Chapter 76: Generosity
Before dawn on the second day, Ran Changle got up, rinsed his mouth under the service of Tao drunk, and went straight to the big kitchen.
Taozhi and Sanqi were hit by ten boards yesterday, and they couldn't get better for a while, they couldn't go to the kitchen to help, and they couldn't follow the young lady to soup porridge, and they felt remorseful in their hearts, so they rushed to make dozens of pairs of socks overnight.
Seeing that Peach was drunk and packed up with socks, Peach Branch's eyes were red, and she cried: "None of the three of us can accompany Miss, how can we be good?" ”
After speaking, he hung down the edge of the bed fiercely, bared his teeth and grinned in pain.
Tao drunk glanced at her and said coldly: "You and Sanqi have a good rest, don't stay up late, in case you fall ill, who will take care of Miss?" ”
Momozhi and Sanqi nodded.
Tao drunk carried a small package and hurried to the kitchen, and the young lady asked her to take care of the two wounded at home, and she had to send the small package to the young lady.
"Ah, I forgot to tell Momo drunk that I had a set of clothes for Miss!"
Although it was not yet dawn, the house had already begun to get busy.
Ran Changle inspected the circle and saw that everyone was busy in an orderly manner, so he was relieved.
I went to the old lady's courtyard and simply accompanied the old lady to breakfast.
and helped the old lady into the carriage.
Another carriage was filled with four large buckets of rice porridge.
The old lady was in good spirits, smiling, and not moving like a bell, Ran Changle was puzzled: "Grandmother, why don't you set off?" ”
"Grandson, wait a little longer."
After a cup of tea, Ran Changle heard the sound of the carriage from far and near.
"Grandson, go down and make arrangements, the steamed buns are here." The old lady laughed.
Ran Changle was annoyed, why didn't he think of buying some steamed buns, or his grandmother was thoughtful, no wonder his grandmother smiled and didn't answer, it turned out that she was teaching herself.
Thanks to the grandmother, she got out of the carriage.
I saw a man pulling an ox cart, and a woman was sitting in it.
The woman saw the woman standing next to the carriage, her temperament was elegant, but her face was full of pockmarks, and she said in her heart that this should be the eldest lady of Ran Mansion.
immediately came to Ran Changle and said respectfully: "The steamed buns that Miss wants are all in the carriage, and a thousand white-flour steamed buns are still hot!" ”
The two were curious, what did Ran Mansion do with so many steamed buns? Although they didn't say it, the eyes of the two were full of curiosity and doubt.
"Hard work two. Come on, pack the steamed buns and put them in the carriage. Ran Changle smiled and didn't explain.
Mama Lin on the side gave the woman a purse, and the woman opened it and thanked her.
Wait for the steamed buns to be half emptied.
The two drove away in the ox cart, and the woman turned back and saw the three gray carriages of the Ran Mansion heading west.
Seeing that there were no pedestrians on the road, she opened her purse, counted quickly, and exclaimed, "I actually gave an extra fifty wen!" ”
When Ran Changle and the others arrived in the slums west of the city, the sun was already halfway up the treetops.
Mama Lin hurriedly arranged for someone to put down the wooden barrel, set up a large shelf, spread a clean cloth on it, and put the steamed buns on it.
Ran Changle helped the old lady get out of the carriage.
As far as the eye can see, there is a tall pear tree.
The thick trunk of the tree is not able to be embraced by the two.
It's April, and the pear blossoms are in full bloom.
The snow-white pear blossoms on the trees are like a layer of plain snow.
She took a deep breath, entered her lungs and was full of pear fragrance, and exclaimed: "Grandmother, I'm afraid this pear tree is a hundred years old, right?" ”
The old lady walked up, stroked the rough trunk of the pear tree, and said, "One hundred and twenty years...... After ten years, I am coming again. ”
A little beggar with a sniff walked timidly, barefoot, one step at a time, his eyes staring at the snow-white steamed bun, saliva dripping to his chin and then to the ground.
When Ran Changle saw him, he couldn't help but feel sad, and called softly: "Come here, there are steamed buns to eat." ”
The little beggar spread his legs and stomach, ran to the steamed bun in a puff of air, touched the saliva at the corner of his mouth with his dirty arm, and looked at the steamed bun, and after a while, the saliva flowed out again.
Ran Changle hurriedly took two steamed buns to him, and watched in surprise as he ate one steamed bun in four bites!
couldn't help but be nervous: "Be careful of choking, don't worry, there are a lot of steamed buns, it's full." ”
The little beggar clutched the other steamed bun in his arms, swallowed hard, but stopped eating.
"Do you want to leave it to your family?" Ran Changle said sadly, thinking that when she was in the orphanage, she was reluctant to eat the candy that the dean gave her, and hid it under the pillow, wanting to leave it for her mother, who had never seen her before.
Unexpectedly, she accidentally crossed here, and the candy under the pillow was already broken.
The little beggar nodded.
Ran Changle wrapped four more steamed buns in oiled paper and handed them to him, touched his dirty hair, and said gently: "Take the steamed buns." Go back and get a bowl, there's also fragrant rice porridge here. ”
The little beggar nodded, and ran back, and shouted: Stones, jars, hairy eggs, come quickly! The noble man brought us steamed buns! ”
Ran Changle couldn't help but smile, and when he looked back, his grandmother was looking at her with a smile.
After a while, a lot of people came running from a distance, and a few young men who were running fast with big bowls bumped into several old people and children along the way.
When Ran Changle saw it, his eyes were fascinated.
"I'm number one! Ha ha! What about steamed buns! Porridge! The seventeen or eighteen-year-old man laughed.
"Wang Gouzi, I haven't seen you so fast!" The man who was also seventeen or eighteen years old in second place said fiercely.
"Don't pee and take pictures, don't say anything about the two of you who are virtuous." Lapped in third place in the same age with contempt.
"You three rabbit cubs, you don't do serious things every day, stealing chickens and touching dogs, and you don't see you repairing when the roof beams collapse. When encountering food, one is faster than the other. The woman in fourth place scolded against iron.
"My mom and dad don't care about me! You're hairy! ”
"If I don't eat you, I don't live in your house, and I don't care about your birds!"
The woman's face turned red, she was the first to come, if it wasn't for the children they bumped into, it would have been their turn.
Many children and old people came one after another, all standing behind them in a proper manner, but more than a meter away from them.
Everyone looked at the small mountain of steamed buns.
Tao Ran Changle stepped forward and pulled out the three skinny young men like chicken cubs.
Three young people, you and I roared one by one.
"Hey, what are you doing! Aren't you good people who give alms, why don't you let us get steamed buns? ”
"That's it, that's it, if you don't give us steamed buns, it's fake almsgiving!"
"If you spread the word, your good man's reputation will be gone!"
The three of them have no fear, they have tried this trick repeatedly, and they will get more alms.
Ran Changle laughed angrily, picked up a person, shook his hand, and hung him on the pear tree.
In the same way, the other two were also hung on the tree.
The three of them screamed in fright.
Ran Changle shouted: "It's called cutting your tongue again." ”
The three of them immediately shut up and grabbed the branches.
Mama Lin gave a thumbs up, hurriedly picked up the scoop, and put the sticky rice in their bowls.
received the porridge, and then went to Ran Changle to receive two white-flour steamed buns.
When she meets a child, she will give one more.
"Old man, the bottom of your bowl is broken, and you can't hold porridge." Mama Lin looked at his bowl and said.
"I don't have a bowl......"
Ran Changle turned his head to look.
The old man, covered in patches, held a broken bowl in his trembling hand, the mouth of the bowl was uneven, and the bottom of the bowl was cracked.
"Mama Lin, when you left the house, I remember that you loaded a porcelain bowl." The old lady spoke.
Mama Lin replied hesitantly: "Old lady, that porcelain bowl is prepared by the old slave to serve you with ball-bearing soup, and the old slave remembers that you love to eat Li Ji ball-bearing soup on the street." ”
"For the elderly."
The old man rubbed his eyes vigorously, he listened to the voice was somewhat familiar, and looked up, a dignified old man with silver hair and kind eyebrows.
He hesitated, couldn't believe it, and shouted, "Are you, Ran Bodhisattva?" ”
"Don't be a bodhisattva. Don't say that. ”
The old man suddenly fell to his knees and cried: "It's been ten years, ten years, Bodhisattva Ran, only you still remember us poor people......"
The old lady personally helped her up and said, "The emperor's grace is mighty." Be cautious. ”
When everyone heard the word 'Ran Bodhisattva', they all knelt down to the old lady, their faces were full of gratitude, and they called one after another: Ran Bodhisattva, Ran Bodhisattva......
Mama Lin and Mama Gui wet the corners of her eyes.