In the middle of summer, Tianjin is almost stagnant, and Tianjin people enjoy life and are happy to be comfortable. Summer and winter are the best reasons for most Tianjin people to stay at home. Luo Kang is the same, the temperature of 35 degrees makes him have no intention of taking care of the business of the auto repair shop, but fortunately, the employees are quite competent, and he doesn't need to do anything. "Boss, you go to the east courtyard to rest, I'll call you if you have something." Chen Zhiyu, who speaks an authentic Henan dialect, said to Luo Kang. "Don't call me boss, just the two of us in the store, I'll go back to the east courtyard to wash my face, and let's take out some Beitang buns to eat at noon." With that, Luo Kang walked out of the store and entered a small courtyard next door.

This shop and one courtyard were originally two sets of small courtyards, one east and one west, the east courtyard was the ancestral property of Luo Kang's family, and the west courtyard was where Luo Kang's mother's family lived before their parents got married. Luo Kang's maternal grandfather ancestral home in Sichuan, unfortunately died in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, leaving only his grandmother and Luo Kang's mother Qu Jing two people depended on each other, the government took care of the martyrs' bereaved families, and assigned this set of yards to the mother and daughter to live, Qu Jing became an adult, and arranged to work in the Construction Bureau, and Luo Kang's father Luo Jianye in the same project department. Luo Jianye and Qu Jing are the same age, they are both colleagues and neighbors, and soon they were matched by Grandma Hu, a neighbor.

Luo Kang's father has three brothers, Luo Jianye is the youngest, Luo Jianxun, the eldest brother of the Luo family, and Luo Jiangong, the second brother, are all developing abroad, Luo Jianye also has the opportunity to go abroad, in order to take care of his elderly father, he found a stable job in a state-owned enterprise, and after marrying Qu Jing, Luo Kang's grandfather left the East Courtyard to his youngest son as a wedding room, and the eldest of the Luo family took his father to live abroad, but it didn't take long for the old man to die without a problem. Luo Jianye and Qu Jing have been living in this courtyard, taking care of Qu Jing's mother in the west courtyard. Soon after Luo Kang graduated from high school, Qu Jing's mother passed away, and Luo Jianye and his wife knew that the child was not a material for studying, and could not be admitted to university, so they sent him to a technical school to study auto repair, and changed the West Courtyard into an auto repair factory, all of which were taken care of by Luo Kang himself, which was regarded as finding a livelihood for his son.

Luo Kang's parents had a traffic accident when they participated in the construction mission, and the car overturned into a mountain stream, and even the bones have not been found. Luo Kang lost his parents all of a sudden, and he was in pain, thanks to the neighborhood's grandmother Hu and her granddaughter Lin Zi who often came to visit and take care of Luo Kang, Luo Kang slowly came out of the shadows. Lin Zi is Luo Kang's high school classmate, a super scholar, but frail and sickly, with more than 670 points in the college entrance examination, her parents were afraid that she would not be able to bear to go far away, so they applied for a local second-rate university in Tianjin, because the school was close to her grandmother's house, and she almost lived here permanently, and only returned to her home in the city on weekends. In the past two years, the relationship between Luo Kang and Lin Zi has been getting better and better, but Luo Kang thinks that he is a small self-employed person and is still not worthy of Lin Zi, so he has always maintained a tepid state, but he doesn't know that Lin Zi has long been in love with him.

Luo Kang returned to the East Courtyard, washed his face, looked at himself in the mirror, two thick eyebrows under the simple hairstyle, the original deep eye sockets were squeezed out of the space by the fat accumulated in the past year, the high nose bridge, and a beautiful lip under the big nose, but don't miss your teeth, otherwise a mouthful of yellow cigarette stained teeth will definitely blind your eyes. Luo Kang smiled in his heart, "Just talking about this pair of skins, with Lin Zi, it can be regarded as the past!" So he left a message for Lin Zi's WeChat, but Lin Zi didn't reply, maybe he was still in class. Looking at Lin Zi's WeChat avatar taken by herself, with a youthful bright smile hanging on Chu Chu's moving face, Luo Kang felt that God still had some pity on him. After ordering takeout, he picked up the "Notice of Demolition and Reconstruction of the Old City" just issued by the street and looked at it, the compensation policy given by the government is still very good, with the conditions of Luo Kang's family, in addition to getting two sets of demolition and resettlement houses, he can also get more than 4 million yuan in compensation. Luo Kang sighed, put the notice in the drawer, took out three sticks of incense, and inserted them into the incense burner in front of his parents' clothed mound. The so-called mound is actually a washbasin-sized lacquered wooden box, covered with a black blackout cloth, and some relics of Luo Kang's parents are simply placed inside. Two years ago, when I was doing the funeral for Luo Kang's parents, Luo Kang's two uncles were abroad, and they couldn't rush back as soon as possible, and the things inside and outside were all handled by Grandma Hu, Xue Ye of the shroud shop, Aunt Liu of the neighborhood committee, and other kind-hearted neighbors, Luo Kang was too sad at that time, and the things in the wooden box were all selected and packaged by these neighbors, and Luo Kang didn't know what was in it until now. He didn't want to, or rather, he didn't dare to open it. Luo Kang sat on a small wooden chair, looking at the portrait of his parents, his eyes were a little moist, next to the portrait was a photo wall carefully built by his parents before his death, each photo recorded the happiness of the family, a happy moment, one of which is Luo Kang's parents left and right, in the middle sat the two-year-old little Luo Kang, naked, fleshy, Luo Kang's parents compared their hands to the number eight, pointing to the strange birthmark on the lower abdomen of the little Luo Kang, laughing, as if ridiculing the little guy's little personality, In the photo, Xiao Luo Kang seems to have been touched by his parents' fingers, and he is itching all over his back. Suddenly, the phone rang and shattered the sweet memory. "Boss, the takeout has been delivered to the store, come and eat." Chen Zhiyu said on the phone. "Okay, I'll come right away, don't eat it all!" Although it is the relationship between the boss and the employee, Luo Kang regards Chen Zhiyu as like a little brother, after all, he is alone, Lin Zi wants to study, and he will only come to see him occasionally, and the one who spends the most time with him all day and night is this little brother who goes to the city to work in the countryside.

Two pounds of buns for two people, there is no leftover of the one-headed garlic that comes with it, just after eating, the guests came to the door one after another, mainly to clean the car refrigeration pipeline, air conditioning fluoride or something, Luo Kang and Chen Zhiyu were so busy until it was dark and the store was closed.

Chen Zhiyu finished packing up the things in the store, said goodbye to Luo Kang, and went back to the courtyard not far from the fellow villagers to rest. Luo Kang turned off the lights and locked the door, returned to his home in the East Courtyard, took out his mobile phone, and saw Lin Zi replying to him: "Tonight the school has a rehearsal for the Qixi Festival, I won't go back to my grandmother's house, and sleep in my classmates' dormitories at night." "I'm very busy today, you ignore me when I reply to the message, I have to eat a good dinner, go to bed early if I'm tired, I'll go to the rehearsal first, it may be late, say good night in advance!" Call tomorrow!" Luo Kang's heart warmed after reading it, although it is not a real couple, Lin Zi can care about himself like this, and he feels really happy. It's going to be Tanabata soon, Luo Kang wondered if he would take this opportunity to confess to Lin Zi, it just so happened that Tanabata was also his birthday, and there was a good reason to ask her to meet. After thinking about it, let's wait a little longer, so I can make more money and give Lin Zi better living conditions. Luo Kang took out the demolition notice from the drawer, looked at it, sighed, and put it back in the drawer.

With a march of pots and pans, Luo Kang made himself a decent dinner. Noodles and eggs are trays, spicy skin shrimp, and pine nut tripe from Tianbaolou are cut on a plate, a bag of drunkard peanuts is opened, cold beer is full, and rice and rice are stewed in a rice cooker. When he was ready, Luo Kang took out his mobile phone, took a photo of the poison and sent it to Lin Zi, with the postscript, "See if I'm obedient?" "After sending it, I ate it and stuffed it, it was almost nine o'clock in the evening, and Luo Kang was really hungry.

Before half of the meal was finished, the phone rang, and the caller was Xue Ye from the shroud shop. Xue Ye is more than 50 years old, he has opened a shroud shop on this street for more than 20 years, he is bold and careful, he is not deceived in business, and his reputation is very good. Last winter, Xue Ye's wife Aunt Xue died of a sudden cerebral infarction, since then, Xue Ye has nothing to do to visit Luo Kang's house, Luo Kang is also very welcome, after all, the aftermath of his parents back then, Xue Ye is also a great contribution, plus this little old man chats about the world, his mouth is open, but he is also very fond of Luo Kang's temper, and the old and the young have been sympathetic to each other since then.

"Stinky boy, have you eaten? Haven't I eaten yet, old man? "I'm eating, come here, what's wrong?" Aunt Xue is gone, no one can take care of you? Merry and happy, can't even take care of eating? "Luo Kang has no taboo to joke with Xue Ye." You can't spit out ivory in your dog's mouth, your Aunt Liu is a grandmother, let me show my little grandson the figure-eight face, this family, added a big child, happy farts and farts, all go to rare little babies, not even a cook, I don't know how hungry. I can't do it anymore, I can't see anything to eat, so I hurriedly panicked out and came to find you. "Your business is expanding wider and wider, and you have taken all the work to see the face?" Luo Kang said, "Come on, I'm waiting for you, let's drink white." Xue Ye said, "You were still a cell when I traveled all over the world, you haven't seen much of my skills, wait for me, I'll be there after the two intersections, okay, hey?" The lights at this intersection are no longer on, and there is no one to repair them," Xue Ye hung up the phone while muttering to himself. Luo Kang took a bottle of Zhigu sorghum wine from the cabinet, this wine is not expensive, but it is very suitable for Xue Ye's taste buds, and he put two wine cups on the table, poured them full, and waited for Xue Ye to come to the door.

After about an hour, three unhurried knocks sounded, and Luo Kang, who was in a hurry, knew that Xue Ye had arrived, got up and opened the door, saw that it was Xue Ye, and said, "You are here!" Are your legs bad? It's so slow to smell the wine. Xue Ye bowed and said, "Excuse me, excuse me!" Luo Kang was stunned for a moment, then let Xue Ye into the house, and stood next to the door, confused by Xue Ye's politeness. Xue Ye sat lightly on the chair next to the dining table, and said to Luo Kang with a smile, "I am indeed a little hungry, this kind of delicacy is rare in the world, please forgive me for being rude, let's eat first." After that, I shook off my cheeks, and the fish, shrimp, and small belly were eaten beautifully, but the wine and rice did not move at all. Luo Kang moved stupidly, slowly sat opposite Xue Ye, staring at the uncle in front of him stupidly, with naturally growing half-length hair, his temples were black and white, and his slender cheeks were full of age spots and wrinkles, showing that he was like this generation of the same age, he had experienced the vicissitudes of wind and rain, the difference was that his eyes were exceptionally crystal clear, as if he could see through the human brain. "You're out of the right to eat?" Luo Kang teased. "Whereever, this meal is already excellent, thank you for your hospitality, thank you! Thank you!" Xue Ye obviously didn't hear the meaning of Luo Kang's words. "Master Xue, where did you play today? Fishing for golden turtles? Xue Ye smiled awkwardly and didn't answer Luo Kang's words. Xue Ye slowly raised his hand, pointed at the mound of Luo Kang's parents with an orchid, and said, "Do you know what is in the box?" Luo Kang shook his head. Xue Ye laughed softly, "Since the beginning of chaos, the beginning of the world, the light rises to the sky, the turbid sinks to the earth, the pole gives birth to the pole, there is the pole to give birth to the two instruments, the two instruments give birth to the four elephants, the four elephants give birth to the gossip, the things in the box are based on the essence of the gossip, the collection of heaven and earth, the law of yin and yang, the treasure of the number of the main life, its name is "Eight Arrays" "Luo Kang's head was full of question marks, and he couldn't insert a word, and he looked at Xue Ye cutely and listened to him continue. "This thing was once taken care of by the immortal family surnamed Hu in the northeast, and the war in Goryeo was chaotic, and the Hu family accidentally lost it in order to avoid disaster, and it was found to be obtained by a poor person." Luo Kang listened to Xue Ye as if he was saying that his grandfather had this book. Xue Ye continued, "The immortal family originally wanted to get it back, but this sent person to kill too much, and it was easy not to get close, and when this sent person into the ground, this thing did not know where to go, and the immortal family had the art of tracing and fixing the acupoint, but it was difficult to control this treasure, that is, twenty years ago, finally found the trace of this house." I wanted to retrieve the treasure, but the little master of this house was born, the yin qi was pressing, and he tried to lose his yang energy to continue his life. If the two are forcibly separated, I am afraid that the life of this son will be harmed, God has the virtue of a good life, and the will of heaven is like this, so it cannot be forced. In the near future, the immortal family has a catastrophe coming, otherwise it may be difficult to settle down, and the ten halls have a decree to let the little fairy retrieve the treasure and settle the little master. The little fairy is shallow in learning, but he reads the grace of the little lord to appreciate the meal, the ability of the poor generation, to protect the little lord for seven days, to take care of the aftermath, and the seven little fairies in early July come to disturb and send the little lord back to his place. The processor in Luo Kang's head completely collapsed, "Xue Ye, what are you talking about?" As soon as the words fell, the door suddenly opened, and a person shouted, "Luo Kang, are you stupid?" He's not Xue Ye! He wants your life!"