Chapter Sixty-Eight: Longing from Far Away
This mountain is not an octagonal mountain at all. It is impossible for me to have been to all the places in the Octagonal Mountain, but from the trees on the mountain in front of me, I can tell that this is definitely not on the Octagonal Mountain. The trees in this mountain are all species that I have never seen before.
The trees are twisted and twisted, but they are all towering into the sky. It's like a stairway to the sky. From time to time, there was a human-like laughter in the mountains. The laughter sounded unusual, capable of turning people's minds upside down, and my footsteps involuntarily walked towards the place where the sound came from.
The mountains are full of stones, and these stones do not look simple, as if they are as crystal clear as jade. I jumped and walked from stone to stone for a long time, and along the way the trees kept changing, and there were many kinds of trees, each more peculiar than the other.
I walked for a long time, but I didn't find the source of the sound. The voice stopped suddenly.
"This is not where you came from!" the voice was a little hurried, with a hint of surprise.
I was shocked that I had woken up. When I opened my eyes, it was pitch black all around, and I could vaguely hear the sound of other people's televisions, the sound of other people's children reprimanding, and sometimes the cry of a baby.
I wondered how I could have such a strange dream. What is even more surprising is that everything in the dream is so real, as if I had experienced it myself. In normal dreams, after waking up, everything starts to blur, but this time, everything in the dream is still vivid. It didn't feel like a dream at all. It's what really happens.
"What a strange dream. "I scratched my head, the quilt tightened, and I don't know when I fell asleep again.
Before the Chinese New Year, I received a reply from Mr. Lin. Teacher Lin said in the letter that she had finished her exam, did well, and was preparing to go home. She misses me too. Let me study hard, and there will definitely be a time when we will meet again in the future. Grandpa said that when you grow up, you will have all kinds of troubles. Mr. Lin also has Mr. Lin's troubles. Mr. Lin didn't want to come and see me, but Mr. Lin had his own affairs.
The next day, He Dachao took the initiative to come to my house and collect my chickens, ducks and geese at a high price. This year's price is another one or two dollars higher than last year. Of course, this is because prices are rising. This year, the chickens, ducks and geese were fed more, and they made thousands of yuan, but the money from feeding the pigs was still not enough to pay off the money borrowed from Huang Shulang's family.
When He Dachao left, I asked He Dachao by the way.
"Uncle Da Chao, taking advantage of this winter vacation, I want to go to the town to set up a stall, what do you think?" I asked.
"You little kid ......" He Dachao said here, and immediately stopped the car, "What kind of stall are you going to set up? ”
"Then I'll thank Uncle Da Chao in advance. I'm going to set up a stall for people to treat rheumatism. I laughed.
"Rheumatism?" He Dachao simply didn't believe his ears. The little kid in the second grade of elementary school actually said that he could treat rheumatism. Is this cowhide a little bigger?
"Many people in our village have been cured by my master!" Huang Shulang was extremely dissatisfied with He Dachao's reaction.
"It's not that I don't believe it, it's just that you're so old that you say you can cure rheumatism, even if I believe you, can others believe it?" He Dachao said with a wry smile.
"Why don't you believe it? People from other villages have come all the way to our village to cure rheumatism. Li Lijuan curled her mouth.
Coincidentally, a person from another village came to my yard under the leadership of my grandfather.
"Yangyang, this is from Yinshanbu, I found Luojiatang, if I hadn't met Luo Dachao, I don't know where I would have been bypassed by Luojiatang's people. This is not much more than coming to give a New Year's gift to a foreign family. So they brought him here. Dachao didn't have time to hurry back, so I brought him over. The grandfather pointed to an old man in his sixties beside him.
"I'm from Yinshanbu, and I walked dozens of miles, but I found the wrong place. My name is Zhao Jinhai. My legs and feet are a little inflexible, please ask the little doctor to treat me. Zhao Jinhai's face was full of smiles, and the traces of the Taoist years were written on his face.
He Dachao was going to leave immediately, but when he saw this situation, he simply stopped leaving for the time being. He just wanted to stay and see what I was up to. I can naturally understand He Dachao's intentions, but I don't bother to say it.
"Yinshanbu is not close to here. He Dachao said seemingly casually.
"Of course it's not close, it's dozens of miles away. I came out early in the morning, but unfortunately I went in the wrong direction. I ran to Luojiatang. Zhao Jinhai didn't know who He Dachao was, so he looked at He Dachao suspiciously.
Zhao Jinhai didn't walk very neatly, and when he walked, he was limping.
"You came here on foot?" He Dachao was even more puzzled.
"Yes, if you don't come here on foot, what else can you do? I have been sinned, and once my leg is sick, it will hurt all the time. Walking this far today is not much different from crawling over. Zhao Jinhai said.
Zhao Jinhai pushed his trouser leg to his thigh, and his right foot obviously looked a little swollen.
"You're in a serious situation. He Dachao said.
I lit a fire in the stove and sat down Na Zhao Dahai.
Zhao Dahai hurriedly took out two hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to me, and I took the money and put it in my pocket. Then he moved a bench and sat down. After massaging Zhao Dahai for more than ten minutes, I stood up.
"That's it. "I went and poured a basin of water and washed my hands.
He Dachao looked at me a little incredulously: "It's okay?"
Zhao Dahai was convinced, stood up, put down his trouser legs, took a few steps to try, and immediately laughed: "Haha, it's really good." ”
He Dachao's eyes widened: "That's good?"
"What's this? There are a few people in our village who have rheumatism, and once they come here for treatment, they will be completely cured. Zhao Dahai put down his trouser leg and was about to go out.
"Hey, Uncle Zhao, wait, I'm driving over, I'll take you for a ride later." He Dachao hurriedly stopped Zhao Dahai.
"That's good. Zhao Dahai's face was overjoyed.
Hearing Zhao Dahai say this, He Dachao already believed that all this was not fooling him.
"Yangyang, if you go to set up a stall on the street, the effect will definitely not be good. Think about it, if you set up a stall there, make money and leave, who will believe you? You have to open a storefront. In this way, others know that if you can't be cured, you won't be able to run away, and others will believe you. He Dachao said.
"I'm a second-grader, and you're going to let me open a store?" I couldn't help but laugh.
"Uh. He Dachao patted his head. Otherwise, you go to town tomorrow to find me, and I'll go back and ask a few people.
"Forget it, I'd better figure it out myself. "If He Dachao had said so from the beginning, I would still believe him, he went around and around, and I didn't have this idea for a long time.
I cured someone else on the spot, like Zhao Dahai's case, if I cured him, will he not pay for it?
I've made up my mind to go to town to cure your rheumatism and make money. Because I seem to have some inexplicable feeling that I will have to leave the Octagon Village one day.
Mr. Lin said that going to the outside world, I can learn more knowledge like oracle bones. In Octagon Village, it was a little difficult for me to get in touch with the oracle. As you can tell from the book, the oracle bone inscription is not written on paper, but I can't see the actual oracle bone inscription. It can only be extrapolated from the oracle bone inscription.
If I could see the real oracle, maybe I would be able to know more.
But my grandfather was not at ease for me, and I often looked into the distance and fell into deep thought.