Qingwa Town, located in the northern part of Dajingguo, belongs to the throat road to the north of Dajing, and there are more than 1,000 households in the town, but it is also very lively.

In the past two years, I didn't know what kind of wind the northern neighbor Fu had smoked, and despite the friendship between the two countries for thousands of years, he insisted on raising troops to invade the south.

After breaking through Qingfeng City on the border of Dajing, before the army could go deeper, he was expelled from the country by Deng Lifu, the general appointed by the Great Yasukuo who reacted quickly, and led his troops out of the country.

Now the soldiers and horses of the two countries are facing each other in the north of Qingfeng City. It stands to reason that Dajing should take this opportunity to fight a battle to protect the country and counterattack, but I don't know why Dajing doesn't fight, and Fu leaves the country because you don't fight, I won't fight, but I just won't withdraw the army.

In this way, the soldiers and horses of the two countries were at a stalemate outside Qingfeng City.

Qingwa Town, as the throat of the south, was panicked by the war, and many big families dragged their families away.

But after some time, I heard that General Deng Lifu broke the army and refused to leave the army and the border, and the town gradually returned to its former prosperity.

The south of Qingwa Town is mostly a large family and an official temple, and the north of the town is full of some peddlers, pawns and farmers in the town.

At this time, a young man in an alley in the north of the town was running quickly, holding a rag bag in his hand, and there was a faint spill of loess in the gap of the cloth bag patch.

I saw that this young man had clear eyebrows, an angular face, and fast steps, and ran to a courtyard at a trot, standing in the courtyard and shouting, "Little mud, bring the water quickly." With that, he threw the bag in his hand to the ground and gasped.

"Come on, come on", with a crisp shout, a little girl ran out of the house, the little girl was about seven or eight years old, wearing a green cloth cotton jacket, with patches on it, washed white, but also looked clean and tidy.

The little girl jumped up and ran to the young man and said aggrievedly: "Fan Yao, do you want to wipe the wall again?"

Last year, you wiped it, but when it came to winter, all the mud you wiped was gone, the house was ventilated, and my mother was sick and couldn't get up on the kang.

If it weren't for Aunt Zhang and Uncle Liu coming over and lighting a bonfire and mud to help us plaster the wall, we wouldn't have had a good time last winter. ”

Fan Yao smiled awkwardly and said, "Didn't I have no experience last year? ”

After speaking, he picked up a handful of rice stalks from the ground, "See, this thing is also called mud tendons, and put it in when it is mud, so that the mud will not fall when it is cold in winter, of course, the water should be put no more, no less, and last year there was more muddy water."

The little girl walked up to the young man and said with a complaining face: "Fan Yao, you have changed, when you first arrived at my house, you called me Miss Nini, and when my father is gone, you call me Nini." Not long after my mother left this time, you called me a little mud, and in a few days you will throw me away as mud. ”

The little girl was very aggrieved after speaking.

The young man named Fan Yao hurriedly threw away the straw, bent down and gently hugged the little girl with his hand and said, "How can you treat Miss Nini as mud?

So, your Brother Fan won't leave you alone, come, watch your Brother Fan wipe the wall and then take you to pick up the autumn famine. ”

"Okay, okay, Brother Yao, I want to eat roasted sweet potatoes. The little girl shouted happily. In the end, he is a child, and his sorrow goes quickly.

The young man named Fan Yao smiled slightly, and began to plaster the wall with mud.

The two rooms in the house are adobe houses, which are exposed to the wind and rain, and the walls will crack when the sun is exposed to the sun again in the summer, and the walls must be plastered in the autumn to survive the winter.

Fan Yao is fourteen years old this year, and he was twelve years old when he wandered to Qingwa Town.

The teenage child stood at the door of the wonton shop opened by Li Ni's father and mother and watched and swallowed saliva.

Li Ni's mother looked pitiful and gave the child a bowl of wontons, but Fan Yao took the wontons but didn't eat them.

Put the wontons on the table, pick up the rag and start to help clean up the shop, sweep the floor and set the table when the stall is closed, and only pick up the wontons when they are done, and the one that they gobble up is called a fragrant.

When he was full, he thanked Li Ni and her mother and left the shop.

The next day, Fan Yao went to the river to catch fish, caught a few fish, picked out a few small ones, took them to the restaurant to exchange them for a steamed bun, and sent the big ones to Nini Niang.

Nini and her mother were not polite, and after taking the fish, she said to Fan Yao: "Come and help in the future, the wontons are full."

Fan Yao's eyes were slightly red, and he nodded and agreed.

Nini's father said on the side: "Don't cry, little doll, it's not ashamed to eat with your hands and feet." ”

More than a year passed, and last winter, Nini's father contracted a lung disease and passed away before surviving the winter. Fan Yaokang's coffin, Nini was only seven years old that year.

This spring, Nini's mother contracted the wind cold again, and Fan Yao supported the wonton shop alone.

Selling wontons in the morning, going to odd jobs in the afternoon, and going to Nini and her mother to get medicine every day, but it was a drop in the bucket.

When Nini and her mother were about to die, they pulled Li Ni with one hand and Fan Yao with the other, but they were speechless, Fan Yao and Xiao Nini both cried.

Fan Yao lowered his head and said softly: "Aunt Li, don't worry, I will take care of Nini, she will be my sister in the future."

I will catch fish to make wontons, and I will definitely raise Nini beautifully, and find a good family to marry in the future. ”

Nini and her mother swallowed before she could finish her words. Poor Li Ni's eight-year-old child has no father, and the little girl has been sad for a long time.

After that, Fan Yao sold wontons in the morning, caught fish in the small river outside the town in the afternoon, left two for Nini to eat, and sold the rest to supplement the family.

In this way, the brother and sister who are not brother and sister have been together for nearly a year.

When Xiao Nini was thinking about her father, Fan Yao was coaxing beside her, and said: "Uncle Li and Aunt Li have a good heart, Lord Yan will definitely let your father and mother have a good baby, maybe where to enjoy happiness at this time." ”

The little girl asked, "Fan Yao, where is your father, why don't you see them take care of you?"

Fan Yao sighed and said: "My family originally lived in Qingfeng City, my father is the captain of Fengqing City, and my mother is also a captain.

When the army of Fu Liguo attacked Fengqingcheng, my father and mother were killed in battle, and one of my father's personal soldiers took me to escape, I remember him, his name is Wu Laocheng, and he followed my father and smiled every day.

He fled out of the city with me, and was confronted by a troop of chasers who wanted to slaughter a village.

He put me behind a haystack and rushed over by himself, and when he came back, he was covered in blood, and said to me, Xiao Fan Yao, don't look at me so miserable, that small group of enemy troops is ten times worse than me.

That's it, at night he can't do it, and when he was dying, he said that he was sorry for my father and wanted me to live well, and he swallowed his breath after speaking.

You say he's stupid or not, there were at least two dozen pursuers in that group, and he rushed up like that. ”

"Fan Yao, it turns out that you are so pitiful, why haven't you said it before?

Let's not talk about these things in the future, we all have to be happy in the future, my mother taught me to be a female celebrity, and I will take care of you when I grow up, okay?" the little girl comforted.

"Okay, that Nini should be obedient, and eat a lot of food, so that it will grow quickly. ”

"Okay!" said the little girl.

Since then, the brother and sister have tacitly agreed not to mention their father's affairs, and if they don't say whether they want to do it or not, they don't know.

The two earthen houses in the courtyard Fan Yao wiped for a small day, the key is that Miss Nini crossed her waist and pointed there, "Fan Yao's side is higher, Fan Yao's side is thicker, Fan Yao, can you do it? My father's wall is as smooth as a mirror, and flies can't stand when they fall on it."

Seeing that it was getting late, Fan Yao hurriedly cleaned up and called Nini to pick up the autumn waste. said that if he didn't go, the sweet potatoes and white potatoes in the field would be picked up by others.

The little girl happily followed behind Fan Yao, shouting vigorously that she wanted to eat three roasted sweet potatoes at night, Fan Yao agreed repeatedly, knowing in her heart that if she didn't divert the little girl's attention, those walls would be wiped to the ground.

Most of the crops outside the town have been harvested, and there are some missing agricultural materials in the fields that have been harvested, especially the big families in the town, and thousands of acres of land are not so clean.

Fan Yao took the little girl to the field, Nini's eyes were sharp, and she saw a few sweet potatoes scattered on the ground, so she happily ran over.

Just as I was about to reach out to pick it up, I heard a shout "Don't steal our sweet potatoes".

As soon as the words fell, a little fat man ran over, stretched out his hand to push Nini away, and saw that Nini was a little girl, so he took his hand back, but his body pounced, lying on top of the sweet potatoes, and shouted, "Boss Gao, someone is going to steal our sweet potatoes." After speaking, he burst into tears.

"Who would dare to steal our sweet potatoes?"

With the shouting, a short-haired young man ran over, about the same height as Fan Yao, with colorful patches on his clothes, dirty eyes on his face, and a short hair and a high nose bridge, which was very heroic.

Fan Yao was just about to open his mouth to explain, the short-haired young man punched him, Fan Yao couldn't dodge his nose and was actually punched, Fan Yao felt a sore nose, and then felt a stream of heat flow out, and the beaten nostrils were bleeding.

Fan Yao was aroused by a body of anger, his head lowered and he rushed out, with one head on the tall boss's body, and his two hands also hit indiscriminately, I don't know where he hit the short-haired young man, the young man called the tall boss screamed and kicked Fan Yao in the stomach.

Fan Yao was ruthless, firmly grabbed one of Boss Gao's legs with both hands, and fell backwards himself, Boss Gao couldn't break free and fell to the ground together, the two staggered each other with old punches, and they were very happy.

On the other side, the little girl Nini saw this scene, opened her mouth wide and cried.

The little fat man looked at the two who were beating each other, and walked towards the little girl. Fan Yao heard Nini's cry, covered his head with his arms and turned his eyes, and when he saw the little fat man walking towards Nini, he couldn't help but shout urgently: "Little fat man, do you dare to touch her to try?"

I heard a shout from beside me: "Fax Liu, don't bully children." But it was the young man named Gao Boss who shouted.

The little fat man froze in place, looked at the two people who were scuffling together, looked at the little girl again, and cried out with a "wow".

While crying, he said: "I see that the little girl looks scared, and I want to take her away, what are you shouting at me, such a cute little girl, how can I bully her?

The fat man cried this sadly. Let the little fat man break up like this, and the two of them will have no heart to fight, and they will lie on the ground on the left and right, panting.

Fan Yao covered his nose with his hands, and his eyes were swollen. The corners of the mouth and forehead of the tall boss were purple and blue, which showed that the two of them had a fight of half a catty and eight taels, and no one took advantage of it.

The little girl over there and the little fat man had long stopped crying, and stared at the two lying on the ground with wide eyes.

After resting for a while, Boss Gao stood up first, covered his forehead and grinned and said: "I think this matter may be a misunderstanding, but the pile of sweet potatoes was indeed dug by us first, I let the little fat man watch, I wanted to dig in the field again, I heard him shouting and ran back, I was anxious when I saw him crying." That's it, I'm sorry to beat you up".

Fan Yao covered his nose, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but roll his eyes and said, "Nini and I came to pick up the autumn wilderness, and when we saw a few sweet potatoes in the field, no one next to them thought it was ownerless."

Just about to pick it up, this fat man ran out, the sweet potato is yours, you just say it, you cry without saying a word, and then you come.

Besides, what do you mean by beating me? Except that you attacked this nose secretly, let's see which of us was injured badly? Also, do you understand the reasoning? How can you fight and kill as soon as you come up?"

When Boss Gao heard Fan Yao say this, he glared at the little fat man, but his mouth was unrelenting: "Who doesn't want to be reasonable? Isn't this the little fat man crying and I'm in a hurry? And you fight when you fight, what are you holding with your two hands?"

"Yo he, where can you fight, where can you fight, where can you not fight?"

"If others don't have it, I have it."

Seeing that the two were about to start a fight again, the little girl's timid voice came at this time, "Fan Yao, I'm hungry, don't fight, okay."

Fan Yao looked at the short-haired boy named Boss Gao and said, "What do you say?"

Boss Gao said: "Okay, okay, don't fight, my little sister is hungry." In this way, this pile of sweet potatoes will give you four, even if I am indiscriminate, admit my mistake first, how about it?"

Fan Yao saw that the young man was also above board, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I don't remember villains as adults, I took these sweet potatoes." ”

After speaking, he picked up a few sweet potatoes, nodded to the young man and the little fat man named Gao Boss, and took Nini's little hand and walked towards the town.

"Cut!" Boss Gao rolled his eyes and said nothing, and took the little fat man with the remaining sweet potatoes and walked to another way back to the town.

Back at home, Fan Yao asked the little girl to review her homework in the school, and began to bake sweet potatoes herself.

The tools for roasting sweet potatoes are also as simple as a few broken green bricks and some firewood.

The little girl was looking at the sweet potatoes on the fire while reading the book, and she couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

Finally waited for Fan Yao to shout "It's time to eat", immediately threw down the book and rushed over, stretched out his little hand to pick up a roasted sweet potato, turned his left hand to his right hand, and then from his right hand to his left hand, and his small mouth was still blowing vigorously.

Fan Yao smiled and said, "Be careful, don't get hot, forget it, I'll help you." ”

After speaking, he helped the little girl peel off the sweet potato. After the sweet potato was baked, it looked black, but as long as the outer layer of skin was removed, it was different, the little girl took the peeled sweet potato, blew the hot air with her mouth, and ate it with a big gulp in her hand.

After eating sweet potatoes, Fan Yao simply cleaned up. At this time, the little girl rubbed her eyes and said that she was sleepy, so Fan Yao carried the little girl to the kang in the inner room and covered the little girl with a quilt.

Coaxed Nini to sleep, Fan Yao came to the outhouse, Fan Yao simply built a small bed with a wooden stool, and slept near the door.

Fan Yao was busy for a day, selling chaos in the morning, wiping the walls for most of the day, and fighting inexplicably outside the town, he was really tired, so he lay down and fell asleep.

In his sleep, Fan Yao seemed to dream of Qingfeng City again, and dreamed of his father and mother, and dreamed that when his father and mother walked out of the house in armor, he looked back at his reluctant eyes, and also dreamed that Wu Laocheng was holding a long knife in his hand, scolding and scolding his head and rushing towards the team of pursuers.