Obligations of the elderly

When he yelled, everyone in the room woke up. Malone jumped up and picked up the kettle next to him. Amin picked up the vacuum cleaner, and with a "snap", Xingyun turned on the light.

"What's going on?" The voice of Xiliu suddenly appeared behind Gongsi, and then upwards, Aji was crying, Qiuxia immediately hugged him and poked his head out from the stairs.

All attention was on the clown holding a red fish lantern at the end of the stairs.

Looking around, the clown said, "Good evening."

His voice is really nice, smooth, calm, and a nice bass.

But no matter how nice the sound is, it's useless!Isn't this the time to say good evening?And suddenly appearing in someone else's house in the middle of the night, and pretending to be a clown, how suspicious it is!

No one spoke, but everyone probably had one thought in their hearts.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the clown moved again.

He first put the fish lamp in his hand on the shoe cabinet next to him, opened the shoe cabinet and found a pair of slippers, then he took off the yellow clown shoes on his feet, and then put on the pair of fluffy slippers.

The clown in the fluffy slippers looks instantly...um...less scary, but the smile on his face still looks weird.

"Who are you? Why did you suddenly appear at my house in the middle of the night?" And put on slippers?

As the head of the family, Gong Si asked the question.

"I'm Gong Chujiu." The clown answered his question.

Gongchu Ninth?Who, I don't know, Gong Si thought so at first, but...

"palace"?The other party's surname is Gong?

Qiuxia reacted first, and he called softly: "Brother, brother, that's..."

Under his reminder, Gong Si also remembered.

"You are Gong Si? I am your father's elder brother." The clown continued.

What about "your father's brother", just say "I am your uncle"!Looking at the man in front of him who was talking to him with a serious clown face, Gong Si felt panicked, and then blocked...he was discouraged.

"You have to prove that you are my uncle, but before that, come in first..." Gong Si glanced at him and sighed, "Take off your makeup first."

But there is no woman at home, so don't think about cleansing oil, Gong Si asked Qiu Xia to find a new piece of soap for him.

Holding soap in one hand, a new towel in the other, and a set of palace home clothes, the man in the clown costume walked into the bathroom by himself. Not long after, the sound of splashing water came from the bathroom. It was peaceful, but the teenagers outside couldn't fall asleep any more, they directly put out the table and chairs in the living room, they set up their camps, and just waited for the clown to come out.

The clown in the living room again...no, he's not a clown anymore.

Appearing again is a man who makes people look too old.

He looks like he is about 30 years old, with dry and delicate skin, and long black hair. At the moment, the wet hair is scattered behind his broad shoulders, which makes him look a little "juicy", although it is long hair , but he doesn't look like a woman at all. His forehead is broad, his eyebrows are long and black, his eyes are also very dark, his nose bridge is straight and straight, and there are a pair of thin lips below.

It looks very quiet.

Gong Si is shorter than him, so the clothes on him are a bit shorter than his own, but the proportion of the man's body is very good, even if he wears clothes that are one size smaller, he won't feel cramped , just made him look younger.

Seeing the teenagers sitting on one side in the living room, he consciously sat opposite them - on the lonely chair.

The man took out an ID card: "This is my ID card."

After taking the other party's ID card, Gong Si and the others carefully checked all the information on it, and finally confirmed that it was correct before changing the card back, and then heard the other party say: "Now it's your turn to prove your identity."

Looking at each other, Gong Si had no choice but to show him the ID cards of himself and his brothers.

After the two parties have checked their identities, the next step is to enter the exciting part of recognizing relatives according to the script, but——

No.

Absolutely not.

The man looked at the other side with a blank expression, and Gong Si looked at him with a blank expression, neither of them had the intention to speak.

Now Malone couldn't stand it anymore!

"I said...you two uncles...no, haven't the uncles met before?" He asked.

"No." The man said flatly.

"No!" This was Gong Si's answer.

The two looked at each other, and finally, the man said a few more words: "I was in the palace. His father and mother left home after they got married, and he never came back because of work."

Gong Si frowned and nodded: "That's right, I've only heard about Uncle from my dad, but I haven't seen any photos, and my dad didn't bring a photo album when he went out."

Then the two stopped talking again.

This is not a problem, there must be someone who speaks to enliven the atmosphere, thinking to himself, Marlon jumped out again and acted as the host between the two:

"Then may I ask Uncle Gong... May I ask Uncle Gong why you came back suddenly? Don't you usually find a day when you go home? You can also tidy up the house and go out to buy some food... The key is why you Dress up?!" He said, comparing a clown's round nose.

The uncle paused in his direction with his black eyes for three seconds, then turned his face, and said to everyone: "A while ago, I finally remembered the account of the old mailbox. After logging in, I found my brother's email saying that the children in the family are awakening one after another, saying It was not convenient for him to come back, so he asked me if I had time to come back to see them, so I came back, but when I got home and found that there was no key, I went to a locksmith to make a key. The other party needed to provide a certificate from the town center household registration office, so I took it I took my ID card to issue a certificate. When the certificate was issued, the staff found out that I was a knife maker in Lengshui Town. He advertised to me the upcoming garden party in the town center. I couldn’t resist his persuasion, so I had to go to participate first. The garden party, and then at the garden party, she was dressed up as she was just now."

He calmly recounted what had happened.

Thinking of this seemingly old-fashioned uncle turned into a clown, with such a serious face under the smiling face, and using this face to hand out balloons to children... For some reason, Marlon suddenly wanted to laugh.

Then he really heard laughter, and he quickly covered his mouth← Malone thought he was really laughing out loud, but the laughter was still there when he covered his mouth, and he turned his head to find that the person laughing was Nilu.

Malone coughed hastily, and then Nilu covered his mouth in panic.

The uncle looked at the crowd quietly and indifferently, probably remembering that he hadn't answered Malone's question completely, and he continued: "As for the reason why I came back so late, it was because I missed the last sleigh cart."

"When I passed by, the last sleigh had just left, so I could only walk back by myself with a lighted lantern. I finally walked halfway and saw that sleigh was returning, so I waved at the other party to ask him to stop and give me a ride. , and the opponent ran faster."

Everyone couldn't help imagining the scene: in the dark, the sleigh driver who had sent them off was galloping across the snow, and suddenly a bright spot appeared in the dim snow, vaguely a person holding a lantern, and then, that The man suddenly waved at him, and upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a gorgeously dressed clown, with a strange smile on his pale face, holding a lamp in one hand, and slowly waving towards him with the other...

It's no wonder if you don't run away!It's like midnight horror, okay? ?Uncle, how many people have you harmed along the way?

When everyone looked at the black long-haired man again, there was sympathy in their eyes.

However, the man just reached out and squeezed his hair: "It's done."

Then he stood up: "It's getting late, I'm sleepy, you guys sleep here, I'll go to the bookstore to sleep, I remember Jung opened a bookstore here."

Having said that, he looked around again: "By the way, where is Jung?"

He didn't see Jung.

"Grandpa Jung is gone." Gong Si whispered to him.

The man paused for a moment, then said for a while, "Then I'll go and burn a stick of incense for him tomorrow."

After finishing speaking, he left and walked straight to the direction of the study. It seems that the study was opened there early in the morning. Gongsi found him another quilt and spread the quilt by himself. The man said good night to Gongsi quietly. , and then fell asleep.

What a strange elder - close the door, Gong Si thought, but it won't be annoying.

He poured some water for himself, and after drinking, he also went upstairs to sleep.

***

The next morning, Gongsi was awakened by the sound of sharpening knives from outside the window.

Whoa—————

At night, he was startled by the strange uncle, but now he heard this sound again, Gongsi got up from the bed, and turned his head to see: Well, the stream is still sleeping gracefully.

Looking at the already bright sky outside the curtains, Gong Si couldn't sleep at all. After getting dressed, he set off upstairs again lightly. The room was quiet, as if no one got up except him. After such a toss, everyone didn't sleep well at night. As long as there is no sleep problem, they will generally sleep more soundly.

Gong Si thought to himself, and he glanced in the direction of the study: the door over there was open, revealing the neatly folded bedding inside, and the uncle was not there.

He had a clue in his mind, gently opened the door, and the palace turned to the right. The sound came from under his window. There was a kitchen downstairs, and then there was a room outside the kitchen, to be exact, a room. The big warehouse, according to Grandpa Jung, was the place where the uncle usually worked. It was locked before leaving. They didn't have a key, and the palace didn't even think about asking someone to pick the lock.

Now that the uncle is back, it was expected that he would go to open that door. Gong Si has actually been curious for a long time, what is in that warehouse...

It was still snowing outside, braving the snow and walking over, Gong Si saw the uncle who was sharpening a kitchen knife outside.

He was wearing a thin coat, and the lower body was ordinary trousers and snow boots. There was a machine in front of the uncle, which looked like a wheel, and behind the machine was a stone ← this thing Gongsi Recognized: it is a whetstone.

The uncle was sharpening the knife with that whetstone, and Dao Gongsi also knew it, it was a kitchen knife from their kitchen.

"You're awake." Noticing Gong Si, the uncle raised his head to look at Gong Si, and said to him: "The kitchen knife at home is too blunt, I'll take it out and sharpen it."

Opening his mouth, Gong Si explained: "I used to sharpen knives regularly, but I'm not at home for a while..."

"Well, it can be seen that you have maintained this knife well, but from the wear on the knife surface, it can be seen that your sharpening method needs to be adjusted." The uncle said, raised his chin at him, and motioned for him to come over : "Look at my movements, I have to grind like this."

After he finished speaking, he stopped talking and continued to grind his previous actions.

Obviously it was just an ordinary sharpening knife, but the uncle did it very beautifully. I saw his knees and shoulders were opened, and obvious muscle lines could be seen under the thin coat. Immediately afterwards, he held the handle of the knife in his right hand, and put the four fingers of his left hand together. On the surface of the knife, he had sprinkled water on the whetstone, and he began to sharpen the blade with the water. His movements were not fast, and even slower than ordinary people. From front to back, one after another, he was very steady. .

Ordinary people sharpen their knives just by sharpening their knives, but the uncle sharpens his knives with a sense of ritual, as if what he is doing is a very solemn thing. Then change the angle of grinding, I don’t know if it’s because of wearing a filter to see the uncle, Gong Si always feels that the sound of the uncle sharpening the knife is different from others, every sound is like playing...

"Look, if you grind it to this point, it's considered finished." The uncle said, pulling up a piece of his hair with his left hand, and gently pasting it with a knife in his right hand. In the next second, the knife broke through the hair!

Gong Si stared straight at——

"Look at it." He rinsed the knife with water again, and the uncle handed the sharpened kitchen knife to Gongsi.

Taking the knife tremblingly, Gong Si felt that what he was carrying was not a kitchen knife but a murder weapon: "Well... I have never used such a sharp kitchen knife..."

The uncle smiled at him.

That's right!The uncle who had always had a calm expression like a machine suddenly smiled at him. Although it was only shallow, it was still a smile!

For a moment, Gongsi only felt that winter was over, the snow had melted, and the flowers had bloomed...

He shook his head, everything was just an illusion, the winter was still going on, the snowflakes were still falling, and the uncle returned to his expressionless face: "Just use it, use a sharpened knife, you can't stand a blunt knife."

As the uncle said, he stood up and began to pack his things. He took the whetstone and the machines in front of him to the warehouse at the back. Only then did Gong Si remember that one of the purposes of his original visit was to see this warehouse. I forgot to watch my uncle sharpen the knife...

Holding the knife, Gong Si looked towards the warehouse behind the uncle, there was a stove inside, um... what else, I couldn't see clearly.

"Want to see the inside? Then come in." The uncle saw through his curiosity at a glance: "This is where I usually make knives. Guy, your father said that with you, I was afraid that in the future your father would bring you back and you would be injured if you broke in by mistake, so I locked it when I left."

Standing next to the uncle, Gong Si looked at the room in front of him curiously. Sure enough, as the uncle said, the place next to the wall of the house is a big stove, a very huge stove, the kind that uses a bellows!The big stove that occupies one-third of the room, at this time, the big stove has been burned, but it probably hasn't been fully burned, the temperature is not too high, and there is a huge pool next to it, a big iron pier, close to On the wall of the iron pier are hammers of different sizes and sizes. The largest hammer is half the height of a person. The hammer on it is so huge that Gong Si seriously doubts that he can't lift his hands. As if picking up the hammer to strike the iron, Gong Si was suddenly full of reverence for the uncle in front of him.

"Practice more, you can do it too." As if seeing what Gong Si was thinking, the uncle said to Gong Si.

"You and Qiuxia can come over normally, Dongchun and Aji are still young, and this place is usually locked." He said to Gongsi again.

Gong Si was stunned: "Do you know our names?"

He just remembered that he didn't introduce himself yesterday, ah!By the way, the uncle looked at their ID cards.

"You don't need to look at your ID cards. I already know your names. Your parents tell me about you regularly." With eyes that can see through people's hearts, the uncle replied again.

Uncle, are you a ghost?Every time his mind was guessed right, Gong Si was terrified.

Then he saw the uncle smiled at him again, and motioned for him to leave.

There is a door on the side where this room is connected to the kitchen. Gong Si found it in the kitchen before, but he couldn’t move it no matter how hard he pushed it. Gong Si thought it must be locked from the other side. I found that the door on this side was not locked, but the uncle pushed it open...

"I made this door with the leftover materials from the usual knife making, and it's a bit heavy." The uncle explained briefly.

So it was just because it was heavy that it couldn't be pushed... Gong Si once again had a clear understanding of his uncle's strength.

Immediately afterwards, Gong Si saw that the uncle skillfully picked out the meat from the tank that served as a freezer, and then found it from other cabinets, and started cooking.

After assigning some small tasks such as peeling garlic and onions to the palace, the uncle took on all the rest of the work, and what followed was simply the uncle's cooking show!

Well, in fact, the uncle didn’t do too many complicated things. He kneaded the dough first, poured an appropriate amount of flour into a large basin, and added an appropriate amount of water. He first stirred the flour in one direction, and then the consistency of the dough was about the same. Put your hands down and start kneading.His kneading strength is very steady, one stroke at a time, it's almost like massaging the dough!I also saw that the uncle's fingers were covered with wet noodles that could not be removed. It didn't take long for the uncle to knead a beautiful big dough.

The ten fingers are long and clean, and the hands of the uncle after kneading the dough are as neat as if they haven't done any work!

Then he began to prepare the meat.

The uncle just cut the meat into cubes and then chopped it into minced meat, but his movements were too fast!It was fast and precise, only the meat was cut, and Gong Si hardly heard the sound of the knife hitting the chopping board. In such a quiet situation, the uncle quickly chopped the minced meat, and then processed the meat that Gong Si had prepared. Onion, ginger and garlic, put all kinds of seasonings in and beat them in one direction, then break them up again, and the uncle prepared the meat stuffing again.

Then he started making buns.

Gong Si really doesn't know how to make steamed buns, he finds it troublesome to knead dough, and there is a very delicious steamed stuffed bun shop in the town, so he has never had the idea of ​​learning how to make steamed stuffed buns.

However, the uncle is now teaching him how to make buns.

"Hold it, put the stuffing in it, and then squeeze the pleats..." The uncle held a piece of bun skin in his hand and taught him by hand.

There was no other way, Gong Si had no choice but to follow suit.

Fortunately, he is dexterous, and he is usually a person who is used to cooking. It didn't take long for a beautiful little bun to appear in his hand.

Hmm... Different from the big meat buns in the town, uncle seems to be small bun pies, the kind that let people eat one bite at a time.

"Small buns are more delicious. Swallow the gravy and meat in one bite, so you don't have to worry about getting your hands dirty." The uncle used his mind reading skills again: "When your father ate the buns sold outside, they were easy to leak, and they were all over his body. I just stayed at home." Wrap him a small bun so that you can save a few clothes from washing."

That's right... Uncle is also the boss...

Gong Si understood the uncle's childhood experience in seconds.

"You are more skillful than your father, he has never been able to make buns like this." Immediately afterwards, the uncle also praised Gongsi for making buns.

Feeling ashamed to make the palace messy, then secretly working hard, quickly wrapped a few buns that were prettier than the one just now.

The uncle and nephew were making steamed buns quietly, and soon the steamed stuffed buns were put on the drawer, and the uncle found out that the rice porridge was the simplest rice porridge, but the rice porridge made by the uncle was thick and moderate, and the rice was very fragrant. The palace can't help being hungry!When the first cage of steamed buns came out, the uncle asked Gong Si to eat one first, and Gong Si's eyes almost popped out: This is too delicious!

Compared with Uncle Wang's meat buns, the buns from Uncle Wang's house in the town are simply weak!I can't eat it at all!

Not long after the morning started, the palace was conquered by my uncle.

Then when other people woke up one after another, the buns and rice porridge were brought to the table, and the others were also conquered by the uncle.

"Oh my god! These are fairy buns! I thought Ah Si's cooking was delicious enough, but I didn't expect it to be hereditary. Uncle's is even better!" Ma Long almost shed tears after eating it.

"This steamed bun...reminds me of the steamed stuffed bun that we won when we were young and won a fight with more than ten people... At that time, I thought that steamed stuffed bun was the most delicious stuffed bun in the world, but when I ate it later, I still felt that it was not as good as that bun. The buns are delicious, but the buns you make remind me of that taste again!"

"That's the taste!" Malone gobbled it up.

The others were not much better than him, even the most guarded Lin, after eating a steamed bun, his eyes towards his uncle softened significantly.

Xingyun, who was born as the young master, was full of praise for the steamed buns, and although Master Xiliu, who had the sharpest mouth, was not as exaggerated as they showed, he secretly ate at least ten steamed buns← which was far more than his usual breakfast appetite!

What's more, he also secretly whispered to Gongsi: "Si, you and your uncle learn how to make this steamed stuffed bun! Let me make some for others when I have some free time~"

Palace Si: ...

Aji also ate a small meat bun, his mouth was full of oil, and the chopper's eye of the little guy looking at his uncle turned into a crescent moon.

Uncle smoothly integrated into family life.

The author has something to say: here comes, uncle comes with meat buns!

Uncle: There was still a horror movie yesterday, and the family food drama is starting today

Ma Long: Ah Si, is it true that your uncle is a knife maker rather than a chef by profession?