There is a Qiaotou town in the south of Qinghe County. The land in the town is flat, and the houses are like sturdy brick houses or buildings.

Its prosperity is no less than that of a small county town, and it can be called a hundred industries.

After all, it may not be easy to get rich and expensive, but it is very simple to support a family and eat together. If you're a little self-motivated, it's not a fool's dream to build a house for your own family.

In the northeast corner of the town, there are two slightly old brick houses facing south, in front of the house is a small courtyard simply enclosed by a wooden fence, except for a small open space in front of the door, all kinds of daily miscellaneous items are stacked in an orderly manner in other places, making the simple courtyard even more cramped.

At this time, the sun is slightly slanting to the west, and the afternoon sun in late spring and early summer shines on the body, which is very pleasant.

"Alright, you can go out for a walk after dinner, I'll just come by myself. ”

A seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl in the courtyard was dressed like a woman who had been doing housework for a long time, and at this time, she took the stretched and smooth wet clothes from the slightly thin young man next to her and put them on the bamboo pole, and said softly: "Tomorrow you will go to work, so go and rest today." ”

"I'm fine, I've been used to suffering since I was a child, and besides, I'm not tired of doing some rough work. The young man smiled and said, "It's you a girl's family......"

The girl suddenly glared at her when she heard this, "What's the matter?" do you want to say that we women are not as good at work as you men?"

"No, no, I care about you with good intentions......" The young man's smile was a little bitter, his face was full of innocence, and it was indeed pretended, but the bitterness contained in his smile was a little true.

What should have appeared in the small courtyard was a beautiful picture of a teenager and a girl flirting with me, but the girl's long-term self-reliance made her accustomed to showing her unreasonable pungency in front of people.

This is a means of self-protection, but if it reaches the point of going deep into the bone marrow, it can't help but make people a little sad.

"Hmph, you don't come!" The girl obviously realized that she seemed to be a little overguarded, but she wouldn't admit her mistake.

"Okay, I can't hide if I can't afford to provoke her!" After the young man sighed and put the empty basin in his hand on the shelf by the door, he suddenly pointed to the northwest corner of the small courtyard and asked, "Is that old hen still fed? I think it can almost be sold or slaughtered? Anyway, it won't lay eggs, and it will be a waste of food to raise it again." ”

The girl had just done all the wet clothes at this time, and when she heard this, she immediately crossed her waist and said angrily: "Why don't you feed it? I tell you, it is a great hero of our family, and it will not let people eat its flesh when it dies in the future......"

Yes, I'm really full, and I have nothing to do to scold!

The young man had no choice but to hang his head, and walked to the door with a deafening number of falling sounds, and when he arrived outside the door, he raised his head and chested, and did not forget to turn around and drop a sentence when he left, "In the future, don't let the old scholar shrew talk with her waist crossed, you are a yellow flower girl, if you are a little reserved...... Maybe it's easier to get married. ”

After saying that, the boy ran away.

"Do you want to take care of it?" the girl subconsciously hugged her arms and muttered, but when she looked at herself as if she was indeed in a spicy and indecent posture, suddenly Xia Fei cheeks, hurriedly lowered her arms, and whispered to herself while pulling the cuffs. After that, her pretty face became more and more rosy.

After the young man went out of the door, his hands behind his back, swaying and walking with small steps, that comfortable posture was like an old man walking after a meal.

Along the way, the young man greeted a few familiar neighbors from time to time, and when he arrived, he took out his hands behind his back, after all, he was not an old lady.

"Xiao Mao, you look good today. ”

When the young man passed by a fortune-telling booth, the old man who was sitting there with his chin in one hand and tilted his head caught a glimpse of him, and immediately grinned: "Woe and fortune are leaning on, and woe and fortune are lurking." A mouthful of old blood squirted, and Shen Ke was eliminated. ”

The young man originally planned to walk over briskly without looking back, but now he suddenly trotted to the old man's stall with a smile on his face, and said with a sneer: "The old immortal forgives his sins, the kid was blind before......

The young man was speechless for a while, because he forgot what the mountain was called, so he had to say the same point, and generalized, "The kid didn't know the mountains before, of course, the main thing is that your old man is low-key and doesn't like to seduce customers in a flash......"

The teenager apparently didn't know that there was no small problem with his wording, because the audience didn't react at all.

The old man was dressed in a brand-new green sermon robe, and the bright colors were a little eye-catching, but the pure yang scarf on his head was a little shabby, giving people a sense of nondescript eccentricity. In addition to the drooping eyelids and swollen eye bags, the skin on the whole face is still firm, and it looks quite in line with the rhetoric of the heavenly court and the square circle of the earth. But if you look closely, you will have the feeling of crooked melons and cracked dates.

The squinted old man remained motionless in his previous position, ignoring the boy's rambling words, and soon began to snore loudly.

The young man who had been in debt for a long time on the side supported his waist with both hands, slowly straightened his waist with bared teeth, and said to himself: "Oh, the city is good, those wine shops that passed by yesterday." ”

Speaking of this, the young man pretended to pause, then sniffed vigorously and smacked his lips before continuing: "That smell is really seductive, intoxicating, and disturbing!"

"Goo-dong!"

After hearing a slight sound of swallowing saliva, the young man, who had always pricked up his ears, immediately walked away with his hands behind his back, shaking his head.

"Hey, Xiao Mao, don't go! Next time, come and bring a good wine to Poor Dao, Poor Dao can help you read the fortune for free!"

The corners of the boy's mouth rose slightly, and he was noncommittal to the shouting behind him.

"Why don't you count it twice for free? What do you think? Hey, don't be in a hurry to leave!"

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Qiaotou Town is full of all industries, and the population is naturally quite large, with thousands of households.

The sisters and brothers of the Mao family live in a corner, but they are not small in the circle of young people.

On the one hand, it is because Mao Honghui is a little guy who is active by nature, and he likes to wander around when he has nothing to do, and there are his small footprints in every corner of the town, and many corners have been moisturized by him.

On the other hand, it is Mao Yushuang, who supports this small family alone, who inevitably shows up often in order to make a living, and her thorny roses are like mellow spirits, which can arouse the interest of those idle prodigals the most.

Therefore, the sister and brother have not lived as easily and happily as they seem in recent years.

Mao Jiuchang didn't know why the sister and brother respected the old man so much, no matter how he looked at it, he looked like a magic stick.

Actually, it has something to do with another thing that he hasn't been able to figure out all along.

Why have so many prodigals been unable to succeed in these years, and no one has used them to be strong? This made him wonder a little that he had figured out after more than ten years of trying and rolling to figure out whether the few truths of being human beings could not be used in such a prosperous and large place?

"Hmph, get out of here! If it weren't for your sister's face, I would have abolished you kid a long time ago!"

"That's it, little bastard who kicks his nose and face! Look at it, don't get out of here!"

Mao Jiuchang, who had wandered all the way, looked at the little guy who fell to the ground in front of him and splashed a puff of dust and smoke, and stretched his waist with a smile, the reason why he stopped in front of the stall was because the inconspicuous old man actually saw through the meridians that had been blocked for a long time and was opened by someone by mistake.

Before, he was not less bullied by others when he followed the troublemaker Mao Honghui, but at that time he was secretly ill and had a brute strength, but now it is different.