What is it like to be a wizard in modern times?

It was a fine day to go to Tan's old house.

It rained continuously for more than a week at the beginning of November, until the night before the departure, it was still raining sparsely, but in the morning, the sun came out, the sun fell on the wet ground, and shone on the shining three in a luxury car.

Tan Xueshu's white Bentley, Tan Yuping's black Mercedes, Gao Minghong's most ostentatious, red convertible Ferrari show off, driving a sports car to the old city where the road conditions are complicated and daily traffic jams makes people wonder if he has a brain pit.

"Here, here!" Gao Minghong saw Banxi's figure appearing from a distance, and immediately waved his hands to greet him. He enthusiastically opened the car door and wanted to share the car with Banxi—by the way, he learned about the person who ran away from home for 30 years from Banxi. , an uncle who is unrestrained, unrestrained and full of stories.

For this reason, he deliberately drove his most chic red Ferrari. He has only driven this car once since he bought it. He ate the car for more than an hour early in the morning on the inner ring road of Shenshi morning rush hour. The exhaust gas has never been touched since parked in the garage.

Banxi nodded and greeted Gao Minghong, skipped the Ferrari, paused for a while on Tan Xueshu's white Bentley, and finally followed Tan Yuping's expectant and longing eyes, and got into his black Mercedes.

Sit right next to him!

Tan Yuping scrambled the garbled codes in his mind, holding his right hand with his left hand and taking a deep breath. Unlike Tan Xueshu, whose elder nephew suddenly fell from the sky, he had plenty of time to prepare before he came. Referring to his elder nephew Gao Minghong, he thought a lot about what young people are interested in now. Topics, but seeing Bancy himself, he felt that those topics were a bit hard to say.

Although Banxi is the younger one, he looks much more mature and stable than Gao Minghong - very much like the style of his elder brother Tan Yuzhou in his memory.

Seeing that the atmosphere in the car became more and more awkward due to the silence, the driver pressed the car stereo in time. The melodious music was an excerpt from a classic musical, so Tan Yuping finally found a topic to start with, "This disc is clearly for me. , I heard Xue Shu said that you went to see his performance, what do you think?"

"Mingming" is Gao Minghong. Since "Honghong" sounds like a little girl, Gao Minghong accepted the pet name "Mingming".

"Very good." Bancy replied, "The acting skills are very full, and the singing is also very emotional...He likes the stage very much."

Tan Yuping said with a smile: "At that time, he made a fuss about learning music, and the house almost turned upside down."

His mother, Ms. Tan Yalin's desire to control has not weakened with age at all, but has extended from her children to her grandchildren. Since Tan Yuping is still single and has no children, she wholeheartedly wants a man who can take care of both families. Grandson, let the prosperous Tan family swallow the sunset Gao family.

So her grandson, whom she had placed high hopes on, disagreed and went to music. One can imagine how annoyed she would be. During that time, Tan Yuping, who had a gentle temper, shook his head and smiled wryly when he thought of it, feeling like he was back in college.

When he was in college, the conflicts in his family were the most intense.

Tan Xueshu, who was engaged, started arguing with his mother as soon as they met. He had to comfort his sister and be careful not to blow up his mother's temper. The mental state of his elder brother Tan Yuzhou was also worrying. Tan Yuping bumped into Tan Yuzhou sitting in the garden more than once in the middle of the night. In the wind, the back is stiff and lonely like a silent ghost.

The eldest brother is the contradiction between reality and dream, and the younger sister is a life-long happy marriage. He was caught in the middle as a college student at the time, and he had no time to get angry at his wish that his mother changed him and the company he didn't like very much. Internship, in a blink of an eye, became the elder brother's emergency backup, and the younger sister's greatest confidence in that failed marriage. Since then, her life has run counter to her dream.

"Both Xueshu and I know that feeling." Tan Yuping took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and held it between his fingers without lighting it. "Family should always be a solid backing."

So he agreed, and Tan Xueshu also agreed, and they also reached the age where they didn't want to listen to objections.That year, Gao Minghong happily posted the admission letter of the Conservatory of Music, like a beautiful military medal, which they posted over and over in the circle of friends.

It was as if the afterimage of their dream was also gently echoing on Gao Minghong's body.

After chatting about Gao Minghong, Tan Yuping turned the subject to Banxi through the Huatou, asking about Tan Yuzhou's life abroad and about Banxi's mother, carefully considering the tone of each word, so as not to let the first Young people who met once felt offended.

He also cared about Bansy's life in China, and especially asked Tan Xueshu to talk to him about his living conditions for half an hour.After asking Banxi that he is satisfied with the current community, he also agreed that the old community is better if it is more lively, and the neighbors will take care of you to copy water, electricity, coal, and pay attention to garbage classification. It is very suitable for Banxi who is not familiar with everything. Residence of foreigners.

Then he knew that Banxi didn't have a car but didn't have a driver's license, so he gave up his idea of ​​giving Bansi a new car as a meeting gift.

But he still has to think about what is more appropriate to give. Given that the old mother they are about to see is too lethal, preparing a gift can effectively alleviate the psychological shadow left by this experience on young people.

After all, Banxi was not a child who grew up under the shadow of Tan Yalin, and he couldn't laugh like Gao Minghong when he was pointed at his nose and scolded the trash to get out.

Tan Yuping was so anxiously thinking about the upcoming terrible meeting that he had already consciously put the eldest brother's only son, Banxi, in his circle, and thus he did not expect this meeting at all. In fact, it was calm and there was no disturbance.

The old house of the Tan family is an ancient house with some history. It is said that it used to be the house of a certain Jinshi master in the previous dynasty. Later, it was bought by the ancestors of the Tan family and rebuilt. The antique garden-style building, stepping into it is like entering another time and space.

The sense of wizards like Bancy is especially obvious. The air here is different from the outside. The house that has been standing for a long time will gather here mysteriously, as if the whole house is a living beast, and they are in the body of this beast. Walking through, a pair of eyes stared at everyone's figure in the dark.

This feeling didn't dissipate until entering the modernly decorated reception room.

Although Tan Yuping and the others behaved as if they were facing a formidable enemy, Tan Yalin behaved very well in front of Banxi, with her hair tied up in a bun and wearing a purple velvet skirt, her gestures were all elegant and dignified, old-fashioned, arrogant but not inappropriate Comfortable.

She mentioned Bansi's father symbolically, using the word "father", and she stopped talking after getting Bansi's reply of "being in good health".

This attitude is in harmony with Banxi. Banxi just came to deliver something and didn’t mean to make a relationship. After the item was delivered, we chatted for 2 minutes, and then politely said goodbye to the other side. Tan Yalin also arranged for a driver to take Banxi off. When they went back, they asked Tan Yuping and the others to be in a daze, thinking that Tan Yalin had taken the wrong medicine today.

But after Bansi really left, Tan Yalin snorted and started attacking them in all directions. Her hot and hysterical words proved that it wasn't that she took the wrong medicine, but that she didn't treat the sudden appearance of Bancy as a family member.

None of his surnames were Tan.

Tan Yalin has always been polite and considerate to outsiders, and she can't find anything wrong with her on the surface.

So in the end, this long-lost family meeting ended in a fierce quarrel. Gao Minghong came out on the spot with a high-pitched "I don't steal or rob me, and men don't break the law", angering Tan Yalin who urged him to get married and have children. Falling on his back, he told the servant with a trembling voice to drive these unworthy descendants out of the house.

Even the parcels from the eldest son, who had not been heard from for more than 20 years, which was brought all the way by Bansi, the grandson of blood, were smashed on the door by her and thrown into the trash can.

The package fell into the trash can with the sound of glass shattering.

She was sitting alone in the living room, and the shadows of the trees were dancing outside the window.

On the other side, this is not the first time that Gao Minghong was kicked out. He slapped his butt and escaped. His mother and uncle who wanted to ask him if he was gay or not, drove a sports car to call Banxi and asked him where he was now. ——He knows that there is a delicious hot pot restaurant nearby, and they can communicate and exchange brotherhood.

Cousins ​​are also brothers. As the youngest one in the family, Gao Minghong was quite excited to suddenly have a cousin who was five or six years younger than himself in biological age.

Bancy: "...I have a bit of work in the afternoon."

For him, it is over to deliver all the things his father asked for by himself. He also gave Tan Xueshu and Tan Yuping his father's contact information, so that they don't have to go through him when they want to recall the past. Everyone's ideal to get along Models refer best to his and Rothbart offshoots.

Keep a distance, use each other, don't invest too much emotion, and can withdraw at any time.

What a healthy and safe way of getting along.

It's a pity that others don't seem to think so.

At least Gao Minghong was not.

He is very active in wanting to get closer to Bancy, and if he can't make an appointment today, he can always make an appointment on a weekend the day after tomorrow. His attitude is so sincere that Odile comes out to help him talk, and asks Bancy not to embarrass her innocent, kind and cute little girl.

This is really a villain and cannon fodder, and you have to be taught to be a human being in the plot.

To tell the truth, Bansy felt that the concentration of brain supplement experts around him was a bit too high.

But he still (in Ogilia's quack) agreed to eat hot pot with Gao Minghong this weekend. He has never eaten this Chinese specialty food, so he is actually a little bit looking forward to it.

……

"Hot pot?" Shi Lu heard a few words from Banxi's phone call, and paid attention to the keywords in it.

"Well, it's... my father's cousin." Bancy said, sitting down and getting ready to work.

"Are you going to eat hot pot?" Shi Lu's focus was still on the hot pot, and there was a desire in his eyes that Banxi could understand at once.

One thing to say, Shi Li has never eaten hot pot.

And he is full of interest in this delicacy with a solid status in China.

"Tsk." Angelina, who was busy writing the report, made a really redundant voice, "Turn left 20 meters outside the door and there is a hot pot restaurant, please."

When she is working seriously, the dog man (bushi) who is in the way of not working can get out, do you know that the report in her hand will be handed in this afternoon, and she just wrote the beginning and is right on the top.

Banxi was silent, met Shilu's eyes, and successfully connected to the signal for the first time.

About?

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