Chinese Almanac Master Chapter 2027: .2.11

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In the eight days before the approaching Spring Festival of 2027, Xiao Nanzhu, who was a nine-year soldier, finally ended his military career and returned to his hometown of Y City.

Although y city is his hometown, in truth his home would not have come here long ago. He has no father or mother, and his only relative is his grandmother. The old lady had already gone to heaven when he enlisted in the army, because there was not enough money on hand. After the demolition of the old city, Xiao Nanzhu, who was still in the army, could not afford a real estate locally. Now that he is discharged from the army, the transfer fee paid by the army is not too much. Apart from his strength, he has no skill. When he was transferred, his comrades in arms asked him about his future plans. However, Xiao Nanzhu just carelessly He smiled, and then he passed it just one step by one sentence.

For him, the city of Y is just a place for a short rest after wandering for so many years, and for his future, Xiao Nanzhu, who is now nearly a year old, actually didn't think much about it.

He spent the first half of his life in this city. Before the old lady passed away and the house was demolished, his childhood had been living in a very old-fashioned small alley. The Hutong is not big, but there are more than two to thirty households connected to it. They are all old neighbors who have lived nearby for more than sixty years.

These neighbors know each other well, and most of them are engaged in similar businesses. Because city Y can be regarded as a famous historical and cultural city in retrospect, most of these old hutongs are old people who are familiar with traditional folk customs. It may be selling antiques and looking at calligraphy and painting, or looking at the mogu, or upper body dancing, or acupuncture for people to grab medicine. In short, they are old things that are about to be eliminated. A grandma like Xiao Nanzhu is a person who shows people the day. Whenever the girl in the hutong gets married or whose house is on the beam, he must find time for Xiao Nanzhu and his grandma to see the day. The old lady doesn’t go out at ordinary times, she just relies on showing people’s life to earn pocket money to nourish her grandson, and after three generations and four generations passed down, these younger generations who lived here and grew up will inevitably have friendship. When Xiao Nanzhu came back from the army this time, he was the first to notify a good buddy who grew up with him.

Speaking of this buddy, in fact, Xiao Nanzhu himself has not seen him in five or six years. The army has strict management, and occasionally he failed to meet Fa Xiao during family visits. What remains in my memory now is only some scenes of when they were eleven or twelve years old when they were strung together in an alley, and if you think about it, there are only some yellow and messy fragments about them living in that alley.

So just like that, Xiao Nanzhu came back with the thoughts of his hometown and his deceased. The day when he arrived in the city of Y, it happened to be the New Year’s Eve of the Lunar New Year. Facing China’s most turbulent wave of returning home at the end of the year, he walked out from the train station alone with his few luggage, his eyes blurred by the cold. .

In the winter tide, the streets and alleys are all white. Because the Spring Festival is approaching, so the passersby are also full of smiles. Most of the sights outside the station were the backs rushing home with luggage, which made his body taller and straighter. At the moment, the thin man whose face was pale with cold was a little out of place, but when he frowned and nodded at the entrance of the station. Yuxi, when he bit the filter to his mouth and took a sip, he suddenly heard a yelling and yelling not far away,

"Xiao Nanzhu! Xiao Nanzhu! Here it is! Hey! What are you doing stupidly standing there!"

Large, tall, small-inch head, a black jacket with a big jacket reveals frustration, and the man with round sunglasses has his mouth wide open, and he looks strange from a distance.

Xiao Nanzhu, who was still in a daze, raised his eyes and saw this person. At that time, he felt a sudden shock. After confirming that this person was really calling himself and he was familiar from the facial features, he carried his luggage. Walked down the steps a few steps, looked at him up and down with a cigarette in his mouth, then laughed,

"Eh, I said you dressed like this for the New Year, did you come to pick me up, or come to pick me up..."

These words made the young man with sunglasses stunned at the time. He pinched his fingers and took off the sunglasses. He squinted his eyes and whispered with his mouth,

"How do you say it, baby! This is not work clothes! I came to pick you up right after work, and you are still insatiable? What's the matter, buddy, I'm going to be the host today, let's have a drink first Let’s talk about how each of these years have been..."

I haven't seen each other in years, and this guy's tone is not strange. Xiao Nanzhu, who had become accustomed to the cold face, felt a little relieved in his heart for some reason. He raised the corner of his mouth and hooked his neck to give a firm hug. Mr. Situ Zhang, who was dressed like a blind man, burst out laughing when he saw it. Xiao Nanzhu was struck by the neck while he was yelling and walked forward, but his heart was quite warm, and he waited for the two to find a local restaurant to sit in by taxi. After starting to relive the past, it was already half an hour later.

Meeting old friends is nothing more than talking about the past and talking about old love. Both of them grew up together when they were young, and naturally they were a little random in their conversation. Xiao Nanzhu was accustomed to being a soldier outside, and he was not polite with Situ Zhang. He ordered a few dishes and a bottle of wine and leaned on the back of the chair in the small restaurant and started smoking. He has been talking and asking questions since then. Situ Zhang, who asked the question, didn’t care about this guy’s ignorance of his own virtues, he just breathed a sigh of relief, wiped round his sunglasses with a spectacle cloth and asked,

"Has the personal problem been solved?"

"All are public, how to solve it?"

"Has the work problem been solved?"

"Unemployed, what can be arranged."

In a lazy reply like this, Xiao Nanzhu squinted his eyes and shook the soot on his fingertips as if inadvertently. When he came back from this trip, he had already made plans for a long-term career. After all, this society is already under great pressure for employment. Young college students may not find a job, let alone an old soldier like him. After hearing this, Situ Zhang grinned and brought the round sunglasses back to the bridge of his nose, and Xiao Nanzhu subconsciously asked,

"Ask me so much, what about you?"

After asking this question, Xiao Nanzhu obviously felt that Situ Zhang’s smile had diminished a little. Xiao Nanzhu and Situ Zhang looked at each other silently. The dead sunglasses only smiled and did not speak. Xiao Nanzhu saw it. I looked in front of him carefully, and then deliberately suppressed his voice seriously,

"Hey, since I just saw you, you have been wearing sunglasses. You are not going to sneak a double eyelid..."

"..."

At that moment, Situ Zhang's expression was so wonderful, Xiao Nanzhu gave a sullen smile before pursing his lips pretentiously.

"Xiao Nanzhu, your grandson."

Situ Zhang frowned. He really didn’t know what to say about Xiao Nanzhu’s love to tease him since he was a child. After taking a sip of alcohol, he muttered. Under Xiao Nanzhu’s gaze with a smile, he said,

"I opened a massage parlor for the blind. I will take you to see it another day. It's not a big/healthy/healthy kind, don't think about it, it's a serious Qigong massage treatment..."

Actually, even if Situ Zhang didn't tell him, Xiao Nanzhu could guess what this guy is doing now. After all, the ancestral craftsmanship of the Situ Zhang family can be considered well-known. In all kinds of professions, qigong masters are always called liars, and their reputation is basically the same as that of selling fake medicines. How many years ago, when the two of them were still neighbors, Situ Zhang's parents specialized in qigong massage for people.

When Xiao Nanzhu was a child, every time he went to see Situ Zhang to play, he could see many old men and women waiting in line for Master Situ to do the work. Master Situ is Situ Zhang's own father, and it is said that he can live fifteen minutes longer with one exercise.

Such words that sounded like nonsense were obviously believed by many people at that time, but this was not a new business in the old alley at the time, so Xiao Nanzhu never took it seriously, but he did not expect It’s that Situ Zhang, at such a young age, actually ran to do this kind of work that has long been eliminated by the times. After all, in his impression, Situ Zhang was clever and could not find a way out for no reason, but he saw his probing look. , Situ Zhang just smiled, and then poured a full glass of Harbin beer into the glass in front of him before speaking,

"What's the matter, I didn't expect that I could still inherit the ancestral industry? My family’s ancestral qigong has been passed down to this generation for almost three hundred years, so I can’t just stop it, right? Besides, my blind massage business is doing well. Not today to pick you up, I still have dozens of guests lining up behind... If you want me to say that you have been walking for too long, there are still many things you don’t know. Aunt Liu, the great dancer in our alley, you Do you still remember? Her two girls all went to dance academy, one was studying modern dance and the other was the famous clan dance. Now the great gods who dance are easier to manifest than others, and the astrological uncle Wang, do you remember? His grandson Wang Xiaodong, a well-known constellation expert on Weibo, earns more than me... Oh, of course, there is also the ghostly upper body Li Xiangu, and the uncle Zheng with a boulder on his chest..."

"..."

The wine in his throat almost squirted out. Xiao Nanzhu really did not expect that his old neighbors seemed to have a good future of their own, and seeing his face of disbelief, Situ Zhang also I didn’t expect this guy to listen, but smiled and blinked at him.

"Nowadays, people always say that fortune-telling and Qigong are unscientific in Chinese medicine. In fact, what is unscientific? Isn’t that something that science can’t explain? We talk about science. It’s one thing not to be superstitious, but that’s right. The inheritance of folk customs and cultural continuity cannot be abandoned, don’t you think? Speaking of which, your old lady was a famous Huangli master at first. You never thought about inheriting your craftsmanship. It’s better to come back. I’m free..."

When I heard this, I was taken aback. Xiao Nanzhu thought of the old lady who had been away for four or five years, but there was a lot of emotion in his eyes. However, Situ Zhang’s suggestion itself is not constructive. After all, his grandma did not intend to pass on the ability to read the Chinese calendar to him when she was alive. Now that she is gone, she naturally cannot learn it, let alone take it. As your own future way out.

Thinking about this, Xiao Nanzhu didn't take this to heart. The night’s wine did not go away until almost ten o’clock, and the two of them came out of the small restaurant with a full body of alcohol, and their steps were a little unstable. Casually rejecting Situ Zhang’s proposal to take a bath all night, Xiao Nanzhu gave a verbal promise to re-appoint next time and waved away, and when he returned to the rental house that would only come back during his usual vacation with his luggage, This old house, which has not lived in a living person for more than a year, finally turned on tonight.

Old sofa, old wooden table, old calendar hanging on the wall.

The things placed at home are all left by the elderly. After her death, Xiao Nanzhu didn't have time to clean up, nor was he willing to take it away. Now that he came back, although there was an unpleasant musty smell in the room, there were memories from the past everywhere, and when the somewhat drunk Xiao Nanzhu walked into the room, he first touched the wall Turn on the light, then go to the kitchen to boil a pot of water, and then sit back in the living room.

The sound of fireworks rang out from time to time outside the window, and the New Year is almost here, and there is lively everywhere.

Waiting for the boiled water, Xiao Nanzhu leaned back on the old sofa in a daze, and could vaguely hear the sound of the households moving tables and chairs upstairs. The old wall clock on the wall indicated that half an hour was about to pass today. Xiao Nanzhu moved his eyes to look at the old yellow calendar beside it, but suddenly frowned somewhat strangely.

In a house that hasn't been in for more than a year, it is logical that there shouldn't be the slightest change in the position of anything.

But I don’t know why, when Xiao Nanzhu’s eyes were on the old yellow calendar hanging on the wall of the hall, he somehow discovered that the date had been turned over to today’s page.

"Wednesday, February 11, 2027..."

For a while, Xiao Nanzhu couldn't turn his head back. Xiao Nanzhu recalled the last time he left home. He always felt that the old yellow calendar hanging on the wall was indescribably strange. The doubts in his heart prompted him to stand up and walk to the wall, and when he carefully checked the page of the old yellow calendar, Xiao Nanzhu discovered that in addition to the densely packed and auspicious Chinese zodiac daily fortune and other words, the yellow calendar was still painted in the middle. A carp boy wearing a beautiful red jacket with a mole on his brow.

"Three-in-one tiger dog, nine stars and four destinies, auspicious days and auspicious days, everything is feasible...so it is so small...year?"

Speaking to himself, he read the small italics line under the yellow calendar, and Xiao Nanzhu, who was full of doubts, always felt that something wrong seemed to happen. This unfounded premonition made him frown subconsciously, and in the next second, he saw the carp boy who had been motionless on the yellow calendar suddenly opened his eyes, and first shook his face with a fishy smell. Water stains, and then yelled at him with staring eyes,

"I still have half an hour to get off work today!! Which brain is sick looking for me! Do you want to die!!! Ah!!! Ah!!! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻"

Xiao Nanzhu: "…………"