"You mend the bowl for me, and I want you to lose money? Don't others laugh at me for pit outsiders? I don't want your money, you can help me make up this bowl, and I will give you as much as I should give you. Yu Youyang naturally refused to let him slip away like this.

This bowl tinker is still kind-hearted, he wants to leave but feels that Yu Youyang is right, and he wants to stay but is reluctant, so he is in a dilemma.

When his grandfather saw him like this, he said gently: "Why do you have to leave in a hurry, why don't you come to my house to drink a cup of tea to moisten your mouth before leaving?" ”

Yu Youyang also nodded.

Only then did the tinker know that his father and Yu Youyang were a family. He glanced at his grandfather, maybe he heard something else from his father's words, or he could see that his father was a good person, so he nodded and said, "Okay." I'll go to your house and sit down and mend the rest of the bowl by the way. ”

Grandpa smiled: "That's it! ”

So, Grandpa and Yu Youyang led the bowl mending maker into the Ma family's old house.

Although Yu Youyang still didn't understand why her father wanted to invite a bowlmaker to come to the house, she didn't ask much, and went to prepare tea after entering the house.

At this time, Zhao Xianyun was not at home, she took the child and went to the house of a woman she knew in the village. Xiaomi was worried that Zhao Xianyun, who was weak, would not be able to take care of the child, so after returning to Thrush Village, he often followed Zhao Xianyun, keeping a little distance, but not too far away.

Luo Buzhai went out to collect the bills and hasn't come back yet.

In addition to Yu Youyang, there are only white nights and bamboo slippers left in the house. When Daddy was basking in the sun, they were lying on the steps outside the door, also basking in the sun.

When the dishmaker followed his grandfather in, he saw a cat and a mouse lying on the steps, and the cat did not bite the mouse, and the mouse was not afraid of the cat, and he could not help but show a surprised expression.

"You...... It is...... It is...... The one who is often referred to as ...... Will be able to calculate......" The dishmaker squinted his eyes at his father, and his words were not in a good position.

"Yes. I am. Daddy replied.

"No wonder...... Your cat and mouse don't fight......" He squinted at the cat and the mouse again.

Daddy laughed: "They also fight, you just don't see it." ”

Grandpa invited him to sit down, and then asked, "Excuse me, where are you from?" ”

The dishmaker put down his tools, sat down restrainedly, dusted the dust from his trouser leg with his hand, looked down at his trouser leg and said, "It's the people around here." ”

"Which neighborhood? Which village? Daddy asked.

Still looking at the ground, the tinker replied, "Double-eyed bridge." ”

The Twin Eyes Bridge is not far from Thrush Village, because there is a double-arch bridge in front of the village, and the double-arch looks like two human eyes in the distance, so the people in the vicinity call this village "Double-Eye Bridge".

Grandpa thought for a while and said, "Although I don't often stay at home, most of the people in the township know me, especially men. There are some daughters-in-law who have married from other places, and I probably don't know them. ”

The bowl tinker hurriedly said: "It's right if I don't know, I'm similar to a daughter-in-law from other places." I'm the out-of-town son-in-law of the 'inverted door'. ”

"Inverted door" is the meaning of entering the redundancy.

Grandpa let out an "oh" and didn't speak for a long time.

With some weakness, the tinker picked up a broken bowl and placed it on his lap, pretending to check the cracks in the bowl.

After a while, Yu Youyang came over with a teapot and poured a cup of steaming tea for his grandfather and the bowlmaker. After pouring the tea, she saw that her grandfather didn't speak, and she saw the dishmaker pretending to be tweezers, so she said, "I'll go find Miss Zhao and see where she took the child." ”

Grandpa and Zhao Xianyun told Yu Youyang many times that she should not call Zhao Xianyun "Miss Zhao", she agreed, but every time she opened her mouth, she was still "Miss Zhao". Luo Buzhai once told his father that Yu Youyang always admired Zhao Xianyun when he mentioned it in front of him, and always said in front of him that Zhao Xianyun was the real lady of everyone, and said that Zhao Xianyun's indifferent character, gentle temperament, and walking posture were difficult for other eldest ladies to achieve. Yu Youyang said that those eldest ladies are respected as young ladies, and Zhao Xianyun should be honored even more.

Grandpa still said to Yu Youyang: "Okay, you go and find your Sister Zhao." ”

As soon as Yu Youyang left, his grandfather said to the bowlmaker: "Now there is no one else here, you can let it go." ”

Still pretending to be confused, the tinker asked, "What do you say?" ”

"Tell me why you haven't come home yet." Daddy said.

"I'll go home when I'm done mending the bowl." The tinker replied.

Seeing that he didn't want to say, his father went straight to the point and said: "I see that you are in the palace, and you will definitely leave your hometown in your life, and you will not be able to have a wife." Look at the fracture of your mountain roots, it is another sign of 'the young and the old man who left home'. But your cheekbones are high, but you are a blessed one who comes late. It's the first time I've seen people with these faces. ”

"Really?" The tinker hurriedly touched his face, as if he was worried that his grandfather would see everything directly from his face.

Grandpa said, "I saw that someone in the village knew you, and I thought that you should have been here a few times." Since you've been here a few times, you're probably living around here. But judging by your face, you should be a runaway. So I thought, are you the one who has left home and lived here in peace? I'll look at you again, your eyebrows are deep and long, and you're not a person with thick and short eyebrows, thin and ruthless, you should be very homely. Based on these thoughts, I was sure that you were a homeaway and homesick person, so I asked why you didn't come home yet. ”

Seeing that Grandpa said so carefully, the dishmaker couldn't help but sigh: "Their rumors are true, you have seen all my secrets!" ”

"Observe the sky and measure the wind and rain, and observe the appearance of people and measure the fate. Everything that has happened and is about to happen is explicit or implicit, depending on whether you are aware of it or not. Daddy said.

The dishmaker took the teacup in his hand and said, "Since you have seen a lot, what is the point of me concealing it?" I can tell you that, but don't let anyone know about it for two or three years. After two or three years, I have my own way of dealing with it, and it doesn't hurt to say it then. ”

Daddy nodded and said, "Okay." You say. ”

The dishmaker nodded to his father, put the teacup at the foot of the chair, and said, "No one believes my experience. I still haven't figured out what the hell is going on. If I tell someone about it, they will think I'm crazy. Now that you've seen seven or eight percent of my experience, I'll tell you, and you'll believe it. It's okay, I'll feel more comfortable saying it. ”

So the tinker stretched out a hand, as if to catch the slanting rays of the sun, and withdrew his hand.

He said that he was originally from a town in Xianning, Hubei Province, and he made a career of mending bowls, wandering around, and only going home every two or three months when he had earned enough money outside, saving the money, and then coming out to mend the bowls.

One day, he walked to the Shuangyan Bridge and rested in a simple straw-topped pavilion by the bridge. At that time, the sun was very scorching, unlike the winter sun, no matter how dazzling and warm it was. He was thirsty, hungry, and tired, so he drank water and ate dry food in the pavilion, and wanted to wait until the sun was not so strong before going out, crossing the double-eyed bridge that looked like two eyes, and going to the village to see if there was any need to buy or mend bowls.

Eat and drink enough, and sleepiness comes.

He squinted for a moment against the wooden pillars of the pavilion.

Although the squint was short-lived, he had a dream in such a short time. He dreamed that he had walked to the Naihe Bridge in the underworld, and saw that there were many lonely ghosts coming and going on the bridge, and it was as lively as a market. He was startled, afraid that he had strayed into the underworld, so he had the courage to grab one of the geists and ask, "Brother, where are you going?" The geist said, "I just died, go to the Hades Palace to report." He was startled and hurriedly let go.

Seeing the other spirit walking in the opposite direction, he rushed up and grabbed it again and asked, "Brother, where are you going?" The geist got angry and said, "Don't pull me, I'm in a hurry to reincarnate." ”

Later, he thought, that dream must have a meaning. If he followed the first geist, he would have entered the underworld; Follow the second spirit and you will definitely return to the yang world. But at that time, he was so anxious and frightened that his mind was buzzing, and he didn't think of this at all.

Speaking of this, the dishmaker sincerely agreed with what Grandpa had just said, and said, "You are right, everything is explicit or implied, but I didn't see it at the time. ”

He was in a dilemma in his dream, and when he couldn't move forward, he suddenly felt a slap in the face. Then he heard a voice sound: "It's common for husbands and wives to quarrel with each other, why don't you go home for two or three years because of this?" As a man, your belly is too small! ”

This slap and a scolding pulled the tinkerer out of his dream.

When the dishmaker opened his eyes, the sunlight outside the pavilion was still scorching, and the face that had been slapped just now was as hot and painful as if it had been burned by the sun.

Across from him stood a man in his fifties, and it was the man who slapped him.

When the bowl tinker saw that the man looked serious, not like he was deliberately beating someone, he was immediately confused.

"What did you just say?" The dishmaker asked, touching his hot face.

When the man saw him wake up, he grabbed his sleeve with one hand, and seemed to be quite angry when he hit someone, and shouted angrily: "Since they are all here, why don't you go home yet?" ”

The tinker said that when he heard his grandfather shouting at him, "Why don't you come home yet," he trembled, as if he had returned to that time.

The tinker did not know the man, so he wrenched his sleeve from his hand and said, "Uncle, did you recognize the wrong person and hit the wrong person?" My home is not here, but far away in Xianning. ”

The man was unhappy and said, "You are pretending to be confused in front of me? I'm your second uncle. ”

The dishmaker waved his hand and said, "I really don't know your second uncle." ”

The man said angrily: "I've always been biased towards you, and you won't say hello to me when you leave!" Still say you don't recognize me? ”

While the two were arguing, several more people came from the other side of the bridge.

One of them was older, older than the man who called himself the second uncle. When the old man saw the tinker, he was astonished and said, "You are at last willing to come back!" ”

The tinker hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, I don't know you either!" ”

The man who claimed to be the second uncle kicked the dishmaker and scolded, "You don't even recognize your father? It's time to fight! ”