"well……"
Banyun smiled and nodded.
For several days in a row, Banyun was always thinking about this meal while drinking medicine.
I have told my disciple about this matter many times, but my disciple refused for various reasons.
This time, the disciple agreed, and Banyun was delighted that he could finally quench his thirst.
However, looking at Lianfeng's thin back as he walked out, Banyun showed a hint of complexity.
In fact, the encounter between Banyun and Lianfeng was a bit dramatic in the final analysis.
I remember that day, the weather was gloomy and the earth was shrouded in a layer of dark clouds.
Banyun wandered around, and when he passed a street intersection, he found a group of people gathered around him.
From time to time, there were shouts and curses from the crowd.
"I'll beat you to death, you stinky beggar!"
After walking over, Banyun saw a middle-aged man in his forties with ragged clothes and disabled hands among the crowd being surrounded by several men in fancy clothes.
However, when he was beaten, the middle-aged man was still protecting the child underneath him. The child looked to be in his early ten years.
The child did not cry, but stared at the men with eyes as sharp as knives.
Moreover, the child's fists were already clenched tightly.
A few meters away from the middle-aged man and his child, several steamed buns were scattered on the street and had been trampled into cakes.
Banyun heard that the onlookers nearby were talking about it.
"You said it's not good for them to offend anyone, but they have to offend such a street bug..."
"It's just a few buns that were stepped on. As for the life-threatening theory."
"You can't say that. This food is more important than life to a beggar. We must be careful in our words and deeds!"
"My father is still disabled. Alas, I have to pity this child."
"There is no way, this society is just like the law of the jungle..."
"..."
Although everyone expressed their opinions, in the end no one dared to stand up and stop them.
Obviously, they were all wary of these men and worried that they would get angry.
"You bunch of bastards, I will fight with you!"
Perhaps because he had lost all his sanity after being beaten, or because of an instinctive self-defense reaction, the middle-aged man stood up from the ground and kicked the leader in the stomach with all his strength.
"oh!!!"
After being kicked hard, the man fell to the ground, holding his stomach and rolling back and forth, shouting: "Beat me to death, I'll take the responsibility if anything happens!"
Hearing these words, the other companions seemed to have taken a reassurance, and the bee pupae came, and their fists and kicks fell on the middle-aged man's head and body like raindrops.
After all, one punch was no match for four, and the middle-aged man was quickly beaten to the point where he was unable to fight back. In the end, he had no choice but to give up resistance and desperately protect the child.
At this time, the leader who was lying on the ground suddenly got up, and at some point he had a green brick in his hand.
"Whatever you are looking at, get the hell out of here. You want to be beaten, don't you?!"
When he saw people surrounding him, he howled fiercely.
At this moment, the onlookers dispersed quickly as if they had received instructions, and they only dared to hide and watch from a distance.
After everyone dispersed, the leading man looked at his companions and shouted loudly: "Get out of my way!"
With that said, he walked towards the middle-aged man.
The companions quickly stepped aside, as if they were expecting a good show to begin.
Banyun realized something was wrong!
If this brick were dropped, it would probably kill someone.
He didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but seeing that the situation was getting more serious, he couldn't help but want to go up and stop it.
Before Ban Yun could move his feet, he heard a "bang!" and the brick shattered into powder on the middle-aged man's head.
I saw the middle-aged man covering his head. After a while, blood spurted out from his fingers like red spring water.
He slowly fell down.
"dad!!!"
The child used his petite body to support the middle-aged man, but his strength was weak, so the middle-aged man fell down without any movement.
Banyun quickly stepped forward, squatted down, reached out to the middle-aged man's nostrils, and finally shook his head:
"Oh...! I'm out of breath."
The man who led the attack panicked. He didn't expect that he just slapped a brick on his head. How could he die?
Seeing this, several companions quickly ran away, leaving only the leading man stunned.
As for the people who were observing from a distance, no one dared to come forward when they saw that people were dying, so they all dispersed.
"I must make you pay with your life!"
The child walked up to the leading man, his eyes were cold and cold, and he spoke loudly.
Looking at the child's eyes, the man took a step back, obviously a little scared.
Before Banyun could react, the man ran away without a trace.
Banyun sighed, looked at the man on the ground, then looked at the child and asked, "Who else is there in your family?"
"My mother abandoned us, and now my father is dead, so I will be the only one left." The child walked up to his father and knelt down.
Banyun stroked the child's head lovingly: "How about coming with me."
The child didn't speak, but kept staring at his father.
After Banyun buried the child's father, he took the child with him to Beiziling.
But what he didn't expect was that the child disappeared one night not long after he went up the mountain.
He thought that the child left Beiziling because he was not used to life in the mountains, so he did not look for him.
But within a few days, the child returned to Beiziling again.
Banyun inquired and learned that after the child came down from the mountain, through many inquiries, he finally found the murderer who killed his father. While he was sleeping at night, he secretly set a fire and burned the murderer alive.
Also because when his father was beaten to death by several men on the street, everyone looked on coldly, causing the child to become jealous and think that everyone deserved to die.
Therefore, Banyun gave the child the word "Lian Feng". Lian refers to the sect of the sect, and "Feng" means that he hopes that the child can be as unrestrained as the wind and not be bound by the world.
"You have been following me for almost 10 years now, right?" Banyun sighed silently.
…………
On the way, Lianfeng barely rested, and finally arrived at the market at noon.
He didn't buy Xu Yuanji's roast goose because the master said that he didn't like this restaurant.
After buying the roast goose, Lianfeng went to a small shop that seemed to be relatively secretive.
When returning, Lianfeng rented a car specifically to rush back to Beiziling as soon as possible.
"Master, I bought the roast goose. I didn't buy it from Xu Yuanji this time."
As soon as they arrived at the Taoist temple, Lianfeng handed the roast goose in his hand to Banyun.
Taking the roast goose, Banyun put it to his nose and smelled it vigorously, and said with enjoyment: "I haven't smelled the roast goose for a long time. It's so fragrant!"
Then he took a big bite.
"Master, you eat first, I'll cook the medicine." Watching Master eating meat, Lianfeng hurriedly exited the room.
The fire in the stove had been extinguished. Lianfeng placed the medicine jar on the ground, lifted the stove, looked at Banyun in the room and said, "Master, the wind is strong in the yard, I will boil the medicine in another place."
He moved the stove to the kitchen and went back to take the medicine jar in as well.
Light the fire again, put the medicine jar on the table, and fan the cattail leaf fan vigorously.
The fire is getting stronger and stronger, and gradually, you can clearly hear the sound of Chinese medicine turning in the medicine jar.
Lianfeng glanced outside the kitchen and took out a half-palm-sized plastic bag without any markings from his pocket.
He took off the kitchen knife from the stove, cut a small slit, then opened the lid of the jar, aligned the bag's slit with the mouth of the jar, and poured the white powder inside with trembling hands.
"Disciple, are you ready for the medicine?"
At this time, Banyun's voice came from next door.
"It's almost...it's almost ready!" Lianfeng quickly crumpled the bag into a ball and threw it on the stove.
He took the jar lid and put it on.
He found a rag, wetted it, wrapped it around the jar, shook it twice and poured the liquid inside into the porcelain bowl.
Then, he hurriedly walked to the kitchen door with the bowl in hand.
As soon as he stepped out of the threshold, he seemed to have discovered something. He placed the bowl on the stool at the door and returned to the kitchen.
He walked to the stove, grabbed the kitchen knife and rinsed it with water for a few times. Then he walked out with confidence and picked up the bowl on the stool again.
