Strive for Science

"Chang'an, what's the matter with you?" After Ding Yang finished worshiping, he saw Shen Chang'an standing upright, thinking that he didn't believe it, so he persuaded him, "Don't be so serious, come, come, you worship with Xu Ze, please." Yue Lao blesses you to find a caring and gentle beauty."

"If a man wants to find a caring and gentle beauty, he must first make himself an elegant, funny and gentle person." Shen Chang'an thought for a while, and felt that he still didn't need to worship the god statue, "It's better to ask God than to ask yourself."

"That's what I said, but what if Elder Yue sees that you are handsome and wants to give you a considerate beauty?" After saying this, Ding Yang clasped his fists at Elder Yue, "Old Moon , I absolutely did not mean to tease you, I am helping you develop believers."

"Absurd." Shen Chang'an was so troubled by Ding Yang that he had a headache, so he decided to simply go along with his wish and make a casual obeisance, lest he keep nagging.

"Wait." An old man with gray hair and wearing a navy blue cloth jacket hurriedly stopped Shen Changan, "Young man, I see you with peach blossoms on your face and the appearance of a red luan star. Yuelao?"

"What?" Ding Yang stared at Shen Chang'an in disbelief, "We agreed to be single together, but you secretly got a mistress?"

Shen Changan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he looked helplessly at the old man standing in front of him: "Master, how can you count these things?"

"I don't count anything else, only marriage." The old man stroked the beard on his chin, and taught earnestly, "Young man, you must be loyal to your partner. If you are too greedy for beauty, you will be punished. "

I want to tell this old man that he doesn't have a partner, but seeing that this old man is so old, he didn't intend to make things difficult for him. Shen Changan couldn't argue with him about this kind of issue, so he nodded and said: "You make sense."

"Then remember, don't pay homage to the old man in the future, and he will not dare to help you find another partner." The old man was satisfied immediately, and he walked slowly outside the temple, peeking back from time to time, as if He was observing whether Shen Chang'an secretly worshiped Yue Lao while he was not paying attention.

Noticing the behavior of the old man, Shen Changan: "..."

He doesn't have the face of a scumbag, so why does the old man treat him as if he is trying to stop the scumbag from cheating?

"Forget it." Ding Yang patted Shen Chang'an's shoulder sympathetically, "This is fate, Chang'an, you'd better stand aside and don't affect other people's old age."

Shen Changan walked aside dumbfounded, observing the passers-by.As the sky got brighter, more and more young people came to worship the old moon. Some couples came together, and some good friends came together, laughing and making noise, very cheerful.

There are so many happy passers-by, when one person is unhappy, he will stand out in the crowd.Shen Chang'an noticed that there was a young girl, wearing a somewhat outdated dark coat, walking alone among the crowd, walking to the oak tree outside Yuelao Temple with a dazed expression, looking up at the storage boxes hanging on the tree. A wooden sign bearing the wishes of countless people.

Her face was pale, and she stood on tiptoe trying to reach a certain brand, but because she was not tall enough, she couldn't reach it anyway.She didn't know what she thought of, and suddenly squatted under the tree and hugged her knees.

Is she crying?

Pedestrians who are happy all around don't notice the sad person squatting in the corner.Some people cry, some people laugh, sadness and joy are always two different worlds.

Shen Chang'an touched his body and woke up in a daze in the morning without even bringing a tissue.He searched around, bought a pack of tissue for one yuan at a small stall, walked up to the crying girl, and silently handed the tissue in front of her.

"Thank you." The girl thanked in a hoarse voice, she looked up at Shen Changan, her eyes were full of sadness, but there were no tears.

"What do you want, I'll get it for you." Shen Changan looked up at the oak tree, and pointed to the wooden sign the woman was trying to get, "Do you want this?"

The woman nodded.

Shen Changan stretched out his hand to take off the wooden sign and put it in the woman's hand.The wooden sign looked old, and the words on it were blurred due to the sun and rain, but it was faintly visible that it said "So and so loves so and so forever."

Gently wiping the dust on the wooden sign, the girl thanked in a low voice.

"You're welcome." Seeing her hurt look, Shen Changan comforted her, "Think about everything, everything is scarce in the world, but there is no shortage of men. Among our male compatriots, there are still tens of millions of men fighting Where's the bachelor?"

The girl smiled at Chang'an after hearing the words: "You talk so funny, there must be many girls who like you?"

"I am still single so far, and I refuse to answer your question." Shen Changjian sighed pretendingly, and he saw a sign hanging on the trunk of the oak tree with the words "Wishing Tree" written on it, "How about you? Make another wish?"

"The wish I made can't be fulfilled, why do I still make it?" The girl held the wooden sign tightly, "I came today just to let the person who made the wish with me back then fulfill his promise."

"The sun is about to come out." Shen Changan looked up at the eastern sky, got up and bought a few wishing cards from a vendor, "The sun in November is very poisonous, everyone said that if you get sunburned this month, it will be hard to come back for nothing , you girls love beauty so much, so don't bask in the sun like this."

The girl didn't speak, she looked down at the dilapidated wooden sign in her hand, with unwillingness and resentment in her eyes.

"Come." The two wooden signs were handed to her, and the young man who held them smiled brightly at her, "There are two of us. After you make your wish, I'll hang it for you."

After receiving the brand new wooden sign, the girl looked at him with hesitation.

Shen Changan took out his pen and began to write on the wooden sign.

I wish Dao Nian good health and happiness——Chang'an.

May I eat delicious food and have a great body——Chang'an.

After writing these two signs in a fluttering manner, Shen Changan took out his mobile phone to take a photo and sent it to Dao Nian.

Chang'an: See if I'm loyal enough. I never forget to bring you a share when I make a wish.

In a residential house.

"Sir?" Seeing that Dao Nian, who had closed his eyes and said nothing, suddenly opened his eyes, Liu Mao thought that something important had happened, so he hurriedly said, "But something important happened in the world?"

Dao Nian glanced at him, took out his mobile phone, clicked on the chat box, and saw the photo sent by Shen Changan.After saving the photo, Dao Nian slowly typed four words.

Nian: Don't be superstitious.

After replying to the message, Dao Nian looked at Liu Mao: "Should I build a mansion and make it my permanent home?"

"My lord?" Liu Mao looked at Dao Nian in horror, "What do you mean?"

Between heaven and earth, no matter the ends of the earth, Mr. can go.For Mr., everywhere is his home, but there is no home.

He has no mansion, no joys and sorrows, and even... no family and friends.The gentleman who was destined to have no feelings from birth suddenly said that he needed a mansion as his home. If word spread, the six realms would be shaken.

"It's nothing, I just mentioned it casually." Seeing the shock in Liu Mao's eyes, Daonian slowly lowered his eyelids and closed them again, "You all stand down and don't disturb me."

"Yes." Liu Mao walked downstairs slowly, turned his head and looked at the bird stand in the corner, the scarlet-breasted parrot demon sent by the bird tribe was burying his head in eating the rice, seeing Liu Mao looking at himself, he immediately stopped pecking the rice, Pretending to have a small appetite.

Liu Mao sprinkled a handful of Lingmi and put it in the food box in front of her: "The Bird Clan arranged for you to come to Sir's side just to help you eat and drink?"

Fei Ying: "..."

Seeing that Feiying didn't speak, Liu Mao clapped his hands: "For your ancestral home is in Shucheng, let me tell you a few more things. Since you are a parrot here, you should be a good one to please the master." Parrot."

"Mr. Liu, have you also stayed in Shu City?" Fei Ying was a little surprised. The elders in the clan said that Liu Mao was very lucky. He was not a demon cultivator known for his speed, but he became an adult's mount.

"You shouldn't ask, don't ask." Liu Mao said with a sullen face, "Put away all those petty thoughts of your Bird Clan. In this world, as long as adults think about it, then nothing can be hidden from him."

It's no wonder that when the elders and the elders of the beast clan brought them over, the adults didn't even look at them.After Liu Mao left, the parrot peeked out at Hu Ming, who was digging mud pits and planting flowers with his buttocks up.

Forget it, she'd better be a parrot with a tenacious desire to survive, at least better than that vixen who acts like a cow and a horse.Who would have thought that Lord Dao would be so upright that he would really let them do things if he said he was helping them?

Shen Changan sent the news to Dao Nian, and hung the wooden sign on the tree. The depressed girl did not write a word on the two blank wooden signs.

"Aren't you going to write?" Shen Changan asked.

"It's not necessary." As the morning glow rises, the early winter sun has no temperature, and the faint sunlight can't even penetrate the fog.

The girl returned the blank wooden sign to Shen Changan, turned around and hurriedly disappeared behind the Yuelao Temple.

Shen Changan looked at her back and sighed.

"Why are you sighing?" Ding Yang came over and bumped him with his elbow, "I said why you are not very interested in worshiping the moon, so you are here to make a wish."

Shen Changan returned the blank wooden sign to the stall owner, and took out the work sign from his coat: "Let's go, the sun is out, it's time to patrol."

At the Yuelao Temple Fair, not only merchants came here to sell food, but also some folk dance performances.The first eight big men walk in front carrying a bottle of the old moon, and tourists around can throw flowers or coins on the old moon.

Behind the Yuelao statue is a folk artist dressed as the protagonist of a famous love story in history, walking and dancing, holding a huge colored silk fan in his hand, with words such as "a hundred years of marriage" and "a destined marriage" embroidered on the fan.

In order to watch the folk dance performance, the tourists remembered that the roads were full of water. Shen Changan thought he had good physical strength, but he was also remembered by the excited tourists. When the number of tourists gradually decreased in the evening, he sat dying on a stall, wishing to blink. Back to the big soft bed.

"Sir." The girl whom I met in the morning came to Shen Changan's side at some point, and the setting sun shone on her, adding a few streaks of orange red to her pale face.

"You haven't left yet?" Shen Changan was taken aback when he saw her.

"I'm still not reconciled." The girl bit her lower lip tightly and shook her head a few times, "I want to meet him."

Shen Changan looked at her and didn't speak.

"I'm afraid, sir, can you go with me?" The girl pointed in one direction, "His house is over there."

Shen Changan stared at her for a few seconds: "We must see him?"

The girl nodded affirmatively again.

"Okay, I'll go with you." Shen Changan agreed.

The night of early winter came very early, Liu Hao, as usual, bought half a catty of duck tongue, which his wife likes, in a street shop after get off work.The price of duck tongue has risen these days. He glanced at his favorite stewed pig ears, hesitated for two or three seconds, and left with the duck tongue in his hand.

He met a few acquaintances on the road, and after greeting each other, he continued to walk home.The stewed meat shop is three bus stops away from his home. He didn't want to waste the two dollars, so he walked back like this every day for the reason of exercising.

The house he lives in has no property management. It is an old-fashioned house. There are always rubbish "accidentally" left by neighbors on the corridor. There are 65 days in a year, and there is not a single day that is clean.

As soon as I walked downstairs, I heard the old lady living on the first floor scolding a certain unscrupulous resident upstairs and throwing garbage on the protective window of her house.The old lady's voice was so shrill and bright that it hurt his eardrums.

He looked up at the dusty residential building, fumbled in his coat, found a shriveled cigarette case, took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep puff.

The hazy smoke blurred the expression on his face. He squatted downstairs, listening to the old lady's scolding, the expression on his face was numb and dazed.

There were footsteps coming from behind him, and he stepped aside.

"Brother, does Liu Hao live here?" The young man who spoke was wearing clean clothes, full of vigor, like a sprout that just grew in early winter.

Liu Hao threw the cigarette on the ground and crushed it vigorously with his feet: "I am, who are you, why do you want me?"

"You are Liu Hao?" Shen Changan looked back at the girl, which seemed to be seriously inconsistent with her description of "fair-skinned, gentle-looking, and very clean""

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The man in front of him is slightly fat, his coat is wrinkled and doesn't fit well, and there is a circle of stubble on his chin. He looks very unkempt, which has nothing to do with the word "gentleman".

"Sorry to bother you." Shen Changan smiled, "I was entrusted by someone to come and see you."

"Who?" Liu Hao bent down to pick up the cigarette butts on the ground, and threw them into the trash can beside him.

"A lady named Linlin." Shen Changan glanced at the silent young girl standing beside him.

The man put his somewhat cold hand into his pocket, but he didn't put it in the first time, but finally put his hand into his pocket the second time: "Which Linlin?"

Shen Changan didn't expect to get such a reaction. He looked at Liu Hao, then at the girl named Linlin, and fell silent.

Seeing that Shen Chang'an fell silent, Liu Hao hooked the corners of his lips, showing an expression that could barely be called a smile: "It's time for me to go home."

Seeing that Liu Hao was about to leave, Shen Changan thought Linlin would ask him to do something, but Linlin just lowered her head and didn't even look at this fat man.

"He's not my lover. My lover doesn't smoke or is fat, so he's not so ugly." Linlin muttered in a low voice, as if refusing to admit that the man she loved had turned into this appearance.

"Haozi." A woman with a ponytail came down from the stairs, saw Liu Hao, and said to him, "Go up and look after the child. I'll go to the store to buy a bottle of soy sauce. The soy sauce at home is gone."

"Why don't you call me and let me bring it back on the way, and you don't need to make another trip." Liu Hao walked up to the woman very naturally, and put the duck tongue in her hand, " It's a bit cold outside, you go back first, I'll go shopping."

"This one is so expensive, don't buy it next time." The woman looked at the duck tongues in her eye bags, and reprimanded with a smile, "Then come back early, and I'll chop the vegetables."

"Yeah." Liu Hao reached out and pinched the messy hair around the woman's cheeks behind her ears, "I know."

The woman noticed Shen Changan standing beside Liu Hao, smiled at him and said, "You are Haozi's friend, come to our house for dinner together."

"No, thank you sister-in-law." Shen Changan smiled obediently at the woman.

The woman thought that they had something to discuss, and after a few polite words with Shen Changan, she went back to the building.The man took out the cigarette case from his coat again, and found that there was no cigarettes in the box, so he threw the empty cigarette case away, turned and walked out.

"My wife and I met a few years ago." Liu Hao suddenly said, "At that time, Linlin had just left for two years, and I gave up on myself all day long, and even lost my job." He paused, as if not I don't want to mention the past.

"You also heard the love story between me and Linlin, and felt that I betrayed our love, so you came here to condemn me?" Liu Hao bought a bottle of soy sauce at the grocery store, thought about it, and chose two sticks Lollipop, laughed at himself, "According to other people, the love story between me and Linlin probably only has a perfect ending if I don't marry for the rest of my life or go with her."

"Until now, some of Linlin's friends have called me a scumbag." Liu Hao smiled, this smile was indifferent, but also a kind of numbness that he was accustomed to, "It doesn't matter how you call me, as long as you don't harass my wife and The children are fine, they are innocent."

"I betrayed our relationship and I deserve the scolding."

At the beginning of the love story, a man and a woman promised each other life and death. Later, the girl died in an accident, and the boy was hit hard and gave up on himself. In the end, he chose a new life.

This kind of cheesy story has already been written by many street stall magazines many years ago, but in these stories, the public opinion and pain faced by the survivors are not written.

"If I look like this now, if Linlin is still alive, I'm afraid I won't be able to recognize it. It's pointless to talk about the love in the past." Liu Hao laughed at himself and shrugged his shoulders, "What else do you want to ask?"

Shen Changan shook his head: "No, I wish you and your family a happy life."

Liu Hao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Among Linlin's friends, you are the first one to wish my family a happy life." The smile on his face became brighter, "Thank you, I will thank my wife Send your best wishes."

Seeing the fat man walking slowly across the street and entering the dilapidated residential building, Shen Changan turned to look at Linlin, "Are you still unwilling?"

Linlin stared blankly at Shen Changan: "You know I'm dead, so you're not afraid?"

Shen Chang'an didn't answer her question: "Is it the love that ended abruptly because of death, or are you reluctant to part with this man?"

Linlin was silent for a long time: "I haven't seen him for nearly eight years, because there is a wishing card left by us in the Yuelao Temple, so I have the opportunity to return to the Yuelao Temple every year during the Yuelao Temple Fair. But these eight years In the past year, he has not returned to the place where we made a wish."

Eight years is enough for a man to let go of his pain, and it can also turn a handsome and gentle young man into a fat, greasy, mediocre middle-aged man.

After seeing Liu Hao's current appearance, Linlin's first thought was not excitement, anger, or joy, but embarrassment.

She even began to regret telling Shen Changan that she had wandered in the underworld for eight years and was unwilling to reincarnate because of such a man.

Some feelings cannot stand the passing of time, and some feelings cannot stand the aging of appearance.

If Linlin hadn't died unexpectedly, maybe Liu Hao wouldn't have become like this.It is also possible that after the two are together, because of the passage of time and life, they become a couple who quarrel over firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea. In the end, their love fairy tale disappears and they become ordinary couples in the eyes of friends.

"Thank you, sir, for bringing me to see him." Linlin took out the wooden token hidden in her hand, and when she pressed her palm hard, the wooden token turned into powder.

Shen Changan looked at the darkening sky: "You should go."

"Sir, when did you find out that I'm not human?"

Shen Chang'an thought for a while: "Probably because you are so sad but can't shed tears."

He didn't know which novel he had read. It said ghosts, but there were no tears.A ghost who can cry does not shed tears, but his soul.

Linlin hesitated to speak, because she really had nothing to say in front of a man who looked normal even when he saw a ghost.When the sky was finally replaced by complete blackness, she said in a nasty voice: "Sir, please tell him for me, just say... wish him happiness for the rest of his life, I don't blame him for breaking his promise."

Shen Changan: "It's no use blaming him, he can't hear anyway."

Linlin: "..."

At this moment, can't he be moved or emotional?

The created atmosphere was disrupted by Shen Changan's few words, and the female ghost Linlin disappeared into the night with an expressionless face.

"Young people nowadays just can't hear the truth." Shen Changan sighed and sent a message to Daonian.

Chang'an: Dao Nian, you said no matter how beautiful the relationship is, will it become pale and embarrassing due to the changes of the years and the aging of the face?

Seeing this news, Dao Nian frowned.After pondering for a long time, I replied with a message with a strong desire to survive, "Even if you grow old, I will not dislike you."

Shen Changan holding the phone: "..."

Can brotherhood be the same as love?However, such feelings and attitudes are still worthy of his touch, so he found pictures of hugs in the emoji package.

"Young people nowadays are really not reserved at all." Dao Nian threw his phone on the table and snorted coldly.

It's just that the eyes occasionally look at the phone secretly.

"It's you again?" An old man's voice sounded.

When Shen Changan turned his head, it was the old man who stopped him from paying homage to the old man in the morning. The other party was holding a large bundle of unsold rough red ropes. It seemed that the business was not going well.

Seeing Shen Changan staring at the red rope in his hand, the old man hid the red rope behind his back: "What are you looking at, this is not your business."

Shen Changan: "..."

Grandpa, you really think too much, I don't have the bad habit of stealing old people's things.

Liu Mao drove to the place Shen Changan said, and saw the old man standing beside him, he frowned suspiciously, why is Yuelao here?

"Mr. Shen." Liu Mao walked up to the two of them, "Do you know this old man?"

"No, it was just a coincidence that he passed by with a red rope." Shen Changan smiled, "I was thinking that since it was so late, I could buy some rope to take care of his business..."

"Don't wrong me. I never thought of selling you the red rope, and it's impossible to sell it to you. Give up." The old man glanced at Liu Mao, wishing he could swear that even if he smashed his statue, he would never It means selling the red rope to Shen Changan.

Shen Changan: "..."

If you don't sell it, you won't sell it, as if selling him a red string will destroy the world.

Shen Chang'an smiled helplessly at Liu Mao: "Look, that's how things are."

"Oh." Liu Mao dragged his voice and pointed to his head, "Don't worry about the old man with that brain, sir is still at home waiting for you to go back to eat."

Hearing the word "Sir", the old man trembled.Looking at Shen Chang'an's eyes, it was as if he was looking at a beauty.Staying by your husband's side and still daring to worship the old man for marriage, this is a gutsy thing to swallow.In terms of the ability to kill, humans are ranked second, and I am afraid that no one dares to be the first.

Shen Changan came home at night, just sat down at the dinner table, Dao Nian suddenly asked him: "How about I build a house?"

"Isn't this your home?" Shen Changan was a little surprised.

"This is just my place to stay." Dao Nian looked at Chang'an, not wanting to miss the slightest expression on his face: "I don't have a home."

"Do you think... I should have a home?"

The author has something to say: Yuelao: The courage of human beings makes gods terrified.