Minghe lowered his head and looked at his little arm. After thinking for a while, he seemed to remember the reason and said, "Well, I fell."
"How did you fall?" Xiao Yu looked carefully at the wound, which looked like a scratch.
Minghe replied: "The mountain is very slippery. When I was picking up firewood, I slipped and fell, and then I was injured."
Sure enough, it was a scratch. Xiao Yu asked again: "Are there any other injuries?"
"other places?"
Without waiting for Ming He's answer, Xiao Yu first opened Ming He's ragged clothes. He originally wanted to check the injury, but what he saw was a skinny little body.
Really skinny!
This was the first time he had seen a child so thin. The child who had become so thin collected firewood and exchanged it for steamed buns. Instead of eating it himself, he kept it for his uncle to eat.
His heart was greatly shocked, and he immediately thought that such a sensible, independent, young, and filial child would have to go through wandering, begging, and inhumane things after enduring the death of his father, mother, and uncle. Abuse and all that, and finally going crazy and dying...it's really cruel.
Whether legally or morally, he could not just watch the three-year-old child in front of him step by step towards that situation.
A strong thought came to his mind - since he had changed the plot of the book "Emperor's Dream" by dressing up as the villain's uncle, he might as well change it to the end!
right!
Change to the end!
Just now he didn't know what he could do, but now he has a clear goal. He wants to live well, take good care of, love and educate Minghe, and never let Minghe take that dead end.
His eyes focused again on Ming He's small face.
Minghe lowered his head and glanced at his skinny little body. He didn't care at all. Instead, he looked at Xiao Yu and said, "Uncle, I'm not injured on my body. I only have a broken arm. However, it's all scabbed and doesn't hurt at all. Uncle, please eat your steamed buns quickly, I will go up the mountain to collect firewood in a while, and then I will exchange steamed buns with Grandma Hao."
"Don't go!" Xiao Yu raised his voice.
Minghe's face was stunned.
Xiao Yu's thoughts had just come out of the book, and his emotions had not yet completely escaped, so he spoke a little excitedly.
He calmed her down quickly, and then apologized: "I'm sorry, my voice was a bit loud. I'm sorry, I mean, Grandma Hao's family is not rich either, and she has no extra steamed buns for us."
Minghe would never be angry with his uncle, not to mention that his uncle had already apologized. He was just worried about his and his uncle's food, so he couldn't help but frown and asked, "What should I do?"
Xiao Yu put down Minghe's clothes and calmed down his emotions for a long time before his voice returned to normal and said: "Minghe, don't worry, my uncle will find a way."
Minghe raised his face and said seriously: "But, but my uncle is sick, and I can't think of a way."
Xiao Yu said: "I have a solution now."
Although Minghe was young, he was very worried and asked: "What can I do?"
Xiao Yu didn't hide anything: "Go and collect the debt. If we collect the debt, we will have money."
Minghe asked: "Where can I go to collect debt?"
"Go to Wangyue Restaurant." That was the place where the original owner worked. It is mentioned in the book "Emperor's Dream" that when Minghe grew up, he learned that the shopkeeper Yao of Wangyue Restaurant had bullied his uncle and embezzled his wages. When he came to shopkeeper Yao's house, he ordered his subordinates to kill all his family members, and then personally killed shopkeeper Yao Lingchi, which was extremely brutal and terrifying.
Xiao Yu would not let Minghe do such a thing again, so he would personally collect the debt and prevent the tragedy from happening at the source.
"No, no, you will get sick!" Minghe didn't know what happened to his uncle, but he still remembered that his face turned pale when he came back from the restaurant. The last time he came back, he was very sick and almost died. After all, he didn't want his uncle to go to the restaurant again.
Xiao Yu smiled and said, "It won't happen this time."
"Yes." Minghe frowned again.
Xiao Yu insisted: "No."
Minghe didn't back down: "I will."
"Then, are you going with me this time?" Xiao Yu took a step back.
"Shall I protect you?" Minghe asked.
This child really dared to think that he wanted to protect others when he was just three years old. Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Okay, you protect me."
The little guy might really think that he was very powerful, so he immediately agreed to Xiao Yu to collect the debt.
Xiao Yu took the steamed buns from Minghe's hand and said, "Then let's eat the steamed buns first. Only when we are full will we have the strength to collect debts."
"I won't eat it," Ming He said.
Xiao Yu asked in surprise: "Why?"
Minghe stared at the steamed buns, swallowed his saliva, and then said firmly: "If I eat, it won't be enough for my uncle."
"Enough."
Minghe shook his little head: "It's not enough, just a steamed bun."
Xiao Yu said: "There will be more bubbles, which is enough for the two of us."
Minghe's face was confused.
Xiao Yu sat up again, leaning against the earth wall, his dizziness slightly relieved. He took the cold steamed buns in Minghe's hand, broke them into pieces bit by bit, and put them into the water ladle.
The steamed buns were broken into pieces after absorbing the water, and swelled up in a blink of an eye.
"Wow!" Minghe exclaimed excitedly.
Xiao Yu asked: "Has it changed?"
Minghe nodded: "Well, there are so many!"
Xiao Yu asked again: "Is this enough for the two of us?"
"enough."
"Then let's eat together."
Now Minghe agreed and ran to the kitchen to get a wooden spoon.
The steamed buns soaked in raw water are sugar-free, salt-free, rough and cold, and they taste really bad.
But the hungry Minghe found it delicious and ate up all the steamed bun dregs on the wall of the water ladle. Xiao Yu did get energy from it. As he slowly adapted to his body, he began to look at the hut and the whole room. The hut is not big, and an upright bamboo raft in the middle roughly divides the hut into two small rooms: an outer room and an inner room, with the outer room being the main room.
The back room is the bedroom where he is currently staying. There is a small window in the front. Through the gap in the window frame, he can see the narrow fenced yard, and there is a small vegetable patch at the door.
He didn't know what he was planting, and there was nothing to see elsewhere. It happened that his strength gradually recovered and he could get out of bed. He took Minghe to the small courtyard to wash his face, comb his hair, and arrange his clothes. Only then did he realize "Emperor's Dream" didn't lie. Ming He looked very similar to me, and both were very good-looking.
It's just that Minghe is still as cute as a child now, with bright black eyes, a straight nose, and a plump little mouth. In the future, he will become the most handsome minister since the founding of Dajing.
And I am more handsome than I imagined, with a cold white complexion and delicate facial features, especially a pair of standard auspicious phoenix eyes, which are clear and flowing. I have a naughty boyish look, but I am quite thin.
"Uncle, you are so beautiful!" Minghe raised his head and said.
"My uncle's clothes are so shabby, how can they still look good?" Not only were Ming He's clothes in tatters, but Xiao Yu's were also very old and dusty. What troubled him was that it was already autumn, and if they didn't prepare seasonal clothes and bedding, they would freeze to death. of.
"Yeah, it's pretty! My uncle is the prettiest!" Minghe nodded.
Xiao Yu followed suit: "Both my uncle and Xiao Minghe are the most beautiful."
Minghe pursed his lips happily.
Xiao Yu finished sorting and said: "Let's go to Qingshi Town Wangyue Restaurant."
Qingshi Town is located beside the Zitang Grand Canal in Dajingguo. It receives travelers from south to north and also produces the food, clothing, housing and transportation needed by dozens of surrounding villages.
The uncle and nephew met many villagers from Jinxiu Village along the way. Xiao Yu took the initiative to say hello: "Aunt Wu, Uncle Yang, good morning."
Xiao Yu was not from Jinxiu Village. He walked silently with his head bowed on weekdays. The villagers were not familiar with him, so they did not expect him to take the initiative to say hello. This was the first time for Aunt Wu, Uncle Yang and others to see his appearance clearly. They were amazed. Suddenly, the feeling of rejection towards people from other villages disappeared, and everyone responded to Xiao Yu with a smile.
Being good neighbors is also for a better life in the future. Xiao Yu greeted them warmly all the way. About two-quarters of an hour later, he and Minghe finally set foot on the main road of Qingshi Town.
He was glad in his heart that he and Ming He had eaten steamed buns soaked in raw water in the morning, otherwise he would not have the energy to walk here.
"Uncle, there are so many people." Minghe has only been to Qingshi Town twice in his life and has no impression of it. However, he heard from the villagers that Qingshi Town is very lively and fun, and he has been yearning for it. Finally, he saw that many people Walking in one direction, he was so excited.
Xiao Yu was a little worried about Minghe's health: "Are you tired? Do you want to rest?"
"Don't rest until you are tired." Minghe wanted to quickly enter the town and watch the excitement.
Xiao Yu nodded: "Then let's keep going."
"Um."
"Emperor's Dream" has written more than once that Dajing was an imaginary, wealthy, and open country. There are also some vague images of Qingshi Town in the memory of the original owner.
But Xiao Yu subconsciously believed that productivity was not strong in ancient times, and Qingshi Town was not a capital city, so there should be a little poverty.
Unexpectedly, when I walked into Qingshi Town, I saw a scene of crowds of people, fluttering flowers, and waving wine flags. It felt like the excitement of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".
It’s so prosperous!
"It turns out that I am the poor one." Xiao Yu couldn't help but mutter.
"Uncle, what did you say?" Minghe asked with a raised face.
"It's nothing." Xiao Yu reached out and took Minghe's little hand.
Minghe asked in confusion: "Little uncle, why are you holding my hand?"
"There are too many people. I'm afraid you will be washed away by the crowd."
Minghe said confidently: "Rush away and I can find my way home."
"Minghe is awesome." Xiao Yu didn't let go.
The two of them were like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, looking around excitedly and admiring the bustling scene from time to time.
Xiao Yu saw Minghe swallowing saliva several times over chestnuts, rice cakes, candied haws, candied man, etc. However, his pockets were empty and he could only pretend that he didn't see anything.
After a while, the two of them arrived in front of Wangyue Restaurant.
At the time of meal, Zhang Wu, the waiter of Wangyue Restaurant, with a clean rag on his shoulders, greeted every diner who came in with a smile: "Sir, please come inside."
Xiao Yu pulled Minghe inside.
"Your Majesty, here -" Seeing Xiao Yu, Zhang Wu was stunned for a moment, then looked around, as if he was wary of someone, then grabbed Xiao Yu's wrist, quickly pulled him aside, and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Yu , why are you here again?"
