Chapter 72 Section Eleven

"Alas..." A lazy answer emerged from the opposite grave, like a sigh when a sleeping person turns over. Uncle Jin was so frightened that he immediately stood up and stood there like a lantern, motionless.Master Yi's teeth stopped chattering immediately, and his eyes didn't blink.I took a deep breath and let it out slowly, which had the effect of relieving tension and fear.Even the wind that was whistling just now has stopped, and the tea trees and wild grass have also stopped. Grandpa lowered his head to take out his pocket, flicked a cigarette to his mouth, then took out a match to light it, and lit the cigarette next to his mouth skillfully.He took a deep breath, then took down the cigarette, walked to the grave, and inserted the filter tip of the cigarette in front of the tombstone.

We didn't understand what grandpa was doing, we just looked at him without saying a word. The smoke billowed up like incense, I knew, he was offering incense to Xu Yi. "Xu Yi, your master and I came to see you. Although Master Yi didn't agree to accept you as an apprentice when you were alive, he saw that you helped do a lot of carpentry work these days, and he was grateful to you. Now I brought him here, and he promised to take you as his apprentice." Grandpa pointed to Master Yi and said. Master Yi hurriedly nodded to the cold tombstone. Grandpa pointed to Uncle Jin again and said, "Xu Yi, this is Uncle Jin. You once helped him make a wooden bed. He said that your carpentry work is very good. I would like to thank you."

Then, grandpa pointed to me and said, "This is my grandson, about the same age as you." I nodded quickly, although I didn't see anything else, but I felt a pair of cold eyes looking at me from behind the tombstone .I wonder if Uncle Jin has noticed that the boy who does carpentry work has a pair of cold eyes. Grandpa's words had an effect.The smoke from the smoke at the grave was shaking for a while, because there was no wind at that time, so it looked like a person's nose was in front of the smoke, and he made relatively large breathing movements.Did Xu Yi's head come out of the tomb?Was it his nose in front of the smoke?Or was his movement alarming Smoke?I can't see it, so I don't know.

"Heh..." There was a long sigh, much louder than the one just now, like the sigh of a tired person sitting down to rest.Was it a very difficult process for him to crawl out of the grave?Or did he remember the exclamation he gave out when he was rejected by Master Yi before his death? Grandpa cut into the topic: "Although the wooden bed you made for Uncle Jin is good, he always hears strange noises at night. He didn't come here to blame you, so don't worry. He just wanted to ask, how can I get that to disturb his sleep?" The voice fades away. Your master has been a carpenter all his life, and his craftsmanship is well-known far and wide. His carpentry work has always been praised but never scolded. Since you want to be Master Yi's apprentice, don't ruin the reputation of the master. You say What about Xu Yi?"

The smoke shook even more.Soon, the smoke gradually and regularly dispersed, and finally formed the appearance of a person, tall, short, fat, and thin, about the same as me, but the face was much thinner than mine, and the five fingers were much slender than mine, like a girl. hand.He should be Xu Yi! Uncle Jin gasped, his face was as pale as a piece of paper in an instant.Master Yi's teeth started chattering again. Grandpa looked at Uncle Jin and gave him a wink, meaning that this person was the one who worked as a carpenter for him.Uncle Jin immediately nodded like a chicken pecking rice, a muscle at the corner of his mouth twitched non-stop.

Grandpa turned his head to face Xu Yi, and said gently, "Son, help Uncle Jin, you can also count as a master who helps you." Xu Yi nodded slowly.He walked away from the tombstone, picked a dead grass on the left side of the grave, then returned to the tombstone, and wrote a few words on the mud in front of the tombstone.Then, he dropped the dry grass and smiled at Grandpa. Grandpa walked over and looked at the writing on the ground. "Master drinks and I drink tea, and the turtle crawls on both sides of the bed." Grandpa read softly.Grandpa didn't dare to say it aloud, as if he was afraid that the breath he exhaled would blow away Xu Yi who was formed in the smoke in front of him.

Xu Yi nodded slowly. Grandpa also nodded, and said gently: "Son, thank you for coming out to see me. I understand what you mean. You can go back." Xu Yi looked past his grandfather, looked at me standing behind, and then gave me a kind smile.Those eyes were indeed cold.I felt flattered, and quickly responded with a friendly smile.This reminds me of Shan Dae, the man who smiled comfortably when he saw me, the miserable man who lost his own son.Shan Dae will think of his son when he sees me, but what will Xu Yi think of when he sees me?himself?I think so. I have an uncle who is a year older than me.He was my mom's cousin, so I wasn't very close to him.He was admitted to the high school I attended a year earlier than me.But because he was an adopted son, not born to his parents, the family did not send him to high school.Every time I go to my grandpa's house, he will look at me differently when he meets me.

Perhaps, Xu Yi's eyes are similar to that of my uncle.Although I know that look is not malicious, but I always feel as uncomfortable as a caterpillar landed on the skin. At this time, the wind picked up.The tea tree leaves rustled again, and the grass caressed my calves again.Xu Yi was gradually deformed by the wind.The eyes and nose are crooked, the hands are gone, and the feet are twice as long. "Let's go, let's go." Grandpa persuaded. The smoke is getting thinner and thinner, and the shape of the person is gone, but a skeleton frame can be vaguely seen, and ribs like fishbone can be seen.Finally, the skeleton also dispersed.

"Heh..." It was Grandpa who sighed this time. Looking at the cigarette that Grandpa inserted in the grave, it burned out in less than half a minute, and the cigarette butt on the filter had also been extinguished, no longer revealing a little dark red. Seeing that Xu Yi had left, Master Yi and Uncle Jin returned to their fresh appearance, like two freshly thawed fish. "What's wrong?" Master Yi asked.Grandpa shook his head. Uncle Jin walked up to Grandpa, looked at the words on the ground, and asked, "Master drinks tea while I drink, and the turtle crawls on both ends of the bed? What do you mean? Can my wooden bed be fixed?"

Grandpa remained silent, raised his foot and walked down the mountain.