The old captain didn't expect that when the carriage departed, a third person sat on the carriage.

Pang Yingwu smiled at the people who climbed into the car: "Auntie, why are you here too?" ”

Tang Tang was frank: "Why are you allowed to come, but not me?" ”

Suddenly, the old captain was almost worried by this group of city children who didn't know the height of the sky, he sighed sullenly, shook his whip, and shouted: "Sit down and go!" ”

By the time the group arrived at the county seat, the sky was already bright, especially the sun. The heat of the summer day was sticking to people's faces, steaming so much that their faces were covered with oily sweat, and a person like Pang Yingwu, who was wide-hearted and fat, was already sweating profusely and soaking his clothes.

As soon as he got out of the car, he hurriedly grabbed Lu Xiangyang's clothes and said, "It's hot master!" Quick, old Lu, find a bathhouse to take a bath first. ”

Lu Xiangyang was dragged away by him with a smile.

After the old captain tied the carriage to a big tree at the entrance of the field, he hurriedly prepared to go inside, and instructed Tang Tang to come to the rendezvous after noon. Tang Tang responded loudly, and did not interfere with his business, he slipped to the north of the city and knocked on the door of the house he had been to before.

"Knock knock!"

"Who?" After the knock on the door, a somewhat immature and youthful voice sounded at the door.

Tang Tang's heart was surprised for a moment, and he replied kindly to the closed door: "I am a friend of Uncle Rong, and I came to visit his old man's house. ”

There was silence behind the door for a long time, and then it slowly opened, revealing a small slit, and a round, large eye looked at the crack in the door. "Well, my grandfather is sick - he said, you can't open the door to strangers."

Seeing the child's somewhat cowering and nervous expression, Tang Tang took a deep breath, lowered his body to be level with him, and said gently: "I'm not a bad person, I sent several little sparrows to my grandfather before, and asked him to help take care of them." ”

"Ah, you sent the yellow and black black?" Hearing the familiar little animals, the little baby suddenly lowered her guard a lot, and the crack in the door unconsciously opened a little, "They are playing in the yard." ”

Tang Tang smiled: "Can you let me go in and have a look?" ”

The little baby hesitated for a moment, and finally slowly opened the door.

As soon as Tang Tang walked into the courtyard, he was surprised to find that the situation in the courtyard was completely different from the last time he came, and even stricter than he imagined. Uncle Rong didn't know how long he had been sick, and the previously neat and orderly yard was now a complete mess. Several pots of grains were placed on the ground at a crooked angle, and a lot of them were spilled all around. The few flowers planted in the yard also showed a decaying color, wilting and unable to raise their heads.

And as soon as the living people came in, the sparrows, starlings, and birds of a tree exploded.

"Damn, who did the little pillar put in? Didn't Lao Rong not let the door open? The starling flapped his wings irritably, staring at Tang Tang tightly and looking at her, almost wanting to make a hole in her.

"Yo, it's a little girl, don't worry!" A fat sparrow glanced at it, and went on to comb its feathers with peace of mind.

Unexpectedly, a wing slapped directly on its head, almost knocking it off the tree.

Starling said angrily: "Stupid! Don't you know the most poisonous woman's heart? Maybe she's here to hurt someone! The starling flapped his wings anxiously and flew up, and shouted hurriedly as he flew towards the house, "Uncle Rong? Uncle Rong! Come out quickly, and if it's too late, you'll be served in a pot! ”

The curtain of the door suddenly opened, and an old and haggard old man leaned against the door frame and looked up. His gaze turned around Tang Tang, and he suddenly felt that her appearance was somewhat familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen her from his fading memory for a while.

He asked, "Girl, are you——??" ”

The little baby who opened the door for Tang Tang immediately ran over with his short legs, trying to hold his body and said, "Grandpa, she is the sister who sent Huang Huang and Hei Hei." ”

"Oh!" As soon as he reminded him, Uncle Rong immediately remembered. He hurriedly invited Tang Tang into the house: "Girl, come in and sit." But he didn't expect that in the next second, a series of dull coughing sounds suddenly sounded, even if he tried his best to suppress it, he couldn't suppress it, and it looked like he was going to cough out the whole lung.

Tang Tang suddenly looked a little sad. She walked a few steps quickly, stepped forward to support Uncle Rong's body trembling from coughing, and helped the person into the room to lie down. When I looked back and touched the teacup on the table, it was cold. The kettle was also empty.

Immediately, she rolled up her sleeves and got to work.

I found the kitchen, boiled hot water in a large pot, poured it into a thermos with a scoop, poured it into a teacup to cool, and instructed the little pillar to feed it to my grandfather slowly. She got up again and went to the kitchen to make porridge. The dusty stove hadn't been used for a long time, and she took a rag to clean it up for a while.

When she looked up, she saw a bird standing outside the kitchen window, tilting her head to look at her.

Tang Tang was silent for a moment, smiled brightly and said hello: "Hi? ”

Immediately, all the birds fled in all directions.

"Scared, scared! She spoke to me!! ”

"Whew! Get out of my way, fly that way! ”

"Hurry up, hide quickly! It's scary! ”

Tang Tang: "......"

She couldn't help but chuckle. Unexpectedly, there was still a starling standing in front of him who didn't fly away, standing on the windowsill and staring at her deadly, that strict expression was like a teacher who saw a student cheating in an exam, and his eyes were tense and almost eaten.

Tang Tang also stared at it, ran to the yard to clean up again, and after cleaning up, he re-entered the house with two bowls of porridge. Who knows, this starling actually flew in with her inch by inch.

Uncle Rong, who was lying on the hospital bed, finally stopped coughing, but his face was even more decadent and haggard, described as withered, sallow and thin, not like a person, and far from the gentle and tolerant old man in Tang Tang's previous memory. Only the eyes are still as peaceful as ever. He struggled to stand up and thanked, "Thank you, girl! ”

Tang Tang smiled and shook his head, "Uncle Rong, you're polite." As he spoke, he handed the porridge bowl to the two of them.

The little pillar smelled the thick aroma of porridge, and his eyes had already lit up, but the little baby still remembered the old man's teachings, and the two small hands were placed on his knees, and he didn't dare to take it directly, but glanced at the old man inquiringly. It wasn't until Uncle Rong nodded that he took it happily, and didn't forget to sincerely thank him: "Thank you, sister." ”

Tang Tang couldn't help but touch his warm little head, and when he saw the baby's eyes full of admiration and joy, he couldn't help but feel better.

Uncle Rong leaned on the head of the bed and said to her, "You can also drink a bowl, just like your own home." ”

Hearing this, Tang Tang laughed, stuffed another bowl of porridge into his hand, and said directly: "You don't have to worry about me, I only came after eating, and when I am hungry, I will naturally go to the stove to serve it myself, and when the time comes, don't think I have a big appetite." ”

She said it freely, and Uncle Rong couldn't help but smile at her funny words, "Okay, there is a lot of food at home, you can eat it." ”

Tang Tang paused slightly in his heart, and couldn't help but say tentatively: "You have been sick for so long, and you usually don't have a relative or friend to come to help?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Uncle Rong's face darkened silently, but he didn't want to talk about family affairs with outsiders, but just tried to lift his spirit and answered: "Yes, why not?" The neighbor next door, Aunt Liu, often came over to help, and thanks to her, Xiaozhuzi didn't go hungry. ”

As he spoke, he looked lovingly at the little baby beside him.

When Xiao Zhuzi heard his name, he looked up at him with a porridge bowl in his hand, and said coquettishly: "Grandpa, get better quickly!" I want to eat what you cooked. ”

"Okay." Uncle Rong promised him, but his gloomy face showed a kind of farewell gloom, "Grandpa also hopes that you will eat well and grow up quickly." ”

At noon, Tang Tang was re-fetching a basin of water and a handful of millet under the tree to feed the birds in a yard, when the gate of the yard suddenly opened with a "squeak".

When a middle-aged woman came in and saw Tang Tang, she couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "Hey, who are you?" ”

Tang Tang stepped forward with a smile: "Aunt Liu, right?" I am Uncle Rong's niece, and I heard that he is sick, so I came to visit. ”

The aunt of the Liu family looked at her suspiciously, quietly swept her coarse dark clothes, and a pair of slightly oversized old shoes, raised her face and smiled: "Yo, I really don't know, the first time I saw Uncle Rong and relatives, didn't one of his only children write the day before yesterday that he had passed away a long time ago?" Are you a relative of him or something? ”

Tang Tang also neatly made up lies, "I am the daughter of Uncle Rong's cousin and live in the countryside. Uncle Rong has always been embarrassed to trouble people, and he never looks for us for anything, but in the end, he is a relative of the family, and so many nephews and nieces in the countryside are also good at protecting their shortcomings. ”

The aunt of the Liu family was so worried by her that she put down the things in the basket and wanted to leave, "What are you telling me about this?" This is lunch, you take it to Uncle Rong and Xiaozhu to eat, I have something at home, so I will go back first. ”

Tang Tang took it and followed her words: "Wait aunt, I'll give you the bowl to save you another trip." With that, she carried the basket into the kitchen.

"Smack!"

Not long after, there was a sudden sound of a broken bowl in the room, and then Tang Tang's exclamation came out, "Oh, this bowl!" ”

The aunt of the Liu family was in a hurry, and suddenly she couldn't care about anything, so she pulled up her legs and ran to the kitchen. Sure enough, her white porcelain bowl shattered into four or five petals on the ground, which shocked her into a pain.

"You girl, what a fussy thing you are! Our well-served bowl is just like that, so you are broken! The aunt of the Liu family complained angrily, crackling and counting.

But seeing that Tang Tang was not slow, he still had a smile on his face, and said: "I am hairy, it's better than someone stealing hands and feet!" ”

Aunt Liu's face sank, "What do you mean?" ”

"It's not interesting." Tang Tang stepped over the broken bowl, walked to the corner of the kitchen, lifted the lid of the rice bowl and the noodle bowl, and said in a crisp voice, "A while ago, the countryside sent a bag of grain to Uncle Rong, why did you eat it so quickly?" Uncle Rong is sick and can't eat, and the little pillar people have a small appetite, and the two of them can't eat up so much food even after planting the sky. Aunt Liu, you sue sù, where have all the things gone? ”

The aunt of the Liu family's lips were pale, her eyes wandered, and she retorted sharply when she questioned her: "How do I know this? I'm just a neighbor who only comes over every day to help cook a meal, and don't ask me anything else! ”

"Smack!" Tang Tang let go, buckled the lid of the cylinder from mid-air, raised his eyebrows and looked at her with a smile, "You've never cooked here, have you?" Every time, I brought food home from Uncle Rong to cook, and I'm afraid it even counts your family's meals. ”

"You!" The aunt of the Liu family was hit by what she said, her face turned red, and her eyes were even more bloody, "You don't want to spew blood!" I have to find the field department to ask for innocence in this matter, and you can't slander people for nothing! ”

Tang Tang replied with a clear voice: "Even if you say it, the nephews of our ten or eight families in the countryside are not vegetarians, so I will go to your house to discuss the reasoning!" ”

was so intimidated by her, the arrogance of the aunt of the Liu family was suddenly suppressed a little, she trembled her lips and stared at Tang Tang several times, suddenly stopped the bowl, shook her hand and walked out, slamming the courtyard door to the sky.

Uncle Rong heard the voice, covered his chest and slowly walked out, wrinkling his brows and shaking his head: "This is really, alas! The little pillar cowered and hid aside, not daring to breathe.

Tang Tang cleaned up the broken dishes in the kitchen, entered the house and said to him: "Uncle Rong, don't be angry, she just saw that you are old and young, and there is no adult to control the field, so she deliberately bullied you." ”

Uncle Rong didn't know this truth, but he was worried about much more than that. His body is deteriorating day by day, since he learned that his only son died, his old body has suddenly collapsed, and every day is not as good as day by day, even if he takes medicine and asks for a doctor, it is just a drag.

And his grandson Xiaozhu is still young, and his close relatives have cut off contact in the early years, which is far from worthy of trust. When he is gone, what will the little pillar do? Uncle Rong caressed the back of the little pillar worriedly, but his eyes looked out the window.

On the big tree in the yard, the sparrows and birds were chirping non-stop, flying around Tang Tang, who had gone out to change their water, carefree as if there was no trace of trouble.

Suddenly, the starling beside him said, "Old Rong, this girl is good." ”

Uncle Rong glanced at it and was silent. Starling hurriedly said: "Really, I have been observing for a day!" She just secretly went out and bought a lot of food with her own money, and steamed a big pot of cakes, for fear that you would be hungry. I really think she's a good person. ”

Uncle Rong said: "You still thought that the aunt of the Liu family was a good person. ”

Starling couldn't help but be annoyed and angry, and said angrily: "I thought she was a warm-hearted person, but I didn't know that she brought back all the food for her own people to eat." ”

Listening to its extremely sullen words, Uncle Rong couldn't help but purse his lips and smile, and his withered face also had some brilliance. Even the little pillar beside him said: "Grandpa, my sister is a good person!" ”

This time, Uncle Rong laughed out loud sincerely, nodded his face and said, "You know too? ”

"Hmm!" The little pillar nodded his head hard.

Uncle Rong sighed lightly, "People's hearts are fickle, let's take a look." ”

After taking care of Uncle Rong's affairs, Tang Tang saw that most of the afternoon had passed, and quickly ran back to the entrance of the field, and sure enough, the old captain was already waiting there. He crouched in front of the carriage, smoking a dry cigarette in silence, but his face was not very bright in the smoke.

Tang Tang walked over and said, "Old captain, have you eaten?" With that, he took out two hot cakes from his pocket and stuffed them directly into his arms.

The old captain glanced at her, "Where did you come from?" ”

Tang Tang smiled heartily, wiped his sweat and sat down on the side of the car, "There is a relative in the county, go for a walk." I happened to steam a pot of cakes at noon, so I took two of them, saying thank you for bringing me over. ”

Listening to her explanation, the old captain was relieved. He opened the handkerchief wrapped in the bread and bowed his head and ate it. He didn't eat very fast, but he was so hungry that he almost got so hungry that he was so hungry that he was close to his back. After grinding in the field department all morning, the field department finally agreed to lower the grain delivery index of Niujiatun by two percent.

Then, when he didn't have a sip of water to drink, he hurried back to collect food. The old captain was thinking about whether the harvest in the village this year would be enough, and he was in a hurry to walk without food stamps, so he had to drink a stomach of cold water at the well at the intersection to satisfy his hunger.

At this time, the cakes that Tang Tang brought over really relieved his anxiety. He ate the slightly hot cake carefully, and felt more and more that the cake was soft and delicious, not like the rough throat of ordinary farmer's sweet potato flour cake, and suddenly he had a little understanding of the situation in Tang Tang's relative's family.

But I didn't know that this was Tang Tang deliberately mixed more white flour cornmeal for Uncle Rong and Xiao Zhuzi, and steamed the cakes softly, so that the old and the young could eat it. Although in order to buy food for Uncle Rong, she spent most of the food stamps and money she had obtained from selling leather shoes, but she thought it was worth it. In this famine era, she can't save everyone, and she should do her best to help the people she knows.

What's more, Uncle Rong is tolerant and peaceful, and he helped save so many sparrows and birds, which is enough to reflect his kindness. Tang Tang really didn't want to see "good people have no good reward", so he secretly bought food for him as a reward for taking care of the little sparrow.

By the time the old captain finished eating the cakes, Lu Xiangyang and Pang Yingwu had not returned. For a moment, he frowned and couldn't help but be a little worried. "Where did these two go? If it's late, it's dark and it's hard to go. ”

Tang Tang said, "Why don't we look for it separately?" ”

"Done." The old captain responded, and the two went to look for someone separately.

There are many people and cars in the county, and as soon as the two young men enter the city, it is like a drop of water falling into the sea, and they disappear in an instant, and it is even more difficult to find them. Fortunately, Tang Tang had foreign help, and she inquired about the news from the dozing sparrows on the side of the road and promised them a handful of grains.

The sparrows immediately became energetic, flapped their wings and flew in all directions, and in a short time the news returned. "They were at the state-run hotel two blocks away.

Tang Tang thanked him with a smile, and Ying Nuo took out a handful of husked wheat grains from his pocket. This is before coming to the county seat, the gray sparrow entrusted himself to his nephew and niece, Tang Tang sent it to Uncle Rong, and saw that the original few little sparrows have grown into a fat and strong one, and they are used to eating the millet peeled in the city, but they don't look down on the coarse grain in the countryside.

She had no choice but to take it back, but she didn't expect it to come in handy at this time.

With the sparrows leading the way, Tang Tang soon saw Lu Xiangyang and Pang Yingwu. I saw that they were sitting in a state-run restaurant at this time, ordering a table of delicacies, and they were eating happily. Coldly, a person suddenly sat down next to him.

Lu Xiangyang and Pang Yingwu: "→_→"

Tang Tang sat down calmly, picked up a pair of chopsticks and started eating, and by the way, he asked for two oil cakes to take away.

When Pang Yingwu heard this, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Hey, auntie, are you too self-regarded as your own family?" ”

Tang Tang nibbled on the flower roll, drank a pot of tomato and egg soup on the table, and said righteously: "What time are you looking?" Do you know how long the old captain and I have been looking for you? ”

Pang Yingwu was stunned by her, looked up and looked out, but not the sun was starting to turn west. He immediately took a startle, lowered his head and sped up his eating, while shouting, "It's true! Come on, come on, eat fast, eat fast! ”

Tang Tang and Lu Xiangyang: "......"

The two of them were still in mid-air, and they saw that the plates on the table were swept away in an instant, faster than the speed of the storm. In the past, they really underestimated the fat man's amount of food.

Three or five minutes later, the three of them hurriedly checked out and ran out of the hotel, Pang Yingwu even had a conscience to order five oil cakes for the old captain, put them in his arms, and hurried to the rendezvous.

Under the big tree at the entrance of the field, the old captain had been waiting for a while, and even a few tall horses had been uncomfortably bolted to the ground for a long time, and they were impatiently kicking the dirt on the ground with their hooves.

Pang Yingwu ran over, and without waiting for the old captain to speak, he stuffed a pack of ironed fragrant oil cake paper into the palm of the old captain's hand with a shy face, "Old captain, we are here, let's take a walk!" "Ah, I don't mention that I was late.

The old captain was so annoyed by his hippie smile that he refused with his backhand: "Take it back, it's not easy to bring you some food stamps and money at home, don't eat and drink blindly." ”

Pang Yingwu didn't know how to pick it up again, and ran to the back seat of the carriage with a "whoosh", and shouted: "It's easy, my family is rich, just eat and drink." ”

His voice immediately attracted the attention of many people at the entrance of the bustling field.

Lu Xiangyang said in a deep voice: "Fatty! ”

But he only sneered, didn't take it seriously at all, shrunk his head and hid in the seat, ignoring all kinds of thinking and prying eyes.

Especially a person who was walking out of the gate of the field department, staring at the back of his head with a face that was indescribable.

The old captain saw him at a glance, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Chief Zhang." "Today's reduction of the public grain quota was finally made by Zhang Zhishan, and the old captain was very grateful to him.

Zhang Zhishan smiled with him warmly and asked, "It's all afternoon, and you haven't gone back yet?" ”

In front of the field leaders, the old captain was very protective of the calves, and did not say bad things about Pang Yingwu and Lu Xiangyang, but said: "It's a little delayed, let's go." ”

Zhang Zhishan's eyes swept away, glanced at the oil cake paper package in his palm, and nodded: "Go back early, be careful on the road." ”

At the moment, the old captain's heart was a little uncertain. Zhang Changchang's glance just now, did he want oil cakes? After all, he just helped solve such a big problem in the morning, and I should thank him well. But unfortunately, this bag of oil cakes is not my own.

The old captain's embarrassed look, looking at Zhang Zhishan's eyes, his mind turned, and he understood what he was struggling with, and he couldn't help but laugh dumbly for a moment. He said ambiguously: "It's not easy to grow some food in the village, go back early, don't worry your family." ”

"Hey."

On the way back, the sound of horses' hooves rattled and the uneven dirt road shook the three people in the back seat. Pang Yingwu couldn't help but lower his voice and said to Lu Xiangyang: "Uncle? Didn't we just eat his two food stamps and look at his face, tsk! ”

Lu Xiangyang glanced at him sideways, and neatly pushed his half-pulled body that was pressed on top of him to the side, "What are you wronged about?" It's because you eat a lot. ”

Pang Yingwu's face was blank, and suddenly he threw himself on his body in a hurry. "Ahh

As soon as his fat body moved, the carriage immediately tilted.

Tang Tang exclaimed: "Oh, don't make trouble, the car is going to overturn——! ”

"Bang!"

"Recovery, what's going on with these bastards in the back? The master fell and gnawed on the mud for the first time! ”

"Longevity! Get your hooves off of me, kill me! ”

When the sun was setting, the old captain stood on the side of the dirt road with an iron face, and glared at Pang Yingwu and Lu Xiangyang fiercely. There is no village in front of here, there is no shop behind, there is not even a figure, the wheels of the car are crushed again, and the whole frame can only be thrown on the side of the road temporarily. Two tall horses, with their arms outstretched and kicking their legs, stood aside.

He took a few deep breaths and asked in a solemn voice, "Do you know how to ride a horse?" ”

Several people's hearts moved. Pang Yingwu grabbed the old captain first and said, "Old captain, I have a horse with you." ”

The old captain was caught by his heavy body, and he was miserable for a while. However, he was also afraid that he and Lu Xiangyang would make some trouble again, so he thought that it would be better to separate the two. He nodded and said, "That's okay, Xiangyang, you take Tang Tang with you." ”

Unexpectedly, Lu Xiangyang's eyes flashed, and he smiled: "I don't know how to ride a horse." ”

At this moment, the burning eyes of the three people instantly turned to Tang Tang.

Tang Tang, who is under pressure: "......"