Obligations of the elderly

With the uncle's permission, Gong Si told Lin what the uncle knew about the clown.

"That clown does exist, but he doesn't seem to be the one who cuts people up casually. Of course, the uncle said that he is not a very good person." After Gong Si finished speaking, he glanced at Lin and said tactfully: " The above is what I learned, please help me convey it to you... your friend."

Knowing not to tell the truth, Gong Si thought that since Lin didn't make it clear that the friend he was talking about was himself, then it's better for him not to make it so.

Lin silently listened to what Gong Si told her, finally raised her head, and thanked Gong Si earnestly.

"Actually, you have guessed it a long time ago. The friend I mentioned is not someone else, but myself." Lin finally admitted.

"There is one thing I didn't tell you. I was awakened at the age of six. It seems that I am still a very powerful person. My parents are very happy. When I was a child, I was very ordinary, with ordinary looks, ordinary studies, and average athletic ability. I, who received attention, suddenly became the focus of everyone because of my awakening, and I was quite happy at first."

He frowned: "In the beginning they took me out to meet various guests and praised me in front of the guests. I thought it was a good thing, but then every time it happened like this, I felt very awkward. At that time, I was young and couldn't say Why are you unhappy here, but now I know."

Lowering his eyelashes, he whispered, "That's because he doesn't want to be a tool for adults to talk, laugh and show off."

"Later, they even sold me out."

"Master Qi, who assigned me to a rich family, will leave home from now on, live in other people's homes, eat in other people's homes, and leave the original school and growing environment. They don't want me anymore..."

When he said these words, Lin's expression was indifferent, as if what he was talking about really happened to someone else.

"Then that day..." Lin looked forward: "Master Qi from that family and I were taken to the amusement park."

"He had a lot of fun, but I couldn't be happy at all. I thought to myself, it would be fine if I wasn't capable, and it would be fine if I didn't awaken at all..."

Then he met the person who "realized his dream".

He was deliberately lagging behind the others.

Although that little boy was kind to him, he was very uncomfortable in his heart. He was forced to leave home, family, original school and classmates, and he was desperate.

He attributed all his mistakes to his own abilities.

He should have said it out loud, made his wish out loud.

Then the clown appeared in front of him.

"Don't want abilities, want to be an ordinary person?" The clown squatted down and asked him with a smile.

He nodded.

"Your ability is good, many people don't want it~ Are you sure?" The clown still had a smiling face.

"No, whoever wants it will take it." He remembered saying this, standard childish words.

The Joker's smiling face magnified right in front of him.

"Then I will help you realize your wish~"

With a click, that person seemed to have cut him with a knife.

He couldn't remember more details, because after that he passed out and fell to the ground like that, but when he was found later, he was on the Ferris wheel, sitting alone on the Ferris wheel, with his seat down , The staff opened the door and saw him in a coma, so they anxiously called other people, and finally the person who brought him found him.

When he returned, he was really powerless.

Turning back to an ordinary person again, he was sent back again, "he got his wish".

But did it really come true?

His parents' attitude towards him was no longer the same, and more than that, the teachers and classmates at the original school...had different attitudes towards him.

"Maybe it's like what your uncle said, that clown is just evil-hearted. He didn't have the ability to come and cut me. He just heard what I said and helped me realize my wish."

It's probably a person who always says things that he dislikes. It's obviously a very precious and precious thing that others envy, but he himself dislikes it all kinds of things.Then, at this time, someone suddenly jumped out: Don't you want it?OK, let me help you get rid of it.

Then the things that were disliked were really gone, and then, the person who had been disliked before became panicked instead.

"Sounds a bit cheap, not worthy of sympathy." Pulling back her hair, she smiled: "I actually don't know what's wrong with me, sometimes I don't cherish it, but when it's really gone... "

A tear slid down his left cheek.

Wiping away the tear with force, he clenched his lips stubbornly.

In fact, that Young Master Qi is really nice. If they hadn't been forced to send him to play with him, they might have become good friends.

Lin didn't let himself continue thinking.

"In fact, it has been so many years, and I have adapted to the life of ordinary people. Although I may still care about that clown, it is not necessary to get back my ability. After all, after so many years, the life of ordinary people Life, if I regain my ability, I may not be able to adapt again..."

He also laughed dryly a few times.

Seeing Lin who was so emotionally exposed for the first time, the students really didn't know how to comfort him, and in the end it was the uncle who broke the somewhat silent atmosphere among the crowd.

"Drink pear water. The weather is a bit dry recently. The room where you sleep at night is too warm. I think you all have a dry cough." The uncle came over wearing an apron and carrying a tray of pear water.

"Thank you uncle!" Lin took the lead to stand up and took the tray from uncle's hand, and gave everyone the pear water. His expression was as usual, as if nothing happened just now.

Everyone had no choice but to act as if nothing happened.

In the end, it was the uncle who went out and asked Lin to take out the garbage with him in the afternoon.

"Lin is more careful and serious. The garbage he sorts is the most correct every time, and there is no need to be sorted again." The uncle brought up this reason.

Then the two of them went out to take out the trash together.

They took out the garbage for a long time or a short time, probably about the same as the usual time for taking out the garbage, but when Lin came back again, the gloom on his face had disappeared a lot.

I don't know what the uncle said to him, but Lin actually looked really let go.

The next days are spent in the food of the uncle. The uncle not only provides them with three meals a day, but also has various sweet water snacks from time to time. In fact, they are very common things, but what the uncle cooks is better than others.

Uncle’s delicious food does not mean that he spends all his thoughts on cooking every day. In fact, he spends less time cooking than other people. Because of his quick hands, it is even shorter. The rest of the time is half of uncle’s time. Soak in the studio to handle the work of the knifesmith, and the other half is used to take Gong Si and others around to play.

Uncle knows all the fun places around here!

Under the leadership of their uncle, they not only went to many remote scenic spots in Lengshui Town that they didn't know before, but also went to the neighboring towns. They went to each town once, and which town has its own characteristics.

Then, on the last day of the year, the uncle took them to make snow sculptures.

It is a Chinese New Year tradition in Lengshui Town that everyone makes snow sculptures in front of their houses every year.It is not a snow sculpture of art, but more symbolic, making each family's own snow sculpture for each person who goes home for the New Year.

Under normal circumstances, whoever goes home to celebrate the New Year this year will make as many snow sculptures as possible, and usually they make their own statues.

Gongsi didn't know about this custom at first, and he didn't know until he finished his first year in Lengshui Town. There are snow sculptures in front of other people's houses, but theirs doesn't. Grandpa Jung is a foreigner, so he obviously didn't know about it Later, at the request of the palace, their family began to make this rule. However, due to limited technology, most people's doors are not snow sculptures, but snowmen.

The uncle also rolled two big snowballs at the beginning, Gong Si thought that he was planning to make a snowman, but he didn't think that this was just the first step. Immediately afterwards, the uncle stacked the two snowballs together, The edges in the middle of them melt together, and then the shaping begins, not with the hands, but with the knife!

Under his carving, not long after, a lifelike snow sculpture appeared on the side of the palace gate, it was none other than himself!

A snow can be an uncle!

This...is there anything in this world that uncle doesn't know?Even the carving is so good, a group of young people are simply amazed at the uncle's carving skills.

As if to compete with his uncle, Xiliu finished his own snow sculpture not long after. Uncle's snow sculpture is just a copy and paste of himself, but Xiliu's one has a lot of aesthetic color. He even posed for himself, holding a Scissors, sitting on a big fish.

Although the head of that big fish is slightly bigger, but the tail is big and beautiful, coupled with the exquisite facial features of the stream snow sculpture, their snow sculpture is full of fairy spirit!

Everyone immediately responded with fierce applause, and even the uncle praised: "It's amazing. I will probably have to practice for 30 years to reach this level."

Forget about the others, only Gong Si secretly took a look at the stream.

Although the smile on the surface has not changed, but...

I was hit, I was really hit - after carefully observing the subtle expressions of the stream, Gong Si said in his heart.

In the end, he could only pat Xiliu on the back comfortingly.

Then, everyone started to make their own statues. They have been making snow sculptures for many years. The level of palaces and autumn and summer are good, but in winter and spring, it is purely for playing with snow. After a long time, others are still sculpting. , he actually made two very large snowballs and fell together, one above the other, and the behemoth Dongchun Snowman appeared!

The ones made by Malone and Amin are also snowmen, the ones made by Nilu are barely in human form, and those made by Xingyun and Lin are much better, almost comparable to the snow sculptures of Gongsi and Qiuxia.

When everyone's snow sculptures were finished, a row of snowmen busily stood at the gate of Gong's house.

"In the early years, people made snowmen to tell people who came to visit during the Chinese New Year. They were made on the first day of the Chinese New Year before. Just by looking at the snow sculptures, you can know who is back this year, so that it is convenient for guests to visit." The uncle introduced the source of the snow sculptures: "However, there were many other activities later, and the snow sculptures became the theme of the last day's activities."

Looking at the young faces next to him, the uncle said: "Recalling the happy gathering during the Chinese New Year, I turned my image into a snow sculpture and kept it at home. Even if the snow melts, it will turn into water and stay on the land of my hometown, nourishing the future. The awakened earth soil is also a unique local farewell ceremony."

Looking at the little classmates quietly, the uncle said calmly: "You are leaving tomorrow, right? I am leaving too, so let these snow sculptures guard here for us, and we will get together later."

That night, the meal cooked by the uncle was very rich. Everyone had a lively meal, and then they went to rest.

***

The next morning, the uncle woke everyone up early to have breakfast, packed a lunch box for each of them, and then let them board the sleigh.

The uncle sent them all the way to Donghuo City. Before leaving, the uncle stopped Gongsi alone, and then took out something from his pocket and gave it to Gongsi.

Seeing this whistle that was exactly the same as the one hanging on his uncle's chest, Gong Si was stunned: "This is..."

The uncle nodded: "It's the one you thought of. I split my fire into two, half of which is still with me, and the other half is given to you."

"Isn't this a very valuable thing? I'm not a swordsmith..." Gong Si was a little dumbfounded.

The uncle stuffed the things into Gongsi's hand, and clasped his fingers together to whistle: "The kindling must be passed down from generation to generation, and it's not good to leave it all here."

"Before your father sent you back, the reason why I'm not here is to find other kindling." The uncle suddenly said to him: "Just like a volcano will go out, the kindling can't be there forever. I want to maintain its power. , I have to feed other fire seeds. I searched for a long time to find other fire seeds that can nourish this drop of fire seed, and finally it survived."

As he said that, the uncle looked at Gongsi seriously: "Although it's a pity that I didn't grow up with you, but seeing your excellent appearance now, I finally let go of it."

"Keep this fire seed well. It doesn't mean that you become a swordsmith. It's just that things have to be passed on sooner or later. Now we just met, and you are dead again, so I took the opportunity to give it to you."

After finishing speaking, the uncle nodded to him, motioning him to go back to the friends.

Staring blankly at the whistle in his hand, Gong Si glanced at his uncle again, and finally ran back among his companions under his calm gaze.

Saying goodbye to uncle, they took the train back to school again.