Sleeping Arhat

Chapter 13

The pearl hairpin is really expensive, worth thousands of gold, and the two big pearls used for decoration on the pearl hairpin are quite valuable, not to mention that the carving of the body of the hairpin with gold thread is extremely difficult, a total of 100 taels of silver was exchanged.

After leaving the pawn shop, old man Li joked in a sly way: "Nowadays some people have pawned their tokens of love, and the fate is over." Old man Li promised to cure the disease, and Wu Xian felt happy, and he would not care about this or that. .

"Old man, stop talking nonsense, you are the most important thing." Wu Xian said with light steps, humming.Hearing this, old man Li felt very warm in his heart. The two had only lived together for two years, but their relationship became more and more sincere.

In the Herentang, the doctor's eyes were serious, his face became more serious, and he changed the position of his pulse-taking hand a few times, "Open your mouth." Then he sat up, looked at Old Man Li's tongue seriously, then shook his head and said, "Your face is yellow and thin. , the body is plain deficient, the tongue coating is thick and white, the deficiency of the five internal organs can be seen, and the under the eyes are swollen and black, and the face is pale. It belongs to water, alcohol poisons the bones, the liver wood is seriously injured, the diet is disorderly, and the hungry will be eaten, and the cold food will be eaten, and the stomach and intestines will be injured."

Seeing the doctor's serious face, Wu Xian said anxiously: "Doctor, is there any way to cure it?" Wind and rain, three meals a day should be light, avoid big fish and meat, and overeating are especially important. Spicy alcohol stimulates the liver and makes the five elements of the body unbalanced. Live a few more years."

Wu Xian was sad in his heart, and asked unwillingly: "Doctor, is there really no other way?" The doctor shook his head and said, "You are also people in the Jianghu. If you practice some internal methods of Zhongzheng and peace, you will avoid fighting with others and cooperate with you." With these medicines, one can live for more than ten years at least, and more than twenty years at most."

Old man Li laughed and said, "If you don't let me, an old alcoholic, drink, then I might as well die. Let's take the medicine and leave."

After taking the medicine according to the old doctor's prescription, Wu Xian went to buy a small stove and a medicine jar, and boiled the medicine in the ruined temple at night, and the atmosphere was a bit quiet.

Finally Wu Xian broke the calm and said, "Old beggar, what do you think, or we can settle down in Jinan City."

"Old beggar, I have been wandering for most of my life, and I haven't stayed in any place for three or five years. The old doctor's words are very strict, but I don't like it. The human velvet is delicious, and I can't compare it to it." I am green and white jade soup, I can’t be exposed to the wind and the sun, my old beggar is going to be moldy, the most important thing is not to drink, wine is food**, the more I drink, the younger I am, if I can’t drink, I might as well die now never mind."

"Wine is made from food, it is a sin not to drink it, and it is not right." Both of them laughed.

After a pause, old man Li said broadly again: "I have lived for 54 years, and I have seen enough of this river and lake. I first entered the rivers and lakes at the age of 20, and now I have spent most of my life. If one day I die on the road of this rivers and lakes, Wouldn't it be romantic, haha."

"Besides, I still have two unfulfilled wishes. When the winter is over, we will set off. First, we will go to Dadu to get a treasure, and then we will go to Huangzhou, Shaanxi. I want to spend my life with my parents and younger brother. On the last journey, after I leave, you will bury me with my parents. It is a happy thing to be able to reunite with my family after death, but it’s just a pain for you.” Speaking of this, old man Li couldn’t help but Old tears looked at Wu Xian, time flies, in a blink of an eye, more than thirty years have passed, the boy at that time is now half buried in the loess.

With grief in his heart, Wu Xian said to himself: "Old man Li, I think you have drank wine for most of your life. No matter how many fine wines you have drunk, there are two kinds of wine that you have never drunk."

After hearing this, the old man puffed his beard and said: "I have traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, and all over the Central Plains. I have drunk Shandong Lanling fine wine, Xinghuacun Fen wine, top-grade daughter red, chrysanthemum wine, Luzhou Laojiao... what kind of wine I have never drunk .”

Wu Xian shook his head and replied: "You have never drunk the wine you brewed yourself, nor have you ever drunk the peerless spirit that stands proudly in the world."

"Tomorrow, I will buy a batch of the best [-] rice, so that you can experience the strongest wine." Wu Xian said again: "We will brew a batch of wine this winter, and the apricot blossoms will bloom in the coming year. Huangzhou is safe and healthy, and I will send wine from thousands of miles." After a pause, Wu Xian said again: "I will get married in the future, if you have been reunited with your family, and you still have the wine brewed by yourself, On the day of the wedding banquet, there was harmony, happiness and happiness, as if your old man had witnessed it with his own eyes."

"Okay, okay, you are so cunning, you still tricked me into working for you in this cold winter, but I have been wandering all my life, and I have never drunk the wine I brewed, and I don't know whether it is sweet, bitter, sour or spicy. Yes, the old man's wine worms are all picked away by you, if you don't taste it yourself, you will regret it for the rest of your life." Old man Li laughed.

"However, you must be smarter in the future, and you will make troubles in small things in the future, and stay away from big things, and that naughty little girl, you sold someone else's hairpin, you really are not a thing, haha " As he spoke, Old Man Li fell asleep, while Wu Xian wrapped the thick quilt he bought around Old Man Li's body.

Early the next morning, Wu Xian went to the city to buy food. Holding the bulging wallet, Wu Xian became more and more grateful to the little witch in his heart. If it weren't for this sum of money, old man Li and Wu Xian could only live in shabby condition. How can life be full of hope and sunshine for the future.

Just as Wu Xian is looking forward to the coming spring when the flowers bloom, he is looking forward to the trip to the capital, he is looking forward to spending his life in the old man Li in Huangzhou, and he is looking forward to the journey of delivering wine for thousands of miles.

Just as Wu Xianruo expected, Wu Xian believes that the old man Li at this time is also full of hope for the future, and his urgent need for that fine wine is even more indescribable.

A few days before and after, Wu Xian and old man Li changed their suits. Perhaps old man Li didn't want to leave as a beggar, and he had to dress decently when he left. The two bought a small village and went to Jinan a few times In the city, I went to the largest rice store to buy a hundred tans of rice, ordered a batch of wine jars at the ceramics store, and Wu Xian even took time to go to the cloth shop. Wu Xian was exhausted these days.

But old man Li is always happy, with a smile on his face every day. For the first time, old man Li feels that such a fulfilling and busy life is more meaningful than being a beggar.

But back then, all his relatives were bereaved, all thoughts were lost, he was muddled and doing nothing all day long, and he became a beggar for some reason. Old man Li suddenly felt that if he had gone to wine making back then, would he have become a famous wine maker now.

(End of this chapter)