Little Life on An American Ranch

  Chapter 179 Craft

   Jian Heng looked at the appearance of his little sister, and tried his best not to laugh.

I guess she saw her elder brother Jian Heng lit the incense and set up the offerings and talked about it, so the little girl followed suit with her two chubby little heads clasped together, and squatted beside her elder brother, muttering unceasingly while praying. At the same time, the Daoist Grandpa and the Daoist Uncle yelled, and then began to pray to the immortal old Taoist to bless his family.

"Grandpa Daoist, please protect my parents from getting sick, um, and protect my mother from being so cruel to me, my sister and brother-in-law who often come back to visit me, and protect Xiaoan to play with me, and protect my brother to buy me More delicious, fun, and beautiful new clothes..." The little girl was rambling, and she just said whatever she thought of, it was a bit thoughtless, and it was quite interesting.

Jian Heng saw that the little girl's meeting didn't seem to be over for a while, so he reached out and rubbed his sister's head: "Okay, okay, uncle Daochang has a bad memory, so he may not be able to remember so much. Things, the rest, we will wait for the next time we come, and ask Uncle Daochang to do it!"

After hearing this, the little girl looked at her brother with eyes as big as black grapes, and after thinking for a while, she immediately suggested, "How about we write it on paper and burn it to the Taoist uncle? That way we won't be afraid of Taoism." Uncle Chang forgot!"

   Just when Jian Heng wondered how the little girl knew, Ning Ning explained the reason: "When Mom and Dad asked grandparents for something, they wrote it on paper and burned it, and Mom and Dad kowtowed."

  After speaking, the little girl may feel that there is a part of kowtow missing, so she puts on a posture and prepares to kowtow.

"Okay, I'll write it next time, you're asking too much this time." Jian Heng quickly reached out and picked up his sister who was about to kneel down, and then led her out of the small forest towards the parking lot while talking to the little girl. past.

  After getting in the car, just about to start it, I immediately saw someone knocking on the window. I pressed the window and saw that they were coming to collect parking fees. After paying two yuan, Jian Heng was able to leave the Taoist temple.

  After coming this time, Jian Heng never wanted to come again, the whole Taoist temple was completely devoid of old-fashioned bones, full of the smell of copper.

  I returned home and parked the car in front of the house. I entered the yard and was about to go upstairs when the phone in my pocket rang. I took it out and saw that it was an unfamiliar number, and it was local.

  So Jian Heng pressed the connect button, and then signaled the little girl to go up to find her mother, Sun Xiuying.

   "Hi, hello, who is this?" Jian Heng waited for the call to connect, but he didn't speak for two or three seconds.

A voice quickly came from the other end of the phone: "Well, hello! You are the one who bought my dog ​​more than a week ago, right? Is it a dirt dog?"

  Jian Heng remembered when he heard that it was the old dog seller who called, so he immediately smiled and said, "It's me, it's me, I didn't recognize your voice for a while."

"I found that dog for you, come and have a look!" The old man didn't say much, and when he heard Jian Heng's admission that it was him, Jian Heng interrupted him to reminisce about the old days, so he opened his mouth and put the matter aside He came out, and then reported his address, and then said: "This is someone else's phone number, come quickly!"

   Then there was a snap, and the phone was hung up.

  Jian Heng was stunned for a while listening to the blind voice coming from the phone, then shook his head with a wry smile.

  Since the old man said he found the dog, Jian Heng naturally wanted to go get it, so he yelled upstairs: "Mom, I'm going out for a while, and I won't be at home for dinner at noon!"

  Sun Xiuying thought her son was going to drink with classmates at noon, so she stuck her head out from the second floor: "Don't drink while driving at noon!"

"Don't drink, let's go to the countryside. I will drive Dad's car." Jian Heng took out the key and walked to the door. When he arrived at the canteen, he talked to Lao Tzu, who was watching TV at the same time, and then drove the car. The address borrowed by the old man was opened.

About forty minutes later, Jian Heng came to a community according to the address. The community was next to the road, and it was very easy to find. The magnificent gate was five or six meters high, and there were several one-meter-high resettlement demonstration areas in **** Township standing on the door. big red characters.

  There is also a sign at the gate, with a rendering of the entire community on it. There are more than two hundred identical small buildings neatly arranged in a vast area, which makes Jian Heng's scalp feel a little numb.

I stuck my head out of the window, wanting to see where the building the old man mentioned was, but who knew there was no sign on the map, and I didn’t find any guide signs when I entered the community, so I had to rely on my mouth under my nose Ask everyone.

   Fortunately, the roads are straight. Although there is a car blocking the road from time to time, there is no major problem for a car to pass.

   It took about five or six minutes before Jian Heng touched the old man's door.

   After getting out of the car, Jian Hengyi stood at the door. The door was not locked, and it seemed that the deadbolt was not inserted. The moment Jian Heng stood at the door, there was a burst of barking in the yard.

  Although the door opens as soon as it is pushed, Jian Heng is not stupid enough to push the door and go in directly. It is very simple and he does not want to be bitten by a dog!

  So Jian Heng had no choice but to stand outside the door and shouted inside: "Master, Master, I'm here to get the dog!"

   Soon Jian Heng heard footsteps coming from the yard! Following the old man's yelling, the dogs in the yard stopped barking immediately, and the gate creaked open.

  Jian Heng saw the old man coming out and was about to talk when he heard the voice of a middle-aged man from the yard.

   "Mr. Yao, think again, we can discuss the salary again, as long as you are willing to help us train a group of manpower,..." The middle-aged man stopped talking when he saw Jian Heng standing at the door.

   After looking at Jian Heng, the middle-aged man asked Jian Heng: "This gentleman also invited Mr. Yao out of the mountain, right?"

  Jian Heng was taken aback by him, and blurted out, "What came out of the mountain?"

   "Oh, then we don't have anything to do with it." The middle-aged man looked confused, and immediately smiled, and soon focused on the old man again, and followed him closely.

   Today's old man, still wearing the camouflage trousers on his lower body, changed into a gray shirt on his upper body. Seeing Jian Heng standing at the door, he waved at Jian Heng to signal Jian Heng to come in.

  Waiting for Jian Heng to enter the door, the old man pointed to a corner of the yard, and there was nothing there except a cardboard box.

  So Jian Heng stepped forward quickly, stretched out his head to see, and was overjoyed. It was indeed a four-eyed dog. No matter in terms of appearance or demeanor, it was almost indistinguishable from what was shown in his own space.

   "Thank you, old man!" Jian Heng thanked happily, but when he turned around, he found that the old man was no longer in the yard.

   Then the remaining words of thanks got stuck in his throat.

   It was impossible for Jian Heng to just hold the cardboard box and leave, so he had to put the box in the yard first, and followed him into the house to thank the old man, and then give him a little reward or something.

  As soon as he walked to the door, Jian Heng saw a shiny thing coming towards him, and after he hurriedly avoided it, he realized that it was a glass of water spilled by the old man.

  The target is not Jian Heng, but the middle-aged man who spoke just now.

  The middle-aged man didn't hide completely, and his pants were splashed wet.

However, even though he was splashed, the middle-aged man was not annoyed, and continued to say: "Mr. Yao, you really think about our suggestion carefully. You said you have this skill and are still farming here. What kind of land is there? How much money can you earn in a year? The price we offer you, one month is worth a year here, and if you are not satisfied, we can still talk, isn’t that how business is, I offer you a counter-offer, right?…” .

  The old man directly raised the teacup: "Let's go?"

"Let's go! Let's go! Really, I see your massage skills being used on a bunch of mud-legged people. I'm sorry for you!" The middle-aged man raised his hand and retreated towards the door while making a barrier. Just like that, he couldn't stop saying: "Then I'll come back another day, and you should calm down and consider our conditions, really!"

   "Get out!" The old man yelled directly.

  Following the old man's roar, the dog in the yard immediately raised his voice, grinned at the middle-aged man, and whimpered in warning.

  The middle-aged man immediately opened the courtyard door and rushed out when he saw the accelerated speed.

   "Are you still there?" The old man saw Jian Heng, and came up to say something.

  Jian Hengxin said: Your temper is really no one!

  But he said: "How can I go, you got me a dog here, I have to pay you no matter what!"

  Seeing the old man entering the house, Jian Heng raised his foot and followed him.

   Enter the room and take a look, good guy! This room is really simple, with white walls, concrete floors, and the overhead lamp is still the old-fashioned black lamp holder. A white energy-saving light bulb is hung on the black lamp holder. The switch is still a wire hanging from the top of the head. My son Jian Heng had a memory when he was very young, but he didn't expect to see it again today.

Let's put it this way, this house looks like what the construction team finished building, and what it looks like now, that is, a few lamp holders are installed, the walls are painted and so on. Yi Jianheng estimates that it didn't cost more than five hundred yuan in total. money.

  The furniture in the room is old and gray, whether it is a chair or a table, many places have been worn out.

  The only interesting thing is that there is a portrait on the wall directly opposite the door. Anyway, I don’t know who it is in the Chinese painting. It is a bearded old man with long sleeves and a turban.

On the left side is a picture of the meridians of the human body on the wall. Looking from where Jian Heng is standing to the side room, you can also see a massage bed, which is a long strip, with a hole in the middle of one end for people to put their face on. , the kind you see in massage parlors.

   "You still have this skill!" Jian Heng asked curiously.

  (end of this chapter)