Chapter 9 The pine and cypress smoke place has its own strange fragrance

At the foot of Tianxiang Mountain, a mud and stone path twists and turns, winding eastward. The tall and short white ash maple fragrance on the side of the road, the spring dragon cypress, a luxuriant. A little red thatch hangs among the lush leaves, like the cinnabar dot scroll, a pleasant and quiet scene.

In the distance of the mud and stone path, Zongde, who has a six-ring scar, is leading a horse on the path. The Acropolis Prime Minister in a gorgeous brocade robe was sitting on the back of the horse with his arms in his arms, the horse's head and neck were high, his mane was plump, his fur was black and shiny, and the fur on his four hooves was as white as snow.

The black horse was walking on the path with a light hoof, and suddenly stopped and raised its head to the sky and called twice, startling a group of sparrows in the leafy foliage on the side of the road, and flying southward with a chirp. The chaser on the horse's back gripped the saddle tightly with both hands, and seemed a little frightened.

Zong De saw that the immediately chasing zang looked a little flustered, so he pulled the reins, touched the mane of the black horse and asked towards chaizang:

"Are you scared?"

Chazang blinked a pair of starry eyes and replied:

"Don't be afraid. ”

The prime minister of the acropolis held the chase with one hand, touched his head and smiled:

"Haha, don't worry, this Linglei dark horse is very well-behaved, maybe it's hungry, just find a tea shed in front of the meeting and feed it some forage. Don't be afraid to chase after Tibet, Uncle Wei will protect you. ”

Zongde smiled, saw Chaizang nodded, and continued to lead the black horse towards the east, saying as he went:

"Acropolis Minister, it's about three hundred miles to Holly City, and now it's such a journey, I'm afraid it will take three days to get there. ”

Acropolis touched his beard and smiled:

Don't worry, the scenery along the way is very beautiful, I don't want to appreciate it when I come, and I have to have a good tour on this return trip. ”

Zong De saw that he was quite interested, and his expression was completely different from before, and he couldn't help laughing:

"The Acropolis is very interested, the little monk has not come down the mountain for a long time, this time I thank you for your fortune, go down this Tianxiang Mountain to visit, the last time I went down the mountain was a few years ago and Master Kongxuan went to the Camellia City. This time I went to Holly City, but I had to worry about the Acropolis. ”

The Acropolis Prime Minister paused and replied:

"Camellia City? That's the head of the Bafang Chamber of Commerce's Bajin Pavilion, it's strange to say, why doesn't the withered palm martial arts madman go to provoke the Camellia City, and he wants to come to my Holly City to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, is it really like the rumors in the rivers and lakes that the Bafang Chamber of Commerce is not a good class, and each hall has a top master town hall, and no one dares to break in?"

Zong De heard that the Acropolis said that the dry palm martial arts madman was picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and it was expected that the palm was undoubtedly stupid, so he couldn't help laughing twice and said:

"Haha, it turns out that the Acropolis Prime Minister came to Tianxiang Mountain this time for the palm idiot, the city minister doesn't know it, the palm idiot is the Renhe Pavilion of the Bafang Chamber of Commerce, and he won't pick on his family's affairs. It's just that this person likes to travel in the mountains and rivers on weekdays, look for war in the world, go to your holly city to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, and it is estimated that he also wants to learn from others on a whim, and the city does not have to worry, this person is not bad. ”

When the Acropolis heard that Zong De also said that this martial madman was not a bad person, he was relieved in his heart, and couldn't help but ask again:

"Little Master Zongde, our Holly City's Protector Jiujia is also a master of the rivers and lakes hired by Guangfa Zhengxiong Order, why can't he even accept this idiot move?

Zongde scratched his head and said:

"The Acropolis smiled when they met, the monks don't ask about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and the little monks don't know how many people there are, but when I went to Camellia City a few years ago, I heard that there was a gun idiot in the Eight Entrances, and I am afraid that it has the power of regretting the heavens and the earth. ”

When the Acropolis heard this, his face was shocked and said:

"I heard that Master Kongxuan's miraculous skills are world-shattering, and it is rare to meet opponents in the world, could it be that the gun idiot is more powerful than Master Kongxuan?"

Zongde pondered for a moment and slowly responded:

"Five years ago, the palm idiot and Master Kong Xuan had a tie, this big river and lake, there must be countless hermits, the so-called first in the world is only what we say in our vision, and we can't do it. ”

Acropolis looked into the distance and nodded slightly:

"Also, the size of the rivers and lakes is beyond the imagination of people like us who can guess it, by the way, what is the reason why Master Kudu said that this idiot will go to the monk's door in the next few days?"

Zongde raised his head slightly, looked into the distance, and opened his mouth to reply:

Five years ago, the idiot broke into the monk's door alone, and after a draw with Master Kongxuan, the monk's door had no one to fight with him. On that day, several disciples in the monk sect who were not focused enough were aroused by him to win, so he told him that there were still a few monks in the monk sect who had retreated and participated in the dry zazen meditation sect and had not come out of the mountain, and this competition could not be counted as his victory over the monks. After the idiot asked about the day when the teachers and uncles came out of the mountain, he agreed with the monks to come to the monks to fight again when they came out of the mountain. He had calculated the right time to go to the appointment of the year. I don't know how much this person's cultivation has improved after five years. ”

When the Acropolis heard the cause and effect, he couldn't help but sigh:

"This martial idiot really deserves this idiot, for the sake of the competition of the covenant of the year came as scheduled, and he is also a man who keeps his promises! There are thousands of skills in the world, and martial arts are the most difficult to practice. ”

Zongde looked up at Chaizang, and saw that his expression had eased a lot, so he responded:

"Yes, even if the talent is excellent, you need to keep the cold and summer, internal and external skills, moves and body skills, offensive and defensive advances and retreats, and actual combat and virtual combat practice to become a master. This palm idiot has been trained to such a realm, and it must have cost ordinary people a huge ordeal that ordinary people can't bear. ”

The Acropolis Prime Minister nodded and said:

Listening to Master Zongde's words, the old man also had a trace of admiration for this martial madman, and he was indeed a heroic man. It's just that this temperament is too much, and the old man can't catch it. ”

Hearing this, Zongde laughed twice and said:

"Haha, the Acropolis Prime Minister is a literati, and he can't stand his temperament, I heard that Holly City is the capital of antiques, and the Acropolis Prime Minister must also be a high-ranking person. ”

Acropolis shook his shoulders, his face overflowed with pride, and he touched his beard and said:

"If you talk about the antique industry, the old man can be regarded as a little famous in Holly City, this antique knowledge has a great origin, ceramic jade, calligraphy and painting tablets, a wide range of categories. Even if it's a small piece of play, I'm afraid I will regret it for half my life. Our Holly City is full of antique shops, and after you go, the old man will take you and Chaizang around. ”

Zong De nodded in response, and the chasing treasure who was holding the saddle suddenly turned around and looked at the Acropolis with a wink:

"But there's a lot of history!"

Acropolis looked at the innocent chaser and laughed twice:

"Haha, it's so interesting, it's so interesting! Master Zongde, looking at Zangzang, he seems to be eight or nine years old, why are you still babbling?"

Zong De hung his head and said in a low voice:

"It's only been a few months since he came to Tibet, and the little monk doesn't know about the previous things, and he should know it when he can speak in the future. Alas, it's just that he is now heavily poisoned, and he doesn't know when he will be able to get rid of it. ”

Acropolis touched the white beard on his chin, looked at the chasing in his arms, and said suspiciously:

There is an old doctor with a strange temperament in Holly City, we can visit him when we go to the city. ”

Zong De remembered Master Kongxuan's advice, and it was inconvenient to disobey the kindness of the Acropolis Minister, so he stopped and saluted the Acropolis Minister with one hand:

"Thank you for your kindness, but the old-timers have already told me that you should not use medicine indiscriminately, just recuperate slowly according to his prescription. This Poison Sky Xuan Master has never seen it, so he doesn't dare to find medicine easily. I had to recuperate slowly according to the old-timers who took care of the orphans. ”

When the Acropolis heard the meaning of Zongde's words, he understood that this pursuit of Tibet was entrusted to the monk by a high-ranking senior, and he was very fond of Zang in his heart, and he could not bear to suffer from severe poison, and he was unwilling to give up a glimmer of hope, so he persuaded Zongde and said:

"It's okay, it's not in the way to go and see, maybe the old doctor knows this poison, and happens to know this method of dispelling poison, wouldn't everyone be happy. ”

Zongde listened to what the Acropolis Minister said reasonably, and thought that it was good to have multiple lines of hope, and the miracle doctor in the mouth of the Acropolis Minister was not a nameless person who rushed to the hospital in a hurry. He nodded towards the Acropolis Prime Minister and bowed:

Okay, according to the meaning of the Acropolis, go and see, then there will be the Acropolis Phase. ”

A smile appeared on the face of the Acropolis, patted the horse's back, and said:

"Okay, then let's hurry up, first go to the front to find a tea shed and feed some grass for this thunderous black horse, the horse must run quickly, and the belly must be full! The old man and the little master Zongde can cope with it for a night, but it is not possible to chase the little doll, so they still have to find a place to stay before dark. ”

Zong De straightened the cloth bag on his shoulder, pinched the Bodhi leaves prepared by Jueqing and Zhengfan for the pursuit of Tibet in the bag, looked up at the sun and said:

"Seeing that the day is coming, we have to hurry up. ”

With that, he grabbed the reins and quickened his pace. The black horse made a few "clacking" sounds, as if in response to Zongde, stepping on its hooves and "da-da-da" towards the south.

After walking for about a mile, he faced an old man with a rickety back leading a white horse, the old man was thin and short, and he was dressed in a gray linen shirt that seemed to have not been washed for a long time, and he looked particularly sloppy. The white horse with the reins in his hand is tall and mighty, and his spirit is extraordinarily handsome. On the back of the white horse sat a child dressed in a red and vermilion brocade robe, and the child looked like he was eight or nine years old, and his expression was full of pride. A pair of big eyes stared at Chaizang up and down, as if they were very interested in him.

Seeing that the child was holding a small wooden box with a hint of oil, the box was crookedly carved with flowers and fruits, and the carving was simple, so he couldn't help but shake his head, his brows tightened, and his expression was quite helpless.

The white horse had a few small bundles of hay tied on its back, and when the black horse saw the hay, he opened his mouth and walked forward with his hooves, only to see the old man holding the reins with one hand and floating forward, across the two horses, and with the other hand he pulled the hay into the black horse's mouth, and asked Zongde with a smile on his face:

"May I ask this little master, how many miles away is Camellia City?"

Zongde saluted with one hand, and was about to answer him, when the child on horseback suddenly took out a string of sugar gourds from the red sandalwood box and handed it to Chaizang, shouting loudly:

"Give you sugar gourds to eat. ”

Chasing Zang is not polite, he supported the saddle with one hand, got up and stretched out his other hand to take the string of sugar gourds and sat down, turned the bamboo skewer and looked at the three round hawthorn fruits wrapped in golden translucent sugar coating on the bamboo skewers, and poked the sugar gourd with his finger curiously. Turning his head to look at Zongde, Zongde nodded at him, and Chaizang opened his mouth to bite one, and after chewing his mouth, he spit out a few hawthorn cores sideways, smacked his lips and said:

"Same taste. ”

The old man looked at the child on the horse with a strange expression, and the child grinned at him, then looked sideways at a dragon cypress on the side of the road, and said no more. Zong De looked at the actions of the two of them, and felt that this old man and young man were kind and innocent, and it seemed that the relationship between the servant and the young master was the relationship. The old man's footwork was elegant and agile, and he was not like an ordinary person, so he waved towards the old man with one hand:

"Thank you, donor, follow this road to the foot of Tianxiang Mountain, and then go north for more than 100 miles to Camellia City. ”

The old man nodded, then took out the forage and stuffed it into the mouth of Ling Lei's black horse, touched the horse's mane and said:

"It's a pity, it's a pity, it's a good horse, thank you little master. ”

With that, he led the white horse north, and the child on the horse looked back at a few people, and muttered:

"The same taste?

After walking a few dozen feet, the old man turned back to the child and asked:

"Young master, how can you give people this sugar gourd to eat casually?"

The boy held his head high, pouted, and opened his mouth to shout:

"The master saw that he was pleasing to the eye, so he rewarded him, you little old man still has no opinion. ”

The old man shook his head and sighed:

"Alas, the little ones don't dare. ”

When the child saw that the old man had confessed, he grinned and shouted at the top of his voice:

Don't talk nonsense, hurry up, you must find the old man today, otherwise Daddy will beat me, and if the master is beaten, you won't be able to please him. ”

After that, he pouted and looked up at the old man, and the old man saw the child's commanding expression, waved his hand and sighed:

"Alas, that's it, there's no one in the city to be an official, let's hurry, little ancestor!"

After that, he led the white horse to speed up his steps, and the white horse raised a little dust with its vigorous hooves, and the child looked back at the direction of the dust and was stunned, and then turned his head and held the small wooden box of red sandalwood with both hands, and muttered in his mouth:

"How many days are you going to eat this box?"

The dust dispersed with the wind, like light yarn and silk threads fluttering into the air, the sun slowly set, dyed the day red like a blazing fire, orange like a maple leaf, a breeze blowing, the red thatch on both sides of the road nodded lightly, and Zongde, who was leading a black horse on the dirt path in the distance, asked towards the pursuit of the horse:

"Chaizang, is the sugar gourd delicious?"

Chaizang smacked his lips and said:

"Delicious, the same taste. ”

Zong De laughed a few times, pointed to the red Yuan Sun in the air and said:

"It's delicious, go to Senior Brother Holly City and buy it for you to eat, chase it and see, the red sun in the sky doesn't look like the sugar gourd you just ate?"

Chaizang looked sideways at the round red sun in the sky and said:

"The red sun is beautiful, but the red sun can't be eaten. ”

Hearing this innocent and heroic remark, the Acropolis couldn't help laughing loudly:

"Hahahaha, Xiao Chaizang, you can't eat the red sun, if you can fly to the sky, you can give it a try. ”

Zongde also joked:

"Haha, you don't have to fly to the sky, when you go to the top of the Celestial Elephant Mountain, you will know that this red sun that shines on the world and dispells obstacles is not something that your little mouth can swallow. ”

A few people walked while laughing, and walked about two miles, and saw a tea shed, a scaffold made of a few narrow poplars, and a few bundles of thick thatch roof, which was very simple. There was a gray coarse cloth banner hanging outside the tea shed, and a big word "tea" was delicately embroidered with twine, and the Acropolis Prime Minister looked at the banner a few more times, and the slanting sun shone on the banner, faintly glowing with a trace of gold.

There is a simple stove in the tea shed, the smoke and water vapor are wafting from the stove, and there are two peeling old miscellaneous wooden square tables outside the tea shed, with a few old benches, although simple, but also quite tidy, and it is enough to rest and drink tea. The shop should be a husband and wife, the woman is busy in front of the stove, the man is bending down to clean up the dishes and chopsticks left on the table by the last wave of tea customers, seeing a guest coming, the man will put the bowl of chopsticks up, wipe the tablecloth to the shoulder, bow up with a peaceful face and ask:

"What kind of tea, please, this horse needs to be fed?"

The Acropolis nodded at him, handed him the reins, and said:

"Just serve some tea, don't pay attention to going out, bother to feed this horse with high-quality concentrate feed, what simple food can be brought over." ”

The man took the reins, touched the horse's mane lightly, and said:

"Guest officer, the feature of our small tea shed is fried rice tea, why don't you serve you some fried rice tea, it is all made by my wife herself, quenching thirst and satiety, and burnt aftertaste. ”

The Acropolis Prime Minister glanced at the woman in front of the stove, the woman nodded and smiled at him, then lowered her head and continued to work.

Fried rice tea? I haven't heard of anything new, I really haven't drunk it, let's try it in three bowls. ”

The man bowed down and smiled:

"The things of the inferior people, the guest officer smiled, wait a minute, I will do it for you. ”

With that, he nodded to the woman in front of the stove, and led the black horse to the stable behind the teashed.

The Acropolis Prime Minister looked up at the sun, the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the rice fields in the distance, golden, the smoke of the low villages in the distance had slowly risen, a few dog barks from a distance, the Acropolis Prime Minister turned his head after hearing it, perhaps he felt that he was out of his mind, and couldn't help but smile, so he took out a small cloth bag from the sleeve robe, took out the previous two purple and shiny walnuts from the cloth bag, held them in his hands and slowly coiled them, and said while discing:

"Little Master Zongde, it's getting late, after drinking this bowl of resting tea, we should drive another ten miles. There is a village in front of you, so let's find a farmer's house there. ”

Zongde nodded, took off the cloth bag on his shoulder, put it on the tea table, and asked:

"Is the city familiar with this place?"

Acropolis looked at the pair of walnuts in his hand, and rubbed his other palm on the walnut surface and said:

"I paid attention to it when I came, but I didn't stop at this tea shed, but when I came to the road, my heart was beating the drum, I couldn't wait for this black horse to give birth to the wings, and I listened to the words of Master Kudu and Master Zongde when I went up the mountain, and this trip back to the city was a lot more relieved, and the pastoral scenery along the way was also comfortable and peaceful. ”

Zong De listened to him sigh, and the walnut in his hand slowly scribbled, as if he was still a little worried. glanced sideways, and saw that he was looking at the rice field in the distance in a daze, so he gently lifted the bench he was sitting on and moved it to the square table:

"The city minister relaxes, there will be no big problem, it will be the appointed day in a few days, presumably he should be eating and going to the monk's gate at this moment, and he will definitely not stay in Holly City. ”

The Acropolis leaned forward, and said with a happy face:

"Little Master Zongde is really like seeing the old man's liver and lungs, the old man is worried about this matter, what if this idiot is still in Holly City?"

Zongde smiled:

"I don't know the city, in addition to the love of looking for people to compete, this palm idiot is also one of his great obsessions, eating the world, traveling the world, and fighting the world is his character. At this moment, I must be eating on the side of Tianxiang Mountain!"

Acropolis shook the pair of walnuts in his hand with his palm, nodded and smiled slightly:

"So good, so good, so good! Surely he wouldn't have stayed in one place for too long, according to his nature. ”

Zongde nodded and replied:

"That's right, the six rivers and seven lakes, eight mountains and nine seas in the world also take some time to play, and he will definitely not stay in one place for too long. ”

The Acropolis Xiang leaned back, nodded with a smile on his face, touched his beard, and said with a smile:

"Haha, yes, yes, this carefree character is very good!"

So saying, he looked at the stove, and saw that the man who had led the horse to feed him had come around the stove from the back stable, and after slapping his hands on the burlap coat a few times, he tore off the tablecloth on his shoulder and wiped his hands. She bowed her head and whispered a few words to the woman, who nodded slightly, then squatted down and picked up a few pine cones from the wood basket and threw them into the stove, and after a while, the stove "crackled".

The woman scooped a spoonful of glutinous rice into the pot and shook it into the pot, adding some cinnamon, star anise and bay leaves to stir-fry in the pot.

After a while, the glutinous rice in the pot was glowing with a hint of golden and slightly burnt color, and the whole tea shed a wisp of strange fragrance. The woman added a small spoonful of sesame oil and stir-fried it a few times, then scooped up the fried rice in the pot, picked out the cinnamon star anise leaves, and put the fried glutinous rice into a small stone mill and finely grinded it.

An old iron kettle with a black shell on the clay stove here is "shhhh

After hearing the sound, the man skillfully lined up three coarse porcelain tea bowls on the tray, sideways took the finely ground fried rice handed over by the woman, and divided them equally into the three tea bowls with a small spoon. The man turned around and came to the clay stove, tore off the tablecloth on his shoulder, wrapped the handle of the old iron kettle, carried the iron kettle to the tray, and gently poured eight points of water against the mouth of the tea bowl. When the last bowl was injected, the man only poured a small half, then took a bamboo water scoop sideways, scooped a small half of the bamboo cold water in the water tank, and poured it in. Sprinkled a small spoonful of sesame seeds in those tea bowls, and then went to the tea table with the tray, and said as he walked:

"Come on, come on, fried rice tea is coming, wooden tube bamboo sticks are drawn, and tongue rolls are thick soup to moisten liver and sausage. The elders are respected, please first. ”

With that, he brought the first bowl of the tray to the Acropolis Prime Minister. Wei Chengxiang nodded lightly and thanked him, reached out and took the wooden skewer in the bamboo tube on the table, and stirred it lightly in the tea bowl a few times, then picked up the tea bowl and blew it, and tasted it first. The man brought the second bowl of tea to Zongde and said:

"Little master, please, be careful of burning. ”

Zongde clasped his hands and thanked him, and the man brought the third bowl with cold water to Chaizang and said:

"Little doll, this bowl is not hot, feel free to drink it. ”

Zongde turned sideways and saluted:

"The donor has worked. ”

The man waved his hand and smiled, and was about to reply, when Chaizang suddenly shouted loudly:

"Senior Brother Zongde, Senior Brother Zongde, you ask me, ask me. ”

Zongde nodded and smiled at the man with a slight apology, turned sideways to Chaizang and asked:

"Okay, chasing Tibet, is fried rice tea delicious?"

Chaizang blinked, and said with a small mouth:

"Ha, it's delicious, what does it taste like?"

Zong De looked at him with an admiring look, and thought to himself, it is estimated that Jueqing Zhengfan learned it again, and couldn't help but smile and replied:

"This is the taste of fried rice tea, isn't it particularly delicious?"

Chazang nodded, smacked his lips, and drank the tea bowl with his two small hands. The man looked at this and couldn't help laughing loudly:

"Hahaha, this little doll is so interesting. ”

Acropolis, who was drinking tea on the side, looked at Chaizang happily, touched his beard, put down the bowl of tea in his hand, and asked the man with a smile on the corner of his mouth:

"Shop, this fried rice tea tastes really good, as you said, it has a burnt aftertaste. It's just that the cinnamon aroma in this fried rice tea is not an ordinary cinnamon fragrance, it seems to be the unique skill of your small shop. ”

The man arched his hand and smiled:

The guest officer smiled, he couldn't talk about it, but I used pine and cypress branches when I made this cinnamon stuffy kang, and the guest officer must have said that there was a trace of pine smoke. ”

Acropolis nodded, picked up the bowl of tea and sniffed it under his nose, and couldn't help but admire:

"I see, it's really a hint of pine smoke, the store is a good craft! The ingredients of a bowl of fried rice tea are so exquisite, I really admire it." I guess you are the villagers around here, I don't know how many feet there are in the village in front of you, but there are farmers who can stay overnight?"

The man picked his ears, seemed to be praised a little restrained, and pointed to the Qingshan Road in the distance:

"There are still five miles of land in the village ahead, and we will be there in half an hour. ”

Wei Chengxiang stretched out his hand and took a sip of the bowl of tea in front of him, chewed it a few times in his mouth and said with a smile:

"Very good, very good, Wangshan ran a dead horse, it seems that it is much closer than the old man thought. Shop,There's another thing I want to ask.,I don't know if it's abrupt.。 ”

The man waved his hand again and again, and said:

"The guest officer is serious, I can't talk about asking for advice, but if I know, I must know everything!"

The Acropolis Prime Minister turned sideways and pointed to the gray coarse cloth banner at the mouth of the tea shed and asked:

"The word 'tea' on this banner was embroidered by your wife?"

A trace of doubt flashed in the man's eyes, and he replied:

"It was embroidered by my mother, and I smiled. ”

The acropolis looked at the walnut in his palm and then asked:

Your mother's surname is Lu?

The man opened his mouth and squeezed a sentence out of his mouth:

"Does the guest officer know my mother?"

Acropolis shook his head, leaned back with a happy face, and replied:

"I don't know if I don't know, just guess. ”

Although the man was a little puzzled, it was inconvenient to ask, so he arched his hand and said:

"That guest officer is a clever man. A few of you drink first, and the little one goes to work on the stove. ”

With that, he nodded to the Acropolis Prime Minister and Zongde, and turned around to go to the stove with the tray in hand.

After the three of them drank the bowl of tea, the Acropolis Minister stretched out his hand to beckon the man to come and settle the bill, and the man stretched out his palm and flipped it over while walking at the stove, and the Acropolis Minister took out a small half of the silver from his arms and threw it into the tea money tube on the table.

The three of them packed up their bags, removed the benches, and got up and walked down the road. The man had already brought the black horse and waited on the road, Zongde took the reins handed by the man, and was about to close the ten to thank him, the man took out a small bamboo tube stuffed with a cloth plug and handed it to Zongdedao:

"This is for the little doll, sweet fried rice with sugar sand and made snacks for the little doll. ”

Zongde took the bamboo tube, turned sideways and called Chasing Zangdao:

"Chase the treasure, thank you uncle. ”

Chaizang glanced at the man, folded his hands and bowed:

"Thank you, Uncle. ”

Zongde also said in unison:

"If the giver gives as he wishes, he will be happy. ”

The man also bowed and saluted:

The little master was polite, and a few people walked slowly. ”

After thanking the man, the Acropolis picked up and chased after him, and the men went to the green hill to the west.

After the three of them left, the man returned to the stove and said to the woman who was bending down and pouring ashes into the stove:

"They are not bad people, don't worry, my mother has been in this village for more than ten years, and this is the first time someone has recognized it. ”

The woman looked into the stove, and saw that there was still a little red, so she poured two more ladles of ash into it. Only then did he get up and untie his bib, wipe his hands, and said in a voice like a trickle:

"Official, take down the banner later, go back and ask Aunt Li next door to embroider another one. ”

The man looked at the banner and nodded:

"Okay, put this stove away, let's go back, don't let my mother wait. ”

The woman let out a soft "um", and the two of them went about their jobs.