Chapter Seventy-Eight: Ningxia Specialties
Leonard complied and continued to practice his jumper, and Hougist quickly noticed a deviation in his elbow angle and corrected it in time. At this time, Leonard felt that his shot was extremely smooth, and there was no longer any sluggishness.
After two days of intensive training, everyone has mastered the shooting style that suits them, except for Leonard, who can practice shooting hard as always, everyone else is already showing fatigue and it is difficult to focus on practice.
Hougist also saw that everyone was absent-minded, so he began the second phase of training. Hougist had LaVine and Jeremy Lin of the same height defend each other's shots, and Hollis Jefferson to go to defend each other with Leonard. Hollis Jefferson reluctantly accepted this difficult task, Leonard didn't care, he could practice for a day without guarding, and he could practice for a day if someone guarded him.
When several people practiced shooting, the shooting rate was already very high, but after adding defense, the shooting rate fell off a cliff, only Leonard did not fall much, one is that Hollis Jefferson who defended him was shorter than him, and then Leonard was really resolute when he shot, no matter Hollis Jefferson's normal interference, eye sealing or wrist pointing, Leonard resolutely made the shooting posture in a regular and complete manner, so his shooting rate was the least affected.
After a month of training, the projection ability of several people has been greatly improved. School was about to start, and Joseph was returning to Vegas from a trip to Colorado Plateau, Utah, just in time for the final days of camp, where Hougist introduced him to LaVine and Leonard. Although they had a great conversation, Joseph was often choked by Leonard's taciturnity.
By the end of the training camp, the NBA shutdown was still going on and there seemed to be no end in sight, with many stars starting to play amateur games or professional leagues in other countries to stay in shape, such as the famous Drew League in Los Angeles and the CBA in China. Hougist asked about Lin and Leonard's plans.
"I wonder what you're going to do next?"
Leonard: "γγγγγγ β
"I received an invitation from the Chinese team, Shenzhen Cheetah, to play in the Asian Club Champions League." Jeremy Lin saw that Leonard didn't speak, so he answered.
βγγγγγγ I'm going back to high school and continuing to train, the NBA will always come back and I'm going to be as prepared as I canγγγγγγ Leonard said.
"Okay, take care of the two of you, and I wish you all the best in your career!" Hougist said.
After seeing off his friends, Hoggist arrived at the airport. Today is the day when Qiu Jingli came back, and I didn't see each other all summer vacation, and the feelings of the two people in a foreign relationship have not weakened, but the feelings of longing have become stronger. Hogist waited at the exit early, the tall Haugist was very eye-catching in the crowd, Qiu Jingli's flight still had a few hours to arrive, but there were many beautiful students from the Cimaren Memorial Hall Middle School who came back from vacation, and did not find their parents who came to pick up the plane in the crowd, but they saw Haugist at a glance, and from time to time there were female classmates who came up to say hello.
One or two are okay, but more Hogist gradually can't cope with it, and the most annoying thing is that many parents always notice it when they see their children come out, so everyone is around Hogist, waiting for the rabbit. This made Haugist even more embarrassed.
In the end, Haugist had to put the hat on his sweatshirt and lie down on the fence with his head down to look shorter. He gradually lost his recognition when he blocked his face, and the parents of the students dispersed. Qiu Jingli finally got off the plane, came out of the exit, and looked around for a long time but didn't see Haojist. He took out his mobile phone and dialed Haugist's number.
The phone rang, making Haugist hold his head up with his phone, and Qiu Jingli locked on to Hoggist in the crowd. Qiu Jingli raised her arms in place in the style of a queen, signaling Haugist to hug.
Regardless of everyone's gaze, Haogist quickly rushed to Qiu Jingli, hugged Qiu Jingli with both hands and spun around in the air several times before putting him down. But he still didn't let go of her, but hugged her in his arms and kissed affectionately.
The two kissed passionately, as if they were telling the thoughts of the whole holiday, and as if they were going to make up for all the kisses owed in the summer. It wasn't until bursts of applause rang out around them that the two came back to their senses.
The airport is always full of the bitterness of parting and the happiness of reunion, such sweet moments will be staged at the airport from time to time, and people are always happy to see such sweetness, because such scenes can always warm people's hearts and give people hope and strength to continue living.
The two left the airport red-faced. Back to Qiu Jingli's apartment, she took out a lot of hometown specialties like a trick, but not Qiu Jingli's hometown specialties, after all, Beijing's specialty Haojist has basically eaten it all. Qiu Jingli brought some things that Haugist had never seen before, and according to Qiu Jingli, these are all specialties of Haugist's hometown.
"This is wolfberry leaf tea, wolfberry you know what it is, right?" Qiu Jingli asked, and when she saw Haojister nodded, she continued to introduce: "It is recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that wolfberry is a thing of 'rhizomes and flowers, and there is no waste to clean up', which means that wolfberry is a plant with medicinal value all over its body. By the way, "Compendium of Materia Medica" is a book, have you heard of it? β
Hoggist nodded again, "I know, it's an encyclopedia of Chinese herbal medicine written by Li Shizhen, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty!" When it comes to Chinese herbal medicine, it is really amazing, many humble leaves, roots, bark, and even ores can be used to cure diseases, and the wisdom of the ancestors is really endless! β
When it comes to Chinese herbal medicine, Hogist is highly regarded as a Chinese who grew up overseas.
"You're right, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that 'spring wolfberry leaves, the name of Tianjing grass', the spring picking wolfberry leaf shoots are called Tianjing grass, that is the essence of the grass! This is a tea made from the young buds of wolfberry leaves, the taste is delicate and soft, has the effect of strengthening the body, and is a good product for calming the nerves! Qiu Jingli introduced.
"And what's this rat-like thing?" Horgist asked, pointing to a bag of seeds.
"Phew! You're too illiterate! Qiu Jingli was unhappy, "I'm such a good cassia and you actually say it's rat?" β
"Cassia? It sounds like the name of Chinese medicine! Hogist guessed.
"Count you as a clever boy, and Cassia is named after his ability to see clearly. Cassia seeds are bitter, sweet, salty, slightly cold, and enter the liver, kidney, and large intestine meridians; Soak in water and drink to moisten the intestines and laxative, clear the liver and eyes, and treat constipation, hyperlipidemia and high blood pressure. Qiu Jingli said proudly, "There is also this, Ningxia safflower." The aroma is peculiar and the taste is somewhat bitter. The best of this kind of flower with long petals, bright red color and soft texture I brought, this safflower soaked in water has the effect of invigorating blood circulation and menstruation, removing stasis and relieving pain. β
"Sounds high-end! Are these teas? How about that dragon well? Hogist asked curiously.
"Although the value of these three things is far less than Longjing, they are all tea substitutes that are good for your health, and the important thing is that these are the specialties of your hometown." Qiu Jingli introduced.
"A specialty from my hometown?" Hogist was a little puzzled.
"There are also these two things, wolfberry fruit wine and Wuzhong rice wine. Goji berry fruit wine is carefully brewed from fresh goji berries. The color is pure, the body is clear, the taste is mellow, and the aftertaste is long, which not only maintains the fruity aroma and nutrition of wolfberry, but also has a unique taste, and has a high nutritional and health care value, which is a good nutritional product for daily drinking and health adjustment. The brewing process of Wuzhong rice wine is even more exquisite! It is necessary to use several herbs such as wild chrysanthemum and wheat to make koji, boil the full grain into porridge, and put it into a tank with cold boiled water to close and ferment it after 40 days. Rice is usually strained through a coarse basket or bamboo cover, boiled and ready to drink. The color of the sifted boiled rice wine is yellow and bright, sweet and fragrant, and has a slight sour and bitter taste, which is appetizing and refreshing to drink, and has the effect of quenching thirst in summer! These are the specialties of your hometown, to be exact, the specialties of your ancestral land. β
"You say this is my ancestral land? Is it a specialty of Xiping Province? β
"That's right, Xiping Mansion, Lingzhou, is now Wuzhong City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. These are all local specialties. Qiu Jingli introduced.
"Didn't you go back to Beijing? How did you bring back so many Ningxia specialties? Horgist thought something was strange.
"That's exactly what I'm going to tell you, a very important thing!" Qiu Jingli suddenly became very serious.
Hogist was startled, "Don't be so serious! It's scary to look at, I'm so scared! β
"Don't be hippie and smiley, I'll get down to business!" Qiu Jingli glared at Haugist, who stuck out his tongue in fright.
"Look at this thing, do you know that?" Qiu Jingli said, reaching into her neckline, groping for something.
Hougist stretched his neck and looked inside along Qiu Jingli's neckline, still drooling, "What are you touching?" I'll touch it for you? β
Qiu Jingli looked up and found that Haojist was taking advantage of Haojister with lustful eyes, turned sideways angrily, took out a stone pendant from the neckline and threw it to Haojister, and said angrily: "Look at this thing, do you know it?" β
Hoggist took the pendant and looked at it carefully, the stone has a delicate texture, elegant and luster, purple embedded green, green with purple. On the front of the front, four characters are written in an italics-like font, and on the back are two large characters, which look like Chinese characters horizontally and vertically, but Hougist racked his brains but couldn't recognize what these six words were.
"It's a delicate thing to look at, but I haven't seen it." Hogist handed the pendant back to Qiu Jingli.
Qiu Jingli waved his hand, "You take this thing back and ask your uncle, he should know it!" β
"Are you sure my dad knows this?" Hoggist was full of suspicion, "You haven't said where you got so many Ningxia specialties!" β
"My mother brought a lot of Ningxia specialties when she went back to Beijing this time, and I told her about you, and she asked me to bring these specialties to my uncle and aunt."
"Wouldn't it? Aunt doesn't object to me associating with you? "Hoggist was very surprised, they all said that China's mother-in-law is so difficult to serve, why is my mother-in-law so reasonable?
Qiu Jingli pointed to the stone pendant and said, "This pendant is made of Helan stone, a token of the Western Xia royal family, and my mother said that she may know your father." β
This is the most shocking news today, the mother of his girlfriend who had a chance to make is thousands of miles away, and actually said that he might know his father, which is too coincidental.
"I don't know much about the specifics, my mother said that when she was in graduate school, she and her supervisor went to Wuzhong in Ningxia for the first time to do a field trip, but after entering the mountains, the professor who was as familiar with the Helan Mountains as her own backyard got lost, and when it was dark, she came to a small village. The people there seemed to be living in ancient times, but there was a village chief and a party secretary in the village, and the old branch secretary arranged for my mother and her party to spend the night in each house. My mother's house is a single mother with a teenage boy, the name is Helenda, according to the name and age inferred very similar to uncle, after all, the name Helian is rare, this Helan stone pendant was the boy named Helenda at that time to my mother! They had a very happy conversation that night, and my mother told them a lot about outside things, and Helenda, who was just beginning to fall in love, immediately fell in love with the big sister they met for the first time, and said that she wanted to marry her. He gave my mother the Helan stone pendant, which is known as an heirloom, and said that he would come to my mother when he became an adult, but in the end I don't know what happened to their village, and my mother never found the small village again when she went into the mountains, and the boy named Helenda never appeared again. β
"This ......" Hoggist was stunned, unable to speak for a long time, his father was secretive about his life experience before working, and kept silent, he didn't expect that the juvenile deeds of the person who suspected his father would be so shocking when he first heard from others.
"My mother thought at first that this was a beautiful colored stone, and it didn't make any sense, but as he continued to understand and study the Xixia culture in depth, she found that this Helan stone was extraordinary, it seemed to be made in ancient times, and my mother also studied the words on it, these six words are Yuan Hao's Xixia script created according to Chinese characters, the four words on the front are 'Dabai Gaoguo', and the two words on the back are 'Helian', which should be the symbol of the identity of the Xixia royal family, according to my mother's speculation, the village should be the guardian' Restore the treasure's descendants of the Dangxiang clan. It was so valuable that my mother always wanted to give it back to Helenda. If it's really the same person, this pendant can be returned to its original owner! Qiu Jingli said.
Although Haugist was shocked to hear this, he still knew the priority, and he asked the most important question again: "Is it true that my aunt is not against our relationship?" β