Bai Gu drank water in a sip next to him, listening to the two of them talking about some daily and inconsequential market trivialities.

These Bai Gu can understand, and they are very willing to listen.

There's just one downside.

They like to chat and chat and suddenly pop up one or two famous sayings and aphorisms in the book, and then smile, or be silent in pairs, or raise a glass and drink together, or throw bricks and stones with it, and have a special chat.

Anyway, Bai Gu listened to this part of the content with two big heads, and he couldn't understand it at all.

The key is that the two are still chatting very energetically.

Just like when he was a child, Mrs. Bai took him out, and when he met acquaintances on the road, he stood on the corner of the road and chatted. As soon as I talked, I couldn't stop the car, talked about things and talked endlessly, and I heard that Bai Gu was very bored and impatient when he was a child.

Bai Gu felt bored, and habitually took out two weeds from his arms and began to weave.

I still owe the old beggar a few frogs, make it up first, and when he comes back, you can "pay off the debt" when you meet him.

It's just that he's making it up, and it doesn't feel right.

Looks like someone is looking at me?

Bai Gu looked up and met two glances.

Tang Tu was holding a teacup, looking at him with interest, and the weeds in his hands were half-finished.

Liu Caizi supported his chin with one hand, leaned on the chair, staring at Bai Gu with gloomy eyes, and saw that the latter's scalp was numb for a while.

"You, you talk about yours, continue, look, what are you doing watching me." Bai Gu was furious when he saw it, and he couldn't help but stutter a little.

Tang Tu smiled and said, "Xiaobai, what are you making up, can you let me take a look?" ”

Bai Gu didn't speak, but just handed over the half-finished product in his hand.

Tang Tu looked left and right, and only saw a little bit of rudimentary form from the half-finished product that had been braided, "You, are you a bird?" ”

Bai Gu smiled reluctantly, "It's a frog." ”

Tang Tu's face was a little embarrassed, but he immediately returned to normal, and handed the semi-finished product back to Bai Gu, "It's very good, continue." ”

Liu Caizi's eyes are still not good.

Tang Tu took a sip of tea, "Who is this for?" Is it a meeting gift for Yoo Chaeko? ”

Bai Gu suddenly became nervous, and muttered, "This ...... Isn't it no, come here to prepare something? I knew I would have bought some pastries on the road. ”

Tang Tu laughed, "It's not necessary, Liu Caizi is very good." You say yes, right? ”

As he spoke, Tang Tu glanced at Liu Caizi.

Liu Caizi snorted lightly and looked away.

"And you're giving it to me?"

Bai Gu was a little embarrassed and said, "Mr. Tang, if you want, I can also make one for you." ”

"Oh? That is to say, this is not for me either? So who is this for? Tang Tu couldn't help but ask curiously.

"One of my ...... Friends. He invited me to eat wontons before, saying that I would use it to pay off my debts, but now he has run away. ”

"Old friends?" Tang Tu touched his chin, "Have you known each other for a long time?" ”

"No, only in the past few years. said that he was an old friend, but it was simply that he was old, and there was nothing else. ”

Tang Tu couldn't help laughing, "Then you ...... Old friend, it must be interesting, right? ”

Bai Gu thought about it very seriously, and wanted to try his best to maintain the image of the old beggar in front of Mr. Tang, but found that this matter seemed to be a little difficult.

Then Bai Gu simply stopped pretending, "That guy is disrespectful to the old, and if he is not serious, he will not be right." ”

Tang Tu was stunned, he didn't expect Bai Gu to say such an answer.

After thinking for a while, Tang Tu slowly spoke: "Xiaobai, you must know that there are many people in this world who are not as simple as they seem on the surface, and their hearts may be different. People who are indifferent on the surface may have a warm heart. A person who looks vicious on the outside may be kind on the inside. Those who are calculating may be generous to others in unknown places. ”

Bai Gu listened to Tang Tu's words thoughtfully.

Speaking of people who are indifferent on the surface, Bai Gu thought of Lao Liu, who has a knife mouth and a tofu heart.

Speaking of people with a vicious appearance, Bai Gu thought of Brother Peng, Ah Guang and others, they were indeed very good.

Speaking of calculating people, Bai Gu thought of the old beggar, who was both stingy and generous. Although he is not serious, it does not prevent him from being a good person.

Bai Gu asked with a serious face: "Mr. Tang, will you be like my old friend, telling meat jokes and humming meat songs to teenage children?" ”

Tang Tu was drinking water and was choked by Bai Gu's sudden question.

Bai Gu hurriedly stepped forward and helped Tang Tu pat his back smoothly.

Tang Tu coughed several times urgently, and finally stopped the strangeness.

Liu Caizi saw Tang Tu deflated, and the corners of his mouth seemed to rise a little.

Tang Tu smiled helplessly, "Xiaobai, first of all, I am definitely not the kind of person you say, and I will definitely not do this kind of thing." Second, I now agree with what you just said. ”

It was said that Bai Gu had just described the old beggar.

Whose good people tell meat jokes and hum meat songs to children? It's not too much to say that it's old and not serious!

Filthy, too filthy!

Bai Gu nodded, "I know, Mr. Tang and that old guy are definitely not all the way. The old guy looks obscene, he does a lot of stealing chickens and touching dogs, and he does things like turning over people's walls in the middle of the night, often occasionally. ”

Tang Tu was interested in Bai Gu's statement, and silently wrote it down, so that he could use it when telling stories in the future, "Then since you know that he is not right, why do you still have to deal with him?" Aren't you afraid that one day you will be spoiled by him? ”

"Although that guy doesn't look reliable, he's still a good person. My sister and I were the only ones left in the house, and I used to have to work hard to break my head just to eat every day, so that I could get a little bit of something so that my stomach would not be so empty. Sometimes you can't get anything, so you can only starve. And this sometimes, is often. So Mr. Tang, you shouldn't expect that I am now sixteen years old, but I am not as tall as an eleven or twelve-year-old child. Bai Gu smiled bitterly.

Tang Tu was stunned.

He originally thought that Bai Gu was just a young grade and liked to run around, so he was short and had a sallow complexion.

It turned out that he often couldn't eat and was malnourished.

It was really hard to imagine that a sixteen-year-old child would be running around every day because of the problem of eating, and would also develop so thin because of the problem of eating.

But now he has seen and heard with his own eyes.

Sure enough, the sages were right.

It is better to read 10,000 books than to travel 10,000 miles.

Bai Gu continued: "That's when that guy appeared. Yes, that's right, he does like to talk meat, sing meat songs, climb people's walls, steal chickens and touch dogs, and is not serious. But others are good! I often run out of food, wander on the road hungry, lie on the ground looking for food, or even rummage through the garbage heap just to get a bite to eat. Once he saw it and took me to the porridge shop in the north of the city to drink porridge. Did you know? I was so drunk that day that I wanted to cry. Not only did he show me a way to live, but he was willing to share it with me. Because the porridge shop is limited every day, it will be gone after giving up, so if you can go a little earlier, you can have more opportunities to give up the porridge, and one less person can have less competition. He gave me this way of life, which means that he has one more person to share in his own porridge. Although I later knew that he didn't drink the porridge and had food, I was still very grateful to him. ”

Tang Tu frowned, "Hasn't that porridge shop in the north of the city been closed for a long time?" ”

Bai Gu nodded: "That's right, my sister and I have been drinking porridge for a few months, and the porridge shop has been closed for some reason, and my sister and I have lost the source of food again." It was at this time that he came to his aid. He gave me a few copper coins to buy my own food. You know, I was hungry for three days, and my sister at home had an empty stomach for more than a day, and I couldn't find anything to eat, so I really didn't know what was going to happen. I was only thirteen years old at the time, and as a child, I could have taken those coins without any thanksgiving or any other concerns, and I didn't have to think about what he would ask me for anything in return. It doesn't matter, they are all people who are dying of hunger, what else is there to care about, being able to survive is the most important thing. ”

Bai Gu took a deep breath, his voice was a little choked, but he tried his best not to let Mr. Tang and the others hear anything unusual, "But I don't want to, I don't want to live on other people's pity and charity, and I need to see other people's faces in my future life." It's not happy, it's uncomfortable, it's not what I want. So I turned down the money. ”

Liu Caizi suddenly interjected at this time, "Since you don't want to live on charity, why do you want to drink porridge?" ”

Bai Gu smiled lightly: "The porridge was issued by the government, but the copper coin belonged to that guy alone." ”

Liu Caizi nodded, understood.

The porridge of the government is a group benefit, and those copper coins are individual benefits, and if you want to repay the favor in the future, the nature and result will be different.

The government may donate a sum of money. But repaying the favor is not a simple matter for you.

This matter depends on the other party, people are good and bad, but it is not certain.

Bai Gu continued: "When that guy saw that I refused the money, he didn't say much, just took me to buy a few baked cakes and asked me to take them home and eat them quickly. He also said that let me owe it first, keep the account, and pay him back when I have the money later. Only then did I dare to take the pancake and run home to share it with my sister. In the next few days, I tried my best to earn the money for those few baked cakes and pay him back. Later, there was an unwritten agreement between us, that is, if one of us borrowed money or something from the other party, then we would keep the account, and then we would just take the money or something of equivalent value to repay the debt, and there was no need to say anything. This agreement has been observed since three years ago. It's just that he helps me a lot. ”

Tang Tu pondered for a while before he spoke: "Then have you ever thought about letting him be a little more restrained and less ...... Forget oneself. ”

Bai Gu knew what the word Tang Tu originally wanted to blurt out was, but he didn't show it, "I've thought about it." But a man who has kept me and my sister alive three times and twice, what right am I to point fingers at him? Isn't that a person who stands by the well and drinks water, and still complains about the depth of the well? Also, if he reined in his personality, stopped speaking meat words, singing meat songs, and climbed the wall, then he was still himself? I didn't play with him because of his money, or because he had given me a way to live. I am willing to play with him because he has a playful personality, loves to joke and can afford to joke, and can say anything. If he changes, his personality is restrained, not to mention becoming very serious, even if it is not as serious as it is now, I don't feel comfortable. Of course, there are some things he does that really can't be put on the table. As for whether I'm afraid of being taken bad, I don't care. ”

Tang Tu was a little puzzled.

Bai Gu just smiled and laughed at himself: "Let's take an analogy, like Mr. Tang and Liu Caizi, you are like a glass of clean water, if you accidentally fall into a few drops of sewage, then it will naturally be dirty." As for me, it's just a glass of mud, dirty and not sewage, is there any difference between a few drops and a bucket? Or is there a difference between dripping sewage and not dripping sewage? ”

Tang Tu sighed softly and did not make a sound.

There is no support, and there is no refutation.

Liu Caizi put down the teacup in his hand and pointed to the half-finished product in Bai Gu's hand, "Make one for me." ”

Bai Gu didn't react.

Tang Tu's eyes were kind, and his tone was soft, "It's what you are weaving in your hands now, after you finish weaving, make another one of the same, just give it to Liu Caizi." ”

"Okay, Liu Caizi, wait a minute."

Bai Gu took the half-finished product and continued to weave it up by himself.

Not long after, a frog appeared in Bai Gu's hand.

"Liu Caizi, give."

Liu Caizi didn't stretch out his hand to take it, "Didn't you just say that this is just to pay off the debt?" Why did you give it to me? ”

"Ha, that guy has gone somewhere else now, and I don't know when I'll be back, so I'm not in a hurry. Liu Caizi, you want it now, in terms of time, you are more anxious than him, so I will give it to you first. ”

Liu Caizi then stretched out his hand and took the frog woven by weeds.

Tsk, a little prickly.

Tang Tu patted Bai Gu's shoulder, "Xiaobai, I still have something I want to talk to Liu Caizi about, you go home first, lest it will be unsafe to go home alone when it gets dark." ”

"Okay." Bai Gu nodded, "Don't worry, Mr. Tang, I look safe." ”

Tang Tu was a little helpless and smiled.

After Bai Gu left, Tang Tu turned his gaze to Liu Caizi, who had been reclining on the chair, who was playing with the weed frog that Bai Gu had woven with a nonchalant face.

"Liu Caizi, Xiaobai's craftsmanship in weaving things is good, you said yes?"

“…… Just make do. ”