Solstice Secrets

He Qing took off the disposable gloves, turned on the faucet slowly to wash his hands, but kept his eyes on the kittens playing in a ball on the stainless steel examination table, the expression on his face was both excited and puzzled, "This is really a It's a very strange thing. It's not an illusion, they have really become healthier. The two small ones are not too obvious, but the various indexes of this gray cat..."

Ling Dongzhi was anxious, and quickly interrupted his long speech, "Don't talk about the data, I don't understand. Just tell me what's going on with its body."

"It's better than before." He Qing nodded affirmatively, then tilted his head to ponder for a while, and gave him a very vivid explanation, "You also know that its age is equivalent to the middle-aged and elderly among us humans. Its physical function It has begun to degenerate, and the organs are slowly failing. This change is irreversible according to common sense. But its situation... Let me put it this way, it seems that the healthy cells in its body have begun to increase, and those sick cells It seems to be metabolized one after another. It is so lethargic, maybe it is because the body can't bear such a violent... er, energy metabolism?"

He looked at Ling Dongzhi, as if he wanted to see the answer he wanted from his face, "What did you do?"

"What can I do?" Ling Dongzhi frowned slightly, not knowing how to ask him to get a more scientific explanation, "I went to Xi'an during the winter vacation and lived in my hometown over there for more than half a year Yue. Zhuang Zhou brought a few of them along with them. Could it be because they ate the food grown by the farmers themselves? The kind of pure natural vegetable food that has not been treated with chemical fertilizers or pesticides?"

He Qing thought about it for a while, then shook his head, "If it's just pure natural food, it can't have that much power. Did it touch any radioactive object?"

Ling Dongzhi suddenly became nervous, "Is there any trace of radiation on its body?"

He Qing quickly shook his head, "No, no, this is purely my own wild guess."

Ling Dongzhi looked at him in shock.

He Qing explained: "The changes on it are real, I just want to find a reasonable explanation. Don't you think this conjecture is very possible? Of course, the radiation I'm talking about here is not the kind in the TV series." It’s a thing that makes people get leukemia after just taking a photo, but… something like a meteorite or a special ore. The rays they emit can stimulate the metabolic function of animals to a certain extent, but they don’t Malignant lesions can develop."

Ling Dongzhi was completely stunned.Could this strangely colored stone ball be a kind of mineral in the deep mountains, or is it a mysterious meteorite from outside the sky like He Qing guessed?Is it possible that the mysterious ability of the mountain gods to communicate with animals is also affected by this ray?

Ling Dongzhi's soul wandered into the sky, after pondering for a while, he felt that his idea was a bit too bizarre.

He Qing stared at Ling Dongzhi with piercing eyes, and asked persistently, "Did you go to any special places or come into contact with any strange things along the way?"

Ling Dongzhi touched the stone hanging on his chest through his clothes, "No, nothing special."

He Qing shook his head slightly, and sighed with emotion, "Nature is full of mysterious power everywhere. Oh, by the way, if you think of anything, please tell me."

Ling Dongzhi was full of worries, agreed indiscriminately, and went home with a few cats in his arms.

Zhuang Zhou hadn't come back when he got home.These days Zhuangzhou left early and returned late every day, he was too busy to see anyone, so he didn't say anything when asked.Ling Dongzhi guessed that he was making arrangements for running his own company.Only brown sugar was at home by himself, lying on the carpet watching TV bored.It knew that Ling Dongzhi had brought the cats to He Qing's clinic, but he didn't know the details, so he was always worried.Now hearing that they are all in good health, Brown Tang feels very happy.

Ling Dongzhi took out the fried fish from the refrigerator and warmed them up for dinner for the three cats, and cooked a bowl of noodles for himself.As for the brown sugar, Zhuang Zhou only gave it dinner when he came back from a walk at night, and Ling Dongzhi didn't care about it for the time being.Anyway, this rich young master will find snacks by himself during the day, so he won't be hungry.

While eating, Ling Dong Zhi pays attention to the movements of the cats.Sure enough, Xiao Hui's appetite was better than that before the Chinese New Year.At that time, no matter what he ate, Xiao Hui was always a bit sleepy, lacking energy, as if he had no energy.Now it is full of energy to grab food with Xiao Mianer and his servants.

Ling Dongzhi felt that regarding the answer He Qing wanted to know, he had a vague guess in his heart, but without other evidence, he couldn't be sure.

This kind of half-truth and half-false doubt is really scratching my heart.

Xiao Hui was full, and walked to the side of the sofa in small square steps, and meowed at Ling Dongzhi who was lying on the sofa in a trance.Ling Dongzhi came back to his senses, hugged it by its two front legs, and rubbed its belly lightly, not at ease, "Don't you feel bloated? I see that you ate more than my servant today." How many."

Xiao Hui licked his mouth, "It seems to be very hungry these two days."

"Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"

"No." Xiao Hui shook his head, yawned big, and lay down in Ling Dongzhi's arms.

Ling Dongzhi couldn't laugh or cry, "Sleep right after eating?"

"Sleepy." Xiao Hui closed his eyes and rubbed against his chest, "It's very comfortable to sleep in your arms."

The place where Xiao Hui rubbed was where he dropped the stone ball.After it fell asleep, Ling Dongzhi took off the stone ball on its chest and put it on its lap.Xiao Hui twisted in his arms unconsciously, and turned his head towards the direction of the stone ball.Ling Dongzhi picked up the stone ball and put it on the sofa beside him.Xiao Hui wriggled a few times in his deep sleep, rolled onto the sofa, hugged the stone ball into his arms with hands and feet, and let out a comfortable purring sound from his throat.

Ling Dongzhi's heart was beating violently, he pulled the rope and took the stone ball out from between Xiaohui's four furry paws, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully.

Could it be that this stone that no one can name is like the potion in the story, which can replenish the lost vitality?Or is the life force itself a kind of mysterious energy, and this kind of energy happens to be contained in this stone?But after wearing it for so long, he didn't feel any abnormality all over his body, and he didn't feel particularly sleepy like Xiao Hui. Or is this kind of energy supplement limited to animals?

Ling Dongzhi's thinking couldn't help drifting away, from Xiao Hui's lethargy to the situation of human beings themselves.As we all know, when humans have a cold, the best advice given by doctors is to drink plenty of water, take vitamins and rest in bed.Aside from the previous two, it is said that sleeping more is to gain resistance to germs during sleep—it is also recovering health during sleep, which is almost exactly the same as Xiao Hui's situation.

In other words, animals like the people of the Mountain God family not only because they can understand the conversations of animals and communicate with them, but more importantly, they can make sick animals healthier.Therefore, besides friendship, they have a sense of reverence for the people of the Mountain God Clan, as if they are their gods.

The more Ling Dongzhi thought about it, the more excited he became.

Could it be that the old mouse rice ball who returned the relics of the Shanshen clan was so healthy and survived year after year just because he spent more than 20 years with Shiqiu day and night?

Does that mean that Xiaohui might live as long as the rice ball?

Various thoughts swirled in Ling Dongzhi's mind, and finally returned to the origin of all problems: he wanted to find his clansmen.

He must find his people.

Only by finding them can he solve all the doubts that weighed on his heart.

The weekend after Arbor Day was designated by Zhuangzhou and Lingdong Solstice as the first family activity day that the two families participated together.Cheng Anni was still in the northwest, Zhuang Chengyan brought Zhuang Lin, Ling's father and Ling's mother brought Ling Lidong's family of three.Because of the large number of people, Zhuang Zhou specially asked the housekeeper, Uncle Qi, to make an errand on the first day, and sent a bunch of tools from the old house.

Zhuang Zhou and Ling Dongzhi were in charge of planting trees, and Ling Lidong and his wife were in charge of helping their precious son Ling Baobao and taking care of his private land.The elders are responsible for sowing and watering the planned fields.Ling's father and Ling's mother had a quarrel over whether to grow vegetables or flowers at the back door of the kitchen. Later, Ling's mother won, and the vegetable plot was planned on the open space directly opposite the kitchen's back door. How convenient it is to open the door and come out to the vegetable garden.

Men just don't know how to do housework.

Baby Ling found that his private plot was much bigger than he had imagined, so he changed his mind and added another bag of hydrangea and cockscomb seeds.Baby Ling just learned a nursery rhyme about cockscomb in kindergarten and thinks it is a very interesting plant.

After planting crabapples and green radish along the courtyard wall, and tidying up the vegetable garden one by one, the small courtyard suddenly took on a new look, giving everyone a sense of accomplishment.

The only thing that is not happy is probably the brown sugar.

It originally owned all the territory in this yard, and it could run however it wanted, and bury bones wherever it wanted.Fortunately, all those bones that it doesn't remember have been dug out, not to mention, it was also made fun of by the big guys.

The yard is divided into many separate small areas, and each small garden is surrounded by white fences.Although the height of the fence is less than its daddy's calf, it can step over it with its height.But its daddy seemed to have guessed what it was thinking, and seriously warned it not to run into the fenced area to trample on it, and not to pee on the fence and tree pits!

This is simply too much!

Brown Tang felt that his dignity as a tall, rich and handsome man had encountered a serious challenge.

It wants to protest!

Brown Tang decided to go to the kitchen to find some beef jerky to pad his stomach, so he won't eat tonight!Hunger strike!