Chapter 113: Water Without Roots

"Uncle Lu, you mean, you have this kind of water?!" I exclaimed. Although Uncle Lu is usually cautious, he doesn't look like the kind of person who lives an elegant life. Generally speaking, the ancients would choose rootless water to brew precious tea, but now in such a fast-paced life, more and more fast food products, few people will care about such things. Uncle Lu, I really don't understand, is Uncle Lu still such an iron-faced tenderness and elegant taste?

"It's a long story." Uncle Lu said.

"The longer the better, mother-in-law, I like to listen to stories, you can tell me." As she spoke, Granny Li turned around and opened a lattice under the incense table behind her, in which there were already prepared delicate refreshments, which were served on bamboo plates and placed neatly. Granny Li chose two things, one was Ziling cake and the other was lentil roll. He laid it on the ground in front of our futon and ate it to himself. I also ate unceremoniously, and Granny Li looked at me, "This girl is getting bigger and smaller." ”

"Mother-in-law, don't you take out Ziling cake and lentil rolls, don't you mean to let me take care of myself? It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate. I laughed and told my mother-in-law's riddle, and my mother-in-law smiled.

"I just like your intelligence, okay, Scarface, you can say it." Granny Li was really ruthless when evaluating other people's appearances, but Uncle Lu didn't care about these and began to tell his story.

"I have this rootless water because of my master. My master's favorite thing to do in his life was to taste tea, but when he got old, he accepted me as a tea addict who didn't know anything about tea. My master often said that when drinking and tasting tea, it is like reminiscing about your past. The taste of tea varies depending on the age and under different circumstances. Because my master likes to drink tea, not only the tea leaves, but also the tea utensils, especially the water used to make tea, is particularly particular. In the first year of my apprenticeship, the master gave me a task, he gave me a jar, or an urn, to collect rainwater, which can only be from the pine needles of a pine tree, and the pine tree must be only three years old. I thought the master had a strange personality, and I thought he was deliberately making things difficult for me, so I took a random urn of rainwater and went back to make it happen. As a result, he was scolded by the master. After that, I did not dare to slack off, and found trees full of pine trees everywhere, but the weather was not beautiful, and it did not rain for several months, and finally I waited for a rain, but the rainwater I collected could only just cover the bottom of the urn. Even so, the master was still not satisfied, and he said that the pine trees were all too tall trees, and three years had passed. Uncle Lu said with a wry smile, and the scar on his face looked even more ugly under this wry smile.

"Later, no matter what I did, the master was always dissatisfied, and in the end there was really no way, so I had to plant a pine forest by myself, and in the third year, I collected the rainwater on it, and finally met the master's requirements."

"You just spent three years so hard for his cup of tea?" I asked, surprised.

"Yes, it doesn't feel particularly naïve, but I will do what the master says, I don't have parents, I think the master is my relative, so this little thing is not worth mentioning. After that, the master asked me to collect the snow water from the plum blossoms, the frost on the bamboo leaves, and the dew drops on the lotus leaves. These do not have the requirements for the age of the plant, relatively smooth lì, but also very demanding, plum blossoms as long as the snow on the stamens, bamboo leaves as long as the frost on the ground closest to the ground, lotus leaves can only be the size of a palm. Finally, when I finally gathered all the water that the master wanted and put it in an urn, the master told me that he was dying, and he asked me to bury the urn under a locust tree and take it out again after three years, and he said that the urn water was the last gift he left to me. Uncle Lu said as he sniffed hard, if his eyes could cry, he must have burst into tears by now.

"Scarface, there is indeed a person among the people I know, he likes to drink tea very much, and he is very particular and strict about the rules of drinking tea, your master should not be ......," Granny Li said.

"My master's name is Ge Younian, and people call him Ge Erye." Uncle Lu replied.

"Sure enough, it's him, it turns out to be the apprentice of the old man......" Granny Li said thoughtfully.

"What? Senior, do you know my master? ”

"It's an acquaintance, forget it, it's all the old yellow calendar." Granny Li said lightly.

"Yin Yin girl, you remember the address of the place where I live, please go to the place where I live, there is a big locust tree, and there is an urn of rootless water under it, and it will be three years old tomorrow." Uncle Lu told me the address in detail, and he told me a few more times, and finally he said, "I'm really sorry to let someone of your status go to that kind of place, and cause you trouble." ”

"Uncle, what are you talking about, how can it be troublesome, I'll go back when I go." After saying that, I ran out without looking back.

The Li family's mansion is located in the suburbs, but the address given to me by the uncle is in the old city, and it was the time of the traffic jam, and it was already two o'clock in the afternoon when I arrived at the uncle's residence. The address was hard to find, and I drove around it several times with the navigation on, and when I actually arrived, I couldn't believe my eyes. Over here! Uncle actually lives here!

I was a little annoyed by my behavior, anyway, Uncle Lu is also a member of my expert advisory group, and it is my duty to care about the life and diet of the members on weekdays, but I didn't even investigate clearly to let Uncle Lu live in such a place.

Uncle Lu lives in an old town, which is about to be demolished by the recent urban planning, and it is ruined everywhere. The small area has been isolated by simple brick walls, most of the houses have been shoveled down, bricks, wood, garbage, everywhere, the temperature has reached a certain level, the smell of garbage is disgusting, I think of the public garbage dump that I live in every half an hour is always clean and tidy, I think of the garbage recycling system in the Li family's mansion, sure enough, I have never experienced such a civilian life. Flies and unknown bugs, flying in swarms in the air, stopped at the corners of my clothes from time to time. I found the house number that my uncle wrote to me, it was not a house number at all, but a house number that my uncle had scribbled on himself, and the black paint clearly wrote a number on the door.

The few remaining low houses are all Japanese houses left over from the last century, and the uncle's house is one of them, and the surrounding area has been demolished like this, and it is obvious that the remaining households are also nail households. The one next door to the uncle's house, only half of it was demolished, and the water and electricity should have been gone for a long time, and an old woman at the door of the next house was boiling water with firewood. The uncle's house was not much better, the door was splashed with red paint, the big "demolition" was written everywhere, and none of the glass was intact.

I looked around, and sure enough, there was a locust tree behind Uncle Lu's house, which was quite lush, so I went around to the locust tree and began to dig down with the shovel I brought in the car at the approximate position that Uncle said, and sure enough, after a while, I dug out an urn. The urn was very heavy in his hand. I hurried back to the car and started driving back, desperate to get out of the place.

On the way back to the Li family's mansion, I drove the car carefully, and there were constantly car horns or overtaking behind me, I was very worried about what would happen to the urn without roots, I held the urn, as if holding the uncle's eyeballs, cautious.

Granny Li told me that because the time was getting late, and the rootless water was not yet there, let me and Uncle Lu stay at Li's house for one night. Uncle Lu and Yun Ximing were arranged in the VIP box, and my grandmother and I lived directly in Granny Li's bedroom. Unlike my grandmother, my grandmother is a typical Chinese old man, who doesn't like electronic products or new things, eats vegetarian, sleeps in wooden beds, and has a very simple bedroom. And Granny Li's bedroom, almost more than 80 square meters, placed two large beds, imported European dressers, and a large bathroom, stereo, TV, electric lights, all of which are voice-controlled, may also be to take care of Granny Li's eyes.

Dinner was eaten in the lobby on the first floor, Uncle Lu did not come, his food was delivered to the room, but Granny Li was not, he ate with us, and she didn't look like a blind person at all. Dinner is naturally extremely luxurious, and Granny Li was originally a lover of food, and now it confirms this. After a full meal, we went back to Granny Li's bedroom, and after a while, someone brought a snack, Granny Li ate six times a day, and the amount of food was excellent, which is really rare at her age.

Granny Li and Grandma didn't communicate much, and after eating snacks, the two of them started to play chess again, and I was bored, so I wandered around Li's house, but I met Li Yunxian at the door of Granny Li's bedroom.

"Why are you here?" I asked.

"I'm here every day at this time of day until this light goes out." Li Yunxian pointed to Granny Li's bedroom.

"Are you worried about your mother-in-law's eyes?" I asked, thinking that I didn't see that he was a filial child.

"Well, after all, she is old, although she has never been on a business trip for so many years, but I still don't feel at ease, and I stay here every day. My room is next door, do you want to come in and sit down. He asked, his face again with that flirtatious expression.

"Why do you want to pretend to be a playboy, I know you only have Yun Ning in your heart, what's the benefit of doing this?" I'm puzzled.

"You may not understand, sometimes it is too heavy to love someone, so you can't wait to forget jì, forget jì how much you love that person." Li Yunxian said coldly. (To be continued.) )