Chapter 231: The Bowl Mending Maker 4
The young woman's brother smiled, "I won't let him run away again." I'll sleep in the mezzanine and watch it. β
A mezzanine is a house between two rooms, generally between the hall and the bedroom. The hall has multiple doors leading to each room, while the bedroom usually has only one door coming out, and the mezzanine is the passage between the hall and the bedroom. At that time, there were many poor people and many brothers and sisters, and after the brothers were separated, they often shared a hall, and behind each door of the hall was a family.
Therefore, in order to have more space for activities, people often add a sandwich room between the hall and the bedroom when building a house, which can be used as a place to eat, or a bedroom and kitchen are combined.
This is the mud house where my grandfather lived after he moved out of the Ma family's old house. Although the mud house collapsed and my uncle built a new small building, I always remember the layout of my grandfather's house. Entering through the door, there is a mezzanine room behind the first door on the right-hand side, where the grandparents are sleeping, and the little uncle lives in the bedroom behind the mezzanine. Behind the second door on the right hand side is also a mezzanine room, and behind the mezzanine room is the bedroom, these two rooms are where Grandpa and his Xu Xian live. This mezzanine room was used as a kitchen, because Grandpa's continuation was unwilling to eat with her grandfather, so she had to open the fire alone and eat by herself.
There are also two symmetrical doors on the left-hand side, and there is only one bedroom behind the first door, which is where the eldest uncle lives. Behind the second door is a utility room where various farm tools such as plows, rakes, hoes and hoes are placed.
And there is also a small door on the other side of the door, and this small door is not in the center, and if it is centered, it will be a straight attack. It was much more to the left, almost next to the second door on the left. Behind this door is the kitchen used by my grandparents.
The additional cowshed and toilets are bunks and are not included in the main rooms.
Grandpa let his uncle sleep behind his sandwich house, but he didn't let him run out to play at night. The younger uncle is more playful than the eldest uncle, and often does not return home at night.
The young woman's brother had to sleep in the mezzanine room to watch over the dishmaker.
If the young woman's brother slept in the sandwich room, and the young woman slept with him in the bedroom, he would have no other way to escape than to break the window. However, the windows are all mullions, and broken windows will definitely make a loud noise, and it is impossible not to attract the attention of others.
After eating and sitting down, it became dark.
The young woman brought a basin of water to the dishmaker and told him to wash.
Seeing this, the bowl mending worker felt that the young woman should have been quite virtuous before, and she was good-looking, so I don't know why that person quarreled with her and ran away, I really don't know how to cherish the blessings. However, the person who is a son-in-law is always looked down upon at that time, and he is not angry with his daughter-in-law, but also often angry with other long-tongued women and long-tongued men. This can be seen from the performance of the young woman's younger brother today. Her younger brother defends her sister everywhere, but she doesn't know that he is the one who has caused her a lot of trouble. It's sad and lamentable!
The young woman's brother wandered around the house, fearing that the tinker would run away.
When the tinker saw the young woman's brother looking at him like an ox, he knew that he had no chance to slip away. Looking at the sky outside, he knew that the speed of escaping at night was definitely not as fast as that of the locals who were familiar with the road. Moreover, if you don't get back the washing of the bowl, you won't be able to go back to Xianning if you run away. Most of the money is still in small boxes of polyester. Even if you don't have any money, you can make up for the bowl all the way to earn travel expenses. Now there is no money, and there is no money to earn travel expenses, and it is too difficult to go back.
After thinking about it, he looked at the beautiful young woman who was waiting for him to wash, and finally decided to stay first.
So, he picked up a handkerchief and began to wash his face and feet.
When the young woman saw him begin to wash, she could not help but show joy.
When she had finished washing, the young woman led him into the bedroom and closed the door.
He heard the sound of someone walking in the next room, and knew that it was the young woman's brother who was standing there.
The young woman sat down on the edge of the bed, approached the tinker, and said, "You are my husband, why do you lie?" β
The bowl mending craftsman was in a state of panic, and he could smell the body fragrance emanating from the young woman's body. He said, "You're really mistaken, I look like your husband, but I'm not him." β
The young woman leaned lightly on him and said softly, "You still pretend not to!" I remember exactly where your black mole is, could this be wrong? With that, her hand grabbed the location of his black mole.
The tinker shuddered, but still said, "I don't know why this mole grows in the same place as your husband. But his breath was short. He is away all the year round, and he rarely gets close to women, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want to. He is at the age of youth and strength. When he was away from home, he often dreamed of returning to his hometown. I dreamed of returning to my hometown not because of the mountains and rivers in my hometown, but because of the women in my family. Whenever this happens, he thinks of himself as a broken bowl that needs to be nailed with brass or iron. And that dream is a copper nail and an iron nail.
The young woman sighed lightly and said, "I already knew that you would not be used to it if you came to my house to be my son-in-law. I didn't expect you to deliberately screw your jaw now. Forget it, if you don't admit it, you won't admit it. Go to bed early. Then the young woman went to bed first, and slept on the inside, with her back to him.
The tinker saw that she was angry, but could not persuade her, so he lay down on the edge of the bed, facing the window, as far away from the young woman as he could.
I didn't say anything for a while.
The dishmaker became sleepy, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, he suddenly felt something strange, and woke up from his sleep, and when he woke up, he found that the young woman had already embraced him, and her hands were groping for him. The young woman's body was as hot as a fire.
At last the tinker could not bear it anymore, turned over, and pressed against the young woman's body......
Silver-white moonlight poured into the room through the window......
The people and objects in the room loomed in the hazy night.
After the clouds and rain, the young woman's eyes were a little misty and a little confused.
The weary tinker put his arms around the young woman and looked her in the eye.
"What's wrong?" The tinker asked.
The young woman said, "Now I believe that you are not him." β
The tinker was startled and asked, "Why?" β
The young woman said, "It was only when I realized that you were different from him just now. β
The tinker panicked againβ‘ he had already had a relationship with her, and if tomorrow she said that he had defiled her, it would be strange if she was not beaten to death by the people of this village! Although he has stated many times that he is not that person, he is a foreigner, how can he reason with a local?
The young woman sensed his panic and said, "Don't be afraid. We've done this tonight, and it's irreparable. When the fake is true, it is also false, as long as I say that you are true, you are true. We have to be wrong. β
When the tinker saw that she didn't blame him, he felt even more guilty. "Of course, as long as you say it's true, people will believe it," he said. But I am afraid that your true husband will return one day, and in that case, I am afraid that I, who have been fooled by the truth, will die without a place to be buried. β
The young woman said: "Since you are really a bowl mending craftsman who travels from south to north, you should have more knowledge than me, a woman who stays at home!" In today's world, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, and people often take the fake as the real and the real as the fake. Extortion and deception can be seen everywhere, how many people tell the truth? Swaggering and deception will eat all directions, and it will be difficult to move an inch in a down-to-earth manner. You insist that you are not when we think you are true. It can be seen that you are a rare good person. Good people have their own rewards. Even if you do, I'll help you. β
Only then did the tinker put his mind at ease, and he felt that this young woman was good.
The young woman said, "But you need to know the names and family circumstances of our people here, so that you don't show your stuff when you deal with the people in the village in the future, and you can also make everyone think that you are indeed the truth." β
The tinkerer nodded.
So the young woman told him about all the people in the village, and how the husband who had run away had run away in anger if he had run away from the door, and then she told him about all her relatives.
The tinker wrote it down with his heart.
The next day, the bowlmaker followed the young woman to every house in the village to sit for a while, and when he entered the door, he took the initiative to call the other person's name, and when he saw the child, he called the child's name.
The people in the village thought that this bowl mending maker was the one who ran away two or three years ago, and thought that he didn't admit it before because he was angry in his heart, and that he and the young woman had resolved their entanglement and finally reconciled.
The one he mended the bowl was also coming back.
He was asked how he made up the bowl. He said that after running away from here, he learned the art of mending bowls, so as not to go hungry outside.
Someone else brought him the broken bowl at home to make it up, and he helped to fix it.
After living there for a while, he found that his family and the people in the village were very kind to him. The young woman's younger brother also changed his attitude. Before he knew it, he fell in love with it and didn't want to leave.
Still, he and the young woman were secretly worried about the sudden return of the real husband.
The tinker was worried, but he felt that he couldn't get out of here. For if the young woman's true husband returns, then the present matter cannot be explained to the true husband. Others can think that the young woman's husband has come back and gone, and has gone and returned. But this can only deceive others, but can't deceive her real husband.
He had to stay here. In case the real husband returns, he can join the young woman in denying that the person is the real husband. For this reason, he even went to the person's "maiden home" and got in touch with relatives there. Of course, before leaving, the young woman had already made the situation of those relatives clear. With the help of the young woman, he did not call a person by the wrong name.
After more than half a year, he returned to his old business and began to pick up the washing and mending the bowl.
For more than half a year, the young woman's younger brother was completely convinced that he would not run away, so he let him pick him up and no longer follow him.
In this way, the tinkerer lived a different life at the Twin Eyes Bridge.