Obligations of the elderly

The more I got in touch, the more I discovered: Uncle is simply a treasure!

Not only can he make especially delicious buns, but uncle is good at all kinds of cooking!He can make traditional snacks in Lengshui Town: Fried Sugar Fish, which is a small pastry made of noodles. Put the noodles in and shape it, and then turn it into red. The store where you buy the meat buns sells it. Families who don’t want to make it themselves usually go to his house to buy it. But it’s different from the meat buns. Fish... very, difficult, and edible!In previous years, Gongsi only bought one for the occasion, and basically did not eat it.

However, the sugar fish made by uncle is completely different!He still kneads the dough first like making steamed buns, without using molds. He kneads the dough fish with his hands, each of which has a completely different shape. That sugar fish is quite agile!

The sugar fish of other families usually put sugar in the belly of the fish, or simply knead it with the noodles. It tastes sweet. Uncle doesn’t. Kneading the noodles by hand is just the easiest step for him. Next, he will use the peeled red fruit peel to quench the red juice, boil it with the sugar of the palm tree, and finally boil it into a big red candy. He took out a small knife and began to peel the candy. His movements were fast and light. The candy he peeled off was thin and small, and the pieces were like fish scales!

etc--

Fish scales?

Immediately afterwards, the uncle began to inlay the pieces of "fish scales" on the body of the noodle fish that had just been kneaded, using tweezers, one by one, and inlaying by hand, this, this, this, this... The uncle with fish and scales on his noodles doesn't look like he is making pastry, he looks like he is making a work of art!

In fact, the noodle fish with scales inlaid is really no different from a work of art, but when the uncle brought out a large pot of oil to heat it, and then put a strip of noodle fish into the oil pan, the hot oil stirred up, which was originally a little bit The drooping scales of the fish are slightly branched, and as soon as the fish tail swells, the noodle fish "live" in the oil pan, and the noodle fish swimming around in the pan by the oil looks so real. The fish is no different!No!Much more beautiful than real fish!The scales of the noodle fish out of the pot are shiny and radiant, just like inlaid with gold and treasures——

The teenagers were amazed.

Uncle is no longer just cooking, he has raised cooking to the height of art!

One person and one sugar fish, the teenagers looked at the fish in their hands, and were a little bit hesitant to put their mouths down. In the end, the uncle picked up Aji and stuffed a fish tail into Aji's mouth, and the fish tail was bitten off , Aji clicked his mouth, his big eyes lit up, and he immediately gnawed on the rest of the fish body.

The uncle then said: "Eat it, the rice is made for you to eat, the freshly fried noodle fish is the best, although it tastes good after a while, but it will not be crispy."

As the uncle said, he also ate a piece of sugar fish, showing no sign of reluctance.

Probably... this is the uncle's daily life.

I usually cook whatever I want to eat seriously, and all the cooking is comparable to intangible cultural heritage. For the uncle, this is just his three meals a day.

Uncle can also make shrimp dumplings, make fish balls, and roll noodles... The things he made for them are all original things. The house looks a hundred times better, and tastes a hundred times better. Once the uncle came, the palace was completely reduced to a thug, and the three meals a day were completely covered by the uncle.

However, the uncle doesn't let Gong Si idle, he asks Gong Si to help him in everything, and even demonstrates how to do it with his own hands. Although the uncle's unique skills, Gong Si has not yet learned all, but compared to the skills that he learned by himself before, Gong Si's The level of culinary skills has improved by leaps and bounds!

"Brother Xiliu? You haven't followed big brother these days..." In the living room, Qiu Xia asked Xiliu who was sitting next to him, eating candy leisurely.

Of course, the candy is also made by the uncle.

Xiliu gave him a slanted look: "Didn't you also drag Dongchun outside?"

Aji has three older brothers, Qiuxia and Gongsi in winter and spring, and Gongsi in Qiuxia. They all have "elders" above them. This "elder" will protect him, love him, and learn to teach himself He taught them all kinds of common sense without reservation, only the palace did not.

As the boss, he had Grandpa Jung at the beginning, but Grandpa Jung is no longer there. For a long time, Gong Si lived alone with his younger brothers. No, no elders would teach him , can only rely on his own groping, or learning from his neighbors. In this regard, the palace is naturally lacking in something, and now the uncle's arrival just fills this gap.

"Ah Si is very happy recently." As long as he is happy, it's fine, listening to the whispers of uncle and nephew in the kitchen, Xiliu shrugged and stopped talking.

In addition to cooking, uncle is also very good at other places.

Although he looks cold and serious and doesn't like to talk, but his popularity in Lengshui Town is surprisingly good!

From the second day after he came back, people have been coming to visit him. New Year's greetings are for one purpose, and another purpose——

Sharpen your knife.

Gong Si finally understood what his father meant when he said, "Almost everyone in Lengshui town has a knife made by themselves". Sure enough, every household has a kitchen knife made by an uncle. Came here with a knife.

Cough cough, for Chinese New Year, of course we can’t just bring kitchen knives, everyone brings fruits, or homemade sugar fish, and more people bring homemade New Year’s dishes, all come here one by one, and come here throughout the day No one ever broke!

The uncle accepted the gifts and the kitchen knives they brought, not only that, he also introduced his nephews to everyone.

"Well, this is the eldest Gongsi, the second child is Qiuxia, and the younger two are Dongchun and Aji." He took the trouble, every time a guest came, he would introduce each other to the other party, and he would also bring along with him The brooks of the palace and four deeds are also introduced.

For a person who doesn't like to talk, he will say a long paragraph like this every time. It can only be said that he thinks this is very important.

Gong Si originally thought that he was familiar with the people in Lengshui Town, but after this time, he realized that he knew only a small number of people, and he only met more people on the side of the road, or even never touched them.

This is the difference in the social circle caused by age.

The uncle introduced them to these people in order to make Gongsi and the others feel more at ease in Lengshui Town. Although Gongsi and the others are now studying outside, it is still different whether they have the introduction from the uncle.

Gongsi was vaguely aware of the uncle's kindness.

Cooking, sharpening knives, welcoming and sending off guests took up a lot of my uncle's time every day, but my uncle still has spare time, and he can even make sleds!

Seeing that it was inconvenient to travel without a sled at home, he simply built one himself!

I took the boys to the carpenter's shop to buy suitable wood and power units, and made all other metal parts by myself. I didn't see any design drawings drawn by my uncle. It's out, it's still an electric sleigh, the kind where the person sitting in the front has a turntable to drive the sled!

Malone's eyes were wide open. At that time, he clamored to learn to drive a sled and let him play. Uncle made two more sleds with different styles. Suddenly, the Gongsi family never had a car. The "poor" family of the family became a big family with three sledges.

The sled was not finished yet, and the uncle took the whole family on a trip, riding the sled that was just made.

He led the palace and walked towards a direction he was very familiar with, but turned several times on the way, and the surroundings turned into scenery that the palace had no impression of at all.

Gong Si originally thought that he already knew Lengshui Town well when he grew up, but after this time he realized that the Lengshui Town he knew was only a small part of Lengshui Town.

The uncle led them to a canyon, the mountain wall was steep and covered with trees, and it was not the snow-covered snow-white trees that Gongsi was used to since childhood, but the leaves were either yellow or red, Some even retain their original green leaves.

Trees like this all over the valley eventually formed a canyon forest with layers of layers and incredible colors!

They seem to have gone from winter to autumn all of a sudden, probably in the deep winter climate. Although the surrounding air is a bit cold, it is not particularly cold. The leaves are turning yellow, and yellow or red leaves are thickly piled up on the ground. There are more than one tree here. A variety, the leaves on the ground are also different shapes and colors, very beautiful.

And under the leadership of their uncle, when they finally found a hot spring in the depths of the canyon, everyone was shocked——

"Oh my God! Your place is simply a fairyland! Ah Si, you grew up in this kind of place since you were a child, you grew up in a fairyland!" Malone exclaimed.

I didn't know that I grew up in a fairyland—muttering in my heart, Gong Si felt that there were too many things that he lacked.

"This canyon belongs to the boundary of Lengshui Town, but because the road in front is too difficult to walk, few people come to it. The reason why I know here is that there was a time when the father of the palace got lost. I don't know what happened. He drove I ran away with the family’s sleigh, and I searched for him for several days, and finally found him here.” The uncle said: “The car broke down, and he is not worried at all, he is still here to soak in the hot spring.”

Palace Si: ...

"I'm sorry, my father has troubled you since childhood." Gong Si whispered, he could imagine that scene, a heartless father... so he has been so heartless since he was a child?

"No, I'm still to blame. I have to bear the main responsibility for him becoming like this." The uncle took the responsibility on himself.

"But it was because he got lost this time that we discovered this place. This place is not accessible to ordinary people, nor to ordinary sledges. Most sledges on the market will lose power if they cannot get here." Uncle Saying that, squatted down and soaked his hands in the hot spring to warm them up.

"Lengshui Town belongs to Donghuoshan City. Since there is a volcano in the name, there must be a volcano here." After drawing some heat from the hot water, the uncle stood up again: "It is said that the Jizhou Continent is a continent formed by volcanic eruptions. , We have no way of knowing these things for too long, but our area of ​​Winter Volcanic City was indeed formed by a volcanic eruption 400 years ago."

The uncle began to talk about ancient times: "The volcanic eruption brought fertile soil, and after the eruption, the volcano was dormant. Many people gathered from all over the mainland, and it became the current Donghushan City area. There are several nearby towns, including Including Lengshui Town, we are all volcano towns."

"At the beginning, the volcano was not completely extinguished, and sporadic earthquakes still occurred occasionally, and because of the existence of underground lava belts, there were many hot springs here, not only that, but also a very good fire, our ancestors were Because of this, he moved here from outside." The uncle began to tell the history of the Gong family, which is something that the palace has never heard of, after all, his father did not pay attention to him and sent him back, and Grandpa Jung is not his family. Naturally, people who don't know the history of his family.

So the brothers of the Gong family listened very carefully to the uncle's next words.

"Our ancestors were knife makers, and we came here for a good kind of fire. A good kind of fire can make the fire more prosperous, burn off impurities in the metal better, and get better knives. But when we first came here, Since the people here just moved here at that time, everyone lacked everything, so our ancestors made everything, as long as it was metal products, as big as iron gates, fences and plows for farming, as small as nails and screws, our family made them all. .”

"We didn't start forging knives again until everyone's life here was stable. Of course, the main ones were kitchen knives."

"It started about 200 years ago. The hot springs here gradually disappeared, especially in Lengshui Town. After the last hot spring disappeared, the water in the town became colder than other places."

"Lengshui Town was not originally called Lengshui Town, but Hot Spring Town. It was renamed Lengshui Town after the hot springs disappeared and the water became colder." The uncle said and looked at the palace: "It's the ancestor of the uncle in the household registration office. I decided to change the name, it is said that Lengshui Town will be safer after the name change."

Afraid that Gong Si didn't know who it was, the uncle reminded him: "It's the uncle who changed your name. I remember your father originally named you Gong Si. Didn't that uncle say that the name was not good, so he changed your name to Gong Si?" Have you done it?"

Seeing that everyone was looking in his direction, with a stern face, Gongsi's chopper eyes were revealed again.

Xiliu looked at such a palace and smiled.

"It was that year that the ground fire that our family had been using for refining tools went out. After that, everyone nearby said that the volcano was completely extinguished. Our ancestors also thought so, until I later found out because of your father. here."

"By the way, the reason why the family didn't have a sled later on was because they were afraid that your father would drive around by himself."

As the uncle said, he looked around slowly, and said quietly: "I thought so when I saw this canyon forest that was still lush in winter, and I was almost certain when I saw the hot spring later."

"The volcano here is actually not dead, it's still alive, it's just asleep."

That's the end of the uncle's talk about ancient times. After finishing this sentence, he didn't mention anything else, and waved to everyone: "Don't you want to try this hot spring? It's very comfortable."

"It's already—press, no, wait, wait!" Malone said, quickly took off his thick clothes, and was the first to go into the water with a "plop"!

At first, the others were a little embarrassed, you looked at me and you, and no one would go down, but after Emin took off her clothes, she went down too, and immediately after that, there was a sound of enjoyment from Marlon in the hot spring. Groaning, the others finally couldn't hold back and took off their clothes together. It didn't take long for everyone to soak in the hot spring neatly together.

The hot spring water is very comfortable, and there are many fallen leaves that just fell from the trees on the water surface, red, yellow, green... The pieces are exquisite and beautiful. At first glance, they don't seem to be soaking in the water, but more like soaking in the leaves.The feet are soft, probably because of the accumulation of this kind of leaves. I don’t know if it’s because of soaking these leaves all year round. This hot spring has a natural aroma of grass and trees. Even the spring water is green, blue-green to be exact. When the leaves saw the color of the hot spring for the first time, even the stream soaked in the hot spring was slightly startled: "This color... this is a very rare kind of hot spring."

With the uncle here, they don't have to worry about anything. The uncle went out once during the hot spring bath. Dongchun followed him and ran out. It didn't take long for the two of them to come back with a bunch of birds.

"Uncle made a trap on the snow outside, just for a while, you see! So many birds were trapped!" Dongchun was so excited that his nose came out!

At noon they ate roasted birds, boiled eggs in hot springs, and mushroom soup.

The little bird was caught by the uncle and Dongchun with a trap; the egg was taken out of the bird's nest in the tree by the uncle and Malone, and the uncle stood under the tree to watch, and Malone climbed to the tree he pointed to. , and then there must be a bird's nest with eggs; and the mushrooms were picked by the uncle and Xiliu together. It didn't need uncle's advice, and the palace found that Xiliu knew a lot of mushrooms.

"After all, I've actually lived for many years..." It's probably because the uncle has been in the limelight these two days, it's rare for Xiliu to speak out of his own age. Of course, he lowered his voice and whispered in the palace's ear. , I am afraid that others will hear my age.

Palace: =-=

After eating, we wandered in the woods. Besides mushrooms, there are many other edible things here. Under the guidance of my uncle, almost everyone became addicted to picking.

Then at the end they were tired from walking around and felt a little cold, so they went back to the hot spring to soak in the hot spring.

They soaked in the hot spring twice in one day, and they didn't prepare to go home until everyone was warm and soft like noodles.

"The whole body is full of volcanic power!" Ma Long proudly covered other people's faces with his warm hands.

The temperature here is not friendly to Malone, no matter how thick the clothes are, as long as he is outside, Malone's hands will always be cold, and this is the first time that it is so hot like today, so it is no wonder that he is embarrassed.

It got dark on the way back, but with the uncle there, they returned home smoothly.After returning home, there is no need to take a shower. I should go back to the room and lay the floor. Not long after, there was a sound of light breathing in the living room.

The uncle took the initiative to take over the task of checking the doors and windows, so that the palace can go upstairs directly, the adults help him with everything, and he just needs to live a good life ← I have to say, this is a novel experience for the palace, just As Xiliu said, although he didn't say it directly, his happiness these days is not fake.

"My uncle... is really a powerful person. I want to be like him in the future." Opening the curtains and looking down, seeing the uncle carefully checking the door with a lamp, Gong Si closed the curtains and returned to the bed.

"Well, he is a wonderful person." Xiliu said.

He has already changed into pajamas and is lying on the thick quilt beautifully. Unlike his uncle who does everything by himself, although Xiliu is old, he is naturally accustomed to being served by others.

Pulling back the quilt and wrapping herself in the warm quilt, Gong Si said: "When I was still with my parents when I was a child, my dad often mentioned my uncle. He said that my uncle took care of him since he was a child. He said that my uncle was almost omnipotent. I didn't quite believe it then, but I do now."

Xiliu just laughed: "He also said that your father didn't teach you anything. Telling you about uncle is actually a kind of education. What uncle did to him before, you treated Qiuxia and them. You are learning from uncle in a subtle way. gone."

Gong Si thought for a while: "Probably so, but I'm far worse than Uncle."

"That's because you're still young, and Uncle wasn't that good at the beginning." Xiliu comforted him, and then paused: "And they are more worry-free in Qiuxia."

It's more worry-free than your father ← Xiliu didn't say this sentence, but Gong Si understood.

Cursing his lips, Gong Si sighed as usual.

"Ordinary people can be so good. If I am not a weapon, I will be like an uncle in the future. I will do everything to the best level that I can do, and I will be willing." Gong Si still thinks about the uncle. .

"Who said your uncle is an ordinary person?" Xiliu said suddenly.

"Huh? My dad never mentioned that uncle is a weapon, right? I can't quite see how uncle looks like a weapon, and there are no users around him..." Gong Si was stunned.

The two of you looked at me, I looked at you, and looked at each other under the covers.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" Gong Si asked.

"It's me." The uncle's calm voice came from outside the door: "Can I come in? I boiled some pear water and brought it to you. I have delivered it to the other rooms, and only yours are left."

Really virtuous uncle!

"Please come in, please come in!" Gong Si quickly sat up.

Walk in from the outside, close the door, the uncle came in with pear water, and handed the cups to Gongsi and Xiliu respectively, he stood still by the window:

"I am an instrument."

"Hey?!" The sudden sentence made Gong Si stunned, thinking of the content of the conversation between himself and Xiliu, this... this... Could it be that the uncle heard himself talking about him, right?

Gong Si's face was a little hot at that moment, although he didn't say anything.

"Can you sit down?" The uncle immediately gestured to the chair by the window.

"Uncle, you can do whatever you want. This place was originally... originally your room..." I lived in my uncle's room, but now my uncle can only sleep in the study, Gong Si felt embarrassed.

"It's your room." He waved his hand, and the uncle sat down immediately: "I know you probably have a lot of questions to ask, and I came here to see what I can answer."

"Your father can basically tell me everything, so I am no stranger to your affairs, please ask." The uncle said calmly.

Gong Si was stunned.

After thinking about it carefully, he asked his first question: "Uncle, are you also a device? Then... you don't go home because you want to be with your users?"

Looking at him with dark eyes, the uncle began to answer his question: "I am a tool, but my level is not high. It is not because of the user that I don't go home. I don't have a user."

Gongsi was stunned again: no users?

As always, he understood his doubts, and before he could ask any questions, the uncle continued: "The user must find the tool, but the tool does not necessarily need the user. If you are willing to be ordinary and imagine living like an ordinary person, you don't have to choose the user." of."

Gong Si's mouth was slightly opened: Hey...that's right...the user has to find the device because he has too much energy, and if he doesn't look for the container, he will be dragged down, but the device doesn't seem to have such a requirement...

He had never thought about it this way before. After all, the device and the user are a natural pair, and the two must be together. This is basically the consensus of people all over the world.

"Don't think too much, most devices still need users. After all, for devices, they cannot absorb energy from the outside world. They must make a contract with the user, and then they can use the connection generated by the contract to receive energy from the outside Take energy."

"Without users supplying energy for a long time, there will be problems with their bodies." The uncle said: "For example, animal devices."

"The advantage of the animal-type organ is that it has a certain degree of control over itself, but it also relies more on the energy of the user. They must eat the energy provided by the user to grow, otherwise they will always be in the primary form."

Suddenly mentioning the weapon of the animal department, the uncle seemed to be implying something——

So Gong Si asked his second question: "Uncle, do you know what happened when I was born? What happened when I was cut... Do you know?"

The author has something to say: Uncles' gathering time, talking about cooking:

Uncle Gulunsa (returning from the original): My nephews say that I cook well. Although I don’t know how to cook, we always kill and eat first. As long as the hunting skills are good and rare prey can be caught (and I'm good at hunting)

Uncle Gongchujiu (Obligation of the Elderly): I’m okay, it’s probably just ordinary home-cooked food, it’s just a little more elaborate, it’s not that great.

Then--

Uncle Alpha (no afterlife): I—

Uncle Alpha would like to suggest some dishes that he is good at, other than steamed stuffed buns with hard shells that can choke people to death, but...he can't name it, not even a single example

So he could only pick out Mu Gen: The cub I raised is the strongest.

The one with the highest force value is probably Mu Xiaogen~