one of a kind

Chapter 18: Taoist

In fact, I can stay at home all day without going out, because I don't like to go out.But Wen Yu was afraid that I would get sick again when I was alone at home, so he always wanted to let me go out for a walk, and then offered a bunch of things such as raising birds, fighting cocks, and crickets. Pick a fruit.

In fact, when I pick the fruit, I don't really let me collect it, but I eat it while picking it, so that he can feel at ease if he can come out to breathe and see the light.

I picked a big red strawberry and stuffed it into my mouth. The juice filled my mouth instantly. I ate happily. Just as I was about to pick one off, Wen Yu grabbed my hand. He wiped my lips for me. Then I said it was not clean and asked me to wash it. I waved my hand and said it didn't matter. When I was almost done eating, I thought about picking more and giving them to Aunt Zhang next door. Wen Yu nodded and said he knew.

Although it was early in the morning and the sun rose soon, Wen Yu asked me what I would like to eat at noon, and I asked him if there was a new dim sum shop in the town, but he held my wrist and said while walking: Master or Give up, I just ate strawberries in the morning, and I need to eat well at noon today.

After I listened, I stepped forward and walked two steps quickly, opened the folding fan and glanced at him like a warning: "Who is the master now, let me hear what you say again?"

He paused, then approached me to discuss: Master, our family owns the best dim sum shop in the town. You haven't tried any of them.How about this, in the afternoon I will ask the cook to make candied haws for the master, so the master can eat well, okay?If your stomach hurts one more time, I can go to half life again.

I looked at his pitiful and flattering look, and I wanted to laugh, knowing that he was worried that I thought about it, so I didn't bother with him. I sat in the carriage and yawned idly. Wen Yu was afraid that I would eat strawberries again, so he threw strawberries I put it next to the driver and didn't take it into the carriage. I looked up at him with some resentment. He laughed. I snorted and turned my head away from him. After a while, he softly called out :master.

I subconsciously replied: Yes.

When there was no sound after a while, I turned around and asked: What's wrong?

He looked at me with a smile and said: "It's nothing, I just want to call you master."

I laughed out loud, glanced at him without saying anything, and then there were endless masters.

"master?"

"Ok?"

"master"

"Um"

"master"

"..."

"master"

"To shut up"

"master"

"It's not over"

"master"

"Wen Yu!"

I warned in a cool low voice.He shut up and didn't speak, but after a while he suddenly said: That's great.

I looked up suspiciously, he smiled and looked at me tenderly and said: Master is really good now.I watched him snort coldly, but turned his face sideways and smiled with lips hooked: idiot.

I still didn't eat snacks at noon, but I was very happy to eat the dishes I liked. After dinner, Bi Wenyu went to our shop to pack some of my favorite snacks that I had just made, so that I could save them for the afternoon.After nothing happened, I wanted to go home and give Aunt Zhang strawberries, so we were not far away, and Wen Yu and I were going to walk back slowly, but we didn't want to meet an old Taoist priest on the way back.

In fact, I don't believe in fate, I don't believe in karma, and I don't believe in ghosts, gods and Buddhas, just like I think the so-called blessings of predecessors and reincarnation of heaven are just reassuring actions that the world has no choice but to do.So when this Taoist priest passed me and Wen Yu, I didn't even keep my eyes on him, but unexpectedly, I was stopped without taking two steps.

"Benefactor, please stay." The Taoist stopped in his tracks.

I froze for a moment, turned around to confirm, he nodded, I smiled and waved my hand, Wen Yu replied for me: Our master doesn't believe this.

The Taoist looked at me and continued: Donor, the poor Taoists don’t accept money, they just give some words to the donator.

I looked at him and raised my eyebrows in amusing, the Taoist smiled at me, and I slowly approached him and said: "Yes, then let's talk about it."

He smiled, lowered his eyes and said: "The fate of a benefactor is rare. The relatives are few, but the love is rich, the former is lacking, and the latter is making up. Similarly, the benefactor's life is bumpy in the first half of his life, and everything will be smooth in the second half of his life. Counting to the Almighty Day, there is still one catastrophe, and only after that can we be safe."

"What calamity, can there be a solution?" Wen Yu asked anxiously before I could speak.

I frowned, pulled his back collar, and dragged him back. He was anxious to ask me about me, so he ignored me.

The Taoist looked at Wen Yu and said slowly: In this world, sorrow and joy can only be overcome by oneself.This benefactor, there is only one person who can solve all the kalpas in this world.

I loosened Wen Yu's hand, looked at the Taoist priest quietly and said: The Taoist priest said that I have lived for dozens of years, but I am a perverse person, but I don't care about the length of my life.One more thing, why me?

"It's just a chance encounter, don't need to worry too much. As for whether the benefactor believes or not, whether you don't care or not is beyond the control of the poor. It's just that the poor want to tell the benefactor next to you that manpower is invincible. I will cherish all my poor words," the man turned and left after saying that.

"The Daoist stays behind!" Wen Yu rushed over, I didn't hold him back for a moment, he patted my hand to keep me where I was.

I looked at his serious face and thought it was funny, he came back after a while, his face was the same to me, so I opened my lips and asked: "What did that man say?"

"Nothing," he subconsciously replied to me.

I glanced at it, closed my eyes and said, "However, even if you are a quack warlock, even if you are really capable, you can't take it seriously. You don't have to take it to heart."

Wen Yu nodded and smiled at me, seemingly fine, but for some reason I always felt weird.So I added a sentence: You know my temper, even if I have something to do, but some things can be done and some things can't, otherwise you will know the consequences.

After I finished speaking, I ignored him, and he followed me all the way without saying a word.

After returning home, I enjoyed the shade in the gazebo at home, sleeping on a rocking chair, dangling with a book on my face, thinking about the Taoist priest at noon today.

What he said is right or wrong, but I think this kind of words can be used by everyone.If you ask the people around you if they suffered in the first half of their lives, most of them will probably tell you that it was bitter.People live for a lifetime, greedy, angry, ignorant, slow, suspicious, full of five poisons, ups and downs in the sea of ​​suffering, endless life, no one is not ups and downs.laugh.

When I was shaking to the point of falling asleep, Wen Yu came back after delivering things to Aunt Zhang, still holding a letter in his hand, and before he could speak, I asked, "Which letter is this?"

He thought about the ninth letter.I nod.

"Have you read the letter?"

"Haven't seen it yet"

"Open it up"

"Okay," Wen Yu replied, and opened the letter.Then tell me the same words, ask me how I am doing these days, when I plan to return to Moshang Pavilion, and so on.

After I left home and settled down in a small town, I would receive a letter from my pavilion master’s father every three months or so, so I have been away from home for more than two years.

Of course, I also reply to every letter, and the content is similar, that is, if I am well recently and the return date is uncertain.I don't know how to describe it, but now the relationship between our father and son is maintained in a very delicate situation, neither eager nor indifferent, as if we are unwilling to tear each other's last faces in order to insist on something, I sighed , asked Wen Yu to put away the letter and bring the pen and ink by the way.

Wen Yu was beside me helping me to study ink, and I wrote back with a pen. Most of the content remained the same, but I added a sentence so that if he was too busy, he didn't have to take time to write to me.Wen Yu asked me if I could write like this, I put down the brush and cleaned my hands and said: There is nothing wrong with it.

I watched Wen Yu call the housekeeper to let him post the letter, turned around and picked up a plate of things, and when he approached me, I saw that it was actually a bunch of candied haws made of strawberries. I watched him pick it up and smiled at me. I laughed out loud, and I asked: how did you think of it.

He approached me with a smile and said: "At this time, there is no mountain red at home, but I promised to make it for the master, so I asked the cook to make a few bunches of strawberries to try."Does the master want to eat and see?

I took this strawberry skewer and looked at it more and more, until I realized that there was saccharified juice left, and asked: "In this weather, how do you make this sugar harden?"

"I just went to buy ice, cut a hole in the middle of the ice, and put a few strings in there"

I looked at his excited face, rubbed his sticky fingers, looked at the bunch of candied haws and said: You are worth such a lot of effort just for one sentence.

"It's worth it, as long as the master likes and wants it, it's worth the price and effort." He looked at me and said seriously.

"Then I want the sun, moon and stars now, Cangshan and Erhai are also fine?"

Looking at his appearance, I had the bad idea of ​​teasing him again.

"Yes, the master will either" he smiled with a pampering expression on his face.

I looked at him speechless for a while, the warm autumn wind actually made me want to keep this moment, and then live forever, I calmed down, then lay down on the rocking chair, took a bite of candied haws , Said: You still don't worry, there are many things that your master and I want in the future.

He stood up, picked up the handkerchief for me to help me wipe off the sugar juice that dripped on my hands, and said, "Okay, after all, whatever the master wants, there will be."

The author has something to say:

Wen Yu, please save yourself, one of them is someone who wants to chase your soul and lock your life, who is a silly white sweet who can be satisfied with just a candied haws