Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

When Lin Geng saw the tattered clothes and shoes with exposed toes of these children, he sighed in his heart. Although people in the old city were not rich, at least they could wear complete clothes and shoes. No matter how difficult their lives were, they were much better than those in the rural areas in the mountains.

Looking at these skinny and pale villagers, and then looking at their clothes and the houses they live in, you can tell how hard their lives are.

Lin Geng sighed, reached into his pocket, grabbed a handful of fruit candies, then squatted down, greeted the children who were watching with a smile, and distributed the candies to them one by one.

When the children saw the candies in Lin Geng's hand, their eyes lit up and were full of desire. At the same time, they were a little afraid of Lin Geng, a stranger. At first, they didn't dare to step forward to take the candies.

The middle-aged man watched Lin Geng take out a handful of candy, squat down and greet the children with a kind face. When he was about to give them the candy, his expression became more relaxed. Looking at the children who were afraid to step forward to receive the candy, he sighed and said, "Why don't you thank your uncle? What are you still standing there for? Your uncle is giving you candy, so take it!"

After hearing the middle-aged man's instructions, the children cheered and started to approach Lin Geng. They took a candy from Lin Geng's hand, then bowed to him obediently and said thank you timidly.

After Lin Geng gave them candies, he smiled, rubbed their heads and said, "Just call me big brother. I'm not that old! You're welcome!"

After saying that, he asked the next child to come over and get candy.

After getting the candies, the children immediately peeled off the candy wrappers and quickly stuffed the candies into their mouths. When the sweetness melted in their mouths, the children opened their eyes wide again, their faces full of happiness, and they all shouted: "Wow, so sweet! So sweet..."

None of the children were willing to throw away the candy wrappers. Instead, they carefully folded the candy wrappers as if they were treasures, and put them in their pockets, covering their pockets with their dirty little hands, as if they were afraid that the candy wrappers would be lost.

Only a little girl who looked about seven or eight years old did not peel the candy given to her by Lin Geng but did not eat it. Instead, she looked at the candy in her hand as if she was having a fierce ideological struggle. She thought for a long time and as if she had made up her mind, she carefully put the candy into her pocket.

Lin Geng saw her movements and asked curiously, "Little sister, why don't you eat candy?"

The little girl looked at Lin Geng timidly and whispered, "My brother is sick and lying at home. I want to bring some candy back for him to eat!"

When Lin Geng heard this, his heart ached, thinking what a good child! Most of them had never eaten fruit candy, but faced with such temptation, the little girl resisted the urge to eat it and took the candy she got back to her brother. How kind-hearted this child is!

So he quickly reached into his pocket again, in fact, he took out two candies from the small world, and pulled the little girl to say, "So that's how it is! Then big brother will give you two more candies, you can eat one for yourself and take one back to your brother! I hope your brother's illness will get better soon!"

When the little girl saw Lin Geng gave her two more candies, her eyes suddenly became moist, tears welled up in her eyes and instantly rolled down her dirty little face. Her knees softened and she knelt down in front of Lin Geng, kowtowed to him, and said, "Thank you, big brother!"

Lin Geng was so frightened that he was in a panic. He quickly supported the little girl and said, "No, no, no! Don't do this, I can't bear it! Eat quickly! Don't be so polite!"

After pulling the little girl up, he personally peeled a candy for the little girl, put the candy into her little mouth, and folded the candy wrapper and handed it to her. The little girl took the candy wrapper while crying, put it carefully into her pocket, then bowed deeply to Lin Geng, turned around and ran away.

Lin Geng's eyes were also a little moist. He stood up, raised his head and took a deep breath, then turned around and asked the middle-aged man, "You should be the village chief, right? How about you ask someone to take a look at my work permit and letter of introduction?"

Who would have thought that the middle-aged man picked up Lin Geng's work permit and letter of introduction and handed them to Lin Geng, waving his hand and saying, "No need to look, I'm sure you're not a bad guy! Come on, come inside and talk! It's too cold outside!"

Hey, why don’t you go boil some hot water and get a brazier? You have no tact at all!

Hurry up, Laoliu, go to my house and tell your sister-in-law to stew the cured chicken hanging on the beam, and make some cornmeal cakes, and send them here to me. I will treat this little brother to a meal!

This little brother must be hungry after running so far. We can’t let our guests go hungry!

Let's all go away. What are you looking at? Don't you have anything to do?"

After hearing what the middle-aged man said, the people in the village immediately dispersed. Someone hurriedly lit a brazier and brought it over. The middle-aged man took Lin Gengrang to the dim village branch, gave him a tree stump as a bench, and let him sit down and warm himself by the fire.

Someone also ran over and brought over a black, broken tin kettle, hung it over the brazier and started to boil water, and took two bowls with chips on them and placed them on a large tree stump that served as a table.

"Little brother, our Zhaojia Village is poor, the roads here are difficult to travel, and it's far from the city, so it's not easy to go out! We haven't seen any outsiders for years. When you came here this time, everyone in the village felt it was rare. I'm sorry to make you laugh!

The reason I was on guard against you just now is because the higher-ups said in a meeting that we in the mountain villages should be more vigilant. In the first few years when the country was in trouble, many people fled to the city. Some bad guys robbed people in the countryside and harmed passers-by.

Some enemy agents sometimes hide in the mountains, so we have to be more careful. I am sorry that you have been wronged! Please don't mind it!"

Lin Geng roasted himself by the fire and said with a smile: "It's okay, I understand. I just started working and I thought that my former colleagues must have walked a lot of easy places, so I thought about walking more in the mountains!

You have to be vigilant, don't be polite to me! I'm afraid I disturbed you by coming here this time!"

As he spoke, Lin Geng handed the middle-aged man a cigarette, and then he went over to the brazier and lit one himself. The two of them started chatting while smoking.

"Little brother, you can see that our village is in a mountain valley. Not only is the road difficult to travel on, but there are few fields here, so life is not easy. Why did you think of coming to our village to purchase unplanned materials?" After the two chatted for a while, they became familiar with each other, and the middle-aged man asked Lin Geng.

Lin Geng did not hide it from him and said to him: "I will not hide it from you. I just started working at the steel mill and entered the purchasing department.

We have purchasing tasks every month, and our main responsibility is to purchase non-staple foods such as meat, eggs, and vegetables for the factory. We just want to run farther and buy some meat for the workers in the factory!

I also know that your life is not easy, but thinking about the mountains, you can live by the mountains and the water, maybe you can hunt some wild game, which is also a good thing. Our factory will collect it and take it back to use to complete the task!

I can use a bow and arrow, and my archery skills are pretty good! I thought that even if I couldn't get any prey, I could go into the mountains and hunt for prey myself. So I asked along the way and heard that there are many wild boars in the mountains around your Zhaojia Village, so I found this place! I want to go into the mountains here and try my luck to see if I can catch one or two wild boars and bring them back!"