On the way back to Ami and Li Xinying's grandmother's house, Ami saw a white-bearded old man, sitting at the gate of a house, holding a cane in his hand, looking at him stupidly, with joy in his eyes.

"Old and unserious!" Li Xinying muttered.

"Li Xinying, who are you talking about?" Ami asked in surprise.

"Who else can you say, that white-bearded old man just now, he is so old, and he still looks at you directly." Li Xinying said angrily.

"Li Xinying, don't think so, I don't think he looks like a bad person, didn't I see him holding a cane? He must be physically disabled, but he is just a poor lonely old man. Ami argued.

"Anyway, the way I look at him is just wrong, you must know that we are all girls, and we can't let strangers look like that." Li Xinying said indignantly.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it, it's just for people to see, we have nothing to lose, look at what makes you angry." Ami shook his head and said with a wry smile.

"It's okay if he looks at me like that, but it's not okay to look at our family's Ami." Li Xinying really bit her tail, she just didn't let go, and she didn't let go.

When I arrived at my grandmother's house, Ami saw that my grandmother looked very good, obviously she didn't know about the debt turmoil that happened at her uncle's house just now, she didn't know better, so she didn't know better, so she didn't want to make her grandmother angry, so Ami asked her grandmother: "Grandma, just now we came back from my uncle's house and saw a white-bearded old man sitting outside the house, who is he, why don't you go home in the cold, and you are not afraid of freezing, is it that the people in his family treat him badly?" ”

"Oh? You're talking about Liu Laohan, who had a cerebral thrombosis the year before last and almost died, and after being saved, he had sequelae, and half of his body didn't obey the call. This person, he used to be enthusiastic, he especially likes to help others, whoever has a big or small thing, he has to help, but he didn't really want it, but he got such a disease, and his hair and beard turned white all of a sudden. Alas, it's all fate, he doesn't like to be quiet, and he can't go far, so he has to sit at the door of his house and watch the excitement, his son and daughter-in-law are very good to him, and he also has a wife, his body is similar to mine, and he can do anything. ”

"Oh, I saw he was still smiling at me when I was passing by." Ami thought for a moment and then continued.

"It's not surprising, he knows you, when you were young, he liked you, and he even carried you to the store to buy popsicles. You were young at the time, so you must not have remembered it. Grandma said happily with a smile on her face.

After Ami listened, she suddenly felt a fog, and a strange feeling welled up in her heart, she looked back at Li Xinying, Li Xinying was so shocked that she stuck out her tongue, just now she misunderstood people, saying that people are old and not serious, it turns out that this is the case.

"Grandma, since he used to be so good to me, I'll go talk to him when I have time, okay?" Ami said.

"Of course you can, my granddaughter is really sensible, Liu Laohan must be very happy if he knows that you still remember him." Grandma said and turned around and went into the kitchen to see if the pig's head and pig's feet that had just been stewed were ready.

Ami has been at her grandmother's house for so long, and she has never carefully observed the kitchen of her grandmother's house, and whenever she goes in, her grandmother always says that there is a lot of smoke and she is not allowed to go in. This time, Ami followed her grandmother into the kitchen. At my grandmother's house, I used a rice cooker for cooking and an induction cooker for cooking, because this was in winter to heat the kang for heating, and I generally switched to a large iron pot for stir-frying. There is no smoke machine in the kitchen, and the window can not be opened to deflate in winter, the kitchen is full of steam, greasy everywhere, Ami saw that his grandfather was sitting next to the stove pit, and often added intercepted firewood to it.

"Ami, don't come in, go to the back room to play, the air is not good here." Grandma persuaded.

"Grandpa, I'm going to make a fire too, can I do it?" When Ami saw his grandfather adding firewood, he immediately became interested.

"Yes, Ami is so old that he can do anything." Grandpa sat on top of the pony and said with a smile.

"Then grandpa, let me add firewood." Ami said and squatted next to the kang stove, and the grandfather took out a small horse from behind him and handed it to Ami to sit on. Ami picked up a piece of firewood with the thickness of his wrist, carefully walked into the stove pit, and saw that the firewood was first roasted in it until it was steaming, and then it also burned, looking at the jumping flames, Ami felt very fresh, and his heart was also very happy.

"Ami, don't get so close to the stove pit, be careful that there are coals in it that will burst out and burn you." Grandpa was beside him and told Ami.

"Oh!" As soon as Ami's body retreated a step back, he saw a charcoal with a large nail popping out of the stove pit, flying high, and landing right next to Ami's shoes, if it fell on his head and face, he would definitely burn out a blister.

"Grandpa, that old man Liu on the side of the road, are you familiar with it?" Ami hadn't talked to his grandfather for a long time, so he opened the conversation.

"I know, we came here in the same year when we were young, don't look at his hair and beard are white, in fact, he is two years younger than me, at that time, he always loves to smile, likes to joke, and has suffered a lot of losses for this, at that time, if I didn't protect him, I don't know how many beatings I would have suffered." Grandpa was very happy when he remembered what happened back then, and his eyes were very bright when he spoke.

"I see that his house is quite dilapidated, is his family very poor?" Ami remembered that when he passed by Liu Laohan's house, he saw that the house behind him was very dilapidated, the entire wall was plastered with yellow mud, and there were obvious cracks.

"Their family, they didn't live there before, and the house they live in is bigger and better than grandpa's." Grandpa said with a smile.

"Then why is their family poor now?" Ami asked, puzzled.

"Five years ago, something happened to their family that caused their family to be miserable." Grandpa is the best at telling stories, so he said eloquently: "Our place, don't look very remote, but it can also be regarded as a treasure of feng shui, because the small river in our village produces gold, and our place was known as the land of gold in the past." On that day, there were a few young people who had nothing to do and chatted together, and one of them said that someone in the village had picked up a shiny stone, and when he returned home to take a closer look, it turned out to be a gold stone, that is, the stone had a very high gold content. At this moment, one of the young men, who was the second son of Liu Laohan's family, boasted and said: What is that, my brother also picked up a dog's head gold, which is as big as a dog's head. ”

"Grandpa, is what this person said true?" Ami listened attentively and asked curiously.