Zhenzong walked to Tao Qisheng and his wife, who were looking at him, and greeted him respectfully: "Uncle, aunt, hello!" ”

Qiu Lanzhi looked him up and down and asked, "Zhenzong, why are you back?" ”

Zhenzong smiled and said, "Come back and see, I'm homesick too." ”

"You're coming back on your own, ——? on the way"

"How dare I do it alone, I stayed in the county for three days before I met the people in our village, it was Meng Guoan, Cheng Maoran and Yuan Yongtao who went to sell the prey they hunted, and then came back together. In this deep mountain and old forest, I am afraid to encounter wild beasts! ”

Qiu Lanzhi asked: "Aren't the two unmarried young sons-in-law of the Wu family not hunting?" ”

Tao Qisheng said: "Look at what you said, can't you enter the city without hunting?!" Zhenzong, what is your study? ”

Zhenzong frowned and said: "Don't mention it, under the wave of anti-Japanese resistance, Shenyang is currently making a school tide, students are on strike, workers are on strike, businessmen are boycotting, and students are marching on the streets to promote anti-Japanese propaganda." I came back and wanted to discuss with my father and mother that I wanted to join the army, and now some hot-blooded young people have joined the anti-Japanese team to serve the country, but they won't let me go! ”

At that time, education was carried out under the slogans of "national harmony", "Japan-Manchurian goodwill", and "one morality and one heart". In the education industry, it can be said that it is advancing by leaps and bounds. In the Northeast region, there are countless schools set up, which are also based on the development of Zhang Zuolin and Zhang Xueliang's two fathers' respect for teachers and education. There were also many women's schools, so that people began to get rid of the shackles of feudal thinking from then on.

Qiu Lanzhi patted Zhenzong's shoulder, looked very loving, and said excitedly: "I haven't seen you for two years, but I've become a great boy, people really can't help but mess up!" ”

"But my aunt still looks young, and she doesn't see her old face."

"You kid can speak, and you're a well-read, and it's pleasing to the ear. Have you eaten? I didn't eat my aunt to make it for you. ”

"Don't bother Auntie, I've already eaten it, thank you!"

At this time, Tao Qisheng interjected: "Your family is also a seedling in a thousand acres, your sister Yaoyao is a foreign surname after all, and she is also married, and your father and mother are still counting on you to support your old age." You're a soldier now, you're fighting, and your gun doesn't have eyes, if you have a good guts, how can you live at home?! Besides, we are Manchukuo, and we have not heard of a major war, only the team of the Anti-Japanese Federation. ”

This Zhenzong is also surnamed Tao, his father Tao Qiyue and Tao Qisheng are their own family, but they are already far away, but after all, they are the same ancestor. Usually there is no contact in Su Ri, but Tao Zhenkun and Zhenzong grew up together with a bare ass since childhood. It is a three-way pro-family, pronounced on the same surname, but it also seems closer than others. Everything is inferior, only reading is high. Tao Qiyue and his wife are frugal, send their son to study far away, hoping to be on the list in the future, with a bright future and a glorious lintel, which is really pitiful for the hearts of parents all over the world!

Qiu Lanzhi said: "A good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail." ”

"Having said that, in this war years, there is a need for soldiers to defend the dignity of the motherland. This is Manchukuo, but on Chinese soil, can any patriotic Chinese recognize it? Even those who participate in the Anti-Japanese Federation can do it, and anyone who fights devils. The Japanese are swallowing our homeland and killing our compatriots! Uncle, what are you trying to do? As Tao Zhenzong spoke, he glanced into the room.

Without waiting for Tao Zhenkun to speak, Qiu Lanzhi preemptively said: "I get angry when I mention this, your uncle doesn't know what kind of evil he has committed in the past two days, he always chatters that he wants to make a coffin for himself, and he is not afraid of others laughing at him when he spreads it, how can he practice himself like this?!" I didn't listen to him, and he was as stubborn as a donkey. I can't help him, but I can't help it! I know he's-"

As soon as he heard this, without waiting for Qiu Lanzhi to finish speaking, Tao Zhenzong smiled and said: "My uncle is prescient, he knows that he will have to use it sooner or later, and it will not rot if it is done and put it away, and it is convenient to use it." ”

Tao Qisheng seemed to be convinced: "This kid can still speak, I agree." Life is accidental, death is inevitable, there are no young and old on Huangquan Road! I've done my best to make coffins for others, and I want others to beat me, and I can't do their job! Besides, I learned this craft from my father-in-law, but he didn't occupy the coffin after he died, so I can't be like him. ”

"Don't listen to your uncle's nonsense, he likes to joke, someone must have an old man in his family who asked him to order it." Qiu Lanzhi would not believe her husband's words.

Tao Qisheng smiled bitterly and said, "If you don't believe it, then you just think I'm joking." ”

"Why are you talking about stupid things? A big living person who is jumping around, he is not old, he is preparing, and he is preparing too early, so he should not put a coffin in his home, and this in and out looks crazy, strange and scary! I've listened to you all my life! Simply, whose family wants it, you still go to whose house to do it, not to mention that this is still our material wood, have you calculated the wood and labor money?! Qiu Lanzhi glanced at her husband.

"I-" Tao Qisheng swallowed back the words that came to his lips.

"I also know that my uncle likes to joke, so he can't take it seriously."

Saying that, Tao Zhenzong looked at the truncated red pine wood, carefully weighed the size and said: "It's quite long, good wood, it's a bit blind to cut the material, and the remaining seven are long and eight short, and some of them are not used for making cabinets, what else can they do?" Only when the match is burned! ”

Tao Qisheng listened to Zhenzong's words, felt that it seemed to have some truth, and after thinking about it, he suddenly said: "When your brother got married, I was not willing to use it to make two decent boxes and cabinets. What you said reminded me, I think it's better to break it into a big coffin, which can open the two of them, no matter who dies first and then dies in the future, the last one can also be buried together, and it will save trouble! ”

Qiu Lanzhi said angrily: "The more you talk about it, the more unpleasant it becomes, you should use it, don't pull me, I haven't lived enough!" ”

Tao Zhenzong smiled and said, "If one dies early, and the other dies many years later, wouldn't this coffin also rot?!" ”

Tao Qisheng blurted out a praise: "It makes sense!"

At this moment, as soon as the door opened, Liu Xingmei walked out, her big braid coiled up again, gathered on the top of her head like a twisted flower.

The moment Tao Zhenzong looked at her, his eyes were a little crazy, as if he had discovered the most beautiful scenery in the world.

Liu Xingmei stepped forward slowly, looked at Zhenzong and was a little stunned, so she asked Tao Zhenkun on the side: "——? is he?" ”

Before Tao Zhenkun could speak, Zhenzong looked at Liu Xingmei and said with a smile: "Hello sister-in-law!" Why, you don't even remember me? My brother and I went to your house in River Bay four years ago, and we brought you half a roe deer meat in the winter. ”

"Oh, or you? It's really unrecognizable if you don't look closely! At this time, Liu Xingmei seemed to remember. It's just that I can't help but be a little surprised in my heart, and I said that it was the eighteenth change of the female college, but I didn't expect this boy to be able to change, and he was no longer the ragged and dirty teenager.

Liu Xingmei didn't blush, but Tao Zhenzong blushed.

Liu Xingmei quietly approached Tao Zhenkun.

Tao Zhenzong peeked at Liu Xingmei, who amazed him, out of the corner of his eye, and flattered Tao Qisheng absentmindedly: "Uncle's craftsmanship is known from far and near, and everything is good!" ”

Tao Qisheng sighed: "It's a pity that I didn't confiscate an apprentice, I'm afraid it will be lost in the future!" You are a college student, studying hard, not planning a future in the future, you should be ambitious, you can't learn this thing just to support your family, if you are willing to learn, I can teach you! ”

Tao Zhenzong was stunned at first when he heard this, and then he was overjoyed, but for some reason, he was whimsical, and said to Tao Qisheng very sincerely: "Uncle, if I don't go to study, and I can't be a soldier because of my father's opposition, I will come with you to learn carpenter's work, and you can accept me as an apprentice, how about it?" ”

"Dad! Zhenzong, don't listen to your uncle, you are a college student, it is not easy for your father and mother to provide you with school all these years, and it is still important to go to school!" Qiu Lanzhi was a little anxious.

"Auntie, don't you know, the world is so chaotic now, the situation is turbulent, and students can't sit in the classroom and study with peace of mind! I originally planned to serve my country when I succeeded in my studies, but it was difficult to realize this wish. I thought about it, if I don't want to be a soldier, then I will learn the craft from my uncle. ”

Tao Qisheng was stunned, glanced at his wife, and then smiled, and said: "I wanted to pass on the craft to your brother, but he is stupid, he doesn't understand at all, he is only interested in hunting, and it is difficult to learn!" Over the years, I don't know how many people have rushed to worship me as a teacher, but I have rejected them because I am selfish. The peer is an enemy, he taught the apprentice, and starved the master to death, so he would be robbed of his job. Your aunt also disagrees with the horizontal and vertical blocks, and now, I thought that my craft was lost, and it was good to have you inherited, and seeing that you were also ingenious, I simply accepted you as an apprentice. But if only you could learn half of it, you would be able to support your family! But I don't know if your father and mother agree, you have to-"

He has a deep understanding of Tao Zhenzong, a child who has been smart and clever since he was a child, and what he learns is like, it is not comparable to the lazy and stupid Zhenkun. In the past, Guo learned calligraphy from him, and he could see that he had a talent, and he thought that if he was persistent, he could become a calligrapher.

"Don't ask, they must be desperate!"

Tao Zhenzong said, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed in front of Tao Qisheng to worship the master: "Thank you, Master!" ”

"Good boy, get up!" Tao Qisheng stretched out his hand to help Zhenzong up.

"Dad, you ——?" Qiu Lanzhi on the side wanted to stop it, thinking that her husband's decision was too hasty, but it was not easy to say anything directly in front of Zhenzong.

Even Tao Zhenkun and Liu Xingmei were stunned by this move.

Tao Qisheng ignored his wife's words, but sighed lightly and said to Zhenzong: "However, I don't know how much you can learn from my craft?!" ”

"Of course I'm going to learn it all." Even Tao Zhenzong didn't seem to know how he suddenly came up with this decision.

"That-that, as long as your father and mother agree, then you can learn, as much as you can, in short, it's better than hanging out!" At this time, Tao Qisheng fell into a burst of confusion, and even a large wave of sadness came to him!

"I didn't expect it to be a coffin when I learned carpenter work for the first time?!" Tao Zhenzong seemed to sigh at this.

When Liu Xingmei heard that it was indeed a coffin, she couldn't help but be stunned.

Tao Qisheng said: "As long as you can learn to work like a coffin, and you can also eat with a mouthful of food, you don't need to learn more, you have to use it!" ”

Liu Xingmei thought to herself: My father-in-law is not stupid, and he is not sick or ruffian, so naturally he will not prepare a coffin for himself, he must do it for others, but he likes to make a joke. If that's the case, it won't be a whim, so there is such an absurd act, if this matter is spread out, it will be laughed at and generous by the world, if it is really smart but clever and mistaken, it will really become an old bastard! But who would order such a big coffin that is enough to open the two of them? There was no mention in the village of a serious illness of two families, and no employer came to inspect the timber or make any requests at the beginning of the coffin, which was indeed strange and suspicious, and kept people in the dark and puzzled, which was really a strange thing. If it's true, or is it ——? She didn't dare to think about it anymore.

"Tell me, you two, how could your father make such a joke on himself? He actually said that he wanted to make a coffin for himself, which is really a big joke, I don't believe it! Qiu Lanzhi said indignantly.

Tao Zhenkun cautiously approached Liu Xingmei and whispered in her ear: "It's ridiculous, I don't believe it, if that's the case, Dad must have taken the wrong medicine, do you believe it?" ”

"If you talk nonsense again, I won't help you!" Qiu Lanzhi seemed to be really angry.

Tao Qisheng said: "I don't need you, I have an apprentice to help." You're—"

Suddenly, he heard Tao Zhenkun "ouch", covered his ears and hid to the side.

"What's wrong?" Qiu Lanzhi asked hurriedly.

I heard Liu Xingmei say with a tense face: "I probably stepped on the cat's tail!" ”

It turned out that she took advantage of Tao Zhenkun's unpreparedness and secretly twisted his ears.

Tao Zhenzong believed it and looked around for the trace of the cat.

When Liu Xingmei saw him like this, she couldn't help but giggle, and the sound was really as pleasant as a pearl falling on a jade plate.

And when Tao Zhenzong looked at her, he was a little obsessed, and felt that she was so beautiful, the appearance of a sinking fish and a wild goose, and the appearance of a shy flower in the closed moon, in his eyes, it was like seeing a fairy who fell red dust from the Yao Pond-

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