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Chapter 45: Rolling in the Mud
Little Clever was in vain, so he had no choice but to give up.
Ma Lang glanced at He Qingqing and Liu Yanhan secretly, and made up his mind again.
This Mr. He looked weak, and he heard that he was in poor health. In this cold weather, it might not be appropriate to beg someone to help him go down the muddy pond to catch bastards.
And the Mr. Liu on the side also looks fair and gentle, he doesn't look like someone who would do such disgraceful things. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to ask others for no reason to make a mess of his nose and fail to come down? ?
It's not appropriate to think about it. After all, these two people are here to help me, and I still owe them a favor. I'm afraid it's unreasonable to bother them about this matter.
"Hmm..." He cleared his throat, and then put on the posture of an elder, and glanced at Liu'er who was still standing by the pond watching the excitement.
He gave orders to his little disciples: "Liu'er, my teacher is getting old, and his legs and feet are not so convenient. It's still a child like you who has quick hands and feet. Go down to the pond and invite this "Iron Armored General" to come up for my teacher!"
"Huh! Huh?" Upon hearing Master's order, Liu'er's chin almost fell to his feet, and his smiling face immediately collapsed.
I knew the result would be like this, a small mouth was reluctantly pooting to the sky.
He complained in a low voice: "No... no, Master, you want me to go down to the pond! This... it's too cold today!"
Seeing the little apprentice's greedy life and fear of death, Ma Langzhong became angry again, and he said sternly: "What an unfilial disciple, why, you still let the teacher go down in person."
"This..." Although he was reluctant, Liu'er had no choice but to droop his head and start to take off his shoes and socks as if resigned to his fate, thinking in his heart that he was going to be frozen this time anyway. up.
It's just that He Qingqing who was on the side suddenly said: "This is not good, senior Ma, just please luck, you have to be more pious, you have to go out and invite this "Iron Armored General" yourself, otherwise it will not work gone."
After hearing this statement, Liu Yanhan widened his eyes: "..."
I don't know if this statement is true, or because Ma Langzhong deliberately prevaricated at the banquet yesterday, and was picked up by an innocent person at night, at this moment He Qingqing intends to use Ma Langzhong to play tricks to relieve his anger.
Liu Yanhan on the side looked at her puzzled, and signaled with her eyes not to go too far, the other party was a senior after all.
But He Qingqing just shrugged innocently, secretly expressing that this idea has nothing to do with her, and she can't do anything about it.
Liu'er stopped what he was doing, turned to look at the old face of his master who was about to cry, blinked his big eyes, and silently told the master that I didn't say this, and this time I can't rely on my apprentice Being lazy and not giving energy, this is your own business, Master, you must do it yourself.
It seems that asking for luck is not an easy task, and I can't escape it today, and I'm still trembling anyway.
"Hmm..." Ma Langzhong snorted as if to cheer himself up, and looked at the pond again.
Although there is no snow at the moment, it is winter after all, and it is early in the morning, and the temperature is extraordinarily low by three points.
Standing in front of the muddy pond, the north wind blows in a small volume, and suddenly penetrates into the warm cuffs of the trousers, making goose bumps all over the body.
"Woo, woo...it's so cold..." Ma Langzhong couldn't help shivering and shrinking his neck from the cold wind, thinking that he was going to go to the mud pond soon, and his heart felt chilly.
But when he thought that this "Iron Armored General" could improve his fortune and help him to advance in the game of gambling, he was inexplicably excited, and the freezing weather in front of him couldn't stop his determination to move forward.
"Heh..." He sniffed, took a breath of hot air, and rubbed his hands to warm up, preparing for the next search for "Iron Armored General".
"Liu'er, hold it for the master." With a yell, Ma Langzhong took off the thick jacket that was covering the outside, and threw it to his apprentice.
"Hey." In response, Liu'er obediently helped Master pack his clothes.
He also took off the shoes and socks on his feet, and put them all aside, and raised the cuffs of his trouser legs to make it easier for him to go into the pond for a while and move his hands and feet more easily.
After tidying up properly, he stomped his feet, took a deep breath and lifted his feet to go into the water, but obviously he overestimated his cold resistance and underestimated the biting mud.
As soon as one foot stepped into the mud of the pond, the biting cold gave him a great deal of wit. This chill was like ants walking on his limbs and bones, and he almost staggered out of the cold.
"Wow, wow, wow... go to it *#》$》#)+=, really it *#》$》#) +=...it's cold..., xx is frozen to death..."
Ma Langzhong was so cold that he jumped around in the pond with his feet, and couldn't help but spit out a lot of insulting and insulting words without knowing it.
"Hush..." Liu'er, who was watching by the pond, hushed anxiously, and motioned Ma Langzhong to keep his voice down.
He looked around and kindly reminded the shivering person in the pond: "Master, stop shouting, we sneaked in. You are shouting so loudly because you want to kill the guard of this villa." Are you all here?"
What Liu'er said was reasonable, Ma Langzhong immediately raised his hand to cover his mouth, nodded to signal that he must pay attention, and then he calmed down.
After getting used to it for a while, he began to bend over and grope in the mud with his hands.
But after all, Ma Langzhong is an old man, and for him, things like climbing trees to catch birds and going down rivers to fish are really difficult for him.
While hunched over, he inserted his hands into the black mud and groped, while moving his legs with difficulty and slowly, staggering forward in the mud.
He asked Liu'er, He Qingqing, and Liu Yanhan who were watching by the pond to sweat for him, lest his old man accidentally roll into the mud and fall into the mud.
The people in this party could not help, they waited and watched from the shore, while the man in the other party groped hard in the mud of the rotten pond until he was about to freeze himself like a dog, and finally touched something slippery as big as a palm.
I couldn't help being overjoyed, and said in my heart: Got it, I finally found it.
Immediately, he took the "thing" under the mud and pressed it tightly, for fear that it would disappear.
Then he dug his hands into the mud, held his breath and lifted it up, only to find that the "thing" seemed to be welded in a pond, and it didn't move at all.
Ma Langzhong was not willing to give up, he adjusted his posture, bowed his waist a little deeper, took a deep breath and held back his strength, and grinned muffledly: "Woo... get up for me, woo, woo..."
This time, the old gentleman has exhausted all his energy.
In the cold weather, he blushed so badly that his neck was thick, and there was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead. It must have been really hard work.
Finally, the slippery "thing" in his hand that was firmly welded to the mud finally showed signs of loosening. Taking advantage of this momentum, Ma Langzhong continued to work hard, pulling back with all his weight. .
Finally, there was a muffled sound of "噗嗤", a string of mud bubbles turned up in the muddy pond, and the lump was finally crushed.
It's just that the people by the pond heard a loud "plop" before they could see what Ma Langzhong was bringing out.
Because of the excessive force, Ma Langzhong fell backward uncontrollably like a headlong onion.
With a "slap", the whole person rolled into the mud pond. He was beaten up early this morning, and he was already in a mess, but now he fell into the mud again, and he was even more embarrassed.
"Master... are you okay?"
"Senior Ma..."
"Senior Ma..." The three people watching by the pond all exclaimed.
Sitting up with difficulty from the muddy pond, Ma Langzhong was panting heavily, while shaking the mud from his hands, he didn't care about getting dirty, he raised his hand to wipe the muddy water that had stuck his eyes, and moaned wanting to cry stand up.
"Hey... my mother, I fell to my death... ouch..." As he said, he raised his hand to support his old waist and twisted it, fearing that the fall would cause hemiplegia.
Fortunately, he was still able to move, and everyone was relieved when they saw it, it was just a false alarm.
"Master... have you found it! Take a look!" Liu'er was lying on the edge of the pond and eagerly reminded him of his master.
Lieutenant Ma Lang took out the slippery lump that he dug out from the pond mud with great difficulty and took a look at the surface of the water, and found that it was just a rotten lotus root joint, and when he raised his hand, only muddy soup flowed from the hole. son.
"Grandma, what a fool, why did you pick up such a crap." Cursed angrily.
It turned out that it took a lot of effort to get myself covered in mud, but what I got in the end was such a useless thing.
Ma Langzhong was deeply shocked, and he threw the rotten lotus root in his hand far away in a bad temper to vent his depression.
Seeing that his master had missed, Liu'er, who was watching by the pond, was anxious and helpless, he couldn't help gesticulating, "Oh...Master, I asked you to invite the "Iron Armored General", not to dig the lotus root, you are so It’s definitely not okay to fumble around, you can’t even touch a turtle shell in one day.”
This remark annoyed Ma Langzhong, he shouted angrily, "Your back doesn't hurt when you sit and talk, if you have the ability, come down and find out for yourself, it's easy to say, really infuriating."
As he spoke, he shook his body from side to side, and found that he was actually welded in the mud when he fell, and it was difficult to get up.
Seeing that the master and apprentice were at odds again, He Qingqing and Liu Yanhan didn't bother to smooth things over, they were both used to it.
"I said Senior Ma..." He Qingqing stood by the pond and shouted at Ma Lang, whose buttocks were welded in the mud and could not move.
"Don't you always act like a high-ranking senior. We juniors don't dare to speak loudly. In fact, sometimes Liu'er's words are not unreasonable. You'd better listen to them."
"That's right, that's right..." Liu'er hurriedly said in response to He Qingqing's words.
This time, seeing someone backing him up, he was no longer timid, and pouted his mouth to complain: "It's your fault, but the master insisted on arguing with the apprentice, you are a dead duck, and your mouth is hard. Please do not come to "Iron Armored General", don't blame me, it is you who did not listen to others' persuasion."
"You..." was about to explode again, but the current situation was really helpless, Ma Langzhong had no choice but to hold back the irritability in his heart, and asked shamelessly: "Okay, okay, okay...you are capable, you can tell me what to do ?”
Seeing that the master's attitude eased and he finally loosened the buckle, Liu'er quickly explained: "This tortoise usually sinks into the water during the day, and when it's hot in summer, it looks for shade in groups, but in winter when it's cold, they all dig holes. The hole is no longer a nest. It is definitely not okay for you to grope in the mud pond like this. You have to search more in the soft soil by the pond to see if there are any potholes. If you can find them, you will most likely be right. .”
This silly little apprentice of his own usually does things recklessly, and nothing is done properly. Ma Langzhong is not at ease, and he asks suspiciously: "You...are you sure!"
Seeing that the master still looked like he didn't trust him, Liu'er urged helplessly, "Of course I'm sure, I've come to this western suburb villa with the kids from the town so many times, and there's a lot of things like fishing and catching shrimp. Do it, ouch...Master, please listen to me this time! You can't go wrong."
In this way, Ma Langzhong gave up groping in the mud of the pond, struggled to stand up from the mud, and staggered to the muddy ground by the pond.
When I got closer, I searched left and right, and found that as the little apprentice said, the soil in some places on the muddy ground was slightly different from other places, and it looked very soft, as if it had been deliberately dug into that shape by something, showing a The indistinct thumb-sized hole is only covered by a layer of loose soil, so you can't notice it if you don't look carefully.
Now Ma Lang secretly rejoiced that he was finally going to succeed.
He immediately found a soft hole, and he didn't care if he had a handy tool, so he directly started to scoop up the dead branches, rotten leaves, water and mud on the floating head, gradually revealing the shape of the hole. It's as big as a fist.
He rolled up his sleeves a little higher again, and stretched directly into the mud hole, digging out with bare hands.
Touching left and exploring right, Liu'er, He Qingqing, and Liu Yanhan standing by the pond watched his every move with eager eyes.
Suddenly hearing a scream of "Ouch", Ma Langzhong jumped three feet as if struck by lightning, jumped up from the mud where he was squatting, hugged his hands and wailed endlessly.
"Ouch... a little bastard, he killed the uncle... Oops..."
Everyone took a closer look, and it turned out that Ma Langzhong's hand that had just dug into the mud hole had bitten a big lobster not long ago.
That guy was as big as a slap, apparently disturbed from his sleep, and had a bad temper. While clamping Ma Langzhong's thumb firmly, he swaggered at the other big pliers to demonstrate to everyone.
"Apprentice, quick, quick, quick... This beast is going to bite him to death and become a master, ouch... Pain, pain, pain..." Ma Langzhong grinned in pain, and asked the three people watching by the pond for help.
While trying to tear the prawn off his hand, but the pair of big pliers of that thing are very powerful, once it is clamped tightly and does not loosen, the pulling and pulling will not only make the pain more unbearable, it is a little No sign of looseness.
He wailed in agony: "What should I do? What should I do?"
"Master, you can't pull it so hard, the pair of claws on this thing are so strong, the more you break it, the tighter it is..."
Seeing Ma Langzhong's wrong operation, Liu'er eagerly reminded him: "Put your hand into the puddle at your feet. This thing has no brains. When it sees water, it thinks it's safe, so it will naturally let go."
Hearing what Liu'er said, with an attitude of giving it a try, Ma Langzhong bent down and put his hand into the small puddle at his feet. As soon as the big lobster entered the water, it seemed to calm down immediately, and it was gone. After a short while, he automatically loosened the pliers and spun around to get into the mud.
"Call you a little bastard to bully people, trample you to death... trample you to death...", Ma Langzhong's hand was finally free. Seeing that the culprit was trying to escape, he was so angry that he jumped up He stepped on the mud regardless of his feet, only making mud splashes.
It's inappropriate to see my master stepping on the air in the muddy pond, looking like he's going to get revenge.
Liu'er kindly reminded: "Master, don't step on it, that thing has gone away long ago."
Only then did he stop, holding his pitiful hand and looking at it, he found that there was a blood mark on his thumb.
"Hiss..." He gasped in pain, and complained angrily, "You little bastard, you're so ruthless! It's best not to get caught again, and carefully remove your shell, ouch..."
Although my body was cold and aching, I had no choice but to hold my hand that had been painted and continue to search through the mud hole after hole in the mud.
But this time he was a little smarter, he knew to pick up a branch and poke it into the mud hole first, and then reach out to dig it out when there is nothing wrong.
Not for a while.
Ma Langzhong, who was groping in the mud, suddenly stopped moving, and he murmured secretly: "That's it."
Liu'er moved when he heard the sound, jumped up from the side of the pond, and stretched out his hand to meet Ma Langzhong: "Ah! Master, quickly bring it up and have a look."
Ma Langzhong stood up, walked to the pond, and handed the black thing in his hand to Liu'er.
After Liu'er took it, he rinsed it in the small puddle beside the pool. After the mud receded, he saw that it was a palm-sized bastard with a pair of tortoise shells with green patterns on his back. When it was pulled out of the hole, it was still limp and not very energetic.
Liu'er was overjoyed and showed the tortoise in his hand to He Qingqing and Liu Yanhan.
Exclaimed: "Both young masters, look quickly, the bastard picked it up, look at how majestic this tortoise shell is! No wonder it is called "Iron Armored General", it is much more majestic than the costume of a military general in the troupe that Master wore early in the morning gone."
As he spoke, he raised his finger and tapped the tortoise shell hard and dense like picking a watermelon.
"Oh... what are you knocking for?" Ma Langzhong snatched the tortoise from Liu'er's hand, and held it in his hand like a treasure to prevent him from touching it again.
"Master, I finally dug it out, and then I beat it to death. It's so cold, where can I find another one?"
As he spoke, he took out a pocket from the skirt, and carefully put the bastard in his hand into it, so as not to accidentally drop it into the water and throw it away.
"Also, can you speak..." He grabbed Liu'er's previous words to criticize.
"What does it mean to be more majestic than your master? It doesn't matter what kind of iron armor or general it is. In the final analysis, it is still a beast. If you compare a beast with your master, I wonder if your skin is itchy?"
It was only later that I realized that I had made a slip of the tongue. Liu'er shook her head timidly and said, "No...no...Master, I didn't mean it. I didn't say you couldn't compare to this little bastard. It's none of your business that your general's costume is not good, you are more majestic than this Wang Bawei..."
Unexpectedly, the description became darker and darker, seeing that Master's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, Liu'er finally shut up embarrassingly.
Ma Lang turned to He Qingqing and asked: "Young Master He, everything will be ready if you invite this "Iron Armored General"! I'll go back to the casino and fight another game."
As he spoke, he kicked his legs and shook off the mud on his feet, and propped up his arms to climb up from the pond to the shore.
"Master, please slow down..." Liu'er stood on the shore with great eyesight, ready to pull the master who had rolled like a mud monkey ashore.
Unexpectedly, He Qingqing stretched out her hand to hold Liu'er, and stopped her, saying: "Senior, don't come up here, there is still one thing missing..."
"What? There is still a shortage!" Ma Langzhong was already shivering in the mud at this moment, and only wanted to go ashore to warm up for a while, but who knew he would not be able to.
He wailed: "There is no end! Mr. He, do you intend to freeze this old man to death?"
"Senior, you've already stepped into the pond anyway, and you're not short of trembling, aren't you?" Seeing Ma Lang's reluctance, He Qingqing tried to persuade him.
"Besides, it's so easy to succeed in asking for luck. If you don't have any necessary things, you can't succeed. You have to have sincerity and perseverance. Otherwise, it won't work after a while."
As soon as he heard that it was about his luck in gambling, Ma Langzhong didn't care about the pain in his body and the cold in his feet, so he immediately raised his spirits.
A look ready to go: "It's all up to Mr. He. You can tell me what you still need. There are many difficulties and dangers. The old man will find it."
"Oh...that's not enough!" He Qingqing waved his hand, pointed to the pond and said, "Just look for three pure black pond bottom stones at the place where the "Iron Armored General" is invited, and you will need them later .”
Hearing that it was just a few stones, dead things were easier to find than living ones, so without further ado, Ma Langzhong stepped on the mud and went back to the middle of the pond to feel for the stones at the bottom of the pond.
Picked up a stone and rinsed it in the water in the puddle, found it was white, no, threw it away;
Another piece, yellow, no, throw it away;
Another piece, gray, not thrown away;
The more I thought about it, the less I found it, and I realized that it was not so easy to find three pure black stones in one go. I had to go through this many times before I managed to find one.
Looking at Ma Langzhong's figure staggering in the pond covered in mud, and thinking of the former "Sage Master of Boils", a generation of Xinglin seniors who made such a mess for gambling, Liu Yanhan couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Human, What a greedy word."
He glanced at He Qingqing next to her again, and found that she had a suppressed smile on her face, so she whispered in her ear and asked, "You didn't mean to punish Senior Ma on purpose, did you?"
"Hmph..." He Qingqing raised his eyebrows, snorted coldly, and responded in a low voice: "So what's the matter, who told him to drink you on purpose at the banquet yesterday, causing you to have a wine rash at night, he deserves it .”
In the end, he couldn't bear it anymore, Liu Yanhan said with embarrassment: "Okay, it's almost over, don't make it too embarrassing."
"I won't..." He Qingqing was not very reconciled, and said angrily: "I don't care who makes him disrespectful and bullies younger generations because of his age. Anyway, if he bullies you, I will help you out. Tone, my He family will repay any kindness and revenge, and it is absolutely unambiguous."
"Wow!", hearing this suddenly, Liu Yanhan didn't know what to say, after all, he was venting his anger for himself, so he could only sigh.
There was really nothing to do with this eldest lady, Liu Yanhan continued to persuade with a smile: "I've been fine for a long time, don't be angry, Mr. He..."
Seeing that He Qingqing didn't respond or reply, he stretched out his hand to gently shake her arm, and coaxed her in a good voice, "Master He, your lord has a lot, don't be angry, huh?"
Seeing Liu Yanhan's face, He Qingqing's attitude finally softened.
He said bluntly: "Don't worry, soaking in the muddy pond for a while won't do anything. Compared with the wicked things his old man did, this little retribution is small. For him not to make the same mistakes again and again, the retribution is not good. Let us But it’s helping him to avoid disasters.”
The two were whispering to each other, when Ma Lang, who was tossing in the muddy pond, called out: "I found it."
As he spoke, he raised his arms towards the three people on the shore, and showed the three black pond stones gathered in his hands.
After searching for a long time, he finally found what he needed when he felt that his old waist was about to break. Ma Langzhong saw that everything was ready and only owed Dongfeng, so the pride in his heart should not be too obvious.
Can't help muttering: "Great, this old man is finally going to be lucky!"
He seemed to see a lot of gold and silver treasures on the gambling table flying into his pocket.
It's a pity that it didn't take long for the man to climb the shore, only to hear a curse from behind the bamboo forest: "Wow! You little bastards are here to climb the wall and climb the tree again, and look at me today I won't kill you."
Everyone was startled, and when they took a closer look, they saw an old man holding a stick in the back of the bamboo grove, and he was killing him aggressively, as if he was inquiring about his crimes.
"No, the nursing home of the villa is here, run quickly..." Liu'er is still experienced in dealing with this kind of thing.
He didn't care about that much, jumped up from the pond, shouted, and ran away, forgetting even his master.
Seeing Liu'er running away in a hurry, He Qingqing almost subconsciously pulled Liu Yanhan beside her, and shouted: "Run..."
The two also ran away.
"Hey...hey...you wait for me..." Ma Langzhong called out as he climbed up to the bank of the pond with hands and feet.
Everyone sneaked in together, and now they all scattered like birds and beasts, leaving him alone in the back miserable and desolate, so don't be too chilling.
In this situation, he can't allow him to think too much. If a naughty boy is caught by the nursing home, he will be reprimanded at most, but he is a face-to-face doctor after all, and he still does ridiculous things like fishing for fish. Don't you have to laugh your ass off when you go out, although you usually do a lot of immoral things, but Ma Langzhong still wants face.
In order not to be caught, he didn't care about the many things, he even scrambled to the shore, followed the way when he just came, and fled to the outside of the villa with all his strength.
When he was about to be caught by the nursing home, he narrowly escaped from the hole in the fence and escaped from the villa.
Until he suppressed his pounding heartbeat and hid in a tuft of thatch by the roadside, he heard the old man guarding the house in the villa behind him yelling and cursing in a rough voice.
"You bastards, if you run fast, the next time you get caught, you'll have to cry and beg for mercy."
46. Chapter 16 Memories
Fortunately, the irritable old man in the hospital didn't really chase after him, he just yelled and cursed at the gate of the yard for a while and then died down.
At this time, He Qingqing and Liu Yanhan were also hiding behind a cluster of bushes. Although there was a reason for the incident, they were uninvited guests who sneaked into the villa.
The two of them squatted behind the bushes like thieves at the moment, watching the movements around them vigilantly.
He Qingqing made a gesture of listening, and patted Liu Yanhan, who was squatting beside her, and said, "Hey... I heard nothing outside, so it should be all right!"
"Just wait and see! I saw that the guards in the villa have been chased out just now!"
Pulling away the dead branches and leaves that covered her eyes, Liu Yanhan looked out and said, "The situation is sudden, we only care about running, and we don't know what happened to Senior Ma and Liu'er. Let the court catch it!"
"Don't worry, nothing will happen. Just now, Liu'er ran faster than the two of us. He is a child with quick hands and feet, and the nursing home will definitely not be able to catch him."
"What about Senior Ma! It seems that he was still in the pond just now, so he shouldn't be alone."
"He..." He Qingqing recalled the situation just now, only to realize that Ma Lang had really been left behind.
But the matter has come to this point, there is no other way, I can only comfort and say: "Should...you should be fine! Even if you are caught by the nursing home, the big deal is to scold you, and you won't lose a piece of meat. Besides, you are just catching birds and fish." It's not about stealing gold and silver, they can't do anything to people..."
For some reason, He Qingqing saw Ma Langzhong standing shivering in the cold wind covered in mud and being scolded.
Two lines of old tears couldn't help falling down on a dark old face, washing out two deep ravines.
Aggrieved and groaning: "I didn't steal things on purpose, please let me go, oh, oh, oh...", I felt a chill all over my body.
"Uh..." She hesitated for a moment, and added: "Of course, at Senior Ma's age, at most, it's just a bit embarrassing, nothing else."
Hearing what He Qingqing said, Liu Yanhan felt that Ma Langzhong was really miserable today. He was beaten up by the people in the gambling shop early in the morning, and now he was scolded by the nursing home. It turned out that it was all for gambling, so why bother?
She sighed helplessly: "I hope he wasn't caught! Otherwise, we would have to go to the villa to find him. He is not ashamed as an old man, but I am too ashamed."
"Ah..." He Qingqing sighed with emotion after hearing Liu Yanhan's complaint, turned her head to meet her gaze, and asked with a half-smile: "Isn't Miss Liu always acting like a lady since she was a child, and she has never done these things?" The absurd thing about going to the house to expose the roof tiles and catching birds and fish!"
"I..." She hesitated when asked so abruptly.
Looking back carefully on the days from childhood to adulthood, it seems that I have been practicing medical skills with my master and fellow disciples in Xinyi Valley. Every day, I have heavy schoolwork, endless medical books, endless prescriptions, and the days of wanton fun. There are only a handful of them.
What's more, Xinyi Valley's gate rules are strict, and the time for one night and three meals is tightly arranged, not to mention these things of catching birds and fish.
These fun things for the naive and naughty boys became the physical labor of picking herbs in the mountains and digging rocks in the river for their medical disciples.
Even going up the mountain and down the river is a kind of practice, and the fun of having fun has disappeared. Thinking about it, I did not do these things when I was young, and I have no fun to recall.
She replied: "I... really haven't played these things before."
"Then I'm quite different from Miss Liu..." Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, the two started chatting casually.
"When I was young, I was not in good health. Because of this, my parents took pity on me and lived a lawless life. Although I couldn't go out of the house often, the things like going to the house to expose the roof tiles and recruiting cats and dogs were still the same. Why? All the people in the house were disturbed by me, they were all talkative, cats hated dogs, I guess at that age, everyone in the family would be scared by me!
He's still a sick child, he can't be beaten or scolded, so he can only be coaxed and pampered..."
She shook her head embarrassingly while she was talking, and said mockingly: "You said that I was so naive when I was young, and I didn't know anything about it. It's nice to be like Miss Liu, gentle and hardworking. I think the elders like children like you. !"
Hearing what He Qingqing said about her past, Liu Yanhan smiled and replied: "Although she is ill, it is Ms. He's blessing to be loved by her family. People say that she is as innocent as a child." It's not a blessing. People who are loved all their lives don't have to grow up. People grow up to face the bleak reality and make compromises out of helplessness. , is a blessing that others can't even ask for, so why should you envy others."
"That's right!" In fact, He Qingqing always felt that she was worn out by illness and had little fortune. When she said this, she was a little bit disappointed, but after listening to Liu Yanhan's words, she felt that she was actually quite lucky.
"Hearing you say that, it seems to be true..."
"Oh, by the way..." He Qingqing changed the subject and asked, "I've never heard Miss Liu talk about her parents! You are so smart and beautiful, they must love you very much! How do you usually get along?"
Speaking of this, Liu Yanhan's expression froze for a moment, but it only took a moment to return to his usual smiling face.
"I entered Xinyi Valley's sect when I was two years old. I was brought up by my master. My father was rarely seen when he was on business in other towns. My mother..."
While talking, he hesitated again, a trace of sadness flashed across the crystal clear brown eyes, "My mother has always been in poor health, and passed away when I was very young."
Seeing the desolate look on the face of the person in front of him, He Qingqing felt very guilty. He didn't expect it to be like this. He asked about the sadness of the person impartially, which made it really embarrassing.
After talking about her family, Liu Yanhan remained silent, most afraid of the sudden silence when there was no one around, the atmosphere between the two of them became a little delicate.
"Ah... this..." He Qingqing said apologetically, "Yes... I'm sorry, Miss Liu, I didn't expect it to be like this. I accidentally mentioned your sadness. I...um..."
She also didn't know why she suddenly became so clumsy with her tongue, she couldn't even say anything to comfort others.
It seems that at this moment, the function words "the man has passed away, mourning and changing" are so pale and empty, I really can't say it, and I can't think of it for a long time.
Before she could rack her brains to say something, Liu Yanhan smiled indifferently.
She shook her head and said: "It happened a long time ago, Miss He doesn't need to apologize, besides, when my mother passed away, in fact, I was still young, it was a day when I was heartless, I don't know why I feel sad... ..."
She took a deep breath, as if exhaling the depression in her heart, and continued to say in a relaxed manner: "Besides, one must always look forward in one's life!
How can you be immersed in the pain of the past forever, now I don't care about these things, so you really don't need to apologize, and you don't need to feel embarrassed. "
After stroking the heart that was deeply guilty just now, He Qingqing finally felt relieved, "Hearing you say that makes me feel better, I was so guilty just now, I wish I could find a tree hole to hide."
"Ha..." After hearing He Qingqing's words, Liu Yanhan almost laughed out loud, "You're too exaggerated... You're not a rabbit, what kind of tree hole are you?"
"Hey... It's fun to drill into a tree hole! It's a rare child's play." Then, he raised He Qingqing and pointed to the location where the two were hiding. All they could see were the smoky vines in the suburbs.
She seemed to be enjoying it, and said cheerfully: "It's a coincidence today, it seems that Miss Liu is indeed destined for me!
You and I can relive the joy of climbing trees to catch birds and going down rivers to fish when we were young together in this wilderness. "
Thinking about going to Xinggang Town to ask for a prescription for old man Gao in the past two days, it was actually not going well.
Ma Langzhong is no longer what it used to be
Ma Lang glanced at He Qingqing and Liu Yanhan secretly, and made up his mind again.
This Mr. He looked weak, and he heard that he was in poor health. In this cold weather, it might not be appropriate to beg someone to help him go down the muddy pond to catch bastards.
And the Mr. Liu on the side also looks fair and gentle, he doesn't look like someone who would do such disgraceful things. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to ask others for no reason to make a mess of his nose and fail to come down? ?
It's not appropriate to think about it. After all, these two people are here to help me, and I still owe them a favor. I'm afraid it's unreasonable to bother them about this matter.
"Hmm..." He cleared his throat, and then put on the posture of an elder, and glanced at Liu'er who was still standing by the pond watching the excitement.
He gave orders to his little disciples: "Liu'er, my teacher is getting old, and his legs and feet are not so convenient. It's still a child like you who has quick hands and feet. Go down to the pond and invite this "Iron Armored General" to come up for my teacher!"
"Huh! Huh?" Upon hearing Master's order, Liu'er's chin almost fell to his feet, and his smiling face immediately collapsed.
I knew the result would be like this, a small mouth was reluctantly pooting to the sky.
He complained in a low voice: "No... no, Master, you want me to go down to the pond! This... it's too cold today!"
Seeing the little apprentice's greedy life and fear of death, Ma Langzhong became angry again, and he said sternly: "What an unfilial disciple, why, you still let the teacher go down in person."
"This..." Although he was reluctant, Liu'er had no choice but to droop his head and start to take off his shoes and socks as if resigned to his fate, thinking in his heart that he was going to be frozen this time anyway. up.
It's just that He Qingqing who was on the side suddenly said: "This is not good, senior Ma, just please luck, you have to be more pious, you have to go out and invite this "Iron Armored General" yourself, otherwise it will not work gone."
After hearing this statement, Liu Yanhan widened his eyes: "..."
I don't know if this statement is true, or because Ma Langzhong deliberately prevaricated at the banquet yesterday, and was picked up by an innocent person at night, at this moment He Qingqing intends to use Ma Langzhong to play tricks to relieve his anger.
Liu Yanhan on the side looked at her puzzled, and signaled with her eyes not to go too far, the other party was a senior after all.
But He Qingqing just shrugged innocently, secretly expressing that this idea has nothing to do with her, and she can't do anything about it.
Liu'er stopped what he was doing, turned to look at the old face of his master who was about to cry, blinked his big eyes, and silently told the master that I didn't say this, and this time I can't rely on my apprentice Being lazy and not giving energy, this is your own business, Master, you must do it yourself.
It seems that asking for luck is not an easy task, and I can't escape it today, and I'm still trembling anyway.
"Hmm..." Ma Langzhong snorted as if to cheer himself up, and looked at the pond again.
Although there is no snow at the moment, it is winter after all, and it is early in the morning, and the temperature is extraordinarily low by three points.
Standing in front of the muddy pond, the north wind blows in a small volume, and suddenly penetrates into the warm cuffs of the trousers, making goose bumps all over the body.
"Woo, woo...it's so cold..." Ma Langzhong couldn't help shivering and shrinking his neck from the cold wind, thinking that he was going to go to the mud pond soon, and his heart felt chilly.
But when he thought that this "Iron Armored General" could improve his fortune and help him to advance in the game of gambling, he was inexplicably excited, and the freezing weather in front of him couldn't stop his determination to move forward.
"Heh..." He sniffed, took a breath of hot air, and rubbed his hands to warm up, preparing for the next search for "Iron Armored General".
"Liu'er, hold it for the master." With a yell, Ma Langzhong took off the thick jacket that was covering the outside, and threw it to his apprentice.
"Hey." In response, Liu'er obediently helped Master pack his clothes.
He also took off the shoes and socks on his feet, and put them all aside, and raised the cuffs of his trouser legs to make it easier for him to go into the pond for a while and move his hands and feet more easily.
After tidying up properly, he stomped his feet, took a deep breath and lifted his feet to go into the water, but obviously he overestimated his cold resistance and underestimated the biting mud.
As soon as one foot stepped into the mud of the pond, the biting cold gave him a great deal of wit. This chill was like ants walking on his limbs and bones, and he almost staggered out of the cold.
"Wow, wow, wow... go to it *#》$》#)+=, really it *#》$》#) +=...it's cold..., xx is frozen to death..."
Ma Langzhong was so cold that he jumped around in the pond with his feet, and couldn't help but spit out a lot of insulting and insulting words without knowing it.
"Hush..." Liu'er, who was watching by the pond, hushed anxiously, and motioned Ma Langzhong to keep his voice down.
He looked around and kindly reminded the shivering person in the pond: "Master, stop shouting, we sneaked in. You are shouting so loudly because you want to kill the guard of this villa." Are you all here?"
What Liu'er said was reasonable, Ma Langzhong immediately raised his hand to cover his mouth, nodded to signal that he must pay attention, and then he calmed down.
After getting used to it for a while, he began to bend over and grope in the mud with his hands.
But after all, Ma Langzhong is an old man, and for him, things like climbing trees to catch birds and going down rivers to fish are really difficult for him.
While hunched over, he inserted his hands into the black mud and groped, while moving his legs with difficulty and slowly, staggering forward in the mud.
He asked Liu'er, He Qingqing, and Liu Yanhan who were watching by the pond to sweat for him, lest his old man accidentally roll into the mud and fall into the mud.
The people in this party could not help, they waited and watched from the shore, while the man in the other party groped hard in the mud of the rotten pond until he was about to freeze himself like a dog, and finally touched something slippery as big as a palm.
I couldn't help being overjoyed, and said in my heart: Got it, I finally found it.
Immediately, he took the "thing" under the mud and pressed it tightly, for fear that it would disappear.
Then he dug his hands into the mud, held his breath and lifted it up, only to find that the "thing" seemed to be welded in a pond, and it didn't move at all.
Ma Langzhong was not willing to give up, he adjusted his posture, bowed his waist a little deeper, took a deep breath and held back his strength, and grinned muffledly: "Woo... get up for me, woo, woo..."
This time, the old gentleman has exhausted all his energy.
In the cold weather, he blushed so badly that his neck was thick, and there was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead. It must have been really hard work.
Finally, the slippery "thing" in his hand that was firmly welded to the mud finally showed signs of loosening. Taking advantage of this momentum, Ma Langzhong continued to work hard, pulling back with all his weight. .
Finally, there was a muffled sound of "噗嗤", a string of mud bubbles turned up in the muddy pond, and the lump was finally crushed.
It's just that the people by the pond heard a loud "plop" before they could see what Ma Langzhong was bringing out.
Because of the excessive force, Ma Langzhong fell backward uncontrollably like a headlong onion.
With a "slap", the whole person rolled into the mud pond. He was beaten up early this morning, and he was already in a mess, but now he fell into the mud again, and he was even more embarrassed.
"Master... are you okay?"
"Senior Ma..."
"Senior Ma..." The three people watching by the pond all exclaimed.
Sitting up with difficulty from the muddy pond, Ma Langzhong was panting heavily, while shaking the mud from his hands, he didn't care about getting dirty, he raised his hand to wipe the muddy water that had stuck his eyes, and moaned wanting to cry stand up.
"Hey... my mother, I fell to my death... ouch..." As he said, he raised his hand to support his old waist and twisted it, fearing that the fall would cause hemiplegia.
Fortunately, he was still able to move, and everyone was relieved when they saw it, it was just a false alarm.
"Master... have you found it! Take a look!" Liu'er was lying on the edge of the pond and eagerly reminded him of his master.
Lieutenant Ma Lang took out the slippery lump that he dug out from the pond mud with great difficulty and took a look at the surface of the water, and found that it was just a rotten lotus root joint, and when he raised his hand, only muddy soup flowed from the hole. son.
"Grandma, what a fool, why did you pick up such a crap." Cursed angrily.
It turned out that it took a lot of effort to get myself covered in mud, but what I got in the end was such a useless thing.
Ma Langzhong was deeply shocked, and he threw the rotten lotus root in his hand far away in a bad temper to vent his depression.
Seeing that his master had missed, Liu'er, who was watching by the pond, was anxious and helpless, he couldn't help gesticulating, "Oh...Master, I asked you to invite the "Iron Armored General", not to dig the lotus root, you are so It’s definitely not okay to fumble around, you can’t even touch a turtle shell in one day.”
This remark annoyed Ma Langzhong, he shouted angrily, "Your back doesn't hurt when you sit and talk, if you have the ability, come down and find out for yourself, it's easy to say, really infuriating."
As he spoke, he shook his body from side to side, and found that he was actually welded in the mud when he fell, and it was difficult to get up.
Seeing that the master and apprentice were at odds again, He Qingqing and Liu Yanhan didn't bother to smooth things over, they were both used to it.
"I said Senior Ma..." He Qingqing stood by the pond and shouted at Ma Lang, whose buttocks were welded in the mud and could not move.
"Don't you always act like a high-ranking senior. We juniors don't dare to speak loudly. In fact, sometimes Liu'er's words are not unreasonable. You'd better listen to them."
"That's right, that's right..." Liu'er hurriedly said in response to He Qingqing's words.
This time, seeing someone backing him up, he was no longer timid, and pouted his mouth to complain: "It's your fault, but the master insisted on arguing with the apprentice, you are a dead duck, and your mouth is hard. Please do not come to "Iron Armored General", don't blame me, it is you who did not listen to others' persuasion."
"You..." was about to explode again, but the current situation was really helpless, Ma Langzhong had no choice but to hold back the irritability in his heart, and asked shamelessly: "Okay, okay, okay...you are capable, you can tell me what to do ?”
Seeing that the master's attitude eased and he finally loosened the buckle, Liu'er quickly explained: "This tortoise usually sinks into the water during the day, and when it's hot in summer, it looks for shade in groups, but in winter when it's cold, they all dig holes. The hole is no longer a nest. It is definitely not okay for you to grope in the mud pond like this. You have to search more in the soft soil by the pond to see if there are any potholes. If you can find them, you will most likely be right. .”
This silly little apprentice of his own usually does things recklessly, and nothing is done properly. Ma Langzhong is not at ease, and he asks suspiciously: "You...are you sure!"
Seeing that the master still looked like he didn't trust him, Liu'er urged helplessly, "Of course I'm sure, I've come to this western suburb villa with the kids from the town so many times, and there's a lot of things like fishing and catching shrimp. Do it, ouch...Master, please listen to me this time! You can't go wrong."
In this way, Ma Langzhong gave up groping in the mud of the pond, struggled to stand up from the mud, and staggered to the muddy ground by the pond.
When I got closer, I searched left and right, and found that as the little apprentice said, the soil in some places on the muddy ground was slightly different from other places, and it looked very soft, as if it had been deliberately dug into that shape by something, showing a The indistinct thumb-sized hole is only covered by a layer of loose soil, so you can't notice it if you don't look carefully.
Now Ma Lang secretly rejoiced that he was finally going to succeed.
He immediately found a soft hole, and he didn't care if he had a handy tool, so he directly started to scoop up the dead branches, rotten leaves, water and mud on the floating head, gradually revealing the shape of the hole. It's as big as a fist.
He rolled up his sleeves a little higher again, and stretched directly into the mud hole, digging out with bare hands.
Touching left and exploring right, Liu'er, He Qingqing, and Liu Yanhan standing by the pond watched his every move with eager eyes.
Suddenly hearing a scream of "Ouch", Ma Langzhong jumped three feet as if struck by lightning, jumped up from the mud where he was squatting, hugged his hands and wailed endlessly.
"Ouch... a little bastard, he killed the uncle... Oops..."
Everyone took a closer look, and it turned out that Ma Langzhong's hand that had just dug into the mud hole had bitten a big lobster not long ago.
That guy was as big as a slap, apparently disturbed from his sleep, and had a bad temper. While clamping Ma Langzhong's thumb firmly, he swaggered at the other big pliers to demonstrate to everyone.
"Apprentice, quick, quick, quick... This beast is going to bite him to death and become a master, ouch... Pain, pain, pain..." Ma Langzhong grinned in pain, and asked the three people watching by the pond for help.
While trying to tear the prawn off his hand, but the pair of big pliers of that thing are very powerful, once it is clamped tightly and does not loosen, the pulling and pulling will not only make the pain more unbearable, it is a little No sign of looseness.
He wailed in agony: "What should I do? What should I do?"
"Master, you can't pull it so hard, the pair of claws on this thing are so strong, the more you break it, the tighter it is..."
Seeing Ma Langzhong's wrong operation, Liu'er eagerly reminded him: "Put your hand into the puddle at your feet. This thing has no brains. When it sees water, it thinks it's safe, so it will naturally let go."
Hearing what Liu'er said, with an attitude of giving it a try, Ma Langzhong bent down and put his hand into the small puddle at his feet. As soon as the big lobster entered the water, it seemed to calm down immediately, and it was gone. After a short while, he automatically loosened the pliers and spun around to get into the mud.
"Call you a little bastard to bully people, trample you to death... trample you to death...", Ma Langzhong's hand was finally free. Seeing that the culprit was trying to escape, he was so angry that he jumped up He stepped on the mud regardless of his feet, only making mud splashes.
It's inappropriate to see my master stepping on the air in the muddy pond, looking like he's going to get revenge.
Liu'er kindly reminded: "Master, don't step on it, that thing has gone away long ago."
Only then did he stop, holding his pitiful hand and looking at it, he found that there was a blood mark on his thumb.
"Hiss..." He gasped in pain, and complained angrily, "You little bastard, you're so ruthless! It's best not to get caught again, and carefully remove your shell, ouch..."
Although my body was cold and aching, I had no choice but to hold my hand that had been painted and continue to search through the mud hole after hole in the mud.
But this time he was a little smarter, he knew to pick up a branch and poke it into the mud hole first, and then reach out to dig it out when there is nothing wrong.
Not for a while.
Ma Langzhong, who was groping in the mud, suddenly stopped moving, and he murmured secretly: "That's it."
Liu'er moved when he heard the sound, jumped up from the side of the pond, and stretched out his hand to meet Ma Langzhong: "Ah! Master, quickly bring it up and have a look."
Ma Langzhong stood up, walked to the pond, and handed the black thing in his hand to Liu'er.
After Liu'er took it, he rinsed it in the small puddle beside the pool. After the mud receded, he saw that it was a palm-sized bastard with a pair of tortoise shells with green patterns on his back. When it was pulled out of the hole, it was still limp and not very energetic.
Liu'er was overjoyed and showed the tortoise in his hand to He Qingqing and Liu Yanhan.
Exclaimed: "Both young masters, look quickly, the bastard picked it up, look at how majestic this tortoise shell is! No wonder it is called "Iron Armored General", it is much more majestic than the costume of a military general in the troupe that Master wore early in the morning gone."
As he spoke, he raised his finger and tapped the tortoise shell hard and dense like picking a watermelon.
"Oh... what are you knocking for?" Ma Langzhong snatched the tortoise from Liu'er's hand, and held it in his hand like a treasure to prevent him from touching it again.
"Master, I finally dug it out, and then I beat it to death. It's so cold, where can I find another one?"
As he spoke, he took out a pocket from the skirt, and carefully put the bastard in his hand into it, so as not to accidentally drop it into the water and throw it away.
"Also, can you speak..." He grabbed Liu'er's previous words to criticize.
"What does it mean to be more majestic than your master? It doesn't matter what kind of iron armor or general it is. In the final analysis, it is still a beast. If you compare a beast with your master, I wonder if your skin is itchy?"
It was only later that I realized that I had made a slip of the tongue. Liu'er shook her head timidly and said, "No...no...Master, I didn't mean it. I didn't say you couldn't compare to this little bastard. It's none of your business that your general's costume is not good, you are more majestic than this Wang Bawei..."
Unexpectedly, the description became darker and darker, seeing that Master's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, Liu'er finally shut up embarrassingly.
Ma Lang turned to He Qingqing and asked: "Young Master He, everything will be ready if you invite this "Iron Armored General"! I'll go back to the casino and fight another game."
As he spoke, he kicked his legs and shook off the mud on his feet, and propped up his arms to climb up from the pond to the shore.
"Master, please slow down..." Liu'er stood on the shore with great eyesight, ready to pull the master who had rolled like a mud monkey ashore.
Unexpectedly, He Qingqing stretched out her hand to hold Liu'er, and stopped her, saying: "Senior, don't come up here, there is still one thing missing..."
"What? There is still a shortage!" Ma Langzhong was already shivering in the mud at this moment, and only wanted to go ashore to warm up for a while, but who knew he would not be able to.
He wailed: "There is no end! Mr. He, do you intend to freeze this old man to death?"
"Senior, you've already stepped into the pond anyway, and you're not short of trembling, aren't you?" Seeing Ma Lang's reluctance, He Qingqing tried to persuade him.
"Besides, it's so easy to succeed in asking for luck. If you don't have any necessary things, you can't succeed. You have to have sincerity and perseverance. Otherwise, it won't work after a while."
As soon as he heard that it was about his luck in gambling, Ma Langzhong didn't care about the pain in his body and the cold in his feet, so he immediately raised his spirits.
A look ready to go: "It's all up to Mr. He. You can tell me what you still need. There are many difficulties and dangers. The old man will find it."
"Oh...that's not enough!" He Qingqing waved his hand, pointed to the pond and said, "Just look for three pure black pond bottom stones at the place where the "Iron Armored General" is invited, and you will need them later .”
Hearing that it was just a few stones, dead things were easier to find than living ones, so without further ado, Ma Langzhong stepped on the mud and went back to the middle of the pond to feel for the stones at the bottom of the pond.
Picked up a stone and rinsed it in the water in the puddle, found it was white, no, threw it away;
Another piece, yellow, no, throw it away;
Another piece, gray, not thrown away;
The more I thought about it, the less I found it, and I realized that it was not so easy to find three pure black stones in one go. I had to go through this many times before I managed to find one.
Looking at Ma Langzhong's figure staggering in the pond covered in mud, and thinking of the former "Sage Master of Boils", a generation of Xinglin seniors who made such a mess for gambling, Liu Yanhan couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Human, What a greedy word."
He glanced at He Qingqing next to her again, and found that she had a suppressed smile on her face, so she whispered in her ear and asked, "You didn't mean to punish Senior Ma on purpose, did you?"
"Hmph..." He Qingqing raised his eyebrows, snorted coldly, and responded in a low voice: "So what's the matter, who told him to drink you on purpose at the banquet yesterday, causing you to have a wine rash at night, he deserves it .”
In the end, he couldn't bear it anymore, Liu Yanhan said with embarrassment: "Okay, it's almost over, don't make it too embarrassing."
"I won't..." He Qingqing was not very reconciled, and said angrily: "I don't care who makes him disrespectful and bullies younger generations because of his age. Anyway, if he bullies you, I will help you out. Tone, my He family will repay any kindness and revenge, and it is absolutely unambiguous."
"Wow!", hearing this suddenly, Liu Yanhan didn't know what to say, after all, he was venting his anger for himself, so he could only sigh.
There was really nothing to do with this eldest lady, Liu Yanhan continued to persuade with a smile: "I've been fine for a long time, don't be angry, Mr. He..."
Seeing that He Qingqing didn't respond or reply, he stretched out his hand to gently shake her arm, and coaxed her in a good voice, "Master He, your lord has a lot, don't be angry, huh?"
Seeing Liu Yanhan's face, He Qingqing's attitude finally softened.
He said bluntly: "Don't worry, soaking in the muddy pond for a while won't do anything. Compared with the wicked things his old man did, this little retribution is small. For him not to make the same mistakes again and again, the retribution is not good. Let us But it’s helping him to avoid disasters.”
The two were whispering to each other, when Ma Lang, who was tossing in the muddy pond, called out: "I found it."
As he spoke, he raised his arms towards the three people on the shore, and showed the three black pond stones gathered in his hands.
After searching for a long time, he finally found what he needed when he felt that his old waist was about to break. Ma Langzhong saw that everything was ready and only owed Dongfeng, so the pride in his heart should not be too obvious.
Can't help muttering: "Great, this old man is finally going to be lucky!"
He seemed to see a lot of gold and silver treasures on the gambling table flying into his pocket.
It's a pity that it didn't take long for the man to climb the shore, only to hear a curse from behind the bamboo forest: "Wow! You little bastards are here to climb the wall and climb the tree again, and look at me today I won't kill you."
Everyone was startled, and when they took a closer look, they saw an old man holding a stick in the back of the bamboo grove, and he was killing him aggressively, as if he was inquiring about his crimes.
"No, the nursing home of the villa is here, run quickly..." Liu'er is still experienced in dealing with this kind of thing.
He didn't care about that much, jumped up from the pond, shouted, and ran away, forgetting even his master.
Seeing Liu'er running away in a hurry, He Qingqing almost subconsciously pulled Liu Yanhan beside her, and shouted: "Run..."
The two also ran away.
"Hey...hey...you wait for me..." Ma Langzhong called out as he climbed up to the bank of the pond with hands and feet.
Everyone sneaked in together, and now they all scattered like birds and beasts, leaving him alone in the back miserable and desolate, so don't be too chilling.
In this situation, he can't allow him to think too much. If a naughty boy is caught by the nursing home, he will be reprimanded at most, but he is a face-to-face doctor after all, and he still does ridiculous things like fishing for fish. Don't you have to laugh your ass off when you go out, although you usually do a lot of immoral things, but Ma Langzhong still wants face.
In order not to be caught, he didn't care about the many things, he even scrambled to the shore, followed the way when he just came, and fled to the outside of the villa with all his strength.
When he was about to be caught by the nursing home, he narrowly escaped from the hole in the fence and escaped from the villa.
Until he suppressed his pounding heartbeat and hid in a tuft of thatch by the roadside, he heard the old man guarding the house in the villa behind him yelling and cursing in a rough voice.
"You bastards, if you run fast, the next time you get caught, you'll have to cry and beg for mercy."
46. Chapter 16 Memories
Fortunately, the irritable old man in the hospital didn't really chase after him, he just yelled and cursed at the gate of the yard for a while and then died down.
At this time, He Qingqing and Liu Yanhan were also hiding behind a cluster of bushes. Although there was a reason for the incident, they were uninvited guests who sneaked into the villa.
The two of them squatted behind the bushes like thieves at the moment, watching the movements around them vigilantly.
He Qingqing made a gesture of listening, and patted Liu Yanhan, who was squatting beside her, and said, "Hey... I heard nothing outside, so it should be all right!"
"Just wait and see! I saw that the guards in the villa have been chased out just now!"
Pulling away the dead branches and leaves that covered her eyes, Liu Yanhan looked out and said, "The situation is sudden, we only care about running, and we don't know what happened to Senior Ma and Liu'er. Let the court catch it!"
"Don't worry, nothing will happen. Just now, Liu'er ran faster than the two of us. He is a child with quick hands and feet, and the nursing home will definitely not be able to catch him."
"What about Senior Ma! It seems that he was still in the pond just now, so he shouldn't be alone."
"He..." He Qingqing recalled the situation just now, only to realize that Ma Lang had really been left behind.
But the matter has come to this point, there is no other way, I can only comfort and say: "Should...you should be fine! Even if you are caught by the nursing home, the big deal is to scold you, and you won't lose a piece of meat. Besides, you are just catching birds and fish." It's not about stealing gold and silver, they can't do anything to people..."
For some reason, He Qingqing saw Ma Langzhong standing shivering in the cold wind covered in mud and being scolded.
Two lines of old tears couldn't help falling down on a dark old face, washing out two deep ravines.
Aggrieved and groaning: "I didn't steal things on purpose, please let me go, oh, oh, oh...", I felt a chill all over my body.
"Uh..." She hesitated for a moment, and added: "Of course, at Senior Ma's age, at most, it's just a bit embarrassing, nothing else."
Hearing what He Qingqing said, Liu Yanhan felt that Ma Langzhong was really miserable today. He was beaten up by the people in the gambling shop early in the morning, and now he was scolded by the nursing home. It turned out that it was all for gambling, so why bother?
She sighed helplessly: "I hope he wasn't caught! Otherwise, we would have to go to the villa to find him. He is not ashamed as an old man, but I am too ashamed."
"Ah..." He Qingqing sighed with emotion after hearing Liu Yanhan's complaint, turned her head to meet her gaze, and asked with a half-smile: "Isn't Miss Liu always acting like a lady since she was a child, and she has never done these things?" The absurd thing about going to the house to expose the roof tiles and catching birds and fish!"
"I..." She hesitated when asked so abruptly.
Looking back carefully on the days from childhood to adulthood, it seems that I have been practicing medical skills with my master and fellow disciples in Xinyi Valley. Every day, I have heavy schoolwork, endless medical books, endless prescriptions, and the days of wanton fun. There are only a handful of them.
What's more, Xinyi Valley's gate rules are strict, and the time for one night and three meals is tightly arranged, not to mention these things of catching birds and fish.
These fun things for the naive and naughty boys became the physical labor of picking herbs in the mountains and digging rocks in the river for their medical disciples.
Even going up the mountain and down the river is a kind of practice, and the fun of having fun has disappeared. Thinking about it, I did not do these things when I was young, and I have no fun to recall.
She replied: "I... really haven't played these things before."
"Then I'm quite different from Miss Liu..." Taking advantage of the fact that there was no one around, the two started chatting casually.
"When I was young, I was not in good health. Because of this, my parents took pity on me and lived a lawless life. Although I couldn't go out of the house often, the things like going to the house to expose the roof tiles and recruiting cats and dogs were still the same. Why? All the people in the house were disturbed by me, they were all talkative, cats hated dogs, I guess at that age, everyone in the family would be scared by me!
He's still a sick child, he can't be beaten or scolded, so he can only be coaxed and pampered..."
She shook her head embarrassingly while she was talking, and said mockingly: "You said that I was so naive when I was young, and I didn't know anything about it. It's nice to be like Miss Liu, gentle and hardworking. I think the elders like children like you. !"
Hearing what He Qingqing said about her past, Liu Yanhan smiled and replied: "Although she is ill, it is Ms. He's blessing to be loved by her family. People say that she is as innocent as a child." It's not a blessing. People who are loved all their lives don't have to grow up. People grow up to face the bleak reality and make compromises out of helplessness. , is a blessing that others can't even ask for, so why should you envy others."
"That's right!" In fact, He Qingqing always felt that she was worn out by illness and had little fortune. When she said this, she was a little bit disappointed, but after listening to Liu Yanhan's words, she felt that she was actually quite lucky.
"Hearing you say that, it seems to be true..."
"Oh, by the way..." He Qingqing changed the subject and asked, "I've never heard Miss Liu talk about her parents! You are so smart and beautiful, they must love you very much! How do you usually get along?"
Speaking of this, Liu Yanhan's expression froze for a moment, but it only took a moment to return to his usual smiling face.
"I entered Xinyi Valley's sect when I was two years old. I was brought up by my master. My father was rarely seen when he was on business in other towns. My mother..."
While talking, he hesitated again, a trace of sadness flashed across the crystal clear brown eyes, "My mother has always been in poor health, and passed away when I was very young."
Seeing the desolate look on the face of the person in front of him, He Qingqing felt very guilty. He didn't expect it to be like this. He asked about the sadness of the person impartially, which made it really embarrassing.
After talking about her family, Liu Yanhan remained silent, most afraid of the sudden silence when there was no one around, the atmosphere between the two of them became a little delicate.
"Ah... this..." He Qingqing said apologetically, "Yes... I'm sorry, Miss Liu, I didn't expect it to be like this. I accidentally mentioned your sadness. I...um..."
She also didn't know why she suddenly became so clumsy with her tongue, she couldn't even say anything to comfort others.
It seems that at this moment, the function words "the man has passed away, mourning and changing" are so pale and empty, I really can't say it, and I can't think of it for a long time.
Before she could rack her brains to say something, Liu Yanhan smiled indifferently.
She shook her head and said: "It happened a long time ago, Miss He doesn't need to apologize, besides, when my mother passed away, in fact, I was still young, it was a day when I was heartless, I don't know why I feel sad... ..."
She took a deep breath, as if exhaling the depression in her heart, and continued to say in a relaxed manner: "Besides, one must always look forward in one's life!
How can you be immersed in the pain of the past forever, now I don't care about these things, so you really don't need to apologize, and you don't need to feel embarrassed. "
After stroking the heart that was deeply guilty just now, He Qingqing finally felt relieved, "Hearing you say that makes me feel better, I was so guilty just now, I wish I could find a tree hole to hide."
"Ha..." After hearing He Qingqing's words, Liu Yanhan almost laughed out loud, "You're too exaggerated... You're not a rabbit, what kind of tree hole are you?"
"Hey... It's fun to drill into a tree hole! It's a rare child's play." Then, he raised He Qingqing and pointed to the location where the two were hiding. All they could see were the smoky vines in the suburbs.
She seemed to be enjoying it, and said cheerfully: "It's a coincidence today, it seems that Miss Liu is indeed destined for me!
You and I can relive the joy of climbing trees to catch birds and going down rivers to fish when we were young together in this wilderness. "
Thinking about going to Xinggang Town to ask for a prescription for old man Gao in the past two days, it was actually not going well.
Ma Langzhong is no longer what it used to be
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