One hundred and thirteenth chapter: good gambling hateful
The sound of swallowing saliva came again, and there was more than one sound.
Song Qiu looked outside the tea shed and saw two ragged old men holding a five or six-year-old baby with a sallow face and skinny skin. They were standing outside the tea shed. Three pairs of eyes were staring at the man in the tea shed without blinking.
He was eating noodles with big mouthfuls.
Everyone who wasn't being stared at noticed it, so people who were being stared at would naturally not be able to miss it.
The man was feeding the noodles into his mouth. Now he was eating or not eating.
He looked up at the three people outside. They were unkempt and disheveled and dressed in ragged clothes. They were obviously beggars.
It is normal for a beggar to drool when he stares at others when he is very hungry.
The man was silent, and he was also kind-hearted. He simply said to Song Qiu: "Please, little girl, please cook three more bowls for me. Is it okay to invite the three of them to come in and sit down to eat?"
No businessman would invite a beggar to sit in his shop. It would be polite for him to ask.
Song Qiu saw that the children were so hungry that they had a big head and a small body. He originally planned to scoop them a cup of mung bean soup to drink, but when he heard that the guest wanted to cook noodles for them, there was no bad reason.
White flour was expensive, so she couldn't just cook it and give it to others. After all, she wasn't a rich person, so giving some mung bean soup was a gesture of kindness on her part.
However, this guest is not badly dressed, and it is a good thing for these three people to be able to stand out like this.
Song Qiu Ma quickly dropped the noodles into the pot, and after they were cooked, he added enough meat dumplings.
Zhang Lihua had already invited the three beggars to come in and sit down, and helped bring the noodles to them.
The three of them were obviously very hungry, and they couldn't refuse at all. When the noodles came out, the kid grabbed the chopsticks and put the noodles into his mouth. The one who was so burned that he grinned didn't even wait.
Go to your mouth.
The beggar woman wiped her tears and gave him a quick blow. The other beggar old man bowed his hands to the man without saying a word, then took his chopsticks and started eating.
The three of them were all hungry, and it took less than half a quarter of an hour to refill the bowls of scalding hot noodles.
Panshi Town was rich and prosperous. Song Qiu had been to the town so many times and rarely saw beggars begging in the town. Even if there were, they were not as thin and sallow as this.
I don't know where these three people came from, but they were so hungry, as if they hadn't eaten in several days.
Seeing that they were eating so much, Song Qiu wanted to serve them some herbal tea, but Song Qiu didn't dare to serve it. She was afraid that their stomachs wouldn't be able to bear it when they ate and drank something so hot.
Then he added some salt to the noodle soup and served three bowls.
The three of them didn't care that it was just noodle soup with nothing in it, and drank it all at an alarmingly fast speed.
Song Qiu watched and tried to serve them the rest of the noodle soup, and the three of them drank it all.
After one bowl of noodles and two bowls of noodle soup, maybe there was something in their stomachs and their stomachs were warm. Only then could the two old beggars speak. They bowed to the man and bowed their hands to express their thanks.
Seeing that the beggar knew etiquette and was grateful for the help, the kindness of the men was satisfied, so he asked out of curiosity, "I wonder where you are from, uncle? You must be a family, right?"
It is rare to be a beggar who works as a family together.
The old man sighed heavily and said: "To be honest with my benefactor, this is my old lady and my little grandson. We came all the way from Shunyang County. We are treacherous and incompetent. We are addicted to gambling. We lost all our family property and sold our ancestors."
He also sold his wife to the house, which caused the family to be ruined. Finally, he wanted to sell my little grandson. We, the old couple, were forced to have no choice but to escape with our grandson.
I didn’t have a penny on my body, so I walked all the way without eating or drinking, and that’s why I got married. Today, thanks to my benefactor’s kindness, my family was able to fill our stomachs. Otherwise, we would be so hungry that we would definitely not be able to go on.”
When he heard that this was what happened, he was not a real beggar, but he was forced to become homeless by his gambling-loving and inhumane son. The man sighed and didn't know what to say.
As the saying goes, it is the fault of a father who fails to raise his son well. If his son develops like this, then the parents are responsible, right?
Now that we are in a situation where the family is ruined and everyone is dead, how can we tell who is right and who is wrong.
"Then where do you plan to go, old man? This child is still young, so he can't bear to be homeless, right?" Although the man sighed, he had done a good deed, so he still asked more questions.
The old man also knew that he had failed to educate his son well, which brought him to this point, so he didn't show off his pity and just said: "We were planning to go to my daughter's house in Dongling County, but we didn't have any money, so we were in such a mess.
Fortunately, Dongling County is not far from here, and we will be there if we walk for two days."
Dongling County is still a hundred miles away from here. It's a good walk for a young and lonely person like me. It's really hard to walk fast. It's good to walk for two days.
If you can take a car, you can get there much faster.
The man didn't want the person he saved to die from exhaustion and starvation on the road again, so he simply said: "I can't help you much, so I will send you to Panshi Town, and then help you find an ox cart to take you to the east."
Let’s go to Lingxian County.”
When the old man heard this, he was naturally very grateful and quickly took his grandson to kowtow to the man.
"My benefactor is a good person! Please leave your name. When I join my daughter, I will be very grateful to you."
From what he said, it is obvious that his daughter's family is not an ordinary poor family.
But the man did not do the favor for any reward, so he quickly said no, stepped aside and waved Song Qiu over to pay.
All the plain noodles in town were sold for two cents a bowl, and those with meat were at least four cents. Song Qiu didn't charge him more, so the total for the four bowls of noodles was only twelve cents.
The man paid the bill, drove his donkey cart, asked the three old men to get on the cart, and then hurried towards Panshi Town.
After everyone left, Zhang Lihua hurriedly cleared the table, while Song Qiu cooked the noodles again.
The two people who had been listening just now were filled with sadness when they talked about the old man's experience when he left this time.
"This gambler is really disgusting! I heard that my uncle, whom I have never met, is also a gambler. He lost his wife and children, and the whole family was so poor that he couldn't even afford a penny.
Otherwise, my mother wouldn’t have been able to sell ten kilograms of grain back then, and she would have been wearing old clothes without any dowry.”
Zhang Lihua's face was full of indignation, and she obviously hated gambling people.
If it weren't for this, her mother wouldn't always be talked about by her sister-in-law.
Let’s talk about the worst fourth aunt. She also had a box of dowry back then.
So for all these years, her mother had been busy doing things, and she didn't dare to show off her anger when she came home, unable to hold her head up.
If a woman doesn't pay her own dowry, it won't work.
But the person who caused all this was her gambling uncle.
Her grandparents were also at fault. Who told them to raise such an incompetent son? It would bring harm to others and themselves.
Song Qiu didn't have anyone who liked gambling around him, but he had read a lot of news about his past life, and he knew that gambling had caused families to be ruined and families to be separated. This was true and was not an exaggeration.
Seeing that Zhang Lihua was so angry, she quickly comforted her: "Although your uncle is hated, let's think about it on the other hand, if it weren't for your uncle, your mother wouldn't be able to marry your father, and there would be no you and your brother, right?"
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Zhang Lihua is a person whose emotions come and go quickly. As soon as she heard this, she laughed and said, "That's right too! I really have to thank him. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have such a good father, mother, and brother!"