"They all say that the candied haws on a stick is sour, and the sourness is wrapped in the sweetness. They all say that the candied haws on a stick is sweet, but the sourness is revealed inside the sweetness. The candied haws on a stick is good-looking. It is pierced with bamboo skewers, symbolizing happiness and reunion, and connecting happiness and reunion together. There is no
No need to worry..."
On January 1 this year, the song "Candied Haw Lu" made the candy seller extremely happy. Seeing that the Chinese New Year was coming soon, he quickly built a big speaker and played the song while selling candy.
This song is festive and appropriate for the occasion. After listening to the song, many passers-by thought of the sweet and sour taste of Tangdun'er, and their saliva secreted wildly. They thought that 50 cents are not expensive, so they could either buy a bunch of them to satisfy their cravings, or buy a few.
Take the skewers back home for your family to eat.
Anyway, during these days, the candy sellers have made a lot of money.
Walking on the street, this year's commercial street is obviously more depressed than last year. In the past two years, there was a large wholesale market on Hongqi Road in the east of the town. Many small shop owners felt that there were more business opportunities there, so they abandoned their stores here and went to
I went to the wholesale market and became a wholesaler.
In addition, the store buildings in the commercial street are too old, and they will naturally become depressed.
In a few years, this place will be completely abandoned, then demolished, and completely turned into the dust of history.
Ma Xiaolong used his camera to record the depressed scene here, feeling a little sad.
The memories of childhood are about to disappear.
A bunch of sugar dumplings appeared in front of his eyes. Ma Xiaolong turned his head and saw Zhusha looking at him with a smile: "What are you thinking about?"
"This place was so lively a few years ago, but now it's depressed." He took the candy and took a bite. It was water chestnut (called 'horseshoe' in some places). It didn't taste sour. I liked it: "I guess it will be better in a few years."
Once it is demolished, it will never be seen again.”
"Isn't demolition bad?" Zhusha took a bite of yam and said, "We can build a new house."
"Demolition is certainly good, but our childhood memories are all in these old houses and will be gone after the demolition," Ma Xiaolong said.
Zhu Sha looked at the camera hanging around his neck and asked: "So you have been taking pictures everywhere in the past few years just to keep your childhood memories?"
"You are so smart, it would be great if you could use it all in your studies." Ma Xiaolong said with a smile.
Zhu Sha rolled her eyes and said, "If nothing happens, just leave!"
"Where to go?" Ma Xiaolong asked.
"Go home." Zhu Sha said, "Be my sparring partner."
"..."
In the second grade of physical education, he gained boxing and kick skills, and in the third grade of physical education, he gained the skill of weapons. From then on, Ma Xiaolong became Cinnabar's sparring partner.
In a few years, Cinnabar's combat effectiveness should be much stronger than that of the same age group in his previous life.
According to Zhu Sha herself, on the first day of the winter vacation, she had a fight with Zhu Zhiqiang's strongest subordinate. Although she lost, it was only a narrow defeat, and she did not lose in skill, but in strength and size.
It would be difficult for a twelve-year-old girl who is over 1.6 meters tall to beat a strong adult man who is over 1.8 meters tall.
However, Ma Xiaolong was very puzzled. Zhu Sha seemed to be too dedicated to practicing martial arts. From the time the two met, Zhu Sha practiced martial arts almost every day for more than five years. Even after entering the sixth grade and being breathless from studying, Zhu Sha would still spare at least one
I practice martial arts for hours, and because of this, sometimes I can’t even finish my homework.
Even if you want to be a martial arts star, you don't have to work so hard, right? And in the past two years, you have almost lost all the flashy moves, and have become more and more practical. Each move is really aimed at hurting people.
In other words, he would have been disabled eight hundred times if he had been replaced by someone else as his sparring partner.
…
Come to Cinnabar's house.
Different from before, a few years ago, after Zhu Sha saw Ma Xiaolong's renovated house, she asked him to come up with a set of design drawings and demolish his own house and rebuild it.
According to Zhu Sha's requirements, her home must have a large enough practice room, but the area of her home is not enough, so the inhumane Zhu Sha asked Zhu Zhiqiang to buy the neighbor's house next door at a high price, so that the area
It's big enough.
Not to mention the training room, there are even small baths for relaxing after practicing martial arts.
Now the Zhusha family's house is just a two-story villa. There are no houses like this in all the villages.
But because the house is too big and there are usually no people at home, Zhu Zhiqiang specially hired two live-in nannies to take care of Zhu Sha’s diet and daily life, and also clean the house.
Three hundred yuan a month, food and housing, and there are many people competing for it.
These two nannies are from nearby villages. They are young and pretty. With Zhu Zhiqiang’s temperament, he will definitely not let go of the fat on his lips. However, these two nannies are protected by cinnabar and Zhu Zhiqiang is not allowed to
Touch them.
If his daughter didn't allow it, Zhu Zhiqiang didn't care. Anyway, there were a lot of young ladies in his hotel. He fell in love with these two nannies just because he was tired of playing with the young ladies in the hotel and wanted a change.
"Xiaosha is back! Yeah! Xiaolong is here too!" Seeing them coming back, the two nannies greeted them with a smile.
The two nannies, one named Xiaofang and the other named Xiaowei, are of the same age and were only sixteen when they first came here. Four years later, they are in their prime and in their prime, with their charm values around fifteen points. No wonder Zhu Zhiqiang
Will take a fancy to them.
Ma Xiaolong has been coming here frequently in the past few years and has become familiar with them. He usually calls them Sister Xiaofang or Sister Xiaowei.
Their names are really easy to remember, just like the two songs.
"Sister Xiaofang, sister Xiaowei." Ma Xiaolong asked with a smile: "You haven't gone back to celebrate the New Year yet?"
Xiaofang and Xiaowei both like Ma Xiaolong. He has a good personality, good manners, and good looks. In addition, in four years, they have watched him grow from a little kid to a tall man of over 1.7 meters. They feel inexplicably like a younger brother.
It feels like a big family.
"I'll go back on New Year's Eve." Anyway, my home is in a nearby village. It only takes half an hour to walk. I can go back at any time. When Zhu Sha and Zhu Zhiqiang return to the village to celebrate the New Year on New Year's Eve, it won't be too late for them to leave.
Since last year, Zhu Sha and Zhu Zhiqiang’s return to the village for the New Year has been pushed to New Year’s Eve.
The main reason is that Zhu Lingling's clothing business is getting bigger and bigger, and she is often busy until the 29th of the twelfth lunar month.
Zhu Zhiqiang, the elder brother, couldn't live up to his reputation, so he kept busy with his "business". Over the past two or three years, his "business" became bigger and bigger, his reputation became more and more bad, and he offended many people.
Ma Xiaolong knew that Zhu Zhiqiang was not far from death.
It's not that he hasn't reminded him in the past few years, but Zhu Zhiqiang doesn't care at all, and he doesn't believe that he will be finished. He is a brave and foolhardy person who relied on his "family business" to work hard without fear of death. He believes that he will continue to be tyrannical.
.
It's hard to persuade the damn ghost with good words, there's nothing you can do.
"Sister Xiaofang, help me prepare the bath water." Zhu Sha said, "I will practice with Xiaolong for a while."
"good."
Xiaofang went to prepare bath water, and Xiaowei went to prepare lunch. People who practice martial arts consume a lot of food and eat a lot, so they cook more.
Cinnabar is different from ordinary girls. Other girls look delicate and round. Cinnabar looks fine on the surface, but once it becomes congested, the muscles all over her body are quite obvious, and she even developed a devil's back.
It's really amazing, but Zhu Sha also feels that as a girl, her whole body is not very beautiful. In the past two years, she rarely wears skirts and half-sleeves in the summer. She basically wears long clothes and trousers to cover up her muscles.
Fortunately, we are on summer vacation in July and August, the hottest months of the year. In May, June and September, there are also girls wearing long clothes and long pants, so they will not attract anyone's attention.
Ma Xiaolong didn't like the way Cinnabar looked muscular, but considering what would happen in the next two years, he felt that it would be good for Cinnabar to have more muscles now, so that he could at least have more resistance.
The two came to the practice room. The practice room was very large, almost fifty square meters. There were two rows of weapon racks against the walls on both sides, with eighteen kinds of weapons on them, some big and some small, some light and some heavy.
A thick carpet with excellent elasticity is laid on the middle floor to avoid damaging the floor below if you practice for a long time.
The two of them first changed into their training clothes, warmed up, and then started sparring.
At first it was bare-handed sparring, and later it was switched to weapon sparring, all in actual combat.
That is to say, Ma Xiaolong's fists, feet and weapons are all at level 5, and his physical strength is like that of a monster. Otherwise, Cinnabar would easily fail to practice martial arts and become half disabled.
Over the past few years, Zhu Sha's Bajiquan has become more and more ferocious, and his momentum is like a wolf and a tiger, as if he really wants to eat people. Anyone who is timid cannot bear it.
The most terrifying thing about Bajiquan is that the whole body is the point of attack, such as hitting with the head, sitting on the butt, and clamping with the thighs. It is very similar to infinite fighting. As long as you can kill the enemy, you can do anything.
It’s no wonder that there is a saying that the Tai Chi in literature can bring peace to the world, and the Eight Chi in martial arts can regulate the universe.
This Bajiquan does not talk about martial ethics at all.
Ma Xiaolong cautiously fought with Cinnabar, not because he was afraid of being hit by Cinnabar, but because he was afraid of injuring Cinnabar.
Every time Cinnabar gets stronger, he has to expend more energy. He has to put enough pressure on her without letting her get hurt, but it takes a lot of energy.
Fortunately, he was energetic enough to withstand it.
After more than ten minutes of fighting, Zhu Sha was already exhausted, panting and sweating profusely.
"That's it for fists and kicks!" Ma Xiaolong said: "Have a rest and practice weapons later."
Zhusha nodded and walked slowly for a few steps. When he felt that it was almost done, he sat down and took the mineral water handed over by Ma Xiaolong to replenish the consumed water and energy.
After finishing the bottle of mineral water quickly, Zhu Sha sighed and wiped his sweat with a towel. Seeing Ma Xiaolong's ease, he snorted: "You are such a monster."
"Haha, it's not bad." Ma Xiaolong said with a smile: "If I am stronger, I can protect you."
"...Who wants you to protect me?" Zhusha's face turned red. Fortunately, she had blushed before and was not noticed: "I'm not one of you."
"What are you talking about? You are my best friend." Ma Xiaolong threw a banana to her and said, "Maybe she will still be my wife in the future! I must protect you well."
"Bah!" Zhusha's face turned even redder, and she hurriedly lowered her head and ate the banana to cover up her strangeness.
Ma Xiaolong was moved in his heart: Just pooh? No objection?