Zhang Wu blushed even more when he heard this.
Xiao Yu also noticed it and asked with concern: "Zhang Wu, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
"No, no, yes, it's hot from walking." Zhang Wu explained stumblingly.
"Then come in and have a seat." Xiao Yu said.
Zhang Wu sat on the stool.
Xiao Yu went to pour water.
Zhang Wu took a bowl of water and drank it. His heartbeat returned to normal. Then he looked at Xiao Yu and Ming He and said, "Xiao Yu, Ming He, you two have become fat."
"Right." Xiao Yu stretched out his hand and touched his face.
"Well, they all look better than before." Especially Xiao Yu, it was as if he was a different person, his eyes
Especially Xiao Yu, his whole body was full of energy, and he looked more handsome and dazzling. Zhang Wu did not dare to look directly at him, so he quickly turned his attention to the two packages and handed one to Xiao Yu: "During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the restaurant was very busy, and the owner didn't give us a wage increase, so he gave us these snacks, a pack for you."
"you are too polite."
"Just take it, the family won't be able to finish it anyway."
"Then you go back with the bacon."
"No, no, no, you can keep it to eat." Zhang Wu refused repeatedly. Seeing a lot of bacon and dried sweet potatoes hanging in the small yard, he asked in surprise: "Is this all the money you earned from selling steamed buns?"
Xiao Yu nodded.
Zhang Wu was sincerely happy for Xiao Yu: "Xiao Yu, you are so awesome."
Xiao Yu smiled and said: "It's okay, it's okay."
"Will you continue to sell steamed buns at the small pier in the future?" After Yang Jiu and his wife surrounded Xiao Yu and Minghe, Zhang Wu was not at ease and went to the small pier to see his uncle and nephew. Knowing that they were doing well, he felt relieved .
Xiao Yu nodded: "Yes."
Zhang Wu's face suddenly became solemn: "Then you should be more careful in the future."
Xiao Yu asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Zhang Wu is a waiter at Wangyue Restaurant. He receives guests from all over the world and is relatively well-informed. He said: "I heard that the harvest in Ningzhou is not good this year. I guess there will be people coming to Qingshi Town to beg for food. Maybe there will be some trouble." Yes, and——"
"what else?"
"There's another war at Nanbian Pass."
The east and west of Dajing were very stable, but the northern and southern border gates were constantly at war. It was not until the male protagonist Guwang came to the throne that things were settled.
Zhang Wu continued: "Originally, there was no problem for General Pei to rush to the southern pass, but I heard that he was injured when he fought with the Hu people in the north. I don't know if he can win this time. I hope he can win, otherwise he may not win." There will be a large number of refugees coming to our place, and there will definitely be chaos for a while."
General Pei?
Pei Yanli?
Born into a noble family, his father was the Minister of the Ministry of War and his mother was the eldest princess. He was literate at the age of three, wrote poems at the age of five, and wrote the Book of Songs at the age of seven. In anger, he stabbed his classmates and friends, put on his military uniform, went into battle to kill the enemy, and made great achievements in battle, which frightened the children everywhere.
Calculating that he should be in his early twenties now, he will later assist the male protagonist to ascend the throne and serve as regent, and then there will be no role for him in the book "Emperor's Dream".
However, Minghe's fate has changed. Xiao Yu feels that these things have nothing to do with him. He just wants to live a good life with Minghe, so he said: "Okay, I will pay attention to it."
Zhang Wu just came to see Xiao Yu. He had nothing else to do, so he said, "Okay, I'll go home then."
Xiao Yu persuaded him to stay: "Why don't you have dinner here?"
"No, I finally got to go home early today, and I'll stay with my mother."
Xiao Yu asked: "How is your mother's condition?"
"It's an old problem."
"Okay, then go back quickly. If I have time, I will visit you again."
"Um."
Zhang Wu left.
Xiao Yu and Ming He continued to clean up the bacon, pickles, dried vegetables, etc. in the small yard until evening.
After dinner, Xiao Yu walked in front holding an oil lamp, Ming He followed behind, and the two came to the back room together.
Seeing many jars placed in the corners and several bamboo baskets hanging on the beams, Minghe covered his little mouth with his little hands and smiled.
"Little guy, why are you laughing?" Xiao Yu put the oil lamp on the bedside stool.
"Uncle, we have a lot of food!" Minghe was extremely happy.
Xiao Yu nodded: "Well, there will be more and more in the future."
"Really?" Minghe couldn't believe there would be more in the future.
Xiao Yu touched Ming He's little head and said, "Of course, we bought everything we should buy, and we can save whatever money we make next."
Minghe asked curiously: "What happens after you save it?"
Xiao Yu sat on the bed: "Go to the town to rent or buy a storefront, and then open a restaurant."
Minghe also took off his shoes, climbed up with a bang, and then asked: "Is this a very clean house in the town?"
Xiao Yu carried Ming He into the bed and said, "That's right."
"Uncle, you are so awesome." Minghe immediately praised.
Xiao Yu smiled and said: "I haven't done it yet."
"That's awesome."
The little guy knows how to blow rainbow farts, and Xiao Yu is particularly helpful, saying: "This is not the result of my uncle alone, Minghe helps every day."
"Well, I'm so awesome too!"
Xiao Yu touched Minghe's fleshy face and said, "Yes, let's keep working hard."
"keep it up."
The uncle and nephew continued selling steamed buns the next day.
Xiao Yu's steamed buns are delicious. In addition to green vegetable, mushroom, carrot and white radish fillings, he occasionally makes meat fillings, bean paste fillings, and wild vegetable fillings to increase the freshness and let diners appreciate his superb craftsmanship. .
In just over a month, he saved fifteen taels of silver.
This is the annual income of an ordinary farmer’s family of three in Dajing.
However, ordinary farmers have land as a guarantee. Both his and Minghe's fields were sold out, so he had to earn more money. So he took out three hundred silver coins and bought a wheelbarrow. Not only could he pull Minghe, but also You can also carry steamed buns.
"Uncle, now we can make more buns!" Ming He said.
"That's right." Xiao Yu makes buns very quickly, and there are two pots in the kitchen, so he can make more buns every day, but he and Minghe have limited strength and can only bear the weight of a hundred buns. No more They couldn't walk anymore, but now they have a wheelbarrow, which makes it much easier for them.
"Tomorrow, we can make more money."
"Yes, I'll pack more tomorrow."
The next day, Xiao Yu made 120 steamed buns. Xiao Yu put the bamboo basket on the cart and carried Ming He on it.
Minghe sat facing Xiao Yu and said, "Uncle, if you are tired, you can sit in the car and I will push you."
You are not as tall as a bicycle, so why are you pushing a bicycle?
Xiao Yu did not expose Ming He and said with a smile: "Okay."
It had to be said that this rack seemed bulky, but it took so much less effort to push it. He couldn't feel the weight of Ming He and the one hundred and twenty buns at all.
Ming He sat facing Xiao Yu, very happy, with his two short legs dangling, his little face raised, his eyes bright and black, and he shouted in a milky voice: "Little uncle."
"What's going on?" Xiao Yu asked.
"Uncle."
"Eh."
"Uncle."
"What?"
"Uncle."
"You little worm!"
Minghe covered his little mouth with his two little fleshy hands and laughed. After a while, he shouted again: "Little uncle."
"Say." Sometimes I feel that this child's words are so secretive and disturbing, but Xiao Yu still answers.
"The leaves are all withered, as if they were dead." Minghe pointed to the surroundings.
"Well, winter is coming."
"It doesn't matter. When spring comes, they will come back to life."
Xiao Yu looked at Minghe after hearing this. He didn't know when he started to see things from a brighter and brighter perspective. It must be due to his uncle. He is such a powerful person. He felt narcissistic in his heart. Push Minghe to the small dock.
The small pier that used to be bustling is now extremely crowded with people, many of whom have disheveled hair, tattered clothes, and sallow complexions.
"Uncle, there are so many people," Ming He said.
"Yeah." When Xiao Yu thought of what Zhang Wu said before, Ningzhou's harvest was not good, he asked Granny Liu what was going on with these people.
"It's Ningzhou who came here to beg for food!" Mrs. Liu was kind-hearted. She secretly stuffed a woman with two eggs, and then said to Xiao Yu: "We are all poor and can't help much, so we can secretly give a little to other victims." See, otherwise everyone will ask for it and we won’t have anything to eat.”
Xiao Yu secretly gave a few steamed buns to several children, and then sold out all the steamed buns as usual. When he came back the next day, he saw Yang Jiu yelling at a group of victims. He asked in confusion: "Mr. Liu, what happened?" ?”
"Someone stole something," said Mrs. Liu.
"Ah?" Xiao Yu and Ming He were surprised together.
Liu Po said: "Your business is good, so you walked home in the morning. I don't know what happened yesterday afternoon. Yesterday afternoon, many victims came here again. They were very hungry. They stole some twists, some radishes, and some candied haws." Yes, many small vendors were stolen yesterday."
"Yang Jiu was stolen today?"
"Yes, I stole several buns, but I couldn't find who stole them. I also made the quilt covering the buns dirty. He was cursing." Mrs. Liu looked at Xiao Yu and said, "Pay attention to your buns. .”
Before Xiao Yu could react, Minghe turned around and hugged the bamboo basket with his small body, firmly protecting the buns.
Mrs. Liu was stunned when she saw this, and then laughed: "No one else can steal it now."
When he heard what Zhang Wu said before, Xiao Yu thought that there would be scattered victims coming to beg for food, but he didn't expect so many. He said, "Mother Liu, so many people have been affected by the disaster, will the superiors take care of it?"
"You can only take care of it if you know it, and no one knows."
Too.
Before the male protagonist of Gua Wang ascended the throne, Dajing was not only in chaos on the border, but also not stable internally. Qingshi Town had good weather, fertile land, and was beside the Zitang Canal, so it was as prosperous as other similar cities and counties, so it naturally became a disaster victim. A place where people rush to seek refuge.
well.
His strength was really limited and there was really nothing he could do to help. At that moment, he saw a small and skinny child, two or three years old, holding on to a skinny old woman who couldn't help coughing.
Seeing that there were no other victims nearby, he quickly took out four buns from the bamboo basket.
"Uncle, what are you doing?" Minghe asked.
"I'll give them some steamed buns to eat," Xiao Yu said.
Minghe jumped off the cart, and after his uncle had taken four buns, he hugged the bamboo basket again.
Xiao Yu handed the four buns to the old woman: "Take them and eat them."
"Thank you, thank you." The old woman didn't have time to look at Xiao Yu and hurriedly took it. She didn't even bother to eat it, so she quickly gave one to the child: "Egg, eat it quickly, eat it quickly."
The egg was eaten hungrily.
Minghe was startled by their appearance and shouted: "Little uncle."
Xiao Yu walked to Minghe.
"Uncle, they are so hungry." Minghe said with a frown.
"Grandma, you eat too." Danzi said quickly when he saw that the old woman didn't eat.
"Don't worry about grandma, eat the eggs." Seeing the eggs being eaten one by one, the old woman seemed to feel at ease. When she raised her eyes to look at Ming He and Xiao Yu, there was a sense of solemnity in her whole body that had been tempered for many years, which was consistent with her breath. He looked out of place and said, "Thank you, gentlemen."
"You're welcome." Xiao Yu wanted to say something, but he didn't know what the future holds for the old and the young, and he couldn't help feeling sad.
Danzi raised his head when he heard the sound, and was immediately stunned.
"What happened to the egg?" the old woman asked.
Danzi looked straight at Xiao Yu and whispered: "Grandma, eldest brother has a light on his head."
The old woman's pupils trembled, she glanced at Xiao Yu suddenly, and then looked at Danzi again: "You said he has a light on his head?"
