Strive for Science

"The Spring Festival is approaching, and it's really hard to book air tickets." Shen Changan opened the ticketing platform, lying on the sofa and muttering in a low voice, "Even the most expensive high-class cabins are out of tickets."

"My lord, I fly very fast, you sit on my back, I only need to flap my wings a few times, and I can reach the imperial capital." The three-headed little phoenix hurried over, blinking its big black eyes, "This will save a lot of airfare."

"I don't employ child labor." Shen Chang'an pinched Little Phoenix's chubby face, "The matter has come to this, we can only take the special plane for the New Year, and hope that the route can be applied for before the Spring Festival."

"Oh." Xiao Fenghuang lowered his head resentfully. This was the countless times he had failed to apply for a job.

It's all because humans have invented so many communication tools. Adults always say that if you live in the human world, you have to live in the way of the human world, which makes him useless.

"It's a rare time to go back to Wuming City, you have fun at home." Shen Chang'an touched Little Phoenix's head, "I have something to go out, eat well at home at noon, don't be picky eaters."

Little Phoenix: "..."

The picky eating habits of the Phoenix family are well known everywhere, so it would be too embarrassing for him not to be picky eaters, right?

"Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on him." Dao Nian closed the book in his hand, "Go early and come back early, I'll ask Lao Zhao to cook something delicious for you in the evening."

"Okay." Shen Changan took the opportunity to kiss Daonian on the cheek a few times, and walked out of the house.

It has been nearly five years since I left Wuming City. Chen Panpan married her boyfriend and went to live in the imperial capital. Ding Yang was transferred to the provincial capital and became the deputy director of the civil service department of the provincial capital. In the service department, Xu Ze and his lover Yiyi.

Five years ago, when he was having a dinner with Dao Nian, he found out that Xu Ze had a girlfriend named Yiyi, who was also a Taoist disciple. Regardless of whether Xu Ze knew her identity as a Taoist disciple, the relationship between the two of them these years It's been good.

Goodbye Xu Ze, he looks much more mature and stable than before, the two of them didn't go to a high-end restaurant, but went to the fish hotpot restaurant they liked the most back then, drinking drinks around a small table, and talking about the trivial things of these years little things.

The steaming hot mist from the fish hot pot made Xu Ze's cheeks reddish.

After a few cups of hot drinks, Xu Ze let go. He sighed and said, "I always thought that you are not an ordinary person. Facts have proved that my guess is correct."

"Maybe it's because outstanding people radiate wisdom wherever they go?" Shen Chang'an joked, "I never thought that you would be the last person guarding Wuming City."

Xu Ze lowered his head, his glasses were blurred by the water mist: "There must always be someone guarding here. Yiyi is now the director of the civilian service department. As a husband, of course I have to follow my husband."

Shen Changan looked at Xu Ze, and suddenly said, "Can your eyes see other things?"

Xu Ze paused, he looked up at Shen Chang'an in astonishment, the bottom of the pot was simmering in the fire, making a gurgling sound.After a long time, Xu Ze smiled and said, "What do you mean?"

When he was very young, he could see things that others couldn't see. When he told his parents excitedly, what he was waiting for was not praise, but their panic.Gradually he learned to hide it, and later he just smiled when he heard his mother talk about the past that he could see unclean things when he was a child, but he couldn't see them later.

Some people always like to say that children have very clean eyes and can see things that adults cannot see, but after the age of 12, they can't.

Perhaps some children are truly blind, while others are just pretending to be blind.

This secret has been hidden in Xu Ze's heart for a long time, too long to tell anyone.After being with Yiyi, he realized that he was not a strange person, because Yiyi could also see those strange shadows.

Hearing Shen Changan mention it suddenly now, he suddenly felt uncomfortable.Over the years, because of this secret, he has kept a distance from others. After being asked by Shen Changan, he had the urge to tell the secret that had been hidden for a long time.

"I used to be very obvious?" He remembered that when he and Shen Changan were working together, the most common thing they did was to publicize to the residents of the community that they should stop feudal superstition, go to the doctor if they are sick, and ask the police for help if they have something to do, instead of Pray to God and worship Buddha.

Shen Changan shook his head: "No, it's just that I have good eyesight. Actually, I can see it too."

Xu Ze looked at Shen Chang'an in a daze: "Really?"

Shen Chang'an smiled: "I seem to be someone who would make fun of such things? In fact, it's not just me, but also Director Du and Aunt Juan. I didn't tell you at that time because I was afraid that it would affect your worldview. If I had known, you would have seen it too. I can still discuss it with you."

Xu Ze raised his head and looked at Shen Changan. Shen Changan didn't know that he could see ghosts. After a few years, he could see it. What happened to him in these few years?

"All these years, are you and... your lover okay?" Xu Ze didn't want to admit that with such a smart mind, he couldn't remember the name of Shen Changan's lover.

"Very good." Shen Changan nodded, "I've eaten all kinds of delicacies from all over the world."

"After traveling so many places, I haven't seen you getting fat and getting old. On the contrary, you look the same as five years ago." Xu Ze sighed.

"Yes, the days of eating soft food are really happy." Shen Changan said cheekily, "I can understand how easy it is to go from simplicity to extravagance."

Shocked by Shen Changan's brazenness, it took Xu Ze a long time to say: "I haven't seen you for a few years, you have not only become lazy, but also thick-skinned."

On Shen Chang'an's face, Xu Ze could not see the traces of time. He and Shen Chang'an were like people from two worlds. Although they overlapped, they couldn't really enter his world.This feeling is like that year when Shen Changan was sick, he went to visit with his colleagues, and walked in that mysterious neighborhood, he always felt that there were secrets hidden in the lush woods that he couldn't see.

Before parting, Xu Ze asked: "Next time, when will you come back?"

He always felt that he should ask, he was afraid that if he didn't ask, Shen Changan would forget to come back.

"It will be soon." Shen Changan replied.

Xu Ze didn't know that Shen Chang'an's speed was very fast, which might be different from what he imagined.

"Then...see you next time." He watched Shen Changan walk out of the cold pot fish shop, a man in a gray windbreaker stood there quietly at the corner of the street, saw him coming out with Shen Changan, and nodded to him.

That was Shen Changan's boyfriend.

Seeing Shen Chang'an walking through the cold street and running towards that man quickly, Xu Ze knew that he should not go forward.He stopped and gave the man a polite smile.

"Xu Ze, goodbye." He looked at Shen Changan on the other side of the street, and waved to him with a smile. The man in the windbreaker put a towel around Shen Changan's neck.

It has been five years since Wuming City had snowfall. When Shen Changan came back this year, he encountered the first snow after five years.

"Goodbye." He said with a smile, putting his hands into his coat pockets, and seeing the two walking away, he slowly turned and walked back.

When he got home, Xu Ze found that his unhappy cousin was also at his home: "Xu Jiang, I heard that you are arguing to become a monk and become a Taoist priest. Did you make your parents angry?"

"It's great to be a Taoist priest. You don't have to be urged to marry by your relatives. You can cultivate your moral character and cultivate your sentiment." Xu Jiang just graduated from university a few months ago. He doesn't want to go back to his company to work, but wants to practice Taoism.

"That's right, sister-in-law." Xu Jiang looked at sister-in-law who was sitting on the sofa peeling oranges.

Yiyi glanced at the unlucky brat, got up and took out a watch from the cabinet and handed it to Xu Jiang.

"What is this?" Xu Jiang took the form and looked at it curiously, only to see that it said the subjects of the postgraduate examination of Daoism, "I can understand the examination of philosophy and "Book of Changes", why do we need to take the examination of chemistry and basic medicine?" with English?"

"Because Taoism has to be in line with the international standards, how do you make talismans if you don't know how to draw? How do you make alchemy if you don't know the basics of medicine?" Yiyifeng said lightly, "Review carefully according to the content above, maybe... pass In two or three years, you will be able to pass the exam."

Xu Jiang: "..."

Is the scumbag not even qualified to be a Taoist priest?

He resentfully put down the test subject list, and said with a dry smile, "I think it would be good to go to work in the company at home first, and practice a little bit."

After finishing speaking, Xu Jiang stood up: "Brother, sister-in-law, you have a good rest, I will not disturb you." After finishing speaking, he walked out of Xu Ze's house.

"This brat..." Xu Ze shook his head helplessly, "He's in his early twenties, yet he's so unsteady, but he's lucky enough to perform exceptionally well in the college entrance examination. .”

"Maybe he did a good deed and was blessed for the rest of his life." Yiyi patted the top of his head, like coaxing a child: "Come on, don't be unhappy, do something with a mop to make yourself happy?"

Xu Ze: "..."

No!Mopping doesn't make me any happier!

After Xu Jiang came out of his cousin's community, he realized that he forgot to wear his scarf, and it was still cold with snowflakes outside.He shrank his neck, regretting that he didn't drive out today, so he could only take out his mobile phone tremblingly to see if he could make an appointment for a car.

"Young man, is it cold?" An old lady came over and gave him a hand warmer with a very kind voice, "It's cold outside, go home early."

A young man was suddenly stuffed with a hand warmer by an old lady. Xu Jiang couldn't react, but his hands were indeed quite warm.

He looked at the old lady, and the old man who walked with the old lady, who also had a very kind smile, and it took him a long time to realize, and he said quickly: "No, no."

The old lady kindly gave it to him, but he didn't have the face to ask for it.

"It's okay, take it." The old lady held down his resisting hand, Xu Jiang was ashamed to find that he was not as strong as an old lady.

Could it be that the comfortable college life corrupted him?

"Goodbye." At the moment he was dazed, the old man and the old lady had walked a distance together, and he looked at the old lady's back in a daze, had he seen her somewhere?

Back in the community, he saw his mother was chatting with a few aunts. He shrank his neck and tiptoed slowly out of their sight.

"Is it really useful to worship the bedside man and the bedside lady?"

"It's useful. In the distant relative's house next door, there was a child who always had night terrors. He went to the hospital for an examination, and he was not short of nutrition. Later, he went to pay homage to the bedside father-in-law. That night, the child was able to sleep soundly. gone."

"It's so amazing..."

"That's not it."

Bed man, bed woman?

Xu Jiang thought, for the sake of the healthy growth of children, adults must hold both hands in faith and science, and both hands must be hard.

Pity the parents of the world.