"It's dry, be careful of the candles". "The cold wave is coming, close the window and close the door" Knock! The sound of the fast and slow banging and the voice of the husband and the low voice of the husband sounded leisurely in Longquan Town!

A teenager was woken up by a little noisy sound, and after a few breaths, he was suddenly stunned, and then the boy's dim eyes gradually brightened. The boy lay in the dimly lit room, staring blankly above his head, wondering what he was thinking. When the young man was in a daze for about half a stick of incense, he suddenly heard a crisp and pleasant voice from the courtyard outside the house.

"Daddy, I'm done with my work, you said you'd buy me a bunch of sugar gourds when you come back from the stall, but don't lie to me!" a little girl about five or six years old, with pigtails and a small flower jacket, said coquettishly to her father, who was about to go out. This little girl kept grimacing her face with her little hands when she talked to her father, not to mention how cute it was!

Then the man's honest voice came from the courtyard. "My Hanhan is so well-behaved, don't say it's a string of sugar gourds, it's five strings, ten strings, and my father must buy it for Hanhan, then Hanhan must listen to his mother's words at home today and help his mother take care of that little brother, okay"!

"I listen to Daddy, then Daddy will come back early today!" replied the little girl with pigtails!

"Alas, Brother Yong'er, looking at the young man, although he was in rags, he had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and he looked like he was eleven or twelve years old, such a child was not a baby in the eyes of any mother, how could he be reduced to starvation and fainting on the street" A middle-aged woman with a slender figure and an ordinary face sighed, looking at this situation, this middle-aged woman was the wife of a middle-aged man named 'Brother Yong'er in the courtyard. Although it looks ordinary, there are also a number of good wives and good mothers in this Longquan Town! It may also be that the national strength of this Great Chu has become stronger and stronger, and the people's lives have become more comfortable, and their leisure time has increased. The wife of this 'Brother Yong'er' is a little difficult for him to understand, that is, she loves to sit at the door with the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the neighborhood in her spare time. A middle-aged man like 'Brother Yong'er' who is honest and goes out early and returns late to raise his wife and children, where can he experience such 'fun'!

"That's what I'm saying, since the king ascended the throne in our Great Chu, the almshouses of our Chu State have been distributed in any town, and there shouldn't be such children living on the streets, or even starving!" Brother Yong is also puzzled, there is a sentence that should be reconciled!

"Maybe it's the child of the people of the Zhongzhou Damang Heavenly Dynasty, listen to the people in the family outside the military in the west of our street, the Zhongzhou Damang Imperial Court, although it claims to be the Heavenly Empire, and there are many immortal spirits who can call the wind and rain and scatter beans into soldiers, but the life of the people over there is indeed not ordinary hardship, I heard that over there in Damang, some immortals can even kill people on the street without being held accountable, and the people's harsh government and miscellaneous taxes are even more varied, not to mention how bitter the people's lives are." Brother Yong'er's wife seems to have opened the chatterbox, and she is out of control!

"Well, daughter-in-law, you are still waiting to tell your close friends in a thousand words, I will still go to the street to set up a stall, and make a few more treasures for our daughter, so that I can buy sugar gourds!"

The daughter-in-law of 'Brother Yong'er' looked at the courtyard door that had not been closed, and then looked at the back of her man's blurred back, glanced at him, and said to herself. "This guy is like this, he never understands our woman's heart, and thinks we are chatty and trivial. Today's Da Chu, a man in the family can work enough to support the family, and even eat a meal of dumplings during the New Year's Festival, where do I need to wait for women to work, I don't go out of the door every day, and the woman who doesn't step out of the second door doesn't even have a person to talk to, but it's not upset."

"Mother, mother. Don't talk to yourself, the brother in the house is already awake," the pigtailed girl doll named Hanhan shouted loudly in the house!

On the fifth watch day in the Chu Kingdom in this winter, the sun has not yet risen, and the sky is still out of sight, the black is suffocating, and the cold makes people feel a little uncomfortable. But in the heart of the young man, he couldn't set off the slightest wave, as if this was not an eleven or twelve-year-old boy, but an old man who had experienced countless ups and downs and had seen through this world. But even so, the boy listened to the conversation in the yard and the faint smell of beans in the yard, and he was stunned for a long time, not knowing what this young man was hiding in his heart!

"Brother, my father is the only master in this Longquan Town, a master of making tofu, when Hanhan had a cold before, my father made me tofu fish soup, and my father said that the tofu he made, as long as it is eaten by a sick doll, it will be able to jump around the next day" The pigtailed female doll lay in front of the window, staring at her eyes that were not too big, but shining like the stars, carefully looking at the boy!

"Hanhan, don't speak, my brother has just woken up, his body is very weak, you are not allowed to disturb, otherwise if you talk to your brother, my brother will still faint" The middle-aged woman also walked in quickly, probably because she knew that her daughter might have inherited some of her talents in language, and hurriedly said to her own girl who was ready to talk with the young man at night!

"This young man, since you are awake, I will cook some gruel for you, you may not have eaten for many days, and caught up with yesterday's winter solstice, the weather was cold, you fainted on the side of the road, or my man fell in the market because of yesterday's stall, returned to the market to pick up things, only to find that you fell on the side of the road, and carried you back, otherwise this night of winter, you may have lost your life. Look at my mouth, you lie down and rest, I'll cook some gruel and come back immediately, Hanhan takes care of my brother for my mother, don't disturb my brother's rest"! After the middle-aged woman finished speaking, she hurriedly went to the kitchen, leaving the female doll with pigtails, and the teenager was in the house.

"Is your name Hanhan?" The young man probably couldn't stand the girl's staring at him tightly, but he looked like he wanted to say something, and finally opened his mouth to break the silence!

"................" The pigtailed girl is still silent!

"You said your father was a master of making tofu?" the young man continued to ask when he saw that the girl was still silent!

"................" The girl doll stared at the young man intently with her smart eyes, with a look on her face that wanted to talk eloquently, but she still kept silent!

"Why don't you speak?" the boy really couldn't stand the girl's gaze, and opened his mouth to ask!

After hearing the boy's words, the girl seemed to have made some decision, left the boy, turned around and rushed out of the house, and went straight to the mother who was cooking in the kitchen! The boy lying on the bed was a little stunned, and he couldn't imagine what this five or six-year-old, elf-like girl was thinking! The boy lifted his spirits a little and listened carefully to the movement in the kitchen!

At this moment, the voice of the girl sounded in the kitchen, if the boy was really an ordinary ordinary teenager, he would definitely not be able to hear this voice, obviously the girl deliberately lowered her voice. The girl asked, "Mother, you don't let me speak, saying that my brother is very weak, and if I talk to my brother, my brother may faint, is this true?" I see that my brother is indeed a little weak, why don't my mother go and find my father to come back, and ask my father to make tofu and fish soup for that brother, so that my brother can get better quickly!"

"No need, the little brother in the house ate the porridge cooked by his mother, which is better than the tofu and fish soup made by your father, just go back and look at that little brother, don't let him walk around on the ground, and his mother will be ready immediately!" The woman looked at her daughter who was so sensible, she couldn't hide a smile on her face anymore, and even her eyes were bent as she spoke!

"Okay, then I'll go to my aunt's house next door and borrow two eggs now. Last time Han Han was sick, my mother also told me to eat it, and you also said that eggs are the same as the elixir practiced by those spiritual warriors flying in the sky, which can cure all diseases! If the little brother eats it, he will definitely be fine tomorrow, and when the time comes, Han Han will ask his father to catch me the biggest cricket in our town and give it to my brother to play with!"

"Really, didn't Hanhan say that he wanted his father to catch the biggest cricket for himself? You gave it to that little brother, don't you regret it?" the middle-aged woman looked at her daughter and asked teasingly.

"I won't regret it. Mother, you see that little brother doesn't look much older than me, but he faints on the street with hunger, and his clothes are so thin. On weekdays, Hanhan doesn't concentrate on eating, and his father and mother are chasing Hanhan and letting Hanhan eat. So the little brother's parents may not love the little brother at all, the little brother must be very sad, so Han Han gave the biggest cricket to the little brother, the little brother must be very happy, he won't be sad" The pigtailed girl doll jumped up and down to borrow eggs from the aunt next door after speaking! The middle-aged woman also smiled gently, not saying anything. Keep busy in the kitchen!

The young man half leaned on the head of the bed and laughed, it turned out that the reason why the girl with pigtails did not speak to him was because she listened to her mother's words, for fear that she would faint again. She even asked her father to catch crickets for herself. The crickets in the hearts of this girl are no less than the beauty of the rivers and mountains in the hearts of men in the world, and the ageless appearance in the hearts of women in the world!

"Is this the world today? Is the world worth it? Is the world worth it?" The young man kept asking himself in his heart at this time! I really don't know how the so-called world today in his heart is different from the world he saw at the beginning. Regardless of whether the world is worth it or not. But the smile on the young man's face has already told the whole world that his heart is warm, and he is not afraid of the bitter cold!