new year book

Chapter 18

Years ago, people from the local armed forces and the government office drove a small truck up the mountain quietly under the leadership of Secretary Ye Zhenglei, set off a string of firecrackers, shook hands with Yang Xiangzi and pointed to the pile of condolences. After talking for a long time, he said: "...well, sir, we don't understand the rules, we can't praise you in a big way, we can only use common etiquette. Don't be disgusted, Lieutenant Yang."

"It's okay, Secretary Ye is interested. I have pretty good flowers here. You can go in and pick a pot to display at home." Yang Xiangzi laughed.

Secretary Ye was very happy. He went to the botanical garden for a visit, and it was really rare to see the red flowers and green leaves all over the garden.In terms of the craftsmanship of planting flowers and raising grass, the three members of the family are unmatched by anyone in the world.

Yang Xiangzi picked out a pot of ivy for Secretary Ye, and he insisted on giving money. Yang Xiangzi pretended to be angry, and everyone pushed each other for a while, and the relationship became more and more intimate.Before leaving, Secretary Ye waved his hand and called the director of the office to come over and picked out more than 30 pots of bonsai, saying that it was Chinese New Year, everyone was green and green, smelling the breath of spring, Yang Xiangzi was not polite, and he gave each pot a real price , When the other party paid the bill, he gave a cash check.

Xue Run sat at the door of his house and watched, while Yang Xiangzi and Shi Yang went home to move things.

2 catties of white flour, [-] catties of Tianjin Xiaozhan rice, [-] catties of sweet potato vermicelli, [-] catties of potatoes and other vegetables, two boxes of instant noodles, twenty boxes of Hong Kong-style pastries, apples, pears, grapes, bananas, and mangosteens Two boxes of fruits, four sets of landscape calendars of the motherland, and ten sets of couplets.There are also all kinds of lo-mei that are special to government guest houses, about [-] catties of cooked food, and [-] yuan in supermarket vouchers.

Secretary Ye was very sincere, and asked a famous calligrapher to copy a pair of characters, made it into a hanging scroll and sent it.

"Green trees and red flowers cannot be separated, fish and water exist in friendship, the army loves the people, the people love the army, and the army and the people sing endlessly. The army and the people unite as one, and the stone foundations and pillars are closely linked. We overcome difficulties with one heart and one mind, and compose music for disaster relief. In Zhengliang City, a family of the people's army, after the snow disaster, they are all happy."

The three masters and apprentices looked at the scroll with their hands folded in front of their chests. Shi Yang read it again, hid in the corner and beat the wall laughing.

"Why are you laughing! You, you see how difficult it is for your elder brother. It's the first month of the lunar year. He ran out to earn rice and noodles for our family, and brought him along to make a fool of himself...cough! Hmm...I'll go back Study room, I promised the second master that I would go to the dungeon with him, and that's it..."

Xue Run's footsteps disappeared quickly, and he probably went back to the room to laugh. Yang Xiangzi looked at the pile of things at the door and shook his head lightly.Perhaps the master and Shi Yang, in their original environment and age, would not understand why those people did such a thing.You live in this small town, you have to rely on the external environment, and you have to respect other people's rules.For those people, there are more than 30 people in a county, and they can't praise themselves with great fanfare. Sending something is a way of expressing goodwill. Ye Zhenglei is a good person. Yang Xiangzi remembers the bowl on his table on a snowy night What about bowls of noodles?

Early the next morning, Yang Xiangzi asked Shi Yang to collect the pile of condolences and go to Huangji County to donate to the disaster area. A certain person has a fear of heights and had to drive there. He felt that his brother was setting him up. The bachelor said, yes, he did it on purpose, who told him to laugh at himself.

Watching Shi Yang drive away in a fit of anger, Yang Xiangzi turned his face and said to his master, "He hasn't been down the mountain for more than three years, so it's better to go for a walk."

Xue Run sighed and shook his head: "Others accept apprentices, and I also accept apprentices. One thinks he is a monk, and the other thinks he is dead. I am really unlucky."

Yang Xiangzi laughed at him: "Master, we have been together for many years, and I know a little about this cultivation world."

Xue Run nodded, suddenly: "Oh? Oh!"

"Actually, it's quite beautiful..." Yang Xiangzi used his elbow to bend the master's waist.

"What are you talking about, why am I beautiful?" Xue Run looked confused, with an uncontainable smile raised slightly on his brows, but in fact he has been quite happy during this time.

"Beginning the Nascent Soul stage at the age of 30, I said...Master, you really want to praise yourself for your high vision, right? Shi Yang's talent, Shi Yang's understanding, Shi Yang's ability, this By analogy, Shi Yang's..."

"Why do you keep talking about Shi Yang?" Xue Run pretended to be angry and entered the room, his small steps seemed to be floating all the way.

During the few days of the Spring Festival, Secretary Ye sent a bunch of tickets, and the three masters and apprentices rarely went out to watch a show. The luck was not very good, and it happened to coincide with the Chinese Opera Gala on the second day of the Lunar New Year.The three of them sat there, surrounded by all the parents and mothers over 60 years old of the cadres and workers of the top ten bureaus of the municipal party committee. On the stage, there was ding ding dong dong, Yiyi yay, the master and apprentice endured embarrassment and watched for less than 10 minutes. She fled with shame on her face. In the future, forget about this kind of performance, I really can't bear it.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month passed, Li Guoping came home with an invitation, which surprised the whole family.

Yang Xiangzi held the invitation and looked at it for a long time, then put the invitation aside, and looked at Li Guoping with a confused face: "Director Li, this is the first time we have encountered such a thing, I don't understand, there are many powerful schools It's gone, why do you think we're here?"

Li Guoping put down the teacup in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief.It's the first time I've been to so many cultivation sects to entertain myself in such a grand way, people, I just want to see this mutual respect.The teacup in his hand was carved from a whole block of suet white jade. The wall of the teacup was as thin as a silkworm's wing, and the outer edge of the cup was a beautifully carved lotus flower.

"Mr. Yang, you are welcome. We have known each other for three and a half years. During this time, you and I have been cooperating well. Last year, thanks to..."

The corner of Yang Xiangzi's mouth twitched: "Director Li, you should speak in modern language, I'm a science student."

Li Guoping laughed, and was about to open his mouth when a young man in his 20s came in from the small living room.This man was dressed in black during the day, and the room was quite warm at first, but when he came in, there was a sudden gust of wind, you can tell, this man was pretty good-looking, no!She is very beautiful and handsome, but why is she so lifeless?

"Junior brother, the new year is just over, can you not pretend to be dead?" Yang Xiangzi was helpless.

Shi Yang walked in front of him expressionlessly, and slowly stretched out his hand hidden behind his back. In his hand, he was grabbing the nape of a large pure black cat.

"Yo, black cat? It's pretty." Yang Xiangzi took it and stroked it twice. The black cat meowed obediently, and Yang Xiangzi asked him, "Where did it come from?"

"I bought it online in England." Shi Yang carried the cat back.

"Why did you buy a black cat?"

"Dead people deserve black cats."

Yang Xiangzi's head fell back all of a sudden, and he sighed helplessly in his heart, his junior brother had a quirk, he was alive, even lively in front of his master and himself!But outside, he's been dead since three and a half years ago.

Even though he can breathe and his heart beats, he still persists in thinking that he is dead. Put a coffin in the front yard, don't give him any food from now on, just burn ingot candles for him and he will be full.

"If you don't buy a good Chinese black cat, what kind of British black cat do you buy?" Yang Xiangzi muttered curiously, and Shi Yang held up the black cat and explained with a blank expression: "The authentic black cat in the British cemetery once visited the cemetery for a year. Based on my experience, I managed to catch up with a grave watcher and bought it.”

Yang Xiangzi felt awkward, squinted at the black cat and sighed: "Tell me, what do you want."

Shi Yang pointed to the brain with his finger: "My sister can't understand Chinese, I have to teach her to use the toilet and the alphabet."

"younger sister?"

"Well, she's a she-cat."

"It's not good to call me sister."

"Is it my sister, not your sister?"

"The second floor of the bookcase in the bedroom, the blue bottle." Yang Xiangzi sighed, and gave a cemetery wild cat to eat the puzzle pill, the enlightenment pill, which only his family could do.

Seeing Shi Yang leave with the cat in his arms, Li Guoping coughed a few times, and Yang Xiangzi turned to look at him.

"Who is that?"

"Oh, my junior brother."

"Oh, registered?"

Yang Xiangzi sighed: "Should the dead also be registered?"

"If you are panting, register, that female cat, maybe there is a history?"

"If you think too much, it's just a cat."

"Not necessarily, it's a cat now, if you don't keep Qi Ming'er, it won't be."

"..."

After Li Guoping left, Yang Xiangzi entered the study with the invitation.In the study, Xue Run looked at his second apprentice training the cat with a headache.

"Sister, when you learn how to use the toilet, you will have meat to eat." Shi Yang threw pills into the sky one by one. of.

"Junior brother, just feed the cat some waste pills. I made it so that I can sell them!" Yang Xiangzi groaned while rubbing his forehead.

Shi Yang laughed at him: "Senior brother, you can't sell any of your elixir, these are almost expired, so give it to my sister."

Yang Xiangzi threw the invitation on the table, and said proudly, "Who said that my medicine is not good and Li Guoping flattered me?"

Xue Run looked at him with Shi Yang and asked, "Who is that?"

Shaking his head helplessly, Yang Xiangzi held up the invitation card and explained in detail: "Li Guoping, the contact person on the secret service."

"Oh, that man, why is he here?" Xue Run said while quickly operating the keyboard in his hand, negotiating with a person in the game central market.

"Do you remember the nameless fluctuation that caused the practitioner's heart to be injured?" Yang Xiangzi said.

"Brother, let's talk together, my sister has to go back to learn how to go to the bathroom." Shi Yang was impatient.

"You care about the common affairs, okay?"

The couple turned around and looked at him:

"I want to download a copy, I'm very busy."

"I'm going to raise my sister."

Yang Xiangzi was angry: "Anyway, that unnamed fluctuation accidentally blew up a forbidden area in the high seas. In order to thank our family, Li Guoping included Hongtai Mountain with their military and political team. That is to say, if the reclamation is successful Hong Taishan can get a lot of benefits this time."

"Really?" The master thought of his tens of thousands of spiritual weapons again.

"Master, don't think about it. There are quite a few domestic cultivators going this time. Li Guoping said that there can be thousands of households registered in the alliance, and those who are related have invitations. Logically, there is nothing wrong with our miscellaneous cultivators." To save face, but, your apprentice, I am not very good at handling things, so they arranged invitations and gave us some benefits, probably Li Guoping thinks that doing so is repaying our favor."

The master said that he didn’t have time, and the younger brother was determined not to go out. Yang Xiangzi was very angry, and directly slapped the invitation on the younger brother’s head and ordered: “Go! Go around, no matter what you bring back, there are probably a lot of plants in the ruins, no matter what species Get some tree roots and piles, do you hear me?"

Shi Yang was particularly reluctant to go out, and grumbled tirelessly: "Why, senior brother, I'm going to retreat, besides, my sister is also going to retreat, and besides, why would a dead person go out!"

"Dead people don't eat bubble gum! Pretending to be dead is useless. Who told you that you are the youngest? If you don't go, will you support your family? Li Guoping will send you your ID tomorrow!" After Yang Xiangzi finished speaking, he slammed the door and left angrily.

Shi Yang picked up his sister, put his mouth down and said to the master: "Brother is angry, I don't have dinner, I don't have to charge my card, I'm so happy..."

"Your brother won't be angry. He is afraid that you will be bored at home, so he will ask you to go out to relax." Xue Run touched his head and said with a smile: "Go out and take a good walk. As for what? Good thing, we don’t have any shortages in our house, go clean it up and have fun.”

Holding the cat in his arms, Shi Yang slowly returned to his bedroom, sat there for a while, and smiled silently.The younger sister turned around on the ground a few times, screamed, and quickly ran to the bathroom. After a while, there was a foul smell, and there was the sound of the toilet snoring.

Shi Yang took the cat out of the house with the weight-gaining cat, and after about seventeen or eight days, he came back, and when he entered the house, he looked excited and gossiped.

"Master, master, do you know that those old antiques are lost this time, my lord!"

Yang Xiangzi put down the scissors and smiled at Xue Run.Xue Run asked him: "Those old antiques?"

Yang Xiangzi sat down and began to talk about some things in the cultivation world.

In the early days, there were rules in the realm of comprehension, as long as there is a secret place, a newly discovered cave, regardless of where it is found, is considered public property. After everyone excavates it together, the Zhenheng Society will require 50.00% of the big heads to participate in the discovery. The core characters have to share 30.00%, and the remaining 20.00% is the assets shared equally with the miscellaneous repairs at the local level.There is no way, the family is capable, the family is big, and it has been passed down for countless lifetimes. Therefore, this rule has not been broken since it was established, and there is nothing the local government can do.

Shi Yang went out this time with the local team. According to his temper, he was very windy, but he didn't make any friends. Speaking of which, Li Guoping was quite disappointed. His goal was Yang Xiangzi.

On the day of Shi Yang's report, it was just in time for the assembly, so he witnessed a scene that only appeared on TV or in the minds of those novelists.The people who reported were divided into three parts, some were like ancient people, some were modern minors in all kinds of sportswear, and some were from the military.

These people in ancient times, still in accordance with the ancient tradition, wore huge Confucian clothes, jade crowns, and magic vessels, and their clothing, food, housing, and transportation all showed the ancient style of each dynasty.Shi Yang saw with his own eyes an old man with his disciples at home. When the disciples talked to him, they had to kneel. The old man was very strict with those disciples when he was in a hurry. There were servants around him, and when he went out, he carried a large sedan chair and flew into the air. , and there are spirit beasts following, that is simply awesome and shining.

The troops sent by the military have been expanding and have some skills, but they don't take advantage of those people at all.

There are also those miscellaneous cultivators, in order to be able to establish a relationship with the core practitioners, it can be said that they have tried their best. Giving money, women, and various luxury goods are small ways, and there are not a few who want to sell themselves as slaves. If we can live for a long time, what is dignity?

On the day I went, there was a free market outside, where many miscellaneous cultivators set up stalls. In the eyes of cultivators, modern coins are like waste paper. Everyone is like primitive people, bartering there.

For Shi Yang, there are new things everywhere, and he has indeed learned a lot, because no one would take the initiative to provoke him because he was wearing a military uniform.

When they set off, these people were all gathered in a huge warship, and they were divided into several groups when they boarded the ship. The troops lived at the bottom, the miscellaneous cultivators in the middle, and the core cultivation world at the top.On the second day after boarding the boat, Shi Yang saw a very cruel scene. There was a sect that punished its disciples and beat them to death. During this period, no one spoke, no one stopped them, and the law had no deterrent effect at all. .Therefore, Shi Yang's impression of those ancient cultivators was minimized.

Later they went to a sea island. The basic procedure was that the miscellaneous repairs formed a group, played forward as cannon fodder, and the inner core practitioners directed at the side.

It took them three days and after breaking ten layers of forbidden spells, they finally touched the entrance. At this time, the core cultivators cleared the place with an order. One mile, kill without mercy.

No one resisted, and no one expressed dissatisfaction with it. They gathered in that place, like vultures, waiting for those people to go up and eat a piece of leftovers after the looting...

"Is everyone so obedient?" Yang Xiangzi couldn't believe it.

Shi Yang scratched the back of his head: "That's right, they are very afraid of those people. There are a few old men who are probably in the Golden Core realm. Everyone calls them ancestors, and they are all very awesome and say the same thing."

"The system is a thing that comes first when you fight with your fists. It's normal. Apprentice, I'm surprised. Why don't you come out ahead?" Xue Run joked with his apprentice.

"I dare not. The eyes of those people are full of greed. There are only a few people in our family. It is completely possible for ants to eat elephants. I am sick. I have no money to fight against unspoken rules." Shi Foreign stalls.

"That's true, you did nothing wrong." Yang Xiangzi nodded in approval.

Shi Yang looked excited: "I haven't finished yet, master, you don't know, those cores go in, they probably divide things, you don't know, suddenly I don't know how many people came out of the sea, all dressed in clothes. It's an ancient war robe, wow! It's awesome, it's awesome, it's really standing on the clouds, the clouds are flying, and the momentum is surrounded by thousands of waves. Those waves don't move, they are standing on the top of the waves, and the person who takes the lead rises from the sky Looking down... Wow! Breath is sucked away, compared to them. Those Jindan Patriarchs are like a nest of little mice seeing their sister." He was fascinated and couldn't help admiring: "That man As soon as he appeared, his subordinates said to the secret realm: 'You can go!'”

"Who is that?" Yang Xiangzi was curious.

"I don't know, I don't know each other. It seems that the inner core doesn't know each other either. Anyway, those Jindan people rushed out and went up to fight. It didn't take much effort. I saw them being stripped naked and thrown on the beach. .

Tsk tsk... The old man in his seventies and eighties has been stripped naked, even if he is fine, he will not live in the future.

The protagonist didn't make a move at all, just a man in golden armor went up to fight.Didn't you see it...Master, the sky-striking wind control technique, lore formation, wood escape technique, the warship we were riding on was lifted up, and then disappeared..."

Xue Run blinked his eyes: "Li Guoping and the others didn't negotiate?"

"We've negotiated, raised a loudspeaker and yelled loudly, using at least a dozen languages, as well as the official languages ​​of ancient dynasties.

They ignored them at all, and took people in directly. For a while, there was not even a grass left in that place, and there was only a bald island left. Li Guoping said, their warships were all robbed, you know, we will come back It was time to come back on a raft.I just hate myself, why am I afraid of heights! "

Shi Yang patted himself on the heart with lingering fear and said: "You don't know, the person in the lead even glanced at me, which made my hair stand on end." Shi Yang looked terrified: "Master, I am not a Nascent Soul at all. What, those people... I think they are the ones who should ascend, I don't understand how they appeared there."

Xue Run stood up with a rare serious expression. After thinking for a while, he turned his face and told his apprentices: "The year is not good, and this is just the beginning. There are some things that you don't understand, so don't think about them. Throughout the dynasties, cultivation The world itself is a world of the weak and the strong. Either you rob me, or I bully you. Recently, don’t sell the pills, and stay at home safely. I am afraid that the kernel will not be peaceful recently, so let’s not participate. "

Shi Yang and Yang Xiangzi stood up and nodded together: "Yes, master."