During lunch, Xiao An ran in excitedly from outside.
They said to the Sun family, Bao family and Yang Ruoqing who were placing chopsticks and bowls in the kitchen: "Mother, fifth aunt, sister, Uncle Chang Geng picked up a salesman and returned to the village!"
"What? Make it clear."
Yang Ruoqing said while eating in casual clothes.
Sun and Bao Suyun also pricked up their ears.
Xiao An grabbed the pot and said excitedly to Yang Ruoqing: "Uncle Chang Geng was in the field behind the village and saw a salesman bitten by a snake."
"Uncle Chang Geng carried the salesman back to the village and invited the old village doctor to come and save him."
"Wow, that salesman's load contains a lot of new gadgets, it's really interesting..."
"Oh?" Yang Ruoqing raised her eyebrows.
This area is full of mountains.
Changping Village is still on the outskirts of the mountain, only more than 20 miles away from Qingshui Town.
The Mianniu Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, and there are numerous large and small mountain villages and villages located in the mountain.
Sunjiagou, Jiangjiapo, Sijiaao...
Surrounded by mountains, the mountain roads are rugged.
Except for a big road in the southeast that connects the north and the south, there is no way for the convoys and horses to enter other places.
If people in the mountains want to eat, drink, and have diarrhea, they cannot do without oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar.
To dress against the cold, needles and thread are indispensable.
Going to the market every month on the fifth day of the month is the time for them to exchange items.
But there are still some remote mountains and old forests where it is not easy to go out to the market.
But the mountain goods inside are about to come out, and the needles, threads, and other things outside are eager to get in.
On the rugged mountain road, the salesman is a mobile trading and retail point.
So now, Yang Ruoqing was not surprised at all that Uncle Chang Geng saved a salesman.
"Just pick it up after you pick it up from a salesman. Look at how excited you are. Don't think I can't guess what your idea is."
Yang Ruoqing smiled and said something to Xiao An.
"Tell me, what does the salesman in the photo have in his bag?" she asked again.
Xiao An grinned: "Awl candy."
Awl candy?
Yang Ruoqing remembered.
The malt is used to make dark yellow candies as big as a little finger.
Some are sprinkled with white sesame seeds.
"You want to eat awl candies, right? Come on, have a full bowl of food at noon, and I'll take you to buy it."
Yang Ruoqing said.
"Great!"
Xiao An cheered, turned around and ran back to the table to sit down.
"Hey, what does sister usually teach you? What should you do before eating?" Yang Ruoqing called to Xiaoan again.
Xiao An stuck out his tongue: "I'm going to wash my hands right now."
After that, he ran to the next room to wash his hands.
Here, Bao Suyun looked at Xiao An running away, and couldn't help but sigh to Mrs. Sun: "Qing'er still knows how to teach children. Look, these rules are so good!"
Mrs. Sun smiled happily and sat down with her rice.
"I don't know whether what Xiao An said just now is true or false," said Sun.
"But Chang Geng's family really does have a field beside the woods behind the village." She added.
"Spring has begun, and snakes, insects, rats, and ants are all out. I don't know if the snake that bit the salesman is venomous or not. How are people being saved?"
"Third sister-in-law, logically speaking, they are not poisonous. Venomous snakes are all in the mountains. We only have those kinds of snakes in the surrounding areas." Bao Suyun said.
After the four of them had eaten, Xiao An pestered Yang Ruoqing to take him to buy those 'awl candies'.
Yang Ruoqing said: "The salesman is still rescuing him. Even if he wants to buy candy, he has to wait until he wakes up."
Xiao An said: "I heard from my cousin Yongqing earlier that when the salesman was unconscious, he smashed the salesman's load, and the things belong to us."
Yang Ruoqing pinched Xiao An's nose directly.
"You can't do this kind of thing. It's stealing and robbing, and what you get is dirty. Do you want to eat dirty awl candies?" she asked.
Xiao An shook his little head like a rattle.
Just as he was about to take Xiao An to Uncle Chang Geng's house to take a look, Xiao Yu came over.
"Qing'er, my mother sent me over to borrow some japonica rice from your family."
Xiaoyu said as he entered the house.
"We have japonica rice, how much do you want?"
Yang Ruoqing asked after taking the bowl Xiaoyu brought over.
Xiaoyu said: "Just half a bowl is enough. My mother said she would make a bowl of egg and rice porridge for the salesman to calm his shock."
"So, the salesman that Uncle Chang Geng rescued did not die of poison?" Yang Ruoqing asked.
Xiao Yu smiled and shook his head: "The water snake bit him, so it's okay, but he looks so scared, I'm afraid he has to rest at my house now."
"My mother plans to cook some japonica rice porridge for the salesman at night," she said.
While she was speaking, Yang Ruoqing had already scooped up the japonica rice and handed it to Xiao Yu.
"I'll go over there with you and buy some awl candies for Xiao An to satisfy his craving."
The three of them came to Xiaoyu's house together.
Auntie Osmanthus Osmanthus was pouting her buttocks in the chicken coop and picking out eggs.
The three of them greeted Osmanthus Na and went straight into the house.
In the west wing where the guests were being entertained, Chang Geng and the two men next door were chatting with him.
There was a middle-aged man sitting in a simple shop in the corner of the room.
When Yang Ruoqing walked in, the first thing she saw was that the middle-aged man's head was bigger than the palm of his hand.
I was attracted by the bright bald head.
It's so unique. Living in the same room with him, you don't need to light up the lights at night.
I saw Yang Ruoqing and Xiao Yu coming in together, holding Xiao An's hand.
After Chang Geng smiled and asked about the purpose of their visit, he said to the bald man: "These are the two children from my brother's family who came here specifically to buy the candies you carried."
"How to sell it? You can sell it to me." Chang Geng said.
The bald man said: "Brother Chang Geng, are you talking nonsense?"
"You saved my bald man's life. How many awl candies are still money? Why don't you slap my bald brother on my face?"
As the bald man spoke, he unloaded the bag very generously, picked up two handfuls of candies, and placed them on the bed.
And said to other people in the room: "No money, everyone will eat..."
Xiao An licked his lips, but only followed Yang Ruoqing's instructions on the way and took only two pills.
After taking two pills, he obediently looked up at Yang Ruoqing.
Yang Ruoqing touched Xiao An's head and said, "Be good, go out and finish."
Xiao An ran out quickly.
Chang Geng asked in confusion: "Why not let him take a few more pills?"
Yang Ruoqing said: "Two are enough."
Xiao An is now four years old and almost five weeks old.
You still have teeth in your mouth and haven’t entered the stage of tooth replacement yet.
This kid got fat after eating too much sugar.
It is mainly prone to tooth decay. In severe cases, it may even affect the growth trend of teeth in the future.
So we have to strictly control it.
After hearing what Yang Ruoqing said, Chang Geng no longer insisted.
He put the remaining handful of candy back into the bald man's load.
"Brother Baldy, it's not easy for you to earn some hard-earned money by hawking all over the mountains. We won't eat the candy, so you should keep it."
The bald man smiled and said, "Brother Chang Geng is such a good man. He is so considerate of me, a foreigner."
Hearing the words 'outsider', Yang Ruoqing's eyes fell on the bald man again.
This bald man, for some reason, she smelled a strange feeling from him.
