The ceiling where the wooden strips intersect is inlaid with auspicious clouds and birds made of white jade, the finely carved mahogany Buddha shrine is divided into two layers, the front table displays the rich dishes and offerings, and the background wall is decorated with a circular lamp pool, which looks classical and elegant without losing the luxury.

Zhu Jiang Jiang lit three pillars of incense and inserted it on the red copper incense burner, every year on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, she would go back to Zhu's house to eat, because her grandmother's tablet stood here, she wanted to come back to incense.

Zhu Jiangjiang's parents divorced when he was three years old, and his mother was free by nature, so she went to country J without saying a word and never came back. Her father was working hard in Qinglong City at the time, and he had no time to take care of her, so he handed her over to her grandmother in the countryside to take care of.

It wasn't until her grandmother died when she was sixteen years old that she was finally taken back to the Zhu family. It's a pity that he didn't stay for enough years before he was kicked out.

"It's time to eat, come and eat."

Zhu Jiangjiang walked to the dining table and saw that Zhu's father was already seated at the top, and her younger brother Zhu Jianfeng was sitting next to her. Stepmother Chen Chen was holding the last dish and walked out with a smile on her face.

"Hurry up, hurry up, I'll have to go back to school to catch up with the paper after eating." Zhu Jianfeng picked up the chopsticks and urged impatiently.

As soon as Chen Chen put down the dish in his hand, Zhu Jianfeng ate it, ignoring Father Zhu who was the first to take the lead and Zhu Jiangjiang, who had not yet sat down.

"Eat slowly, don't choke." Chen Chen made a bowl of soup for his son.

"Why are you standing stupidly after eating?" Father Zhu glanced at Zhu Jiang Jiang dissatisfiedly.

has long been accustomed to the indifference of this family, Zhu Jiangjiang didn't care, and walked over on crutches.

I was about to sit next to Zhu Jianfeng nearby, but I didn't expect Zhu Jianfeng to hold the chicken leg and stop, and said, "This position belongs to my sister." ”

"Nonsense, Xixi won't come back for dinner today, so you're stingy. Jiang Jiang, come and sit here with Auntie, and leave that stupid boy alone. Chen Chen pulled out the chair beside him and made a round at the right time.

Zhu Jiangjiang originally wanted to be lazy, it didn't matter where he sits, he just wanted to finish eating and leave quickly. Unexpectedly, after sitting down, before he had eaten two bites, Father Zhu spoke.

"Your nephew put on the full moon wine last month, why didn't you, who is an aunt, go?"

Zhu Jiangjiang recalled that she did seem to have received an invitation to full moon wine in the mailbox last month, but when she saw the strange letter at the time, she thought it was someone else's mistake, so she didn't open it at all.

If she sees it, she won't go, she can't see her once a year, and she can't even remember what Zhu Jianxi looks like, where can she get the extra money to give her a gift.

"It's all because I'm too busy at work, and I really can't take time off."

"Go to work? It's great to finally get a job! Look at your husband, I'll tell you that Jiang Jiang is naturally sensible when he is old, and you see that in his twenties, he finally knew that he went out to find a job, didn't he make progress? Chen Chen smiled with relief.

"What kind of job can she find at work, if she has a good job, she should be fired now, how can she go to work with a lame, and which unit will recruit a disabled person." Zhu Jianfeng mocked while picking up the prawns.

"It's okay, I don't need to use my feet for my job, I'm a makeup artist." Zhu Jiangjiang said slowly.

"Husband, let me tell you, makeup artists are popular now, but there are not many good levels. Mrs. Lu told me that day that she had hired a makeup artist from country J, and the door-to-door fee alone would cost more than 10,000 yuan each time. ”

Mrs. Lu is a celebrity in Qinglong City, and her husband is also an important business partner of Zhu's father.

"Jiang Jiang, you hone your skills well, and when your skills improve, come over and try on makeup for Auntie." If you try it well, it will be the best model, keep you a few more big customers immediately, and then ask your father to invest in a studio for you. Although he was in his forties, because of his well-maintained and delicate skin, Chen Chen was stunned when he smiled, but he didn't see a single wrinkle.

"What kind of studio do you open in a little fight, Xixi got married two years ago, look at her, what kind of spoiled her - she can't study, she can't read, she can't do anything, it's like a lump of mud, twenty or so good and nothing. In two days, I will arrange a partner for you, and you will go to have a good meal with him and get to know him. Father Zhu said dissatisfiedly.

"Blind date? Don't go. ”

Zhu Jiangjiang is too lazy to make excuses, because it is useless to find it.

Sure enough, Zhu's father, who was rarely rejected, slapped the table in anger. Feeling that this meal could not be eaten anymore, Zhu Jiangjiang took advantage of Chen Chen's persuasion of Zhu's father, and hurriedly left on crutches.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked out of the door of the villa, he was chased by Chen Chen in a car.

"Jiang Jiang get in the car, the taxi can't get in here, Auntie will send you."

The villa where the Zhu family is located is located in the inner perimeter of the Cui Garden, which is one of the few hilltop villas, with the mountain and the sea in the back, and the scenery is unique.

The only bad thing is that the taxi can't enter the green garden empty, just by walking, normal people with no problems with two legs will have to walk to the gate of the community for twenty or thirty minutes.

Someone was willing to send it, Zhu Jiangjiang was naturally not so stupid, and sat in the car unceremoniously.

Along the way, Chen Chen began her persuasion gently, trying to persuade Zhu Jiangjiang to follow Zhu's father's advice and go on a blind date.

But this time, Zhu Jiangjiang didn't plan to compromise easily, he used to suffer dumb losses because he lived a negative life and voluntarily gave up struggling. Now that we have the opportunity to live, we naturally have to live freely, so that we are impatient to suffer those grievances.

After persuading for a long time, maybe he didn't expect Zhu Jiangjiang to be so stubborn and not enter, Chen Chen, who has always been very patient, couldn't help but sigh.

She pulled over to the side of the road and pulled the handbrake.

"The object this time is really good, if it weren't for Xixi getting married, it wouldn't be your turn. Say, what do you have to do before you go on a blind date? ”

The same beautiful and elegant makeup, taking off the gentleness and grace of the usual pretense, the plain whiteness between the eyebrows and eyes adds a bit of shrewdness and sharpness.

Zhu Jiang Jiang was about to shake his head, but suddenly he thought of something, and his eyes swept over one place involuntarily.

Although it was only a particularly subtle movement, Chen Chen, who had always been good at observing words and feelings, noticed it at once.

She raised her eyebrows, smiled and took off the jade bracelet on her wrist, and shook it in front of Zhu Jiangjiang's eyes.

"I didn't expect you to have a good eye for a thief, and you will see a big one at a glance. Go on a blind date on Friday, this is yours. ”

This bracelet is a yang green glutinous jadeite, which used to look at the color and did not look at the material, and it has been passed down for several generations, and it is also a priceless treasure. But the only reason why Zhu Jiangjiang wants this bracelet is because this bracelet grandma has worn it for a lifetime.

"And those books, I want them too."

"Yes, you can." Chen Chen's eyes turned and he made a decision.

Zhu's mother was a well-known grassroots doctor in the mountains, and she was famous for making snake medicine in the village. When she died, she left nothing behind, just a bracelet and a few books.

Zhu's father started with medicine in Qinglong, and he was originally happy to find the secret recipe left by his old mother, but he didn't expect that those books were just superficial theories of traditional Chinese medicine, and they were thrown into the corner after turning over a few times.

"There is one more request, I will decide on the blind date location on Friday." Zhu Jiangjiang said.

Friday happened to be the nineteenth, and Jiang Jiang wanted it, but he didn't want to lose his life.

That prophetic dream that day was a sign of water, and it should be safe to avoid those places where there is water.