The content of the letter is probably mainly blessings, because after getting married, Da Mao, in addition to taking orders to help the people, also has to take on the responsibilities of the family, even if his wife is a fool. In the future, he will have to think of passing on the family and continuing the incense, these things are enough for him to work hard for a lifetime. In the letter, I told Da Mao, please help me take care of the house, now that the revolution is over, many people who have left their hometowns because of this may come back, including my uncle, and the second uncle of Di Baotian, please Da Mao help me walk around from time to time, and care about it, especially the second uncle, Di Baotian can't live by himself, but the second uncle may not know all this, so we must not tell him the truth we know.

In addition, I also told Da Mao that the house must be kept for me, because I will come back to live in the future, but I don't know how long I will be there, maybe a year and a half, maybe ten years or eight years.

In fact, this time I left my hometown, and I was gone for fifteen years.

During this period, I almost had no fixed place to live, so I went to a city and lived for about half a year, learning about the customs and folk customs of different places, visiting the pier with the masters of various places, making friends, and sharing with each other. I have a craft, and I'm constantly improving, getting more and more comfortable doing things, and helping more and more people. But I don't open the door every day to do things, but when life is stressful, I will make a sum of money, enough to support me for a while.

In the early 80s, Comrade Xiaoping's concept of "reform and opening up" put forward a few years ago began to bear fruit in several pilot special economic zones, and soon the reform swept across the country, blossoming everywhere, and the loosening of the political atmosphere made the common people begin to do something else except for their work, private business gradually began to be allowed, and the sense of existence of the collective communes became lower and lower, because everyone began to stop fighting for the little work every month, and no longer lived on the supplies issued by the state. The people expressed great gratitude and enthusiasm for participating in Comrade Deng Xiaoping's reforms.

In those years, during Comrade Xiaoping's visit to the United States, the long-standing confrontational relations between China and US imperialism were greatly eased, and the people began to affectionately raise the slogan "Hello Xiaoping." This is probably the first time in thousands of years that someone in China has used such an affectionate title to address a state leader. In those years, a large number of moving heroic deeds emerged in the self-defense and counterattack war against Vietnam in the southwestern border, and only then did the song "Blood-stained Style" sung all over the north and south of the river come into being. In the early 80s, TV began to enter the lives of ordinary people in a new form of entertainment. The Revolutionary Committee of the Commune was abolished and replaced by the Commune Management Committee, and that year the most popular song in the streets and alleys was one of the lyrics:

"Ah dear friends, to whom does the wonderful spring belong to me, to you, to our new generation in the eighties."

Yes, those days were my best time, even though I was over forty years old at the time.

People often say that when you stand at thirty, you don't have to be confused at forty, maybe my year of standing came a little earlier, so that when I was in my thirties, I had already started to live without confusion. Therefore, I often sigh that the wave of reform is constantly being witnessed around us, and everyone's enthusiasm for production has been unprecedentedly high, which suddenly pulls my memory back to the Great Leap Forward period in the early days of liberation, but with the increase in the income level of the common people, the voice of intellectuals is more and more valued, and people no longer think that going to school is wasting their time, and a person like me, who was born in the early forties, seems embarrassed at this stage.

You may ask me why I am embarrassed, I may answer you, because only then will you realize that I have been in the rivers and lakes before, and after decades of immersion, I will find that I cannot return to the real society and integrate into this thriving and prosperous collective. Fortunately, the development of people's ideas has made people in this industry more and more tolerant, although it is still the so-called "feudal remnants", but there are already some white-bearded old masters and old Taoists, who put a small stool on the side of the street, and give people a full picture of the eight characters, and will no longer be caught and squatted at every turn.

I guess it was when I was gray-haired, my last career. At the moment, while I am still in good health, I take a walk around, appreciate the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, and live in this country all my life, but I don't even know that our country is so beautiful. But even if I wander around, every year on a specific day, I will return to the other side of the river in Xiling Gorge and bow down to Qin Bukong across the river on the opposite mountain peak cliff to thank my teacher.

In the past 15 years, I have dealt with nearly 500 strange and strange things, and met nearly 100 industry partners who can cherish each other, and they are also competitors. Among them, there are the Wu brothers of the Liyuan Sect in northern Sichuan and southern Shaanxi, the last descendant of the Lingnan Mountain Master School, and the master Shangguan who is from Sichuan but returned from his studies in Shandong. The person who has to be mentioned here is Shangguan, if I walk the rivers and lakes by exorcising evil spirits and catching ghosts, then what Shangguan does is to subdue demons and eliminate demons. He mainly relied on dealing with animal spirits and solving problems for the people in the way of "going out of the horse". It was because when I gradually became a master in this industry, a saying began to circulate in the rivers and lakes: "Exorcise evil spirits to find Situ, catch demons and find Shangguan". And Master Shangguan and I both had compound surnames, and we both stayed in the mountain city in the end.

In the past fifteen years, I have been staying in Yunsheng Palace in Yunyang County for almost two and a half years, with pine nuts as my companion, practicing and reading all day long, or watching the clouds and mist on the top of the mountain. Songzi's master has passed away in the early years, and his disciples have visited the world because of their success, some of them have become highly respected masters of the people, and some have taken over other Taoist temples to promote the essence of Taoism of the Quanzhen School, but only Songzi stayed alone, raised a cat, planted an acre of land, and every year he would go to the secret cave where the soul of the witch king was stored to consolidate the seal. Maybe I stayed alone for a long time, Songzi also learned to entertain himself, because I didn't inform in advance when I went up the mountain, and I didn't know that the Taoist temple had changed so much, and when I went around to the gate of Yunsheng Palace, I heard someone whispering on the side of the courtyard wall, and under curiosity, I went around to take a look, but found that Songzi was squatting on the ground holding a hoe, and a pile of cabbage in the field was pointing, as if talking to the cabbage.

I thought it was funny, so I coughed from afar, and it seemed that we looked at each other for a long time, and the old friends who were young and immature in the past are now difficult to hide the traces of time, we smiled and saluted, then shook hands, and then hugged each other and cried.

During the two and a half years in Yunsheng Palace, I learned that Songzi still stayed on the mountain most of the time, and he didn't like to walk around the mountain very much, but most of the knowledge he knew came from reading various books. So I invited him to go down the mountain with me and continue to explore the rivers and lakes. Who knew that this trip made Songzi addicted, so that after we returned to Yunsheng Palace, he began to be sad and sad, and felt that the mountain was boring, not as fun as the flower world. After a few days of boredom, we both got bored and started having fun with ourselves.

The two of us are middle-aged people, in the mountain palace where there is a lack of entertainment, Matsuko and I are extremely bored, fantasizing that there is a ping-pong table in front of us, and then we both have a pair of table tennis rackets and a table tennis ball in our hands, I serve, he catches the ball, and then he makes a fast break to cause a high ball for me, and then he smashes the ball to catch me off guard.

We just waved our hands in the air and had a great game. In the end, on the grounds that Matsuko said that my serve speed was too fast, I threw off the "racket" in my hand and stopped playing.

When I returned to my hometown of the mountain town, it was already the mid-nineties. Da Mao brought a silly girl to pick me up, and Mr. Wang Chengqian had already gone away, but I only learned about it after I went back. And Da Mao's son has also started middle school, and Da Mao has not taught him anything about the craft in our industry, because Da Mao thinks that children still have to study well, it doesn't matter whether they learn the craft or not, just pretend to be in awe in their hearts. I asked Da Mao that if there is no successor to your craft, wouldn't it be a pity? Da Mao said that the future will be long, and when the child is older, he will think of going to the people to find a good seedling and accept him as an apprentice, just like when Mr. Wang Chengqian accepted him as an apprentice.

I haven't seen me for more than ten years, and the silly girl doesn't remember who I am at all, and although her face is starting to age a little, she looks much happier than women of the same age because of her innate optimism. In her world, in addition to candy, there is also her own son. Even if she is a fool, she also has the feeling of protecting her calves, maybe the silly girl is just used to living with Da Mao, and she doesn't really understand the meaning of the word "husband", and even her kind of love and love for Da Mao may not be consistent with the meaning of "love" that we understand, but she loves her children, just like she loves candy.

Seeing Da Mao run his own life, I am also very pleased, Da Mao gave me a key after receiving the wind, saying that in the years I left, with the rise of land reform and construction, the old houses gradually became a little affected by the city, so the government is thinking about preparing for demolition, but because many people refuse to give up their old houses, so they are delayed. Da Mao was worried that my house would be forcibly broken down if no one lived in my house for a long time, so he took it upon himself to change a lock for me.

Da Mao also told me that if it was really demolished, I would get a lot of compensation, because when my master passed away, the house was transferred to my name, and now that land is said to be one of the most valuable lots in the whole city.

So I continued to live in the old house, and left for more than ten years, but there was no strangeness at all, and I even dreamed of my master several times when I lived in the old house. Many of my neighbors have moved away or passed away over the years, and some of the old neighbors who have left behind are as happy as seeing me back home, as if they were seeing relatives, so when I reopened the door to do business, I decided that I would not leave in the future, and I would stay here until I could no longer do it.

I'm one of the lucky masters who survived a catastrophe and became a legend because of some amazing experiences. Just over two years after I returned to the mountain town, I became one of the most famous people in the industry, and many people came to visit, not really asking for help, but just to see what was alive. Like all industries, there is also business competition in our industry, in which some people keep lowering their prices, but I have always been high, and even so, there is still an endless stream of people who come to me for help. As my fame grew, so did the rumors about me, sometimes so bizarre that I couldn't help but laugh when I heard it myself.

When people's acceptance became higher and higher, it ushered in the most golden period of our industry, and I began to not only do business with ordinary people, but also with some business units and even government departments. Because of my ability and cleanliness, and almost never missed, it wasn't until I was in my fifties that I really got my life better. I have a lot of money in my hand, and I deposit it in the bank to earn interest, but I don't know who to leave this money to spend for me. So he took out all his savings and bought a big house near the old house, the kind with a view of the Yangtze River. Not only that, but I also bought myself a car, and after buying a car, I learned to drive when I was in my fifties.

When I was young, I secretly promised myself that when I had money in the future, I would also buy an ox cart; In the future, when I have money, I will also buy a tractor and so on, but the world has changed too fast and too fast in these short twenty years, and the days that I could not have imagined before are now real in my life. The most popular cars in that era were nothing more than the old three, I thought it was too vulgar, and the streets were full of the same cars, it seemed that I was too conformist, so when everyone was driving Jetta, Beverly, Santana, I bought a black Audi 100.

So much so that sometimes when I drive out for a ride, there will be police comrades who see my car from a distance and salute me, because the people who could drive this kind of car back then were basically big officials, who would have thought that the person sitting in it was actually an old Taoist priest, an old Taoist priest who just didn't want to let himself waste his time, a person with such a special life.

What really makes me feel helpless is not the so-called trend of the times, but the new things that suddenly pour into my life.