Chapter 37: New Year's Gifts
Xiao Qingshi carried the fox to a distance, took out the big willow basket buried in the snow, and put the fox into the basket, at this time the basket was full and could no longer hold other prey, turned to the master and said: "Master, the basket is full, do you continue to enter the mountain?"
"Teacher Zhang's gift is already here! Let's go down the mountain overnight!" The master smiled and said, "Master, you have it, what about what I gave to Sister Wang Ying? Don't you want to fight a fox again!"
"Then you fight yourself! I won't kill!"
"Didn't you kill just now?"
"I mean don't kill for you! If you don't do it for yourself, you will be destroyed!"
"Master, you, you, you!" Xiao Qingshi looked helplessly at the master's scoundrel look.
Picking up the willow basket and ignoring the master, he turned around and walked down the mountain.
The old monk looked at the back of his apprentice and said to himself: "Silly boy! the master has already broken the killing ring for you, and you yourself must learn to be independent as soon as possible!"
Xiao Qingshi returned to the temple, and he had to deal with the wild boars and foxes as soon as the New Year was over. He did not rest, and went directly to the small kitchen outside the temple, boiling boiling water, scalding the wild boar's head and pig's trotters, scraping the hair on the pig's head and hooves little by little, and hanging them on the beams of the house. Then he peeled off the fox's skin little by little, nailed the whole fox skin to the wooden board with small nails, and when it was dawn, he took it to the old hunter's house at the bottom of the mountain, and asked someone to help him comb it.
The fox wants to keep all the fur except for the bones and flesh and do not hurt any of the fur, it is definitely a technical job, if it is not for Xiao Qingshi to practice carving, it will really be a waste of effort.
When Xiao Qingshi was done, the sky had begun to brighten, and he returned to the courtyard of the temple to stretch his waist and practice again. As soon as the master opened the door in the morning, he saw the apprentice practicing boxing in the courtyard, and saw that there were still a lot of blood stains on his clothes, and said distressedly: "Yesterday has been busy until now? Why don't you take a break first, it's not a very anxious thing!"
"Master, you don't eat meat, of course you're not in a hurry! You have already prepared a gift for Teacher Zhang, and you won't be in a hurry!" Xiao Qingshi replied to the master depressedly: "Aren't you also ready for a gift?"
"What gifts have I prepared?"
"Boar's head!"
"Didn't you say that if I wanted to die, I would send a pig's head?
As soon as the master heard Xiao Qingshi's words, he slapped Xiao Qing's head and said, "Why don't you have an elm pimple head, you can't carve something with the two tusks of a wild boar?"
"Ahh
Xiao Qingshi finally woke up with a slap in the face! The skill was no longer practiced, he turned around and ran back to the hut, and the two wild boar teeth were put into the pot and boiled in water, and only when there was no oil in the water did he take out the pig's teeth, and the long fangs at this time were already snow-white.
Xiao Qingshi held a knife in one hand and a tusk in the other, and thought for a while about to carve a tusk into an ancient costume Wang Ying, and a girl who carved a tusk into a squad leader Li Ruoshui, so that he lost his first kiss.
The master took the fox skin and went down the mountain to the old hunter early in the morning, and Xiao Qingshi was carving two women with heart and affection in the room!
Four days later, Wang Ying, who took the carved costume beauty and ran to the master's room, the master took the fangs from Xiao Qingshi's hand, and saw a little beauty in ancient costume lying on the crooked moon, the characters are vivid and true, although the carving work can not reach the magic workmanship, but the characters have been accommodated into love, and the characters have been accommodated!
The master smiled and said to the apprentice, "O stone, can the master ask you for one thing?"
"What does the master ask the apprentice to do!" Xiao Qingshi replied without thinking: "Do you think this is okay, can I exchange the fox skin for your statue?"
"This really doesn't work!"
"Why not?"
"Adults should give gifts to adults, and young people should give gifts to young people!
"Didn't you just say you could do whatever you wanted?"
"Did I say that? Why don't I remember?"
"Get the calf out of me! little white-eyed wolf!"
"There are only big green wolves on Changbai Mountain, no white-eyed wolves?" Xiao Qingshi's body flew out of the door again.
The New Year has arrived! The sound of firecrackers kept sounding under the mountain, there were no firecrackers or fireworks in the temple, the old monk laid out the tribute in front of the Buddha, took Xiao Qingshi sincerely knelt down in front of the Buddha and kowtowed three times, and the two people ate a simple Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the hut outside the temple, ushering in 1997.
On the first day of the new year, Xiao Qingshi got up very early and put on brand new clothes, stood in the yard and waited for the master to come and run over to greet the master, and it would be like this every year! Because the master was his only relative! Hearing the sound of the master's door, Xiao Qingshi rushed to the master's door quickly.
As soon as the old monk opened the door, he saw his precious apprentice standing in front of the door wearing new clothes and smiling. Seeing the master's Xiao Qingshi kneeling on the ground with a plop of his knees, he kowtowed to the master three times in a proper manner, and said to the master after kowtowing: "Happy New Year to the master! I wish the master good health! The body is great! Every year is twenty-five! You can fight tigers on the mountain!"
The master laughed happily and said, "Didn't you say that you wish the master a long life and a hundred years old this year?"
"The master is already 100 years old, and he has changed his words this year!"
The master smiled happily for a while, looked at Xiao Qingshi and said, "What kind of gift do you want for the New Year?"
Xiao Qingshi shook his head and said, "I don't want any gifts, as long as the master is healthy!"
The master took out a very simple wooden box from his arms, it seemed that it was old, and he didn't know that it was of that era, and put the wooden box in Xiao Qingshi's hand solemnly: "This is the New Year's gift from the master to you, I originally wanted you to give it to you when you were sixteen years old next year, and I will give it to you now! I hope you cherish it and take good care of it!" Xiao Qingshi saw that the master said so seriously, his face was so solemn, and he knew that the gift was really valuable, and slowly opened the box, and when he saw the gift in the box, his mouth immediately "Ah!" sighed, because what was in this box was the Nine Dragons Golden Needle on the master's wrist!
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