The courtyard where the blind Laotian is located is located at the deepest part of the Niwa Lane next to Xizhimen Street. You can see that the alley lives in the flat-headed cloth, and the courtyard where the Laotian is located is located at the deepest part of the entire Niwa Lane, and it looks extremely simple.

This is because a few years ago, a widower who had changed into leprosy was left unattended. On the way back from the medicine, he fell in the mud-walled alley and happened to hit the feet of the blind Laotian. Laotian carried the man home and took good care of him for more than four years.

Both of them are children and sympathetic people. After getting to know each other, they even hit it off at first sight. They simply put soil into the yard to make incense and formed a friendship with eight worships. Lao Tian sold two good blue brick houses in the countryside and moved directly to the small courtyard of Niwa Lane to live in order to better take care of his old brother.

The two of them had agreed before that whoever died first would take advantage of the situation. The living person would have to bury the dead. During the Qingming Festival, they would have to burn some paper money to go there.

A year ago, the widower passed away, and the blind Laotian sold all the valuable things in his family. With all the savings he had saved over the years, he begged his neighbors to hold a decent funeral for the old brother.

In the days that followed, he lived alone in this poor humble house until today.

The gate of the courtyard is a wooden door that has been around for 30 or 40 years. Now it is in ruins. There is nothing else in the courtyard except for one chicken coop and two earthen houses. However, there is an old ginkgo tree with age at the entrance of the courtyard, which can add a little vitality and greenness to this dilapidated courtyard.

The wooden door was ragged and there was nothing valuable in the yard, so Old Man Tian would cover the wooden door in a weak manner and would not lock it at all. So Old Man directly reached out and pushed the wooden door open and walked in with Gu Changfeng and Xuejian.

As soon as he entered the yard, a big yellow dog shook his head and waving his tail. Lao Tian bent over and reached out to touch its neck with a smile. The big yellow dog was also extremely intimate, stretching out his pink tongue and licking Lao Tian's palm.

Gu Changfeng smiled and said, "Old man Tian, ​​the little yellow dog I took back from you a few days ago is now fat and strong. I have time to bring it to you to see it, and let the little yellow dog meet its mother."

Lao Tian laughed: "Boy Gu, you're not bragging to you. Look at this old yellow-bodied body, it's a first-class good dog. If you didn't speak, I wouldn't be willing to give it to others, but then again, I'm most relieved to give it to you boy!"

The courtyard wall of the small courtyard is also made of mud cultivation, which is no more than one person. Half of the body of an old woman in gray popped out from the east wall. After seeing the scene in Laotian's courtyard, she laughed and said, "I just heard a noise in your courtyard. I thought the children at the entrance of the alley were ignorant and rushed in, so I took care of you. It turned out that Laotian was back with your godson!"

Gu Changfeng arched his body slightly and said with a smile: "I have seen Aunt Wang, but I haven't seen you for a few days. Are you in good health?"

"Tough, tough." Aunt Wang reached out and stroked the silver threads on the sideburns, looked at Xue Jianxiang and smiled kindly, "Is this girl you brought by... Gu Housheng?"

Xue Jian smiled slightly, gave a blessing and said softly: "I'm Xue Jian, I've seen Aunt Wang."

Aunt Wang was at a loss for a moment, and nodded and responded with a smile: "Okay, okay, this girl looks so promising and has all her etiquette. At first glance, she is a child from a wealthy family, Lao Tian and Gu Housheng, you two are so lucky."

Xue Jian smiled shyly, but didn't know what to think and did not make any excuses.

It was still Lao Tian who broke the deadlock at the critical moment and laughed: "I said, "Big girl, my child is thin-skinned, so don't tell jokes about other children. You have also seen it. Lao Tian's guest is here. Today, he is shameless and asks you for cold dishes. Do you think it's convenient?"

"Oh, the neighbors on the street, are you going to be troublesome?" Aunt Wang waved her hand, "You guys make it first, I'll cook two hot dishes for you."

"That's really a trouble for Aunt Wang." Gu Changfeng walked to the side of the courtyard wall, stepped on a ragged shelf under the base of the courtyard wall, took out a piece of broken silver from his arms and handed it over quietly, and said in a low voice, "Aunt Wang, Old Man Tian, ​​I can't usually get through, thanks to your hard work to take care of you. There are two taels of silver here. Aunt Wang, don't rush to refuse. I want to ask you to help me. Spend it on Old Man Tian, ​​you will suffer."

Gu Changfeng said this, and Aunt Wang was indeed not willing to refuse, so he had to accept the two taels of silver and sighed: "Don't think that Lao Tian is a blind man, but he is a righteous person. Even if you don't say it, the aunt has to help you on weekdays. However, it is also his blessing that Lao Tian can have half of your son. OK, the aunt will not nag anymore. You can sit in the house, and the aunt will make you some vegetables."

The inside of Laotian's house is even simpler than outside. Apart from tables, chairs, benches and a earthen kang, there is basically nothing left.

Xue Jian didn't dislike it. As soon as she entered the house, she started to work hard, boiled water with lights and made tea-like seats. Everything was done in an orderly manner and familiar manner.

After the hot water boiled and the house was completely cleaned, half an hour had passed. Xue Jian walked out alone with a smile, saying that he was going to work for Aunt Wang. Gu Changfeng helped Lao Tian to sit down from the bed to the table and chair, picked up a big bowl of tea and took a big sip, and asked with a smile: "Old man Tian, ​​how are you doing after I haven't seen you these days?"

The blind old man laughed and groped, picked up the teacup and drank a big gulp, happily saying, "It's better to be the same. Go to Niu Ji's place during the day to help chop firewood and do rough work. He also has dozens of cents of monthly money every month. Apart from me making wine and buying vegetables, I can still have more than ten cents left."

"It's so fucking unpromising." Gu Changfeng put down the sea bowl in his hand and muttered, "After all, he is an old man who is over 60 years old, and his knowledge is still so shallow."

"You know what's the matter!" Lao Tian glared at him, "I've been poor for half my life, can't I be happy for a while?"

Gu Changfeng shrank his neck: "You are old, everything you say is right."

Lao Tian laughed. Since Gu Changfeng arrived, he laughed a lot, "Did Xue see that little girl in the yard?"

Gu Changfeng looked back and looked: "No, now we should go to Aunt Wang's side."

Lao Tian leaned forward and lowered his voice, "Boy Gu, I'll tell you, Xuejian that girl, although I have never seen Lao Tian, ​​your aunt Wang's eyes are famously poisonous. Being able to praise Xuejian's child to heaven means Xuejian's child is indeed so beautiful. Let's take a look, when people come to our ragged nest, they not only don't dislike it at all, but also help inside and outside. These days, where do you look like this girl? You have to know what you see!"

Gu Changfeng was sitting on pins and needles and smiled awkwardly, but she didn't know how to explain to the old man Tian.

Old man Tian patted the table gently: "Don't be careless with Lao Tian. I tell you, Lao Tian knows the broken things in your belly. Hey, whoever didn't want to walk casually when he was young, go as far as the place he could go; do as big as the thing he could do, before... There was a limerick in Xiliang before: The earth is like the sea, and the country is home; the dragon lantern, the drum night, walk to the end of the world with a sword. That's what we said."

Lao Tian paused, sighed softly, and continued, "But Gu, it's a good thing to dare to think, but people can't live by all dreams. Lao Tian said that's not nice. You, Gu, are a little handsome, but you have to know what your family is. It doesn't matter if you get closer to those salt merchants. In the future, they will be connected, but we can't forget what your surname is. How many taels of silver are in your pocket? You have to know. While you are young, settle down early. That's the right way, Gu, you said..."

A sound of footsteps came outside the house, interrupting Lao Tian's words.

Xue Jian walked in with a food box in his right hand and a wine jar in his left hand, and said with a clever smile: "Grandpa Tian, ​​I have made half a pound of Huadiao for you, and learned to cook a few dishes from Aunt Wang. Do you want to taste it to your taste?"

"It's all old men. You don't have the appetite, you can eat it." Lao Tian rubbed his hands and smiled, quipped, "But if Lao Tian remembers correctly, he was on the road just now, but this guy Gu said he wanted to drink Huadiao. Who are you thinking about when you are drinking?"

Xue Jian put the wine and food on the table and chuckled softly: "Grandpa Tian, ​​don't make fun of people. Mr. Gu's wound has not healed yet. The doctor told him not to drink alcohol in the near future. These flower deeds are all for you. Since Mr. Gu mentioned flower deeds on the road, it must be something you like to drink too. Do you think?"

"You little girl, you are so smart." Old Man Tian leaned down and sniffed, and said in surprise, "What kind of dish are these? They are fragrant, so fucking fragrant!"

Xue Jian put away the food box and whispered: "The vegetarian dishes include five-spice dried beans and peanuts. Aunt Wang said these are all you like to eat. Aunt Wang's house doesn't have many meat dishes, so I took my own initiative and went to the beef to order a donkey's lips, a plate of green onion and stir-fry mutton, and asked the guy there to help simmer an old hen, so you always replenish your body."

Old Man Tian lowered his head and was silent for a while, and then said softly: "I haven't even smelled these dishes in Niu Ji. I didn't expect that I could still eat them in my lifetime. Little girl, you have put your heart!"
Chapter completed!