Chapter 42: The Carving Knife
With the permission of Duan Feiyu's mother, Dai Xu and Fang Yuan entered the door of the Duan family, the process seemed to be much smoother than the two of them expected, after all, Dai Xu called Duan Feiyu's house before, Duan Feiyu's father's attitude can be said to be quite unfriendly, the resistance was very obvious, and finally hung up the phone extremely rudely, so before the two of them came to knock on the door, they were actually prepared that Duan Feiyu's family was very hostile, and they were not allowed to enter the door, and they needed to take a good time to prepare for it.
Entering the door, Duan Feiyu's mother was still a little at a loss, I don't know if she realized that she was dealing with the police, so she was nervous, or because this matter involved her son Duan Feiyu, the three of them stood in the living room for two minutes with big eyes, she remembered to beckon Dai Xu and Fang Yuan to sit down, and she left a sentence to wait, and hurriedly went into the kitchen, not knowing whether she was in a hurry to help, or in a hurry to discuss with her husband.
Duan Feiyu's house is not big, looking at the pattern, it should only be fifty or sixty square meters, because there is a family of five people, three generations, the things in the house are naturally not too little, it seems that the space is slightly cramped, the small square living room, one left and one right is a room, in front of the entrance door should be the kitchen, there is a long curtain hanging at the kitchen door, you can't see the situation inside, the small living room is a three-person fabric sofa, it seems, it is still folded, open to a double sofa bed, in addition, there is nothing, no coffee table, no TV, and the configuration of the living room in ordinary people's homes, Duan Feiyu does not have at home.
In the kitchen. Duan Feiyu's parents seemed to be saying something, their voices were not loud and hazy. Coupled with the jingling sound of stir-frying, it is even more inaudible, but it can be vaguely distinguished that it is two people talking, sometimes the woman's voice says a few words, sometimes the man's voice says a few words, the tone can't tell whether it is eager, Duan Feiyu's grandmother was just pulled aside by Duan Feiyu's mother. Now the door was closed, and the visitor was welcomed into the drawing-room, and came out of the room again. smiled and came over to talk to Dai Xu Fangyuan and them.
"You two are my grandson's classmates?" The old lady was a kind-tempered person, and she regarded Dai Xu and Fang Yuan as peers of her grandson, so there was a childlike tone in her tone.
Fang Yuan couldn't help but laugh a little. Duan Feiyu's grandmother is old. The two eyes are not so clear, there is a layer of gray on the two black eyes, and eighty percent of them have cataracts or the like that they don't know what extent, so their eyesight will not be particularly good, so they think that they will look like Duan Feiyu's peers, of course, this is naturally indispensable to Dai Xu's makeover today, if it is the usual kind of stubble. No matter how clumsy Duan Feiyu's grandmother is, it is impossible to think of a big man with a scruffy beard as a high school student of the same age as her grandson.
Dai Xu shaved his beard clean. Showing smooth cheeks, it is said that the grade immediately looks so small, but it is not enough, after all, he is not the kind of baby-faced man at all, and his temperament is also very mature and stable, but with such a hand, the whole person looks really refreshing, from inconspicuous, to quite durable, especially the one he wears today, if he doesn't say that he is a policeman, tell Duan Feiyu's grandmother that he is a certain teacher of Duan Feiyu, it is estimated that the old lady will not have any doubts.
Fang Yuan suddenly realized that she had actually deserted because of the change in Dai Xu's image, which made her feel a little embarrassed involuntarily, and hurriedly pulled back her scattered thoughts, fortunately, no one around here could read minds, otherwise if she had just seen what she was thinking, she would not have to die of embarrassment.
"Auntie, we are not Duan Feiyu's classmates, we have something we want to talk to his parents about." Of course, Dai Xu was not so brazen as to really pretend to be tender to fool the old man that he was a high school student, so he first denied the old man's speculation, and then gave an answer that sounded a little ambiguous.
As soon as Grandma Duan Feiyu heard this, she immediately automatically and spontaneously followed her own speculation to understand: "Oh! You're Feiyu's teacher, right? Come to the house for a home visit? Look, how serious and responsible this teacher is now, our family has no preparations, how good it would be for you to come early, let's eat together at noon! ”
"Auntie, you don't have to be polite, you don't have to bother, we just came to understand the situation and don't eat." Fang Yuan was a little embarrassed by Duan Feiyu's grandmother's enthusiasm, and hurriedly said to her.
"Then I'll take you to my grandson's house, right? Do you want to see it? Grandma Duan Feiyu asked.
This is really someone sending a pillow when I am sleepy, Duan Feiyu's grandmother's proposal is simply to say that Dai Xu and Fang Yuan's hearts have gotten to it, after all, judging from Duan Feiyu's father's attitude on the phone before, if they really meet for a while, they may not be very cooperative, at most this time someone is blocked in the house, he may not dare to be as horizontal as in the phone, if he wants to take the initiative to show them Duan Feiyu's bedroom, I'm afraid it's impossible, but they can't show too eagerness, so as not to make the old lady afraid, So Fang Yuan was a little embarrassed and said to Grandma Duan Feiyu, "Auntie, wouldn't this be good?" Today's children pay attention to individuality and privacy, and their rooms are generally reluctant to let outsiders in. ”
Grandma Duan Feiyu pursed her lips and waved her hand: "Come on, what privacy, where does it come from, since I was a child, I have been bare-assed, and I haven't bathed every day until I grew up, what secrets are there all over my body!" Now this child is used to his parents, and when my son was a child, he was still private? Living in a room with his brothers and sisters, finding a place to do homework and reading books by himself, if he is naughty, my old man don't look at his poor health now, he was very temperamental when he was young, and he chased and beat inside and outside the house with a burning stick, which one dared to stab? Alas, as a result, in this generation, no! I didn't dare to fight, I didn't dare to say it, when I was a child, I was still a cute little baby, and the more I grew up, the more powerful I became, and I became a little ancestor. ”
As the old lady had said this, she had already taken the lead in the room opposite her bedroom, and with a push of her hand she opened the door. Then he beckoned to Dai Xu and Fang Yuan: "Come on, look at it, what is private or not." When a teacher understands his own students, what's not to do? What's the matter for my old lady! ”
When Dai Xu and Fang Yuan saw that Grandma Duan Feiyu had said everything to this point, they didn't shirk anymore and followed her in. Duan Feiyu's room is not big, and the area is about the same as Ke Xiaowen's poor bedroom at home, but the difference is that Ke Lili's house as a whole is still very spacious and decent, so Ke Xiaowen's room seems to be a little unspeakable at home. On Duan Feiyu's side, although the bedroom is not big, the overall area of the home is relatively cramped. It is already very generous to let him live in such a room alone.
Inside the room there is a single bed, a small bookshelf with a variety of reference books. There is also a desk in the corner. The desk is very simple, it looks like an old-fashioned wooden desk that has been eliminated by some schools, or a double desk, a rectangular table, with two desk halls underneath, originally painted with vermilion paint, but after a long time, the paint on the corner of the table has worn out. The original face of the wood is revealed, and it is also polished to a very smooth surface. There were no thorns at all. The two tables were also full of books, and some crumpled volumes, the desk was cleaned up, and there was an enamel cup that was placed there to be used as a pen holder, and there was nothing else, and the enamel cup that was used as a pen holder was full of ballpoint pens, pencils, rulers, compasses, and the like, as well as a few wallpaper knives of different sizes, a few wooden carving knives and the like, as well as awls, screwdrivers, and the like.
If you want to say that those pens and rulers are normal, it is estimated that every student who is still studying can casually turn them out at home, but why do wallpaper knives, carving knives and changing cones appear in the bedroom of a junior high school student, and they are still on Duan Feiyu's desk and in the pen holder.
Especially those carving knives, they don't look new, they look very old, and the heads of the knives even have some rust spots, and they don't seem to be very sharp.
Dai Xu looked at those things, did not make a sound, looked down and looked at the desktop of the old desk, there were many scratches on the desktop, some were relatively light, just a mark, or a narrow scratch, and some were a piece of paint skin was filed off, revealing the wood below, Dai Xu reached out and touched it, revealing the place where the wood was exposed, although it had been painted with a red gel pen or pen, it had covered the original wood color, but with a finger so lightly, you can still feel the roughness of the wood texture, It can be seen that although this kind of injury may not have been caused recently, at least it could not have been caused before this table came to the Duan family.
"Does Duan Feiyu usually have hobbies such as wood carving?" Fang Yuan asked Grandma Duan Feiyu.
The old lady couldn't hear clearly at first, but when she heard what Fang Yuan was asking, she waved her hand with a smile: "No!" How could he get that! You mean the knives in his pen holder, right? That, I used to be my old man, my old man was a carpenter when he was young, the craftsmanship was fine, helping others to make furniture or something, and he could also pick flowers for others, but it was popular, but he was tired, and he was tired and sick all his life, so he said at the beginning that he would serve iron rice bowls for his children to study, and he would serve iron rice bowls in the future, but he would not be tired of that. So no one took over his craft, those carving knives turned out to be at the bottom of the box, and then the old man was not in good health, and the youngest son was filial, that is, Feiyu's father, who took us over to live together, and when he cleaned up the rags at home, we all said that we threw it away, and I didn't know what happened to Feiyu's kid, so I had to keep it, and I couldn't resist him, so I played with him. ”
Dai Xu nodded and didn't say anything, at this time, someone poked his head in from the door of Duan Feiyu's bedroom and said, "Mom, why did you bring people to Feiyu's room!" If Feiyu knows about this, he will be unhappy. ”
It was a middle-aged man who spoke, it was Duan Feiyu's father who was on the phone with Dai Xu, his face was so stiff, although the words in his mouth were said to Duan Feiyu's grandmother, but he looked at Dai Xu and Fang Yuan with a displeased face, as if they were invaders of this family.
"Unhappy, unhappy, that kid is unhappy all the time, it's all what you're used to! I see that when you were young, you were all very well-behaved, and no one was unhappy all day long! Duan Feiyu's grandmother was not very happy when she was counted down by her son, and replied with a frown, "Also, this child hasn't been back for a few days?" You see, other teachers have come to visit their homes! You guys, this father and mother, your own child, who is afraid of wolves and tigers, can't speak, can't train, can't touch, can't fight, and have to coax, and I don't know who is Lao Tzu and who is a kid! ”
Duan Feiyu's father's eyes flickered, and he waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, don't talk about it, I'll talk to someone, don't you want to take a nap?" Hurry back to the house and lie down, I just heard my dad greet you. ”
As soon as Duan Feiyu's grandmother heard that his wife was calling her, she hurriedly moved out of Duan Feiyu's bedroom with small steps first, and went back to her bedroom, the old lady was gone, Dai Xu and Fang Yuan didn't intend to play such an unlikable role, they had to rely on Duan Feiyu's room, so they also walked out and returned to the living room, Duan Feiyu's father waved his hand at the sofa, signaling them to sit down, and he took a folding stool from the wall and spread it out, and sat opposite Dai Xu and Fang Yuan. There is no way, there is only a three-person sofa in the living room, and if the three people want to talk, they can't make a row side by side, twist their faces and say.
"Why are you still lying to our old lady? When did you become a teacher at my son's school and visit my family? Duan Feiyu's father is not tall, his body is thin, his face is black and yellow, and the word "North" rises in the middle of his eyebrows, it seems that he always likes to frown.
Dai Xu didn't take his accusation seriously, and smiled at him: "We didn't deliberately lie to deceive the eldest mother, maybe she made a mistake about our identity and misunderstood a little, but we really didn't explain, because considering that the old man is old, I think that since it has nothing to do with the overall situation, it's good to let her misunderstand like this, so as not to worry about the old man, don't you say?" If you think it's inappropriate for us to do this, of course we will respect the opinions of your families, and I can go in now to apologize to the eldest mother, and explain our true identity and intentions to the eldest mother. (To be continued......)