Chapter 82: A Gift from the Cliff
It was a picture of a young woman, who looked a little similar to me, but it was more similar to my mother, and it was almost like a picture of my mother when she was young.
I was a little stunned when I held the paper, this painting was definitely not painted by Tian Tian, because the paper looked like it should be many years old, and because it had been folded for too long, the position of those creases was a little damaged.
Uncle Qingcang's voice came from the door: "What are you looking at?" ”
He was smiling when he saw the piece of paper in my hand, his face changed, and then he walked up to me and took a look at it, and couldn't help but sigh and said, "I didn't expect this painting to be preserved, it's been 20 years." ”
I looked at him and asked curiously, "Who is this?" Why does it look so much like my mom? ”
Uncle Qingcang looked at me and said, "Really? I feel more like you, this person is your Uncle Tian's sister, her name is Tian Ling. ”
This sentence dispelled my doubts, I originally thought there was something going on here, but the woman's name on the painting was Tian Ling, and my mother's name was Xiao Lin, and they were not the same person at all.
But I still couldn't help but ask, "Is this why Uncle Tian was so surprised when he first saw me?" ”
Uncle Qingcang nodded and told me that Director Tian thought I was like his sister when he first saw me, so he subconsciously became close to me.
"And where is she now?" I then asked.
Uncle Qingcang smiled bitterly: "She has been dead for a long time. ”
I let out an "oh", not knowing what to say, Uncle Qingcang carefully folded the picture and put it in his pocket.
I was a little surprised to see this scene, and I thought that this might not be good, after all, this painting is something from other people's homes, how can it be put in my pocket?
Uncle Qingcang saw this: "It's okay, because this painting was painted by me, I can't imagine that I can see it again, I'll take it back as a souvenir, I'll tell them later." ”
I didn't expect Uncle Qingcang's painting skills to be so powerful, and I had never seen him paint.
Director Tian and his wife had already prepared lunch and beckoned us to come over to eat, and I immediately helped Tian Tian clean up the paintings, and then came to the dining table with her.
"I didn't prepare anything, don't mind ginger tea." Director Tian looked at me and made a joke.
But when I looked at the table, I had made a large table of dishes with seven dishes and eight bowls. It's too hearty, isn't it?
Even after Tian Tian sat down, he asked Director Tian curiously: "Dad, is it the Chinese New Year today?" How to make it the same as the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. ”
Everyone was amused by the child's innocence, and the next thing was to start eating, I didn't expect Tian Tian Although the child was young, he knew how to be polite at the dinner table, and he ate the food in front of him obediently, and the adults would say thank you when she picked up the dishes, which made me like her more and more.
During the meal, Director Tian and Aunt Shen also put vegetables into my bowl, and I couldn't eat it, but I was embarrassed to refuse, and then I had no choice, so I had to hold the bowl to eat, so that they couldn't reach my bowl, which alleviated the embarrassment.
Uncle Qingcang and Director Tian drank liquor, but the uncle told him not to drink too much, so as not to get drunk and talk nonsense, Director Tian and Aunt Shen glanced at each other, nodded and smiled: "Don't worry, you must not drink too much, just taste it, okay?" ”
The guests and hosts enjoyed the meal, and Director Tian didn't drink too much in the end, but her face was a little red, but Aunt Shen drank a lot, but she didn't expect that she was actually a heroine among women, and she seemed to have a very large amount of alcohol, and it would not be okay to drink so much.
Before leaving, I expressed my gratitude again, and Tian Tian, who had played well with me, was still a little reluctant, until I promised to come to her to play with her on the weekend in the future, and the little girl laughed happily.
Aunt Shen insisted on sending me downstairs, but I politely refused, she took my hand, her eyes were filled with tears, she wiped her eyes awkwardly and said with a smile: "Look at me, I also drank too much wine, ginger tea, you often come to the house to play in the future, if we miss you, we will also go to see you." ”
I didn't expect people to be so kind to me, and I said with some emotion: "Thank you uncle and aunt for your hospitality, I will definitely come often in the future." ”
"That's good, that's good." Aunt Shen burst into tears again.
Uncle Qingcang said goodbye, took me downstairs, and walked outside the community until he turned around and asked me, "How do you feel today?" ”
I smiled: "It's good, Uncle Tian and Aunt Shen are so good to me, I'm very touched." ”
"Well, let's have more contact with them in the future." Uncle Qingcang said lightly, reaching out to stop a taxi.
All the way back to Uncle Qingcang's house, I saw that he also drank a lot of wine, and couldn't help but say, "Uncle, take a break, I'll go read a book for a while." ”
Uncle Qingcang looked at me and nodded: "Okay, don't run around, I'll just sleep a little, and then take you to the mountains to get some good things." ”
What's good? I was also a big child in the mountains, looking at him curiously.
The uncle smiled mysteriously and said that he would tell you later, but now he kept it a secret, and then he staggered back to the room.
I grimaced behind his back, what could there be to eat, nothing more than wild fruits, or pheasants and hares, or something, right?
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Uncle Qingcang had been sleeping for an hour, and I heard him wash his face in the yard, and then called out to me, "Ginger tea, it's time for us to go." ”
I couldn't hold it anymore, and when I heard him call me, I immediately ran out of the house, and when I saw him with a sickle and a bundle of rope in his hand, I asked him what he was doing with it.
As a result, the uncle still refused to say, but smiled mysteriously and said, "You'll know when you get to the mountain." ”
I looked at his back and thought, Uncle has a high prestige here, it must be because he often helps them, right?
After leaving the village and entering the mountains, I walked a long way to reach my destination, and I looked at a cliff dozens of meters high in front of me and asked, "Uncle, what are you doing here?" ”
"You'll find out later." Uncle said the same thing, and told me to wait here, with a scythe in his mouth and a rope around his waist, and climbed up the steep rock.
As he climbed higher and higher, I could only look up at it and remind him from time to time to be careful.
Then the uncle stopped at a small platform, cleared some of the bushes that grew there with his scythe, and threw the scythe down.
Then his body disappeared, as if he had been buried in a hole, and I wondered even more about what good things could be in this hole in the cliff. Is it something to eat? Or is it a precious medicinal herb?
After a few minutes, the uncle poked his head out from above and shouted to me, "Jiang Cha, I'll put this thing down with a rope, you take it, don't fall it." ”
I quickly got up and walked to the bottom of the cliff, nodded and said, "Okay, put it down." ”
The uncle put something in a cloth bag, and carefully sent it down a little bit, for fear of being touched by the rocks of the cliff, could it be that what fragile items were contained in it?
When I put it down, my first feeling after I caught it was a football because it was round, but there could be no football in the cave, what the hell is this?
I held it carefully, sat down on the ground, untied the rope, and then opened the cloth bag, and was stunned.
This turned out to be an egg!
Oh my God, what can an egg be the size of a football? I've seen ostrich eggs on TV, and they're not as big as this one, so what kind of monster can't make an egg?
Uncle Qingcang slowly came down from the cliff, walked up to me and smiled, "How is it?" That's a good thing, right? ”
I was speechless for a while, but after thinking about it, I felt that something was wrong, generally organisms reproduce in spring, why are there still eggs in autumn now, this is not in accordance with the laws of nature.
Uncle Qingcang told me that this is an eagle's egg, but it is not an eagle's egg, but an egg born by an eagle who has been cultivating for hundreds of years, which is why it is so big, and this egg has been born for three years, and it may hatch recently, so he took me to take it out.
The egg was carefully held in my arms, and after listening to Uncle Qingcang's words, I couldn't help but ask a little distressed: "Then let's steal it, won't its mother be in a hurry?" ”
Uncle Qingcang smiled and told me not to worry about this matter, because the eagle that had been cultivating for thousands of years had died, and it was killed by a Yunmen disciple who happened to pass by when he went out to hunt the cows raised by the farmer's family.
Since then, the uncle has often come to take a look, and is ready to take it out and take it home when it hatches.
I was a little distressed holding the eagle egg, and the little guy inside didn't know that he was born without a mother, right? It's so pathetic.
Seeing my distressed look, Uncle Qingcang smiled and said: "Don't be sad, this eagle is born with spirituality, it will not know who its mother is, whoever has raised it since childhood, it will recognize whoever it is a mother." ”
I blushed, lowered my head and asked him, "Can I keep it?" ”
"Of course, I originally wanted it to be your companion, otherwise why would I bring you here?" Uncle Qingcang said with a smile.
I was overjoyed, and I almost jumped up holding the egg, so frightened that Uncle Qingcang hurriedly stretched out his hand, for fear that I would not be able to hold it and fall to the ground again.
One big and one small shadow talked and laughed and walked back in the sunset, at this moment my heart was full of happy bubbles, thinking beautifully, when Lin Yue's girl came back, she would definitely envy me, and let her regret it when the time came.