Chapter 9: Walking Citibank
As soon as the head nurse Chen entered the ward, he took the hand of the little monk Shikong and asked for warmth, his face was full of pity, seeing that the little monk's face was pale, and he said distressedly that he would burn mushroom soup for Xiao Shikong at noon to make up for his body, and the little monk of Shikong obediently accepted the overflowing maternal love of the head nurse, and thanked him from time to time, and the head nurse Chen looked at the cute little bald head, and the overflowing maternal love was even more out of control, his eyes were red, and he muttered in his mouth: "Oh! How spicy and cute, you wait, Auntie will immediately ask for leave and go back to make you a delicious meal to replenish your body!" After speaking, he walked out in a hurry, and before leaving, he also yelled at Niu Dazhuang: "You are honestly taking care of Xiaokong here, if you bump into me, I will ask you!" Niu Dazhuang nodded like pounding garlic. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Wang Yuan also came over and said, "Wow! This little monk looks so cute! What a proper special actor! Let's run the crew with my brother! I will let you eat and drink spicy food!"
Cao Ping saw that he was open-mouthed, and hurriedly said, "Brother Yuan, you go outside and wait for me, I'll say a few words to the little master and go out." Wang Yuan pursed his lips and muttered, "Okay, okay, okay! You are a wounded, listen to you." As he spoke, he shook out of the room.
The little monk smiled and turned his face to Cao Ping and said, "You are here, thank you for saving me yesterday." Cao Ping smiled and said, "I'm much older than you, even if you don't call me brother, at least call me by my name." β
The little monk said seriously: "If I call you unhappy like this, I apologize, then I will call you Brother Cao Ping in the future." β
Cao Ping looked at the little monk's serious expression, felt very awkward, and said, "Forget it, you are still as good as before." β
The little monk of Shikong nodded and said: "I have always communicated with the people around me to be commensurate with you and me, I have always thought that names are just people's code names, and the conversation only needs to let both parties understand who is speaking, and you and I are enough to make each other understand the direction of the words." But I have very little dealings with the worldly, so if there is any offense, please point it out and I will correct it later. β
Cao Ping opened his mouth, didn't know how to answer, and asked hesitantly: "That...... Your wounds, are you alright?"
The little monk kept smiling and looking into Cao Ping's eyes when he spoke, and he blinked and said, "You saw my senior brother yesterday?"
Cao Ping was stunned for a moment and said, "Senior brother?"
The little monk said: "It's Master Zhiming, he and I are both disciples of the pious elder, since you have met him, he must have told you all about me, right?"
Cao Ping nodded and said, "He said you were voluntary? β
Shikong said: "I am indeed voluntary, I can almost be regarded as the kind of prodigy who is born to know, speak, walk earlier than ordinary people, I have been an orphan since I was a child, raised by the pious elders, grew up in the temple, my enlightenment book is the Diamond Sutra, I thought about the philosophical question when I was very young, that is, what is the meaning of human life, I saw a sentence in a book one day, it was a German man named Max Weber who said, 'Man is an animal hanging in the web of meaning woven by himself.' I finally understand that there is no meaning in people's lives, because people will eventually go to the end of any meaning, that is, death, the vast majority of people spend their lives looking for the meaning or value of their existence, there are very few people who think that they have found it, they are the so-called successful people, and the vast majority of the remaining people are on the way to find meaning, and finally complete this life, I am very lucky, many people have not found out what the meaning of their lives is, and I had the opportunity to choose to do a very meaningful thing at a very young age, I chose to make this meat ginseng, to verify the authenticity of this ancient prescriptionγ β
"Huh?!" Cao Ping suspected that he hadn't heard clearly, and said with a smile: " You heard it right, I'm testing the authenticity of this prescription myself, no one knows whether it's useful or not, my existence itself is a kind of hope, a kind of hope that can counteract people's fear of death, without the fear of death, people are fearless, and, in case this prescription is true, it is a blessing for the whole of mankind, if it proves to be useless, then it is understandable, because this in itself is a very unrealistic thing, and it is natural to be falsified, and I also enjoy most of the resources of the country, I have seen a lot of ancient books, I have discussed academic issues with many domestic and international philosophers, and I think I am very happy to live until now, and that's enough. β
Cao Ping digested it for a while before he finished understanding what the little monk said, and the little monk saw that Cao Ping was puzzled, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, I'm going to talk about it again, the teachers and nephews around me all think that I talk about something brainless all day long, and now they rarely talk to me, I am also an occupational disease, hehe!"
Niu Dazhuang's big bald head stretched out and said, "Uncle Shikong, do you want to pee?" The little monk shook his head with a smile and said, "No, you can sit down and rest first." β
Cao Ping was a little embarrassed, and quickly changed the topic and said, "Why did that RB assassin yesterday let me and Sister Su Rui live together?"
The little monk shook his head and said: "I don't know, this is my first time assassinated, maybe he thinks that there is no need to make extraneous branches when the mission is completed? Maybe he deliberately left a living mouth to create public opinion in the later stage? Maybe the RB side has already felt that his weapon is so powerful that it does not need to be concealed, and it is to blatantly form a military deterrence and deliberately show China?" I don't really understand, but I estimate that they will soon pay the price, because, they have touched the bottom line of the country, but I may be a little more boring in the future, and it is estimated that it will be heavily defended in a short time, my senior brother told me that there have been armed police forces rushed here last night, and it is estimated that I will be placed under house arrest and protected at noon, and I estimate that it will be transferred soon, but I can't tell you in the past, this needs to be kept secret, sorry. β
Cao Ping hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, don't say it, this is related to your safety, it's best to be cautious." β
The little monk of Shikong sighed and said: "Actually, you shouldn't be involved, there are very few people in the country who know about this matter, it will be very dangerous for you to be involved, I will tell my senior brother, you also have to forget about me, although you saved my life, but because of confidentiality, I can't give you anything in return, and I can't give you any help through my identity, but if you develop in ZJ in the future, if you encounter any difficulties, you can go to my senior brother, and he will help you solve the general trouble." β
Cao Ping shook his head and said: "It's okay, I don't need help, I saved you purely because not saving me will make me feel guilty for the rest of my life, and it is also to help myself." Gen Zhiming had already given me a bottle of hangover medicine yesterday as a thank you gift. Suddenly, Cao Ping mysteriously lowered his head and said: "I'm telling you, that hangover medicine doesn't seem to be a simple hangover medicine, I suddenly had a sense of gas this morning, although I'm not sure, but it's very similar to what my grandfather said, and it's even stronger, I haven't practiced a sense of qi in my life, I didn't expect to eat a bottle of medicine, I want to thank you even more, this has fulfilled a long-cherished wish of mine!"
The little monk of Shikong thought about it, and suddenly realized: "I know, my senior brother gave you the chalcedony pill." β
"Chalcedony Pill, what is that?" Cao Ping said suspiciously.
"There is a mountain called Xiyanling in the northwest of Hengdian, which is not big, but a natural karst cave was found in the mountain, and the government was going to transform it into a scenic spot, but it inadvertently excavated the chalcedony, which is almost 3,000 years old. β
"I remember, chalcedony! There is ointment in the mountains, which flows out into a river, and after flowing out for several miles, it seeps into the ground, and it looks like *** After taking it, the teeth are reborn, and the sick body is healed! I read it in my grandfather's book!"
Shikong nodded and said: "Yes, that's it, this time the chalcedony is only three thousand years, wrapped in a crystal cluster, the chalcedony pill is a pill made by grinding a crystal shell wrapped in chalcedony that was accidentally chiseled down during the excavation, and this chalcedony is also the reason why I came here this time." Since I was a child, I have been running all over the country, because many precious medicinal materials are in remote areas, and there will be a time limit for mining, so it is best for me to go to the local area to take the best effect. β
Cao Ping swallowed and spat, "Three thousand years of chalcedony, let you take it directly?"
"That's right!" The little monk of Shikong nodded and said: "This time the chalcedony is only three thousand years, and it is only a little more than one liter in total, which is only enough for me to drink one meal, and the seal has been broken, and the medicinal effect has volatilized some, but it is not wasted, my senior brother has already taken the disciples of the Medicine Master Hall and the Luohan Hall to the cave to seize the time to cultivate and absorb, I heard the senior brother say, most of them have increased their strength for more than a year, and the shell that was chiseled down has also been made into a chalcedony pill, which has helped you open your mind and clear the qi veins, which can be regarded as making the best use of things." β
Cao Ping didn't know what to say, he just took the pill made of leftovers and had successfully practiced his sense of qi, and the monks of Dazhi Temple could only smell it! I remember what my grandfather's book said, in ancient times, chalcedony was a treasure that was not encountered in a hundred years, and once it was discovered, it was all to be tributed, and it would be rewarded by the emperor. This is not all, listen to his words, such medicinal materials are only so-so, people are in a hurry to eat the freshest and most precious medicinal materials from childhood to adulthood, those emperors in ancient times did not have such treatment! The little monk has little contact with ordinary people, and he doesn't feel what there is at all, and Cao Ping's eyes when he looks at the little monk are already like looking at a walking Citibank!
Suddenly there was a rumbling propeller sound outside the window, flying from the sky, the little monk looked out the window, and said: "Okay, you should go, forget about me, it's good for you and me, if someone asks later, you are an ordinary person who passed by and saved my life, let's meet again!"
Cao Ping nodded, stood up with a complicated mood, and said, "Okay, no matter what, thank you, I hope to meet on another occasion next time, you take care!" He glanced at the little monk deeply, turned around and walked out of the ward.
The little monk smiled and bowed his head and whispered: "Amitabha." He took out a string of Buddhist beads with both hands and rubbed his eyes half-closed, but it was a string of eighteen eighteen Arhats carved from the best mutton fat jade, which was larger than the jade Buddha beads in the hands of Master Zhiming.
Niu Dazhuang stretched out his hand and handed over a peeled apple, and said, "Uncle Shikong, let's eat an apple." The little monk shook his head, half-closed his eyes and said, "I don't eat, you can eat!" Niu Dazhuang seemed to have expected him to say this, retracted his hand, and took a bite of half of the apple, chewing juice overflowing.