He's doing handicraft again

Xia Jiao didn't expect that she called three people with one phone call, and when she saw that the third person who entered the house was actually his "dear brother", Xia Jiao looked angrily at Xia Ma, who had worked so hard to prepare a table of dishes. .

Xia's mother received the younger son's resentful eyes, and asked the elder son a little embarrassedly: "Didn't you say that you have something to do today and you won't come back all day?"

"So this table of seafood is not for me, right?" Xia Yao put on a pitiful look of being abandoned, "No wonder you asked me about my whereabouts early in the morning, I thought you cared about me, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it ..."

All the grievances are silent.

Mother Xia looked at her youngest son helplessly.

Xia Jiao saw that her brother was stuck at the door of the house, and it was impossible to drive him away and not give him food, so she said angrily, "Why are you standing around? Seafood doesn't taste good when it's cold!"

So Xia Jiao, Xia Ma, Xia Yao, Jiang Xin, Xiao Yuan, Qin Shao, and Deng Yilin took their seats in turn.

Although the atmosphere was awkward at first, the delicious seafood immediately broke the embarrassment.

Fat steamed crab, crispy shrimp with salt and pepper skin, delicious yellow croaker with pickled cabbage, fresh and tender charcoal-grilled oysters, refreshing sea melon seeds in salad, soft and glutinous raw salmon, sweet green snail shrimp, salty and fresh crab with red paste, and smooth razor clams , Deep-fried cod is charred on the outside and tender on the inside.

The six pairs of chopsticks moved so fast on the dining table that they seemed to have afterimages, which made it hard to see.

The remaining pair of chopsticks are leisurely, and their owner is Xia Ma.

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Although Jiang Xin caught a lot of seafood last week, the variety was not so rich, so Xia Ma went to the seafood market to buy many of them early in the morning.

After all, this is the first time that her youngest son has asked his college classmates to come to eat at home, not to mention that the income from fishing last week was almost given to her family as favors, so he should be more polite.

Of course, in order to balance the nutrition, Xia Ma also made vegetarian dishes such as baby vegetables in soup, ground three delicacies, stewed tofu, fried Pleurotus eryngii, shredded sweet potatoes, and dried cauliflower. Unfortunately, everyone’s eyes are only meat.

Everyone ate happily, you scrambled for each other, and ate very happily.

Xia's mother saw that everyone was so satisfied with the meal, she showed a kind smile, and said with a smile: "First of all, thank you for taking care of Xia Jiao these years, I know that he has a bad temper, and he didn't get along well with his classmates before high school. Well, fortunately, the university met you, he—"

"What did you two do this morning? How did you get along with..." Xia Jiao really didn't want to listen to his mother's rambling, so she interrupted rudely, and then couldn't hold back her curiosity and continued to ask, "Come here with my brother?"

"It's not that stupid labor skill class!" Xiao Yuan wanted to vomit bitterness when he mentioned this, "The people from the Education Bureau want to torment us poor front-line teachers when they have nothing to do, and ask us to find some intangible cultural heritage crafts for next week. Give the students a touch when it's time..."

Xia Jiao couldn't help looking at his brother when she heard that.

Xia Yao received his younger brother's pleading (Xia Jiao:?) look, so he turned towards Xiao Yuan and said to Xiao Yuan, "I have collected some intangible cultural heritage crafts, if you don't mind, you can take a look and pick some suitable."

"Is it really possible?" Xiao Yuan was pleasantly surprised.

"Of course." Xia Yao smiled and nodded.

Xia Yao was talking to Xiao Yuan, but his eyes were on Jiang Xin's hands.

That "the river is gone and never returns" is indeed you, and I am chasing and watching the live broadcast every night.

Although Xiao Yuan's three roommates all paid attention to "The River Gone Forever", but they just paid attention, even if they want to watch the live broadcast, they probably only watch the game or sing about it.

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Here I have to mention another disease of Xiao Yuan, which is selective blindness.

He felt that a few girls' hands could barely be seen, but boys' hands?Basically unsightly.

Therefore, in order not to pollute his eyes, he forced himself to get this disease.So even if a boy's hand was stretched out in front of him, he could turn a blind eye.

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Jiang Xin sat between Xia Yao and Xiao Yuan. When the two of them talked, they always felt that their cheeks were hit by the airflow brought out by their words, especially on Xia Yao's side, it seemed that they were too close and hit The airflow on the face was still warm.

He was embarrassed, but he was too shy to move away, which would have been more noticeable.

Xia Jiao has a full view of his brother's behavior that is almost mopping up.

It seems that it is impossible to persuade his brother to "be kind", so he can only tell Xiao Yuan to be careful not to be poached.

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"Where are some? It's obviously filled a room. I don't know what happened to buy so many handicrafts, and we are not allowed to go in and have a look." Xia's mother complained, "Today is generous."

"I'm not required for the course!" Xia Yao explained with a smile, seeing that Jiang Xin's ears were red with embarrassment, so he let him go and turned to Xia's mother, "Isn't it that you are not allowed to go in, or should everyone go in and have a look today?"

Others who didn't participate in the topic discussion and just bury their heads in their mouths shook their heads unanimously.

"Who cares about your rags?" Xia Jiao pressed in a low voice.

Although Xia Jiao's voice was very quiet, Xia's mother who was sitting next to Xia Jiao still heard it and gave him a disapproving look, thinking that she had to praise her eldest son.

"My eldest son is an associate professor of the School of Economics, and the professional courses in economics are taught very commonly." Xia's mother boasted that her eldest son had to suppress first and then raise, "but what is that elective course called traditional handicrafts taught?" It’s quite impressive, and I won the ‘Yancheng Scholar Achievement Award’ for this course.”

Hearing this, Xiao Yuan thought, isn't it the class that Jiang Xin mentioned yesterday?By the way, the girl from the intangible cultural heritage studio also mentioned it today, and Jiang Xin seems to be famous for this course.

As expected of my teaching assistant!

After showing off, Xia's mother began to feel sorry for her son again: "During the summer vacation of the first two months, he didn't know what medicine he took wrongly. He ran to the deep mountains and old forests in the south, saying that he was doing field research. This trip lasted for two whole days. For months, the signal in those places was not good, and he was often unable to be contacted. If it wasn’t for the express delivery from the south to my home from time to time, and they were all handicrafts, which meant that he was still alive, I would have wanted to call 110. Look, this After going out for two months, people are all tanned."

When the master spoke, everyone who was buried in hard work raised their heads and focused their eyes on Xia Yao——

If it was in ancient times, Xia Yao's face could probably be described as a face like a crown of jade.

Xia Ma, you are embarrassing us, Qin Shao and Deng Yilin, who have darker skin, thought at the same time.

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At the end of the meal, even the six vegetarian dishes were eaten up.Seeing everyone cheering so much, Xia Ma took out the freshly baked salted egg yolk lotus paste mochi mooncakes for everyone to taste.

Housewife Xia Ma is so good, she can go to the seafood market to buy vegetables in half a day, cook sixteen dishes, and even bake mooncakes with three layers of fillings!

Seeing everyone gnawing on the mooncakes she carefully made like hamsters, as if she had 4 more sons, Xia Ma started to clear the table with a kind smile.

"I come."

"I come."

"I come."

Jiang Xin, Qin Shao and Deng Yilin spoke in unison.

Xiao Yuan didn't say a word because he was lazy and had advanced cancer.

The two brothers of the Xia family didn't say a word because they never did housework at home.

"No, no, no." Xia's mother stopped their hands that wanted to clean up. "You go to the living room to eat fruit and chat. It's fine for me to come alone. I'm not used to it if there are too many people."

"Then come and have a look at my storage room?" Xia Yao extended an invitation to Jiang Xin and Xiao Yuan.

"Just go to Jiang Xin, I don't understand anything." Xiao Yuan waved his hand, intending to join the team eating fruit in the living room.

So Jiang Xin followed Xia Yao to the storage room.

As for Xiao Yuan, just as he was about to peel and eat an orange, he was dragged away by Xia Jiao.

Qin Shao and Deng Yilin were left looking at each other.

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"You and Xiao Yuan went to the 'Shadow Forest' studio today to borrow some sets of shadow puppets, right?" Xia Yao opened the door of the storage room and invited Jiang Xin in.

Jiang Xin only looked at the handicrafts stored in the glass cabinets, such as Yangcheng wood carvings, Wancheng pottery sculptures, Hecheng lacquer boxes...

He felt as if he had walked into a small museum, he was too dazzled to see, and ignored Xiao Yuan's question.

Seeing that Jiang Xin was so addicted, Xiao Yuan turned on the smart speaker on the table, carefully selected a song from the list, and chose to play the single on a loop.

Hearing the Japanese song that was incompatible with the style of this storage room, Jiang Xin noticed that Mr. Xia was asking himself a question just now, and replied a little embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I was only looking at these handicrafts just now. We really want to borrow shadow puppets. In this way, we can promote the non-material culture of Yancheng, which is more meaningful.”

Xia Yao felt a bit harsh when he heard the word "we" that Jiang Xin said, so he turned around and took out three wooden boxes from the cabinet, and handed them to Jiang Xin: "I only collected three sets, you can take them all."

"No, no, one set is enough." Jiang Xin declined. After all, he wanted to touch the students, and if he borrowed too much, he would not be able to pay for it if it broke.

"Then which one do you want to choose?" Xiao Yuan turned the openings of the three wooden boxes towards Jiang Xin in turn and opened them.

After much deliberation, Jiang Xin chose "Journey to the West". The other two are "Legend of the White Snake" and "The West Chamber". In comparison, "Journey to the West" is more suitable.

"If you are interested in this place, you can continue to visit." Xia Yao saw Jiang Xin's embarrassment that he didn't want to leave but couldn't say it.

"Thank you, Teacher Xia!"

"You can still call me a teacher after you graduate, just call me Xia Yao, or you can call me brother like Xia Jiao." Xia Yao began to be ashamed.

Jiang Xin smiled at Xia Yao and continued to look at the handicrafts that fascinated him.

but--

Why is that Japanese song playing in a loop?The melody is so... so beautiful, it always feels a little weird.

Moreover, Jiang Xin always felt that Teacher Xia's eyes were on him all the time.

Probably because I was afraid that I would damage his collection, so I kept a close eye on it.

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do you know?

I went to many places this summer vacation. I went to Yuncheng to watch the local people weaving homemade cloth, and went to Cuocheng to watch the local people make clay sculptures... Although many of the people I saw had gray hair and wrinkled faces, but I Still can find your shadow from them.

You all have that quiet and tough temperament about you.

I originally thought that we had no destiny, so it would be good to just say goodbye, but I didn't expect to go to so many places, but it made me miss you even more.

Xia Yao looked at Jiang Xin, thinking silently in his heart.

The author has something to say: Xia Yao: I am almost moved to death by myself.

Xia Jiao: Is there any wool for it?