September 19, 2024, Thursday.
According to the calendar, this day was the year of Jiachen, the month of Guiyou, and the day of Bingxu. Auspicious for: marriage, travel, cleaning, manicures, and foot baths.
It was morning in Jing City, Yunan Province, where the weather was clear and the sunlight was streaming into a townhouse community named Golden Scale Bay. In the front garden of a certain household, Ms. Li Xiaolei, Jiang Qingkui's mother, slapped an almanac in front of Jiang Qingkui's father, Jiang Jiaxing, and said angrily,
"See, the almanac says I should go for a 'manicure' today, so why won't you let me go?"
"The word 'auspicious' only means you can do it, it doesn't mean you have to... and what kind of ridiculous almanac is this, with 'manicures' in it?"
Squatting to pull weeds, Jiang Jiaxing flipped through the calendar with a head full of black lines, unable to understand.
