Chapter 10: The content of the DVD (1)

I left Master Liu’s house the next morning. Just as I had expected, Liu Zhenmeng did not return home until I left.

Yesterday, I talked with Master Liu until late at night, and then we went to bed. Because he was drunk, Master Liu said a lot, and I remember everything he said. I remember that he said he was often lonely in the house alone.

I remember that he said it took him an hour to make a simple meal, even if he had something to eat in the house.

He also said that Liu Zhenmeng would occasionally bring him food.

He also told me that he had actually secretly placed a ghost to follow Liu Zhenmeng around.

“Chengyi, I have no choice. Ever since I gave her a second life, she has been watching TV all the time. She has no friends and no love, so she likes to be around boys… Chengyi, you understand, don’t you? But I’m afraid that Laidi’s body will be ruined by her, and then I…”

Master Liu didn’t say any more, but I understood what he meant. His fatherly love was still not beyond the bottom line and kindness. He knew that he could not let his daughter’s desires ruin Guan Laidi.

I didn’t leave so gracefully, and I couldn’t be graceful, so I went to the nearby market and bought a lot of food for Master Liu. I put it in the refrigerator, and even though it was tiring, I moved a refrigerator to the third floor where Master Liu lived, and filled it with convenience foods.

I originally wanted to go to the nanny market and hire a nanny to take care of Master Liu, but he refused. He said he didn’t want anyone to get involved in his life with his daughter.

When he said this, Master Liu had a bitter expression on his face. Perhaps there was something he couldn’t say, but I didn’t want to speculate. There are some things that you know and can’t change, and it’s better not to know.

When I left, Master Liu escorted me all the way to the entrance of the residential area. He didn’t care about the stares from the people around him. After all, he was too old to be scary, but he still insisted on seeing me off that far…

When I was about to get into the car, Master Liu whispered to me, “If Zhenmeng were half as filial as you, I wouldn’t care if I had to bear the consequences of a hundred lifetimes.”

I was stunned, but didn’t know what to say, so I just smiled at him and let him go back to his home.

Perhaps, in Master Liu’s dream, what he wanted to keep was the Liu Zhenmeng who called him “Dad” so sweetly many years ago.

When I arrived in Beijing, I didn’t ask anyone to pick me up. I just took a taxi and went straight to Chengqing’s house.

It was hard for Cheng Qing to be so quiet and alone, but now the house was bustling with activity. Cheng Xin, Cheng Zhen, Cheng Yuan, Ru Yue, Hui Gen, and even Qin Huai had come to join the fun. So, as soon as I walked in the door, I saw Cheng Qing’s long face.

An expression of unbearable but unavoidable suffering.

Without any unnecessary nonsense, it was rare for us to gather together, so of course the first thing to do was to watch the DVD that we had collected for a long time. Qin Huai, this kid, is also very considerate. At this time, he took the initiative to avoid it.

It’s not that he’s not curious, but this kind of thing is too deep and it’s our family business, so it’s not good for him to know too much.

As the DVD played, the room began to quiet down.

Everyone was watching carefully, and time passed by minute by minute. Soon the DVD finished playing the content I had seen last time.

When it got to this point, the DVD went dark for a short while, and then when the camera shot appeared, the location had already changed to another place, on a boat, and the camera shot was a little shaky.

Then we heard a lot of noise, and among them I distinctly heard my master’s voice, but I couldn’t make out what he was saying even if I turned up the volume. Unless we had professional equipment, which we didn’t.

But Jiang Yi has one, I lit a cigarette and frowned involuntarily and thought of this, as if it was just instinctive.

However, there should be nothing. Since Jiang Yi handed me the DVD so calmly, it at least means that he didn’t see anything.

Just as I was thinking about this, the camera began to slowly pan away, starting to film the surrounding scenery. This was a strange stretch of river, surrounded by unknown low mountains, green and green, looking very beautiful.

We all stared at this place carefully, but we couldn’t recognize it from just a few shots. There was nothing in our memories that matched this place, and even Chengzhen, who had followed Master Wang around since he was a child, looked confused.

It seems that it is not realistic to judge the footsteps of the master and his disciples just by watching the DVD.

After filming the scenery for a short while, Master stood in front of the camera again. This time, there was no more fighting with Uncle Hui. Master stood in front of the camera calmly.

I don’t know if it’s my illusion, but I always feel that although Master is standing in front of the camera with a calm and relaxed appearance, he is actually hiding his fatigue.

I stared at the camera, and noticed that Master’s hair was still a little damp, but his clothes were dry and clean, as if he had just taken a shower. But was that really the case?

I looked at the surrounding river and always had the feeling that the master had been in the water.

“Chengyi, the scenery here is also very good, so I took this shot especially for you,” the first thing Master said to me was this.

Then, he walked slowly to the edge of the boat with his hands behind his back, and the camera followed him. Master looked at the river, as if talking to himself, and then to me: “Chengyi, it’s been a while since I left you. I’ve been thinking a lot about the days we spent together in the bamboo forest.”

This sentence originally made me a little sad, but the next sentence, the master turned the conversation around and said inexplicably: “That was really a tortured time!”

I was stunned. A tortured life?

My fellow students and I all turned to look at me at the same time, even Ruoyue, and their eyes were full of curiosity. I blushed and said, “What are you looking at? Just watch the DVD. How do I know why this old man would say that?

Whenever I looked at my master, I would automatically speak in the same tone as him, even using the same words as the old man. I even had the illusion that my butt would be kicked soon, but in fact nothing happened.

The master was still talking on the TV: “Do you know why? Living with you, I can only eat the food you cook. You don’t have the essence of cooking at all. When you cook beef, you must use coriander. When you cook fish, you must use celery leaves to flavor it. What are you cooking? Beef is beef, and fish is fish? Why don’t you just throw the beef and fish into the water and boil them? You’re killing me!”

At the end of the story, Master seemed to be a little agitated, almost jumping up and down, accusing me of my ‘crime’! Next to him was Grandpa Hui’s narration: “I’ve always said that it’s good to be a vegetarian, and that it’s really troublesome to eat meat! It’s like when I eat an egg, I don’t need to eat it with anything.”

I was crying and laughing at the same time, my face turning green and then white. Is this how I cook? Is this how I cook? Why did the master tell me this on the DVD?

His words have already had a huge effect. For example, Chengqing, who was drinking tea, suddenly coughed, and Chengzhen, who was eating a snack, suddenly coughed and coughed.

Then everyone looked at me strangely, “Huh, the kid who doesn’t use coriander to make beef.”

But the next moment, the master seemed to calm down and said to himself, “Cooking depends on the person, so what I want to teach you is that cooking is like making beef. It’s not just about having beef, it’s about the coordination of all the details that make the beef taste good. Do you understand, kid? If you don’t, you’re just boiling the beef, and the taste will be the opposite of what you want.”

After that, the master seemed very angry, and he turned around and left!

But I frowned, as if I had grasped something, but also as if I hadn’t. At least I understood one thing: my master must have had a reason for saying that.

The camera then pans to show the master of Chengxin’s master, Uncle Chen!

Cheng Xin Ge was also excited at once. Uncle Chen in front of the camera seemed to have an unconcealable fatigue. I looked at him carefully. His hair was also a little wet. Was this hinting at something?

At this point, I was almost certain that this DVD was definitely not simple!