Chapter 30 Behind the indifference

Although the bean was still a little slow, Yang Liulang was stubborn and spent most of the afternoon distinguishing the bean that was slowly dustpan. After he put the last bean in the dustpan into the dustpan, he put down his chopsticks and turned his sore wrist, and his face was faintly tired.

Yang Liulang only rested for a while, pushed the selected beans in front of Master Nian and said, "Master Nian, I have come out of these beans one by one. What else do you have to test your little nephew?"

Master Nian had a satisfied look on his face and sighed, "I saw that you are not very young and it's time to be active. I guessed that you couldn't calm down to separate the beans. Even if you separated them out, it would take several days. I didn't expect that you to divide all the beans in only one afternoon. After a few tests I just found that you are really talented in my craft..."

This is the first time that Master Nian praised Yang Liulang without hesitation. Yang Liulang, who had been used to being hit by Master Nian, was a little unaccustomed to it. He was stunned before he replied with some embarrassment: "To tell you the truth, my little nephew is really a person who can't sit still for a moment. My brothers are also the most naughty among our brothers... ”

"However, since my little nephew has made up his mind to follow Master Nian to learn the skill of making bamboo utensils, he must first calm down and practice this 'sitting skills'. This thing is a slow work. If the little nephew can't even sit still, how can he learn this craft well?"

Yang Liulang's words made Master Nian very satisfied, and followed his words and pointed out his intention to let him divide the beans: "You're right. I asked you to divide the beans as soon as you finish chop wood, that is to test your endurance. You should know that it will take a few days to make a bigger bamboo utensil. If you sit together. I can't sit still, and I don't have to follow me to learn this craft.

As soon as the fish heard this, he immediately took the opportunity to ask, "Master Nian, my sixth brother not only sat down, but also distinguished the beans full of dustpan. Does this mean that he has passed your test? Master Nian, you should give the results fairly! You asked my sixth brother to split firewood and let him divide the beans obediently, but there was no complaint at all!"

"You little devil are the most anxious. I remember the performance of the six boy in my heart. You don't have to deliberately mention it again," Master Nian first had no choice but to pat the anxious little face of the fish, and then announced, "Well, the six boy passed again."

After announcing the result, Master Nian turned to ask Yang Liulang, "Six boy, since you can guess my intention to let you divide the beans, have you guessed why I let you split the wood like that?"

"My little nephew guessed a little bit, but I don't know if it's right." Yang Liulang replied modestly.

"Let's talk about it. I won't tell you whether it's right or not."

Since Master Nian asked him to speak boldly, Yang Liulang also shirked himself. After clearing his throat, he said, "My little nephew guessed that if he wants to learn to make all kinds of bamboo utensils, he must first learn to cut bamboo, split bamboo and cut bamboo. These 'cutting, split and cutting' are all hands. You must be able to grasp the strength of your hands very skillfully to make a whole bamboo into the desired style according to the shape of the utensils..."

Yang Liulang said and secretly glanced at Master Nian. Seeing that there was no strange color on his face, he had the confidence to continue to continue to speak boldly: "The reason why Master Nian chose the simplest chop wood to test his little nephew is to try to see if the little nephew can learn the basic skills first, if It's the little nephew who can't even learn the most basic skills, so he doesn't have the talent to learn this craft, and the young master who doesn't have talent will disdain to teach it.

"Well said!"

As soon as Yang Liulang finished speaking, Master Nian clapped his hands, and then turned to Yuer and said, "Little Yuer, when your sixth brother said this, do you still think Master Nian deliberately made trouble your sixth brother?"

This seemingly difficult work of chopping wood and picking beans turned out to be a test method invented by Master Nian. The fish really didn't expect this at all before. He only thought that it was Master Nian's strange-tempered, so he deliberately thought of these strange ideas to test Yang Liulang. At present, Yang Liulang carefully analyzed Master Nian's good intentions, and the fish immediately knew that he was wrong with Master Nian...

So as soon as Master Nian asked, Yuer immediately felt ashamed of her previous ignorance and "unreasonable trouble". Seeing that Master Nian still looked at herself with a smile, Yuer simply turned her head into Yang Dazhu's arms and hid, and even embarrassed to answer Master Nian's words.

The shy appearance of the fish naturally made Yang Dazhu open their mouths and laugh. Even the iron-faced master laughed fiercely at the fish, which made the fish feel ashamed to go to grandma's house...

Master Nian smiled, and the atmosphere in the room suddenly became much more harmonious. And since this year's master has opened up his intentions and said that Yang Liulang has passed the test, Yuer and others naturally thought that the test was completely over, so Yang Dazhu, as an elder, quickly took the opportunity to ask, "Master Nian, you also I have passed the exam in person. Can you accept him as an apprentice now?

"Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry about this matter," Master Nian touched Hu Zizi and slowly took Yang Dazhu's words. After perfunctory, he called Yang Liulang to him and said, "You have split this firewood, but there are still two large water tanks in my house that are not filled with water, and there have been several broken huts inside and outside for a while. After cleaning, even the clothes have accumulated a lot of unwashed..."

Master Nian said a lot of chores in a row before he stopped and looked straight at Yang Liulang and asked, "Are you willing to do these chores for me?"

Yang Liulang replied without thinking, "My little nephew is willing."

"Will you? Then I have to make it clear to you in advance. These chores are just pure chores, which are no different from what you usually do at home, and it's not that I'm deliberately looking for to test you... Are you willing to do it for me?"

As soon as the fish heard this, he immediately understood that the master wanted to use Yang Liulang as a free Filipino maid this year! Before this teacher has been worshipped, Master Nian asked Yang Liulang to do so much work, which is too much! Is this the practice of the ancients to worship teachers?

Can this fish think that Master Nian deliberately used Yang Liulang as a long-term worker? However, after listening to Master Nian's inquiry, he did not say "yes" or "yes", but took two empty buckets out of the door without saying a word. He thought that the stream in the village would carry the water for Master Nian and answered with action.

After Yang Liulang picked up the two water tanks of Master Nian's house, he picked up the broom and began to sweep and do the laundry. In a short time, he finished all the chores that Master Nian said. Yang Liulang even cooked a simple dinner for Master Nian. The meal was ordinary and four The dinner of a dish and soup made Master Nian's eyes red...

"It has been seven years. Since the death of my parents, wife and children, no one has cooked for me for seven years!"

A simple meal and a short sentence instantly made Yuer and others deeply experience the loneliness hidden under the mask of indifference. Maybe Master Nian did not wear a mask of indifference all the time as he is now. Maybe his previous life was as happy as the Yang family, but God took away his favorite person and took away all his joy...

Perhaps because he once lost his parents, wife and children and all kinds of joy, the master forced himself to wear a mask of indifference, because he was afraid that after in-depth communication with people and getting all kinds of joys and care, he would eventually have to face life and death, or lose...

Yuer can understand the hardships of Master Nian. He must have rejected people thousands of miles away with the mask of indifference. He must have forced himself to make friends and intimate with different people, so that he does not have to bear the pain of losing joy and friends in this way.

Master Nian's hardships made Yuer's heart suddenly become a little sour, and she had more heartache and sympathy for Master Nian, so she took the initiative to slide down from Yang Dazhu's lap, rushed to Master Nian's arms with small steps, and said seriously, "Master Nian, Yu'er sincerely wants you to take the sixth brother Take him as an apprentice, so that the sixth brother can cook for you every day, and the fish can also follow the sixth brother to play with the master every day..."

The little fish's young but very serious words really moved Master Nian and made his eyes red again. Master Nian quietly wiped his face and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, holding the fish tightly in his arms without saying a word, and the touching of his dry heartland could not be expressed in words. Da.

After a while, Master Nian's mood finally calmed down. He looked at Yang Liulang with bright eyes and asked, "Six boy, I have repeatedly made things difficult for you and deliberately found those chores for you to do. Why don't you complain at all?"

"Because Master Nian, you once helped my father carry the burden all the way, in view of this, the little nephew should do some work for you for your father in return for the kindness of the master who helped my father shoulder the burden that day. Without the help of Master Nian, my father's foot injury would not have healed in a few days.

It turned out that the reason why Yang Liulang accepted Master Nian's difficulties without complaint and without regret was that he finished all the chores at home for Master Nian, because he had never forgotten the words Yang Dazhu said on the road at his master's house in the beginning of the year. It was those words that made the filial Yang Liulang bent on repay his father's kindness. .

What's more, Yang Liulang also understands that Master Nian did not really deliberately make things difficult for him, and he also believes that everything Master Nian asked him to do has his own purpose, so Yang Liulang will finish those jobs without regret.