After boiling the medicine and giving it to Grandma Juanjuan to drink, it was already dark. An Yu sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Grandma Juanjuan who was sleeping soundly, then quietly got up and walked out the door.
A pot has been set up on the earthen stove outside the door. Juanjuan squatted beside the stove, staring at the pot. There are sweet potatoes cooking in the pot, this must be what she calls dinner.
Seeing the dark shadow beside her, Juanjuan raised her head and called out: "Brother, have you ever eaten sweet potatoes?"
An Yu imitated her and squatted in front of the stove, looking at the wisps of smoke coming out of the pit and shaking his head.
"Sweet potatoes are very fragrant! Can you smell it?"
"Yeah, a very strong scent."
An Yu smiled slightly and touched her head. Juanjuan twisted away, raised her mouth and said dissatisfiedly: "Big brother is not allowed to touch Juanjuan's head."
"Why?"
"Because Juanjuan has grown up now!" Her childlike face said firmly.
An Yu's heart moved and she suddenly asked: "Juanjuan, do you still remember why I bought nine flowers?"
Juanjuan nodded heavily: "Of course I remember it. This is the first time Juanjuan has heard that there are so many things to pay attention to when buying flowers!"
"Juanjuan, do you want to find another way to sell flowers?"
"Another way? What way?"
An Yu looked at the wild flowers in his hand and spoke slowly: "Although I don't know much about Liangcheng, and I don't know how many girls like you are selling flowers here, but you can't make much even if you work so hard back and forth. Money. Instead of doing this, it is better to think of a different way to sell flowers to attract the attention of customers, or sell the flowers to florists at low prices, so as not to travel around and be tired. As long as you can think of it, just go for it, no matter what the result is, you will Something gained.”
Juanjuan's little eyes were wide open, and she squatted beside him holding a sweet potato blankly.
"Big Brother, do you mean to make wreaths out of wild flowers and sell them like Xiaodouzi?"
An Yu nodded: "That's right."
"I know how to do it! I can also make small flower baskets, but they can also do these, so it's difficult to sell them."
"Then you have to know that I am better than others, and I am better than others. If they can, then you can think of other tricks. If everyone follows you, then you must be better than them, and the guests will More than others, do you understand?”
Juanjuan frowned and muttered: "Juanjuan has remembered what big brother said."
"That's good. Look, just like what I taught you just now, you can recommend nine flowers to your customers in the future, because nine represents longevity; you can also recommend ten flowers to them, because It's perfect. If you don't want to buy so many flowers, I recommend him to buy one. If you are single-minded, two will be a double happiness..." An Yu repeated the meaning of buying nine flowers in the afternoon. Juanjuan listened attentively and nodded from time to time. Respond.
Seeing that she was serious, An Yu said casually: "In addition to these methods, if you make some beautiful flower arrangements, people should buy them."
"Flower arrangement?" Juanjuan grasped the word quickly and looked at him doubtfully.
"You prepare various flower baskets or vases, flower trays, etc., and use flowers of various colors according to certain shapes to form a beautiful flower shape. If you want it to look pleasing to the eye, it is called flower arrangement. This kind of flower arrangement does not necessarily have to be all They all use flowers, branches or leaves, any combination of these can be done as long as the arrangement is beautiful."
Juanjuan listened with interest, thought for a while, and nodded in agreement, her dark face shining brightly: "Brother, you have so many ideas! We didn't even think of them!"
An Yu smiled and stretched out his hand to touch her head. Suddenly he thought of her words and had no choice but to pat her on the shoulder: "As long as you use your brain, you will find that wealth is actually around us. As long as you dig out it with your heart, That’s it.”
"Uh-huh!"
"Can Juanjuan know how to read?" Suddenly I remembered what Juanjuan said: no reward for no merit. An Yu smiled and asked.
Juanjuan shook her head and whispered sadly: "It's not easy for grandma to support me, and I'm a girl. What can I read?"
"Well, that's it..." An Yu suddenly fell silent.
This is a deep alley, and the people who live here are the elderly and children who are suffering from disease and poverty. The house is built of earth, and the wooden beams on the roof are in disrepair. Every rainy day, water is everywhere in the house. Renovation? We don’t even have money for food, so it would be nice to have a place to hide from the rain. There is no need to go to school to study and read. An Yu is not a saint, and she cannot spend her family's wealth to help the world and save people. However, she has known Juanjuan for less than a day, but she has already spent most of her money to help her. Maybe it's just like what the waiter said, it's fate.
"I'm going back. Keep these coins and take good care of grandma." An Yu took out the last bit of silver and handed it to Juanjuan and explained.
Juanjuan quickly pushed it back to him: "No, big brother, you have already helped us a lot."
"Just think of it as something I lent to you. If you meet me again in the future, just give it back to me." An Yu said helplessly.
Juanjuan turned her head and looked into the room. At this time, the dim candlelight was passing through the crack in the door, faintly piercing the dark night, and reflected on the faces of the two people. She thought for a while, bit her lower lip, and whispered: "Brother, where should I go to find you in the future?"
An Yu looked at the little girl who only reached his chest with a smile: "If you come early, maybe you can find me in Zhongyou."
Juanjuan raised her head in surprise and blurted out: "Eldest brother is going to Zhongyou?!"
"Yes." Juanjuan stayed there in a daze. An Yu sighed, stuffed the silver into her hand, said "take care" and turned around to leave.
An Yu didn't know the way. In the darkness, he could only use the moonlight to vaguely follow the way he came. Occasionally, one or two dog barks came from deep in the alley, and the buzzing of insects everywhere suddenly stopped. The cool breeze blew gently, and a feeling of hunger came over him. An Yu's internal organs suddenly beat a small drum. He quickened his pace and walked forward.
"Big brother-"
A long shout came from behind, and An Yu stopped and looked back. Juanjuan was holding something in her hand and was running towards here.
"Big brother - wait, wait..." Juanjuan caught up with her, holding her knees with her hands, bending over and panting, and it took a while to recover.
An Yu lowered his head and looked at her: "What's wrong? Did something happen to grandma?"
Juanjuan shook her head: "Grandma, it's okay. I forgot that my eldest brother hasn't eaten sweet potatoes yet. And..." She paused slightly, seeming a little embarrassed, "I just kept forgetting to ask my eldest brother's name. !”
An Yu suddenly understood and said with a smile: "My name is An Yu, the happy An Yu."
"An Yu, An Yu, An Le and Wu Yu..." Juanjuan murmured these two notes, and suddenly nodded heavily and said, "Yes! I remembered it! Big brother, it's so dark here, I'll take you out!"
An Yu nodded with a smile.
With Juanjuan leading the way, Anyu quickly left the alley. In front of the street was the inn where Anyu stayed. She took the sweet potato from Juanjuan's hand and watched her figure disappear into the alley again before she turned around. Walk towards the inn.