Chapter 17: No pie in the sky

Calling the door to the Burles? Zhu Da was stunned for a moment before he reacted, the other party was not calling him, but calling his father Zhu Shishi.

Could it be that he has been entangled too tightly these days, so he has a conversation between adults and his parents to Berdengate, so that he has completely lost this heart? Zhu Da shook his head, exercise his body first, there are still many opportunities to learn martial arts, there must be many people who know martial arts in a border town military region like Datong, thinking about it, he can also understand that there is not much opportunity, why should others teach a poor young man to learn martial arts.

Father Zhu Shishi opened the door and brought people in, Zhu Da wanted to go out to have a look, but in the end he suppressed his curiosity and continued to cook, anyway, he came to find his father.

It didn't take long for his mother Zhu Wang to call Zhu Da on the stove, and under the light of the fire, Zhu Da noticed that his mother was a little nervous, which was not surprising, because of the old man's reputation in the village, ordinary people would be nervous and scared when they saw it.

"Xiaoda, your father called you over, you have to be obedient." Mother Zhu Wangshi told two sentences.

Zhu Da came out with curiosity, Xiang Bo and his father were standing in the courtyard, Xiang Yue Xiang was half a head taller than Zhu Shi, and his upper waist was straighter, quite oppressive, and Zhu Shi subconsciously bent down and bowed his head, looking very cringe.

Seeing Zhu Da approaching, Xiang Bo and his father Zhu Shishi both turned their heads to look over, both of them had strange expressions, under the afterglow of the sunset, Xiang Yue Xiangbo's expression was solemn, very tense, but he was a little helpless when he looked closely, and his father Zhu Shishi was full of confusion and didn't know why.

"Xiaoda, are you willing to follow Uncle Xiang to learn martial arts?" Zhu Shishi asked in a muffled voice.

"What?" Zhu Da subconsciously asked rhetorically, learning martial arts with the other party is what he has always wanted, but there has been no result of apprenticeship in the past few days, although he has not said it explicitly, but in fact he has been rejected, why did he suddenly ask such a question.

He was stunned, and his father Zhu Shishi hurriedly said: "Xiaoda, once you apprentice, your parents won't be able to control you, and you can't protect you if you are beaten and scolded by the master, and you can only recognize it if you are killed, let alone be hungry to be a cow and a horse......"

"Is the old man such a bastard?" Xiang Yue asked coldly, Zhu Shishi was stunned, and immediately stopped talking, with a little embarrassment on his face.

Zhu Da had already reacted, grinned and said, "I'm willing to apprentice, of course I'm willing to apprentice!" ”

In the past ten days, I have tried all kinds of means just to learn martial arts, although this sudden change makes people wonder why, but the opportunity is in front of me, seize it first.

After finishing speaking, Zhu Da simply knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Xiang Bo a few times, and said in a loud voice: "Master is above, apprentices visit Master." ”

Xiang Yue glanced at Uncle Xiang with a straight face, and said in a muffled voice: "It's not singing, what are you tossing", after saying this, he turned to Zhu Shi and asked: "Your child is willing to learn martial arts, are you willing?" ”

Zhu Da is still underage, only with the consent of his parents, this is the rule, otherwise he will not be able to do it accurately, hearing Xiang Bo's question, Zhu Da raised his head and looked at his father, his father's attitude is really hard to say, although it has been loosened, but looking at the way just now, can you agree?

At this moment, Zhu Shishi was also looking at his son, father and son looked at each other for a moment, Zhu Shishi sighed, turned his head and said, "The children are willing, can I still stop it?" ”

"Thank you, Dad!" Zhu Da was overjoyed, of course his father could stop this matter, the father is the son, in this era, the father has the right to veto all the requests of the underage children, even if the death is allowed by the law, of course he knows that his parents are against him to learn martial arts, but today he agreed, obviously considering his expectations.

As soon as he agreed here, the matter of accepting apprentices became a foregone conclusion, Xiang Yue Xiangbo nodded, raised his voice and said, "Qingyun, you come in!" ”

Zhou Qingyun walked into the courtyard with a gourd and a piece of meat, and said to Yue again: "Zhu Da, you go and make this meat, and I will have dinner at your house tonight, and explain the matter of apprenticeship." ”

Xiang Yue didn't treat himself as an outsider at all, the Zhu family and his wife didn't have much knowledge, and the thing was sudden, they were a little at a loss at the moment, and they could only listen to Xiang Yue's arrangement, Zhou Qingyun walked to Zhu Da with the meat, and the two of them went to the stove together.

When he arrived at the stove, Zhu Da looked at Zhou Qingyun with a puzzled face, and before he could speak, Zhou Qingyun waved his hand again and again and said, "I also wonder, I haven't said anything yet, Uncle Xiang is going to accept you as an apprentice." ”

The development of this matter was unbelievable and confusing, and Zhu Da asked again: "Didn't say anything?" ”

"After you left, Xiang Bo asked me a lot, I asked carefully about the past few days, I also took Xiang Bo to the river to see, there were a few fish in the puddle, I brought the fish back, wait for you to clean up, by the way, two of them are too slippery, I didn't catch them, and I ran away......"

Zhou Qingyun chattered but couldn't get to the point, Zhu Da could feel the excitement of the other party, they got along with each other very quickly these days, and now that they were apprenticed to Xiang Bo, they spent more time together day and night, whether it was Zhou Qingyun or Zhu Da, they were all lonely and scared teenagers.

That meat is dried meat, if you want to cook it alone, it takes labor and materials, Zhu Da simply cut the dried meat into thin slices and stew it with the braised fish, in this way, the dried meat slices will absorb the juice of the roasted fish, and the oil, water and taste of the dried meat will also feed back to the fish.

When Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun brought the meal to the table, Xiang Bo and the Zhu family's parents were very dull, and there was nothing to say between them, not to mention that the Zhu family's parents were still a little afraid of Xiang Bo.

The soup pot is fish soup, steaming, the plate is the meat slices fished out, the dried meat slices have been full of soup, looking at the oil and attractive, Zhu Da also mixed a cold dish with pickled vegetables and radish, which is fragrant.

As soon as these things were put on the table, they immediately attracted everyone's attention, and Zhou Qingyun's voice swallowing saliva was so loud that everyone could hear it, not only he was so greedy, but everyone else was similar, but adults were more able to control themselves.

In this year, it is a big deal to apprentice to a master, and in a sense, it can be regarded as a person who has changed from a parent to a master, so there is a saying that "the government does not ask if you die and flee".

Xiang Yue Xiangbo and the Zhu family's parents were originally going to discuss this, but as soon as the fragrant fish soup, a full plate of dried meat, and beautiful cold dishes were on the table, even if the adults' self-control was not bad, they were a little unintentional to talk, and the room was actually a little quiet.

"Seeing this meal, I don't have the heart to talk about it, old man, let's eat it first!" Xiang Yue said with a smile, as soon as he said this, everyone laughed, and the atmosphere became a lot more relaxed.

Zhou Qingyun brought soju, but only two adult men, Xiang Yue and Zhu Shishi, could drink, for poor military households, even if they wanted to drink during the New Year, it was not easy, but today was a sumptuous meal, full of wine and meat, and Zhu Shishi even drank a few sips.

The fish soup is very full, and the piece of dried meat is more than a catty, but everyone is short of oil and water, let go of the belly and eat openly, these things are really not enough, Zhu Da thought of this, and set aside a portion for himself and Zhou Qingyun to eat alone, leaving enough for adults.

This behavior was seen by Xiang Bo in his eyes, nodded slightly, Zhu Shi took a few sips of wine over there, and faced Xiang Yue Xiang Bo was not so cringe, and said in a rough voice: "Since Xiaoda wants to learn martial arts so much, and Uncle Xiang is willing to teach, then this gift of apprenticeship will never be ambiguous in my family, and if I report the number to Uncle Xiang, my family will be ......."

When Zhu Da heard this, his heart chuckled, he missed this, apprenticeship is not to kowtow to learn, others want to teach you skills, and even have to take care of food and housing, how can you learn in vain, you must give a certain amount of money and food as a worship ceremony, and my parents have not agreed I am afraid there is also this reason.

Now that my father Zhu Shi said so solemnly, I am afraid that he already has the intention of smashing pots and selling iron to support, if he learns martial arts for himself, he puts his family in heavy debt, and has a bad life from now on, then he will not be able to live in his heart anyway.

"If you don't eat this piece of meat, I'll eat it." On the side, Zhou Qingyun muttered, how could Zhu Da have the heart to answer, only looked at his parents in a daze.

Although his father Zhu Shishi was drunk, he was very conscious, and his mother had an embarrassed expression on her face, but she didn't open her mouth to stop it, looking at the eyes of his parents, Zhu Da inexplicably felt determined, he lowered his head, because he felt that his eyes were sour, he was bent on learning martial arts, and he thought he was thoughtful, but he didn't expect his parents to make much sacrifice.

Zhu Da knew that his choice was not wrong, but at this moment he was really shaken, the Zhu family had already expressed his position, but Xiang Yue Xiangbo did not answer, he drank a lot of alcohol, he had drunk three bowls in a row, and his face was not red, he even ate a few mouthfuls of meat, drank a bowl of fish soup, and exhaled and said: "It's delicious, Zhu Da, you really know how to cook, this craft can go to Huairen County and Datong to open a restaurant!" ”

Zhu Da is really a little tempted to say this, but he knows his own quality, he was a foodie and learned food processing, and he does know a lot of relevant knowledge and technology, but is there any essential difference between opening a restaurant and farming now? It's nothing more than fatter pigs and sheep.....

But everyone knew that Xiang Yue's words were not the point, Xiang Yue looked up at Zhu Shishi, and said solemnly: "I accept Zhu Da as an apprentice, I will take care of food and housing, I don't want any money and food from your family, Zhu Da can live at home, help the family do the work, Qingyun came to help me and I won't stop me." ”

The room was quiet, and his father Zhu Shishi deliberately rubbed his face, lest he heard it wrong, and Zhu Da and the others were also dumbfounded, how could there be such a good thing? How can there be such a good thing in the world? There must be something strange in this!