He turned around and was about to leave, but after walking two steps, he suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he didn't know that this colorful stone was made of glass. He thought it was a colorful stone, so he asked his mother to buy him several.
Later, when he moved to the country to live with his grandma, he was in a hurry, and the stones were not collected in time. Since then, he has never played with these things.
Thinking of this, he turned back to pick up the lonely stone and stuffed it into his coat pocket.
Not to mention, a ball not much bigger than a bird's egg is quite heavy.
When he arrived at Uncle Zhang's house, Shen Changan distributed the barbecue to Zhang Gu and the otaku ghost. Seeing that Uncle Zhang and Master Yan Yin were discussing some mysterious life philosophies, although he didn't quite understand it, he felt quite powerful.
The phone rang, and it was the call from the custom owner of the handmade shop that Shen Changan was looking for.
"It's done so quickly, doesn't it mean to pick it up at noon tomorrow?"
"Can I come and get it now?" Seeing that it was still early, Shen Changan wanted to get the gift that he specially customized for the Dao Nian as soon as possible.
"I'll be here within half an hour, please." Shen Changan hung up the phone and got up to go out the door.
"Chang'an, where are you going?" Zhang Gu was robbing the otaku ghost for grilled chicken wings when he saw that Shen Changan had just entered the door and was about to leave, "It's so late."
"I ordered a gift for a friend. I was supposed to get it tomorrow, but the owner made it today. I want to give it to him as soon as possible." Shen Changan said as he walked out. After walking out a few steps, thinking that Dao Nian might like this gift, his legs moved faster.
"Hey..." Zhang Gu chased to the door and looked at Shen Changan's back hurriedly leaving: "Isn't it too late to take a gift and give it to someone this evening?"
"Whatever night, give a gift to someone you care about, and the moment you get it, you want to give it to him even in the middle of the night." The otaku ghost nibbled at the roasted bones, "You cultivators don't understand us ordinary people. human emotions."
"Do you understand if you're a dead otaku?" Zhang Gu returned to the sofa and continued to grab a barbecue with the otaku ghost, "If you really understand, you won't be single until you die. If you want to get out of singleness, you probably have to wait until your next life. already."
"I remember that someone seemed to ask me to take him to play games just now?" The otaku ghost thought to himself, "I'm sorry, people who are single until their mothers die are the least angry..."
Zhang Gu: "..."
Remembering that he was scolded as a boxer in a certain game, he decided to admit it.
Shen Changan rushed all the way to the door of the store. Several nearby stores were closed, and only this store was still lit with dim lights.
"Boss, I'm sorry to keep you waiting." Shen Changan knocked on the door and walked in. The owner of the shop is an old man in his 60s or 70s. The shop less than 10 square meters looks a bit crowded. The owner is sitting under the handmade lamp and gently wiping the newly carved objects with a cloth.
Seeing Shen Changan come in, he put down the things in his hand, got up and took out a palm-sized box from the cabinet: "This is what you ordered."
Originally like this kind of tree carving, it took a long time to get a finished product. However, Shen Changan was lucky. When he came to choose a gift, he happened to value a small root carving that was about to be completed and no one bought it, so he immediately paid a month's salary to buy it.
"There aren't many people who like this kind of stuff now. Is the guy giving it to the elders of the family?" The owner shook his hand and put the box in Shen Changan's palm. The night in November was very cold, and there was no air conditioner in the store. Shen Changan was careless. It was cold when I touched the owner's hand.
He was a little embarrassed. In such a cold day, he made the owner wait for so long. He remembered that there was a fast food restaurant nearby that was not closed, and put the box back in the hand of the uncle: "Wait for me for two minutes, I'll be right back. ."
After running to the fast food restaurant to buy a cup of hot milk, Shen Changan gasped and put the milk in the owner's hand: "You take this warm hand, and I will pay you the balance."
The shop owner smiled while holding the milk: "You came just right tonight, my shop will be closed tomorrow."
Shen Changan, who took out his mobile phone and was about to scan the QR code on the wall to pay the bill, was stunned when he heard this. When he came over last night, the uncle said that he didn't want to lose his craftsmanship and wanted to find an apprentice. Why did you suddenly decide to close the door
"I've been a root carving all my life, and I came back to Wuming City in recent years to find a suitable apprentice." The owner's eyes swept across the various root carvings in the house, and his eyes were full of reluctance, "It's just life. There is always something unsatisfactory, that’s all.”
Shen Changan felt that the atmosphere was a little sad, he paid the balance and picked up the box with the root carving: "This is not for the elders, I want to give it to a friend, because... It is very beautiful and I like it very much. ."
"There are not many young people who like these traditional crafts anymore." The owner smiled, probably because he sat in the house all the year round and made tree carvings, his face looked a little pale under the light, "I was already asleep, but I thought of it. There is another order that has not been handed over to you, the customer, and I am always uneasy, but fortunately you came here tonight, otherwise it will not be handed to you tomorrow."
Shen Changan felt that this was a bit strange. Even if the store was to be closed tomorrow, would he not be in a hurry for this night
"Then... Thank you, you always take care of your health." Shen Changan put the gift box in the wide coat pocket, turned around and went out, seeing the shopkeeper still holding the cup of hot milk and smiling at him, he couldn't help but soften his heart and say more One sentence: "Drink the milk while it's hot, and you'll sleep better at night."
"Understood, young man." The owner smiled more kindly. "Young man, you are such a lucky person with such a good heart."
Shen Changan thought, he has no father or mother, and he is blessed with enough food and the whole family is not hungry. But thinking about the happy days he had spent after meeting Dao Nian recently, he felt that he was still a little lucky.
He walked through the cold intersection, and when he turned back, the lights of the root carving shop that looked cramped and worn out had gone out. A gust of wind blew, and it was so cold that he couldn't help shivering a few times. He quickly stuffed himself into the car and started the car to drive to Daonian's home.
After driving into the community to park the car, Shen Changan just stopped the car when he saw a few people walk out of Daonian's house with their heads down. This is because the business was not good enough and was criticized by Daonian. Otherwise, why would it be so sad.
He gave way to the side, ready to let them go first. Unexpectedly, the thin man walking in the front stopped, turned to look at him, and nodded politely to him: "Hello, Mr. Shen."
"Hello." Shen Changan was a little puzzled, how did these people know him? However, the state of these people seemed to be too bad, and he didn't ask much, so he had to watch them leave.
"Mr. Shen?" Shen Tu saw Chang An standing on the steps, and smiled: "Why are you here?"
"Has Daonian slept yet?" Shen Changan was embarrassed to tell them that he had specially prepared a custom gift for Daonian, and put his hands in his coat pocket with a guilty conscience, "I have something to ask him."
"Mister is not asleep yet." Hearing that Shen Changan came to look for Dao Nian, Shen Tu's smile became clearer, and he opened the door, "Come in quickly, it's cold outside."
After Shen Changan entered the house, he found that something was wrong with the parrot on the bird stand.
"What happened to this parrot?" Shen Changan took some food and put it in front of the parrot, but it didn't move.
"Maybe it's because I didn't see you today, so I'm not happy." Liu Mao walked up to Shen Chang'an and looked at Fei Ying, who was inactive, "Is that so, little parrot."
Feiying shook the feathers on her body and waved her wings: "Yes, yes..."
Shen Changan lightly tapped the feathers on its forehead, and said to Liu Mao, "I'll go up to find Daonian first, and you coax this bird first."
"Okay." Liu Mao said with a smile, "You didn't come over for dinner today, sir, you even used half a bowl less."
"How about that?" When Shen Changan heard this, he hurried upstairs.
As soon as Shen Changan left, Feiying lay down again. As a bird clan demon cultivator, the phoenix lineage disappeared, and even the elders in the clan could not count its traces. This was a huge blow to the bird clan and even the entire demon clan.
She couldn't be happier now.
I don’t know who stole the phoenix egg. Originally, the egg’s signs of life were already very weak, and it was barely maintained by the spiritual power of the elders every day.
Feiying didn't dare to think about it, but she also knew that this was not a good omen.
"Dao Nian." Shen Changan walked into Daonian's house, saw that he was still reading, and closed the door and said, "It's so late, why are you still reading?"
"It's so late, why are you still here?" Daonian glanced at him lightly.
"Hehe." Shen Changan smiled proudly, walked to Daonian's side, and whispered like a thief: "I ordered a small gift for you, because this is a bit expensive, so I only ordered it for you. "This kind of discriminatory treatment must not be heard by others.
He digged and digged in the pocket of his coat, took out the gift box, and accidentally dropped the colorful stone that he had just put in his pocket, but neither of the two parties cared about the colorful stone.
"This is... you specially prepared it for me?" Daonian stared at the box in Shen Changan's hand for a few seconds, then reached out and took it over.
The box was opened and there was a root carving inside. This root carving is not complicated. There are two little rabbits making medicine on the crooked moon, and on the tip of the moon, there is a half-blooming lily flower.
"Look at these two little rabbits, one is sitting still, and the other is pounding medicine with a smile, does it look like the two of us?" Shen Changan said, "When I saw this root carving yesterday, I wanted to buy it, but the owner of the shop wanted to buy it. There's still a little bit more to finish. I was supposed to get it tomorrow, but the owner just called me and said it was done, so I couldn't wait to get it back."
Daonian looked at the two little rabbits, the rabbits were carved so small, he really couldn't see how they looked like them.
But since Chang'an said that it is like, then it is like.
"Right, isn't it very similar?" Seeing Daonian staring at the two little rabbits, Shen Changan said happily, "I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I don't know what I can give you. I think this is good. Pretty again."
And he can afford it.
"Well, like." Daonian put the root carving on the head of the bed, took out his mobile phone and took a picture, and then opened the circle of friends.
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Only then did Shen Changan remember the colorful stones that fell on the carpet, and he picked them up and put them next to the vase on the cabinet: "People are pie from the sky, I am the colorful stones from the sky."
He took two steps back and looked at it carefully: "But this colorful stone like a bird's egg is quite suitable to be placed next to a vase."
Only then did Daonian notice the stone beside the vase, his eyelids trembled slightly, and his eyes stayed on Shen Changan for a long time: "This is, you picked it up?"
"Yeah." Shen Changan nodded, "I just got to the gate of the community today and was hit on the head by this thing. Fortunately, I was lucky and didn't get kicked."
Seeing that Daonian didn't seem to be interested in this kind of small stone of a few dollars, he put the stone in his coat pocket again: "I thought it was a bird's egg at first."
"For example, a multicolored divine stone falls from the sky, and after meeting the Son of Destiny, a phoenix or divine dragon emerges from its shell, and from then on, it reaches the pinnacle of life..."
Just as he was talking, Shen Changan suddenly stopped, trembling and took out the stone in his pocket.
"This... this... cracked."
So it wasn't the stone that opened his head, it was his head that smashed the stone into pieces
Shen Changan couldn't help but touched the place where he was smashed again. There was a small bag that was not very obvious. It hurt a little to the touch, and it wasn't hard.
So there is still a problem with the quality of this handmade colorful stone
"Squeak..." A pink bird with little fluff on its body, about the size of a thumb, crawled out of the stone with difficulty.
Shen Changan's hands shaking while holding the stone and the bird, he stared blankly at the bird that opened its mouth to eat, and then looked up at the expressionless Dao Nian: "Dao, Dao Nian, a bird popped out of the stone. ?!"
The author has something to say: Chang'an: Aw~ This ugly, small and weak bird was rejected by the mother bird and kicked out of the nest, right