Wang Yuan and Li Xin'er saluted the woman, and the woman hurriedly put down the basket and returned the salute.

"Dare to ask if this is Mr. Du Fu's house?" Wang Yuan asked.

"Exactly, who are you?" The woman said with a puzzled face.

"Oh, I'm a friend of Mr. Du, and I'm here to visit him today, and I don't know if Mr. Du is at home."

The woman hurriedly said: "It turned out to be a friend of my husband, and my husband was turning the ground in the back garden, so the slave went to call him." That one...... The two of them sat down for a while, rude. ”

The woman saluted again, turned her head and walked to the back of the house, Wang Yuan smiled and said: "It turned out to be Mrs. Sister-in-law, don't be tired, let's go to see Brother Du together." ”

The woman said, "Isn't it rude for the husband to be working and his clothes are disheveled." ”

Wang Yuan waved his hand and said: "It's not rude, Brother Du and I are good friends, don't care about these." ”

The woman nodded slightly, lifted the basket, and said, "In that case, please come with me." ”

The two men followed the woman around the house to the back of the house. The trees behind the house are messy and decayed, and a path leads behind a clump of trees, and after walking along the path for dozens of steps, you can hear the sound of hoes and ploughing the ground, and the sound of children playing.

"Zongwen, Feng'er, don't run around, be careful of thorns tearing your clothes, your mother will scold you." A tired, muffled voice came from behind the bushes.

"Grandpa, we didn't run around, we just saw a snake, and I wanted to catch it and go home and ask my mother to stew soup for us at night, and my little sister said that she was very hungry and wanted to eat meat." A childish child's voice came.

"Hey...... Grandpa will help you catch it. Don't get bitten by a snake, it will hurt. ”

"Grandpa, I'm not afraid ......"

Wang Yuan listened to the voice of the father and son's answer, his heart was heavy, the child was so hungry that he caught snakes to eat, how poor his life was. The woman was obviously a little ashamed, and shouted, "Zongwen and Xiao Feng'er, are you being naughty again?" Don't worry your grandpa. ”

As the words fell, there was a cheer of 'mother's mother', and two children rushed out of the bushes, a boy with a tiger's head and a tiger's brain, followed by a little girl of five or six years old with pigtails in the sky. The two children were dressed in tatters, their hands, feet and faces were dirty, and there were leaves and weeds hanging from their heads.

The woman glanced at Wang Yuan and Li Xin'er embarrassedly, and said shyly: "Let the two of you laugh, the children are stubborn and don't understand etiquette." Zongwen ...... Xiao Feng'er, don't come to see anyone yet? ”

The two children looked at Wang Yuan and Li Xin'er timidly, probably seeing Wang Yuan and Li Xin'er dressed luxuriously, they felt a little out of place, and their faces were unfamiliar, so they stood in place and didn't dare to step forward.

"I'm sorry, the children haven't seen the world, it's rude." The woman whispered.

Wang Yuan squatted down with a smile and beckoned to the child, "Let me guess, you must be Zongwen." That one must be Xiao Feng'er. ”

The boy tilted his head and said, "How do you know?" Who are you? ”

Wang Yuan said: "I am a good friend of your grandfather, your grandfather told me, your grandfather said that you would turn your head, right?" ”

"Well, I can flip through seven or eight in a row, don't believe me, I'll show you." At the mention of the little boy's pride, the little boy suddenly became excited.

Wang Yuan laughed and said: "You can show us in a while, but now I want to go to see your grandfather to talk, come, this is for you to eat, take it to eat." ”

Li Xin'er hurriedly stepped forward with a smile and handed over the large bag of snacks she was carrying, and the woman on the side hurriedly said: "I can't do it, I can't do it, how is this good?" ”

Li Xin'er said: "Sister-in-law, there's nothing to do, it's just some snacks, slaves and husbands come to visit you, you can't be empty-handed." The kids can't lift it, you hold it. This package is shortbread, this package is jelly beans, this package is dragon whisker cake, these two packs are a roast goose and beef, my husband said that he wanted to have a few drinks with Mr. Du, so he brought them to eat. ”

The woman cried out, "I can't do it, I can't help it, how dare you do it with such a waste." ”

Li Xin'er stuffed the paper bag into her hand, and the two of them kept pushing and pulling. Wang Yuan didn't care, he had already opened a bag of pastries, took out two pieces of shortbread, and handed them to the little boy and the little girl respectively.

The little girl's eyes lit up, and she took a bite and chewed happily; The little boy not only did not accept the shortbread handed over by Wang Yuan, but snatched the shortbread from the little girl's hand, handed it back to Wang Yuan, and reprimanded him: "Feng'er, have you forgotten Grandpa's words?" Don't ask for other people's things casually, if you are hungry, your mother will make you bread to eat, and my brother can also help you catch snakes and cook soup for you to eat, don't let you be so unruly. ”

Wang Yuan was stunned, and his heart was very shocked, a child, but he was so backbone, it seemed that Du Fu's godson was very set. When I was about to praise a few words and explain that I was not an outsider, I suddenly heard someone in front of me talking.

"Yang, what's going on?"

Wang Yuan raised his head, and between the bushes in front of him, Du Fu stood there with a hoe in his hand, his trousers rolled up, his hair was fluffy, his hands and feet were full of loess, and his black and thin face was confused.

Du Fu's wife, Yang, hurriedly said: "Husband, these two said that they were your friends and came to visit you, no, I will ...... it."

Wang Yuan arched his hand and smiled: "Brother Du, you won't forget your little brother so soon." The younger brother Wang Yuan is polite. ”

Du Fu was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "Oh, it turned out to be Wang Gongzi, forgive me for being clumsy, I didn't recognize it for a while." Accuse and accuse. Du Fu threw his hoe and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "It's okay to say hello and come here, it's really presumptuous." This one is my insider, Xin'er, who came to meet Brother Du. ”

Li Xin'er stepped forward to salute, Du Fu hurriedly returned the salute, and said: "You are all married, so fast, weren't you still alone a few months ago?" ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "Yes, it is better to get married as soon as you meet a virtuous person, and you can start a business only after becoming a family, otherwise you will be regarded as a rootless Ping, and many prejudices will not be good." ”

Du Fu nodded and said, "That's right." ”

The little boy pulled Du Fu's clothes and said, "Grandpa, who is this?" ”

Du Fu smiled: "Zongwen, this is Grandpa's good friend, you have to call him Uncle." ”

The little boy said, "Then is he an outsider?" Can we eat the pastries he gave? ”

Du Fu laughed and said: "You can eat, of course you can eat, this little uncle is not an outsider." ”

The little boy was very happy, Wang Yuan handed over the two pieces of bread in his hand, the little boy reached out and took it, and gave his sister a piece.

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "Brother Du's family education is strict, so he won't want it." ”

Du Fu sighed: "There is no way, my Du family is poor, and I am down, all I can teach them is self-esteem and arrogance, I hope they can be upright." ”

Wang Yuan nodded, pointed to Du Fu's trouser leg and said, "Brother Du still has work to do?" ”

Du Fu hurriedly said: "Rude and rude, look at me like this, it's really rude." Madame said to plant some greens in the back of the house, no, I helped dig a piece of soil, except for the grass as a vegetable bed. A look of embarrassment is really rude. Let's go home, I'll wash my hands and feet, and clean up. ”

Du Fu strode towards the house with a pair of children one by one, and Wang Yuan and the others followed back to the courtyard.

Yang boiled water and put it on the wooden table under the jujube tree, invited Wang Yuan and Li Xin'er to drink tea, Du Fu came out in a clean but shabby robe, sat down at the table, saw that Wang Yuan didn't drink water, and said with a smile: "I'm not used to drinking boiled water, right?" I don't have anything like tea here. ”

Wang Yuan patted the two big wine jars beside him and said, "Do I still drink water if I have wine?" I've brought it all the way from Dongcheng to here, so let's drink water instead of drinking? Isn't it a joke? ”

Du Fu said with a smile: "That's right, child, go cut a few handfuls of spring leeks and copy them, see what other snacks are at home, and I will drink with Wang Gongzi." ”

Yang Shi replied in a low voice, his brows were gloomy, there were spring leeks, and there was nothing else. Wang Yuan said to Li Xin'er: "Madame went to help my sister-in-law with her work, didn't she bring roast goose and beef?" I cut two small plates for us, and let my sister-in-law and the children eat the rest. ”

Li Xin'er nodded in response, got up to help, and Du Fu hurriedly said: "It's a guest here, how to make it?" Let Yang alone. ”

Wang Yuan waved his hand and said, "Brother Du, aren't you polite?" Sit down, let's have a drink and chat. ”

Du Fu nodded and sat down, hugged the wine jar to smash the mud seal, splashed several bowls of water in front of him, and poured a bowl of wine for Wang Yuan and himself. picked up the bowl and sniffed it a few times and praised: "Good wine, it seems to be bamboo leaf green." ”

Wang Yuan nodded and said, "Yes, the best sake." ”

Du Fu raised the bowl and said, "Let's do a bowl first." ”

The two drank a bowl of wine, Du Fu wiped the beard on his mouth, and praised: "Good wine, good wine, I haven't drunk such good wine for a long time." When you come to see me today, I ask you to spend money on wine, and I will ask you to pay it back later. ”

Wang Yuan smiled and said, "Okay." I waited. ”

The two drank two bowls of wine, and Yang brought a plate of fried leeks and cooked vegetables brought by Wang Yuan plus a plate of pickle gnocchi to put on the table, and the two had something to drink.

The afternoon sun shone brightly in the yard, the spring breeze blew the leaves and branches of the jujube trees overhead, women and children did not come to disturb, in the dilapidated yard, only Wang Yuan and Du Fu sat opposite each other and drank silently, unconsciously, both of them were a little drunk.