Speaking of Carpenter Zhou, few people near Guide Ancient City don’t know about him.
There is nothing to say about the ancestral carpentry skills. The skills passed down from the ancestors, making beds, making cabinets and even building houses, let alone using an air nail gun, not even a single nail was used. They were all standard mortise and tenon structures.
Some old families who want to build a bed or cabinet when moving to a new house or marrying a wife will ask Carpenter Zhou for help.
Carpenter Zhou is a good craftsman and an honest person. He never cares too much about others. When rich people give him two more, he takes his share with a smile. When people who have no money give him less, he also smiles. Don't care.
If a neighbor was really in trouble and just took care of the meal, he would help with the work and never complained.
He is such a good old man, but God does not take good care of him. The couple are both in their early fifties, and they have not given birth to a son and a half daughters. This is Carpenter Zhou's only regret.
The ancient city was recently renovated, and the city wanted to restore the ancient copper coin city to its original appearance, so the city leaders found Carpenter Zhou and asked him to help repair some ancient wooden houses.
While cleaning up an old yard, Carpenter Zhou and several workers dug a broken wooden box from an ancient well.
At first, the workers thought they had dug up some treasure, but when they opened the box, they saw that it was full of mud and water.
After pouring out the sludge and water and digging around, I found a mobile phone that could no longer be turned on, as well as some messy things, most of which were rusted to ashes, and something that looked like a rubber ball.
Seeing the mobile phone, the workers immediately realized that it was not an antique treasure at all. It was probably someone who threw the unwanted old things into the abandoned ancient well as rubbish, and they lost interest.
Carpenter Zhou thought the wooden box was quite interesting, so he packed up the contents and took them back. After cleaning them up, he put all the messy things in the utility room and only took one wooden box to study.
This wooden box had no nails or glue, and it looked like a good craftsmanship in mortise and tenon joints. Carpenter Zhou had been doing carpentry work for most of his life, and he had never seen such good craftsmanship. He held the wooden box in his hands all day long and studied it.
Carpenter Zhou was preparing to go out to work that day. He lived in the ancient city. He could have slept a little longer. Moreover, a master like him didn't actually need to go so early. He didn't even need to do many things in person. Work.
But Carpenter Zhou had been used to hard work for most of his life, so it was really uncomfortable for him to watch others working.
Before the work was finished, Carpenter Zhou couldn't sleep well because he had something on his mind. He got up at dawn, put on his clothes and prepared breakfast for his wife and put it on the table. He opened the door and went out alone to go to the construction site to think about it first. What to do next.
But as soon as the door was opened, Carpenter Zhou was standing there.
I saw a white and fat antelope standing at the door. The antelope was really majestic.
Her white curly hair is as white as cotton. She is tall, tall, handsome, and extremely clean.
Carpenter Zhou has seen antelopes on TV, but none of the antelopes on TV have such long curly hair? There is no one as white and majestic as this antelope.
What surprised Carpenter Zhou even more was that this big curly white sheep was holding a child that looked to be several months old in its mouth.
The child was wearing denim suspenders, and a big white sheep with curly hair was holding the suspenders. He had a pair of big black eyes, looking directly at Carpenter Zhou.
Ouch!
The big white sheep with curly hair suddenly opened its mouth and screamed, and the child it was holding fell to the ground. Then it turned around and spread its hooves and ran away, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
The child fell to the ground and screamed in pain. Zhou Carpenter quickly picked up the child and checked whether the child was injured.
Fortunately, the child was not injured, he just fell.
Carpenter Zhou took the child home and asked his wife to help take care of it. After dawn, he went to the police station to ask the police station to help find the child's family.
However, after checking at the police station, no one had lost their child. They also heard that a big curly white sheep had brought the child to the door of Zhou Carpenter's house. They all felt that this was very strange.
The ancient city was so big, and the story of the antelope giving a son soon spread in the ancient city. People all said that God wanted Carpenter Zhou to be a good man and asked the antelope to give him a son.
Of course Zhou Carpenter didn't believe this at first, but as time passed, no one came to recognize the child. The child had been fostered in his home. The old couple liked the child very much, so they considered adopting it.
After a few months, the child's parents could not be found, so with the help of the office, the old couple successfully adopted the child and named him Zhou Yangyang, and the family of three lived like this.
Zhou Yangyang is a child less than one year old, but he doesn't cry or fuss at all. He is very beautiful. Apart from being lazy and picky about food, everything is good.
Such a big child is at the age where he should eat and play. The old couple is not stingy with spending money. They buy him all kinds of delicious food. It is like looking at a baby bump. They hold it in their hands every day and are not willing to leave for a moment. Afraid of bumping into him.
On this day, Carpenter Zhou went out to work the night shift, and his wife slept with Zhou Yangyang in her arms.
Seeing that the woman was fast asleep, Zhou Yangyang suddenly got up quietly, got out of bed quietly, opened the door to the yard, and opened the door gently.
Those who knew it was a child less than one year old, but those who didn't know it thought he was a habitual thief.
The door was opened a crack, and an antelope-head sneaked in sneakily. He looked around and found that there was no one else except Zhou Yangyang, so he quickly got in.
"You damn sheep, you actually have the nerve to come back? You didn't take me with you when you ran away." Zhou Yangyang lowered his voice and spoke, with such fluency and expression that he didn't look like a child under one year old.
"Ahem, you can't blame me. You also know what's going on with me now. I have no vitality at all. I'm not much different from an ordinary antelope. If I'm really caught, I might be roasted into mutton skewers. I Can you stop running?" The curly-haired white sheep said awkwardly.
"Humph, you've already run away, why are you coming back?" Zhou Yangyang said angrily.
"Hehe, we agreed that if we find something, we will add to it. You can't take it all by yourself. You have been sneaking in for a few months. Have you found anything?" Antelope asked with a smile.
"What the heck, those two are guarding me 24 hours a day. I don't even dare to say anything. Where can I go to find something?" Zhou Yangyang rolled his eyes.
Antelope wanted to say something else, but when she heard a voice coming from the back room, she turned around and walked out. She did not forget to remind Zhou Yangyang: "Don't forget who saved you when you first came here. Remember to give me half of the things you get." .”
Antelope got out of the door, and soon saw Carpenter Zhou's wife coming out of the house in a hurry. She was relieved when she saw Zhou Yangyang sitting obediently on the small bench in the yard.
"Yangyang, why did you run out by yourself? My little baby has made your mother worried to death." The woman picked up Zhou Yangyang and kissed him lovingly on the face, making Zhou Yangyang's face full of helplessness.
After being carried back to the house by the woman, Zhou Yangyang sat helplessly in the crib. The woman also brought him a puppet toy for him to play with.
Zhou Yangyang finally waited for the woman to fall asleep again, snoring loudly, then carefully climbed out of the crib and groped around the house.
Based on observations over the past two or three months, the things must be in the utility room.
He walked quietly to the door of the utility room, but found that he could not reach the door handle, and muttered depressingly: "Damn woman, just exile me, and beat my body back to the age of a baby. I’ll make sure you look good when I get back.”
There was no other way. Zhou Yangyang turned his eyes and saw the small wooden bench on the side. He had to go over and move the small bench with great effort. As soon as he put it at the door of the utility room, he heard the snoring of the woman in the room stopped, and there was something physical. The sound of turning seemed to be rising.
Zhou Yangyang quickly moved the small bench back, sat down, and pretended to be well-behaved.
But after waiting for a while, I heard the woman snoring again. It turned out that the woman just turned around.
"What does it look like for a woman to snore?" Zhou Yangyang moved the small bench again in a depressed mood, and moved it to the door of the utility room with a groan.
This body is too small and has no strength at all. Even moving a stool feels a bit tiring.
Zhou Yangyang was just about to step on the small bench to open the door when the woman's snoring stopped again, and this time it sounded like she was about to get up.
Zhou Yangyang quickly moved the small bench back and sat down obediently again.
But after waiting for a while, snoring came from the back room again, which made Zhou Yangyang depressed and wanted to vomit blood.
Gritting his teeth, he moved the small bench over again. This time Zhou Yangyang was determined to open the door.
"Anyway, I'm just a child now. What's the problem with being curious? What if I find out? It doesn't matter, I won't pretend anymore, I'm going to open the door!" Zhou Yangyang stood on the small bench angrily: "Who cares about this woman? If you are not a woman, I will open the door."
Zhou Yangyang pressed his hand on the doorknob desperately and was about to open the door, but suddenly he felt a strong force coming from his waist and picked him up directly.
"Yangyang, what are you doing here?" Carpenter Zhou came back from the night shift, picked up Zhou Yangyang, and kissed him wildly on the face again.
"Damn Earthlings, why do you like the faces of your relatives so much? Don't you have any face yourself?" Zhou Yangyang's face was full of resistance and helplessness.
"Yangyang, don't open this door, otherwise you will be in big trouble." Carpenter Zhou pointed to the door of the utility room and said.
Zhou Yangyang thought to himself: "The things should be inside as expected. It seems that this human being must have discovered that those things are unusual."
What Carpenter Zhou said made Zhou Yangyang more determined to search the utility room.
But Carpenter Zhou and his wife were too concerned about him and were afraid that something might happen to him.
He is over fifty years old and finally picked up a son for free. How could he not be interested in him?
As soon as there was any disturbance, the couple would immediately appear by Zhou Yangyang's side, almost staying there every step of the way, causing Zhou Yangyang's plans to fail time and time again.
Zhou Yangyang was going crazy. If it weren't for the fact that he had turned into a baby, he would have wanted to knock the couple unconscious with a knife on each of their necks.
After enduring for many days, Zhou Yangyang finally found an excellent opportunity.
Carpenter Zhou went out to work, and the woman was also washing clothes in the yard.
Zhou Yangyang, who pretended to be asleep, got up secretly, moved the small stool to the door of the utility room, stood on it and held the handle, and peeked out a few times to make sure that the woman would not come in and touch her harshly. He pressed the handle hard and opened the door: "My babies...I'm here...eh..."
Zhou Yangyang just opened a crack in the door, but the door opened by itself. Zhou Yangyang only saw that there were cardboard boxes piled up inside. The piles were so full that they were almost overflowing.
The door had been reluctantly closed before, but now it was pulled open by Zhou Yangyang. The cardboard boxes piled inside suddenly lost their balance and poured out like a torrent, instantly submerging Zhou Yangyang inside.
"Ah...Yangyang..." The woman heard the sound and ran into the house quickly. After seeing the situation clearly, she immediately rushed forward, pushed the cardboard boxes away, and picked up Zhou Yangyang, who had a bruised nose and face. He said distressedly: "Yangyang is good...Yangyang doesn't cry...it's all because of mom...Mom shouldn't buy so many things online..."
The plan failed again!
"Damn earth woman... Why are you buying so many useless scraps... You bought them all... What do you mean by dismantling them or not... It hurts me to death... Wuwu..." Zhou Yangyang felt extremely sad. Crash.
After recuperating for several days, and with the couple's careful care, Zhou Yangyang's injury finally recovered.
But because of what happened last time, the couple watched him even more closely, and even locked the door of the utility room to prevent Zhou Yangyang from opening the door again.
"Do you think you can keep Fengling, the most talented military advisor in the universe, in this way? Earthlings, you are too naive." Zhou Yangyang held a key in his hand with a sinister smile on his face.
Zhou Yangyang glanced at the sleeping woman in the room. This time he came prepared. While the woman was sleeping, he put the earplugs into her ears. The woman had been taking care of him day and night these days. I was so tired that I fell asleep so soundly that I didn’t even know I was wearing earplugs.
Standing on the small bench again, he opened the door with the key, then jumped aside gracefully, watching the boxes fall down and spilled on the floor, and gracefully made a curtain call.
"A genius is a genius. Even if he becomes a baby, he is still a genius baby. How can such a trivial thing prevent me?" Zhou Yangyang proudly climbed over the hill-like cardboard boxes and came to the utility room.
He finally saw what he had dreamed of. There was a large wooden box at the end of the utility room, which should contain what he wanted.
"Baby, I'm here!" Zhou Yangyang came to the wooden box and opened the lid of the box with all his strength.
Bang!
Zhou Yangyang only saw a red object pop out of the box, and it hit him in the face, causing him to fall backwards. He fell sprawled on top of the cardboard box, and his nose started to bleed. come out.
Inside the wooden box, a red glove was shaking constantly, with a thick and large spring underneath.
"Why would you buy such a thing..." Zhou Yangyang lay on the pile of cardboard boxes with a look of despair on his face, tears falling from the corners of his eyes.
"Baby..." The woman's startling cry of exclamation sounded again.
Not surprisingly, Zhou Yangyang rested for several days again.
After failing again and again, Zhou Yangyang almost thought that the couple had discovered his true identity and were deliberately trying to mess with him.
But looking at it, it doesn't look like it.
But every time his plan ended in failure, he also got himself injured all over.
Just when Zhou Yangyang thought he was possessed by the God of Mold and was almost desperate, he got an unexpected surprise.
Carpenter Zhou actually brought out a wooden box for him to play with. As soon as the wooden box was opened, Zhou Yangyang's eyes lit up, and he was so excited that he thought he was finally loved by God.
The things in the wooden box turned out to be the things he had dreamed of, such as mobile phones, cosmic coins, and Earth-associated eggs...
That night, Zhou Yangyang took advantage of the couple to fall asleep, packed up his things and prepared to run away.
Opening the door quietly, Antelope was already waiting outside. Seeing Zhou Yangyang coming out, Antelope saw no one around and rushed out from the shadows in the alley, and asked hurriedly: "Did you succeed?"
"What do you think?" Zhou Yangyang patted the garbage bag he was carrying proudly: "Everything is in it, let's go quickly."
Without saying a word, the antelope directly picked up Zhou Yangyang, threw him onto his back, spread his hooves and ran towards the city gate.
"Finally freed." Feng Ling glanced at the small courtyard that was gradually moving away. For some reason, she felt a little uncomfortable in her heart.
Zhou Yangyang is lost!
Carpenter Zhou and his wife were about to cry their eyes out. They looked for Zhou Yangyang everywhere, asking questions when they saw people. They searched everywhere, but could not find any trace of Zhou Yangyang. After reporting the case to the police station, the police also helped. I searched, but couldn't find even a single clue. Zhou Yangyang seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
Carpenter Zhou and his wife seemed to have lost their souls, doing everything in a daze. They seemed to have aged a lot in a few days, and the white hair on their temples had appeared.
Every time a woman sees a child with Zhou Yangyang on the street, they all look like Zhou Yangyang. Many times she pounces on him in surprise, only to be disappointed to find that she has recognized the wrong person.
The couple really couldn't let it go, so they put together their family's money together, drove the pickup truck Carpenter Zhou usually used to haul lumber, and prepared to go out to find Zhou Yangyang. Even if they had to travel all over the country, they still had to find the child. .
Carpenter Zhou and his wife drove a pickup truck with a small flag made of Zhou Yangyang's photo on the pickup truck. There were pots, pans, quilts and other daily necessities in the back.
The couple had just driven out of the city gate, but they were stunned for a moment. They saw a handsome snow-white antelope in the distance, standing in the middle of the road with a dejected child in its mouth, and seemed to be smiling at them.
(End of chapter)
