Incurable - Chapter 28
Mu Wan fell asleep, his ears seemed to be immersed in water, and when Liu Qianxiu’s last words reached her ears, it turned into a few vague words. She didn’t hear clearly, her consciousness gradually sank, and she fell asleep.
It was already morning when he woke up, and Mu Wan came out of the bedroom. The house was empty and there was no meowing. Liu Qianxiu’s bedroom door was closed tightly. He raised his eyes to check the time. It was already eight o’clock in the morning and he should go to work.
The cat was sent to Xu Xingkong yesterday, and she was left alone at home. Mu Wan walked into the kitchen and saw the breakfast on the table and a glass of orange juice.
Everything was the same as when she first stayed overnight at Liu Qianxiu’s house. Breakfast was prepared for Liu Qianxiu. He went to work and left her at home.
But what is different.
Mu Wan’s mind was a little confused, and her memory seemed to be covered with a thin layer of paper. She could only see the outline, but could not see the specific content.
Sitting on the high stool at the dining table, it was raining outside the window again, and the sound of the rain was pattering. Mu Wan was thinking about what Liu Qianxiu said before she went to bed yesterday.
After taking a bite of the sandwich, Mu Wan placed the phone on the marble dining table beside him. I was so busy yesterday that I went to work again this morning. Liu Qianxiu may be busy now. She didn’t call and sent him a text message.
[Mu Wan: Liu Qianxiu. 】
Unexpectedly, Liu Qianxiu quickly replied to the text message.
[Daochang Liu: Yes. 】
His lips curled up along the edge of the glass, and Mu Wan put his arms on the dining table. The table top was smooth and delicate, and it felt cold to the touch. She listened to the rain and called him, and he quickly picked it up.
There was a voice flipping through documents on the phone, and Mu Wan asked, “Are you busy?”
The sound of the file stopped abruptly, and Liu Qian meditated: “It’s okay.”
“Oh.” Mu Wan paused for a while and said, “Shall we go to Taoist temple this afternoon? What do I need to prepare? I’m fine today, so I can buy it first.”
There was a knock at the door, and Xiao Tan came in. Liu Qianxiu looked up at him, looked down at the document, and said, “Buy a few books that you like to read. The signal there is not good, and the mobile phone can’t access the Internet.”
“I don’t have a book that I like to read.” Mu Wan thought for a while, and said, “I’d better watch you read.”
As soon as the lip line was pressed, Liu Qianxiu did not speak.
There was unexpected silence on the other end of the phone, and Liu Qianxiu was silent almost every time she spoke like this. Mu Wan rubbed his fingers on the marble dining table, the fingerprints were soaked in the coolness of the stones.
“You last said something to me last night.” Mu Wan said, she organized her language, and said, “But I fell asleep behind, and I can’t remember what you said. What did you tell me? “
Liu Qianxiu looked up at Xiao Tan, Xiao Tan pointed to his watch, and they were going to a meeting.
“It’s not important.” Liu Qianxiu said, “I’ll go back at one o’clock in the afternoon. You can eat something by yourself. After you go back, go directly to the Taoist temple. I’ll go to the meeting first.”
“Yeah.” The woman’s voice visibly sank.
With eyes drooping, Liu Qianxiu hung up the phone, sorted out the materials on hand, got up and walked to Xiao Tan’s side, and said, “Let’s go.”
“Miss Mu?” Xiao Tan opened the door and asked Liu Qianxiu.
The two walked towards the conference room. The passing nurses and patients greeted them. Liu Qianxiu nodded and finally answered Xiao Tan’s question.
“Ok.”
Xiao Tan listened to the conversation just now, and when he confirmed that it was Mu Wan, he was somewhat unexpected. Liu Qianxiu is as cold as water, and Mu Wan’s enthusiasm is quite suitable for him.
But he was slightly surprised, looked at Liu Qianxiu, and smiled: “I didn’t expect you to take her to the Taoist temple.”
“Yeah.” Liu Qianxiu replied lightly, “She took her there if she wanted to.”
Liu Qianxiu refused to tell her, but she also didn’t believe what was unimportant. After hanging up the phone, Mu Wan thought for a while, the outline of the memory became clearer and clearer, but he couldn’t break the thin paper.
After eating breakfast, Mu Wan gave up first without thinking of a reason. She cleaned up the kitchen, left from Liu Qianxiu’s house, and went home first to take her luggage.
Liu Qianxiu said that after he got off work, the two of them went directly to the Taoist temple. It seemed that they should be in a hurry. Time was tight. She went home first and took the luggage, and then set off directly from Liu Qianxiu’s house.
Towards August, the rain is still intermittent, and it can be overcast and sunny six or seven times a day. When he came out of Liu Qianxiu’s house, the rain was still not heavy, but when he got home, it had become pouring rain. Under this kind of rain, even if she was holding an umbrella, she would get half wet, not to mention that she had to carry luggage.
It was still early, and she was not in a hurry, waiting at home for the rain to decrease, and by the way searched the Qingyuan Temple they were going to.
There are Taoist temples and temples in Xiacheng, because the city is developed and incense is flourishing. But Mu Wan had never heard of this Qingyuan view. She looked for it on the map and only found a Qingyuan Mountain.
The terrain of Xiacheng is Beishan Nanhai, and Qingyuan Mountain is in the northern area of Xiacheng. The North District is full of mountains, the Sushan mountain group, and there is a river in the middle called Sujiang.
The scenery there is quite good, the mountains overlap, a river traverses the mountains, and the scenery is exceptionally beautiful.
Xiacheng developed rapidly and developed very quickly. However, Sushan maintains its original ecology. Apart from the construction of several resorts, it has not yet been developed.
Qingyuan Mountain is on the innermost side of Sujiang River and has not been developed. The mountain is not high, and there is a small town below. The town should be able to access the Internet, but the signal on the mountain is relatively weak.
Growing up in Xiacheng, it was the first time that Mu Wan found such a place. According to Liu Qianxiu’s character, this is indeed the case. He is not actually a Taoist priest, at best he is regarded as a purely cultivator in the world. He does not seek to become immortal, but to pursue peace of mind.
“Mentality…” Mu Wan murmured, grabbing the keywords, and a flash of light in his mind. Yesterday Liu Qianxiu seemed to be talking about the state of mind.
When I was thinking hard, the phone rang, Mu Wan’s memory was interrupted, and he said regretfully. Picking up the phone and looking at it, it was Gaomei.
Gao Mei was on a business trip two days ago and did not film in Xiacheng’s photography base. She came back last night, and today happened to be in the same crew with Mu Wan, but after going to the crew, she found that Mu Wan was not there.
“Deleted?” Gao Mei couldn’t say anything. “Your scene is very important. If you want to delete it, delete it?”
“Yeah.” Sitting on the bed cross-legged, the rain outside the window was getting weaker, Mu Wan said: “I haven’t filmed this week, and Li Nan hasn’t notified me of the next week.”
Speaking of which, Gao Mei also noticed something wrong, but she thought about the same as Li Nan. Mu Wan was quietly filming in the circle, because she was a supporting role, she had never engaged in Yaozi, and there was no director and starring to find her fault, then Why didn’t you film for a week?
“Do you know what’s going on?” Maybe the person concerned knew it.
“Yeah.” Mu Wan replied.
Hearing what Mu Wan said, Gao Mei was a little anxious, and said, “Then what are you going to do? There is no show this week, and there is no plan next week. There has been no filming, how do you eat?”
“I’ll be back next week to deal with it.” Mu Wan had an idea in her own mind, but it didn’t involve matters in the circle, she didn’t say much.
Mu Wan is a very thoughtful person, and she has resolved many things by herself, otherwise she would not be able to hold a beautiful face and still be able to film the scene steadily.
Gao Mei was relieved, she said, “Are you going out this week?”
“Yes, go to the Taoist temple to cultivate one’s moral integrity.” Mu Wan asked, “Did you recommend it?”
Gao Mei likes to read novels. In the past two years, the adaptation of Internet novels has become a hot topic. Gao Mei has also appeared in several of her favorite novels and was extremely happy.
“Yes.” Gao Mei finished speaking, and said, “Are you going to watch these love novels? Are you going to cultivate your character or fall in love?”
Mu Wan laughed directly at the soul’s question.
She really went to fall in love, but it was unrequited love.
Asking for the book list from Gaomei, Mu Wan went to buy a few and put them in the suitcase. After buying the book, it was noon. After she ate something casually outside, she went to Liu Qianxiu’s house to wait for him with her luggage.
The length of the operation was uncertain, and Liu Qianxiu’s time to return home was slightly later than the scheduled time. When he went back, Mu Wan was sitting in front of him reading a book, of course he was not reading “Tao Te Ching”, the cover was light, it was a novel.
Liu Qianxiu entered the door, Mu Wan looked up, closed the book, got up from the carpet, and asked, “You are back, do you want to rest for a while?”
He has just finished the operation, and he should be a little tired mentally and physically. But when Mu Wan finished speaking, he only shook his head and said, “No, we will leave now.”
Mu Wan didn’t have much things, only a small suitcase, plus a book in his hand. Liu Qian repaired fewer things, only a black backpack. The two took their things and got into the car, and Liu Qianxiu drove towards the Sushan Mountains in the North District.
It’s only one o’clock in the afternoon, and the road conditions are smooth. After it rained in the morning, it was clear for a while, and now it is overcast again. Mu Wan had read the map and drove to Qingyuan Town at the foot of Qingyuan Mountain. It was estimated that it would take two hours. With the addition of climbing to Taoist Temple, he should be there at four or five o’clock.
The road was wide open and the car was silent. Mu Wan didn’t put away the novel in her hand. After taking a look, she raised her head and asked Liu Qianxiu, “Are your senior brothers easy to get along with?”
Last time I asked Liu Qianxiu, he seemed to be the only brother in the Taoist temple. His brother should have been practicing Taoism, and he has much more Taoism than Liu Qianxiu. She followed Liu Qianxiu to the Taoist temple. It was all right if she didn’t go to purgatory repairs. She also took romance novels to read, presumably the senior brother would not be too much to see her.
“It’s okay.” Waiting in front of the traffic light intersection, Liu Qianxiu glanced at the book in her hand.
“It’s okay if you don’t get along well.” Mu Wan said. She looked at Liu Qianxiu and said, “I will always follow you when I go to the Taoist Temple. I just get along with you.”
The red light turned green, Liu Qianxiu looked back at the road, and responded indifferently, “Yeah.”
At three o’clock in the afternoon, the two arrived at Qingyuan Town. Liu Qianxiu drove another half an hour before arriving at Qingyuan Mountain. Parked the car next to a thatched hut at the bottom of Qingyuan Mountain, Liu Qianxiu and Mu Wan got out of the car to prepare to climb Qingyuan Mountain.
The sky is still cloudy, and the air in the mountains is fresher and cooler than in the cities. At the foot of Qingyuan Mountain, there is a road made of bluestone slabs. The surface of the slate is rough, so few people step on it. Extending to the high mountains, it looks like a heavenly step.
It took an hour to climb the mountain. When I reached the top of the mountain, I faced a Taoist temple. There was a flat ground in front of the Taoist temple. The ground was soil and was crushed flat and firm. It had just rained, and the ground was wet with some messy leaves on it. There is an old pine on the left side of Taoist Temple with a large and dense crown, and the shadow of the tree covers the stone bench and table under the tree.
Mu Wan was breathing unevenly when she climbed the mountain. She looked back and saw the Sushan mountain group in a glance. The Su River was winding and flowing eastward.
Distant mountains and flowing water, relaxed and happy.
Before entering the view, Mu Wan already felt that his heart had calmed down a lot.
Compared to her tiredness, Liu Qianxiu is much more relaxed, his complexion has not changed, and his breathing is very steady. He had always been holding the suitcase for Mu Wan, and the man stood long, standing in front of the Taoist temple, pushing the door and entering. Mu Wan regained consciousness and walked in with him.
The view of Qingyuan is not big. The courtyard is covered with uneven floor tiles. There is an incense burner in the center and the main hall facing the gate. In the main hall, there are statues of gods, and next to them are the dwarf tables and futons.
There are side halls on the left and right sides of the main hall, and there are four side halls. Among them, two houses have doors and windows closed, which should be used for resting rooms.
There is a path next to the main hall that leads to the apse. Generally, Taoist temples have three layers, each of which enshrines different Taoist ancestors, but Qingyuan Temple is small and simple, with only one main hall left, and the three ancestors are enshrined in the same main hall.
As soon as he opened the door and came in, a small Taoist boy walked out of the main hall. Dao Tong looked about seven or eight years old, his long hair was tied into a ball head with a wooden hairpin, and his small face was pure and cute. He wore a water-blue Taoist robe and black cloth boots on his feet, as if printed in a Taoist temple like a landscape painting.
Seeing the people coming, Xiao Dao Tong ran out anxiously, and when he ran to Liu Qianxiu’s side, Xiao Dao Tong raised his head and his voice was simply sweet.
“Junior Brother Qianxiu.”
“Qianxiu… Junior Brother?” Mu Wan wasn’t sure if what she had just heard was this name. She glanced back at Liu Qianxiu, who looked lightly, put the suitcase aside, and squatted beside Xiao Dao Tong.
“Qing Chan, when did Master leave?” Liu Qianxiu looked at Qing Chan and asked.
Qing Chan raised his eyes to look at Mu Wan, and when he saw the stranger, he was a little shy, shyly retracted his gaze, and said: “Just left, Master said you will come soon, let me wait for you.”
The host of the Taoist temple, Xuan Qingzi, is going to the Taoist church in Jingcheng, and he wants Zhou Tian to come back, so this month let Liu Qianxiu come here early.
After Qing Chan finished speaking, he looked at Mu Wan again, with some novelty in the corners of his eyes. Mu Wan laughed and squatted down, smiling and said, “Hello Qing Chan, my name is Mu Wan.”
Mu Wan is beautiful and has a nice voice. He is a wonderful person in Qing Chan. Qing Chan put away his curiosity and shyness, and laughed, showing two small tiger teeth, and said, “It turns out to be my sister.”
Xiaodaotong’s tone was light and raised like a bird, and his voice was full and sweet like ripe berries. Mu Wan was sweetened. She reached out and touched Qing Chan’s face, then turned her head and smiled at Liu Qianxiu.
“Liu Qianxiu, your brother calls my sister.”
Liu Qianxiu glanced back at her. The woman’s shoulders were straight, her chin was slightly raised, and there was a teasing smile in her eyes. He raised his eyebrows slightly, got up from the ground, took her luggage to the side hall on the left, and said, “You live here.”
Looking at the man’s tall and tall back, Mu Wan’s smile deepened, and Qing Chan next to him also looked at his younger brother. He turned around and explained to Mu Wan: “I grew up in Taoist Temple and spent a long time by Master’s side. That’s why I’m a brother, brother. Junior brothers are counted according to seniority.”
After Qing Chan finished speaking, his little hand patted, “Oh, by the way, I’m going to tell the master, the younger brother is here.”
With that said, Qing Chan ran to the main hall and called Master.
Mu Wan got up and walked to Liu Qianxiu who was opening the door. Liu Qianxiu used to live in this side hall. After Mu Wan came over, he asked Liu Qianxiu.
“Then if I apprehend a teacher, am I going to call you senior brother in the future?”
The movements of his hands paused slightly, Liu Qianxiu looked at her sideways.
The woman smiled coquettishly, her red lips were moist, her eyes flushed, and she said, “I’m not called Senior Brother, I want to call Senior Brother, Senior Brother is nice.”
With a slight pressure on the fingers, the knuckles straightened, and the door opened in response. Liu Qianxiu retracted his gaze and said to Mu Wan, “Come in.”
The author has something to say: Liu Daochang: Okay, Shuangxiu will be called like this in the future.