Copper Coins Chapter 73: Passers by (4)

When Xue Xian and Xuan Min returned to Qingping County, the sky was already bright. Unlike the dark clouds at the foot of Dustpan Mountain, which are densely covered with lightning and thunder, the sunlight here is very good, and in this cold winter and twelfth lunar month, there is a hint of warmth.

The whole Qingping County seems to be more lively than the previous two days. There are a lot of people on the street. It seems that he has slightly escaped from the shadow of the epidemic, and he takes a breath.

When the two stood at the door of Fang's backyard, the entire Fang family was already busy.

The yaolang guys are spreading herbs on the edge of the garden, planning to take advantage of the rare sunny day to dry. The beggars helped them, clumsily but carefully. Uncle Chen helped Fang Chengzai to check the volumes, one read the name of the medicinal material, and the other changed the number as much as possible with red strokes.

Jiang Shijing led a few seven or eight-year-old children to study at the side. These children were sent by some people to study art. Although they were young, the medicinal properties of various herbs were quite correct.

Chen Chen carried a kitchen knife and chopped vegetables in the stove, Xingzi gave her a shot, and went in and out from time to time.

The twin brothers were very busy in the front hall, and Jiang Shining, who was inconvenient to see the light, stayed in the room and corrected a handwritten medical technique for his sister.

Stone Zhang picked a corner and touched two stones, chiseling and knocking about something he was carving. At his feet, there was already a row of thumb-sized stone rabbits and stone monkeys, so it could be seen that there were flowers out of time.

The backyard of Fang's house is quite spacious, but it is almost crowded by these young and old.

If Xue Xian saw this kind of environment, he would definitely turn around and leave - a stone buzzing in his ear is enough to make people noisy. With so many people buzzing together, who can stand it?

Although he is not as particular as Xuan Min, and his temperament is extraordinarily flamboyant, he is actually not a troublemaker. He can make trouble himself, and others can't make trouble.

But at this moment, he was leaning against the door and swept across the courtyard with his leisurely eyes, but suddenly felt that such a day was not bad. For ordinary people, it was probably the most complete .

"Ah—" Xingzi happened to come out of the kitchen, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Xue Xian and Xuan Min standing silently by the door, and happily rushed into the courtyard: "Xue Gongzi is back! "

"Little girl, your heart is about to squeak." Stone Zhang Shun, who was closest to her, said, "Did you not see the master when he came back?"

Xiaozi blushed and waved quickly, "Nothing, I haven't had time to shout."

This stone Zhang Yuemo was immersed in the fun of carving stones. Before he could relax, he turned his head and opened his mouth and said to Xue Xian and the others, "You cleaned up all night? Are you finished? I knew it earlier. It's quite time-consuming, so I will stay with that kid Twenty-Seven for one more night to help."

Xue Xian: "..."

Shi Shizhang deserves to be a club, just those words turned Xue Xian's face from white to green.

For a moment, Xue Xian seemed to be able to feel Xuan Min glance at him, but when he turned his head to look over, Xuan Min had lowered his gaze and stepped into the courtyard door indifferently.

Xue Xian narrowed his eyes and glared at Shi Shizhang. However, the feeling of being poked in the right heart over and over again is really not so pleasant, as if there is a weakness in the plain. In fact, he was used to wandering, and he had never felt such an ups and downs in his many years of life.

Almost got it!

Xue Xian's face finally returned to plain white, and he said indifferently: "I borrowed my hand, and my **** has been announced. That's it, what's going on."

Stone Zhang was stared at for a long time by him inexplicably, and his legs were weak. Fortunately, he was sitting. If he was standing, I am afraid that he would turn his head and want to run. He slapped himself lightly: "If you talk too much, you will be stunned."

Although he still can't figure out how to provoke this ancestor with a simple sentence.

Everyone in the yard greeted Xue Xian and Xuan Min one after another, staring at Xue Xian's face for a long time, Xingzi, who was stunned for a long time, suddenly recalled something and called out again, pointing at Xue Xian who was standing well. Legs, eyes widened: "You—"

"Whoops? Legs and feet are better?" Shizhang Zhang, who had eaten countless cuts, but was immature, said in surprise: "What kind of magic medicine did you use? Legs were cured overnight?"

Xue Xian squinted his eyes and said expressionlessly, "I advise you to be safer not to speak."

Stone Zhang silently closed his mouth, thinking how could I mess with this ancestor?

However, there are not a few people like Shi Shizhang who can't perceive the problem with the word "overnight". In the blink of an eye, the attention of the entire Fang's backyard was focused on Xue Xian's suddenly recovered legs and feet. , and immediately sent cares frequently.

"One night" long "one night" for a long time, so that Xue Xian almost thought that these people were all here to collect debts for him, this open mouth...

Fortunately, before he heard a few words, Xue Xian realized that his wrist was being held lightly.

"His legs and feet have just recovered, and he still needs a few hours of meditation to recuperate." Xuan Min said suddenly.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and quickly echoed, "Master is right, you should really take care of yourself."

Xuan Min didn't say much. He squeezed Xue Xian's wrist, pushed open the room they shared before, led Xue Xian in, and then closed the door.

The door shuts the crowd out. This layer of wood, which is not thick, is really magical. Once it is covered, it seems to be separated from another world. Xue Xian's eyes drooped indifferently, and happened to land on the hand holding his wrist.

The door was clearly closed, but it took a moment for the hand to be released.

Xue Xian raised his eyes and saw that Xuan Min had turned around and walked to the table, and while pulling out a wooden chair, he said in a low voice, "Just now, your steps are not solid, your pulse is a little stagnant, and your legs and feet are recovering. I'm afraid I'm in a hurry, so let's recuperate."

So I released my hand a little late just to check the recovery...

Xue Xian raised his eyebrows, looked away, and stopped looking at him. Holding the string of unreturned copper coins, he staggered away from Xuan Min, who was sitting at the table, and sat down beside the bed.

What Xuan Min just said was right. Xue Xian knew very well. After all, his true backbone had not yet been found. The reason why he acted freely at this time was the thread condensed out of copper coins. pull.

It's just a replacement, it's just a replacement after all, it can't last for a long time. It is a little unstable now. If he does not adjust in time and continue to infuse spiritual power, once the silk thread breaks, he is afraid that he will have to go back.

So he didn't delay much, and immediately followed Xuanmin's copper coins into Ding.

In the beginning, the spiritual power that used copper coins as a medium continued to circulate in the veins of his body as usual, constantly infiltrating the silk thread implicated in the broken bones, even causing the broken bones at both ends to grow faintly again. one inch.

It just didn't take long, another warm spiritual force poured into his bones and muscles along the copper coins, and even merged with the original one, slowly infiltrating his broken bones and damaged bones. tendons.

Xue Xian half-opened his eyes and glanced at him, and saw that Xuan Min had closed his eyes at some point, and was doing Buddhist rituals with one hand, as if he was cultivating something.

From this, we can see where the other warm spiritual energy came from. Xue Xian closed his eyes again, and while taking care of the broken bones and the filaments in the bones, he did not forget to lead himself and Xuan Min's double spiritual power over the copper coins over and over again.

After a long time, the copper coin in Xue Xian's hand trembled for a while. Although there was no sound, a metallic sound traveled all the way to the brain along the bones between the fingers, as if there was something "clicking". unlocked.

He was stunned for a moment, and finally realized what was going on—I'm afraid that out of Xuanmin's five copper coins, another one of the five copper coins had been lifted.

For a moment, he could subconsciously feel that with the release of the new ban, the connection between the copper coin and his body seemed to be slightly closer. While the copper coins were buzzing, he felt that his brain was also buzzing, so that he fell into some kind of dream uncontrollably.

It's not so much a dream, it's more blurry to the point where it's hard to capture the outline, like a fish that occasionally pops up from a river pond and then disappears—

Sometimes someone can be seen walking back and forth in front of him. His angle of view is extremely strange. After that, he opened his mouth lightly and seemed to say two words briefly, maybe just a title...

Sometimes he is sitting somewhere, there seems to be a desk in front of him, but he can't see what is on it, and a black phantom falls by his hand, and he seems to move his finger at the phantom... …

Sometimes he still holds something in his hand. At first glance, it looks like a ghost face, with a mixture of red and black color, and he can't see his eyes...

Just when Xue Xian couldn't figure out the source of the dream-like fragments, he saw the last fragment. In this fragment, there was a child with a blurred face standing in front of him. He bent over and extended his hand to the child.

It just made him a little stunned that his sleeves were white, spotlessly white.

"Who are you?" The child raised his face and asked timidly in a vague and immature voice.

The moment he was about to answer, he suddenly caught a glimpse of his outstretched hand, with a tiny mole on the side of his ring finger knuckle. Although the dream was blurry, the small mole stood out inexplicably against the thin white fingers.

The moment of astonishment made him clear his mind and escaped from the extremely vague dream.

Xue Xian suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the table.

It was dark inside, and it was nighttime. The light from the lanterns outside came in faintly, framing the outline of Xuanmin by the table.

"Bald donkey." Xue Xian frowned and said softly.

Xuan Min responded, and there was a faint trace of fatigue in his voice, as if he had just gotten out of some kind of exhausting situation. From Xue Xian's point of view, he could see that he raised his hand and touched the side of his neck.

Although the room was pitch-dark, the details of his fingers could not be seen at all, but Xue Xian remembered that there was also a small mole on the knuckle of his ring finger, which was exactly the same as the position in the dream.

Xue Xian originally wanted to tell Xuan Min about his dream, but when he saw that he touched the side of his neck, he changed his mind.

Because another thought suddenly popped up in Xue Xian's mind, if it was just a coincidental dream, it would be fine to talk about it, but... what if it wasn't a dream?

Nowadays, there are some inexplicable connections between him and Xuanmin's copper coins. This connection can pass the dragon saliva effect on Xuanmin to him, and will it also pass on some other things? Like... memory?

If I'm not mistaken, Xuan Min's memory will be restored once this copper coin is lifted. In the process of recuperating just now, the prohibition of a copper coin was broken, so what he saw... could it be some memories that were skipped from Xuan Min's mind?

It's just because of the limited involvement that he sees them as blurry as if they were separated by a river bank.

If it was really a memory, I wouldn't be able to ask this directly. After all, Xuan Min took the initiative to tell him it was one thing, and it was another thing that he saw with his own eyes without Xuan Min's knowledge.

He was thinking about waiting for Xuanmin to recover a little and have a good talk with him, but for now, it seems that it is best not to use this copper coin indiscriminately, so as not to get more and more involved.

Xuan Min listened to him shouting, but did not speak, then tilted his head and asked, "What?"

The voice sounds much better now than before, and seems to have recovered for the most part.

"Let's pay you back the copper coins first, I won't be able to use them for now." Xue Xian stood up and loosened his muscles, seemingly inadvertently putting the copper coins in Xuan Min's hands.

He habitually hooked the rope of the copper coin string with his fingers.

Xuan Min was holding the copper coin, and he was hooking the rope. In the dark, it was as if he was entangled with a thin rope.

For a moment, Xue Xian didn't let go, and neither did Xuanmin.

After a while, Xue Xian moved his fingers that were entangled in the string, but instead of loosening it, he tickled him gently, he lowered his eyes, looking at sitting in front of him The mysterious Xuanmin said in a low voice, "You..."

Tuk Tuk Tuk-

The knock on the door suddenly sounded, a thin and thin figure was reflected outside the door, and Lu Twenqi's dry voice came in: "Get up, the owner of the house is celebrating his birthday, how can you sleep so late."

Xue Xian loosened his fingers and let go of the string completely, "I almost forgot the days. Today, Jiang Shining's sister invited us to a banquet, let's go."

He and Xuan Min are nobles in the eyes of the Fang family. Lu Twenqi was just here to fight. As soon as Xue Xian's door opened, all the old and young of the Fang family gathered, and even invited him and Xuan Min to the living room.

Looking at a table full of delicacies comparable to restaurants, Xue Xian realized what Mrs. Chen was doing with her kitchen knife in the early morning.

It is said to be a birthday, but it is not a big day of the whole year. Jiang Shijing and Fang Cheng just borrowed such an excuse to gather people to eat a full family dinner.

There were no outsiders either. This family banquet was crowded together, but it was quite a happy meal. The first half of the journey was still a little polite, and the second half of the journey, the twin brothers went crazy first, and then they got out of hand.

A group of people, with the two brothers from the Chen family as the main force, shamelessly coaxed Fang Cheng and Jiang Shijing, and then went to trouble Uncle Chen and Sister-in-law Chen

"Don't be ashamed! Go eat your two meals, and if you don't stop, I'll feed you two pig food tomorrow!" Sister Chen angrily slammed the two brothers who were running around in the field back to their positions and cleaned up.

Fang Cheng poured a small glass of wine, swept away the noisy bastards, squeezed his cuff with one hand, and raised his glass to Jiang Shijing with a smile.

Jiang Shijing raised his index finger and emphasized, "Only one cup." Then he pursed his lips and smiled and raised a small celadon wine cup.

"It doesn't matter, one cup a year, I can drink another eighty cups." Fang Cheng said solemnly.

"That's all weird!" Jiang Shijing couldn't help laughing.

Jiang Shining, a nerd who couldn't eat ordinary people's food, smiled and rolled his eyes.

Xue Xian was playing with the wine cup in his hand. He was watching the excitement lazily, but his eyes stopped a little when he glanced at the exposed wrists of Fang Cheng and Jiang Shijing——

I saw another very light mark on Fang Cheng's wrist, which seemed to be a mark pressed by a rope wrapped around a circle, but it was very familiar. And Jiang Shijing also has a light mark on his wrist...

"What are you looking at?" Jiang Shining turned around inadvertently, and happened to catch Xue Xian's gaze, so he leaned over and asked.

Xue Xian pointed his chin.

Jiang Shining said "oh", "My brother-in-law's birthmark on his wrist has been there since he was born. My sister accidentally knocked on it, but it happened that she knocked it when she saw her brother-in-law for the first time when she was a child, and left a little bit. The seal has not disappeared, it looks like a natural couple."

"Yes." Xue Xian responded, raised his eyebrows and sipped his wine, squinting his eyes and said, "Maybe it's a mark left in a previous life..."

The lonely soul who wandered in the desert sea of ​​corpses for a long time finally got his wish, found the person he was looking for, and lived the most ordinary life with happiness.

"Eighty is a small number, so maybe I can count on it in my next life." Fang Cheng spoke again. He seriously tapped Jiang Shijing's wine cup lightly, "This is a promise, don't regret it after a hundred years."

After he finished speaking, he raised his head and drank the glass of wine.

There are some connections in this world that are always difficult to tell. Sometimes even the end can't be found, but it can be involved, penetrate the skin and bones, from the teenage broken flowers to the old age, for a hundred years , Three lives without change.

Xue Xian swallowed the wine in his mouth, smiled with the corners of his mouth hooked, and glanced at his side casually, only to see that Xuan Min happened to withdraw his gaze from him, and took a sip of tea with the tea cup...