One night before New Year's Eve, when Wei Ran drove back to the courtyard of his grandma's house, the two elderly people and their parents, Wei Ran and Suisui, were already sitting at the mahjong table and starting to build the city wall.
Also sitting at the card table were the Katenka sisters, the rich woman Koko and her housekeeper Tantu.
Of course, compared to the Katenka sisters who were trying to teach them how to play mahjong, Suisui and Lu Xinda, who were watching the TV and playing games, were obviously much more relaxed.
"How are you doing over there? Why did you come back so late?"
When Suisui saw Wei Ran come back, she waited until he greeted the elders of the two families and Kou Kou before pulling him to sit next to him and asking.
"I went to see it. Nothing was lost. I wasted some time with the police uncle." Wei Ran replied with a normal expression.
The main reason why he came back so late was to go to the cemetery of Mr. Tao and others and to walk around the mountains in the suburbs of Beijing. But he drove a little slower on the road, and it was also very interesting to recall what happened before entering the historical segment.
Important secondary reasons.
As for the police, in fact, he only called the other party belatedly while on the road.
"As long as it's not lost, by the way, where do you plan to go after the new year?"
Suisui didn't take it seriously. This was not Kazan after all. Even if something was really lost, the surveillance everywhere on the street made it much easier to retrieve the stolen items.
"What? Do you have any ideas?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"There are some ideas"
Suisui looked around, pulled Wei Ran out of the lively room, and got into her room.
However, before she had time to close the door, she was already hugged by Wei Ran who followed in.
"Don't make trouble"
Suisui tried to push, but couldn't push away, so she simply hooked her arm around Wei Ran's neck and let him carry her to the sofa and sit down.
Slapping away the other's groping hands, Suisui rolled her eyes angrily and said, "When the sixth day of the Lunar New Year comes, I plan to take Kou Kou and the others to play for a few days. She has been clamoring to see the Terracotta Warriors and Horses for the past two days.
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"Then go"
Wei Ran replied casually, of course he would have no objection to this kind of thing, and besides, he really needed something else to change his mind now.
Unfortunately, before he could do anything, Suisui ran out of the room without warning.
In the blink of an eye, on New Year's Eve, the grandfathers of the two families finally put away their clothes and stopped going out to sing opera. The sisters Suisui and Katenka, who were already considered experienced, and the grandmothers of the two families also arranged the arrangements for Kou Kou and Kou Kou.
Her Indian housekeeper and Lu Xinda, a little girl with black hair and yellow skin, experienced various Spring Festival activities and various country delicacies that they had never experienced before.
The only ones who can be considered regretful are probably Professor Alexei, a drunkard, and the many drunkards in the village.
After all, they all lacked their common drinking buddy - that fat little guy named Jima who was a thieves and could drink.
On the night of New Year's Eve, the sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner completely captured the stomach of Kou Kou, a young rich woman who also came from a country of gourmet food. The almost unlimited fireworks and firecrackers in the cellar also made this little guy Lu Xinda quite addicted.
When the clock struck 12 o'clock, the elders of the two families also gave out the red envelopes they had prepared in advance. At the same time, Wei Ran once again noticed the strange feeling coming from the tattoo at the tiger's mouth.
That night, Wei Ran waited patiently for everyone to fall asleep, and then left the yard alone as he did in previous years. Taking his only audience, the pug with a crooked mouth, he walked unhurriedly into the afternoon and deliberately stopped at
He got into the van outside and drove towards the village.
Wei Ran walked to the small table on the wooden viewing platform and sat down. He looked around before taking out the Guqin Yaoguang.
The moment his hand touched the strings, the familiar but uncomfortable weird brain-shutdown feeling of wanting to scratch the wall came over again. But this time, he felt warm nosebleeds flowing from his nostrils again.
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It was normal to take out a tissue and block his nostrils. Wei Ran waited until the dizziness in his brain disappeared, then wiped it with a wet tissue, put his hand on the strings and started to strum.
However, just relying on muscle memory to pop up the beginning, he couldn't help but stop.
He clearly remembered that he had heard this piece played by Tao Canhua and Qiushi Qinse. He remembered that the piece was called "Shen Ren Chang", which was a piece to pray for peace and success.
After coming back to his senses, Wei Ran started playing the song again. The pug at his feet also squatted down obediently and looked up at Wei Ran with his chest puffed out.
After a while, the song was finished, but Wei Ran did not stop. Instead, he played another song that he seemed to have just learned - Nan Feng Chang, which is a song that means harvest and tranquility.
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After giving so much and sacrificing so much, I finally got what I wanted...
Wei Ran breathed a long sigh of relief as he looked at the fireworks exploding in the night sky in the distance. He felt relieved, waved his hand, put away the piano case and got into the car with his dog, then slowly turned around and drove back to the village.
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Just like in previous years, this New Year is still particularly lively because of the presence of "foreigners" as guests.
From the first to the sixth day of the lunar month, Wei Ran accompanied the girls to have a good time at his grandma's house. After successfully making several bachelors of the same age cry, he happily took Suisui and others on the journey.
Take the high-speed train to Chang'an.
"After fifteen, I plan to go to Frog Province." Wei Ran suddenly said on the high-speed train that was about to arrive at the station.
Hearing this, Suisui, who was sitting next to him, was stunned. He opened his steam goggles and looked at Wei Ran and asked in confusion, "What are you doing there?"
"Just for fun, are you going?" Wei Ran smiled and held out his chips, "It's just the two of us, no one is taking it with us."
As soon as she said this, Suisui's eyes immediately lit up and she nodded without thinking, "Go! Why not go! I'll contact you right away..."
"I told my mother when I was in the second grade of junior high school." Wei Ran waved his hand, "Don't worry, we have already applied for a pass for us."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "No, you have something to do this time, right?" Suisui immediately realized something.
"Why do you ask that?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"I don't know you well," Suisui snorted, "If there was nothing serious, you wouldn't go there."
"So you won't follow?" Wei Ran kicked the ball back.
"Go, why don't you go!" Suisui expressed her attitude again, but then she couldn't help but asked again, "Are you really just going to have fun?"
"No," Wei Ran replied matter-of-factly.
But in fact, he himself didn't know if he was on serious business. He was just unwilling to give in and just wanted to take a look, even if it was a sneak peek, even if he might not see the person he wanted to see at all.
Even for this reason, as early as the first day of the new year, he had already determined the location of Changshou Pharmacy through Internet searches based on the knowledge he learned at the Hongqi Forest Farm.
During his almost torturous waiting, the group had a good time eating, drinking and having fun in Chang'an for a few days. It was not until the fourteenth day of the first lunar month that they boarded the high-speed train back to Beijing again.
After celebrating the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month at her grandma's house, the satisfied Kouko and her housekeeper Tantu boarded the flight to France amid everyone's farewells. Kajian gained a small amount of weight just like last year.
The Ka sisters also boarded the flight to Kazan with Lu Xinda, who had also gained weight.
It wasn't until these two groups of people disappeared from sight that Wei Ran and Suisui walked into the boarding gate of the flight to Frog Province.
After the slightly long flight, when the flight landed, the warm and humid climate in the south blew away the chill from the north of the mainland that the two of them carried in a short period of time.
"Where to go next?" Suisui asked while putting on her sunglasses.
"Let's go to the hotel first." Wei Ran let the other party hold his arm, pulled his luggage and left Songshan Airport.
Although they didn't want to say it, both Wei Ran and Suisui had already seen what they wanted to say from each other's eyes. Even in a big city like Taibei, with slightly narrow streets, slightly crowded traffic, and relatively
The more common low-rise buildings give them the illusion of going back in time.
Of course, they had to admit that there was indeed a good side here. At least the various delicacies they saw along the way were attractive enough, and at least the taxi drivers they met were enthusiastic, hospitable and curious enough.
"That pan-fried bun looks delicious, how about trying it later?" Suisui took advantage of waiting for the red light to point to a shop on the roadside and asked Wei Ran.
“His food tastes terrible”
The driver didn't even wait for Wei Ran to speak, he took over the conversation almost subconsciously, and suggested in Taiwanese Mandarin with difficulty, "It's super expensive and salty, and the shop owner is so green that he gleams. I suggest you go to the shop opposite.
Home, cheap big bowl."
"Then just listen to the driver," Wei Ran said with a smile.
Hearing this, Suisui turned her head to the other side while waiting for the red light, and said with surprise, "There are also roast duck, Lanzhou beef noodles, and snail noodles here!"
"What you're saying is that after all, a family can still afford two pots of rice?"
"That's right," Suisui said, looking at the row of small shops on the roadside and swallowing involuntarily, "I want to try that one later."
"Go, go." Wei Ran replied with a smile, "I'll eat all of this street later."
"I should have known I would have brought Kamei and the others with me."
Suisui muttered something with pretense of regret, but looking at her little expression, one could tell that this girl was definitely telling the truth when she said this. After all, Wei Ran was not the only one whose habitat had been invaded.
After chatting, they arrived at the hotel they had reserved. The two said goodbye to the friendly local driver and walked into the hotel lobby. The hotel is not very luxurious, but it is located at a good location at a crossroads, and there are many delicious food around it.
Snack shop.
There is no doubt that this place is full of temptations for Suisui, so after checking in and waiting for Wei Ran to check the room, he couldn't wait to change his clothes, pulled him and ran downstairs, as if
I had completely forgotten about the store recommended by the hospitable local driver just now.
Of course, Suisui didn't know that the reason why Weiran set the hotel here was not because of the delicacies that could be found everywhere, but because at another intersection less than a hundred meters away, there was a very old-looking Changshou restaurant.
pharmacy.
As they wandered around with this girl, the two of them had various snacks in their hands. Because of this, before the two of them found the store they wanted to eat, their stomachs were already mostly full.
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"Why is there a shop selling sesame cakes here?" Holding a box of oyster omelet in his hand, he looked at the signboard of this small shop on the street with a familiar fragrance - Mengji sesame cakes in astonishment.
"What's weird about this"
Suisui, who was holding a large intestine wrapped in small intestine, was already used to it. She had just seen a shop selling braised pork intestines.
"really"
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he took the oyster omelet in the carton and the few pieces of stinky tofu left over from Suisui's meal into his mouth in a few mouthfuls, "I'll buy two sesame seed cakes to try."
"I won't eat it," Suisui subconsciously refused. She was even worried about how she would finish the food in her hands.
Glancing at the Changshou Pharmacy guarding the intersection diagonally opposite the Mengji Shaobing, Wei Ran walked to the Shaobing oven at the door of the shop and asked, "Is there only Shaobing?"
“Can pick up vegetables”
The man who was operating the furnace was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his fifties or sixties, and he was the only boss Wei Ran had met along the way who spoke in a straight-forward manner and didn't sound like a motorcycle.
He glanced at the display window next to him and couldn't help but feel happy. There were not only side dishes such as shredded potatoes and kelp, but also braised meat and sliced sausages.
Almost subconsciously, Wei Ran asked, "Is it Ning Ji's sausage?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As soon as he said these words, the boss raised his head in surprise. After being stunned for a moment, he suppressed the surprise and asked in a serious tone, "Do you know Ning Ji?"
Sausage? Are you from mainland China?"
"We all love to eat Ningji sausages," Wei Ran replied with a smile - even though in this world he is familiar with, he has never eaten Ningji sausages, which is one of the local specialties of Hebei Province.
“What we have is not Ning Kee Sausage.”
The boss smiled and explained, "But when my father passed on the skill of making sausages to me, he often said that Ningji sausages from Houyi Town are the most delicious when sandwiched with sesame cakes. Unfortunately, I have never tried it.
My dad hasn’t eaten either.”
"Put one of your sausages in a sesame cake and let me taste it for you." Wei Ran asked with a smile, "So this is a craft passed down from your ancestors?"
"That's right, it was passed down from my grandfather."
As the honest middle-aged man spoke, he skillfully picked up a freshly baked sesame seed cake, cut it into pieces, filled it with sliced sausages, then wrapped it in yellow straw paper and handed it to Wei Ran, "This counts.
I asked you to help me taste it, how do you think it tastes?"
"I'm not polite when the boss says that."
As he spoke, Wei Ran took the hot sesame seed cake with both hands and took a big bite. He chewed it in big mouthfuls, but the more he chewed, the more he felt his throat became sore and uncomfortable.
He tasted the extremely familiar taste in his memory in a place thousands of miles away from his hometown. But these familiar tastes are not the only comfort for those who have no way to go home.
Suppressing his inner emotions, Wei Ran hurriedly raised his thumb, "This biscuit is delicious, and this sausage tastes about the same."
"Come in and sit down"
The middle-aged boss was obviously very happy when Wei Ran said this, "We have other ones in the store that you can try."
Wei Ran nodded happily, then turned to look at Suisui behind him, "Come in and sit down?"
Suisui naturally had no objections to this, and followed Wei Ran into this small shop which was not that big. Then she said with a surprised look on her face, "Gaba dishes are also sold here!"
"Can't"
Wei Ran looked at the menu written in traditional Chinese on the wall and said happily, "Boss, give me another bowl of gaba!"
Hearing this, the boss at the door immediately greeted him in Hakka, which was difficult for the two of them to listen to. Soon, someone in the kitchen behind responded with the same greeting.
Not long after, an uncle who looked to be in his fifties or sixties brought over a large bowl of hot gaba vegetables.
Just smelling the steaming aroma, Suisui, who was obviously full, couldn't help but snatch the spoon prepared for Wei Ran.
The uncle who served the food smiled when he saw this, walked back to the inner room, and got another spoon for Wei Ran.
"The taste is similar to what we had in Jinmen," Suisui said in surprise after just taking a sip of the soup.
"I even suspect that the owner of this shop is from Jinmen." As Wei Ran spoke, he allowed Suisui to come over and take a small bite of the sesame seed cake in his hand, and also took away two pieces of sausage.
"Can't"
Suisui, whose cheeks were bulging from eating, responded vaguely, "These sesame cakes are not much worse than the sesame cake shop in our grandma's village. It's a pity that there is no fried fish. It would definitely taste better if it was filled with fried fish."
"You're content," Wei Ran said with a smile, "Why would you go all the way to eat fried fish?"
"That's right." Suisui burped, "Would you like to go to 101 after you finish eating?"
"Can you walk?" Wei Ran asked without raising his head while eating.
"Forget it, hiccup—tomorrow, go tomorrow." Suisui took advantage of the donkey's procrastination.
After finishing spoonful after spoonful of the gaba vegetables in the bowl and the sesame biscuits stuffed with intestines in his hand, Wei Ran burped and said, "No, we can't eat any more, and we have to buy some stomach and digestive tablets."
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"I just saw that there seems to be a pharmacy across the street," Suisui said, pointing outside.
"Let's go"
As he spoke, Wei Ran threw down a few Taiwan dollars that he had exchanged in advance, said hello to the boss, pulled Suisui, who was also overfed, and walked across the road to the longevity pharmacy as he wished.
Before he even entered the door, he saw that on the signboard of the pharmacy, there was a large, colorful parrot fluttering about to fly. The parrot's sharp claws were also holding a golden longevity lock.
I walked into this pharmacy that looked very old. It only had an area of 50 to 60 square meters. Facing the door was a U-shaped glass counter. In the middle of the three counters, there was a mahjong table.
At this time, there were three women who looked to be in their fifties or sixties and were wearing white coats. They were playing mahjong with an old lady sitting at the front who was also wearing a white coat. The old lady also had a cup of milk tea in her hand.
and half a pack of cigarettes.
Although this old lady has silver hair, she is energetic and tidy, especially with a stethoscope hanging around her neck. Obviously, although she has long passed the retirement age, she is still practicing medicine.
Woolen cloth.
Behind the lively mahjong table, inside the U-shaped counter, there is a girl in her early twenties who looks up to the sky, wearing huge glasses on her face, doing her horse step seriously,
At the same time, he kept mumbling in stumbling Chinese with a motorcycle accent, "Gardenia and dried ginger cure upset, and body heat will not go away but diarrhea will increase again. Use cold and heat together to divide up and down, divide up and down... divide..."
"Clearing heat and warming one shoulder"
The old woman with her back to the young girl gave a quick reminder in her busy schedule, threw out another card, and then seamlessly changed into a Hakka dialect that Wei Ran and Suisui didn't understand.
"oh"
The girl responded with a grimace, twitched her nose and repeated, "Gardenia and dried ginger can cure upset. If the body heat does not go away, diarrhea will increase. Use both cold and heat to separate the upper and lower parts. Clear the heat and warm the cold shoulder."
"Tongmai Sini Decoction" the old lady waited for the girl behind her to finish reciting it, and then she calmly said something that Wei Ran and Suisui could understand.
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The girl who was standing on horseback felt silly for a moment, sniffed again and recited confidently, "Tongmai Sinicao with ginger, increase the dosage and have another name. It is very effective in vomiting and vomiting in the hands and feet, and the pulse does not come out and returns to yang."
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Just at this time, one of the aunts who was playing cards asked something in Hakka that Wei Ran and Suisui couldn't understand.
Looking at Suisui behind him who was also watching the excitement, Wei Ran asked, "Do you have any Jianweixiaoshi tablets? I'm a little full."
"Da Lu Tsai?" Another aunt asked with great interest in Mandarin they could barely understand.
Wei Ran smiled and nodded, "I came here to play."
"Amei!"
Another aunt with several notes stuck on her face shouted, and the girl who was squatting on the horse immediately responded happily, and then stood up straight with a grin on her face, and then moved around
He helped us find the medicines we needed.
"Where are you from?" the old lady asked in Chinese with a hint of Tianjin Hemp Flower accent.
Looking at Suisui next to him, Wei Ran smiled and replied, "Ji Province, the Ji of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei."
"I wish you all a happy time here." The old lady sent a kind blessing, and then turned around and said, "Mei, don't charge me."
"Oh!" The girl wearing huge glasses responded stupidly, handed the medicine she had just taken to Wei Ran, and said with a smile, "I'm giving it to you for free. I hope you have fun here."
He casually glanced at the faintly raised outline of the Longevity Lock at the neck of the tight-fitting T-shirt the girl was wearing. While taking the medicine, Wei Ran handed over a banknote and said with a smile, "I accepted it out of kindness, but I'll keep the money."
Bar."
"Thanks!"
The girl didn't wait for the old woman to speak, and quickly took the banknotes from Wei Ran and put them into her pocket. That wasn't enough. Then, she opened the cash register drawer again, counted out the change and handed it to Wei Ran.
Burn.
"Consider it a tip," Wei Ran said with a smile.
"Thank you! When I look at you and my sister, you and your sister are a perfect couple. I wish you a happy marriage!"
While the girl was talking about different auspicious words, she naturally put the change into her pocket.
"I've learned, it turns out it can still be like this." Suisui, who was watching in amazement, couldn't help but muttered.
Hearing this, Wei Ran smiled, but did not stay too much. He just said thank you and walked out, tearing open the package of the medicine box, taking out a few digestive tablets and stuffing them into Suisui's mouth.
Then he took out a few more slices, threw them into his mouth, and walked out of the pharmacy without any regrets.
"Is that old lady the one you want to see?" Suisui, who was following Wei Ran, suddenly asked in Russian until the two of them were about to walk back to the hotel door.
"How do you know?" Wei Ran responded in Russian with a smile.
"What's the relationship between us brothers? How can I not understand you? Besides, you can't just go for that girl with glasses, right?"
The dishonest Suisui snorted proudly, but did not continue the topic. Instead, she changed the topic before Wei Ran could explain, "What are the arrangements for tomorrow?"
"It's up to you"
Wei Ran put his hand on the other person's shoulder and answered with a smile, "I've seen everything I want to see. The remaining days are at your discretion."
"Go back to the room to digest the food first, and later let's go to 101 to watch the night view!" Suisui also made the decision while hooking Wei Ran's shoulder.
Before entering the hotel lobby, Wei Ran looked back one last time in the direction of Changshou Pharmacy, and then walked into the hotel with Suisui with a satisfied smile.
