Chapter 13: Chance Encounters
"Hit the bamboo board, listen to me
Opium was originally a foreign student, but he became a hero when he entered China;
how to smoke foreign cigarettes, one consumes energy and the other is poor;
It is difficult to have food and clothing for three meals, and the clothes for the four seasons are bitter;
Five are colder and less covered, and the six relatives do not recognize only the zheng;
There is no way to open the door for seven pieces, but the eight characters are not done;
Carefully think about it, there is no break, a high lanyard of the cantilever beam. ”
On both sides of the road, one is the upper-class lord directing the country in the opium hall, drunk and dreaming of death, and the other is the low-level people kneeling on the ground at the base of the wall begging, struggling.
Cheng Nuo couldn't bear it and handed over all the money on his body to Li Laosan.
"Lao Li, I don't know much about the food in Beiping City, you take the money to pick up some cheap and full hot food, and give them a share."
Li Laosan hesitated a little, held the money and said, "Sir, this is ....... It doesn't take so much. ”
Cheng Nuo shook his head and said: "How much can you buy, on such a cold day, I'm afraid some people won't be able to survive tonight, let's have a full meal, as for Lao Li, your salary, I'll get it for you when I go back to the inn." ”
"Sir, what are you talking about, is our Lao Li that kind of person?" Li Laosan argued for himself.
Cheng Nuo waved his hand and said: "One yard is one yard, how can you not treat your own people badly, while the stall is still confiscated, Lao Li hurry up and buy it." ”
"Gotcha."
There are a total of two yuan and five cents on the body, and the rice noodles and sweet potato noodles are very cheap, and it didn't cost much to wrap a small stall, but the rickshaw seat was stuffed full.
So the two of them bought and gave away, and when they saw a beggar, they divided into two nests, and then turned around and left, and almost went around half of the small city of Forty-Nine City, so that many Wowotou vendors closed their stalls in advance and went home.
In Qianfu Hutong, after sending off the last beggar, the two of them who had been busy for a long time were also very tired, and they each leaned on both sides of the rickshaw, the food in their stomachs had already been digested, and they were a little hungry.
Unexpectedly, Li Laosan didn't know where to conjure up a nest head, and handed it over: "Hehe, Mr. is hungry, I still have one left, let's eat it while it's hot." ”
"Haha, it has to be you Lao Li." Cheng Nuo laughed, didn't eat alone, but gave him half of the wowotou: "After you pull the car and run before and after, you are much more tired than me, oh, this half is left for you to eat." ”
Here, Li Laosan accepted the nest head, and Cheng Nuo was just about to eat the half in his hand, but a little beggar appeared out of nowhere.
The little beggar didn't say anything, but stared straight at Cheng Nuo's nest.
Cheng Nuo thought that he hadn't eaten enough just now, but now he was hungry again, and wanted to continue to ask for this half.
He smiled, and prepared to give the little beggar the head of the nest in his hand.
Unexpectedly, the little beggar shook his head and did not accept it, but stretched out the hand hidden behind his back, and it turned out to be a complete nest inside.
This is what Li Laosan just sent to them, and now seeing that Cheng Nuo is hungry, he actually took the initiative to give one to them.
Cheng Nuo was very moved, squatted down and touched the messy little head, and said, "Brother, it's enough to have this half, you can keep the rest to eat." ”
The little beggar was also stubborn, and his outstretched hand still refused to take it back, and his mouth made a babbling sound.
Could it be that this is a mute!?
Li Laosan frowned, hurriedly came over and bent down and said to the child, "Doll, you stick your tongue out for me to see." ”
The little beggar obediently stuck out his tongue, which also surprised Cheng Nuo and the others.
It was covered in scars from someone who didn't know what it was, and that was why he couldn't speak, only making simple syllables.
Dumbness is not born, but artificial.
Li Laosan sighed: "Alas, poor baby, looking at the posture is what the beggar leaders have done, or it is to make the family distressed, ask for more money, what a bunch of bitches raise!" ”
The little beggar saw that they didn't accept it, so he directly stuffed the nest head in his hand into Cheng Nuo's arms, and then turned around and ran away without looking back.
How can this work, Cheng Nuo is still thinking about how to save this little beggar.
Hurry up and greet Lao Li and want to chase him.
"Lao Li, come on, come on, let's catch up with this kid quickly, we can't let him run away like this."
I never expected this little beggar to be able to run so much, and I almost lost it a few times, but Lao Li knew a lot of roads, and he took a shortcut to catch up, and finally turned around and came to a dilapidated house that was about to collapse.
At this time, the little beggar also found the two of them, and his originally kind face suddenly became vigilant, picked up the road bricks on the side and babbled and threatened them not to approach.
Cheng Nuo hurriedly came forward to explain: "We have no malicious intent, we are here to help you." ”
Li Laosan also said: "Baby, we are either the ones who sell children's teeth, or we are here to help you." ”
After suffering so much and being deceived so much over the years, it is difficult for the little beggar to let down his vigilance just because of two or three sentences, otherwise he will not be dumbfounded, and his emotions are still very excited.
Just as the scene was stalemate and there was no progress, a weak voice suddenly came from the broken house.
"Brother, what are you doing here, what's going on outside? Ahem, ahem. ”
Before he finished speaking, there was a violent cough, which made people gasp when they heard it.
Ignoring the continued confrontation, the little beggar was very anxious, threw the brick in his hand to the side and quickly got in.
Cheng Nuo and the two glanced at each other, and also followed behind to see what was going on.
In the corner of the house, on a pile of wheat straw, I saw the little beggar holding an even thinner little guy and patting his back incessantly, and he was younger in appearance.
When the cough was a little better, the little beggar hurriedly took out another nest head from his arms and wanted to hand it to the little one to eat.
Good guy, the little beggar was divided into two nests in total, one was returned to Cheng Nuo, and the other was actually left to others, and he didn't eat a bite.
But the little ones did not take the nest, but humbled each other.
"Brother, I'm not hungry, you're tired outside for a day, you can eat...... Ahem, ahem. ”
Before he finished speaking, there was another violent cough, more breath out and less air in, and it seemed that he was going to die.
Cheng Nuo really couldn't stand it, so he picked up the little guy and ran outside without saying a word.
This time the little beggar finally didn't resist so much, and babbled behind him, as if to cheer up the little one.
There are also children at home, and as a father, Li Laosan naturally can't see this scene, and the rickshaw is pulled over.
"Sir, put that baby in my car and run fast like this."
"Okay, Lao Li, you see which place is close to the clinic recently, let's go to which." Knowing that the matter was urgent and human life was at stake, Cheng Nuo put the little guy on the rickshaw without saying a word.
In order to hurry as soon as possible, Li Laosan used all his strength to eat.
And Cheng Nuo's little beggars, one pulls the cart on the side and the other pushes the cart in the back, and they all want to do as much as they can.
Fortunately, after all, it was in the city, and with the help of everyone, it didn't take long to find a clinic, and when he saw that the lights were still on, Cheng Nuo didn't have time to say hello, and went in directly with the little guy.
"Doctor, look at this kid, he's about to die!"