Penglai delusion

Xi Mo was almost pushed into the cliff cave by Jiangtan.

His eyes were swollen and he couldn't see the road clearly, the rainy road was slippery, and the abyss was on his side, so he couldn't move his legs.After finally entering the cave, his legs were still trembling faintly.

Jiang Tan lit the lamp, found two scarves, and handed one to Xi Mo.

Xi Mo wiped his head, sneezed twice, and smiled a little embarrassedly, "Elder, I might have caught a cold."

Jiang Tan thought for a while, then went to fetch a stove, put it in front of him and turned it on.Sitting cross-legged, Xi Mo took off the wet clothes one by one and spread them out. After a while, he smelled a sweet scent of ripe glutinous rice.He was stunned, unexpectedly, Jiangtan could roast sweet potatoes by himself, so he said, "Elder..."

Jiangtan has disappeared.

Xi Mo swallowed, resisting the urge to steal sweet potatoes, and looked around.

The furnishings here are extremely simple, which is very in line with the way of penance.Xi Mo looked around, and the wound on his face started to itch, so he opened the box, dug out a piece of crystal clear fat, and wiped it away.This medicine is very different from Dong Yi's, with a faint mint smell, and it hurts a bit when it is applied to the wound.

But he felt comfortable, so he simply painted all the wounds on his body that didn't heal quickly.Just as he was groping to put the medicine on his back shoulder, he saw Jiang Tan approaching, holding a robe in his hand, walked up to him, looked at himself for a moment, then sat down on the opposite futon, "Would you like What am I doing?"

"I'm in trouble." Xi Mo hissed in pain, "The old man doesn't want me anymore."

Immediately, he talked about the incident of someone eating bamboo rice by mistake, and then said, "If the elder had been there at that time, the situation might not have been so bad. The old man had never seen me before, so he vented his anger on this matter, and finally thought that I was not qualified. Stay on the mountain again."

He sighed, "But now the dragon boats have already returned, I will probably die if I leave Qingxu."

This time he didn't mention his roots at all, knowing that people who are innocent probably look down on crippled people, and don't believe that crippled people can accomplish things.

Jiang Tan listened, showing a thoughtful expression, "I'll go talk to the old man."

"What does the elder want to say." Xi Mo smiled wryly, "Now only the elder is willing to take me in, if you don't mind..."

"Nothing." Jiang Tan said calmly, "I'll go and talk."

Xi Mo froze, feeling that things were a little tricky.He thought that there were two people in the back mountain, one was openly disgusted, the other was secretly disgusted, and he was afraid that he really couldn't stay any longer.

He watched Jiang Tan get up, put the robe in his hand, and then left without saying a word, holding the umbrella.

Xi Mo sighed a lot, and touched a sweet potato to eat in a bit of self-restraint.

Although both of them disliked him very much, if he could choose, he would definitely choose Jiangtan.Although this man's words and deeds are a bit strange, at least he is not like that old man, who came up to beat people.As long as Jiang Tan said this, he was afraid that he would inevitably be beaten again.

He was extremely hungry, and he had to gather enough energy to run away.He choked on eating again, and saw a clay pot on the table, and a clay cup next to it.After thinking about it, he tilted his neck back and poured it into his mouth from the air.

It's half a pot of herbal tea, but the taste is extremely bitter. For example, the Coptis chinensis, Sophora flavescens, and Gentian grass are soaked together, deliberately making people feel uncomfortable.With a mouth full of sweetness, Xi Mo felt his tongue was about to fall off.

He bit the bullet and swallowed it, not knowing what it was like in his mouth for a while, but he was not so hungry anymore.After chewing and swallowing the whole sweet potato slowly, he didn't take another sip of tea.

Xi Mo leaned against the stove, sniffing the slightly scorched warmth inside, while shaking his clothes to roast.He started to nod while roasting, and just when he was drowsy, there was a loud noise outside the cave, which shocked him, and the shirt in his hand almost covered the stove.

The cave door opened suddenly, and a cart stood in front of the door, with an old man and a few sacks sitting on it, when he saw Xi Mo, he said to Jiang Tan next to the door, "It looks like he's awake."

Xi Mo hurriedly gathered up the loose robe, stood up and saluted.

"Okay, come here and help carry the bags." The old man sat motionless, "Take them in and pile them all under the window."

All Xi Mo can see is

A round window, but he also knew that these things would never be placed in the inner room, so he lifted one out of the car, but he didn't know what was in it, it was so heavy that he stumbled after taking two steps reclined.

Jiang Tan watched him move to the window step by step, first knelt down on the ground, and then unloaded the bag from his shoulders, and said, "Let's put the rest at the door."

The old man laughed, all ridiculed.But Xi Mo didn't seem to hear it, he just said "Thank you, elder", and put all the remaining bags by the door.

"Xi Mo." Jiang Tan casually said, "Go with the old man." He watched the child staring at the stove hesitating to speak, then said, "You wear the clothes, you don't have to return them."

Xi Mo could only go over and roll up his clothes, and sat obediently on the old man's broken car.The two were speechless all the way, and flew back to the back mountain garden in a wobble.At this time, the rain is over and the sky is clear, and once the thousand blues are washed, a rainbow appears at the end of the vast emerald green, which is vast and magnificent.Xi Mo, however, lowered his eyes and didn't care to appreciate it. He just swallowed the moist moisture that rushed towards his face, and when his head was covered, he was about to sneeze again.

As soon as he landed, he couldn't control himself, coughing and wheezing a few times, really embarrassed.

"Push the car to the woodshed, and you will live there from now on." The old man said, "If you feel cold, come to me and ask for a bedding, and you must report to me before moving anything, remember?"

"I obey." Xi Mo pulled the cart and left.When I arrived at the firewood room, I saw that there was an extra small wooden bed in the corner, so I was relieved and thankful that I didn't have to make a floor.

He only said that now all the bones in his body hurt, but his eyes can already be opened.Pulling off the outer robe again, the bruises on his body had subsided a lot, and there was still some dull pain when pressing with his hand, so he knew that his face should be healed.He felt that the old man's attitude was quite different from that in the early morning, but he didn't know what Jiang Tan had said to him.

Thinking this way, he sniffed the sleeve again like a ghost, and secretly said that the distinctive aura on Jiang Tan's body was not caught.

He took off the outer robe, thinking that anyway, if he wore it himself, the man would definitely not want it again, so he might as well save it and wear it when he grows taller.

In the evening, Xi Mo shyly asked the old man for the right to use the hut.Seeing that a lot of new ingredients were added to the house, he put together five dishes and one soup, and filled the table. He mixed the fluffy rice and sausage slices and put them on the table one by one.

The old man was drinking ale in the back hall at that time, and he followed the taste when the first hot dish came out of the pan.

Seeing this, Xi Mo first cut two plates of cold appetizers for him to serve with wine, and said that the meal can be served when he is breastfeeding.The old man snorted without saying anything else, and began to drink wine with scallion and fried peanuts.

By the time the chicken soup was mellow, the sun was almost gone.Xi Mo looked at Caimen hesitantly, and said after a while, "Old man, isn't the elder coming today?"

"What is he doing here?" The old man said inexplicably, "He lives on the Qianbi Cliff, if it wasn't for the lack of slips, he wouldn't come down on weekdays."

Suddenly, Xi Mo knew that those bags were full of tablets today, no wonder they were so heavy.

"Why, do you miss him?" The old man took a bite of his meal, "Don't think that he doesn't know how to do exercises like you—you can't learn it, and Mr. Xiao Jiang doesn't want to learn it."

Xi Mo was startled, and bowed his head in silence.

"However, your cooking skills are really good." The old man was very pertinent. "Next time, just put two dishes. Don't make the food so fancy. It's not Chinese New Year."

"Yes." Xi Mo remembered it in his heart.

"where are you come from."

"The disciple is from Yongzhou."

The old man swallowed his wine again, smacked his lips, "I heard that there was a severe drought in Yongzhou, did you escape?"

"The drought started in the area of ​​the Shule River, and the disciple lives at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, so it hasn't been affected yet."

"Then why do you have to stay?" After the old man asked, he laughed to himself first, "Well, there is only one word left and right, and they are all the same."

Xi Mo didn't make a sound, silently took a mouthful of chicken soup.

"You said you came to Houshan because you were interested in the way of medicine?"

Xi Mo paused and could only nod.

"Then do you know that I don't grow medicine alone in the back mountain?"

"Since the disciple knows it, I ask the old man to teach me."

The old man laughed again, "There is no need to teach me, the puppets all over the mountains and plains are very obedient, and you can only cook a meal."

"The disciple not only knows how to cook, but also wants to seek the way of medicine."

"Stop. Then let me ask you, what is the grade of your bone?"

Xi Mo struggled a bit, but still bit the bullet and said, "No product."

The old man choked, cursed something, looked at Xi Mo more and more cunningly, and finally laughed angrily.

"Little devil, you are really powerful." He frowned and said, "You have no bones, and you can sneak in here."

Xi Mo didn't dare to speak, for fear that if he opened his mouth again, he wouldn't be able to keep a single tooth.

The old man murmured to himself, and was on the verge of smashing his job several times, "That little man Gandu, you really think that my back mountain is a health care hall, and he dares to stuff anything?"

With the lessons learned from the past, Xi Mo knew that he could not speak well for anyone, so he could only continue to remain silent.

"Hey, brat!" The old man put the jug down again, "You don't have to think about medicine and so on. Now I accept Mr. Xiaojiang's favor and take you in for the time being. Next time when Penglai Road opens, you can do it yourself. leave."

Xi Mo's breath froze, but he had no choice but to say, "Disciple obeys."

The old man didn't bother to correct him, he waved his hand at him, and left with a bunch of jugs.He seems to be a good drinker, even after so many drinks, his pace is still steady.

Xi Mo didn't drink alcohol, but he was a little drunk at the moment.He felt dizzy, his chest seemed to be stuffed with cotton, and he couldn't breathe.

He tried his best to stabilize the table, and knocked hard on his heart a few times, making his breastbone thump.

no problem.He said to himself, Penglai Road will not reopen so soon, you still have a chance...you still have a chance!

Xi Mo finally took a breath.He stared down at the rice bowl, and almost saw a hole in the bowl.It took a long time before I realized that it was raining again.