"I'm done drinking, where is the place to wash the dishes?" Tang Qing finished drinking the porridge in the bowl, and subconsciously looked at the person with the highest status in the room, the kitten.

"Kitten" casually pointed to someone: "Xiao Nan, take this newcomer to wash the dishes." “

Tang Qing looked in the direction she pointed, this girl named Xiao Nan was about the same height as herself, with a pair of big eyes embedded in her palm-sized face, very cute.

Following Xiao Nan, Tang Qing walked out of the door of the hut and walked around into the courtyard behind the temple.

There was a well in the courtyard that looked deserted, and when I lifted the wooden lid on it, I found that the water level in the well was not low.

At this time, the well was not equipped with water drawing tools, and the wooden barrels had to be pulled up from the well by hand.

Tang Qing, who had never used to fetch water before, made a big joke, she threw the bucket into the well but couldn't scoop up the water, so she could only let the bucket float on the water. Xiao Nan, who was watching from the side, took the rope from her hand a little helplessly: "You watch me do it first." ”

Xiao Nan lifted the rope in his hand slightly, and threw it back and forth in the opposite direction of the wall of the well with a little force, and the bucket immediately flipped over and sank into the well water.

Tang Qing couldn't bear to let a child pull such a heavy wooden bucket for him, so he took the rope tied to the bucket and said, "I'll come." ”

Xiao Nan looked at it uneasily, but still handed her the rope in his hand.

"It's really heavy. Tang Qing called herself a "strange power Lori", at this time she was a little unbearable, halfway through the mention, she stopped, took a deep breath, and then regained the strength to lift the bucket out of the well, and when she pulled out the barrel, she splashed a lot of water.

Xiao Nan didn't blame her for wasting, but just looked at the big puddle on the ground with some distress: "Sister Kitten said, this is our most important thing, and the water source of the river in the whole city is almost cut off." ”

When the two were squatting on the ground and brushing the dishes, Tang Qing talked to Xiao Nan: "Your name is Xiao Nan, right, who gave you a name, it's so good?"

Xiao Nan lowered her head, and her long eyelashes hung down a shadow: "It was Sister Kitten, I was hungry and fainted at the temple gate when I was five years old, and I didn't remember what I called when I woke up. ”

Tang Qing was a little puzzled in her heart: "I don't remember my name, do you remember how old I was, selective amnesia?" But she didn't ask much for fear of touching on other people's sad things.

Maybe there was some recognition at the beginning, but after chatting a few words, the cute girl Xiaonan started the chatter mode and took out everyone's troubles to talk about.

"Among these boys, Xiaoxi is the most naughty, and often runs out to play, but he can't be blamed, he has always wanted to go out to find his brother, by the way, he is the same as you, and when he came, he said that he was separated from his brother. Xiao Nan suddenly lowered his voice, leaned into Tang Qing's ear and said: "However, Sister Kitten and Brother Dog both said that he was thrown away by his brother, and every time Xiao Xi made a fuss to find his brother, they would find a reason to coax him not to go out." ”

Tang Qing suddenly understood why the "kitten" looked at her with that kind of "you are so pitiful" eyes just now, it turned out that she thought that she was also thrown away by her brother.

"Xiao Nan, how can there be so many children in the temple?" Tang Qing asked.

"Those outside are not with us, we are under the control of Brother Gouzi, as long as we find good things and hand them over to Brother Dog, he will protect us and prevent us from being bullied by the group of wild children outside. In fact, Brother Dog is good, when we don't eat, he will save something and share it with us. Xiao Nan said in a low voice.

"Brother Dog," this brother, Tang Qing barked a little hard, and she didn't call Tang Pei her brother much at home, "What does he usually do outside." ”

Xiao Nan was a little embarrassed, and pointed his fingers: "I don't know what Brother Dog does, I heard them say that sometimes they will go out to run errands, so they should go wherever they have a job." ”

This night was the most uncomfortable night for Tang Qing to sleep, even if he was locked up before, there was still a bed in the small black room, but in this broken temple, he could only lie on the haystack, and the haystack was not a thick one, but a shallow layer, probably to save forage, and everyone curled up together when they slept. The smell in the air and the snoring sound made Tang Qing firm in his desire to find a place to live quickly.

Early the next morning, Tang Qing woke up, and there were only two girls left in the house, "Little Kitten" and "Little Nan", and the other boys followed the dog out to work.

After washing up briefly, embarrassed to rub the breakfast of a group of children, Tang Qing planned to go out to see the market and see if he could exchange it for money and food stamps and other things.

Walking through the empty outhouse, Tang Qing walked along the road that the dog took her to the county center yesterday. Every few steps along the way, she could see someone lying on the smooth stone pavement, looking for something, until she saw someone stuffing a small cluster of bright green moss into her mouth, and she knew why the slate was so clean when she walked this way yesterday.

In his previous life, Tang Qing always heard that someone would feed moss to pet birds, and he thought it was a little incredible at the time, but now he sees someone on the road rummaging for moss, but he can only pretend not to see it and run away.

Tang Qing didn't dare to inquire blindly, so he only asked a few aunts who seemed to be kind.

I ran several grain and oil stores, but they were all closed. Until the fifth, I happened to bump into the boss who opened the door.

"Excuse me?" Tang Qing walked into the door, and couldn't help but swallow back the words he just wanted to say, the whole store was empty, and there was nothing on the shelves.

"Go and go, where is the baby, don't open a store today, let's go. Before Tang Qing finished speaking, the store blasted her out of the door.

I only heard the boss mutter: "I don't know if this house can be exchanged for more food after cleaning and selling." ”

After running for most of the day, the five or six houses that I went to in the morning did not open, and those who opened did not do business, Tang Qing didn't know how to open if he wanted to ask about the current food prices.

After stopping, he felt hungry and panicked, Tang Qing found a corner, took out the sweet potatoes in the space, and peeled them and gnawed them, regardless of whether they were hot or cold. When there was still a small bite left, the beggar who came out of nowhere stared straight at her, she didn't care about the small piece of sweet potato in her hand, she threw it on the ground, and ran lifelessly on the road.

After running a long way before she dared to turn back, she saw that no one was following her, so she went back to the temple with confidence.

Carefully bypassing the winding alleys, Tang Qing silently said in his heart: "You can't see me, you can't see me." "Panicked past the man lying on the ground.

The boys from the "Dog" also returned, happily sharing a piece of black steamed buns, the steamed buns were dry, and a lot of crumbs fell when they broke them, and they were all picked up by hand.

Seeing Tang Qing coming back empty-handed, the "dog" hesitated.

Without waiting for him to speak, Tang Qing said with a little weakness: "I have eaten outside." Tang Qing felt in her heart that she was a little reluctant not to give her friends what to eat, but she didn't know how to explain the source of the food, so she could only eat alone ruthlessly.

After they finished lunch, Tang Qing pulled "Gouzi" to the side and spoke: "Brother Gouzi, you must know a lot about helping others outside." Do you know where you can buy and sell grain?"

"Dog" glanced at Tang Qing vigilantly: "What do you want to do, don't think about anything you shouldn't think, girls must know how to protect themselves, if you give up everything for a bite to eat, what is the point of that person's life." ”

Tang Qing was confused: "What is he talking about?" Afraid that the dog didn't understand what he meant, he changed the question: "I didn't think about anything that shouldn't be thought, I'm just curious, when I go to the street today, all the grain and oil shops are no longer doing business, so where do the people in the county go to buy grain?"

"Now whoever still buys grain, the owners of the grain and oil shops are dying of hunger. The dog was a little impatient, "Don't think about what you don't have, even if you sell food anywhere, you can't afford to sell it." ”

Tang Qing was blocked, and his heart was sullen, "Am I being despised by a little child?"

The dog who walked in front suddenly turned around: "If you really can't find food, just owe it first, eat with us, and then find a job later, and then return it, I still don't believe it, a living person can suffocate urine?"

Tang Qing was a little moved in his heart: "It's not a relative, it's really rare to dig out your heart like this." ”

Firmly believing in the dog's character, Tang Qing decided to find an opportunity to pull Qi Yu out.

In the afternoon, when the sun was at its most poisonous, Tang Qing went out again. She found a remote and shady place, released Qi Yu, who had already had a fever, out of the space, helped him sit on the ground against the wall, and before he woke up, she stuffed a small bag of brown sugar into his pocket, and took out a cloth bag full of sweet potatoes.

The apprehensive Tang Qing watched Qi Yu slowly open his eyes, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "In this way, it should be fine." She unashamedly lied to Qi Yu, saying that the two were rescued by a masked man from Da Mao. This strange hero threw Tang Qing at the gate of the city, but took Qi Yu away, and she didn't find Qi Yu on the street until today. I don't know why I threw Qi Yu here, and I left him a bag of sweet potatoes.

Telling this kind of lie, Tang Qing himself felt panicked, it was really far-fetched. But Qi Yu was convinced that children of this age were most interested in this kind of legendary figure, and kept asking Tang Qing along the way, how did the hero act chivalrous, what he looked like, how tall and burly, and completely forgot what Tang Qing said before, she didn't see anything clearly, so she was thrown at the city gate with her arms all the way.

As for why the two people were saved, they had to be treated differently, Qi Yu made up in his own mind: "The hero took me away, he must have sent me to treatment, I passed out and felt that I had a fever in a daze, but when I woke up, I felt very healthy and in good spirits." ”

Tang Qing was struggling to deal with Qi Yu, and at the same time, he was also a little proud in his heart: "If this guy knew that the hero in his mind was me, he would definitely be shocked." Hahaha. ”

Seeing more and more hungry people on the road, Qi Yu, who was originally very excited, was also silent, he pulled the sweet potato bag in his hand tightly, and his face was very nervous. This kind of love reached the extreme in front of Tang Qing in front of a ruined temple: "You have been sleeping here for the past two days." He struggled to squeeze the words out of his mouth.

Tang Qing glanced at him: "I don't have a penny on me, it's good to have a place to shelter from the wind and rain." As he spoke, he dragged Qi Yu inside.