Chapter 37: Seize the Commander (Just come back)
"You don't know. Now, you are all celebrities and successful entrepreneurs in our village. Whose parents don't treat you as a role model to educate their children?"
The girl spoke again.
What else can I do if I follow Yingxiao? Do you have to tell her that I have been wandering in the sea for four years and then finally be rescued now?
So I had to say that I laugh or nod. She looked at me just by looking at rare animals, asking questions and answering questions, and she couldn't interrupt her words at all. She almost checked her household registration until the person next to her reminded her to whisper and not disturb others' rest. The girl should nodded with unsatisfactoryness.
Then he glanced around and said in a low voice: "Brother Mo, what business are you doing?"
"How to say this, cultural relics and carving." I thought about it for a while and defined my profession as cultural relics and carving.
At the same time, she showed the jade and wood in her hand. Seeing this, the girl reached out to take a piece of wood in my hand.
After taking a closer look, he spoke in surprise: "This is the best Huanghuali?"
"Well, it's Huanghuali, it's been a few years." I replied. The embryo I chose for jade was Huanghuali, because this wood has unique patterns, but also has a faint fragrance.
Inlaying jade inside will also make you look beautiful, but it requires a very high amount of carving to complete it. Once the carving is broken, all your efforts will be wasted.
There is one thing that needs to be paid attention to when carving jade and yellow rosewood, that is, the pattern, also known as searching for patterns. Generally, the carving process, after polishing the embryo, we will first look at the patterns, and then determine what to carve on it based on the patterns of jade or wood.
This is very important, and it directly affects whether a piece of wood or jade can double the value.
Seeing me nodding, the girl touched the wood like a baby, "I heard from my classmates that this kind of wood is very expensive and only rich people can afford it. Brother Mo, you must be very profitable in this area."
"It's okay, it's all hard money. I've been traveling around the world and sleeping in the open over the years. Sometimes I'll lose a lot if I bet on bad jade."
As if I was right, I said something polite. After all, if tomb robbing is an industry, I have been a monk for nearly ten years, and the only thing I can call a profession is to robbing.
When I think of the tomb I had dug for so long, I felt a sigh in my heart. After all, it was not glorious and was looked down upon by the world.
After hearing this, the girl nodded and stopped talking, but handed me the wood in her hand.
If she didn't say it, I didn't have much time to continue nagging with her. After all, if I didn't hurry up, neither jade nor wood would be carved.
Because it was peak period, I was lucky to be able to buy a seat. I still leaned over and the space was OK. At least there was no big problem with using a knife or something.
I plan to get the embryo first, then get off the car and sculpt it, otherwise it will shake it. As long as there is a slight mistake, it will be a waste of resources.
Along the way, we talked and laughed. After chatting, we learned from her that her name was Chen Bi, and she was the eldest daughter of Aunt Chen's family. I vaguely remember that when we were having a group of little kids playing, she was still in her mother's arms.
As I was chatting, I suddenly found a very serious problem. When I asked about my age, I found that I was twenty-eight.
I have to sigh that time has passed so fast, as fast as water, and before I could experience it well, nothing was left.
I even felt like everything was still yesterday, and I was still the lawless child.
Maybe I just don’t want to admit that I am old and I will make a joke on myself.
Because we were from the same village, we walked together and got off at the station. We haven't come back for a long time. Everything became strange and familiar.
I remember when I was a child, when I came here to eat noodles with my father, it was not a train station, but a large field. Because it was very flat, half of the markets were inside and the markets were also here.
Now the market has been moved to Houcheng, which has been converted into a railway station. The added modern buildings have replaced the once backward city, giving this county a bit more modern feel.
To go to the town, you have to go to the bus station to take a shuttle bus, which takes about two and a half hours.
Because it is also a distance from the town, if you rely solely on your feet, you need to walk about one point.
Chen Bi took me to the bus station, and handed over the ticket and got on the bus home. I was looking forward to it and scared.
I don’t know if it was the fear of returning to the land or the fear of the strangeness that arose. Along the way, because I haven’t come back for many years, Chen Bi is responsible for telling me about the scenery along the way, including a new village, a new building, and a new school.
The wooden houses that used to be turned into reinforced concrete, and the bumpy paths that used to be turned into dark asphalt roads.
The changes in my hometown made me feel a little unresponsive. If I hadn't met Chen Bi, I thought I might not have been able to find my way home, because there have been too many familiar things left.
The car slowly stopped at the station, and Chen Bi specially called his brother to pick him up. I recognized that guy, Fatty Chen, the third brother's cousin, and friends who used to play with him.
After several years, the guys became more and got married. When I saw me, I was stunned for a while before asking, "Why do I think you are a little familiar with Bier's boyfriend?"
"Brother...what are you talking nonsense?" Chen Bi hurriedly glared at him, and her face turned red in an instant. I was also a little embarrassed. Fortunately, Chen Bi hurriedly said, "This is a famous person in our village, Mo Jiu from the Mo family."
"Mo Jiu? Brother Jiu?"
He was stunned at first when he heard this, and then hurriedly spoke.
"Long time no see, the big fat man from the Chen family." I smiled when I heard this. When he heard the sound was familiar, he immediately patted my shoulder, "Good guy, I've had it for ten years. Let's go back first, let's talk about it. The third brother is talking about you."
He said happily.
My childhood playmates, even after so many years, still have that friendship when they meet. When I think of the third guy, I remember the pole I carried with him.
When I remembered that I was scared to death at that time, I felt an inexplicable sense of joy, which made people couldn't help laughing out loud.
I sat on his motorcycle and stumbled back to the village. Although the main road was well built, the road in the village was still the same kind of dirt road.
The village has also changed a lot. The thatched houses turned into bungalows, and some families have also built small second floors.
As soon as I entered the village, Fatty Chen said that he would keep me at home for dinner, but I was anxious to go home, so I was in the mood to stay at other people's houses.
So after postponing it, I put on my bag and went up the familiar road. I remember the location of my home, the small tiled house, the wooden doors that my father built by himself, and the yard carefully taken care of by my grandmother.
Even though the bluestone slabs are laid now and the wooden door has been replaced with an iron door, the door that I sent me away from is still there.
The tiled house has been demolished, and an ancient-style attic is built. The yard is not occupied. Looking inside, I can see the medicine that my grandma has sunk in the yard, but the corner of the house I liked to climb the most was gone.
I knocked on the ring on the iron door, and not long after, a long old body Wei Wei trembled out.
She leaned on a crutch in her hand and was wearing a linen cloth. After ten years of not seeing her, she looked older and smaller. I squatted at the door and watched her open the iron door and hid her. After a long time, she stretched out her old hands, threw away the crutch and hugged my head.
Chapter completed!