In fact, in the previous preface, I have already told you about the origin of the "Grass and Trees" tea house. Because the journey was very uneventful, and I didn't encounter anything weird and scary at that time, I continued to expand in detail. But now, after I've told a few stories, I feel compelled to tell you the original story, which was just me at the time, so it's going to be a one-man story.

The name "Grass and Trees" Tea House itself actually has no deep meaning, and this is not a unique niche store name, you can open the website to search for "Grass and Trees" tea houses all over the country, the three words of "Grass and Trees" are not related to tea at the earliest, and there are not too many records in the books. Later, Lin Qingxuan's sentence "The highest state of drinking tea is to take apart the word 'tea', and people can reach the realm of unity between heaven and man among the grass and trees." I don't know if Master Lin is also related to the story I will tell later, but he did tell the deepest meaning of the words "between the grass and trees", people walking among the grass and trees actually not only symbolizes drinking tea, but also symbolizes a state of mind, a perception of the external world.

What to perceive? Naturally, everyone knows as well as I do.

In fact, at this moment, at the moment when I was telling this story for everyone, my brain began to suddenly become cloudy, and I began to be a little unable to see the screen, this is not a simple dizziness, but a feeling of soul expansion, and the last time this state appeared should be ten years ago, that is, on the eve of the establishment of the "Grass and Trees" Tea Society.

So to tell this story, we have to go back to ten years ago.

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Don't ask me about the weather, because I don't know how the weather is changing in the basement.

Only the computer screen is still scattering the glimmer.

Grunt, grunt, a strange sound came from behind me, accompanied by a burnt smell.

I was bored scrolling through the web pages, and the colorful pictures on the computer screen were like huge mosaics one after another, making people dazzled. I was ready to grab a train ticket from Beijing to Jinan, at that time online booking was not as convenient as it is now, and sometimes I had to keep staring at the screen just to grab that special ticket.

I glanced back, it turned out to be the sound of my own electric kettle, and thick white smoke seeped out of the lid of the kettle, which shocked me into a cold sweat, I hurriedly ran over, and pulled the plug out of the socket in a hurry, in fact, this kind of thing is not the first time, and it is inevitable that a person will be in a hurry.

But today seemed to be more unfortunate than any other time, the moment my finger touched the socket, a violent heat hit, and a huge blister grew on my fingertips, and the pain made me instinctively retract my hand, and as a result, my hand knocked the smoking kettle upside down, and the kettle fell straight from the low table one meter high to my feet.

Yes! There was a blatant scream, and the little hot water left in the kettle spilled on the top of my feet, seeping through my socks and stinging my skin.

I angrily kicked the kettle to the side, it turned into a twisted parabola and landed in a corner of the small room, I could no longer contain the anger in my heart, I was really fed up with this kind of life, and any more second would be torment for me.

This is my third year in Beijing, and it is also the third year after I graduated from university, I have achieved almost nothing in these three years, I don't know why I came to such a city three years ago, maybe I have to blame the damn youth dream, by now, many of my peers have already had a house and a car to live a comfortable life, and I am still worried about food and clothing, three years of struggle, nothing has been obtained, and now I really can't get any more, and I am still racking my brains for a train ticket back to my hometown.

And the most serious thing is that I still don't know what to do in the future, people say that everyone who lives in the world has their own mission, but where is the meaning of my life?

I sat alone in the corner, silently lit a cigarette, and swallowed all the smoke hard, the only way for an incompetent person to vent.

Confused, cracked, silent, I was caught in a world of escape, a place that had been satisfying me for a long time.

Bang bang

Who's going to talk to me? To be honest, I haven't heard this voice for a long time, because I don't have an avatar in QQ, and I don't have any profile, I just want to be a vacuum person, living an isolated life with low self-esteem. So the voice suddenly remembered, and I was very surprised.

I threw the cigarette butt on the ground and twisted it twice, then walked back to the computer screen, and the QQ avatar in the lower right corner was really flashing.

"The 518 brothers have an unread message."

Seeing the news that it was the 518 brothers, I didn't feel like cheering up, this 518 is actually the dormitory number of my college days, and the 518 brothers group is actually a small circle of our dormitory roommates, at first purely for sharing island country movies, when I just graduated, this group was very active, and everyone was happy to see and hear something when they just worked, but then no one spoke in it, so this news can be said to be the first news in three years.

In fact, when I see the words 518 brothers now, I still feel a little ironic. Because to be honest, since everyone parted ways, it has long been drifting apart, the good mix has long been the big boss, the bad mix is as poor as me, three years ago it was a brother who slept in the upper bunk bed in the bedroom, three years later it is a world of difference, everyone's roads are different, and it is difficult to have intersections, in fact, this is a normal thing.

I slowly clicked on the dialog box, and it turned out to be "Tiger" speaking.

He was briefly mentioned in the preface before, and now as the main text, it is necessary to introduce him in detail, the tiger is our head of the house, and his family is good, but unlike those rich second generations, he also lived a poor life for a long time when he was a child, and then he also started slowly, so he understands the importance of "fighting" more than the average rich second generation, he is a Leo, and he loves to rush to the front in everything, but he is competitive and competitive, and he can also be said to be self-motivated, but his personality is not as strict as he is in doing things, on the contrary, is slightly comical and neurotic.

Such a person, who seems to be a mash-up of various characteristics, has become our head of the house by mistake, and it can be said that it is our eldest brother.

Tiger said, "The school is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary, and we haven't seen each other for a long time, and I hope to take this opportunity to go back to Weifang and return to our alma mater for a reunion." ”

The QQ group didn't reply for a long time, and it was silent as always, as if this sentence had just surfaced, and it was drowned by the raging waves.

I know that everyone must have seen this message, and I know why everyone has not reacted for a long time, in fact, I am the person who should avoid this kind of thing the most, because I am the most depressed, everyone is glamorous, I stand next to them, isn't it boring to be self-deprecating?

In fact, over the years, I have become accustomed to escaping, accustomed to disconnecting from everything that came before. But for some reason, just today, when I had already made up my mind to leave Beijing, I seemed to be able to let go of all my emotional resentment. Anyway, life is already like this, so what is there to be ashamed to express? Maybe this return to my alma mater will be a turning point in my life.

And I really want to meet my old friends, they are doing well, I should bless them, right?

And just like that, I gently typed a smiling emoji into the chat box.