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Chapter 3 Second Uncle's Tianming Workshop

When Li Yuan entered the house, she called Tong Tianhai to come quickly and help her carry things. When she came back, she bought a big watermelon, and it was very difficult to carry it all the way.

Tong Tianhai ran out when he heard the voice, and when he saw Tong Xiaojing, he showed a relieved expression.

"You girl, why didn't you say something when you came back? What kind of sneak attack are you doing?" Tong Tianhai muttered with a serious face, but the smile on his mouth did not stop. He strode forward and took it from the mother and daughter. stuff, put it away.

Tong Xiaojing leaned over to the stove and looked at the small steam pot, which was steaming hot. The chicken in the pot was fragrant, and she wished she could open the lid and eat a piece immediately.

"You can't steal it. It's not time yet, so wait." Tong Tianhai said, and went into the kitchen to work on other dishes.

Tong Xiaojing looked at the familiar things around her. This was her home, not big or small, but warm.

My father was busy in the kitchen, taking charge of the chef, while my mother went to her room, dug out brand new sheets and duvet covers, and cleaned her out of the house.

Tong Xiaojing wandered around the house, and the house was exactly the same as in memory, the only difference was that in the chicken coop in the backyard, the few black hens that used to be raised in the past had now turned into several colored hens.

It felt so good to go home, Tong Xiaojing took out her mobile phone and called her best friend Sun Mengmeng, talking about everything about arriving home.

"Did you choose a gift for me? Tell me what you chose?"

On the phone, Mengmeng urged to see the gift she had chosen for her. Speaking of gifts, Tong Xiaojing remembered the embarrassing scene when she was shopping for souvenirs for Mengmeng. Touched the opponent's hand.

If this is said, she might be laughed to death by that girl Mengmeng.

"Wait until later and I will choose for you. When the time comes, I will have a video with you. I will buy whichever you like."

"That's what sisters are, they share the blessings and share the hardships."

Sun Mengmeng's words made Tong Xiaojing laugh. She heard her father calling her, so she had to hang up the phone and go out.

"Dad, did you call me?"

Tong Xiaojing came to the kitchen, stood at the door and asked Tong Tianhai.

Holding the spatula in one hand and the soy sauce bottle in the other, Tong Tianhai looked at Tong Xiaojing and urged, "Call your second uncle and ask him to come over for dinner. I'm starting to cook the third dish now."

The second uncle, Tong Tianming, was the closest to her when she was a child.

At that time, she liked to eat steam pot chicken, so she went secretly to cook the finished purple pottery pot made by her grandpa. As a result, she broke the gap in the purple pottery pot that grandpa had made for a long time. At that time, she cried for a long time. The second uncle helped her repair it.

That was the first time she saw her second uncle making purple pottery, and she felt that it was old and powerful, and the broken pottery could be restored to its original state under the skillful hands of his second uncle.

Later, she was very curious about how such beautiful pottery was made of mud. She ran to her grandfather's workshop many times, dragging her second uncle and yelling at him to teach her how to make a steam pot.

Even more overbearing, she threatened that she would eat steam pot chicken made in a steam pot made by herself.

It's a pity that just after learning how to stretch, her father found out that she didn't study hard, she was reprimanded, and she was almost beaten and ran all over the street.

Recalling the funny things in her childhood, Tong Xiaojing felt inexplicably nostalgic, as if there was still the sound of her laughter in this room.

When she was a child, she wanted to be an excellent purple pottery maker, like her second uncle and grandpa, who dedicated herself to art.Now, she is a top student who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and is proficient in design and painting. Together with her best friend Mengmeng, she dreams of going to a big city to join the design field, and she is shining brightly.

Tong Xiaojing asked her mother for the number of her second uncle, and she called her on her mobile phone.

These years, when she called home, if the second uncle was nearby, he would talk to her and tell her to pay attention to her health and study hard.

She didn't tell the family when she came back, so the second uncle didn't know she was back, so he suddenly called the second uncle, wondering if the second uncle would be pleasantly surprised.

It's a pity that after the call was made, the phone was turned off.

If the phone is turned off, Second Uncle might be busy making pottery in her Tianming workshop.

The second uncle is 48 years old, and has never been married. The second uncle is Tao Chengqi. When he was young, he had a girl he liked. He had made an appointment to go out on a date and go shopping together, but he has been busy making pottery, leaving the girl on the road for nothing. While waiting for him all night, since then, the girl broke up and married someone else.

The second uncle felt sorry for others, and his thoughts were all on making pottery. Even if he married a girl, he would treat others badly in the future, so he devoted himself to developing pottery skills. Up to now, the second uncle's skills are quite good, as if two years ago When she was in her sophomore year, her second uncle told him that she had obtained the status of an intangible cultural inheritor.

The second uncle's phone couldn't be reached, so Tong Xiaojing planned to go directly to the second uncle's Tianming Workshop to find someone.

Uncle's Tianming Workshop is in Wanyao Village. It takes about ten minutes to walk some distance away. She talked to her parents and went to Tianming Workshop.

She was going to take some photos, but she hasn't been back for two years. Now that she's back, she wants to learn more. Now that the second uncle has been honored as the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, his workshop must have become very grand.

She went to the Tianming Workshop in her memory with ease. Ten minutes later, she came to the front of the Tianming Workshop and looked at the old plaque hanging at the door, with the four characters Tianming Workshop engraved on it.

This is the same as when she was in college last year, the only difference is that she is a little older than before.

Tong Xiaojing didn't say anything, and planned to go in quietly to find the second uncle and surprise him, but unfortunately, she went in and walked around, only to see a young guy in the store.

Seeing her, the young guy stood up and warmly greeted her to take a look at what she needed.

Seeing the other party like this, she had to explain that she was looking for someone, and she was looking for her second uncle.

"Teacher Tong has gone out. It seems that something is going on. I don't know the details. I am only in charge of looking after the store. I have only been here for two months. I am here to do holiday work." The young man briefly introduced his situation, and then Sit back to the original position.

Tong Xiaojing walked around the workshop, all of which were familiar scenes. When she was a child, she was still running and jumping in the workshop. Every time she learned how to make a steamer with her second uncle, she would bring the steamer that was normally used at home to rely on it. Painting the ladle, the result is the same every time, either it is broken or the edge is broken, the mother chased her to teach her a lesson, and later even her second uncle was reprimanded.

Later, every time the family had a meal, the second uncle was the last one to clean the pot. Others cleaned the steam pot because of the importance of the steam pot, and every household would prepare a bite, but their family was afraid that she would make trouble and broke it again. .

Tong Xiaojing returned home, her father had already prepared the food and served it, and her mother was cleaning up the dishes. When she saw her coming back alone, she asked, "Where's your second uncle?"

(End of this chapter)