The Wizard of Medicine

Chapter 4 Qiankun Ring

A little after four o'clock in the afternoon, Yan Zixiu got off the car at the intersection of Daqiaozhuang and looked at his watch habitually.

After getting off the car, I walked two miles on a country dirt road, crossed a small river full of reeds, and arrived at Xinliang Village where my home was located.

There was no one on the road, so he continued to chat with Wuyou.Wuyou told him that there are several ways to enter the Immortal Mansion, all of which can be explored slowly.What you discover by yourself is direct experience, which is quite different from the indirect experience that others tell you.Why do you say that what you get on paper is superficial, and you never know that you have to do it yourself? This is the truth.Yan Zixiu asked in surprise, do you still understand philosophy?Do you know classical poetry?Worry-free said with a smile, a little understanding.Yan Zixiu is very happy, because he is also a person who likes to read and study, and now he has friends to communicate with.

Wuyou also reminded that it is best to enter the Immortal Mansion in a quiet and unmanned environment at this stage.Although the flow of time in the two worlds is different, you have stayed in the Immortal Mansion for a long time, but it only took a while in real life, but it will still affect your reaction speed.Of course, if you become proficient in going in and out in the future, it's another matter.

Yan Zixiu suddenly thought of a question: "What's the matter with this ring?"

Wuyou said: "This is the Qiankun ring. It is a space treasure of mustard seed Nasumi. You can put many things in it."

"What is mustard seed Nasumi? Small can accommodate big?"

"Spacetime is not fixed."

"If you don't understand, let's talk about how to use it." Yan Zixiu has always put aside things that he can't understand at all.

"You guide the body of the Immortal Mansion, which is the aura released by the lotus flower, and it will open."

Yan Zixiu did as he said, and he saw a large space, like an open-air storage center, divided into twelve areas, each of which was the size of a football field.The six on the left are red and the six on the right are green.

Wuyou explained: "The red ones store ordinary items, and the green ones can hold all kinds of living things, animals or plants."

"It's so amazing? Can it still be alive? Hey, I saw the missing Chinese medicine bag. It looks so small inside."

"I collected it for you. The time in the red domain does not flow, so it won't break. If you want things to go in and out, you should use your mind to guide the aura, just touch it. Use it more in the future, the more you use it, the more proficient you will be."

"The medicine bag came out! Sure enough, it came out. Go in again! Go in again! Come out! Go in! By the way, I have to put the 9000 yuan in it."

Wuyou said again: "This ring, you can change it into anything you want it to be."

"Then it becomes a bracelet." As soon as Yan Zixiu finished speaking, the ring became a bracelet, with twelve emeralds and twelve diamonds complementing each other. "Become a lotus flower again." The bracelet turned into a lotus flower at once, with a blue lotus platform, golden fluff, and bright red petals.Yan Zixiu counted, and there were twelve petals. "Worriless, the number twelve appears frequently, what do you say?"

"You'll find out in the future."

"Okay, I'm impressed again. Will this Qiankun ring be lost?"

"How is it possible! Everything is lost, and it will not be lost."

"Then I'm relieved, hehe. By the way, Wuyou, no matter what it turns into, it's still so pretty, won't it be too eye-catching?"

"You can hide it."

"Can it be hidden? Hidden!" Sure enough, the lotus was gone, but I still felt it in my hand. "Appear." The lotus appeared again. "Turn into a ring." "Hidden." "Reveal." "Turn into a book." "Hidden." "Reveal."... "What a treasure." Along the way, Yan Zixiu had a great time. Almost.Before I knew it, I came to the small river, and the south of the small river was Xinliang Village.

Xinliang Village was newly built in the mid-70s, so it was planned in a unified way. Each household is five feet long from east to west and four feet wide from north to south, which is very spacious.There are four rows in the front and back of the village, and eight rows on the left and right. There are more than 30 households and more than 100 people in the village.The small river that Yan Zixiu had to pass was behind the village, and there was basically no water except in summer, so although there was no bridge, it could be crossed on foot.

The reeds in the river fluctuated with the wind. When Yan Zixiu walked through the reeds alone when he was a child, the wind blew the reeds and made a rustling sound, and he was often a little scared.Now of course it doesn't matter.

When the reeds are mature, they can be cut and woven into mats to sell for money. Yan Zixiu's grandfather can weave mats.Every household in Xinliang Village gets some.Yan Zixiu witnessed with his own eyes when he was a child that Xinliang Village almost had a group fight with Xiao Qiaozhuang on the opposite bank because of a dispute over reeds.At that time, an old lady in this village lay down and pretended to be injured before anyone else touched her, and yelled, but everyone was stunned, and finally did not fight. "It's all because of poor words." Looking at the reeds, Yan Zixiu shook his head and sighed as he recalled the past.

When I got to the river bank, I kept meeting people from the village.In the past, Yan Zixiu didn't like to take the initiative to greet people. He was not in good health, not in the mood, and didn't have that much energy.Today is different, he greets everyone he sees, the uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters-in-law, laughing and shouting non-stop.Most of the villagers are relatively simple, and they all responded with a smile.Since Yan Zixiu is now a township cadre, those who are more snobbish now greet him with a smile.

One of the most common changes is that after everyone has responded and looked at him carefully, they will be taken aback: Zixiu, your complexion is so good, but it is quite different from before.Yan Zixiu thought up his answer on the way, and he replied that he met a good Chinese medicine doctor and treated him well.It's not a lie, isn't the master who can create the Medicine Master Immortal Mansion the most brilliant Chinese medicine practitioner?

Yan Zixiu's house was in the first row, with the road on the left side in the middle.There are two courtyards in total.The courtyard on the east was originally built by grandparents when they built a new village.Later, grandparents felt that it was inconvenient to do bean sprouts business in the countryside, so they moved back to Shiheji.The yard was left to Yan Zixiu's family.The two rooms left by grandparents were demolished long ago, and four main rooms in a 2+2 style were built, two east rooms and a gatehouse facing east.There are also four main rooms in the west courtyard, which are 3+1, with a kitchen and a door facing south.There is a moon gate between the east and west courtyards.

As soon as he entered the gate of the west courtyard, Yan Zixiu saw his mother Cifeng sitting in the courtyard peeling corn.He called, "Mom, I'm back."

Her mother, Cifeng, is 48 years old, with fair skin and looks very young.She heard the sound and raised her head: "Zixiu is back. Hey, why do you look so good?"

"I met a brilliant Chinese medicine doctor, he helped me recuperate my body." Saying that, Yan Zixiu put the leather bag on the table in the main room, pulled a small bench, and went to the yard to help peel corn.Peeling corn is to remove the corn kernels from the dried corn cobs. Usually, first use a screwdriver to punch it every two or three rows, and then peel it by hand.If someone's family planted a few acres of corn, then this job is really worth doing.Speaking of peeling corn, there is another joke.When Yan Zixiu was four or five years old, he also wanted to participate in peeling corn, but he was too young to have the strength, so the grown-ups separated the corn cobs by one row and washed out one row.This is still not enough, and the corn kernels in a single row must be pulled out every four or five.In the end, the kernels on the cob were sparse like ramparts.In this way, let the boy Hugh peel it off.Everyone laughed at him, you are doing a job that costs a lot of money, and it will cost you a lot of money.The whole process was actually coaxing him to play.

My mother said: "Thank you so much. You can see if there are any suitable things at home, and bring some to others in the future."

Yan Zixiu thought about not being able to see his kind master for a while, and was a little depressed: "I met him once, but I can't find him for a while." He thought to himself, the master is like a dragon who sees the beginning and the end, and does not know when we will see each other again .

Mother asked, "Are you not going to work today?"

"I asked for three days off. No, I feel better, so I came back to let you have a look, so that you and I can rest assured. I will help you with some work, and I will return to my hometown early in the morning the day after tomorrow Anyway, there are not many official duties these days." Yan Zixiu's hometown, his father is called Da.His father, Yan Sheng, works as the deputy director of a winery more than 60 miles away, and he only comes back once a week or two.

"Yes, work is tight, and you can ask for less leave if you can."

The two women chatted while working, and it was after six o'clock in the afternoon, and it was getting late.My mother said, "Go to Westinghouse and get two carrots and one sweet potato to wash, and I'll make tea." Dinner in the countryside is called making tea.

After Yan Zixiu washed the carrots and sweet potatoes, he had an idea and asked Wuyou: "Can you use the flavor-enhancing liquid?"

Wuyou said: "Yes."

Yan Zixiu was overjoyed: "Hurry up and do it."

Worry-free wings swooped, and a white jade mutton fat bottle appeared in the air, and some transparent water mist spilled out and landed on the carrots and sweet potatoes.Yan Zixiu sent it to the kitchen, lit the kerosene lamp, placed it next to the dustpan containing corn kernels, and continued to peel the corn.

"Zixiu, it's time to eat." After a while, the mother's voice came.

"Okay." Yan Zixiu moved the small dining table out, went to help serve the meal, and said to his mother, "Mom, a classmate lent me some artificial corn threshers, and I will take a shelf truck to the official road tomorrow morning to bring them back." In the countryside, the highway is called Guanlu.

"It's a good thing. Corn peeling takes up too much manpower. Every family is busy, and they can't hire anyone if they want. If there is a thresher, it will be much easier."

Dinner is distilled steamed buns, cold carrots, sweet potato and rice soup.Yan Zixiu tasted the carrot, wow, it was delicious; he took another sip of sweet potato and rice soup, wow, it was delicious.He is not a gourmet, and he can't speak such vivid and delicate words. He just feels refreshed physically and mentally, and every cell is singing hymns.

Seeing him eating with gusto, the mother was also very relieved: this child is in good health, and the food is delicious.

"Mom, you eat too."

"Okay." Mother took a bite of the carrot, "Hey, why are today's carrots so delicious? Huh? The soup is also very delicious."

For a while, neither of the two mothers wanted to talk, and they buried their heads in eating.

(End of this chapter)