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Chapter 17 The agreement with Meng Junzhuo, what to do after thinking about it

That night, while the whole family was having dinner together, Tong Xiaojing suddenly stood up halfway through the meal.

"I thought about it."

The sudden sound startled the parents, and even the second uncle on the opposite side was frightened by her sudden sound, causing the meat on the chopsticks to fall on the table.

"You girl, you scared me, what's wrong?"

Tong Xiaojing raised her eyes to look at the second uncle, and laughed: "Second uncle, I think about what I want to do."

"doing what?"

Tong Tianhai and Li Yuan also asked in unison, this girl came back from the workshop today in a strange way, she was always talking about washing dishes, frowning for a while, and smiling for a while.

Li Yuan was a little worried just now, and now she made such a mess in the middle of the meal, and became even more worried. Could it be that her daughter was stimulated by something?

Seeing her parents staring at her like this, Tong Xiaojing blushed in embarrassment, and immediately sat down. She leaned over to her second uncle and whispered: "Second uncle, I have made an agreement with Meng Junzhuo. gone."

"What do you want to do?"

Tong Xiaojing sat up straight, and said seriously: "I haven't touched it for a long time, but I understand the most basic operations, so I plan to make basic types of utensils, starting with the four types of utensils."

The four types of utensils are the traditional four vase shapes among the purple pottery furnishing utensils, namely Bogu vase, straight-mouth vase, garlic vase, and beauty vase.

"I'm going to make a Bogu bottle."

Listening to Tong Xiaojing's words, Tong Tianming thought for a moment and then nodded: "The shape of the Bogu bottle is calm and atmospheric, it is a good choice."

Hearing what the second uncle said, Tong Xiaojing became more determined in her mind.

"Then I'll start doing it tomorrow." Speaking of this, Tong Xiaojing still didn't forget to make a coquettish gesture towards the second uncle: "Second uncle, you have to be my strong backing."

"Okay, Second Uncle will guide you personally."

Tong Tianhai and Li Yuan were stunned when they heard it, they didn't know what they were talking about, and they only found out what happened in the workshop during the day after asking.

They also knew about the agreement between Meng Junzhuo and Tong Xiaojing.

When Tong Tianhai heard that his daughter was going to try to make a piece of pottery for others, he immediately said in puzzlement: "You ask your second uncle to make one for you, so that the craftsmanship is in place. You can use your little fur to make a pot for stewing chicken." , do something else, forget it.”

Hearing this, Tong Xiaojing became anxious. How can her father hurt her daughter like this? It's fine if she doesn't encourage her, and she even made some sarcasm.

"I promised to do it by myself, even if I'm kneeling, I have to do it myself." Tong Xiaojing glared at her father, and retorted: "Dad, my craftsmanship was really taught by my second uncle. Do it, but I remember what I learned before, if it wasn’t for only seven days, I would choose to make Bogu bottles, otherwise, I would definitely make a Pushi pot.”

Hearing this, Tong Tianhai's expression darkened: "What nonsense, it's rare to come back from vacation, aren't you only at home for half a month and going to Shanghai to develop?"

Seeing what Tong Tianhai said, Li Yuan immediately interrupted him: "Let the child do whatever she wants. The young people have agreed with each other. Why don't you let her break the contract and lose face?"

"How can I embarrass her? I'm not worried about her." Tong Tianhai tried to refute.

"With her second uncle here, what are you afraid of? Besides, it's not like you haven't seen our daughter's ability to make pottery. Compared with your clumsy craftsmanship, what my daughter can do is many times better than yours." Li Yuan said , reached out and picked up a piece of tofu for Tong Xiaojing: "Hurry up and eat, girl, take a good rest after eating, and go to your Bogu bottle tomorrow, do a good job, and make your father feel ashamed."

"Eating can't stop your mouth." Tong Tianhai picked up the chopsticks and gave Li Yuan a big piece of meat: "Hurry up and eat."

Looking at her parents' jokes, Tong Xiaojing couldn't help but lament all these years. She remembered that when she was very young, her grandfather was still alive at that time, and her grandfather was also a veteran craftsman. He had been working hard to make pottery all his life. In terms of techniques, the superb craftsmanship is all inherited from my grandfather. When I was a child, my father also learned it for a while, because I always couldn’t calm down to study, and was always scolded by my grandfather. Later, my father changed careers and started a small business. Zhou went back and forth to the provincial capital to buy some goods to sell, and the days have stabilized over time.

The second uncle followed his grandfather to learn how to make pottery, and this study lasted half his life. Perhaps this is the greatness of a craftsman.

The next day, Tong Xiaojing got up early and had breakfast before going to Tianming Workshop.

After she decided to make Bogu bottles, everything became handy. Starting from making mud, she did every process by herself. Although the movements were a bit clumsy, she tried her best to do her best.

Tong Xiaojing encountered difficulties when drawing the blanks. She was riding a wheeled cart, but she couldn't pull the blanks well. What's more exaggerated was that she didn't take shape a few times. She was sure that her technique was correct, but she couldn't. no success.

She, who was full of enthusiasm, was hit hard.

Can't do it?

Thinking of the sentence Meng Junzhuo asked while looking at her, she answered without hesitation at that time.

Suddenly, I felt that I was quite timid, and I had a timid thought in a single thought. I tried my best to get rid of the thought that I shouldn't have, stretched out my hand to wipe my face, and Tong Xiaojing continued to draw.

She has been trying for a long time, but she still can't pull out the ideal shape.

"Sister Xiaojing, Uncle Ming bought some fruit and asked you to eat it together." Sun Zhe ran in and called Tong Xiaojing, and seeing Tong Xiaojing's appearance, he laughed straight away: "Sister Xiaojing, you've turned into a cat face. "

Tong Xiaojing looked up at Sun Zhe who was standing there, seeing that Sun Zhe was smiling out of shape, Tong Xiaojing subconsciously reached out to touch her face.

Seeing that her hands were covered in mud, she suddenly remembered that she subconsciously wiped her face with her hands just now, and she was too focused to pay attention to this at the time.

No wonder Sun Zhe laughed like this, her face was covered in mud!
Tong Xiaojing stood up quickly, cleaned up the mess on the ground, and went into the backyard to wash her hands.

After Tong Xiaojing finished washing her hands and returned to the front hall, she saw the second uncle was wiping the pottery in the cabinet.

"Second uncle."

Hearing the voice, Tong Tianming stopped, looked at her, and saw that her face was washed clean, but her clothes were stained with a lot of mud, especially the corners of the clothes, where there were fingerprints.

"I bought some fruit and came back to eat." Tong Tianming pointed to the fruits on the table. They were all fruits from the fruit shop, and they were more expensive varieties. Tong Xiaojing knew that they were specially bought for her by the second uncle. On weekdays, the second uncle is not willing to eat these at all.

"Thank you, uncle."

The second uncle cared more about her than his own father, as always.

(End of this chapter)