Bai Gu was drinking water next to him, listening to the two of them talking about some daily, inconsequential business matters.

These Bai Gu understand it, and they are very willing to listen.

There's only one bad thing about it.

They like to chat and suddenly pop up one or two famous quotes from the book, and then smile knowingly, or stay silent in pairs, or raise glasses to drink together, or talk about it and talk about it.

Anyway, Bai Gu was really overwhelmed by this part of the content and could not understand it at all.

The key is that the two of them were still chatting energetically.

Just like when old Mrs. Bai took him out when he was a child, when he met an acquaintance on the road, he would stand at the corner of the roadside and chat. Once the conversation started, he couldn't stop the car and talked endlessly. It made Bai Gu feel very sad when he was a child.

It's boredom and impatience.

Bai Gu felt bored and habitually took out two weeds from his arms and started to weave them.

I still owe the old beggar a few frogs, so I will make it up first and I can "pay off the debt" when I meet him later when he comes back.

It just felt like something wasn’t right when he was editing it.

It seems like someone is watching me?

Bai Gu looked up and met two eyes.

Tang Tu was holding a tea cup, looking at him and the semi-finished weed in his hand with interest.

Liu Caizi, on the other hand, held his chin with one hand, leaning on the chair, staring at Bai Gu with evil eyes, which made the latter's scalp feel numb.

"You guys, you guys talk about yourselves, keep going, look, why are you looking at me?" Bai Gu was so frightened by the sight that he couldn't help but stutter a little.

Tang Tu smiled and said: "Xiao Bai, what are you making up? Can you let me see it?"

Bai Gu didn't say anything, just handed over the semi-finished product in his hand.

Tang Tu looked left and right and could only see a little bit of the prototype from the semi-finished product with half of the body knitted together, "You are knitting a little bird?"

Bai Gu smiled reluctantly, "It's a frog."

Tang Tu looked a little embarrassed, but he immediately returned to normal and handed the semi-finished product back to Bai Gu, "The weaving is pretty good, continue."

Liu Caizi's eyes were still unkind.

Tang Tu took a sip of tea and said, "Who is this made up for? Is it a meeting gift for Liu Caizi?"

Bai Gu became nervous all of a sudden and muttered: "This... this is not true. Do you need to prepare something when you come here? If I had known, I would have bought some cakes on the way."

Tang Tu burst out laughing, "That's not necessary, Liu Caizi is a very nice person. Don't you think so?"

As he said that, Tang Tu glanced at Liu Caizi.

Liu Caizi snorted and looked away.

"Then you gave this to me?"

Bai Gu was a little embarrassed and said: "Mr. Tang, if you want, I can make one for you."

"Oh? Even if it's not for me? Then who is it for?" Tang Tu couldn't help but asked curiously.

"An...old friend of mine. He invited me to eat wontons before and promised to use them to pay off the debt, but now he ran away."

"Old friend?" Tang Tu touched his chin, "Have we known each other for a long time?"

"No, only in the past few years. To say he is an old friend is simply because he is older, and there is no other meaning."

Tang Tu couldn't help laughing, "Then you... old friend, must be very interesting, right?"

Bai Gu thought about it seriously and tried his best to maintain the image of the old beggar in front of Mr. Tang, but found that this seemed to be a bit difficult.

Then Bai Gu simply stopped pretending, "That guy is disrespectful and disrespectful, so he has no integrity."

Tang Tu was stunned, he didn't expect Bai Gu to say such an answer.

After thinking for a while, Tang Tu slowly said: "Xiaobai, you have to know that there are many people in this world who are not as simple as they appear on the surface. Their hearts may be different. People who are indifferent on the surface may have something different.

A person with a warm heart and a vicious appearance may be kind at heart. A person who is careless may give generously to others in unknown places.”

Bai Gu was thoughtful as he listened to Tang Tu's words.

Speaking of people who are indifferent on the surface, Bai Gu thought of old Liu Tou, who has a sharp mouth but a soft heart.

Speaking of people with vicious appearances, Bai Gu thought of Brother Peng, A Guang and others. They were indeed very nice people.

Speaking of people who care about everything, Bai Gu thought of the old beggar, who was both stingy and generous. Although he was not serious, it did not prevent him from being a good person.

Bai Gu asked with a serious face: "Mr. Tang, will you tell dirty jokes and sing dirty songs to teenagers like that old friend of mine?"

Tang Tu was drinking water and choked on Bai Gu's sudden question.

Bai Gu quickly stepped forward and helped Tang Tu pat his back.

Tang Tu coughed several times and finally stopped.

When Liu Caizi saw Tang Tu slumped, the corners of his mouth seemed to rise.

Tang Tu smiled helplessly, "Xiao Bai, first of all, I am definitely not the kind of person you said, and I definitely would not do such a thing. Secondly, now I agree with what you just said."

He was talking about what Bai Gu had just said to describe the old beggar.

Who is a good person who tells dirty jokes and hums dirty songs to his children? It is not an exaggeration to say that he is old and dishonest!

What a waste, what a waste!

Bai Gu nodded, "I know that Mr. Tang and that old guy are definitely not the same person. The old guy looks wretched and does a lot of sneaking around. He also does things like digging through other people's walls in the middle of the night, often just by chance.

."

Tang Tu was interested in what Bai Gu said and silently took note of it so that he could use it in his storytelling later. "Then since you know that he has a bad attitude, why do you still want to associate with him? Aren't you afraid of being led astray by him one day?"

"Although that guy looks unreliable, he is still a very nice person. My sister and I are the only two people left in my family. I used to have to work hard and think hard just to eat every day in order to get such a good result.

A little something can make your stomach less empty. Sometimes you can’t get anything in exchange, so you have to starve. And this happens sometimes, often. So Mr. Tang, you shouldn’t have thought that I am sixteen years old now, but I have grown so tall.

Not as tall as an eleven or twelve-year-old child." Bai Gu smiled bitterly.

Tang Tu was astonished.

He originally thought that Bai Gu was just a junior and liked to run around, which was why he was short and had a sallow complexion.

It turns out that he often doesn't have enough to eat and is malnourished.

It was really hard to imagine that a sixteen-year-old child would have to work hard every day because of the problem of eating, and that he would grow so thin because of the problem of eating.

Now I have seen and heard it with my own eyes.

Sure enough, what the sages said is right.

Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles.

Bai Gu continued: "It was at that time that that guy showed up. Yes, yes, he did like to talk dirty words, sing dirty songs, climb people's walls, steal chickens and dogs, and was not serious. But he was so nice! I often don't

He would eat, wandering on the road hungry, lying on the ground looking for food, and even rummaging through the garbage just for a bite to eat. One time he saw this and took me to a porridge shop in the north of the city for a drink.

Porridge. Do you know? I drank so much that day that I wanted to cry. Not only did he point out a way to survive for me, but also because he was willing to share this way of survival with me. Because the porridge shop has a limited supply every day, and it’s all gone.

There will be no more, so if you go earlier, you will have more chances to get the porridge, and if you have one less person, you will have less competition. He gave me this way of living, which means that he has one more person to give up the porridge.

Come and share. Although I later learned that he could still eat without drinking Nashe porridge, I am still very grateful to him."

Tang Tu frowned, "Isn't that Shazhou Porridge Shop in the north of the city closed for a long time?"

Bai Gu nodded: "Yes, my sister and I had been drinking She Porridge for several months, and the She Porridge shop closed inexplicably, and my sister and I lost our source of food again. At this time,

He came to help again. He gave me a few copper coins and asked me to buy food by myself. You know, I had been hungry for three days at that time, and my sister at home had also been empty for more than a day and could no longer find anything to eat.

I really didn’t know what would happen. I was only thirteen years old at the time. As a child, I could just take those few copper coins without feeling grateful or having any other concerns. I didn’t have to think about what he would do to me in the future.

It doesn't matter what you ask for in return. They are all starving to death, so what else do you care about? The most important thing is to survive."

Bai Gu took a deep breath, his voice was a little choked, but he tried his best not to let Mr. Tang and Mr. Tang hear anything strange, "But I don't want to, I don't want to live on other people's mercy and charity. I will need it in my future life."

It depends on other people's faces. This kind of life is not happy, uncomfortable, and not what I want. So I refused the money."

Liu Caizi suddenly interrupted at this time, "Since you don't want to live on charity, why do you want to drink porridge?"

Bai Gu smiled softly: "The porridge is distributed by the government, but the copper coins belong to that guy alone."

Liu Caizi nodded and understood.

The porridge provided by the government benefited the group, and the copper coins benefited individuals. If you want to repay the favor in the future, the nature and results will be different.

The government may donate a small amount of money to repay a debt of gratitude, but repaying a debt of gratitude to an individual is not a simple matter of just a small sum of money.

It all depends on the other person. People can be good or bad, but you can’t say for sure.

Bai Gu continued: "When the guy saw that I refused the money, he didn't say much. He just took me to buy a few sesame seeds and asked me to take them home to eat quickly. He also said that he would let me owe it first and keep the account.

, I can just pay him back when I have money. Only then did I dare to accept the sesame cakes and run home to share them with my sister. In the next few days, I tried my best to earn the money for those sesame cakes and repay him.

. Later, we had an unwritten agreement, that is, if one of us borrows money or things from the other, then we will keep the account, and then we can just repay the debt directly with money or something of equal value. No need to do more.

What can I say? I have kept this agreement from three years ago until now. It’s just that he mostly helps me.”

Tang Tu pondered for a while before speaking: "Then have you ever thought about asking him to restrain himself a little and not be so...dissolute?"
To be continued...