, and came to thank Hou Ye for his kindness.

Listening to Jinzhu, the governor of Zhang's mansion has made meritorious contributions, and he has been promoted to the deputy governor of the third grade, and he will leave for Beijing to take up his post in the near future.

As for the gang of thieves in Yinjiagou, they were also exterminated by General Qi, and the gold and silver property obtained was transferred to the military department along with the secret letters.

In the midst of the lights, it seems that the entire Huaiyin City has returned to its former appearance.

On this day, my father was accompanied by Xie Xingyan and read a book in the house. Jiang Baochan couldn't stand the boredom in the house, so he took a book and went outside.

Xie Xingyan frowned, and muttered a few words about Bao Chan. Jiang Jingchu smiled slightly, sighed, and said Let him go. Xie Xingyan stopped talking.

Jiang Baochan took a book and wandered around the courtyard, and the gradually dim twilight sprinkled the path with gold.

Wang Shuo, who had a scar on his face, bumped into his little marquis at a corner, and hurriedly bent down to worship.

Jiang Baochan walked in front of him, and when the little marquis walked around the corner, and his figure disappeared with the bamboo sea, Wang Shuo straightened up and left quickly.

The intermittent ointment of the Hou Mansion is really a first-class elixir, Xiao Guards almost stepped into the ghost gate several times, but they were dragged back by this medicine, and now it has been more than half a month, and they have finally completely woken up.

After a few more days, my body and bones were slightly better, and I was able to walk around on the ground, so I hurriedly followed my brother-in-law to thank him.

He also asked the big housekeeper Zhou Yu to hand the little Hou Ye a copy of the Taoist secret book, but said that he heard that the little Hou Ye lost a treasure knife for him, and hereby sent a copy of the secret book as a thank you.

There was a letter in the cheats, what was the content of the letter, even Jin Zhu didn't know, after the little marquis read the content of the letter, he set fire to the oil lamp, and the ashes were washed away with tea and splashed out.

The book sent by Xiao Guards was the first volume of Taoist exercises called "The Secret of Longevity", and the first half of the book was written about how to use various medicinal materials to regulate yin and yang in the body to achieve the initial yin and yang harmony. The second half of the volume is illustrated one by one, and at a cursory glance, it is very similar to the widely circulated Five Fowl Opera, but there are four more styles.

At the end of the first volume, it is written in neat block letters, "Those who believe in me will live forever." The payment is a rooster tail roader.

The little marquis threw it on the bed, ridiculous!