Chapter 82

The sinking space was fully equipped with everything, and with water and electricity at home, decocting medicine was naturally not a problem.

The old man not only boiled Chinese medicine for Wei Yan, but also cooked Sichuan Fritillary and Snow Pear for him personally and watched him eat it.

Wei Yan felt a little flattered.

At night, the old man let Wei Yan live in the same room with him, and urged him to practice breathing exercises.

Although Wei Yan had practiced it before, the journey was arduous and he simply could not persist for a long time. Also, perhaps because there was no formation to help, the effect was not good overall.

But this night was different. After finishing the practice, Wei Yan quickly felt sleepy and fell asleep easily.

You know, because of internal injuries, he was often troubled by pain and hadn't slept so soundly for a long time.

So much so that when he woke up the next morning, even he himself began to seriously consider taking good care of his body first, and then deal with other things after he was well again.

After all, what everyone said is right, the body is the foundation of everything, without a good body, everything else is just a castle in the air that will collapse at any time.

In fact, Wei Yan's concern is useless. To put it bluntly, he no longer has the right to express his opinion on this matter.

After he went to bed yesterday, the old man had a serious talk with the young couple, specifically talking about Wei Yan's problem of not taking care of his body.

The old man said that his health condition was not good. The reason why nothing can be seen now is because he is young and also has some foundation to support him.

But in reality, even if his internal structure couldn't be called riddled with holes, it was almost like that. In any case, he couldn't withstand any more blows.

If you don't take the time to recuperate, and if you don't eat well and rest well, you will fall down immediately.

It's easy to lie down, but it's hard to get up again.

What time is it now? It’s less than a year away from the insect plague that Chen Cong mentioned, and after the insect plague comes another wave of epidemics…

As a soldier, Wei Yan would always rush to the front when encountering a disaster.

But how can his body hold up?

The most important thing is, I can’t tell him about this!

Seeing that he didn't care at all, the old man even began to consider not traveling far away recently and just staying at home to keep an eye on Wei Yan for a while before doing anything else.

The last time Chen Cong and Gu Kai encountered the old man discussing a person's illness with them so seriously and carefully was when Gu Kai's mother was about to die.

Seeing his attitude at this moment, Chen Cong's hands and feet began to sweat.

She didn’t even dare to think about what would happen to Ranran if something happened to Wei Yan.

What should I do with my uncle and aunt?

That would really be like the sky falling!

What's more, he was injured again because he was delivering books to Beijing for his family.

Even if other people don't say anything, my family members will not feel at ease thinking about it!

So, when Wei Yan got up in the morning, he was faced with three super serious faces.

That’s not all. He tried for a long time but couldn’t find anything.

I just couldn't figure out what I had done. How could I have offended my entire family in one night?

Wei Yan wanted to make amends and rushed to fetch water.

As a result, a look from his brother-in-law scared him so much that he stopped in his tracks.

Then, my second sister called me to the kitchen and watched me eat a bunch of nutritional supplements...

I was even forced to drink a glass of calcium milk for middle-aged and elderly people.

Wei Yan did protest, but his second sister said directly: "My dad said that he will give his milk powder to you. If you are not happy, you can tell him yourself."

Wei Yan rubbed his nose and dared not say another word.

After dinner, he immediately went over and followed his brother-in-law upstairs to water the plants. This time, no one in the family said anything.

But when he came down again, the old man watched him drink a large bowl of bitter Chinese medicine.

Then he was carried directly into the car by three people.

At that moment, Wei Yan's mind was in a mess and he thought a lot.

I thought about it over and over again but couldn't remember what I had done to anger everyone.

In the end, even though he didn't want to admit it, he had to come to the conclusion that he must have an incurable disease.

Otherwise the family wouldn’t be like this.

After thinking about this clearly, Wei Yan suddenly became depressed.

I also really began to regret that I was too reckless and didn't take my body seriously enough.

He fell silent.

Sitting in the car, Chen Cong looked at Wei Yan who was visibly dejected in the back seat and winked at her husband in the passenger seat.

Gu Kai pursed his lips and said nothing, with a smile in his eyes.

This was an idea the three of them came up with last night. They planned to deliberately scare this guy and let him figure out for himself what the serious consequences would be if his body collapsed.

If he doesn't experience it personally, he won't understand it.

The group of four went to Liu Tuan's office. Without waiting for greetings or asking Wei Yan to avoid them, Mr. Gu directly told Liu Tuan about his physical condition.

It sounded even more serious than when he told the young couple.

After saying this, he solemnly proposed to ask for a long vacation for Wei Yan, not letting him go out for the time being, and to personally help him take care of his body.

Not to mention how shocked Wei Yan was after hearing these words, Liu Tuan's face instantly turned dark after hearing them!

Although Wei Yan is young, he is now the deputy regiment commander because of his military achievements and is the real deputy of Commander Liu.

Moreover, Wei Yan is different from others. He is an old member of the regiment, a cadre trained by the regiment itself, and has been a subordinate of Liu Tuan for many years.

It can be said that he is a direct descendant whom he trusts and is optimistic about.

There is no open or covert fighting between them that is easy to occur between the principal and deputy principal.

It is in this special period that the headquarters needs them to work together to resist natural disasters. Otherwise, according to convention, such a good relationship would have separated them long ago.

Therefore, one can imagine how important Wei Yan is in Liu Tuan’s heart.

He never expected that this guy would dare to hide it from him even though he was injured like this!

Liu Tuan was not unaware that Wei Yan was injured.

But his explanation was: "I fell down on the road and fell off a cliff. But now I am well again. Look, I am alive and kicking."

Liu Tuan looked at Wei Yan, who had both his arms and legs intact and was walking with a breeze, so he didn't take it to heart.

Who would have thought that his arms and legs were fine, but his internal organs were damaged!

"Okay, Mr. Gu, I'll leave him to you. Treat him as you see fit. Tell me what you need and I'll do my best to satisfy you.

If he doesn't obey, tell me and see how I deal with him!"

When Liu Tuan said the last sentence, he couldn't control himself and gritted his teeth hard, which made Wei Yan subconsciously shrink his neck.

After settling the household affairs, it is natural to start taking care of work.

The experts from Beijing were waiting for them impatiently.

After knowing that the three members of the Shen family had returned, several members of the expert group came to Liu Tuan’s office on their own without waiting to be invited.

The first of the five experts was the Feng Shui master, whose surname was Yang and whose name was Yang Huaisheng.

When Liu Tuan introduced him as Master Yang, Yang Huaisheng waved his hands and said cheerfully, "What master or not, just call me Old Yang."

Although he said so, the three members of the Shen family naturally would not call him that. Starting with the old man, they all respectfully addressed him as "Mr. Yang."

Mr. Yang must be quite old, with a head full of silver hair and almost no black hair visible.

He didn't wear a long gown with a front opening as Chen Cong thought, looking like an immortal.

On the contrary, he was wearing the kind of cotton sweat-absorbent T-shirt that people most commonly wear nowadays, and a pair of shorts that just reached his knees. He looked like the old man who used to guard the factory gate.

Special... approachable.

If there is any difference, it is that in this era when most people are starving and skinny, he is still fat and has a ruddy complexion.

From his appearance, he didn't look like he had suffered at all.

After introducing Mr. Yang, Liu Tuan introduced several other people to them one by one.

The tall and thin middle-aged man standing next to Mr. Yang is called Chen Li, a coach at a martial arts school.

It is said that he and his students have won many awards in national martial arts competitions. He is a martial arts master and a man of real ability.

The man wearing glasses standing with Chen Li is called Meng Chao. He is not too old, probably in his twenties or thirties.

But his face looked a little old, his skin was very dry, dark and even had sun spots, which was obviously caused by being exposed to wind and sun all year round.

He is a botanist who specializes in endangered plants, and he usually works mostly in the wild.

In addition to the three of them, there were two others, a father and daughter with the surname Fu. The father was Fu Changsong, who was in his early sixties and was a linguist.

The daughter is called Fu Di, she is about 30 years old and is her father’s assistant.

After a few people introduced themselves to each other, they quickly got down to business.

Mr. Yang asked first: "Mr. Gu, we have read this book, but we still can't figure it out. I heard from the leaders at the headquarters that your family is very knowledgeable about it, so we came here specifically to ask for your advice."

"You can't say that." The old man waved his hands.

"We are all laymen, and we can't understand anything even if we hold the book in our hands. To be honest, this book has been in our hands for quite a long time, but apart from helping us figure out the first formation, we haven't figured out anything else.

If we understand it, we will definitely tell the country and won’t hide it anymore.”

Several people nodded repeatedly: "That's for sure."

Those who were invited by the country to form such a task force are naturally capable people.

The moment they received the book and the task, they worked hard to decipher it as soon as possible.

But it has been almost two months now and there has been basically no progress.

After looking at it for a long time, I only understood the first formation, which had already been figured out by Grandpa Gu and others and fully utilized.

People who study actually can't stand having problems that they can't solve.

These days, several people really couldn't eat well. They were thinking about those formation diagrams in their dreams. They tried all kinds of methods, but still got nothing.

When they heard Mr. Gu say that he had been thinking about it for a year and still couldn't figure it out, they felt particularly empathetic and even developed a sense of sympathy.

"We tried to set up a second formation, but it couldn't be activated at all after filling it with essence stones. We don't know if there was a problem with the formation or some other reason." said Gu Kai.

At this time, Fu Di spoke up: "Xiao Gu, where did you put it before?"

"At home. My parents-in-law have a large house in the countryside, so we set it up in the yard."

Hearing him say this, Mr. Yang frowned and said disapprovingly: "Don't be so reckless in the future. How can you just put up a formation at home?

You haven't activated it yet. If you do, what if it's a formation that's bad for the family? What if it's an offensive formation? You don't have a way to crack it, and it will be very troublesome at that time!"

This sentence made the three people from the Shen family look at each other in bewilderment and remain silent.

Mr. Yang also saw that they really didn't understand, so he added a few more words: "I have carefully read the second formation in the book. It should be a defensive formation that can resist external attacks.

However, this diagram is not quite the same as the various formations I know. The formation drawn according to that diagram always has gaps and cannot form a formation.

I don’t know what the problem is.”

At this point, Mr. Yang sighed deeply, and he couldn't help but think of the ancient books passed down from generation to generation in his family.

If they were still there, if they hadn't been buried underground during the earthquake, perhaps we could find some reference material.

But now - he only hated that he had learned too little.

"And the thing needed to provide energy in the second formation should not be essence stone." Fu Di took over the conversation.

"What is it?" Chen Cong and Gu Kai asked at the same time.

Fu Di looked at his father, took the book from him, turned to the page with the formation, pointed to the row of curvy, alien-like characters on the side and said, "This looks like stems and leaves."

"Stems and leaves?" Gu Kai immediately leaned over to take a closer look.

If we talk about who has spent the longest time reading this book, it is definitely not the old man, but Gu Kai.

His major in college was ancient Chinese, and after all, he has been working in an ancient book publishing house, so his professional knowledge has not been lost over the years.

It was also because of this that he was able to recognize many words with his father when he first got the book and research the first formation.

But starting from the second formation, Gu Kai felt a little overwhelmed, because those characters were something he had never come across or even seen before.

At this time, Fu Di pointed to a character and said it was "stem and leaves". Of course, he couldn't resist his curiosity and wanted to take a closer look.

Chen Cong didn't think too much about it. Her first reaction was: "What kind of stems and leaves are these? Do we need to put plants in the second array? Can we tell what is put there? It's quite troublesome to find seeds now. We need to prepare early."

As long as you can be sure what plant it is and that it has seeds, the rest will be easy.

Gu Kai's special ability was born for this purpose.

Professor Fu sighed, "I can't tell. Maybe the plants written here are not found here, or maybe the names are different? We compared the ancient Chinese writings of many plants and found nothing similar."

"There is no similar defensive plant..." Chen Cong muttered softly, his mind working rapidly.

"What are the plants with strong defensive properties? Why don't we bring some back and try?" Chen Cong suggested.

"There are many species of plants with strong defensive capabilities, such as the common cacti, locust trees, honey locust trees, roses, and prickly ash trees, which all rely on their own thorns for defense.

In addition, there are plants that can produce venom themselves, such as oleander and some species of Urticaceae.

There are also plants that can secrete mucus to stick to their enemies, such as Dianthus superbus and Brasenia schrenkiana.

Of course, there are also those that use smell to attack enemies and protect themselves, such as mosquito repellent grass, sage, and thyme.

In addition to those that emit fragrance, there are also many that can emit a foul odor, such as the cockscomb vine, the rafflesia, and the giant calla lily. "

Chen Cong's questions touched upon Meng Chao's expertise, and he began to give everyone a nonstop lecture.

Not only did he talk about it, he even took out a pen and paper and drew the plants he was describing so that people could have a more intuitive impression.

Through his explanation, several people present showed thoughtful expressions.

Because they were so focused, everyone chatted for more than two hours without anyone noticing. It was not until Liu Tuan came back to the office and asked them to go out for lunch that they realized it was already noon.

Because the weather is too hot and there is no air conditioning in the regiment headquarters, most people cannot bear not taking a break at noon on such days.

So after dinner, no one continued and everyone went back to their respective rooms, agreeing to continue in the afternoon.

There were not many guests from outside the regiment, and the two rooms where the three members of the Shen family had lived before had been reserved for them, so they went back after dinner.

Of course, Wei Yan also followed back.

Now the old man is watching him very closely, and he wants to take him wherever he goes.

Wei Yan was helpless and dared not to resist.

What no one expected was that when the old man greeted Wei Yan, the martial arts teacher Chen Li also followed.

He first greeted the old man: "Mr. Gu, I'm sorry to bother you. Wei Yan just said that you will practice breathing exercises for a while at noon. I am quite interested in that, so I shamelessly came over to join in.

I wonder if you could take me with you to try it too?"

Hearing him speak, Meng Chao, who was just passing by, his eyes suddenly lit up and he came over without saying a word.

"What's wrong with that? If you don't mind me showing off my skills, then come along." The old man agreed very readily.

As the only martial arts teacher in the expert group, Chen Li must be more knowledgeable about meridians, breathing exercises and the like.

The old man is also willing to communicate more with him.

Besides, they have traveled thousands of miles from the capital, isn't it just to communicate and discuss more?

After brainstorming, more sparks will definitely be generated.

The four of them returned to the old man's room together, but the young couple did not follow.

It was such a hot day, and so many people suddenly rushed into such a small standard room. Even with the support of a formation plate, it would probably be no different from a sauna. That was why Chen Cong didn't want to join in the fun.

Due to water shortage, there is no water supply in the room except in the morning and evening.

Chen Cong took out some water from the space and quickly rinsed off with her husband.

When I returned to the room, I found Gu Kai sitting on the edge of the bed with a photocopy of an ancient book in his hand, lost in thought again.

"I didn't finish my sentence just now. Do you think my method is feasible?" Chen Cong asked while wiping his hair.

"You want to use the plant's own defense system to fight against foreign enemies through formations." Gu Kai said.

His tone was very certain, and the words he said were definitely not questions.

"It's not an external enemy, as long as we can deal with the bugs."

Chen Cong explained: "That bug is a beetle about the same size as a locust. To put it bluntly, it fights in groups, so it looks scary. If it's just one or two, you can just step on them and kill them.

I think if what Mr. Yang said is true, the formation is defensive in nature, and it might really work to get some stinking plants to drive them away."

"What kind of plants can stink away a large number of insects? Currently, we know of few species that can kill mosquitoes. Let alone the Rafflesia and the like. Let's not talk about their insect repellent effects. The key is where to get them now?"

There was a deep silence.

After a while, she threw the towel she had used to wipe her hair on the table and said angrily, "We don't know much about plants, so we can only provide an idea. As for what to use, isn't that something Meng Chao needs to consider?

I don't have this knowledge reserve, how much can I come up with even if I rack my brains?"

Speaking of knowledge reserves, Gu Kai suddenly raised his head: "You bought so many e-books before, are there any related to formations?"

Chen Cong nodded: "Yes."

Because she had known about the existence of this book for a long time, and also knew that the content involved included formations and exercises, she would naturally prepare books of the same type.

"I bought some, but they are all the ones that can be found on the market, such as "The Book of Changes" and "The Art of War". In addition, there are some "Feng Shui Formation" and "108 Examples of Taoist Formation". I can't figure out whether the things written in them are true or false. Are you asking me to show them to Mr. Yang? It will definitely be too childish for him and it will make a fool of myself."

"Take it out for me to see." Gu Kai glanced at her and said, "Let me compare."

Hearing that it was Gu Kai who wanted to read it, Chen Cong no longer had any worries. She directly took out a book box from the space and poured out all the contents.

"Look for it yourself."

Gu Kai flipped through the books and found that in addition to the ones she had mentioned before, there were actually two books of "Ancient Characters Comparison Tables". He was overjoyed.

"When did you buy this? How come I didn't know about it? You never took it out before."

Chen Cong leaned over to take a look, then revealed a confused expression: "I don't remember either. I guess when I was shopping before, I saw everything related to ancient characters and bought it back.

There were so many that I didn’t even notice them after I brought them back.”

"Can you please take a quick look to see if there are any similar ones?"

Seeing Gu Kai so excited, Chen Cong didn't dare to ignore it.

She used her inner vision to pull out all the books in the space, sorting them out while taking out those that seemed to be even slightly related to them.

You don’t know until you try it. You’ll be shocked when you try it.

Only then did she realize that she had bought so many related books.

It took up half the room!

Gu Kai, however, showed regret on his face. He searched through it for a long time but did not find anything particularly useful.

At this time, Chen Cong suddenly shouted: "Gu Kai, I seem to have found something useful."

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