Protocol Refinement [Wearing the Book]

The end of the year is coming in a blink of an eye.

Aunt Yun asked Shen Cizhou whether it would be suitable for the two families to celebrate the New Year together this year. Of course, Shen Cizhou had no objection. He and Ji Linge could only cook some simple dishes. My aunt took care of it.

She came over with her long-term worker Yun Dong to help with cleaning, and drove Shen Cizhou and Ji Linge out of the house with a big wave of her hand, and gave them a long list for them to follow to buy vegetables.

Shen Cizhou and the two were locked outside the door, holding the paper sheet and looking at each other, and finally smiled and held hands and drove.

There are no large supermarkets in the town, but a vegetable market. The two came out early and stood out from the crowd of little old men and women with their hands behind their backs. Even if there were many people, they didn't have to worry about getting separated, so they decided to split up.

Shen Cizhou tore the sheet of paper in half, Ji Linge took away the meat and seafood part, and teased with a smile: "I'll do the interesting work."

Shen Cizhou didn't refuse, pulled his collar and gave him a quick kiss, "Thank you, Brother Ji."

However, when he really separated from Ji Linge, Shen Cizhou suddenly noticed some subtle changes around him. Originally, Ji Lingge would separate people when he walked in front, but Shen Cizhou only needed to hold hands and follow him easily. Feel the crowding.

He stopped in the crowd for a moment, a little funny, feeling that he was really spoiled, he almost forgot that before Ji Linge came, he was always alone.

He braced himself up, took out the paper slip, glanced at the green vegetables he wanted to buy, accurately located the green booth, and squeezed through.

When the two returned at the door, they couldn't help laughing when they saw the exhaustion on each other's faces after running 3000 meters.

"These grandpas and aunts are too crowded, and their combat capabilities are amazing..." Ji Linge complained with a smile, "Like a loach, they slipped under my arm and snatched a piece of bacon I liked."

Shen Cizhou nodded with lingering fear.

"Let's go, what else have you bought?" Ji Linge saw something out of the corner of his eye, "Chuan'er, the shoelaces are untied."

Shen Cizhou raised his foot to look at the snow boots, and was about to put his things down, but Ji Linge had already pulled him to a corner with few people, put down his things, and naturally knelt down to tie his shoes.

"Cough...what are you doing..." Shen Cizhou buried his face in the scarf with his ears burning red, "I can do it myself, so many people are watching..."

"Who should I look at?" Ji Linge raised his head and looked around. After those meaningful eyes met his lazy but domineering eyes, he immediately flinched back. He sneered, "Chuaner, isn't same-sex marriage all Is it legal? How can someone look like a newly unearthed cultural relic?"

His voice was neither high nor low, just enough for some people to hear.

Shen Cizhou thought to himself, is this a small city after all...

But the shoelaces have been tied, and Ji Linge took all the bags in his hand, "I haven't said anything yet, what else haven't I bought?"

"Couple and blessing..." Shen Cizhou pursed his lower lip, "Let's go buy red paper and ink, I will write it myself."

Unexpectedly, these days, it is easy to buy ready-made ones, but it is hard to find good-looking semi-finished red paper. The two of them put the things in the trunk and locked them, and walked two streets to buy what they wanted.

The paper surface sprinkled with gold and red background is very festive and beautiful, and I bought firecrackers and fireworks by the way.

Turning the corner, the crowd suddenly became dense, most of them were middle-aged and elderly people, and there were fireworks in front of it. There was actually a small temple, which was not in the deep forest but in the market, so the black tiles and red walls were tinged with the joy of the New Year.

It seems that the gods and Buddhas are also celebrating the new year.

Shen Cizhou never liked to go to crowded places, but Ji Linge seemed to have never seen this kind of scene before. He opened his eyes curiously, lowered his head and asked Shen Cizhou, "Is this a temple? What are you doing?"

"A place where gods and Buddhas are enshrined." Shen Cizhou explained, "or it is a place where beliefs are enshrined. People who want to come here to light a stick of incense, or donate some incense money, hoping that gods and Buddhas will bless their wishes to come true..."

Ji Linge: "Huh?"

He didn't seem to understand at all, and still looked at Shen Cizhou blankly.

"Forget it." Shen Cizhou gave up explaining, and pulled him along with the crowd like a small temple, "Go and see for yourself."

The two-person-high main entrance is open, and the front hall is directly in front of you. On both sides, there are statues of heavenly kings. The three-meter-high colorful statues are painted with blue skin. They hold magic weapons and look down at the believers coming and going .

Ji Linge was a bit out of place among the crowd of prostrating people. He opened his mouth to say something, but Shen Cizhou covered his mouth.

"Don't say that word." Shen Cizhou whispered: "It doesn't matter if you don't believe it, but you must respect other people's beliefs."

Although Ji Linge was not in awe, he still understood the etiquette, blinked at Shen Cizhou, and moved his lips against his palm.

"understood."

The two walked through the front hall and arrived at the small square.

To the north of the square is a statue of Avalokitesvara about two stories high, with benevolent brows and eyes lowered, and behind it is the main hall.

The temple is so small, but the incense is good near the New Year's Eve. Many elderly people who cannot travel far may prefer to come here to enjoy a stick of incense.

"Are you still entering the main hall?" Shen Cizhou scratched Xia Ji Linge's palm, "It seems that there is a charge for the main hall."

"Let's not go, there's nothing to see." Ji Linge grabbed his hand and put it in his pocket together, "Anyway, I can't understand it. There are no such things in the interstellar age. Humans don't need gods. We use technology to stand shoulder to shoulder with gods." .”

"Indeed..." Shen Cizhou breathed out, "But no matter what era, there are always people who can't get what they want, or can't get rid of the current predicament, so they want to rely on external things, so they have faith."

"Really?" Ji Linge smiled disapprovingly, "Then I believe in the knife in my hand and my mecha."

"That's right, it's a bit difficult for you to understand." Shen Cizhou pulled him, and the two of them walked out side by side, "You, if you ask for something, you will crawl over the mountain of knives and sea of ​​fire in front of you, and grab it yourself."

"So why do you have to come in to spoil the scenery?" Shen Cizhou glared at him.

Ji Linge said, "Curious, I haven't seen it before."

The two walked out from the side door, walked along the street to the parking lot of the market, Ji Linge went around to the other side of Shen Cizhou to warm his other hand, and continued the conversation along the topic, "What about you, Chuaner? Do you believe this?"

Shen Cizhou smiled, "Brother Ji, we are the same kind."

Thoughtful, Ji Linge walked quietly for a while, then turned his head and lowered his eyes, and said, "Xiao Chuaner, I will not let you have what you can't ask for, nor will I let you fall into a dilemma that you can't get out of. , so you never need a god."

Shen Cizhou stopped in his tracks.

The dry and cold wind in winter passes through the street corner, bringing the smell of gunpowder after firecrackers are set off, and the light woody fragrance of Ji Lingo's body.

Shen Cizhou inexplicably thought that he had read a magical ABO article in order to study the dog blood rebirth article, and he sneered at the behavior of relying on pheromones to find a partner.

Humans are not animals, how can they find a partner by smell?

However, at this moment, he felt that the setting of the book might make some sense, and the aura of Ji Linge would make him feel at ease.

"What's wrong?" Ji Linge asked him, "Tired from walking?"

"Tired." Shen Cizhou said along the way: "Carrying me?"

Ji Linge was suspicious: "I tied your shoelaces for you just now, and you had to bury your head in the pile of tomatoes to make a fake one. Why are you being carried on the street now?"

Shen Cizhou: "...Can you recite it?"

Of course I recited it.

Ji Linge didn't let Shen Cizhou carry things, fearing that the little paws of Tsundere Chuan Miaomiao would be cold, he stuffed the things into the hood of Shen Cizhou's down jacket, and then carried him firmly on his back.

Shen Cizhou hooked Ji Linge's neck, and pressed against his broad back, holding back the tears that couldn't flow up.

He was quite hopeless, and he didn't know what Ji Lingo said just now that touched his sensitive nerves, maybe it was something he couldn't ask for, maybe it was a predicament he couldn't get out of, anyway, Shen Cizhou wanted to cry for a moment.

He himself didn't understand why there was such a big mood swing, it was inexplicable, and he was even more embarrassed to let Ji Linge see it, so he recited it by the way.

Shen Cizhou also felt that he didn't need the so-called belief.

False gods are high above, watching life's misery with indifferent eyes, while the real gods carry him forward and walk the road he doesn't want to walk for him.

The two delayed going to the small temple for a while, and when they returned home, Aunt Yun had finished cleaning, and when she took the ingredients, she didn't forget to complain about the delay between the two of them, and asked Yun Dong, who was grabbing the red envelope, to go to the kitchen to help him chop the bones.

Yun Dong reluctantly put down his phone, Ji Linge took the initiative to ask Ying, "Aunt Yun, I'll chop your bones for you, let him play."

These words like dismissing a child successfully provoked Yun Dong. He looked at Ji Linge, and said with confidence: "Don't think that you can chop bones if you practice a little strength in the gym. That's technical work."

"Really?" Ji Linge took off his coat and rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, "Then some people can't even match the strength from the gym, so they probably haven't reached the level where they can talk about skills?"

The two squeezed into the kitchen like fighting cocks, but pushed Aunt Yun out instead.

Although Shen Cizhou was also a man, sometimes he couldn't understand their strange desire to win, so he spread gold and red paper on the table, soaked the brush and prepared to write on it.

Aunt Yun yelled when she saw it, and pushed her grandma over to watch, as if she was watching a children's talent show. Grandma laughed out of face, and applauded before she started.

After his grandfather passed away, Shen Cizhou never saw this posture again. In the eyes of that woman, it seemed that everything he knew was nothing worth mentioning, and he had nothing to be proud of.

His ears were hot, and he was even a little nervous.

Aunt Yun even asked: "Xiao Zhou, can Auntie record a video? What, Auntie won't post it."

Shen Cizhou nodded blankly, "Well, yes."

The brush was full of ink, and Shen Cizhou paused on the edge of the can lid that served as an inkstone. He originally wanted to write poetry, but he caught a glimpse of Aunt Yun and Grandma with simple faces from the corner of his eye. Kindness, kindness and auspiciousness".

Hengpi is safe every year.

"Tsk..." Yun Dong who didn't know when he came out was amazed, "It's amazing, the young master has a skill."

Ji Linge was on the other side, and while Aunt Yun and grandma were watching the couplet, he quickly kissed Shen Cizhou.

"As expected of my boat."

Yun Dong who accidentally saw it: ...

I really don't see it, can you think about the feelings of a broken-hearted person like him.

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