Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

Because there was not much light in the firewood room, Defang and Baili frowned and squinted at the backs of the two people in the firewood room, and couldn't help blinking, only to see that the light was not candles, but firewood burning in the stove sent out, Defang said, "Baili, what are these two people doing?"

"It seems... like burning wood..."

"Nonsense! I saw it, I mean, what are they doing with firewood at night?"

At this time, the person in the room said, "It seems that there are people outside."

Defang and Baili quickly knelt down and covered their mouths with their hands. After a while, another person in the firewood room said, "You heard me wrong, there is no one."

"I seem to hear someone talking..."

"Maybe it's because the youngest of Li's family next door came back late after drinking again. Let's pass by our house."

Defang touched Baili and said softly, "Baili, this is Zhang Si and his wife, right?"

"Yes, my lord, it's them."

Defang and Baili raised their heads slowly by the window again, and heard the big pot on the stove gurgling and boiling water. Zhang Laosi and the old lady threw a few piles of things into the pot, and then took the big copy in their hands. Stirred in the pot, then fished it out, Defang and Baili looked at it and slowly saw clearly, it turned out that Zhang Laosi and the old lady were cooking vegetables in white water, and those vegetables were the ones on the carriage during the day Heaping vegetable leaves, two old people sat on the stone in front of the fire stove, holding a bowl of boiled vegetable leaves to eat, Zhang Si also picked up a few more chopsticks vegetables from the bowl and gave them to his wife, "Old woman, eat more, today Winter Solstice didn’t let you eat meat, it’s my fault, but Eighth Master promised to give me one hundred dollars, tomorrow I will go to the city to find more work pulling carts, buy a piece of meat, and buy ten eggs and return it to me you eat."

The old lady put it back to Zhang Si again, "It's cold, you should eat more, you can spend the winter solstice without meat, come back to rest for a day after you send Baye and the others back to the city tomorrow, don't work hard."

"I'm fine, anyway, I'm going to the city, so I can earn a few more copper coins by doing errands." Zhang Si took a bite of the food, "Old lady, do you think Ba Ye and the others ate well today?"

"I don't know, they are from the city, and the light meals may not be easy to eat."

"Then what are we going to prepare for them tomorrow morning?"

"How many coppers do we have?"

"It costs 45 yuan to buy food and wine at night, and now it's only [-] yuan."

"Old man, why don't you ask Li Quan for a bowl of rice in the morning, and I'll cook some porridge, and you take four dollars to Granny Xing at the entrance of the village to ask for two vegetable cakes and pickles."

"Is this okay? I don't know if they are used to it."

"Six dollars can only be like this, hey..."

"That's how it is." Zhang Laosi and his wife quickly finished their food, and drank two bowls of clear water vegetable soup. "Old lady, are you ready?"

"Eat well, your body is warm." The old lady took out the bucket, "Old man, I washed the dishes, you should put out the fire."

"Okay, go to bed early when you're done, and get up early tomorrow." Zhang Laosi and his wife tidied up. Defang outside the window touched Baili, and the two quietly returned to the house. Such a kind person, but encountered a bully, lost his son and daughter in old age, lost his grandson, and lost his land. Under such a situation, he used up all the money in the family to let us eat well, but he only ate boiled water on this winter solstice day leaves, the lonely king must help him."

"My lord, but he doesn't want to sue, and he dare not sue."