Chapter 226: Rebirth Story 3: Bath in the Enclosed House
After dinner, the waiter came in, cleared the table, and left with the food cart.
I changed the tea set and brewed American ginseng.
They sat down. I said, "Keep going, it sounds great."
Zaisheng took a sip of the American ginseng water and shook his head, saying, "It's too strong and not tasty. Have mine."
After that, he took things out of the bag: "Tea, Murakami, dried beef, Murakami, bamboo shoots, Murakami, dried pheasant, Murakami... These are all for you.
He tore open a paper package, handed it to me, and said, "Make this tea."
I took it and found that the paper bag had the trademark, instructions and place of origin on it.
"Is this produced in your village? Aren't you very poor?"
"I'll tell you later, make two cups first."
I made two cups using a large cup.
Zaisheng said, "Blow on it to cool it down a bit and then taste it first."
I blew on it a few times, tried to take a small sip, it was a little sweet, took another small sip, it had a faint lotus fragrance.
Regeneration said: "Lowering blood sugar and lipids, a real medicine."
I pointed at him and smiled, "You led the villagers in developing this."
Regeneration said, "Let's not talk about this for now."
I said, "Okay, go ahead and talk. I won't interrupt you."
Regeneration asked, "So where are we talking about this?"
"About forty children came."
"Yes, more than 40 children came and I started teaching them to read. I usually only taught them for one morning and then went back into the mountains in the afternoon."
"Into the mountains?"
"The village chief said that we could cut down some bamboo from the trees on his mountain to make desks. I hired people to cut and make them, and the children helped wherever they could."
"So you have a table and chairs."
"Yes. I wanted to fully integrate into their lives, so after I finished making the desks and chairs, I took Xiao Liuzi and a few others down the mountain to the town to buy school bags and stationery. I asked someone to buy textbooks at the county bookstore, and we carried them up the mountain one trip at a time.
I arrived at Murakami in September, and during my first semester, I basically did these things. It wasn't until the following spring that I really got on track.
I teach them to read, play basketball with them, and visit their homes whenever I have time. "Teacher Wan, there's a kind of happiness you can't experience."
"Tell me."
When I went to visit my parents, the children saw me and came out of their homes to greet me, shouting at the top of their lungs: "Teacher Zhang..."
I can't describe that sound. It was like when I was a kid, I'd run over to my grandpa and yell, "Grandpa!" with every cry getting louder and louder, making my grandpa burst into laughter.
That innocent voice warmed my heart. The child ran over, held my hand, and showed off to others along the way: This is my teacher Zhang, our teacher Zhang.
My heart is about to melt.
The villagers brought out their best rice wine, served this sweet leaf tea, killed chickens, and caught fish. Teacher Wan, I really don't care about the food; I care about the pure enthusiasm, the simple emotions, and the acceptance from the bottom of my heart.
Every time I came back from a home visit and slept on that tattered bed, I felt like the happiest person in the world, admired by students, welcomed by parents, and surrounded by love.
You know I have some property, but I didn't want them to know that I was a rich man, so I told my younger brother the whole story and asked him to take out some money from my share dividends and remit it to Murakami.
I said it was my friends who supported me. They widened the road up the mountain into a stairway, built several new buildings for the village primary school, and bought more than a dozen computers.
The most meaningful thing is to send some sweet leaves to my brother and ask experts to identify whether they are valuable.
Experts believed that this high-altitude sweet leaf could be made into tea, so the villagers began making "sweet leaf tea." I helped them find a market, and the value of the tea increased several times over.
Zaisheng counted the good things he had done for the school and the village on his fingers, with a look of pride on his face.
I said, "In this paradise, you have found dignity, found love, and discovered your own value. Have your testosterone been activated, and have you regained your masculinity?"
I thought about it and decided it was probably a combination of factors. I was already familiar with the village chief, and he often invited me over for drinks. His wine was homemade.
After drinking the village chief's wine, I gradually began to feel better. I asked him what he had put in it, and he said it was Tribulus terrestris.
I slapped my thigh and said, "Wait, this might be a factor. Let me show you."
Before he was reborn, I was reading the chapter on male diseases and happened to have read about ten single prescriptions. I found my single prescription notebook and showed it to him:
"Fry Tribulus terrestris until fragrant, grind into powder, soak in wine and drink. It soothes the liver and relieves depression, and treats liver depression, qi stagnation, and impotence."
The next day, he took a look and said, "Yes, that's the kind of pointed leaves."
I said, "Drinking this wine makes you stronger?"
Zaisheng shook his head and said, "It's just a feeling."
"So what exactly made you stand up?"
Regeneration said: "It's still what you said - when a person finds his own value, what he lost will come back."
I let out a long breath. "I was just waiting for you to say that. I thought the medicinal wine cured you. Because, it's not your organs that are sick, it's your soul that needs healing."
Zaisheng said: "It is a very high honor, which has restored my vigor."
"What kind of courtesy?"
For the first time, Shengsheng smiled with such pride and joy, and said:
"Bath in the enclosed house."
This is the first time I heard this name.
Zaisheng explained to me that this was the highest honor in their village, passed down from generation to generation. It was not offered anywhere else.
"Hurry up and tell me." I was impatient.
Zaisheng said: "In the hunting era, people hunted in groups, and the person with the best archery skills and the one who got the most hunting in a year was called a hero. They pronounced hero as "呷".
Then "Xia" can enjoy the "enclosed house bath."
I laughed and said, "You become their '呷'."
The prince nodded and introduced me to the "enclosed house bath".
The entire village gathered together and first built a barrel-shaped wooden house with wooden planks, more than two meters high. Then they had a good meal, boiled several pots of water, and added cold water to keep the temperature neither too hot nor too cold.
Then the three most beautiful girls were chosen. A wooden staircase was set up, and the three girls ascended it, forming a long line beside it. The village's most respected elder shouted, "Begin!"
Everyone handed buckets of warm water to him, and he passed it to the next person, until it was passed to the three girls, who picked up the buckets and kept pouring water into them.
"Like a hand shower?" I asked.
"Yes, that's what I mean." Zaisheng laughed.
"Tell me about your enjoyment."
The rebirth face turned red, and after calming down for a while, he said:
They don't hold this kind of event every year, but rather when they feel someone has truly contributed to the village. As you know, the temperature is lower in the mountains. The village chief chose a day in October.
I refused. So a few young men pushed me into the tub room and stripped me of my clothes. I stood there in my shorts, not daring to look up. Three girls kept pouring water on me, laughing and shouting, "Wash! Wash!"
The more shy and obedient I was, the more unbridled they became, pouring water specifically on my head, making it impossible to escape. It wasn't until the water stopped and everyone descended the stairs that I realized the ceremony was over.
An old man came in and handed me a dry towel and a new set of clothes.
I slammed my hands on the table and said, "This is so interesting."
Regeneration said, "That night, I kept dreaming."
I laughed out loud: "In a kind of incomparable glory, you have regained your dignity."
"Yes, Teacher Wan, just like you said before, small streams flow into rivers, then rush towards the dam, and finally, the dam collapses, and the water flows into the ocean."
"After your rise to prominence, you decided to stay here to express your gratitude to this village. Are you not leaving?"
"No, I'm leaving!"
I was stunned for a long time before I said, "Didn't you tell me from the beginning that you were going to settle down in Tianshang Village for the rest of your life?"
Regeneration said: "My story is not finished yet."
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