At the end of March, today is Lin Yi's grandmother's birthday.

Don't overthink it, it's just an ordinary birthday. This is not a big clan, Lin Yi's family is just an ordinary family.

Here, when the elderly celebrate their birthdays, they are usually just family members gathering together, and now everyone has their own business, and they can't get together a few times a year, and things like this are a good reason to get together.

The customs here are also like this, usually birthdays are their own family gatherings, if it is a real birthday, it may be a big event, but this is a few neighbors around to eat a meal together.

In general, in this case, everyone in the family will send something, but it will definitely not be anything valuable, but in rare cases, several juniors in the family will join forces to send a bracelet or necklace earrings and the like.

However, under normal circumstances, some fruit, some milk, and children will give them a few hundred dollars, of course, this is just a meaning.

Wang Fatzi arrived in W City this morning, and Lin Yi came to Lin's father's car to pick him up.

In the end, Lin Yi brought some fruits over, and by the way, he took a century-old ginseng from the Five Elements Bead and sent it over together.

Lin Yi didn't dare to tell his grandmother the price of this thing directly, because Lin Yi knew that if his grandmother knew the price, she would definitely not accept it.

He just told his grandmother that this one was more precious, much longer than the previous ginseng slices, and that it was wild ginseng.

Although I didn't know the specific price, my grandmother still solemnly put this away, probably from Lin Yi's performance, she saw that this ginseng was extraordinary, but she didn't say anything.

Wang Kai brought a piece of Jade Maitreya Buddha and gave it to Lin Yi's grandmother.

is the so-called "male hanging Guanyin female hanging Buddha", so Wang Kai sent the Jade Buddha.

Jade can raise people, and people can also raise jade.

The Chinese have a very long history of playing jade.

In ancient times, the existence of jade was endowed with the meaning of absorbing the essence of the sun, moon, mountains and rivers, condensing the characteristics of the beauty of the world, and becoming the moral standard of the characters of the algae. Influenced by the way of thinking of "looking at things and comparing virtues", the aristocratic scholars preached the moral concept of "a gentleman is like jade" and "a gentleman is more virtuous than jade", and compared the color, texture, and shape of jade to human virtues, benevolence, wisdom and righteousness, so the doctrine of five virtues, nine virtues, and eleven virtues came into being.

Confucius said that jade has eleven virtues, Guanzi Yunyu has nine virtues, and Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty cited the five virtues of jade in the "Shuowen": "Jade, the beauty of stone, has five virtues, moisturizing with the prescription of gentleness and benevolence; This shows the influence of the concept of jade than five virtues on jade aesthetics.

Meiyu is loved by us Orientals. Oriental people often use jade as a metaphor for people's virtue, and Confucianism pays attention to "a gentleman must admire jade", "for no reason, jade does not go to the body" and so on.

Jade has a history of more than 5,000 years from the Paleolithic Age, and it records the changes of human life and society, which is many years earlier than gold, silver, copper and iron. From the Paleolithic Age to slave societies and feudal societies, the wearing of jade represents people's social status. From milled jade to exquisite jade carving works, jade develops with the development of society, and the culture of jade is more abundant——— jade dragon and jade bi in the Neolithic Age, jade knives and jade ges in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, sword ornaments and hooks in the Spring and Autumn Period, Rui beasts in the Han Dynasty, flower and bird hairpins in the Tang and Song dynasties, and large jade carvings in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, especially in the Qing Dynasty, the art of carving can be said to have reached the peak of the history of Chinese jade carving.

It is worth mentioning that the jade pendant made by Lu Zigang, a craftsman in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, created a precedent for jade pendant ornaments with rich pictures and texts, novel composition and exquisite workmanship, and is still respected to this day, commonly known as "Zigang Pei". It adds a more brilliant color to the jade culture.

Lin Yi's grandmother hadn't seen Wang Kai for a long time, so she was very happy to see Wang Kai come back.

The jade pendant given by Wang Kai didn't say anything, so he accepted it directly.

At noon, everyone had lunch together, but Lin Yi's second aunt still didn't come back, because of work and her son's schooling, so she didn't come back, but they all went over soon.

After lunch, Father Lin and the others made two mahjong games, and a few small ones watched TV in the room, Wang Kai and Lin Yi were fine, and they felt very bored.

Here are the two of them the same age, and the rest of the big ones are too big, and the small ones are too small, so there's nothing to play with.

Seeing that the two of them were bored, Lin Yi began to propose: "Why don't we go fishing?"

When I was a child, the two of them went out fishing as soon as they had a holiday, but at that time there was no skill, so they couldn't catch many fish.

But even though they didn't catch many fish, they enjoyed the activity, probably because there was really nothing to do here at that time.

Wang Kai also remembered these things, they hadn't fished together since high school, and then said nostalgically: "Well, let's go, I haven't fished for a long time." ”

I didn't pay much attention to fishing here, so I got a little fish food and bait casually, and the two of us went to a pond to fish.

This pond is relatively large, and it is right on the edge of the river, so it can be interconnected with the river, so it can be regarded as a living water. However, there is no one to raise fish in such a large pond, so it has always been a wild fish pond.

After a long time, there were no fish on the bait, and Wang Kai was a little impatient: "Hey, Xiao Yizi, there won't be no fish in this pond now, how can you do it, no fish has come over for such a long time, not even a small fish." ”

Hearing Wang Kai's words, Lin Yi was also a little speechless, he was also a little annoyed by waiting, after all, it is easy to catch fish in the United States, "How do I know, I haven't fished at home for many years, and you don't know." ”

"But we shouldn't have a single fish, we'll see. ”

Wang Kai nodded when he heard this, "Let's wait." ”

"Well, wait a minute, I'll change the bait. Lin Yi reached out and dropped a few drops of diluted spiritual liquid water into the bait, mixed them cold, and then put on the hook.

These spiritual fluids have a fatal attraction to animals, so Lin Yi plans to give it a try.

Fishing, it is said to pass the time and regulate the mood.

It doesn't matter if you catch what you can't catch.

If you believe this, all I can say is, boy, you are naïve.

But who the fishes all afternoon, can't see a single fish bite, and can still sit there and wait peacefully.

Sure enough, as soon as the bait was changed, it didn't take long for a fish to bite the hook.

Seeing that the fish floated down, and then sent it up, Lin Yi directly lifted the fishing rod up.

forehead

All right

Didn't come up,

The rod bent into a huge amplitude and watched the line wander around in the water.

I mentioned it, I don't feel too hard, I should be able to lift it directly.

But the rod can't stand it.

A fish's strength underwater is more than just its weight. Underwater fish can even be several times their body weight.

Wang Kai saw this on the side, and hurriedly shouted, "Xiao Yizi, this is a big fish, don't worry, don't worry, slowly slip the fish." ”

Lin Yi rolled his eyes on the side, but he didn't stop at all when he was fishing, releasing the line, and reeling in the line: "Damn, I know, I catch a lot more big fish than yours." ”

"Okay, you can do it. ”

"Keep slipping. ”

"Look, it's running out of strength. ”

......

Lin Yi was listening to the black lines on his head, I damn it, can you stop babbling next to me, it's annoying.

"Whew, it's not easy to finally get it up. Lin Yi said.

Wang Kai was taken aback when he saw Lin Yi catch it, "I didn't expect it to be a black fish, so big, there are more than a dozen catties." ”

Lin Yi replied: "Yes, such a big black fish is really rare, and it is our luck not to bite off the hook." ”

Hearing Lin Yi say this, Wang Kai also agreed very much, nodded, and said, "Well, the quality of this hook is really good." There's such a big black fish here, no wonder we haven't been able to catch fish, but this kind of fish is generally caught with a big hook and a big bait, why is it that such a small hook and a small fish Erbium caught it today?"

Hearing this sentence, Lin Yi's heart jumped, this black fish had never intended to bite the hook before, it was only after he dripped the dilution of the spiritual liquid in the bait that he took the bait, which made Lin Yi even more surprised by the attraction of this spiritual liquid.

However, Lin Yi replied quietly: "Maybe after changing the bait, I kept moving the hook, and it just got to its mouth, otherwise such a big fish would not generally eat such a big hook." ”

Wang Kai thought about it, too, "I'd better change places, I haven't had any fish hooked here." ”

immediately changed the bait, walked to the other side of Lin Yi, and fell up. Lin Yi also continued to put on the bait and continue fishing.

This time I fished, the situation changed all of a sudden, and after putting down the hook, fish began to take the bait.

In this way, the two people changed the lifting rod, and each time they lifted the rod, a fish must be hooked.

In this way, the two of them fished at once, and after a while, the bait ran out, after all, the two of them didn't think that so many fish would be baited, so they didn't prepare much bait.

But just like that, the two of them caught most of the half bucket of fish, mostly crucian carp. Of course, there are two big fish, one is a big black fish that Lin Yi caught before, and the other is a herring fish that Wang Kai caught later, this fish is about seven or eight catties.

"Let's go, go back. Lin Yi took back the fishing rod, got off a fish, and said to Wang Kai.

"Let's go, I've caught a lot of fish, but this afternoon's fishing is really cool, and this fish is just going up one by one. ”

"yes, let's go. didn't continue on this sentence, Lin Yi urged this Wang Kai to go back quickly.

Can this tell you that my brother took you to cheat this afternoon?