Obligations of the elderly

"Grandma, this is the palace. The friends I met outside, didn't I go out every day a while ago? I went to the market on the west side." As soon as he entered the door, Mo Fa rushed into the kitchen and faced the people who were busy inside. The old man was muttering something, but Gong Si didn't understand, but from Mo Fa's tone, he could probably guess what the other party was talking about.

"Oh? Didn't you say that you went out to find black crystal grass?" The old lady didn't turn her head, she was holding a kitchen knife in her dry hand and was cutting vegetables neatly, she said to her grandson without turning her head.

Mofa: ...Oops, I revealed my truth!

He is not a person who is good at lying. He scratched his head and wanted to explain, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of anything to explain. He simply broke the can, hugged the old lady who only reached his chest, and said coquettishly: " Grandma, is this kitchen knife easy to use? It was made by Gong Si, who is a knife maker."

"Oh?" The old lady stopped, glanced at the kitchen knife in her hand, and when she turned her head again, she smiled at the Gongsi group behind her.

It's a friendly start.

Knowing that Grandma would not pursue her, Mo Fa happily rummaged through the kitchen.While taking a few more tableware from the cabinet, I looked at the situation in other pots.

Smiling back to the old man, Gong Si and others stood in the room and sat at the table under Arden's hospitality.

There was originally a table in the room, leaning against the wall, and a total of three chairs were placed on each side of the chair. These three chairs were probably the positions for the three members of Mo Fa's family, but it was obviously not enough right now. Arden naturally moved the chairs He moved out from the wall, moved to the center of the room, and then left the room. When he came back, he had an extra table in his hand, and someone followed him. He put four chairs at the door of their house and left. After finishing the table, Arden went out and moved in four chairs one by one.

After sitting down, Gong Si took a good look at the surrounding environment——

The inside of the house is more spacious than expected, and compared with the original and natural-looking tribal exterior, the inside looks a little more "modern".

Although there are two grandchildren (grandchildren), the hostess of the house is obviously very capable. The house is clean and tidy. As soon as you enter the door, it is a living room. The floor is made of rammed earth, which looks very smooth. It was painted, but it was covered with various hand-woven blankets, dried vegetables, and some living utensils...all of them were hung, but they were hung in an orderly manner. Gongsi noticed that there was a wooden pole at the door, which should be convenient. Old people who are not tall use it for enough things.

These things are the most natural decorations, which make the whole house look exotic and have a sense of life.

Now there is a gate behind the palace, and there are two doors on the left and right in front. The door on the left is the kitchen. Now Mofa and the old man are cooking inside, and the door on the right is closed. I don’t know what it is for. It was a door, but it was said to be a door, but in fact there was only an arch, and a hand-woven blanket was hung there instead of the door.

"It's a place to sleep. There are four rooms in total." Noticing Gong Si's gaze, Arden introduced it.

After finishing speaking, he also opened the door to the front right of the palace, took a pot and a few cups from inside after a while, and made tea for them.

When he saw Yaden in Puzhou, he never thought that there would be such a friendly and life-like scene between them... Gongsi thought to himself while drinking the tea that Yaden handed over.

"By the way, where's the egg?" But Gong Si didn't forget the business, and asked when he thought of it, and he got straight to the point.

Arden nodded: "It's on the bed in my room, I'll get it for you right now."

As he spoke, he stood up, and before he lifted the curtain to enter the bedroom, Gong Si heard Mo Fa in the kitchen raise his voice and shout:

"Yarden, how do you cook the egg you brought back? I've boiled it for half an hour, can you take it out?"

Before the words fell, Arden's calm face showed a broken expression for the first time. The next second, Gongsi saw Arden rushing into the kitchen, and when he came back, he held a There was an egg with cold water on it, obviously he rescued it from the pot and then soaked it in cold water to get it out.

It's black and autumn in color, about [-] centimeters long?Or a little longer, not more than forty centimeters. This is indeed a very large egg. It looks matte. I don't know if it is natural or it has lost its luster after being cooked.

Curling her lips, Gong Si frowned and said, "Isn't it familiar?"

"Probably not, this egg is not so easy to be destroyed. I burned it with fire before, and the eggshell didn't heat up at all. If you touch it, even now, its temperature is only slightly hot. It was originally slightly hot. I think This is the sign that it is still alive." Arden said, putting the egg in the middle, Gongsi was the first to touch it with his hand: Sure enough, it was slightly hot, slightly warmer than the temperature of the hand.

"I have knocked on it, and Bocconi has bitten it, and the egg has not been damaged. I bought an incubator for it, and there is no trace of hatching." Arden also said what he had tried. come out.

Gong Si raised his eyebrows suspiciously: "Could it be that you really have nothing to do with it, don't understand what it is, and think it's useless, so that's why you gave it to us?"

Using a useless thing not only saved his party, but also got a promise, this guy is sure to make money!

Arden smiled: "How is it possible?"

"My intuition tells me that this egg is the key thing." Arden said with a serious expression, looking at the black egg on the table.

However, Gong Si's guess is not completely wrong, he really has nothing to do with this thing, he has not researched this thing in his hands for three whole years, he might as well hand it over and exchange for a more valuable promise to himself .

Of course, Si Yaden would not show this on his face.

"It turns out that this egg is not the food you brought home, but a gift for the palace." Mo Fa came out of the kitchen with two dishes in his hand. In order to make room for him, the palace put a black The egg hugged open.

When Mo Fa went to the kitchen to serve other dishes, he said to Arden, "Then, we will accept this egg."

Nodding, Arden smiled at him.

Mo Fa and his grandma then spread the food on two tables, sat at the table, Gong Si and Mo Fa's family had a sumptuous breakfast.

Then, Arden vacated two bedrooms for them in his own house. He went to sleep with Mofa, gave up his own room to the palace and the stream, and packed up a larger guest room for Juno. He lived in with Uncle Gong.

Although the uncle seemed reluctant to live with Juno, the beds in the palace and stream rooms were not big, so he finally went to the fourth room with his backpack on his back.

"I'll leave the eggs to the two of you to study." Before entering the house, Juno smiled and said something at their door, and then left.

The house is covered with new sheets. After Yaden came back, his grandmother made them for him. Before he could use them, he went to find Gongsi and the others. Now that they came here, they just needed them. The room was very clean without cleaning. Yesterday, my grandmother just Clean it carefully.

This is a small bedroom, a bed that can barely sleep two people, there is a mosquito net on it, and there is a window on one side of the room. At the moment, the window is half-closed, and the aroma of green grass blows in from the outside.

Gong Si didn't bother to take a good look at the room, and sat down on the bed. He put the egg between his legs and looked at it carefully. To be honest, he couldn't tell whether the egg was still alive. Touching the surface of this egg, it is indeed lukewarm, but the touch is rough and even cuts hands.

Frowning, Gong Si shook his head: "I can't figure out why the surface of this egg is so rough, aren't ordinary eggs very smooth? For the convenience of laying eggs, no matter how smooth the egg shell is, it will be easier to grow." Right? The surface of this egg is rough like this, wouldn’t the mother bleed profusely when it was born?”

Xiliu also came over, his white and slender hands touched the dark eggshell, and he nodded in agreement: "Indeed, it doesn't make sense, such a rough case, it doesn't look like it was born naturally. from……"

"It was corroded like this the day after tomorrow?" Gong Si thought for a while.

"This possibility is not ruled out, after all, there are many wonders in nature." Xiliu said, removing his hand from the eggshell: "But you still have to be careful, the things hatched from this egg may cause the Pudua continent to disappear. The reason is to be more careful."

"However, no matter how big the movement is, you can't make an egg, right? Isn't there a very big black monster in the video? That's what the hatched thing looks like when it grows up? This egg is so small , I don’t know how many years it will take to grow to such a big size, and the eggs that have just cracked their shells should not have that much power.”

"Too."

After studying this egg repeatedly for a long time, Gong Si finally went outside to build a stove. He still has some iron embryos here. He used iron embryos to make an egg-shaped cage that was a circle bigger than that black egg. , It’s okay to talk about a cage, or a swaddle. In the end, he stuffed a blanket in it, and finally put the black eggs in it. , carrying this black egg like a backpack.

Before this thing hatched, this thing was a bomb in the eyes of Gong Si. In order to minimize the trouble it caused to other people, he decided to carry this egg on his back every day from now on.

He made the iron baby outside. At first, people in the tribe didn't dare to approach him, but firstly, Mofa was next to him, and secondly, they were curious about what the palace was doing. Gradually, many people gathered together. After coming over, some people had the courage to ask Mo Fa later. Knowing that the other party wanted to ask him if he could help repair the knives, Gong Si nodded. The stove was already on, and he was also idle when he was idle. That's it. After the iron swaddle was finished, he opened his business again in the tribe, helping others refine and repair things. In the end, there was a lot of things beside the stove, food and useful, and people from the tribe The collected ores, the ores were kept by themselves, and the palace gave all the other things to Mofa's grandmother, which was their food and accommodation expenses for the past few days.

After an afternoon of contact, it was not difficult for Gong Si to get along with the people in the tribe. Although they could not understand the language, they were generally friendly. Of course, this was probably because Mofa and Yaden were very friendly to them. They probably also have curiosity about the outside world, but this curiosity is controlled within a safe range. Most of them only talk to Mofa. chat.

Of course, they don't speak the language.

I kept busy like this, and the night came soon. The night here came earlier, and it was basically completely dark at six o'clock.

After helping the last person to fix things, Gong Si was about to go back to the house when Arden came back from the outside.

He left after eating and has not returned until now.

Arden stopped Gongsi from going back to the house, and pointed to the square behind him: "I won't be eating at home tonight. The patriarch and elders said that there are guests coming today, and we will have dinner together, just outside."

Only then did Gongsi realize that many people were starting to go home to get things, or carrying firewood, or carrying meat or vegetables, and they were walking from their houses to the square——

Nodding, Gong Si went back to the house and called the uncle and Juno out. Arden brought some meat from home, and then they also walked towards the square.

The bonfire was blazing, the direction of the barbecue was overflowing, and the tribe had a lively dinner. I don’t know how Arden introduced them to the patriarch. In short, the man who looked 50 years old was very friendly to them and let They sat next to him. Although they were not enthusiastic people, Gongsi was still moved by the enthusiastic atmosphere in the tribe. He ate barbecue and drank a little wine. Of course, it was just a bowl. A drinker.

The turning point of the matter occurred in the middle of the bonfire party, when the tribal people who had drunk too much had already started singing and dancing.

Amidst the enthusiastic drumbeats, with the support of two tall tribal youths, an old man came tremblingly from a distance.

"Let me introduce. This is the elder of our tribe—Scar. He also wants to meet you, but because he is too old, he can't participate in the whole process. Come here at this time." The patriarch said, standing up, and the rest of the tribe I also saw the old man coming. This old man obviously had a very high status in the tribe. Seeing him coming, people immediately stood up, but the singing and dancing did not stop. On the contrary, the drums became even louder, and the dancers also They gathered more and more, and one after another approached the direction where the elders came. The original dance changed into a dance to welcome the arrival of the elders.

Gong Si looked at the old man curiously, it was really an old man, he was very old at a glance, his gray hair was braided behind his head, his face was full of wrinkles and age spots, his eyes were narrowed into a slit , the patriarch took over the young man's seat, helped the elder to let him sit in his original position, and waited until the old man sat down, then he introduced Gong Si and others to the other party.

It happened at the moment when he introduced the palace and stream to the old man.

Gong Si couldn't understand his introduction, but from the direction of his fingers, he could roughly tell who he was introducing. After he pointed to the stream and made a phone call, the old man's eyes covered by folds immediately looked at the stream , his eyelids are very thick. At first, Gong Si really doubted whether he could really see things, but he obviously could see. The evidence is that the moment he looked at the stream, the old man trembled first, and then unexpectedly Holding the hand of the patriarch, he stood up tremblingly, just "looking" at the stream, he said a word, a word that the palace could not understand at all.

Later, under Mo Fa's translation, he knew what the word was.

It was a name, and what the old man called out to the stream was a name.

A name called "Er".

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