[035] Chaotic Perspective
Because he was thinking about the agreement to go to Menling Village, Zhong Kui woke up half an hour earlier than usual. Before Liu Wengen came, he took out the cloth bag stuffed under the pillow and the short-handled scabbard to look at it.
I reached into the cloth bag and seemed to have a few copper coins. I twisted them in my palm and counted them carefully. The short-handled scabbard shone with a cold and blue-green sheath under the light.
Liu Wengen appeared at the door of the ward. He came to pick up Zhong Kui and discharged from the hospital.
Regarding Zhong Kui's situation, the hospital naturally protected the patient's rights with professional medical ethics of saving lives and protecting injuries.
During Zhong Kui's treatment in the hospital, although many media had tried to interview the mysterious patient before, they were harshly rejected by the hospital.
Perhaps due to extraordinary times and various obstacles, the reporters who were naturally curious about new things were also tired of hiding and being rejected by severe rejection, so when Zhong Kui and Liu Wengen walked out of the hospital, they were unexpectedly successful and did not meet anyone who came out to stop them.
Looking at the world outside the ravine, it turned out to be like this. Zhong Kui saw that the walls on the streets and even the telephone poles were covered with large characters.
There are also the phenomenon of crowds of people in mountain villages, which are very different. These awesome crowds look up in an orderly manner, and look seriously at a man holding a trumpet in his hand, wearing a green military uniform and shouting loudly at the trumpet. Although he couldn't understand what the man was talking about, he felt very powerful.
There is another scene that makes Zhong Kui amazed, that is, there is a legendary acrobatic performance on the street.
Zhong Kui saw the crowd of people performing acrobatics, including men, women, old and young. The strange people were not in groups, but appeared scattered. One appeared one at a time, another one appeared, and none in the same direction. Some went from the east to the west, some went from the west to the south, and some went from the south to the north.
These acrobatic actors are very simple, with a round wheel in front and behind. They sit on a triangle cushion in the center of the wheel, steadily pushing their legs and moving forward slowly.
Zhong Kui, looking around in the back of the car, also heard a tender nursery rhyme coming from the corner of the street; "American horse, rolling on both ends, and a ground mouse sitting in the middle." This nursery rhyme is quite interesting, so he decided to write it down and take it back to Menling Village to teach Vanilla to sing.
Vanilla was very smart. Zhong Kui secretly taught her everything she had seen her mother-in-law use copper coins to excuse her. Unexpectedly, this girl could learn it and her stern appearance made him laugh a lot.
After a while of reverie, Zhong Kui looked down at the car he was in. It looked the same as the car he was in. He couldn't help but laugh, but he understood the meaning of the nursery rhyme.
‘Wild horses, rolling on both ends, and the ground rat sitting in the middle’ doesn’t mean people, riding this bike, two round wheels. Then the ground rat is a human... Haha! It’s really interesting.
Of course, Liu Wengen, who was pedaling, didn't know what Zhong Kui was laughing in the back seat, and he didn't have time to ask, so he had to pedal and carried him to Tongchuan County.
When he was about to arrive in Tongchuan County, Liu Wengen told Zhong Kui that the armed minister of Tongchuan County was called Zhong Hansheng and he would go to see him later.
Wallace Chung looks about 1.8 meters tall, not quite burly, but looks very strong, with bright eyes under thick black eyebrows.
When Zhong Hansheng heard that Zhong Kui was also surnamed Zhong, his face flashed with a shocked look, and was instantly covered by a loud laugh. A pair of thick, warm and hot hands tightly held the hands of the slightly cramped guy with a look of a dish-like expression.
"Haha! We were probably one of our family three hundred years ago!"
Zhong Kui smiled shyly, and for a moment he didn't know how to chat with this uncle's cadre. When the other party was holding his hand enthusiastically, he was so embarrassed that his face was too thin that it was red to the ears.
"Zhong Kui just came out of the hospital and her health is still in the recovery stage, but I still went a little ahead of time and wanted to see if it could help him recover his memory." Liu Wengen patted Zhong Kui and said to Zhong Hansheng.
Zhong Hansheng joked and said to Liu Wengen and Zhong Kui loudly, "Well, there is a problem with this. Menling Village has no home now. I will ask Donghua Village Village to arrange a residence for you. If you don't dislike it, you can go and stay for a while. As for the others, you don't have to worry about it. All the costs will be borne by Murakami."
Liu Wengen hurriedly said politely: "No! Why are you embarrassed?"
The brighter Wallace Chung smiled, and he said in a generous tone: "Hey! It's just a trivial matter of adding two pairs of bowls and chopsticks, so you don't have to be polite."
There is no home in Menling Village? Zhong Kui was confused when he listened, and looked at Liu Wengen and the armed minister in confusion.
Under the arrangement of the Minister of Armed Forces, Zhong Kui and Liu Wengen had lunch at the guesthouse and excitedly rushed to the village director's house who was going to bother.
After receiving the arrangements from the Minister of Armed Forces, the village director did not follow the truth quickly. In the afternoon, he took them to Donghua Village and found a bachelor's residence.
The home of this bachelor fellow villager is located in Donghua Village, and the distance between Menkan Village is very far from that between Menkan Village.
At 3:00 pm, the four of them climbed the mountain and waded in the water and finally came to the home of a fellow villager in Donghua Village.
There is a river at the door of the fellow villager's house. The river water is very deep. A cable bridge with black rotten wooden boards leads to the other side. Seeing that the wooden board is overwhelmed, Zhong Kui walked to the cable bridge while Liu Wengen and Zhong Hansheng were talking to him and stepped on one foot to try. The cable bridge was shaken by gravity and kept shaking left and right, and made a swaying sound of "squeaking~squeaking".
The door of the fellow villager's house was closed and it seemed that he was not at home. Because of an urgent matter, Wallace Chung handed over Zhong Kui and Liu Wengen to the village director of Donghua Village and left.
The village director told them that the family's surname was Xia Lai. The old man was not a bachelor either, but something happened later...
Seeing that the village director did not want to tell the story of Old Man Xia, it was difficult to ask. Liu Wengen stood at the door of Xia’s house and waited for the old man to come back.
Sure enough, in a short while, an old man carrying a hoe came from the downstream of the river.
The old man's face was full of wrinkles, and from his dark skin, he was an old farmer who had become accustomed to doing rough work.
Old Man Xia was hunched over and was completely a terrible old man who was unrestrained to laugh. His vicissitudes of life seemed to hide a lot of bitterness and sorrow.
As expected, Old Man Xia didn't say much. After the village director negotiated, he hurriedly let Zhong Kui and the others into the house.
At night, Old Man Xia asked Liu Wengen to help slaughter a hen that was laying eggs to entertain guests from afar. This is also the habit of hospitality and poverty in the countryside. Even if you lack food and clothing, you cannot neglect the rare guests from afar.
During the meal, Liu Wengen had another cliché. While picking up chicken pieces and chewing them, he kept saying: "We are not guests from afar, but fellow villagers in the countryside, so there is no need to be so polite."
Zhong Kui was muffled and kept eating vegetables and stewing rice grains. He ate several large bowls in one breath and felt that the rice was really delicious, with full and sticky grains, which felt similar to glutinous rice.
Chapter completed!