Volume 4: Beginning of Spring Chapter 21 Key
Dai Qi looked around the yard and asked, "Where's the orange cat I saw last time?"
"I've sent it back. You sit for a while and I'll move a chair over." Jiang You said as he walked towards the store.
Chen Nan and Dai Qi sat down on the recliners.
Dai Qi took a sip of milk tea and asked, "Is Jinguang Temple really effective?"
"It's quite effective. I seemed to have been possessed by a ghost once when I was a child. I felt numb and my eyes wouldn't move. My grandmother immediately asked my father to take me to Jinguang Temple and ask a great monk to chant sutras for me. As the monk was chanting, my eyeballs started to move and I became more alert." Chen Nan also inserted the straw into the milk tea cup.
"Really?" Dai Qi was a little curious.
"I don't remember it myself. I just heard it from my grandma."
"When I went to work overtime at the company on New Year's Day..."
At this time, Jiang You came over with a chair and said, "There won't be many people on the road on the first day of the new year, right?"
"There were very few people, only two people sat in my carriage," Dai Qi recalled. "The man sitting opposite me was so scary."
"Scary?" Chen Nan asked.
"Yes," Dai Qi put his index fingers and thumbs together and placed them over his eyes. "His eyes are this big, and there is no white in them, only the pupils..."
"Is there such a person?" Chen Nan asked with doubt in his tone.
"Maybe I was too tired and dazed," Dai Qi put down her hand and patted her chest gently. "I was really scared that day. When we arrived at the station, I really ran out. Fortunately, the man didn't follow me after I got off the bus."
Chen Nan said: "Then you should go to Jinguang Temple to worship."
"Later, my brother called me and gave me a scolding. I said a few words to him and then forgot about it. After that, I was alone and didn't want to go out."
"Why don't you go back?" Chen Nan asked.
"I don't know. I'm just scared. When I went back two years ago, it was like attending a struggle session. All the aunts and uncles took turns to criticize me. Last year, my brother got married, so I was the only target left," Dai Qi licked his lips and took a sip of milk tea. "Almost all of my classmates and girlfriends in my hometown are married and have children. Some already have two children. I'm out there, not getting married, not having a boyfriend, and I don't know what job I'm doing. I can't save any money..."
"My college classmates are the same. One of them is going to have a child and the other is going to get married this year," Jiang You glanced at the window on the second floor, "and my son will also go to elementary school next year."
"Brother Jiang, how old are you?" Dai Qi asked.
"Almost thirty, twenty-eight."
"Just three years older than me?" Dai Qi was a little unconvinced.
"Do I look old?" Jiang You was unhappy.
"No, I thought..."
"You keep saying you're old, don't you? You've made yourself old," Chen Nan smoothed things over. She stood up and said to Dai Qi, "I'm going to cook. Do you want to eat with me?"
"I just ate," Dai Qi also stood up, "I'm going to the park now, to the Jinguang Temple, Jiang Ge, I'm leaving now."
"Okay, let's play again next time."
After Dai Qi left, Jiang You closed the yard door and followed Chen Nan into the store .
"It's not easy for a little girl to work hard out there on her own," said Chen Nan.
"Outside, whether you live a good life or a bad life is up to you. At home, you always feel unwilling to follow the arrangements," Jiang You threw the finished milk tea cup into the trash can. He took out his mobile phone and checked the time. "It's getting late. I'll go wake him up."
"Go ahead."
Go upstairs.
Push open the side bedroom door.
Jiang Mo sat cross-legged on the bed. He held a black bead in his hand, threw it at the wall, let it bounce back, caught it, and threw it again.
After Jiang You watched for a while, he closed the door of the side bedroom and walked to Jiang Mo's bed and sat down. "It's better to be at home, right?"
"Why do my tenants always cause problems?" He kicked off his shoes and half-lay down on the bed.
"Student Jiang, please recite a poem for me."
Jiang Mo glanced at him.
"Be good, sing a song, and I 'll give you some hot milk later."
After waiting for a few seconds and hearing no response, Jiang You took out the key that Dai Qi returned to him from his pocket, threw it upwards, and the key stopped in mid-air.
A wisp of black mist floated out from the key and condensed into a line of words. Jiang You squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while.
An address, and a date .
The signature is "Sun Xiu".
After more than ten seconds, the black fog dissipated.
"This handwriting is so ugly..." Jiang You looked at Jiang Mo's back. His hair had grown a little longer and covered his neck sparsely.
Reaching out, he grabbed a strand of hair and said, "How about I put a little braid in the back of your hair?"
Jiang Mo turned his head.
Jiang You loosened his hand, "Or give your hair a perm? I remember you have an uncle, so I'll have to cut your hair after the first month of the lunar year."
Jiang Mo threw the black beads to Jiang You.
Jiang You reached out to take it, he put the bead aside, then he stood up, "Tang Butian and I are going to Jinguang Temple in a few days, do you want to come with us?"
"Then I won't go. I don't like bald heads either."
He picked up Jiang Mo, carried him downstairs and walked to the kitchen door.
The stove started to burn.
Some fragrance wafted out.
Chen Nan stood by the pool with his back to him.
The faucet was running and she was washing vegetables.
She took off her coat and pulled her sleeves up a little, revealing her white arms.
After hearing the sound, she turned around and asked, "Xiaomo, are you awake?"
Two faces, one black and one white, were placed side by side. Chen Nan laughed, "Xiaomo didn't get tanned, did you apply sunscreen on him?"
"Maybe drinking more milk will help." Jiang You put the minced ginger down, walked to the refrigerator, took out a carton of milk, and after looking at the date, he threw the milk into the trash can.
"Yunyun is not at home today?" he asked.
"I'm at my parents' house, finishing my winter vacation homework."
"School is about to start, right?"
"School starts on March 1st, and exams will start right after school," Chen Nan picked up a knife, put the washed dwarf greens on the chopping board, cut them twice, and put them aside. "Don't stand here, you're taking up space. Go to the yard and bask in the sun."
"Then I'm going to the convenience store to buy some milk. Do you want to take anything?"
"Bring bottle material bar, it's running out."
"receive."
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang You drank the pork bone soup he had been craving for, gnawed on the bones, sucked the marrow, and ate braised pork, stir-fried lamb with green onions, and stir-fried chicken with edamame. After feeling a little greasy from eating too much meat, he finished most of the plate of vegetables by himself.
"After the Lantern Festival, Sister Nan, be sure to ask me to come with you when you go to the gym." He looked down at Chen Nan.
A few strands of hair stuck to her sweaty forehead.
"Don't you not go."
"Of course."
Jiang Mo squatted by the pond, stirring the water with a camphor tree branch in his hand.
