Chapter 2 Xu Changsheng who delivered tofu
The sun slowly emerged from the top of the mountain, and Xu Changsheng's hand was less and less tofu. He also deliberately left the Fulu Street for the last time, for fear that Wu Weihu would really do something.
You can see the two gilded characters "Sun Mansion" from afar, as well as the scarlet door, with ancient copper nails embedded on it, which is particularly eye-catching. The pair of stone lions at the door are majestic, even if Xu Changsheng tried hard to get up, they were shorter than the stone lion. Every time this time, the gatekeeper would laugh.
People like him who gave the tofu to the Sun family absolutely did not dare to knock on the door, so they could only follow the wall far away and go around the back door. After knocking, the servant just stretched out his hand, picked up the tofu, and then closed the back door heavily. After passing a while, they opened a small gap and threw two copper plates out of it. If the lady from the Sun family had not liked to eat the tofu from the Li Tui family, they would not have bought it outside.
Xu Changsheng didn't think it was an insult. He picked out the two copper plates from the soil. Maybe this is the style of a wealthy family.
The last portion left in my hand is from Wu Laoshi's house.
Wu Lao Mouse, whose original name is Wu Weihu, calls himself Wu Lao Hu, but everyone calls him Wu Lao Mouse. His father is a blacksmith in a small town. He has been with his father since he was a child. Over time, his strength has become much bigger than his peers. However, he is bigger and more courageous.
Once he bullied Liang Mi during the day, but at night, Liang Mi walked around his backyard and screamed a few times, scaring him to hide in the room all night. When the matter spread, his witch mouse's name spread. However, the children in the town dared to call him behind his back.
When Xu Changsheng and Liang Mi got close, Wu Weihu was disgusted with the house. However, Xu Changsheng was not afraid of him, and even dared to call him Wu Laoshi in person. There was nothing else. Xu Changsheng ran fast and he couldn't catch up.
Xu Changsheng and Wu Weihu were not in the way, but Wu Blacksmith was very nice to him. He shouted from afar: "Little Changsheng has sent tofu so early."
As he spoke, his hands did not stop. A hammer with a big brain was blown to a dark red iron block with rhythmic attacks. Mars flew everywhere.
Xu Changsheng shouted "Hello Uncle Wu" and consciously sent the tofu to the inner room. Wu Kui shouted inside: "Huzi, don't come out and take the tofu back."
Wu Weihu came out reluctantly. In fact, Xu Changsheng saw Wu Weihu fiddling with his "treasure box" from afar, because every time Xu Changsheng came to deliver tofu, he would show off his treasure box, and sometimes he would exclaim, such as "What a big divine hammer, it will definitely hammer Nanfeng Zhen to pieces."
Liang Mi also had a treasure chest like that, which contained the "little treasures" he collected from various parts of the town. Xu Changsheng had also played with him several times, and had everything. From a statue he collected from the City God Temple, the single one occupied half of the treasure chest, to a small round stone with various patterns on it, which made Liang Mi very fond of it.
Xu Changsheng sometimes envies because he doesn’t have it. He also wants to have a treasure chest like that. Sometimes he dreams of dreams, but after waking up, there is nothing.
Wu Weihu snatched the tofu from his hand, and made a move to wipe his neck with the other hand. Wu Kui coughed with his back to them, and Wu Weihu immediately went out of the house with the tofu honestly.
Xu Changsheng and Wu Kui said apart and left.
He had to rush to the school, and he wouldn't be able to make the first class if he was late. Although he was not a student in the school, he could only listen to the class from a distance outside the classroom.
When he ran to the school mat, he was not too late, and the class was just about to start. Mr. Lu, who had a goatee and wrinkled face, was bowing and reciting, "Don't do to others what he didn't want."
Xu Changsheng quickly stood in the old place through the gap in the window, watching Mr. Lu holding his hands on his back, holding a yellowed saint book in his hand, walking back and forth in the school room.
Mr. Lu read a sentence, and the students below followed him. Occasionally, they walked to a stunned student, picked up the book and knocked him hard on the head, saying, "The rotten wood cannot be carved."
After a class, there was not much content. I listened to his scolding with a strong foreign accent for most of the class.
But there was nothing I could do. The town is just like this, and I moved to the town a long time ago. It is said that he was also a desperate scholar. When he came to the town, he saw that there was no private school, so he raised his airs and asked the inside to gather people to help build a private school.
He settled in the town because of this, but he didn't expect that he would stay for the rest of his life, from being in his prime to being white in his hair and beard.
Therefore, no matter how unfriendly Mr. Lu's behavior is, everyone is still tolerant.
Xu Changsheng was listening here, and he stood there for a whole morning. At first, his legs were sore, but later he stood more often, so his legs and feet were no longer sore.
After hearing Mr. Lu assigning today's homework, he quickly ran away, ran away from there. As for the fear of being seen by his playmates and feeling embarrassed, he was the only one who knew about it.
I bought a few big cakes with the only remaining copper plates on the shop I came back, which was enough for dry food tonight and tomorrow. Most people don’t eat this kind of cake. They use some rough ingredients such as wheat bran, and are also careless in making, so most people can’t swallow it.
But Xu Changsheng can eat it. Soak the cake in boiling water and then put wild vegetables in the middle to taste better, but how good can it be? It can barely survive.
Although he could go to Aunt He's house to eat, he felt that it was not good. It was one thing that Aunt He was kind to him, but he could not take her kindness for granted. Moreover, he had his own hands and feet and could make money to support himself. Although he lived a little harder, he felt inexplicably at ease.
As soon as he returned home, he saw his neighbor Gao's mother coming out with a basin of dirty water and seeing Xu Changsheng, and her face suddenly became dark. She cursed and kept shaking out of her mouth, such as "destroyed things, devastating stars, short-lived ghosts", and poured a basin of dirty water at Xu Changsheng's door. She said, "It's bad luck to see the broom star as soon as she went out."
Then he wiped his hands on his clothes, quickly entered the room, and threw the door loudly.
Xu Changsheng remained silent, pushed open the door, entered the empty home, took out a broom, swept some sand and stones to cover the dirty water, and then sat in the yard.
Whenever this happens, Xu Changsheng will miss his mother very much, because living alone is really a bit hard. Although Aunt He treats him like his mother, he is not his own mother in the end.
Not long after, a scent of fragrance came from the next door. It seemed that Gao Jianzhi had returned, so Gao's mother brought out the meal that she had prepared for a long time.
Xu Changsheng walked back to the house silently and took out a big cake.
After a few bites, there was a rhythmic knock on the door.
Hearing this sound, Xu Changsheng knew who was here. When he opened the gate, he was a student in blue shirt. His face could only be considered pretty, and his hair was also made of a blue cloth strip.
He tied up and held a food box in his hand.
Seeing the door open, the visitor smiled and said, "Xu Changsheng, my father is out again, so I have to come here to make do with you, but I brought my own drinks, don't worry." As he said that, he raised the food box in his hand.
Having said that, Xu Changsheng felt warm. Since he learned that Xu Changsheng's daily diet, Su Sheng would bring some food to eat with Xu Changsheng every now and then for various reasons. Although it was also some daily food, it was more than several times better than Xu Changsheng's big cakes.
The two of them were having a meal brought by the restaurant and chatted one by one, but most of the time Su Sheng was talking and Xu Changsheng was listening. It was nothing more than talking about academic matters. How difficult it was to say that someone was beaten by Mr. Lu, and some things in the town.
For example, Aunt Li in the wine shop had a quarrel with Gao’s mother next door, and Taoist Tan, the fortune teller, squatting at the door of the tofu shop to watch Li Ruan, was driven away by Li Tui.
The town is located in a remote place and few outsiders come here. The only one who counts as outsiders is probably the Tang and Song dynasties who came to the town a few years ago. But not long after the Tang and Song dynasties came, they were assimilated by the town. The accent of the town was even bigger than that of the locals.
As we were chatting, we suddenly talked about the Sun Mansion, which lives in Fulu Street, which has been in full swing recently, and it was very lively. It seemed like we were going to entertain someone.
Xu Changsheng swallowed the meal in his mouth and said, "The Sun family has a great career, isn't it normal to entertain on weekdays?"
Su Sheng shook his head, "This time the formation is extraordinary. Everyone is cleaning inside and out. Even the stone lion at the door has been shiny. The two rich doors have been re-washed, and the smell of paint can be smelled across several streets."
Xu Changsheng was also a little surprised when he heard this. It seemed that Sun's mansion was really going to entertain some big shots. But these were far away from him, and more often they were thinking about what to eat tomorrow.
After seeing Su Sheng off, Xu Changsheng was packing the tables and stools. Suddenly someone behind him said, "Oh, Mr. Su is here to deliver food to you again. Is the food in the restaurant delicious? It's better than your big cakes."
I don’t need to look at it, so I must have been lying on the wall again. When I was full, I climbed up to the wall to see what Xu Changsheng was doing, and ridiculed him a few times. It was one of his few hobbies.
At first, Xu Changsheng would reply to him a few words, but as many times as he was lazy, he would be lazy to pay attention to him. He was almost bored, just like now, Xu Changsheng replied: "Yes, the food in the restaurant is so fragrant, especially braised lion head, fried chicken fillet, pepper beef, dragon and phoenix auspiciousness, braised pork, even the most ordinary green beans. They are all fragrant." As he said that, he squirted his mouth.
Listening to Xu Changsheng's long list of dishes, Gao Jianzhi lay on the wall and kept swallowing. Hearing the sound, he immediately sniffed disdain, "Can you afford it just like you are so poor?"
Xu Changsheng walked into the house with a chair and replied, "I can't afford it, but Su Sheng will bring it to me." As he said that, he turned around and showed him a bright smile. He said, "You don't have friends like Su Sheng, I have one."
Gao Jian was so angry that he hammered the wall, but his hands hurt so much that he jumped back to his yard. Not long after, he heard Gao's mother scolding Xu Changsheng.
The boy's expression was still the same, just as normal as eating and drinking water.
But not long after, Gao Jianzhi climbed up to the wall again.
"Hey, Xu Changsheng, I heard that Sun Qiao and Li Handong made an appointment at Guchang this afternoon. I guess it's about to start. Will you go and have a look together?"
Chapter completed!