Chapter 162: The Elderly in Luxury Mansions
The crown of this huge pine tree was like a dense dark cloud, with Li Changsheng lying horizontally on it, his head resting on his hands, gazing up at the vast starry sky.
Moonlight poured down his entire body like clear spring water, and a cool mountain breeze brushed over his face. In his ears, he listened to the constant chirping of insects and birds in the mountains and felt the tranquility far away from the hustle and bustle of the world.
Li Changsheng allowed his thoughts to soar in the deep night for a while, and finally closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Under the same moonlight, in a magnificent mansion in the capital city of Beijing, an elderly man with gray hair and a goatee woke up from his dream. Although it was a cold winter night, the walls of the house had carbon fire interlayers, and the interior was warm as spring. The old man still casually put on a vermilion leather coat. After feeling calm, he supported the edge of the bed with his hand, slowly stood up, and walked to the bathroom on the right side of the bedroom. Half an hour later, the old man sighed and said, "The ancients said that a living person cannot be suffocated by urine! But I know that a living person can really be suffocated by urine!" He walked out of the bathroom with a dejected expression. After waking up from being suffocated by urine in his sleep, he got up and stayed in the bathroom for half an hour. His bladder was painful and he didn't urinate.
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A senior traditional Chinese medicine practitioner told him that his kidney function was poor, so he had difficulty urinating. The old Chinese medicine doctor prescribed him diuretic herbs, and he improved after taking them, but the effect was not very obvious. He went to see a foreign doctor at Peking Union Medical College Hospital again. Foreign doctors say it's prostate enlargement, which is a common geriatric disease.
The old man slept alone in the bedroom, without a wife by his side, and there were no maids serving in the room. As the saying goes, when a person reaches the age of sixty, they should focus on taking care of their body. At this age, they have already learned about health preservation and are able to restrain their desire to have sex with women.
The old man lit the oil lamp and glanced at the mirror on the wardrobe. In the mirror, his figure was still tall, but time mercilessly left black age spots and wrinkled skin on his face. He tried hard to relax his body, and after a quarter of an hour, he went to the restroom again. This time, he finally successfully urinated.
He quietly arrived in the courtyard without disturbing anyone. He wandered alone under the moon, gazing at these exquisite carved railings, jade pillars, and pavilions, and sighed. His opponents are no longer enemies on the battlefield, nor are they cunning political and business conspirators. His lifelong struggle has made him contemptuous of all opponents in the world, but he still has an invincible enemy called aging. There is also an approaching enemy named Death.
So he became particularly concerned about that dream, perhaps because he often had these thoughts, which is why he had that dream at night. But this dream is also a reminder: if a person cannot live forever, even if wealth is as abundant as water in the ocean, and power is so great that it can be the king of the world, what is the use? Since everyone is ultimately buried in the soil, what is the point of our current efforts?