Chapter 1: Zhang Chi
One o'clock in the evening,
A full moon hung high in the sky, and the moonlight paved the earth with a layer of light silver, and at the same time, people's eyes were greatly extended, and the images from a hundred meters away were also clearly seen, and the shadows of the street trees on both sides of the country road were also clearly projected on the ground.
At this moment, there is no longer a crowd of people on the country road, and everything returns to the calm and tranquility of the night.
There was a man staggering along the country road, and at a glance he knew that he had drunk a lot of wine.
This person is about twenty-five or sixteen years old, not tall one meter seven nodding, his figure is slightly fat, but he is not very fat, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt on the top, beige linen loose slacks on the bottom, and a pair of flip-flops on his feet.
Belch!
The young man only felt sick to his stomach, and subconsciously held on to the tree pole next to him, and began to vomit as soon as his body was lowered.
Having almost vomited up the contents of his stomach, the young man lifted the back of his hand and wiped it casually.
"These guys, they're so good at drinking!"
The young man muttered, and then began to stagger towards his house again.
The young man's destination was not far away, and from his current position, there was almost less than a mile left.
There is a group of settlements created by the transformation of villages and towns, originally several nearby villages were concentrated, everyone lived together, originally each family was a single door and a single courtyard, and the houses were also built in a variety of ways, after being gathered together, they were uniformly changed into two-story Chinese-style small buildings, each house is a small courtyard in front of the door, and a small garden and garage are in the back.
This condition directly catches up with the small cottage area of the county seat.
The young man's home is here, but the young man has little feeling about his new home, first, he does not live at home permanently, and second, many of his memories of his hometown are generated in the original village, and the current home is no longer the old appearance in his memory, and it has become extremely strange.
The young man is called Zhang Chi, the chapter of the article, the galloping Chi.
Just like Chi in his name, at the age of thirteen or fourteen, the young man galloped to the other side of the ocean with the patriarch, who opened a Chinese restaurant in a small town in the countryside over there, and he was doing chores in it.
This time, he came back to visit relatives and arranged a blind date with his family.
But today is not a blind date, who can drink like this on a blind date.
Today is the meeting of old classmates, and everyone has a lively time together, which can be regarded as a practice for Zhang Chi to return to the United States, so Zhang Chi was poured into a drunk cat by a group of enthusiastic middle school classmates.
At this time, the strength of the wine came up, and the originally light and fluttering steps slowly became heavier, and the brain began to be a little foggy.
So as he walked, his brain began to dominate his limbs according to Zhang Chi's memory.
If Zhang Chi's mind is clear at this moment, he will find that he is now moving away from the direction of his new home and touching the old house.
Walking, walking, I'm afraid Zhang Chi doesn't know how long he has been walking, so with the original memory in his mind, Zhang Chi touched back to his childhood village.
The village is no longer what it used to be, many of the houses have been demolished, and the place will be turned into farmland again.
The old house of Zhang Chi's family no longer has the appearance of the old days, only a small courtyard wall remains.
"Where's my house?"
Zhang Chi, who was delirious, looked at the demolished old mansion with confused eyes, and muttered in his mouth.
The house was gone, Zhang Chi did not leave, but stood and watched for a while, then staggered around the village.
The houses in the village were almost demolished, but soon Zhang Chi discovered what he remembered.
A small land temple.
It is said that the land temple is not actually a temple, but a small house that is not a little big, no more than one meter high, covering an area of only four square meters, it is really small and cannot be smaller.
There is a statue of a god inside, what kind of god it is, Zhang Chi doesn't know, I'm afraid the old people in the village don't know, some people say it's the land temple, some people say it's Lingbao Tianzun, and some people say it's the five-color plague god for offering.
In short, this small temple has been around for many years.
Zhang Chi often played here when he was a child, let's call it the Land Temple.
The small land temple has also been almost demolished, the small stone walls around it are gone, the stones are scattered around, and the statues of the gods inside are completely exposed.
"Why are you still okay?"
Zhang Chi looked at the idol and wanted to stabilize his body, but the wine was too strong, so he didn't stabilize it all of a sudden, and his body was planted towards the idol.
Drunk and drunk, the basic consciousness of the body is still there, and at the moment before hitting the idol, Zhang Chi stretched out his hand to hold the idol.
I don't know if Zhang Chi's strength is too great, or if the idol has been shaken, because of Zhang Chi's support, the idol fell down with Zhang Chi.
Lying on the ground for a long time, Zhang Chi sat up, was stunned for a while, and then began to try to get up.
As soon as he flipped up, he was on all fours, trying to kneel down and then stand up, and his eyes were drawn to something peeking out of the base of the idol.
didn't care whether he could stand or not, Zhang Chi climbed over with his hands and feet, and put his head up to take a look.
"It turned out to be a wooden box!"
Zhang Chi muttered, stretched out his hand, and slapped the wooden box lightly and heavily.
The drunk were a little delirious, Zhang Chi looked at the exquisite patterns on the wooden box, and knelt directly on the ground and stretched out his two hands to pull the wooden box open.
It's a pity that at this time he was not drunk, and he pulled it a few times, and obviously saw that the buckle on the wooden box was in front of him, but this hand didn't listen to the call.
"Alas, what do you move!"
He was dazzled and soft-sighted, but he complained that the wooden box was moving around!
Finally, Zhang Chi opened the wooden box, and found that it was a wooden gourd about the size of a palm.
"Huh?! What the hell! ”
Zhang Chi picked up the wooden gourd and looked at it carefully in front of his eyes, and after looking at it for a while, he didn't find anything strange.
The current Zhang Chi's brain is not very sober, and when he found out that it was a gourd, he gave birth to a few wisps of childlike innocence.
He picked up the small gourd, raised his hand above his head, and aimed the gourd at the fallen idol.
"That land, do you dare to say yes if I call you?"
Drunks also know the stalk of playing "Journey to the West"!
After shouting three or four times, the broken god statue on the ground definitely couldn't answer him, so he had to go on to say it himself.
"Close!"
Just when Zhang Chi said to accept it, the idol on the ground suddenly disappeared, but now Zhang Chi, who was a little abnormal in his brain, didn't notice that there was anything wrong with it.
"Ruyi, Ruyi follows my heart......".
Good guy, this kid has played skewers, from "Journey to the West" to "Hulu Baby".
The joy of a single dog big boy is that simple!
Tired of playing, Zhang Chi, a drunk, yawned, and when the wine came up, he didn't care where it was, and lay down directly on the ground.
"Gourd, gourd, protect me!"
Then the head tilted, and the person began to snor.
Multiply~~~! Zi~~ Hiss!
The one who sleeps is called a beauty.
Zhang Chi, who was asleep, didn't notice that the gourd that he was originally holding in his hand suddenly rose and floated in the air as if there was no gravity.
And at the moment when the gourd floated, the volume grew more than ten times, becoming the appearance of a large gourd of more than fifty centimeters, and the small mosquitoes that were originally around Zhang Chi suddenly seemed to be shaken open by an invisible force, and within a radius of two or three meters with Zhang Chi as the center, even a live ant was gone.
This sleep, Zhang Chi slept in a beautiful place.
Yes~~!
Stretching slightly, Zhang Chi exhaled and opened his eyes.
But when he saw a gourd floating in the air, he couldn't help but let out an exclamation like a little girl seeing a mouse.
It's also a pity that there is no one in the village at this moment, otherwise the old and young masters of the whole village can be sent away by him.
When he came back to his senses, Zhang Chi reached out and touched the upper and lower sides of the gourd, and found that there was no rope or thread hanging.
"This ...... This is not scientific," Zhang Chi muttered.
After looking around, Zhang Chi found that he had actually returned to the old village, so he was a little confused by the second monk.
How did you come to the old village, Zhang Chi can't remember it at all, it's broken!
Finding himself in the old village, his attention soon returned to the gourd, and anyone who found a big gourd floating in front of his eyes would be strange.
Zhang Chi stretched out his hand and touched the gourd, and found that this thing looked like wood but not wood, it felt warm as jade, and it was still a little hot.
"Do your parents know that you are so angry?"
Zhang Chi said to the gourd.
After speaking, Zhang Chi played with the gourd again, almost playing the night set again, it can be seen that the old saying that spitting the truth after drinking, and seeing temperament when drunk still has some truth.
I tried all the myths and legends related to the treasure gourd in my head.
Playing and playing, Zhang Chi understood that he had a treasure that he couldn't understand, and even modern science couldn't explain it.
This thing can not only suck things, but also spit out the things that are sucked in intact, don't look at the small gourd as big as a palm, it can actually hold an old tree trunk that is taller than Zhang Chi.
A green and colorless and tasteless liquid can also be poured out of the gourd, and just one drop will make the small sapling that is not waisted grow into a towering tree in an instant.
Baby!
Great creation!
Now Zhang Chi's mind was left with excitement.
This game went straight from the hazy sky to the sun jumping out of the horizon.
At the same time, the sound of cars came into Zhang Chi's ears.
The engineering team that demolished the village is here!
Zhang Chi looked at the floating gourd and was a little anxious, how could such a treasure be seen by others!
"Hide, stealth, stealth!"
With Zhang Chi's thoughts, the gourd that was originally floating in the air disappeared in an instant, but Zhang Chi knew that the gourd was by his side, and it seemed that there was a mysterious connection between himself and the gourd.
Zhang Chi didn't have time to think about it at this moment, since the gourd was hidden, he naturally had to leave here as soon as possible.
As soon as he stood up, he found the box on the ground, and after a glance, he found that the box was quite exquisite, so his mind moved, and the box on the ground went into the gourd.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
The people from the construction team came over and saw Zhang Chi standing here, so they asked out loud.
Zhang Chi said: "My family originally lived here, come and have a look."
The person who came laughed and said: "It's all demolished, there's nothing to see, hurry up and leave, we're going to build soon, don't let people stay on site, go quickly!" ”
"Well, let's go"
Zhang Chi raised his feet and flashed after saying a word to others, pretending to be calm at first, but when he left the sight of these people, he immediately spread his feet and ran, as if he was afraid that others would rob him of his invisible gourd.
The good guy ran this time, and almost ran half a marathon directly!
Usually it takes half a life to run two thousand meters, but now I have a little secret in my heart, and my two calves are like hot wheels, and I unconsciously arrived at the entrance of the town where I live now.
A black Audi car came to a halt when I saw Zhang Chi, who was sweating profusely.
The cousin stuck his head out of the car window and joked at Zhang Chi: "Da Chizi, no wonder people say that you Americans love fitness, get up early in the morning to run?" ”
Zhang Chi replied with a smile: "It turned out to be the second brother, run away, what are you ......?" ”
"I have something to do with the company, and I'm going to go to the city. By the way, don't go back, you kid, what's good over there, if you want to get rich, you have to be domestic now, come back and do ...... with me."
"Second brother, I don't have your skills, I'm afraid I won't be able to make a fortune in my life," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
"Forget it, I won't tell you, I'll see you later".
"Second brother, see you later!" After Zhang Chi finished speaking, he saw the black Audi leave his sight, and then raised his feet and went home.
When I arrived at the door of the house, I found that my grandfather was weaving a bamboo basket and my grandmother was watering the small greens in the yard.
"Why didn't you come back yesterday?"
Zhang Chi said: "Master, I drank too much yesterday and lived in a classmate's house."
"Drink less!"
The old man came and continued to weave the basket.
Grandma put down the water scoop in her hand and asked happily: "What do you want to eat in the morning, you say, grandma will make it for you."
"Feel free to order, do you want some stick noodle porridge?"
"Okay, I'll do it for my eldest grandson," the old lady smiled and put down her work, turned and went into the kitchen.
When he came to the door of the house, Zhang Chi remembered and asked, "Master, where are my parents?" ”
"Went down to the ground".
The meaning of going to the ground here is not to go to the ground before, but to go to work in a nearby greenhouse, and now Zhang Chi's parents, like most people, work in the greenhouse of the vegetable and fruit company, which is considered to be a work.
"Oh, didn't my sister and their family say they came over today?"
"Your sister's family has something to do today, your brother-in-law's relatives have passed away, and the family went with the gift, I'm afraid I won't be able to send you this time," the old man replied.
"Hmm!"
Zhang Chi hummed and went back to the house.
After a while, grandma cooked the meal, and Zhang Chi began to toss the gourd in his house after eating the porridge.
So far, there is nothing new to play, or those moves in the morning, but Zhang Chi is still having fun.
Tossed a gourd for a day,
Early the next morning, Zhang Chi's family drove to the county's high-speed rail station, which was not the first time, and knew that many things were in trouble with customs, so Zhang Chi didn't bring anything, so Zhang Chi set off from his hometown to the United States with a suitcase and a backpack.