Chapter 7: First Sight
"Why is it so lively?" My mother came out of the kitchen with two dishes, saw that it was me, and said, "It's our family who has come back, that's Chubby, right?" ”
"What? Chubby and Fenfen are back. Grandma also came out of the kitchen tremblingly, and the fat man hurriedly ran forward to help her. I also went up and took the plate from my mother's hand and placed it on the large table.
The fat man's mouth was still as sweet as ever, and I looked a little dumb on the side, but after a brief greeting, I didn't say anything more. My mother touched my head lovingly, smiling silently.
The fat man sat down around the table with my grandmother, and I accompanied my mother back to the kitchen to help serve the dishes. As I walked briskly into the kitchen, I saw an unfamiliar figure busy in the kitchen. She had her back to me, and I couldn't see her face, her back looked handsome, her waist-length hair was simply tied in a ponytail behind her back.
"Oh, let Auntie fry it, the oil will splash on your clothes in a while." As she spoke, her mother had already leaned in to replace her.
She didn't hand the shovel to her mother, but just politely turned sideways and whispered in a sweet voice: "Auntie, I have put on my apron, it's just the first time to use such a big pot to stir-fry, you can give me some guidance on the side." ”
The mother smiled and said, "The big pot and the small pot are all the same...... while helping to help, while chatting. After a while, she remembered me standing at the door in a daze, and turned to me and said, "Son, don't stand stupidly, hurry up and help bring out those good ones." ”
The girl turned around and smiled at me when she saw me, and I saw her appearance clearly, revealing her innocence in her beauty. For some reason, she gave me a sense of déjà vu, but I'm sure I'd never seen her before. My mother introduced us to each other, and it turned out that she was Uncle Zhou's student.
"Hello, my name is Liu Rumei."
"Hello, Qin Fen."
She smiled politely and greeted me before going on to get busy. I didn't say anything more, and left with my plate very quickly.
The dishes were quickly ready, and everyone sat down around the table. The only thing missing was my father, so I asked and said that I was going to help someone else's house and would not come back for dinner at noon.
At this time, the mobile phone I was carrying in my pocket rang, and when I took it out, I saw that it was a text message from a fat man: "Waste, is this girl the object that your mother arranged for you?" ”
I couldn't laugh or cry, and texted back: "Don't talk nonsense, Uncle Zhou's student." ”
"Why are you taking a student girl to your house? Eighty percent is for you to go on a blind date, you see that girl is looking at you. "The fat man's text message is fast to reply.
Before I could reply to the message, the fat man on the side had already stood up and introduced himself very politely to Liu Rumei.
"Hello, my name is Wang Bo, and I am Qin Fen's hair."
"Liu Rumei, Teacher Zhou's student." Liu Rumei smiled and stood up and shook hands with the fat man very politely.
The two returned to their respective seats, and the atmosphere was harmonious.
The fat man quickly sent a text message again: "Mr. Qin, it's good, take it." ”
"Roll ...... roll" I sent him another message with a big blast, and after sending it, I couldn't help but look up at Liu Rumei.
"Your eyes have betrayed your soul." It's a fat man's text message again.
"Get out!" I replied to him with a word, simply ignored him, and turned my head to look at Grandpa and Uncle Zhou.
Grandpa and Zhou Xingyao were still talking about the photo, and everyone was not in a hurry to move the chopsticks, they all waited patiently. I glanced at the photos my grandfather was looking at, and felt a little familiar, and when I thought about it, I suddenly remembered the photos I had sent to the fat man. So I leaned over and asked, "Uncle Zhou, what are these photos on?" ”
"This is a partial detail of the pottery that was handed in." Zhou Xingyao smiled and said to me, "We suspect that this is some kind of unknown text, so we brought the photo and asked your grandfather to help identify it." ”
Grandpa nodded on the side and said with a serious expression: "I think this may be similar to a kind of writing in the plum blossom seal, but the patterns on these photos are a little incomplete, and I am not sure." ”
When I heard my grandfather talk about "plum blossom seals", I immediately had a feeling of seeing the sun through the clouds. I still have some understanding of the plum blossom seal character, which is the wisdom of the ancients, and it is a writing technique that hides the text in the painting. It is said that there was this kind of seal script in the Yaoshun era, and it was mainly for the secrecy of the written content at that time.
I took the picture from my grandfather and moved the plate in again, making a small space on the table. Then, I put the photos in my hand together like a jigsaw puzzle.
"I didn't think of that just now." Zhou Xingyao patted his head and said to his grandfather: "Master, this is all the patterns on the pottery, or Xiao Fen is smart, and the arrangement is not bad at all." ”
Grandpa didn't say anything, just held his reading glasses and looked at the photo seriously. After a long while, he retracted his gaze, shook his head, and said, "The outline of the overall pattern is revealed, but it doesn't have much meaning, some parts are still incomplete, and the text information contained in it is also unrecognizable. ”
I also stared at the photo for a long time, but I didn't see the reason, and I shook my head helplessly. At this time, grandpa sighed and said softly: "Hey, what kind of shop to open, all the good time is wasted......"
I blushed, bowed my head and said nothing, with a wry smile on the corner of my mouth. I understand that my grandfather is still a little hesitant about me giving up archaeology, especially since he has been older in the past few years, and he always wants to pass on some things, but I ......
"Dead old man, when can't you mess with your rags, you have to put it at dinner and say that the dishes are cold." The grandmother sitting next to her spoke, she obviously knew that my grandfather was counting me down, and deliberately interrupted me to relieve me. Grandma turned to me again and said, "Go and get the wine from your grandfather's cabinet." ”
"Hmm." I answered and got up to leave.
Grandpa saw that I was going to move his treasures that he had treasured for many years, his voice changed a little, and shouted at the back of me leaving: "Xiaofen, you have to see it clearly, you must find a good bottle, do you hear?" ”
I said yes and snickered and walked into the house. After a while, I returned to the table with two bottles of bamboo leaf green. After my grandfather saw the wine I brought over, he breathed a sigh of relief and told me to pour the wine and cloth.
Actually, these two bottles of Zhu Yeqing were bought for him last year, more than 500 bottles, which are much more expensive than the miscellaneous glass bottles in his grandfather's cabinet, but I know that in his eyes, those have a history, and each bottle has a history, and it is impossible to drink.
At the dinner table, I began to pour tea and wine everywhere. Grandpa, as always, only drinks one or two cups, which I prefer to follow him, not that I can only drink one or two, but I am more temperate and self-disciplined, and there is no addiction to alcohol. The young man, who didn't talk much, said he couldn't drink while driving, so I poured him tea. I poured less than half a tael of wine into each of my grandmother's and mother's cups, and Liu Rumei, who was sitting next to my mother, surprised me, she offered to pour her a full glass, although a cup was only about one or two, but a girl's family took the initiative to let people pour wine, I always felt a little weird. Of course, I didn't think much of it, smiled and poured her a full glass, and then beckoned everyone to serve the food. The fat man can drink as always, but fortunately, Zhou Xingyao is also a wine jar, and the two of them don't need me to serve them at all, and they are already exchanging glasses and drinking with great interest.
Although it was all home-cooked food, several people had a lot of fun. Grandma and mother were all smiling, and they surrounded Liu Rumei to ask long and short questions, and the three of them talked happily. Probably because of drinking some wine, a touch of crimson flew on Liu Rumei's snow-white pretty face, which looked even more charming and moving. When she looked up at me, she saw that I was staring at her, and when she looked down, she hurriedly lowered her head and pretended not to know. When my mother noticed that she was a little strange, she turned her head and smiled at me, and I hurriedly looked away and pretended not to know.
After eating, Zhou Xingyao and his entourage did not stay for long, and the young man drove back to Salt Lake City. Zhou Xingyao made a decision before leaving, and officially started the excavation work five days later, and I and the fat man were included in the list of temporary personnel of the archaeological team by him, and the specific position was not explained on the spot, but we were instructed to adjust our state as much as possible in the past few days and prepare to enter the mountain.
The scene of saying goodbye at the end surprised me again, in the past, it was usually my grandfather and Uncle Zhou who had endless treasures, and my grandmother and mother held my hand and were reluctant. And now Uncle Zhou and the fat man are each saying goodbye, and grandma and mother are even more reluctant to hold Liu Rumei's hand. My grandfather and I were both at the same time, and we both sighed for a while.
When the guests were sent away, I helped my mother clean up, and the fat man sent my grandparents into the back room to rest. When I was done, the fat man came up to me and whispered to me, "Waste, let's go, get down to business." ”
"Business?" I looked at the fat man with a confused look and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
The fat man frowned, reached over and stabbed me and said, "Pretend to be confused, or I won't need your palm to find the baby, I'll go by myself." ”
Only then did I realize that he still remembered going to the village to pick up the leaks. I didn't have hope for this kind of thing at all, but seeing that he was in high spirits, and it was not good to pour cold water on him again, I accompanied him to the village for a walk. Every time I go back to the village, I will go to every house, but this time there is a fat man, and seeing that he is so active, I simply let him be a coolie.
"That's what you say." I dodged his outstretched fingers and smiled at him, "It's okay to go, but it's agreed in advance, you can carry the gifts." ”
"Huh?" The fat man was stunned when he heard me say this, thought about it for a while, and said with a bitter face: "Okay, I'll carry something." ”
I saw that he agreed, and without delay, told my mother about me and the fat man going to walk around the house, and then took some gifts from the trunk of the car, and let the fat man carry them towards the door.
"It's good to go back to your hometown, as soon as your shop is closed, you get a new job, which is a blessing for Seong." The fat man followed behind me and muttered, "You have a job, and your girlfriend is not far away, which can be regarded as double happiness." ”
I stopped and turned my head to glare at him, "Dead fatty, what nonsense are you talking about?" ”
"It's okay, it's okay." The fat man hurriedly said with a smiling face: "You see that my old unemployed vagrant mixed with an errand is also a happy event, your old man can do well, and then help me find a baby back later, then I will also be regarded as fame and fortune." ”
I was used to seeing the fat man's dead face, and when I rolled my eyes at him, I ignored it and continued to walk on my own.