Guan Lao Er only felt that the heart in his chest was about to jump out of his throat, and he desperately threw off the two leg poles as thin as green bamboo, jumping and jumping, and ran so fast on the slippery road that the water porter who was chasing him behind him wondered how this usually dry and thin baby, who picked up buckets of water and shiny waist poles, had such long strength. Yang Zhaolai, led by the pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info, scolded and screamed, and he couldn't breathe, so he had to stop and take a breath. He bent over, holding his knees with his hands, and ran out of sweat in the cold winter, snorting and panting like a broken bellows, so that Hu Shuiyang, who was usually good friends, had to stop and ask him: "Yang Er, are you okay?" ”

"No, it's fine." Finally gasping for breath, Yang Zhaolai straightened up and opened his clothes, and immediately saw the heat steaming on his body, and even the insoles on his feet were damp! He spat on the ground fiercely and said, "That turtle son, don't be looked at by Lao Tzu!" When you look at it, you tell him to eat fried cowpeas with slices of meat! ”

Hu Shuiyang persuaded him: "He's a doll, what are you doing with him?" They are all hard-working people, and they can be lenient. Besides, you have already beaten him, and you have to beat him again, Guan Erwa is like that, you are not afraid of playing a good game, and you will have to pay for the soup and medicine when the time comes? ”

Hearing what he said, Yang Zhaolai was also frightened inside, but his face was still stronger, his eyes puffed up, his flesh swelled, and he said fiercely: "He is a thief, and he dares to ask Lao Tzu for soup and medicine?!" There is a bowl of meat at noon, and he can't eat it and he wants to waste it! It doesn't make sense to ask wherever you go! He waved his fist with a big sand bowl, and the more he talked, the more angry he became, and finally scolded hatefully: "It's cheaper Guan Er's turtle son!" ”

Guan Lao Er fled into a dilapidated alley in a panic, and hid in the chicken coop at the end of the night with bated breath. He ran for a long time, his whole body was drenched in sweat, his teeth were frozen in the middle of the night, and he was huddled with roosters and hens in the chicken coop full of chicken manure so that he didn't freeze out. In the middle of the night, my stomach was uncomfortably empty, my mouth was full of sour water, and I secretly touched two eggs, and I drank them to the bottom of my stomach, so I narrowly survived the night.

Before dawn, Guan Lao Er crawled out with a head of chicken feathers, his eyes rolled around, and then he turned around and grabbed a little hen lightly, and before he could scream, he quickly twisted the neck of the chicken, and then hung the chicken in the burlap belt, and ran towards the river beach outside the city with oil under his feet.

In one breath, he ran to a secluded place by the river, cut and washed the chicken, wrapped it in mud, and then set up some rotten wood and dead branches, and lit it with a fire fold, which was to roast a chicken called Hua to eat. Guan Lao Er thought that he was pickled again, so he washed his head and face slightly with the river water, rubbed the tattered clothes on the pebbles, and barely saw his appearance.

He sat in front of the fire in a daze, looking at the jumping tongue of fire, his heart was really sad, while regretting how he had lost his mind, and on the other hand, he had some strange and unspeakable thoughts: "If Xiao Qi hadn't come back to see me, I wouldn't have envied him; If I didn't envy him, I wouldn't want to choose a family; If I didn't want to choose a house, I wouldn't want to eat more; If I didn't want to eat more, I wouldn't have served that bowl of meat; If I don't serve that bowl of meat, I won't knock it over; I didn't knock it over, I'm still eating in the well yard now, and I'm waiting until I get up to work......"

After thinking about it upside down in his heart, Guan Lao Er finally felt a little angry. Seeing that the time was about the same, he opened the fire with a gloomy face, smashed the mud ball with pebbles a few times, revealing the fragrant and tender chicken inside, reached out and grabbed it regardless of the heat, and bit the meat viciously, and swallowed it before he had time to chew a few times, a small little hen was eaten by him in a few bites, and wiped his mouth across his sleeve, Guan Lao Er took a deep breath, and walked to a well field on the outskirts of the city without looking back.

Liu Xiaoqi finally got a vacation two days ago. He took a joyful bath with the others—there was a long-abandoned salt well in the Li family's village, which was now halogen-free and gas-free, and the guards built a large stove here, boiling hot water day and night for three hundred and sixty-five days, so that they could take a hot bath comfortably after practice. I changed into a new coat - indigo straight jacket, the front and back hem edges are short to the knees, the arrow sleeves do not need wrist guards, the thick summer cloth is stacked in two layers, and then the cotton is sewn with Guizhou goatskin, and the muslin cloth is lined to keep warm and moisture-proof, and can also be used as armor; Plain cowhide belt, pants of the same color and quality, and half-height leather (weng) shoes and cashmere socks. Rao is the Li family is wealthy, and the guards only buy one for three years, and if there is any damage, it can be repaired by the tailor in the house.

Liu Xiaoqi was reluctant to wear this set of clothes spontaneously. He has heard the team say that he will wear this dress in winter when he travels for salt in the future, and he will wear it with a half-arm armor, and it will be this dress that saves your life many times. However, he had long thought that he would go to see Guan Lao Er if he got a fake and return to Fushun, and by the way, let his friends take a look, and now he finally lived up to his hard work that day.

He got up early before dawn, and got into the carriage that the Liyang team was borrowing yesterday with his companions—the coachman who drove the car sent rice, flour, oil, salt, and other things to Zhuangzi every ten days, and came to deliver things the first day, and returned to the city the next day—and sat for more than an hour before the day was already bright before finally arriving at the city gate, and everyone got off the car and made an appointment to gather here in the afternoon. After finally finishing the matter, Liu Xiaoqi couldn't wait to walk towards the well field.

His steps were brisk, and the journey that used to take two quarters of an hour now only took more than a moment, and when he saw the tall crane towering from a distance, Liu Xiaoqi shouted excitedly, and ran away for a while. A waterman heard the movement and looked up, and suddenly pulled the people around him in disbelief, pointed to the figure running all the way and asked, "I look at it, why does it look like Liu Xiaoqi?" ”

Others laughed at him: "Are you mistaken?" Didn't I hear that Xiao Qi went to Zhuangzi to be a housekeeper? I might be here. ”

Some people even said angrily: "It is said that it is on Zhuangzi, I'm afraid I can't bear the hardships and run!" ”

Before the words fell, the figure in the distance had already run in front of them, and no one dared to say that this was not Liu Xiaoqi, but the water porters didn't know that this was still the Liu Xiaoqi they were familiar with. I haven't seen it for more than a month, and the male doll who used to be dry and thin, tired every day and can't straighten his waist, and always has a bitter look on his face, has disappeared, and now this waist is straight, his face is ruddy, his eyebrows and eyes are smiling, and he is wearing a new set of clothes, shoes and socks.

The water pickers were still in a daze, Liu Xiaoqi had already taken off his hat and held it in his hands, bowed to everyone with a smile, and said, "Brothers, I haven't seen you for a long time!" ”

Just like boiling water into an oil pot, the water pickers squeezed around Liu Xiaoqi with a "bang", gossiping, this one asked, "Xiaoqi is good now", the other said, "You are considered to have fallen into the nest of blessings", and some people want to pull a relationship to form a good fate, saying: "Xiaoqi can be idle today?" Brother invites you to drink! ”

He hurriedly broke free from the crowd, laughed with the crowd for a while, and at last ran out of the room, and the water-bearers gathered together and talked and sighed for a while, and then dispersed to busy themselves with the work at hand. Liu Xiaoqi looked for two circles and didn't find the person he was looking for, and just wanted to ask the steward, Yang Zhaolai, who happened to be familiar with him, came over with a bucket.

He tucked the front swing in his belt, and without saying a word, he went over and took the bucket from Yang Zhaolai's hand, Yang Zhaolai didn't see him, and he was startled at first. As a result, when he saw him, he also had a sincere smile on his face, so he simply carried the bucket to the side, put down the bucket and wiped the sweat with the handkerchief around his neck, and talked to Liu Xiaoqi.

"Brother Zhaolai, do you know where Guan Er went? I saw him when I came back. Liu Xiaoqi asked him with a blank eye, "I obviously haven't heard that he went to other well sites!" ”

Yang Zhaolai listened to Liu Xiaoqi ask him, and suddenly became angry, spit on the ground with a mouthful of thick phlegm, and said loudly in a rough voice: "Xiaoqi, you don't talk about the white-eyed wolf in front of me, you don't talk about him here, mention his name, everyone is pickled!" After scolding like this, he was particularly angry, so he simply spread out his explanation to Liu Xiaoqi: "Xiaoqi, you don't know, you came to see him last time, right?" ”

Liu Xiaoqi nodded dumbly, unwilling to believe it, and when he heard Yang Zhao come to ask him, he said hesitantly: "Yes, it's just that I was returning to the city with the team to do business, and I took the time to come over, and I happened to meet him outside the well site." ”

slapped his thigh, Yang Zhaolai loudly sighed: "You really don't know!" You see this kid go back, he will go crazy in a few days, and he doesn't know which tendon to pull in his brain, and he actually steals a large bowl full of meat! The more he spoke, the more angry he became, and he slammed his fist on the wall, "Stealing meat doesn't count, and if you can't eat it, it's a waste!" When we found out, even the bowl and the meat were hidden in the haystack of the cowshed, and it was full of grass ashes! ”

Liu Xiaoqi was silent, he stared down at the tip of his shoe, and there seemed to be a weighing stone on his chest, which weighed him down so heavily that he couldn't breathe - he really couldn't talk to Yang Zhao, who had taken a lot of care of him in the past, the haystack in the cowshed was a place where he and Guan Lao Er used to hide food. Guan Lao Er must be thinking about hiding the meat there and eating it slowly.

"It was my turn to cook that day, and the meat was lost, and the steward said that I would be deducted from my salary for a day! Later, I found out that Guan Lao Er stole it, you say, how can I let him go! Yang Zhao said with foaming at the mouth, "I couldn't think of it that day, I was going to beat him up with your brother Shuiyang, but who knew that Guan Lao Er ran out that night and never came back." He glanced at Liu Xiaoqi, his tone softened for three points, sighed, and his big fan-like hand fell heavily on his shoulder, he said: "Xiaoqi, don't worry about that white-eyed wolf, you, now that you have a good life, go ahead by yourself!" ”

"I know. Thank you, Brother Zhaolai. Xiao Qi nodded with a heavy face, he couldn't hold back after all, and still asked, "That'...... Guan Er, Brother Zhaolai, do you know where he went? ”

Yang Zhaolai raised his eyebrows, and was about to scold Liu Xiaoqi, but when he saw the sadness on Xiao Qi's face, he suddenly couldn't scold, and he blushed in one breath, and finally he sighed and told him: "Guan Er, some people say that he went to Boguan'er's well site." ”