"How long will it take to arrive......" The gold ingot sniffed his armpits, which were sour...... Whew...... He was on the verge of throwing up.

I walked for three days, but I didn't see a lake, not a river, not even a small pool, at most a well and a spring for people to drink.

"It's coming, it's coming!" The jade unicorn seemed to be getting more and more energetic, "Look, this is not!" The jade unicorn waved his hand and pointed to the cloud-filled green mountain opposite, "I finally arrived at Goose Mei Mountain." ”

"What?" The gold ingot stood on tiptoe and glanced at it, and sneered: "What nonsense? Mount Emei is in Shuzhong, how can it be here? ”

"The Emei Mountain I'm talking about is the goose of the goose, and you are the goose." The jade unicorn shrugged its nose mischievously, looking in a good mood.

Jin Ingot was joking with her, and sat on the ground with her buttocks: "I'm tired and hungry, I can't walk anyway." Can you roast that goose and eat it? I want garlic and slightly spicy flavor. ”

Yu Qilin hurriedly dragged him: "I think you are talking nonsense, let alone roast goose, there are no roasted sweet potatoes, if you don't get up, you can only wait to starve to death or roast your fingers to eat." ”

"I can't walk, I don't have anything to eat, so I'm determined not to go." The gold ingots lay on the ground.

The jade unicorn pulled and dragged him up: "A mile further, when you enter the village, you will have something to eat." ”

The gold ingots glanced at the foot of the mountain suspiciously: "Really? ”

"Believe it or not." The jade unicorn said, shook his arm, and strode away.

"I'll believe you again!" The gold ingots patted the ashes on his body and followed slowly.

The two of them walked about a mile. I saw a small restaurant on the side of the road in front of me, and the smoke was curling.

The shop sign is very unique, and there is no writing on it. But he painted a bowl of rice, a piece of meat, and a pot of wine.

As soon as the jade unicorn saw the signboard, his eyes instantly lit up, and the expression on his face became vivid, he walked a few steps quickly, and pointed to the small shop excitedly: "Look." There is something to eat. ”

Jin Yuan Bao looked in the direction of the jade qilin's finger and frowned: "Can you eat things from this kind of small shop?" ”

The jade qilin glared at him angrily: "If you don't want to starve to death, just go in quickly." I'll come later. ”

"Why don't you go in together?" Gold Ingot wondered.

"That...... I'll go make it easier. The jade unicorn said. He ran away quickly.

"It's a nuisance." Gold Ingot muttered and walked into the store.

The little shop was entirely decorated with northern farmhouse decorations, with dried chili peppers and corn cobs hanging on the walls, and something seemed to be boiling on the stove opposite, steaming pale white.

The gold ingot looked at it. Tentatively asked, "Anyone?" ”

Just hear a "Here it is!" ”。 As soon as the curtain was lifted, a simple woman in her forties, dressed as a commoner, with a cheesy red headscarf wrapped around her head, and a little sturdy, greeted her.

"The guest officer is here, please come inside."

I don't know what Lu Dao is for, the first time Jin Yuan saw this woman, he felt that the other party had an indescribable sense of intimacy.

When the woman saw him, she stood there and was stunned.

The gold ingots took a step forward. The room was small and messy, and the gold ingots accidentally touched the already unstable cabinet. A clay pot on the top of the cabinet shook and fell, threatening to fall on the woman's head.

The gold ingots were frightened, their eyes were quick, and they grabbed the woman.

The crockpot smashed down beside the woman, scattering splinters.

"It's okay, is it?" Jin Ingot asked with concern.

"It's nothing, it's nothing......," the woman was a little surprised.

Jin Yuan let go of his hand: "It's okay if there's nothing wrong." Your shop is too small, and everything is scattered around, what should I do if I hit someone? ”

"That's right." The woman answered in a loud voice, took the broom from the side, and as she swept the broken tiles, she said to the gold ingot, "Sit down!" ”

Jin Yuan Bao looked at the chair, it was dirty, his brows were slightly furrowed, and he didn't sit down.

The woman sensed his dissatisfaction, and quickly took off the rag tied around her waist, wiped it on the chair a few times, and made a gesture of invitation: "Guest, sit." ”

The gold ingots looked at the chair, and half of his ass was barely sitting in a clean corner.

His every move was watched by the woman, who lowered her head a little embarrassed and asked, "What does the guest officer want to eat?" ”

"I'm thirsty, do you have water?"

"Yes! Yes! I'll make you tea! So the woman brought a large teapot and poured tea for the gold ingots, and the tea spilled out, and a few drops were splashed on the sleeves of the gold ingots.

The gold ingot wiped his sleeve and sat back.

"Oops, I'm so sorry!" The woman picked up the rag again and wanted to wipe the sleeves of the gold ingot, but the gold ingot quickly pushed her away gently.

"That ......" The woman became more and more embarrassed, thought for a while, and hurriedly handed the big bowl of tea to the gold ingot: "Drink it." ”

Jin Yuan Bao took the bowl and looked at the yellow tea, but he didn't move: "What kind of tea is this?" ”

"It's called golden tea, and the guest officer will try it."

Jin Ingot frowned tightly, stretched out two fingers, picked up the bowl in disgust, and put it to his mouth, the smell of tea made him feel quite unpleasant.

The gold ingots tried to muster up the courage to take a sip, but immediately spit out all the tea.

He only felt bitter in his mouth, and said angrily: "This is not tea!" ”

"This is dried and soaked in the yellow leaves we have here." The woman busied herself with explanations.

Jin Yuan squinted at the woman for a long time, and made sure that she was not bad, so he put down the tea bowl and said, "I'll just drink white water." ”

"The guest officer is not used to drinking it, right, this tea is a little bitter, but after that, it will feel ......sweet in the mouth," the woman said, but seeing that the gold ingots ignored her, she picked up the bowl and walked aside, wanting to pour the tea away, thinking that it was a pity, so she drank all the tea in one gulp, and then took a bowl again and poured water into it, and then handed a bowl of boiling water to the gold ingots.

Jin Yuan looked at it with a frown and asked, "Don't you have any teacups here?" ”

"We all use bowls for water. Guest, drink. The woman smiled innocently.

"Tea should be used for tea, and bowls are for eating. I don't understand the most basic rules. Call your treasurers. ”

The woman was stunned: "I am." ”

Jin Yuan looked at her suspiciously: "You are the shopkeeper?" ”

"I'm the only one in this store." The woman looked at the gold ingot, because the strange affection made her more than able to endure his pickiness: "What does the guest want to eat?" ”

Over here. What can there be to eat? Jin Yuan glanced at the shop and said lightly, "Bring the best food in your store." ”

"The best?" The woman nodded hurriedly: "Good, good!" ”

A moment later. The woman brought a large bowl of dried sweet potatoes and put it in front of the gold ingot: "Guest officer, you eat this first, pad the hunger, and I'll go and stir-fry for you." ”

The gold ingot stretched out two fingers, picked up a piece of dried sweet potato, and looked at it. Is it really edible to eat a few hard things in Huangbula?

"It's all home-dried, it's sweet, try it." The woman recommended it with a smile.

The gold ingots frowned. He put the dried sweet potato under his nose and sniffed it, then slowly took a bite, spit it out at once, and threw the other half of the dried sweet potato to the ground. "Is this food?"

The woman glanced at the dried sweet potato. Whispered: "Oops, it's a pity ......".

The woman squatted on the ground and picked up the dried sweet potato and threw it into the dustpan on the side, then looked at the gold ingots with a smile and said, "Guest officer, I'll fry vegetables for you, you wait." As she spoke, she was about to go out.

I don't know what Lu Dao is, seeing her back, the gold ingots inexplicably feel familiar...... A strange feeling forced him to open his mouth and ask, "Have you ever been to the capital?" Why do I think you're a little familiar? ”

The woman's body was staggered. After a long pause, he replied firmly, "Never." ”

"Then what relatives do you have in the capital?"

Hear this. The woman stumbled for a moment, and she hurriedly held on to the door frame, and replied in an extremely calm voice: "I am a country woman, how can there be my relatives in the noble land of the capital." With that, he hurried out the door without looking back.

The woman went outside the house, stood out the window and looked in, and an indescribable feeling came over her, and she stood quietly for a long time, then sighed, and took the basket to the vegetable patch to pick vegetables.

As soon as she walked to the edge of the vegetable field, the jade unicorn jumped out all of a sudden, hugged her from behind, and called her excitedly and affectionately: "Mother......"

The woman stood quietly, motionless, as if the jade unicorn would fly as soon as she moved, but tears flowed down at once: "Qilin, you girl, why did you leave your mother without saying a word and leave?" Where have you been these days? Do you know how worried Lu Daoniang is about you? ”

Yu Qilin told her very excitedly: "Mother, I went to the capital, and I brought your biological son back to you......"

When the woman heard this, she turned around excitedly, looked into the eyes of the jade unicorn, and then looked at the room......

The jade qilin nodded again and again: "Yes, it's him, he's in the shop, and that person is the gold ingot." ”

He ...... He ...... "Yu was so excited that he couldn't speak.

"He is your biological son who has been thinking about it day and night, and has been waiting for twenty years......"

"You say that person is Yuanbao? Are you telling the truth? ”

"It's true! I've seen the birthmark on his lower back! Mother, I didn't run in vain this trip, I really brought your own son back! ”

"I ...... I ......" The woman's tears flowed, her whole body trembled with excitement, and her hand was tightly clutched to the jade unicorn, and she didn't even notice that she was pinching the pain, "Really...... It's really ......."

"Absolutely, yes!" The jade unicorn affirmed again, word by word: "He! Only! Be! Gold! Yuan! Treasure! ”

"Yuanbao ......" The woman threw the vegetable basket and rushed back to the house through the back door, and the jade unicorn happily followed her into the house when she saw this.

"Mother?" After the jade unicorn entered the house, he found that his mother was going crazy and lifted all the bedding, and then trembling his hands took out a red belly pocket under the bed.

"This is ......" Jade Qilin slowly approached her, "Yuanbao's?" ”

"Hmm......" The woman nodded, choked up, and said: "The Yu family gave birth to a strange son, and the bad omen is unlucky, and I am ashamed of the ancestors of the Jin family, and I will be expelled from the Jin Mansion, and I will never be allowed to return to the house......

"Mother's ......" Yu Qilin held her hand, this passage, Yu often talked to herself in the middle of the night, she knew it by heart.

"I've only seen him in swaddling clothes, I've only heard him cry when he was born......"

"I watched him being taken away, like a piece of flesh had been stripped of his heart."

"I begged her to let me take another look...... Let me take another look at my son......"

But she told me that this child had nothing to do with me anymore. He was born to Mrs. Jin and was the lineage of the Jin Mansion. ”

"Kim! Kim's! Yu Shi was sad and angry and threw the futon on the bed on the ground, "I am a concubine." She's a wife! I'm a commoner, but she's a relative of the emperor...... I! I! I'm ......" Yu said, gasping for breath.

The jade unicorn was shocked, and hurriedly rushed over to hug her and hugged her tightly into his arms: "Mother! Mother! Don't think about it, don't think about it! ”

"I ......"

"It's nothing, it's nothing!" The jade qilin said with relief: "Isn't the ingots here?" ”

"Yes......" Yu slowly raised his head, and his eyes gradually became cloudy and clear. Right! The ingots are here, I'm going to see the ingots! She said and hurried to the mirror. Tear off the wrapping cloth and arrange your hair.

"Lin'er, go over there and pick a flower for my mother."

Seeing that she was fine, the jade unicorn also became happy: "Which one?" ”

"It's the biggest, reddest!"

"Hmm!" The jade unicorn reached out and plucked the big red flower. Hand it to Yu.

Yu's trembling hand put the flower on his head. However, it can't be plugged in.

"Mother, I'll come." The jade unicorn carefully planted the flower to help the Yu clan close.

Looking at the smiling and tearful faces of his mother and himself in the mirror, Yu Qilin sighed with emotion: "It's time to wait for this day!" ”

"You...... Haven't told him yet, have you? Yu asked cautiously.

"Nope."

Yu Shi hurriedly grabbed her: "Say it slowly, don't scare him." ”

"Zhilu Dao." The jade unicorn hugged Yu's arm affectionately, "Mother, you can rest assured!" ”

At this time, the impatient voice of the gold ingots came from the front hall: "Shop! Store! ”

"Yuanbao, he seems to be in a hurry! Mother. I'll go out to accompany him first! The jade qilin said that, and walked out of the hall quickly.

The gold ingots saw her come out of the house. was stunned for a moment, and then asked suspiciously, "Why have you been so long?" ”

Yu Qilin smiled slightly, and picked up the dried sweet potato on the table: "I haven't eaten this for a long time!" After that, he picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing, "Fragrant, fragrant!" That's the smell! ”

The gold ingots looked at the jade unicorn suspiciously: "Have you eaten this before?" ”

Yu Qilin didn't care: "Yes, my mother used to make it for me." It's delicious! As he spoke, he picked up another piece and ate it.

"You mean that the Jiangge Old Mansion often eats this?" The gold ingots looked at the jade unicorn like a monster.

The jade unicorn was speechless for a while.

At this time, Yu Shi entered the house with a large plate of food: "It's time to eat!" ”

She put the bowls in front of the gold ingots, and said as she put them: "cornmeal nests, pumpkin porridge, cold gray cabbage, ......"

Jin Yuan Bao looked at the dishes in these cracked coarse porcelain bowls, and naturally had no appetite.

Seeing this, the jade unicorn urged him: "Eat quickly, aren't you hungry?" ”

Jin Yuan shook his head: "I'm not hungry." ”

"After walking so far, how can you not be hungry?" Yu asked with concern.

Hearing this, Jin Yuanbao's eyes narrowed, and he asked, "How do you know that we have walked a lot?" ”

"Oh...... I see you in the dust......" Yu lowered his head in some panic.

The jade unicorn hurriedly stuffed a bowl of rice into the hand of the gold ingot, relieved the siege of the Yu family, and deliberately shouted: "Don't pick and choose some to eat!" ”

Yu stared at the gold ingot, with a smile on her face, as the first time a mother saw her biological son who she hadn't seen for twenty years, her smile was full of love and happiness......

But in Jin Yuanbao's opinion, this smile was quite weird, his heart was furious, and his body involuntarily shrank back.

The jade unicorn was on the side, holding the nest head, looking forward to the moment when the mother and son recognized each other, and let out a knowing smile.

"This shop is weird, don't eat indiscriminately!" The gold ingot suddenly approached the jade unicorn and said in a low voice.

"Huh?" The jade qilin was stunned for a moment, and then bit his head with relief: "You, don't be suspicious!" It doesn't get any safer than here! Eat it! ”

Looking at the jade unicorn's grinning and unscrupulous appearance, Jin Yuan Bao doubted himself for a moment, and glanced at the Yu family uneasily, but saw that she was still staring at herself with a smile on her face, and her heart was even more hairy, and she quickly pulled the sleeve of the jade unicorn, and said in a low voice: "You see this store has been staring at me......"

I haven't tasted the taste of home for a long time, and the jade unicorn naturally eats it in a big gulp, and when he saw him ask himself, he puffed out his cheeks and said perfunctorily: "Yes." Because you're handsome! ”

Yu looked at the gold ingot, looked at his son who had been separated for twenty years, and his heart was flooded with monstrous waves...... She wanted to look at every hair and eyebrow of him. Look at it all in your heart and keep it in mind.

Looking at it, Yu couldn't help but reach out and want to stroke the hair of the gold ingot.

Seeing this, the gold ingots hurriedly hid.

However, the Yu clan turned to touch his cheek again, and the gold ingots panicked even more. Subconsciously reach out and block it. He stood up on the ground and yelled viciously, "What are you doing? ”

Hearing him yell at his mother, the jade unicorn immediately reprimanded dissatisfiedly: "Yuanbao! ”

Yu realized his gaffe. Hurriedly retracted his hand: "Oh...... There's a dirty thing on your face...... Eat it. ”

The gold ingots frowned, still not moving: "I don't eat." ”

The jade qilin looked at the embarrassed Yu clan, and ordered angrily: "Gold ingots, eat!" Then he picked up the cornmeal nest and stuffed it into his mouth. It's like coaxing a child. "Well, it's delicious!".

Then she picked up a chopstick of wild vegetables and put it in her mouth, "It's so fragrant!" It's all hard work, don't pick this or that! Give it all to me! With that, he picked up the wild vegetables and sent them to the mouth of the gold ingot.

Jin Yuan Bao hurriedly twisted his head back and whispered to the Jade Qilin: "You stupid woman, have you forgotten the lesson of the last inn?" Wait, if you're poisoned, don't blame me for not reminding you! ”

Yu Shi hurriedly motioned to the jade qilin to stop with his eyes, and then smiled kindly at the gold ingot: "It's all usually eaten, just get some." Maybe you are not used to eating, what are you going to eat. Tell me, I'll do it for you. ”

Jin Yuanbao's expression eased, and he pretended to be kind and asked, "Auntie, why don't you invite a better chef in your store?" ”

"A small country shop, what kind of chef do you invite, I'll just make it myself." Yu smiled embarrassedly.

"How's that going to work? Your hands and feet are so slow, and the food you cook is not delicious, why will the guests come? You'd better hire a chef so that business will prosper. ”

Hearing that the gold ingots were counted like this, the jade unicorn was furious: "Ingot treasure! ”

Jin Yuan Bao glared at her, and then asked Xiang Yu: "No matter how bad it is, it's better for you to hire a few helpers to open a store, how can you not hire a few runaways and guys?" How many helpers do you have in your shop? ”

"I've got enough for myself."

"Your husband and children won't help you?" The gold ingots continued to ask.

"I ...... My man died early...... Yu looked at him softly, and muttered: "The child was sent to a big family as soon as he was born, and he has lived alone for twenty years, and he is used to it." ”

"Have your children come to see you over the years?"

Yu shook his head: "No." ”

"How can there be such a child, it's a loss! As a son of man, no matter what, he should not ignore his mother. The gold ingots were indignant.

Hearing this, the jade qilin nodded appreciatively, feeling that the time had come, and coughed: "Listen to me!" Now, I would like to solemnly announce one thing......"

Jin Yuan looked at her suspiciously: "What? It's mysterious. ”

"It's a big deal about your life!" The jade unicorn smiled smugly and tapped the bowl with his chopsticks, "I declare ......"

"Oh, look at me, this brain, and colorful rice!" Yu Shi hurriedly interrupted her, then stopped Yu Qilin with his eyes, turned around and brought a large bowl of coarse grain rice.

Jin Yuan Bao glanced at the rice with disgust: "This is called colorful rice?" ”

"There are buds, millet, and soybeans here, but ......they are fragrant," Yu said, handing the bowl to the gold ingot.

The gold ingots didn't take it, but looked at it vigilantly: "I don't eat it!" ”

"It's really fragrant, you taste it......" Yu said and handed over the bowl again, the gold ingots reached out to block it, Yu's hand slipped, and the bowl smashed on the ground and shattered.

The gold ingots were startled, jumped up, thinking that the bowl was a code, and looked out the window alertly, and was relieved to see that no one had come in.

The jade qilin couldn't help it now, and stood up even when he slapped the table: "Gold ingot, you ......"

Yu Shi hurriedly grabbed her and pulled her to sit down: "It's okay, there's nothing to do, I'll clean it up...... Alas, it's all my ......clumsiness," he said, and swept away the broken porcelain and rice on the ground with a broom, "There is no meat in this dish, no, guest officer, if you don't rest first, I'll help you get a meat dish." ”

Seeing the back of the Yu family's departure, the gold ingots looked around the house uneasily.

"Suspicious!" The jade unicorn said with a dissatisfied meal.

"It's called vigilance!" The gold ingots rolled their eyes.

"Be wary of the fart, do you know the road...... She ......"

Yu Qilin was about to say, but Yu walked in with a bowl of scrambled eggs, "The guest officer eats this first, the chicken is freshly killed, and you can't eat it for a while, you will eat some of this first." ”

"What?" The jade qilin was stunned, "You're going to kill the chicken?" ”

Yu Shi hurriedly gave her a look, then put the egg on the table, turned around and prepared to leave.

"Forget it, let's eat this......" Jin Yuan remembered that he was shy, glanced at the jade unicorn, and saw that she was fine, so he sat down helplessly, picked up the chopsticks, and felt that the chopsticks were black and uncomfortable, looked left and right, poured some tea and rinsed it, and then started.

"It's okay." Yu thought he was polite.

"If I say no, don't!" Jin Yuan Bao said indignantly: "Why are you so verbose, where is there any reason to buy and sell!" ”

"Ingot Treasure!" The jade unicorn scolded him.

"Okay, okay, then...... Then I won't disturb the guest officer to eat......" Yu said in a good voice, turned around and walked to the back room, and after waiting for a while, he quietly opened the curtain and secretly looked at the gold ingot.

The meal ended with the Jade Qilin shouting delicious and the gold ingot's disgust from time to time......

The jade qilin patted his bulging belly, stood up contentedly, and walked into the next room with the gold ingot.

Returning to his familiar environment, the jade unicorn completely relaxed, sat on the kang with his ass, skillfully took out the pillow from the cabinet, lay down, his feet were raised high, and he reached out and took out a few dates from the basket covered next to him and threw them into his mouth, "Oh, it's so comfortable......"

Jin Yuan Bao looked at the performance of the jade unicorn in surprise, and asked suspiciously: "You seem to be familiar with this place!" ”

Jade Qilin raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "If you dislike here, you can find another place to sleep." ”

The gold ingots are angry, and they want to go.

"I can tell you, there is not a single inn within a radius of ten miles." The jade unicorn leisurely spit out the jujube pit.

"How do you know the way?"

The jade qilin smiled proudly: "Of course I know the way!" I ......" She was stunned, and then changed her words: "I won't tell you!" ”

"This is not an inn." The gold ingots looked inside the room.

The jade unicorn bowed: "Yes, this is the farmhouse, and the eldest lady kindly gave us her room to live." Let's rest here first. ”

Jin Yuan squinted: "Do you know this shopkeeper?" ”

Hearing this, the jade qilin was a little embarrassed, and got up in a hurry: "I'll go out first." I'll tell you when I come back! With that, he strode out the door.

Looking at her back, the suspicion on Jin Yuanbao's face became heavier and heavier. (To be continued......)