mayfly era

During the unexpected vacation, Chen Li and Yan Qiang made a plan and decided to go to the dirt alley first. Leather's promise to leave.

Unexpectedly, T was also with the old lady today. Seeing their surprised expressions, he smiled and greeted the two of them.

Chen Li didn't see T for a few days, and found that he had lost some weight, but looked in good spirits.

"Boss Chen, why are you here?" T asked.

"Come to tell the fortune." Chen Li said casually.

The old woman didn't expose it, and agreed with a smile, "Boss Chen is our old customer, so I won't greet you two, just make a pot of tea by yourself."

Chen Lizhi used the pipe to fetch water and make tea outside the house, while he eavesdropped on the conversation between T and the old lady.He doesn't know what his purpose of eavesdropping is, is it t?Or the science of Feng Shui masters?In fact, he was not interested in either.

t is not a dumb brain, but still struggles with difficult Feng Shui.

"Isn't it right here? Teacher." T's voice was a little distressed.

"It's actually a mistake here." The old woman pointed out gently.

Chen Yue couldn't help but wonder if Chen Ming had ever bitten the pen on these math problems, even though no matter what kind of information channel, Chen Ming was identified as a weird genius, but he clearly remembered that Chen Ming often sat in front of the calculator and gnawed on books, She didn't go to sleep until she learned it, and she didn't even sleep all night-she was so strict with herself that she was abnormal.

Time really dilutes everything, after diluting, everything will be beautified.

"Will I delay your business..." T said half seriously and half mischievously.

"It's always been the only reason for others to wait for me." The old woman said with a smile.

At this time, the smoker came back with a small teapot with a round belly, with a happy face, "They still sell cardamom. I haven't seen cardamom for more than ten years. I thought this thing had disappeared."

"What, appetizers?" Chen Li asked.

"Smell it." The smoking gun lifted the lid, and sent the steaming teapot to Chen Li.

Reluctantly, Chen Li leaned over, a slightly bitter and pungent smell entered his mind instantly from his nose, he coughed, with disgust on his face, "Take it away."

"It's okay, it doesn't smell so bad. When I was a child, an old man liked to soak it in water. He always asked me to drink this with him. He said it was like broth, so he was full."

Chen Li's heart trembled when he heard this, he silently poured himself a cup and took a sip.The more intense spicy and bitterness saturates the taste buds on the tip of the tongue, which is as bad as the smell, but he insisted on drinking the whole glass.

"Bad." He gave an honest assessment.

"Add some hawthorn and ginger flower, it's still very delicious, that kid is stubborn, how can it be delicious just soaked in cardamom water!" The old woman interrupted suddenly.

Smoker rummaged through the herbs wrapped in desiccant paper on the table, found the two herbs the old woman said, added them to the small round-bellied teapot, covered them, and let them simmer for a while.

"Is it really bad?" asked the smoking gun.

Chen Li opened his mouth and stuck out a small half of his tongue. He pointed to the red tip of his tongue, "It's numb."

"You...close your mouth quickly!" Smoker whispered, he blushed for no reason, and blinked his eyes uneasily.

"You have a cup of pressure first." Chen Li shook the teapot, poured a cup for himself and the pipe, and said lightly, "Where is that old man, have you seen it again?"

"No, even that place is gone, now it's an amusement park, served by holographic AI," Smoker gave a dry laugh, "That land has gone through its ups and downs."

Chen Li didn't know what to say, so he took a sip of tea in silence, he looked at the pipe, he thought that the pipe always has all kinds of passionate emotions, love and hate are straightforward, and happiness and pain can be accepted calmly and freely , he appreciates and envies.

Under the guidance of the old lady, T finished a thick stack of math problems, rubbed his tired eyes, stood up, walked to Chen Li's table, put his hands on the table, and chatted with them familiarly .

The old woman put the thick stack of papers in an aluminum basin full of ashes and lit it with an old-fashioned lighter.

"Go home and rest early when you're tired." Chen Li said to T.

He smiled, showing a small dimple on his left cheek, "I can still buy some discounted food at the market when I go back now, if I don't go there, it should be closed."

Then T turned and ran to the old woman's side, and said goodbye to the old woman with a smile. The old woman wrapped another bag of snacks for him and stuffed them into T's small backpack involuntarily.

After sending T away, the old woman took out an apron from the closet beside her and said that she was going to make beef noodles. Before Chen Li and the others could reply, she hurriedly left the house.

"Guess she prefers cooking or fortune-telling." The smoker said in a helpless tone.

"I don't know, but I don't like jobs either, especially jobs that kill people." Chen Li said.

"I don't know when it will stop." Smoker stretched his waist, blinking his red eyes, "I want to find a small house by the sea, so I can pick up conch shells and catch crabs if I have nothing to do."

"You remember to buy a sturdy one, I don't want to row a boat anymore."

"I will definitely buy a luxury small villa near the sea, where the golden house hides the charm." Yan Qiang said with a smile.

Chen Li glanced at him, "Are you rich?"

Smoker slapped his forehead, "Fuck, I forgot, I have no money."

Chen Li smiled, "Behave well, or say goodbye to your little villa."

Yan Qiang was about to say something, but heard a "bang", the old woman knocked open the wooden door with her back, Yan Qiang still remembered that the old woman was 130 years old, but this movement...

The old woman's cheeks were red, and her forehead was covered with hot sweat. She was holding a large pot with both hands, and the reddish-brown soup inside was still bubbling after boiling.She put the soup pot on the table with a "boom", then turned around and hurried out.

The two looked at each other, the pipe was about to say something, when the door was knocked open again, he almost bit his tongue.

"Come and eat!" The old woman's voice was faintly excited.

"Actually, there is no need to bother you to cook for us every time." Chen Li said.

"Now young people eat like birds pecking at rice. It's really ugly. It's all pill stomachs. I haven't seen you eat like this for a long time. Sit down, I've been cooking today's tomato and beef soup since morning gone."

It was the first time in their life that they were praised for their food intake, and both of them were a little embarrassed.

The old lady served noodles for the two of them graciously, and poured the rich soup on top. The room was filled with this sour, sweet and fragrant smell, which made people greedy.

"This tomato is only this big," the old woman compared the size on the belly of her thumb. "It's sour and sweet, and it's delicious."

"Wow, you are really rich." Smoker praised sourly.

The price of this kind of fresh fruits and vegetables is absolutely unaffordable for ordinary people, but for an old Feng Shui master, it is a matter of course that they have money, and they specialize in scraping the fat of the rich.

"You talk so much, you can't even stop eating!" The old woman feigned anger.

"The day before yesterday we met a girl surnamed Li, a second-level inspector. You should know her." Chen Li confirmed the identity of the female inspector to the old woman.

"You too, concentrate on eating when you're eating." The old woman interrupted Chen Li.

Chen Li had no choice but to concentrate on eating noodles.

The old woman chattered instead, apparently her education did not limit her.

She talked from tomato to beef, from beef to forest, and from forest to nuts. She said with a look of yearning that she wanted to go to the rainforest to pick big breadfruit. She heard that it smelled like bread when baked.

After listening to the old woman's description, a kind of food appeared in the minds of both of them at the same time, and the taste like wood shards accompanied the recovery.

"Ha," the smoking gun laughed dryly, "then I wish you your wish to be fulfilled as soon as possible, and you can eat breadfruit every day."

The old woman glared at him, "Even if it's a good thing, you can't eat it every day."

After finishing the meal, the old woman quickly put away the bowls and chopsticks, and carried them to the door by herself, and someone quickly picked them up.

"Tell me about Manzi, what happened to her?" the old woman asked.

Chen Li responded, "Manzi" should refer to the female inspector, and it was the first time he knew the girl's name, "Did you arrange her in G?"

"Not really, but I acquiesced," said the old woman.

"...You don't seem to be such a careless person."

"Do you still want me to say that I inserted them on purpose? I can only acquiesce. If I can acquiesce to one, I can acquiesce to two. They are just pursuing their second careers." The old woman said.

Chen Li understood what the old woman said, he exchanged glances with Smoker, and continued to ask, "Then can you tell me, how many people have you acquiesced to? Inspector Li Manzi has helped us a lot, and I am very grateful to her."

"Not much." The old woman stretched out two fists.

That's not what twenty means.

Anyone who is knowledgeable knows that two punches means hundreds.

Even though he had expected it, this amount still surprised Chen Li, "Can I know the reason?"

"I want to protect the eggs on the tree. The best way is to ask my family to help me protect them." The old woman said.

"I heard that Feng Shui masters have three taboos that they will never set foot in, namely sacrifice, nature and traditional power."

"Well, that's right, but taboos are dead, people are alive, times have changed, and I'm not so old-fashioned as an old woman."

Chen Li frowned slightly, "But it's very dangerous."

"Do you know when I started arranging these?" The old woman looked at Chen Yue, her eyes were young and lively, always warm,

"After she died," the old woman asked herself, "I saw so many people trying to pry open her head and see the brain inside, I realized that wisdom is not safe, and many people want to use other people's brains." Wisdom... just like in ancient times, some people only focused on using other people's strength."

"There will always be someone who is good at taking advantage of it." The old woman sighed.

"So I want to build a network of my own, covering the central city, every level, every field, every inch of land... so that I can protect the fragile nests on the trees and the eggs inside."

"It's very dangerous. They face all kinds of threats at any time, and you are among them." Chen Yue said.

"Threats are everywhere. The only advantage we have over ordinary people is that we can hide."

Chen Li wanted to say something more, but the old woman made a gesture of rejection, "Don't worry about me, I will be responsible for myself when I am old, compared to these, I recently discovered something, you should be interested .”