Traversing the courtyard

Chapter 5 Chased by the Yellow Dog
Yi Wei said with a smile on his face, "I didn't weigh it, I weighed it by myself."

The man glanced at Yi Wei, then opened the paper bag, and the guy behind him followed, squatting aside and watching.

The man checked and found nothing mixed in the middle, so he wrapped it up quickly, looking around and no one looked this way.

Smiled with satisfaction:
"You are better than ordinary polished rice, you can change this knife."

After speaking, he handed the rice paper package to the young man beside him, motioning for it to be put away.

Yi Wei picked up the single knife, took a piece of kraft paper from the corner, wrapped the blade, and put it in his arms.

The man asked, "Do you have any more rice? I can collect it at [-] cents a catty."

"I still have rice, I don't have any kraft paper for packaging." Yi Wei said.

The man picked up a few pieces of kraft paper from the corner, handed it to Yi Wei and said:
"I'll see you off, I'll send you some rice later, I want as much as I want."

Turning to the young man, he said, "Huzi, teach him how to pack, he's so ugly."

Huzi sat down on the small bench behind the booth again, took a piece of kraft paper, and said:
"Look at how I packed it, it's actually very simple."

Huzi demonstrated it twice. Yi Wei took a new piece of paper and followed suit. It was successful once, but it was a little ugly.

Huzi said: "It's very simple, just do it a few times."

"Thank you Huzi brother." Yi Wei said.

There is no way, after all, he is only 14 years old now, and Huzi is much bigger than Maodan.

Yi Wei said in a low voice: "Brother Huzi, I'll come as soon as I go, and I still have five catties of rice."

Hu Zi pulled Yi Wei's sleeve and said: "This place is too conspicuous. My house is the third one in this alley. If you go there in the afternoon, I will be at home."

After Huzi finished speaking, he pointed to an alley not far away.

At this time, Yi Wei also felt that his work was not concealed enough, so he secretly reminded himself.

Yi Wei nodded and said, "Thank you Brother Huzi."

Yi Wei found half of the blue bricks and brought them over, sat beside Huzi, chatted, and inquired about the situation without any trace.

I know that the blacksmiths are father and son, surnamed Liu.

It was almost noon when Yi Wei left the booth and walked towards a dilapidated house behind the commune.

Mao Dan had set foot in the yard when he was begging for food, and there were more than ten places where Mao Dan could settle like this.

This place used to be the Earth Temple. Yi Wei came over and saw that two of the three rooms had collapsed. He cleared a corner and took out two steamed buns and half a plate of pig ears from the space. The pig ears were only half eaten. Not willing to eat all of them.

Finally, I drank a bowl of porridge.

Standing up, seeing that no one was coming, I re-packed ten catties of rice, and weighed that it was enough for one catty.

After resting for a while, with rice in my arms, I returned to the commune.

After entering the alley, I knocked on the door of the third courtyard, and heard Uncle Liu answer in the courtyard:
"The door is not locked, come in."

Yi Wei pushed open the courtyard door, and Uncle Liu was sharpening his knife in the courtyard.

Yi Wei walked up to him, took out the rice in his arms, and said:
"Uncle Liu, I brought you rice."

Only then did Uncle Liu look up, saw that it was Yi Wei, and said happily:
"You're here, sit down first."

After taking the four catties of rice in Yi Wei's hand, he pointed to a small bench beside him.

After checking, ask:
"Do you want to change money?"

Yi Wei had already made up his mind, and said, "Two catties are exchanged for money and food stamps, and some stick noodles, radishes, and potatoes."

"Alright, I'll get you some food."

Uncle Liu took out a roll of ten-cent notes, counted five ten-cent notes and more than one catty of food stamps, and handed them to Yi Wei.

Uncle Liu walked into the kitchen on the east side, and after a while, he carried a broken sack and handed it to Yi Wei:
"It contains potatoes and carrots, and two catties of cornmeal."

Yi Wei weighed it up, put his back behind his back, and said:
"Thank you, Uncle Liu."

Seeing that Yi Wei was about to leave, Uncle Liu said, "In the future, if you have fine grains, you can ask me to exchange them."

"Okay."

Yi Wei went out of the yard and saw someone standing in front of the door chatting in the alley, so he could only walk to the street with a sack on his back.

Passing by an alley, seeing that there was no one inside, he turned in, turned around and used his body to block the sack into the space.

Yi Wei has done experiments before, as long as it is within three meters around him, everything that is not fixed on the ground can be put into the space through his mind, and living things can also be suspended in the space like dormancy, and they will still be alive after being taken out.

This is a dead end, so I went out of the alley again, walked to the fried dough stick stand in front of the state-run restaurant and asked:
"Auntie, how much is the fried dough stick?"

"Four cents a piece, two taels of food stamps."

Yi Wei took out a dime and food stamps and handed them over, saying:

"Buy two."

After receiving two cents and two fried dough sticks wrapped in kraft paper, he headed west to return to the reed marsh.

Out of the main street, turn to the south, and there are square courtyards on both sides.

Suddenly a yellow dog rushed out and smelled the fried dough sticks and came to Yi Wei's side. Yi Wei hurriedly chased it away with the bamboo pole in his hand.

The yellow dog was frightened and barked a few times. Yi Wei turned his head to look, but there was no one nearby, so he quickly sent two fried dough sticks into the space.

Holding the bamboo pole tightly in his hand, he slowly backed away from the yellow dog.

Seeing the fried dough sticks disappear from Yi Wei's hands, the yellow dog barked even louder.

The door of a nearby house opened, and a little woman came out, and saw the yellow dog barking at Yi Wei, who was dressed in rags.

He shouted: "Where did the little beggar come from, did he come to steal something and was discovered by Dahuang, hurry up, Dahuang, go up and bite him."

Yi Wei had already retreated slowly, and there was a distance of three or four meters between him and the big yellow. Unexpectedly, after the little woman came out, she didn't stop the big yellow dog, but directed the big yellow dog to bite Yi Wei.

Yi Wei quickly turned around and ran away, the big yellow dog was chasing after him, and quickly drove Yi Wei out of the village, only to hear the laughing voice of the little woman behind him.

Yi Wei left Zhuangzi, and there were some people not far away, so he couldn't try to see if the yellow dog could be included in the space under such circumstances.

He could only reach into his bosom, actually took out the sharp knife he just bought from the space, and while running, he waved the single knife at the yellow dog following him, and shouted:
"Hack you, hack you, dead dog go away."

Perhaps the bright single-handed sword scared the yellow dog, and the yellow dog turned around and ran away.

Yi Wei also stopped, panting heavily, feeling that his whole body had no strength, only aches and pains all over his body. Leaning on a bamboo pole, he walked to the side of the road and sat down on the ground.

If I hadn't changed to a single-pointed knife today, most of them would have been bitten by a yellow dog. My original knife was square and not as easy to use as a pointed knife.

Fortunately, the yellow dog was frightened at the critical moment, and he must come to kill the yellow dog in two days.

(End of this chapter)