Chapter Twenty-Six: The Old Taoist

Compared with the children's toys in Yangjia Village, the toys in the city are more exquisite, and the people in the city don't play. They like to play with muskets and slingshot guns, and then it's hoop rolling.

This year, if you can roll on an iron hoop, tie a belt around your waist, carry a kettle next to you, and have a pair of white pull-back shoes, and a military hat, then you are definitely enough to pull the wind, this is a few big pieces that have been evaluated as artifacts.

Now the children in the city are not as squeamish as those in later generations, and they don't look down on Yang Dongxu, a child from the countryside, and they pull Yang Dongxu to play with them within a few days.

But Yang Dongxu didn't want to play with them, in addition to marbles, he was also a little interested, because the skills of a few little children in the courtyard really surprised him, so he naturally had a few discussions. Later, it turned out that his sword was not old, and then he returned the marbles to others, otherwise a few little boys would have shed tears, and one didn't pay attention to winning a little too much.

He wasn't interested in the little boy making pieces of paper, bamboo people or anything. The little girl's shuttlecock kicking and flipping rope were naturally less interested. So in addition to going crazy everywhere a few days ago in order to mix up the children in the miscellaneous courtyard, Yang Dongxu began to become a little lonely again.

But even Du is followed by a small tail - Wu Xue.

Wu Xue's nickname is Xiaoxue, and she is six years old this year, one year older than Yang Dongxu's sister and one year younger than him. Two pigtails are tied and the powder is cute. Her parents are both workers, so they are busy from morning to night.

Normally, Xiaoxue can be sent to the nursery, but now the nursery school has no learning tasks, just a few adults watching the children play to prevent them from fighting or something, so they are usually at ease.

But Xiaoxue's parents are a little dumbfounded during this summer vacation, and they can only drag the elderly in the courtyard to take care of them. But the old man also has his own things to do, can't he always help you watch the children?

I don't know if Yang Dongxu's maturity beyond his peers has given Xiaoxue a sense of security, or if he hasn't bullied Xiaoxue and cried when he first came, and he doesn't have any shadows in his heart. In short, he didn't wander around in the courtyard for a few days, and Xiaoxue became his follower, and in the back, Brother Xu, Brother Xu, shouted affectionately.

When I saw Xiaoxue Yang Dongxu, I couldn't help but think of my sister in the countryside, so I didn't have anything to say about it. After a few days of mixing in the courtyard like this, Yang Dongxu took Xiaoxue's little hand and went out of the gate.

There is no place to play, although there are also some small merchants and hawkers in the city who walk through the alleys to sell some things, but those things can't attract Yang Dongxu's attention at all.

There are few shops around, not far from the Huode Zhenjun Temple, there are some stalls, and after a few glances, it doesn't mean anything to coax children, so he pulled Xiaoxue and ran into the temple to play.

It's a little strange that the temple is not inhabited by monks but Taoist priests Yang Dongxu, but when I see that the people enshrined in it are Taoist gods or something, I understand.

At this time, the temple doesn't need to buy tickets, except for a few Taoist priests who saw Yang Dongxu and Xiaoxue and said a few words to go out and play don't run around here, for fear that the child will damage the things in the temple, no one cares about you at all.

"Tut-tut, it's all good things, and if you get it back, it's a treasure for decades. Looking at the incense burner in the temple, Yang Dongxu's eyes lit up with a lamp.

Although he didn't know much about antique identification, there was no doubt that these were genuine. People in these years are sincere, and they are even more in awe of the gods or something, and naturally they will not fool the gods with some vain things like in later generations.

"Brother Xu, hungry ......" Yang Dongxu, who was constantly thinking about how to get these antiques home, was pulled by Xiaoxue.

"Forehead ......" patronized to see the baby Yang Dongxu forgot the time, stretched out his head from under the eaves and looked outside, it was indeed noon.

Reluctantly glanced at the rooms that had not yet been entered, Yang Dongxu had no choice but to take Xiaoxue and prepare to go home for dinner. Zhou Yiren was very relieved of him, so the key was hung around his neck, and he went back to cook whatever he wanted, and Zhou Yiren did not come back to eat at the unit at noon.

In the morning, Zhou Yiren bought him breakfast, and in the evening, he brought food back from the canteen of the unit, and was despised by Yang Dongxu for cooking once, and he never cooked again.

Therefore, Yang Dongxu was deeply worried about his living standards. He really couldn't understand how cooking was so unpalatable, how Zhou Yiren had survived in Yangjia Village for so many years without being poisoned by himself.

"Sniff ......" just wanted to take Xiaoxue's little hand and leave, a fragrance wafted into his nostrils, and Xiaoxue next to him also shook his nose like a puppy, strange not hungry, this is asking about the smell of meat.

Don't leave, Yang Dongxu followed the fragrance and looked over to see if he could have lunch, anyway, the two of them couldn't eat much, or it was a big deal to give money.

When he left Yangjia Village, Yang Dongxu's parents gave him a huge sum of 500 yuan. Of course, the money was put by Zhou Yiren, but he just put it and didn't hide it, Zhou Yiren never cared about Yang Dongxu when he was about the money, and he knew that he wouldn't take it indiscriminately. So at this time, Yang Dongxu had a huge sum of two yuan in his pocket, and it was not a big problem to have a meal.

Following the fragrance, Yang Dongxu passed a side door, walked along the narrow corridor and walked forward for a distance, and a small courtyard appeared in Yang Dongxu's field of vision.

I didn't bother to think about how there was such a remote courtyard in the temple, and the house looked very dilapidated. His eyes were fixed on a small wooden house on the left side of the courtyard, and the scent wafted from it. And he also heard the squeak of meat stir-frying in the pan.

Xiaoxue was a little scared when she came to the unfamiliar courtyard, although she kept smelling the meat and swallowing saliva, she didn't dare to step forward with Yang Dongxu.

Yang Dongxu patted her little hand comfortingly, and then shouted at the hut with his throat: "Is there anyone, is the meal ready?"

This voice couldn't help but startle Xiaoxue, and there was a clanging sound in the kitchen, as if a spatula had fallen to the ground. The next moment, an old man wearing a Taoist headband and a Taoist robe poked his head out of the kitchen.

"If you take care of my lunch, I won't expose you for eating meat. Yang Dongxu controlled the muscles on his face to make himself look more serious.

Although the clothes on his body were a little white, Yang Dongxu really couldn't stand lice or other small animals crawling around on his body, and he was too clean when he was in his own house.

At the moment, a little boy who is dressed plainly and cleanly can definitely be equated with cuteness, after all, Yang Dongxu is not ugly, and his living conditions are good, and he does not have the thin skin color of the child who is malnourished at the moment.

"Expose you ball, the old Taoist believes in Zhengyi, not all true, not to mention eating meat and getting married. Seeing that it was two little children, the Taoist priest breathed a sigh of relief and glared at Yang Dongxu fiercely, the voice just now scared him a lot.

This time it was Yang Dongxu's turn to be dumbfounded, in his eyes, the monks and Taoist priests in the world seemed to be the same, as for what kind of Buddha Xinfeng was, and what kind of teaching, he really didn't know what he was teaching. Looking at the appearance of this old Taoist priest, it seems that it is not a joke.

"I don't know what to call the Taoist chief's number, the monks are compassionate, and the Buddha also cuts meat and feeds eagles, can you care about our lunch?"

"That's the Buddha, I'm a Taoist priest, and I believe in the Three Qings. The old Taoist priest glanced at Yang Dongxu speechlessly, retracted his head, and kept muttering: "What the hell, now the children are like this?"

Xiao Xue took Yang Dongxu's hand and wanted him to leave, although the smell of meat was very attractive to her, but the old Taoist priest didn't seem to be a good person.

The old Taoist's words made Yang Dongxu blush a little, and rubbed his nose with his hand to hide his embarrassment. If he was to distinguish between Jeongichi and Jeonzhen, he wouldn't know what to do. But it's a little embarrassing to take what the Buddha said to make the Taoist priest compassionate, isn't this running to the Taoist temple to find a monk, and his brain is caught by the door?

However, as a person in his forties, Yang Dongxu is thick-skinned enough, and since the other party did not drive him away, it proves that there is a way out of this matter. Besides, the smell of the meat is so attractive, and he has been short of oil and water in his stomach for the past two days.

Pulling Xiao Xue, who was a little scared, to sit down at the stone table under the grapevines in the small courtyard, two plates of dishes had been placed on the stone table and buckled upside down with bowls, obviously this was where the old Taoist priest ate.

Seeing that the little kid in front of him was not scared away, but walked into the kitchen as if no one was around, picked up the gourd and scooped half a scoop of water, ran to the yard to wash the little girl's hands, and washed it himself, the old Taoist priest's eyes widened and he felt that he had really hit a ghost for a few days.

"Kid, where are you?" Seeing the two little children sitting on the stone bench, drooling over the dishes on the plate, but not eating first, the old Taoist priest came out of the kitchen with a casserole and asked.

The casserole is bubbling with bubbles, and the meat inside gives off a mouthwatering meaty aroma as the bubbles roll. This is a pot of rabbit meat, because Yang Dongxu saw the rabbit head in the pot at a glance. Although the rabbit meat in July is not as fatty as in autumn, after a few months of eating grass, it will not be as firewood as in winter, and it still tastes good.

"The one on the opposite side of Mao'er Hutong just moved over. Looking at the old Taoist priest holding three small bowls in his hands and three pairs of chopsticks, Yang Dongxu knew that his lunch had been settled.

But when he saw that there were only three dishes on the table, he raised his eyebrows: "Get another dish, how to eat three dishes?"

"Shouting, people don't know a lot, they love to eat and don't eat and pull down. Hearing Yang Dongxu's words, the old Taoist priest was stunned, and then opened his mouth and laughed, while laughing, he squeezed his eyebrows at Yang Dongxu like an old child.

There is a saying in the old rules that the food served by the guests is not singular, because the singular dishes are called 'lame dishes' to entertain Wang Ba, but now people are poor, so if the three dishes are still a little particular, five or seven dishes are not a serious banquet and do not care much.

But three dishes are too obvious, even in the countryside, no matter how poor the family entertains guests, casually with peanuts, even if it is the green dates just picked from the tree, they will make four dishes.

"Children are not guests, whatever you want. Yang Dongxu muttered a sentence in his mouth, sandwiched a few pieces of rabbit meat with few bones and put them in Xiaoxue's bowl to cool first, and then picked up his small bowl and put some vegetables in front of Xiaoxue for her to eat.

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