
The Fireworks in Fushun
by Zhang Dagazi
About This Novel
After all, the days are just for fun. My name is Zhan Xu. I was born in the Year of the Dragon in 1994. I am playing with my mobile phone in the office building in front of Fushun Station. My daughter-in-law, Chen Yao, is two years younger than me and runs a photography studio above me. We have been together for ten years and have only been married four months, but our life is no different from that of an old married couple - if there were not dozens of mouths waiting to be fed at home. What do I have at home? Let me tell you this, it was like opening the door and following into the aquarium. Raising turtles: There are several crocodiles and two giant crocodiles, the largest one is 57 centimeters, lying in the tank like a stone monument; West African side-necked turtles and small green turtles are all raised in a single tank. Put two of them in a tank and you can chew out your brains. The store also has arowana, tiger fish and sting rays, and there are three species of dogheads in the house - crown, furry, and zebra, plus an electric eel, a tank of Titan shells, a blue-ringed octopus, a tank of mantis shrimp, and clownfish. By the way, there is also a golden retriever named Xia Mo, which I picked up during my morning run that year. It was infected with parvovirus and was thrown beside the flower bed in the community. There is also a Maine Coon cat named Puff, who looks like a little lion and squats on the window sill all day long to watch the excitement. Someone asked me: What are you doing with all these gadgets? Picture what? Just have fun. There is nothing else in this book, just the things that Chen Yao and I have done over the years: eating, drinking, having fun, raising fish, turtles, dogs, and cats. How to feed people, how to change the water, which restaurant does the best sausages, what I saw on the way to Aershan, what principles I have learned through practicing Taoism and cultivating my mind - it's all chatter. Northeastern people chatter, you know, one thing means one thing, another thing means two things, without any twists and turns. The days went by like this. When the fireworks are enough, people feel at ease.
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