02

Wang Dong may have been awake for a long time, but he still lay on the ground, not moving.

He first rolled a bed of torn quilts into a cylinder, and then put it little by little, and stretched the whole person into this cylinder, which was airtight on all sides.

The rats were running around him, and at first they were too afraid to crawl on him, but they gradually looked at him as a dead man, and almost climbed on his head.

Wang moved or did not move.

Lin Taiping had been paying attention to him for a long time, but then he couldn't help it, so he quietly walked over, stretched out his hand, and reached out to his nose, trying to test whether he was still breathing.

Wang Dong said suddenly: "I'm not dead yet. ”

Lin Taiping was startled, quickly retracted his hand, and said, "The rat is crawling on you, you don't care?"

"I've never dealt with mice, and I don't have the same knowledge as them—only cats fight mice. ”

Lin Taiping was stunned and said, "There should indeed be a cat here." ”

Wang Dong said: "There was originally a cat here, which Yan Qi brought back. ”

Lin Taiping said: "What about the cat?"

Wang Dong said: "I eloped with the male cat under the mountain." ”

Lin Taiping's eyes widened, and he looked at him for a long time.

The snow has stopped, and the stars and moon have risen.

The moonlight shone in through the window and shone on his face. His face was extremely well-defined, his forehead was broad, and his nose was high and straight, and he was not a very handsome man, but at least he had a lot of character.

"This man doesn't look like a madman or an idiot, so why is he a little crazy?"

Lin Taiping sighed, glanced around, and said, "What about your two friends?"

He really wanted to talk to someone who wasn't crazy.

Wang said, "I went down the mountain to hunt." ”

Lin Taiping said: "Hunting?

Wang Dong said: "Yes. ”

Lin Taiping was speechless, and he suddenly discovered a theorem:

A friend of a madman must also be a madman.

After a while, there was a "grunt" sound in the darkness, followed by a "grunt".

Wang Dong muttered, "Strange! Why is it that even the sound of the rat is different from usual today?"

Lin Taiping blushed, and said, "It's not a mouse, it's ...... It's ......"

Wang Dong said: "What is it?"

Lin Taiping couldn't help but say loudly: "It's my stomach that is screaming, don't you never eat?"

Wang Dong smiled and said, "Of course you have to eat when you have food, and when you don't have anything to eat, you have to listen to your stomach." ”

Lin Taiping was stunned again, he really didn't understand, how could he be so happy if he didn't even have food to eat?

Wang suddenly said again: "You are lucky today. ”

Lin Taiping smiled bitterly: "I'm lucky?"

Wang Dong said: "Today I have a hunch that the harvest of their hunting must be good, and the things they bring back may make you feast......

He wanted to say "feast", but before he finished speaking, he himself was "taken aback".

Guo Dalu had already returned, walked in the door, and sure enough, he came back with something, which was something that could run, jump, climb trees, and "squeak".

It's a monkey.

If Wang Dong also had a time when his face turned pale, then it was now.

Seeing Wang Dong's expression, Guo Dalu almost broke his intestines with laughter, gasped and smiled: "You don't need to be afraid, this is a male monkey, not a female." ”

A delicate voice sounded behind him, "Your friend is afraid of female monkeys?"

Guo Dalu laughed even harder and said, "It's really a little afraid, how many people are not afraid of their wives in this world?"

Wang Dong grimaced and said, "It's funny, it's funny, it's so funny, how can there be such a funny person in the world, it's really a strange thing." ”

Lin Taiping didn't know what was so funny, and he didn't want to know.

He only felt that his eyes lit up, and thousands of lights seemed to suddenly burn in the dark room.

All the light comes from one person. This man was wearing a coarse cloth dress and carrying two baskets in his hand, and he had already walked in with Guo Dalu.

She was followed by three people: an adult and two children. The children were all neatly dressed, but the adults were wearing only leopard skins.

These people have been looking at them for a long time, but not all. In addition to them, there were two dogs, a large bundle of knives and guns, three or four gongs, and five or six bamboo poles.

Wang Dong muttered: "I know that he has always wanted to compare with Yan Qi to see who has the greatest ability and who brings back more things, but at least he should save some face, so he doesn't need to lose so badly." ”

Yan Qi leaned against the door and said with a smile: "Although I lost badly, I lost very convincingly, I went out twenty times, and I didn't bring back as much as he once did." ”

Guo Dalu said with a smile: "Although the mouths of my friends are bad, people are not too bad. Come, I'll introduce you first, this girl is ......"

The girl laughed, "Let me say it myself." My name is Sour Plum Soup, this is my cousin 'Flying Leopard', and my two little cousins, one is called 'Little Linglong' and the other is called 'Little King Kong'. ”

Who is the "flying leopard"? In fact, there is no need to introduce it at all, and others will understand it at a glance.

But the two children looked almost identical, both with big eyes, braided hair, and dimples when they laughed.

And their dimples are not one on the left and one on the right.

Both have dimples on the right.

Wang Dong couldn't help but ask, "Who is Xiao Linglong? Who is Little King Kong?"

The two children said in unison, "Guess what." ”

Wang Dong blinked and said, "Next to Xiao King Kong is Xiao Linglong, and next to Xiao Linglong is Xiao King Kong, right?"

The two children laughed together, and one of them suddenly ran over, leaned over to Wang Dong's ear, whispered a few words, and said with a smile: "This is our secret, you can't tell anyone else." ”

The child's laughter was like a silver bell, and it turned out to be a girl.

Guo Dalu took the other child's hand and said, "Xiao Linglong is your sister, right?"

The boy shook his head and said, "No, she's my sister." ”

Before she finished speaking, Xiao Linglong had already screamed and said, "Stupid! I have long known that boys are stupid, and they will be deceived as soon as they are deceived." ”

Xiao King Kong blushed and protested: "You're not stupid, you're smart, why are you dressed like a boy?"

This child's words are really to the point - women look down on men, think men are stupid, but they want to be a man, this is the biggest problem of women.

Lin Taiping had been watching the sour plum soup, and suddenly said at this moment: "Of course these are not your real names. ”

Sour Plum Tang sighed and said quietly: "Those of us who go to the rivers and lakes to sell their arts, even the ancestors have lost everything, where is the real name?"

Lin Taiping also sighed and said, "What's so bad about going to the rivers and lakes to perform arts? Some people can't go to the rivers and lakes if they want to. ”

Sour Plum Tang glanced at him again and said, "It seems that you seem to have a lot on your mind......"

Guo Dalu suddenly interrupted her words and said, "This person was originally like a girl. ”

Lin Taiping glared at him, and his face had changed a little.

The sour plum soup hurriedly laughed and said: "Is it true that only girls can have a heart? In this way, aren't all men really all fools who have no heart and no lungs?"

Lin Taiping looked at her, his eyes full of gratitude.

Guo Dalu shrugged his shoulders and said, "Even if all men have no heart and lungs, at least they have stomachs." ”

The sour plum soup was eaten and smiled: "You don't say that I almost forgot ......"

She put down the basket, lifted the paper covering it, tore off a chicken leg herself, and said with a smile: "Actually, women's stomachs are not much smaller than men's, but sometimes they are embarrassed to eat too much." ”

Little King Kong said: "But why have you never felt embarrassed?"

The sour plum soup hit him on the head with a chicken leg, and the little King Kong grabbed half a chicken and ran away, the monkey kept jumping on the ground, and the two dogs barked.

The king shook his head and muttered, "This place hasn't been so lively for more than ten years. ”

Guo Dalu said: "Don't worry, there are still a few days of excitement here." ”

Wang Dong said: "How many days?"

Guo Dalu looked at the slender back of the sour plum soup and said, "Many days...... I heard that they were looking for a house to live in, so I rented them the row of five rooms in the back. ”

Wang Dong almost choked on the sip of wine he had just drunk and said, "How much is the rent?"

Guo Dalu glared and said, "What kind of person do you think I am? Will you ask people for rent? If it weren't for me, you wouldn't even be able to invite such a guest." ”

Wang Dong looked at him for a long time before he let out a long sigh and said with a wry smile: "There is something I don't understand anymore. ”

Guo Dalu said: "What's the matter?"

Wang said, "Is this house yours or mine?"

If there is anything in the world that can make a dirty, lazy man industrious, it is a woman.

Early the next morning, Wang Dong was still lying in the "tube", Guo Dalu had already gone to fetch water, but Lin Taiping was looking for it in the house.

Wang Dong couldn't help but say, "What are you looking for?"

Lin Taiping said: "Washbasin, washcloth, and mouthwash cup." ”

Wang Dong smiled and said, "Not only have I not seen these things for a long time, but I haven't even heard of them. ”

Lin Taiping seemed to have been whipped suddenly, opened his mouth wide, and said, "You...... Don't you even wash your face?"

Wang said: "Of course, it is just a small wash every three days, and a big wash every five days." ”

Lin Taiping said: "How do you wash the small wash? How do you wash the big wash?"

Wang Dong said: "Yan Qi, you wash it and show him." ”

Yan Qi stretched and said, "I just washed it yesterday, and it's your turn today." ”

Wang Dong sighed and said, "Then you should at least bring the guy who washed his face." ”

Guo Dalu happened to bring two buckets of water in, and Yan Qi scooped up most of the bowl of water with the broken bowl, and then took down a piece of yellow and black cloth from the wall, which I didn't know what color it was.

Wang Dong reluctantly sat up, drank the water first, put it in his mouth, spread the towel with his hand, rinsed his mouth vigorously, and then sprayed a mouthful of water on the cloth in his hand, wiped it on his face casually, and said with a sigh of relief: "Okay, it's done." ”

Lin Taiping was as if he had seen a ghost, his face turned blue with fright, and he said, "This ...... Is this a small wash?"

Wang said: "It's not a small wash, it's a big wash." If Xiaoxi is so troublesome, then why should it be?"

Lin Taiping even had a little blue lips, and it looked as if he was about to faint immediately, and after a long, long time, he let out a long breath and said, "If anyone can find someone dirtier than you, I would like to kowtow to him." ”

Wang Dong smiled and said: "You can knock now, there are dirtier people than us all over the street." ”

Lin Taiping shook his head desperately and said, "I don't believe it." ”

Wang Dong said lightly: "Although our people are dirty, their hearts are not dirty, not only are they not dirty, but they are also very clean. If a person's heart is dirty, even if he boils it with soap ten times a day, it is not clean. ”

Lin Taiping tilted his head, thought for a long time, and suddenly slapped his face and said, "It makes sense, it makes sense." If a person lives happily and has a clear conscience, it doesn't matter if he eats or not, and it doesn't matter if he washes his face or not. ”

He laughed three times on his back, ran to the yard, rolled on the ground, and laughed: "I figured it out, I figured it out...... Why couldn't I figure it out before?"

Wang Dong and Yan Qi looked at him with a smile, as if they were also happy for him, because they had also seen that he did have a very heavy heart.

He didn't know if he was doing the right thing, but now he knows that he didn't do it wrong.

To live, a person must live with a clear conscience, and this is the most important thing.

But Guo Dalu was washing his face, and he muttered: "It doesn't matter if you don't wash your face, it doesn't matter if you wash your face, right?"

He washed his face, wiped his clothes with a cloth, and wiped his boots.

Yan Qi looked at him coldly and said, "Why don't you simply take off your shoes and wash your feet?"

Guo Dalu smiled: "That's what I mean, but it's a pity that it's too late." ”

He suddenly rushed out the door and said, "They must have woken up too, I'll take a look at the back." ”

Lin Taiping said: "I'll go too." ”

The two rushed out at the same time, as if they were rushing to put out the fire.

Wang Dong glanced at Yan Qi and said with a smile: "My Fair Lady, the gentleman is good, why don't you go?"

Yan Qi calmed his face and said lightly: "I'm not a gentleman. ”

Wang Dong said: "You don't seem to like that sour plum soup girl at all." ”

Yan Qi was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked, "What do you think they do?"

Wang rolled his eyes and asked, "Aren't they going to the rivers and lakes to perform their arts?"

Yan Qidao: "If you really treat them as a performer, you are also a fool." ”

Wang said, "Why?"

Yan Qi said: "Can't you see that the monkey and the dog didn't listen to them at all, obviously they came here to pretend to be temporary." And the flying leopard, deliberately dressed in strange clothes, but in fact he is a very well-behaved person, he doesn't even dare to say much, and his hands are even more white and thin, where does he look like a person who carries a box and leads a dog all day long?"

Wang Dong listened quietly, finally nodded, and said, "I didn't expect you to be so careful." But if they weren't doing it, what would they do?"

Yan Qidao: "Who knows, maybe it's a robber." ”

Wang Dong smiled and said, "If they were really robbers, they wouldn't have come, so what is there in this place for them to make up their minds?"

Before Yan Qi could speak, he heard an exclamation from behind.

It was Guo Dalu's voice.

People like Guo Dalu wouldn't scream in surprise even if they saw a ghost.

There are few things in the world that can make him cry out.

Yan Qi was the first to rush out.

Wang Dong also moved.

The yard at the back is smaller than the front, and the yard is planted with bamboo. In the past, whenever the wind and moon were white, the owner would lie here and listen to the sound of bamboo waves like waves.

Therefore, it is also called "Tingzhu Courtyard" like many other courtyards planted with bamboo, and the row of five rooms is called "Tingzhuxuan".

But when Wang Dong became the master, he changed the name for it, called "Youzhu Wumeatxuan", because he felt that although the name "Tingzhu" was originally very elegant, it has now become very vulgar.

He thinks that although the first person to use "Tingzhu" as a Xuan name is a very elegant and intelligent person, the eighty person who uses "Tingzhu" as a Xuan name is a vulgar idiot.

Now not only is there "no meat" in this courtyard, but even the bamboo has almost been cut down.

Bamboo can be used as a bamboo pole for drying clothes, and it can also be used to build a pergola, so Wang Dong often uses bamboo to exchange for meat. When a person is very hungry, he often forgets what is going on with elegance.

Sour plum soup and flying leopards They lived here last night, but now even people, dogs and monkeys have all walked cleanly, leaving only Guo Dalu and Lin Taiping standing there stunned.

There were also a few boxes at their feet, brand new ones.

Wang Dong said, "Are your guests no longer saying goodbye?"

Guo Dalu nodded.

Yan Qi said coldly: "Just go, just go, there's no need to shout and make a fuss." ”

Guo Dalu didn't speak, but handed over a note in his hand.

A few words were written on the note with charcoal: "Five boxes, talk about the rent, please accept it, there will be a period later." ”

Yan Qi said: "The house has to pay rent, which is nothing unusual. ”

Guo Dalu sighed and said, "Although it is not unusual, it is just that it is too much." ”

Wang said, "What's in the box?"

Guo Dalu said: "There is nothing else, just a few boxes of copper smell." ”

If money stenges copper, then these five boxes of stuff are enough to stink all 38,000 people to death.

Four of them had nothing else in the boxes, only ingots. Large and small, all kinds of ingots, the smallest one has ten taels, even if it stinks and does not die, it is crushed to death.

There was also a box full of jewels, all kinds of jewels, pearls, jade, agate, and some gems that could not even be named.

No matter which box you have, you can buy all of them.

Wang Dong and Yan Qi were also stunned.

After a long time, Yan Qi exhaled and said, "When they came last night, they didn't bring these five boxes. ”

Guo Dalu said: "No." ”

Lin Taiping said: "Then where did the box come from?"

Yan Qi sneered: "It's either robbed or stolen." ”

Guo Dalu said: "The stamps on the back of these ingots are different. ”

Yan Qi said: "Of course it's different, no one will have so many ingots in their home, they must have stolen them from many different people." ”

Wang Dong sighed: "Being able to steal so many people in one night is really not a small skill. ”

Yan Qi said: "This is not unusual, a clever thief can go to thousands of homes in a day and steal hundreds of households at night." ”

Guo Dalu said: "The things they worked so hard to steal were given to us, and such thieves are rare in the world." ”

Yan Qi said: "Maybe they want to plant it." ”

Guo Dalu said: "Why do you want to plant it? We have no enmity with her." ”

Yan Qi said leisurely: "Do you think that she really fell in love with you and specially sent these five boxes as a dowry?"

Lin Taiping said: "Don't care about him, the question is what should we do with these five boxes now?"

Guo Dalu said: "What should I do? Since they have sent it, of course we will accept it." ”

Yan Qi sighed: "This person has the greatest ability, no matter how complicated the matter is, as soon as he says it, it will immediately become simple." ”

Guo Dalu said: "This matter is very simple. ”

Wang Dong said: "It's not simple. ”

Guo Dalu said: "What's not simple?"

Wang Dong said: "They will never give us so much treasure for no reason, there must be another purpose. ”

Yan Qidao: "What's more, since these things are stolen, if we accept them, won't we also become thieves?"

Wang Dong said: "Anything can be done, only a thief can never do it." As long as you become a thief once and taste the sweetness, you don't want to do anything else in the future, and you have to be a thief for the rest of your life. ”

Yan Qidao: "And the son born in the future is also a thief, the old thief gives birth to a big thief, and the big thief gives birth to a small thief." ”

Guo Dalu said with a smile: "You don't need to stink me, although I have also been a thief once, but not only did I not taste the sweetness, but I also lost the last sword." ”

Wang Dong said: "Being a thief also has knowledge, and not everyone can do it. ”

Lin Taiping said: "I think it's better for us to take these things and return them to others." ”

Guo Dalu said: "Who will give it back? Who knows who stole these things from?"

Yan Qi said: "If you don't know, you can ask." ”

Guo Dalu said: "Where to inquire?"

Yan Qi said: "Under the mountain." Since they had all stolen them overnight last night, they must have stolen them from the bottom of the mountain. ”

Guo Dalu looked at the whole box of ingots and sighed: "You are right, this place is indeed not a poor place...... Wherever there is so much gold, it is not a poor place. ”

He suddenly smiled again and said, "So this Rich Villa is really a veritable Rich Villa at least today. ”

Although the time when Nirvana lived up to its name was not long, they were still happy.

Because they made the smartest choice.

They gave up their wealth, but they left behind their conscience.

This may be the time when wealth is closest to them, but they do not covet it, nor do they want to grab it by greed, vileness, and fraud, so they are always happy, like flowers and plants bathed in the spring sun.

They know that happiness is far more lovely than wealth.