Chapter 276 Chapter 42 Palmprint Forks

After listening to Uncle Jin's words, Master Yi jumped up from the chair like a rubber ball: "Could it be, could it be him?" "Who?" Grandpa asked immediately. "The kid who was buried behind my house?" Master Yi tilted his head, thought for a moment, and then replied in an uncertain tone. "The kid who was buried behind your house? Which kid?" Uncle Jin asked with narrowed eyes.What happened in the village, when everyone knew about it, only Uncle Jin squinted his eyes and asked everyone - why didn't I know about this?So everyone would laugh at him for counting money in hiding at home every day, laughing at him for not hearing anything about the village, and only counting money for his dutiful son.

I immediately thought of the new grave behind Master Yi's house.The surface of the soil here is brown or black, but when a hoe is dug down, yellow soil appears inside.Although our village is only four or five miles away from here, the surface of the soil in our house is red, but when we dig an inch, we can see yellow soil.Although a little green grew on the new tomb, it was the growing dogtail grass, but it was still yellow in general. I can guess that the tomb was built less than half a year ago. Sure enough, I expected. Master Yi said that five months ago, a young man was newly buried on the mountain behind their home.Moreover, that person once asked Master Yi to be his teacher, and wanted to learn carpentry from him.

Master Yi still remembered that the young man's name was Xu Yi.His father, surnamed Xu, was an accountant in the next village.His mother's surname was Yi, and she was originally from Huamei Village.Xu Yi was good at mathematics since he was a child, which made his father very happy, thinking that he had inherited his arithmetic gene.But what troubled his father was that except for mathematics, Xu Yi was a mess in other subjects. Therefore, Xu Yi failed to get into high school.After staying at home for half a year, he finally couldn't stay anymore, because the young people in the village were either continuing to study or going out to work.In the country, there are only two options for people their age.If you stay at home, others will look down on you.

His father wanted to urge him to go out to work, but his mother was reluctant.Therefore, his father asked Xu Yi to learn accounting from him, so he might as well take over his class in the future and become an accountant in the village.Unexpectedly, although this child is good at mathematics, he is not interested in accounting at all, and refuses to follow his father to make calculations. His father became angry all of a sudden, and slapped Xu Yi with a "boom", cursing: "Useless thing! You can't study, you can't work, and you are told to study accounting, you still don't like it! Your father is Do you know how to raise you up like this? If you don’t do this or that, you will become my father?”

At this time Xu Yi yelled out a sentence, which made his father so angry that he couldn't eat for three days and couldn't sleep for three nights. "I want to be a carpenter!" he shouted. His father couldn't give him a second slap, because his hands were shaking with anger, and he was dumbfounded.He never thought that his son would like to learn carpentry because he didn't want to learn this or that. After all, it is the mother who loves her son the most.Seeing that her son wanted to learn carpentry, her mother secretly dragged Xu Yi to Master Yi to learn from him.Her mother is from Huamei Village, so she knows that Master Yi's craftsmanship is extraordinary.

Here I want to say that Master Yi's surname is not Yi, but Ma.Master Yi was called Ma Yi when he was a child. Master Yi's father hoped that his son would have no difficulty in doing anything in the future, so he changed his name to Ma Yi.That uncle Jin is not surnamed Jin, but Ma Xijin.Maybe the name really has an impact on a person's life. Although Ma Yi changed his name, he still became an artisan in the end; and Uncle Jin really cherishes money, although this is no longer called cherishing, it should be called stingy. In Huamei Village, only the grandfather is called "Master Ma". This has been the case since I was a child, and it is still the case today.

Okay, let's not talk too much.Let's go back to the matter of Xu Yi's apprenticeship.According to Master Yi, the child who wanted to worship him as a teacher was thin and thin, with yellowish hair and pale face, but his lips were as red as a girl's lipstick, and his eyes were piercing.His mother is holding a big hen in her hand.The hen was carried upside down, still grumbling and grumbling.Master Yi knew that it was necessary to receive a symbolic gift when appreciating a teacher. Master Yi saw that his mother was from the same village, so he couldn't refuse directly.He told Xu Yi to raise his hand to show him.Xu Yi was very obedient, so he raised his hand and put it under Master Yi's eyelids.

Master Yi looked at the back of Xu Yi's hand, then at the palm, and then sighed. Xu Yi's mother quickly asked, "What's wrong? Why are you sighing?" Master Yi shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't want him, he was not born to be a carpenter. You should take him back." Xu Yi's mother asked anxiously: "Master Yi, why can't he be a carpenter? He is very good at mathematics in school, and carpenters need to calculate. Why can't he?" "I can see that the back of his hand is thin and tender, and the palm lines on his hand have many forks. It is definitely not a carpenter's material." Master Yi said.Although carpentry is a laborious craft, there are still rules in it.When a famous master chooses an apprentice, he doesn't accept all crooked melons and rotten dates.People of their generation paid attention to this, unlike us now who pay tuition fees and come and accept as many people as they want.

Xu Yi's mother said anxiously: "I don't understand the rules of your carpenter's apprenticeship, you must accept him. He doesn't want to do anything now, he just wants to learn how to be a carpenter." Master Yi explained: "He has thin skin and tender flesh, which means that he usually does very little heavy work, but being a carpenter requires physical strength, and what he does is heavy work. A person like him can't adapt to it. The palm lines on his hands have many forks, which shows that he is physically fit. Weak, not to mention that it is not a carpenter's material. We recruit apprentices who have thick hands, but delicate hands and smooth palm lines. I really can't accept him like this. You should take him back to do something else."

Xu Yi's mother had no choice but to take the child back.Master Yi said that the child had not said a word since he entered his house, and when his mother took him away, he did not say hello to Master Yi, and walked out the door with his head down. Master Yi sent their mother and son out and saw ants crawling under the steps forming a "one" line. Knowing that it was going to rain, he quickly took out the ladder and climbed up to the roof to collect the beans that were drying on the tiles into the house.In this busyness, I forgot about the apprenticeship.