Chapter Seventy-Five: A Thousand Hands Come Together
Lao Dao closed the stall, picked up Xiao Feng's table and chairs, ran to the steamed bun shop like a turtle, and bought several large bags of steamed buns, half meat and half vegetables.
The guy at the bun shop asked him while putting it in a paper bag: "Dao Chief, why have you been stingy lately, I bought meat buns a few days ago." ”
Lao Dao sighed: "Business is not as good as before, the weather is cold, and there are fewer people shopping on the street." In addition, there are fewer people entering Beijing. Many of the original people in the capital have already touched Xiao Zhenren's table and sat on Xiao Zhenren's chair. Except for a few pious and good people, no one wants to spend a second time. ”
The guy gave him an idea: "You can ask Xiao Zhenren to set up a stall for another day, and soon those people will be willing to spend money again." That's what Xiao Zhenren just sat on! ”
Lao Dao's eyes lit up, and then he gloomy: "Forget it, Xiao Zhenren is not what he used to be now, how can he go to the street to show his face again." Besides, you have also heard about the construction of the Taoist Temple, at this juncture, how can Xiao Zhenren have other thoughts. ”
The guy was not so pessimistic: "I think Xiao Zhenren has a lot of affection for you, otherwise you would have made a fortune with the tables and chairs he left, and he wouldn't have spoken." You give up your face to beg him, they are all from the Daomen, maybe he will give you a face. ”
Lao Dao took two big bags of buns, and his skinny chest was quite stiff: "That is, when we met in poverty, we naturally had some friendship. It's just that I, a man who understands things, how can I bother him at this time? ”
In the midst of everyone's laughter, Lao Dao carried the bun, carried the table, and left like a turtle fairy.
After walking far, far away, it was still dark when he went out of the city gate, and when it was already dark, the old road stopped in front of a dilapidated gate. He stretched his aching waist and looked at the crumbling walls and gates in front of him, listening to the frolicking sounds coming from inside, and a smile appeared on his tired face.
He knocked on the door, the door opened, and an old man with a lame leg smiled and said, "You are back, these little ancestors are shouting that they will not drink porridge, saying that you will definitely come back with steamed buns." Isn't this spoiled? ”
Lao Dao removed the table and chairs on his body and carefully put them into his bedroom, it seems that he has to look at this cash cow when he sleeps at night. Then he carried two bags of buns and ran into the middle of the hall, which was a little dilapidated but very spacious: "Children, here are the buns......
He was like a chicken with his neck choked, and the rest of his words were all stuck in his throat. He kept a smile on his face, but his body stiffened, and he stared blankly at a woman sitting behind a group of children.
The old man also followed, and hurriedly introduced to Lao Dao: "This girl, who is from Beijing, passed by our charity hall and donated five taels of silver!" She was going to eat with the children, so I arranged it. ”
When the children saw the bun in Lao Dao's hand, they cheered and jumped. Most of these children, some of whom are disabled, are fine and very active. But they didn't rush up, but shouted with their fingers in their mouths, waiting for the subcontractor very well.
Lao Dao handed the bun to the old man and asked him to give it to the children and divide it again. Then he scolded the woman: "This good man, please come to the guest room to serve tea and talk." ”
The woman stood up, half a head taller than the lame old man, but she was in excellent shape, and walked like a willow in the wind. The woman followed the old way out, and a girl shouted: "Sister, come back quickly, the buns will be cold." The woman smiled back at her, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth.
It is said to be a guest room, but in fact it is just an empty room, with a pair of shabby tables and chairs, but it is quite clean. The woman smiled slightly, sat down, and looked at Lao Dao.
Lao Dao did not sit, but bowed down: "The good man is invited, the poor road is indeed very difficult, the good man is generous, there will be a good reward." ”
The woman covered her mouth and smiled: "Don't pretend, you must have recognized me, otherwise you wouldn't have looked like that just now." ”
The old Tao said confusedly: "Pretend? What's in it? Poor Dao this good hall has not seen young women all year round, and the good people are so beautiful, Poor Dao panicked for a while, it is indeed that the Taoist heart is not firm, ashamed and ashamed, and the good people are not strange. ”
The woman smiled even more happily: "You are a fortune teller on the street, what woman has never seen, I am not beautiful to that extent." Besides, you're not lustful, but afraid. ”
The old way will pretend to be stupid to the end: "It's really amazing, not afraid, good people don't laugh." ”
The woman smiled and said, "It's not interesting for you to pretend to be stupid, if I don't know your identity, I may have been fooled by you." But now that I have ascertained your origins, and I have not seen myself in the streets, how can you not remember me and not know my identity with your eyesight? ”
Lao Dao maintained the posture of saluting, and wanted to make the last struggle: "Poor Dao is old, his eyes are seriously broken, and his memory is no longer good......"
The woman put down the hand covering her mouth and stood up, a little taller than the old Tao: "It's really strange, isn't Rulai a Buddhist, why did Qianshou Rulai end up being a Taoist?" ”
Lao Dao slowly straightened up, his eyes were full of sadness, and he looked at the woman in front of him: "Are you a rouge tiger or a rouge leopard?" ”
The woman smiled: "I'm my sister, and my sister is in the house." It's an honor that when my sister roamed the rivers and lakes, the Thousand Hands had disappeared, and I didn't think you still knew our sister's nickname. I thought you only knew that I was the person next to Yan Gongzi, but I still underestimated you. ”
Lao Dao shook his head: "I have seen your sisters accompany Yan Shifan out of the house, although there is only one person at a time, and they are wearing men's clothes, but the person's body shape and posture cannot be changed. Such a tall twin beauty, and such a good martial arts, I think there are only these two sisters.
Although I have withdrawn from the rivers and lakes, I am not blind or deaf, and I have not heard of anything in the capital, a place where three religions and nine streams are mixed. What do you want to do when you come to me? ”
Rouge Tiger smiled, indescribably charming: "Gongzi Yan has found out your identity, he has always been a corporal and wants to recruit you." ”
Lao Dao smiled bitterly: "Didn't you tell him that in addition to light skills and stealing, the martial arts of Qianshou Rulai are not worth mentioning?" ”
Rouge Tiger pointed at Lao Dao's chest with his white and slender and powerful fingers, like a beautiful big cat: "There are countless people with high martial arts, just like the four ronins who lost their lives two days ago, which one is not a master?" But how many people like you are there in the world? ”
Lao Dao shook his head: "He wants me to steal something?" I have washed my hands of gold, and I have not stolen since twenty years ago. In the past 20 years, I have deceived people, sold art on the streets, and later became a Taoist priest when I saw that the Taoist priest was in a good mix, but I never stole anything again. The craftsmanship has long been lost, please ask Lord Yan to ask for another master. ”
Rouge Tiger shook his head and pouted, "He is Yan Shifan, do you know that he is extremely smart and ruthless?" If he was a reasonable and good person, would my sister follow him? If you don't want to use your hand for him, I'm afraid you won't be able to use it. ”
Lao Dao's face turned pale, but his tone became flat: "Poor Dao's hand is here, and he knows that he is not the girl's opponent, so he asks the girl to cut it off and give it to Lord Yan." ”
Rouge Tiger tilted his head to look at him, and suddenly laughed: "I heard a rumor from someone at the beginning, but I only listened to it as a joke." Now that you're like this, maybe the rumors are still true. Forget it, Yan Gongzi said, if you really don't want to be supported, then just do things for him once, and he won't look for you in the future. ”
Lao Dao stopped talking, stretched out his two hands, and put them on the table. Rouge Tiger looked at these two ordinary hands, and couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that you have really made up your mind, I can't really cut off your hands because of this." ”
Lao Dao looked at her in surprise, and Rouge Tiger smiled: "But those children, they look very pitiful, they have no father or mother, and they are still lonely and miserable in this world, you say, will they be happier when they die." ”
Lao Dao's face suddenly turned pale, and he took a step closer to Rouge Tiger: "You won't, although your sisters have a bad reputation in the rivers and lakes, they are not indiscriminate killings of innocent people." ”
At this time, the lame old man walked in with two cups of tea: "Girl, drink tea, this is good tea, the Taoist chief bought it from the city a few days ago, and kept it for me to entertain the good people who came to give alms." ”
Rouge Tiger took the teacup with a smile: "Uncle, do you think people like me are bad people?" ”
The lame old man was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "The girl said that she laughed, the girl is a kind-hearted person." He turned and limped away.
One hand grabbed the old man's neck as fast as lightning, and the other hand grabbed the wrist of that hand even faster, but it was shaken open by that hand, and only made the hand pause slightly.
"Good!" Both hands disappeared in the air in an instant, retracting back to where they should be.
The old man turned his head in surprise, and he couldn't see the old face with his back to him, but only the tall and beautiful girl smiling at him, very charming.