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It can be said that Dou Guangmao has been in prison is a household name, so the job search is not going well.

Once at the dinner table, my grandfather persuaded him to go to another workshop to inquire about it. Dou Guangmao's face suddenly became ugly. He threw his chopsticks and went upstairs. He lay on the sofa for a day and a night without eating. If you don't drink, you won't listen to anyone's advice, saying that you will starve yourself to death.

Later, grandpa compromised first, fried two poached eggs, and went upstairs with a bowl of porridge. Half an hour later, grandpa went downstairs with an empty bowl and sighed silently.

Since then, finding a job has become a sensitive topic in the family. Only when my father is not at home, my aunt will mention a sentence or two in passing, "It's not easy for him to be alone now. Who will come from there?" It makes my head feel uncomfortable.”

The uncle said: "That being said, he still has to blame himself for the current situation. Life is like this. There is no medicine for regret. As long as a person is alive, he must be responsible for his actions."

In the end, my uncle and aunt would sound the alarm in front of the two children on this issue, "You can't learn from him in the future, you must study hard and find a solid job, you know?"

"I see—" Ye Xi and Dou Tianxiao perfunctory in unison.

For various reasons, Dou Tianxiao didn't have a good impression of this father who fell from the sky, let alone a common language, except for saying hello and greetings when entering and leaving, there was nothing to say.

Fortunately, Dou Guangmao was not at home all the time, except for weekends, Dou Tianxiao seldom saw him.

During the summer vacation, Dou Tianxiao's two lateral incisors, which had been reluctant to show up for a long time, finally got out from the "boudoir". Because the gap between the teeth was small, just as Jiang Ran expected, the two small milky white teeth The pointed ends eventually grew into two small canine teeth.

My aunt felt that the canine teeth were too abrupt, which might be an ominous omen, so she wanted to find a dentist to correct them. Before the correction, she even superstitiously asked a blind man in the alley to make a fortune.

The blind man calculated with his fingers, and said quite deeply: "Everyone has his own destiny when he is born. If you pull out his canine teeth, it is equivalent to changing his destiny. You must think carefully about it."

"Then his original fate was good or bad?" asked the aunt.

"This opening of the eyes of the sky is to deplete my cultivation base and lifespan. Generally, I can't open it..." The blind man took a sip of tea.

"Is there anything unusual?" asked my aunt.

"Well, it depends on whether you are pious..."

In the end, the aunt who cherishes money like her life on weekdays took out a hundred oceans and handed it to the blind man reluctantly.

The blind man checked the authenticity, smiled, and immediately put on a benevolent expression, asked Dou Tianxiao's birth date, and pinched his fingers in a serious manner.

"Actually, this child's fate is very ordinary, but in his life, he will meet two noble people." The blind man gestured.

When my aunt heard the word "noble person", her eyes lit up, "Which two noblemen?"

"Hey, this secret must not be revealed. If I say it, it will be equivalent to destroying his fate. The noble man will 'prefer' others." The blind man said leisurely.

The aunt calmly took back the 100 yuan that the blind man had pressed under the folding fan, replaced it with five yuan and stuffed it back, "This is a secret anyway, if you say it, you don't say it. There are so many people in the store all day long. Come and go, where can he serve the nobles, if you can't see one, just ask for a bowl of noodles."

"Hey! How can you be so unreasonable, woman!" The "blind man" saw everything in his eyes, but because of his status, he had to twist his beard sideways and drink a cup of tea. , Destined to go, people take it for themselves, sow the cause, reap the fruit, everything is created by the heart'everything, follow the nature, follow the heart, follow the fate, don't deliberately keep anything, what should come will come, but if you refuse to pay , fate is useless."

My aunt was a little dizzy by the unfathomable words, and changed the five yuan on his table into twenty, "What do you mean?"

The "blind man" stuffed the money into his pocket, turned around and entered the room, waved his hand and said, "You can't force a child to like what he likes or dislike. He will naturally fight for what he likes. If he doesn't like it, he won't even if you send it to him." Grateful, besides, this is his 'fate', no matter how much your old aunt interferes, it won't work, try to relax, good can become bad, bad can also become good, everything is fate Fixed number."

Fortune tellers are always ambiguous, sounding both good and bad, but my aunt is uneducated, and in the end she memorized the word "noble person".

At the dinner table in the evening, my aunt told Dou Tianxiao, "In the future, if you see some poor beggars dressed in rags on the street, don't dislike them, maybe they are your 'nobles'!"

"Hey, I'm so laughing," the uncle said, "You're really a 'noble man', why doesn't he honor himself! 'Noble man' must at least be rich to be called a 'noble man'!"

After thinking about it, my aunt felt that it made sense, "Forget it, try not to talk to strangers on the road in the future, or lure him to the store, and my aunt will give you advice."

The uncle sneered, and gave Dou Tianxiao a big pig's trotter, "Don't listen to your aunt, you have nothing to do when you're full all day long, and don't talk to strangers on the road, do you hear me!?"

"Ah." Dou Tianxiao nodded.

"Mom, did you ask him by the way if my life is okay?" Ye Xi asked while biting her chopsticks.

"You were born from my belly, isn't your life good enough?" My aunt replied coldly.

Ye Xi thought for a while: "Can the blind man change his life?"

My aunt put down her chopsticks and chased after Ye Xi with a knife, gun and stick to serve, Dou Tianxiao raised her head and laughed.

When Jiang's mother heard about it later, she couldn't laugh or cry, "Sister, why do you still believe in such superstitions in what age?"

The aunt raised her voice, "It's not nonsense. I asked him to calculate it before I gave birth to a child. He said that he had a son, and he did. Many people in our village have asked him to calculate it. I never missed it. And I heard that There was a wealthy family whose daughter-in-law couldn’t bear children, so she asked him for fortune-telling, and a fat boy was born right away.”

"Hey, it's the first time I know that fortune tellers can also cure infertility." Uncle said.

"Brother, what is infertility?" Dou Tianxiao turned to ask Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran gave him a chestnut, "I don't know, write your homework quickly."

Jiang Qing continued to chat with her aunt, "It's just that he is blind and right. If you are not sure, he can find seven or eight hundred reasons to fool you."

Uncle poked his head out from the order window, "She's just like this, you can't understand her at all, you can save money if you do a fortune-telling, it costs thousands of teeth."

So Dou Tianxiao's two canine teeth were preserved by the words of the "blind man".

After the start of the new semester, both Jiang Ran and Ye Xi entered the middle school next door. Fortunately, the two schools are only separated by a wall. You can often see Jiang Ran buying drinks at the small shop in front of the school at noon. If you are lucky, you can catch Last bottle, bad luck, only one bottom left.

Dou Tianxiao's family basically didn't give him much pocket money, not because they were stingy, but because they were afraid that he would buy snacks and drinks indiscriminately and refuse to eat properly at school.

Because he is too short, he has been sitting in the first row of the classroom since the first grade. My aunt was always worried that he would be too short to find a partner, so she forced him to eat a large bowl of rice and various rumors that he could grow taller. thing.

The milk-flavored calcium tablet became Dou Tianxiao's daily snack.

Heaven pays off. Dou Tianxiao is like a springing bamboo shoots after the rain. Without knowing it, he breaks through the soil and rises steadily. In the second semester of the fourth grade, he was transferred from the front row to the central position. In the second half of the grade, he was transferred from the middle position to the last second row.

Many regular customers of the noodle shop will praise them when they see them, so Dou Tianxiao has a faint concept of "a tall one is powerful". He has to tie his calf to the bed leg with a rope at night, which is superstitious. I always think that I can grow taller quickly without sleeping with my legs bent.

But no matter how tall he is, he can't escape Jiang Ran. Jiang Ran, as if he had been injected with some ulterior hormone, grew to 1.7 meters three in one fell swoop, successfully surpassing all the male students in the class, and because he often Exercise and get stronger.

For a while, I practiced arm strength every day, and my arms were full of tight muscles. After Dou Tianxiao squeezed it once, he started to practice arm strength.

It's like if you keep exercising and growing, you can change from a boy to a man.

My aunt is short, less than 1.6 meters. Every time I see Jiang Ran coming in, I have to click my tongue, "This kid, what did he eat? He is so tall, he looks like a beam."

Dou Tianxiao secretly increased the number of times he took calcium tablets every day, vowing to become another handsome beam.

During this period, Dou Guangmao has been living in his grandfather's house, but has no job.

At that time, Dou Tianxiao learned a saying, "Shenlong sees the head but does not see the tail", which can be applied to Dad.

Dou Guangmao went out to drink and play mahjong with others during the day, and made a meal and cleaned the dishes when he came back at night. Later, he often stayed in the mahjong parlor all night long and did not show up for three days.

After the grandfather knew that he was gambling again, he began to persuade him, "It is impossible for a person to be lucky all the time. If there is a win, there must be a loss. It is better to find a stable job."

Dou Guangmao is addicted to gambling, and he doesn't take his grandfather's words seriously at all. Once he lost more than 1 yuan, and this matter was heard by his aunt within a few days.

The function of my aunt's mouth is the same as that of an external speaker. In one afternoon, almost half of the people in the street knew about it.

After hearing this, the grandfather was furious, and gave Dou Guangmao a hard lesson, and wanted to drive him away from the house.

Everyone is afraid of being dragged down. This time bomb is placed at home, and everyone is afraid.

If he owed debts outside in the future, would it be possible for him to ask his children to repay the debts?

Dou Guangmao shook his arm indifferently: "Don't worry, I can still afford to lose this little money."

"Where did you get the money?" Grandpa stared at him, afraid that he might do something bad again.

"I have been in prison for Li Sui and his cousin for so many years, shouldn't they show it? Besides, I don't lose money all the time, I also win money, okay?" Dou Guangmao said stubbornly.

Later, he always wanted to post money to his family, sometimes it was two or three hundred, sometimes it was seven or eight hundred, but grandpa would return the money back exactly.

Dou Tianxiao didn't understand why he didn't want money when he had it, but Jiang Ran reminded him that his grandfather was afraid that the money would come from dirty sources.