pasture leisure

Chapter 1 Chi
a little late at night,
A full moon hung high in the sky, and the moonlight covered the earth with a layer of light silver. At the same time, it also greatly extended people's eyesight, and the images [-] meters away could be seen clearly. The shadows of the street trees on both sides of the road are also clearly projected on the ground.

At this moment, the rural roads are no longer bustling with people during the day, and everything has returned to the calm and peaceful night.

There was a person staggering slowly on the country road, and it was obvious from a glance that this person had drunk a lot of wine.

This person is about twenty-five or sixteen years old. He is about [-] meters tall and looks like he is nodding his head. He has a slightly fat body, but he is not very fat. He is wearing a white short-sleeved shirt on his upper body, and his lower body is off-white. Linen slacks, and a pair of flip flops.

Uh!
The young man only felt a nausea, subconsciously supported the tree pole next to him, and began to vomit as soon as he lowered his body.

After vomiting almost everything in his stomach, the young man raised the back of his hand and wiped it casually.

"These guys are really drinking!"

The young man muttered, and then started to stagger towards his home again.

The young man's destination is not far away, from his current position, there is less than a mile left.

There are a group of settlements created by reforming villages and building towns. Originally, several nearby villages were gathered together, and everyone lived together. Originally, each family was a single courtyard, and the houses were built in various ways. After being gathered together, It was uniformly changed into a two-story Chinese-style small building, with a small courtyard in front of each house, and a small garden and garage in the back.

This condition is comparable to the small villa area in the county seat.

The young man’s home is here, but the young man doesn’t feel much about his new home. One is that he doesn’t live at home often, and the other is that many of his memories of his hometown were produced in the original village. There is no home now. He lost the old appearance in his memory and became extremely strange.

The young man is called Zhang Chi, the chapter of the article, the galloping Chi.

Just like Chi in his name, at the age of thirteen or fourteen, the young man galloped to the other side of the ocean with his uncle. The uncle opened a Chinese restaurant in a small town in the countryside over there, and he was doing odd jobs there.

This time he came back to visit relatives, and arranged a blind date along with his family.

But today is not a blind date, who can drink like this on a blind date.

Today was a meeting with old classmates, everyone had a good time together, and by the way, it was a practice for Zhang Chi to return to the United States, so Zhang Chi was turned into a drunk cat by a group of enthusiastic middle school classmates.

At this moment, the strength of the wine came up, the originally light steps gradually became heavier, and the mind began to be a little confused.

So as he walked, his brain began to control his limbs according to Zhang Chi's memory.

If Zhang Chi's mind is clear at this moment, he will find that he is now moving away from the direction of the new home and touching the old house.

Walking and walking, I am afraid that Zhang Chi does not know how long he has been walking, so relying on the original memory in his mind, Zhang Chi returned to the village of his childhood.

The village is no longer what it was when he was a child. Many houses have been demolished now, and this place will be turned into farmland again in the future.

Zhang Chi's old house no longer looks like it used to, only a small courtyard wall remains.

"What about my house?"

The delirious Zhang Chi stared at the dismantled old house with his blurred eyes, muttering in his mouth.

The house was gone, Zhang Chi did not leave, but stood and watched for a while, then staggered around the village.

The houses in the village were almost demolished, but soon Zhang Chi found something in his memory.

A small earth temple.

It is said that the Earth Temple is not a temple, but a small house that is not a little big. It is no more than [-] meters high and occupies an area of ​​no more than four square meters. It is too small.

There is a statue of a god inside. Zhang Chi doesn’t know what kind of god it is, even the old people in the village don’t know. Some say it’s the Earth Temple, some say it’s Lingbao Tianzun, and some say it’s the Five-Color God of Plague.

In short, this small temple has been around for many years.

Zhang Chi often played here when he was young, so let's call it the Earth Temple.

The small earth temple has also been almost demolished, the small stone walls around it have disappeared, and the stones are scattered around, and the original statues inside are completely exposed.

"Why are you still fine?"

Zhang Chi looked at the statue, trying to stabilize his body, but the alcohol was too strong, he couldn't stabilize all of a sudden, and his body fell towards the statue.

Drunk to drunk, the basic consciousness of the body is still there. Just before hitting the statue, Zhang Chi stretched out his hand to hold the statue.

I don't know whether Zhang Chi's strength was too strong, or the foundation of the statue had been shaken, because Zhang Chi's support made the statue fall down together with Zhang Chi.

After lying on the ground for a long time, Zhang Chi sat up and sat up for a while, then began to try to get up.

Just turning over, on all fours, thinking about kneeling first and then standing up, his eyes were attracted by something exposed on the base of the statue.

Regardless of standing or not, Zhang Chi crawled over with hands and feet together, and put his head up to have a look.

"It turned out to be a wooden box!"

Zhang Chi muttered, stretched out his hand and slapped the wooden box lightly and hard.

The drunk was a little delirious, so Zhang Chi didn't pay attention to the exquisite patterns on the wooden box, so he knelt on the ground and stretched out his hands to pull the wooden box away.

It's a pity that at this time, he was so drunk that he pulled it a few times, and he clearly saw the buckle on the wooden box in front of him, but his hand couldn't control it.

"Oh, why are you moving!"

He himself was dazzled, but complained that the wooden box was moving around!
Finally, Zhang Chi opened the wooden box and found a wooden gourd about the size of a palm inside.

"Huh?! What the hell!"

Zhang Chi picked up the wooden gourd and looked carefully in front of his eyes. After looking for a long time, he didn't find anything strange.

Now Zhang Chi's brain is not very clear-headed, and when he finds out that it is a gourd, he has a childlike innocence.

He picked up the small gourd, raised his hand above his head, and pointed the gourd at the fallen god statue.

"Would you dare to agree to that land if I ask you?"

Drunkards also know how to play "Journey to the West"!
After calling three or four times, the broken god statue on the ground must not be able to agree to him, so he had to continue talking by himself.

"receive!"

Just when Zhang Chi said to accept it, the god statue on the ground suddenly disappeared, but Zhang Chi, who was a little abnormal now, didn't notice anything wrong with it.

"Ruyi, Ruyi follow my heart...".

Good guy, this kid has played a lot, from "Journey to the West" to "Gourd Baby".

The happiness of a single boy is so simple!
Tired of playing, Zhang Chi, a drunkard, yawned. When he got drunk, he didn't care where it was, and just lay down on the ground.

"Gourd, gourd, protect me!"

Then he tilted his head, and he had already started to snore happily.

Nourish~~~!Zi~~ hiss!
Sleeping is called a beauty.

Zhang Chi, who was asleep, didn't notice that the gourd he was holding in his hand suddenly rose up, floating in the air as if weightless.

And at the moment when the gourd floated up, its volume grew by more than ten times, and it became the appearance of a big gourd about [-] centimeters. Within a radius of two or three meters from Chiwei's center, not even a single live ant was gone.

This time, Zhang Chi slept so beautifully.

Ah~~!

Stretching slightly, Zhang Chi let out a big breath and opened his eyes.

But when he saw a gourd floating in the air, he couldn't help but scream like a little girl seeing a mouse.

It is also fortunate that there is no one in the village at this moment, otherwise all the old and young men in the village would be sent away by his voice.

When he came back to his senses, Zhang Chi stretched out his hand to feel the gourd up, down, left, and right, and found that there was no rope or thread hanging on it.

"This...it's unscientific," Zhang Chi muttered.

Looking around, Zhang Chi found that he had returned to the old village, so he was a little confused.

Zhang Chi can't remember how he came to the old village, it's fragmented!

Finding himself in the old village, his attention soon returned to the gourd. It would be strange for anyone to find a big gourd floating in front of his eyes.

Zhang Chi reached out his hand to touch the gourd, and found that it looked like wood but was not wood. It felt as warm as jade to the touch, and it was actually a little warm.

"Do your parents know that you are so coquettish?"

Zhang Chi spoke to the gourd.

After finishing speaking, Zhang Chi started playing with the gourd again, almost playing the same trick at night again. It can be seen that the old saying of telling the truth after drinking and seeing one's temperament when drunk still has some truth.

I tried all the myths and legends related to the treasure gourd in my mind.

After playing around, Zhang Chi understood that he had acquired a treasure that he could not understand, even modern science could not explain it.

This thing can not only suck things, but also spit out the sucked things intact. Don't look at the small gourd, which is as big as a palm, it can actually hold the next old tree trunk taller than Zhang Chi.

A green, thick, colorless, odorless liquid can also be poured out of the gourd. With just one drop, a small sapling that is less than waist can grow into a towering tree in an instant.

baby!

Great fortune!

Now Zhang Chi's mind is full of excitement.

This play went directly from the hazy sky to the sun jumping out of the horizon.

At the same time, the sound of cars entered Zhang Chi's ears.

The engineering team to demolish the village is here!

Zhang Chi looked anxiously at the floating gourd, how could such a baby be seen by others!
"Hide, stealth, stealth!"

With Zhang Chi's thoughts, the gourd floating in the air disappeared in an instant, but Zhang Chi knew that the gourd was by his side, as if there was a mysterious connection between himself and the gourd.

At this moment, Zhang Chi didn't have time to think too much. Since the gourd was hidden, he naturally had to leave here as soon as possible.

As soon as he stood up, he found the box on the ground. After a quick look, he found that the box was quite exquisite, so with a thought, the box on the ground went into the gourd.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

People from the construction team came over and saw Zhang Chi standing here, so they asked aloud.

Zhang Chi said: "My family used to live here, come and have a look."

The visitor laughed and said, "It's all demolished, there's nothing to see, hurry up and leave, we're going to start construction soon, don't let people stay at the site, hurry up!"

"Well, let's go"

Zhang Chi raised his feet and dodged people after saying something to others. At first he pretended to be calm, but he left the sight of these people and immediately let go of his feet and ran away, as if he was afraid that others would snatch his invisible gourd. generally.

The good guy almost ran half a marathon in this short run!
Usually running two thousand meters would take half my life, but now I have a little secret in my heart, my two calves are swinging like hot wheels, and I have arrived at the entrance of the town where I live now without knowing it.

An oncoming black Audi car stopped when it saw Zhang Chi, who was sweating profusely.

The cousin stuck his head out of the car window and joked at Zhang Chi, "Da Chi, no wonder people say that you Americans like to exercise, you get up early in the morning for a run?"

Zhang Chi smiled and replied: "So it's the second brother, just run around, what are you...?"

"I'm going to go to the city for business. By the way, you kid, don't go back. What's good there? If you want to make a fortune, you have to go to China. Come back and do it with me..."

"Second brother, I'm not as capable as you. I'm afraid I won't be able to make a fortune in this life." Zhang Chi laughed.

"Forget it, I won't talk to you, see you later."

"Second brother, see you later!" After Zhang Chi finished speaking, he watched the black Audi leave his sight before heading home.

At the door of the house, as soon as I entered the yard, I found that my grandfather was weaving bamboo baskets, and my grandmother was watering the small green vegetables in the yard.

"Why didn't you come back yesterday?"

Zhang Chi said: "Master, I drank too much yesterday and stayed at a classmate's house."

"Drink less alcohol!"

The old man said something, and continued to weave the basket.

Grandma put down the water ladle in her hand, and asked happily: "What do you want to eat in the morning, tell me, and grandma will make it for you."

"Come on, how about some stick noodle porridge?"

"Okay, I'll do it for the grandson." The old lady put down the work with a smile, turned and went into the kitchen.

When he came to the door of the house, Zhang Chi remembered and asked, "Master, where are my parents?"

"Go to the ground".

Going to the field here does not mean going to the field in the past, but going to work in a nearby greenhouse. Now Zhang Chi's parents, like most people, work in the vegetable and fruit company's greenhouse, which is considered to be at work.

"Oh, didn't my sister's family say to come over today?"

"Your sister's family has something to do today. A relative in your brother-in-law's family passed away. The family went with the gift. I'm afraid I can't see you off this time," the old man replied.

"Ok!"

Zhang Chi hummed and went back to the house.

After a while, grandma cooked the meal, and Zhang Chi started tossing gourds in his room after finishing the porridge.

This time, there is nothing new to play, it is still the same moves as in the morning, but Zhang Chi still enjoys playing.

Tossing the gourd for a day,

Early the next morning, Zhang Chi's family drove to the high-speed rail station in the county. With a suitcase and a backpack, I set off from my hometown to the United States.

(End of this chapter)