"Why are you here?"
The Taoist put down the phone he was fiddling with, put his hands behind his back and leaned closer to look at the plump young man who put down his backpack. Lu Liangsheng put down his brush and walked out as well. There was no change on his face, but he was feeling helpless in his heart. He just said a few polite words, but he really came. Judging from his posture and the words he said when he entered the door, he was probably planning to stay for a long time.
But since they are here, we can’t just drive them out, right
Before Lu Liangsheng could open his mouth, the Toad Taoist priest under the eaves stood up from his small recliner, jumped down with a serious look, put his webbed feet together and slightly raised his toad face.
"Since they are here, how can we ask them to go back? It's not a courtesy to treat guests. Besides, Lu Jun is here to seek refuge, so he must be living in poverty and in trouble. People like us who cultivate... hearts should not do such things. Jun, put the luggage in the room next door!"
"Hey, ok uncle!"
Lu Jun smiled widely, and did not refuse. He picked up his backpack and dragged his suitcase past the Taoist priest to the eaves of the main hall door. The Toad Taoist priest slightly tilted his head and whispered, "Did you bring snacks? The kind in bags, the kind that are crunchy when you bite them, and the more you eat, the more you enjoy it!?"
"I brought it. I knew my cousin liked it, so I bought a lot of it at the supermarket when I came here." The young man patted his backpack to signal, then stepped into the house and put the things he brought into the antique wardrobe. He hung them up as he spoke, and his voice could be heard in the courtyard outside.
"Uncle, cousin, and the Taoist priest outside, I'm actually not in financial difficulty. It's just that a film crew recently asked me to audition. Oh, that's incredible. There are more than 20 lines. I'm afraid I can't act well. I know my cousin is very capable and has many connections, so I thought, why don't I come to your place..."
After packing his clothes and shoes, Lu Jun pushed open the window frame with carved patterns, revealing a round face. "... I'm learning how to act from you. My cousin said you're better than those on TV. And, I've also recommended you to the crew. They happen to be short of people, so you can make a cameo appearance to raise the profile of their movie."
There was a lot of chatter on the other side of the window frame, but when he heard about the acting, Old Sun lost interest. He said "huh", waved his sleeves, took out his cell phone from his sleeves again, pressed his lips against his tongue, and focused on flicking at a woman who was dancing sexily. His hands were so fast that they left afterimages.
Lu Liangsheng was full of doubts. He had never supplemented these memories for Lu Jun. He looked under the eaves and sent a voice mixed with his magic power to Toad Taoist: "Master, what's going on?"
The toad on the recliner shrugged his shoulders, tilted his face slightly, held his flipper to his chin and coughed twice, "That time, I was trying to instill in this kid the memory that I was his uncle, and I was bragging about you. I don't know much about this world, but I know a little about the little people on TV, so I just mentioned it casually."
So that's how it is. Just correct it. Lu Liangsheng probably didn't want to have a stranger living next to him. He called out to the house, "Lu Jun." The slightly fat young man quickly responded, rushed out of the house, and took the broom from behind the door. He was quite diligent in sweeping the fallen leaves in the yard, and the leaves were gathered into a small pile. The young man raised his face and asked softly, "Cousin, is there anything else? It's okay. I'm at home alone and I can clean up sometimes. I'll go out to buy some vegetables later and I'll cook!"
After the words "I'll cook" came out, the Taoist who was blowing his fingers in front of the pavilion blinked his eyes and suddenly laughed. He raised his chin towards Lu Liangsheng over there and also used the sound of the law to convey: "I think this young man is not bad and quite hardworking. Why don't you just stay and clean the yard and light the fire to cook when you have nothing to do."
Lu Liangsheng glared at him, then turned his gaze to look at the figure in the corner of the yard. He tore out a leaf that was stuck in the mud, threw it into the pile of leaves and swept it into the shovel.
In a trance, the sun was setting, and the rays of light were pouring into the small fenced courtyard in my memory. My mother came out of the kitchen, nagging, and kicked away the hen that was blocking the way. She took a broom and swept the fallen cypress leaves in the yard out of the gate. When she saw someone picking the morning glory on her fence, she started yelling and cursing with the broom. Uncle Pan was so frightened that he quickly hid the flowers behind him and walked away.
"cousin?"
A rather straightforward address came from the side with a hint of doubt. Lu Liangsheng woke up from his memories and turned his head away. Lu Jun came closer and looked around, dragging a broom.
Lu Liangsheng frowned slightly and looked at him for a moment: "What?"
"Nothing, I just saw my cousin in a trance. The more I watched him, the more handsome he became. He's better looking than the protagonists on TV."
The image of the small courtyard with fences disappeared in his mind like an illusion. Lu Liangsheng collected his thoughts and smiled at the boy, "Many people say so, no need to flatter." He turned his hands behind his back, turned around and walked to the bamboo forest, picked up the brush and started practicing calligraphy again.
Old Sun and Toad Taoist were seldom seen. When they heard Lu Liangsheng say such a joke, they knew that he would not chase them away, so they continued to lie down and turn over to bask in the sun, or sat back on the stone steps and continued to flip through the videos.
"Cousin, I'm telling the truth!"
Lu Jun shouted towards the bamboo forest, cleaned up the garbage in the yard, rolled up his sleeves and went to the kitchen, lit a fire and cooked rice, simmered the rice in a wood stove, picked up the basket and said hello to the two people and one toad in the yard, then went out to the supermarket to buy vegetables. Not long after, he came back with two people and brought in a TV, which made the Toad Taoist quite satisfied. Even the bored and sleepy old donkey crawling under the locust tree excitedly squeezed into the main room.
"This kid..."
Looking at the exquisite and elegant main room, with a TV placed there, it immediately seemed out of place, but the master and the Taoist priest were watching it with great interest.
Never mind, let them be...
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It was getting dark. Lu Jun prepared dinner and came out of the kitchen with dishes. He placed them on the coffee table in the main room and sat down around the coffee table. Most of the dishes were not eaten during the Sui and Tang dynasties. As soon as they were on the table, three pairs of chopsticks, two large and one small, rose and fell from the plates. Lu Jun had just brought the rice bowl, and before he had even put the chopsticks in the bowl, four plates started spinning on the coffee table with a slight "clang clang" sound.
"Uncle... Cousin... What happened just now? Where's the food?"
Lu Jun opened his mouth, reacted, and quickly reached out to pick up the plate with only soup left. The next second, before his hand touched it, the plate disappeared in the blink of an eye, and landed in the Taoist's hands and poured on half a bowl of rice. The chopsticks moved a few times, and the soup disappeared visibly in the chewing mouth. Lu Jun couldn't hold the chopsticks steadily, and they fell to the ground with two clangs.
"That Lu Jun."
Lu Liangsheng ate in a very polite manner. He wiped the oil stains from the corners of his mouth with his fingertips and put down his bowl and chopsticks. "You want to act... in a play. I wonder if there is anything your cousin can teach you?"
When it comes to this kind of thing, Hong Lian is the best at it, but it's a pity that she is not around.
"I don't know either, but cousin, just let the actors on TV teach me. I'm not greedy!" After being changed by the words, Lu Jun seemed to have forgotten what happened just now. He picked up the rice and put it into his mouth. While chewing, he pointed at the TV behind him.
Lu Liangsheng turned his head and looked at the flashing images on the screen, a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth. Even if he couldn't teach it himself, it didn't mean that the people inside couldn't teach it, right
Just then, a blonde woman with a gun in hand was fighting with a group of ragged, bloody corpses.
"It's her!"
He stretched out his hand, grabbed it, and then threw it out of the door. A wisp of clear air passed through the screen, passed through the main room, and flew into the night outside. In less than a moment, there was a knock on the door from the other side of the courtyard, mixed with a series of foreign words that Lu Liangsheng could not understand.