Brother Zhang lay in bed thinking until midnight, and then fell asleep because he couldn't resist the sleepiness. When he got up in the morning, he had even forgotten all the content of his thoughts last night.
It had not been like this for many years, but the moment he opened his eyes from the bed, he could feel extremely relaxed and comfortable. He pressed the call bell in the room, and soon someone brought breakfast on a cart. There was breakfast.
Abalone porridge, sweet shrimp pot and fish soup are much inferior to his own craftsmanship, but they still satisfy Brother Zhang very much.
After breakfast, I sat on the balcony to bask in the sun for a while, but I couldn't read a book. I just wanted to go out and play. Even though I didn't know what I wanted to play, I just wanted to run out. This is also true.
I have never experienced this before, because Brother Zhang has never had the urge to do anything urgently before, not even an impulse.
"Come out and play, handsome boy."
Suddenly, a person hung upside down outside the window of his balcony, hanging from the window like a Spider-Man. Brother Zhang turned his head and just saw the other person's face, which frightened him so much that he only realized after looking carefully that it was the person hanging upside down.
He Shuilin, she just hung there upside down and looked at Brother Zhang with a smile: "The weather is fine today, I will take you to touch the lottery tickets."
"Lottery ticket?"
"Yes! Come with me."
He Shuilin jumped down and dragged Brother Zhang downstairs. Brother Zhang didn't care at all before, but now he can feel the accelerated heartbeat caused by the weightlessness when falling. When he landed, Fairy Shuilin held Xiao Zhang steady with one hand.
on the ground.
"Quickly, activate that skill of yours and you can fly there with just a swish, and then go to XX city and XX county."
Brother Zhang said "oh" and took out his mobile phone to send a message to Da Wutong. Then Shuilin felt the familiar dizziness and fuzzy feeling. When her vision recovered, she and Brother Zhang had arrived at the county town that He Shuilin mentioned.
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The place here is not big, and it looks relatively backward, but Fairy Shuilin was as happy as a child and said to Brother Zhang: "This is my hometown, a small county by the sea. Every month, there will be people here."
Let’s have a collective scratch and let’s go!”
Being brought to the town square by He Shuilin, Brother Zhang found that the place was already crowded with people, and there were huge balloons with banners in the sky. The scene was like the scratch-off lottery model in the mid-1990s. Brother Zhang had gone there when he was a child.
I have played it before, but this thing has disappeared for many years.
"Give way, give way."
He Shuilin squeezed through the crowd, dragged Brother Zhang to the front, then took a leaflet and read it: "The first prize this time is a 500-gram gold bowl, and the second prize is a car.
The third prize is a motorcycle, the fourth prize is an electric car, the fifth prize is a bicycle, and the consolation prizes are washing powder and soap."
After hearing her introduction, Brother Zhang looked up and looked at the prizes on the table at the back. He felt that these items were basically slow-selling products. The price of a car was about 100,000 yuan, and the price of a motorcycle was about 20,000 yuan. The styles were very old and the shapes were also bad.
It's very ugly... I guess there really isn't any market in big cities.
But the products are still popular here, and many people will buy a few tickets and sit next to them to scratch the prizes. And because of the flow of people, there are also many small commodities selling here, ranging from marshmallows to boxed lunches.
"Here's a hundred dollars."
He Shuilin pointed to the lottery ticket on top and took a hundred-dollar bill and said, "I want the red one!"
Fairy Shuilin, who had taken fifty lottery tickets, dragged Brother Zhang to the corner. The two of them squatted next to a stone pillar and started scratching the lottery tickets with one-dollar coins. He Shuilin was so lucky that after scratching out the fifty tickets, there were no pieces.
I didn’t win even the transparent soap with a market price of RMB 50.
"what's up."
Fairy Shuilin slapped Shi Dunzi in frustration: "Am I so unlucky?"
After saying that, she handed Brother Zhang a hundred dollars: "Go and buy one hundred dollars and try."
"oh."
Brother Zhang was very obedient and bought a hundred yuan lottery tickets. Then the two of them started a new round of scratching prizes. However, because Brother Zhang no longer had the blessing of luck at the moment, the two of them added up to 100 lottery tickets.
The four hands were shaved black and there was nothing left.
Normal people might have given up, but this happened to activate Brother Zhang's desire to win. The gambling dog Zhang came online instantly. He put his hands in his pockets and looked at the wreckage in front of him. He felt so angry that he turned around and got out.
After entering the crowd, he bought a thousand more tickets.
The two of them rolled up their sleeves and started scraping furiously. A thousand pieces of paper piled up around them. Finally, when there were only thirty pieces left, Fairy Shuilin suddenly became so excited that her face turned red. She stood up and shouted:
"bingo!"
This voice immediately attracted the attention of everyone around, and then Shuilin Fairy held the lottery ticket and rushed over to claim the prize. Then, under the envious eyes of everyone, she pushed out a women's bicycle from the crowd, with a frame on the front.
That kind of.
Looking at the shiny bicycle, Fairy Shuilin was so excited that she danced in front of Brother Zhang. She said: This is the first time in my life that I have won such a big prize; she said: I will definitely ride it around the county town later.
She said: I want to ride it around the world; she said: This car will be renamed Lucky Clover from now on.
After saying that, she got on her Lucky Clover and prepared to take a lap, but after five meters she couldn't control her balance and fell to the ground. Fairy Shuilin was lying on the ground blinking her eyes, and suddenly realized that she was not
Can't ride a bicycle.
Brother Zhang glanced at her, then looked at the thirty lottery tickets under his hand, and decided to wait a while before rescuing Fairy Shuilin. In the end, the two of them left pushing a bicycle and three bags of washing powder.
come out.
Fairy Shuilin refused to leave her lucky four-leaf number, so she sat on it and walked forward with her two feet propped up throughout the whole process, while Brother Zhang followed beside her.
"I've always wanted a bicycle since I was a kid, but I didn't expect to get it until I was twenty-four. Either I couldn't afford it or sometimes I gave up because I thought it was useless."
The sun is shining brightly in the town, and there are old streets and alleys with a bit of retro in them. Most of the old-fashioned products are sold around, including home-pickled pickles, frozen rice candies, and some peanut cakes and the like. Walking around
On this street, there is always a feeling of going back in time. This feeling is a bit like being in Chang'an Alley, but it is more real and tangible than Chang'an Alley.
"You haven't been practicing since you were a child?"
"Yes, I have been practicing since I was a child. I was picked up by my master when he traveled here. In the countryside, boys are favored over girls. I was abandoned as a girl. Then my master saw that I was talented and picked me up. At that time
I'm six or seven years old, and I was adopted in a Taoist temple here. The old lady passed away a few years ago, and I came to preside over the ceremony for her." Fairy Shuilin raised her finger and pointed to a mountain in the distance: "It's right there.
At the foot of that mountain, when I went to see it last year, the house had collapsed."
Brother Zhang nodded and turned to look at Fairy Shuilin: "Then your childhood was quite unfortunate."
"I'm lucky. I can live and grow up, and there are boys who give me flat peaches to eat. Those are flat peaches! I don't know how many people would have to die to grab something outside. I don't even dare to think about it.
Do you know? There was a disciple in my sect who was seriously injured before just to grab something that is said to make him immortal. That was just a rumor, but flat peaches are real."
Brother Zhang pursed his lips: "So you are planning to commit yourself to me?"
"This classmate, please don't have any wrong thoughts. I am a cultivator and cannot do that kind of thing. In my next life, I will be a cow and a horse for you." Fairy Shuilin immediately refused: "It's better to do this.
I have a few best friends who are good at dual cultivation, you see..."
"Okay, just pretend I didn't ask." Brother Zhang shook his head repeatedly: "I'd rather not experience the art of dual cultivation."
"You are so unconvinced."
Afterwards, Fairy Shuilin took Brother Zhang around. Finally, they ate some local snacks and then went to a billiards room to play billiards. Brother Zhang was very bad at this, but Fairy Shuilin was.
With great posture and ridiculously good skills, the two of them bet on ice cream, and Brother Zhang lost nearly twenty ice cream cones.
"Hahaha, keep accounts, keep accounts, you bought nineteen ice creams, but you still have eighteen left. You owe me."
Brother Zhang was leaning there and watching Shui Lin clear the stage with one shot. When he was bored, he suddenly saw a few gangsters walking in. He turned back to Fairy Shui Lin and said, "They won't tease you, right?"
"who?"
Fairy Shuilin looked back, and happened to make eye contact with the leader of the group of gangsters. The gangster leader was stunned for a moment, and then trotted over to greet her: "Sister! When did you come back, sister?"
He was very excited after looking at Shui Lin. He handed Shui Lin cigarettes and bought her drinks. When he saw little brother Zhang, he was stunned for a moment, then looked at Shui Lin, and then held little brother Zhang with both hands.
Hand: "Brother-in-law!"
"Don't talk nonsense to me." Fairy Shuilin twisted his ears: "You asked me to catch you hanging out again, right? I remember you were in your senior year of high school this year, right, and were you working as a gangster outside with my money?
What a coward, you bastard."
"Sister...Sister, listen to me, I passed the quality inspection this time. Isn't this the weekend? I'm going out to relax with my friends."
"Have you really crossed the line?" He Shuilin's cold eyes scanned the people behind them: "Speak!"
Those people nodded one after another, and some even took out their mobile phones and handed them to He Shuilin. There was a report card printed by the school. She searched around it and found that the guy whose ears she was twisting was ranked first in the school and third in the city.
Then he slowly let go of his hand and his expression softened.
"Boy, let me tell you, if you delay your studies for me, I will tie you up under a big banyan tree, hang you up and beat you for three days."
After saying this, Fairy Shuilin introduced him to Brother Zhang: "This boy is also a child adopted by the old lady. He is six years younger than me. He is a senior in high school this year."
Brother Zhang smiled and nodded: "You have the authority of a big sister."
"There's nothing we can do about it. The old lady is gone, and I'm the eldest among them. They won't be underage at that time. The responsibility of taking care of them will definitely fall on me."
"Eldest sister, you didn't say hello to me when you came, so I could let the second sister and the others go buy some food and go home."
"I'm telling you, I won a bicycle..."
Seeing them standing next to each other chatting about daily life, Brother Zhang didn't feel irritated but smiled, because he hadn't had such a trivial conversation with anyone for a long time. This feeling was both strange and familiar to him.
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In the end, He Shuilin couldn't resist and his younger brother was taken home for dinner. Naturally, Brother Zhang was also brought along. Several of He Shuilin's brothers and sisters immediately regarded Brother Zhang as their brother-in-law. In the end, He Shuilin only found out after he explained.
This is not a brother-in-law, just a friend.
After a not-so-delicious home-cooked meal, He Shuilin and Brother Zhang were walking by the river. It was already half dark. He Shuilin was walking and suddenly asked: "I didn't expect it. A practitioner like me is very strange."
, the parents are short-sighted."
"Fortunately, I've seen weirder ones." Brother Zhang stretched out: "At least you still have a lot of relatives, which is good."
He Shuilin chuckled: "What about you? Is there anyone you particularly want to get close to?"
Brother Zhang was silent for a moment, without answering yes or no, but He Shuilin saw something from his expression, and his eyes were suddenly full of cunning: "Oh! I know, you have someone on your mind."
"Not necessarily, maybe it's just because of sex."
"Wow, how good is it for someone to make you look good?"
"You smile so naughtily, are you thinking about something nasty?"
Brother Zhang scratched his face: "It's not too dirty."
After saying that, he took out his mobile phone and sent a message, and then the person disappeared in a flash, leaving only He Shuilin standing there. She was stunned for a while, and then suddenly she was shocked: "Hey! Boss, you didn't bring it with you
Shall I go back? I still have disciples who haven’t finished the competition yet!”
But at this moment, Brother Zhang was completely out of hearing. He appeared at the door of Miss Jin's room and knocked on the door twice. Soon the door opened from the inside, revealing Miss Jin's face.
"Huh?" Miss Jin glanced at Brother Zhang in surprise: "What are you doing?"
Xiao Zhang didn't answer, just walked in, and Miss Jin followed him. It felt a bit strange, because this guy never knocked on the door before, and didn't care what he was doing, but why did he change his gender today?
?
What's even stranger is that the feeling on his body is completely different from before. His whole temperament has changed. It seems that someone has taken away his possessions, but what else in the world can take away his possessions?
"What happened to you??"
Miss Jin asked curiously, then turned her head and looked at Brother Zhang, feeling that something was not right with this guy today.
But Brother Zhang didn't answer. He just turned around and stared at Miss Jin silently for a while, and then suddenly said: "I want you to do a favor?"
"Me? How can I help you?"
Brother Zhang suddenly stepped forward, put his hand around her waist, and came closer: "Help me get rid of my inner demons."