The pestle was stared at by the old woman, and she defended herself: "What......'s the matter? I'm not a thief, I'm ...... That's the old days!"

"Hehe-he-sensei, it's really a bit of a thief!" the old woman suddenly laughed.

"Uh......" The pestle got angry, pulled up his face and muttered:

"You old mother, hot and cold, if you don't want to see you, you can't just leave!"

"Pulling you away?"

The old woman also sank her face, "Young man, let's talk about it, do you have nowhere to go when you come back this time?"

"Yes, it's true!"

The pestle was angry, and he spoke in a buzzing voice, "I don't know the place well, otherwise I won't be able to hit this place if I am killed!"

"What's the, it's a home to be able to stay!"

The old woman was dissatisfied, and coldly cross-examined.

The pestle was stunned, and the old woman's word "home" was not deep or shallow, and it hit the scar in his heart.

Yes, this old woman has a family ......and a job!

The pestle is very lost, and the rare ambition is unpaid.

The old woman stared at him sharply, regained pity, and after a while sighed softly with embarrassment:

"Okay, you look at the wretched one, I'll take you in for another night. ”

"Really...... Really? hehe......"

The pestle turned to joy and rubbed her hands together, and when she saw the old woman bending down to untie the rope from the cart, she hurriedly stepped forward to help unload the cart.

The old woman thought for a moment, then raised her head and reminded: "But it's just one night, it's not okay if the days are long!"

"Hey, don't worry, I won't stay long!"

The pestle agreed while unloading the truck......

That night, the old woman boiled sweet potato porridge and stewed a pot of cabbage and tofu soup.

The pestle held a big steamed bun in his hand and ate and drank a full meal, and his small belly was bulging and round.

The old woman was very happy to see that the food on his face had become a little rosy, and as she cleaned up the bed, she asked, "What is your name, young man?"

"My name is Ma Qizi, and I ...... How did I get to the city......"

The pestle was halfway through the answer, and he didn't know what to say.

"Okay, if you don't say that you naturally have your difficulties, I won't ask. ”

When the old woman saw that she was in trouble, she got up and pointed to the bed that had been cleaned up and said, "You will sleep in this bed tonight!"

The pestle looked at the shabby board bed, only one person wide, one bed and one pillow. Glancing at the shack again, it was full and narrow, and there was no second place to sleep.

"Where do you sleep in my bed?"

The pestle asked, scratching his hair.

"I still have to sweep the streets at night, anyway, it's just one night, you sleep well and you'll be in a hurry tomorrow. ”

The old woman said as she cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks.

"Uh......"

The pestle was a little reluctant and said, "Actually, I don't have to sleep, I still have something to do when I go out at night." ”

"What's the matter with you?...... You're not going to be a gentleman again, are you?"

The old woman looked at him suspiciously, her face becoming serious.

"Liang Shangjun, I'm not a monkey!"

The pestle smiled at the old woman and explained, "I'll go out and see if I can get the bag back." ”

Actually, the pestle said that looking for a bag was an excuse, and it was true that he couldn't rest assured that the eldest sister wouldn't be relieved.

"It's not going to work!"

Unexpectedly, the old woman refused, and at night, she was worried that the horse was going out to do the thing of the rooster and the dog thief, so she said with a stern face:

"You can't go out! I'm full of honest old neighbors, and if you harm them, you'll hurt them!"

“......”

The pestle understood what the old woman meant, this was not at ease with herself, and she couldn't help but feel ashamed: it seems that the old saying is right, life is walking, one wrong step and one wrong step, how easy is it to start all over again......

When the old woman saw that the pestle was not alive, she sighed and said:

"I don't care who you used to be, but today you taught a second-rate lesson, I dare to say that you must be a man who stands up to the sky in the future!"

"Standing up to the sky?"

The pestle was stunned, he felt that the expectations of the old woman were too high, and he didn't even dare to think about it.

"What, you look down on yourself?"

The old woman looked at her face and asked, and then said:

"Do you know that many people on the street today praise you! Say that you are righteous and do harm to the people...... As the old saying goes, the good prodigal son doesn't change his money, you know?"

The old woman's words were serious, and she listened to them with her heart, especially when she heard that the neighbors were praising herself, and she couldn't help but feel a warmth in her heart.

Yes, a good prodigal son will not change his money! In the past, someone in Qingshan Village admonished himself like this, but at that time, he seemed to have a grudge against this sentence, and he contradicted it from the bottom of his heart.

Today's pestle has experienced several ups and downs, and after being bitter, he began to try to appreciate this sentence.

"The prodigal son does not change his money for ......"

The pestle groaned in his mouth, and his heart turned over the river and the sea.

Why did the mother leave? It's not because she has lost her only hope......

Why does everyone in the village look down on and hate themselves? Is it not because they don't know how to cherish it, and they regard the pity and tolerance of the villagers as a squandered capital for arbitrary acts......

Why do the police want to recognize themselves as murderers? Isn't this all because they have done all their bad deeds and gained a bad reputation......

The pestle was deeply remorseful and silent for a long time.

The old woman kept staring at her, and her cloudy old eyes contained a faint wisdom, and she shook her head for a long time and said:

"I don't mean anything else if I don't let you go out, I just think it's better for you to stay at home. Don't worry, my wife knows what you're thinking!"

"Uh...... What?"

The pestle still did not get rid of the confession, and asked in a daze.

The old woman said in a deep voice:

"I can see that in fact, you are also a loving and righteous person! I, although I don't know how you got involved, but I will pay attention to that Yang Xinhua when I go to sweep the street later, if the second son of Wang dares to find trouble, I can't spare him first!"

When the old woman heard this, she immediately lifted her spirits: "Yang Xinhua, is it my eldest sister?"

The old woman nodded and muttered, "Alas, once this woman enters the fire pit, she will never be able to turn over......

"It turns out that the eldest sister's name is Yang Xinhua!"

He wanted to know more about the eldest sister, so he asked half-flatteringly: "How do you know everything! Why did this Yang Xinhua marry a scoundrel?"

"Why?" said the old woman, "how can there be so many things in this world?

The old woman sighed deeply, her expression darkened suddenly, and infinite melancholy rose on her face.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......" She coughed in pain as if she had been hit suddenly. The wrinkles and muscles on his face twisted, as if he had aged a lot in an instant.

"......" The pestle looked at the old woman's suddenly lost and painful appearance, and suddenly panicked, he didn't know where he had said the wrong thing, and stood helplessly, not knowing what to do.

"Alas, these eyes are white...... Ahem...... cough cough cough cough ......"

The old woman was in more and more pain, her mouth was babbling stupidly, her gray hair was also spread out, and she was extremely haggard with vicissitudes.

"You, what are you ......" Kiko wanted to comfort the old man, but he didn't know what to say. For the first time, he felt that someone was more pitiful than himself, much more pitiful......

After a long time, the old woman stopped coughing and gradually sank, looked out of the door curtain and said faintly:

"Boy...... No matter where you go, as long as you have a life, be a good person and live well......."