Chapter 4

Beside the official road, the tea stall smoke.

"Wait until I stop and have a rest." The woman in front of the tea stand sang. Ah Yao thought she wanted to have a rest. After watching it for a long time, she found that this was her advertisement for the tea stand. It was a song to attract guests.

Thirty four out of ten pedestrians entering the city will rest at the tea stall, a bowl of herbal tea, two or three steamed cakes, eat and drink enough before entering the city.

Not far from the tea stall is the gate of the city, which reads "Nanxun county".

In front of the city gate of Nanxun County, several yamen guards in soap clothes were guarding to check the road guide of people entering the city. A Yao saw that the people who lined up in the city handed over the stack of paper full of words. The Yamen roughly read it and compared it a few times before returning the road guide to them and waving his hand to signal him to go in. The same is true for the next one.

She was puzzled: "how can I get into the city without a guide? I can't get in by climbing the wall... "

"Landlady, three steamed cakes and a bowl of tea!"

"Good!"

As the hostess of the tea stall lifted the cage drawer on the boiling pot, the rolling steam rushed out. The smell of rice grain went into a Yao's nose with the wind. She sniffed hard and showed a happy expression.

It smells good. The grains in the sun thrive. They are threshed and ground into coarse or fine flour. They are mixed with coarse grain rice slurry, kneaded into a ball, covered with a wet cloth to wake up the flour, kneaded the dough evenly, kneaded hard after waking up again, kneaded the bubbles and cavities inside, folded their hands inward in circles, kneaded into shaped dough, and cut into small steamed buns. The family likes to lay a piece of dried lotus leaf in the cage, The steamed bread also has the faint fragrance of lotus leaves. A bowl of lotus seed heart tea can clear the heart and fire, relieve summer heat and annoyance, and produce saliva and quench thirst.

"Gu ~" the more you think, the happier your stomach cries.

After walking for a long time, the porridge was digested. A Yao swallowed the overflowing saliva and tried her best to ignore the steaming wheat cake.

A child wearing a longevity lock came to her. With a little red cinnabar in the center of her eyebrows and black eyes, she was as pure as a boy under the Guanyin seat.

A Yao smiled back at him, and the child grinned. Then he pointed to a Yao and shouted, "a Niang, a Niang! Here is a little beggar! "

"..." Damn it, bear boy! A Yao's smile froze on her face.

The landlady has time to take a look at ah Yao.

A Yao's weight moved back, slightly panicked, and ran at any time when he saw that it was wrong.

The landlady said, "I haven't seen it before. What do you care so much? Come back quickly!"

"But you usually drive away..." the child muttered, obediently returned to the landlady and turned back to make a face for ah Yao.

A Yao sighed a little relieved and looked at the tea stall.

A small house sheltered from the wind and rain, a few tables and chairs, a stove built outside the house, and a couple with children form a tea stand.

Since you can't get into the city for a while and a half, you can hide under the eaves for a night to rest and see the boss's reaction. If you are found the next day, you shouldn't be. It's much more comfortable than staying in the woods and beaches.

A Yao squatted in the shade of the tree to listen to the tea guests and got a message.

When you walk along the road out of the city for a cup of tea, there is a bamboo path leading to Qingning nunnery. The Guanyin enshrined in Qingning nunnery is the most effective. You can find everything you want, whether for a son or marriage.

And more importantly, Qingning nunnery is willing to adopt orphaned old and weak women and children!

Like a welfare home for later generations.

In the evening, the sky was full of rosy clouds. Ah Yao calculated the time mentally. Her foot path was OK. She went to Qingning nunnery to explore the situation. It was just late at night when she came back. At that time, the tea stall was closed and the tea was cool, which was convenient for her to rest on the spot.

Walk in the direction of the people who support the old and the young, and soon arrive at daqingning nunnery.

A large open space in front of Qingning nunnery was looked at by vendors who are good at doing business. There are more and more people doing business, so it forms a small market, singing loudly and wooing guests. Whenever business comes to the door, the tongue is full of lotus and hype, trying to make a small profit.

Cardamom girls and women lingered in the market with laughter. A Yao walked through the crowd without squinting. Through the mountain gate, she stepped hundreds of steps.

However, under the long evening clock, the sweeping bichuni slowly closed the door - she was still late.

"I can only follow the people to have a look early tomorrow morning and go back to the tea stall. They should leave."

Who knows, when she went back, she saw the bright lights of the tea stall from a distance, and the whole person was not well!

She is a good abacus, but the family lives in a tea stall and makes a night market!

When the ancient convenience store! The city gate is closed. Whose business do you do!

The boss and his wife couldn't hear ah Yao's crazy resentment. The family ate porridge and pickles with wheat cakes. As soon as they cleaned up, business came to the door.

The place where ah Yao squatted was found by the bear child. She originally planned to hide under the table of the tea stall to make up for one night. This is the second rest place she chose. She backs against the big tree to enjoy the cool. There are mosquito repellent plants around her, so she is not afraid of being disturbed; People come and go outside the city during the day. There are nunneries nearby. Snakes, tigers and wolves don't appear very likely... Right?

"Mother! The little beggar is here again! "

Special bear boy, what's his name? Can't you be quiet?

A Yao looked down and saw a child like a Guanyin boy standing under the lanterns of the tea stall, like a demon with a pair of sharp corners on his head and a long fork in his hand, pointing at her and screaming loudly.

The sunset glow dispersed and replaced by the stars. The breeze brought a comfortable coolness to the mountains and forests, and the suburbs were cold and quiet at night. The child's voice suddenly broke the silence, and the farmer who came to have tea and rest looked at it and laughed.

She was ashamed and shrank behind the tree. You know, this kind of child has a bad heart and doesn't know what he will do!

Safety first, small life first.

Ah Yao silently recited the eight character proverb and brainwashed down the grievances and hidden tears at the bottom of her heart.

Unable to see ah Yao, the child curled his mouth. Several farmers eating tea also took back their eyes and continued to talk.

"After the spring equinox, God is capricious. It's either a drought or a flood. The harvest is worrying. Although we can live through it, if someone at home is sick, we can't avoid going to Jiangliu village. Tomorrow, I'll ask my mother-in-law to take some children to worship God and bless no one at home this year." One of them sighed.

The man next to him said, "I asked you to work with us as a long-term worker for the Pei family. You don't listen. Mr. Pei came here and mercifully exempted this year's rent. His family's field is excellent. There is still surplus in the specified amount of harvest. This number... Is more than that of his family's field. Otherwise, I think I have to learn from selling children and women as two legged sheep in the remote area of Jiang village. "

"It's a lucky year, I tell you. My mother-in-law works in Pei's house. She said that it was because the eldest master wanted to marry a bride and the eldest childe was unhappy that she came to relax. If it were true, I would go to Qingning nunnery to pray for the blessing of the Bodhisattva and let the eldest master marry a bride every year! "

At the beginning, the person said, "do you think Jiang village is poor? Their land is good! There is a great drought and flood here. They are not affected at all! Two legged sheep that is... "He said this, and his voice dropped.

A Yao approached them and hid in the dark, pricking her ears. The memory of the original owner told her that she grew up in Jiangcun before.

"That's because there is a big family in Jiangliu county. His son likes to eat children's meat best!"