Bai Gu thought for a while, but still didn't know where to go.
There is no Mr. Tang’s storytelling room in Ant Hall today, so we can’t listen to storytellers. The old beggar is not in the city either, so there is no way to play with him.
Really boring.
Bai Gu unclenched his fists and put his hands into his sleeves.
Normally, at this time, he would have to quickly think of ways and opportunities to exchange for some food, and get home before dark to ensure that Bai Xiaoxiao would not faint from hunger. You can also go home early to play with Bai Xiaoxiao so that she won't be scared at home alone.
Bai Xiaoxiao has been timid since he was a child and is afraid of the dark.
But now that Bai Gu has money, he no longer has to worry about food and drink. He no longer has to worry about food and is tired of running around.
However, Bai Xiaoxiao was lying unconscious in Changzhou Pharmacy, and there was no need to go back to accompany her earlier.
It seems that Bai Gu has nothing to do now.
Bai Gu raised his head slightly, and a snowflake fell on the tip of his nose. Before Bai Gu could raise his hand to sweep it away, it had already melted, leaving only a little coolness.
Bai Gu reached out and touched the tip of his nose, thinking of someone in his heart.
You can go there and have a look.
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"What would you like to drink, sir?" The young man jogged and came to a man wearing a moon-white robe.
The man looked around, a trace of disgust flashing in his eyes, "Where is your private room?"
"Upstairs, the private room on the second floor is elegant, and the private room on the third floor is spacious. Which floor would you like to go to?" the young man grinned.
The big money is coming.
"The higher, the better." The man glanced at the wine list and was slightly surprised, "Is there any Yuzhu Chunshi here?"
"Yes, we have ten-year brewing, decades-old brewing, and century-old brewing here. Which kind do you want?" The young man smiled even more.
This, this, this...this is definitely a big deal!
Yuzhu Chunxiu is one of the best wines in Yaojiu Pavilion, and the price is not low.
The service must be good, maybe there will be a tip!
The man frowned slightly, "Don't talk nonsense, the longer the better."
After saying that, the man went straight upstairs.
The young man quickly asked someone to follow him, while he went to the counter to place an order and pick up a drink.
Not long after the man sat down, the young man came in carrying a blue and white fish pot.
"Sir, this is Yuzhu Chunxiu brewed for two hundred years. Please use it with caution. There is a maid outside the private room. If you have any other needs, you can call her." The young man put down the wine bottle and left wisely.
The man poured a glass of wine by himself, took a sip, and immediately frowned.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." The man threw the cup down hard, his tone full of impatience.
A man in a green shirt walked in through the door.
The man in green shirt had a smile on his face and took out a jade-inlaid Yun Yun pot in his hand as if by magic. "My subordinates are ignorant and can't bring the wine on the table to fool senior. Senior, please forgive me."
The man in the robe just glanced at it, and his expression softened a little, "A little discerning."
"Be careful, senior, as long as you don't mind it." The man in green shirt still smiled and just stood at the table without sitting down.
In other words, I dare not sit down.
The man in the robe glanced at the man in the green shirt, then at the green gourd on the latter's waist, and smiled meaningfully, "Your wine gourd is not bad."
"Senior, I got the prize, it's just okay." The smile on the man in green shirt's face deepened, "Then I won't disturb you, senior. I'm in the tavern, senior, just call me if you need anything."
The man in the robe nodded and drank to himself.
The man in green shirt didn't care. He put away the pot of two-hundred-year-old Yuzhu Chunxiu and exited the door.
Not even a sound was made when the door was closed.
The man in the robe looked out the window and drank the wine in his glass. "This Yunshui City is really interesting. It's not a bad trip."
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Mr. Wu pushed open the door and walked straight to the seats in the reception area.
A middle-aged man in a purple robe with slightly frosted temples immediately stood up, smiled and bowed to greet Mr. Wu, "Old Wu, I have long admired your name."
After Mr. Wu sat down, he just waved his hands with an impatient look on his face, "Don't talk about whether you have something or not. If you have something to say, just say it. If nothing happens, I still have patients, so I'll be busy."
The man in purple robe didn't pay attention to Elder Wu's words, and said unhurriedly: "I am here to discuss important matters with Elder Wu."
"You and I don't seem to have anything to do with each other, right?"
"That's true. But, I do have something important to do here today."
Mr. Wu said expressionlessly, "Say."
"This visit is because I want to ask Mr. Wu for someone, someone..."
Before the man in purple robe finished speaking, Mr. Wu raised his hand and interrupted, "It's impossible, don't even think about it."
"Mr. Wu, please don't refuse so quickly. Don't you want to hear the terms I'm offering?"
"Okay, bring your thing and I can think about it."
The face of the man in purple robe changed, "Impossible! Mr. Wu, you are forcing yourself to do something difficult!"
Mr. Wu sneered, "You can't even show your sincerity. Is this your attitude in talking about things?"
The man in purple robe obviously looked unhappy, "Mr. Wu, I respect you for your high moral character and high respect, that's why you are so nice and angry, otherwise..."
"Otherwise? What else? Do you still want to steal someone from me? Think carefully about where this is and who I am?!"
As he spoke, an extremely powerful aura rose up from Mr. Wu's body, like an angry lion.
The purple-robed man's expression became increasingly ugly. He had forgotten that this was the other party's territory.
What's more, the other party is...
The man in purple robe bowed to Mr. Wu, "I'm sorry, Mr. Wu, I lost my composure."
Mr. Wu sneered and did not answer.
The man in purple robe took a deep breath and sighed softly. He knew that he had just said the wrong thing, and there would definitely be no way to continue the conversation today, and it would be useless to continue talking.
He had no choice but to raise his hands to Mr. Wu and apologize: "Old Wu, I made a mistake today and offended you. Please wait until I go back and think again, be sincere and come back another day."
Mr. Wu hummed as a response.
"I'll take my leave."
When the man in purple robe walked to the door, Mr. Wu's voice came from behind, "Go back and think clearly about what you want to talk about and who you want. Also, don't you think that I don't Do you know who that person is?"
The man in purple robe was stunned for a moment, and his body tensed up visibly. Then he seemed to have thought of something and left quickly.
Mr. Wu was sitting on the Taishi chair, with a smile on his face and a leisurely expression, closing his eyes to rest.
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Bai Gu was carrying a small oil paper bag and stood under a banyan tree that was not very tall but had enough shade for one or two people.
Under the tree, there was a little girl sitting on her knees, holding a very old pipa in her arms, one of the strings was broken.
When the little girl heard someone coming, she raised her head and looked around, but she didn't realize that Bai Gu was standing in front of her.
If you look closely, you will see that the little girl only has the whites of her eyes!
Blind!
Bai Gu walked forward, placed the oil paper bag next to the little girl, and said softly: "It's me, Bai Gu."
The little girl smiled brightly, but was slightly disappointed, "Brother Bai, it's you!"
"Well, I bought you some steamed buns, eat them quickly."
Bai Gu naturally sat next to the little girl, and the latter did not resist. He reached out and touched the oil paper bag, picked up a bun and ate it.
She was really hungry.
Bai Gu looked at the little girl with mixed emotions.
In fact, Bai Gu was not familiar with the little girl, they had only met her a few times. It was the old beggar who "connected" the two of them.
The old beggar wanders around Yunshui City every day, so it is not unusual to meet a little girl.
But the old beggar seemed to be very interested in the little girl. He would run to her when he had time, chat and joke with her, and pass the time. The little girl also liked the old beggar very much. She would be very happy every time the latter came.
Bai Gu came to chat with the old beggar once, and the old beggar happened to be going to play with the little girl, so the two of them went together.
After going back and forth, Bai Gu and the little girl got to know each other.
The old beggar said that the little girl was under the banyan tree before he met her. The same goes for those eyes. I heard that he has been blind since he was a child.
It is because of these eyes that the little girl was abandoned here by her parents when she was very young.
Another miserable child.
This was Bai Gu's first thought at the time.
In fact, Bai Gu also wanted to take the little girl home.
He grew up beside Old Mrs. Bai, and under the influence of his ears and eyes, he also became soft-hearted. He couldn't bear to see the abandoned children freezing and starving outside.
Not only do I want to do my best to help them, but I also don’t want the tragedy that happened to me to happen to others again.
What has already happened is to prevent the tragedy from happening again.
But the little girl refused.
She just wanted to wait here and didn't want to go anywhere else.
Her parents asked her to stay here. If they left for a while, they would come back to find her. She obeyed very seriously and stood there, waiting for her parents to come back.
But several years have passed since then.
The little girl is still waiting where she is, but her parents have never returned.
In the past few years, the little girl has not dared to leave the vicinity of the banyan tree, for fear that her parents would suddenly come back to pick her up, but she would not be here and would pass by her parents.
So when Bai Gu offered to take her home, she decisively refused.
But for a little girl who has nowhere to go and just wants to stay where she is, food, clothing and housing become her biggest problem.
Housing and clothing are easy to solve.
There are two stretched roots at the foot of the banyan tree, forming a mouth with the trunk, which is just big enough for a person to lie down. The little girl sleeps under the banyan tree every night. As for clothing, the little girl used shabby quilts and rags picked from the trash to make mattresses, quilts, and clothes, which was fine.
It’s just eating that gives me a headache.
The little girl stayed under the banyan tree every day without moving. Sometimes she would play the old pipa in her hand to relieve her boredom. My daily meals depend on the charity of kind-hearted passers-by. Sometimes it’s a small bun, sometimes it’s a few coins, and sometimes it’s a bowl of rice that’s about to go rancid.
But this does not happen often. Most of the time the little girl is hungry, sometimes without drinking a drop of water for three days.
For little girls, the best weather is rainy and snowy days. Because of the rain and snow, she didn't have to pray or beg for alms from others, or at least she didn't have to worry about going hungry.
She collects rainwater and snow from the ground to feed herself.
She will not take the initiative to look for food, and naturally she will not ask for charity from others.
She just wanted her parents to come back and take her home.
As for the rest, she didn't think it was important.
Bai Gu knew this, and both he and the old beggar were troubled by the little girl's stubbornness.
Although he is young, his temper is quite stubborn.
I would rather die of hunger and thirst than leave the banyan tree for even half a step.
The old beggar was angry with the little girl because of this and gave the little girl a bastard name.
Asking for nothing.
All you wish for and hope for is in vain.
But the little girl didn't care about it, and was actually quite happy. Because when her parents left, although she had a name, she still couldn't remember it.
Now that I have a new name, it’s easy to remember. Isn’t that nice?
Moreover, asking for nothing is not a vain thing in this world. Is it true that you will get something if you ask for it? What a great moral!
Both Bai Gu and the old beggar were silenced by the little girl.
The reason for Bai Gu is that the little girl is not very old, and she can always say the same thing when rebutting people. She is also so educated. Could it be that she is the wealthy daughter of a wealthy family who is living abroad?
The old beggar was simply silenced because the little girl misinterpreted his original intention. At the same time, it was also because his original intention in naming the little girl was too stupid, but the little girl understood the name in a beautiful way, which made him feel uncomfortable.
From that time on, the old beggar came to see the little girl more often.
For no other reason than that, the old beggar just wanted to wait with the little girl for her parents to come back, so that she would not be so lonely.
Of course, I was also afraid that the little girl would starve without eating.
Now that the old beggar has left Yunshui City, let Bai Gu take on this responsibility.
After all, he couldn't bear to see the little girl waiting for her parents while starving and freezing, and he couldn't stand by and watch even though he knew this was happening.
The little girl gnawed on the bun without raising her head. She seemed to have no need to raise her head. "Brother Bai, where is the old man? He hasn't been here for several days."
Bai Gu looked at the sky, "He left, left here, and went to a very distant place."
"A far away place? Where? Did he say that?"
"No, he left in a hurry. I had something to do and didn't go into the city and didn't meet him." Bai Gu shook his head, his eyes full of regret.
It's a pity, otherwise I could have asked the old guy to treat me to a meal before he left.
Tsk, what a pity.
"I was also thinking that if Brother Bai knows where grandpa is, my parents can go and see grandpa after they take me home." After the little girl finished eating the buns, she held her chin in her hands, looking forward to her future parents. The wonderful life after taking her back.
Bai Gu smiled and said, "There will be a day. I believe that day will come soon."
The little girl turned her head with a smile on her face, "Okay, okay. When we go back, Brother Bai will come to my house to play often!"
"Okay, I'll go if I have time."
The little girl said that her home in Fuhe City is a very beautiful and happy place, and she must visit her home when she has time.
Bai Gu also imitated the little girl, holding his chin in his hands, smiling broadly, but his eyes were full of complexity, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
At this time, a mean voice broke into the ears of the two of them.
"You two, what are you worried about? Do you need me to know something?"
