What to do with a full-scale life

Chapter 103 Slow and Steady

New hairstyles, new outfits, new people.

Brother Xiao Zhang stared at the mirror for a long time, and suddenly he felt a little funny when he saw the strange self in the mirror, but when he got up, he still picked up the pair of glasses on the table.

Putting on the glasses, he is a complete mortal, and he can be contaminated with the emotions and desires that he shouldn't have, although he still knows how to be contaminated with these filthy things.

But it doesn't matter, there is still a lot of time, so take your time.

Walking out the door, I happened to see Rootless Water squatting in the yard with the elf man from another world to study the medicinal value of a plant. He stood on the balcony on the second floor and said hello: "Good morning."

Wu Genshui almost staggered when he heard this greeting. He tremblingly turned back to look at Brother Zhang, and squeezed out a smile that was uglier than death: "Morning..."

Little Brother Zhang nodded and went downstairs. The little horse who was wiping the weapon on the table saw him come down, immediately wiped off the weapon blade, stood up and said, "Boss, where are you going to play today?"

"I'll go shopping by myself first."

Brother Zhang adjusted his glasses: "Is that right?"

"Yes, yes, yes... this is the state, you can start, and find the feeling you want."

"Okay..." Xiao Zhang glanced at the breakfast that had been prepared a long time ago: "Should I have breakfast?"

Xiao Ma slapped his head and then remembered that Brother Zhang actually doesn't have human appetite at all, because he doesn't feel hunger, so food is just a condiment rather than a necessity for him.

"Eat, you must eat. You have to eat three meals a day. If you don't eat, you will feel hungry. You have to get back the feeling of hunger."

Brother Zhang came to the chair and sat down, and then began to carefully recall how he should spend his mornings when he was an ordinary teenager.

At that time, he was in the first grade of junior high school, and the teenager who didn't get enough sleep was in a hurry every morning. The oil, salt, sauce and vinegar at home made the morning time like a battlefield.

Because my mother passed away very early, and my father was not a good cook, most of the time he would have a bowl of egg fried rice or a bowl of egg noodles. Although the life at home was not difficult, the morning time was really tense.

I don't know how long Brother Zhang hasn't eaten that kind of fried rice with burnt eggs.

"Can you cook?" Xiao Zhang asked Xiao Ma.

"How can I know that... I always eat instant noodles or self-heating rice when I am alone."

"Then can you help me fry a bowl of fried rice with eggs?" Brother Xiao Zhang smiled shyly: "The rice I fried is a bit too delicate."

"Okay, I'll go right now."

Although Xiao Ma didn't know what Xiao Zhang's intention was, but the Holy Master's words were orders, and he had no right to refuse.

Soon, there was a loud ping-pong-pong sound from the kitchen, followed by the familiar burnt smell, the smell of protein spoiled when eggs are overheated.

After a while, Xiao Ma put a bowl of strange egg fried rice on the table, and he said with some embarrassment: "I've done as much as I can, or forget... Let's go out and eat."

Brother Xiao Zhang just smiled and shook his head, took the bowl of egg fried rice that looked unappetizing and began to eat.

Does it taste good?That's really bad, but it's just the smell he's most familiar with, with a clumsy feeling and memories of the past.

The biggest function of food is naturally to keep people alive, but few people know that its second biggest function is to carry memory.

No matter how long it has been, sometimes suddenly eating the familiar taste of the year can directly bring people back to the past time.

The elderly who have been away from home for 50 years may sometimes even burst into tears because of a piece of scallion pancake. This is the power of food.

Brother Zhang was eating this unpalatable bowl of egg fried rice, but in front of his eyes was his father who was cursing and busy in front of him, while he was sitting on the steps of the door gobbling up this unpalatable bowl of egg fried rice.

He didn't know what was the reason why he was able to eat such an unpalatable food at that time. Looking back carefully, among so many reasons, only one reason was the most intuitive-hunger.

Memories of hunger were gradually brought back, the feeling of rumbling stomach and rumbling stomach swept Xiao Zhang's body in an instant, and his stomach made a gurgling sound.

Holding the bowl, he was stunned for a moment, because he had never felt this way for many, many years, but the slight discomfort made him so happy that his hands began to tremble.

He lowered his head and ate the food with big mouthfuls. Although the food was really unpalatable, the feeling of fullness after the food entered his stomach made him feel emotional fluctuations for the first time in ten years.

Xiao Ma was a little scared by the side, because he also took a bite of this rice just now, it was really something that a pig would shake his head when he saw it, but brother Zhang...

"Boss, no, let's stop eating. You don't have to take care of my face."

Brother Zhang just shook his head, and continued to gobble it up until he finished a big bowl of rice.

What follows is the sense of fulfillment after the instinct and physiology are satisfied. This feeling is not worth mentioning in the eyes of most people, but it is just eating something that is not delicious. He wished he could break up the momentary sense of satisfaction just now into forty parts, and feel it twice a day.

After carefully experiencing the long-lost sense of satisfaction, Brother Zhang sat in a chair in a daze for a long time, and finally became a little anxious in Xiaoma, for fear that he would eat the guardian of the plane to death with a bowl of rice.

About 10 minutes later, brother Zhang started to breathe again. He turned his head and frowned and said to the pony: "I have almost forgotten the most basic human feelings."

"It's okay, let's find it slowly..."

After breakfast, the two of them set off for a stroll. They walked one after the other in the spacious streets of the wealthy district. Xiao Ma had been observing Xiao Zhang's demeanor, but found that although he was wearing glasses, he was also There is no special expression.

However, there was a movement that suddenly attracted the pony's attention, that is, when passing by a clump of low bushes, Xiao Zhang subconsciously stretched out his hand and pulled a leaf off.

Although this movement is inconspicuous, it means that brother Zhang is now in a relaxed state, so relaxed that his body is not completely controlled by the brain, and part of it is still following the subconscious mind, and it was absolutely impossible for him to have such a reaction before. , because the body is in a state of high tension all the time, it is naturally impossible for the body to have such a cheap behavior.

And similar behaviors include walking and walking and suddenly shooting a basketball, walking and walking and suddenly saying a word, walking and walking, and suddenly posing with a star-absorbing posture. This is a common symptom of men. Mostly found in young men.

In other words, part of the unhappiness of middle-aged people may come from their refusal to let their instincts dominate their bodies and completely restrain their subconscious expectations, which eventually lead to their situation similar to that of Xiao Zhang, that is, to forget How happy.

"Should I be tired from walking?"

Brother Zhang suddenly looked back at the pony: "I've walked more than 4000 steps, normal people should be tired, right?"

Xiao Ma quickly waved his hands: "No, no, you don't need to deliberately calculate this thing, you just need to choose the most comfortable posture for you to live in."

"okay."

How should I put it, Xiao Ma thinks this is a rehabilitation training. From his cognitive perspective, what Brother Zhang needs is an all-round rehabilitation, from physical to psychological rehabilitation, so that he can gradually adapt to the future One's identity lives in this world.

And what is the point of this?Nature, nature is still fucking nature, there is no need to deliberately ask yourself to be like ordinary people, anyway, no one cares why another person can walk [-] kilometers without breathing, and no one will ask why a person does not eat I don't feel hungry for breakfast.

The only person who really cares about this kind of subtle difference is the person concerned, and the more the person concerned cares about this, the easier it will be to get from one pit to another.

"Boss, don't worry, let's take our time."

"Oh, I see."

After a period of time, Brother Zhang began to appear in front of others with a new look as much as possible. Although it was not long, he had already started to ask "Can it be cheaper" after buying things, and he would also start in After fiddling with the mobile phone for a while at night, I suddenly raised my head and said, "I spent a little too much money during this time", and even defended myself when I had a dispute with others outside.

These are things that he couldn't do in the past, and even if he has a dispute with others, he will be in a particularly good mood after returning.

"What's up ahead?"

Brother Zhang and Xiao Ma went out for a walk as usual that day, but when they passed a restaurant, they found a lot of people gathered there to watch the fun.

Xiao Ma is a gossip person, he immediately went up to make a fuss, but after a look, he found that it was a restaurant opening, and then they had an event at the opening, which was to challenge their gold medal chef, whoever won would get a set of a restaurant. A [-]-inch super big TV and a one-month all-you-can-eat restaurant.

The chef looked very young, about the same age as Xiao Zhang, and the way he sat there was somewhat arrogant.

"Boss, try?"

"Try what?" Brother Zhang lowered his head and looked at the challenge content on the sign: "Challenge this?"

"Yeah, frustrating them."

In fact, this kind of opening challenge is aimed at popularity. This is the reason for choosing such a young chef.Chefs who have been famous for a long time will not come, because winning is not worth boasting, and losing is shameful.And chefs who are about the same age may not have as good skills as him.

So... just watch this kind of activity, and then everyone waits for the boss to send some opening red envelopes.

There are also challengers, but they are all good things, audiences and restaurants who are confident in their cooking skills.

It is of course impossible for Erdaodao and Yehuchan to challenge professional chefs, so Xiao Zhang and the others watched several rounds of chef challenges, and the first round of deboning fish stumped a lot of people.

"Here, here." Xiao Ma couldn't bear it anymore. After seeing another challenger being asked to step down, he said, "We want to sign up!"

(End of this chapter)