Chapter 75

The two of them discussed, buried themselves in hard work, Jinhua went back to the kitchen and brought a wooden barrel, "This is rice soup, people who want to drink rice soup can serve it themselves, and if a bowl of rice is not enough, you can also come to add rice and vegetables." ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately attracted countless joyful lights, don't look at Mao Da's group of people who are thin and don't pull up, but the amount of food is not small, the reason why they are thin, the reason why their faces are yellow and dull, is actually because there is no last meal, and often can't eat enough, cash spent said this, most people have the idea of adding food and vegetables, and the speed of eating in their mouths is some.

At this moment, Ye Lan came out of the house, and when she saw everyone gobbling up, she couldn't help sighing, she heard Jin Hua say that most of these people had eaten a meal yesterday and were still not full, so it can be imagined that they are also having a hard time.

"I know everyone is hungry, but when you are very hungry, you can't eat too much, so as not to break your stomach, and it's not good for your health.

Originally, everyone was a little disappointed when they heard Ye Lan say that they were not allowed to add more food, but when they heard that they could eat again when it was dark, they were suddenly disappointed, and all the children surnamed Mao couldn't help cheering, looking at Ye Lan for the sake of their health, Ye Lan shouted excitedly,

"Little boss, little boss......"

Outside was so excited, Qiao Zi couldn't help but walk out of the house, her beautiful face appeared in everyone's sight, and suddenly, many people were stunned.

The first to come back to his senses was Mao Twenty-five, "Wow, it's so beautiful." ”

Children don't know what it means to be amazing, but they can't help but sigh when they look at the beauty they have never seen, and it is because of this that everyone comes back to their senses, no one thought that there would be such a beauty in this remote village, at this moment, all the words are pale, and all the decorations are the background.

It was dark last night, Mao Da concentrated mainly on stealing things, and after being discovered, he was beaten to death by Qiao Zi, and he was worried about protecting himself at that time, and he didn't look carefully at his own people, but now when he saw it, he was suddenly shocked, and at such a moment, he felt that his heart stopped beating, so beautiful.

"Have you seen enough?" Being watched by so many people, Qiao Zi was a little embarrassed, and the sluggishness of Mao Da and the others also made Ye Lan unhappy, and the cold voice spit out from his mouth, which immediately brought everyone back to their senses, and they all bowed their heads tightly, not daring to look at Qiao Zi again.

"You just saw the beauty, it's my mother, and you'll call her Mrs. in the future, understand?" Ye Lan raised her eyebrows, many of these people looked like half-grown children, seeing that the beauty didn't know how to restrain her emotions, she could appreciate it, she didn't allow anyone to beat her mother's idea.

"Yes, ma'am." Every time Ye Lan spoke in a particularly cold tone, she could make everyone unconsciously listen to her.

Such a beautiful lady, it should be a happy thing for her to do things under her in the future, at this time, such a thought flashed in the minds of many people.

"Lan'er, my mother is in." Qiao Zi didn't like everyone's gaze, so in order to avoid suspicion, she turned around and entered the house again.

"Yes."

Ye Lan nodded, watched Qiao Zi enter the house, and looked at the courtyard still sluggish and motionless, "Are you stupid, don't eat yet." ”

As soon as the words came out, everyone hurried to eat as if they had been ordered, Mao Da and Mao Er glanced at each other, and they both saw from each other's eyes that Yu Yu was amazing, what a beautiful woman.

After eating, Mao Da Mao Er took a group of younger brothers to the village to wander around, and the villagers to contact feelings, although everyone looked at them unhappy, but they couldn't bear their thick skin, a circle down, but let many villagers have a slightly better attitude towards them, if you want to take root here for a long time in the future, it is very necessary to have a good relationship with the villagers, Mao Da told the younger brothers not to steal the villagers' things, there are houses, there are people to send quilts, someone to take care of the food, for the younger brothers, today is a happy day in their lives, Many people have the idea of living here forever.

If you steal something from the villagers, not only will you be sent to the official, but I am afraid that you will not be allowed to enter Jinxiu Village in the future.

When it got dark, according to Ye Lan, if you want to eat, go to her, Mao Da Mao Er took her younger brothers to go, in fact, they have only eaten a big bowl of rice for a short time, and they are not very hungry yet, but they have long been accustomed to let them develop the habit of mission to eat if there is something and to endure if there is nothing, so twenty-five people are no more and no less, and they all arrived at Ye Lan's yard.

Ye Lan asked Jinhua to heat up the leftovers before and distribute them to twenty-five people, she didn't believe that these people were so hungry, so she didn't let Jinhua prepare another meal, just ate the leftovers.

Sure enough, after listening to the steaming leftovers, everyone was very satisfied, Mao Da offered to help wash the dishes, Jinhua was not polite to them, let Mao Da Mao and the two of them help, and the rest of the people did whatever they wanted.

This group of people is used to collective action, my brother didn't speak, they didn't know what to do, and there was nothing to do now, Mao Da saw this, let them go back to the house first and prepare for sleep,

"We'll go back after we're done washing here."

Hearing what the eldest brother said, Mao San left with his younger brothers.

Only left in the yard to help Mao Er and Mao San, Jin Hua chatted with them, this chat only to know, it turned out that Mao Da and they were a group of orphans who did not even have a name, at first only Mao Da Mao two Mao three Mao four children got together, picked up people to throw things to eat, or stole other people's things to live by, among the four children, only Mao Da has a surname, and then the relationship is good, they became brothers, according to the age of the size, also took the name, and then the younger brothers, are named in the order of putting away.

Among the twenty-five people, the older is Mao, 25 years old this year, Mao 23, Mao 3 21, Mao 4 2, the rest, 15-2 years old, there are five children, there are three children under the age of 10, and the rest are all between 1-15 years old.

Therefore, Mao's group of people, most of them are petite, in addition to malnutrition, but also because most of them are half-grown children, these children have become homeless orphans because they have no family and no source of income.

Jinhua was originally a kind person, originally very repulsive to Mao Da and others, after hearing Mao Da say this, but felt a little sympathetic to them, five boys over twenty years old, it is not easy to take twenty boys under the age of twenty to mess around, not to mention that usually stealing things, mainly Mao Da with his fifteen-year-old brothers, under the age of fifteen, rarely go out, because Mao Da still hopes that one day they can have other life skills instead of stealing for a living, which shows that Mao Da still has a conscience.

Jinhua is a straight-hearted person, she will say whatever she has in her heart, and when she heard the tragic life experience of Mao Da and others, she felt sympathy, so she mentioned it,

"If you don't want to steal for a living, just work hard for the small boss, as long as you work hard, when the time comes, you will become a small boss long-term worker, sign a labor contract with him, and the treatment is very good, you see that you are not young, you have a proper job, live here, and you can marry a wife and have children in the future."

"We don't expect to have children, as long as we can eat enough." Mao Da smiled a little shyly, for some reason he thought of Qiao Zi's beautiful face, and sighed secretly, if he could take a daughter-in-law as beautiful as Qiao Zi in his lifetime, it would really make him willing to die.

Jin Hua didn't know what Mao Da was thinking, if he knew, maybe he would scold him for saying that the toad wanted to eat swan meat, and while chatting with Mao Da and the others, he commanded them to do things, and found that their hands and feet were much more neat than they imagined, which made Jin Hua feel a lot more satisfied, and his impression of them also changed.

"Okay, there's nothing to do here, you go back and rest, come over tomorrow, be on time."

"Let's talk to the little boss." Mao Da nodded, walked to the door of the room with a few younger brothers and said inside, "Little boss, let's go back, come over tomorrow." ”

Ye Lan heard it in the room and responded, "Yes." ”

Only Ye Lan's voice was heard, but there was no Qiao Zi's voice, a trace of disappointment flashed in Mao's big eyes, and then he took his younger brothers back to the house.

As soon as the next day came, the workers were all there, Ye Lan arranged a day's work, today is mainly to dig fish ponds, after the rain yesterday, the ground is loose a lot, it is very easy to dig, but it is quite soft in the ground, and it is easy to get dirty, as for Mao Da and others, Ye Lan asked Mao Da to take his younger brother over fifteen years old to follow the workers to dig fish ponds, and handed them over to Li Da to watch, and then left fifteen people under the age of fifteen to stay in place, some of them are difficult, too heavy work to let them do, but they can't be raised in vain.

"Do any of you miss school?"

Seeing these dozen and a half children, Ye Lan thought for a while and asked.

The question was a little inexplicable, and the remaining children looked at each other, and six children stood up, "We want to study." ”

In addition to the three children who are not yet ten years old, namely Mao 23, Mao 24, and Mao 25, there are three children, one eleven, one twelve, and one fourteen, respectively Mao 20, Mao 18, and Mao 15.

Seeing a few children make introductions, Ye Lan asked, "Why do you want to study?" ”

"I want to be literate." Answering Ye Lan, it was Mao Twenty-five, and the other five children looked a little dumbfounded, with an expression on their faces that they wanted to study if they wanted to study, do you need any reason.

"Twenty-five wants to read and write, what do you want to do after becoming literate?" This is only a six-year-old child, and he is a kindergarten child, Ye Lan couldn't help but ask gently.

The child doesn't understand the adult world, so he has no scruples about answering questions, Mao Twenty-five bit his fingers, obviously stumped by this question,

"I think it's very good to be a literate reader."

This child, Ye Lan smiled, "But studying is a very hard thing, if you enter the school, you have to listen to Mr., and you have to work hard, don't skip class, don't fight with your classmates, you have to love each other together, you have to be good friends, can you do it at twenty-five?" ”

"Yes." Mao Twenty-five looked at Ye Lan firmly.

"What about you, can you do what I just said?" Ye Lan looked at the other children who wanted to study.

"Yes." The other children nodded.

"Okay, I can let you go to study, but you must work hard, I will give you ten days, after ten days, if you still like to study, continue to study, if you don't like to study, I will arrange for him to do farm work, very hard and tiring farm work." For children, especially street children, Ye Lan always has no way to be too strict.

As a former member of the Wandering Clan, although she has never stolen anything, she has also received a lot of help from strangers, and now she has the ability to help everyone within her ability.

These half-grown children were supposed to go to the school, but they were forced by life to steal things, and there were people who wanted to enter the school, so why didn't she let them in?

It's good to be able to learn some knowledge, let Jin Hua take the six children to Zhang Xiucai, Ye Lan looked at the remaining nine children, thinking about how to arrange them,

"Do you want to do it, or do you want to learn?"

The nine children looked at Ye Lan ignorantly, obviously not understanding why they sent their younger brothers to the school when they were obviously punished to help with things, and asked them if they wanted to do or if they wanted to learn.

Ye Lan looked at them patiently, and finally, a child stood up and looked at her with some hesitation, "I want to learn to cook and cook a lot of delicious dishes." ”

"What's your name?"

"My name is Mao Twelve."

"Then you can go into the kitchen and help." Ye Lan nodded and made arrangements.

"I want to learn how to cook, too." As soon as one person spoke, a second person spoke, and without waiting for Ye Lan to ask, he took the initiative to say, "My name is Mao Thirteen." ”

"I don't know what to do, little boss, you say let me do anything, I'll do it." The rest of the people obviously have no idea about their future.

Such a person needs someone else to arrange, Ye Lan didn't have to speak, let the twelve and thirteen children go into the kitchen to help, and then casually ordered two people to stand up,

"You two, follow Aunt Jinhua into the city in a while, she will purchase some things, you will help her get things, listen to her, understand?"

"Understood."

"Rest, go to your boss, and you can do whatever he does." Before she found a job, Ye Lan could only do this.

"Okay."

After the work was assigned, Ye Lan took out the items she wanted to purchase the first night, and then took out three hundred taels of silver tickets and handed them to her, "Aunt Jinhua, you can take these two boys to the city to help me buy these things in a while, and it will be the first in a few days, and I have to pay my salary, you can help me get more change and come back." ”

Jin Hua hurriedly took it and carefully put the silver ticket into her arms, "Okay, I'll go back." ”

"Yes."

"You two, follow me." led the carriage, Jinhua shouted that he was assigned to follow him into the city and the two boys got into the carriage, and then drove the carriage away.

Half a day passed, and when it was time to eat at noon, Ye Lan asked Li Damao and the others how they behaved in the morning, and Li Da's eyes flashed with appreciation,

"It's not bad, these boys are very diligent in their work, they are not lazy, I have been paying attention to them."

"Yes." Ye Lan nodded, "The fish pond has been dug almost completely, so let's dig out the wet soil from the fish pond and transport it here, I still want to build a few rooms." ”

"Then do you want us to go up the mountain to cut down trees, and when will we start building houses, and do we have to send a few people?" When Li Da heard this, he immediately had experience and asked.

"Well, let's dig up some more soil and bring it over, this time I want to build a few more rooms and build a bigger one, in addition, in addition to the trees, I also have to find some stones to come back, and build a house with the soil, which will be stronger."

"Okay, leave this matter to us, I'm still very experienced in building houses."

(End of chapter)