51. A pair of black bowls
After reading this grandfather's note, there is only one question in my mind, that is, there is no record of the black bowl in the whole note, could it be that this black bowl was not obtained here?
I looked at my grandfather and said, "There is no mention of the black bowl." ”
Neither my grandfather nor my aunt asked me about the contents of the notes, but when they heard my words, they just asked me, "Did you get it later?" ”
My aunt and grandmother don't know the origin of this black bowl, so the origin of this black bowl is much more complicated than we think.
After reading it, I gave it to my aunt, but instead of taking it back, she said to me, "Now this notebook is yours, and I just follow your grandfather's instructions to keep it." Now it's up to you, and it's up to you to settle it. ”
I looked at my grandfather, who didn't speak. I had no choice but to take the box and put the notes in there. We stayed at my aunt's house that night, and it was impossible to rush back because it was getting late.
I had a room alone at night. My aunt and grandmother had a lot of rooms, and soon after I fell asleep, I had a dream, but in the dream, I returned to the forest where Wu Xiaoquan was buried. And I was at the door of the simple house, the door was open, and the kerosene lamp was still hanging on the door, but although I could only see the black hole in the door, I could feel that there were people inside.
I walked slowly to the door, and looked inside, it was daytime outside, but it was pitch black inside, and I even felt that I couldn't see anything, and then I saw a person sitting on the edge of the bed, and I could only roughly recognize it as a person, but I didn't know who it was or what it looked like.
When I arrived at the door, I suddenly heard him speak: "Xiao Mu." ”
When he called out my name. I was startled and took a step back, only to feel a wave of fear churning up in my heart. But I held myself up and asked, "Who are you?" ”
He said, "I'm Xue Yunhai. ”
I repeated his name and asked, "Xue Yunhai?" How did you end up here? ”
Xue Yunhai suddenly said, "I'm in the cracks in the mountains." ”
Then I suddenly heard a very violent noise, and I suddenly woke up from my dream, the moment I opened my eyes. It was pitch black, and then I recognized that I was still sleeping in my room, and realized that it was just a dream, and that the loud noise was like a hallucination, and it didn't seem to have happened.
I just felt a little scared of the black hole in the room, and it could be the reason for the horror of the dream. I shrank into the quilt, but Xue Yunhai's words in the dream clearly came to mind, and I couldn't help but think of the contents of the notes. The people who went down as Grandpa said were all trapped at the bottom of the mountain, and Xue Yunhai who climbed out at the end was not really Xue Yunhai, so who is this Xue Yunhai?
And I happened to dream of Xue Yunhai in my dream. He said that he was in the crack in the mountain, and after so many decades, he was probably a corpse long ago.
I didn't tell my grandfather and my aunt about this strange dream, so the next day we had breakfast at my aunt's house and then left, and I thought about going back and talking to Mr. Zou to see what was going on.
It's just that when I returned home, there was a person in the house, and when I saw him, my jaw almost dropped, because this person was none other than him. It was Xue.
When I saw him, I looked at him as if I had an illusion, and it seemed that the whole person had returned to the time when I was crazy, and I didn't know what was going on for a while. They looked at him and at my grandmother and they said, "...... is he?"
Xue Cai laughed and said: "You may not remember me, when you were sick, I was your attending doctor, and you still stayed in our hospital for three months, and then it didn't get better, so I suggested that your family take you home to recuperate." ”
He spoke unhurriedly. And with a calm demeanor, I hadn't yet distinguished him from the imaginary Xue, I just looked at him blankly and said, "You are my attending doctor?" ”
He nodded and said, "Yes." ”
My grandmother also said, "Wood." He is Dr. Xue. ”
When I heard my grandmother's words, I felt even more coincidental, so I asked him, "Your name is Xue Fang?" ”
Xue Fang nodded and said, "Yes." ”
I was completely incredulous, and just said to myself, "How is this possible?" It's just the same. ”
Mr. Zou seemed to know what I was thinking, and then he said to me, "I told you that all your assumptions when you were crazy were based on reality. So it's normal for you to have him in your imagination, and his identity in reality is different from what you imagined. And rightfully so. ”
When Mr. Zou said this, I came back to my senses a little, I looked at Xue Fang, he also looked at me, I asked him, "So what are you coming to our house for?" ”
Xue Fang said: "Things in this world are very coincidental. When I saw you at that time, I didn't expect that your ancestors would still be in contact with our ancestors. ”
I already knew what he wanted to say, so I asked him, "Are you a descendant of Xue Yunhai?" ”
Xue Fang said unhurriedly: "Xue Yunhai is my uncle. It's my grandfather's own brother. ”
Sure enough, then he came here today not because of my illness, but completely because of Xue Yunhai, or maybe he also came for the matter of Grandpa Tai and Xue Yunhai back then.
After that, I found out that he had been here yesterday, but it was unfortunate that my grandfather and I had gone to my aunt's house early in the morning, so he came to the house early this morning to wait, according to him, he had something important to tell me.
And he can only tell me about it, so that's why he's been waiting for me. When I asked him what was the matter, he suddenly took out a delicate box and opened it carefully on my coffee table. When the wooden box was opened, all I saw was a well-preserved black bowl.
When I saw this black bowl, I looked at him in amazement, and I just instinctively said, "You have one too." ”
Xue Fang said: "This black bowl was originally a pair, one of my uncle, and the other he handed over to your grandfather." ”
I asked, "Our black bowl was given to my grandfather by your uncle?" ”
Xue Fang said: "My uncle and your grandfather once followed the military commanders to the mountains to cut wood, but in the end, only your grandfather and my uncle came back alive, but what happened inside, my uncle didn't say a word, and he didn't allow our family to ask." He gave one of them to your grandfather, and told our family that if there is a descendant in your family who is twenty years old, let us bring this black bowl to your house. ”
I asked, "What are you doing here?" ”
Xue Fang said: "Exchange this pair of black bowls." ”
Xue Fang's words surprised everyone in the family, because Grandpa Tai didn't mention anything about this matter, and more importantly, the black bowl in our house had already been smashed, so how could I exchange it with Xue Fang, so I could only say to Xue Fang: "The one in our house has been smashed." ”
Xue Fang was shocked and asked, "Smashed?" ”
I looked at my grandfather and grandmother, and my grandfather said, "It's really smashed, and his grandfather didn't say anything about the special features of this bowl, so our family puppet thought it was just an ordinary porcelain bowl." ”
Xue Fang closed the wooden box of his black bowl when he heard this, but this kung fu Mr. Zou asked and said, "This black bowl of your house has also been lost for a while, right, it was found later, right?" ”
Xue Fang nodded and said, "Yes, I only found it a while ago." ”
Mr. Zou thought for a while and said, "What you said a while ago should be the time when the wood suddenly improved, right?" ”
Xue Fang pondered for a moment and said, "Yes." ”
Then Mr. Zou looked at me and my grandparents, and said, "Maybe the black bowl that you smashed at home is a fake, and the real black bowl was saved by his grandfather on wood and placed somewhere in the house." ”
When I heard Mr. Zou say this, I suddenly blurted out, "In the well." ”