Farming Comb Paintings Return Home

Xiao Xian watched Li Cong turn around, walked to the corner opposite the bed and opened the wardrobe, so his eyes fell on the wardrobe.

The wardrobe standing in the corner is quite large, made of wood, about the width of two people, less than the height of one person, divided into four sections, with two small cabinets one foot square on the top, and two doors as long as an arm in the middle. In the open cabinet, there is probably a horizontal partition inside, with a large drawer attached to it, and the bottom layer is a cabinet of the same size as the middle cabinet, with four legs on the bottom, except for the padlocks on each layer of the drawer, but there is no Lock.The workmanship of the cabinet looks good, it is stable, but it is not very beautiful, it is bare and not even painted, it is old and yellowed, and the wood grain and scars can be seen on it, and it is as simple as other appliances in the house , it fits the occasion.

Xiao Xian visited the cabinet when he was strolling around the room in the morning, looked it up and down, touched it a few times and poked it, but it didn't open.Although Xiao Xian's parents died early, since childhood, his brother's stricter family education than his parents has always made him feel that it is wrong to rummaging through other people's things without people's consent, so although Xiao Xian is lively and curious, but He is fairly well-behaved and doesn't get into trouble very much. He is a worry-free child.But seeing Li Cong open the closet right now, he didn't mean to avoid him. Curiosity arose, and he stretched his neck unknowingly, wanting to see exactly what was in that dark place in the closet.

Li Cong buried his head and rummaged through the closet, found what he wanted to take and held it in his hands, he was about to close the closet door and go back, when he turned his head and saw Xiao Xian sitting on the couch, constantly poking his head into the closet and twisting back and forth He suddenly smiled, and simply opened the cabinet door to let him see clearly, and explained kindly: "There are only some clothes and money in the cabinet, and there are no other rare things."

"No, ahaha, no..." Xiao Xian blushed when someone saw through his mind, lost his mind when he spoke, and lowered his head in embarrassment while waving his hands indiscriminately.

Li Cong shook his head helplessly.He already said he was a younger brother, why is he still so far away.But after thinking about it, the appearance of being so cautious, as if one wrong step would make a big mistake, may be a temperament honed in a brothel. I heard people say that Qu Xian entered the Hongxing Building at the age of nine, and has been watching others for many years. He is used to cheating and flattering, and he probably won't be able to change it for a while.But if Xiao Xian knew that Li Cong regarded his politeness as the restraint carved into his bones by a prostitute, he would probably vomit blood with anger.

Li Cong withdrew his thoughts, saw Xiao Xian's head buried low as if he would never see anyone in his life, he called out to him, stretched his arms up and opened the small cabinet on the top of the closet, planning to Show Xiao Xian one by one.

Li Cong leaned his neck up to look up, thinking that this cabinet has been used for five or six years, and he doesn't know what it contains. Now that Qu Xian is coming to live in it, he might as well take this opportunity to clean it up.

"Look carefully, the top two cabinets, there are round fans, hemp ropes... oh, there are also a few jars, I can't remember the rest of the mess, I guess there are some gadgets, and I can go to the ground some other day. Turn it over." At this point, Li Cong closed the cabinet door on the left, knocked on the one on the right with his fingers, and said, "The cabinet on the right is for money, and all the money in the family is here. You need money for urgent matters, do you know how to get it from here?"

Li Cong didn't wait for Xiao Xian to agree after finishing his sentence, he opened the door of the middle cabinet with a "squeak" sound, found some things inside and said to Xiao Xian, "This cabinet is for clothes, the third layer, the upper layer for inner clothes." , the coat in the middle, and the cotton coat underneath. I put your clothes on the left side for you. When you can get down to the ground, you can see it clearly at a glance. There are sewing rags, hair ties and so on in the bottom drawer. You don’t need it right now, you’ll have to fix it yourself later. There’s a quilt mat at the bottom, so there’s nothing fancy about it.”

Li Cong lightly kicked the bottom cabinet door, and after explaining, he raised his head and said to Xiao Xian, "Hey, is everything clear now?"

"Well, it's clear..." Xiao Xian scratched his head, thinking that Li Cong really didn't treat him as an outsider, but besides this temporary "borrowed" body, he is a real outsider!He didn't even lock the cash drawer, he was really brave enough.But the family is so poor, and there is nothing to guard against. I guess even if the thief comes, I will sigh secretly and make a trip for nothing.

Li Cong went to the table and handed the porridge to Xiao Xian and said, "Drink the porridge, don't be hungry, brother will do your hair for you."

After serving the porridge, Xiao Xian looked up and forgot to take a look at Li Cong, nodded, and was about to say "thank you", when he saw Li Cong's expression of taking it for granted that he didn't feel troubled at all, and closed his mouth again.

Li Cong went around behind Xiao Xian, held something in his hand and began to tidy Xiao Xian's hair.Xiao Xian's hair was long and thick, and he hadn't combed it for two days and made a lot of knots. Li Cong was afraid of hurting Xiao Xian, so he always stopped and grabbed the root of the hair when he encountered knots, and then gently slid down. Gently pulling, slowing down and patiently going down, it didn't make Xiao Xian feel any discomfort at all.And Xiao Xian was busy drinking porridge, so he didn't pay attention to how Li Cong did not have a comb.After a bowl of porridge was gurgling down, he wiped his mouth and said, "It's over." Li Cong put away the bowl and asked Xiao Xian to hold the hairband and things to smooth his hair for him. Only then did Xiao Xian realize What he held in his hand was a flat and smooth piece of stone, heavy and slender in shape, like a long piece of wood used by a doctor in a hospital to examine a throat. Compared with an ordinary comb, it had no teeth and the material was not right.

It is believable to say that this thing is a bookmark or a hairpin. Can it really comb your hair when it looks like this?Xiao Xian picked up the thing and inserted it vertically into his hair, and smoothed it down like scratching his head with a hairpin. How long does it take to be submissive?

Xiao Xian fiddled with the stone flakes curiously, and turned them involuntarily as a pen, and was delighted to find that the heavy one was easier to turn than a ballpoint pen, so he rested his arms on his coiled knees, raised his palms and moved them flexibly. I had a great time playing with my fingers.

Li Cong put the bowl back and grabbed Xiao Xian's fingers dumbfoundingly to tell him not to play anymore, took it back and continued to help Xiao Xian tidy his hair.Li Cong's hands are big, but not as dark and stubby as ordinary peasants. His complexion is fair, with long finger bones, clean and beautiful. There are very thick calluses at the knuckles, but if you are holding a hoe to work in the ground, it should be because of the calluses on your palms, but Xiao Xian is still thinking about the comb, so he didn't pay much attention to this strange thing.

Li Cong straightened Xiao Xian's hair, put the stone in Xiao Xian's hand and asked him to hold it, and he grabbed the two strands of his sideburns and loosely tied them in a bun behind his head, biting one side of the headband while the other was at the root of his hair Then he turned to Xiao Xian, raised his hand against Xiao Xian's chin and looked left and right, after confirming that it was done, he patted Xiao Xian on the shoulder and said, "Okay."

Xiao Xian responded without saying a word, just stared at the things in his hands and studied them over and over again. Li Cong wanted to go out to see if the medicine was ready, but he was stopped by Xiao Xian as soon as he took a step and asked: "Brother, do you have any medicine here?" Combs?"

Li Cong stopped walking, sat on the edge of the couch and asked in surprise, "A comb?"

"Well," Xiao Xian nodded, shook the stone in his hand and said, "It's just a comb for combing hair, but it's not like this."

Li Cong shook his head and said, "I've never heard of it."

"That's like this," Xiao Xian said, imitating what Li Cong did just now, he smoothed his hair and asked, "What's your name?"

Although he didn't know what the other party meant when he asked these questions, Li Cong still uttered two words without hesitation: "Haircut."

Hearing Li Cong's answer, Xiao Xian twitched the corner of his mouth involuntarily.Now he can be sure that there is no such thing as a comb in this place, but how dare he grow such long hair without a comb?He really answered the words of three thousand troubles, but he was still looking for troubles.

Having heard the word "comb" from Xiao Xian many times, Li Cong's curiosity also aroused, and asked Xiao Xian: "A comb... what exactly is it?"

"It's also straight hair. Most of them are long and rounded, and there are also semi-circular ones. They are as wide as two pieces of this stone, and there are many gaps underneath. Insert the side with gaps into the hair and comb down. , the hair will pass through the gaps between the teeth, and it will become very smooth, which is much more useful than this." Xiao Xian explained while holding the stone piece in his hand, but Li Cong's brows became more and more wrinkled, obviously he had never seen it before. The appearance of the comb, as far as Xiao Xian knows, wooden combs in Chinese history have existed since the time of the Yellow Emperor. It seems that although Donglang looks like an ancient one, it is still very different from the ancient ones in history that Xiao Xian has learned of the place.

When Xiao Xian was thinking this way, Li Cong lowered his head and was thinking about Xiao Xian's words. He thought that the hair is in strands, and if combing it with teeth gaps, it might really be useful, but Li Cong was silent for a while, and finally But he shook his head and said, "I'm afraid I can't do what you said."

"Why?" Xiao Xian wondered, although there are many teeth on the bottom of the comb, it is troublesome, but if you spend a little time, you can do it by hand.

But Li Cong said: "According to what you said, the thing won't be too big, but the gaps between the teeth should be fine. The jade and stone produced in Donglang are brittle and hard, and they might break when they are made."

After hearing Li Cong's explanation, Xiao Xian was even more puzzled: "Why use jade and stones? Combs are made of wood."

"Wood?" Li Cong paused, bowed his head and pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "Maybe it's possible."

Xiao Xian smiled and nodded: "That's right, combs are originally made of wood."