Chapter 1507: Helping in an emergency but not in poverty (1)

Ruan Lin was looking for a small hoe among the miscellaneous items at the back of the house.

After finding it, she told Xu Xu: "Xiao Xu, you will go to the front mountain later. Be careful and come back before dark. Do you understand?"

Although Xu Xu's ability was no longer questionable, Ruan Lin still had to give him instructions every time.

Xu Xu nodded and saw a few sweet potatoes in a corner of the main room. They were of different sizes. Some were very big, some were very small, and most of them were broken. There was only one that was just the right size and intact.

Thinking that Ruan Jiaojiao liked to eat them, they should be roasted just right by the time they returned in the evening.

He walked over, picked up the good sweet potato, brought it to the charcoal basin, used a fire tong to dig a small hole in the charcoal, stuffed the sweet potato into it, and covered it with charcoal. When he

got up after doing all this, he saw Mr. Shu staring at his movements with an indescribable emotion in his eyes.

"..." He paused, but couldn't help but said, "This is for Jiaojiao."

"!!!" Grandpa Shu immediately put away the nostalgia in his eyes, raised his head and glared at the dead boy. What did he mean? Did he think that he would eat secretly when he was not around?

He just remembered the most difficult time when he was outside, and he also stewed sweet potatoes like this, so he felt a little nostalgic.

Seeing that Grandpa Shu didn't say anything, Xu Xu also fell silent for a few seconds. Finally, he turned around and took those irregular and broken sweet potatoes and said, "If you want to eat these, stew them yourself. "After saying this, he turned around and went to the backyard and the front mountain without caring about his reaction.

Old Master Shu was so angry that he almost threw the cat in his hand!

Not long after Xu Xu left, there was a rustling sound outside. Old Master Shu was strolling in the main hall. Ruan Jianguo and Old Master Shu went to the back mountain to dig winter bamboo shoots. Hearing the sound, he thought it was Rourou who came back, so he walked over and opened the half-closed door.

As a result, when he opened the door, he was facing a man who was so thin that his back was a little hunched. It was already winter now, although there was a little sunshine today. , but the temperature is not high, barely around 4 or 5 degrees during the day, and close to zero at night.

In such a cold day, Mr. Shu saw the man standing in front of him, still wearing a pair of rubber shoes with holes on his feet, without socks, and autumn pants, with a pair of thick woolen trousers inside, which should not have been washed for a long time, and there is a layer of black scabs on them, which makes people feel nauseous just looking at them. The cotton coat on his upper body has probably been worn for more than ten years, and the cloth strips are rotten. Probably to block the wind, he also tied a thick belt around his waist.

"Who are you? "Old Master Shu looked him up and down, and finally asked with a frown.

It was already the 1990s, and the most difficult years had long passed. Old Master Shu couldn't understand how a big man could live like this. If he worked a little harder, he could earn enough to make a living.

Xu Jianlin came back because Liu Mei had just heard Rourou's wolf howl and guessed that someone from the Ruan family had returned, so she ordered Xu Jianlin to run over. I came to borrow money from the Ruan family.

Over the years, Xu Jianlin has owed the Ruan family a lot of money. He has borrowed so much that he has lost count and has never paid it back.

Liu Mei was afraid at first, afraid that they would ask them for the money, but after so many years, she saw that they never asked for the money, so she became shameless and urged Xu Jianlin to borrow money.