Volume 1 Visiting Taiwan Chapter 2 Xu Changsheng who delivered tofu
The sun slowly rose from the top of the mountain, and the tofu in Xu Changsheng's hand became less and less. He also deliberately left Fulu Street to be sent at the end, for fear that Wu Weihu would really do something.
From a distance, you can see the two gilded characters of "Sun Mansion" and the scarlet gate, which is inlaid with quaint copper nails, which are particularly conspicuous. The pair of stone lions at the door were majestic, even if Xu Changsheng tried his best to lean up, he was a head shorter than the stone lions, and every time at this time, the porter would laugh non-stop.
A person like him who delivered a piece of tofu to Sun's Mansion didn't dare to knock on the door, so he could only walk along the fence from a distance to the back door. knocked it open, and the servant only stretched out his hand, lifted the tofu, and then closed the back door again, and after a while, he opened a small crack and threw out two copper plates from the inside. If it weren't for the fact that the young lady of the Sun family likes to eat Li Tui's tofu, they wouldn't have gone out to buy it.
Xu Changsheng didn't think it was an insult, and pulled out the two copper plates from the soil, maybe this is the style of a big family.
There is still the last one left in his hand, which belongs to the witch mouse's family.
Witch Mouse, formerly known as Wu Weihu, calls himself Witch Tiger, but everyone calls him Witch Mouse. His father was a blacksmith in a small town, and he grew up helping out with his father, and over time, his strength was much greater than that of his peers. But when he is big, he is less courageous.
Once during the day, he bullied Liang Mi, and at night, Liang Mi went around to his backyard and screamed a few times, so frightened that he hid in his room for a night, and the matter spread, and his name as a witch mouse also spread. But the children in the small town dared to call him behind his back.
He Xu Changsheng and Liang Mi got close, and Wu Weihu was tired of the house and Wu. However, Xu Changsheng was not afraid of him, and even dared to call him a witch mouse to his face, without him, Xu Changsheng ran fast, and he couldn't catch up.
Xu Changsheng and Wu Weihu didn't deal with each other, but Wu Blacksmith was very good to him. He shouted from afar: "Xiao Changsheng has sent tofu so early." ”
As he spoke, he didn't stop in his hands, and a man's brain-sized hammer was beaten rhythmically on a dark red piece of iron by his dancing tiger, and sparks splashed everywhere.
Xu Changsheng shouted Uncle Wu hello, and consciously sent the tofu to the inner room. Wu Kui shouted inside: "Huzi, don't come out and bring the tofu back yet." ”
Wu Weihu came out reluctantly, in fact, Xu Changsheng saw Wu Weihu fiddling with his "treasure chest" from a distance, because every time Xu Changsheng came to deliver tofu, he was showing off his treasure chest, and sometimes he would exclaim, like "What a big hammer, it will definitely be able to hammer Nanfeng Town" or something.
Liang Mi also has a treasure chest like that, which contains the "little treasures" he collected from various places in the town, Xu Changsheng has also played with him a few times, and he has everything, as big as a statue of a god he collected from the City God Temple, and that one alone occupies half of the treasure chest, as small as a small round stone, with various patterns on it, which makes Liang Mi love it very much.
Xu Changsheng is also envious sometimes, because he doesn't have it, he also wants to have a treasure chest like that, sometimes he dreams of it, but when he wakes up, there is nothing.
Wu Weihu snatched the tofu from his hand, and with the other hand, he made a neck wiping motion, Wu Kui coughed with his back to them, and Wu Weihu immediately honestly carried the tofu out of the house.
Xu Changsheng said goodbye to Wu Kui and left.
He had to rush to school, and he wouldn't be able to catch the first class when he was late. Although he was not a student of the school, he could only listen to the lectures from a distance outside the classroom.
When I got to the school mat, it was neither early nor late, and the class just started. Mr. Lu, who has a goatee and a wrinkled face, is bowing his back and reciting, "Do not do to others what you do not want." ”
Xu Changsheng hurriedly stood through the gap in the window of the old place, watching Mr. Lu walk back and forth in the school room with his hands behind his back and a yellowed sage book in his hands.
Mr. Lu read a sentence, and the students below followed suit, and occasionally walked next to a stunned student, picked up the book and knocked him on the head fiercely, saying "Rotten wood cannot be carved." ”
At the end of the class, there was not much content to be taught, but I listened to his scolding with a strong foreign accent for most of the class.
But it can't be helped, the town is just such a gentleman, and he moved to the town a long time ago. It is said that he was also a desperate scholar back then, and when he came to the town, he saw the selfless school, so he put up a shelf and asked Li Zheng to gather people to help build a private school.
Because of this, he settled in the town, but he didn't expect that this stay would be a lifetime, from the prime of life to the gray beard.
Therefore, no matter how unfriendly some of Mr. Lu's behaviors are, everyone is still tolerant.
Xu Changsheng listened here, one station was all morning, at first his legs were sore, but then he stood more times, and his legs and feet were not sore.
After listening to Mr. Lu, he finished assigning today's homework. And he ran quickly, and ran with all his might, and got out of thence. As for whether he was afraid of being seen by those playmates and making him feel embarrassed, or something else, only he knew.
I bought a few flatbreads from the only remaining copper plate at the shop where I came back, which was enough for the day's dry food tonight and tomorrow. This kind of cake is not eaten by ordinary people, and it is made of some rough raw materials such as wheat bran, and the production is sloppy, so ordinary people can't swallow it.
But Xu Changsheng can eat it, soak this cake in boiling water, and then put wild vegetables in the middle to make it taste better, but how good can it be? Barely able to survive.
Although he can go to Aunt He's house to eat, he feels bad, Aunt He is good to him, but he can't take her kindness for granted. And he has hands and feet, he can earn his own money to support himself, although he has lived a little harder, but his heart is inexplicably steady.
As soon as he returned to the door, he saw his neighbor Gao's mother coming out with a basin of dirty water and seeing Xu Changsheng, her face suddenly became gloomy. The scolding and scolding kept scolding, and the "broken things, dead stars, short-lived ghosts" and something kept collapsing out of his mouth, and he poured a basin of dirty water at the door of Xu Changsheng's house. said: "As soon as I go out, I see the broom star, and it is bad luck."
Then he wiped his hand on his clothes, hurried into the house, and shook the door with a bang.
Xu Changsheng was silent, pushed open the door, entered the empty home, took out a broom, swept some sand and gravel to cover the dirty water, and then sat in the courtyard.
Every time at this time, Xu Changsheng would think about his mother very much, especially because it was really hard to live alone. Although Aunt He treats him like a mother, she is not her own mother after all.
It didn't take long for a burst of aroma to waft from next door, thinking that Gao Jianzhi was back, and Gao's mother brought out the meal that had been prepared for a long time.
Xu Changsheng silently walked back to the house and took out a flatbread.
After a few bites, there was a rhythmic knock on the door.
Listening to this voice, Xu Changsheng also knew who was coming. When he opened the courtyard door, he was a student in a green shirt, his face could only be regarded as delicate, his hair was tied up with a strip of cyan cloth, and he was carrying a food box in his hand.
Seeing the door open, the visitor smiled and said, "Xu Changsheng, my father is out again, I have to come to you to make do with it, but I brought my own drinks, don't worry." As he spoke, he raised the food box in his hand.
Having said that, Xu Changsheng was warm in his heart, since he knew about Xu Changsheng's daily diet, Su Sheng would bring some food to eat with Xu Changsheng every once in a while, although it was also some daily food, it was several times better than Xu Changsheng's flatbread.
The two ate the food brought by the restaurant, chatting without saying a word, but most of the time it was Su Sheng who was talking and Xu Changsheng listening. It's nothing more than some academic things, how difficult it is, who was beaten by Mr. Lu, and some things in the town.
For example, Aunt Li in the wine shop had a quarrel with the mother next door, and the fortune teller squatted at the door of the tofu shop to watch Li Soft, and was driven away by Li Tui.
The town is located in a remote area, and few outsiders come here. The only person who counts as an outsider is Tang and Song, who came to the town a few years ago. But not long after Tang and Song came, they were also assimilated into the town, and their town-town accent was louder than that of the locals.
chatting, I suddenly talked about the Sun Mansion living on Fulu Street recently, which is not lively. Like someone to entertain.
Xu Changsheng swallowed the food in his mouth and said, "The Sun family has a big business, isn't it normal to entertain on weekdays." ”
Su Sheng shook his head, "This formation is not ordinary, it is being cleaned inside and out, even the stone lions at the door are polished and shiny, the two vermilion doors have been repainted, and the smell of paint can be smelled across a few streets." ”
Xu Changsheng was also a little surprised when he heard this, it seemed that Sun Mansion really wanted to entertain some big person. But these are a little farther away from him, and more often they are thinking about what to eat tomorrow.
After sending Su Sheng away, Xu Changsheng was cleaning up the tables and stools. Suddenly, someone behind him said: "Yo, Mr. Su is here to bring you food again, isn't the food in the restaurant delicious? ”
You don't have to look to know that it must be recommended and crouched on the wall. When he was full, he climbed up the wall to see what Xu Changsheng was doing, and by the way, he ridiculed a few times, which was one of his few hobbies.
At first, Xu Changsheng would reply to him a few times, but he was too lazy to pay attention to him. It's very boring, just like now, Xu Changsheng responded: "Yes, the food in the restaurant is fragrant, especially like what kind of braised lion's head, stir-fried chicken fillet, chili beef, dragon and phoenix Chengxiang, braised pork, even the most ordinary green beans." It's all fragrant. He smacked his lips as he spoke.
Listening to Xu Changsheng report a long list of dish names, Gao Zhizhi leaned on the wall and kept swallowing saliva. Hearing that there was no voice, he immediately snorted disdainfully, "Can you afford to eat as poor as you are?" ”
Xu Changsheng walked into the house with a chair and replied, "I can't afford to eat, but Su Sheng will bring me food" as he spoke, and turned his head to show him a bright smile. said: "You don't have a friend like Su Sheng, I have." ”
The angry Gao Zhi hammered down the wall, but his hands hurt, and then he jumped back into his yard. It didn't take long to hear Gao's mother scolding Xu Changsheng there.
The young man's expression is still the same, just as ordinary as eating and drinking.
But it didn't take long for Gao Jianzhi to climb the wall again.
"Hey, Xu Changsheng, I heard that Sun Qiao and Li Handong made an appointment at the grain field this afternoon, and it is estimated that it will start soon, can we go and have a look together?"