Nanji Village, a village that has thrived for generations, is located in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of nowhere:

Over the years, the wind and rain have been smooth here, although the people live in poverty, but self-sufficiency is also considered to be worry-free, but in recent years, there have been droughts and disasters, and the old days are not to rain, so that the grain harvest has been poor year after year, and many people have fled from the famine and moved away.

It is said that Li Lao Er took the little beggar to Zhang's hometown, and met a few idle mountain village women along the way, and the village women saw Li Er holding a dirty child, and they couldn't help but cast a contemptuous gaze, and some of them said to Li Lao Er: "Yo drink, isn't this Li Lao Er, why didn't you pick up a son and come back for a day?"

Li Laoer's face was blue and red, and he lowered his head and scolded: "Get out of you stinky woman, I see that this child is really hungry and pitiful, take it to eat something......

Li Lao Er came to the door of Zhang's old house, it was still the middle-aged woman who opened the door, and saw Li Lao Er holding a seven or eight-year-old child in his arms, he couldn't help but be surprised, and was just about to open his mouth to ask, Li Lao Er glanced at her, the woman seemed to understand the meaning, and immediately closed her mouth and didn't ask, Li Lao Er walked directly to the courtyard.

The old man of the Zhang family heard the movement outside and stepped out of the house to greet him.

When Li Lao Er saw Zhang Lao, he immediately looked sincere, and said: "Uncle, this little baby hasn't eaten for a day, I saw that he brought it back pitifully, see if you can show kindness and get some food for this child." With that, he squeezed his eyes at Zhang Lao.

Zhang Lao nodded slightly, and said to the woman who opened the door: "Cuilan, go to the kitchen and make something to eat, I happened to have two drinks with Li Lao Er at noon today." Then Li Lao Er also took the little beggar into the room.

Look at the hour, it is almost noon, at this time the fragrance in the Zhang's house is fragrant, a table made eight dishes, meat and vegetables hot and cold with color and fragrance should be complete, Zhang Lao is really benevolent, confessed that Cuilan killed a chicken.

After the meal was on the table, Zhang Lao smiled: "Little doll, you're hungry, eat quickly, grandpa will ask you a few questions after eating." ”

The little beggar's stomach was already empty, his hungry eyes were shining green, he grabbed a chicken leg and stuffed it into his mouth, and the food was chirping, and it seemed that he wanted to chew the chicken bones together and swallow them.

Mr. Zhang and Mr. Li also picked up the chopsticks, and while chatting about some parents, they pushed the cup and changed the cup and drank.

After three rounds of drinking, the stewed chicken in front of him had already seen the bottom of the pot, and then the little beggar slowed down, Zhang Lao put down his chopsticks and asked softly: "Little doll, grandpa asks you a few questions you have to answer truthfully, what is your name, where are you from, and where is your father and mother at home?"

The little beggar raised his hand and rubbed the oil on the placket, patted his stomach and burped, looked up and said to Zhang Lao: "My father and mother died early, I don't know what my name is, since I can remember, I have followed a beggar grandfather to beg for a living, last year the beggar grandfather also died, I live by begging." ”

"Hey~ It turned out to be such a hard-working child......" Zhang Lao shook his head and sighed, and the cunning color in his eyes flashed.

When he looked up, Zhang Lao saw that the little beggar had a hemp rope hanging around his neck, which seemed to be wearing some kind of ornament.

"What do you have around your neck, can you show it to grandpa?"

The little beggar Mu Na nodded and said, "Before, the beggar grandfather said that this should have been left to me by my father and mother when he was alive, but he was illiterate and didn't know what was written on it."

After that, he reached out and took out a copper longevity lock from his chest, took off the hemp rope and handed it to Zhang Lao.

Zhang Lao held the lock in his hand to watch, this is just an ordinary small copper longevity lock, the front of the lock is carved with two words of cloud seal, a "Tang" on the left, a "wind" on the right, Tang Feng?

Zhang Lao returned the longevity lock to the little beggar and said, "Child, your real surname is Tang, and the name engraved on this lock should be the name given to you by your father, your name is Tang Feng." ”

The little beggar took the longevity lock back into his hand, and looked at the two words on the lock in his eyes, and a sour sour welling came to his heart unconsciously.

only sighs that creation makes people, although Tang Feng is still a child, but in the past few years of begging, he has encountered a lot of cold words and beatings by the villagers' bullies, and tasted the misery of the world.

Thinking of this, Tang Feng burst into tears.

When Zhang Lao saw the child crying, he unconsciously felt a sour feeling in his heart, and said: "In the year of disaster, many people who are suffering are displaced, and the emperor lives far away, regardless of the suffering of the people......

"Tang Feng, grandpa asked you, do you have any long-cherished wishes that you want to fulfill?"

Tang Feng wiped away the tears on his face, thoughtful in his heart, but shook his head again: "Grandpa, since I begged, the only thing I have thought about every day is to be able to eat enough and have a place to sleep." ”

Zhang Lao nodded and said, "Child, you will live here next, and you will be fed and warmed for three meals a day, what do you think?"

Tang Feng fell to his knees with a plop, kowtowed to Zhang Lao and said: "Thank you, grandpa, you are my own grandfather, as long as you can give me a stutter every day, let me be a cow and a horse, I can be a coolie to cultivate the field." "After all these years of begging, Tang Feng's mouth has long been as sweet as honey.

Zhang Lao smiled and said: "Good boy, get up quickly, you don't have to be a cow or a horse, it's just that in two days grandpa will ask you for a favor, you don't have to ask what to do, you will know when the time comes." ”

Cuilan, take Tang Feng down to change into a new set of clothes, and let him live in the West Wing, so that he can be entertained.

After Tang Feng went down, Li Lao Er smiled at Zhang Lao and said, "How about uncle, this matter is done, right?"

Old Zhang's face sank, and he said, "You will save money when you arrive, I asked you to buy a child, and you actually caught a beggar for me from the road." ”

Li Lao Er smiled with a smile on his face and said, "Uncle, don't you know these days, now you can't buy a child in the town without five taels of silver, besides, isn't this beggar also useful......

As the night passed, the sky was like a veil, the cold stars reflected a crescent moon, and after a few barking dogs, the village fell silent.

Just when everyone was sleeping, a black shadow slipped out of the wing room of the Zhang family's compound, and the black shadow jumped up the courtyard wall in the south and jumped out of the courtyard, and under the silver moonlight, the little beggar patted the dust on his buttocks: "Hmph, the beggar grandfather has told me hundreds of times, there will be no good thing in the sky to drop pies, and during the day, he squeezed his eyebrows and thought that the young man was blind, and wanted to stabilize me, who the hell knows what you are going to do to me, poisoning a dog should be a lesson for you. ”

With that, he ran south along the dirt road next to the village, and disappeared into the night......