Chapter 363 Confucianism and Taoism are foolishly unclear, the legend of the empty man
Noon the next day.
Katie, who was sleeping, frowned and showed signs of waking up.
Hungry.
This body had not taken in any food for nearly sixteen hours, and the hunger in her belly urged her to find food to fill her stomach.
But the warm environment is really nostalgic, especially in the cold winter.
The most primitive desires of human beings - appetite and sleep, are now competing fiercely with each other.
After a while, Katie finally got up from the bed.
Because there is a special aroma coming from outside the room.
The glutton in her stomach was completely aroused. She almost instinctively wrapped the quilt around herself, put on her slippers and went outside.
The rather bright environment made Katie sober up a little.
It’s sunshine.
The sun in winter is a rare thing, especially in a place like London where you can’t see a sunny day for half a month.
It is not a strong light, but it seems to be full of warmth. Just seeing it relieves the coldness on the body.
We saw rare good weather together, which directly set up a good mood for the day.
Katie smiled and took a deep breath.
It was at this moment that she smelled the source of the fragrance.
Looking around, he saw four dishes and one soup on the dining table.
"Sit down and eat when you wake up."
Su Fan's voice came from the side.
The latter walked out of the kitchen with a tea set and hot water in hand, sat down at the dining table, and then brewed tea skillfully.
Pour boiling water into the cup to warm the cup body. After cleaning the inside, add tea leaves and pour another cup of boiling water.
With Su Fan's movements, the fresh scent of tea was mixed with the scent of delicious food.
"Did you make all of these, Sue?"
Katie glanced at the dishes she had never seen before on the table and asked in surprise.
Su Fan nodded and placed three cups of brewed tea in front of him and on both sides.
The dinner plates and cutlery are complete. In addition to Katie's and his own, there is also one from Tom.
But I didn’t see him when I looked around.
“Where is Tom?”
“He went to buy some things that he usually uses, and he will come back before the food gets cold.”
It has been a while since I came here, and bank procedures and the like have been completely resolved.
With Alice's hard work, the antique shop's profits never stopped, and there was no problem at all in transferring tens of thousands of dollars.
In the past, Su Fan used exorcism commissions to support the antique shop. Now that it is running, he finally got a reward one day, which made Su Fan feel a lot in his heart.
Katie pulled up the chair and sat down, looking at these simple but extraordinary home-cooked dishes, swallowing, and then picked up the bowls and chopsticks.
As for why I use bowls and chopsticks, it’s naturally because I couldn’t stand the notorious British cuisine and fell in love with Chinese food, so I learned it on my own.
Originally, she wanted to wait for Tom to come back and eat together, but she was really hungry.
Katie felt so hungry that she could swallow a whole cow!
But after taking a look, her face was full of doubts.
"What is this..."
"Potatoes."
Potato?
Katie used chopsticks to pick up the thing that had been cut into thin strands and put it into her mouth.
In addition to frying potatoes into French fries or steaming them and eating them directly, are there other ways to eat potatoes?
Because they are thin and thin, the potatoes are full of flavor and very delicious.
“What do you usually eat out?”
Su Fan watched the other person start to eat faster, so he asked casually.
"Fish and chips...lettuce and fruit salad...ham sandwich..."
Hearing this, Su Fan looked at the other party with an expression full of pity.
Traditional white rice is simple and convenient, but it is unpalatable, high in calories and makes you fat.
Except for Italy, which has a relatively good catering culture, other European countries are terrible.
The French baguette and the German dry bread are so hard that they need to be cut open with professional tools. One bite can stretch out half a mile of the neck.
It’s not that high-end Western food is not delicious, French food and so on are good, but generally speaking they are very expensive.
Food is the most important thing for people.
With the same amount of money, the working people of the big Eastern countries are indeed the best at making things happen.
Katie pinches a little bit here and there a little bit, her movements are very graceful, but the twitching brows every time and the occasional intoxicated look are enough to prove that she enjoys this meal very much.
"If you're almost done eating, you can go and see if the soufflé in the oven is ready."
Su Fan took a sip of tea.
“Don’t you really like desserts? You should have some after the meal. But the only ingredients that can be used are the eggs left over from cooking, so just eat them.”
Su Fan I don’t hate desserts. What kid doesn’t like sweets when they were young?
It’s just that the donuts and chocolates in the United States contain lethal amounts of syrup and icing. One bite can directly drive people’s blood sugar levels to the limit.
The antique store saved as much money as possible at that time, so they didn't buy an oven.
"This is really..."
Katie sighed in her heart while eating.
She had never eaten such delicious Chinese food, and she never expected that Su Fan would take the initiative to prepare lunch.
“I remember that in ancient China there was a saying that a gentleman traveled far away from the kitchen, and I thought that a traditional and ancient person like you wouldn’t do such things...”
"The original meaning of a gentleman staying far away from the kitchen is that a man of good conduct has a reverence for life and cannot bear to hear the sound of killing living creatures in the kitchen. When he sees that scene, he deliberately keeps a distance."
"It's not that a gentleman can't go into the kitchen and cook. , and it does not mean that chef is a humble profession. "
"What you see are mostly the ambiguities of the original text misinterpreted by some pampered children."
Su Fan. After finishing speaking, don’t forget to add something.
“Also, I graduated from Caltech in computer science, so I’m not an antique.”
After hearing the last sentence, Katie suddenly showed a trace of confusion in her eyes.
Shouldn’t people with this degree join Internet giant companies in Silicon Valley?
Who would have thought that this man would go home and inherit an antique shop and become an exorcist priest?
Su Fan chuckled in his heart when he saw the other party like this.
There are so many people working across fields. I graduated from Peking University in Chemistry and eventually became a writer. Is there any problem?
An exorcist who doesn't want to be a store manager is not a good engineer.
“Reading classics without the guidance of a teacher will often make you laugh.”
“If you have anything else you don’t understand, you can take this opportunity to discuss it with me.”
Hearing this, Katie, who had just finished her meal, suddenly became interested and confided one by one the problems that arose during her self-study.
"The Master said on the river: The deceased is like a man, and he does not give up day and night. What does it mean?"
"First tell me what you understand."
"As long as you are strong enough, the corpses of your enemies will flow down the river day and night."
< br>"...No. He was just lamenting that time flies by, and he should study diligently and cherish his time."
"What if you die if you hear the truth in the morning? If I find out the way to your house in the morning, you will die in the evening. I think Su is putting this into practice."
"That's not right either. It means that if you seek and seek the truth and the Tao in the morning, it's worth dying at night."
Su Fan suddenly felt his temples twitching. "Is there anything else besides this?"
"There is also a gentleman who is not powerful if he is not serious. If he does not deal with his enemies harshly, he cannot show his power..."< br>
"...What's wrong?"
Katie looked at Su Fan who put down the tea cup and started rubbing his eyebrows, and asked cautiously.
"You understand this all by yourself?"
"Yes."
"You understand it very well, don't teach yourself next time."
Su Fan found out that he had to It is still too difficult for these people to understand the essence of Chinese culture.
“These are all Confucian things. If you want to learn Taoism, what are you going to do if you don’t have time to think about it?”
"Isn't Confucius a Taoist? I remember reading allusions about his conversation with Laozi, and then I downloaded something from the official website of the Confucius Institute."
"You..."
No wonder your fortune-telling is inaccurate. If you can understand the fortune-telling clearly, you are going against the will of heaven.
If you look at Xiaoyaoyou and the like, I won’t say anything. This "The Analects" and this...
"The most important thing in learning knowledge is to organize and build a system. Now you go and tell your fortune. , Is it possible to predict good or bad luck? I don’t think you have that ability. You should first clarify your Confucian and Taoist concepts, and then consider other things.”
Su Fan was silent for a long time, and finally came out with this suggestion.
When Katie heard this, she also knew that she had made a big joke, and she took a sip of the tea next to her with some embarrassment.
The entrance is fragrant and fragrant, and the aftertaste is sweet, which is completely different from the tea bags you usually drink.
There is no such high-end tea at home, and Tom will not buy it. The only possibility is that Su Fan in front of him purchased it at his own expense.
It can be said that everything they have eaten and drank so far has been funded by Su Fan.
In return, Katie increasingly felt that her mission to seek remuneration was important.
“I’m back.”
The sound of opening the door and Tom’s voice came from the door.
The latter came back carrying large and small bags, and the plastic bags in his hands were bulging.
"Su, I brought back what you asked for."
"Thank you for your hard work. Let's sit down and eat. The food is not cold yet."
Su Fan stood up and took the plastic bag, opened it and checked it carefully. After confirming that it was correct, he separated it according to the storage time like a refrigerator. of different areas.
If you don’t have the New Year’s Eve dinner, then make up for it with a good meal on the New Year’s Day.
Many of the ingredients and New Year goods are very authentic. It seems that Tom has not been deceived by people over there as a stupid foreigner.
Tom sat at the dining table and showed off all the remaining things like a storm. The whole process did not even take more than ten minutes.
"As expected of you, Su."
After eating, Tom smacked his lips and highly praised Su Fan's cooking skills.
He also said this once during breakfast.
Yes, Su Fan also made breakfast.
“I went to different places to get these things together, and it took me a while, but luckily, I didn’t miss lunch time.”
With Dinghai Shenzhen at home, Tom can also walk outside with confidence.
But to be honest, Tom still felt a little weird in his heart. He always felt that he was affecting their world at home.
Tom secretly looked at his sister's face, and then at Su Fan who was drinking tea.
There didn't seem to be that charming atmosphere between the two people, as if what happened last night didn't happen at all.
Did Katie forget?
"Have you heard of any strange cases in the outside world?"
Su Fan asked casually.
“No, it’s very normal.”
“The murders that occurred on the outskirts of the community have been solved, and places such as monasteries are also quite calm.”
“Passing by the one last time When the old woman was nearby, she heard someone talking about her loss of voice. All the neighbors thought it was a good thing. ”
"Su, you can be considered as eliminating harm for the people."
"Oh, her."
Su Fan's mind came to the mind of that blabbering, self-respecting person. White aunt.
It is strange for a person to be able to sympathize with her experience.
“Besides, I met an acquaintance on the way back.”
"That's the James we saw in the police station that day..."
Tom recalled the scene and described it.
“The last time I saw him, he looked like a drunken homeless man. Within a few days, he turned out to be no different from ordinary people.”
“You took the initiative to talk to him. Did the other party say hello?”
Katie also heard Tom describe the details of the police station that day, and was deeply impressed by James, who had great respect for all police officers.
"No, the other party took the initiative to call me."
Tom shook his head gently.
“The daughter of a woman living alone in his neighbor’s house has gone missing and is now looking for her everywhere.”
“Wouldn’t it be better to ask a friend of his from the police station for this kind of thing?”
"He feels that the police are usually too busy solving murder cases and many other criminal cases, and it is nothing new for teenagers to go missing. They may come back in two days, and he doesn't want to trouble them to do something special."
James' answer was very reasonable.
"However, he also mentioned a strange legend..."
"What legend?"
Hearing this, Su Fan suddenly asked.
Legends, strange stories, these horrific messages that are passed down from person to person, are very likely to contain real weirdness.
Even when the spread reaches a certain level, new existences will be born that are exactly the same as the legendary content.
This is not alarmist.
Although things like the power of the will of all living beings sound mysterious and unrealistic, they really exist.
"Empty man."
Tom uttered such a word, but suddenly his whole body trembled.
"It's just a very boring and simple rumor, similar to a made-up urban legend."
"If you come to an empty bridge at night, you can find an empty bottle on it."< br>
“When you think of empty people in your heart, And blow the bottle, and after a while you will hear him coming towards you, and you will even think of him involuntarily."
"The next day, you will see him following you, like a shadow.
And on the third night, he will find you.”
"Gone?"
Katie asked immediately when she saw Tom pause.
"No. It sounds very childish and vague, right? It's like a crude story that adults use to scare children."
Tom shrugged.
“However, James was very serious when he talked about it, so I wrote it down carefully at the time.”
(End of this chapter)