Chapter 126 Trapped in love, liver qi stagnation
Chen Jue talked a lot with Wang Biao in the car, especially about the strange smell emanating from his body. Wang Biao even thought that Chen Jue had sprayed some men's perfume like cologne!
Moreover, the more he smelled the strange fragrance, the more comfortable he felt. Even Wang Biao forgot his usual habit of smoking while driving.
When sending Chen Jue to the high-speed railway station in Baoshan City, Wang Biao specifically told Chen Jue to take time out to visit Cheng Wei who was starting a business after arriving in Beidu.
It is said that this roommate has been acting a little strange in recent years. He is often seen posting updates about going to the hospital on his WeChat Moments. It is not known whether his health has been ruined by starting a business or if he has encountered some other incident.
"I'll talk to Wei Gou. A Biao, you should also take care of your health and remember to practice Ba Duan Jin! Also, I wish you good luck in opening your store and become a boss soon!" Chen Jue nodded when he heard it and said to Wang Biao before getting out of the car.
"Haha! With advice from a military advisor like you, Lao Mao, my business is guaranteed to be booming! I'm going to go back and practice the Eight-Section Brocade you mentioned. Seeing you look so good, I'm a little tempted." After sending someone a thousand miles away, it's time to say goodbye. Wang Biao said goodbye to Chen Jue happily and planned to drive home to be with his wife and children.
But before driving away, Wang Biao rolled down the window and said, "Old Cat! Don't worry about opening the store. I promise to return the 50,000 yuan you lent me by the end of the year!"
Wang Biao had obviously borrowed money and had been thinking about it all the time. He wanted to make money as soon as possible to pay it back, so he stayed up late for days to prepare for the plan of opening a store. He took the opportunity of their separation to confide his thoughts.
The friendships between male roommates in college are often like this. They may seem plain and simple, but they actually care about each other and don't want to owe each other favors for fear of ruining the friendship in the future.
"Is it enough to just pay back the money? When that guy Ruan Ping gets married in November, you'll have to bring more specialties from the store to pay the interest!" Chen Jue smiled and said jokingly. Finally, he put on his bag, waved goodbye to Wang Biao, turned around and walked into the station.
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There was no direct train from Baoshan to Beidu, so Chen Jue first bought a ticket to Kunshi, stayed there for one night, and then took a high-speed train heading north early the next morning.
It is more than 2,000 kilometers from here to Beijing, and the most convenient way is to take a plane.
It’s just that Chen Jue was still worried because of the radiation he experienced when he took a plane last time. In addition, after forming the elixir, he needed a stable environment to nurture the elixir. Taking a plane into the sky was like leaving the earth.
This is extremely insecure for practitioners, so they choose to take the high-speed rail which takes more than 10 hours.
In order to kill time in the car, Chen Jue either looked through the materials downloaded from the group, continued to study Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, medicine, and boxing classics, or chatted with Yun Xiaomei and his roommates on WeChat, and occasionally looked up to appreciate the changing scenery along the way.
It was around 7:30 in the evening when the high-speed train arrived at the Beidu station.
Before leaving the station, Chen Jue's cell phone rang. He glanced at the caller ID, knew it was Cheng Wei calling, and picked up the call.
A hoarse voice sounded from the other end of the phone: "Old Cat! I'm still in a meeting right now, so I can't go to the station to pick you up for now. Can you take the subway over here? Stay at my house tonight, and we can have a midnight snack together!"
"Okay! You go ahead and do your work!"
Chen Jue heard from the phone that the other party was in a rather noisy environment. Knowing that the other party was busy with work, he hung up without chatting much.
After leaving the station and taking two subways, which took more than 20 minutes, Chen Jue arrived at Taoting Station in the west of Beidu with ease.
September had already brought autumn to the capital. The trees along the streets were covered with golden leaves, and the roads were busy with cars and pedestrians. This was the street of the capital, not the sparsely populated wilderness where Chen Jue had stayed before.
"It has been more than five years since I last came here." Chen Jue strolled along the street, looking at the white-collar workers who had just got off work and were in a hurry. There was constant noise in several familiar old restaurants along the way, and the air was filled with the long-lost aroma of food.
Beef ramen, hot pot, grilled lamb skewers, pancake stalls, and the bustling Taoting Park all reminded Chen Jue of the hard time he had just graduated and moved to Beijing.
After graduating from the University of Vancouver, the six roommates went their separate ways, except Chen Jue and the fifth roommate Cheng Wei, who went to Beijing together. They spent almost two years of work experience in this unfamiliar northern city.
After walking for about 10 minutes according to the location sent by Cheng Wei, Chen Jue arrived at a large indoor shopping mall close to a high-end residential area and took the escalator to the top floor of the mall.
There is a brand chain early childhood education center here, which is the entrepreneurial investment project of Cheng Wei.
It was already 8pm, and the teachers at the early childhood education center had already gone off work. But the lights were still on, and several members who lived nearby were playing with their children inside.
As soon as Chen Jue entered the door, the girl on duty at the front desk looked over curiously, because Chen Jue's face was too unfamiliar and he didn't look like a member inside. Besides, it was almost closing time, and Chen Jue, an adult without a child, entering the early childhood education center would definitely attract attention.
But after seeing Chen Jue's face and figure clearly, the girl at the front desk immediately blushed: "Sir! Who are you looking for?"
"Is Cheng Wei in there? Your boss and I are classmates." Chen Jue smiled slightly. With his keen hearing, he could hear the nervous heartbeat of the girl at the front desk.
With Chen Jue's current temperament and appearance , there is absolutely no problem for him to become an internet celebrity. It is not too easy to arouse the heart of a little girl.
"The boss is in a meeting inside! Why don't you come in and sit for a while?" When the girl heard that Chen Jue was an acquaintance of the boss, she became enthusiastic and started to get socks for Chen Jue and lead the way for him.
After taking off his shoes and putting on socks at the shoe-changing area at the entrance, Chen Jue stepped on the brightly colored soft cushions and walked all the way to the innermost office area.
The lights in the conference room in the office area were brightly on, and the voice of Cheng Wei scolding the employees could be heard faintly. Chen Jue smiled as he listened, knowing that this guy had liked playing League of Legends since college. He was so foul-mouthed that he could scold people so badly that they had no power to fight back. He didn't expect that he would bring this energy into work now.
Led by the little girl into Cheng Wei's general manager's office, Chen Jue looked at the childlike decoration in the office, glanced at the scattered documents on the desk, and found a soft sofa to sit down.
After waiting for about half an hour, the meeting outside was over and Cheng Wei, dressed in a suit, gold-rimmed glasses, and a slicked-back hair, looking like a successful man, pushed the door open.
Seeing that Chen Jue had arrived, Cheng Wei immediately put away his serious expression during the meeting and replaced it with a funny and teasing look: "Old cat!"
"Old dog!"
But after seeing Chen Jue's current appearance, Cheng Wei's eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost: "Fuck! Old cat, did you take the magic pill? How come you have changed so much!"
"These are all normal operations! You can be like me after practicing for a period of time, so don't be surprised." Chen Jue waved his hand to signal the other party not to get excited.
"Oh my! Isn't this strange?"
"You're like a different person. How come you've grown taller? You don't even wear glasses anymore? Have you come back from plastic surgery abroad?" Cheng Wei was a little surprised.
He has now achieved some success in his business and often deals with some wealthy members who live nearby, including some minor celebrities and well-known athletes, but none of them can compare with Chen Jue in appearance and temperament.
"Don't talk about me, talk about yourself! How is business now?"
"When I first saw you open that early childhood education center, it didn't seem to be as big as it is now!" Chen Jue deliberately changed the subject. After his practice, he had changed so much that it was difficult for him to explain it clearly to his friends.
"Old Cat, you've been away from Beidu for five years! Your last store is old news now."
"We have invested more than 30 million yuan in this new store. Now we have several thousand members. It is indeed a new level compared to the old store." Seeing that Chen Jue was unwilling to talk more about his own changes, Cheng Wei introduced the situation in the store.
When the two of them moved to Beijing together, Cheng Wei's first job was in the early childhood education market.
But later Chen Jue returned to Hangzhou and continued to be a hard-working office worker, while Cheng Wei stayed. Taking advantage of the newborn boom, he saw the prospects of the early education market, and began to persuade his family to use up their savings. He found several investors, took out a large loan, and started his own business. Now he is considered a young talent with a net worth of over 10 million yuan, and is considered the best one in the dormitory.
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The two chatted for a while in the office, then they became so hungry that they decided to go out and find a place to have a midnight snack and chat slowly.
When passing by the front desk, the girl on duty at the front desk even said hello. She probably wanted Chen Jue's contact information, but she didn't dare to ask more since the boss was not there. She could only post a message in the group chat of several colleagues with a look of regret: "The boss went out with his handsome classmate! I didn't get his number, what a pity! (grievance)"
"Qianqian, this is your fault. You saw a handsome guy and didn't rush over to him? He's the boss's classmate. Isn't it the case that the one who is close to the water gets the moon first? (Smirk)"
"No picture, no truth. Qianqian, please take a picture and come over! I also want to see the boss's handsome classmate! (Heart-shaped eyes)"
There was a burst of laughter in the group, and Chen Jue and Cheng Wei left the mall and found a nearby mutton hotpot restaurant to have a midnight snack and dinner.
Most of the hot pot restaurants in Beidu use old-fashioned copper hot pots. Unlike the hot pots in many places that are heated by induction cookers, the stove in the middle is like a chimney, and there is a charcoal basin inside. You can eat the mutton in a circle around the edge, or roast the meat against the wall of the stove, which is quite flavorful.
When they first came to Beijing, Chen Jue and Cheng Wei would go out for a meal as soon as they got their salary. Hotpot, barbecued meat, and dumplings were their favorite local flavors.
After eating a few plates of beef and mutton, the two opened two bottles of beer and chatted about the recent situation of the people around them while drinking.
Chen Jue knew that Cheng Wei had been dating a local girl after coming to Beidu. When they were in love, they often made plans to meet up for dinner. Thinking that they were still dating, Chen Jue asked Cheng Wei when they would get married, since they were already old enough.
"It's all old news! We broke up the second year after you left!" Cheng Wei took a sip of wine, shook his head and sighed, with a look of unwillingness in his eyes.
Chen Jue knew that the other party was hurt by love. No wonder when they first met, he noticed that although Cheng Wei looked high-spirited, he also had a hint of melancholy.
After forming the golden elixir and practicing his eyesight skills, Chen Jue could roughly guess a person's inner changes through his appearance, facial expressions, and temperament.
This is the "harmony between heaven and man" mentioned in Taoist inner alchemy, and it can only be comprehended when one's cultivation reaches a certain level.
In ancient times, Taoist masters would often go in and out of the residences of high-ranking officials to tell fortunes and read faces for people, and their predictions were always accurate. This actually embodies the principle of "the connection between heaven and man".
"Wei Gou, you are in such good conditions now. You are simply a model of counterattack for losers like me! You still want to break up like this? Isn't that woman blind? She let go of a potential stock like you in vain!" Chen Jue said a few words to comfort him.
"So what if it's a counterattack?"
"Old Cat, do you know how much the house price is around here? Over a hundred thousand per square meter! In order to buy a house, I still owe the bank a 30-year loan!" Cheng Wei took another sip of wine and talked about the difficulties of starting a business, as well as the ups and downs of his last relationship.
The story is nothing more than the love-hate relationship between a young man from outside the city and a beautiful, rich local woman who was relocated. It sounds extremely melodramatic, but it is also extremely realistic.
With Cheng Wei's current net worth of tens of millions, it would only cost him a house within the inner third ring road of Beijing.
It is normal that he, a first-generation entrepreneur with a lot of debt, is not favored by the families who are being relocated.
After all, starting a business these days is risky. If the early childhood education center goes bankrupt one day due to poor business, Cheng Wei, who already has no house, will have nothing left. It is understandable that he was dumped.
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After a few drinks, Cheng Wei felt relieved.
He recounted the pressure of starting a business, the separation from his girlfriend, and the ups and downs of his life in recent years. The arrival of his roommate seemed to give Cheng Wei someone to vent and talk to.
This is the friendship that the two have accumulated over the years, and it is also the habit of sharing their hearts with each other that they developed when they first moved to Beijing together.
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After having this midnight snack and chatting for a long time, both of them smelled a little drunk and walked back to the high-end residential complex that Cheng Wei had just bought nearby.
As expected of a mansion worth tens of millions, the security guards at the door stood upright and provided excellent service. You didn't even have to take a step when you entered the house, you could just get on the sightseeing bus and be taken downstairs.
Moreover, the environment in the community is elegant. I heard from Cheng Wei that you can directly enter Taoting Park through the back door of the community. In the northern capital where every inch of land is valuable, it is indeed high-end.
After going upstairs and entering the room, Cheng Wei brought a quilt to Chen Jue and took it to the second bedroom. He is a bachelor now, and his parents are in their hometown in Northeast China and have not come over, so there is only one bed for the four rooms in the house.
Chen Jue didn't hesitate. He put down his backpack, took out his toiletries and took a hot shower.
When I came out to the living room, I saw Cheng Wei bringing out another bottle of foreign wine. He was drinking and smoking, watching the old-fashioned comedy movie on TV. He didn't look happy at all, and it was obvious that he had been trapped in love for a long time.
"Weigou! Drink less! Go to bed early!"
"No wonder you've been to the hospital so often in the past two years, with all the smoking and drinking, you're even more aggressive than Brother Biao." Chen Jue said as he sat down next to the other person, then stretched out his hand and pressed down on his waist and abdomen. Cheng Wei immediately grimaced in pain.
"Fuck! What are you doing, Old Cat?" Cheng Wei almost jumped up from the sofa after being pressed like this.
Chen Jue combined his own martial arts with the Chinese medicine massage techniques he had learned by himself to press on the opponent's liver, which helped Cheng Wei relieve the depression in his liver.
"You are suffering from emotional stagnation and alcohol consumption, which has caused liver depression and qi stagnation."
"Do you feel better after I pressed you like this?" Chen Jue smiled slightly, looking at the other person who looked furious.
"Damn! It seems to be a lot more comfortable!"
"Great job, Old Cat! I haven't seen you for a few years. Where did you learn this skill?" Cheng Wei was a little surprised by Chen Jue's change, so much so that before going to bed, he kept asking Chen Jue to press him a few more times.
Chen Jue did not refuse. He felt that he had made great progress in his spiritual practice and it would be best if he could help his friends improve their health. So he used the gentle power of Tai Chi to help Cheng Wei massage and clear the depressed Qi in his liver.
It was almost 12 o'clock before they went to their separate rooms to sleep and rest.
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Thanks to his liver qi being straightened out, Cheng Wei slept very comfortably that night, and Chen Jue also had a dreamless sleep.
I woke up early the next day. It was not yet 6 o'clock in the morning. I heard Cheng Wei in the master bedroom next door breathing steadily. It was obvious that he was still in a deep sleep.
Chen Jue knew that his massage technique last night had taken effect, so he put on casual sportswear, went out, passed through the back door of this high-end community, and strolled to the adjacent Taoting Park.
When they were drifting in Beijing, Chen Jue and Cheng Wei shared a small cubicle nearby for 2,000 yuan a month. They set up a bunk bed like the one in the dormitory, and they loved to go to Taoting Park together on weekends.
As time goes by, Cheng Wei has achieved some success in his business and bought a luxury house in a high-end community, but he has lost his love and is trapped by it. Chen Jue, on the other hand, has embarked on a completely different path of spiritual practice.
It can really be said that different people have different destinies!
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After strolling around the park, it was still too early and the old men and women who came for morning exercises nearby had not arrived yet. So Chen Jue slowly practiced Tai Chi beside a small lake in the park planted with big willow trees.
When he was in seclusion in Gongshan before, Chen Jue had been mainly practicing Taoist hard skills, so he had put Tai Chi aside for a long time.
Now that he is revisiting the old place, it is time to pick up Tai Chi again. In addition, after massaging his roommate's meridians last night, Chen Jue also wanted to master the dark power and soft attack as soon as possible.
So much so that more than an hour had passed without me noticing while I was doing this set of Tai Chi.
By the time he was almost done practicing, his proficiency had increased by more than 100 points, but Chen Jue did not feel happy. Instead, he turned around and said to a tall, muscular middle-aged man with a square face who had been staring at him practicing for a long time, "Uncle, you've been staring at me for so long, have you figured out what I'm doing?"
The middle-aged man blushed when Chen Jue asked him this, and then he came up and clasped his fists, performing the old martial arts etiquette: "Young man, I'm sorry! I saw that your Tai Chi posture was very tasteful, and I was fascinated by it! I didn't mean to steal your skills!"
"My last name is Yao, and others call me Yao San. I am a local who practices the Three Emperors Cannon Fist!"
