This was the first time Xiao Yi got drunk. The drunkenness was so wonderful. But he couldn't stand his childhood habits, and he woke up as soon as he arrived. Just like yesterday, Xiao Yi finished punching and sat at the door waiting for the Yanyulou guys to come slowly. Xiao Yi looked carefully and seemed to be much less than the morning of the day. I think those who were less drunk last night.

Bai Qing also went out when she heard the sound. The two looked at each other and nodded, came to the front, and then started practicing with everyone. Although there were fewer men, many neighbors joined. Compared to yesterday, the total number of people was even higher. Everyone was still not satisfied after fighting, so they started again. Bai Qing gave some old men some advice, and everyone laughed. She accidentally glanced at her eyes and saw Wu Laoliu poking out half of his head from the door of a shop. Seeing Bai Qing noticed him, he quickly retracted his head. Bai Qing smiled and ignored him.

It was not as cold as usual, but someone was walking around the street. In the Lu family shop, Bai Qing took out the medicinal materials, turned on the pages, and reviewed the memory. Xiao Yi picked up a pile of stones, sat at the door and threw them out one by one, beating the rocks beside him.

After a long time, Lu Ziling finally left the door. She sang and muttered to herself.

"Why didn't I think about getting some anti-alcohol medicine first?"

She came to the counter, touched Bai Qing's head, and then walked to Xiao Yi and smiled at him. Xiao Yi thought that she smiled like this, afraid something would happen, but fortunately, she just kicked the pile of stones away.

Lu Ziling stood on the street and felt a little strange, but couldn't say there was anything wrong. Suddenly, Wu Laoliu jumped out of a shop, which scared her. He nodded and bowed. It seemed that Wu Laoliu was very polite to meet someone who could deal with him.

"Zi Ling girl, we will be neighbors from now on. Let's go around more if you have nothing to do."

Lu Ziling was confused. Wu Laoliu gestured with his fingers to a row of shops across the street and said happily,

"I will take care of all these shops from now on. Hehe, I rented them all overnight last night. The rent is really cheap. The rows add up to only enough to rent a small room next to Yanyu Tower. You don't know, this is the usual..."

Lu Ziling was not interested in listening to his nagging, so she gave him a blank look and turned back to her own store. Wu Laoliu kept talking and still pointed at him. An Xiaoyi also felt inexplicable, but this street seemed to be more popular. The streets on both sides were similar in size, with a store about one meter wide, and there were two larger shops made of adjacent opening passages. The Lu family pharmacy was separated from it vertically. Although the inner room was narrow, it could also live in people. After his parents left, Lu Ziling lived here. In fact, there was an old house in her family, but she was not in harmony with her aunt, so she simply refused. At the beginning, every New Year and the holidays, uncles and aunts would come to the shop to ask her to go back for dinner for the sake of face, but she always delayed and sometimes refused directly, so the two sides basically stopped interacting.

Although this street is the most remote, it was very lively back then. The streets are wide and all kinds of business in the shops are also well-managed. From time to time, a group of children will run around, and there will be constant noises and jokes. But ten years ago, the Lu family case caused panic. Gradually, not many people came. The shops were closed one by one, and the whole street became more and more cold. In the end, only the Lu family girl was left to stick to it.

But now that there is some popularity on the street, Lu Ziling is not very adaptable. She held her chin and looked at the stones on the street, feeling a little sad, but she was afraid she was also thinking of the past scene.

In the blink of an eye, it was the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month. After Xiao Yi finished punching, the sky was still dark, and some fine snow fell, laying a thin layer on the stones. Xiao Yi was breathing in his hands, his feet kept jumping. This weather was much colder than in previous years. During the day, Wu Laoliu was holding a charcoal stove in his hand, and his upper and lower teeth were still fighting.

Wu Laoliu was also prescient. He rented a row of shops at a low price. After a few days, he subleaseed it at a high price and made a fortune in vain. It's strange that since the Yanyulou man came here to have sex every day, the shops on the street have opened one after another, slowly returning to the past scene. More people came to Lu's pharmacy shop for treatment. Lu Ziling changed his lazy expression and focused on diagnosis and treatment every day. His face became much rosy. Even Wu Laoliu said everywhere that the Lu girl was much more beautiful and wanted to match her with her son.

After digging medicine with his sister a few times, Xiao Yi and Bai Qing was responsible for this job. In fact, Xiao Yi did not recognize the way, but could not establish an objective reference for the direction, so he kept walking around, which eventually led to getting lost. Lu Ziling carefully taught him to identify the direction and used silver needles to prick herbs as a helping hand. Soon Xiao Yi did not dare to get the wrong direction easily. However, he would still get lost when he was about to get lost. However, Lu Ziling could already feel at ease when collecting herbs on nearby mountains. Sometimes Bai Qing stayed in the store to help grab medicine, Xiao Yi would run to the mountains far away to search, occasionally bringing back herbs to cherish herbs, and Lu Ziling would also give him a few pieces of secret crispy meat.

The three of them stayed in the pharmacy during the day, and almost all were in the misty building at night. When the customers in the store retreated, they had to put on a pot of plum wine, and talked with Shen Muyang about the common news and interesting things in the world. They lived a very comfortable life during this period. Although the wine was controlled, the passion was not reduced by half. They loved to sit at the table next to the window, Xiao Yi Baiqing sat next to each other, Lu Ziling and Shen Muyang each occupied one side and sat opposite each other. When there was a moon, the table was covered with moonlight, illuminating the translucent jade pot, making the taste of the wine a little more beautiful. Xiao Yi tied the "candle shadow" with the black stick and carried it with him. He would play with it in his spare time, and occasionally imagine that if he could meet a master of swordsmanship like Fan Liangren again, he could teach him some advanced swordsmanship, which would be better.

On that day, Xiao Yi went up the mountain to collect herbs, put down his back basket, washed his face in the stream next to the street, then put on his coat, and swayed around. Although the weather was cold, the street was very lively and full of people buying New Year's goods. A cloth shop was crowded with people, and the boss was so happy that he could not stop. The clothes shop next to him rubbed with the customers. The boss was smiling and mediating, but the customer was still chattering. The wife of the Li family paid for a broken bowl and grabbed the naughty child beside him... An Xiao Yi suddenly felt that life was so beautiful, and he thought of using his change to buy some charcoal-grilled tofu for his sister and Bai Qing. He walked towards Sun Laohei's stall.

There are many shops on this street, and of course there are also travelers who find open space on the street and set up stalls to start business. This is the case with Sun Laohei. The countertop is two feet square, with charcoal fire in the middle, and the dried tofu on the wire mesh is roasted by charcoal fire. There are various seasonings on the side of the countertop, and the fragrant, glutinous, salty and light are as much as the guests like. Lu Ziling has eaten this shop and nodded. Although An Xiaoyi cannot eat well or badly, as long as his sister says it is good, it will definitely be excellent, especially for the food, he will never have any doubts.

An Xiaoyi walked up to him and found that there were two guests here, sitting opposite him in front of the small shop. The man next to him was about forty, with a beard on his face, and was wearing only a thin shirt in the cold weather. An Xiaoyi felt cold when he looked at him. The man kept stuffing the dried beans into his mouth with long chopsticks, and before he could swallow it, he stuffed another piece. An Xiaoyi felt delicious when he saw him eating.

A thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy sat opposite the rough man. He saw him in blue and white clothes, with a white face, and a look of envy. He just looked at the big man foolishly, but he had no intention of moving his chopsticks. There were dozens of small stones piled beans next to him, and the tofu was sold in pieces. The stones were used for counting Sun Laohei, but there was not a single one in front of the boy. Xiao Yi walked up and sat between the two, looking at the big man and the boy again. He laughed at himself and began to fiddle with the yellowed tofu on the silk screen.

An Xiaoyi picked up a piece, put it in his mouth, chewed it slowly, and enjoyed it. Then he picked up a piece and put it in the mouth of the boy. The boy stared at the big man without paying attention to Xiaoyi at all. However, his mouth was very obedient and quickly rolled the dried beans in. At this time, he discovered that Xiaoyi was smiling foolishly, and there were some water droplets on his dark face.

"I'll treat you to eat." An Xiaoyi said to him with a smile.

"real?"

"real."

I saw that the young man was in a state of madness for a while, stuffing dried tofu into his mouth piece by piece, and his cheeks were bulging, which was a hundred times worse than the big man's appearance. However, his face was better, and he didn't feel disgusting. The big man also laughed and left. Sun Laohei said with a smile,

"Don't choke anymore. I haven't eaten a piece for the past half day. This is great..."

An Xiaoyi was very panicked,

"Eat slowly!"

In fact, he was afraid that he would not have enough money, so he had to let him eat.

Finally, the boy slowed down his pace, and then he muttered and looked at Xiao Yi seriously.

"What's your name? Why are you treating me to eat?"

Xiao Yi is helpless,

"Seeing that you want to eat, I'll treat you to it, but I didn't expect that your little body could eat so much."

The boy replied proudly,

"That's because you have little knowledge. My father can eat one pound of rice and three pounds of meat in one meal, and add a jar of strong wine!"

Xiao Yi smiled and said,

"Wow, then your father must be a hero!"

The boy giggled, then his eyes were distracted, afraid there was something unpleasant,

"Uh, that's not. He helped people pull carts, but his strength was. My mother said that if she hadn't worked in a wealthy family, including food and accommodation, she would probably not be able to support him."

Xiao Yi found it interesting and said,

"Looking at you being innocent and slim and weak, I really can't imagine your father."

The boy stuffed two more pieces of dried tofu and replied,

"Hmph, the neighbors all say that I follow my mother. My mother is so pretty, capable and virtuous. No one in my family won't praise her! I will marry a girl like her in the future." His eyes were bright, and for a while, he seemed to think of sad things again, and slowly lowered his head.

"What about your parents?"

The boy hesitated for a while,

"Why tell you?"

After saying that, he stood up, but with a glance, he seemed to see someone, so he slowly sat down again and pressed his head down very low.

"Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi, you are eating dried beans!" The skinny monkey saw Xiao Yi running over happily, of course, the black stick was too conspicuous.

"Yes, Brother Ah Hua, come and have dried tofu!"

"I won't eat anymore, I won't eat anymore. The boss's wife asked me to invite you here, saying that everyone will be lively today, and it's time to celebrate the New Year together. Tomorrow she will take her white-faced brother back to Dali City. Hey," said the thin monkey stared at the boy bowing his head beside her.

"Ha, it turns out it's you guy!"

The young man just wanted to get up and run away, but was pulled by the thin monkey. The thin monkey was not very strong, but it was more than enough to deal with this half-skinned and weak young man.

"I still want to run away. I saw you sneak out early this morning and you knew you were going to run away. We, Yanyulou, never on credit."

The boy thought he had never lie, and his face was full of "I lie".

"This brother is so good, I will go back and settle the house later."

The thin monkey was very arrogant and explained to Xiao Yi,

"Xiao Yi, it's fine if you say he doesn't have money to stay in a hotel. Our boss is so easy to talk to, it's not bad to spare his room. But this guy actually came here to eat dried beans. Can you bear it? Humph, no."

Xiao Yi laughed,

"It turns out that he has no money. I said he was staring at him for a long time! Haha, Brother Ah Hua, I invited him to eat this tofu. He might have encountered some difficulties." Xiao Yi looked at the boy in confusion.

"I, I..." The boy couldn't say a word for a long time.

"Tell me, what's going on, Brother Xiaoyi will help you decide."

The boy looked at Xiao Yi and nodded.

"I woke up early in the morning and found that my wallet was missing. I thought about it carefully and remembered that I was knocked down by someone when I returned to Yanyu Tower last night. I was afraid it was lost at that time. I originally planned to go back to Dali City today, which is great, it's too embarrassing." After saying that, he lowered his head again.

"Hmph, I don't care. You can talk to Uncle Fu when you go back." The skinny monkey said tough.

Xiao Yi pulled him over,

"Brother Ah Hua, you go back first. Leave this person to me. I'll take him there later."

“This is…”

"It's okay, he'll leave it to me."

The thin monkey thought for a while and said,

"Then I'll go back first, you'll have to bring him here later."

"Well, I'll pass in a while."

Xiao Yi looked at the boy with a smile.

"Hehe, you didn't see clearly when you hit you, right?"

"Yes, that's it."

"What should you do if you have no money?"

"Or why I'll come back home and withdraw the money first."

Xiao Yi laughed out loud,

"Who believes you? Otherwise, if you help me with work for half a month, I will settle the account for you and send you back to Dali City. Think about it, aren't you not having this car and horse fee now? With your little arms and legs, you will definitely not be able to walk with your legs?" Xiao Yi looked at him proudly, picked up a piece of dried tofu and put it in his mouth.

"You think I'll invite you to eat dried beans, you don't look like a bad guy, right?"

The boy thought for a while and nodded,

"Okay, it's a matter of determination."

An Xiaoyi just wanted to make a joke, but he didn't expect that this person would agree in one go. He didn't hold on to the scalp and regretted it. Xiaoyi was reluctant to take out all the change and packed the dried tofu.

"Hey, what's your name?"

The boy blurted out,

"Tong Lu."

"Okay, come with me." The young man smiled at him and followed him.

Xiao Yi came to the Lu family's pharmacy and saw people rushing. He thought that his sister's kidney-tonifying wine medicine was really a big sale. Bai Qing was settled with someone, but when he saw Xiao Yi coming over, he shouted quickly,
To be continued...