Living in the same dormitory with him is a hotel cook named Song Chunlai, who is two years younger than Cheng Tianle. His dream is to become a chef like Master Fan in the future and buy a house in Suzhou to get married.

Song Chunlai cut dices and weighed spoons in the kitchen every day. He seemed to feel very tired and fell asleep as soon as he returned to the dormitory. When he got up the next morning, Cheng Tianle asked: "Song Chunlai, what did you do in the hotel?"

The time is much longer than mine. Do you know if I can ask for leave here? I want to go out and do some errands and need half a day."

Song Chunlai gave him a strange look and said, "Cheng Tianle, you didn't ask your boss when you came here? Of course you can ask for leave if you have something to do. Otherwise, if you don't rest for 365 days a year, who would want to?"

Only then did Cheng Tianle realize that it turned out that the waiters and chefs in the hotel were also on leave, not according to national regulations, but according to the hotel's internal regulations. On one day off every week, you could take time off to go out and do some of your own business, but

It’s best not to take leave on Saturdays and Sundays, and it’s better not to have several people ask for leave at the same time. It’s best to take turns taking breaks. But everyone eats and sleeps in the hotel, and they don’t have to go out if they have nothing to do, so they generally don’t ask for leave. If you don’t ask for leave,

The boss will give you more money every month!

So that’s it. He laughed happily all day long. He had been working for almost half a month and counted the days. It shouldn’t be a big deal to take half a day off, right? After lunch, he went out and could still come back for dinner. When the boss was away,

Just talk to Master Fan or Wu Xiaoxi.

The next day, Boss Wu went out after buying groceries early in the morning. When the hotel staff gathered to rest and chat, Cheng Tianle asked Master Fan: "I have something to do, and I want to take an afternoon off to go out and do it. I don't know where.

God can?"

Wu Xiaoxi interjected: "That's fine today, since no one else is asking for leave anyway."

Master Fan said: "Leave after lunch. Go quickly and come back quickly. Don't delay dinner. What do you want?"

Cheng Tianle: "Just buying some things. I just arrived in Suzhou and I didn't come and buy anything."

Wu Xiaoxi reminded again: "Our hotel employees have one day off every week, but they must say hello in advance to prevent everyone from being busy on the same day off. There are many fun places in Suzhou, and you will also receive your salary when the hotel is not busy.

, you can have a good stroll.”

Master Fan also said: "Yes, young people can't just focus on work all day long, they also have to have fun, otherwise they will not be energetic at work! It's a pity that I haven't gone out to see Suzhou for so long.

"

The chef had a very good impression of Cheng Tianle and even wanted to train the handyman to become a kitchen worker and teach him his skills. On the one hand, Cheng Tianle was not only diligent and obedient but also did not talk back. On the other hand, more importantly

The reason is that Cheng Tianle's food is delicious! Cheng Tianle's food is not ordinary. The way he eats can stimulate the appetite of people at the table. It's no wonder that everything Cheng Tianle eats is really delicious these days, and his appetite is very good.

He is strong and digests very well. As a chef, who doesn’t like others to praise the food he cooks? Many of the meals eaten by hotel employees are cooked by Master Fan. Cheng Tianle does not need to say anything more, his performance is

The best compliment is that Master Fan becomes happier the more he watches it.

After lunch, Cheng Tianle went to Shantang Street. With a job, he felt settled. He didn’t take the bus anymore on a hot day and took a taxi directly. Unexpectedly, the old town of Suzhou is not that big. From Guanqian

Taking a taxi from the street to Changmen only costs about ten yuan.

As soon as he walked across the Shantang Bridge, Cheng Tianle naturally entered the state with concentration. This state was not the extreme tranquility during late night exercises, nor was it the power of reflection and internal reflection. It was a state of being able to sense the disturbances of all things outside at any time, but at the same time.

A clear state without deliberately being touched by spiritual consciousness. Because it was not only him but also the "mouse" who traveled to his hometown. He felt compassion for the "mouse" and wanted it to feel the bustling Shantang Street.

Cheng Tianle did not learn to meditate or do Qigong in a serious way, just like most of the wild monsters. He entered the country while sitting, lying down, and walking on the street. It was just a shallow level.

The difference is different. In fact, training methods like his are not suitable for beginners because they are not yet proficient in kung fu and their spiritual consciousness is not clear enough. There is no need for this. Although this is a kind of sharpening of spiritual consciousness, the sword does not need to be used every day.

It's hard work. Beginners only need to be proficient in Ziwu Xing Gong. But Cheng Tianle didn't think it was practice. He just did it to be able to walk and talk to the "rats" at the same time.

The voice of "Mouse" appeared immediately, saying with emotion: "Shantang Street is so lively!"

Cheng Tianle: "Don't you just come from Shantang Street? Why are you making such a fuss?"

The various emotions contained in the "mouse"'s voice became more and more rich, and it sighed again: "I was at the bridgehead of Xishan Temple, where I had passed Huqiu. It was in a very remote place, except for the nearby residents.

There are very few tourists here, and it’s much deserted than here. I can’t move, so I can only vaguely sense the sounds and colors around me. Later, I was taken away by you. Only when you enter the country with concentration, can I sense the outside world through you.

.”

Cheng Tianle said with some pride: "You are lucky to have met me and mastered the technique so quickly, and I can also take you to Shantang Street!"

"Mouse" said gratefully: "Yes, I didn't expect that your practice would improve so quickly!"

Cheng Tianle asked generously: "Mouse, what do you want to see? I'll take you shopping!"

"Mouse": "I want to see the seven stone civet statues on Shantang Street. The one I want to see the most is the one I was in before. I don't know what it looks like."

Cheng Tianle was a little confused: "That's where you came from, and you don't even know it?"

"Mouse" asked back: "If you don't look in the mirror, do you know what you look like?"

Cheng Tianle slapped his forehead and said, "That's really what happened. The eyes are looking outward!" As he spoke, he suddenly realized that he had entered another realm in extreme silence last night, as if he was witnessing the world where his body and mind were.

Is this a kind of practice? Then the "mouse" was taken out by himself, and when he walked back to Shantang Street and saw the original stone fox statue, it should also be a kind of practice for him. Is this the so-called fate method?

In fact, even if "rats" were not mentioned, Cheng Tianle still wanted to look at all the stone civet statues one by one today. Last time, he saw a total of six statues, and there was still one missing! He didn't save money on shopping this time, he spent forty yuan.

I bought a ticket for the attractions along the way, and the ticket also came with a book introducing the humanities of Shantang Street and the distribution map of the attractions.

If you don’t understand the background of a place with such profound historical origins and cultural heritage, and you don’t have the eyesight to detect all kinds of traces, it would be like wandering in vain, but with this introduction, the feeling will be different. All day long

When Le bought the ticket, he didn't feel that he had spent forty yuan, but that he had taken an advantage of forty yuan more, because he was shopping with two "people" called "Rat".

Cheng Tianle read the introduction while walking around, pointing to various places along the way and reading to "Mouse", looking very knowledgeable. "Mouse" listened with great concentration, and praised Cheng Tianle from time to time. Cheng Tianle was in his mind and

The "mouse" communicates without making a sound, but subconsciously moves his lips slightly as if he is mumbling words, and points and points as he walks, as if he is communicating with someone, looking like a mentally ill person.

While reading the introduction, he looked at the scenic spots, but he walked slowly and leisurely, not paying attention to the road. He saw that he was about to hit the lamppost, but he somehow ducked around it. Sometimes he was about to be hit by the person in front of him.

He stumbled over a stone. While looking at the map, he raised his foot and walked over naturally.

Cheng Tianle first started to observe the first stone civet statue, the Meiren civet next to Shantang Bridge. Everywhere he went, he still touched the civet cat's head as before, trying to obtain the magic secrets in advance. But those stone statues looked silly.

There was no response, just cold stones. When Cheng Tianle extended his consciousness to touch them, he could feel a very strong suction force, as if there was an invisible vortex under the stone statue. He quickly moved his consciousness

Received it back.

He successively found the Tonggui civet next to Tonggui Bridge, the Wenxing civet next to Xingqiao, and the Caiyun civet next to Caiyun Bridge. He touched all the cat heads. Gradually he walked out of the commercially developed tourist pedestrian street.

We came to the alleys of the old residential area in the eastern section of Shantang Street. Looking at the map, the fifth stone civet statue, Bai Gongli, should be at the head of Puji Bridge, but Cheng Tianle didn't find it last time, and it still can't be seen today.

When he came here, he smiled. It turned out that someone had opened a grocery store on the street. The goods were not only piled at the door, but some were also placed on the opposite side of the stone road. There was a lot of things at the end of the bridge, and there was a rainproof cover on it.

Plastic sheet. Cheng Tianle walked over and lifted up the plastic sheet. Under a pile of brooms with wooden handles, he found a naive stone cat statue.

He said with a smile: "Cat, so you are hiding here? Who is such a cheater! It's so easy to find! If you don't know, you would think there are only six stone civet statues on Shantang Street!"

A woman across the road shouted: "Young man, what do you want to buy? We have them all over here, don't touch them."

Cheng Tianle pointed under the plastic sheet and asked: "I want to buy this stone statue, can your family sell it?"

The woman replied: "The stone beetle statue was built by the government, not our family."

Cheng Tianle asked: "Then why did you cover it up? It took me two trips to find it!"

The woman muttered unhappily: "You foreigners really don't understand, what's so good about a stone? It used to be hundreds of years old, but this one is new."

As long as he found it, Cheng Tianle didn't want to quarrel with the woman in the grocery store. He continued to walk forward and passed the Rongyang Building where he once invited Yu Fei and Liu Shujun to have dinner. He couldn't help but shook his head secretly. There was no time to visit Tiger Hill this afternoon.

Cheng Tianle once again passed through the door without entering, and went straight to the sea civet next to Wangshan Bridge, where the second step of the technique he needed was located.

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Chapter completed!