Chapter 144: The Distant Big Cousin (Part I)
A young man in tattered clothes pushed a dilapidated cart with a cart of sweet potatoes of different sizes stacked on top of it...... After looking closely, I realized that it was taro, black on the outside, and it matched the dirt on the young man's face. The young man's hair was dirty and messy, and his face was thin, but his eyes were very slick, and he kept an eye on the passers-by, as if he hoped that someone would buy his taro.
It wasn't just these that caught my attention, but I saw two middle-aged women carrying bamboo baskets passing by his cart and casually asked, "This taro is very good, how can you sell it?" Where did you get that from, young man? Why are you all dirty? In fact, one of the most enthusiastic people in the world is the woman who goes to the street to buy vegetables, likes to chat, make a joke, hear the two middle-aged women ask, the young man is a little embarrassed to wipe his face with dirty sleeves, but it is good not to wipe it, the sleeves are dirtier, and the face is like a painting, which makes the two women laugh.
The young man looked very honest and honest, and in order to sell taro, he had to reply: "I was pulled out of the mountain, the car overturned when I went out of the mountain, and it took an afternoon to pick it up, and now it is almost dark, if the two aunts want, they can sell it to you cheaply." This is all grown by my family, and it only costs five cents a pound! He was very heavy on five cents a pound, and seemed to want the two women to buy the taro.
Although he can eat a full meal for a dollar now, taro is not cheap to that extent, and it seems that he really wants to make some money to go home. Hearing the young man's words, one of the women asked in surprise, "Pulled out of the mountains?" There are mountains all around here, which mountain is your house in? What is your village called? My mother's house is also in the mountains, near the Great Copper Mountain. ”
When the young man heard this, he smiled honestly: "My home is in the mountains near Banbian Mountain, next to Maoshan Mountain, and Datong Mountain is far away, and our village is called Shanao Village...... Recently, the people in the village are afraid to go out, and the people from outside are afraid to enter our village, and now our village lacks food and drink...... "As soon as I heard him say that he came out of Shanao Village, I immediately turned my head to look, which was the main reason for attracting my attention.
"That is, the Great Copper Mountain is still in the south, and half of the mountain is in the north, and the two places can't be beaten, hehe...... That's right! You just said where you came from? Yama Cave Village? Oops! I heard that there have been zombies in your mountain village recently, and it has been so fierce that people have died! You, you, you don't have corpse poison or something, do you? Who would dare to go to the area of Banbian Mountain now...... Hurry up, hurry up, go away! ”
The middle-aged woman was joking at first, but halfway through her words, she reacted, and immediately stared at the young man in horror, and then pulled the woman who was pulling her companion to turn around and leave, as if she had encountered a plague god.
Moreover, the people who originally stopped nearby to buy taro heard that he was from Shanao Village, and immediately ran away as if they had seen a ghost. In the blink of an eye, there was not even a ghost shadow near the young man, and the young man looked around with an embarrassed and innocent face, silently lowering his head and turning the big taro in the carriage onto it, hoping to be seen and bought.
I finished eating the noodles, paid the money, then got up and walked to the young man, and said with a smile: "You are so honest, you can't even tell a lie, you are very disadvantaged, if you just said that you are from the side of the big copper mountain, and do not say that you are from half of the mountain and mountain village, maybe those two people will also buy your taro, and the others have the idea of getting together, won't the three or three be sold out?" As a result, as soon as you mention Shanao Village, everyone runs away, who shouts that you dare to buy your taro? ”
"Big brother, big brother, why don't you buy some taro from my family, my family has no food, not even a grain of rice, the family is still waiting for me to sell taro for some rice, change some vegetables and go home to cook in a pot, as a result, as a result, as soon as people heard that I was from Shanao Village, they were afraid that I would carry the corpse poison of zombies on my body, and they were afraid that I would infect them, and no one dared to buy it...... Woowoo woo ......"
A big man actually cried while talking, as if he had been suppressed for a long time, and suddenly confiscated it and completely collapsed.
I stepped forward and patted the young man on the shoulder, and then said: "It's getting dark, the vegetable seller and the rice shop are about to close the stall, let's hurry up and buy some vegetables and rice, and then you can cook and eat when you go home, don't sell these taro, five cents a pound of cheap sales, it can't be exchanged for much money, it's better to put it at home to boil porridge and eat a full meal!" After saying that, I took the young people directly and pulled the cart into the street, so that the young people could not hesitate.
Half an hour later, I spent almost all the dozens of yuan on my body, bought more than half a bag of rice, and bought dozens of catties of Chinese cabbage and other miscellaneous items, and piled them on the young man's board cart.
Out of the town, the young man still looked at me with a blank face, and asked hesitantly: "Big brother, this, this, this is all your money, I, I don't have so much money for you......"
"I'm a footman, it's useless to ask for money, it's better to help you, your family is waiting for dinner, if I can help you, it can be regarded as the greatest value of this money." By the way, my name is Li Xianchu, what's your name? ”
The more than 50 yuan should have been spent in the cattle herding ditch, but Granny Wang refused to accept it, so I kept it until now, and I never thought that it would be of great use here, which is all the merit of Granny Wang......
The young man hurriedly said: "Hello Brother Li, my name is Niu Quier (accent kuir, no such word), a native of Shanao Village, life is really unbearable, I can eat taro every day, but I still have an elderly grandfather and a father and mother above me, I don't want to see my family suffer too much, plus the family planted some taro, I thought about pulling it to this town to sell as much as I wanted, and change some staple food for my family to eat." ”
Hearing Niu Quer'er's words, I nodded slightly, he is really a filial child, it seems that I have not helped him wrongly. After thinking about it, I immediately smiled and said, "Niu Quier, I'm ...... I want to ask you for a favor, I don't know if I can, of course, if you don't want to help, it's fine, it's nothing to buy you something, I didn't ask you for help because of this. ”
I was afraid that Niu Quier would misunderstand that I wanted him to pay something, so I tried my best to explain it clearly. But hearing my words, Niu Quier nodded heavily: "Brother Li, you have spent so much money and bought so many things for me, let me do anything, you say, as long as I can help you, I will definitely help you!" ”
"Huh! I'm embarrassed to open my mouth when you say it, in fact, it's not a big deal, I just have nowhere to stay, I want to go to your village to live for two days, but you also know, I am a Taoist priest, and recently your mountain village has been surrounded by disciples sent down by Maoshan, not allowing outsiders to enter, I can't get in, I can only think of your help, if you can take me in, it won't cause their rejection, at least it won't be kicked out. ”
I don't know how to explain it, but I can say what I want to say.
Hearing this, a smile immediately appeared on Niu Qu'er's dirty face, revealing two rows of white teeth, and he seemed to understand my words. Then he whispered: "Actually, they don't let people in our village come out casually, I ran out secretly, it's easy for Brother Li to go to our village, just say that my relatives can go in, they know everyone in our village, and they have seen me, I'll help you!" ”
Niu Quier agreed to my request so happily, but he didn't ask me why I had to go to Shanao Village, I would smile, this Niu Quier is a smart person, he doesn't want to say a lot of things, but his heart is the same as Ming Spiegel. It should be the kind of wisdom and foolishness that people often say in the world, that's it, it looks stupid on the surface, but in fact, it has a smart brain!
Seeing Niu Quier agree, I immediately laughed: "Haha! Well, I'm your distant cousin, cousin, let's go home! With that, I pushed the cart with Niu Quier and walked happily in the direction of the half of the mountain. The sky has already darkened, the sky is full of stars, but at the end of the moon, the moon hides and does not dare to see people, the road is dim and can't see clearly, but it is difficult to stop the cow quine, it seems that the car overturned during the day, so he is very vigilant, plus now the car is pulling so many precious grains, his eyes are staring at the road, straight to the light.
On the desolate mountain road, while we were rushing to the road, Niu Ji'er inexplicably popped out a sentence: "In fact, those Taoist priests in Maoshan have stayed in our village for several days and have not found anything, and our village is still dead, our village people have long hoped that Gu Tan and Yang Yuanshan on the mountain can take care of the affairs of our village, but they didn't come down, they just sent a group of young disciples, and they didn't use it, if someone can take care of the affairs of our village at this time, it really saves our whole village!" ”
Master's reputation and Gu Tan's reputation, I didn't expect it to be so popular in the local area, but also, people who know a little bit about metaphysics in the north and south of the river, who doesn't know the two people of Grandmaster Gu Tan and Grandmaster Yang Yuanshan? But when I heard Niu Ji'er's words, I also sighed lightly, now the Maoshan faction is coming with internal and external troubles, and my master wants to come down to solve problems for the people, but Gu Tan is making a fuss to collect the last Sanmao oracle, and my master can't help it.
Now I can only represent my Master, and I can do whatever I can for the people. After thinking about it, I smiled and said, "I went this time, in fact, to rob their business!" After saying that, Niu Ji'er and I looked at each other, and we both smiled.