Chapter 17: The Little Girl in the Basket

The two of them left the house and walked a long way before the uncle of the Tan family put down his burden, looked at the niece in front of him, and didn't know how to speak for a while.

I don't know if it's because of blood relationship, Tan Ran has a sense of natural closeness in his body.

In the depths of the original owner's memory, I only remember that when I was very young, Tan's mother and this uncle were still very close, and then I don't know what happened, the two brothers and sisters had a big quarrel, and since then they have broken off contact.

Uncle endured it, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Sister Ran, after receiving your letter, I still wondered if someone sent it by mistake, so I hurriedly rushed to Toshiba County, and only after many inquiries did I know what happened to your father, you have sold the original house, so I rushed to Huachang County." ”

"What's going on with the marriage book you just said, what's going on with your father and mother, I don't believe that your father is a person who can take bribes, why did he go all of a sudden?"

Tan Ran said specifically about Tan's father's imprisonment and Tan's mother's illness and death, and then said it again when he came to Huachang County, after listening to it, this tall man bent down, buried his head for a long time, and raised his head with red eyes and said to Tan Ran: "Sister Ran, since the Xu family dislikes the poor and loves the rich, this marriage will be withdrawn, since I am your uncle, although I can't guarantee that you can live the same life as before, but I will never let you be hungry and cold." ”

Tan Ran pursed her lips, Tan's mother's illness came and went urgently, and she didn't have time to explain the future to the original Tan Ran, the young Tan Ran walked five hundred miles with a mouthful of unwillingness, and took a road to death, if Tan's mother had time to explain at that time, let her go to her uncle who had not been in touch for many years, would the result be different, and then she shook her head, Tan Ran is a person like her, and she can put life and death aside for a purpose.

Yunxian Town and Huachang County are more than 300 miles apart, the uncle carried two boxes of mountain goods all the way over the mountains and mountains, first went to Toshiba County, and then from Toshiba County to Huachang County, and walked for more than ten days before he came over, and when he returned, because he was thinking of Tan Ran's young age, unlike the two leather boys at home who often went out with him, he disassembled the two baskets and rearranged them into a back basket, put Tan Ran in the back basket, and carried it all the way on his back.

At first, Tan Ran refused, but the road was mostly rugged and rugged, and her body was too weak, so she took three steps to catch up with her uncle's step, so in order not to affect the hurry, she had to stay obediently in the back basket, watching the mountain scenery regress all the way.

In fact, Tan Ran was much lighter than the two loads of mountain goods, and the niece on the uncle's back only felt that it seemed to have no weight, and her heart was sour.

On this day, the two walked to a small town, and the uncle put down the basket, let Tan Ran come down, and then took his niece's hand and went straight to a food stall.

"Sister Ran, I've been eating dry food all the way in the past two days, you're hungry, let's see what you want to eat, my uncle will buy it for you." The uncle looked at Tan Ran with a smile, you must know that even if it was his sister back then, she would inevitably shout a few times when she walked down like this, but Tan Ran never shouted bitter all the way, thinking of why this child was like this, he felt a little bitter in his heart, and he happened to pass by the town, so he was ready to let her eat something good.

Tan Ran is not a real little girl in the end, this little appetite can still be endured, thinking that this uncle has been frugal all the way, so he pointed to the thick steamed buns on the stall: "Uncle, I want this." ”

Uncle looked at what Tan Ran pointed to and said, "We have dry food to eat all the way, uncle is rich, what do you want to eat, don't save for uncle." ”

Tan Ran shook his head: "Uncle, this is very good." ”

The uncle led Tan Ran to the vendor's table, asked her to sit down, and ordered a bowl of meat-filled dumplings, a bowl of pork offal soup and a few coarse noodles steamed buns.

When the things came up, he put the bowl of meat dumplings in front of Tan Ran: "Try this, his family has a good craft." ”

Tan Ran didn't refuse anything in the end, picked up the chopsticks, and ate them in small bites.