The fool has become a spirit, and she can speak

Wan Lianxing looked at the bowl with a chipped tooth and guessed that the bowl must be as old as he was, but he said that it didn't matter.

The woman poured water into each bowl. The white bowls were filled with green water, which looked very thirst-quenching.

Wan Lianxing thought it was tea. Although the bowl was very hot to hold, he still took a small sip and then quickly put the bowl on the table because it was too hot.

Wan Lianxing's eyes lit up: "Mrs. Hu, what kind of tea is this? Why is there a cool breeze coming out?"

Just this small sip made Wan Lianxing feel completely cooled down, and wherever the water touched, it was cool.

The woman blushed and said shyly, "I don't have any tea to serve you, and I was afraid that you might not be used to drinking plain water, so I added a handful of mint leaves into the kettle."

"Mint? What is mint? Can I see it?"

The woman blushed and said, "There are plenty in the garden, and even more on the hill. It's just grass."

The attendant's eyes stood up: "How dare you give our master some grass-soaked water?"

The woman's face turned from red to white. She had never seen such a cold-faced person in her companionship, and she almost dropped the kettle in her hand. "We drink it ourselves. It's hot here, and drinking mint water is cool."

Wan Lianxing glared at his companion and said, "I like this mint. It's a good thing. I want to see it."

The woman pointed to something nearby and showed it to Wan Lianxing. Wan Lianxing plucked off a piece and put it in his mouth to chew. It was cooler than the water. He said with emotion: "It's amazing that there is such a cool thing in the world!"

With Wan Lianxing taking the lead, everyone came to taste the mint, and the two mints were pulled bald in an instant.

Wan Lianxing smiled and said, "Can I take one with me when I leave and plant it in the garden?"

The woman nodded and said, "Okay, I'll plant two in pots for you tomorrow morning."

Wan Lianxing said, "We are not staying here. Where is your man? We will leave when he comes back."

The woman was very embarrassed. "My husband Hu Er said he would let you stay at his house for one night. Although the conditions at home are a bit poor, it is better than traveling at night."

Wan Lianxing said, "Where is he? Why didn't I see him when I entered the courtyard?"

The woman said, "I went up the mountain to dig sweet potatoes. I'll cook some for you later."

Wan Lianxing was full of questions. Seeing Wan Lianxing's expression, the woman became even more embarrassed. "It's not that we don't give you good food. Our whole village eats sweet potatoes. The nearby villages also eat sweet potatoes. There is nothing else to eat. We rarely buy food. If you don't believe me, I'll open the rice jar and show you."

Wan Lianxing waved his hand hastily and said, "What are you thinking about? I don't want to stay and disturb you."

The woman said, “Don’t bother.”

Wan Lianxing knew that it was already a great hospitality to dig up the sweet potatoes from the ground and give them to eat. Wan Lianxing looked at his own people. They would have to eat a bag of sweet potatoes. Without this bag of sweet potatoes, the family might starve.

After a while, Hu Er came back with a few villagers, carrying three bags of sweet potatoes.

Wan Lianxing said, "How did you dig out so many sweet potatoes?" Wan Lianxing, who had never known what frugality was, also began to worry about this family.

Hu Er smiled naively and said, "There are so many of you. How can you be full if we don't cook enough? I know you are picky eaters, so we dug the yellow stubble sweet potatoes, which are sweet and sticky and will not choke you. Please wait a moment, the sweet potatoes will be cooked soon."

Two large pots, borrowed from somewhere, were set up in the yard, with sweet potatoes placed in the pots.

With these two pots cooking, the temperature in the whole yard became a little higher.

By the time the engine was turned off, Wan Lianxing was already sweating all over. He drank the bowl of mint water bit by bit. He felt very strange because he was sweating from the heat, but the mint water in his stomach was still cool.

Wan Lianxing finally waited for the two pots to be turned off.

Hu Er brought pots of sweet potatoes to the table. There was only one table, so almost everyone found a place to stand.

Hu Er called out to everyone, "Eat quickly, everyone must be hungry."

Naturally, the people sitting at the table picked up the bowls with water first. Hu Er grabbed the sweet potatoes from the basin with his hands and put them in everyone's bowls, as if he was unaware that they were hot.

Wan Lianxing has always paid great attention to hygiene, so he had no choice but to start eating the sweet potatoes. Hu Er was still making a fire just now, and now he was distributing sweet potatoes to everyone with his hands, but he didn't see him wash his hands.

“How about this sweet potato?”

Wan Lianxing smiled and nodded, "Sweet and sticky, it's really a good sweet potato."

Hu Er said, "You eat more, and cook more."

"Give me two." A bowl was stretched in front of Hu Er. Hu Er's hands trembled with fear when he saw the follower staring at the sweet potatoes in the basin. He didn't know when such a person appeared around him, but he still gave the follower two sweet potatoes and put them in the bowl.

"I don't want this, I want that."

Hu Er said, "Which one do you want?"

The attendant stared at a relatively round sweet potato and said, "I want the fat one."

"this?"

"No."

Wan Lianxing said, "Take it yourself. Who can you rely on to serve you when you go out?"

The follower disappeared in a flash, and the round sweet potato in the basin also disappeared.

Hu Er said nervously: "Where is he...?"

Wan Lianxing pointed to a place in the distance and said, "It's on a tree."

It was a perennial apricot tree. Although it had lush branches and leaves, a heavy person could easily break the branches and leaves. Fortunately, the follower was still light, so he was eating sweet potatoes with a bowl in his hand on the tree.

Hu Er swallowed and said, "This guy ran too fast. Am I having an illusion? He just asked me to pick sweet potatoes for him."

Wan Lianxing glanced at the follower who was eating well and said with a smile: "He is light and runs fast, and he also likes to eat sweet potatoes."

The honest Hu Er didn't think much about it and kept saying, "It's good that he runs fast. Since he likes sweet potatoes, I'll send him two more later."

Mrs. Wan also likes to eat sweet potatoes. She smiled and said, "You guys are really good at growing sweet potatoes. They are sweeter than the ones we grow in our hometown."

Hu Er said, "Rice and millet don't grow well here. It's strange that everything we grow tastes sweet."

Hu Er smiled innocently again, "It's getting late. I'll go to the fields and pick some fruits for you tomorrow."

After dinner, Wan Lianxing went to Xie's house to say goodbye to the family, but the simple Hu Er warmly and sincerely asked him to stay, so Wan Lianxing had to agree to let them stay overnight.

Even if people vacated their houses, there was no room for them, so in the end they were arranged to stay in the homes of several farmers.

In short, every family had the same environment, poor. Everyone slept in bed with their clothes on, and even if they couldn't sleep, they had to close their eyes and sleep. Finally, when dawn came, everyone ran to Hu Er's house.

Wan Lianxing seemed to have slept well. He was stretching in the yard and talking to everyone.