Chapter 347 Chapter 15: Twelve Hours

Grandpa coughed, frowned slightly, and said, "It's not that I don't want to go today, but that I just came back from Wentian Village and I'm a little tired. You see, I'm so old, and my bones are like mechanical parts. If it's not very worn, it's rusted and can't stand the toss." I immediately swallowed the words I wanted to persuade. "I..." Zhang Jiu was also speechless. Grandpa waved his hand, took a deep breath, and said, "Since you said that the snake dealer can't come to your house in advance, you don't need to worry too much. An Anxin will stay at home until I have a rest. In the past, okay?"

I unconsciously glanced at the rose in the corner.After tossing and tossing last night, I wonder if Rose will also feel tired?She hasn't come to my dream for a long time.And what the beggar said to me, I still haven't got an answer, and there is no news from "Hundred Skills Drive", so I can't help being worried. Zhang Jiu signaled to me with his eyes, asking me to persuade grandpa.The peripheral vision of my eyes has already noticed it, but I still stare straight at the rose, pretending not to see it. At this time, an old lady came outside, and she stepped into the door and asked grandpa: "Master Ma, my chickens did not come back to the cage last night. Can you help me figure out whether they were stolen or hidden in some corner?" "

This old lady is a peasant woman who lives in the center of the village, and I have seen it many times.I quickly got up to greet her, she nodded and smiled: "Tong's grandson is here!" I responded quickly. Looking back at Mu Ran, the old grandpas and old ladies I knew in Huamei Village disappeared one by one, as if the morning sun had evaporated into mist.When I went back to Huamei Village again, people who walked out of those familiar houses were people I no longer knew. I needed my grandfather to point out one by one, "That is the grandson of so-and-so, and that is the great-grandson of so-and-so", so that I could reluctantly Greet them bluntly with a smiling face.And they also had an indifferent face, forcing out a smile to greet me.

Sometimes I doubt whether my memories really existed, as if those familiar houses and those familiar people only appeared in my dreams. Seeing that other people came in to look for grandpa, Zhang Jiu immediately kept silent. Grandpa invited the old lady into the house to sit down, made a cup of warm tea, and asked, "Tell me, when did your chicken go missing?" The old lady said: "It's Xu time. I just sprinkled a handful of rice on them. My annoying dog went crazy and rushed into the chicken group, scaring the chickens away. I'll go clucking later After teasing the chicken into the cage, I found one was missing." The old lady and grandpa are of the same age, so she didn't say what time the chicken got lost, but just the time.

Seeing that the old lady didn't greet her, Zhang Jiu didn't have anything to say, and didn't ask anyone directly: "In your generation, you like to use Zichou Yinmao to calculate the time. I know that one hour is two hours now. But why use the zodiac to calculate the hour?" Without waiting for Grandpa to explain, the old lady rushed to say: "Hey, this is not easy! Zishi is from 11:00 p.m. From positive to 3:00 in the morning, Chou is an ox, and the ox is ready to plow the field after eating grass at this time. Yin time is from 3:00 am to 5:00 am. You know, tigers are most fierce at this time. Mao is 5:00 am From time to 7 o'clock in the morning, Mao is a rabbit, and there is a jade rabbit on the moon, which means that the moon is still in the sky during this period. By analogy, Chenshi is the time when "dragons are raining". At Sishi, snakes hide in the In the grass. At noon is the horse. At this time the sun is the most violent. It is said that at this time the yang energy reaches its limit, and the yin qi will be produced, and the horse is a yin animal. Well, the sheep graze during this time. Monkeys like to be in Shenshi Crowing. The roosters begin to return to their nests at the You hour in the evening. The dogs begin to guard the gate at the Xu hour. It is late at night in the Hai, and the pigs in the pen are sleeping soundly.”

The old lady said all the meaning of the twelve hours in one breath, and Zhang Jiu was stunned. "You are amazing!" Zhang Jiu praised with a thumbs up. The old lady smiled lightly and said, "What's so great about this? Master Ma and I have heard these things from adults countless times when we were young. What kind of relative is Master Ma? Why haven’t I seen you before? Are you a rare visitor?” Grandpa introduced: "He, he is the son of Zhang Snake, do you still remember Zhang Snake?" The old lady narrowed her eyes and thought about it, then shook her head and said, "I don't remember, Zhang Sheren? I know a few people with the surname Zhang, but I've never heard of someone named Sheren. Sheren for yourself? Oh, no. I I’ve only heard of self-sacrifice.”

Hearing what the old lady said, Zhang Jiu was not only not angry, but couldn't help but burst out laughing.It seems that the old lady's memory and hearing are not very good, but she has a natural sense of humor. Grandpa smiled and said, "It's not a snake man named Zhang, but a snake breeder named Zhang. Do you know that? Those who have played snakes here a few years ago still remember it?" Only then did the old lady say "oh", "So it's the son of the snake breeder! Oh, it's been a long time, I can hardly remember. His son is already this old? Time has passed It's so fast, it's gone in the blink of an eye!" The old lady sighed, and finally asked enthusiastically: "Is your father in good health?"

Zhang Jiu replied: "Okay!" The old lady said: "Your father is the farthest person I know. I was married to Huamei Village from the next door village, and I will only stay between these two villages for the rest of my life. I go to the town to buy pocket things once a month." My natal family died, and my son grew up, so I seldom go to my natal family, and I seldom go to the town. I know where a stone or a puddle in Huamei Village is. But if you ask me, Huamei Village I don't know anything about other things. Except for one situation, that is, I know that there is a powerful person who raises snakes far away. Ha ha." The old lady was eloquent when she spoke.But it's no wonder that she is so interested in a little bit of new things after being confined to a place the size of a palm all her life.

Zhang Jiudao: "My house is not far away, only a little over ten kilometers away." The old lady pouted immediately, and said, "Isn't it far away after more than ten kilometers? By the way, since you are the son of a snake breeder, you should know the time of Si. Si means snake." When Zhang Jiu heard this, his face suddenly changed.