SuWen is one chapter of The Medical Classic (Huang Di Nei Jing), written by emperor Huang in ancient times. It said that ancient people could keep their physical fitness even at the age of one hundred.
Ye Fan, the true believer of SuWen, just finished his reading and closed The Medical Classic holding in his hands. He had a strong aspiration for ancient times. However, there was not any elaborate or exhaustive record of that period in Chinese history, which made it more mysterious to the public. That mist-covered forbidden history inspired his curiosity all the time.
The leaves of several parasol trees were gently swaying in the breeze, with a sound of “sha-sha”. These trees were bending slightly in the wind. Fresh air blew into the room through the window. As a fan of weird ancient books, Ye Fan served him a cup of tea and continued his reading tirelessly.
“There wasn’t any physical signal of aging for ancient people. They all had a life expectation for more than one hundred years old. But how could it be?” He murmured.
As a modern people who believed in natural laws, Ye Fan remained unconvinced of what was written in SuWen. He was only curious about the reasons why such mysterious ancient history was mentioned so vaguely by the ancients in many classics, with strong longing for it.
It seemed that an ancient civilization permanently disappeared in the history. “Is it possible that there is an unknown history?” After thinking for a while, Ye Fan kept on reading The Medical Classic.
The Medical Classic is our national treasure, which was completed several thousand years ago. It is known as one of the three most mysterious ancient classics in China. Although we were not fully convinced of what it said, we couldn’t deny that The Medical Classic is of the great value.
“Hold Tian and Di, balance Yin and Yang, open your breath, get your spirit, integrate your muscle and you will be immortal, that’s how it works.” SuWen mentioned that there were immortal ancients who could figure out the principle of the universe and trained their spirits. It’s hard for modern people to believe.
Unknowingly, the sun went down. The sunset glow tinted the sky red, as well as the grass outside the window and the parasol trees in the yard. Ye Fan closed The Medical Classic holding in his hands once again, and prepared for the school reunion tonight, which was of great importance to him.
He has graduated from the college for three years and stayed here for a living. Reminiscing about the past, Ye Fan felt that his student days would never return, which was so pure and clean.
It was hard to say whether three years was a long time or not. All his classmates came to different places in China and had their own lives. One melodious mobile phone ringtone interrupted his thought, which was made from his classmate Lin Jia, a pretty girl with great shrewdness.
She went to a neighboring city after graduation and got a promotion with extraordinary tricks, now acting as a department manager. Pressing the answer key, Ye Fan heard the voice of Lin Jia, who had showed her talents in communication on campus. Her strong competence in communication always made it easy for her to build a good relationship with others.
“What happened? Do you miss me?” Ye Fan said on the phone.
Lin Jia answered it with laugh and said: “I am not so sure about where the reunion is. Maybe we can go to the party together.”
After setting up the meeting place, Ye Fan drove his car to pick up Lin Jia. In college, he once expressed his feelings to Lin Jia. However, he was tactfully rejected by Lin Jia with an excuse for their unfitness.
Lin Jia was very pretty, but her shrewdness was more than her beauty. She knew what she wanted and how to get it. In some ways, Lin Jia was so realistic. There was still ten minutes left for their appointment. Ye Fan parked his car in front of a shopping mall and stepped off the curb, waiting for Lin Jia.
The city was covered by the glow of the setting sun. Many buildings were beautifully wrapped in a light golden layer. Cars ran in an endless stream, so did the crowd.
Several minutes later, a Toyota pulled off the road. Lin Jia opened the door and walked to Ye Fan. She looked just the same as before, gorgeous and elegant.
Ye Fan walked to her as well with a smile, and he joked: “You have your own chauffeurs now?”
Lin Jia replied: “Don’t make fun of me please. That’s our friend Liu Yunzhi.”
They only had a few conversations in the past three year. Although they hadn’t seen each other for two years, Lin Jia was still young and fashionable as always. She dressed casual with skinny jeans and a purple T-shirt.
Her clothing fitted her slender figure and showed the body curves. Her shoulder-length hair was soft, black and shiny. Her slightly upward eyes were in a good shape, with long eyelashes, which naturally gave her a special temperament of femininity.
“Long time no see. How about you?” Lin Jia said.
“I’m okay.” Ye Fan answered with a smile and joked again, “It’s a pity for a beauty like you that you haven’t become an actress.”
“Are you kidding me?” Lin Jia looked back at him with a touching smile. Two red lips made her lovely and sexy.
Right now, the man who was sitting on the driver place of that Toyota lower down the window. It was Liu Yunzhi, the previous classmate of Ye Fan, who he was so familiar with. Liu Yunzhi also stayed here after graduation.
With the help of his relative backstage, he set up a middle-sized company, which made him one accomplished entrepreneur among the peer. Although they lived in the same city, they seldom contacted each other because of their conflict in college.
Liu Yunzhi didn’t get off but talked to Ye Fan, with a fake smile on her face. “Long time no see.”
“Yes, of course. Perhaps we could find a time to hang out together.” Ye Fan replied plainly, as a response to his impoliteness.
“Did you come here by taxi?” Liu Yunzhi asked an embarrassing question to Ye Fan.
However, Ye Fan didn’t care about his arrogance, so he just ignored his hostile question.
As a clever girl, Lin Jia suddenly realized what was going on between her two classmates, so she smiled to Ye Fan. “Our reunion party is prepared in such a hurry, so I only called up some of our classmates who stay here. Maybe we can get a lift from Liu Yunzhi.”
Before Ye Fan gave his reply, Liu Yunzhi had made an apology at first. “I’m so sorry that I have already promised to pick up my friends. There may not be any seat available for Ye Fan.”
“It doesn’t matter. You can go first, and I'll catch up later. Lin Jia, do you want to go with me?” Ye Fan answered.
Lin Jia hesitated for a while. At that time, Liu Yunzhi said to her: “You’d better go with me if you don’t want others to look down on you.”
Lin Jia finally decided to go with Liu Yunzhi, after standing for several minutes. She apologized to Ye Fan and went back to the Toyota.
When they lifted the windows, Ye Fan heard Liu’s whisper: “How could Ye Fan grab a taxi in the rush hour?” Then the Toyota left right away.
In the previous days, Ye Fan was so famous on campus. But today, he was assumed to get here by taxi. Compared with Liu Yunzhi, Ye Fan was not so successful at all. Although he had got accustomed to those arrogant people like Liu Yunzhi, he was still surprised by what Lin Jia acted today.
Nevertheless, everyone had the right to choose their attitudes of life. After all, we had to make a living, so we were unavoidably utilitarian or money-oriented sometimes. Ye Fan had got used to that and never felt disgusted with it.
The sun continued to go down and finally disappeared below the horizon. The sky went dark gradually in blood red. The night came to arrive.
At that moment, nine dragon corpses were remaining in carrying the huge bronze coffin, standing still in the dark outer space, like a frozen moment of the universe.
Astronauts of the space station had sent that picture back to the base on earth, waiting for further constructions.
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