So, on the night when Helian Tian held a ceremony for Bai Ye, she finally couldn't help but come and interfere.

After listening to her, Xiaomi said sincerely: "Sister Xu, I want to chat with you tonight." Then, Xiaomi turned to Helian Tian, who was a little stunned, and said, "Master, you should avoid it first, Sister Xu and I have something to say." ”

Helian Tian was stunned because he never thought that Xu Ani would wait by his side in this way. He heard Xiaomi tell him to stay away, and hurriedly said "oh", and walked out with a little stiffness in his limbs, as if his soul had been sucked away by someone just a while.

Xu Ani watched him walk out.

Seeing Helian Tian walking away, Xiaomi asked Xu Ani: "Since you like him so much, why don't you use Gu magic to make him inseparable from you?" ”

Xu Ani said: "The person you really love must hope that the other party likes you from the heart, and never wants to be mixed with any other factors." ”

"I see."

Then, the two of them talked a lot. Xiaomi told the story of several of his past lives.

After Xu Ani was sure that Xiaomi's sweetheart was not Heliantian, and Heliantian did not have that kind of affection for Xiaomi, her hostility towards Xiaomi immediately disappeared without a trace. She told her story as well. The two put their hearts in their hearts and sighed for each other.

Millet said: "Since you are here this time, don't go." After all, you and my master have feelings for each other, and now that we have met again, this is a great gift. Look at me......"

Xu Ani nodded.

After that night, Xu Ani really didn't leave again.

Helian Tian was pleasantly surprised, and secretly asked Xiaomi how to keep her.

Millet said mysteriously: "I won't tell you." If you ever meet a sailor from Thrush Village in the future, ask her. She knows the answer. ”

A few days later, my father finally dragged his slightly tired body back to Baoding and returned to the dog meat restaurant.

Xiaomi was overjoyed, but it had to remain reserved.

This time, it was Xu Ani who laughed at her.

Grandpa rested in Heliantian's dog meat restaurant for a few days, and then left here with millet and white night and bamboo slippery.

Helian Tian and Xu Ani were reluctant to fall in love with the two of them, begging them to stay a few more days.

Grandpa said: "It's been long enough for us to come out this time, and there are still relatives at home, so as not to worry about them, let's go back as soon as possible." ”

Helian Tian saw that he couldn't keep them, so he wanted to send them money to make entanglements.

Daddy insisted on not accepting it.

When Grandpa left the Dog Meat Restaurant to leave Baoding City, Miss Tie came to give him a ride.

After leaving Baoding, Grandpa and Millet hurried to Thrush Village. Although they were on the road, they went out in the evening to collect grievances. Since there are already a lot of grievances collected before, there is no need to spend too much effort collecting them again on the way back.

Shortly before the Chinese New Year, Grandpa and Millet finally returned to Thrush Village.

What awaits them in Thrush Village is not only Zhao Xianyun and Luo Buzhai, but more people are neighbors. Many people wait for their grandfather to come back and help them solve all kinds of trivial problems.

Naturally, Grandpa couldn't spare time to meet the people he wanted to see for a while. He talked to his family for a long time, hugged his young children, and then sat quietly in his study, doing nothing and seeing no one.

But one day, a man passing by Thrush Village caught his father's attention.

The man was a peddler, selling bowls and mending bowls by the way, and also typing on the bottom of the bowl. In fact, there are many more people who mend bowls than buy them, so bowl sellers are often called bowl tinkers.

At that time, there were many poor people, and if the bowl at home was missing or broken, the bowl would be repaired. Some people are worried that someone will steal their bowl or borrow their bowl and not return it, so they put their name on the bottom of the bowl.

Now that I think about it, it's a bit ridiculous that a bowl is so calculated. But that was the case with real life at the time.

Because of this, there were craftsmen who specialized in mending bowls at that time, and they could even support their families in the same way as carpenters, blacksmiths, bricklayers, and other crafts, and some could even make a fortune.

It was close to noon that day, and my father was lazily lying on an old bamboo chair basking in the sun. He suddenly heard Yu Youyang shouting loudly: "Hey, the one who mends the bowl, don't go!" I have several bowls to make up for at home! ”

During that time, although Luo Buzhai was still diligent in taking care of his finances, the situation was getting worse and worse. Therefore, Luo Buzhai adopts a thrifty lifestyle, and some broken bowls are not given away or thrown away as before, but should be kept and repaired.

But when Grandpa was using money outside, Luo Buzhai never mentioned the slightest financial matter in the family, so that Grandpa didn't know that the whole family was about to face embarrassment.

Grandpa looked sideways and saw that Yu Youyang had already chased out with a stack of bowls.

Grandpa got up from his beloved bamboo chair and walked in the direction of Yu Youyang.

He originally wanted to ask Yu Youyang to throw away those broken bowls and not make up for them. But when he walked up to Yu Youyang and the bowl seller, he forgot what he was going to say.

His attention was drawn to the tinker.

The tinker was skillful and skilled. He fixed the pieces of the broken bowl in their original shape with a clamp, sat on a small stool and clamped it between his legs, and then held a wooden handle in his left hand, and under the handle was a very small rotating shaft, the head of which was mounted a very small diamond. Because the bowl is generally porcelain, the texture is hard, and you have to use a diamond to drill holes in it. As the saying goes, "If you don't have diamonds, don't do that porcelain job", that's what it means.

In his right hand, the tinker took something like an erhu bow, the string of which was wound around a tiny rotating shaft. At this time, the bowl tinker pulled the bow back and forth like a master erhu player, driving the fine shaft to rotate, and in a short time, a small hole was drilled out of the edge of the bowl fragments.

At that time, people did not usually have much entertainment, and a pawn dealer in the village must have attracted the attention of many people, and if he stopped somewhere, he would definitely be surrounded by many people watching the excitement.

Yu Youyang saw his grandfather coming over, thinking that he was also coming to see the excitement.

But Daddy did stare at the tinkerer carefully.

Yu Youyang wanted to persuade his grandfather to go back to the house. It's not that she doesn't let her grandfather watch the excitement, but she takes into account the sophistication of people.

After his father came back, he didn't see outsiders for a few days, and Yu Youyang told those people that Ma Xiucai had been unwell recently, and he had no choice but to recuperate for a while. It makes sense. Grandpa is also very cooperative and doesn't go out much.

If Daddy comes out to watch someone mend the bowl as if nothing happened, he will still be healthy. Those who want to see but can't see it will inevitably say some gossip, saying that grandpa doesn't care about the feelings of the villagers and doesn't save him when he dies. Malicious people even add fuel and vinegar, and by the way, they pull out a lot of ugly children.

There are many good people in this world, but there is never a shortage of malicious people, and it is impossible to prevent them.

Yu Youyang's worries are justified. And Grandpa didn't know much about the world, or he didn't think of it at all.

This is one of Grandpa's strengths and his biggest disadvantage. It was because of this character who didn't know whether it was good or bad that he missed it again with Xiaomi later.

Maybe it's for this reason that my grandfather didn't learn his Xuanhuang technique until he was eighteen years old. He didn't want his grandfather to learn from him, perhaps because he was afraid that his grandfather would follow in his footsteps and fall into the whirlpool of human sophistication. In fact, after my grandfather turned eighteen years old, my grandfather taught him as few things as possible.

And in my mother's generation, almost all of them were lost.

Yu Youyang didn't want others to gossip, but she couldn't stop those people's mouths, so she had to be harsh on her grandfather.

Yu Youyang put down the remaining broken bowl in his hand, wanted to walk to his father's side, and reminded him in a low voice.

But as soon as she put down the broken bowl in her hand, the bowl-repairer spoke: "Excuse me, do you want to mend it with iron nails or brass nails?" Iron nails are cheap, but they will rust over time. Copper nails do not rust, but they are a little more expensive. ”

Under normal circumstances, the tinkerer will look at how long the crack is to determine how many holes to drill, the holes on both sides of the crack are symmetrical, and after drilling, a small metal strip with curved feet at both ends is inserted into the drilled hole to fix it. This metal strip is a bit like a beam nail that holds the beams of a house, or rather, a bit like a staple.

The bowl tinker held a copper nail and an iron nail in his hand, and asked Yu Youyang to choose.

Without waiting for Yu Youyang to answer, Grandpa spoke first.

Grandpa asked the bowlmaker, "Why haven't you come home yet?" ”

Yu Youyang was stunned for a moment, not understanding what his father meant by saying this to a strange dealer. She was still a little confused for a while, thinking that her grandfather was saying this to her.

Yu Youyang didn't expect that when the bowl seller heard his grandfather ask, his face suddenly darkened, his hands shook, and the bowl in his hand almost slipped down.

"Ma Xiucai, why are you asking people like that?" Yu Youyang looked at his father in surprise and asked.

Daddy kept staring at the man, paying attention to his expression.

The tinker put the brass and iron nails in his hand into the toolbox and said, "I will not mend this bowl." You can make up for it when the other bowl comes. ”

Although Grandpa's question was strange, the bowlmaker's answer was also strange. Even if Daddy's question is abrupt, the person being asked will not be so angry that he will not work.

Yu Youyang, who was still blaming his father, saw the dishmaker's reaction, and suddenly reversed his attitude, thinking that his father should have discovered something.

So, Yu Youyang hurriedly grabbed the bowl mending maker and said, "How can you, a businessman, be like this? Punched my bowl in the eye but didn't nail it, halfway through it and then didn't do it? It's not like I don't pay you! I can do iron nails and copper nails. ”

This bowl tinker is not a local at first glance, he didn't see that Yu Youyang and his grandfather were a family, let alone know his grandfather.

He said to Yu Youyang: "I'm sorry, I'll pay you a new bowl or a bowl, what do you think?" "Obviously, he was in a hurry to go.