Chapter 27: Ambergris

When Zhou Hao woke up again, he found himself lying on a bamboo bed with a worried Li Ruolan in front of him.
Seeing that he was awake, Li Ruolan immediately helped him sit up, "You finally woke up, I was so worried."
Seeing Li Ruolan's haggard face, Zhou Hao apologized: "I'm sorry, I worried you." He looked around and saw that this was Dr. Gongsun’s thatched cottage, with various dried herbs hanging on the wall. There is a small wooden cabinet on the side, which is full of thread-bound books. Those books seem to be a long time away.
"How long have I been in a coma?" Zhou Hao patted his forehead, feeling a little dizzy.
"It's been a day and a night." Li Ruolan wiped Zhou Hao's face with a damp cloth. "Why did you fight with Doctor Gongsun? It's not good for anyone to be injured." There was a bit of anger in her tone.
"Who made the old man say that you want you to marry him?" Zhou Hao was very angry when he thought of it now.
Li Ruolan's face blushed inexplicably, "Yes, even if you don't want me to marry him, you can't be so impulsive. I thought he beat you to death and cried."
Zhou Hao was a little happy when she heard Li Ruolan cry for herself.
Li Ruolan saw Zhou Hao's secretive expression and slapped him on the head lightly, "Where did you think about it? I think if you die, then I promised Dr. Gongsun's request to be in vain?"
Zhou Hao just scratched his head when he heard this, and smiled twice, "By the way, what about the old man?"
"He was vomiting blood because of you, but he seems to be a qigong master, and he recovered after sitting for a while."
Zhou Hao knew that Dr. Gongsun was very powerful in martial arts, and he was the legendary master of the inner family, otherwise it would be impossible to leave a handprint on such a hard rock with one palm.
At this moment, Dr. Gongsun walked in. The difference was that instead of using crutches, he attached a wooden stick to two broken legs. It was a bit like the one-legged captain in the pirate story, although it seemed a little bit different. Weird, but very flexible. As soon as he came in, he scolded Zhou Hao: "Asshole, I was kind to save your life, but you avenged my grudge, and almost broke my body."
"It's a pity that I didn't kill you." Zhou Hao pouted.
"Zhou Hao, Doctor Gongsun, don't you have to say a word." Li Ruolan was really helpless for the two tit-for-tat.
Doctor Gongsun snorted, then came to the bed and grabbed Zhou Hao's head. Zhou Hao knew that he was seeing a doctor for himself, and he did not resist. Just listen to Dr. Gongsun: "Although your boy is not very polite, he is in good health, and he recovered in just one day." As soon as Zhou Hao was about to give him a few words, Dr. Gongsun said again: "Do you want to learn martial arts."
"Study martial arts?" Zhou Hao was stunned, then looked suspiciously at Doctor Gongsun, "Whatever you want, and what not?"
Doctor Gongsun touched the beard under his jaw, "I can teach you if you want."
Hearing what he said, Zhou Hao became more vigilant, "No matter what you do, you will steal, what is your purpose?"
"Fuck you, Lao Tzu kindly taught you that you still doubt Lao Tzu that much?" He turned his head and looked at Li Ruolan next to him, "Girl, are you fair, is this kid decent?"
But I heard Li Ruolan say: "But, this really doesn't look like your temperament, Doctor Gongsun."
"It's really kind and not rewarded!" Doctor Gongsun blew his beard with anger, and then stared at Zhou Hao, "I just ask you, do you want to learn? I just moved this thought when you are in good health. What is needed from you."
Zhou Hao pressed his thoughts. If he learned the martial arts of Dr. Gongsun, he would be able to subdue him and take Li Ruolan away in the future, and there would be no need to fear the bald brother after going out. So he nodded, "Learn to learn."
First of all, Dr. Gongsun threw a thread-bound book to Zhou Hao, which was full of the meridians and acupoints of the human body. "If you want to practice martial arts, you must first learn to raise qi, that is, qigong. First recognize these acupoints and meridians and remember them firmly I'll teach you Qigong again later."
It only took Zhou Hao in the middle of the night to memorize all the meridians of the human body and hundreds of thousands of acupoints, which surprised Dr. Gongsun. Then, he took two medicines to Zhou Hao's jaw, and then began to teach Zhou Hao a peculiar breathing method.
Zhou Hao had seen the so-called vomiting method taught by the so-called qigong masters before, but they were completely different from that of Dr. Gongsun. The breath-in method taught by Dr. Gongsun often takes a long time to hold the breath, which can easily cause suffocation. However, the effect was remarkable. After only studying for a while, Zhou Hao felt that all the stale air that had been suppressed in his chest was swept away, and he felt refreshed. And with the proficiency of this method, Zhou Hao's breath-holding time became longer and longer, and finally he was able to hold his breath for ten minutes at a time.
"Concentrate, do you feel a breath in your chest now? You try to press it down and let it flow into the dantian." Dr. Gongsun said to Zhou Hao, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, and stretched out his right hand to press on him. Slowly touched his waist on his spine, helping Zhou Hao to draw that qi into his dantian.
Under the guidance of Dr. Gongsun, Zhou Hao felt the qi in his body slowly flow into the dantian, making his abdomen warm and comfortable. Then, the qi flowed from the dantian to the other meridians on the body, and then felt that under the movement of this airflow, his body seemed to be filled with strength instantly, and even the fractured right arm was quickly recovering.
"Okay, let's stop here today. You have a good sense of breath." Dr. Gongsun said, "I have to say that you are very talented in domestic qigong."
Zhou Hao smiled when he heard it, especially this was the first time Doctor Gongsun spoke to others.
"As long as you practice internal qigong, it is best to start before the age of five, because after that, the turbid qi from the outside will slowly invade the human body and block the Qi meridian and eight channels. It will be difficult to practice later. So many have The masters of the inner family that have been achieved have been cultivated since childhood.
Dr. Gongsun said to Zhou Hao:
The medicine I gave you before, and the method of breathing and nap, are to slowly expel the turbid qi in the body. ."
"It's all right, it's time for dinner." Li Ruolan smiled.
The three set up a wooden table on the open space outside the cottage, and Jing sat and ate together. Li Ruolan made two dishes and one soup, rabbit meat and pheasant, and a pot of dried vegetable and mushroom soup. Li Ruolan's craftsmanship is good, and Zhou Hao eats it with gusto, "I didn't know before, it turns out that Teacher Li is so good at cooking."
"I used to take care of myself when I was in college, and this craft was also developed at that time." Li Ruolan said.
Doctor Gongsun also smacked his lips and said: "Women's crafts are really different." He has lived alone for decades. He is a typical one who eats and the whole family is not hungry.
"Doctor Gongsun, have you lived here for decades?" Li Ruolan asked him.
"What's wrong here, it's warm in winter and cool in summer, it's much better than those resorts, and there are all kinds of herbs on Qiuning Mountain, which is convenient for me to collect."
Zhou Hao glanced at him, "You have a lot of research on Chinese medicine, right."
Doctor Gongsun raised his eyebrows, "I dare not say anything else, just those people in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, I don't know enough about Chinese medicine."
Zhou Hao and Li Ruolan thought together in a big tone. However, in the past few days, they have also seen the medication of Doctor Gongsun. With a serious injury like Zhou Hao, they can move freely within a few days, and Doctor Gongsun is indeed exceptional.
After the meal, Dr. Gongsun told Zhou Hao to practice the spit-na method, and he walked into one of the forks in the cave. Li Ruolan cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, while Zhou Hao sat cross-legged, practicing the magical vomiting method.
Then, when Li Ruolan was free, she turned over the thread-bound ancient books on the wooden cabinet and found that they were all ancient books on Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine and acupuncture. The classical Chinese texts in them were obscure and difficult to understand. Li Ruolan, a college student majoring in English, couldn’t read it for a long time. Understand, I had to put the book back in place in the end.
Day and night cannot be distinguished in the cave, so Li Ruolan went to sleep when she was tired, and these days she slept in the thatched cottage, Zhou Hao fell asleep on the straw mat outside the thatched cottage, as for Dr. Gongsun, she often didn’t see anyone. I don't know where he slept.
Zhou Hao, who had been immersed in the magical vomiting method, had not known for a long time when he recovered. He walked into the thatched cottage and saw Li Ruolan sleeping on the bamboo bed. He went to help her tuck the quilt.
Looking at Li Ruolan close at hand, she felt that her expression was calm, lying on the bed like a delicate crabapple flower.
Feeling uncontrollable, Zhou Hao slowly drew close to her face, and her breath with a faint fragrance made Zhou Hao feel confused. As Li Ruolan's cherry lips were getting closer, Zhou Hao's heartbeat was getting faster and faster.
Just when the two lips were about to meet, Zhou Hao suddenly stopped.
"I can't blaspheme her like that." He said to himself in his heart.
Shaking his head, Zhou Hao walked out of the thatched cottage and lay on the straw mat, but couldn't calm down in his heart. Li Ruolan's peaceful and beautiful face was all in his mind.
Zhou Hao didn't know that when he walked out of the thatched cottage, Li Ruolan, who was lying on the bamboo bed, opened his eyes, flushing on his face.
On the other side, Doctor Gongsun walked through the tortuous passage, and finally came to another cave.
The area of ​​this cave is very small, less than one-tenth of Zhou Hao and the others. However, this place is much brighter than that big cave. I saw a crack more than a foot wide on the ground in the center of the cave, and there was a hint of yellow light from the crack, and there was a trace of heat.
Seen from above, the crack may be more than a hundred meters deep, and you can faintly see the slowly flowing hot lava below.
There was a special plant beside the crack, and its long roots were caught on the crack and extended downward, absorbing the heat from the lava at close range. Compared with the surprisingly long root, its stem is less than half a meter, with a palm-sized bright red flower blooming at the top, and a vermilion fruit the size of a soldier's ball bears in the center of the flower.
There is an inverted cone-shaped stalactite on the top of the cave above this plant, and crystal water drops dripping down the stalactite, just falling on the flower of this plant to provide it with water.
Doctor Gongsun knelt and sat in front of this plant, his eyes were very hot, "Ambergris, hehe, ambergris that only bears once in sixty years."