Suzanne said: "There are benefits to being systematically educated, and there are also benefits to free learning, which is like two paths, there is no need to divide one into one high, but it is just a difference in which path to choose, that's all." ”

What she said made sense, and it made everyone else ponder for a long time.

With Susanna's encouragement, Lin Su's creative progress sped up a lot, but after about a week, the whole team got stuck in one place.

"No, this one doesn't work at all." Lin Su looked at the exquisite wood carving in front of him and said, "It's too rigid, there is no soul at all." ”

The colleague in charge of finding the woodcarver was about to collapse, he pointed to the lively kitten woodcarving, and then said, "But Mr. Lin, we really can't find another woodcarver." This is already the top and best in our H city! ”

Lin Su was silent for a while, then shook his head and said in a low voice, "It's realistic, but it's not what I wanted. ”

Mo Ran quietly looked at Lin Su's calm expression, and then silently left the office.

"Mr. Gong?" Mo Ran stood on the balcony of the company, looking at the traffic coming and going under his feet, as well as the urban woods with tall buildings in the distance, and asked slowly, "Where did the wooden jar you used to hold the medicinal mud come from?" ”

……

Three days later, Mo Ran and Lin Su stood at the door of an ancient-looking town, looking at each other.

"Is this the place you're talking about?" Lin Su took out his mobile phone to guide and looked at it, and then said, "Our navigation has already prompted us to deviate from the route so far?" ”

After thinking about it, Mo Ran said: "The address that Gong Jiuqing told me is here, and he also told me, don't believe what the navigation says, because this place has existed for too long, so some electronic maps have not been updated." ”

Li Su nodded, she looked up at the name of the town, and then whispered, "Cizhen, I'm here!" ”

Cizhen is a very small town, surrounded by mountains, with only one road leading to the outside world, not difficult to find, but almost no one to set foot in.

Because most of the people living in this place are old people, and there are no special attractions, there is only one shop in the town.

The hostess of the shop was one of the younger ones in Cizhen, the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes were very deep, and she showed a smile when she saw Mo Ran and Lin Su, and then asked, "Are you from outside the town?" ”

Mo Ran nodded, and then said, "This is my colleague." ”

"Oh, that's what it means to work together." The woman smiled, and said, "But why are you here?" There are no attractions here, and only the town in front of us has an internet connection, and if you go deeper, there is no signal. ”

Don't even have a signal?

This

To Moran's surprise, she originally thought that even if it was sparsely populated, the Internet should be popular.

It seems that Cizhen is more closed than Mo Ran imagined, and at the same time, it is more in line with the identity of that old man.

When Mo Ran went to find the wooden jar of medicinal clay that Gong Jiuqing asked about, Gong Jiuqing said that this wooden jar was when he went to a deep mountain and old forest a few years ago to look for some very rare medicinal materials, and encountered some accidents, so he met an old man in a very remote town, this old man was alone and had no relatives, but his wood carving skills were simply amazing, and the exquisite and beautiful wooden jar was given to him by the old man before Gong Jiuqing left.

After Mo Ran heard about this, he immediately took Lin Qian here to find Cizhen, preparing to find the old man who was skilled in his craft.

The woman seemed to be very interested in outsiders, and after a few conversations with Mo Ran, she learned the news she wanted.

"That old man, I remember that I had a little impression that the art of Ata wood carving is very good." The woman said excitedly: "You walked along this bluestone road to the front, did you see the stone lion?" If you turn right, you will see a big tree, and next to the big tree is the old man's home. ”

Mo Ran hurriedly said, "Thank you." ”

The woman smiled and said, "I don't know what you're here for, but ah, I wish you all the best!" ”

Lin Su also smiled.

So Mo Ran and Lin Su found the big tree together, and there was a very old house next to it, which was even older than the one where Lin Su lived before, and the wooden door on it had been mottled with a lot of paint, and the Spring Festival couplets on both sides of the gate had also faded, and it looked like it hadn't been pasted with a new one for several years.

Lin Su stepped forward and knocked on the wooden door, only to find that the wooden door was unlocked!

Because of Lin Su's knocking, the wooden door was pushed open a crack, and this quiet small courtyard was presented in front of Mo Ran and Lin Su's eyes.

It was a small narrow yard, with a small flowerbed enclosed with stones, and it was full of all kinds of flowers, but these flowers seemed to have not been pruned for a long time, and they all grew in a mess.

Mo Ran and Lin Su didn't plan to enter rashly without the consent of their master, but they waited at the door for a long time, and still didn't see anyone come out to open the door, so they looked at each other very suspiciously.

At this moment, suddenly a boy came out of the back room, he was not very tall, about fifteen or sixteen years old, he held a piece of wood in his hand, and used a knife to carve something on it at random, and then turned and walked into a small room next to him without raising his head.

After Lin Su looked at it, he turned to Mo Ran and said, "That small room should be the kitchen, and when he opened the door, I saw a steaming pot inside." ”

Mo Ran nodded, then knocked again

knocked on the door and shouted, "Is there anyone?" ”

I saw that the young man who originally walked into the kitchen heard Mo Ran's shout, and walked out unhurriedly holding the piece of wood, and after seeing them, his original cold expression was replaced by surprise in an instant, and he said in a daze: "Strange, how can it be two women!" ”

Mo Ran said: "What? ”

The boys were silent for a moment, then looked up at them with some hesitation and asked, "Who are you?" ”

Lin Su hurriedly replied, "We came from far away, do you know if it's the old man of Dao Wang Qiu?" ”

When he heard the name "Wang Qiu", he blinked, and then said, "He is my grandfather, what are you looking for him?" ”

The two of them looked at each other excitedly: sure enough, they didn't find the wrong place!

However, the little boy in front of him seemed to be very wary of them, and in order to dispel his doubts, Mo Ran said softly: "We are making a very important thing, and we need your grandfather to help." ”

The cold look on the young man's face appeared again, and he saw that he unhurriedly cut off a piece of wood with the knife in his hand, and then said, "My grandfather will not continue to make wood carvings." ”

Ten minutes later, Mo Ran stood in the courtyard, looked at the angry little boy opposite, and said, "What's wrong?" Why are you looking at me like that? ”

The little boy angrily threw the wood in his hand, and then said, "How can you two girls break into someone else's house directly!" ”

Mo Ran smiled, and then asked rhetorically, "Why can't you break in?" ”

He gritted his teeth, then said, "I'm stupid! I can't talk about you! However, if you want to ask my grandfather to do wood carving, there is definitely no way to do it! ”

Mo Ran frowned suspiciously, and asked, "Can you tell me why?" We've come all the way, can we get a reason? ”

I saw the little boy standing in the courtyard a little lonely, as if he had made up his mind, and said, "You come with me." ”

Mo Ran and Lin Su hurriedly followed the little boy into the back room, only to see that there were many wood carvings inside, each of which was lifelike, looking very innovative, and the knife work was extremely exquisite.

Lin Su was very excited to see it, thinking that this was what he was looking for!

But when the little boy took the two of them to a bedroom, looking at the old man who was lying on the bed and falling asleep, the two of them were silent.

The little boy called the old man up, and then brought him a bowl of medicine, and said: "About half a year ago, my grandfather was blind, and then he couldn't even hear with his ears, and I could only communicate with him through simple writing every day. ”

Mo Ran said in a low voice, "Is it because the grade is too big?" ”

"Almost." After the little boy skillfully fed the old man and drank the medicine, he said, "Because the wood carving was original."

It's a very physically consuming thing, plus grandpa's health is already very bad, so insisting on causing such consequences is simply a normal thing. ”

Indeed, this may be the end of the craftsmen.

"And ......" The little boy paused, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, and he said: "Those two white-eyed wolves have often come to anger Grandpa before, if it weren't for them, Grandpa wouldn't be lying in bed at all now!" ”

Lin Su asked, "Which two white-eyed wolves?" ”

"Grandpa's two apprentices before." The young man sneered and said: "One snatched Grandpa's carving knife, and the other snatched Grandpa's wood carving for a long time, and then he still felt that it was not enough, and recently came over to ask for some carving cheats...... Hum! ”

The boy put the bowl in his hand heavily on the table and said, "What a childish! Also cheats too! Don't look at what era it is! ”

(End of chapter)