Chapter 25 Bringing my sweetheart to fulfill my wish She is always willing to spend time on me...
"You, young man, have such a bad temper." The old lady threw away the melon seed shells in her hand awkwardly.
"Aunt Liu, you are the same. You already have a partner, but you are still rushing to talk about marriage. You deserve to be disliked." The mother-in-law, who was washing glutinous rice nearby, persuaded her to go into the house.
Gu Zhi’s face was still frighteningly gloomy.
"Forget it, forget it, it's just idle talk." Jiang Ziyi grabbed his arm, "Feudal dregs, you might as well believe that I am Qin Shi Huang."
"This hammer is really heavy, ha! But it's quite relaxing when I hammer it down." She deliberately tried to make him laugh with exaggerated body movements.
As a result, I used too much force and sprained my waist.
"Is it here? Does it still hurt when you touch it?" Gu Zhi pulled her to sit on the steps at the door, took off his gloves, and put his freshly warmed palms into her cotton coat. "Where do you get so much energy?" he asked helplessly.
Jiang Ziyi had his back to him, but forced his head to turn away, stealing a glance at his expression.
"You." Gu Zhi's brows finally relaxed again.
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Gu Zhi didn't believe in fate in the past.
In his senior year of high school, Gu Weizhen and Li Aomei were worried that he had too much schoolwork and was under too much psychological pressure, so they forcibly took him to a small town by the sea for vacation.
The family was strolling around after dinner and happened to pass by a temple, so Ms. Li Aomei wanted to go in and pray.
"I wish my son good luck in his studies, his father an early retirement, and my family good health and safety." Li Aomei wrote in a flamboyant manner on the wishing card.
"Don't just stand there, hurry up and write down your wishes and hang them on the tree. This is the temple of Emperor Wenchang, it's very effective!" She urged the two unmoved science and engineering men.
"Okay." Professor Gu began to copy the homework according to his wife's handwriting.
"Why are you copying answers in front of the god in charge of exams?" Li Aomei punched him twice, "You must write down your most pressing wish for it to count!"
Most pressing wish...?
Gu Zhi looked at the marker in his hand.
He had already completed the required credits last year, and his scores in the written and oral exams were far above the admission line. His social practice and volunteer service resumes were also quite impressive, and an offer from his dream school was almost certain. I really don't know what his parents were worrying about.
But there is one thing he is very concerned about now.
Last month, the director of "Neighbors" called Ms. Li Aomei and asked Gu Zhi if he still had any thoughts on renewing the show for the fourth season.
Li Aomei also asked about Jiang Ziyi's recent situation.
Only then did Gu Zhi learn that Jiang Ziyi was expelled from the crew for injuring another child actor, and her role was assigned to the producer's niece.
His messages and phone calls that fell on deaf ears finally had a half-hearted explanation.
Gu Zhi rejected the invitation from the crew. Although it was just acting, he was not in the mood to be someone else's brother.
...But is Jiang Ziyi okay now? Will Lin Shuyao vent her anger on her? Why hasn't she taken on any acting jobs for so long?
Gu Zhi asked Li Aomei to inquire several times, but to no avail.
"Jiang Ziyi is a strong and smart little girl," Li Aomei told him, "She is unwilling to contact us, and she must have her reasons. I know you miss her very much, but everyone has their own life lessons, and we can't force them to intervene."
But Gu Zhi could never feel at ease.
God in heaven, if he still has a little bit of luck left, can he share it with Jiang Ziyi?
She was good enough and worked hard enough, she just lacked a little bit of luck.
If he can really make her happy, it doesn't matter if he gets unlucky this year, next year, or even many years later.
Gu Zhi silently wrote his wish card. The banyan tree in the temple cast a green shadow, and the branches that were within reach were already hung with people's wishes.
Li Aomei rode on Gu Weijun's shoulders, stretched her arms out, and exerted force on her fingertips in order to hang the two people's signs higher.
"This way it will be easier for Emperor Wenchang to find me." She said confidently.
"Son, give me your cards quickly." Li Aomei waved at him.
"Mom, let me carry you." Gu Zhi felt that his father was not standing high enough.
Gu Weizhen: ...What can I do to you when I am 1.80 meters tall?
Li Aomei took his wishing card and glanced at it casually. She sighed with three parts helplessness and seven parts emotion.
“How about hanging on this branch?” In the sunlight, the light-colored leaves shine like gold.
"Can it be higher?" Gu Zhi asked greedily.
He was surprised at his own piety.
"You little brat..." Li Aomei hung it up for him, breathlessly.
Just before walking out of the temple gate, Gu Zhi looked back at the towering banyan tree. The red dot swaying in the green looked like a miraculous flower that had bloomed.
People always turn to heaven for help for things that are beyond their control but they long to make come true, and Gu Zhi is no exception.
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On the day that Gu Zhi went to draw divination sticks, Yue Lao Temple was as busy as usual.
The man had an upright posture, clear eyes and eyebrows, and he lit candles and burned incense in front of the statue in a serious manner, and put his hands together to pray.
Although he was wearing a mask, he still attracted the inquiring gazes of many girls.
Gu Zhi drew a lottery ticket with ambiguous words.
"Young man, why don't you sign?" An old man who looked like an immortal called out to him.
"I see that your fortune is vague and your spiritual energy is wavering. I'm afraid that your lover has not responded for a long time, and you are in a dilemma?" The old man asked, shaking his head.
This is obviously a fake Taoist priest who is trying to cheat people out of money. He cannot even enter the Yue Lao Temple and can only set up a stall outside the door.
Gu Zhi's appearance and demeanor don't seem to indicate that he is lacking in marriage or has few romantic relationships. The man coming out of the temple with such a frown on his face could only be unhappy in love life, which is easy to guess.
Gu Zhi, a graduate from a prestigious university with two master's degrees, was fooled and stopped.
"Can you help me take a look?" He flattened the signature in his hand and handed it to the old man.
"Oh no, 'the piles of stones are piled up on the jade platform, and the children can't sweep them away no matter how many times we call them'. This is not good, I'm afraid there is no hope this year!" the old man threatened, "But I have a way to solve it." He took a small, roughly made cloth bag from the stall.
"Sprinkle the powder in this medicine bag on your beloved every day. Within half a month, she will be attracted to you and be infatuated with you..."
"But I don't want to force her," Gu Zhi frowned even more tightly, "I hope she can fall in love with me from the bottom of her heart, even if she has to wait a little longer."
Where did this love saint come from? The old man laughed dryly and started to promote another glass bracelet: "Why don't you try this magic weapon, it only costs 999 and you can--"
"Wait a minute, have you sold that medicine bag to anyone else?" Gu Zhi's IQ gradually returned to a high level, "'Love is fluttering, the soul is bewildered'... there won't be any drugs added to it? Abuse of anesthetics and psychotropic drugs is a serious violation of the law..." He grabbed the old man's arm.
"No, no, I just crushed up some expired tea leaves and mixed them with some soil!" The fake Taoist priest broke free from his hand tremblingly and ran away without even confiscating the stall.
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"Where is this? Why is it so smoky?" Jiang Ziyi opened his eyes in a daze in the passenger seat.
"Yue Lao Temple? Why did you bring me to this place?" She muttered as she followed him over the high threshold and walked to the rusty copper incense burner.
"Why, do you think you don't have enough red threads on your body and want to tie another one?" Jiang Ziyi raised his eyebrows.
"I'm here to fulfill a wish," Gu Zhi held her fingers together, "and brought my sweetheart along." The curve of his mouth deepened.
"You don't think that just because you bow here, I will be drugged and fall in love with you, right?" Jiang Ziyi was still unforgiving.
"Then how did you and I fall in love with each other?" Gu Zhi kissed her forehead. The single guy who was burning incense nearby glared at them angrily.
What’s the difference between this and running a shuttle run among a group of cripples!
"Because you look okay and you're a nice person." Jiang Ziyi said with a blushing face.
"But maybe there really is some destiny."
Otherwise, how could they meet again and become entangled so quickly?
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Taking into account that Jiang Ziyi had been skating, doing splits, and spraining her waist due to a mallet, the program crew fast-forwarded the glutinous rice cake-making segment.
The couple sat at the table and started making glutinous rice balls.
Gu Zhi took an equal amount of glutinous rice, spread it into round cakes of the same size, added an equal amount of red bean paste into it, wrapped it up and rolled it into a ball, then coated it with soybean powder. The final product was so neat that it looked like it came from an assembly line.
Jiang Ziyi pinched a rabbit in the east and a doughnut in the west, and even wanted to use Lao Gan Ma and pickled mustard tuber to make a creative filling. He was stopped several times by the old lady who came to supervise him.
"Look! Tyrannosaurus Rex!" Jiang Ziyi pushed a trapezoidal lump of glutinous rice paste in front of Gu Zhi.
Gu Zhi: The Tyrannosaurus Rex’s arms aren’t that long... and it doesn’t have wings... Never mind, if it doesn’t look like that, then it doesn’t. It’s always good that she’s willing to put in the effort for me.
"It's so similar. If it's carved more carefully, it can be put in a museum as an exhibit." He praised against his conscience.
[Jiang Ziyi, although I am your fan, I am not allowed to have impulsive thoughts when cooking! ! ]
[Southerners are furious]
[I'm beginning to understand why Italians hate Hawaiian pizza so much...]
[A very typical combination of J and P]
[Gu Zhi… you have offended the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the museum, and glutinous rice cake at the same time! ! ]
[Even if the world is your enemy, you should still praise your wife for her dexterity]
[Can Jiang Ziyi really cook...? ]
[I remember one day she got up early and cooked for Gu Zhi]
[It’s still fish porridge and soup dumplings, which are obviously a test of cooking skills]
[How do I feel...]
[I have a wild guess...]
[Just the word “early morning” doesn’t sound right…]
[It should be the breakfast that Gu Zhi made himself...]
[Hahaha, prepare all the meals and then trick your wife into wearing an apron, just to give her a cooking image? How could I love like this...]
[Upstairs, very likely]
[Jiang Ziyi was often criticized for being lazy and neglecting his family]
[This is indeed something that Gu Zhi could do]
[Ahhhh what kind of boomerang candy is this]
[Dizzy]
After all the glutinous rice cakes were finally wrapped and put into the pot, Jiang Ziyi and Gu Zhi set off for the next mission point.
From afar, they heard the sound of gongs and suona. Walking further east, they saw a sedan chair with the word "囍" (囍) on it.
How did you catch up with others getting married?
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