Tomb Raiders Notes: If Innocence Had a Brother

Location: Beijing Siheyuan

"One by one, one by one, one by one." One by one in the courtyard of the Beijing City was very lively early in the morning.

I was wrapped in a military coat and holding a thermos cup in my hand, watching a group of half-year-old children practicing in the yard. The last person who behaved like this was Uncle Zhang, the doorman of my second uncle's small foreign-style building.

"It's better to be young and energetic." I said as I picked up the thermos cup and took a sip.

A week ago, I traveled all the way from Jilin to Beijing. My second uncle threw me into the current courtyard, then waved his sleeves and left. I moved in in a daze, and except for the manager who said it was the property of the Jie family, I didn't even see any serious Jie family members.

Although I am currently in the recuperation stage, I still maintain the same routine as my second uncle’s. Although I would rather sleep until midnight, this is one of the places where I practice martial arts in Jiejia Theater. This week I watched them practice every day, then have breakfast, bask in the sun, lunch, nap, moxibustion, dinner, and medicinal bath.

After a week like this, I really miss Zhang Tiezhu and Uncle Zhang who are far away in Changsha. No one here can even talk.

Today I still held my thermos cup and walked to the front yard with Hatcher in my hand. When we arrived at the place, we found a young man sitting on the stone pier facing the sun. In the open space in front of him, there was only a young man in his twenties, who was writhing up and down with two sticks. He was wearing a training uniform on a cold day, and several children who usually came ran to the other side of the yard.

Most of the children who practice Qigong on weekdays have bad voices. Most of the movements are basic skills, with only occasional kite flips, flying kicks and other highly ornamental movements, unlike today's dance with two sticks.

"Come here, kid." I was looking at it in fascination when the young man on the stone pillar waved me over.

I don’t blame him for admitting his mistake. Most of the martial arts practitioners in the courtyard have one of these military coats. I got this one from a martial arts practitioner.

The young man Shi Dunzi wore a black down jacket and a pair of Martin boots. Of course, it didn't matter what he wore. What mattered was that he wore a pair of sunglasses. I turned around and looked at the young man practicing Qigong. He was indeed quite handsome.

It should be Xie Yuchen and Heixiazi.

There was no place to lean on the stone pillar, and the black blind man was sitting in an awkward position.

"What are your orders?" I walked up to the blind man and said

"Coming so late, you are not active in practicing." The black blind man said and shook his head. "Sing a verse and I'll check your homework."

"Then let me just say something casually?" Hei Xiazi waved his hand and said, "Don't talk nonsense."

He pinched his throat and made a few sounds in the direction of the fake female voice. When he almost had the inner taste, he raised his hands and raised his breath, "Gold Medal, Silver Medal Announcement~"

The voice was so high that the stick in Xie Yuchen's hand rolled twice on the ground. The black blind man lost his balance and fell off the stone pier. His little face turned red as he couldn't hold in his breath.

"I'm sorry, this one is to the tune of Hebei Bangzi. I'll change it to the Peking Opera version." I frowned and thought for three seconds to find the key.

The black blind man got up from the ground, took a lunge, grabbed my shoulders and said, "Hero, spare your life!"

After breakfast, the three of them met in the front hall.

"Are you accustomed to living here if you are well-off?" Xie Yuchen said with a kind face? asked me.

"I'm used to it, I feel right at home." I replied, and in an instant the whole room was filled with a harmonious atmosphere of brotherhood and brotherhood.

I just met him and said a few words. Xie Yuchen seemed to be very busy. He made four or five phone calls in the morning, and a car parked at the entrance of the alley. He left in a hurry after a while, but the black blind man who came with him Stayed.

After that, life returned to peace, as if the appearance of the two of them were just two pebbles thrown into the lake.

"Hey, hey, hey, one by one, ah, ah, ah, one by one." It was another lively day.

"Ah! I'm begging you. You are a good person and will be rewarded. Please shut up." The black blind man covered his ears and looked for the sound with a ferocious expression.

I raised my orchid finger that I learned from my little master, turned my wrist, and pointed towards the blind man. "What did Brother Hei say? You can't dampen my enthusiasm for learning."

Being bored out of my mind, I decided to learn a skill and broaden my development path. So I practiced [get] every day.

The black blind man clenched and unclenched his fists over and over again, and finally stomped back into the backyard. I breathed a sigh of relief. I thought he was going to hit me, so I was ready to run away if things went wrong.

He continued to shout hoarsely, and after a while, the black blind man came back to kill him. The difference was that he was holding Jie Yuchen in his hand.

"He's just a kid, just pretend you can't hear him." Xie Yuchen made Ha Qie look impatient. "I just came back at midnight last night, and I'm going out soon, so you can't just rest for a while."

It seems that the black blind man is really annoying me. He didn't refute a word of Xie Yuchen's nagging. He even invited people to the compound with a smile. Well...it would be better if the smile was not distorted.

"Good morning, cousin." I showed my eight big white teeth.

"Good morning." Jie Yuchen broke away from the blind man's hand and replied to me.

"I've hired a gardener to guide you today. This won't dampen your enthusiasm. Come on, let's howl." I felt like I heard a bit of gnashing of teeth.

Jie Yuchen clarified the cause and effect and said, little brother, you can show as much as you have learned in the past two days. I am optimistic about you, so let's get started.

I said, well, look at you, and I thought about the single-hand movement taught by the little master. The whole person stands at attention, the body is straight and straight, behind the left hand, stretch out the right hand, the palm of the hand is downward, the fingertips of the right hand are upward, directly facing the face, and then point diagonally from the left to the top. His eyes followed what he pointed out with his right hand, thinking of his posture when he was still a little girl, and his movements were as gentle as possible. Xie Yuchen nodded

After doing this action, he raised his eyebrows at the blind man, conveying that the young master was so good.

I cleared my throat. I hummed those few basic sentences when I went to the toilet. They didn't just come out of my mouth.

[Wu Kang’s exclusive opera dividing line]

When I finished singing, Xie Yuchen said tremblingly, "I can't teach him, I can't be saved, please let him go."

"He howls every morning." The black blind man expressed his despair.

"...Thank you for your hard work." Xie Yuchen said this after being silent for a long time.

"I stopped him"

Suck suck

"He said that I dampened his motivation to study. With his voice, it would be difficult to sing just a few lines."

Suck suck

"Are you that thirsty?" The black blind man finally couldn't speak any more and turned to look at me. I saw that his eyes were filled with, oh yes, he was wearing glasses, so it was through the glasses that I saw his anger.

"Practicing is exhausting my throat. I'm a little thirsty. This water is too hot. You can continue to ignore me." I said as I took another sip of water with my thermal book. "Sure enough, you should drink more hot water in winter."

The black blind man glared at Xie Yuchen, seeming to be complaining about why it wasn't good to keep the naughty child next to him and just throw him outside to fend for himself?

"Well-off man, maybe you are just a little bit inferior in this aspect." Xie Yuchen put forward his opinion tactfully.

I nodded in agreement. “That’s why we need to work harder the day after tomorrow.”

"Hahaha, I think you are joking." said the black blind man.

"I didn't..." Xie Yuchen covered my mouth and said. "I think you could develop other hobbies."

"I think Jingyun Dagu is also good." My voice sounded a little dull through Xie Yuchen's hands.

……

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"Can I beat him?" Heixiazi asked Jie Yuchen.

"He's my cousin, dear." Xie Yuchen hesitated and seemed to be considering the feasibility. "We are all adults, we need to be more mature."

The blind man clapped his hands in agreement. Seeing that the matter was almost resolved, Jie Yuchen gave me a few words and went back to sleep.

However, the blind man stayed behind and snatched the stick from the martial artist on the side. "Master Hei will teach you the stick today, come on!"

In the end, the two of us were thrown out of the house by the unbearable boss.

I was confused. Although I had been taken care of by Wu Xie when I was a child, and later taught a lesson by my second uncle, this was the first time I had been thrown out of the house. I looked at the blind man beside me and said, "Am I going to be kicked out of my house now?"

The black blind man snorted angrily, got up and walked out. I groaned and slipped towards the back door.

"What are you doing?" The black blind man saw my sneaky look and asked.

"Go back." Just as we were about to reach the back door, the black blind man dragged me out by the collar and said as he walked, "Be more honest. Mr. Hua doesn't sleep well. You are too noisy and can't go back."

I was not happy when I heard that. I said, man, you are dancing like a tiger with a stick and chasing me. Why don't I howl for the sake of my life?

"Then Master Hei, can he hit you? It's very powerful. It looks strong, and it won't hurt at all." The blind man opened his mouth and said, "Are you going to hit the wall? Isn't it embarrassing?"

At the end of the day, I stood on the wall, in the cold wind. "People outside the city wanted to go in, and people in the city wanted to come out. I stood on the wall, thinking whether I should go in or come out."

"Come down!" Jie Yuchen ignored my sadness and said with a dark face, "Maybe I'll let the blind man beat you off the wall."

When the black blind man heard this, he was eager to try. He planned to pick up the stick on the ground, but Xie Yuchen stopped him with a glare.

"It'll be better if you hit the child a few more times." The black blind man kept smiling, but he didn't dare to pick up the stick thrown on the ground.

"Come down, I promise he won't hit you." Xie Yuchen said, holding his forehead.

As soon as I came down from the wall, the blind man and I were expelled from the house with a wave of his hands and mouth.