Xie Pujia accompanied Dong Ming, taking advantage of the fact that it was not dark, to take a frame and shave potatoes in the ground. Granny Zhu's potatoes were really big and firm, and the boxes were full in a while.

"Mother-in-law, let's go first, you stay well, tomorrow the dishes here will be collected by Xiaoding."

Granny Zhu took a shovel and hurriedly kept people: "Have a meal at my place, I have picked all the dishes." ”

Dong Ming showed regret on his face: "Mother-in-law, let's eat again next time, we have to go to the monkey's house later......"

Hearing that Dong Ming was going to the monkey's house, Granny Zhu no longer forcibly kept people: "Go, go, help me say hello." ”

Dong Ming hung a large frame full of potatoes on the front of his bicycle, carrying Xie Pujia on the road again.

"Godfather, this mother-in-law ......"

The back of Dong Ming's long-sleeved plaid shirt was soaked with sweat, revealing a dark color.

"When Granny Zhu was young, her daughter was abducted by traffickers, and her husband disappeared because he was looking for his daughter, and she stayed there for decades, so she wanted to wait for her husband and daughter to come back."

Dong Ming sighed.

"That area has been developed a few years ago, but they all have reasons for not wanting to move away, when I was not the county magistrate, I learned about this when I visited, and told the boss of the developer, the boss is a friend I knew before, I didn't move this piece after hearing this, it just so happens that I have a small family with a greenhouse, and the home is not far from here, and from time to time I arrange for his son to come to Granny Zhu to buy vegetables."

Xie Pujia sighed with emotion after hearing this: "Godfather, you have so many friends." ”

Dong Ming laughed embarrassedly twice.

"When I was a child, I was the king of children in the crowd, and when I was in school, I liked to be a cadre on duty, and I felt that it was a shame to be able to command a class of students to speak out about thieves, and then I got older, and the more responsibilities I had, I knew the word cadre, which was not so easy."

"It's time for the monkeys."

Dong Ming pinched the bell of the bicycle vigorously, and soon there was movement inside, and a young man on crutches opened the door tremblingly.

The other party saw Dong Ming's expression excited, and the crutches in his hand were waving wildly, looking like he was not in a normal state.

"Calm down, monkey, I've brought you something to eat!"

Hearing Dong Ming's words, the monkey put away his crutches stupidly, kept his snack, and smirked at him.

Dong Ming carried a basket of potatoes and escorted Xie Pujia into the house.

The house was dim, Dong Ming felt the switch of the light with a familiar car, pressed it hard, and finally saw the whole house.

Messy clothes, crooked tables and chairs, all kinds of bottles and cans scattered on the ground.

Dong Ming put down the frame heavily, raised his voice and yelled at the monkey: "How many times have you said that the table and chair can't be kicked over!" If you don't turn on the lights yet, if you fall on your head one day, you see who collects your body! ”

Angry words are angry words, Dong Ming scolded while lifting up the fallen table and chair against the wall and placing it.

The monkey's scolded head shrunk, but he still had a smirk on his face.

Dong Ming found the kitchen, found cooking oil from the messy condiments and poured it into the pot, and put the washed and cut potatoes into the oil to fry them.

Xie Pujia laid his hand beside him.

Soon, under Dong Ming's palm, a "French fries" came out of the pot, and this fries were much thicker than those sold in fast food restaurants outside.

"I tried my best, these potato strips are not delicious when they are finely cut, you can taste them." He wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the two of them.

The monkey stretched out his hand and wanted to grab it, but Dong Ming knocked the back of his hand hard with chopsticks.

The pain directly retracted his hand, the monkey grinned and picked up the chopsticks, unfamiliarly picked up a chopstick, and stuffed it into his mouth, eating a mouth full of oil.

Xie Pujia also clipped a chopstick.

Bland, tasteless.

"Godfather, you didn't sprinkle salt."

Dong Ming, who was reminded, suddenly realized and patted his head: "Wow, I'll just say it's tasteless, I'll sprinkle some salt." ”

After that, he picked up a plate of potatoes and went to the kitchen to reprocess them.

Xie Pujia and the monkey looked at each other.

She tried to take out a piece of candy from Uncle Wang from her pocket and carefully placed it in front of the monkey.

When the monkey saw the candy, he didn't even peel off the candy wrapper, and stuffed it directly into his mouth, and Xie Pujia quickly snatched it from his mouth.

"Hey, are you stupid? I didn't peel the paper! ”

The monkey was still silly at her, and Xie Pujia had no choice but to tear off the candy paper and put the whole candy in his hand.

The monkey swallowed the sugar directly, without chewing at all.

"Huh!"

Xie Pujia was afraid that he would choke to death.

"Sprinkle salt, sprinkle salt." Dong Ming returned to the table with a large pot of fries.

"Eat!"

At the sound of the order, the monkey was like a wild horse, holding chopsticks and frantically clamping them in his mouth, as if he would be starved to death if he was one second late, as if he had not eaten for ten days and half a month.

"Godfather, I just gave him a candy, and he swallowed it directly, so he won't get stuck in his throat, right?"

Dong Ming was taken aback: "Did you peel the paper?" ”

Xie Pujia nodded: "Peeled." ”

Dong Ming breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand: "It's okay if you peel it, if you choke it, he won't die, he will die." ”

"Fate?" Xie Pujia was puzzled.

He looked at the ignorant monkey and said, "This man is actually only twenty-five years old. ”

Xie Pujia also looked at the monkey, and could see that he was young, but the whole person was sloppy and messy, and it was not an exaggeration to look at the appearance of thirty-five.

"Not everyone has a family that loves him."

Dong Ming poured a glass of water for the monkey and put it in his hand.

"Ten years ago, when he was fifteen years old, he met a child who fell into the water on the way to high school, and jumped down to save people, but the child was not rescued, and he almost died.

Dong Ming spread his hands and showed helplessness: "His parents looked at him like this, divorced and divided the property directly, no one cared about him, as for the family where he acted bravely, he had no children, and he didn't want others to become a burden on their family, and he couldn't find anyone else when he moved directly after the child's funeral." ”

Dong Ming also poured a glass of water and put it in Xie Pujia's hand: "But it's okay, his parents don't care, the government manages, I got a righteous and brave disabled person for him to apply, and now I can get a living allowance every month, occasionally I come to see, and there are volunteers who come to help clean up, but I let the people below set the rules, the monkey's behavior is not controlled, if you come to the door as a volunteer, there must be two people, preferably one of them is a man." ”

For the sake of the volunteers, but also for the sake of the monkeys.

Knowing the reason why the monkey became stupid, Xie Pujia looked at him with admiration in her eyes.

After eating, I came out of the monkey's house, it was getting late, and the sunset was accompanied by the sunset, and the west was sinking.

Xie Pujia sat on the back seat of the bicycle, looking up and feeling the breeze on her cheeks.

"Godfather."

"Huh?"

Xie Pujia's voice was muffled, "Why did you bring me to these places?" ”

Dong Ming smiled, pedaled the pedal hard, and swayed his body from side to side.

"Originally...... I wanted to take you around in the afternoon, but in the morning I heard you talk about your dreams, and I decided to let you see what I do on weekdays and the people I meet. ”

The bicycle was riding on the bumpy dirt ground, and as soon as it got on and down, Xie Pujia needed to hold on to the corners of Dong Ming's clothes tightly to stabilize his body.

"Godfather wants to tell you that there are all kinds of things in the world, everyone is suffering, everyone is living hard and struggling desperately, you see people smiling may swallow pain in their stomachs, most people will not put sadness on the surface, adults are best at disguise, every family has bad things, the size is different."

Dong Ming paused, his tone soothing.

"So, let the little girl in the dream not be afraid, and don't give up easily......"

Xie Pujia's tears burst instantly, and she attached her face to Dong Ming's back.

Speechless all the way.