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At this time, the New Year is about to be celebrated in three days, and small villages like Shigao Village have become lively. People who go out to work have begun to turn around, traveling around every day, having a lot of fun. Local shops are also busy all over the place. In short, the village is already full of New Year atmosphere.

After breakfast in the morning, Zhang Chuanliu's second uncle said he would take us to find Zhang Chuanliu's second cousin and help us ask about the purple clay pottery.

Because everyone else was busy and Zhang Chuanliu was also helping at home, I just pulled Chu Sili and went with my second uncle, leaving Tan Jin and three left, so they had to rest at home, otherwise it would be nice to see them walking on the street with plaster on their arms and legs.

Zhang Chuanliu's second cousin is his mother's cousin, and his family also makes purple clay pottery. He is quite famous in this area. The second uncle said that his family is in the village, but the workshop is not in the village, but in Yongxing Village to the south.

Yongxing Village and Shigao Village are on the same road, with only more than three miles, so we didn’t drive and walked directly.

This area is said to be a village, but it has been developed. Many houses on both sides of the road have been demolished. We walked along the road and soon saw a small courtyard on the side of the road. My second uncle pointed and said, "Oh, that's Chuanliu's Taofang. The door is still open. People should be inside. Let's go, I'll take you in."

When we entered the door, the second uncle shouted: "Hou Yao, come out quickly."

When I looked around, I saw many pottery of different shapes placed in the yard.

Uncle Er shouted, and someone quickly agreed inside: "Hey, Brother Erlin, why are you here?"

Then a short and strong man in his forties walked out of the house. When he saw the two of us, he was stunned: "Oh, what's wrong? Did my shrimp beat the person again?"

As he said that, he turned around and shouted into the room: "Shrimp! Shrimp!"

"No, no." The second uncle waved his hand and said, "No matter what your son is, these two are classmates from Chuanliu. Does Marshal Wang know that when we came to our village last night? It was just what they asked for help."

"Oh, it's not that I just beat someone. What's the matter with me? These two young men want to buy purple clay pottery? That's fine, I'll give you some cheaper. They are all good things."

Just when my second cousin was enthusiastically about introducing us to purple clay pottery, another face popped out of the room.

"What's the matter?"

He looked about eighteen years old, with a pretty good face, but a little black, and a faint aura between his eyebrows. He should be the son of his second cousin, who just called "Shrimp".

"It's nothing, you do your homework." The second cousin waved his hand and smiled at us: "My son is called Hou Xia."

I squinted my lips, thinking that these two cousins ​​must not like their son, so they could not name anyone a single word called Xia.

The young man named Hou Xia frowned and said, "Don't call me if you're okay."

The second cousin ignored him and looked at me: "How is it, young man, what do you want to order."

Only then did I remember our purpose and quickly spoke, "Well, second cousin, we are not here to buy pottery."

"Oh, no." The second cousin scratched his head and laughed: "I made a mistake in Sa, what's wrong with you?"

I took out the fragments of the iconic statue of the goddess from my shoulder bag: "Although we are not here to buy pottery, we are asking about purple clay pottery."

As I said that, I handed over the fragments on my hand: "Second uncle, do you know this symbol? This purple clay pottery is produced in Longshan, and it is said that it is a very famous craftsman here."

It is the symbol on the base of the statue of the Heavenly Girl, a circular floating note, composed of two semicircles, one up and one at a time, one at a time, one at a time, one at a time, and one at a small pattern inside the two semicircles.

Fortunately, this logo was completely preserved on the fragments. If it exploded into small pieces like other parts, it would be troublesome.

While speaking, I noticed that my second cousin's son named Hou Xia was still standing at the door and watching, but I didn't care.

The second cousin took the fragments, looked at them for a while and shook his head: "I don't know them. I know all the purple clay pottery workshops in Longshan. Which one of them uses this logo?"

I quickly added: "This fragment is on a pottery statue. The pottery statue has been broken for hundreds of years. Second cousin, have you ever seen it? Maybe the craftsmen who used this logo over the past hundred years have changed their careers or changed their logos."

The second cousin looked at it for a while and returned it to me, waved his hand and said, "I don't recognize it. Now the pottery shops in Longshan are basically passed down from before. They all have been around for more than a hundred years, and I have never seen such a person."

The second uncle next to him frowned and said, "Oh, Hou Yao, just think about it carefully, maybe you forgot it?"

The second cousin glared at me: "Brother Erlin, why would I forget it if you are talking nonsense?"

As he said that, he turned around and looked at his Taofang: "Even our family has been passed down for many generations, but he has never seen this sign before. Young man, are you mistaken?"

Only then did he see his son standing behind him and looking up, and suddenly glaring: "What are you looking at? Go back to do your homework."

Hou Xia glanced at him, said nothing, and turned around and walked into the room.

Seeing that the second cousin's expression was not as fake, I put away the fragments in disappointment: "This is it, the second cousin doesn't recognize it, so I'll look for it again. I heard that the pottery statue is from Longshan, so I came to Longshan to find it. After all, purple clay pottery is the most famous thing in Longshan, isn't it?"

The second cousin was a little proud when he heard this: "That's, our Longshan purple clay pottery, which is a famous Sa in the country. Young man, you go back first, I'll help you pay attention."

I nodded: "Then I'll trouble my second cousin. I've been living in Zhang Chuanliu's house these days."

The second cousin agreed and sent us out.

Seeing that I was a little disappointed, my second uncle reached out and patted my shoulder: "Mr. I am worried. There are many purple clay potters in Longshan. Our family is familiar with the road. We ask one by one and you can always find it."

I smiled slightly and said, "Thank you, uncle, but you have something to do, so don't always accompany us. Just tell us the location of each purple clay pottery workshop in Longshan, and we can go by ourselves."

The second uncle thought for a while: "That's fine. To be honest, the New Year will be in two days. We are really busy with things, but you are not familiar with this place. Let my son and that boy Chuanliu accompany you."

We were talking while walking back. As we walked, Chu Sili, who was beside me, suddenly approached and whispered: "There are people behind."

I was shocked when I heard this, and suddenly turned around and saw a shadow quickly rushing into the alley next to me. The figure seemed a little familiar.

"What's up?"

The second uncle next to him didn't hear Chu Sili's words, and was stunned when he saw my actions: "Is there something falling into Taofang?"

I turned around and shook: "It's okay, let's go."

As he said that, he continued to walk forward, while continuing to talk to his second uncle, he looked at the back from the corner of his eyes.

Sure enough, before I walked far, I saw a man coming out of the alley.

When I saw that it was Hou Xia, the son of the second cousin just now.

Why did he follow us so sneakily?

I was a little surprised, but I didn't say anything and continued to walk forward. Not long after, I returned to the village. Hou Xia and he stopped and did not follow him again, so I didn't pursue it.

When he returned to the Zhang family, Zhang Chuanliu heard that we had returned without any help, so he patted his chest without saying a word and said that he would take me there, and said that he would find me when he accompanied me through Longshan in the next few days.

He was indeed convinced. In the next three days, he and his cousin Zhang Xuebing accompanied us around Longshan. In the past three days, they went to more than a dozen Taofangs, but in the end they all returned empty-handed.

Most of these pottery shops are old-fashioned pottery shops, but none of them recognize this mark.

One of the old potters said that looking at the fragments, it probably took more than 300 years. More than 300 years ago, it was the Ming Dynasty in the early Qing Dynasty or even earlier. Now, most of the so-called old pottery shops in Longshan have a history of only one or two hundred years, and of course no one recognizes them.

With a three hundred years of history, many war-torn periods have been experienced in the middle, and anything can happen. I don’t know how many Taofangs with real hundreds of years have been broken. Most of them include the Taofang we are looking for, but it is almost impossible to verify them now.

This made me very depressed, but there was no way, and they were not lying to us.

As time goes by, it is already New Year's Eve. I have found nothing in the Taofang in Longshan in the past three days, and I have given up and prepared to go home. However, Zhang Chuanliu and his family tried their best to keep him, so we decided to stay at the Zhang family for the New Year this year and return to Yueyang again on the first day of tomorrow.

I have to say that the Chinese New Year atmosphere in the countryside is lively, with a joyful scene everywhere. From the beginning of the morning when I was awakened by firecrackers to the afternoon, the firecrackers have never stopped.

Since we were going to celebrate the New Year at others, we naturally had to help. We started to work hard in the morning, helping with cleaning and pasting Spring Festival couplets, and even Lao Huo and Yu Wu who were also helping with plaster, but only Tan Jin wanted to be lazy, but I forced him to help.

"Hey! The fragrance of the ancestral hall is almost gone, so I have to change it tonight. Yiming, go to the street to help buy some." Zhang Chuanliu shouted: "There are not enough bowls and chopsticks. If you five are more, buy them together."

As he said that, he threw the key of the motorcycle to me, and I responded and dragged Yu Wu to buy things together.

As soon as I left the door, I caught a black shadow running into the alley opposite in panic.

It's Hou Xia.

These days, I often see him wandering around the neighborhood with no problem, but I just don’t have the energy to pay attention to him. I didn’t expect that he would come again on New Year’s Eve today.
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