At this time, except for the old leaves of the previous year, there were only new shoots on the pomelo leaves. Zhou Lizhong had recently learned more about Luojiang County, so he quickly found the pomelo tree.
When the owner of the tree heard that Zhou Lizhong was taking pomelo leaves to get rid of evil spirits, he pointed to the leaves on the tree and said, "Pick it yourself."
Zhou Lizhong didn't bring any tools, so he could only take off his shoes and socks, hugged the tree and climbed up the tree. After a while, he broke off two branches and thanked the owner of the tree, then happily went back with the leaves.
After returning to the street corner, there was some noise at the entrance of an inn at the street corner, and many people gathered together to watch the excitement.
Zhou Lizhong passed by, he didn't want to look at it at first, but subconsciously stood on tiptoe, stretched his neck and took a look in, and was thinking about turning into the alley to go home, when he saw the boy who was pushed out by the innkeeper and fell to the ground, a downcast The middle-aged man embraced the boy and sat down on the ground.
Zhou Li gave a heavy pause, stretched out his hand to push aside the people standing in front of him, and looked in. He saw the shopkeeper throwing out their luggage with an ugly face, and a woman with a sallow face was also pushed by the waiter while she was holding a bag in her hand. out.
The innkeeper stood on the steps and said mockingly: "Uncle Shi, it's not that I don't want to let you stay, the person who comes is a guest. Although you are unlucky and have bad luck, as long as you can pay the room fee, our inn I will give you everything that should be given, and I will serve you comfortably, but if you can't pay, and you don't want to leave, then it's too embarrassing for me."
The onlookers pointed at Uncle Shi, "Isn't there still a small house? Did you lose the bet again?"
"I heard that Shi Xiaolang was ill, and he sold the house to buy medicine to treat his illness."
"Oh, a house is not cheap, is it all spent?"
The woman stepped forward with a numb face, and stretched out her hands to help her son up together with Uncle Shi, but the boy collapsed all over, without any strength at all, and the couple failed to help him up together...
Zhou Lizhong put grapefruit branches and leaves in his waistband, stepped forward to help the boy up, found that he was very light, so he simply picked him up horizontally, and was about to ask him where he was sent, when he thought he was driven out of the inn When he came out, he had nowhere to go, so he simply said, "Let's go."
Uncle Shi and Mrs. Shi stared at him blankly, neither of them recognized Zhou Lizhong, they just thought they looked familiar.
Zhou Lizhong had already left with the man in his arms. After walking two steps, he found that the man hadn't followed, so he looked back at them, "Come on."
The two hurriedly picked up the luggage on the ground and wanted to keep up. The shopkeeper was stunned when he saw it, and immediately rushed up and grabbed Zhou Lizhong's arm, "Wait a minute, Mr. Lang is their relative? That's right, pay back the rent they owed me." Bar."
Uncle Shi's face changed slightly, and he said in a deep voice, "I will pay back the rent I owe you."
"Return? What do you have to pay back?" The shopkeeper said bluntly: "I don't care about the tens of pennies since you have no relatives and no reason. Now that you have relatives and friends, why don't you pay me back?"
Although Uncle Shi didn't think of Zhou Lizhong yet, he didn't want him to suffer, so he said with a cold face: "Who said I didn't have any relatives for no reason? Aren't you my old friend?"
He looked at the inn behind him, and said with a strange smile: "Speaking of which, you still rent this inn from my family's house. In the past, you always complained that Luojiang County was poor, with few people, and the inn couldn't make ends meet. Zuzi, I always erased the fraction of five taels, and I also erased it for seven or eight years. At that time, we were good friends... "
When Uncle Shi said this, the onlookers also remembered, and said to the shopkeeper one after another: "Yes, although Uncle Shi can't hold on to the family business and has no ability to gamble, he was indeed generous to others in the past and helped many people. In the past, people gave you a few taels of silver, but now you are free of tens of pennies, what's the matter?"
The shopkeeper's face changed, it was very ugly.
Zhou Li glanced at him again, put down the young man in his hand, supported him with one hand, felt in his sleeve pocket with the other hand, took out a bunch of money and asked, "How much?"
The shopkeeper didn't speak.
Uncle Shi stretched out his hand to stop Zhou Li and said: "No need, I will pay for it myself."
Zhou Lizhong pressed Uncle Shi's hand, and said with a smile: "Uncle Shi, don't you remember me? When I was young, I never missed the cock that you half-sold and gave away for free. My grandmother used to be in poor health because she often got some roosters from you. Meat, so the body is slowly getting better."
Uncle Shi narrowed his eyes slightly, he had never sold chickens, and a few times, he sold fighting cocks that had been pecked badly.
But there is only one person who will buy a fighting cock with him and stew it for dinner...
His face suddenly changed, "You are a child of the Zhou family."
He looked people up and down, sighed, and asked, "Are you the one called the big head, or the one called the second head?"
Zhou Lizhong: "... I am the big head, I have a big name, and my name is Zhou Lizhong!"
Uncle Shi nodded slightly, and still wanted to talk, Zhou Lizhong had already thrown the money bag to the shopkeeper, then picked up the young man and said, "Excluding the room fee, the rest of the money will be sent to the closed house in the alley."
After saying that, he strode away. Uncle Shi and Mrs. Shi hurriedly followed, and then returned to the door of the house they had just sold at the end of the alley.
Two people: ...
Zhou Lizhong kicked the door open with a light kick, and Zhou Zhoulang, who was doing a simple cleaning inside, turned his head, "Are you back? Can you pick it up... this is it?"
Zhou Erlang's eyes widened.
Zhou Lizhong smiled innocently and said, "Second Uncle, are everything in the house complete?"
Tuesday Lang nodded blankly.
Zhou Lizhong reported the boy to his original room and let him lie on the bed.
Uncle Shi and Mrs. Shi looked embarrassed. They just sold their house and moved out two days ago, but now they are back...
Zhou Lizhong came out and said to Zhou Zhoulang: "Let them live here first, I will go to Jishitang to ask for a doctor."
Uncle Shi hurriedly stopped him and said: "The doctors in Jishitang have already seen it. We have the prescription here. There is no need to make another visit to the doctor. We can just go back and grab the medicine with the prescription."
Zhou Lizhong was curious, "Do you have the money to buy medicine?"
Uncle Shi's face didn't change much, but his body became slightly stiffer, and he didn't speak.
Although Zhou Lizhong was curious about where the money from selling the house went, he still didn't ask, and insisted: "Let's ask the doctor to take a look."
After all, I went out.
Zhou Lizhong has grown up, and he is the grandson of the eldest son, so Zhou Zhoulang did not object to his decision. Seeing that he was going to invite a doctor, he raised a smile and greeted Uncle Shi and Mrs. Shi, "Put your luggage down first, by the way." , your room hasn’t been moved yet, but my wife has tidied up a little bit, I’ll go and call her here, you still live in that room.”
After finishing speaking, he hurriedly went to the backyard to find Mrs. Feng and Zhou Zhoulang.
The three of them were cleaning in the backyard. When they heard that the Shi family was brought back by Zhou Lizhong, they couldn't help staring, "Then who owns this house?"
"Of course it's still ours, but we're not in a hurry to live in it, just let them live in it for the time being." Zhou Zhou Lang said: "It's a good thing that the children know how to repay their kindness. Uncle Shi also helped Man Bao and the children a lot back then. .”