Chapter 11: The Medusa Covenant
Gu Li sat back at his desk, he turned his back to Sha Yu, and rubbed the ugly pot with his hand, he was finally about to reveal the stories he knew.
"Sha Yu, that day I accidentally entered my grandfather's previous study, and on his bookshelf full of all kinds of old books and picture albums, I saw a tattered old book, and I reached out out of curiosity."
Gu Li's voice seemed to come from the bottom of the abyss, and Sha Yu couldn't help but get closer.
"Unexpectedly, the techniques and experience of the Mei family's pot making were described above, and the doubts in my heart seemed to be solved at once. Because there was a picture of a clay pot on one page of the old book, and it seemed to be almost exactly the same as the one my grandfather had said. As I continued to flip down, a letter fell out, and I couldn't help but open it with curiosity after picking it up. ”
Gu Li paused for a moment, he looked at Sha Yu with a solemn expression, "It turned out to be a handwritten letter from a person who had seen the ugly pot with his own eyes, and then turned back and found that this old book turned out to be a broken product, and the content behind it was gone, but that letter had already described the magic of the ugly pot and the mystery it carried." On the back of the envelope, Grandpa seems to have written a sentence himself, which means that the owner of the letter disappeared completely after seeing the ugly pot, and is the same as the owner of the ugly pot......"
The more Gu Li's words were spoken, the more bizarre they became, but Sha Yu didn't seem to be surprised, although he didn't know about collections, but as a child who grew up in the family of pot makers, he was not surprised by the legend of the collection, and he naturally believed what Gu Li said.
"Then how did the owner of the ugly pot disappear? Why? ”
Gu Li looked at Sha Yu, his eyes deepened, and his mind seemed to be flashing the words he had seen in the past as quickly as a movie, and the time recorded in the words also needed to be pulled back to the past more quickly, that is, the era in which Gu Li lived several generations before them.
At that time, in addition to the Sha family, Meichuan also had a pot-making family that had to be mentioned, and they were the family with the surname Mei who started with the same as Meichuan, but then something happened, and the Mei family quickly declined, and at that time, Sha Yu and Gu Li's grandfather were still just children.
The family surnamed Mei has a lot of precious sand pots left by their ancestors, but with the decline of the family, the people who can make pots in the Mei family are becoming more and more scarce, and those precious sand pots have also fallen into the hands of others.
And these Gu Li didn't tell Sha Yu that he was a person who didn't care about the sand pot, so why did he need to know that in addition to their family in the past, there was actually a more powerful family in Meichuan!
Gu Li stood up and turned on the light in the bedroom, he looked at Sha Yu and continued, "Because that pot maker surnamed Mei is a special person, although he was born in a pot making family, the fact that the family is in decline cannot be ignored!" Even though he was a pot-making genius, his talent was not appreciated due to the restrictions of the times and the pressure of his family. Soon he left the Mei family, and later married a wine family surnamed Du, who seemed to want to completely draw a line with the Mei family. ”
Sha Yu nodded thoughtfully, Gu Li didn't understand what he meant, and continued to say what he had to say without paying much attention to it.
At that time, he burned a good pot, and the insiders brewed a pot of good wine, and the two lived a free life in an unknown place. But it didn't take long for the good days to come, and the people of the Mei family came, and they forcibly took him back, and then his wife gave birth to a son and a daughter, and the son was also forcibly taken back to the Mei family......
"So miserable?"
Sha Yu, who had been silent for a while, suddenly shouted at Gu Li, and Gu Li also nodded by default.
"And during that period, he was forced by his family to burn a handful of heirlooms, and he really burned a pot in anger, but that pot was unspeakably ugly, and it was completely inconsistent with traditional regulations, and he even put three words on the bottom of that pot, Medusa!"
"Medusa? You're kidding? How could Greek mythology come to us at that time? But how does the name feel a little familiar? Who seems to be calling Medusa? ”
Gu Li instantly focused his attention on Sha Yu, "What do you know? ”
Sha Yu patted his head, "Oh, that's right! It's a bus, and it's ...... And parks! Ha ha...... Gu Li, you won't believe that I know a person who happens to be called this name, but her name is Meihua Mei, Du Fu's Du, Sand of the Sand Pot, Mei Du Sha! ”
Gu Li's face changed, he didn't expect Sha Yu to know that girl too, but he didn't directly tell Sha Yu that he actually knew a person named Medusha, and the ugly pot he saw was bought from her, Gu Li just smiled and replied, "This name is really special!" But don't underestimate the people of the past, porcelain has long been spread all over the world, and there are naturally a lot of things coming in from the outside, the key is the ugly pot and the bizarre things that came with it! ”
Medusa, who was lying on the bed at the moment, suddenly sneezed several times in a row, and she got up from the bed and walked to the desk, "Got a cold?" No way, who is scolding me? It can't be someone thinking about me, right? Ha ha...... How is it possible, except for my grandparents, who else will know about me! ”
She flipped through the old book on the desk, and in a few clicks she turned to the last page, and the words written on it made her feel a little surprised every time she saw it, and it said that people with the surname Mei should not touch it!
Such cold words are a little dazzling on the yellowed pages, Medusa is surnamed Mei, and she is the person who avoids the old book, but why does their family have this old book?
Could it be that Grandpa got it through improper means, and he had to let Medusa memorize it by heart and keep boiling the kettle?
Medusa thought for a moment, and found that she couldn't think of anything at all, so she turned her head and lay down on her bed again.
In Gu Li's bedroom, what Gu Li had to say hadn't finished yet, and Sha Yu saw that he didn't seem to be interested in the name Medusa he just mentioned, so he didn't say anything more, and continued to listen quietly to what he said about the rest of the content.
The master surnamed Mei, who only had his son by his side, annoyed the family and was kicked out by them, but the ugly pot should have been broken like his master, but a famous collector happened to pass by, and heard that the genius pot master surnamed Mei had fired a special pot, so he went straight to the Mei family. The famous collector was the owner of the letter, and he found that the ugly pot was so ingenious, even more wonderful when soaked in tea, that it instantly attracted the attention of people from all walks of life at that time. The ugly pot was given to the famous collector for nothing because of the Mei family's indifference, but the master surnamed Mei did not succumb because he was swept out of the house, he directly found the famous collector, and the famous man was real, and he really returned the ugly pot to the master surnamed Mei. ”
Sha Yu stared at the sand pot on the table, Gu Li continued his words, and the two did not have any unnecessary communication.
"I heard that when the master surnamed Mei left, he left a mysterious smile for the famous collector, and then the master surnamed Mei disappeared with his ugly pot and his son. Some people say that he disappeared after going to his mother-in-law's grave, while others think that he should have gone to find his missing daughter, but since then no one has seen the master surnamed Mei, his son and the ugly pot. Soon after, the only collector who had seen the ugly pot was also missing...... The letter was found by his family while tidying up his study, and I don't know how my grandfather got it...... But since then, the ugly pot has a special name in the collecting world, it is called the Medusa Covenant, as if the master pot maker and the collector agreed to hide the existence of the ugly pot together! ”
"Medusa's covenant? It's bizarre, but what does it have to do with the pot you bought? ”
Naturally, Sha Yu would not associate the ugly pot with Medusha, let alone know that she was the descendant of the master surnamed Mei, and would not know that her name actually had an important relationship with the family's secrets.
Her great-grandfather made a good pot, and her great-grandmother made a good pot of wine, but when she arrived at Medusa, there was only an ugly pot left.
What makes Mei Dusha even more unacceptable is that since the generation of his grandfather, the men of their Mei family have only married women surnamed Du, but there is something special here in Mei Dusha, and their inheritance of the only seedling has been broken, and there are no boys in their Mei family.
Although her grandparents didn't ask for anything from Medusa, she knew that she had a responsibility and that she had to inherit the Mei family's clay pot skills!
"It matters! I found out that the pot was actually in Umegawa all along. Although it was just my guess, after tracing the history, I found that the place where everyone surnamed Mei used to haunt was in a place here. There was indeed a kettle family surnamed Mei in that place, and this kettle was bought from that family. I've been studying the process of making it for the past week, and I've found it to be somewhat similar to what was described in my grandfather's old booklet......"
Gu Li said something wrong, and Sha Yu also saw the book he put on the desk that was already a little broken, he pointed to the old book and asked, "This old book was written by the master surnamed Mei?" ”
"Legend has it that yes, because it arrived with the letter to my grandfather, it seems that the collector returned the ugly pot on the condition of the handover, but it is difficult to say whether there is still the original copy, because the content behind this booklet is incomplete, as if it was copied and copied and gone...... I actually want to know what's left! ”
Gu Li's eyes were full of longing, this desire really made Sha Yu a little envious, he didn't love the sand pot, but he didn't know what he loved, which made him live a little muddy every day, "That, I ......"
"Gu Li, are you in there? Can I come in? ”
There was a gentle voice from Lychee at the door, and what Sha Yu was about to say was instantly interrupted.
He and Gu Li both looked at the door, and after Gu Li frowned, he glanced back at Sha Yu, "Sha Yu, what were you going to say just now?" ”
Sha Yu hurriedly waved his hand, "No...... It's nothing, how can this girl Lychee find you? Let's take a look? ”
Gu Li didn't refute, Sha Yu walked to the door one step ahead of him, and when his hand reached for the door, what was in his mind was what he didn't have time to say just now.
He actually wanted to ask Gu Li if he could participate in what he was doing now, but in the end he decided not to ask, he should go to find what he wanted to do, instead of becoming the person he expected to be in the eyes of others again.
Thinking of this, he immediately opened the door, and Lychee, who was standing at the door, looked excited, but after seeing that the person who opened the door was Sha Yu, his face changed instantly, "Why are you here?" What about Gu Li? ”
Sha Yu had already guessed that Lychee would have such a reaction, and on the side of his body, Gu Li, who followed behind, appeared in front of Lychee's eyes, and Lychee's face immediately flushed, "Gu ...... Gu Li, you're here! ”
"Lychee, is there something wrong with you?"
Gu Li didn't expect Lychee to react when he saw her, but that didn't make Lychee forget her purpose in coming to Gu Li, she was here to say goodbye to him.
"I ...... I'm here to say goodbye to you, I'm going back! ”
"Oh, yes! It's up to two weeks, and it's time for you to go. Well, a safe journey! ”
Sha Yu said happily in her heart, Lychee glared at him, but her eyes slowly looked at Gu Li expectantly, but Gu Li's words were even less.
"Oh, that's good to go!"
"Haha...... You guy! ”
Sha Yu laughed teasingly, Lychee was a little embarrassed, she looked at Gu Li, Gu Li didn't seem to have any change in expression, she didn't say anything, she just turned around and said, "See you later!" ”
After that, Lychee ran out of the sight of Sha Yu and Gu Li, Sha Yu looked at her back and looked back at Gu Li, but didn't say anything, and then the two went back to the bedroom.
Soon, they were called out by Old Man Sha to see Lychee off at the door, and Lychee was overjoyed at that time, she left with a smile!