Today is Monday, August 12, the 12th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Today it is advisable to marry, make alliances, take collection, make stoves, and crowns; Do not dig wells, travel, break ground, mourn, and bury...... At six o'clock in the morning, the old horse held the calendar and muttered for a long time.

When he was about to smoke a hookah, he found that the lighter was out of gas, so the old man got up and went to the bedside table in his room to find a spare lighter. When he arrived at the room, he was still sleeping, so he sat gently in front of the bed and opened the drawers of the front cabinet one by one. Who wanted to find the lighter but didn't find it, but found the old watch of the big brother.

Opening the layers of old newspapers, Lao Ma saw a golden and old mechanical watch, the second hand was still ticking, the time on the watch was the same as the time on his left watch, but unfortunately the owner of the watch was gone. Lao Ma held the old newspaper, stared at the ticking second hand on the watch, remembered the ridiculous and hateful at the funeral that day, and looked back at Yuan Tiesheng's heroic posture thirty years ago, and his heart was sour.

After finding the lighter, the old man wrapped the watch layer by layer and carefully placed it in the bottom drawer. The old man dragged his sad back to the balcony desolately, and listened to Qin's "Huluyu" again.

"In the banquet hall of the Huanglong Treasure Tent, I suddenly remembered the second king of Guan."

"Guan Xing'er doesn't have to cry and be afraid, listen to what the emperor says."

"I don't remember my father's life in the world, who doesn't know the king of Jingzhou."

"Yan Liangwen was mourned by him, and he raised a treasure knife to frighten Xu Zhongkang."

"Out of five levels to kill six generals, and Cai Yang was beheaded on the edge of the ancient city trench."

"Jiu Shangwen beheaded General Huaxiong and raised his prestige all over the world."

"The royalist Bo Xichuan created the industry, and named him the king of Jingzhou at that time."

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As soon as he sank into the play, a lot of time passed, and when he came back to his senses, Zaizai went to school and left, Gui Ying went to work, and he didn't even notice that Zhiyuan went out to buy breakfast. The old man sighed, turned off the opera, and went to the living room to drink water. Suddenly, he remembered something, and hurriedly called his son-in-law.

"Hello? Dad, what's wrong? Zhiyuan, who had just returned to the community with breakfast, dialed the phone and asked.

"Far away, if you don't come back, bring me a bottle of wine - Xifeng wine, don't buy the rest, just buy Xifeng wine!" The old horse looked worried.

"Do you want to drink in the morning?" Zhiyuan hesitated.

"Hmmm! Drink in the morning! I'm at home just drink it in the morning! I haven't drunk it for a few days, and I can't stand it in my mouth, so you hurry up and buy it! The four fingers of the old horse's left hand rubbed against the table.

"Oh, good!" Zhiyuan hung up the phone, and saw that it was not yet nine o'clock. He had seen Xifeng wine in the big supermarket opposite the big shopping mall, but the supermarket didn't open until nine o'clock. He was in a hurry, so he turned around and went straight to the big supermarket with a few things in his hand.

After breakfast, Yangyang slipped in the living room, Lao Ma drank in the dining room, and Zhiyuan cleaned up the dining table and returned to the room. It was already 10:50 by this time. Zhiyuan opened the notebook, feeling restless.

He woke up at 6 a.m., worked for an hour, and at 7:20 he came to say that his sneakers were broken and needed to be repaired, and that his computer was broken and he couldn't take math class. Gui Ying was busy cleaning up and going to work and ignored his son, so Tsai had to come to him with his shoes and his old computer for a while, and after being interrupted several times, Zhiyuan could no longer calm down. After sending off his son and wife, he went to buy breakfast, then wine, and cleaned up the table after breakfast...... Of the five hours he got up, he worked only an hour. How many five hours are there in a person's day? He Zhiyuan sighed heavily.

What kind of situation and mood is it when a person is under tremendous pressure and squeezes out precious time to do something extremely important, and is frequently interrupted?

The career he regards as more important than himself is always interrupted by trivial real life, and the anxiety and irritability in his heart can be imagined. However, there is nothing wrong with the children, when the children's life is in trouble, they naturally turn to their parents for help; Gui Ying is not wrong, a woman is still struggling to support her family, how can she have the leisure to take care of her children; The old man is not wrong, the old man is in a bad mood and is not used to living, so it is normal for his son-in-law to buy a bottle of wine to drink; Yangyang is not wrong, the child is hungry from one to nine o'clock every day, and he naturally hums and cries when he can't eat......

Zhiyuan pinched the pen, his body was stiff, but his heart was anxious. Now—at this moment, he was ready to work, he was completely idle, but in half an hour he was going to prepare lunch again. What good things can he write in such a few tens of minutes!

This is not the first time he has faced his own reality and dreams in the cracks. The long-term anxiety made him even more anxious, and the middle-aged man was at a loss, and his legs under the table shook violently—all the time shaking, and he couldn't stop. He turned off his computer, lay on his bed, and looked at the ceiling, which was covered with rain.

When people reach middle age, there are old and young, and their own time and space are pitiful, not to mention that they have to open up another world - to find another vitality for the boring and humble life - how easy it is to say! Easier said than done! All those who dare to give up their worldly life for their dreams are all brave, fiery and precious! The reason why people are human is because they dare to break through the ordinary and conventional, dare to create the miracle of the group, and dare to enrich and broaden the dimension of human beings.

The old horse was slightly drunk, and lay on the rocking chair to listen to the play. Suddenly, the call came, and the old man glanced at it from a distance, and it was Zhong Neng calling.

"Hello? The old village chief? Zhong Neng shouted on the other end of the phone.

"Well, Zhong Neng! What's wrong? The old horse asked.

"What's the matter, ask you! Your woman said you were going back, didn't you? Zhong Neng asked straight to the point.

"Well, yes! Go to Hong Kong next week and pack up and go back! The two old peasants spoke in a pure Qinxi dialect - the dialect was slow and cumbersome, and the language was full of the smell of the earth, wood, water and fire of that place.

"Why don't you wait?"

"Hey! What does this mean, there is a lot of work in the orchard in the house, I can't wait! Or stay in our house to moisturize! ”

"Aren't your feet fine?"

"It's almost there! If it's not good, let's go! The old horse patted his thigh and was very decisive.

"Hey, I can't bear you! It's time to go! "Zhong Neng is disgusted.

"What the hell do you mean here!"

Zhong Neng said a good and obedient thing in a straw basket, but the old horse insisted on leaving. Putting aside the phone, Zhong Neng was unhappy in his heart, and sighed for a long time. I have been in Shenzhen for more than ten years, but I have never had a confidant and long-term friend, which is really sad.

The old man Zhang, who sells vegetables, is too calculating, and he blows his beard and stare after losing more than ten yuan in playing cards and chess, Zhong Neng has been dating him for five or six years, and finally faded and became far away. Lao Chen, who is diagonally opposite the door and sells beans, is the same age as himself, and has a gentle and enthusiastic temperament, but unfortunately he is a southerner, he didn't understand what he spoke at first, but he was able to understand it later, but the two of them couldn't get together with the food, play and concepts, so they could only just do it, and after a few years they became nodding friends. There is a fellow who sells noodles in Nantou, he is from Shangluo, in the early years, Zhong Neng and he often ate, drank, and bragged about it, and the relationship was very good, and then the son of the other family bought a house and made money, and the old couple patted their butts and took their grandson to go, and Zhong Neng was hung again. The oil seller has a mother-in-law's family to open a separate shop, the person is very bold, is a reasonable person, and Zhong Neng has always been very talkative, the family for seven or eight years of grain and oil are all bought from her family, but unfortunately it is a mother-in-law, still a widow, Zhong Neng has an outdated concept, and he has to avoid suspicion if he can talk about it.

It's not easy to find a friend who can chat and eat when you're old. Now that an old horse has finally come, he knows the roots, trusts each other, and is a happy and free person, and it is too late for Zhong Neng to rejoice. In just one month, he even thought several times that he could drink with Lao Ma in the future, pour bitter water, have fun in Shenzhen, and give each other some excitement in their old age, but they wanted to leave.

Zhong Neng watched the lonely Xuecheng play alone, eat alone, and do homework alone in the house, and secretly felt that loneliness was like a plague, so terrible that it would be contagious.

Early in the morning, Zai Tsai arrived at the make-up class with breakfast for three people, and after Shu Yu and Han Dian arrived at the make-up center one after another, Shu Yu took out three boxes of yogurt, Han Dian shared his small snacks, and the three of them ate a "luxurious" breakfast together. Before the physics teacher was finished, the teacher had already come in, and the class had begun. He Yiming, who was listening to the class, suddenly saw a computer appear in front of him, which turned out to be mentioned by Shu Yu that day, and she brought it today. Shu Yu handed it to Han Dian, and Han Dian, who was sitting in the middle, passed the computer to Yiming again.

The computer was in front of him, and he wanted to touch it but didn't dare to touch it, so he only patted the table and smiled at Gu Shuyu and nodded, said thank you, and hurriedly faced the teacher. The young man's face was red and hot with shame, and his heart was so sweet that he couldn't suppress it, and he kept biting his lip to try not to laugh. After the whole class, He Yiming's chin and cheeks were all sore.

After washing her face early in the morning, Bao Xiaotang looked in the mirror, applied aromatic lotion and cream, rubbed evenly, and then used a small brush to powder, and then drew eyebrows, eyeliner, and lipstick...... After she registered the blind date website last night, the staff of the blind date website reviewed her information in the background this morning, and directly pushed Xiaotang's personal avatar to the first place in the newcomer section of the website because of her outstanding appearance. Xiaotang hadn't gotten up at nine o'clock, but she heard the mobile phone ringing non-stop, and there were already more than a dozen men of marriage age dating her.

Xiaotang couldn't help but be overjoyed when he looked at his mobile phone, and after looking through the information of more than a dozen boys, he was more interested in one of the handsome guys, so he added WeChat and chatted. The boy's name is Zhu Haotian, he is handsome and delicate, his speech is rich and witty, and after chatting for an hour, Xiaotang actually laughed and laughed. Zhu Hao tried his best to grind and make a hard bubble, and finally made an appointment with Bao Xiaotang, and the two decided to meet at a coffee shop in the city center at three o'clock in the afternoon.

The peach blossoms came too quickly and too strongly, and Xiaotang was a little caught off guard. When you meet for the first time, you can't dress up too glamorous, and you can't be too plain. Xiaotang wiped off the lipstick that was too bright and repainted a bean paste color.

The weather was good in the afternoon, and the old horse came out again with Yangyang. Yang Yang sang in front of the car, and the old horse watched the scenery in the back. The sun was still scorching at half past five, but fortunately the thick shade on Meron Road kept the heat out. The old horse walked in the wind, enjoying the neatness and straightforwardness of the urban greenway.

All the way, I just looked around at the buildings and the streets, and one was unguarded, and the old man stepped on a piece of shit with his left foot!

"Oops!" The old horse let out a rough roar, and the foot hit the "bull's-eye" impartially.

"Tsk!" The old horse was afraid that his crutches would also be stained, so he walked to the side of the flowerbed with his feet apart and rubbed his shoes in the flowerbed. After rubbing it for a long time and still not rubbing it clean, the old man grinned and frowned, unhappy in his heart.

Yangyang saw that the grandfather behind her stopped, she turned the car sharply and killed it back, but saw the dog shit on the ground. The little girl covered her mouth a few meters away, her eyes full of disgust and disgust.

"How is it that there is more shit in the city than in the countryside? A few days ago, I saw a few lumps and went around, and now I stepped on it! Oops hey! The old horse muttered to himself, rubbing the soles of his shoes on the ground. The old man has raised a dog for half his life, which dog poops not in the designated place, why is the dog in the city so casual after arriving in the city? After walking dozens of meters, the old horse was still annoyed, but Yangyang was giggling in the wind.

This block is a construction site, the fence of the construction site divides the two-meter-wide pedestrian greenway in two, and the old horse keeps shouting behind him, letting Yangyang walk against the rightmost street railing, and the old horse is afraid that he will not be able to catch up with the child.

The wall of the construction site in front of it made a small 90-degree turn, and those who went north could not see the south, and those who went south could not see the north. A middle-aged woman who was running turned the corner and ran north, a middle-aged man riding a motorcycle from the south slowed down and headed north, and the old horse was five or seven meters away, and the two of them collided in a daze!

With a thud, the woman fell to the ground, and then hugged her bleeding knee and breathed. The man parked the car steadily, stood on the side and picked it up, but he couldn't help it. Yang Yang stopped and leaned against the railing on the side, his eyes were wide in fright, and the old horse approached and stood by with Yang Yang on crutches and watched.

The man had slowed down and was waiting, but the woman ran over without looking. Originally, there was nothing wrong, who would have thought that this man's car was full of heavy things in front of and behind - the back seat was a toolbox, the pedals under his feet were placed with 100 pounds of wires, and the basket in front of the car was also heavy metal...... From the words on the cloth bag of the discharge wire, the old horse could see that the man was an electrician or maintenance master on the street. Crashing into such a heavy car was no different from hitting a wall, no wonder the woman sat on the ground in pain and screamed. The woman was sobbing silently, the man was standing on the side, helpless, surrounded by many people, all eyes on the red blood on the woman's knee.

The old horse saw that it was not good-looking, so he pulled Yangyang and walked forward. Four-year-old Yangyang was very curious, and asked questions along the way, but the old horse had to coax her in a different way to keep him from being afraid, and tried his best to make her understand what had just happened and how the child would respond on the street. After talking for a long time, the old man was still a little angry in his heart: Why is it in a hurry? Turn around and don't look at the road - it's no wonder if nothing happens! If the man had been driving at a normal speed, he might have hit it so badly! Lao Ma had no choice but to take care of his baby and make sure she was intact.

On the other hand, the old horse felt weird, why was there digging roads and building houses everywhere on this street? A good road, the interval was blocked, and the interval was dug up again! It's obviously a straight asphalt road, and it twists and turns like a mountain road.

Every time I pass a traffic light, I see four elderly people on the platforms at the four intersections, all wearing red vests, holding small flags, and wearing red hats to direct traffic at the intersections. There is a traffic light, why do you need someone to come and give instructions? The old man couldn't figure out why there were so many idle old people in the city waving flags and whistles at the intersection every day, didn't they have children at home and no housework? Lao Ma didn't know that they were volunteers, and he didn't know what a volunteer was.

When I came back on the way back, I saw a bridge at the end of the bridge, under the big tree, a few people hunched over and watching, the old horse didn't know what to do, but also pulled Yangyang to watch. It turned out that two people were playing chess with red faces and red ears, and the others were watching, shouting and drinking. The old horse leaned over to take a look, and saw that there were only a few chess pieces on the chessboard, which should have reached the end. The old man, who hadn't touched the chess pieces for a long time, had an itch in his heart, and couldn't help but look down.

"Let's go! Eat his horse! A man of 1.6 meters on the lookers pointed in the air.

"No, no, no, there are cannons there! You don't know how to play chess, don't talk nonsense! The black-faced fat man said to one meter six.

"Don't mess around! Let the two of them go down slowly! A middle-aged man wearing floor-length pants said.

The old horse pondered for a long time, and played chess for half his life, which was a bit of a level, but at the moment looking at that game of chess was really not easy to play, the young man holding the red chess rubbed his chin and scratched his ears, and he didn't know how to go. Yangyang stood in the crowd, counting that she couldn't understand, she looked seriously, and her eyes were as round as rooster's eyes.

"You go car! Walk the car! One less cannon is nothing, directly put him as a veteran! Standing behind the young man, he stretched out his index finger and pointed it in the air. Lao Ma listened to what he said, but his heart was uncertain.

"Let's go, you've been frozen for ten minutes! Hahaha...... This lad! Do you know how to play chess? The old man holding the black chess piece showed a mouthful of black teeth and said.

"I think you can say that!" The black-faced fat man nodded to 1.6 meters and said.

The old man with black teeth urged a few more times, and the young man got out of the car according to the proposal of 1.6 meters. Who wants the opponent to set up a cannon and fight a car, three times five divided by two, the young man has not yet understood, the other party has taken three steps in a row, and the handsome red chess - the young man has lost!

"Sizzle...... Uh......" The young man frowned—still unresponsive.

"Isn't it hurting people if you walk like that?" The black-faced fat man blames one meter six.

"There's no way to go, it's doomed! He made a mistake a few times ago, and he shouldn't have lost two shots and a horse in a row, and then he couldn't go at all! One meter six rightly pointed at the young man to shirk his responsibility.

"Come on, come on, give money, two hundred dollars!" The black-toothed old man took out his mobile phone from his pocket and opened the QR code of his WeChat.

"Okay!" The young man scanned the QR code transfer with a red face, stood up and left, and still scratched his ears and cheeks after leaving.

"Come on, come on, win a game and give twenty yuan!" The old man with black teeth rearranged the chessboard.

The old horse hadn't been down for a long time, and his skills were unbearable, so he hesitated and didn't speak. One meter six is smoking a cigarette next to him, and the fat man with long pants and a black face is still talking about the game of chess.

The old man with black teeth patted the chess pieces and said to the old horse: "Brother, let's have a game?" You give you twenty if you win, and give me twenty if you lose! ”

"Hehe......" Lao Ma looked at Yangyang and smiled, and then asked his little Tanhua: "Is it okay for grandpa to play chess?" ”

Yang Yang nodded.

The old horse then sat opposite the old man with black teeth, holding the rippling cart with his left hand around Yangyang's small waist, and playing chess with his right hand. After a dozen or so steps, the two sides were evenly matched. After a few more minutes, the old horse won, and he sneered embarrassedly. The black-toothed old man took out twenty yuan from his pocket and gave it to Yangyang with a smile, and Yangyang took the money and stuffed it into his pocket.

"Brother, your chess skills are good! Let's have another plate, how about fifty yuan? The old man with black teeth asked the old horse.

"That's it!" The old horse smiled, thinking that it was nothing to play chess with these idlers and old men, and it was a pastime and entertainment.

After the old man with black teeth rearranged the chessboard, the two began the second round of the game. Twenty minutes later, there were not many red and black on the chessboard, the old horse did not know how to go, and the man did not know how to go, and the two of them were stuck there and could not move. No matter how the other three people around him raised points and made moves, neither of them could leave.

"Why are you leaving?" The old horse asked the old man with black teeth.

"Forget it, brother, there's no way to go! It's settled! The black-toothed old man spread his hands.

"Don't lose or win, it's a draw!" The fat man with a black face said.

"Evenly matched, these two old men can do it!" Long pants hugged the chest and praised the two.

Before the old horse could react, the old man with black teeth directly began to lay out the third game of chess, and the old horse hesitated, not knowing whether to play or not.

"How about a hundred in the third set?" The old man with black teeth asked the old horse.

"Forget it!" The old horse waved his hand and prepared to stand up and leave on crutches.

"Hey, brother, let's have another plate! Fifty! Just fifty! I see that you are also a person who loves to play chess, and you finally met your opponent, so let's not have a few more games! The black-toothed old man said with a smile, and the three people next to him echoed in unison.

When the old horse saw that it was still early, he said to Yangyang: "Grandpa will not succeed in the next game of chess?" ”

"Okay!" Yang Yang smiled and nodded.

"Oh, the little girl is in charge!" The black-toothed old man reached out to pat Yangyang's head, but Yangyang dodged it.

Two minutes later, the old man with black teeth set up another game of chess, and the old horse saw that this game was not easy to play. I pondered for six or seven minutes, but I still had no idea.

"You go and shoot him!" One meter six said.

"Huh! No, in this way, you leave the cannon and the cart idle and use it, and fly the horse over first! Isn't it in vain that you directly set up a cannon on someone's elephant? The black-faced fat man patted the old horse on the shoulder and said.

"Brother, let's go!" The black-toothed old man urged.

The old horse listened to it for several minutes, pondered the words of the three people, and then pondered the young man just now, and vaguely felt that something was wrong. He didn't say anything, he held the front of the car with his left hand around Yangyang, and got out of the car with his right hand.

The black-toothed old man walked a few steps, and the old horse threw the waste chess board in his hand and shouted, "No more play!" Give you the money, I'll go back to dinner! ”

"Eh, eh! Why don't you finish it? The fat man with the black face stretched out his arm to stop the old horse.

"Shall I go down or will you go down? Hum! What else do I play if I lose? The old horse took out fifty yuan from his wallet, threw it on the chessboard, and slowly got up on crutches.

"Tsk! Look at this old man, what else can he play if he doesn't know how to play chess? Fool around! The old man with black teeth said to the old horse.

The old horse knew that they were provoking him, so he didn't say anything, grabbed Yangyang's hand and walked forward without looking back.

"Troublemaker, isn't it?"

"This bad old man, it's funny!"

"How can I leave before I finish - isn't this a smashing field!"

Those few people saw that they had worked hard and only earned thirty yuan, and they all felt unlucky, and the four of them pointed and scolded behind the old horse's back, and the old horse ignored it, patted his ass and strode forward.