C12 Birthday

When we entered the cave, I found that Old man Tao was lighting a fire and cooking. That's right, it was Old man Tao.

You have to know, the task of cooking has always been assigned by me, could it be that Old man Tao has discovered with his conscience, that he can't use child labour when he knows of it?

"Master, why did you think of cooking today?"

I asked as I poured the water into the vat.

Old man Tao didn't answer my question, but said: "Go wash the wild boar meat and cook it, then go to the Coiled Snake Valley's side and get some winter bamboo shoots. Stew two chickens and cook everything good.

I was a little curious, and asked if someone was coming today to prepare so much food. In the end, Old man Tao rolled his eyes at me, cursed at me, and then said, What kind of guest is that?

Birthday?

I thought for a moment and suddenly realized that I was already 11 years old and had stayed in this mountain for almost 3 years.

"Master, you ? you actually remembered my birthday ?"

For a moment, I was actually a little touched. In the end, Master came over and kicked my butt again, saying that you were too excited to boil some water and cook. After that, he called your parents over and had a meal together with them.

"Ai, ai."

I hastily agreed and started to prepare. This is the first time I saw Old man Tao wearing a new set of clothes, I didn't realize it before, but the main reason was that he didn't allow me to touch his cabinet. After getting dressed, Old man Tao glanced at me, who had a face full of shock. After saying a few words, he carried his basket and left the cave.

I also naturally started to clean up the cave. In the past three years, the cave really did look like a small house, with a stove, tables, chairs, clothes hangers, cabinets, and a bamboo corridor outside the cave. There were even two strings of bamboo wind chimes.

Of course, all of this could not have been done by my master, other than the two wind chimes. The only decoration my master likes is the wind chimes, he said that the wind chimes "quiet mind and nurture nature," and moves with the wind, quite with my Taoism at ease, the wind chimes, rhythm sound, and "good charm", can change the atmosphere, at the same time, has the role of early warning, can be said to be a practical and decorative as one of the good things.

I don't dare to say that it's practical, but as for the decorations, master, you made them yourself.

From eight in the morning, I was busy until around 11 in the afternoon before I finished cleaning the cave and preparing the ingredients. Then, I went down the mountain to fetch my parents, as well as my good brothers Fatty and Cuan Tianhou.

In this forest that is so deep, if I don't bring them up, they really can't find the way. Fatty had come with me a few times, but I still couldn't remember it all the time.

When I got home from the mountain, my parents were preparing dinner too. My mother was washing vegetables in the yard, so she didn't notice me.

"Mom."

When I called out to her, my mother heard the sound and raised her head. When she saw me coming back, she immediately got up and wiped her hands, "Qing Waer, you're back.

My mother called, running over to touch me, looking around. My father, hearing the noise, came out of the house with a chicken in his hand.

"Qingzi, you're back. I was just about to ask Fatty to take me to look for you in the mountain. Today is your birthday, so why don't you eat at home today?"

I looked at my parents and smiled. "Dad, Mom, why are you all so excited? Didn't I just come back two weeks ago?"

My father seemed to have thought of something and looked at me, "Child, didn't pottery master tell you to come back at most twice a month? You've already run here thrice this month, did you slack off from practicing martial arts?"

"Old Liu, don't get angry with this child!"

When I saw my father's big, bulging eyes, I said, "What are you being lazy for? Didn't you say it's my birthday? My master told me to come down and call you guys to come up the mountain."

"So it was pottery master who called me. Alright, then I will go, my mother, let's not do it anymore, we will directly carry the things and go to pottery master."

"Ai, ai, I'll go call Little Yan back."

"My mom repeatedly promised, and my dad had already loaded all the chicken, duck, and fish onto his back." "Dad, there's no need. There's food in the mountains."

"Do you think there's too much food? Furthermore, you keep on eating from the pottery master, how can that be? The mountain is short of rice, and half of it is food. I went to the town yesterday to buy this year's new rice.

My father was initially afraid that I wouldn't be able to carry it, but after seeing me lift it up so easily, he said with some surprise, "Son of a bitch, did you eat a calf?"

After carrying the things on my back, I went to look for Fatty. He was playing with the other children on the top, and I spoke a little with him, but when I heard there was food, Fatty was naturally rude and followed along happily, but he did not find Cuan Tianhou. Fatty did not know where he went either, he only said that he did not see him for a few days.

My parents, my sister, and Fatty and a few others went up the mountain. Fatty, on the other hand, came a few times.

"Sigh, Qing Waer, this pottery master's residence is too far away, no wonder I only made you return once or twice a month, to travel so far." My dad is so tired, he sat down on a bamboo pole in the corridor before he even entered the cave.

"Right, right. From now on, you don't have to come down the mountain to pull you and me to look at your dad. This is too tiring." my mother answered.

"Dad, mom, I'm used to it. Look at me, I don't feel anything at all. It's just that once or twice every month, I don't know. Anyway, my master didn't tell me why I can't stay at home often."

"What are you guys standing here for, go into the cave."

Just as I was saying these words to my parents, my master's voice suddenly reached my ears. Turning around, I saw that he was wearing a brand-new Chinese tunic, carrying a basket on his back and carrying a dry smoke pole on his waist.

"pottery master is back."

When my parents saw their Master dressed so neatly, they were also stunned for a moment.

"Don't stay outside. Come, come, let's all go into the cave. Eat, eat, starve to death." My master didn't mind and directly greeted him.

"Good, good!"

There wasn't much to eat in the mountains, but there were still some mountain precious items. There were winter bamboo shoots stewing wild chickens, fat rabbits roasting yellow oil, wild chicken mushrooms stewing mushrooms, sausages, cured meat, deer meat, and so on.

Moreover, my master took out a bottle of wine. It was a mahogany box, and after opening it, he took out a glass bottle. There were no symbols on the bottle, but the moment the lid was opened, the wine aroma immediately filled the entire cave.

"Today is Qing Waer's birthday, everyone is celebrating. I found a lot of connections with him to get this wine, and normally, even the governor of the province wouldn't be able to drink it."