Bustling passers-by kept passing by the two siblings. They might take a curious look, but no one noticed Lin Weiyang's crying look, Lin Yuan's painful expression, and his sweaty forehead.
In the street across from the two of them, a ragged old man was lying on the ground and stretching comfortably. It seemed that he had just woken up.
After getting up, he walked onto the street with his shoes full of holes. He rubbed his belly with his dry and thin hands, thinking about where to find some food to pay homage to his five internal organs temple.
While watching and walking, the old homeless man walked with his eyes raised to the sky. Without paying attention, he kicked Lin Yuan who was kneeling on the ground.
I don't know if his reaction was naturally slow, but it took him a while before he remembered to lower his head and check.
"Hey! I'm sorry, you two. I was not paying attention when I was walking. Please forgive me, forgive me!" The old man backed away quickly. He smiled flatteringly and bowed with his fists in hand, apologizing to the two people on the ground.
The atmosphere was ruined, and the two siblings would naturally not continue hugging each other. Lin Weiyang raised her eyes and glared at the old man with dissatisfaction, then slowly took the younger brother out of her arms and prepared to take him home.
However, when his eyes turned, Lin Yuan's face turned pale, as if he was enduring great pain.
This frightened Lin Weiyang so much that she hurriedly asked about her little brother's condition and hurriedly touched him.
However, the pain in Lin Yuan's shoulder was so unbearable that he could only grit his teeth and could not speak.
Seeing that the younger brother was silent, Lin Weiyang became very anxious. Then he remembered that there was a medical clinic next to him, and hurriedly pulled the younger brother's arm to get up, but he pulled his right arm, causing Lin Yuan to scream again.
Lin Weiyang was still young at that time, so she suddenly panicked and froze on the spot at a loss.
The old man, who had not received feedback from the two siblings, did not even put down his hand. He frowned at the two people's actions, then walked to Lin Yuan and squatted down, pulling up his right arm.
Lin Yuan cried out in pain again as his arm was lifted.
Lin Weiyang watched the stained homeless man move Lin Yuan, and pushed him anxiously, but he couldn't push him at all.
"What are you going to do to my brother?" Since he couldn't push him away, Lin Weiyang had no choice but to hit the old man's arm with his fleshy fists.
The old man ignored Lin Weiyang. His turbid eyes were fixed on Lin Yuan's arm, and his fingers with only bones traced up Lin Yuan's arm and touched his shoulder.
"Boy, bear with me!"
After the old man finished speaking, before Lin Yuan could react, he grabbed his palms and shoulders with both hands, lifted them up and pushed them suddenly!
Without thinking too much, Lin Yuan's childish voice became extremely loud again, covering up the sound of the joints in his shoulders being reset, causing passers-by to look back.
At this moment, a lot of sweat dropped from Lin Yuan's head, mixed with tears, and dripped on his clothes.
Seeing the little brother in such pain, Lin Weiyang just thought that the old man had hurt the little brother. He didn't know where the strength came from, and he rushed straight into the old man's side, knocking him to the ground.
Seeing Lin Weiyang hurriedly holding Lin Yuan in her arms, staring at him fiercely like a she-wolf protecting her calf, the old man was also very amused. He lay on the ground, supported his head with his arms, and said with a smile: "You little girl The baby is really ignorant, ask this little guy if his shoulder still hurts?"
Lin Weiyang didn't listen. She was still staring at the old man in front of her, her arms tightly protecting Lin Yuan.
After wailing in Lin Weiyang's arms for a moment, the pain on Lin Yuan's shoulders gradually eased and slowly disappeared. He gasped and raised his head, raised his hands high, and pinched his sister's face.
"Sister, stop being like this and smile."
Warm little hands pinched her face, and Lin Weiyang's face softened a lot. She looked down at her younger brother, who was still pale, and asked in surprise: "Is everything okay?"
Lin Yuan released his right hand and moved his arm under his sister's gaze.
"What happened to you just now?" Lin Weiyang asked, rubbing her younger brother's shoulders.
Lin Yuan was speechless. He didn't know how to tell his sister.
The old man on the side laughed out loud, pointed at Lin Yuan's shoulder and said: "He is too young and his bones are not fully developed yet. He was just dislocated by someone using external force. Thanks to my kindness, I helped take this little guy back."
As the saying goes, the speaker is unintentional and the listener is intentional. When these words reached Lin Weiyang's ears, she recalled what she had just done to her little brother. Her face fell instantly and she was about to cry.
The young Lin Yuan also didn't want to see his sister cry. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he rolled out of Lin Weiyang's arms, jumped a few times, moved like the adults in the family after practicing, and said: "Sister, I’m really fine, if you don’t believe me, look at it.”
Lin Yuan fiddled with his arms funny in front of his sister, saying that it was impossible not to feel any pain at all, but he still endured the slight discomfort, hoping to alleviate the guilt in Lin Weiyang's heart.
Understanding Lin Yuan's intention, Lin Weiyang forced back her tears. She stood up silently, took Lin Yuan's hand and walked to the old man and bowed.
Seeing his sister bending down, Lin Yuan did the same.
After the two of them straightened up, Lin Weiyang said with a serious face: "Thank you for your help. I have offended you just now. Please don't mind."
The old man looked at the two siblings with a slight smile. He sat up cross-legged, rubbed his buttocks, and said with a look of pain: "Hey~ This bump made some of the meat on the buttocks fall off... ..."
Both of them were little kids who were inexperienced in the world, so they naturally couldn't react to such subtle hints.
Looking at the dull expressions of the two people, the old man sighed feebly and said, "There's no need to apologize. I'm hungry. Do you have anything to eat?"
The two of them were sluggish...
Later, Lin Weiyang took Lin Yuan into the hospital for a checkup. After the doctor said there was no problem, they took this "benefactor" to a small restaurant and ordered some rich dishes to repay his kindness. The grace of arms.
After he devoured the meal, Lin Yuan handed the money bag to his sister and asked her to pay. He took the "benefactor" who was still chewing the chicken legs and walked outside. Under the light of dusk, Lin Yuan asked He said: "Are you a doctor?"
After biting into a piece of chicken leg, the sloppy old man glanced at Lin Yuan unexpectedly and said with a smile, "How do you say this?"
Lin Yuan's childish face showed an expression of ascertainment, and he said: "When we were eating just now, were you exploring Sister Weiyang's spiritual veins?"
The old man stopped chewing and swallowed it in one gulp. He asked in disbelief: "You should be only three or four years old this year. Is it possible that you can already sense the fluctuations of spiritual energy?"
As the old man spoke, he secretly circulated the spiritual energy in his body for a week.
Unexpectedly, Lin Yuan opened his innocent eyes wide and drew a strange trajectory in the air with his hand.
The old man believed it now. The trajectory drawn by his fingers on the little doll in front of him was exactly the way his spiritual energy moved!
Biting the drumstick excitedly, the old man directly grabbed Lin Yuan's wrist with his oily hands, and moved his hands along the arm inch by inch.
Perhaps the old man was too excited and pinched Lin Yuan's arm until it hurt, but after all, he was asking for help, so he endured it.
Until he stopped his hand, Lin Yuan already had a row of black handprints on his sleeves.
The old man took off the chicken leg that was full of saliva and looked at the doll with surprise on his face.
"The best peerless spiritual veins and root bones... I actually encountered them!" the old man said a little crazy.
Lin Yuan didn't understand what he meant and rubbed his aching arm.
The old man quickly disposed of the chicken leg in his hand, and did not forget to throw the bone to the yellow dog in the distance.
After doing all this, a lot of mist suddenly appeared around the old man's body and enveloped him.
After briefly disappearing, the old man appeared in front of Lin Yuan again, no longer as slovenly as before. The stains all over his body disappeared, and the fluffy hair seemed to have been washed and hung softly on the back of his head. Even his tattered clothes became clean, of course, the holes were still there.
The old man waved his hand to disperse the mist. He exuded a solemn aura and looked at Lin Yuan warmly.
Lin Yuan's mouth trembled when he saw this magical movement. It seemed that he had guessed correctly. This person was really not simple.
The old man thought he had frightened the baby by showing off his hand. He knelt down and looked at Lin Yuan's level, and said with a smile:
"Little baby, would you like to learn medical skills from me?"
Perhaps in order to attract Lin Yuan, the old man drew a circle with his finger, and a thin golden needle floated out from the old man's arms and danced in front of Lin Yuan's eyes.
Against the backdrop of dusk, this golden needle looks extremely bright.
Lin Yuan's eyes followed the golden light for a moment. Just when the old man thought that Lin Yuan could not resist the temptation and was ready to accept it, the little kid actually looked at him directly and said:
"So, you didn't find out what's wrong with my sister, right?"
Such questioning eyes, such clumsy agitation.
The old man knew that Lin Yuan did it on purpose, but he just got into a fight with Lin Yuan.
Putting his hands behind his back, the old man said: "Hey! You kid, your sister is not sick, it's because she was born with a missing spiritual vein in her right forearm."
After learning about Lin Weiyang's condition, Lin Yuan hurriedly asked: "Sir, is there any way to treat her?"
The old man who had doubted him so much before was now acting like a good boy. The old man secretly admired Lin Yuan for being so smooth at such a young age.
The old man sighed and shook his head. He took back the golden needle in the air and said, "If your sister were as old as you, I would still be sure to cure her, but..."
Lin Yuan saw that the old man hesitated, and his heart beat faster.
Stepping forward and grabbing the old man's sleeve, Lin Yuan said anxiously: "As long as you can cure her, I will learn medical skills from you!"
The old man remained silent. He lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking. After a long time, he looked into Lin Yuan's serious eyes and said: "Healing... is absolutely impossible. The spiritual veins have been established. It is definitely not possible." It will grow again on its own, and there is no magic medicine that can make spiritual veins grow in the world today."
"That means..." Lin Yuan turned to look at his sister who was standing in front of the counter paying the bill. He felt a little weak, and the hand holding the old man's sleeve slipped.
The old man saw Lin Yuan's sad look. He put his hand on Lin Yuan's head with some distress and comforted him: "You have tried your best. This situation is completely caused by fate. Just accept it. "
Lin Yuan said nothing, he just stared at his sister's face, showing a smile in the sunset.
"Old sir..." Lin Yuan called the old man.
"I'm here," he responded.
"You just said that spiritual veins cannot grow on their own, right?" Lin Yuan looked up at the old man.
At this time, an indescribable feeling arose in the old man's heart. He took a breath and asked, "What do you want to say?"
Lin Yuan looked at Lin Weiyang again and said with a smile: "Fuck destiny, I... don't believe it!"
The sunset on the horizon has set, and night has fallen.
Time turned and it was already late at night.
At the back door of Lin's house, the old man kept pacing with a worried look on his face. He didn't know whether he should come or not.
"Crunch."
As the door was pushed open, a cute child popped his head out. He waved his hand to the old man outside the door, beckoning him to come in.
The old man did not go in. He stood under the moonlight and said to Lin Yuan: "You...have really thought about it?"
Lin Yuan had a hint of complexity on his face. He immediately nodded in response and said, "Think about it, I won't regret it!"
The old man finally couldn't bear it anymore and said again: "Is it worth taking out your spiritual veins and giving them to your sister?"
Lin Yuan did not hesitate, he replied: "It's worth it! I can't see my sister unhappy!"
The old man seemed to be angry and laughed. He walked up to Lin Yuan and bent down, so that the tips of their noses almost touched each other.
"Just for this? If you give her your spiritual veins, what will you do in the future?" the old man growled softly.
Lin Yuan was not frightened. With a rather light smile on his young face, he said:
"If you don't have worries in this life, what will you do as a human being? What if you become an immortal? It's better to finish what you want to do within a limited time. That would be free and happy, right?"
The old man was dumbfounded.
He couldn't believe that this was what a three or four year old child could say.
Slowly squatting in front of Lin Yuan, the old man asked: "Who are you?"
Lin Yuan still smiled and replied: "I am Lin Yuan, Lin Weiyang's favorite brother, Lin Yuan."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Yuan took the old man and walked into the Lin family's house, heading towards his room.
As they walked through the lanes, neither of them spoke, but the old man kept staring at Lin Yuan's back, thinking about something.
When they arrived at Lin Yuan's room, the lamp was still on, but on Lin Yuan's bed, Lin Weiyang was already fast asleep.
While Lin Yuan was closing the door, the old man flicked his hand, and a golden light flashed and disappeared from Lin Weiyang's forehead.
When Lin Yuan turned around, the old man looked at Lin Yuan seriously and asked, "Are you sure you don't regret it? With your spiritual veins and bones, if you cultivate them well, you might really be able to set foot in the fairyland!"
Lin Yuan smiled and shook his head and said: "I don't regret it, as long as you can use my spiritual veins to cure Sister Weiyang and become an immortal? I don't care."
The old man closed his eyes in despair. He took a long breath and calmed down for a moment.
When he opened his eyes again, he put on an extremely majestic expression.
Lin Yuan didn't know why, but the old man's appearance made him breathless.
"Kneel down!" the old man said.
With a "pop", Lin Yuan fell to his knees. It was not that he wanted to kneel, but that he knelt down inexplicably.
"Kowtow, three rings!" the old man continued.
Lin Yuan did as he was told.
"Tea!" The old man sat at the only table.
Lin Yuan stood up. Although there was no tea in the room, Lin Yuan still poured a glass of cold water and offered it with both hands!
After the old man finished drinking, his eyes were full of regret and helplessness. He took out a golden needle from his arms and pierced Lin Yuan's right arm with lightning speed.
Lin Yuan's arm just lost all feeling.
The old man added: "It's not too late to regret now..."
Lin Yuan shook his head again.
With a sigh of relief, the old man passed his fingers across Lin Yuan's eyes and sighed softly: "What a sin..."
Lin Yuan's eyes gradually became darker, but he was still awake.
Then, he felt that his body became lighter, as if he was floating in the air.
"Get some sleep. It's over... I'm telling you to get up." The old man's voice sounded.
Lin Yuan, really fell asleep...
After an unknown amount of time, a heartbreaking pain came from his arm, and Lin Yuan couldn't help shouting.
He opened his eyes and saw the old man standing beside him, with the word "unbearable" written all over his face.
Lin Yuan gritted his teeth to hold back the severe pain. He turned his head and looked at the bed. Lin Weiyang's right arm was still exposed outside the quilt, and there were many white cloth strips wrapped around his forearm.
Lin Yuan didn't even notice that the same was true on his arm.
Looking at the old man anxiously, Lin Yuan wanted to know the result.
The old man understood, and he said: "Don't worry, no one in the world can do this except me."
After finishing speaking, the old man pointed to the bottles and jars on the table and said: "The bleeding of both of you has stopped, but if you want to recover, you must take these medicines honestly. I will write the method of taking them on the paper." ”
After handing Lin Yuan a piece of paper, the old man threw a small package to Lin Yuan.
"Inside this package are the seeds of the Immortal Tree. The efficacy and usage are also written in it. When the time is right, plant it and wait for the results."
After the old man finished speaking, Lin Yuan's body was tossed in the air by a soft force, and he stood firmly on the ground.
Slowly walking to the door, the old man looked at the sunlight shining through the window paper. He continued: "Your sister will probably wake up in a while. You'd better think about how to explain to her first."
The old man opened the door. He didn't go out in a hurry. He just stared at the sky, lost in thought.
At this time, Lin Yuan walked up to him and was about to thank him when he was interrupted by the old man's words.
"Little guy, do you know why I want to help you?" he asked.
Lin Yuan answered truthfully: "I don't know..."
Lowering his head sideways, the old man smiled and said, "Because you look like a person, a madman, my best friend."
There was no good or bad in his words, so Lin Yuan just thought he was praising himself.
"Boy, I'm going to leave and continue to travel around the world. Take care of yourself. When I come back, I will try my best to heal you as well."
Glancing at the white cloth strip on his arm, Lin Yuan smiled and said: "No, this, I know it's difficult, you don't have to..."
Without giving Lin Yuan a chance to continue, the old man hit Lin Yuan on the head and cursed: "If I can't cure my apprentice, where will I put my reputation as a master?"
Lin Yuan covered his head and asked, "When did I become your apprentice?"
Raising his head with a wicked smile, the old man stepped out of the threshold, and his figure instantly disappeared outside the door.
"You've kowtowed and drank the apprenticeship tea. You can't escape! Remember, wait until the master finds a way to come back!"
This sentence fell lightly into Lin Yuan's ears.
He also walked out of the door and knelt down facing the direction of the rising sun.
Lin Yuan did not stand up. He whispered with guilt, "I'm sorry, master..."
