Chapter 3 first return

mountain city. This small town is in the distant mountains, and the distant mountains are thousands of miles away. Li Huai went back again, back to the city. He has been familiar with the wind, sand and loess here and the people here for a long time. Because he had grown up here, he was a prodigal, he had no roots, and his childhood was nothing more than a series of nightmares, but this place was the most haunting part of his nightmares. Mantou shops do not necessarily only sell steamed buns, and Lao Zhang was not old when he was called Lao Zhang. But now he is old. Every day, he always uses his dizzy old eyes to watch the dust billowing by, always as if a miracle will appear at any time on this street where he has lived for decades.

A miracle that he never imagined would really happen today. He saw a dusty young man, wearing dusty clothes, lazily walking to the steamed bun stand in front of his small shop. Steaming white mist was rising from the steamed bun cage, which dazzled Zhang's old eyes. He could only see that this young man was a good-looking young man with a pair of sharp eyes and a very special look. Lao Zhang had never seen this kind of appearance before, and he dared to say that this young man must have never been here. "Guest officer." Lao Zhang asked: "The shop is not open yet, but steamed buns, steamed buns, and stewed vegetables are all ready-made. What do you want to eat, guest officer?"

"I want to eat you." The young man said such a sentence to him in a very gentle tone, which really surprised Lao Zhang. "You want to eat me?" Lao Zhang was stunned. "Why do you want to eat me? What do I have to eat?" "Of course you are delicious." The boy said, "If I didn't eat you, how could I live till now?" Lao Zhang looked at him in surprise, and suddenly smiled, laughing loudly, happier than he saw anything. "It turned out to be you, you little villain!" Lao Zhang laughed until every wrinkle on his face creased, "You used to eat me every day, for several years, and you haven't seen me for several years, and you still want to eat me? "

"If I don't eat, who will you eat?" This young man is really amazing, not only what he said, but also what he did. He actually opened the cage on Lao Zhang's steamed bun stand, took out all the buns and steamed buns in the cage, and actually ate them all. "You really eat?" "Of course I do." Old Zhang laughed again: "Do you remember how many steamed buns you sneaked in in the middle of the night on your eleventh birthday and ate me? Unexpectedly, you ate more today than that day." "I practiced it." The boy's smile seemed to have become a little sad: "A person who has been starving since he was six months old can't practice other things, but this kind of thing can always be practiced."

"You eat it!" Lao Zhang sighed deliberately: "You just eat it, anyway, I'm used to being eaten by you." "Of course you're used to not taking my money." "Since you are used to not giving, of course I have no choice but to get used to not accepting." Lao Zhang smiled wryly, "I can't receive it anyway." But when Lao Zhang said this, it seemed a little different from his usual way of speaking. Because he suddenly saw a thing he rarely saw. On this dusty street, suddenly there was a child with a round face, round eyes, and a bun, wearing a bright red round gown, with a yellow gold ring around his neck, and a pair of Shiny bangles, "double gold rings" on the ears, holding a disc with a pair of round white and chubby hands, the disc is full of countless round gold ingots, round and round With a pair of round dimples embedded in his smiling face, he walked towards this boxy steamed bun shop.

Lao Zhang was stupid. He had never seen such a person appear here. But a chubby kid not only came up to him, but also threw a round plate in front of him. Lao Zhang looked at the piles of round gold ingots on the plate, and his eyes became round. "What do you mean?" He asked the young man, "Could it be that you asked someone to give these ingots to me?" "Yuan Bao? What Yuan Bao? Where did the Yuan Bao come from? I haven't even seen a single Yuan Bao!" "What did you see?" Old man Zhang looked fiercely at the young man who was deliberately pretending to be stupid: "What did you see if it wasn't Yuanbao?"

"I only saw steamed buns." The boy said, "It's a pity that the steamed buns you gave me saved my life, but the steamed buns I gave you are not edible." "I understand what you mean." Old Zhang really sighed this time. "You have to repay me. You said before that you would repay me a hundred times and a thousand times." Lao Zhang said, "At that time, I believed that you would do it one day, but now I don't believe it." gone." "why?" "Because I can't believe that a kid like you will make such a fortune in such a short few years."

A very mysterious smile suddenly appeared on the face of this young man who was handsome but full of dust, dressed in simple but spend money like water. "You don't believe it?" he said. "To tell you the truth, not only you don't believe it, but I don't even believe it myself." Old man Zhang suddenly showed a mysterious expression on his wrinkled face, and deliberately lowered his voice and said: "I heard that a lone bandit recently appeared in the rivers and lakes. He is highly skilled in martial arts and so courageous that he even dared to snatch Ku Yin from the big family."

"Oh!" "Haven't heard of this man?" "No." "But his temper seems to be similar to yours. I also know that you have been courageous since you were a child." Old man Zhang looked at him, a pair of dim old eyes filled with a treacherous smile. "If I were a thief wanted by the government, I would definitely hide here." Old man Zhang said, "Who can hide in this kind of place where chickens don't fly, dogs don't jump, and rabbits don't pee." The boy also laughed, "That's true and not fake at all." When this little girl appeared, it was the time when this boy smiled the cutest.

In all conscience, when this young man laughed, he looked a little bad, especially when he looked at a little girl. She is angry. Although she wasn't riding a horse, she was holding a whip in her hand, as if she didn't use it to beat a horse at all, but to whip people with it. She pointed the young man's nose with the horsewhip, and asked old man Zhang: "Who is this guy?" Old man Zhang didn't speak, but the young man rushed to say: "Who is this person? I'm afraid there is no one in the world who knows better than me." He pinched the whip tip with two fingers, still pointed the whip tip at his nose and said:

"My surname is Li, and my name is Li Huai." "You are bad?" The little girl seemed to be unable to hold back her laughter, "You know you're bad!" "A person named Li Huai is not necessarily a bad person." Li Huai said solemnly. The little girl looked even more curious. "Your name is really Li Huai?" "Really, of course it is true." The boy said, "I have another four-letter name." "A four-letter name?" The little girl looked at Li Huai with a pair of big eyes in surprise, "What's your four-letter name?" "It's called Li Necrosis." The little girl smiled. "Li Huai, you are really dead." She smiles so cute, so cute. If Li Huai is the one with the cutest smile among men, then this little girl can definitely be regarded as the one with the cutest smile among women. Li Huai looked at her obsessively, as if he had lost his mind. At this moment, the horsewhip in the little girl's hand suddenly trembled, wrapping around Li Huai's neck like a snake. Her other hand had already slapped Li Huai's face twice with "slap, slap", and there was a sweeping leg underneath. So our young master of the Li family, who had just returned from making a fortune, was like a big bear, with his feet in the air, and fell on the yellow sand rolling road, with a big steamed bun stuffed in his mouth. Old man Zhang looked at the disheartened Li Huai and smiled. "You're not that lone thief." Lao Zhang laughed so hard that his mouth crooked, "There's no such useless lone thief in the world, and it's settled by a little girl casually." "That little girl is really fierce. I didn't recruit her, and I didn't provoke her. Why did she treat me like this?" "Who said you didn't mess with her?" "When did I mess with her?" "Have you really forgotten who she is?" Old man Zhang began to laugh mischievously again, "Did you forget that when you were a child, you liked to make a little girl in floral clothes into a muddy face whenever you could?" Li Huai was taken aback. "Could she be Coco?" "She is." Li Huai smiled wryly, "Unexpectedly, she still hates me." Old man Zhang smiled happily, "Of course you never thought she would become as beautiful as she is now."