Uncle: "Well, there is enough sunshine this year, so it will ripen early."
Chen Zhenji's father was surprised: "You still have lychees here? Our mountains are all contracted to grow lychees, and there is no place to pick them if you want to eat them."
The uncle pointed behind him: "It's almost the same here, except for the hilltop behind the house. Except for the children who are still studying in the village, no one is willing to go up the mountain to pick this thing. Today's children usually It’s all kinds of snacks and fruits. Unlike our past, there wasn’t even a piece of lard candy…”
I forgot to mention that Chen Zhenji’s uncle’s house was built on the side of a mountain, some distance from the village.
Chen Zhenji helped peel the snow peas and left: "I'm going to my second uncle's house to have a look."
My second uncle's house was right next door, separated by a pig pen and a banana grove.
Compared with the first uncle's house, the second uncle's house also has a large yard, which is surrounded by walls. My second uncle works as a dean at No. 8 School in Orange County, and my second aunt also works in the city. She usually lives in the family building of the school and only comes back occasionally.
We are also busy here, washing and selecting various vegetables, which will be cooked and brought over later. Turn on the stoves on both sides at the same time to save time. Otherwise, with two small family stoves on one side, it would take at least two o'clock in the afternoon to eat.
When the second aunt saw Chen Zhenji, the first thing she asked was: "Hey, handsome boy, you are here? How are you? Have you found a girlfriend?"
Hearing this, Chen Zhenji's expression twisted directly: "Second aunt, please give me some face. There are many people today, so don't ask such questions, okay?"
"Hey, it's time for a boy to get married and a girl to get married. What's wrong with that? She'll be thirty in two years. Do you still want to wait until forty or fifty before looking for her?"
"Axing is only two years younger than me. Why don't you urge him?"
"He found it."
ha? ! !
Chen Zhenji was in disbelief and turned to look at his cousin Wu Guangxing next to him.
Wu Guangxing scratched his head in embarrassment and giggled.
Wow, you thick eyebrows and big eyes, you actually did this to me without making a sound? !
Chen Zhenji was so depressed that he vomited blood.
So, the reason why I don’t want to visit relatives less and less is because of this.
When I had no money before, my elders would ask if I had made any money when talking about myself. Later, when I made some money, they would start asking me if I had a girlfriend.
It's not that we can't understand their concern for the younger generations as elders, but sometimes, it's really embarrassing and a bit like humiliation.
I know my situation, and you know my situation, but you still mention this in front of everyone.
Of course, even if my second aunt doesn't ask, other relatives will.
Even if you find a girlfriend, you will still be asked when you will get married, whether you want to buy a house in the city, what you plan to decorate the house into, and when you will have children.
I can understand that the relatives have no ill intentions, but Chen Zhenji is just a little unhappy.
He smiled politely, sat down to drink a cup of tea, and quickly left.
…
Return to my uncle's house.
"Zhenji, I've picked some nuts. They're on the coffee table. Eat a few."
When my aunt saw him coming back, she greeted him.
Chen Zhenji picked a few ripe ones and tasted them: "It's okay, quite sweet."
Just eat a few and you'll be fine. If you eat too much of this thing, you won't be able to poop out. When he thinks of this, the dead memories immediately come out to attack him.
Aversion to cold.
"Where's Guangrong? Didn't he just come back?"
"I went upstairs. I held my mobile phone all day long and didn't read a book. I'm already a teenager. I still don't know how to think about problems with my brain. I just play here and there. It looks like I'm going to a technical school after I finish junior high school. ,Why."
Speaking of this, my aunt couldn't help but complain.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems that few of his relatives on his mother's side are good at studying.
My eldest uncle's cousin Wu Guangming counts as one, my second uncle's cousin Wu Guangxi also counts as one, and then there is a younger cousin from my aunt's family who is still in high school and her grades are okay, but the others are gone.
Including him, he didn't even pass the college entrance examination.
Some of my brother-in-law's family even stopped studying after junior high school and went directly to work.
He used to think that it was nothing if he didn't study, and he could just work part-time, since he wouldn't starve to death anyway. It was only after I went into society and suffered all kinds of beatings that I realized that it was better to study.
If you read more books, for example, learn computer programming, you can write game plug-ins yourself. Why do you need to ask others to buy them?
If you study more, you should find a good job in the provincial capital and stay in a big city. If you can't make it, you can only go back to the countryside to develop.
For poor people, studying is definitely the best way out.
He has a classmate who also comes from a rural family. He passed the high school entrance examination and passed the experimental class of Orange County No. 1 Middle School. He passed the college entrance examination and passed the National University of China. He graduated from graduate school last year and went directly to the public examination. I heard that he is now working as a deputy in a district bureau in the provincial capital. treatment.
Only 27 years old!
Maybe he will become the county magistrate in a few years.
This should be considered a class jump, right?
Occasionally mentioning each other in the classmate group, everyone sounded envious.
Chen Zhenji was also envious. Although he made a little money by running a game studio at home, one day the market went bad and he had to find another way to make money.
The more I think about it, the more I feel sad.
If he could go back to his student days, if nothing else, he would study hard even to the death.
They say that studying is hard. No matter how hard it is, can it be as hard as opening ten numbers in front of a computer and working sixteen hours a day?
He was only 27, but his lumbar and cervical vertebrae had already begun to have problems. If he hadn't received the cultivation method taught by Chen Jingle, whether he would have lived to 60 was a question.
…
Near noon, all the relatives arrived and were ready to have dinner.
As the dishes were served one after another, Chen Zhenji began to help set up bowls for soup and greeted the elders to take their seats.
"Where's Guangrong? Are you still playing with your phone? Hurry up and call him down for dinner. Your relatives are all here. What are you talking about!"
The uncle came out of the kitchen, glanced around, and frowned immediately.
"You guys eat first, I'll call him."
After speaking, the aunt went upstairs.
But he quickly came back: "Do you still have antipyretics at home? Guangrong said he felt a little uncomfortable. I touched his forehead and it was a little hot. He must have a fever."
Hearing this, everyone paused with their chopsticks and looked worried.
"Ah? You were fine just now."
"Do you want to go to the hospital? I can drive there quickly."
"It's okay, it's okay. Maybe he sweated too much while running back and forth and was blown by the wind. The child's skin is strong, just take some medicine and wait for the fever to subside and he'll be fine."
The eldest aunt waved her hand, took the medicine and went upstairs.
"I'm going to see if I need any help."
Cousin Wu Guangming put down the bowl he just picked up and followed suit.
Because of this, everyone didn't know what to say for a while, and they were all a little silent.
The uncle had to ask everyone to eat first.
Actually, I'm not really worried. Colds and fevers are minor problems, and country kids aren't that delicate.
Everyone was chatting while eating, but Chen Zhenji didn't want to interrupt, for fear that everyone would bring the topic to him again, so he simply ate and put down his bowls and chopsticks.
He walked up to the second floor and saw Wu Guangming coming down.
Just asked: "How's it going?"
"I took fever-reducing tablets and slept in the room. My mother was watching."
"Then you go eat first, and I'll go up and take a look."
The cousins patted each other on the shoulders.
…
Go up to the second floor room.
"Aunt."
Chen Zhenji raised his head and shouted softly.
"Um?"
My aunt turned around in surprise.
Chen Zhenji basically wanted to let her go down to eat first and just watch it by himself. However, when he saw his little cousin on the bed, he was immediately stunned.
uh-huh? It seems like it's not just a fever.
"Auntie, please step aside and let me take a look."
Chen Zhenji waved.
My aunt didn't know why she stood up.
When Chen Zhenji took a closer look, he could more and more notice the strange aura on his cousin's body.
He immediately turned his head and said, "Auntie, please step back and don't get too close."
"What's wrong?"
Auntie asked nervously.
"It's okay. No matter what you see later, just don't tell anyone."
Chen Zhenji took off the amulet from his neck and put it in the hands of his little cousin Wu Guangrong.
The next second, a faint black energy emerged from Wu Guangrong's body.
Gee, there’s nothing to say about Brother Le’s talisman, it’s awesome!
There was no time to sigh, Chen Zhenji had quick eyes and quick hands, and with a sudden slap, the faint black energy was completely shattered.
Done!
Because it was just a trivial matter in the first place. This energy was brought back from outside. It was not a clean thing, but it was not too harmful. Even if he didn't take action, the little cousin would be sick for a day or two at most.
When my aunt saw it from behind, she thought it was an illusion and subconsciously exclaimed in a low voice.
"never mind."
Chen Zhenji turned back and smiled at her, but he was a little excited inside.
This was the first time he encountered something beyond the scope of science after what happened to his nephew. This is also the first time I have dealt with this kind of thing personally since I started practicing.
There is an inexplicable sense of accomplishment.
It was like coming out of the foot bath shop for the first time.
I have grown up! !
…
"Just now, what was that?" my aunt asked nervously.
Chen Zhenji came to his senses, put the amulet back on himself, smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's just illness."
After all, I didn’t tell the truth so as not to worry my aunt.
At this time, the little cousin on the bed opened his eyes and shouted in confusion: "Mom." Then he looked at Chen Zhenji and said, "Brother Ji."
Chen Zhenji asked out of curiosity: "Guangrong, did you come across anything strange when you went to pick the seeds?"
The little cousin got up and scratched his head and ears, like a little monkey: "What's weird? Nothing. Does it count if I almost stepped on cow dung?"
"Then which mountain did you pick it from?"
"I didn't go far from the back of the house. I wanted to pick more, but that guy Mu Yi said he had a stomachache and kept urging me to come back. Hey, it turns out that lazy people poop a lot."
Chen Zhenji didn't know where he got the courage to tell others. Sure enough, it was not unreasonable for him to be beaten by his father.
"Then when picking, did you step on other people's graves?"
"It seems there is. I didn't pay attention, so I just stepped on it. I just stepped on it, and I stepped on it again."
That's right.
Chen Zhenji scratched his chin. In fact, country people had many taboos about going to the mountains.
In addition to not entering the old forest or spending the night, they are also not allowed to yell, pee or poop in the mountains, etc. In the past, when children went up the mountain to pick tweezers, the elders in the family would tell them this and that, and they must not violate taboos to avoid getting into trouble.
The most typical thing is not to touch things near the grave.
The tomb is someone else's home, someone else's territory. If you go to someone else's house to pick their fruits, you won't be surprised if you encounter someone with a kind heart, but not necessarily someone with a bad mind.
Although his little cousin is not bad in nature, he is often mischievous and mischievous. He is at the age where people hate dogs, but fortunately he did not commit suicide to the point of kicking down other people's tombstones.
After clarifying the context of the matter, Chen Zhenji suddenly had an idea.
First, he told her aunt that her cousin was fine to reassure her, and then told her not to mention it to anyone.
Li Feng nodded repeatedly, looking at this nephew, he felt that he was really different from before.
…
Chen Zhenji thought of a way.
He ran to the mountain behind, threw a few handfuls of rice as an apology, and then cursed a few times.
That's right, just scolding.
Swear it for those lying under the round earth bag, whether it is or not.
"The child is ignorant, just punish him. If you dare to harm his life, be careful as I will raze your grave and scatter the ashes for you!"
To deal with these things, you have to scold them as harshly as possible.
After scolding, spit hard, turn around and leave without stopping.
These are passed down from the elders in the family.
His grandfather was considered a semi-divine man, and he was the first person everyone thought of when it came to various Shinto rituals in the village, such as Land Master or Huaguang. So I like to talk about some weird things.
He didn't believe it at the time, but after following Chen Jingle and being exposed to a different world, he took the initiative to ask, and remembered some of it whether it was true or false.
After asking, I shared it with Chen Jingle and asked him to help identify and resolve doubts. Although the cultivation progress is not fast, he knows a lot of wild roads in the countryside.
After doing all this, Chen Zhenji's thoughts suddenly became clear, and his heart couldn't help but feel wandering.
I had never thought that one day I would know these things, and I suddenly felt like "I have become successful".
I couldn't help it, so I talked about it in a small group of three people at Maeda Village's house with great joy.
"Brother Chicken is awesome! [Applause]"
"Brother Chicken is awesome! [Applause]"
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The brothers cooperated like this, and Chen Zhenji instantly felt that kind of pleasure coming from the depths of his soul, and he came up with just a scratch.
"No matter what, Brother Le's amulet is still useful!"
I quickly said a few words of humility, but I couldn't hide the smile on my face.
But speaking of it, without this amulet, I'm afraid it would have taken a lot of effort, and it would definitely not be so easy.
Thinking about it this way, Chen Zhenji felt that Brother Le was still the best, and he was far behind.
"You have to keep working hard."
If I didn't study hard back then, I missed an opportunity to change my destiny. I can't miss it again this time.
