Chapter 3 The Little Old Man (Kindness from Book Friends)
"I only love Yangzhou in life, the spring of the weeping poplars on the shore, the self-picking garden flowers are dressed up, and the green and red skirts by the pool. This poem is written about the spring of Yangzhou City, and there is a poem by Wang Xin, a Confucian master: "The weeping poplar continues to pick up the remnants, and the wild goose tooth Hongqiao is like a drawing, and it is also a pot of gold, so it should be called the Slender West Lake." "The name of Slender West Lake is born. In Shugang Mountain, which is not far from the West Lake, there are many temples on the mountain, and it is called "the first spiritual mountain in the south of the Yangtze River". This time, we will first go to this famous Slender West Lake. Qin Shuzhen introduced Jiang Lili to the famous scenic spots and gardens in Yangzhou City, although she noticed Jiang Lili's impatient appearance, she still enjoyed it.
Jiang Lili only listened to two or three sentences, and didn't care about what Qin Shuzhen was talking about, but focused his attention on the pedestrians on both sides of the street, and looked in front of a literati with a folding fan writing poems on the street, which caused the loud applause of others, Jiang Lili leaned over and looked at it twice, and found that he couldn't recognize the words, and then spit on the ground and ran back. In the blink of an eye, I saw the candy man on the street shop, and after looking at it twice, he didn't say that he wanted to buy it, but said that why don't you even wear clothes?
Qin Shuzhen ran around from Jiang Lili, and she didn't say a word, but the maid frowned a little, "Madam, is he just going to make trouble everywhere?"
Qin Shuzhen smiled and said: "It's okay for children to jump out of their temperament, you look at Cheng An's children who are about the same age, isn't that a serious and lifeless appearance?
The maid didn't say a word, that is, this young man didn't jump out, but he was annoying!
At this time, Jiang Lili was holding a chicken leg in his hand and gnawed on his mouth full of oil, Qin Shuzhen saw it and asked, "Lili, where did you get this chicken leg?"
Jiang Lili didn't answer, and ran away to other places with chicken legs.
The maid interjected, "Maybe you took it from that stall." At last he asked, "Madam, I'll go and see where there is such a stall, and pay him the money!"
Qin Shuzhen sighed and stood in place waiting for the two of them, but there were so many people on the street that they were gone. I wasn't worried about the maid, I was just thinking about where Jiang Lili had gone.
At this time, Jiang Lili saw an old beggar squatting in front of a shop on the side of the road, if Jiang Lili usually doesn't pay attention to beggars, it's really that this beggar is a little conspicuous, and he actually has a bald head. The skull is also dirty, and there are a few small black dots on it, which makes people wonder what this black dot is.
Jiang Lili bit the chicken leg and stood in front of the beggar and stared at his head.
The beggar originally slept with his eyes closed, but he was really uncomfortable, opened his eyes and looked at Jiang Lili and said, "Adults give me some food?"
Jiang Lili sneered, didn't speak, just looked at the beggar.
The beggar laughed and said, "If you have no good heart, why do you want to embarrass me, a beggar?"
Jiang Lili pursed her lips, but still didn't speak.
After half a ring, the beggar couldn't bear it anymore, and threw the broken bowl in his hand to the ground, "Look at you!
Jiang Lili sneered: "Lao Tzu can still make you lose a piece of meat by looking at you twice? Besides, if I look at you, you won't look at me?"
The two stared at each other, but the beggar always felt a chill on the top of his bare head, and after half a sound, he begged, "Uncle, don't look at me?" As soon as the words fell, the beggar's stomach gurgled.
Jiang Lili raised her eyebrows, "Hungry?"
The beggar nodded hurriedly.
Jiang Lili finished chewing the chicken leg in his hand three times and two times, and licked the chicken bone again before throwing the bone in his hand into a broken bowl that had not been broken, and clapped his hands.
The beggar looked at the chicken bones in his bowl and his face was cloudy, and finally snorted, picked up the chicken bones and threw them aside, took the bowl, and left in a dashing manner after throwing off the sentence that the boy would not die well.
Jiang Lili snorted, "I don't know if I'm going to die or not, but if I want to die, I want to die behind your mother, I can't let her be alone in the world and still worry about her wife!"
The beggar staggered, turned his head and scolded, "You wait for me!"
Jiang Lili spat out another mouthful of phlegm, ignored him, turned his head and saw an old and a young staring at him, frowning, "Look at you?
After speaking, Jiang Lili squeezed into the crowd, and the figure disappeared.
Not long after, the beggar sneaked over again, looked left and right, and finally found the piece of chicken bone he had just dropped, and quickly picked it up and sniffed it, his face was full of intoxication, and when he put it into his broken bowl and was about to leave, he turned his head and saw an old man and a young staring at him. At first, I was a little ashamed and felt that I had lost face, but then I thought about it, anyway, I was a flower child, and wouldn't it be a matter of course to pick up a bone and gnaw it?
This old man is a little confused, Lao Tzu looked at the signboard behind you to find who to provoke?
At this moment, Jiang Lili walked to Qin Shuzhen's side with a string of sugar gourds in her hand, "Why are you still here?"
Qin Shuzhen smiled and said, "Isn't this waiting for you?"
The maid asked helplessly, "Where did you get this sugar gourd?"
Jiang Lili rolled her eyes, "It's your business!"
The maid was short of breath for a while, and finally looked helplessly at the dense vendors selling sugar gourds on the street, her face was slightly bitter, and finally she sighed and got into the crowd.
Jiang Lili squinted her eyes and watched the maid talk to the vendor selling sugar gourds around, and suddenly felt a little funny, at this time Qin Shuzhen's tone was a little cold, "Lili, you have to know how to pay for other people's things in the future, it's not good to take other people's things for nothing." “
Jiang Lili sneered, "My mother told me about this when I was three years old. Ignoring Qin Shuzhen's face, Jiang Lili took out a bag of broken silver from his arms and shook it, "I have money, I won it when I played cards with those old fritters on the boat!"
Qin Shuzhen was dumbfounded, she didn't see the shadow of the maid when she looked up, but finally smiled, stretched out her finger and pressed Jiang Lili's head, "You, don't make it clear, the harmful green ants are so busy!"
Jiang Lili snorted, "It's too much." ”
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Just walked around the Slender West Lake, and after seeing Jiang Lili without any interest at all, Qin Shuzhen didn't stay on the West Lake for a long time, so she took Jiang Lili to a courtyard in Yangzhou.
Sitting on the Spring Flower Pavilion in the courtyard and eating some pastries, Qin Shuzhen poured two cups of tea and asked softly, "Lili, do you eat tea?"
Jiang Lili pursed her lips and did not speak.
At this moment, the green ants standing outside the pavilion suddenly looked at the puddle of water on the flowers and wondered, "Where did this water come from? Is it raining?"
Jiang Lili sneered.
Qin Shuzhen was stunned, smiled dumbly, complained about you, and when she stretched out her finger and was about to point a little on Jiang Lili's forehead, Jiang Lili tilted her head back.
The smile on Qin Shuzhen's face finally dissipated.
Sighing, Qin Shuzhen asked, "Aren't you going back to Cheng'an with me?"
Jiang Lili shook his head, "Don't go." ”
Qin Shuzhen frowned and said, "You are alone here without relatives and no reason, you can't say that you have to suffer any crimes, why do you want to stay here?"
Jiang Lili replied, "I have to go to my sister." ”
"Your sister?" Qin Shuzhen asked, "Do you know where your sister is?"
Jiang Lili's eyes were a little dim, "I don't know." ”
Qin Shuzhen smiled and asked rhetorically: "Anyway, you don't know where your sister is, why don't you go to Cheng'an with me?"
Jiang Lili licked her lips, suddenly took two steps back, and sneered, "Why are you helping me?"
Qin Shuzhen was dumbfounded.
Jiang Lili turned around and left, not forgetting to take his shabby bag from the green ant.
Qin Shuzhen was a little at a loss, opened her mouth and suddenly sighed, her lips trembled slightly, and in the end, she was as weak as if she had lost her soul.
The green ant hurriedly said, "Madam, it's okay to let him go! Look at his sour appearance! Madame treats him so well that he doesn't appreciate it at all!"
After half a ring, Qin Shuzhen replied, "You don't know." Suddenly, he said, "Didn't you notice the three blood lines on his left wrist?"
The green ant didn't care, but suddenly he was stunned, "Madam, you mean that it could be a little boy?"
Qin Shuzhen said again: "The more I see his cold and bitter appearance, and the more I see others who are kind to him and full of vigilance, I can't help but think, what kind of place has he lived in all these years?"
The green ant looked anxious, "Madam, if that person is really a little boy, do you want me to go? ”
Before she finished speaking, Qin Shuzhen waved her hand, "Go back to Cheng'an!
The green ant nodded, and hurriedly ran to arrange the relevant matters, leaving Qin Shuzhen alone to stand on this Spring Flower Pavilion.
The sky is dark, the surrounding streets are lit up, and the night of singing and dancing in Yangzhou is coming. But Qin Shuzhen stood on top of the Spring Flower Pavilion, feeling a little anxious, and wanted to smash this somewhat dim sky with one palm!
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Jiang Lili, who grew up in Zhangjiazhai, has never believed that there are people in this world who help you for no reason, except for Widow Jiang, even if it is Peng Laojiu, it is difficult for him to completely believe him.
Moreover, he and Peng Laojiu have been friends for so many years, and they can be regarded as having a similar smell, and there is a reason for helping him. But this woman herself did not know her, why did she take so much trouble to help herself?
Jiang Lili couldn't believe her.
After leaving the woman, Jiang Lili came to a small noodle restaurant, ordered a bowl of noodles, and sat down.
At this time, a pair of old and young came beside him, the old man had a goatee, and the younger one was a girl with a two-horned goat whip, with sparse freckles on both sides of the bridge of her nose, and her eyes were very bright.
Isn't this the old man who looked at him just now?
Jiang Lili snorted, "You dead old man, why did you come here? Am I your father?"
The old man was not annoyed, but the girl was very angry, "Do you know how to speak, why are all stinky farts coming out of your mouth?"
Jiang Lili glanced at the girl, "You're embarrassed to talk to me, you have no ass and no breasts?"
"You!" the girl was angry, snorted and looked up at the old man, meaning that I can't scold him, you avenge me!
The old man looked like he was smiling, "You kid has a very damaged mouth!
Jiang Lili frowned, "What's your business?"
The old man is still laughing, your name is Jiang Lili, don't worry, I'm not following you, it's just that I heard some of your voices on the Jixian Pavilion just now. Jiang is the river of the big river, which Li is it? Leave? Tanuki ?
Jiang Lili didn't speak, but the old man suddenly realized, "That's the dripping Li! The three words are watery, and the Li is shallow, no wonder the nature is like this, no wonder!"
Jiang Lili narrowed her eyes slightly, a little vicious.
The old man still laughed, "Don't be angry, I'm just trying to solve a word, it's not a big deal." ”
Jiang Lili sneered: "Then what's your name? I'll give you one too?"
The old man replied: "Zhang Jiuling, the bow is long Zhang, the tooth Lingling, the ninth in the world." ”
Jiang Lili sneered: "Your name is very difficult to understand, it sounds like my son!"
The girl was a little annoyed again, gritted her teeth and widened her eyes, but Zhang Jiuling was still tepid, "Actually, I have something to do with you." ”
Jiang Lili laughed, "Aren't you old man very capable, why are you still looking for me to have something?"
Zhang Jiuling said: "People are not perfect, naturally there are some things that cannot be done, just like me, I am born to be incomparable to your yin strength." Eh, don't get angry, talk well. This matter is actually not that difficult, it's very simple, I'll teach you two knife tricks, can you help me kill someone? Don't be in a hurry to refuse, in fact, killing someone is not a big deal for a person of your temperament, and besides, I don't have to say that someone asked you to kill now, just owe it first, when did you provoke me, an old man, but when I have no choice, you can help me succeed?"
Jiang Lili didn't speak, squinting at the old man's color.
"There's no need to be anxious to answer at this time, isn't this the noodles coming? Eat the noodles first and then speak?"
Before the steaming Yangzhou noodles were served, Zhang Jiuling took a sharp breath of the aroma, laughed twice, picked up the chopsticks and couldn't wait to feast, saying something vaguely in his mouth, and he couldn't hear a word clearly anyway.
Jiang Lili was a little absent-minded, holding chopsticks in her hand, she felt a little unappetizing, and finally called for a bowl of cold water before barely eating half a bowl.
Zhang Jiuling picked up the cuffs and wiped his mouth casually, looked at Jiang Lili's bowl and had more than half of the noodles in it, and said with a smile: "It's not okay for the young boy to have a bad appetite, look at my granddaughter, if it weren't for you present, maybe she would have eaten another bowl!"
When the girl heard this, she raised her head from the bowl and glared at Zhang Jiuling, who hurriedly didn't dare to laugh anymore, and was silent.
Jiang Lili's lips opened slightly, but before the words came out of her throat, Zhang Jiuling waved his hand, "I said don't worry, think clearly." Anyway, now you're alone, right, do you want to come with me to see the night view of this Slender West Lake? There was no such prosperous scene in the Ten Kingdoms!"
After answering, he walked towards Slender West Lake.
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