Copper Coins

When Xue Xian and Xuan Min returned to Qingping County, the sky was already bright.Unlike the dark clouds at the foot of Dupan Mountain, which are covered with lightning and thunder, the sunlight here is very good, and there is actually a hint of warmth in this cold winter month.

The whole Qingping County seemed to be more lively than the previous two days, and there were many more people on the street. It seemed that they had escaped from the shadow of the epidemic and took a breath.

When the two stood at the door of the Fang family's backyard, the entire Fang family was already busy.

The Yaolang guys are laying herbs on the edge of the garden, planning to dry them on the rare sunny day.Those beggars helped them one after another, clumsily but carefully.Uncle Chen helped Fang Cheng check the volumes, one recited the names of medicinal materials, and the other corrected the number as much as possible with ink strokes.

Jiang Shijing led several seven or eight-year-old children to study. These children were sent by some people to learn art. Although they were young, they were able to answer questions about the properties of various herbs.

Mrs. Chen was chopping vegetables in the kitchen with a kitchen knife, and Xingzi helped her, going in and out from time to time.

The twin brothers were very busy in the front hall, and Jiang Shining, who was not convenient to see the light, was nestled in the room, correcting a handwritten book of medical skills for his sister.

Stone Zhang picked a corner, touched two stones, and chiseled and tapped on them, and there were some small things carved there.At his feet, there is already a row of thumb-sized stone rabbits and stone monkeys, which can be seen that they are also busy.

The backyard of the Fang family was quite spacious, but it was filled to the brim with all these people, old and young, almost crowded.

If the former Xue Xian saw such an environment, he would definitely turn around and leave - a stone buzzing in his ear is enough to cause trouble, so many people buzzing together, who can bear it?

Although he is not as fastidious as Xuan Min, and his temper is extraordinarily flamboyant, but in fact he is not a troublemaker, he can make trouble by himself, but others can't, it's just so unreasonable.

But at this moment, he was leaning against the door, scanning the yard with his idle eyes, and suddenly felt that such a life was not bad, and for ordinary people, it probably couldn't be more perfect.

"Ah——" Xingzi happened to come out of the kitchen, and saw Xue Xian and Xuan Min standing silently by the door as soon as he glanced at him, and happily rushed into the yard, "Master Xue is back!"

"Little girl, your heart is almost in a creaking hole." Shitou Zhang Shun, who was closest to her, said, "Didn't you see the master came back?"

Xingzi blushed and quickly waved her hands, "It's nothing, I haven't had time to shout yet."

This stone Zhang Yuemo was immersed in the fun of carving stones, and before he could recover, he turned his head and opened his mouth, and said to Xue Xian and the others: "You guys cleaned up all night? Are you done? I knew it would be a waste." Time, that boy Nianqi and I will stay one more night to help."

Xue Xian: "..."

Shitou Zhang deserved to be a mallet, just such a sentence made Xue Xian's face turn from white to green.

For a moment, Xue Xian seemed to feel Xuan Min glanced at him, but when he turned his head to look over, Xuan Min had already lowered his gaze, and stepped into the courtyard gate calmly.

Xue Xian squinted his eyes and stared at Shitou.However, the feeling of being poked at the target again and again is really not that pleasant, as if there is an extra weakness for no reason.But in fact, he is used to wandering, and he has never experienced such ups and downs in his many years of life.

Almost got it!

Xue Xian's face finally returned to plain white, and he said nonchalantly: "I borrowed my hand, and declared my adultery, so that's it, what's going on."

Shitou Zhang was stared at for a long time by him inexplicably, and his legs were weak. Fortunately, he was sitting. If he was standing, he might turn his head and want to run away.He twitched himself slightly: "Let you talk too much, you will be stared at."

Although he still couldn't figure out how to offend this ancestor with a simple sentence.

Everyone in the yard greeted Xue Xian and Xuan Min one after another. Xingzi, who had stared at Xue Xian's face for a long time in a daze, suddenly remembered something and called out again, pointing to Xue Xian's standing legs, He widened his eyes and said, "You—"

"Oh? Legs and feet are healed?" Shitou Zhang, who had suffered countless times, but was not wise enough, said in surprise, "What kind of magic medicine did you use? Legs healed overnight?"

Xue Xian narrowed his eyes, and said expressionlessly, "It's safer to advise you not to talk."

Shitou Zhang silently sealed his mouth, thinking how could I mess with this ancestor again?

However, there are not a few people like Shitou Zhang who can't detect the problem with the word "overnight". Frequently send caring.

"One night" and "one night" went on and on for a long time, so that Xue Xian almost felt that these people were probably here to collect his debts, so he opened his mouth...

Fortunately, before he heard a few words, Xue Xian realized that someone was holding his wrist lightly.

"His legs and feet have just recovered, and he still needs to meditate for a few hours to recuperate." Xuan Min said suddenly.

Everyone was stunned, and quickly echoed, "Master is right, you really need to take good care of yourself."

Xuan Min didn't say much, he squeezed Xue Xian's wrist, pushed open the room they had shared before, and led Xue Xian in, before closing the door behind him.

The door of the house shut out everyone's voices.This layer of wood, which is not considered thick, is really magical. Once it is covered, it seems to separate another world.Xue Xian's eyes lowered casually, and happened to land on the hand holding his wrist.

The door was obviously closed tightly, but it took a while for the hand to let go.

Xue Xian raised his eyes, and saw that Xuan Min had turned around and walked to the table, while pulling away a wooden chair, he said in a low voice: "On the way just now, your steps were not solid, and your pulse was a bit stagnant, and your legs and feet may have recovered a bit hastily. , Let's take care of it again."

So the hand loosened a little later just to check the recovery status...

Xue Xian raised his eyebrows, looked away, and stopped looking at him.Carrying the string of unreturned copper coins, he staggered away from Xuan Min who was sitting at the table, and sat down beside the bed.

What Xuan Min said just now was true, and Xue Xian knew it well, after all, he hadn't found his true backbone, and the reason he could move freely at this moment was all pulled by the silk thread condensed from the copper coin.

It's just that the replacement is just a replacement after all, and it cannot be maintained for a long time.It was a little unstable now, if he didn't recuperate in time and continue to infuse spiritual energy, once the silk thread broke, he might have to go back paralyzed.

So he didn't delay much, and immediately took Xuan Min's copper coins into the deposit.

At first, the spiritual power that used copper coins as a medium flowed through the veins in his body as usual, constantly infiltrating the silk thread involved in the broken bone, and even made the broken bone at both ends faintly grow an inch.

But not long after, another wave of warm spiritual power flowed into his muscles and bones along the copper coin, paralleling and even merging with the original one, slowly infiltrating his broken bones and damaged tendons.

Xue Xian half-opened his eyes and glanced, and saw that Xuan Min had also closed his eyes at some point, performing Buddhist rituals with one hand, as if he was also cultivating something.

From this we can know where the other warm spiritual power came from.Xue Xian closed his eyes again, while recuperating the broken bones and the filaments in the bones, he did not forget to guide his and Xuan Min's spiritual power to walk over the copper coins over and over again.

After a long time, the copper coin in Xue Xian's hand trembled suddenly. There was obviously no sound, but a metallic sound was transmitted to his brain along the bones between his fingers, as if something "clicked" and unlocked the lock. .

He was stunned for a moment, and finally realized what was going on - probably the restriction on another one of Xuan Min's five copper coins had been lifted.

For a moment, he could subconsciously feel that with the release of the new restriction, the connection between the copper coin and his body seemed to be a little closer.While the copper coins were buzzing and trembling, he felt that his brain was also buzzing and trembling, so that he fell into some kind of dream uncontrollably.

It's not so much a dream, it's more like some fragments that are so blurred that even the outlines are hard to catch, like a fish that occasionally emerges from the river pond and then disappears——

Sometimes someone can be seen walking back and forth in front of him, his angle of view is very strange, he can't see the waist of the person, only the hem of the clothes that almost fell to the ground, which is like a cloud, sweeping past his eyes indistinctly, He opened his mouth lightly, and seemed to say two words briefly, maybe it was just a title...

Sometimes he was sitting somewhere, and there seemed to be a table in front of him, but he couldn't see what was on it, and a black phantom fell by his hand, and he seemed to move his fingers towards the phantom...

Sometimes he will hold something in his hand, which at first glance looks like a ghost face, with mixed red and black color clusters, and the eyebrows cannot be seen clearly...

Just when Xue Xian couldn't figure out where the dream-like fragments came from, he saw the last fragment. In this fragment, there was a child with a vague face standing in front of him. waist, and stretched out his hand to the child.

What made him a little stunned was that his sleeves were white, spotless white.

"Who are you?" The child raised his face and asked timidly in a vague and immature voice.

The moment he was about to answer, he suddenly caught a glimpse of his outstretched hand, and there was a very small mole on the side of the ring finger joint.Although the dream was blurred, the small mole was inexplicably conspicuous against the thin white finger.

The momentary astonishment made him clear his mind, and he broke away from the extremely vague dream.

Xue Xian opened his eyes suddenly, and looked at the table steadily.

The room was pitch black, and it was already night at some point.The light from the lantern outside came in vaguely, outlining the outline of Xuan Min by the table.

"Baldy donkey." Xue Xian frowned and said softly.

Xuan Min responded, with a trace of extremely faint fatigue revealed in his voice, as if he had just escaped from some kind of exhausting situation.From Xue Xian's perspective, he raised his hand and touched the side of his neck.

Although the room was pitch black and the details of his fingers could not be seen at all, Xue Xian remembered that there was also a small mole on the joint of the ring finger of his hand, which was exactly the same as the position in the dream just now.

Xue Xian originally wanted to talk to Xuan Min about the dream just now, but when he saw him touching the side of his neck, he changed his mind.

Because another idea suddenly popped up in Xue Xian's mind, if it was just a coincidental dream, then it's okay to talk about it, but... what if it wasn't a dream?

Now there is some inexplicable connection between him and Xuan Min's copper coins. This connection can pass on the effect of the dragon saliva on Xuan Min to him, will it also pass on something else?Like... memory?

If there is no mistake, Xuan Min's memory will be restored once the restriction is lifted on this copper coin.Just now during the recovery process, the restriction of a copper coin was broken, so what he saw... Could it be some memories that were skipped from Xuan Min's mind?

It was only because of the limited involvement that he saw those things as blurry as if they were separated by the river bank.

If it was really a memory, it would be impossible to ask such a straightforward question.After all, it is one thing for Xuan Min to take the initiative to tell him, but another for him to see it without Xuan Min's knowledge.

He thought about waiting for Xuan Min to recover and have a good talk with him, but at the moment, it seems that it is best not to use this copper money indiscriminately, so as not to get involved more and more deeply.

Xuan Min heard him yell and hesitated to speak, so he tilted his head and asked, "What's the matter?"

Now the voice sounds much better than before, and seems to have recovered most of it.

"I'd better return this copper coin to you first, I won't need it for the time being." Xue Xian stood up, relaxed his muscles and bones, and seemingly casually placed the copper coin in Xuan Min's hand.

He habitually used his fingers to hook the string of copper coins, and when he put it in Xuan Min's hand, his fingers hadn't been withdrawn from the string.

Xuan Min was holding the copper coin, he was hooking the rope, in the darkness, it seemed as if they were entangled together by a piece of thin rope.

For a moment, as if a ghost was fascinated, Xue Xian didn't let go, and neither did Xuan Min.

After a while, Xue Xian moved his fingers that were entangled by the thin rope, but he didn't let go, but hooked towards himself in a gentle manner. He lowered his eyes and looked at Xuan Min who was sitting in front of him. , whispered: "You..."

tuk tuk-

There was a sudden knock on the door, and a thin and thin figure was reflected outside the door, and Lu Nianqi's dry voice came in: "Get up, the owner of the house is celebrating his birthday, how can you sleep so late."

Xue Xian loosened his fingers and completely let go of the string, "I almost forgot about the date, today, sister Jiang Shining invited us to a banquet, let's go."

He and Xuan Min are nobles in the eyes of the Fang family.Lu Nianqi just came to fight the first battle. As soon as Xue Xian's door opened, all the Fang family members, old and young, gathered over, and even invited him and Xuan Min to the living room.

Seeing a table full of delicacies comparable to restaurants, Xue Xian finally figured out what Mrs. Chen was busy with when she came and went with a kitchen knife in the early morning.

It is said to be a birthday, but it is actually not a big day for the whole year.Jiang Shijing and Fang Cheng just took advantage of this excuse to get everyone together for a well-packed family dinner.

There were no outsiders on the left and right, and everyone was drinking and drinking at this family banquet, but they ate quite happily.In the first half of the trip, there was still a bit of etiquette, but in the second half, the twin brothers went crazy first, and then they got out of hand.

A group of people, with the two Chen brothers as the main force, coaxed Fang Cheng and Jiang Shijing shamelessly, and then went to make trouble with Uncle Chen and Sister-in-Law Chen

"Don't be ashamed! Go eat your food, and if you don't stop, I'll feed you pig food tomorrow!" Mrs. Chen angrily pushed the two brothers who were rushing all over the field back to their positions, and cleaned up with a slap in the face.

Fang Cheng poured a small glass of wine, brushed away the rambunctious bastards, squeezed his cuff with one hand, and raised his glass to Jiang Shijing with a smile.

Jiang Shijing raised her index finger and said emphatically, "It's only one cup." Then she smiled and raised a small celadon wine cup.

"It doesn't matter, one cup a year, I can drink another eighty cups." Fang Cheng said seriously.

"That's a monster!" Jiang Shijing couldn't laugh or cry.

Jiang Shining, a nerd, couldn't eat the food of ordinary people, but he smiled with his eyes wide open.

Xue Xian was playing with the wine cup in his hand. He was lazily watching the excitement, but when he glanced at the exposed wrists of Fang Cheng and Jiang Shijing, he paused for a moment——

I saw another very faint mark on Fang Cheng's wrist, like a mark made by a rope wrapped around it, which was very familiar.And there is also a faint mark on Jiang Shijing's wrist...

"What are you looking at?" Jiang Shining turned his head inadvertently, and happened to catch Xue Xian's gaze, so he leaned over and asked.

Xue Xian pointed with his chin.

Jiang Shining said "Oh", "My brother-in-law's birthmark on the wrist has been there since he was born. My sister accidentally knocked on it. It just happened to be the first time I saw my brother-in-law when I was a child. It left a mark that has never disappeared. Xiao, it looks like a match made in heaven."

"En." Xue Xian responded, raised his eyebrows, sipped his wine, squinted his eyes and said, "Maybe it's a mark from a previous life..."

The lonely soul who wandered in the sea of ​​corpses in the desert for a long time finally got his wish, found the person he was looking for, and lived the most ordinary life, happy and happy.

"Eighty is not much, maybe I can continue counting in my next life." Fang Cheng spoke again.He lightly tapped Jiang Shijing's wine cup seriously, "This is considered a promise. Don't go back on your word after a hundred years."

After speaking, he raised his head and drank the glass of wine.

Some entanglements in this world are always difficult to explain why, sometimes even the end can't be found, but they can be involved in the stomach, infiltrating the skin and bone, from the young to the old, the hundred years without end, three lives without change.

Xue Xian swallowed the wine in his mouth, smiled with the corners of his mouth curled up, and glanced at him casually, only to see Xuan Min happened to look away from him, took a sip of tea...

The author has something to say: the end of this volume~

In addition, when I said yesterday that the end is coming soon, I mean that after writing all the things that should be written that I said yesterday, the end is not far away. Ten kilometers to the end →_→

Allow me to look ahead.

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