Chapter 2: Give Yourself a Reason 2

At the foot of the hill, there are a few cars parked in the parking lot, that is, the recessed hillside is bulldozed and smeared with cement, irregular but fairly smooth. Chen Tiange has always been accustomed to off-road vehicles, and has changed from the original Jeep 213 to the current Prado, which is the same dark green. He never mixes exercise with rushing, and has always believed that exercise should be in an environment suitable for exercise, with a calm mind, even breath, and a uniform pace, and should not play with his legs, feet, heart and lungs with exhaust dust and noise. The city's high-rise buildings are already close to the foot of the mountain, and within twenty meters of the eye are people hurrying in and out, greeting and all kinds of friction noises. Such an environment is only suitable for passing by in a hurry. So he also became a lack of people who drove three miles to walk five miles.

Saturday is a crowded day for any occasion, whether it's a card room or a library, whether it's a walk in the park or a fishing in the reservoir. At this time, Chen Tiange would go with the flow and spend time in the chess and card room, as if he had time to relax on weekends. Except for the first few years, no one asked him about his profession again, and everyone familiar with it knew that "this person is wealthy, has a car, a house, assets and property, but has no job" is purely an idler. Unfamiliar with driving a car of 100,000 yuan, smoking a cigarette for 60 or 70 yuan, and being polite and humble, naturally put his success and fame on him, plus the old customers seem to be familiar, and he seems to be familiar. It's not just that players don't need to know too much, but that they follow the crowd. The environment and atmosphere can often influence people's thinking and behavior. People who are familiar with it in a circle naturally feel that they can be familiar, so they will not ask questions about familiarity alone, but they don't know that after a long time, they are still as familiar as they were at the beginning.

Yuan Zhen's cold words were not as easy for Chen Tiange as he shook his hand, fifteen years of silence, the only friend, or a friend who seemed to be far away from the world, still persuaded with good words, Chen Tiange didn't know whether he really needed to change such a way of life or that there was no special independence in the world. Isn't the colorfulness of life the specificity of personality, shouldn't people live themselves? Chen Tiange did not drive in the original direction, and walked blindly along the outer ring following the idea of the car not stopping.

One afternoon along the Grand Canyon tourist loop, there were no encounters, no accidents, and no opportunity to help someone tow a car to borrow a fire. The southern half of the meaningless ring road is almost invisible to people and cars, except for the occasional walk by locals. I took a selfie under the vague slogan "Long live the chairman" on the wall of that room and turned back.

"I can actually drive into the house." Chen Tiange only found his thoughts when he approached the city at dusk, and he had a bowl of small rice in the morning. I can't remember what I've been thinking from near noon until now, and I don't remember why I've been convulsed like this, but my heart suddenly opened up and became open-minded.

"I don't refuse to be a woman who lives with a partner, and I don't just go for a partner. Being able to get to know each other is the foundation. I am still Taoist, I am natural, and I follow the destiny of heaven. ”

"Lao Yuan of the dog day," Chen Tiange shouted with a roar and suddenly laughed. It really doesn't interfere with the affairs of the true monk, the peculiar way of life, the only friend, the identity of the monk, and the words without a prelude. What I am confused about is not my own choice, but the gain and loss of the uniqueness of my friends, the contradiction between my subconscious belief in the identity of the Yuanzhen monk and my words, and the possibility of self-compromise.

After a simple dinner, Chen Tiange also made a pot of tea according to the procedure he had learned, and the standard pronunciation of the words of the announcer of the economic news network attracted his attention more than the content. He thought that the pronunciation of Mandarin was stronger than that of the announcer of Changzhi City Station, and no one thought that he was not a pure Changzhi person when he spoke the local language of Changzhi.

Feng Lixuan, the former general manager of Hubei Jincheng Group, was released from prison today. Feng Lixuan was arrested and imprisoned for contract fraud eight years ago and was released from prison today after completing her sentence. See the detailed report below."

Chen Tiange's hand holding the string of Yabai bracelets suddenly stopped. "It shouldn't be. Muttered, but didn't pay attention, his hand holding the porcelain bowl shook half a cup of tea, which was only enough for a mouthful.

"Feng Lixuan was arrested in 2007 for a huge amount of contract fraud

In June of that year, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison at the Wuhan Intermediate People's Court. Feng Lixuan did not appeal. It is understood that Feng Lixuan had a positive attitude and good performance during her sentence, and was commended by the prison authorities many times and submitted for commutation of sentence. The top management of Jincheng Group was collectively silent, and there was no high-level to welcome the former general manager out of prison. ”

"Lao Zhao's family, don't you think it's a little ruthless? Can you spend so much money? Isn't it good for everyone to get clean? It's not your family's, the ancestor left it to the three families! What is this for? What the hell do you want to do? It's okay to find trouble for Lao Tzu! Fuck you!" Chen Tiange stood up and pointed to the TV, suppressing his voice, as if roaring out of his heart and holding it back, his voice was in the lungs, and there was nowhere to vent his voice, and his face was red.

Forced to sit back again, that is, the cushion of the cushion weakened the strength of the decadent fall of his own power, the antique sofa of the red acid branch creaked and moaned, and a bead scar on the Ya Bai bracelet was cut along the wood grain, and he rubbed his hand to lift it up to see that it had been unconsciously pinched and cracked.

"Alas...... and a small thousand wasted". This is still a month ago in the City God Temple stall hard grinding Fujian Aberdo a string of evenly scarred Yabai bracelets. "It's wasted!" Chen Tiange casually found a tea bucket and threw Yabai into it, throwing a bunch of wooden bracelets in a mess, and occasionally revealing cracks like the master's open mouth.

Without the mood of tasting tea, I poured and drank water indiscriminately, and completed the task of passing three teas. When the subtitles of the economic news network were turned up, Chen Tiangeti stood up with slippers, turned off the TV, and entered the study with a cigarette.

The master's position plate was originally carved with a knife from Chen Tiange, the heart of the remaining pear tree in the Taoist temple. There is no inscription on the front of the plaque as usual, "Li Jinshi's position and offering", and it is a full-body portrait of the master wearing a Taoist robe. It is usually placed in the center of the bookcase, framed by a similarly sized pear niche. Anyone thinks it's an antique object or a god statue. In fact, Chen Tiange just wanted to be able to see Master from time to time, not the three Chinese characters "Li Jinshi".

"Master, I really don't want to go through that muddy water."

Chen Tiange was lying on a rocking chair, rubbing the plaque of the Master's statue.

"Master, it's different, it's different! You promised Master Zu that you would take care of the three brothers and protect the three brothers. Before leaving, he asked his disciple to take this vow. But do you know? It's changed! It's all changed! Speaking of which, I should have fulfilled your old confession, I found them, fifteen years ago. They're good, they're all good. It's the second uncle...... The second uncle is gone, his son is gone, and when I found it, he was gone. ”

He paused, his fingers sliding lightly over the plaque and resting on his face, like a master wiping tears from his face when he was a child.

"Master, this granddaughter disciple of the second uncle's family has seen and had contact, it is said that it should not be that kind of exaggerated temperament, but should be a stunned young man, in today's words, it is sunshine, kindness, innocence, she was seventeen or eighteen at that time. At that time, she was really an uncle, an elder, and she was a very good child. Master, do you know that I have no relatives, and I have been buried in the rubble for five days when you picked me up, and I always wonder how a six-year-old child could have survived such a big earthquake for five or six days? That's what you said. I suspect that you are my father, you have beaten your father several times, and I also know that you are not my father, my family is gone, all buried, and all stoned to death. So I especially want to have a relative, shouldn't this girl be, shouldn't she go to cheat?"

"Master, why don't I go and take a look? Disciple shouldn't be so bad at seeing people, how can this be? This is not for your oath, it's just to take a look and prove your ability to look at people. ”

"Master, why did Master Sanhe Jade Peizu give you the Tianzi Plate? ”

"Oath! Alas...... I still have to carry it!"

Chen Tiange put down the master's position card, and then put his hand on the niche and stared silently, the thin figure could block the light, so that the entire position card and the niche were in shadow. Neither he nor Master could see each other clearly.

"Master, I miss you." Twisted around and slumped on the recliner again, his eyes slightly closed, his eyelashes squeezing out tears without letting them fall. I remembered to turn off the lights and didn't bother to move, so I didn't move like that.

"Lao Yuan, I'll go out for a trip, maybe a long time or maybe I'll come back soon." The next day, Chen Tiange, as usual, went to the backyard of Digu Temple after breakfast.

"Oh, housekeeping is not cleaning twice a week. Do you still need me?" and Yuan Zhen's serious tone did not hide an inexplicable smile.

"No, it's the old guys, I have to go. ”

"I'll let Chengxin take the time to go to your house"

Yuan Zhen thought that Chen Tiange was awakened by his own thunder sound. Chen Tiange didn't know what he was for, he seemed to put aside the oath but kept it in his heart, and although the topic of partnering was bright, it dodged the corners of the monk's teasing mouth.