Chapter 81: Baked Cakes
After retiring from his relatives and eating again, Su did not regret spending a weekend at home. When I opened the door early Monday morning, I found a child standing in front of my house. When he heard the door open, he ran away.
Su Buregret was suspicious in his heart, and went to class with a lot of doubts. When the noon school was released, he remembered everything that happened to Qing and couldn't help but hide himself. I cautiously returned home all the way, and sure enough, I saw someone at the door of my house.
"What for?" Su Buregret thought that it might be the little gangster who came to the house last time to blackmail, and this time he failed to take revenge. It's just that she only guessed half right, she was indeed one of the gangsters who came to the house last time, but she didn't come to find Su Buregret.
"What are you doing!" The little thug was about to run away when he saw Su Buregret pulling his legs, but he was caught by Su Buregret. There were curious people around who stopped to watch the excitement, and Su Buregret pulled the little gangster closer to his yard.
"Who?" Granny Hua saw Su Buregret dragging someone in from the house, and couldn't help but come out and take a look. Seeing that the man was frightened, he took two steps back, pointed at the little gangster and muttered, "Look, isn't this the bastard boy?" ”
"What are you doing here?" Su Buregret asked the child, the boy was the one who Ning Chengjun twisted his arm to the point of dislocation that day and refused to betray his brother.
"I'm looking for that person." The boy bit his mouth and muttered quietly.
"If you look for him, what are you doing at our house, and you still want to extort a sum of money?" The old lady was also frightened, and grabbed the broom next to her to defend herself.
"I couldn't find him, so I came to your house to have a look." The little boy was smart enough to know where to wait.
Su Buregret couldn't help but ask, "What are you looking for him?" Revenge? With your three-legged cat's kung fu, you can't beat him even if you practice for ten years. ”
"I didn't want to hit him, I, I wanted to apprentice." The little boy pouted, his expression very stubborn.
"Apprenticeship?" Su Buregret looked at the young man in front of him in surprise, and couldn't find any words for a while.
In this life, the people who came to the family to make trouble were much earlier than the last time, and the natural people also became different. Although the people are different, there is basically no change after that, but Su Buregret didn't expect that an admirer of Ning Chengjun would appear.
Now she was in a quandary, and she didn't know whether to take the child away or leave Ning Chengjun behind.
"Grunt, grunt, grunt." The child's stomach rumbled, and the three people in the courtyard were stunned. The child reacted first, turned around and was about to leave with a red face.
Su Buregret looked at the child's tattered dress, and grabbed the child: "You stop." ”
"What are you doing?" The child's face was flushed, and his mouth was still very hard.
"You've been waiting since the morning, you must have not eaten, right?" Su Buregret said angrily: "Come in and eat." ”
"I, I'm not going to give up. Don't think you'll fool me out of giving me a meal. The little boy was very stubborn, and he was still stiff when he was hungry.
"If you like to eat or not, no one cares about you." Su turned around and entered the house without regrets, and Granny Hua put down her broom and stepped forward. Holding the child's hand, with pity in his eyes: "Come in, it's just a common thing." When you're full, let's talk about apprenticeship. ”
The boy followed Granny Hua into the house, looked at the food on the table and swallowed his saliva. Su Buregret washed his hands and looked at the young man still standing at the door, and said angrily: "Go wash your hands and come over to eat quickly." ”
The boy washed his hands and saw the towel on the hand-washing rack reaching for it. The hand hung in mid-air, paused for a long time and then retracted. With his hands behind his back, he walked to the dining table.
Su Buregret gave the child a bowl of millet porridge, and put a steamed bun next to him: "Come and sit." ”
The boy sat down and drank a bowl of millet porridge with a snort. He grabbed the big steamed bun and looked at Su Buregret and Granny Hua each holding a steamed bun in their hands, bowing their heads and not saying a word.
Granny Hua knocked a salted duck egg and handed it to the boy with a smile: "Child, you eat this, I pickled this one." It's delicious, it's all oil. ”
The young man took the salted duck egg, picked the egg white with chopsticks, took a bite and nodded again and again: "It's delicious, it's delicious." ”
But his mouth said it was delicious, but he refused to take another bite. The steamed bun in his hand is the same, swallowing saliva carefully but refusing to put it in his mouth.
"Why don't you eat it?" Su Buregret was a little surprised, put down his chopsticks and looked at the boy: "A young man, can you just drink porridge?" Eat steamed buns, there are still vegetables here, eat more. ”
The young man lowered his head and remained silent, still refusing to eat steamed buns. Su Buregret was a little annoyed when she saw this, but the flower mother-in-law on the side seemed to see something. He asked in a low voice, "Son, are you afraid that we won't have enough to eat?" Don't be afraid, there are enough steamed buns at home. ”
"I ....." The young man showed an embarrassed look and said in a low voice: "It's not that I don't want to eat it, I want to take the steamed buns home for my sister to eat." ”
Su Buregret realized that the young man wanted to save some food from his mouth and give it to his sister at home.
"You have a sister? How old are you? ”
"Two years old."
"What do your parents do?"
"No parents."
As soon as the words were spoken, Su Buregret slowly asked the young man's origin clearly. This child is an orphan, and he grew up eating hundreds of meals in the village when he was a child. When he was twelve or thirteen years old, there was a famine in his hometown, and no one could give him a bite to eat. The people in the village told him that there were opportunities everywhere in the capital. If he got a job, he could have a bite to eat, so he walked out of the village and asked for food along the road. Finally came to the capital, but he didn't have a hukou, couldn't read and write, and wasn't smart enough, where could he find a good job.
At this time, he could only hang out with a group of beggars, and then met some thugs. Some people saw that he was young and was willing to fight desperately for a bite to eat. Some rich children are idle and like to leave each other. I didn't dare to do it myself, so I found some people who lacked money and didn't want to die as thugs.
This kid is one of them, and he is willing to fight because it is cheap to eat. Therefore, those little bastards are willing to lead him as their own little brother.
"What's your name?" Granny Hua really felt sorry for this child, and looked at him as if she saw her own son.
"Baked cakes." Originally, he didn't have a name, and everyone in his hometown called him a little begging for food. When he left his hometown to ask for food all the way, some people still called him a little beggar. Later, when he begged for a living, the eldest brothers from all walks of life would ask him, 'What's your name?' ’。 He felt that he should have a loud name, and when he thought about it, he thought that the name was really good, because it was the best thing he had ever tasted.
"And what's the matter with your sister?" The baked cake is already 17 this year, and if you calculate it carefully, it will be half a year younger than Su Buregret. But he was really not very tall, thin and dark, and he was like a monkey.
"I picked it up." Baked cakes wander on the streets, running around and living without a fixed place. One morning, he was so hungry that he went out for a stroll to rummage through the garbage cans to see if there was anything to eat. Unexpectedly, I picked up an abandoned baby girl next to the garbage can.
Regardless of whether he was a person who couldn't even eat, he took the baby girl back to his place. Relying on cheekiness to beg everywhere, the little baby girl was raised little by little. Now that he had come out to make money, he chained his sister to an uninhabited dilapidated house.