his dragon [farming]

The next morning, amidst the barking of the Ding family's dogs, Bai Chuan stepped into the Ding family's small courtyard through the gate for the first time with a condescending face.

Lao Ding came out to greet him, first drank the dog away, then looked at the medicinal herbs he brought, nodded and said, "Not bad!" He let Bai Chuan sit casually, and went to the room to dispense the medicine himself.

Bai Chuan stood in the main room and looked around. He saw that several chairs in the room were piled up with sundries, and a square table was also covered with a thick layer of dust. Clothes, books, and medicinal materials were placed everywhere. It was clear at a glance that the owner of the house was Is a careless single old man.

Bai Chuan couldn't help slandering him, he didn't sweep the ground, it's a shame he had the guts to sell medicine!Don't be afraid of chicken droppings on the herbs!

Then it occurred to him that this medicine was taken back for Qiuhe, and his mood became very complicated, wishing he could pick up the broom and sweep it for him immediately.

Just as he was hesitating, he saw the tall old dog of Ding's family passing by the yard, and gave him a contemptuous look.

Bai Chuan was taken aback, and suddenly remembered that not only did he secretly take away a puppy, but the reason why the old dog was lame was also thanks to him. ——With such hatred of seizing a son and breaking a leg, it is rare that someone did not rush forward to bite her, she is really generous.

A person and a dog were facing each other, and Lao Ding came out in a hurry.He searched around in the main room, found a small scale, and entered the room again.Bai Chuan abandoned the old dog, followed Lao Ding slowly, and stood leaning against the door.Upon closer inspection, Lao Ding's injured arm was indeed not very flexible.

Bai Chuan hesitated for a moment, intending to express his apology, but he and Lao Ding hated each other all these years, and they didn't look good when they saw each other, so he didn't know how to speak for a while, and asked angrily for a long time: "How about your... gone?"

Lao Ding was concentrating on dispensing the medicine. He was stunned when he heard this, and thought that the bastard was looking for an opportunity to ridicule him. His face instantly became stinky, and he said angrily, "You still have the guts to ask! It's not because you are dizzy and afraid that you will be moved." I hurt you with my hands, how can I suffer such a loss?"

Bai Chuan thought to himself, it's not that he has never really fought before, isn't he unable to beat every time? ——Finally he remembered that standing here was not for quarreling, so he whispered: "Who wants you to meddle in your own business!"

"If I don't go, why don't you just let you, a stupid donkey, poke a hole in the sky!" The old man hated iron for being weak, and murmured while dispensing the medicine: "I will ask you to go out to avoid it that day, so that I can save myself. Something! Killing a thousand knives, just don’t listen! If you ran out to avoid it for a year or so, how could you cause all these troubles?... I think you just can’t bear to part with your little friend, right?”

Bai Chuan bowed his head and remained silent, as a tacit consent.Lao Ding gave him a cool look, and said, "That kid is pretty smart, and asked me to help you settle Jiang's house. It's a good idea, but do you really think those photos in your hands can be useful?"

Mentioning Qiuhe, Bai Chuan's expression softened, his fingers were digging on the door frame, his eyes were lowered and he said lightly, "It's good to try if it works."

Lao Ding was annoyed and funny when he saw his youthful vigor, he sighed slightly, and said, "I don't understand, you have been cautious in your words and deeds all these years, how could you have let the dragon tooth fall into the hands of outsiders? You know this How much disaster will it cause? Don’t you understand the truth of the crime of carrying a jade? ——The hunters in the past did not hesitate to risk their lives and rummaged through the mountains and rivers, just to get a dragon tooth and a dragon tendon; those high-ranking officials In order to prolong life, the nobleman spared no effort to spend a lot of money just to get a drop of dragon blood and a dragon bone! Now that they know that a living dragon is here, do you think you can be forced to retreat with just a few photos? If you don’t want to find a way to arrest you, how can these people May be willing?"

Bai Chuan listened silently, sneered through his nose, and said, "Even if they all come, I'm not afraid. It's not like I haven't never seen a top-level hunter!"

Old man Ding wrapped the prepared medicine in a newspaper. Hearing this, he felt that the "top-level hunter" was probably talking about himself, so he felt a little sympathetic in his heart. He glanced at Bai Chuan and said : "How dare a small dragon be so crazy? Have you ever heard that there are mountains beyond the mountains and heavens beyond the sky?"

Bai Chuan said coldly: "So what? If you're not convinced, just try it!"

Lao Ding handed him the medicine, waved his hand, and said, "Go away! Look at you!"

Bai Chuan took the medicine, but he didn't intend to leave. Lao Ding was a little surprised and said, "Why don't you leave? Is there anything else you want to say?... No wonder you have been flattering me these two days!"

Bai Chuan immediately said angrily: "I didn't please you!"

"Then what are you doing here like a stick?" Old man Ding looked at the young man who was so angry because he was exposed, he was amused in his heart, but he said: "Hurry up, hurry up, I still have something to do!"

Bai Chuan picked up the medicine, turned around and left, but stopped at the gate of the courtyard, hesitated for a while, and finally said reluctantly, "Is there any way you can make human beings become like me?"

It was the first time in his life that he asked for help, and he was quite unfamiliar with the business, so it sounded like he was asking for debts.Lao Ding was very surprised when he heard this, and said after a while: "Are you talking about Qiuhe? If you want to talk about his disease, these medicines are enough. If it doesn't work, don't you still have you? Let some blood so that he can't drink it." That's it?"

"It's not a cure,... it's not just a cure." Bai Chuan lowered his head, and began to dig the door frame again. After digging for a while, he raised his head and said, "Is there any way to make him become like me? No longer sick, but still strong, And...you can live a long time."

The old man was shocked again and said, "You want him to become a dragon too?"

Bai Chuan hesitated for a moment, then said, "It's not that it becomes a dragon, it's...a person who looks like a dragon."

Lao Ding looked at Bai Chuan, and asked ponderously, "Have you ever asked his opinion for your idea?"

Bai Chuan was silent for a moment before saying, "He also wants to accompany me."

Lao Ding pondered for a while, then said: "I don't know. I read an ancient book before, saying that someone became a fairy after encountering a dragon. ——How can there be any fairy in this world? Thinking about it, it is probably that It means that people live many years longer. But they didn't say how to do it specifically,...do you really want to do this?"

Bai Chuan was looking at him eagerly, and nodded without hesitation when he heard the words, Lao Ding said again: "Even if it takes years of cultivation for this, and even loses your life?"

Bai Chuan hesitated, and said in a very embarrassed way: "There is no other way? For example, I give him blood every day? I...don't want to die, I also want...to spend more time with him."

Seeing that he was about to dig a hole out of the door frame of his own house, Lao Ding quickly waved his hands and said, "Okay, I'll look through old books to see if there's anything I can do, and I'll talk about it later."

Bai Chuan hummed, thanked him awkwardly, picked up the medicine and left.

Lao Ding stood at the gate of the courtyard, holding on to the door frame to watch the young man walk away, and suddenly felt a little melancholy.

This silly boy!Still too young, if you like someone, you can't wait to stay together forever, forever, until you grow old, until you die.

But how is this possible?How can there be any eternal love in the world?The two of them are fine at this moment, who knows when they will break up?

But only in this way, young people are enviable.Had such arbitrariness, can it be called a life without regrets?

Lao Ding, who is in his 60s, thought of his youthful years and some old people and old things.Thinking of the end, he sat on the threshold like a literary youth, sighing against the cold wind.

After Bai Chuan took the medicine back, he decocted the first dose on the kitchen stove that day.Before the medicine was ready, he brought a white porcelain bowl from nowhere, and brought out half a bowl of reddish-brown soup, saying it was a medicine primer, and asked Qiu He to drink it.

Qiu He leaned over and sniffed, the smell was very fishy and unpleasant, but he seemed to have seen it somewhere.I took it and drank it, hurriedly rinsed my mouth with tea, and then remembered, and said, "No! What is this? When my grandfather was staying in the county hospital, I caught a cold that time. You seem to have given me this too." !"

Bai Chuan pursed his lips and smiled, "Anyway, it's medicine, just drink it."

"Then you still say it's a medicine primer! What exactly is it?"

Bai Chuan pushed the blame completely, and said, "Old Ding opened it, how would I know?"

Qiu He still felt that something was wrong, thought for a while, and then said: "Are you lying to me! If Lao Ding prescribed it, where did the medicine you gave me last time in the county come from?"

Bai Chuan turned around and left. His insincere perfunctory voice came from outside the door: "How would I know? You must have remembered it wrong!"

Not long after, the medicine was ready, and Shen Baocheng just came back from the vegetable field, afraid that Qiu Hemo would refuse to drink it, so he brought it himself.

I didn't want Qiuhe to be very bold this time, so he picked up the bowl without waiting for persuasion, and drank to the roof: "Hero! Finish this glass of good wine!"

It's a pity that it wasn't wine after all, as soon as he dropped the bowl, he frowned and closed his eyes, leaning against the head of the bed with a face full of pain.

Shen Baocheng was distressed and a little funny, and asked him to rinse his mouth, while nagging, "Son, you are lucky that you were not born in the revolutionary era, otherwise, why would you use torture if you were caught? You can drink a bowl of traditional Chinese medicine. Be a traitor!"

Qiu He remained silent, and glared at her grandfather, her thin and pointy face full of bitterness and hatred.Bai Chuan brought sweet potato candy, fed him a spoonful, and said, "It's not his fault! It's because the medicine is too bad!"

Shen Baocheng took the empty bowl, smelled it, and choked.Sure enough, it was not only bitter, but also mixed with a disgusting taste. The old man had no choice but to encourage and said: "It's nothing! Drink it twice and get used to it!"

With sugar in his mouth, Qiu He complained inarticulately: "Mother, who can get used to this? This smell! It's like fucking shit!"

The old man walked out cheerfully, muttering in a low voice, "You've never eaten shit!"

The two people in the room got angry and shouted out at the same time:

"Grandpa!"

"grandfather!"

……

I don't know if Qiuhe's illness is at the end of his battle, or if old man Ding's shit-like medicine is really effective. In short, after drinking for two days, Qiuhe's cough really stopped gradually.

Shen Baocheng wished to burn incense for Lao Ding, and deeply regretted that he invited someone late, which caused his precious grandson to suffer a lot, and he became more confident when he urged Qiuhe to drink medicine.Bai Chuan, on the other hand, would always serve half a bowl of medicine primers every morning, and would only give up after watching Qiu He drink it.

When Qiu He finally stopped coughing, he picked a fine day and left the fire room.He got used to it at the door for a while, and finally stood in the yard.After taking a breath of the cold and humid air, Qiu He felt from the bottom of his heart that from the firehouse to the yard, this is a small step for human beings, but a giant leap for himself.

On the same day, Bai Chuan discussed with Shen Baocheng to take Qiu He to the hot spring.Shen Baocheng heard that the hot springs are good for the disease, so he agreed without saying a word, and only asked them to come back early at night, so as not to take the medicine by mistake.Qiuhe stayed in the house for a few days like she was in prison. When she heard that she was going to go out, she was very happy and smiled.

After Bai Chuan packed up his clothes and food, the two started on the road together.After walking for a while on the forest path, Bai Chuan turned around and took Qiu He's hand when he could no longer see anyone. The two looked at each other and smiled, full of affection, and went to the Dragon's Nest like an outing.