Chapter 124: The Craftsman

PS: PS: Working non-stop, supported by a noble goal, even if slow, is sure to be successful.

Wang Buping came to the market early in the morning, those mountain people, but they arrived very early, if they didn't come early, maybe they wouldn't be able to find it today.

Seeing that the bazaar was full of snacks for sale, this reminded Wang Buping's memories.

I remember when I was a child, Wang Buping's favorite thing was to follow my grandfather to the market, because every time my grandfather would buy a lot of snacks for Wang Buping.

Thinking about the taste at that time, Wang Buping was a little greedy, but after walking around the street, he found that there were only those who bought candy people and sugar gourds, and some things could not be found at all.

And the sugar man is not made by hand, it is all machine-processed.

I remember when I was a child, I liked to go to the overpass the most, because there would be a candy pourer on the overpass, which is the kind of sugar that boils sugar into sugar water, slowly draws a figure on the iron cutting board with a spoon, and then presses it in the middle with a bamboo skewer, and slowly shovels the edge, which is very beautiful to pick up.

When I was a child, I could make one for a few cents, and I was reluctant to eat it, so I could play with it for a long time before I ate it.

Marshmallow is something that Wang Buping can still see in the city, but it seems that it is gone in this market, Wang Buping also went to the original place to take a look, and found that it has been changed to selling pancakes.

This is probably the most incredible snack of all, adding spoonfuls of sugar to the machine, and the sugar turns into a mass of marshmallows after a few high-speed rotations in a pot made of tin sheets. Wang Buping didn't figure it out now.

Popcorn, there are a lot of these things in big cities, but Wang Buping wants to see it now, when he was a child.

In the bazaar, as long as you hear a "boom", you know that it is popcorn, and Wang Buping will let his grandfather take him there.

You will see an old man turning a black pot in that circle, and when the time is almost up, he will slowly get up and put a bag on the end of the machine. And then. With a "bang", the popcorn of Baihuahua came out of the pot.

Although the sound was loud, the people and children around the crowd would happily cover their ears and wait for the next sound to come.

There were also a lot of snacks. I don't know if I can find it now.

Wang Buping walked into a small shop with beef steamed buns. this shop. Wang Buping remembers that when he followed his grandfather to the market when he was a child, he would come to eat a bowl of it, and the shopkeeper Liu Old Man. And grandpa is still friends.

I don't know, it's still not Old Man Liu who is here now, Wang Buping looked at the environment inside, it still hasn't changed at all, a big pot is placed on the outside, and beef soup is boiling inside.

Don't look at this simple pot of soup, the craftsmanship in it is exquisite, Wang Buping heard his grandfather say that his family's beef soup has a lot of medicinal materials added to it, and the beef is also selected by Old Man Liu himself, and the heat of cooking beef soup is added, which is summarized by Old Man Liu's beef soup for decades.

Looking at the person who was cooking the soup, it was a young man about the same age as Wang Buping, and there was a middle-aged woman standing next to him, who was busy with the beef soup of the guests, and there was a pot of steamed buns next to him, Wang Buping knew that the buns were all made by hand, unlike the current machines.

This woman, Wang Buping knows, she is the daughter-in-law of old man Liu, at that time, Wang Buping went to school, and sometimes came here to drink a bowl of beef soup.

It seems that this is still a shop opened by Old Man Liu, and I don't know if Old Man Liu is still there, so Wang Buping stepped forward.

"Auntie, do you still know me?"

When the middle-aged woman heard someone talking to her, she raised her head and saw that it was a young man, although her face was a little familiar, but she couldn't remember who Wang Buping was, it had been so many years.

"I look at you a little familiar, but I can't remember who it is."

After listening to the words of the eldest mother, Wang Buping thought about it, he walked out of here when he was in high school, and it has been seven years.

"Auntie doesn't remember, it's right, I haven't been here for seven years. However, the eldest mother should know my grandfather, Wang Fujun of Wangjiazhai. ”

After listening to Wang Buping's words, I saw that the eldest lady was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly shouted at Wang Buping: "I know who you are, you are Wang Buping, right?" Your grandfather came here, but he often mentioned you. I heard that you went out to study, why did you come back? ”

"My aunt can still remember me, I just graduated, and I returned to Wangjiazhai. I don't know if Grandpa Liu is still there? ”

"It's still there, but it's just that my body is not good, no, I passed on the craftsmanship and went back to the village to care for the elderly."

"Oh, I said why didn't I see Grandpa Liu, I miss his beef soup, my aunt brought me a bowl, I want the biggest."

"Haode, is it still the same as it was?"

"Well, I haven't eaten this in years, and it's still the same."

"Okay, you wait a while, I'll get the guests here, Xingjia, this young man, don't get it yet, come back, I'll get it for him."

"Got it, Mom, I heard it just now, and when you come back, I don't know what he wants?"

Wang Buping sat on the old-fashioned wooden table, waiting for his beef soup, and looked at the customers in the store, most of whom were people from the mountains around Nanling Town, who came here to catch the market.

When Wang Buping's beef soup came up, he looked at the big bowl of soup, which was not like the big city outside, a bowl of beef soup, just a few slices of beef, very tricky.

Wang Buping here, there are still some beef bones, all of which are chopped, which is also the old way Wang Buping said at the beginning, he drinks beef soup, likes to add a few chopped beef bones to it, and then soak it in a big bun, so that it tastes more delicious.

Looking at the hot beef broth, with a layer of chili oil on top, it looks very spicy, but in fact, it is a non-spicy chili, and then the fried chili oil is poured on top, so it looks good.

Seeing that the people around him were eating heavily, Wang Buping couldn't help it, and began to eat in a big gulp, the taste still hasn't changed, it seems that the young man who made the soup has got the true inheritance of Old Man Liu.

After eating a bowl of hot beef soup, Wang Buping hurried to the west side of the market, where some people came to sell livestock, and because it was dirty, he made a separate place.

Wang Buping didn't look at these either, he walked directly to the innermost, where he heard from his grandfather that it was a stonemason shop.

Walking here, you can see a lot of stones, all placed on the side of the road, Wang Buping knows, these are all materials, used to carve things, from time to time you can also see some carved haode animals or steles.

I heard grandpa say that if those people come to the market, they will come here to gather, because there is a very powerful person here, Wang Buping has also heard of his name, this Nanling Town, there is almost no one who doesn't know him.

Ghost Yama, this person's original surname was Luo, his real name, Wang Buping didn't know, because of what happened to him, everyone called him Ghost Yama.

Ghost Yama turned out to be the son of a landlord, and after liberation, the family property was divided, so he followed others to do the work of opening the mountain. His nickname of Ghost Yama is also related to this mountain.

He has followed a total of three mountain opening teams, and these three mountain opening teams, two zuihou have been disbanded, all because of dead people.

Legend has it in Nanling Town that this guy seems to have been found by King Yama, and whenever he goes to the mountain opening team, that team will have an accident in a few days, and there must be him in this incident.

The first of the three incidents was when a man dug a vein in the underground water, and the three people who were with him, the other two died, and he himself swam out of it.

The second time, it was to open up a mountain and bury people in it, and Zuihou was the one who survived.

The third time was even more strange, that time, because he was already famous at that time, and everyone didn't open the mountain with him, he worked alone, and somehow fell into a cave, and when everyone found him, he had been in it for five days, and he was unconscious, but he still didn't die.

Because of these things, everyone gave him a ghost Yama, and the consciousness was that this person was a ghost, and Yama didn't dare to accept him, but Zuihou broke his leg once, and he didn't do anything, but opened a stonemason shop and carved things for people, besides, he wanted to do it, and no one dared to accept him.

However, his stonemason shop is very famous, because he has a pair of divine hands, many counties have come to beg him to carve, but he has a bad problem, depending on the mood of carving, if it is not in the mood of haode, how much money you pay, he will not give you carving, if you are in the mood haode, you don't pay, he can carve for you.

So, everyone gave him the nickname 'Stone Monster' again.

Wang Buping looked at the carvings outside, and knew that these were all his apprentices, strictly speaking, they were not apprentices, they were all some admirers who came to learn, and Zuihou was carving in him to see if he could learn a little bit of his craft.

Wang Buping didn't need to look for him, as long as he waited outside, he could see some people who came to deliver stones, most of them were stonemasons in the mountains, who specialized in opening the mountain.

However, driven by curiosity, Wang Buping was still ready to go in and see, when he was a child, he heard about this, he had not seen it, by the way, he saw if there was a good-looking stone carving, and he bought it back in the future, and put it at the intersection of the mountain, which was reserved for the purpose of suppressing the mountains.

After walking in, Wang Buping found that there were still a lot of people inside, some of whom came to buy carving things, and were choosing their favorite stone carvings there.

There are also several stone carvers who are carving, and there are still people around to watch, but Wang Buping knows that there is no stone monster here.

Seeing Wang Buping come in, a young man greeted him and said, "The guests come here to ask for stone carvings, or to buy stone carvings?" ”

"I'll take a look at it, you don't have to worry about me." Seeing that it was asked about him, Wang Buping replied.

If you buy stone carvings here, you have to pay attention to it, if you get it for yourself, it is generally for the suppression of the gas vein, or for the town house, then you must say that it is a request, otherwise it will be unlucky.

If you buy and play with it, it is ready-made, then you can say that you are buying. (To be continued......)