The old man ignored me, and laughed alone, as if my posture and movements were hilarious. The old man grabbed my chopsticks, and the laughter still didn't stop: "I know, but shouldn't you go with peanuts when you drink wine, this is a perfect match left by the ancestors!" ”

After saying that, the old man let go of my chopsticks, and I heard the sound of peanuts rolling on the plate again, and finally, the chopsticks trembled slightly.

I carefully held the chopsticks and put them in my mouth, but before the chopsticks were turned around, I suddenly felt that something was wrong, and sure enough, I just shook it slightly, and the sound of peanuts hitting the table came from the table.

Just now, the old man took peanuts and put them on my chopsticks, and I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to eat them, but I still couldn't get home, and they fell on the table.

The old man didn't dislike me, but took a sip of wine and said, "This is something you don't have the fate to eat, since you don't want to eat what I give, then clip it yourself!" ”

What the hell am I ...... The devil knows how much I want to admit it, but the third master's face and my face don't allow it.

I pursed my mouth, stretched out my chopsticks again, groped forward with one hand to confirm the position of the plate, and grabbed the chopsticks with the other hand and began to clamp randomly.

The old man took another sip of wine and began to hum a little tune.

I don't know how much effort was wasted, I suddenly found that it is not possible to use brute force in this way, even if we usually clamp peanuts, it is not brute force, but to pinch the balance of peanuts and rice, and use skill, but we are too accustomed to those actions, and regard this ingenuity as an unconscious action.

After realizing this, the impatience in my heart slowly went down, I caught a peanut, all kinds of temptations, finally, I don't know how long later, I finally clamped up.

I moved the chopsticks quickly, and finally ate them into my mouth, and then took a sip of wine and smiled.

Maybe I'll be able to be a blind man with the ability.

The old man poured me the wine again, and said, "You look exactly the same as when the third child was young, impatient, and stupid, but you also have the courage and determination!" However, these are all things that Master told me, and I was too young to see so many things. ”

Since this old man called "the third brother" one by one, I am afraid that the seniority cannot be lower than the third master, otherwise, how can I call the senior brother. So, I smiled and called out to my uncle in a voice that I thought was very well-behaved.

As soon as my words fell, the old man laughed, laughing very presumptuously, and after a long time he stopped, but he still didn't stop laughing: "Look at you, even this stupidity is very much like the third child!" ”

Now it's my turn to understand, what's the matter, isn't it the uncle, the seniority is even higher?

I didn't know what I should call it, so I just asked directly, and the old man drank a glass of wine and said, "You may not believe it, the third is my senior brother, and I am the fourth." ”

……

It's not respectful to Senior Brother, but it's your fault...... How can you blame me.

I smiled awkwardly, and didn't dare to refute anything, after all, it was this old man who was in charge of my food and lodging now, and if I him off, I might be thrown into the mountains again.

"Hey, the third child, it's just too rushing, I feel that I am better than anyone else, and no one is convinced......"

People say that no matter who they are, when they are old, they like to recall the past, and they love to talk about what they can't remember. The old man drank a few glasses and began to chatter.

However, I suddenly became a little curious about the third master's past, so I asked him, why did the third master go down the mountain, but he stayed here? And where have their eldest and second children gone?

The old man sighed again, as if he didn't want to say anything, so I waited quietly, and he drank for a while, ate for a while, and after a long time seemed to have made up his mind to speak.

"It's not that I didn't go down, but I went down and up again, but not this mountain, it's where I found out later."

The old man said that he couldn't count how many years, they had a total of four brothers, no father and no mother, all of them were adopted by the master, and their master never told them what kind of character he was all his life, so even if he died in the end, he didn't even know what words should be engraved on the tombstone.

It is said that their names were all given in the place where the master picked them up, the eldest was picked up in the Yunnan territory, the second was in the south of the Yangtze River, and the third, the old man said that the place where their master picked up the third master was particularly remote, and he saw it in an exorcism activity, and the place seemed to be called Qi County, but he couldn't remember exactly where it was.

However, the old man did not say a word about himself, only that he was the youngest apprentice, so he learned the least.

Later, there was an accident at the foot of the mountain, and the master wanted to go, but it was too dangerous, and the third master didn't let him, so he volunteered, saying that he had been the fastest learner since he was a child and had the highest qualifications, so he was the most suitable to go.

Their master was persuaded for a long time, and in the end he didn't agree, but later, the third master secretly went down the mountain behind his master's back, and their master soon noticed the matter, so he asked the eldest and the second to chase after him, but later, the eldest and the second didn't come back.

"I remember that at that time, I was still young, maybe only thirteen or fourteen years old, and the master told me that the eldest and the second child probably let the third child run away again, and he was not at ease, so he had to go down the mountain to have a look, and let me guard the mountain on the mountain. I was young at the time, and I was obedient, so I kept ...... But later, after many days, I can't remember how many days, and the third child came back alone......"

Later, the third master and the old man went down the mountain together to move the corpse of the master, and of course, the corpses of the eldest and the second child, and the third master changed a lot all of a sudden, and he didn't speak, he didn't do anything, he knelt in the master's house all day long, or he went to kneel in front of the tombstone.

Not long after such a day, I couldn't go on, because at that time, the fourth child was young, and even the basic living ability was very lacking, but the third master was slumped again, and simply, the third master drove the fourth child who was still a child down the mountain, and the old man didn't bring anything at that time, so he only took this dog - Goudaner.

Hearing his name, the dog ran to my lap and rubbed me, I put down my hand to touch it, I didn't expect that this little thing was so much older than me.