Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

Compared with the toys for children in Yangjia Village, the toys for children in the city are more sophisticated. People in Matcho Skin City don't play with them. They like to play with match guns and slingshots, and then rolling hoops.

Nowadays, if you can roll on a hoop, wear a belt around your waist, carry a water bottle next to you, add a pair of white rebound shoes, and wear a military cap, then you will definitely be cool. These are some of the items that are considered artifacts.

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Nowadays, the children in the city are not as squeamish as later generations, and they don't look down on Yang Dongxu, a child from the countryside. Within a few days, they started to play with Yang Dongxu.

But Yang Dongxu didn't want to play with them. Besides marbles, he was also interested in it, because the skills of a few kids in the courtyard really surprised him, so they naturally had a few games. Afterwards, it turned out that his sword was still young.

Then he returned the winning marbles to others, otherwise a few little kids would have burst into tears. One of them didn't pay attention and won a lot.

He is not interested in little boys making paper, bamboo figures, etc. Naturally, he is not interested in little girls kicking shuttlecocks and flipping ropes. So in addition to going crazy in the past few days just to be familiar with the children in the courtyard, Yang Dongxu

I started to feel a little lonely again.

But even behind him there is a little tail - Wu Xue.

Wu Xue's nickname is Xiaoxue. She is six years old this year, one year older than Yang Dongxu's sister and one year younger than him. She has two pigtails and is pink and cute. Her parents are both workers, so she is busy from morning to night every day.

No time to take care of her.

Normally, Xiaoxue can be sent to a nursery. Today's nurseries don't have any learning tasks. They just have a few adults watching the children play to prevent fights or anything like that, so I can usually feel at ease.

But during the summer vacation, Xiaoxue's parents were a little dumbfounded. They usually had to drag the elderly people in the courtyard to take care of them. But the elderly also have their own things to do, so they can't always help you take care of the children, right? Their own children also follow behind the older children.

Running around and playing.

I don’t know whether it was Yang Dongxu’s maturity beyond his peers that gave Xiaoxue a sense of security, or whether he had never bullied Xiaoxue to tears when he first came here, so he didn’t have any inner shadow. In short, Xiaoxue became his follower after just a few days of hanging around in the courtyard.

Brother Xu, Brother Xu shouted affectionately.

Seeing Xiaoxue, Yang Dongxu couldn't help but think of his sister in the countryside, so he had nothing to say and took him with him. After hanging out in the courtyard for a few days, Yang Dongxu took Xiaoxue's little hand and walked out of the door.

There is no place for fun. Although there are some small merchants and hawkers in the city now selling some things in the alleys, those things cannot attract Yang Dongxu's attention at all.

There were very few shops around. Not far away, there were some street stalls next to the Huode Zhenjun Temple. After looking at them for a few times, they were nothing interesting. They were just things to entertain children, so he took Xiaoxue and ran into the temple.

Go play.

It was a bit strange that the person living in the temple was not a monk but a Taoist priest Yang Dongxu, but I understood it when I saw that the people enshrined in it were Taoist gods and so on.

At this time, the temples did not require tickets. Except for a few Taoist priests who saw Yang Dongxu and Xiaoxue and said a few words to go out and play and not run around here, for fear that the children would be too naughty and damage things in the temple, there were no tickets at all.

People take care of you.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, they are all good things. If you get them back, they will be treasures in a few decades." Yang Dongxu's eyes were shining as he looked at the incense burners and lamps in the temple.

Although he doesn't know anything about antique appraisal, there is no doubt that these are genuine. People these days are sincere, and they are more in awe of gods and so on. Naturally, they will not fool the gods with some vain gadgets like later generations.

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"Brother Xu, I'm hungry..." Yang Dongxu ran from this room to that room, thinking about how to get these antiques home, but Xiaoxue pulled him away.

"Um..." Yang Dongxu forgot the time while looking at the baby. He stretched his head from under the eaves and looked outside to see that it was indeed noon.

Reluctantly looking at the rooms that he had not yet entered, Yang Dongxu had no choice but to hold Xiaoxue and prepare to go home for dinner. Zhou Yiren was very reassured about him, so he hung the key around his neck and went back to make whatever he wanted to eat. Zhou Yiren was at the unit at noon.

I won't come back for dinner.

Zhou Yiren bought him breakfast in the morning and brought food back from the work canteen in the evening. When he cooked once, Yang Dongxu looked down upon him and he never cooked again.

Therefore, Yang Dongxu became deeply worried about his living standard. He really couldn't understand how Zhou Yiren survived in Yangjiacun for so many years without being poisoned to death by cooking so unpalatable food.

"Sniff..." Just as he was about to hold Xiaoxue's little hand and leave, a scent of fragrance floated into his nostrils. Xiaoxue next to him also wiggled his nose like a puppy. It was strange that he was not hungry anymore.

I mean, the meat is fragrant.

Without leaving, Yang Dongxu followed the scent and looked for it to see if he could have lunch. The two little brats couldn't eat much anyway, so they had to pay for it at the worst.

When leaving Yangjiacun, Yang Dongxu's parents gave him a huge sum of 500 yuan. Of course, Zhou Yiren kept the money, but he just kept it and did not hide it. Zhou Yiren never paid attention to Yang Dongxu's money matters and knew that he would not take it randomly.

.So Yang Dongxu has a huge sum of two yuan in his pocket at this time. It’s not a big problem to have a meal.

Following the scent, Yang Dongxu passed through a side door and walked forward along the narrow walkway for a while. A small courtyard appeared in Yang Dongxu's field of vision.

He didn't have time to pay attention to how such a remote courtyard could appear in the temple, and the house looked very dilapidated. His eyes were fixed on a small wooden house on the left side of the courtyard, from which the fragrance wafted. Moreover, he heard

When the meat is stir-fried in the pot, it makes a squeaking sound.

Xiaoxue was a little scared when she came to the unfamiliar small courtyard. Although she kept swallowing her saliva while smelling the aroma of meat, she pulled Yang Dongxu and didn't dare to come forward.

Yang Dongxu patted her little hand comfortingly, and then shouted to the hut at the top of his lungs: "Is there anyone there? Is the meal ready?"

This voice startled Xiaoxue, and there was a clanking sound in the kitchen, as if a spatula fell on the ground. The next moment, an old man with a Taoist hairband on his head and a Taoist robe poked his head out of the kitchen

Come.

"If you care about my lunch, I won't expose you for eating meat." Yang Dongxu controlled the muscles on his face to make himself look more serious.

But where can a little kid over seven years old be so serious? Although the clothes on his body were a little white after washing, Yang Dongxu really couldn't stand lice and other small animals crawling around on him. When he was at home, he would

Too clean.

Nowadays, a little boy who is dressed simply and cleanly can definitely be equated with cuteness. After all, Yang Dongxu is not ugly, and his family's living conditions are good, so he does not have the skinny skin of the current child who is malnourished.

"Expose you, the Taoist believer is Zhengyi, not the whole truth, let alone eating meat and getting married." Seeing that they were two little brats, the Taoist breathed a sigh of relief and glared at Yang Dongxu fiercely.

The voice scared him quite a bit.

Now it was Yang Dongxu's turn to be dumbfounded. In his eyes, all the monks and Taoist priests in the world seemed to be the same. As for what kind of Buddha Xinfeng was and what teachings he was divided into, he really couldn't figure it out. Look at this old man

The Taoist priest didn't seem to be joking.

"I don't know what the name of the Taoist priest is. Monks are compassionate, and the Buddha cut meat to feed eagles. Can you give us a lunch?" Yang Dongxu couldn't scare him, so he had to change his face to a smile.

"That's Buddha. I'm a Taoist who believes in the Three Pure Ones." The old Taoist glanced at Yang Dongxu speechlessly and retracted his head. He kept muttering: "What a ghost. Are all the children like this now?"

Xiaoxue took Yang Dongxu's hand and wanted to let him leave. Although the smell of meat attracted her, the old Taoist priest didn't seem to be a good person.

The old Taoist priest's words made Yang Dongxu blush a little, and he rubbed his nose with his hands to hide his embarrassment. If he didn't know how to differentiate between Zhengyi and Quanzhen, it would be excusable. But it would be a bit embarrassing to ask the Taoist priest to show mercy based on what the Buddha said.

, isn’t this scolding a bald man in front of a monk, and his brain is caught in the door?

However, as a man with a mental age of over forty, Yang Dongxu is quite thick-skinned. Since the other party did not drive him away directly, it proves that there is something to the matter. Besides, the smell of meat is so attractive that he has been feeling hungry for the past two days.

What about oil and water?

I took Xiaoxue, who was a little scared, to sit down at the stone table under the vines in the small courtyard. There were already two plates of dishes on the stone table with bowls upside down. Obviously this was the place where the old Taoist priests ate.

Seeing that the little kid in front of him was not scared away, but instead walked into the kitchen as if no one was watching, picked up the gourd and scooped out half a ladle of water, ran to the yard, washed the little girl's hands, and washed himself, the old Taoist priest's eyes widened.

My eyes feel like I've really encountered a ghost today.

"Kid, which family do you come from?" Seeing the two little kids sitting on the stone bench, drooling over the dishes on the plate without eating first, the old Taoist priest walked out of the kitchen carrying a casserole and asked

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Bubbles were rolling in the casserole, and the meat inside was rolling with the bubbles, exuding a mouth-watering meat aroma. This was a pot of rabbit meat, because Yang Dongxu could see the rabbit head in the pot at a glance. Although the rabbit meat in July was

It's not as fat as autumn, but after eating green grass for several months, it won't be as dry as winter, and it still tastes good.

"It's from Mao'er Hutong across the street. I just moved here." Seeing the old Taoist priest holding three small bowls and three pairs of chopsticks, Yang Dongxu knew that he had found his lunch.

But when he saw that there were only three dishes on the table, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Let's make another dish. How can we eat three dishes?"

"Hey, people don't know much. It's a waste if you like to eat or not." Hearing Yang Dongxu's words, the old Taoist priest was stunned for a moment, and then he opened his mouth and laughed. While laughing, he winked at Yang Dongxu like an old child.

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There is a saying in the old rules that when entertaining guests, you should not serve an odd number of dishes, because the odd numbered dishes are called "lame dishes" and are meant for entertaining bastards. However, people are poor now, so if you are more particular about three dishes, five, or seven

I didn’t really care that the food was not a serious banquet meal.

But three dishes are too obvious. Even in rural areas and poor families, when entertaining guests, they can prepare four dishes with peanuts or even jujubes just picked from the tree.

"Children are not guests, you can go wherever you want." Yang Dongxu muttered, put a few pieces of rabbit meat without many bones in Xiaoxue's bowl to cool first, then picked up his own small bowl and put some vegetables in Xiaoxue's bowl.

Give it to her in front of her.

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