On the seventh day of the opening of the porridge shed, it began to rain. As the saying goes, an autumn rain is a cold, now it is late August and it is nearly September, the weather is getting colder and colder, the temperature under the continuous autumn rain plummets, Chang Mama even took a small cotton clip for Layue to wear, and also made a thin knee pad for her to force Layue to wear in the skirt.

Layue looked at the knees of the two legs in the skirt with a smile and said, "Mama, it's not winter yet, I'm dressed like a seventy or eighty mother-in-law, and I'm tired of even walking around, how can I help make porridge." ”

"Where is the young lady," Mama Chang picked up the long stove and turned on the stove, put in a few pieces of coke, and then added half a pot of water to the pot seat, and said while busy, "It's raining today, there are few people coming and going, maybe there is no one, the old slave himself is busy, let's boil half a pot today, if it is really not enough to see that there are more people, it will be too late to boil." ”

Layue looked at the rain curtain dripping on the eaves of the shed, and said with a smile, "The croppers just take advantage of the rainy day to have a leisure, maybe the family is bored and just come here to pass the time, I lived in the Zhuangzi when I was a child, when I can't work in the rain and snow, I will rub the pile to have fun, if you catch up with the good harvest of the year, please also ask the storyteller to say the whole book, one is three or four months, the people in the village go to see it every day, and when the book is finished, it is time for spring ploughing." ”

Mama Chang smiled when she heard this, "Young lady, where is the Zhuangzi where you live?" The plains are fertile, and the crops naturally grow well, and there is money to spare, please ask the storyteller. What is this place? The fields carved out of the ravines can be dug out with a hoe to dig out two pieces of gravel, which are very barren, and they are also planted with drought-tolerant things of cotton and millet, and the people in the village cannot even collect the food for eating, so how can they have spare money to ask for a story. She quickly poured the washed red beans into the pot, stirred a few times, and covered the lid. Returned to Layue and sat down, "You believe in the old slave, the croppers in Tongyi Village take advantage of the rainy day to repair farm tools at home, pinch millet or something, there is work on a rainy day, and there will definitely be no outings to hang out." ”

Layue took the washed peony flowers on the table in front of her and slowly tore the petals, listening to Mama Chang talk about the local customs, she felt reasonable, and said with a smile, "Mama said that the farm tools used here reminded me of one thing, the Zhuangzi where I lived was a fertile land, and the hoes I saw in the past few days were different from what I saw at that time." ”

Mama Chang also smiled, "Young lady, you can be really careful, the soil pine of the plain, the hoe is easy to get into the ground, and the hoe is used with a wide hoe, and the iron of the hoe is not so hard and thick, but the fields in this mountain are all broken stones, and the hoe collapses all at once, so they all use a narrow two-finger-wide thin face hoe to get off the ground, and the iron is also used with a hard hoe that is thick." ”

Layue handed the torn petals in her hand to Mama Chang, and wanted to get up from the chair and move her legs and feet, but she suddenly sat back with a tingling pain in her knees.

Mama Chang was taken aback when she saw this, and put a soup woman on her lap with a distressed face, "Is your knee hurt?" This is the root of the disease, at that time, the cold weather of the spring, the cold air drilled the bones, as soon as the cold weather is encountered, what can I do, young lady, you are only in your twenties to get such a root of the disease, this will be carefully and carefully don't catch a cold in the future. ”

I didn't expect this knee to hurt so much, I thought I was young, and I was very concerned about raising it at that time, since I recovered it was completely good, but I never thought that the injury was so serious, and it just started to hurt in autumn, how can I live in winter? Is it just a lifetime with this disease?

Holding Tang Pozi, Layue thought for a long time and didn't know whether to comfort Mama Chang or comfort herself, "Mama, don't worry, I'll go back today and find Master Golden Finger to take a look, his medical skills are so good, there must be a way for me to get rid of this root cause." ”

Not only is the rain outside not small, but gradually has the meaning of getting bigger and bigger, Layue didn't want to talk to Mama Chang about this leg again, for fear that the more she thought about it, the more sad she became, so she interrupted, "Mama, look, how can this autumn rain fall like this, like a summer, today I see that no one is really coming, you put two bowls of red bean soup, and then take the steamed buns that came in the morning and hot two, let's eat them and go back." ”

Mama Chang sighed, and just put the bun in the cage drawer, when she saw Layue suddenly exclaim, pointing to a person who was stumbling on the road far away, "Mama, look at that person, hurry!" Check it out! Is it a fellow who has committed some old disease, there are cliffs on both sides of this path, and the road is slippery, if you fall down, you will lose your life. ”

Mama Chang didn't wait for her to finish speaking, she had already picked up the umbrella by the stove and promised to run to meet the man.

Seeing that Chang Mama caught the man, the umbrella couldn't be held, and the person pounced on Chang Mama's body, it seemed that she had fainted, and she looked around the moon to see that there was no one who passed by, for fear that Chang Mama would be careless, both of them fell and rolled under the cliff next to them, and had no choice but to struggle, and ran into the rain with the pain of her knees and Chang Mama helped the person in, Chang Mama spread out a mat by the stove, and put the fainted person against it, and there was a fire by the stove to warm up.

The two of them pulled the pale and fainted man's hair apart and snorted at the same time.

Mama Chang was surprised, "Isn't this Lai Qi, the apprentice of Wang Lao Xian'er?" What about Laiba? The two of them have always been in the same place. ”

Layue was also surprised, she had always known that this Lai Qi Lai Eight and the two of them were scoundrels, and she had asked the shopkeeper Gao to take some spare money to keep it in case her mother-in-law was looking for her bad luck, why did this person appear here? It's still half-dead.

She is unwilling to deal with this kind of person, and despises this kind of lazy second-rate person who specializes in cheating, abducting, and blackmailing people for a living, but since the person is saved, there is no reason to throw it out again.

"Mama," she thought for a moment, "I see that he looks like he is cold and hungry and faints, you feed him some porridge and let him go when he wakes up." After speaking, Layue opened the curtain of the shed and avoided the back room.

Mama Chang knew that the young lady didn't like this person very much as she saw Layue's face, so she poured Lai Qiyi a bowl of porridge down, and saw him waking up slowly, and was about to say that he was going to close the stall and let him go.

But he didn't expect that as soon as Lai Qi opened his eyes, he shouted, "Don't kill me!" Don't kill me! He clutched his head in horror and shouted wildly.