please let go

At the end of the semester, Jiang Chen flew home to celebrate the new year with his family.

A family of five was sitting in the living room watching the Spring Festival Gala, Tang Miao and Jiang Yiming were also grabbing red envelopes in the WeChat group, and Jiang Chen was busy replying to those group messages of congratulations.

He would still receive some friend requests, and he would ignore those who did not indicate their purpose.

[He Yi]: My brother has changed his major!

[Jiang Chen]: Where did you go?

【He Yi】: Chinese medicine!Hahaha I will be an old Chinese doctor in the future!

[Jiang Chen]: Very good haha.

He remembered that Li Yuxiu had always had problems with his stomach and intestines, and He Chuan said that he needed to use traditional Chinese medicine to recuperate slowly.

That person worked part-time for his family to make money, studied for Jiang Chen's university entrance exams, and even the major he chose was probably because of Li Yuxiu's illness.

It feels like He Chuan has been living for others all his life.

[He Yi]: Does Brother Jiang still like my brother?If you let it go...can you tell me...

Jiang Chen looked at He Yi's news and suddenly realized that half a year had passed.

[Jiang Chen]: If He Chuan lets go, then I will let go.

【He Yi】: Oh, yes!On behalf of my brother, I would like to say Happy New Year!

Since the two separated, He Yi chatted with him more often.Jiang Chen didn't know what it meant, he might not be able to let it go, but if He Chuan was planning to give up, then he might as well pretend to be more straightforward.

"Come eat glutinous rice balls!" Ye Jiu said in the kitchen

Jiang Chen put down his phone and went into the kitchen to scoop up glutinous rice balls in the pot, "Grandma, I don't eat glutinous rice balls, just four bowls will do!"

"Ann? Didn't you eat all of it last year?" Ye Jiu asked a little strangely.

"Last year..." Jiang Chen felt a little uncomfortable looking at the white glutinous rice balls in the bowl, and paused, "Last year I was anxious to go out, this year I don't need to go out."

Ye Jiu felt sorry for his grandson, so he never forced Jiang Chen to eat glutinous rice balls. Looking at the hand holding the porcelain bowl, he couldn't help asking, "Every year I come back, I feel like you've lost weight again."

Jiang Chen smiled, looked down at the white-haired old man, "I have a good meal."

The two came out of the kitchen with porcelain bowls, and heard the other three discussing something.

Ye Jiu asked what happened.

Jiang Wenqing sighed and said, "Tang Miao's sister's son, Zhou Mei, has not been married for so many years. This year, he brought a boy home during the Chinese New Year."

Jiang Chen pushed the bowl in front of his family and listened to the conversation silently.

"No wonder the family made him go on a blind date..." Ye Jiu asked again: "Then what did his parents say?"

Tang Miao said: "My sister discussed it with me. Zhou Mei has passed the age of ignorance, and the two of them are not together casually, they have been talking for several years."

"But your sister's family doesn't have a baby for a week, so there is no one to take care of them." Ye Jiu said.

"That's right..." Tang Miao said worryingly.

"In the future, our two generations will be gone, they will have no children, and they will be alone!"

Jiang Chen couldn't help but interjected, "Don't they have each other?"

He believed that Gu Chen would always be by Zhou Mei's side.

The eyes of the four were all focused on him, Jiang Chen hurriedly shut his mouth, exchanged glances with his mother, and received a warning.

The two old men didn't know about Jiang Chen, and they knew from their attitude just now that they didn't approve of this relationship. If Jiang Chen leaked his words, it would be a big blow to them.

Jiang Chen understood He Chuan's feelings again, fearing that his relatives would not accept it, so he tried his best to hide the relationship.

"I really can't understand the thinking of young dolls now, but I feel that it is not impossible to view those videos on the Internet. If you are in a hurry, you may do some dangerous things, so it's better to be like this."

Tang Miao nodded, "My sister has already accepted it, but my brother-in-law disagrees."

"Two men? Is it acceptable? Outrageous!" Jiang Wenqing, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said.

Jiang Yiming explained: "Dad, times are different, young people are more and more open."

Jiang Chen lowered his head, knowing that his parents were speaking for him, his eyes were so moist that he couldn't clearly see the blessings that popped up on the phone screen.

There is so much fairness in this world. People have a balance in their hearts, and they measure everything from their own perspective, but they often forget that people are independent individuals, and this standard can never be unified.

It snowed again in February.

The snow here is no bigger than in Nanjing, like dandruff from people who don't wash their hair.But the locals are obsessed with snow too much, and it has become a trending topic on Weibo.

Jiang Chen clicked on WeChat and Twitter, and all he saw were snow scenes posted by his friends, but He Chuan's circle of friends was still completely clean.

It was so clean that the two people didn't know each other.

Tang Miao wore a ball head, and wore a black base layer under the white suspender skirt, and then put on a black woolen coat, "Chen Chen, let's go! Let's go to the temple!"

"What are you going to do in the temple?" Jiang Chen asked.

"Go worship the Bodhisattva!" Tang Miao didn't put on make-up on purpose today, and the light pink lipstick showed her complexion very well.

"Is it just the two of us?" Jiang Chen didn't know why his mother suddenly came to the temple to pray for blessings. Anyway, staying at home was boring, so he went with her.

"Your dad is waiting for us in the parking lot!" Tang Miao took Jiang Chen's arm and said, "Why are you wearing so little? Go add some more clothes!"

"Oh." Jiang Chen obediently went back to the room, and put on another black knitted cardigan.

After a two-hour drive, I couldn't drive to the section of the mountain road. After being stuck for half an hour, the car didn't move. Jiang Yiming had to park the car on the side of the road, and Tang Miao and Jiang Chen walked to the destination.

Arrived in about an hour.

"How do you know about this temple?" Jiang Chen looked up and saw some dilapidated stone arches, as if they were about to collapse in a second.

As soon as I approached, I found that the stone pillars were covered with small advertisements, which did not look like a temple at all. There were also food stalls selling roasted sweet potatoes and candied haws inside the arches, but there was an endless stream of people entering and leaving.

"I heard that this temple is very spiritual!" Tang Miao dragged him into it.

Once inside, the surroundings were filled with the smell of burnt paper money, and Jiang Chen saw the temple to the right.The distance between him and the temple is separated by hundreds of stone steps. Even so, the red building does not seem narrow, and the lingering green smoke gives people an illusion that they are far away.

There is such a broken stone arch outside, but the temple is quite impressive, and it is really unique.

Jiang Chen felt a little tired when he saw the stone steps, "Mom, you can go."

"Aren't you going?" Tang Miao asked.

"I'll rest for a while." Jiang Chen raised his hand to signal Tang Miao to leave first.

Tang Miao picked up her white skirt and stepped on the steps, saying to herself, "Flat shoes are good to wear." Then she climbed up the stone steps step by step.

"Hey! Young man, do you want to tell your fortune?" Tang Liang's male voice stood out from the noisy crowd.

Jiang Chen turned around and saw a middle-aged man who was a head shorter than himself.

The man was so cold that he almost shrank his neck into the dark blue down jacket, his hands were empty, only the red chilblains were very conspicuous, and he was not serious at all.

Jiang Chen wondered where the liar came from, and coldly refused, "No."

"I'm a master, and I won't take money from you!" The man raised his eyebrows with treacherous eyebrows, "I can do everything! Look at faces, palms, and horoscopes!"

"Since he is a master, why is the business so bleak? Ask someone to tell your fortune for free?" Jiang Chen obviously didn't believe it. He guessed that this person didn't want money first, and after a calculation, he said that he would charge some hard work fee or something.

"Forget it." The fortune teller put his hands behind his back and planned to walk away.

Jiang Chen looked at the back of the man leaving, then caught up with him and stopped him, "Can you read the horoscope? Calculate whether I match his horoscope or not."

Even knowing that this person is a liar, he still wants to hear something nice.

"Bazi marriage? How old are you?" The fortune teller was so cold that he rubbed his hands with a puzzled look on his face.

"Eighteen." Jiang Chen answered honestly.

"Pfft!" The fortune teller teased: "Young man, you think far ahead."

Jiang Chen was a little upset, "Are you laughing at me?"

"No, no, no," the fortune-teller quickly waved his hands, "Usually at your age, it's considered peach blossom or career, but this is the first time I've met someone who is anxious to calculate this." He said, "Come on, let's talk about your birthday."

Jiang Chen said his birthday.

The fortune teller clicked his tongue, "What time is it?"

This liar lied to people and lied in a good way.

Jiang Chen first said his specific birth time, and then took out his mobile phone to send a message to He Yi.

[Jiang Chen]: When is your brother born?

"Snake's three-in-one zodiac is Ox, Snake, and Rooster. Your two zodiac signs are compatible. Both men and women are gold, and if the two golds are hard to hard...November 11nd...Xinsi year, Wuxu month, Jisi day, Bingyin time, The sun is the pillar of the sky and the earth is dry, and your five elements are short of water..." The fortune teller has already begun to calculate.

"Huh? How short is it?" Jiang Chen was still looking down at his phone, waiting for some news.

"You won't get any water," said the fortune-teller.

Jiang Chen: "..."

"But in your five elements, the earth is prosperous, and you like to carry wood and fire. Avoid too much water, and it is not suitable to carry gold and water. Hey... the earth is prosperous and water can be dredged, but when the water is weak and the earth is weak, it will be blocked."

Jiang Chen couldn't understand these, so he interrupted him: "I'm just asking if the horoscope matches."

"Tsk, why are you so anxious?" the fortune teller smiled.

The phone rang.

【He Yi】: My mother said that my brother seems to be around 03:30.

【He Yi】: What's the matter?

[Jiang Chen]: I suddenly want to ask.

Jiang Chen said to the fortune teller, "He's 03:30."

"Oh, then her year of Xinsi, the month of Jihai, and the day of Jiaxu are also Bingyin's time. Your marriage palaces are not in conflict. She is a tree in the sky and needs gold to help her, but she avoids gold and water, and likes civil engineering." .”

"so?"

"Your five elements may be quite right for him."

"Maybe?" Jiang Chen knew that this person was unreliable, took out a red banknote, and repeated: "Maybe?"

The man accepted the money with a smile, "Let me sort it out for you. You have one metal, three earth, three fire and one wood among the five elements, but his heavenly stem is a tree, and he needs earth and fire in his life. Is it suitable here?"

Jiang Chen didn't know how he counted the five elements, so he pretended to understand and nodded.

"She needs gold to help her, but she is afraid of having too much gold. You happen to have one gold, so it's a good match here?"

Jiang Chen nodded.

"She avoids water, but you are short of water in the five elements, how about this?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "You said that my life lacks water, but does he have a lot of water?"

"Actually, life creates the five elements, and it didn't say that what is lacking must be made up for. I just said that you should avoid too much water. Besides, there are many kinds of water. The water in the stream is clear, and the soil near the road is dirty. The two should not meet. .”

"What kind of soil am I?" Jiang Chen asked.

But the fortune teller said: "You...Da Lin Mu Ming, benevolent and kind."

Jiang Chen didn't understand why he was prosperous and his life was a big tree, "What about him?"

"He... the mountain is on fire."

"Isn't that restraining me?"

"The five elements restrain each other, just like the wood can restrain the earth, if the soil is too much, the tree will break, but when the soil is weak and the tree is weak, it will fall." Another fortune teller frowned and found that things are not simple, "Although the fate of wood and fire match, but Your wood life and soil are prosperous, there is no need to use fire to make soil, and lack of fire is a good thing. The earth is heavy, and the earth produces metal, and the wood overcomes the earth. It depends on the situation, and she has one metal and two woods in the five elements. .”

Judging from the fortune-telling, He Chuan seemed to be trying to beat him.Jiang Chen got a headache when he heard it, "So?"

The fortune teller laughed twice, "Don't worry! Hardness and softness are pushed together, and change is in it! Yin-yang and five elements will change according to time, place, and people."

"She is a mix of officials and killers, official officials represent husbands, and partial officials represent lovers. She has both characters. Some fortune tellers will say that this kind of woman cannot marry, but marriage cannot be decided by ten gods alone, like female fate. Restrain official killings, whether Ke's official killings are jealous or use gods, this also needs to be determined."

Jiang Chen was thoughtful, "Then what if he is a man?"

The fortune teller smiled, "A man?"

"Can a man marry?" Jiang Chen added, "I'm not joking."

"Young man, you didn't come to see if the horoscope is right? Since you have chosen him, will you still believe this? No matter whether the horoscope is right or not, you will not change people, right?"

"I want to ask for auspicious luck during the Chinese New Year, can't I?" Jiang Chen originally thought that this person was a liar, the kind who said nice things to make people happy and then begged for money, but he didn't expect to say so many mysterious things.

"Hahahaha! You two are a match made in heaven, I said so."

"I thought you were a liar, and I half believed what you said before." Jiang Chen smiled slightly: "But I completely believe your last sentence."

"Eh..." The fortune teller scratched his head embarrassingly, "Actually, this thing may not be 100% accurate, I'm here to practice..."

"Thanks anyway," Jiang Chen said with a smile, "Regardless of whether the horoscope matches or not, he should be in my destiny."

When people are young, they always like to check whether the zodiac sign of the person they like is compatible. If the zodiac sign matches, then it is accurate.

When I grow up, I like to see if the horoscopes are compatible. If they are compatible, they will get married, but if they are not compatible, they may be separated.

The horoscope determines the fate of a person and is related to life-long events. You can't find reasons to continue liking like you did when you were young.

Jiang Chen turned around and stepped up the stone steps, stopped on the open space on the way, and looked at the big incense burner in the center filled with all kinds of incense, even the two-meter-long flat-mouthed stone burner couldn't hold the three or six sticks of incense in the hands of pilgrims.

He also went to buy a few sticks of incense, put the incense into the stove on the other side to ignite, and then inserted the incense into the incense burner like everyone else, watching the green smoke rising, and felt that belief is a wonderful thing.

Just ten minutes ago, he, who was baptized by materialism, thought that the horoscope was nonsense, and now he wished that the two horoscopes could not be combined again.

When you meet someone you really like, you just keep breaking the usual routine.

Jiang Chen saw that many people did not go through the main entrance, but went to step over the threshold of the side entrance, and asked the old man next to him what he wanted.

The old man actually asked angrily: "Are you really sincere? You have come here to burn incense and worship Buddha, don't you know?"

Jiang Chen was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect the old man's tone to be so aggressive, and he wasn't angry, "Grandpa, if I wasn't sincere, I wouldn't have come to ask you."

"Oh, that's right. We usually go through the two doors on the side. The men step on the left foot first, and the women step on the right foot. You can't step on the threshold, and you can't step on the futon to get in." The old man explained.

"Um, ok, thanks. I see."

Jiang Chen went in as he did, looked up and saw a tall golden Buddha, and followed the crowd to kneel down in line.

He knelt on the futon, kowtowed and piously made his first wish:

"Bodhisattva, I pray that the word 'bitterness' will never have anything to do with my He Chuan."

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