Martial arts talent system

Chapter 162

While Li Jianxin was observing the dilapidated little house, the little girl came over with a bowl of tea and said to Li Jianxin, "Big brother, drink some tea."

Li Jianxin looked at the big bowl of tea in the little girl's hand, and said, "Thank you." Then he reached out to take the pottery bowl, looked at the few pieces of broken tea leaves floating in the dark brown tea, and didn't think much about it , just drank the water in the tea bowl in one gulp.

The tea was already cold, with the coldness of winter, the slightly bitter and musty tea taste lingered in his mouth for a long time, but Li Jianxin didn't care.

"Brother, do you still want to drink?" The little girl looked at Li Jianxin and said with a smile. This is the only drink their family can provide.Li Jianxin handed the teacup in his hand to the little girl and said with a smile: "I won't drink anymore. I'm not thirsty anymore. Do you usually drink this kind of tea?"

The little girl nodded, put the pottery bowl in her hand on the table, moved a small bench obediently and sat down, smiled and said to Li Jianxin: "Big brother, I want to hear a story, can you tell me about it? "

"Okay! I don't know what kind of story you want to hear?" Li Jianxin said as he reached out and rubbed the little girl's hair.

"I'll listen to whatever big brother says." The little girl rested her chin in both hands, looking at Li Jianxin with hope in her eyes.Seeing the little girl's appearance, Li Jianxin couldn't help rubbing her chin, and said to the little girl: "Then I have to think about it!"

As Li Jianxin spoke, he began to search for the stories in his stomach, martial arts?Inappropriate; Grimm's Fairy Tales?Nope; Dragon Quest?It doesn't seem to work. Li Jianxin thought for a while, and then remembered the most popular "Journey to the West" in the world he was in before, and then said to the little girl: "Then let me tell you a story about a monkey." .”

"The story of the monkey?" The little girl listened to Li Jianxin's words, but said to Li Jianxin: "What is a monkey? Big brother."

Hearing what the little girl said, Li Jianxin couldn't help touching his nose in embarrassment, and said to the little girl: "This monkey looks just like your brother, Asheng, except that it is covered in hair and has a tail sticking out of its buttocks." .”

The little girl realized what a monkey was after seeing Li Jianxin's explanation. She clapped her hands and shouted to her three older brothers, "Brother Asheng, come here quickly. Big brother is going to tell a story about monkeys." Called by the little girl, the three little boys gathered around, looked at Li Jianxin, and wanted to hear Li Jianxin's story about monkeys.

"Ahem." Li Jianxin cleared his throat, and by the way, mentally recited the outline of the story of Journey to the West. The story told him too long ago, and he had forgotten a lot, so he changed it magically. Looking at the children surrounding him, he said: "On the far away Dongsheng Shenzhou, there is a transparent spirit stone. It is said that this stone is a colorful stone left by Nuwa to mend the sky. This stone is amazing. No, I don’t know how many years of absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, but I have gradually brewed a spiritual fetus.” When Li Jianxin was talking, he was interrupted by the little girl, who asked prettyly: “Uncle , What is this Nuwa mending the sky? And what is that spiritual fetus?"

Hearing that the little girl interrupted Li Jianxin's storytelling, Ah Sheng quickly tugged at the corner of the little girl's clothes, signaling her not to talk too much.Seeing this, Li Jianxin quickly waved his hand, and said to A Sheng, "It's not a problem. Let me talk about this Nuwa mending the sky first."

Li Jianxin told the story of Nuwa mending the sky, and then began to tell the story of "Journey to the West". "It is said that Sun Wukong was recruited to heaven by Taibai Jinxing and became Bi Mawen. After finding out that he was just a small official raising horses, he threw off his black gauze hat and went to heaven. Instead, he made friends with seven big monsters and became Bi Mawen. They are sworn brothers, the eldest is called the Great Sage Bull Demon King of Pingtian, the second is called the Great Sage Peng Demon King of Moyun, and the third is called the Great Sage Demon King of Fuhai." Li Jianxin answered the questions of these children while talking about Journey to the West. Ten thousand why.He also did this when he was in the orphanage. It made that gray time have some warmth. Now, doing it slowly reminds him of the past that he had long forgotten.
Time passed slowly like this, and the small dilapidated room was crowded with laughter and laughter, but there was more happiness than those inside.

There was a sound of "Here", but the door was opened.Only then did Li Jianxin stop talking, and turned around to look at the door, only to see an old lady walking in with a bamboo basket on her shoulders.Seeing this slightly familiar face, Li Jianxin remembered that this old man was the old man who sold river lanterns for him and Liu Yiyi, but he didn't know that she was Ah Sheng's nanny.

Li Jianxin watched the old lady come back, and quickly stood up.Before he could say anything, those children surrounded him, shouting "Nurse, you're back" from their mouths.The old lady took a look at Li Jianxin, then smiled and handed the basket to A Sheng, and said, "A Sheng, why didn't you say that there are guests at home?"

Ah Sheng scratched his head when he heard the words, and said to the old woman embarrassedly: "Nurse, the story that uncle told is so good, I forgot about it." As he said, he trotted with the basket in his hand and put the basket in his hands. Under the table, Li Jianxin glanced at the things in the basket. They were all withered leaves, which must have been picked up by the old man from the market.

The old lady wiped her hands on her body and said to Li Jianxin, "You are the kind big brother that A Sheng mentioned."

Li Jianxin touched the tip of his nose with a smile, and said to the old lady, "I don't know if you still remember? I bought some river lanterns at your house during the Mid-Autumn Festival."

The old woman frowned and thought about it carefully, but she didn't remember that Li Jianxin sold river lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival in her memory, but she remembered that a kind couple not only bought all her river lanterns that night , and secretly slipped a silver coin to her.

Thinking of this, the old lady thought: He knows that he sells river lanterns, and presumably he has taken care of his own business, so she said to Li Jianxin, "Old lady, I really don't remember you, sir. I don't know if you can tell me, sir." Be more specific."

When Li Jianxin heard this, he remembered that he was now as thin as a tuberculosis ghost, so he smiled and said, "I don't blame my mother-in-law. I used to be tall and strong, but I just suffered a serious illness recently and became so thin." It’s gone, but it’s completely fine now, don’t be afraid, old woman.”

After hearing Li Jianxin's words, the old lady knew that Li Jianxin was one of the kind couples, so she immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Li Jianxin to thank him.Li Jianxin naturally refused to let such an old man kneel in front of him, so he hurried over to support the old man and said, "Old lady, you can't help it."

"Young Master is a kind-hearted person. Although this tael of silver is a small thing to the Young Master, it is a big deal to the old lady. The Young Master cannot ignore this courtesy." The old lady said that she was about to bow down, but was stopped by Li Jianxin. He insisted on not being able to kneel down.

Only then did Li Jianxin realize from whom he had learned this habit of kneeling at every turn. Although he did not agree with this mode of gratitude, he also knew that this was the only way for the people at the bottom to express their gratitude.For these low-income people, it may take three or four months to save one tael of silver, not to mention that the old man in front of them has already begun to pick up vegetable leaves and eat them.A trace of guilt arose in Li Jianxin's heart. He suddenly felt that he had forgotten his original intention of changing the world. He had stayed in Rourou Township for too long.

"Don't insist on it, it's just a little effort." Li Jianxin said and forced the old woman to sit on the stool, and said to the old man: "If you really want to thank me, give me the money and Take the chicken legs well, Ah Sheng and the others are still young, and it is time to grow their bodies, only when their bodies grow well can they slowly change their destiny in the future."

Li Jianxin's words touched the weak point in the old woman's heart. She no longer insisted on anything. She just sighed, stretched out her skinny hands like vines and said to Li Jianxin: "If you don't dislike it, Master, Just stay and have a casual meal.”

Li Jianxin looked at the old lady's cloudy eyes, and knew that if he refused again, the old man would feel very sorry.So he smiled and said, "Then I will trouble you, old lady, to cook for one more person."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." The old lady waved her hands quickly and smiled, the wrinkles on her face were all squeezed together, showing a satisfied expression.The old lady sat for a while, and exchanged a few words with Li Jianxin, then put her hands on her thighs, stood up slowly, and said to Li Jianxin: "The old lady is going to cook, please wait a while .”

"It doesn't matter. I just happened to continue telling the story with Ah Sheng and the others." Li Jianxin sat down after speaking.The old lady nodded to Li Jianxin, then turned and walked to the back of the house, the kitchen was outside.

As the smoke rose, Li Jianxin told the story of "Journey to the West" with the four "whys" inside the house, while the old lady was busy with today's lunch outside the house.About half an hour later, the old woman placed plates of vegetables on the table, and in the center was the chicken leg sent by Li Jianxin.After putting away the bowls and chopsticks, the old woman shouted to Li Jianxin and the others: "Come and eat."

"Go eat, and I'll tell you this story after dinner." Li Jianxin said to the four children, then got up and walked to the table, picked up a steamed bun and bit it, the face of the steamed bun was slightly sour Yes, it must have been less alkaline fermentation.

Seeing that the old woman didn't eat those chicken legs, Li Jianxin took a chicken leg and put it in the gaped pottery bowl in front of the old woman, and said to the old woman, "You can eat one too."

"I'm getting old, but I'm afraid of the oily smell. You should eat it, sir." The old woman was about to pick up the chicken legs in the bowl and pass it to Li Jianxin, but Li Jianxin pressed the old woman's chopsticks with his chopsticks and said, "You Think about it, your eyes are not very good now, it is time to supplement your nutrition, you should eat more meat, Ah Sheng and the others still need your care, your body can’t collapse first. Listen to my advice Take a moment, eat this chicken leg." Li Jianxin then pulled out the chopsticks as she spoke, and picked up a few chicken legs for the children one after another.The old woman looked at the chicken drumsticks in the bowl, but still ate them bit by bit.

After dinner, Li Jianxin started to tell stories to these children again, but the story ended before being crushed on Wuzhi Mountain.The little girl was a little unfinished, but she also knew that Li Jianxin had been out for too long, so she didn't make a fuss, and just remembered the story Li Jianxin told today in her heart.On the side, Ah Sheng said to Li Jianxin: "Big brother, can I tell this story to others?"

Li Jianxin stroked Ah Sheng's hair and said, "Of course it's possible. I also heard this story from others. If you want to tell it to others, it's fine, but where do you want to tell it?"

"I want to try it on the street and see if I can earn some money to subsidize my family by telling stories." A Sheng said a little nervously.

"It's ok, so our A Sheng has already thought so far." Li Jianxin began to fight for A Sheng as an adviser, but he provided some advice for A Sheng, and said to A Sheng: "But you If you want to tell this story well, don’t let others bully you. If someone bullies you, you can come to me.” Ah Sheng just nodded.Only then did Li Jianxin bid farewell to Ah Sheng and the others.

On the way back, Li Jianxin bought a lot of new year's goods again, and it will be New Year's Eve in three days, so he needs to get ready quickly.Li Jianxin was about to go home with a lot of new year's goods, but he remembered that he should buy some snacks for Ah Sheng and the others so that they could have a happy new year, so he went to a place selling candied fruit and bought some candy boxes and candied fruit, and then returned Went to the house.

As soon as he entered the house, Li Jianxin put the New Year's necessities in his hands away in the kitchen.He was about to come to the courtyard to read a book, but he saw Jun Mobai sitting in the courtyard, so he walked over to Jun Mobai who was in a daze and asked, "What are you thinking about? Mo Bai."

Jun Mobai came back to his senses, took out a piece of letter paper from his hand and said to Li Jianxin: "A few days ago, I sent a letter home, and my father replied that he would come over to see how you treat me."

Li Jianxin took the letter, looked at the flamboyant cursive on it, quickly browsed through the contents of the letter, suddenly frowned, and said to Jun Mobai: "I see that your father has a lot of dissatisfaction with me in this letter, you Daddy, will he slap me to death when he comes over? After all, what I have done these years has made you suffer a lot."

"You know what you have done!" Jun Mobai rolled his eyes and spat at Li Jianxin. Li Jianxin knew that Jun Mobai was not angry, but he said with a sad face: "Then what can I do?" What to do?"

Jun Mobai looked at Li Jianxin's embarrassed look, covered his mouth and snickered, but then stretched out his finger to poke Li Jianxin and said: "Okay, let's talk about business with you? It's a bit formal."

(End of this chapter)