In a community in Haidian, in front of Room 101 on the first floor of a certain building, Ma Xiaolong pressed the doorbell.
Ding dong
After a while, the door opened, and a middle-aged woman in her forties and slightly stout appeared behind the door.
"Auntie!" Ma Xiaolong said with a smile, "We are here to play.
"Ouch! Xiaolong and Xiaofeng are here too! Hey? Who are these three little girls?" This was the first time that Aunt Liu Lian saw Zhusha and the others. Her eyes widened when she saw that each of the three little girls was prettier than the other.
"My wife, my god sister, and my classmate." Ma Xiaolong introduced the three girls to his aunt one by one: "Just call me aunt."
"Hello, aunt." x3
"Hey! Okay, come in quickly." The aunt happily let everyone into the house.
Seeing that his aunt was alone at home, Ma Xiaolong asked, "Where is my uncle?"
"I went to Teacher Wu's house." The aunt cleaned up the dining table in the south room and said, "You didn't even call in advance, and the house is still in a mess!"
Teacher Wu is a professor of history at Peking University. Because his uncle sells cold drinks at a stall in the alley of the south gate of Peking University, Teacher Wu often goes there to buy popsicle soda. He has become familiar with it after going back and forth. During the holidays, he plays chess and other things together when he has nothing to do. It rained today, so my uncle couldn't leave the stall, so he probably went to Teacher Wu's house to play chess.
Ma Xiaolong smiled and said: "We just thought of coming here temporarily, please don't move and leave it to us!"
"That won't work. How can I let you do my job?"
"You're welcome."
Several people worked together to clean the dining table, sweep the floor, and wash the dishes, each one more diligent than the other.
The aunt blinked her eyes, happily took out half a watermelon from the refrigerator, cut it, put it on a plate, and brought it to the dinner table: ‘Come on, eat the watermelon.”
Several people were sitting around the dining table eating watermelon. There was a coffee table placed against the east wall. On the coffee table was a large fish tank with several colorful tropical fish in it. They were quite beautiful.
In the southeast corner is a wooden table with a TV on it. The TV is on and playing "Journey to the West" that must be replayed in the summer. This episode is "Battle of Three Monsters", which is a very funny episode.
"The place where grains are reincarnated is a latrine. It stinks!"
Amid Bajie's complaints, the aunt looked at Zhusha happily and said: "I have been hearing that Xiaolong found a beautiful wife for the past two years, but I never had the chance to take a look. Today I finally saw her.
Zhusha smiled and said: "It looks a bit ugly, doesn't it scare you?
"Hahaha, that's so humorous." The aunt was so happy: "He looks like a celebrity. Xiaolong is really lucky."
"This is called a perfect match." Ma Xiaolong said with a smile.
"Yes, it's a perfect match, it's a perfect match." The aunt laughed and said, "Don't leave today at noon. Auntie will go buy hairtail and stew it for you later.
"You stew the hairtail, and I'll fry some more vegetables." Ma Xiaolong said:
"To tell you the truth, my cooking skills are quite good now.
Let me give you a taste of my craftsmanship,
"Really?" The aunt smiled and said, "Okay, we will go to the vegetable market together later and buy whatever we want.'
"Okay." Ma Xiaolong raised his wrist and looked at the time. It was nine forty, and the rain stopped in about twenty minutes.
"By the way, where has your dad been these days?" The aunt asked, "He hasn't been here for two or three months.'
"He! He's staying in Xiangjiang!" Ma Xiaolong said with a smile.
"Why did you go to Xiangjiang?" asked the aunt.
"Isn't this the financial crisis in Southeast Asia? He went to cut leeks." Ma Xiaolong said with a smile.
“Cut leeks?’
"There are professional people who do this, and they just keep an eye on it," Ma Xiaolong said.
"Oh." The aunt seemed to understand. Well, she didn't understand at all, and she didn't realize it. "Your dad is really traveling all over the world now and he can be considered a capable person."
"Ha, that's it. My dad also said that he couldn't keep up with the times and always muttered that he wanted to go back to the countryside to raise pigs!" Ma Xiaolong said with a smile.
"I've heard about this too." The aunt said, "You said he's doing a good job now. If he wants money and face, what kind of pigs can he raise in the countryside? He's really a wild boar.
Can't eat fine chaff.'
"Everyone has his or her own ambitions!" Ma Xiaolong took out a piece of White Rabbit candy from his pocket and said, "Auntie, you can eat the candy."
"I won't eat anymore." The aunt waved her hand: "Auntie has tooth decay, and when it hurts, she always puts painkillers in the cavity."
"Oh? Have you gone to the hospital?" Ma Xiaolong asked.
"Toothache is not a disease, why should I go to the hospital?" said the aunt.
"Auntie, toothache is really a disease." Ma Xiaolong said: "You'd better take the time to go and have a look! Whether it's repaired or extracted? Or something else, it's better than being in such pain.
"Let's talk about it later!" He said this, but he probably made up his mind not to go.
"You are really... Let me show you!" Ma Xiaolong stood up, walked to his aunt, and said, "Just shut your mouth and don't move.
"Can you still see a doctor?'
"You know better, don't move." Ma Xiaolong put his hand on his aunt's cheek, squeezing it, pressing it, and asked, "Does it hurt?" "It doesn't hurt."
"Yes." Ma Xiaolong moved his hand to his aunt's scalp, pressed it one by one, and kept asking if it hurt.
The aunt kept saying it didn't hurt, until Ma Xiaolong pressed on a place, and the aunt let out an ouch: "It hurts!"
"Here?" Ma Xiaolong pressed again.
"Ouch! Yes, it's right here. It's pulling on my back molars. It really hurts."
When several girls saw this, they were very surprised. Ma Xiaofeng said: "Really or not? You just touched your back molars a few times?"
"The teeth themselves are connected to the nerves. As long as you memorize the meridian diagram, you can almost understand it." Ma Xiaolong said.
." Ma Xiaofeng didn't understand.
Ma Xiaolong let go of his hand and said, "Okay, I almost understand."
The aunt moved her mouth and asked: "Are you really good at treating it?"
"Dentistry itself is simple." Ma Xiaolong took out an acupuncture bag that looked like a wallet from his pocket. After opening it, he pulled out a silver needle and said, "Auntie, I'll prick you a few times. Don't be afraid, it won't hurt at all.
'
"Doesn't it really hurt?" The aunt was scared when she saw the long needle: "What should I do if it hurts?"
Ma Xiaolong smiled and said, "Auntie, it really doesn't hurt. Even if it hurts, the pain is not as painful as a mosquito bite! Compared with your toothache, it's like it doesn't hurt at all."
"Then...then go ahead and pierce it! Be gentle," the aunt warned.
"Don't worry, my skills are very good. By the way, aunt, when will my uncle come back?" Ma Xiaolong asked.
"In this kind of weather, unless it's sunny, we won't be able to come back until noon," the aunt said.
"He's not eating at Teacher Wu's house?"
"If he is not a relative or an acquaintance, why should he care about his food?" The aunt said, "I will definitely come back for lunch at noon.'
"Then I have to work hard at noon, so I can finish the whole table." Ma Xiaolong said with a smile.
The aunt laughed: "You have to work hard, it won't be good if it doesn't taste good.
"Don't worry, if it doesn't taste good, I'll throw myself into the pot and stew it." Ma Xiaolong said.
"Hahaha, how can you stew your own food?" The aunt was very happy: "It's almost enough, your uncle and I are not picky eaters.
"Then I'm relieved." Ma Xiaolong gently twisted the silver needle and said, "After dinner, we want to go to Beijing University to visit. We won't stop you at the door, right?'
"Just say you are the nephew of Old Li, the popsicle seller, and leave after playing for a while without stopping," the aunt said.
"That's good. I'll probably take the college entrance examination in a few years, and I'll probably take the Beijing University entrance examination. It will be close by then, so I can come and see you and my uncle more often." Ma Xiaolong said.
"Okay! That's great. Then I won't live on campus anymore. I'll just live in the community. Anyway, you have a lot of houses, so you can live in them as long as you like." The aunt said happily.
"I think so too." Ma Xiaolong smiled, pulled out the silver needle and said, "Okay, Auntie, does your tooth still hurt now?
"Teeth?" The aunt was stunned for a moment, and then she moved her words: "It doesn't hurt anymore?" She moved again, and even licked the back molars with her tongue, "It really doesn't hurt anymore!?"
The aunt was surprised and happy: "Xiaolong, are you done now?
"It's over, doesn't it hurt?" Ma Xiaolong asked with a smile.
"It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt at all." The aunt made a few chewing movements and exclaimed: "It's amazing! Xiaolong, when did you learn medical skills?'
"I have been studying on my own these years." Ma Xiaolong said: "My grandma, grandpa, and my mother's bodies have all been adjusted by me. They are getting younger year by year. This year, you can come to my house for a few days during the Chinese New Year to see with your own eyes.
change."
"I really have to go back and take a look." The aunt said with emotion: "In the blink of an eye, I haven't been back to my parents' home for ten years. I have to go back this year to see the changes in my hometown.
"My hometown has not changed much in the past ten years, but there should be bigger changes in the next ten years." Ma Xiaolong said while disinfecting the silver needle.
"What's the matter, can you tell fortunes?" the aunt said with a smile.
"I'm not good at fortune telling. I calculated it based on the country's development over the years." Ma Xiaolong said: "The country has developed very quickly in these years, but it is not fast enough. It is said that we are negotiating with the World Trade Organization, and it is likely to be negotiated in the next few years.
As a result, once our country joins the WTO, there will be no tariff barriers, and we can directly exchange goods with foreign countries, our economic development will definitely take off.
"I think the development is quite fast now." My aunt doesn't understand the WTO, but she has been in the capital for so many years and has witnessed the rapid development of the capital in the past twenty years. In her opinion, the development in the past twenty years has been earth-shaking.
, the Fourth Ring Road has been under construction for several years, and this year, Tong County has become Tongzhou District. I really can’t imagine how fast it will be in the future.
Ma Xiaolong said: "It will be even faster in the future, and the housing prices in Beijing will also grow explosively. If nothing else, let's just say that if your courtyard house and store in Gulou are demolished, you will get millions."
"Really or not!?" The aunt was shocked.
"That's for sure." Ma Xiaolong said: "But I suggest that you don't ask for the demolition money when the time comes. Just trade the courtyard for housing and store for store. I guarantee that you and your uncle will be able to spend the rest of your life just by collecting rent.
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In the last life, my aunt and uncle only bought a house for themselves, and exchanged the rest for money, about two million yuan, which was a big loss.
The aunt didn’t even dare to think about it. After all, she only spent 40,000 yuan when she bought this building. Even if the price has increased over the years,
It's quite a lot, but it only grows to 5,000 or 6,000 square meters, and even if it is sold, it will only cost around 200,000. The courtyard and the store in Gulou are in dilapidated condition. They have been repaired many times. How many times can such a shabby house be sold for?
million?
Like my father back then, my aunt fell into serious doubts about the world.
Also suspicious is Dai Yu.
Growing up, she had never heard of the fact that a house could be sold for millions.
How much is a house, something made of bricks and wood, worth?
How many millions? Are you kidding me?
"The rain stopped." Ma Xiaolong said.
Everyone looked out the window and sure enough, the rain had stopped, a ray of sunshine shined on the earth through the clouds, and a rainbow hung in the sky.
Dai Yu immediately looked at his electronic watch: 10:01.
The look in Ma Xiaolong's eyes changed again: He was right again!
When the rain stopped, the aunt took Ma Xiaolong and a few girls to the vegetable market to buy vegetables.
The vegetable market is not far from the community, and it only takes half an hour to get there. However, it just rained and the ground was full of water. Ma Xiaolong directly drove a noodle shop and arrived at the vegetable market in a few minutes.
The rain stopped and the distance was short, so the driver only wanted ten yuan.
The wet market is actually a comprehensive market that not only sells vegetables, meat, chicken, duck, and fish, but also has many small bookstalls selling pirated comics.
Don't think that there are no piracy in Beijing. In fact, there are quite a lot of piracy, but they are sold at the same price as genuine ones. It is purely to make money for children.
In this era, the main group of comic fans are young people in their teens to twenties. To put it simply, they are a group of people who are not financially independent and rely entirely on pocket money from their parents. This group has one thing in common - they are not independent.
I know how hard it is to make money.
So I don’t feel bad about spending money at all. As the capital city, when the family planning started, the capital carried out one-child birth. More than ten years later, these one-child emperors and little princesses are now teenagers, which is just the time.
It is the mainstay of comic book fans.
My grandpa loves me, my grandma loves me, my parents dote on me, and I have a lot of pocket money. Even if the pirated comics are sold at the original price, they don’t even know how to bargain and just give me the money to get the books.
Therefore, the business of these small bookstalls is quite good. As soon as the rain stopped, more than a dozen small bookstalls were set up.
When Ma Xiaofeng passed by, she looked curious and asked about the price. The bookstall owner pointed directly at the price in the book and said with a smile, "The price written on it is the price."
"Ma Xiaofeng looked at the price, threw down the book, and left with a look of disgust.
You can buy a book in the bookstore over at the station for one yuan, how dare you sell it for five yuan? You really think that my aunt is a fool!
Ma Xiaofeng directly gave a cross to the book sellers in the capital and never planned to buy books in the capital in her life.
However, the pirated comics here in the capital are relatively new and are very close to the publishing speed in rb, while the pirated comics in the small town will be much later. This time difference is nothing to comic fans who have never left the small town, but to
For comic book fans like Ma Xiaofeng who can come to the capital, it is a bit of a struggle.
No, not long after I left, I felt itchy in my heart: Damn it, I haven’t read the new ones yet.
I bought a bunch of things at the vegetable market and when I was walking back, I saw Ma Xiaofeng being absent-minded. Ma Xiaolong went over and patted her on the head, "What are you thinking about?"
"Brother..." Ma Xiaofeng said her thoughts with a tangled look on her face.
"What do I mean?" Ma Xiaolong pushed her back and said, "Lead the way.
Soon, the two of them arrived at the bookstall and asked Ma Xiaofeng to pick out the comics she wanted to read, six in total.
Ma Xiaolong asked: "How much?
"Then you have to look at the pricing," the bookstall owner said.
Ma Xiaolong laughed and said, "How dare you sell pirated books at the set price? I'll give you a benefit. I'll take these six books for ten yuan, or I'll report you for selling pirated books openly."
If it had been anyone else, the boss would have given a tough response and driven Ma Xiaolong away, but the boss was a twenty-year-old girl! After a few glances at Ma Xiaolong, he agreed.
"Let's go." Ma Xiaolong dropped ten dollars and asked Ma Xiaofeng to leave.
Ma Xiaofeng followed him with six comics in her arms and said with admiration: "Brother, you are so awesome, I admire you so much."
"That's easy to say. Remember to rub my shoulders, beat my legs, wash my feet and massage my feet when I get back." Ma Xiaolong smiled. Ma Xiaofeng rolled her eyes: "That's a beautiful idea.
As soon as they returned to the community, everyone saw an old man wearing a sleeveless white coat, black trousers and a bald head pushing a pulley with a freezer fixed outside.
Seeing the old man, Ma Xiaolong shouted: "Uncle!"
The old man is his eldest uncle, his surname is Li and his given name is Ruijing. He is an authentic native of Beijing. He is 11 years older than his aunt and is fifty-seven this year. He is not tall, just over 1.6 meters tall. He has a stout figure, but he looks...
He looks pretty strong.
"Hey! Xiaolong!" The uncle was very happy to see Ma Xiaolong, but when he saw the other girls, he was stunned for a moment and asked, "What are you doing? Where are all these little girls?"
"Uncle, you don't recognize me?" Ma Xiaofeng ran over and said, "I am Xiaofeng!"
"Xiaofeng?" The uncle looked at Ma Xiaofeng's face carefully and suddenly said: "It's really Xiaofeng. Hey, you are a woman who has transformed into a girl, and she is becoming more and more beautiful!"
"Hehe." Ma Xiaofeng was very happy: "Uncle, what are you doing?'
"It's sunny, let's go out to sell popsicles." The uncle said, "When did you come?"
"It's here when it rains. Uncle, please don't leave the stall yet. We are cooking here for lunch. You can eat with us!" Ma Xiaofeng said.
"Here? Okay!" The uncle was very happy: "I haven't seen you girl for seven or eight years. I will definitely give you a meal today at noon.'
"Hehe, uncle, let me help you push the cart.'
"Just rest! I'll push it myself.
"Push together.
On the right side of the corridor entrance, my uncle built a tin house, and the freezer was placed here. In the mornings, he usually pushed the freezer to the roadside stall at the south gate of Beijing University. Basically every year, starting from the beginning of April, he kept the freezer.
If you sell until mid-October, you will make money in these few months.
Although July and August are summer vacations, there are many students studying abroad, as well as nearby residents and passers-by, so the business will not be affected at all. In these months every year, the uncle can earn 30,000 to 40,000 yuan, which is not only enough for the couple.
With a year's worth of living expenses and a lot of wealth, plus the rent from the Gulou store, the couple's small life was quite comfortable.
My uncle not only raised several rare tropical fish at home, he also raised two blackbirds. In this era, blackbirds were not protected animals, and the uncles in Beijing often had a label - they loved raising birds.
Obviously, the uncle is a typical Beijing uncle. He likes to go out for a walk every day before dawn. The traffic policemen in the nearby streets all know him. The uncle also likes to give people nicknames, so he gave nicknames to the two young traffic policemen.
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One is called Gudou and the other is called Gangdan.
Gudou once said hello to the old man in English by a young traffic policeman: "Uncle, Gudmaoning."
The uncle didn't understand English, so he called him Gudou. Gradually, the old man called the young man Gudou.
I don’t know about the other Gang Dan, but that’s what my uncle calls me. Sometimes when Gang Dan passes by a cold drink stand on his bicycle, he will stop and buy a 50-cent red fruit popsicle.
The eldest uncle likes steel eggs very much and often shouts loudly: "Steel eggs sell eggs."
Just for fun, sometimes when the house boils corn, sweet potatoes, etc., two steel eggs will be given to them.
Anyway, young traffic policemen in this area are basically invited by their uncles to sit with them when they get off work or go to work. Firstly, they become familiar with each other, and secondly, they relieve their inner depression.
The reason for his depression is very simple. In the final analysis, it is because his aunt did not give him a son, and his only daughter only gave him a granddaughter. Although he said he didn't mind, in fact, there was always a thorn in his heart, which made the old man look forward to it. My son, I am almost crazy for looking forward to my grandson. When I see a young man, I look at my own son. It happens that the traffic policemen nearby are all young men in their early twenties. Can the uncle let him go? He has become the uncle to relieve the depression in his heart. good medicine
The same goes for Ma Xiaolong. Every time he comes to the capital, his uncle is the happiest one. Why would his uncle in his previous life be willing to help his nephew to establish himself in the capital? Don't you treat his nephew as your own son?
In fact, what Ma Xiaolong didn't know was that his uncle in his previous life had already made a will a few months before he was reborn. After he left, he passed on the house he got in the demolition of the Drum Tower to his name. If he comes, he will have the conditions to start a family and start a business in the capital.
Although Ma Xiaolong didn't know about this, his relationship over the years still made him regard his uncle as the closest person. When he entered the house, he immediately took Zhu Sha's hand and came to him and said: "Uncle, this is She's the niece-in-law I found for you. How about it? Does she look good?'
The uncle looked at Cinnabar and nodded cheerfully: "It's beautiful. You have good taste. What's the girl's name?" "Cinnabar is the cinnabar used for drawing talismans." Ma Xiaolong said.
"Cinnabar?" The uncle was happy when he heard it: "This is an interesting name. If you turn it upside down, wouldn't it mean killing a pig? It's easy to make a living when you hear it.
.." Zhu Sha looked helpless.
"Very good." The uncle smiled and said, "I will call you Xiao Zhu from now on, okay?"
"Okay." Zhu Sha was not timid at all and said with a smile: "You are an elder, you can call me whatever you want.
"Hey, Xiao Zhu is pretty good. He has the sassiness of a girl from the capital. How old are you this year? Where are you from?" the eldest uncle asked. "I am the same age as Xiao Long. We have been roommates since the first grade of elementary school." Zhu Sha. said
"Ouch? We have been sitting at the same table since we were young? This is not a simple fate." The eldest uncle was surprised and understood: "No wonder Xiaolong would ask you to be his wife, it turns out that they have been in love for a long time! Yes, it is a good match.