No. 63, Shenjia Lane, Causeway Bay.

In the yard newly bought by Li Zhongwu, under an old persimmon tree, Li Zhongwu was sitting on a newly bought deck chair, squinting through the book in his hand. There was a square stool on his right hand side, and on the stool was a small purple clay

There is tea in the teapot. From time to time, he will grab the small teapot and take a sip of tea at the spout.

The yard has been tidied up by him, and the house has also been cleaned.

Except for being a bit deserted, everything else is good.

Living here made his heart finally feel at ease, as if the boat had docked in the harbor, and the high walls gave him a world of his own.

In the kitchen not far away, there was the aroma of bone soup simmering, which was the lunch he prepared for himself.

He grew up in a rural area and his cooking skills are not superb, but he has absolutely no problem solving his own diet.

As the only child in the family, every summer vacation, when the family was busy with farming, his parents would go to the fields. At that time of year, all the laundry, sweeping the floor, wiping the table, cooking and other tasks at home were all his.

From the age of 10, he was forced to learn to do housework.

Because there is a tradition in their hometown: children must work after they are ten years old.

As the old saying goes, if you have money or not, you can live happily for ten years.

Children over the age of ten must learn to work. Only a few children who have been spoiled by their families are spared.

He started doing housework at the age of ten and started working in the fields at the age of twelve. By the time he was fifteen, he had learned almost all the work in the fields.

Including carrying the burden.

In the summer when he was fifteen, his father fell ill from exhaustion and had a fever. There were thousands of kilograms of rice in the fields, and it was very difficult for his mother to pick it home alone.

Seeing that his mother was working hard, he took the initiative to pick up his father's pole and went to the fields to help him carry it.

He was not fully grown at that time and was not much taller than his mother, but he had been used to farm work since he was a child, so he was already much stronger than his mother.

only……

After that time, he didn't grow much taller.

As the old saying goes, it's just tiredness.

Time passed little by little, and Li Zhongwu picked up the teapot at hand again, only to find that the pot was empty.

He subconsciously looked up at the sun in the sky and saw the scorching sun hanging high in the sky. Only then did he realize that it was already noon.

He subconsciously looked towards the kitchen.

He had been simmering the bone broth in the kitchen since around 8 a.m., and it must have been stewed to a pulp by now.

But it doesn't matter, the meat will be in the pot even if it's rotten.

What's more, he also likes bone soup that's simmered until the bones fall apart.

Immediately, he put down the book in his hand, stood up and walked into the kitchen.

On the coal stove in the kitchen, a large yellow casserole is still steaming.

He walked over, took a spoon, and tasted the soup. It felt a little bland, so he added some salt.

Then, he took a soup bowl, scooped out a large bowl of bone soup, washed two more cucumbers, and steamed several large steamed buns bought for breakfast in the steamer.

After a while, he returned to the yard with these things, sat on the lounge chair, took a bite of the steamed bun, chewed it a few times, took a sip of soup, and occasionally took a bite of cucumber.

A combination of meat and vegetables, as well as soup.

It is both full and nutritious.

The key is that it's easy to make. You just need to buy some when you go out for breakfast in the morning and stew it on the coal stove.

It's not that he doesn't know how to cook other dishes, but that he lives alone now and is too lazy to cook too many dishes and doesn't want to make them too complicated.

By the way, when he went out for breakfast today, he finally found a bun shop that also sold steamed buns.

At that time, he saw someone buying steamed buns at that bun shop. When he saw the steamed buns, he came up with the idea of ​​making bone soup and eating steamed buns at noon today.

The bones that have been stewed all morning have indeed been separated from the flesh. You don't even need to bite them. You can suck the meat on the bones into your mouth with a gentle suction.

The meat has a strong flavor of bones.

Full of flavor.

The marrow inside the bones can also be sucked into the mouth, and the flavor of the bone marrow is even greater.

After eating the bones, he threw them on the floor tiles in the yard. Li Zhongwu glanced at the bones on the ground and suddenly felt nostalgic for the black dog he had raised at home when he was a child.

Unfortunately, the family was poor at that time. At the end of the year, my father sold the dog to a dog dealer. The dog dealer tied the dog's neck with a rope on the spot, and then placed the dog on the tree in front of his house.

Strangling to death.

That scene was too cruel for him, who was only five or six years old at the time, and he cried for a long time.

Since then, his family has never had a dog.

But deep down in his heart, Li Zhongwu always remembered the sporadic scenes of the dog playing with him every day when he was a child.

As an only child, he was lonely as a child.

When he was five or six years old, the dog at home was his playmate.

Seeing with your own eyes your playmate who accompanies you every day, being strangled to death, is a feeling that most people cannot understand.

At this time, he looked at the bones he had just thrown on the ground and thought: If there was a dog, this bone would not be wasted.

The idea of ​​raising a dog came into his mind.

In this new era, he is alone and occasionally feels lonely. Having a dog by his side can make the family more lively.

He also thought of the dog's name.

It's called an expert, which means specializing in looking after homes.

Of course, when I think of this dog name, there is another meaning. When he lived in the 21st century, he always felt that experts were unreliable and often made some anti-human remarks. At that time, like many Chinese, he hated experts.

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But now that he is living in a world three thousand years later, there is no such thing as an expert in the whole world, so he misses it a little.

I just want to be an expert in naming my dog.

With these thoughts running through his mind, he did not stop eating or drinking.

When my stomach was half full, there was a sudden knock on the courtyard door. It was a polite knock. It rang twice, paused for a few seconds, and then rang twice again.

who?

After he bought this yard, he hasn't told anyone the address. Logically speaking, no acquaintances would come here to look for him.

"Who?"

Li Zhongwu stopped eating and drinking and asked in a loud voice.

"Mr. Li! It's me, Yan Zhenxin, here to visit!"

Yan Zhenxin's voice came from outside the courtyard gate, and Li Zhongwu sounded familiar. He remembered the silver-collared patrolman he had seen outside the courtyard of Ju Xinhe's villa a few mornings ago.

A handsome and dashing policeman.

He had a good impression of the silver-collared policeman. He still remembered that early that morning, the man asked him several questions about the explosion on the set, and finally asked him if he could learn grappling and hard qigong from him.

"Here we come, wait a moment!"

Li Zhongwu put down the soup bowl and steamed buns in his hands, and with a thought, he took out a pack of tissues from his personal space, took out one, wiped his hands, and with another thought, all the tissues returned to his personal space, and then he stood up and walked towards

Courtyard gate.

The courtyard door opened, and what surprised Li Zhongwu was that there was only one person with a silver-collar patrol standing outside the door, and this person was holding a jar of wine in his hand.

Before Li Zhongwu opened his mouth, Yan Zhenxin outside the door had already smiled and said: "Mr. Li, we meet again. Last time we met, I didn't seem to introduce myself. Now I will introduce myself, Yan Zhenxin, stern Yan, cheerful Zhenxin

, old and new, I came here today to become a disciple. I hope Mr. Li will accept me as his disciple regardless of my mediocre qualifications. This is my apprenticeship ceremony! Please accept it!"

With that said, he held the exquisite wine jar in front of Li Zhongwu with both hands.

Yan Zhenxin...

Li Zhongwu muttered the name in his heart, squinted his eyes and looked him up and down, smiled slightly, stretched out his hand to take the wine jar in front of him, stepped aside to open the courtyard door, extended his hand to invite, "Come in and we'll talk."

"Okay, thank you Master!"

Yan Zhenxin smiled and walked into the courtyard.

Li Zhongwu closed the courtyard door and walked slowly back to the persimmon tree in the courtyard.

The sun is very strong today, so it will be a little cooler under the shade of the persimmon tree.

"Master, were you eating just now?"

Yan Zhenxin, who followed Li Zhongwu to the persimmon tree, asked in surprise when he saw the soup bowls, steamed buns and cucumbers placed on the square stool next to the lounge chair.

Because it's past 12 o'clock now, normally it's past lunch time.

Li Zhongwu hummed.

Yan Zhenxin looked at the food on the square stool again and said hesitantly: "Master, do you have such a simple meal for lunch? How about we go find a restaurant? I will arrange it and treat it as my apprenticeship banquet. What do you think?
To be continued...