After a few days of traveling, Li Bufan came to the town from Chaotian Village - Surabaya Town.

This is the first time he has walked into this town, although he is not very familiar with everything here, but he is still attracted by it, this place is different from Asada, and the street is a little more lively, there is a strange and intimate feeling.

"What should I do? The dry food on his body was gone, and there was no money left. ”

Li Bufan couldn't help but be annoyed, the cakes he bought at the earliest post station had been eaten, and the money on his body had already been used up, and now he didn't even have the most basic food and clothing.

"It seems that I can only ask if there is any work in the town that can provide food, and I will arrive first."

Thinking about it, I was ready to leave.

"Boss, do you accept people? I can do the work."

Li Bufan walked to a small shop and asked the boss.

"Alas! Alas! Alas! Go, go, I don't accept people, what can you do with such a little ghost, go quickly, don't disturb me in business. ”

Ban looked at the thin young man in front of him with a look of disdain, and then continued to work.

Li Bufan shook his head helplessly, so he had to walk out of the small shop, walked into the street, and asked a few shops along the way, but to no avail, and gradually gave up the idea of looking for a job.

Squatting on the side of the road, it was already noon, and people came and went on the street, from time to time people came and went, but most of them were some gorgeously dressed and extraordinary, and occasionally I would see a few beggars dressed in cloth clothes, wearing bamboo hats, and holding wooden sticks.

"Bang Dang~"

I only heard a crisp sound, and a copper coin fell in front of Li Bufan, Li Bufan subconsciously raised his head to look, but only saw the crowd in front of him.

"It seems that there is nothing wrong with being a beggar." Li Bufan smiled and picked up the copper coin on the ground and said with a smile.

Then, the cloth bag used to hold the silver was torn apart, spread on the ground, and began to shout, not long after, a middle-aged businessman with two children walked quickly, obviously they didn't care about Li Bufan, just glanced lightly, threw down a few copper coins and walked away.

Li Bufan looked at the back of the middle-aged businessman, and suddenly felt a sense of loss in his heart, he recalled the days when he was with his father and mother, maybe this is fate, right? He laughed self-deprecatingly, then began to shout again.

For a whole morning, Li Bufan kept shouting, but he also had a lot of gains, and after calculating it, he earned three taels of silver, although it was not a lot, but it was much more than he had expected, at least not to starve to death.

Just when Li Bufan was happy, several little beggars not far away walked towards Li Bufan with fierce faces.

These little beggars didn't look very old, only a few years older than Li Bufan, wearing coarse cloth clothes, a broken hat on their heads, and the leader was holding a wooden stick in his hand.

Li Bufan looked at the few people in front of him, only felt that the person who came was not good, and hurriedly said: "Little brothers, who are you looking for?" ”

The beggar led by heard Li Bufan's words, looked Li Bufan up and down, snorted disdainfully, and then took the stick in his hand, waved it hard, and suddenly there was a sound, and I saw that the copper coins on the ground fell to the ground one after another.

Snorted coldly: "Boy, what is your name, you dare to ask for food on our territory." ”

Although Li Bufan is still young, he is also smart, and when he saw that the comer was not good, he knew that he could not be good today, so he hurriedly said: "My name is Li Bufan, I just came here today, I don't know the rules of your big brothers, and I hope you will forgive me." ”

As he spoke, he quickly picked up the money scattered on the ground and handed it to the few people in front of him.

The man at the head took the money in Li Bufan's hand, and his face showed pride.

"Hmph, count you kid acquaintance, but the ugly words are ahead, if we find out that you are here again, don't blame us."

With that, he turned and left.

At this time, the rest of the beggars saw the leader leave, and they all surrounded him. There was a burst of laughter, a tone full of joy, and then the group left.

Li Bufan looked at their departing figures, and secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, but he was still relieved, in his opinion, when encountering such a thing, it is better not to provoke it, otherwise it will definitely be himself who suffers.

He patted the dust off his body, picked up the cloth bag spread on the ground, and prepared to beg somewhere else. As soon as he took a few steps, a voice suddenly sounded behind him, interrupting his steps: "Hmph, just let them rob you of your money like this, and you don't know how to resist, it's really cowardly." ”

When Li Bufan heard this, he looked back and saw a person walking out of the alley behind him, and he couldn't help frowning.

This person looks about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a pair of bright eyes, but his clothes are coarse linen clothes, unkempt, and he is obviously a beggar like Li Bufan now.

Seeing the man come out, Li Bufan was shocked, hurriedly greeted him, and said respectfully: "I don't know who this eldest brother is, but I really don't have any money, little brother." The young man glanced at Li Bufan, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "Okay, okay, I'm not their group of scoundrels, but why do you keep currying favor with them, they don't rob your money?" ”

While speaking, he also looked Li Bufan up and down, as if he wanted to see something.

Li Bufan was a smart person, and immediately understood that the other party might not be in the same group as the group just now, so he also put down his disguise.

just said softly: "My father taught me, more things are better than less things, since they want to give them to them, if they don't give them, they will be beaten, and in the end they will not be robbed." ”

Hearing this, the young man showed a trace of disdain in his eyes, and said with a sneer: "Hmph, it's easy to say, but if you don't fight, those won't be yours, today they can say that this street is theirs, tomorrow they can say that it is that, so what should you do?" ”

Hearing this, Li Bufan was shocked and speechless for a while.

Seeing that he was silent, the young man became even more proud in his heart, and continued to smile: "Hahaha, forget it, I won't tease you, I just wanted to scare and scare you, but I didn't expect it to be really bluffed, hahaha, get to know me, my name is Yang Ze, and your name is Li Bufan, right?" As he spoke, he pointed at Li Bufan with his finger.

Li Bufan's face turned red, smiled embarrassedly, and said, "Hello~" After finishing speaking, he turned around and was about to leave.

At this time, that Yang Ze suddenly stepped forward, blocked Li Bufan, grabbed his hand and ran into the distance.

"Come with me, you just came today, I'll take you to eat." Yang Ze said with a smile as he walked.

When Li Bufan heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but he was embarrassed and hurriedly refused: "No need, no need." ”

"Oh, you just come with me, it's all come to this point, you really want to starve to death, right?" Yang Ze smiled, pulled Li Bufan up, and ran.

Seeing him like this, Li Bufan didn't do any more entanglement, but followed him out of the street and came to a remote alley, Li Bufan found that this alley was very hidden, and there were almost no people around, at the end of the alley, there was a small grass hut built of thatch and wood, and there were several worn-out pottery bowls and a rusty iron pot next to it, as well as unburned charcoal.

Li Bufan grabbed Yang Ze and said, "Where is this, why did you bring me here?" ”

Looking at the scene in front of him, Yang Ze smiled slightly, patted him on the shoulder, picked up the wooden stick on the ground, and pointed in a decent manner: "Oh, this is my house." ”

After finishing speaking, he pointed to his house and said, "How is it?" Not bad, right? Li Bufan glanced at the grass shed and thought it was very good, so he nodded.

Yang Ze couldn't help laughing when he saw Li Bufan's approval, looked a little meaningful, and wiped his nose: "Of course, I built it myself." ”

After speaking, he handed the wooden stick in his hand to Li Bufan and said, "Let's go, go in and have a look." With that, he led Li Bufan in. The house was simple but clean, with a simple wooden bed, a chair, and a wooden basin.

Yang Ze asked Li Bufan to sit down, and he went out to prepare to eat, only to see that he took out a handful of wild vegetables out of nowhere, held it in front of Li Bufan and said: "This kind of wild vegetables is difficult to find, boiled with water, it is fragrant, wait for me to make it, you can taste it." As he spoke, he smiled and grabbed the wild vegetables in his hand and walked towards the iron pot outside the shed.

Li Bufan was surprised by Yang Ze's sudden enthusiasm, he didn't know why the person in front of him who he didn't know was so good to him, but he knew that the person in front of him had no malicious intent, he just sat on the chair and watched everything Yang Ze did, and his heart was full of doubts.

At this moment, a sudden hot air came, slowly spreading upwards along the edge of the pot, and soon spread throughout the alley.

After a while, after the heat dissipated, Yang Ze walked in from outside with a wooden stick on the pot, still holding two bowls in his hands, but this bowl seemed to be different from what he saw outside just now, and it was obviously deliberately washed.

"Come, come and taste, it's not easy to do this."

Yang Ze put the pot in his hand on the ground, scooped out a bowl with a bowl, and handed it to Li Bufan.

Li Bufan took the bowl in Yang Ze's hand, and because it had just been done, Li Bufan had to drink it in small sips.

"How? What do you think? Yang Ze was full of anticipation on the side, as if waiting for Li Bufan's praise.

Li Bufan recalled the taste of the wild vegetable soup in the bowl, and his eyes lit up, "Hmm! Delicious! Hurriedly boasted, this soup is really delicious, although it is not as good as those delicacies of the mountains and seas, but there is a fragrant fragrance, but it is also much more delicious than ordinary soup. Then he gulped it down.

Yang Ze smiled with satisfaction, filled himself with another bowl, put it in his mouth and tasted it. "I'll just say, I only know where this wild vegetable is in Surabaya, and I usually don't want to drink it myself."

After listening to Yang Ze's words, Li Bufan gradually slowed down the speed of drinking the soup and asked, "Are you ...... Why are you so nice to me? ”

Yang Ze showed a smile on his face and said: "Actually, it's nothing, I just see that you are pleasing to the eye and want to help you, I don't have so many reasons to do things, master." After speaking, Yang Ze picked up a wooden chopstick next to him, took a piece of wild vegetables and put it in his mouth to chew it.

"Thank you......" Li Bufan looked at Yang Ze and said.

"Hey, stop, sir, I'm not going to do this, eat it, this wild vegetable soup won't be so delicious when it's cold."

Yang Ze waved his hand while chewing the food, urging Li Bufan to hurry up and eat

Li Bufan looked at the wild vegetable soup and Yang Ze in front of him, and couldn't help but think of the scene where he used to live with his father and mother, at that time he also liked the wild vegetable soup made by his mother the most, and then accompanied by a coarse bran steamed bun and pickles, not to mention how fragrant, although the meal in front of him was not as rich as the original, but it made him feel warm again, and he couldn't help but have a sour nose.

Yang Ze saw that Li Bufan looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, smiled and said: "Eh, if you don't follow me in the future, how about paying back this meal, don't worry, follow me, and make sure you eat and drink spicy food." As he spoke, Yang Ze patted his chest with his hand, looking proud.

When Li Bufan heard this, he was immediately amused by his appearance, and nodded again and again in agreement.

After eating, the two walked all the way to a market, only to see that the market was full of people, bustling, lively, from time to time there were shouts, shouts, bargains, and some children playing and playing.

Listening to these voices that have not been heard for a long time, Li Bufan gradually seemed to forget the previous pain, and a feeling that he had never felt before rose in his heart, as if everything had been far away, there was an unprecedented sense of satisfaction in his heart, and he smiled happily on the side, at this time, it was noon, the sun was hanging over his head, but the sun was very soft, illuminating the whole sky was warm, giving people a sense of comfort and warmth.