In the early morning, the sun shines on the courtyard and disperses the dewdrops on the ground. Under the shade of the tree, Master Jiu was half-lying on the rocking chair, closing his eyes to rest, not knowing whether he was asleep or awake.
Not long after, Ye Ling walked out of the room and stretched. Once upon a time, he no longer had any sleep. He was either running around or practicing every night. It's been a long time since I had a clear dream like last night.
As soon as he walked under the tree, Master Jiu closed his eyes and said, "Little Ye Zi, did you sleep well?"
"Confused, not knowing what is good or bad."
Master Jiu smiled when he heard this and pointed at the tobacco bag. Ye Ling understood, filled him with cigarettes and lit a fire.
After exhaling smoke, Master Jiu said: "With tens of millions of assets, we need to retain hard-working people; a poor family can hardly support useless people. You are so idle and wasting your time now, it is not a long-term solution!"
Ye Ling nodded and said, "If you don't tell me, I understand."
Master Jiu took a puff of cigarette, stood up and said: "The old man is not going to issue an order to expel you. I think you are quite skilled. It is the ancestor who is giving you the meal. I plan to go to the city and talk to the escort, so that you can eat a piece of the business and become rich and wealthy." No, he is a decent businessman after all, what do you think?"
Master Jiu had said it, and Ye Ling couldn't refuse, so he nodded in agreement: "It's all up to you."
"Work together!"
Master Jiu held up his pipe and walked out. As he walked, he said, "I'm going to the city right now. I'll take you there tomorrow to see you and make a name."
Not long after Master Jiu left, Xu Guo came looking for him.
"Brother Ye," Xu Guo said with a smile, "can you do the work of a bricklayer?"
Ye Ling smiled when he heard this: "I've seen it before, but I've never done it."
"Just take a look," Xu Guodao said, "Go and do a favor with your elder brother. Her sister's house has a leak in my house. She begged me to repair it. Come and do it for me."
Ye Ling nodded and let him go.
The two walked across two streets and arrived at the door of a dilapidated thatched house, but all they saw was this house: "roofed with old thatched grass, surrounded by earthen walls in disrepair. There are not many vegetables in the small courtyard, and there is no dust on the top of the well. The door is a rotten board. Yes, the windows are black with oil paper. Although this is an ordinary place in a small town, who would be in such a state of desolation?"
Pushing the door open and walking in, Xu Guo smiled and said, "Sister, I've brought someone to repair your house!"
"Uncle is here, mother, uncle is here!"
A little girl wearing patchwork clothes hurriedly ran out with a smile on her face: "Uncle!"
"Hey~ Baby, be good~"
Xu Guo picked up the little girl and rubbed her cheek with the stubble on his chin, very lovingly.
Ye Ling took a closer look and saw that this little girl was the one selling flowers with a basket yesterday evening.
The little girl also recognized Ye Ling and pointed: "It's the big brother!"
Xu Guo couldn't help but be surprised: "Do you know each other?"
Ye Ling nodded and said, "I bought her a flower last night."
Hearing this, Xu Guo frowned, blaming the little girl and saying, "Didn't my uncle tell me not to sell flowers? If you are short of money, just ask your uncle for it."
The little girl pouted with a worried look on her face: "But...but my mother's illness..."
"Cough cough cough——"
Holding on to the wall of the room, a young woman came out. Ye Ling raised his eyes and saw this woman: "
Having been ill for a long time, he must be extremely weak. His face was pale and had not turned red for a long time. It turned out that he had no money for medical treatment.
She was born a widow, but God pity left her a girl. It's a pity that mother and daughter met at the end of their lives. "
Xu Guo quickly put the little girl down and helped her mother.
The sick woman walked forward slowly and said in a weak tone: "Brother-in-law... I'm going to trouble you again..."
Xu Guoyi waved his hand: "If we don't talk to each other, I will help you repair the roof while it's still early. Come to my house for dinner tonight, and ask your sister to take you to see a doctor and get medicine tomorrow. You can't delay it any longer." It’s on fire!”
The sick woman shook her head and said: "I am a poor person and cannot be cured. I can't cause any more trouble to my sister and brother-in-law."
"You...sigh," Xu Guo said helplessly: "I know it's useless to persuade you, so let's do something practical."
With that said, Xu Guo set up the ladder he brought next to the house and climbed up to check.
The sick woman looked at Ye Ling and said, "Thank you so much, little brother."
The little girl quickly interjected: "Mom, eldest brother is a good person. He gave me the money yesterday!"
When the sick woman heard this, she quickly showed gratitude and shame and said, "The money given by my little brother is too much. How can we bear it? Let's take some back quickly!"
Ye Ling shook his head and said, "I told you, her flowers are much more precious than the money. Sister, please stop refusing. Otherwise, who will help repair the roof today?"
When the sick woman heard this, she stopped talking, sighed softly, and went back to the house.
Ye Ling looked through the hole in the window and saw that the room was filled with cloth and needlework, and a sick woman was sitting inside making clothes, coughing constantly.
It was obvious that the woman was seriously ill, but she had to work so hard, how could she survive.
"Brother Ye, let's get started!"
Xu Guo came down from his house and went to the well to fetch water and mud. Ye Ling helped him.
The two of them were busy chatting, and Xu Guo slowly talked about the family's affairs:
"My girl's name is Yun Niang. When she was sixteen years old, she married his man and gave birth to a baby. The family was originally harmonious and beautiful. But it's a pity that God didn't open his eyes and let his man fall seriously ill and die. From then on It’s just that the two of them depend on each other for life.”
"It's nothing to say. She's still young. She really can't walk around anymore. She can just find a good man and remarry. But there are always those bastards who like to talk and say that this girl in my family is the life of Kev and her man is the one who was given to her by her. Damn it, whoever marries her will definitely do bad things."
"But my sister just believed these lies. She always thought she was an unlucky person and an unknown person. So she led Xiaobao to live her life and made a living by making clothes for others."
"She is not in good health either. She has no money for medical treatment, and a minor illness has turned into a serious one, until she is like this now. I told your sister-in-law to take her over, but she refused. I said she wanted to be strong or that she had low self-esteem. Anyway, I won’t listen to anyone’s advice.”
At this point, Xu Guo sighed, looked at the window and said, "What a pitiful man!"
The two worked hard for a long time, and they didn't finish repairing the roof until the sun set.
After washing his hands, Xu Guo invited Yun Niang to his home for dinner, but was naturally rejected. The reason is that I don't want to cause any more trouble.
Xu Guo had no choice but to go back with Ye Ling.
As soon as they left, Xiaobao chased him out of the yard, gave Xu Guo a basket of vegetables, and said, "Mom said, there is nothing to give at home. I only have these vegetables for my uncle to take back."
Xu Guo didn't refuse and took it.
Seeing that Xiaobao still had a basket in his hand, Ye Ling asked, "Who are you sending it to?"
Xu Guo said: "Xu is going to send it to temples and Taoist temples again, right?"
Xiaobao nodded and said, "Yes, every time the food comes, my mother asks me to deliver it."
Hearing this, Ye Ling raised his eyebrows and asked, "There are still temples and Taoist temples in this town?"
Xu Guo nodded and said: "There are two dilapidated areas. A few years ago, a monk came and lived there. He took in two disciples and studied in the school on the east side."
Ye Ling couldn't help but be curious, so he said goodbye to Xu Guo and followed Xiaobao to have a look.
On the way, Ye Ling asked: "Your family is living on a shoestring, so why do you still go to worship the monks?"
Xiaobao said: "Mom didn't tell me the reason, but I guess it's because she is kind-hearted. In fact, the temples and Taoist temples are also having a hard time, and they always have too much to eat."
Ye Ling nodded and asked, "Everyone your age is studying in the school, why don't you go?"
Hearing this, Xiaobao lowered his head and said, "Mom doesn't have money for me to go to school. The teacher at the school said there is no money, but mom still has to pay the money before she is willing to let me go."
Ye Ling sighed secretly in his heart. He didn't know whether Yun Niang's temper was good or bad.
"Brother, have you ever been to school? Are you literate?" Xiaobao raised his head and looked at Ye Ling with blinking eyes.
Ye Ling nodded and said, "I've been to school before, so I know a lot about it." When he was young, he went to school with his third brother Wu Qing. I still remember that the gentleman was very strict, and he and his third brother had a lot of fights.
Xiaobao was very envious: "I wonder when I will be able to go to school. I will pick flowers to sell tomorrow and save enough money for school as soon as possible!"
Ye Ling looked at her. Although he wanted to give her money, he didn't dare to say so. You need to find a suitable opportunity.
The two of them turned around three streets and arrived at the corner of an alley in front of the temple and Taoist temple.
The temple and the Taoist temple are directly opposite each other. On the left and right, there is a small dilapidated temple. The door panel is broken, and the interior of the temple can be clearly seen: the temple enshrines a Buddha statue with peeling paint; the Taoist temple enshrines three lost colors. Qingzun.
However, Ye Ling's eyes were attracted by the couplets at the entrances of the two halls, and he couldn't help but smile knowingly.
But I saw a couplet on the door of this temple saying: "
The sunset is fragrant, leaving my mortal mind a little bit
When the fire is gone and the furnace is cold, come and tie the horse tightly."
Turning around, I saw a couplet at the door of the Taoist temple: "
If you lose your temper and fail to speak, it is inevitable that your relatives will be disgraced.
When there is no one around, you will know how to avoid chaos and stop talking."
Ye Ling really couldn't understand why these two couplets were hung at the entrances of temples and Taoist temples. Could it be that he was unhappy?
Just as he was thinking about it, Xiaobao shouted: "Budu, self-study, I'm here to bring you food!"
Not long after, two people trotted out from the backyard, one to the left and the other to the right. They were the young monk and the young Taoist priest who had fought at the entrance of the school that day.
The little monk's Dharma name is not passed on, but the little Taoist's Dharma name is cultivated by himself.
As soon as he came out, the little Taoist self-cultivation spoke first: "Xiaobao, you are here, I will call my master right now!"
As he spoke, the little Taoist priest ran back to the Taoist temple.
But the little monk Budu stretched out his hand to pull Xiaobao's clothes and said with a smile: "Let's go to the temple and talk about it."
"No!" Zixiu hurriedly ran over, grabbed Budu's hand, and said angrily: "Why do you want to go to your bald donkey's ruined temple? You should come to my Taoist temple!"
Budu said angrily: "You idiot, be careful that your broken Taoist temple soils Xiaobao's clothes!"
"Bald donkey!"
"Asshole!"
"ah--"
The monks fought one after another, and everyone disliked the other, and they had to compete to determine the winner.
Ye Ling laughed at the side, but Xiaobao was very anxious: "Don't fight anymore, I'm just here to deliver food, and I won't go into the temple or Taoist temple!"
After hearing this, Budu and Zixiu glared at each other fiercely, and let go of their hands "reluctantly".
Xiaobao took out the vegetables that had been divided in the basket, one for each person, and said: "I heard that you were punished several times by the master of the school for fighting. Please don't fight again in the future. My mother told my family They are all pure-hearted and have few desires, and will never fight against others!"
But as soon as he finished speaking, he saw these two boys placing vegetables on the ground and counting them one by one.
"I am Thirty Six!"
"Impossible, I only have thirty-four trees, and you deliberately used more trees to get more than me!"
"I didn't. Sure enough, Xiaobao likes me more!"
"Asshole, if you dare to talk nonsense again, I will tear your mouth apart!"
"You bald ass, I will teach you a lesson today!"
"Zamao, let me see what you are capable of!"
As a result, the two people got into a fight again because of the number of vegetables, and they were inseparable...
