Erniu also stretched out her pinky finger to hook it with hers. The two shook their arms and laughed. Ah Man then called out to Da Niu and San Niu, "And you two, let's all make pinky promises."
Several children were laughing together while holding the hook.
Meixiang turned around and scoffed at the sight. She ignored them and turned around, chin in her hand, staring at the mirror, slowly losing herself in her own world...
After Erniu returned to her room, Jian Ning took the bamboo basket containing the rags. She originally wanted to make some stuffed dolls to pass the time, but suddenly she remembered that it would be bad if someone else came to collect the rags and got scared by Brother Qiu. So she got up and called Brother Qiu to the backyard.
"You came to my house voluntarily, so I'll have to ask you to stay away from others for a while. Once the cellar is dug, you can stay in the cellar. When no one is around, you can come up to get some fresh air and play for a while."
Brother Qiu raised his snake body and nodded his head downwards.
In the front yard, Ding Youtian and Ma Fuquan were still playing Liubo, both of them staring at the chessboard in deep thought. Blind Liu sat beside them drinking wine. There was a plate of pickled vegetables on the table. He drank the wine, chewed the pickled vegetables, and shook his head from time to time, looking very comfortable and enjoying himself.
Jian Ning came over from the backyard, his eyes fell on them, and his heart suddenly sank.
She felt as if she had seen this scene a long time ago. It was also in such a farmyard, on such a quiet night, with the three of them sitting under the lamp. It seemed as if she had seen exactly the same scene many years ago.
She often had this feeling in her previous life. Every time, her heart would suddenly shudder, and then she would feel that something had happened many years ago.
She had never understood why this happened before, but now she suddenly thought of a possibility. Maybe before people were born, they watched their entire lives like a movie, so they would occasionally have this feeling?
"My wife." Ding Youtian raised his eyes and saw her standing there in a trance, so he asked, "What are you thinking about standing there? You are lost in thought."
"Nothing, I was just thinking about what I need to buy tomorrow. Let's go to town with the ox cart tomorrow morning. Don't get off too late, and go to bed early."
"Just play this one round." Ma Fuquan said.
Not long after Jian Ning returned to the room, their chess game ended. Ma Fuquan lost to Ding Youtian again. "Good fellow, you have improved a lot now. Let's play again another day. I still don't believe that I can't beat a defeated opponent like you."
Ding Youtian smiled and said, "Victory and defeat are common in the military. Brother Ma, don't take it too seriously. I welcome you to challenge me at any time."
"Okay, I'll leave the chessboard here with you. When I have some free time, I'll play a few games with you." He stood up, raised his eyebrows, and said, "By the way, Lao Wu will release him in ten days at most, so don't worry."
Ding Youtian smiled but said nothing.
After Ma Fuquan left, Blind Liu pointed in the direction of his home. Ding Youtian nodded, put away the chessboard, and told Dabao to go to bed early and not read too late. He then went to Jian Ning's room to say hello to her, and then followed Blind Liu to his home.
Guoguo wanted to follow him, but Blind Liu turned around and glared at him, so he immediately stopped and didn't dare to move.
When they arrived at Blind Liu's house, Blind Liu boiled a pot of water and put a lot of herbs in the bathtub. After the water cooled down a little, he took out a wooden box, opened it, picked out a black pill and handed it to Ding Youtian, telling him to take the pill and soak in the tub for half an hour before getting up.
Ding Youtian didn't ask any more questions. He picked up the pill and took a look at it. Before tonight, he had been taking another kind of red pill for more than half a month. After taking this black pill, he soaked it in the bucket. After a while, he felt relaxed all over. After coming out of the bucket, he felt extremely energetic and his body seemed to be much lighter.
"Master, what kind of magic medicine did you give me? I didn't feel anything before, but why is it different tonight? Now I just feel relaxed all over." He said with a smile and stretched out his hand, "Give me a few more pills."
Blind Liu glared at him and said, "You're taking medicine without thinking? If you want to sever all your tendons and veins, just take some from the box."
After that, he threw a booklet to Ding Youtian and said, "Take it back and look at it carefully. Tell me what you see tomorrow. If you don't see anything, return the booklet to me tomorrow and you don't have to look at it anymore."
Ding Youtian flipped it open and saw it was a picture album. He flipped through it briefly and saw pictures of Taoist priests, some sitting, some standing, in various poses. Some were holding swords or branches.
"The paintings are all of Taoist priests, and there are no words. What kind of book is this?"
"Go back and calm down before reading again. If this is all you can see tomorrow, there's nothing I can do."
Ding Youtian took the book and went back. From a distance, he saw Guoguo lying at the gate of the yard waiting for him. When she saw him come back, Guoguo came to greet him happily.
He returned home with Guoguo in his arms. The lights in the courtyard and on the corridor were on, but the lights in the main house and the east house were off. He took the lamp and went to the kitchen, opened the booklet, calmed down, stared at it for a long time, but could not see anything.
An hour later, he yawned, stood up and prepared to go back to the house. When he was hanging the energy-saving lamp on the corridor, the booklet fell from his sleeve. He didn't notice it and went back to the house to sleep.
Jian Ning woke up and came out of the room. She saw the booklet dropped by Ding Youtian on the corridor. She picked it up, thinking that it was dropped there by Huo Jincheng's followers last night. She wondered if it was a secret book of martial arts.
Since it fell into her house, it meant she was destined to have it, so she couldn't help but flip through the pages. After flipping through a few pages, she saw nothing but Taoist priests, not even any words.
What the hell? She patiently stared at it for a while, but it felt like she was looking at nothing. Just as she was about to close it, her eyes flickered, and it seemed as if the Taoist priest she was staring at moved his hand.
What was going on? She peered closely... and saw movement, real movement. The Taoist priest seemed to be practicing, and the spiritual energy in Jian Ning's body surged with it.
In a trance, she felt that she had arrived at an open place and began to imitate the Taoist priest's moves.
"mother!"
Dabao got up and tiptoed out of the house. Seeing her standing in the corridor in a daze, he walked up to her, tugged at her sleeve, and called out to her softly.
Jian Ning came back to her senses and quickly put away the booklet. "Get up, Mom will go boil some hot water. You practice first, I'll be right back."
The three big girls also got up. They have now formed a biological clock and wake up on time. The four little ones consciously tied sandbags to their bodies and stood in the stance.
Jian Ning lit a fire and boiled some water. She recalled every move of the Taoist priest, which was so clear in her mind that she began to practice it unconsciously.
After Ma Xiaomai came, he followed her without saying a word, imitating her moves. In the past, he could barely keep up with the moves that Jian Ning practiced, but today, nothing was right. The moves looked very simple, but he just couldn't get it right no matter how many times he tried.
Not only him, Guoguo couldn't keep up either, and was also confused.
Ma Xiaomai scratched his head and gave up for the time being, thinking that he would ask Jian Ning later. He started practicing what Jian Ning had taught him before. After practicing once, Jian Ning continued to practice. The more she practiced, the more she found it to be exquisite and infinite, and the spiritual energy in her body seemed to become more abundant.
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