Chapter 64 Inner Response and General Trend
I know how much I have, and I know that this is just a gift from Mr. Xu. It is rare that he still remembers the unknown man like me when he was greeted by the secretary and comrade in the passenger cab. To be honest, my heart was inexplicably excited.
The treatment is not something that everyone can enjoy when picking up and dropping off the bus. The crowds leaving the station occasionally cast their eyes on us, like spotlights.
It gives people a high look, which is really good. It is really exciting to see the weather in the capital on both sides of the road. It is really exciting and I can't sit on the left and right sides of the car seat.
I met Mr. Xu, the General Administration in a courtyard near the center of power in this state, again. It was different from what I imagined. Mr. Xu did not spend time every day, but leisurely watered the flowers and plants in the yard, and used flower scissors to repair and garden. He was very relaxed and contented. Seeing us being led by the secretary, he greeted him with a smile, without the fierce murderous aura on the battlefield in southern Xinjiang.
Among the people who came, Mr. Xu knew only one of me, so he asked the secretary to take the others to the side hall to drink tea, and walked with me in the backyard while chatting.
We met in southern Xinjiang, so the topic naturally cannot escape the war that lasted for ten years. Mr. Xu told me that the country has now signed a relevant armistice agreement with Annan. The current trend is to look forward, and don’t exaggerate it anymore. We must aim to improve people’s living standards and achieve the four modernizations. Our responsibility is to protect this goal.
It was a war that many people could not understand. Countless young lives remained on that hot land forever. However, through that war, our national defense capabilities have been greatly improved, and the blades on our secret front have been sharpened well, and countless available talents have emerged, greatly enriching this hard-earned organization, and allowing the Religious Bureau to be reborn from the ashes and play its role again.
We both recalled the years of fighting side by side in southern Xinjiang, and also talked about the current development of the authorities.
Mr. Xu has a very good memory and talked to me about the places where the people in southern Xinjiang are now. Xiao Dapao went to the northwest. After a brief period of time, Wang Peng and Nuer have been promoted to the central government. Zhao Chengfeng is now the leader of the operation team of the two departments. As for Zhang Shi, Zhang brothers and others, they all have their own belongings. As long as they perform well, they have also taken different important positions one after another and exerted their own enthusiasm.
After he went around and said so much, I suddenly realized one thing, that is, I, who had fought with these brothers, had now been away from the authorities, settled in a corner above Maoshan, and devoted myself to learning art and practicing Taoism.
I embarked on a different path from many people. Others came out of the army, but I returned halfway and returned to practice in Taoism.
We talked for a long time, and Sure enough, Xu Laofeng made a turn and talked about the distribution of power in the current religious bureau.
In addition to normal external office work, the Religious Bureau also has a set of brands, namely the mysterious relevant departments, which specialize in handling cultivators and various mysterious events. It was first formed by 8341. This group of people were veterans in the bureau, forming the foundation of the bureau, and then began to join the military, Taoist sect and forces from all sides, involving each other, and gradually formed the current situation. Mr. Xu was born in 8341. He was not very satisfied with Longhu Mountain, which controls things in the bureau. He talked about many disadvantages in his words.
I was a little slight and didn't dare to interrupt the political situation, so I only had a pair of ears and didn't say anything. However, I didn't expect that Mr. Xu had some thoughts when he met me, so he naturally wouldn't let me get away with it. So I asked me, what do you think of the Taoist sects taking over important positions and power one after another?
What do I think, a person who is not here at all?
However, I also knew that Mr. Xu was testing me, so I said: "In the Taoist sect, we have always regarded upholding justice as the key. When it comes to harm, it is naturally there, but it is still good in general. It only requires guidance, balance, communication, and coordination between multiple parties..."
I talked a bunch of ambiguous words in a vague way, and at this moment, Mr. Xu suddenly asked me: "Xiao Chen, do you know why I transferred you back to Jinling from the front line when the battle was in full swing?"
He asked me what he said. Based on my guesses over the years, I answered carefully: "Are you sure that I can enter the Maoshan Sect?"
Mr. Xu's gentle smile began to solidify, and he became serious. He asked me in a deep voice: "Xiao Chen, if one day, when Maoshan's interests conflict with the interests of the country, which side would you stand on?"
He suddenly had such a problem, which really made me confused. I wonder what kind of law he had committed after a few years of Maoshan's opening, so that Mr. Xu could say such words. Isn't it a time for me to fight in Maoshan and the bureau?
I fell into a long silence, but Mr. Xu pressed step by step and asked again: "Xiao Chen, are you willing to help us control the situation on Maoshan as the eyes and ears in the bureau?"
After a series of guises, Mr. Xu suddenly raised such a topic and directly shocked me on the spot.
Is the General Administration going to use Maoshan again to perform surgery?
Mr. Xu is planning to let me be an undercover agent and sneak into the Maoshan Sect as an insider. When the time is right, he will immediately stand up and step on Maoshan. Are you stepping on it ten thousand times?
After the initial shock, surprise and disbelief, I began to weigh the interests here.
However, every time I think of it, the old Taoist Qingyi, Master, Brother Yichen and the cute Taotao, countless people and scenery I am familiar with on Maoshan, especially Junior Sister Xiaoyan... Everything made me not even think about being vain and sarcastic, but said seriously: "I'm sorry, Mr. Xu, I am Senior Brother Maoshan."
I revealed my identity and indirectly rejected his proposal. I thought Mr. Xu was furious, but I didn't expect him to laugh.
The laughter was extremely refreshing. After a while, he said calmly: "I did not read you wrongly, Xiao Chen, alone, only by knowing how to be grateful and knowing that some things have the bottom line of not giving up until death can you achieve great things. You are far better than some people. I am optimistic about you and hope to work together under the same banner in the future."
My conversation with Mr. Xu ended in an inexplicable atmosphere. Then he took me to the side hall to meet Xu Danding and Li Tengfei.
When they came, the two of them had already known Mr. Xu's identity and knew that such a noble person could come to them to cure the disease. It was a great opportunity and face. They didn't dare to neglect them at the moment. They bowed and spoke respectfully, and acted in a manner and were very respectful.
I don’t know much about the witchcraft method, but this traditional Chinese medicine qi and blood technique has been studied a little. But when Mr. Xu came to Xu calm down, he stretched out his hand and held his veins, closed his eyes and listened, as if he was feeling the worms that were constantly reproductive in his body.
After so long, the atmosphere was silent, but when he opened his eyes again, he was shining and showed strong self-confidence. Then he began to take turns asking about the clinical manifestations of the two after being infected with the Gu. In every detail, he showed rare rigor and professionalism. Li Tengfei was still young and could not describe it clearly. Xu Danding received education on Taoist health care since childhood, but he was the most clear, but he could also explain all the situations clearly.
This process was very long, but in the end, Mr. Xu smiled and nodded, looking confident. Xu Danding felt a little guilty when he saw it and asked, "Senior, can I still be cured for my illness?"
Faced with life and death, even the calm character could not help but blush and could not speak out, and Mr. Xu would not tease him. Wen Yan comforted him: "Don't be afraid. Although the Yin Snake Gu's techniques are ever-changing, they are always inseparable from their sects. As long as I understand the principle and symptoms of his gu, I can infer and restore the specific methods of poisoning. It is not difficult to use the right symptoms as medicine."
This gave the two a heart-protecting pill, and their emotions couldn't help but relax. Then Mr. Xu asked them to lie down in the bedroom next to the west wing, and then asked someone to bring the mugwort leaves to fumigate the room, and asked someone to get a basket of fresh local eggs. After it was cooked, he asked me to help and roll on the two of them.
Mr. Xu made an incense burner, put various medicinal materials and spices in it, and then steamed it in water to make the room mist. After that, he asked me to roll it on them with cooked eggs. Whenever I saw that the eggshell had cracks, I put it aside and exchanged for another one.
After being so busy and working for more than two days, the cooked native eggs had a full basin. Later, the yellow shells on the surface of the eggs that had rolled before had turned black, and there were countless cracks on them. If you gently poke the surface with chopsticks, you could see that under the egg whites, there were countless small snakes that were even more subtle than insects, crawling out from the egg yolk and rolling on them.
Mr. Xu condensed the poison by smoking a special medicinal herb, and used cooked farmland eggs to convert the worms in his body. This method is really amazing.
On the third day, the Yin Snake Gu's insect had been completely pulled out, and the next thing was to take care of the body. There was no need to stay here anymore. So Mr. Xu's secretary helped us move to the military hospital. I stayed in the ward for two more days. One day at noon, the door was pushed toward me with a creaking sound. I turned my head and saw my master walking in.
Chapter completed!