Chapter 51 Don’t coerce it
“How is it?” As soon as Wang An came back, the old man hurriedly stepped forward and asked.
“Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?”
“Of course this kid is telling the truth!” The old man glared at him.
“To be honest, I think it’s quite embarrassing, maybe people don’t like me.”
“Why?” The old man was stunned after hearing this.
“My outlook on life is different.”
“What’s your outlook on life?” the old man asked.
“To put it simply, people have different ideas. I like the pastoral scenery of mountain villages, while she yearns for the prosperous life in the city.”
“What does this mean? There are two people in this world who have exactly the same ideas. If you contact them again, the boys have to be more proactive. You are from the same village and you are both in Hu’an City.
You have to make good use of such a close relationship.
I'm talking to you. Put down the old book in your hand. You're young and you're reading some Buddhist scriptures. You don't want to become a monk, right? "
“No, I just want to take a look.” Wang An smiled and put away the book.
“You should keep in touch with me and go back to Hu’an together after the Chinese New Year.”
“Well, okay, I’ll try my best.” Wang An nodded.
On the street in the village, the wind and snow are still blowing. Two women walked through the snow from south to north.
“Xiaojie, what do you think of that young man?” the matchmaker asked Zhang Huajie.
“Let’s talk about it some more.” Zhang Huajie didn’t finish his words.
She was full of expectations when she arrived, and she felt very comfortable when she saw him in person. However, her appearance was in line with or exceeded her expectations. She was not very handsome, but she had a very special temperament about her.
We haven’t seen each other for several years, and we have changed a lot.
But she doesn't quite agree with the other person's outlook on life. This age is the best time in life, and one should be full of energy, but she can't feel that high-spirited mental state in the other person.
On the contrary, he is a middle-aged man who wants to have his edges smoothed by reality.
“Yes, let’s chat again, I think that young man is pretty good.”
The matchmaker is a matchmaker and tries his best to bring people into the middle. Whether it works or not depends on the fate of the two people.
The snow continued to fall until noon, and instead of stopping, it got heavier and heavier.
Wang An went out again in the afternoon and went up the mountain.
Go to a secret practice location and continue practicing in the mountains,
Pulling the millstone, practicing Vajra Zen Palm, plum blossom pile.
“You lift the millstone 200 times, and your body strength, especially your arm strength, is strengthened.”
“If you wave your palms 500 times, your Vajra Zen Palm experience will be +40.”
“Sure enough, practicing Qigong is much more interesting.”
He went down the mountain earlier than yesterday. He went down the mountain carrying a log.
There doesn’t seem to be much wood for the fire at home.
Going down the mountain to the edge of the reservoir, I stared at the frozen reservoir.
He didn’t bring any fishing tools today, so he just wanted to observe where he could catch fish.
Wang An doesn’t know how to fish on weekdays, but he is no stranger to this reservoir. He often came here to play in the water in the summer when he was a child.
He remembered that someone in the village once used a fishing net to catch a large fish weighing dozens of kilograms in the northwest corner.
“Probably this location.” Wang An looked at a corner of the reservoir, which was covered with a layer of ice. The water at this location is very deep.
He found a stone, smashed the ice on the water surface, and then threw in a rice ball he brought from home.
Then I squatted quietly on the edge of the reservoir and looked into the water.
More than twenty minutes later, a fish actually swam out from the bottom of the water.
“Really, she looks quite young.”
There is a fish, and the next step is to think about how to get it up.
“Have to go back and prepare fishing tools.”
“Well, another one, very good, this is it.”
He picked up the log and was about to leave, but after taking a few steps he stopped.
“Who said you have to use hooks or nets to catch fish? Can’t you just throw rocks at them?”
Looked around. He picked up a few small stones from the ground and threw them at the two fish in the water.
His, hiss, the sound of stones breaking in the wind.
The stone hit the water, making two "bang" sounds, and splashing up two water jets more than one meter high. There was a splash, water fell, and then blood floated up.
After a while, two fishes floated up, each with a hole in their body, which was pierced by the stone just now.
It was already dark when Wang An returned to the village.
He walked out of the snow and wind with a log on his shoulder and two big fish in one hand.
Meet an elder from a village on the road.
“Xiao An, where did you get the big fish?” The man stared at the two fish in Wang An’s hand. The larger one weighed more than ten kilograms, and the small one weighed five or six kilograms.
“Picked it up by the reservoir.” Wang An said with a smile.
“I picked it up, are there any more?”
“No more, just these two.”
The old man nodded.
"Such a big fish must be delicious. I'll go take a look tomorrow." He muttered in a low voice.
When he returned home carrying the logs, he found that the old man looked at him with something wrong.
“What’s wrong, grandma?”
“Have you contacted this girl?”
“We just met this morning, is it too hasty to keep in touch in the afternoon?”
“Strike while the iron is hot, let me tell you, a lot of people are looking at good girls nowadays!”
“Okay, I’ll contact her in a minute. You can take a rest. Look, I caught two big fish.”
“Don’t be poor like me, go and contact the girl quickly. It’s still very cold. Where did you get the fish? Did you go to the reservoir?”
“When I passed by the reservoir, I saw these two fish swimming by the water. I threw two stones in and they floated up.”
“If it’s a cold day, stay away from the reservoir. Also, don’t forget to contact the girl.”
“I know, I know.” Wang An nodded.
"What's there to talk about? Talk to her about Tai Chi, Wu Qin Xi or the Diamond Sutra? Let's experience chatting to death with just one sentence?"
Wang An helped the old man take care of a fish and prepare a big pot for fish stew tonight. Put the remaining one up first.
Stew the fish and steam a pot of rice.
Wang An chopped the round firewood he brought back from the mountain into small pieces and piled them into the corner of the wall.
While having dinner, the phone suddenly rang. The caller was Li Xinzhu.
“Let me tell you something, two people from the Guard Bureau were recruited.”
“What’s the catch? They also saw that painting?”
“Well, I watched it at night.”
“You are quite well-informed. Did a friend tell you this?”
“You guessed it right, do I have many friends? Alas, do you still have that dream?” Li Xinzhu sighed.
“I dreamed about it last night, but I shot it to death.”
"It's a dead shot. How did you do it?" Li Xinzhu asked hurriedly after hearing this.
“Just slap it with the palm of your hand.”
“Aren’t you afraid?”
“Why be afraid?”
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time.
“Oh, you are still a cow. I feel inexplicably scared when I dream about it!”
"The devil is born in the heart. The more you think about it, the more afraid you become. Don't be afraid. Just two words, do it!"
(End of this chapter)