Chapter 12: Hiding from the Rain
The lanterns in the backyard of the tavern were hung high, and the whole yard was bright! As the fifth update approached, Guo Xiaowu was shouted by Li Dazhu. Li Dazhu carried a load and called the guy in the tavern to open the door of the backyard and walked out.
Guo Xiaowu followed closely, and Li Dazhu's steps quickly and anxiously said: "We can't delay the trip. If we delay one day, we will be more dangerous. Look at the fog today, it is very heavy, and the fog in autumn will rain! Today is a cloudy day.
That day, just like a child's face, it will change. Let's buy a kettle and then buy two straw hats and raincoats! If it rains heavily on the road, it can still hold on. The dry food is almost gone, so we are making some steamed buns with them."
"The fog is quite heavy, and there is still a moon at night." Guo Xiaowu replied.
When we arrived at the street market, people were walking on the street one after another, and the stall selling breakfast also supported the awning! People in groups of three or three were sitting in the awning for breakfast.
Fried noodles, buns, fried buns, bean paste and spicy soup! The fragrance wafts from the streets, and the crowing sounds of chickens and dogs are heard in the streets and alleys.
"Thirty pancakes, ten buns! A few pancakes are here too." Li Dazhu walked to a breakfast stall and said, putting down the load he was carrying.
"Brother is going to go far! Now the war is in chaos, you should pay attention." The breakfast stall is an elderly man in his fifties and sixties with a gray goatee, looking very kind-hearted.
"I remember, the uncle's business is very good." Li Dazhu responded with a smile.
"It's all the neighbors to take care of it, and give it a bite of food." The old stall owner said, his legs and feet were bumpy! He was wearing coarse clothes like ordinary people, and patches were everywhere.
Living in the county town, the stall owner is not a wealthy family! Of course, with the business background of this stall owner, it is not comparable to ordinary people.
"That's great! You're a kind-hearted person when you hear it." Li Dazhu said, taking out a cigarette box and foreign fire to light a cigarette for himself.
"You can't be calm when you are a human being. If you get better, you will be very popular! Someone will help you. You sit down with that young man and drink a bowl of soup. Seeing that you want so much steamed bun, you will know that you will have to go a long way.
After drinking this bowl of hot soup, I am afraid I won’t be able to eat hot rice for a few days.
It’s not easy to be outside, so I’ll give this soup to you! Just eat it with buns more comfortably. You can use buns as dry food on the road and put them as soon as they are cold. The buns will taste different when they are cold. It’s better to bring two kilograms of fried dough sticks, which is a few more days more than baked buns.
The fried dough sticks are full of oil and water, and you can eat enough." The old stall owner suggested.
"Okay, let's have two more kilograms of fried dough sticks! The uncle wants to give me a little cheaper." Li Dazhu smiled.
These fried dough sticks are fried with good noodles, which is more expensive than baked buns and buns! The fried dough sticks are more oily and watery, and they are saturated when eaten.
"One cent per pound is the same." The old stall owner responded.
"I want to drink Hula soup, I can eat five of those ten buns." Guo Xiaowu said. He had already swallowed a lot of saliva when he smelled the fragrance. These foods were rarely eaten even when he was a soldier, not to mention that when he was in his hometown, this was a food that he could only eat during festivals.
"You, you're so greedy!" Li Dazhu walked to Guo Xiaowu and patted Guo Xiaowu's head.
Guo Xiaowu rubbed his head, and sat down with Li Dazhu with a giggle! Two bowls of Hu spicy soup and ten big buns were quickly placed in front of the two of them. The breakfast was very comfortable for both of them.
After the two of them had a meal, the baked buns and fried dough sticks were also wrapped by the old stall owner and sent to Li Dazhu! Li Dazhu settled the bill and asked Guo Xiaowu to take the food, and he took the courage to leave.
As if it is bright today, the storefronts on the street market are open! Li Dazhu led Guo Xiaowu to buy two straw hats and raincoats at an umbrella stall.
This hat is made of bamboo strips, and the raincoat is woven with straw. The hat can protect the sun and block the rain! The raincoat can prevent the cold rain from getting stuck in the heavy rain.
In the grocery store, Li Dazhu bought a water hyacinth! He asked the store to fill the tea with gourds, and then the two left the city.
The fog was very big, and there was no sight of anything three feet away! The two had already put on their hats and raincoats, but the sun did not show up under the heavy fog, and soon the light rain fell from the sky.
The autumn rain was a little cold, and the two of them had nothing to talk about, one after another, walking on the muddy path.
"Brother Dazhu, there is a village ahead, should we go to shelter from the rain?" Guo Xiaowu asked.
"The rain is still small, so let's hurry up and hurry up. It will take two days to go from here to Pingxing. Don't you want to go home earlier? If you are away from home, you are not raining and strong winds, you can't be afraid of this pain." Li Dazhuxun said.
"Oh! I want to go home early." Guo Xiaowu responded. When it comes to home, this little rain is nothing to Guo Xiaowu.
The sight in the rain was even worse, and I passed by villages along the path! The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the weather became colder. When Li Dazhu and Guo Xiaowu passed by the same village again, Li Dazhu finally stopped. The muddy road was already wet with the shoes of the two.
"It's noon and I'm hungry! It's raining now, every household is closed. We can't leave anymore. Let's wait until the rain stops before leaving. Let's take a rest first. Seeing that the sky is getting much brighter, it shouldn't rain soon." Li Dazhu said.
This village is not big, not too small! There are dozens of families in sight. There are three thatched main houses, two of them in the east and west, and one kitchen is a standard courtyard. At this moment, the rain washes the village full of mud.
"I'll knock on the door!" Guo Xiaowu said urgently, and ran to the nearest home and patted the yard.
Bang bang bang bang bang bang!
"Is there anyone? Is there anyone there??" Guo Xiaowu shouted loudly in the rain, slapped.
"Who!" The door of the main room opened and a young young man appeared.
"When passing by, my brother and I rested. When the rain stopped, we left." Guo Xiaowu responded.
"Foreigner!?" The young young man was alert, and the wife behind him was a little scared.
"The head of the family." Housheng's wife grabbed Housheng's arm and shouted.
"It's okay, I'm here!" the young young man comforted.
"I am from a foreign country and am rushing home! It's raining heavily, so it's hard to leave." Li Dazhu, who was behind Guo Xiaowu, responded.
"Wait." The young man found an umbrella.
"What if it's a bad person?" the wife said worriedly.
"What are the two foreigners afraid of? If there is something wrong, you call me brother. We have been to foreigners. If you have difficulties, please help me if you can." said the young man.
"We don't have much food at home," said his wife.
"No matter how much food is, every family is poor these days! Everyone knows when they go out and they will bring some food by themselves. They are really useless, so we can be considered accumulating virtue and doing good deeds." The young man comforted him.
"Why do you go to our house to rest!" The young man's wife complained.
"Hey!" The young man sighed and went to open the yard with an umbrella.
"Thank you brother! It's really raining heavily, so I have to take a rest nearby." Li Dazhu said apologetically.
Chapter completed!