Yoshida Mii

Chapter 87 Beggar
Li Shi and Dong Bao are not afraid that the hired people will not work hard, there is only so much work, and it is enough to finish it within the stipulated time.They are afraid that the hands and feet of the recruiters will be dirty, which will ruin the business they rely on for a living.But since Guizhi was recommended by Aunt Qiuxia, his character should be passable.

Dong Bao smiled and said: "Aunt Guizhi, don't worry. Aunt Qiuxia told you that this job is to come to our house in the middle of the night to grind the beans into pulp. There are not many beans, so I only let you grind [-] catties. , and the rest don't require you to do anything."

Guizhi nodded, "I know, Sister Qiuxia came to tell me." I heard that the little girl in the scholar's family is a sensible and clever girl, so Guizhi is not surprised to see her speak before adults.

"Let's try to do it for two days first." Dong Bao said, grinding soymilk is also physical work, she doesn't want Li Shi and Li Hongqin to do such heavy work, it would be best if they can be assigned, besides, labor is really cheap in this era, which makes people excited.

Mrs. Li and Guizhi discussed the specific time for grinding beans at their house, and let Guizhi go back first.After Guizhi left, Mrs. Li smiled at Aunt Qiuxia, "He's an honest person."

Aunt Qiuxia pursed her lips and smiled, who can compare to Mrs. Li for being honest? Others want to give less to customers and earn more for themselves when doing business, but Mrs. Li is afraid of giving less. said.However, Qiuxia thought about it, such a kind and honest old sister had a bitter life and was almost thrown out by her husband's family as a sick and tuberculosis ghost. Get better.

In the middle of the night, at the time set by Mrs. Li, Gui Zhi knocked on the door. Dong Bao heard Gui Zhi's voice calling the door in a daze, and Mrs. Li, who was already up and busy in the kitchen, went to answer the door.Mrs. Li always cared about her daughter and didn't let her get up so early. She waited until the soy milk boiled before calling Dong Bao to get up and order tofu.

There was the sound of the millstone turning in the yard, as well as the voices of Mrs. Li and the others in a low voice. Dong Bao curled his mouth, turned over and went back to sleep.

When Mrs. Li asked Dong Bao to get up, Gui Zhi had already gone back.Dong Bao was a little surprised. Ever since Ergou's "cottage" incident happened, she has been very wary of outsiders. People in the village are very interested in their mother and daughter's way of making tofu. Unexpectedly, Gui Zhi would leave just like that.

Either Guizhi is very simple and has never thought about it; or Guizhi is very thoughtful and wants to win the trust of Dongbao and the others before slowly exploring the secret recipe.Dong Bao rubbed his chin with a pensive expression on his face, if it was the latter case, it would be troublesome.

According to Mrs. Li, the cinnamon twigs can't be faulted in their work, and they don't talk too much, which suits her well, so I will use the osmanthus twigs first.After much deliberation, Dong Bao didn't think it through, she knew too little about Gui Zhi, so she had to put things aside for now.

At noon, Dongbao and Zhang Xiuyu met Zhou Pingshan again at the door of the uncle's shop, and a tall boy who came to buy food with him looked about the same age as Zhou Pingshan, about thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing a thin long gown and His hair is long, but his stature is slightly plump, making him look very tall and strong.

"I, I want two pancakes and a spoonful of vegetables." Zhou Pingshan said to Dong Bao with some embarrassment, and handed Dong Bao four coins first.

"Okay!" Dong Bao responded with a smile, looked at the young man next to Zhou Pingshan, and asked, "Brother, what do you want? Our pancakes cost a penny each, and vegetables cost two pennies a scoop. It's not delicious." for free!"

The tall and strong boy didn't respond for a long time, Zhou Pingshan had no choice but to reach out and pat him, and then he realized, his face turned red all of a sudden, and he said embarrassedly: "Same, same as him!"

"You should ask for another pancake." Zhou Pingshan kindly reminded, "You have a bigger appetite than me."

"Okay." The boy readily agreed.

Zhang Xiuyu lowered her head and filled him with food and took three pancakes. Dong Bao took the money, and Zhou Pingshan and the boy went back with the bowls. On the way back, the boy kept turning his head.

"Sister, is he looking at you?" Dong Bao couldn't help asking when he saw the boy's shy appearance.

Zhang Xiuyu lowered her head and said nothing, and pinched Dongbao lightly with a blushing face, "Damn girl, what nonsense! Let my mother know, and I won't be able to sell food. Then you can do it alone!" She told Dong Bao is different, she is almost 13 years old, it's time to get engaged, if it wasn't for this business, Li Hongqin would not let her show up at all, in order to be able to talk about a good relationship, if her mother finds out that there are men who will look at her more After a few glances at her, she will definitely not be allowed to come out.

No matter how quiet and calm Zhang Xiuyu is, she is still a little girl, and she likes to be lively by nature. A few days ago, Dong Bao followed Li Shi and Li Hongqin out to sell bean curds, leaving her alone to look after the house, not to mention how boring she was, now she also has a business. If you have money to make, you don't want to go back to your previous life.

"I won't say it, I promise I won't say it!" Dong Bao held back her smile and swore seriously. In fact, in her opinion, it's not a big deal even if the boy is really looking at Zhang Xiuyu. It's just a young middle school student, it's completely normal to look at a beautiful girl twice.

When Dong Bao and Zhang Xiuyu returned to Li's place with their burdens, Li's and Li Hongqin were also busy closing up the stall. Seeing Dong Bao approaching, Li Hongqin picked up the burden, brought out two bowls of bean curd, and handed them over. He chuckled softly: "Eat it quickly, I hid it, or you two won't be able to eat it!"

The bean curd business is so good that there are not enough to sell every day. Even if Dong Bao and the others want to eat the bean curd, they can’t get it. They have to rely on their own family to “hide” the bean curd. Zhang Xiuyu took the bean curd and couldn’t help laughing .

Today they shared forty catties of beans, and there were two catties of tofu left. Dong Bao planned to give one catty to Lin Shi's family and one catty to the village head's family.Because most of the beans were ground with osmanthus twigs, it saved Li Shi and Li Hongqin a lot of effort. The two of them didn't feel tired at all today, and they were not as energetic as usual at this meeting.Dong Bao was also happy when he saw it, and nodded secretly, thinking that it was a very correct decision to hire someone to grind the beans.She didn't want Li Shi and Li Hongqin to exhaust their bodies because of making money.

Dong Bao was holding the bean curd, thinking about something, slowly stirring the marinade and bean curd, suddenly stopped the spoon in his hand, looked around suspiciously, and saw a little beggar squatting in the corner There, staring at a pair of big black and white eyes, staring at her... the bean curd in his hand, swallowing.

Seeing her looking over, the little beggar immediately turned his head back with backbone, but Dong Bao felt that he could hear the sound of swallowing saliva from such a long distance.

She's only six or seven years old... Dong Bao sighed slightly, if they hadn't left the Song family, maybe she would not be as good as this little beggar at this meeting!

Thinking of this, Dong Bao couldn't eat the bean curd in the bowl, so he walked up to the little beggar with the bowl, knelt down and handed the bowl to the little beggar, "I'll give you the bean curd, but you have to return the bowl to me."

The little beggar glanced at her, and immediately finished eating the bean curd with a bowl of snorts, choked and coughed twice, just when Dong Bao was worried that the child would choke something, he went on to gobble it up again. In the end, I wish I could lick the bottom of the bowl clean.

The little beggar looked unrepentant, and blinked at her with a pair of big black and white eyes. Dong Bao's heart softened inexplicably. When she was a child, her parents were busy with business, and she took care of her younger brother most of the time. He didn't eat. When I was full and wanted to ask her again, those eyes were like this.

"Where's your family?" Dong Bao asked.

Probably because of the bowl of bean curd, the little beggar showed no hostility towards Dong Bao, looked at her shaking his head, and said listlessly after a long while: "My father doesn't want me anymore, I have nowhere to go."

"Nonsense!" Dong Bao laughed, "There's no father who doesn't love his son!"

The little beggar snorted, unconsciously playing with stones in his hands, and said, "He beats me every day, and I do nothing wrong. I'm going to be beaten to death by him... Anyway, I can't live at home anymore, so I ran out There is a way of life."

Dong Bao was surprised, what he said was like a poor child who was cruelly abused by his biological father. "Then... where's your mother?" Dong Bao asked.

"My mother? I don't know. She may be dead, anyway, I don't remember her." The little beggar said nonchalantly.

What a poor child, Dong Bao's heart softened, and just as he was about to say something, he saw the shoes worn by the little beggar, which were made of thin satin. Although they were dirty enough, the original bright material could still be recognized.And when the little beggar stretched out his hands to grab the stones and threw them up and down to play, he showed a lotus root-like arm, which was white and tender.It's completely different from Quanzi Shuanzi's little boys running around the village with bare heads and backs.

This little beggar is from a good family, at least not a child from a rural family. Boys from peasant families are not so delicate and tender.

"So, you still have a family." Dong Bao said softly, "Hurry up and go home, your father must be worried about you. Go home and listen to your father, your father will definitely not beat you." Outside Being homeless is not as good as being in your own home.

She thought of her previous life, and she also harbored resentment towards her parents. She didn't go home to see her parents until she died.Thinking about it now, I still have a little regret in my heart.After dying once, she thought about everything. Maybe her parents didn't love her, but they just loved her younger brother more.

The little beggar was furious, "He won't be worried, he beat me very hard, and he will definitely kill me if I want to go back!" After speaking, he stood up and turned his back to Dong Bao, and pulled it down violently. took off his pants.

While Dong Bao was stunned, the little beggar's two buttocks were facing him just like that.

What is this... Dongbao was almost in a mess in the wind.

The little boy was so sad and angry that he turned his back to Dong Bao and yelled: "You saw it! It must be blue and purple! I dare not sit or lie down, and my buttocks have been beaten into eight petals by him! "

(End of this chapter)