1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 169: Health-preserving secrets and water splashing!

Xia Tian and Zhu Youguang went to the antique market, but we didn't find any exciting antiques. But we did buy a bunch of gourds!
Zhu Youguang looked at Xia Tian who was carrying a bunch of gourds and complained, "Why did you buy this? Even if it's a plate of gourds, you don't need to buy so many!"

Xia Tian held the gourd vine and looked at the bunch of gourds, with a smile on his face: "This is good, much better than the bowl from the mid-Qing Dynasty that you liked!"

"Nonsense! How dare you compare your broken gourd with my bowl?!" Zhu Youguang was angry!

Xia Tian: You don’t understand~
When Xia Tian returned to the secret base, Milan was also stunned: Why did he bring back a bunch of gourds?
These gourds were all hanging on a dry vine. As the gourds grew very evenly from small to large and the distances between them were almost the same, the man selling the gourds was smart enough to sell them all together.

Look, it was sold to Xia Tian for one dollar!
A huge premium!
In the summer, I nailed two nails on the wall in front of the desk, hung a bunch of seven gourds, then took out drawing paper and pencils and started to make grids...

Milan saw him start to create and didn't dare to disturb him, so he just watched from the side.

Then Xia Tian wrote four words above the drawing paper - "Calabash Brothers"!
The painting style is an origami style, and the coloring is also the very simple color of the memory seed.

The first painting shows an old man picking herbs on a cliff...

Milan loves reading comics and animations, and he watches them intently.

The old man who was collecting herbs saw a poisonous snake about to eat the eggs in a bird's nest, so he threw out his hatchet to cut the snake off, saving the bird couple but he himself fell off the cliff. Fortunately, he was stopped by tree branches and fell onto a platform, but his backpack fell down the mountain. Only a gourd leaf was picked up by the rescued bird and put into his hand.

Then a dazzling light came out from the cave behind him, and then a gust of evil wind blew out, and the deer leaping in the mountain stream, the squirrels running towards each other, the birds that had just landed on the branches... were all frozen into ice sculptures!
The old man hiding behind the rock was shivering with cold. Finally, he rushed into the cave when the evil wind stopped. Then the ground shook and the cave entrance was blocked by a large amount of collapsed rubble.

The old man had no choice but to crawl inside. There were rubble blocking the road ahead, so he had to keep moving the rubble away to move forward. After an unknown amount of time, his hands were all bleeding, but finally the road was clear.

The thirsty old man used his mouth to catch the water dripping from the stalactites above his head to quench his thirst. Suddenly, he vaguely heard someone calling for help. It turned out to be a pangolin that was crushed by a rock!

The old man rescued the pangolin, and the pangolin spoke...

What did the pangolin say?
No!

The pangolin expressed his gratitude and then told a story about a mountain god who suppressed a monster, but was accidentally let go by the monster...

Milan was watching intently on the side, and couldn't help but say, "I shouldn't have saved you, a scourge!"

"Hahaha!" Xia Tian laughed when he heard that.

"What happened next? What monster was it?!" Milan shook his arm, trying to get him to reveal the spoiler.

Summer is very happy, let's sing~
"Calabash Brothers, three of them hanged on a vine, two more died in the wind and rain, la la la la ~" - "Hu Nong Brothers"

Milan: “Ah?!”

Milan's young heart was ruthlessly attacked by the author~
……

Because of Teacher Jinghongke’s current status, he is truly a guest of honor!
Milan sent out the manuscript and received a reply the next day. Although it was only the first chapter, he invited Mr. Jinghongke to the publishing house for a detailed discussion. The words in the editor's reply were "welcome you"!
In the summer, I went to Yenching Children's Publishing House in the first snow of the year, and decided on all the publishing matters without much hesitation.

The other party even printed the "theme song" "Calabash Brothers" written by Xia Tian, ​​including the music and lyrics!
Speaking of which, Mr. Jinghongke is now considered a famous comic artist in the industry. After all, there are not many people who draw this kind of thing, and no one is as famous as Mr. Jinghongke.

It's just a pity that Xia Tian wanted to put his own extra story "Calabash Brothers Save Grandpa" on the show, but the editor refused to agree and pulled Teacher Jing Hongke's belt and cried, "No! Teacher Jing Hongke, you can't show this to the children~"

Xia Tian: Isn't it just a little funny? Isn't that good?
Snake spirit: Big Brother, you are so strong, can you break the iron wall of Third Brother?
Big Wa: Third brother?
Sanwa: Big brother, come here!

The eldest boy punched the third boy so hard that he fainted and fell to the ground.

Grandpa: Children, unite! A chopstick is easily broken, and a bundle of chopsticks...

The eldest boy broke a bundle of chopsticks with a snap: Grandpa, look!
Grandpa: Did you drink fake wine?!

Well, it is indeed easy to teach children bad things.
I drew this to compensate for the fact that "Fooling Brothers" hurt Milan's young heart. It made her laugh so hard that she couldn't stand up.
……

On the way back, Xia Tian went to a department store and bought two boxes of Pechoin vanishing cream produced in Shanghai.

I took one box home to give to Mother Xia, and one box to Milan.

Now it's November and the weather has cooled down after the first snow.

The weather is dry and cold, and lesbians like to put something on their hands and faces.

"Well, this is for you." Xia Tian put the Pechoin vanishing cream in Milan's hand.

It is packaged in a dark blue round tin box with Pechoin's iconic colorful bird printed on the lid. Inside the box is a white paste covered with silver-white aluminum foil. You can smell the sweet fragrance without getting close.

It is said that this product was first created by Pechoin in 1940, which means it has a history of more than years.

A box of vanishing cream made her happy! Milan spread a little with her fingers and applied it on her hands. Then Milan took Xia Tian's hand and said, "Put some on you too."

Two white and soft hands hold Xia Tian's hands, and apply the vanishing cream repeatedly under its lubrication~
Xia Tian: It’s over, I can’t take it anymore!

Xia Tian leaned against the head of the bed, reading a book.

Xia Tian: It’s amazing that I don’t forget to study hard at a time like this. It shows that I have amazing concentration.

Milan got out of the quilt and said coquettishly: "What book are you reading at this time? "The Thirty-Six Forms of Dongxuanzi"?!"

Xia Tian said sternly, "Well, this is the supreme Taoist health-preserving technique. It is a rare ancient book. I will practice with you after I have thoroughly comprehended it."

Milan glanced at it and said, "Why is there a picture? This man and woman are stacked together. Is this how the ancients maintained their health?"

Xia Tian: “You don’t understand~”

This ancient book seems to have been handed down from the Yuan Dynasty. It not only contains movements, but also diagrams for guiding Qi circulation and breathing methods, as well as annotations from six or seven different dynasties... It can be said to be a culmination of all the old annotations from past dynasties!

A little try in the summer will reveal its great value!
But it is also very difficult. Most people can't perform the movements above, let alone guide the breathing exercises.

I am also trying the second method in the summer.

Milan: "Do you love me?"

Xia Tian: "The fact that you are still alive doesn't prove that I love you? I have been holding back!"

Milan's eyes were full of charm: "Don't you dare to hold back, come on~"

Oh my! The goblins are rampant!
Two minutes later, Milan was like a fish out of water, performing the Magikarp stunt - water splashing jump~
……

Milan is getting busier and busier now after get off work and on holidays - she is responsible for helping Xia Tian send and receive emails, and now there are more and more of them.

For example, I already have 100,000 words of manuscripts for Kunlun, but I certainly can’t send it all over. I have to finish it bit by bit.

Milan was in charge of the scale of this, sending out 5,000 to 10,000 words every month!

A caring little secretary~
The same goes for comics, "Blue Cat's Three Thousand Questions", "Panda Jingjing" and "Calabash Brothers". It's really busy!

Xia Tian thought, it seems impossible to ask three thousand questions, so let’s just ask a hundred!
It will be almost over in another year or so!
I'll talk about the second part later~
Summer: I always feel like I’m going to grow red hair!
Milan handed Xia Tian a letter: "Look at this."

"what happened?"

"The Reader's Digest magazine wrote to us, asking us to write an article for you. They also asked us to change our name."

"Change your name?"

"Well, I heard they were sued by Reader's Digest in the United States. They infringed their name."

"Ha~ Never mind. Don't bother with their letters from now on."

Reader Yi Lin read it a lot when he was young, so we can't give them the manuscript.

Aiding the evil!
……

Zhu Youguang told Xia Tian that there was a small painting by Xu Beihong, but Xia Tian no longer wanted it.

I have collected seven or eight large masterpieces in the past two years, and I don’t care about any smaller ones anymore.

It's just a hobby of collecting. It would be boring if I had so many.

Recently he wrote another short story of serious literature, or to be more precise, it should be classified as root-seeking literature.

It's called "Green Dragon Crescent Blade"~
This is not about martial arts, but the story of a barber.

This inspiration came from a barber named Uncle Jing in Yanjing City whom I met in the summer. He shaved heads here before the founding of the People's Republic of China. He shaved the heads of Mei Lanfang and others!
I tried it in the summer, and hey, a razor, it really feels different from the hand or electric clippers we have today!
Wow, this would have to be nominated for World Heritage status in South Korea!

In Japan, he is known as the “God of Traditional Hairdressing”!

So Xia Tian wrote this story about crossing mountains and rivers to shave the head of an old friend who was dying - "Green Dragon Crescent Blade"!
There are some shaving skills written about such as "three jumping knife", "Guan Gong dragging the knife", "Zhang Fei playing the drum", "two dragons emerging from the water", "stealing peaches in the moon", "Nezha exploring the sea" and so on!

(I read in high school, Han Shaogong's "Blue Dragon Crescent Blade")
(End of this chapter)