Little Life on An American Ranch

Looking at the appearance of his little sister, Jian Heng 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, Daoist Grandpa and 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 food, fun things, and beautiful new clothes..." The little girl babbled so much that her mouth was broken, and she just said whatever she thought of, it was a bit thoughtless and 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 even kowtowed."

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

"Okay, I'll write it next time. You asked too much this time." Jian Heng quickly reached out and picked up his younger sister who was about to kneel down, and while talking to the little girl, he took her out of the small forest and walked towards the parking lot. past.

After getting in the car, just about to start it, I immediately saw someone knocking on the window, and pressed the window to see 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 entire Taoist temple was completely devoid of old-fashioned bones, full of the smell of copper.

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

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: "That,

Hi! Are you the one who bought my dog ​​more than a week ago? I’m the one who sold the dog. Didn’t you ask me to help you find a black-eyed native dog? "

As soon as Jian Heng heard it, he remembered 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 with a snap, the phone was hung up.

Jian Heng was stunned for a while listening to the blind tone 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, I won't be at home for lunch!"

When Sun Xiuying heard that her son was going to drink with classmates at noon, she poked 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 xx Township standing on the door. big red characters.

There is also a sign at the gate, on which there is a rendering of the entire community. 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 opened as soon as it was pushed, Jian Heng was not stupid enough to push the door and go in directly. It was very simple and he didn't want to be bitten by a dog!

So Jian Heng had no choice but to stand outside the door and shouted inside: "Old man, old man, 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 come 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 people..." 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 immediately smiled with a confused look on his face, and soon focused on the old man again, and followed him closely.

Today's old man was still wearing the camouflage trousers on his lower body and a gray shirt on his upper body. When he saw 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, there was nothing but a cardboard box.

So Jian Heng stepped forward quickly, stretched out his head and looked overjoyed, he was indeed a four-eyed dog, no matter in terms of appearance or demeanor, it was exactly the same as what was displayed 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.

So the remaining words of thanks suddenly 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 then he followed 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 poured out 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 a piece of his pants was 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 about it. Isn’t that how business is? ".

The old man straightened up his 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 quickening speed.

"Are you still there?" The old man said when he saw Jian Heng.

Jian Heng said in his heart: You really have no temper like this!

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 in.

Into the house to see, 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 an old man with long sleeves and a long beard wearing 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. reading net