Chapter 252: Childhood

Hong Tao's grandmother's house is next to the Lama Temple, he grew up here since he was a child, when the Cultural Revolution had just ended, the Lama Temple was full of wild grass one person high, only a few old lamas watched in it, it was a good place for children to play nearby.

After the reform and opening up, the Beijing Municipal Government renovated this place again, became a tourist attraction, and slowly the incense also flourished, not only domestic tourists came here to burn incense and worship Buddha, but even foreigners also came to join in the fun. On the first and fifteenth days of the Lunar New Year, there are people queuing up from midnight to burn incense.

In fact, they are all self-deception, the first wave of incense they just can't burn it from the first day of queuing, those who have money advantages and relationships, have already entered through the back door of the Lama Temple, and when the front door opens, the Buddha has long been tired of listening to the wishes of sentient beings, and went back to sleep.

But the two old ladies came, whether it was fooling or pretending, it was better to satisfy them. Boss Liu's family doesn't believe in these, and there is no way to find it in Beijing, although you can find it now, but the time is a bit tight, and whether you can find it in the afternoon is still two words.

For the sake of the two old ladies who were kind-hearted and gave themselves two big red envelopes, Hong Tao gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and took this task down, which made Boss Liu a little surprised, and repeatedly confirmed that Hong Tao had this ability, not a good face to brag about, so he put his mind at ease and let Hong Tao do this thing, as for the required expenses, it was not a matter at all, Liu Xiaomei would follow Hong Tao, and she was responsible for paying the bills how much money she spent.

In fact, this matter doesn't cost a few dollars, there is such a sentence in Beijing, which probably means don't offend people casually, even if it's the uncle who watches the door, don't offend, because at the feet of this son of heaven, the relationship network is very complicated, and it is not good that this uncle is the husband of the nanny of the high-ranking official's family, which really makes people anxious, and even the director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau can't be even.

Hong Tao also happens to have such a relationship. But it's not a high-ranking official's nanny, but a big lama in the Lama Temple. During the Cultural Revolution, most of the lamas in the Lama Temple were sent back to their hometowns, but there were still a few lamas who were responsible for guarding the temple.

Among these lamas, there was a great lama who took in a godson. At the beginning, his godson was forcibly returned to the world, so he stayed on the edge of the Lama Temple to start a family and live in the same courtyard as Hong Tao's grandmother's family. When he was a child, Hong Tao couldn't understand the history told by adults, but he only knew that there was a family in the courtyard of his grandmother, and everyone called him Little Lama.

To say that the great lama knows this godson is really good, every Sunday, the little lama's family goes to the temple to take the big lama home, and serves him with delicious food and drink. It's like serving your own father. The big lama was familiar with the people in the courtyard, and he had a whisk made of a horse's tail, which he took with him every time he went home, and beat the dust on his body with that whisk before entering the door.

At the beginning, Hong Tao caused a disaster in the Lama Temple. It was also covered up by this lama's grandfather, when Hong Tao was not in elementary school, he took a group of children in the alley to hate him everywhere, and he came to the Lama Temple to play on this day. Hong Tao came up with another idea to burn Chibi according to the villain's book, and as a result, the weeds in the Lama Palace were set on fire.

Beijing is already dry in winter. As soon as the wind blew, the fire burned out, and the children were already frightened and ran away, leaving Hong Tao and a little girl still inside, they played Cao Cao and Liu Bei, the two of them were also dead-eyed, and they planned to extinguish the fire, if it weren't for the fast arrival of a few big lamas guarding the temple, their two little lives would have to be left inside.

Afterwards, the big lamas were frightened, and Hong Tao and the little girl were caught and not allowed to go, and they had to report to the police station, and the last thing was that the lama's grandfather persuaded several other lamas not to report to the government, but only called Hong Tao and the little girl's parents to take the child away, as for the back, the little girl Hong Tao didn't know what would happen when she went home, anyway, she let her dad smoke it on her ass, and the parents in the alley didn't let their children play with Hong Tao.

After taking over this task, Hong Tao called his little uncle and asked him to go to the little lama's house to say hello first, and after receiving a positive answer, he took Liu Xiaomei and prepared a lot of gifts, ready to go to the little lama's house to thank him, and by the way, he also looked at his grandmother's family.

In the northern part of Beijing's Dongcheng District, all the way to the edge of the Second Ring Road, there is a large area of bungalows, to be precise, a large number of temples here. Lama Temple, Bailing Temple, Artillery Bureau, Theater, listen to these names, you know what they were before, but after liberation, with the changes of the times, here have become private houses, most of them are miscellaneous courtyards, like the courtyard where Hong Tao's grandmother's family lived, which was originally the temple property of Lama Temple, and it was also a small temple.

"This is the kindergarten I went to when I was a child, here is the cooperative where I used to play soy sauce with a bottle when I was a child, it used to be a commissary, and it sold homemade two kicks during the festival, especially fine, 1 cent 2, you look at this subway station, when the subway was built, we all ran here to steal porcelain pieces...... "Hong Tao drove into the alley, and his childhood memories were immediately hooked up by the familiar buildings around him, and he kept pointing to Liu Xiaomei to introduce it.

"Do you remember that clearly?" Liu Xiaomei didn't quite understand Hong Tao's excitement.

"Well, just like yesterday, this large bungalow area was my playground when I was a child, and in the spring we went from yard to yard to find big elm trees, and at noon when the adults were sleeping, we secretly climbed up to eat elm money; In the summer, I take bamboo poles and stick dragonflies along these alleys; On autumn evenings, take a flashlight to find cracks in walls and bricks to catch crickets; As soon as it snows in winter, I push a small Xiaoice car to row slowly on the street, and I don't know how tired I am, so I can row all the way to Dongzhimen. Speaking of his childhood, Hong Tao looked happy, if he wanted to choose, he would rather not have a computer, a car, a color TV and a washing machine, but also go back to his childhood.

"You weren't an honest kid when you were a kid!" Hearing Hong Tao's introduction, Liu Xiaomei had no resonance, but came to an additional conclusion: bad children are raised from childhood!

"Hahaha, my grandfather said it well, those who didn't hate it when I was a child were stupid children, and they had no future! Boys should be naughty. Hong Tao remembered his grandfather, the old man was very cute, walked dozens of miles to work every day, and after work, he must bring back a little snack or something, go home and share it with Hong Tao and his uncle, and he is also very protective of calves, how his children hate it is nothing, but others can not scold or beat, dare to move a finger, go out and play with others, very simple people. It's a pity that I died early, didn't catch up with the good time, and didn't enjoy a few days of happiness.

"Hmph, that's doting!" Liu Xiaomei specifically opposed Hong Tao.

"Hehe......" Hong Tao almost told the truth when he heard this word, but thinking that the woman next to him was unreasonable, he swallowed those words back.

If you want to talk about doting, I'm afraid that your eldest lady can be ranked in the country, just your temper, if it weren't for your father's doting, you would have been drawn to the north!

"What are you huh? Something to say! Liu Xiaomei also saw that Hong Tao had something to say.

"If we were neighbors when we were children, I would beat you up every day, do you know how to hang ghosts? It's the kind of meat worm hanging on the locust tree, and I'll stuff it in your neck every day! No matter how honest you are, do you know how to do it? It's the kind of bug with thorns on the poplar tree, and I will stuff it in your neck! In addition, you don't want to play in the alley, I will snatch your rubber band away to boil the sticky dragonfly, play with sandbags, I will throw the sandbags on the roof for you, as long as you dare to go out in summer, the water gun is waiting anytime and anywhere, we don't need a slingshot, it is easy to hurt people......"

Hong Tao was more annoying than he said when he was a child, none of the children in the alley did not let him, on the one hand, he had a grandfather who cared for calves, on the other hand, he had an uncle who was only 7 years older than him, whenever he was bullied, his brother-in-law would call a group of classmates to help him fight. (To be continued......)