Near noon, Xu Tongdao borrowed a vise and a hammer from his landlord, Uncle Li, and was hammering in the yard the old iron sheets he had picked up from the scrapyard. Xu Tonglin was cooking noodles on a coal stove in the house.
The sound of knocking here by Comrade Xu attracted the little boy he saw yesterday.
The little boy still held the iron ring in his hand. He came over to look at it out of curiosity for a while and couldn't help but ask: "Brother, what are you doing?"
"you guess!"
Comrade Xu teased him with a smile and kept working on his hands.
Little boy: "Are you making a plane?"
Comrade Xu chuckled, "How did you guess that?"
The little boy's eyes lit up, "Are you really making an airplane? How do you do it? Can you teach me?"
"God willing! Come here!!"
The little boy's mother shouted again like yesterday. Tongdao Xu turned to look at her and noticed that she looked at him a little warily and frowned slightly.
Tongdao Xu was not angry either. Mothers want to protect their children, and he understood.
He was just a little confused, didn't he really look like a good person? Why did this woman call her child back immediately every time she saw her child playing in front of him?
The little boy walked away with a sad face and turned back several times.
When the little boy returned to the woman's place, Xu Tongdao faintly heard the woman's low-pitched warning: "God's will! What did mom tell you yesterday? She told you not to play with these messy people. Why are you disobedient? Is it blood?
Your skin is swollen, do you want me to loosen it for you?"
have to!
It turns out that in her eyes, I, Comrade Xu, am a mess...
Tongdao Xu laughed at himself, lowered his head and continued to work on the oven.
Not long after, Xu Tonglin came out of the house and said, "Xiaodao, the noodles are cooked. Come and eat! It won't taste good after a while."
"Why!"
Comrade Xu responded, got up and walked to the faucet to wash his hands. He went back to the house to get a bowl of noodles. The two of them ate a bowl of Yangchun noodles with a clear soup and a little water and spicy sauce. There was still some left in the pot.
Xu Tongdao took another clean bowl and filled it. Xu Tonglin, who was about to wash the dishes, saw him and frowned and asked: "Xiaodao, are you going to give it to that person again?"
"Since you've saved someone, don't give up halfway. Anyway, it's just some boiled noodles, so don't worry about the worthless things! I'll send them over."
Tongdao Xu said, carrying the noodles that had just been served, he left the room and walked to the eastmost room.
"Boom!"
Walking outside, he knocked on the door, but no one answered. Xu Tongdao frowned slightly and knocked again, but no one answered.
So, he pushed the door directly and went in. As soon as the door opened, he saw the man in black still lying on the bed, but his eyes were closed, his brows were slightly wrinkled, and his face was pale, as if he was fast asleep.
Tongdao Xu closed the door and walked over quickly.
"Hey? Hey?"
When he walked to the bed, he shouted several times and even reached out to push the man on the bed. Only then did the man drowsily open his eyes.
It could be seen that this man was weaker than last night, and his eyes showed weakness.
Seeing Comrade Xu, the man forced a smile and said weakly: "Little brother, are you here?"
Seeing that his condition was so bad, Xu Tongdao frowned and reached out to touch the other person's forehead. It was very hot. It was a fever...
"Your wound should be inflamed. You are running a high fever. Otherwise, should I take you to the hospital?"
Before Xu Tongdao finished speaking, the man in black on the bed forced a smile and shook his head, "No! No need! I can't go to the hospital. I have anti-inflammatory drugs and antipyretics in my medicine box... Please feed me some... Thank you...
…hehe."
He was still in the mood to laugh.
Comrade Xu looked at him steadily for a few seconds, nodded, and got up to help him find medicine.
There was no boiling water in the room, so Comrade Xu simply gave him medicine with noodle soup. While giving him medicine, he asked casually: "By the way, do you have any relatives or friends nearby? Do you want me to help you notify them to take care of you?"
God? After all, I have my own things to do every day, so I'm afraid I can't take care of you."
The man in black smiled bitterly and shook his head, "No, no! You are busy with your business, so don't worry about me. Just give me some food every day. When I get better, I will definitely repay you..."
Tongdao Xu smiled faintly, nodded slightly, and asked casually: "By the way, what do you call me?"
The man who swallowed the medicine also smiled and said feebly: "Everyone calls me Qingzi, you should call me that too!"
After a pause, he asked casually: "By the way, what's your name, little brother?"
Tongdao Xu took the chopsticks and started to feed him noodles. While feeding him, he said calmly: "I will tell you when you are better! Don't ask now."
If the man cannot be saved, there is no point in telling him his name.
If he is saved, and if his enemy is too powerful, telling him his name now will only cause him trouble.
Therefore, while Xu Tongdao was thinking, he did not say his name.
Although he knew that if trouble really came to his door, concealing his name would probably be of no use, but he still subconsciously kept it in reserve.
Qing Ziruo glanced at him meaningfully, smiled weakly, and didn't ask any more questions.
…
In the evening, Comrade Xu went to give Qingzi another bowl of Yangchun noodles. He also tested the temperature of Qingzi's forehead and felt that his temperature was not as high as at noon, but he was still in a fever state.
Comrade Xu gave Qingzi some anti-inflammatory and antipyretic drugs.
After finishing, he and Xu Tonglin moved all the things for setting up a stall to the tricycle. He had almost spent all the money he had. If he couldn't make any money by setting up a stall in the past two days, I'm afraid he and Xu Tonglin would soon lose their money.
Can't even eat it.
Moreover, it is already the end of July in the Gregorian calendar, and the temperature is high. The mutton and other meats that cannot be sold may smell bad the next day.
Therefore, it is impossible to say that there is no pressure in his heart.
But pressure was pressure, and his expression remained calm.
There is a kind of calm pig that is not afraid of boiling water.
Under the afterglow of the setting sun, the two people pushed the broken tricycle filled with things through the alley, across the road, and arrived at the roadside by the river.
There are already more than a dozen stalls set up in this area.
Including the three barbecue stalls that Comrade Xu and the others came to investigate last night.
And the people who set up stalls looked at them with suspicion when they saw these two half-grown young men pushing a broken tricycle to set up stalls here.
There were also people looking at them, talking and laughing in low voices.
Without hearing what they said clearly, Xu Tongdao could guess that these people must be laughing at them.
Indeed, neither he nor Xu Tonglin looked like they could start a business with their childish faces.
Moreover, the oven they brought in the car... did look a bit unsightly. It looked like two teenagers came here to join in the fun on a whim.
Xu Tonglin's face was already red from embarrassment, but Xu Tongdao was very calm. He pushed the car to a deserted place and asked Xu Tonglin to move things from the car.
Oven, folding table, plastic stools, various ingredients, and two cases of beer.
The closest barbecue stall to them...is the one with the bald head.
When the bald man saw that Xu Tongdao's oven didn't even have a shelf and was placed directly on the road, the bald man couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.