Su Su lingered outside for a long time before plucking up the courage to return to a blacksmith's shop located in a corner of the town. It was a two-entry earthen yard with a shelf propped up, but at a glance, the furnishings were simple and empty. I know that this family's life is not easy, and it is far from rich and well-off. In front of the stove bellows in the front room, a middle-aged man is shirtless. The people on the station are not too much, the arms are thicker than the woman's thighs, it is a pity not to go to the street to break the boulder on the chest. The man was dressed in bronze, and was holding a hammer to hammer a piece of hot iron billet on the anvil. The man glanced at Su Su, but didn't make a sound, and continued to hammer the billet. Su Su, who had been a handyman since childhood I have already been familiar with the process of blacksmithing, so I ran to the basket and poured some charcoal into the stove, and then I was thinking of going to the bed behind me to recuperate for a while, in the words of the old master, that is to cultivate a righteous spirit, I heard it for more than 20 years The sound of Nian's footsteps, I ran away quickly, and when I ran to the threshold, I heard a soft drink, so I had to stop and turn around obediently, pretending to be stupid and smiling, an old man with the appearance of a poor old scholar held a branch in his hand and pierced his gills. Carp said angrily, "Fighting with Liu Hong and those scoundrels again? Could it be that a gentleman did it?! Self-cultivation, family governance, and world peace, you can't even cultivate your body. What big things can you accomplish?"
Su Su pursed her lips and muttered softly: "I'm still a gentleman far away from the kitchen."
Just as the old man was about to stare, the young man ran up to him with a hippie smile, took the plump carp that was still jumping, and said cheerfully: "Old man, I happen to have some onion and garlic at home, so I'll go and make you some delicious food from Chef Yue Binglou." Braised carp that shames itself."
It’s okay if you don’t say anything, the old master immediately burst into anger when he heard this, “Where did you get the onion and garlic from the vegetable garden at home?”
The young man who leaked his words took the carp and ran to the backyard. The pedantic and rigid old master didn't even look at the blacksmith, and continued to mutter, probably similar to the sage teachings of "a gentleman handles things, he wants me to do it, and he doesn't let things come to me". Su has heard the cocoons a long time ago, with her back to the old master, her mouth shape is exactly the same as that of the old man. When the old master said with great pains that "the temperament of a young man should be restrained, he can cultivate virtue", Su Su, who couldn't bear it, said indignantly, " I still have an old man's temperament, and I have to be bold and not gloomy, so that I can maintain my health! Old man Zhao, mother-in-law, I won't cook anymore!" The old master was stunned for a moment, sighed and shook his head, and stopped talking, but his expression relaxed a lot, and he put his fingers together , gliding across his beard, he obviously agrees with the young man in front of him about the old man's health care.
Su Su went to the small and dark kitchen, threw the carp on the cutting board, opened the window, washed the rice and cooked the rice, and then skillfully handled the red carp that was destined to die soon. The old master stood outside the threshold with kind eyes . Su Su peeled the scales of the fish, raised her arms to cover the hair on her forehead, and looked focused. The well-mannered old scholar behind him has been dependent on each other for as long as he can remember. There are endless truths in his mouth, and he has not finished speaking for more than twenty years. Instead of becoming a saint, he just works as a private school teacher in the city It’s really a great talent, but these years, this home that doesn’t feel like home, relying on the old master to teach a dozen children to earn money, and Uncle Qi blacksmithing in the front yard, it is considered that no one died of starvation, but the strange thing is that we see him all year round. Uncle Qi knocked and beat, but he didn't see anyone selling ironware. He doesn't like reading, and he would doze off while holding a book, and he doesn't have the willpower to steal tricks like his peers in the neighborhood. He knows that he is two pounds, unless a sack of gold and silver falls on his head from the sky, otherwise his life will be bad With one life left, whether he will be able to marry a daughter-in-law in the future is still hanging in the balance, let's just get by, what else can he do, join the army and fight? That doesn't make you pee your pants. Make a living doing money-smelling business? Firstly, he didn't have that capital, and he didn't have the cheap temper to bow his knees and send a smiley face to others, and secondly, the old master was so impatient that he wanted to interrupt his limbs.
Su Su sighed, how beautiful would it be if he was the storyteller's so-called civet cat for the prince
After coming and going, the rice is cooked and the dishes can be put on the plate, Su Su said angrily: "Old man, go call Uncle Qi for dinner."
At the dining table, even if the old master often said that he would sleep without eating or eating, Su Su was getting older, and the old master was really an "old" master. Qing said: "Uncle Qi, why don't you go to the Yayan Bridge Market to solicit business. The smell of wine is afraid that the alley will be deep, and your good craftsmanship will be wasted."
The old master couldn't help breaking the precept and said: "How decent is it to sell skills to traffickers and pawns!"
Su Su glanced sideways at the dull man and the old master with cocky eyebrows, and said helplessly: "What's wrong with the traffickers, are they not human anymore? Is it one less eye or two legs less than the emperor and general? Isn't it all from the old man?" From the womb?"
The old master slapped the table and said, "Absurd!"
The old man was chewing his rice carefully at first, but the righteous reprimand caused a few grains of rice to spray on the table. Su Su pointed at it with his chopsticks, and the old master blushed slightly, and picked them back into the bowl with one chopstick after another.
Su Su was aggrieved and said stubbornly: "Old man, you yourself said that a virtuous person does not force others to make things difficult for you, but you just have a little bit of natural kindness, so it's okay to say a few words of kindness to others. But these years, old man, how can you say anything nice about me? Is it? If I am worthless in this life, I will be scolded by you for being worthless."
For the first time in history, the old man did not make a sound, not even a rebuttal, but slowly ate the rice that ordinary families in Orange State did not often eat.
After eating and washing the dishes, the old master sat on a small bench near a few pots of orchids in the yard, tilted his head, squinted his eyes to read more scriptures in the twilight, oil lamps consume oil, use as little as possible . Su Su went to the blacksmith's shop in the front yard to help Uncle Qi take care of the stove. Ironware is strictly supervised in Beimang. The lungs have no ambitions, but this kind of top priority related to the thickness of the rice vat is never sloppy. After all, the old master’s principles copied from some book are always nothing to a guy who grew up in a border town The feeling is far less profound than looking at the angry horse in fresh clothes or the beauty of the flowers. The burly man was as taciturn as ever, only occasionally looking at the young man with silent warmth.
As the twilight deepened, reading became more and more difficult. The old master almost had his eyes glued to the yellowed books, and it was really blurry. He gently put away the books, put them on his lap, looked up at the sky, and said slowly: "A gentleman is a human being, and the situation forces him to deceive others. The only thing that cannot be deceived is self-deception. To deceive the heart is to deceive the sky. If you have a clear conscience, you don't need to ask the heaven for luck."
The old man suddenly said sadly: "I want to ask Qingtian for good luck."
Clenching the book tightly with both hands, the old man said hoarsely: "If you have to have more energy in life, say everything you say, and do everything you want, you can only be a poor man. Is it true that you can only be a poor man?!"
After a long silence, he got up and walked back to the house slowly. After putting down the books, the old master went to move the pots of orchids.
Taking advantage of the break, the unsmiling man stretched out his hand and rubbed his sleeves fiercely a few times, then walked to Su Su's side and pressed it on his shoulder to help the boy relax his tendons and disperse blood stasis.
Su Su, who was in pain, frowned tightly, and said with a forced smile: "Uncle Qi, I heard Wang Xiaofeng say that there were bandits who fled into the city last year, and they could fly over eaves and walls. Is there really such a good man in the world?"
The man as strong as a bear smiled without saying a word, neither nodded nor shook his head.
Knowing this was the result, Su Su shook her arm, hey, it really doesn’t hurt anymore, since she was a child, every time she fights with others, Uncle Qi’s kneading will give immediate results, and it’s never been successful. According to the old master, it’s from the Central Plains It is the same principle as acupuncture and massage, but unfortunately it can only cure diseases, not beat people. Su Su played a set of crappy boxing techniques behind closed doors, and after finishing the fight, he asked with a smile: "Uncle Qi, how are you doing, do you have the posture of a master?"
The man nodded.
Su Su tutted his tongue and said, "If I get a peerless martial arts secret book, I must be invincible all over the world!"
The corner of the man's mouth twitched, to him, it was just a smile.
Su Suhao said: "Uncle Qi, when the time comes, I will give you the largest iron mine in the world. You can forge iron as you like. You can do it while standing and meditating, and you can do it lying down!"
The man didn't make a sound, Su Su thought of something, ran out of the yard, turned around and whispered: "Uncle Qi, go out for a stroll."
The man nodded.
Just a big stride flew out of the courtyard with an open door, and bumped into a soft body in a daze. Su Su took a closer look, she was a woman with a bag on her back, she couldn't see her face clearly, and she didn't look like someone nearby. Born and bred, he quickly apologized without any intention of taking advantage of her. Seeing that she didn't move, he didn't know how to get close, so he just didn't think about it, and ran to the alley. It seemed to be a sign of a big splash of urine, it crackled on the eaves of the alley, Su Su scolded her mother, turned back to the yard to get an umbrella, and made an appointment with a few brothers to fight with a group of bastards on Dongbian Street, There is no reason to be absent, Su Su saw that woman squatting stupidly at the gate of her courtyard, could she be a stupid woman who couldn't figure out the situation? If you want to hide from the rain, this is not the way to hide, is it
Su Su ignored it, took an umbrella secretly and ran out of the yard, and saw that this girl was probably really stupid, and after a while, the heavy rain of soybeans turned her into a soaked sparrow, Su Su walked a few steps, heavily With a sigh, he walked up to her and said angrily, "Here! Here! My family is poor, so I just borrowed an umbrella from you. When the rain stops, you can put it at the gate of the courtyard. The ugly words are ahead, so don't hold it up." Then just walk away with the umbrella, I, Su Su, can walk around the city with my eyes closed, don’t even think about slipping away!”
The woman looked up.
Su Su was startled, he was a blind man, his appearance was so-so, he was quite small, but it was dark and raining, when he looked up, his eyes were emptier than his yard, Su Su was really shocked.
Not a female ghost
Su Su drew a distance away, boldly stretched out her hand, and handed over the dilapidated oil-paper umbrella that actually couldn't cover much of the heavy rain.
The woman stood up softly, turned her sleeves slightly sideways, as if she had given a blessing, then took the umbrella, her voice was ethereal and more like a female ghost, "Thank you, my lord."
Damn it, in the middle of the night, I don't want to see if you have a shadow.
Su Su was terrified, almost threw the umbrella over, and kept silently saying that Lao Tzu has righteousness in his chest, and a hundred ghosts will not invade.
The woman seemed to hear the words, she smiled gracefully, and said softly: "Young Master Su is paranoid, I am not a female ghost."
Su Su was stunned, more terrified, stepped back, and asked in a trembling voice: "How do you know my name, and you still say it's not a female ghost?!"
The woman who was supposed to be carrying a heavy load thought for a while and said, "Young Master said it yourself just now."
Su Su thought about it carefully, and then remembered that she had indeed had an unintentional self-registration number, and she was relieved. Being hit by the torrential rain, Su Su reckoned that the fight would be impossible, so she stuck to the wall and stood side by side with her, and asked curiously: "My house is a place where birds don't shit, what are you doing here? ?”
The young woman said softly: "Wait for someone."
Su Su broke the casserole and asked, "Who are you waiting for?"
The woman thought about it very carefully, and replied: "People who come here."
Su Su patted her forehead, this girl's brain is not very good, she can't figure out why she remembered the young man she saw under the old willow tree during the day.
The wind and the rain, Su Su saw that her clothes were soaked, so she naturally felt a little pity for the man, and said: "If you don't want to go to my house to hide from the rain, it's not a problem here. Don't worry, there are no bad people in my house, I'm the one who is bad, no I lent you my umbrella, didn't I?"
The blind woman shook her head stubbornly.
Su Su was a little angry, "Then give me back the umbrella!"
The woman really tilted the umbrella towards him.
Su Su said viciously: "If you continue to do this, I will play a bad role. You are lonely, I took off my clothes, I really took off, I will take off first as a respect, girl, you can do whatever you want."
Facing Su Su, she tilted her head, and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised.
Su Su was helpless, reached out and pushed the oil-paper umbrella towards her, and said, "Yes, you are amazing, you are a heroine."
Standing together in the rain, Su Su couldn't hold back the heavy rain, and said solemnly: "Girl, are you really not afraid of getting sick? If you fall ill in front of my house, you won't have the money to treat it for you."
She approaches Su Su and holds an umbrella together.
Su Su was thinking about kidnapping her into the yard, when she turned her head suddenly, she saw a strange slender figure coming from the alley with an umbrella.
Su Su was a little jealous, subconsciously poohed, and slandered: Your mother's Yushu Linfeng!