"Brother, look, what good things are we bringing!" In the evening, Douzi came to the charity village with a bunch of ragged orphans. When he saw Li Zhang, he ran over and shouted with excitement.

"What good thing?" Li Zhang couldn't help but ask casually when he saw Douzi's excited look.

At this time, Li Zhang was also looking at the orphans behind Douzi. He saw that the children were short and thin, and their clothes were patches and patches. Under their messy hair, there was a dirty little face. If they didn't look closely, they couldn't tell the difference between men and women. The children were carrying a wooden barrel. Although they were a distance away, Li Zhang could still smell a strange fragrance.

"You'll know when you look!" Douzi said and waved his hand, and the dozen or so children immediately struggled to carry the wooden barrel.

These orphans were all following Li Zhang. Although their brother and sister were not orphans, his gambling father had been away from home for many years and occasionally when he went home, he would at most throw away a few copper coins. Therefore, their brother and sister were actually similar to orphans. Since Li Zhang was seven or eight years old, he had to bear the heavy responsibility of supporting himself and his sister, but relying solely on his own strength is too thin. Fortunately, a kind elder could take care of them, otherwise their brother and sister would have starved to death.

Later, Li Zhang saved Douzi and met many orphans through Douzi. He was smart and literate, and was bold and loyal, so he gradually became the head of these orphans, and he was looking for food in the surrounding area. Of course, their children must have no serious business, begging, thieves, etc., and anyway, as long as they can stutter, they can do it. Although they still can't eat enough, they are not starved to death.

Douzi and the orphans usually don’t have a place to live, so they built a few sheds on the exterior wall of the Yizhuang Village. Sometimes it was too cold in winter, so they temporarily lived in the Yizhuang Village. Of course, the side room where Li Zhang and his sister lived was too small, so they could only enter the hall to accompany the corpses. Although the hall was very gloomy, there were at least walls on all sides and covers on the top so that they would not be frozen to death.

"Is this...swallowing?" When the wooden barrel was lifted to Li Zhang, he looked at the soup and water in the barrel, with some bones, vegetable leaves and the like floating on it, which made him feel a little unbelievable. Isn't this the water of leftovers poured together? How can it be called a good thing?

"It's not about sautumn. The leftovers from the newly opened restaurant on West Street. The chef of the restaurant is my fellow villager. Today we helped him a little favor. He introduced us to work in the restaurant, mainly washing dishes and sweeping the floor. The reward is that the leftovers in the restaurant every day belong to ours. We will never have to worry about being hungry again." Douzi said excitedly again at this time.

Isn’t leftovers just sautum? Of course, Li Zhang looked at Douzi’s excited little face and couldn’t bear to say it for a while. Instead, he praised him a few words, which made Douzi even happier. The orphans behind him could no longer help and began to reach out to pick things from the sautum bucket to eat.

Seeing this, Li Zhang hurriedly called the children, and asked the beans to pour the slurry into a large pot and heated it. After all, the slurry was not clean, and now it is spring again, which is the time when the disease is most likely to occur, so it still needs to be heated and disinfected.

Li Zhang is the boss of Douzi and his group, and he has a lot of prestige among the children, so his words are very effective. Even Douzi and his group are hungry at this time and put the chest on their backs, but they still obediently poured the leftovers into the pot. The rier had already caught fire. In a short while, a hodgepod mixed with various fragrances was ready.

To be honest, these leftovers are indeed very fragrant after being heated, especially for children like Li Zhang, who usually eat less than pig food, and they are not full of food. The leftovers contain meat and vegetables, which are full of oil and water, so for them, these leftovers can be regarded as rare delicacies.

As soon as the hodgepodge was ready, the beans immediately served a bowl for Li Zhang. Then he and a group of orphans rushed forward, and the groups of children were fighting around the pot like hungry wolves. Even if they were scalded, they were reluctant to spit out the things in their mouths.

Li'er was also given a large bowl. At this time, he picked up the bowl and slashed it into his mouth like a little female wolf. Li Zhang instinctively wanted to stop it, but opened his mouth, but finally shook his head weakly. He felt that the slurry was disgusting, but in Li'er's opinion, it was a rare delicacy. If he imposed his thoughts on Li'er, it would only make him look selfish.

In fact, Li Zhang was also very hungry at this time. Apart from the elm seed soup this morning, he hadn't eaten all day, because during the Northern Song Dynasty, the bottom class of society like him usually only ate two meals. Of course, some heavy laborers would eat three meals, but he only ate some elm seeds all day. Before noon, he felt his stomach empty. Now smelling the fragrance emitted by the hodgepodge made his stomach scream like a drum.

Speaking of which, Li Zhang likes to eat hot pot. Later, he heard that many hot pot restaurants use saliva oil, which is the hot pot that customers have eaten. A layer of oil on it is collected and used. This thing is not much cleaner than leftovers. Li Zhang probably ate quite a bit before, but he didn't know it at that time and ate it. But he still felt a little disgusting when he thinks about it. Because of this, he rarely ate hot pot outside. Now that he lets him eat the leftovers in front of him, he really can't sip.

"Brother, why don't you eat it?" In the blink of an eye, Li'er ate all the hodgepodge. At this time, she licked the bottom of the bowl and looked at Li Zhang in confusion.

"I'm not hungry, you can eat it." Li Zhang also felt his nose sore when he looked at Li Er's appearance. After saying that, he pushed his hodgepodge in front of Li Er, but he turned his head aside. He was worried that he would not be able to help but shed tears after watching it.

"Brother, what's wrong with you? Is the wound hurting again?" The well-behaved Li'er naturally noticed Li Zhang's abnormality and asked again with great concern.

"It's okay, is the hodgepodge delicious?" Li Zhang took a long breath at this time, forced himself to calm down, and then asked with a kind smile to Li'er.

"It's delicious. I ate two pieces of meat just now. I remember the last time I ate meat, my father won the money last year and bought us the mutton offals. It's so delicious!" Li'er said with a happy face at this time. For her, being able to eat meat is the greatest happiness.

"In the future, if my brother makes money, we will have meat to eat every day!" Looking at Li'er's innocent smile, Li Zhang felt his nose sore again, and rubbed his little head again and said.

"Well, when Li'er grows up, he will help his brother earn money to buy meat together!" Li'er nodded heavily when he heard his brother's words.

A large bucket of leftover vegetables was eaten by more than a dozen children. Finally, they all rubbed their stomachs and sat on the ground and hummed. However, Li Zhang called Douzi over at this time and whispered: "Douzi, let's find a way to make money, which can at least fill our dozen mouths!"

"What the big brother said is, but we have no strength or skills. If we want to make money, no one wants it?" Douzi said with a embarrassed expression. In his opinion, making money means working for others, and working is either strength or skillful, and they do not have both.

"You don't have to worry about this. I have a way to make money, but before that, you all go to pick up firewood, then come back to burn the fire and take a bath, and wash clothes!" Li Zhang said with a confident smile at this time. Just now, he finally thought of a way to make money that suits them.

"Take a bath? It's quite cold this night, what's the bath?" Douzi asked in confusion. Although it's already spring, it's still a little cold at night. And their orphans sometimes have to beg for their beggars. They wash too clean and don't look like beggars. What should I do if I can't get money at that time?

"Nonsense, aren't you going to work in a restaurant? It's a place to eat, but look at you all black and dirty, you can smell the stinking after a few steps. How do you ask others to eat? Do you still want to continue working there for a long time?" Li Zhang glared at the moment.

Douzi and his children struggled on the food and clothing line every day. Apart from food, there was nothing that could attract their interest. In addition, there was no elder discipline, and they were all dirty like mud monkeys, including Li Zhang and Li Er. If Li Zhang hadn't had his feet injured, he would have jumped into the jar to take a shower first.

"Brother knows a lot!" Douzi said with admiration when she heard this. After saying that, she took off her clothes and ran to the water tank with a group of children to play with water. Li'er took Douzi's clothes and washed them. After the boys of belts finished washing, she and a few girls burned some water, washed them in the wooden bucket in the room, and finally wiped Li Zhang's body.

After taking a shower, Li Zhang pulled Douzi aside and advised her for a long time, but Douzi still understood half of it, but he remembered Li Zhang's several requests. Finally, Li Zhang asked him to repeat his request, and then asked Douzi and the others to go back and rest.

It was getting late. At this time, Li Zhang and the others went to bed early. Because they had no money to buy lamp oil, they would lie down and sleep when it was dark. Of course, the most important thing was that they would not eat enough, and they would not be hungry when they fell asleep, and they could save energy.

However, Li Zhang tossed and turned on the bed and couldn't sleep. There was no way. He had no food in his stomach and his empty stomach bag seemed to be kneading hard. This feeling of hunger made him feel sleepless. Instead, Li Er, who was still pestering Li Zhang to tell the story, had already fallen asleep.

In the end, Li Zhang was so hungry that he couldn't stand it. He quietly got up and then went to the kitchen outside. He flipped through the bright moonlight, hoping to find something to eat, but he found that the grain jar was almost empty, and a thin layer of millet could not even cover the bottom of the jar. Apart from that, there was nothing to eat in the entire kitchen, and there was not even oil, salt and other seasonings.
Chapter completed!