Chapter 3 First Encounter with the Master
My second uncle's situation, some people may have heard of similar things, he played cards with a few people at home that night, because the number of cards was a bit too much, his old man was excited, a palm slapped on the table, just like that, the whole arm snapped and broke.
Even if his arm was broken, his old man was worried about the name card in his hand, endured the pain on his arm, and was stunned to count the number of name cards, where did he know, just when he counted, he didn't know whether the ground was slippery, or he didn't stand firm, and the whole person fell backwards suddenly.
I only heard a bang, the second uncle slammed on the ground, the whole person was like soft mud paralyzed on the ground, the whole body was soft, as if there were no bones, and when I went to the hospital for an examination, it was said that the bones of the whole body were crushed fractures, and I could only lie on the bed in this life.
When my father heard about my second uncle's family, he immediately understood that this might be the retribution of the first finger craftsman, so he went to my second aunt and told her what had happened, and assured my second aunt that my second uncle would be taken care of by our family.
My second aunt was a stubborn woman who refused to accept my father's help, but she regarded me as a thorn in the eye.
My second aunt believes that my birth is the direct cause of my second uncle's paralysis, since I can remember, her old man has not given me a good face, sometimes taking advantage of no one's effort, will use embroidery needles to stab me, I cry in pain.
One of the deepest memories is when I was five years old, when my parents went out to harvest rice and left me alone at home, because my skin was not fully transformed, I lived like an African, and the children in the village did not want to play with me, saying that I was a monster, and I often threw tiles by the pond alone.
My second aunt saw me playing by the pond, didn't say a word, picked me up and threw me into the pond, fortunately, my life was big, just was driven back by my father to save it, my father was also angry at that time, but considering the matter of the second uncle, my father swallowed this breath in a daze, and there was no pit, just thinking that if this continues, sooner or later the second aunt will kill me, so he plans to send me to my grandmother's house to raise.
Some things are also very strange to say, just when my father was about to send me to my grandmother's house, my second aunt had an accident, she was putting fish and grass by the pond at that time, I don't know if it was slippery or deliberate, she rushed into the pond, when her body was fished out, the whole person was full of size.
With the death of my second aunt, my father and my second uncle chatted all night in the room.
When my father came out of the second uncle's room, he pulled me to kneel beside the second aunt's body, asked me to kowtow to the second aunt, and told me in a deep voice that since the second uncle was paralyzed, the burden of the whole family fell on the shoulders of the second aunt, and she couldn't kick her breath, and now it was time for the school year to start, and the second aunt really didn't have the financial ability to pay the tuition fees for her daughters, let alone cure the second uncle's paralysis, so she could only choose to die away to escape all this and hand over the burden of the whole family to my father.
I was young at that time, and I didn't know much about life, so I knew that my father kept telling me that I owed my second aunt a life, and that I had to be filial to my second uncle in this life, and told me that I was the hope that my second aunt would cure my second uncle.
After the death of the second aunt, the four daughters of their family were taken to our house by their father, the first few daughters of the second aunt's family, the eldest has begun to study in the third grade of primary school, the youngest one is about the same age as me, don't look at the youngest girl is young, but look at me with extra resentment.
My father felt that he owed too much to the second aunt's family, and he had always been partial to the daughters of the second aunt's family in life, but his attitude towards me changed greatly, and he ignored me, and when I reached the age of elementary school, the family really couldn't take out more money for me to study, after all, in those days, the family was poor, where could I afford to raise so many children.
My father gritted his teeth and said that he had to let my second aunt's youngest daughter go to school no matter what, and he couldn't be sorry for the dead second aunt and the second uncle who was paralyzed in bed, so he arranged for me to lead a buffalo to the mountains every day to graze cattle.
In the end, my mother felt that if I continued like this, I would definitely not be able to make a profit when I grew up, so she went to my grandmother's house to borrow money for me to study.
That's it, I went to elementary school, and if I want to say that time is like a pig-killing knife, knife after knife, knife and knife urge people to grow. In the blink of an eye, in the midsummer of 2002, I was 16 years old at that time, and I didn't know what was going on with the nail of my right index finger.
My academic performance at that time was also outstanding, in today's words, I was a typical academic bully, and I was admitted to a key high school in our side with the third grade in the county at that time.
Being admitted to a key high school is a good thing in other people's homes, but our family has no smiling faces. The reason is that at that time, the high school tuition was very expensive, about 1,300 a semester, and the daughters of our family who raised the second aunt had borrowed all the money from their relatives, plus my parents were already old at that time, and there was really no way to make money, so our relatives avoided my parents when they saw them, and they were not willing to lend money to our family at all.
After discussing it, my parents decided to send me to a ghost craftsman's house to learn the trade, saying that I would learn the trade so that I could support my family in the future.
At first, my mother disagreed, saying that the eldest daughter of my second aunt's family was already in her third year of college, so she could drop out of school and give me her tuition fees to go to high school, but my father said that you have to be a conscience.
I still clearly remember that the time I arrived at the master's house was August 30th, and there were only two days left to leave school, here, I met the second master in my life, his surname was Liu, what was his name, he never told me, he knew that he was a ghost craftsman, known as Liu Lao Ghost.
The first time I met the master was at the door of his house, his first impression of the old man was that he was in good spirits, with a Chinese face, silver hair, and a green shirt and robe all the year round.
At that time, my father introduced me to him, "Master Liu, this is my son's seventh year of junior high school, he was a little strange when he was born, I heard that your old man knows some things that are out of the way, I want to entrust him to you, let you teach him something, and make money to support his family in the future. ”
As a result, the master stared at me with great disgust and glanced at me with the index finger of his right hand, and said disdainfully, "I can't afford to teach this kind of child born by stepping on other people's lives." Then he turned around and walked away.
The master hated me, he hated me from the beginning, and I was stunned, I didn't know why the master hated me, and I didn't understand what he meant by stepping on someone else's life to be born, so I asked my father why.
My father didn't speak, but knelt down in front of my master, bowing and crying, and in the end, the master still didn't agree. It wasn't until the evening that my father got up and whispered a few words in his master's ear.
When my master heard this, his face changed greatly, and he asked me to kowtow to him three times that evening, and asked me to bring him a cup of tea, saying that he had officially accepted me as an apprentice.
I only stayed at the master's house for three days, he didn't teach me anything, only told me that I was not worthy of learning his art, and on September 1st, the master gave me 2,000 yuan, and sent me to the coffin shop opened by my brother in the name of going to school, so that I could follow my brother to go to school and make coffins with my brother. He also told me that the two thousand yuan was only lent to me temporarily, and that he would have to pay it back at the end of the year.
Before going out, the master stopped me who was stepping out and said, "Don't use the name of the seventh day of the first month in the future, let's call it Luo Dongchuan!" ”