Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Two-Way Apprenticeship
Chop bamboo, split bamboo, transport yellow mud, make mud bricks......
I have to go up the mountain to dig cassava, soak cassava, and recycle the soaked cassava.
After seven or eight days like this, Gu Lan lost weight again, and the skin on her body seemed to be thicker and rougher, and at first glance, she looked like a savage.
She sat on the bluestone in front of the old house, her eyes scanned the small courtyard, and she was busy for seven or eight days, and the new house had begun to take shape, but it was still close to the top.
The green bamboo is made of mud bricks on the outside, beautiful on the outside, warm on the inside, and the top is planned to be paved with bamboo, plus wood and fluffy grass, if it is not for the cold rain today, I am afraid that this will have been completed.
It was raining, and Grandpa Shao and Aji didn't come.
Zhu'er has been with Old Man Shao for the past few days to help chop bamboo and transport things, and after being busy, he doesn't know what he talked to Old Man Shao, which actually attracted Old Man Shao's great love for him.
There is no need to work today, Zhu'er ran to Grandpa Shao after breakfast, and he excitedly told Gu Lan that Old Man Shao was going to teach him skills.
Gu Lan was also happy for him, but he counted the property in the family, and there was no apprenticeship gift that he could take out at all.
I had to fry some tapioca cakes for him to carry over and give Aggie a snack to eat.
Old man Shao is a good person, in order to order worthless cassava, he helped them build a house, not to mention, but also taught Gu Lan's sisters and brothers a lot of things.
Just like Gu Lan, who will be idle, is using bamboo to weave bamboo baskets and bamboo baskets.
She is talented and smart, and she can draw inferences, Old Man Gu only taught her to weave a bamboo basket, so she experimented in every possible way and finally made a bamboo dustpan.
The bamboo dustpan is large and round, with a diameter of one meter, and is purely made of thin bamboo strips.
There is no suitable knife, and it is troublesome to cut bamboo strips, just these days to build a house and cut bamboo, there are a lot of bamboo strips left, some are used to dry as firewood, and some are used to weave products.
The rain was dripping, beating on the eaves, falling on the grass at the edge of the roof, and then it could not bear the weight and fell low to the ground.
A small puddle was splashed on the land.
The air was filled with the fragrance of the soil after the rain, Gu Lan finally put away the tail work of the bamboo dustpan, used a knife made of bamboo chips, scraped off the protrusions of the bamboo strips, and polished them carefully.
Her hands were rough and cracked, showing red in many places, which was very painful, but Gu Lan was used to it.
I have to say that people are really animals that adapt to their environment.
Where did she suffer this kind of suffering in her previous life, but it can't be compared, the suffering in her previous life is spiritually nowhere to escape, like being trapped in a cup, depressed for life, and there is nowhere to escape.
The present suffering is physical suffering, but spiritual prosperity is incomparable.
As soon as Gu Lan opened her eyes every day, there were countless things waiting for her to do, and the closer she was to the goal when she solved a difficulty.
This feeling makes her feel happy.
The leaks in the old house have also been repaired, after all, the new house is not good, and the old house will continue to be occupied.
Zhu'er slept enough, turned over and got out of bed, found Gu Lan with her bare feet, and drilled into her arms.
Like a kitten, she slipped from under her armpit into her arms, her yellow hair was shaggy and she still had a hot breath on her body.
Grandma Pearls called her angrily, holding her in her two little hands.
"Sister~"
It's like I haven't woken up yet.
Gu Lan let go of the dustpan, hugged her sister and kissed her again, like butter melting in a hot pan, with a fragrant sense of abundance.
"Is the little lazy cat sleeping well?" She rubbed Zhu'er's erect belly, making her giggle.
"Itchy, sister!"
Zhu'er has always been able to eat and sleep, she is only two years old, the family is so busy that there is no time to take care of her, fortunately she doesn't need to be bothered by others, let her stay where she is, and will not move all morning.
All you need to eat is enough to fall asleep on the floor.
made Gu Lan feel distressed and sad.
Breakfast must have been eaten, and the little one likes to sleep, but he will not miss a meal.
Eat happily to sleep well.
She nestled in Gu Lan's arms, watching her deftly weave a bamboo basket, dangling her two little feet, holding cassava in her hand, taking a bite from time to time, and looking at the drizzle outside.
Zhu'er and Liang'er are both at Old Man Shao's house.
"Grandpa Shao, you drink tea!"
If Gu Lan was here, she was afraid that her eyes would widen, she had never been afraid of heaven and earth, and her stubborn and stinky eldest brother would respectfully pour tea for Old Man Shao.
Although Zhu'er is sensible, he is unconvincing by nature, except for Gu Lan, no one can make him obedient.
Old man Shao looked at the tea with a smile, and waited for Zhu'er to kneel in front of him, and kowtowed a few times with a "knock".
Zhu'er said: "Master and grandpa, I will be your apprentice in the future, my sister said, the apprentice needs to be restrained, but I have nothing at home, I can only wait for you to make up for it in the future, but I will definitely listen to you, I will do whatever you ask me to do, no two words!" ”
He slapped his chest with a shocking sound, and his face was full of pride.
In the end, he is a young man, and the vitality in his body is something that an old guy like him can't even think of.
Old man Shao looked at Zhu'er's eyes as if he was nostalgic.
He smiled: "Zhu'er, I have never taught apprentices in my life, and I have been in the limelight before, some people want to worship me as a teacher, I don't want any of them, but now that I am old, the ability of this body must be passed on, although you are young, you have a lot of strength, and you are a good material for learning martial arts." ”
"You sincerely want to apprentice, and I want to accept apprentices, all of this is God's will, let you and I meet."
Old man Shao is extremely modest, Zhu'er is happy to hear it, his eyes are shining, of course he wants to learn the skills of old man Shao!
In the past few days, following Old Man Shao, he has really seen a lot.
How could there be such a powerful old man? The body is as light as a swallow, the strength is infinite, the eaves walk the wall, the sword and the gun, it is even omnipotent!
Zhu'er is not greedy, he wants to learn to hunt!
As long as he learns to hunt, his sister will not be so tired, he will go into the mountains to hunt and sell money, and it will be absolutely no problem to feed the family, and when the time comes, let his sister and Zhu'er enjoy Qingfu at home like Aji, and send Liang'er to study!
Zhu'er thought so beautifully, he couldn't help laughing, and kowtowed three more times on the ground, begging: "Good master, apprentice will kowtow to you!" Please take me! ”
Old man Shao looked at Zhu'er with satisfaction.
He really took a fancy to Zhu'er's talent, and wanted to take him as an apprentice, but he also had his own selfish intentions.
How long can he stay with Aggie when he's older? You should always think of some way out for him.
Gu Lan's family can be used by Aji.
Old man Shao's eyes were deep, and he looked at Liang Er, who was holding a bamboo slip behind the bead curtain and asking Aji.
Zhu'er learns martial arts, and Liang'er learns literature.
Under his teaching, he may be able to become Aggie's loyal right-hand man.
If it weren't for this plan, how could it be possible to cut some bamboo?
Old man Shao no longer hesitated, he asked Zhu'er to get up.
Said: "Good apprentice, you will call me a master in the future, and the master has nothing else to ask for, only one thing, I hope you can do it." ”