Compared with the toys of children in Yangjia Village, the toys of children in Yangjiacun City are more refined, and the people in Matcha City do not play with them. They loved playing with match guns and slingshot guns, and then rolling hoops.
These days, if you can roll on a hoop, wear a belt around your waist, carry a water bottle next to you, a pair of white rebound shoes, and a military cap, you will definitely be cool. These are some of the items that are considered artifacts. .
Nowadays, the children in the city are not as squeamish as later generations, and they don't look down on Yang Dongxu, a child from the countryside. Within a few days, they started to play with Yang Dongxu.
But Yang Dongxu didn't want to play with them. Besides marbles, he was interested in some things, because the skills of a few kids in the courtyard really surprised him, so they naturally had a few sparring matches. Afterwards, it was proved that his sword was not old, and he returned the marbles to others, otherwise several little kids would have shed tears, and one of them won a lot without paying attention.
He had no interest in little boys making paper or bamboo sticks. Naturally, the little girl is even less interested in kicking shuttlecocks and flipping ropes. So in addition to going crazy the past few days just to be familiar with the kids in the courtyard, Yang Dongxu started to become a little lonely again.
But even behind him there is a little tail - Wu Xue.
Wu Xue's nickname is Xiaoxue. She is six years old this year, one year older than Yang Dongxu's sister and one year younger than him. She has two little pigtails and is pretty pink. Her parents are both workers, so they are busy from morning to night every day and have no time to take care of her.
Normally, Xiaoxue can be sent to a nursery. Today's nurseries don't have any learning tasks. They just have a few adults watching the children play to prevent fights or anything like that, so she can usually feel at ease.
But this summer vacation, Xiaoxue's parents were a little dumbfounded. They usually had to drag the elderly people in the courtyard to take care of her. But the old man also has his own things to do, so he can't always look after your children, right? My own children also follow the older children and run around and play.
I don’t know if Yang Dongxu’s maturity beyond his peers gave Xiaoxue a sense of security, or if he had never bullied Xiaoxue to tears when he first came here, so he didn’t have any inner shadow. In short, Xiaoxue became his follower within a few days of wandering around the courtyard, calling Brother Xu and Brother Xu affectionately behind him.
When Yang Dongxu saw Xiaoxue, he couldn't help but think of his sister in the countryside, so he had nothing to say and take him with him. After hanging around in the courtyard for a few days, Yang Dongxu took Xiaoxue's little hand and walked out of the door.
There is no place for fun. Although there are some small merchants and hawkers in the city now selling some things in the alleys, those things cannot attract Yang Dongxu's attention at all.
There were very few shops around. Not far away, there were some street stalls next to the Huode Zhenjun Temple. After looking at them for a few times, they were nothing interesting. They were just toys to entertain children, so he pulled Xiaoxue and ran into the temple. Go play.
It was a little strange that the person living in the temple was not a monk but a Taoist priest Yang Dongxu, but I understood it when I saw that all the Taoist gods and gods were enshrined inside.
The temples at this time did not require tickets. Except for a few Taoist priests who saw Yang Dongxu and Xiaoxue and said a few words to go out and play and not run around here for fear that children would be too naughty and damage things in the temple, there were no tickets at all. People take care of you.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, they are all good things. If you get them back, they will be treasures in a few decades." Yang Dongxu's eyes were shining as he looked at the incense burners and lamps in the temple.
Although he didn't know anything about antique appraisal, there was no doubt that these were genuine. People these days are sincere, and they are more in awe of gods and so on. Naturally, they will not fool the gods with some vain gadgets like later generations.
"Brother Xu, I'm hungry..." Yang Dongxu ran from this room to that room. Yang Dongxu, who kept thinking about how to get these antiques home, was pulled by Xiaoxue.
"Um..." Yang Dongxu forgot the time while looking at the baby. He stretched his head from under the eaves and looked outside to see that it was indeed noon.
After reluctantly looking at the rooms that he had not yet entered, Yang Dongxu had no choice but to hold Xiaoxue and prepare to go home for dinner. Zhou Yiren was very at ease with him, so he hung the key around his neck and went back to make whatever he wanted to eat. Zhou Yiren would not come back to eat at noon at work.
Zhou Yiren bought him breakfast in the morning and brought food back from the work canteen in the evening. When he cooked once, Yang Dongxu looked down upon him and he never cooked again.
Therefore, Yang Dongxu became deeply worried about his living standard. He really couldn't understand how Zhou Yiren had survived so many years in Yangjia Village without being poisoned to death by cooking something so unpalatable.
"Sniff..." Just as he was about to hold Xiaoxue's little hand and leave, a scent of fragrance floated into his nostrils. Xiaoxue next to him also wiggled his nose like a puppy. It was strange that he was not hungry anymore. I mean, the meat is fragrant.
Without leaving, Yang Dongxu followed the scent and looked for it to see if he could have lunch. The two little kids couldn't eat much anyway, so they had to pay for it.
When he left Yangjiacun, Yang Dongxu's parents gave him a huge sum of 500 yuan. Of course, Zhou Yiren kept the money, but he just kept it and did not hide it. Zhou Yiren never paid attention to Yang Dongxu when it came to money and knew that he would not take it randomly. So at this time, Yang Dongxu had a huge sum of two yuan in his pocket. It was not a big problem to have a meal.
Following the scent, Yang Dongxu passed through a side door and walked forward along the narrow walkway for a while. A small courtyard appeared in Yang Dongxu's field of vision.
I didn't have time to pay attention to how such a remote courtyard could appear in the temple, and the house looked very dilapidated. His eyes were fixed on a small wooden house on the left side of the courtyard, from which the scent wafted. And he also heard the squeaking sound of meat being stir-fried in the pot.
Xiaoxue was a little scared when she came to the unfamiliar small courtyard. Although she kept swallowing her saliva while smelling the smell of meat, she pulled Yang Dongxu and didn't dare to come forward.
Yang Dongxu patted her little hand comfortingly, and then shouted to the hut at the top of his lungs: "Is there anyone there? Is the meal ready?"
This voice startled Xiaoxue, and there was a clanking sound in the kitchen, as if a spatula fell to the ground. The next moment, an old man wearing a Taoist priest's headband and Taoist robes poked his head out of the kitchen.
"If you care about my lunch, I won't expose you for eating meat." Yang Dongxu controlled the muscles on his face to look serious.
But where can a little kid over seven years old go in a serious way? Although the clothes on his body were a little white after washing, Yang Dongxu really couldn't bear the crawling of lice and other small animals on his body. He was too clean at home.
Nowadays, a little boy who is dressed simply and cleanly can definitely be equated with cuteness. After all, Yang Dongxu is not ugly, and his family's living conditions are good, so he does not have the skinny complexion of the current child who is malnourished.
"Expose you, the old Taoist believes in Zhengyi, not the whole truth, let alone eating meat and getting married." Seeing that they were two little brats, the Taoist breathed a sigh of relief and glared at Yang Dongxu. The voice scared him quite a bit.
This time it was Yang Dongxu's turn to be dumbfounded. In his eyes, all the monks and Taoist priests in the world seemed to be the same. As for what kind of Buddha Xinfeng was and what teaching he was divided into, he really didn't know. It seemed like this old Taoist priest was not joking.
"I don't know how to call the Taoist priest. The monks are compassionate, and the Buddha cut meat to feed the eagles. Can you give us a lunch?" Yang Dongxu couldn't scare him, so he had to change his face to a smile.
"That's Buddha. I'm a Taoist who believes in the Three Pure Ones." The old Taoist glanced at Yang Dongxu speechlessly and retracted his head. He kept muttering: "What a ghost. Are all the children like this now?"
Xiaoxue took Yang Dongxu's hand and wanted to let him leave. Although the smell of meat attracted her, the old Taoist priest didn't seem to be a good person.
The old Taoist priest's words made Yang Dongxu blush a little and rubbed his nose with his hands to hide his embarrassment. It would be excusable if he didn't know the difference between Zhengyi and Quanzhen. But it’s a bit embarrassing to use the words of the Buddha to ask a Taoist priest to show mercy. Isn’t it like going to a Taoist temple to find a monk, and your brain is caught in the door?
However, as a man with a mental age of over 40 years old, Yang Dongxu is quite thick-skinned. Since the other party did not directly drive him away, it proves that there is a way to this matter. Besides, the smell of the meat was so attractive, and he had been short of oil and water in his stomach for the past two days.
I took Xiaoxue, who was a little scared, to sit down at the stone table under the vines in the small courtyard. There were already two plates of dishes on the stone table with bowls upside down. Obviously this was the place where the old Taoist priests ate.
Seeing that the little kid in front of him was not scared away, but instead walked into the kitchen as if no one was watching, picked up the gourd and scooped out half a ladle of water, ran to the yard to wash the little girl's hands, and washed himself, the old Taoist priest's eyes widened. My eyes felt like they were blurred for a few days.
"Kid, which family do you come from?" Seeing the two little kids sitting on the stone bench, drooling over the dishes on the plate without eating first, the old Taoist priest walked out of the kitchen carrying a casserole and asked .
Bubbles were rolling in the casserole, and the meat inside was rolling with the bubbles, emitting a mouth-watering meaty aroma. This is a pot of rabbit meat, because Yang Dongxu saw the rabbit head in the pot at a glance. Although the rabbit meat in July is not as fat as in autumn, after eating green grass for several months, it will not be as dense as in winter, so it still tastes good.
"It's from Mao'er Hutong across the street. We just moved here." Seeing the old Taoist priest holding three small bowls and three pairs of chopsticks, Yang Dongxu knew that he had his lunch.
But when he saw that there were only three dishes on the table, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Let's make another dish. How can we eat three dishes?"
"Scream, you don't know a lot. If you like to eat or don't eat, you will be depressed." Hearing Yang Dongxu's words, the old Taoist priest was stunned for a moment, and then he opened his mouth and laughed. While laughing, he winked at Yang Dongxu like an old child. .
There is an old rule that when entertaining guests, you should not serve an odd number of dishes, because the odd-numbered dishes are called "lame dishes" and are meant for entertaining bastards. However, people are poor now, so if you are more particular about three dishes, five, or seven I didn’t care much if the food was not serious banquet noodles.
But three dishes are too obvious. Even in rural areas and poor families, when entertaining guests, they can prepare four dishes with peanuts or even jujubes just picked from the tree.
"Children are not guests, you can go wherever you want." Yang Dongxu muttered, put a few pieces of rabbit meat without many bones in Xiaoxue's bowl to cool first, then picked up his own small bowl and put some vegetables in Xiaoxue's bowl. Feed her in front of you.
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