Chapter 1906 Extra 1 Antelope Delivers a Child
Speaking of Carpenter Zhou, few people near the ancient city of Guide don't know him.
The carpentry skills inherited from ancestors are impeccable. The skills passed down from ancestors are used to make beds, cabinets and even build houses. Not to mention using an air nail gun, not even a single nail has been used. All are standard mortise and tenon structures.
Some old families in my hometown who want to move to a new house or get married and want to make a bed or a cabinet will ask Carpenter Zhou for help.
Carpenter Zhou has good craftsmanship and is a very honest person. He never haggles over matters with others. If a rich person gives him two more pieces, he will just take what he deserves with a smile. If a poor person gives him two less pieces, he will just smile and not care.
If a neighbor is really in trouble, he will help with the work even if they just give him a meal, and he never complains.
Although he is such a good man, God does not take good care of him. The couple are in their early fifties and have no children. This is the only regret of Carpenter Zhou.
The ancient city was recently renovated, and the city wanted to restore this unique copper coin ancient city to its original appearance. So the city leaders found Carpenter Zhou and asked him to help repair some ancient wooden houses.
While cleaning an old yard, Carpenter Zhou and several workers dug out a broken wooden box from an ancient well.
The workers originally thought they had unearthed some treasure, but when they opened the box, they were shocked to see that it was full of mud and water.
After pouring out the mud and water and rummaging around, I found a cell phone that couldn't be turned on, some miscellaneous items, most of which were rusted beyond recognition, and something that looked like a ball.
When the workers saw the mobile phone, they immediately realized that it was not an antique treasure at all. It was probably an old thing that someone had thrown into an abandoned ancient well as garbage, so they lost interest in it.
Carpenter Zhou thought the wooden box was quite interesting, so he packed up the things inside and took them back. After cleaning them up, he put all the messy things in the utility room and only took the wooden box to study.
This wooden box had no nails or glue, and it was obvious that it was made with mortise and tenon joints made with great craftsmanship. Carpenter Zhou had been doing carpentry work for most of his life, but he had never seen such excellent craftsmanship. He held the wooden box in his hands all day to study it.
On this day, Carpenter Zhou was getting ready to go out to work. His own home was in the ancient city, so he could have slept a little longer. Besides, a master craftsman like him didn't need to go out so early, and he didn't even need to do many things himself.
But Carpenter Zhou had been used to hard work for most of his life, and he felt uncomfortable just watching others work.
The work was not finished yet, and Carpenter Zhou was worried and couldn't sleep well. He got up at dawn, put on his clothes, prepared breakfast for his wife and put it on the table, then pushed the door open and went out to the construction site alone to think about what to do next.
But as soon as the door was opened, Carpenter Zhou was standing there.
There was a fat and white antelope standing at the door. The antelope looked really majestic.
Its white curly hair is as white as cotton. It is tall, big, handsome and extremely clean.
Carpenter Zhou had seen antelopes on television, but none of those antelopes had such long, curly hair, nor were they as white and majestic as this one.
What surprised Carpenter Zhou even more was that the big curly-haired white sheep was holding a baby who looked to be a few months old in its mouth.
The child was wearing denim overalls, with the straps being held by the curly-haired big white sheep. His big black eyes were meeting Carpenter Zhou's gaze.
Oh!
The big curly-haired white sheep suddenly opened its mouth and cried out, and the child in its mouth fell to the ground. Then it turned around and ran away, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The child fell to the ground and screamed in pain. Carpenter Zhou quickly picked up the child and checked whether he was injured.
Fortunately, the child was not injured, he just fell.
Carpenter Zhou took the child back home and asked his wife to help take care of him. After dawn, he went to the police station, hoping that the police station would help find the child's family.
However, after investigating, the police station found that no one had lost a child. They also heard that a large curly-haired white sheep had brought the child to Carpenter Zhou's doorstep, and they all thought this matter was very strange.
The ancient city was so small that the story of the antelope giving birth to a child quickly spread throughout the city. People said that God was kind to Carpenter Zhou and sent the antelope to give him a son.
Of course, Carpenter Zhou didn't believe it at first, but as time went on, no one came to claim the child, so the child was fostered in his home. The old couple liked the child very much, so they decided to adopt him.
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. The family of three started living like this.
Zhou Yangyang is a child less than one year old, but she never cries or makes a fuss. She is pretty and good in every way except that she is lazy and a bit picky about food.
A child of this age should be eating and playing, and the old couple are not stingy with money. They buy him all kinds of delicious food, treating him like a treasure. They hold him in their hands every day and are unwilling to leave him for a moment, for fear that he will get hurt.
That day, Carpenter Zhou went out to work the night shift, and his wife hugged Zhou Yangyang to sleep.
Seeing that the woman was fast asleep, Zhou Yangyang suddenly got up quietly, tiptoed out of bed, opened the door and went into the yard, then quietly opened the gate.
Those who know that this is a child less than one year old may think that he is a habitual thief.
The door was opened a crack, and a figure with an antelope head sneaked in. After looking around, he found that there was no one else except Zhou Yangyang, so he quickly sneaked in.
"You dead sheep, you actually have the nerve to come back? You didn't even take me with you when you ran away." Zhou Yangyang spoke in a low voice. The fluency and expression did not make him look like a child under one year old.
"Hehe, this is not my fault. You know my current situation. I have no energy at all. I am no different from an ordinary antelope. If I am really caught, I might be roasted into kebabs. How can I not run?" said the curly-haired big white sheep embarrassedly.
"Hmph, you've already run away, why are you coming back?" Zhou Yangyang said unhappily.
"Hehe, we agreed that if we find something, we'll split it 50-50. You can't keep it all to yourself. You've been sneaking in for a few months. Have you found anything?" Antelope asked with a smile.
"Looking for something? That couple is guarding me 24 hours a day. I don't even dare to say a word. Where can I find anything?" Zhou Yangyang rolled his eyes.
Lingyang wanted to say something, but heard a voice coming from the inner room. He turned around and walked out, not forgetting 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 went out of the gate, and soon saw Zhou the Carpenter's wife coming out of the house in a hurry. She saw Zhou Yangyang sitting obediently on the small bench in the yard, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Yangyang, why did you run out alone? My little baby, you made your mother worry to death." The woman picked up Zhou Yangyang and kissed him on the face lovingly, which made Zhou Yangyang look helpless.
After being carried back into the house by the woman, Zhou Yangyang sat helplessly in the crib. The woman also gave him a puppet toy to play with.
Zhou Yangyang waited for a long time until the woman fell asleep again and started snoring. Then he carefully climbed out of the crib and groped around in the house.
Based on observations over the past two or three months, the thing must be in the utility room.
He tiptoed to the door of the utility room, but found that he couldn't even reach the door handle. He muttered depressedly, "Damn woman, not only did you exile me, but you also beat me back to my infancy. I'll make you suffer when I get back."
There was no other way. Zhou Yangyang looked around and saw a small wooden stool beside him. He had no choice but to go over and move the stool over with great effort. Just as he put it at the door of the utility room, he heard the woman's snoring in the room stopped, and there was a sound of her body turning, as if she was about to get up.
Zhou Yangyang quickly moved the small stool back, sat down, and pretended to be well-behaved.
But after waiting for a while, he heard the woman's snoring again. It turned out that the woman just turned over.
"It's a shame for a woman to snore." Zhou Yangyang was a little depressed and moved the small stool again, huffing and puffing as he moved it to the door of the utility room.
This body is so small that it has no strength at all. Even moving a stool feels a bit tiring.
Zhou Yangyang was just about to step on the small stool 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 stool back and sat down again with an obedient look on his face.
But after waiting for a while, snoring sounds were heard from the inner room again, which made Zhou Yangyang so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood.
Zhou Yangyang gritted his teeth and moved the small stool over again. This time, he was determined to open the door.
"Anyway, I'm just a kid now. What's wrong with being curious? What if I find out? It doesn't matter. I'm not going to pretend anymore. I'm going to open the door!" Zhou Yangyang stood on the small stool angrily: "Who cares if I'm a woman or not? I'm going to open the door."
Zhou Yangyang put his hand on the door handle regardless of everything and was about to open the door, but suddenly he felt a strong force coming from his waist and directly picked him up.
"Yangyang, what are you doing here?" Carpenter Zhou came back after finishing his night shift, picked up Zhou Yangyang, and kissed him all over the face again.
"Damn Earthlings, why do you like the faces of your loved ones so much? Don't you have faces yourself?" Zhou Yangyang's face was full of resistance and helplessness.
"Yangyang, this door cannot be opened, otherwise there will be big trouble." Carpenter Zhou said, pointing to the door of the utility room.
Zhou Yangyang thought to himself: "The things should be inside. It seems that this human must have found those things unusual."
Carpenter Zhou's words further strengthened Zhou Yangyang's determination to search the utility room.
But Carpenter Zhou and his wife cared too much about him and were afraid that something might happen to him.
I'm over fifty years old and I finally got a son for free. How could I not care about him?
As soon as there was any sign of trouble, the couple would immediately appear by Zhou Yangyang's side, almost inseparable from him, causing Zhou Yangyang's plans to fail again and again.
Zhou Yangyang was almost going crazy. If he hadn't turned into a baby, he would have wanted to hit the couple on the neck with a knife each and knock them unconscious.
After enduring for many days, Zhou Yangyang finally found a great opportunity.
Carpenter Zhou went out to work, and the woman was washing clothes in the yard.
Zhou Yangyang, who pretended to be asleep, got up secretly, carried a small stool to the door of the utility room, stood on it and held the handle. He even glanced outside a few times, and after making sure that the woman would not come in, he pressed the handle hard and opened the door: "My babies... I'm coming... Eh..."
Zhou Yangyang just opened the door a crack, but the door opened outwards by itself. Zhou Yangyang only saw cardboard boxes piled up inside, filling the room so full that it was about to overflow.
The door had been barely closed before, but now that Zhou Yangyang had opened it, the cardboard boxes piled inside suddenly lost their balance and rushed out like a torrent, instantly drowning Zhou Yangyang.
"Ah... Yangyang..." The woman heard the sound and rushed into the house. After seeing the situation clearly, she rushed over, pushed the cardboard boxes away, and picked up Zhou Yangyang, whose face was bruised and swollen. She said distressedly: "Be good Yangyang... Don't cry... It's all Mom's fault... Mom shouldn't have bought so many things online..."
The plan failed again!
"Damn Earth woman... why did you buy so many useless junk... you bought it... what's the point of not taking it apart... it hurts me to death... wuwu..." Zhou Yangyang was extremely devastated.
After recuperating for several days, Zhou Yangyang's injury finally healed under the couple's careful care.
But because of what happened last time, the couple watched him more closely and even locked the door of the utility room to prevent Zhou Yangyang from opening it again.
"Do you think that this can stump me, Feng Ling, the most talented military strategist in the universe? Earthlings, you are too naive." Zhou Yangyang held a key in his hand with a sly smile on his face.
Zhou Yangyang glanced at the woman who was sleeping soundly in the room. This time he came prepared. He put earplugs into the woman's ears while she was asleep. The woman was so tired from taking care of him day and night these days that she slept so soundly that she didn't even notice that she was wearing earplugs.
He stood on the small stool again, opened the door with the key, then jumped to the side in a cool manner, watched the boxes fall to the ground, and made an elegant farewell gesture.
"A genius is a genius. Even if he turns into a baby, he is still a genius baby. How can such a trivial matter stump me?" Zhou Yangyang proudly climbed over the mountain of cardboard boxes and came into the utility room.
He finally saw what he had been dreaming of. At the innermost part of the storage room was a large wooden box, which should contain what he wanted.
"Babies, I'm here!" Zhou Yangyang came to the wooden box and used all his strength to open the lid of the box.
Bang!
Zhou Yangyang only saw a red object pop out of the box and hit him directly in the face, knocking him backwards and falling on the cardboard box with his limbs spread out, and his nose was bleeding.
Inside the wooden box, a red boxing glove was shaking constantly, and underneath was a thick and large spring.
"Why should I buy this kind of thing..." Zhou Yangyang lay on the pile of cardboard boxes, with a look of despair on his face, tears rolling down his eyes.
"Baby..." The woman's earth-shattering and soul-stirring scream rang out again.
As expected, 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 making fun of him.
But after looking at it again and again, I don’t think it looks like it.
But every time he made a plan, it ended in failure, and he got himself injured.
When Zhou Yangyang thought he was possessed by the god of bad luck and was almost in despair, an unexpected surprise came.
Carpenter Zhou actually took out a wooden box for him to play with. When the wooden box was opened, Zhou Yangyang's eyes lit up and he was so excited that he thought he was finally favored by God.
The things in the wooden box were all the things he had always dreamed of, including a mobile phone, cosmic coins, and Earth Companion Eggs...
That night, Zhou Yangyang took advantage of the couple's sleep and packed up his things to escape.
He quietly opened the door. Antelope was already waiting outside. Seeing Zhou Yangyang coming out, Antelope saw that no one was around and quickly 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 with pride. "Everything is in there. Let's go."
Without saying a word, the antelope picked up Zhou Yangyang, threw him on its back, and ran towards the city gate.
"Finally free." Feng Ling glanced at the courtyard that was gradually moving away. For some reason, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
Zhou Yangyang is missing!
Carpenter Zhou and his wife were almost crying their eyes out. They searched everywhere for Zhou Yangyang, asking everyone they met and searching everywhere, but they couldn't find any trace of Zhou Yangyang. After they reported the case to the police station, the police also helped to look for her, but they still couldn't find even the slightest clue. It was as if Zhou Yangyang had disappeared out of thin air.
Carpenter Zhou and his wife seemed to have lost their souls. They were dazed and did everything in a daze. They seemed to have aged a lot in just a few days, and even had white hair on their temples.
Every time the woman saw Zhou Yangyang's child on the street, she thought everyone looked like Zhou Yangyang. Many times she would rush over in surprise, only to find out to her disappointment that she had recognized the wrong person.
The couple really couldn't let go, so they finally decided to pool their money together, drive the pickup truck that Carpenter Zhou usually used to haul wood, and go out to look for Zhou Yangyang. Even if they had to travel all over the country, they would find their child back.
Carpenter Zhou and his wife drove a pickup truck with a small flag made of Zhou Yangyang's photo on it, and daily necessities such as pots, pans, quilts, etc. were placed in the back seat.
The couple had just driven out of the city gate when they were suddenly stunned. They saw from afar a handsome snow-white antelope holding a dejected child in its mouth, standing in the middle of the road, and seemed to be smiling at them.
(End of this chapter)
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