Chapter 8: Confrontation or Strife (5) (2)
Jin Lian was still staying in her own courtyard in the west of the village, busy burning incense and kowtowing to the gods. Mortals want to celebrate the New Year, and of course the gods also have to celebrate it, and they have to live in front of mortals. Every year for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, she only comes in time for the meal. This year is certainly no exception.
It's just that this year's New Year, although there is an extra autumn equinox, there are still two people missing. One is the Quartet. Last year's Chinese New Year, it was the bank that watched the door in the hotel. This year, it's his turn to watch the door, and he can't go home for a reunion. The other is the Four Joys. He has been away from home for three full years and has not been heard from since. This year's New Year has reached the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve. It seems that there is no hope again.
Zhenshu got up and stepped out of the gate to see how the Spring Festival couplets that had just been pasted were effected. Standing in front of his house and looking at the people on the slope, the front of his house is red. The red couplets decorate the courtyard doors of the old and new with joy and vigor. This is all Zhenshu's handwriting, which he built for the courtyards of the whole village by himself. Seeing this, Zhenshu's heart swayed with a warm spring, and he had a sense of satisfaction and pride.
Just as he was admiring himself, a trembling voice came from behind him, saying, Dad, how are you old?
Zhenshu's body froze suddenly, and his heart immediately jumped wildly. He turned around slowly, and saw a familiar figure standing not far from the door. Zhenshu involuntarily lost his voice and shouted, is it four joys, four joys. As soon as the words landed, he also fell to the ground.
The person who came was Sixi, who had been missing for three whole years, and suddenly appeared at the door of his house. It is Zhenshu's most important and resentful second son, Sixi.
The sudden return of Sixi suddenly overturned a pot of boiling water in the Zhenyuan Academy on Chinese New Year's Eve. Zhenshu was overjoyed, Zhenshu women were in tears, the four seasons were at a loss, and Jin Lian was indifferent. Sixi's daughter-in-law Osmanthus cried with joy. She didn't care about the good time of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and she didn't care about the face of the whole family, so she sat on the ground and howled loudly. scolded the ruthless man for a while, and cried for a while about his own suffering. It was until the deafening sound of firecrackers was set off by the babies and cubs on the street outside the courtyard, and the food on the table was already cold, and the adults and babies had already empty their stomachs before they stopped. The family seemed to have just sobered up, and they were happy again. The family was busy with warm dishes and hot wine, and had a reunion dinner and drank a reunion wine happily.
During the banquet, under the questioning of his family, he was no longer the stubborn and stubborn Sixi who was back then, and told him about his difficult and tortuous experiences and adventures in the past three years.
At the beginning, Sixi was angry for a while, regardless of the old and young wives and daughters, and embarked on the road of seeking teachers and learning art without hesitation. He went straight to Laoshan in Qingdao, imagining the story of Liaozhai, and deliberately looking for a real Taoist who could be good at illusion and arithmetic.
He worships when he sees the mountain, and asks for it when he sees it, but he runs into walls everywhere. No one cares about this ridiculously naïve countryman.
Sixi is still obsessed. He firmly believes that real people are among them. He wandered between Taiqing Palace, Shangqing Palace, Yuqing Palace, Baifu Nunnery, Xiuzhen Nunnery, and Taiping Palace for nearly three months, but found nothing. Over time, Sixi had the idea of going home. However, Sixi, who is stubborn and good-looking by nature, did not dare to take the steps of returning to his hometown, but hesitated in a dilemma and was at a loss in hesitation. [End of Chapter]