Mingzhe lowered his head, he didn't know how to answer his father's words, and finally looked up at his father and said, "Dad, I'd better go back and think about it, but Xueyan's matter... Or is it better for the children to decide?"

The father nodded, looked at the heavy mind and said, "Go ahead, as long as you focus on the big things, you can discuss everything else." ”

Mingzhe gave his father a deep bow and returned to his room.

Mingzhe lay on the bed and looked at the curtain above his head blankly, from the memory to the present scene drifted in front of his eyes, and whispered in his mouth: The river thinks of a hundred fields and is green, and the wind dances willow leaves and leaves.

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At lunch the next day, Mingzhe opened the curtain of the shack, only to see Xueyan bowing her head to record something, and Uncle Zhang was not there, Mingzhe slowly leaned over.

"Good handwriting!" Mingzhe praised heartily.

Xue Yan, who was writing, replied without raising her head: "Don't interrupt, the meal is by the door, the laborers have sent it early, you enjoy it first, I have to wait for a while." ”

Mingzhe put the food on the table and continued, "Come on, this pinecone carp should be delicious while it is hot. Seeing that Xue Yan ignored him, she took out the steamed buns in the basket and chewed them with interest.

When she ate the last piece of steamed bun, Xue Yan was still writing, and Mingzhe said vaguely: "I talked to my father." ”

Xue Yan paused, immediately put down the brush in her hand, came to the dining table and said, "Uncle Yuan... What do you say?"

Looking at Xue Yan's expectant gaze, Mingzhe smiled and said, "He let you eat first." ”

Xue Yan had no choice but to sit down, took a small bite of the steamed bun handed over by Mingzhe, and said coquettishly: "Say it quickly..."

Mingzhe perked up, "Dad said that I am in charge of our affairs." ”

Seeing Xue Yan with peach blossoms on her face, she said, "But my father said that I can't help this until I can support the business independently, I don't know what the good wife wants?"

Xue Yan was extremely shy, took out a small piece of steamed bun and threw it over, which made Mingzhe's eyes glazed for a while.

Xue Yan was angry and funny when she saw his demented appearance, and whispered: "I understand, I also need you like this, I'll wait for you." ”

_

Mingzhe, who had been busy all day, did not feel very tired, but felt that endless power was waiting for him.

He put down the cloth bag where the green worms were stored, changed into a silk bedclothes, picked up the cloth bag containing the grains, walked to the water tank, grabbed the grains and threw them in.

The imaginary splash did not appear, the water surface was still calm, Mingzhe looked down and was surprised: there was nothing at the bottom of the tank except for a few blood streaks, and the same was true of the two water tanks next to it.

Surprised, Mingzhe said in his heart: Where is my fish? Hurriedly shouted outside the door: "Mother... Where's the fish in the tank?"

The sound of 'I didn't move' came from outside the door, and a sense of foreboding spread throughout his body, and he hurriedly ran towards the fortune rat.

Looking at the food box in the rat cage was still full of grains, Mingzhe, who was rummaging with sawdust, sat on the floor for a moment.

Then he hurried to the dead wood where Rhubarb rested, and looked into the hollow of the tree, where loss and anger were suddenly intertwined, and Rhubarb was long gone, and he saw Rhubarb lying on the hay in Rhubarb's nest on all sides, sleeping soundly, and a yellow feather with a black spot sticking to his mouth.

Mingzhe grabbed Wenqing's neck with one hand, lifted it up and glared at it.

Wen Qing didn't seem to wake up yet, and slowly opened his round eyes and looked around.

Mingzhe pointed to the dead wood and asked Wen Qing, "Did you eat rhubarb?

Wen Qing blinked his sleepy eyes, "Squeak... Squeak...'

Mingzhe was furious, and threw Wenqing into the hollow of the tree, and with a 'bang', he saw Wenqing turn over and continue to sleep heartlessly.

Mingzhe was so angry that he couldn't speak, and with tears in his eyes, he began to look for Ash. I searched for a long time but didn't find it, and finally found this shivering gray shadow in my futon.

Seeing Mingzhe coming back, Little Ash quickly flew onto his shoulder, and shouted at Mingzhe's ear with a sharp beak: "It's a cannibal... Cannibalism!!"

Mingzhe looked at Wen Qing, who was staring at Xiao Gray with greedy eyes, lifted it up, pointed to Xiao Gray standing on his shoulder, and said, "Wen Qing! If you dare to eat Xiao Ash, I will let you eat all the green worms!"

Wenqing seemed to be able to understand Mingzhe's advice, and his trembling body made two more 'squeaks', worried that Mingzhe didn't understand and nodded.

This made Xiao Ash feel like a great enemy, and he hit the edge of the bed with a 'bang', shook the ground a few times, and then flew quickly towards Mingzhe's futon, and never came out. Seeing that the bulge of the futon was still trembling, Mingzhe shook his head and smiled bitterly.

_

The next few days were uneventful, and Wen Qing didn't think anything wrong about Xiao Gray anymore.

Ash had lost a lot of weight, and only flew down from the roof beam when he was extremely hungry, and after eating a few grains or a green worm or two, he flew back to the corner of the roof beam and did not come down again, and he spoke much less.

For the sake of insurance, Mingzhe will catch a lot of green worms at a time. One is used to scare the tattoos, and the other is enough for Xiao Gray to eat for a few days.

_

Xue Yan held the tattooed green in her hand and said to Mingzhe, who was idle on the side, "It's so cute!"

Mingzhe pouted and said, "Cute? Swallow all my babies, it's so cute!"

Xue Yanjiao laughed, "How can they compare with tattooed green, look at it, its beard has grown and its weight has sunk a lot..."

Mingzhe also saw the situation, and said indignantly: "It's strange that you can eat so much and not get fat." ”

Xueyan immediately denied: "Be content, you, who would have such a cute pet?"

Mingzhe still had something to say, but then he remembered that he hadn't fed Wenqing for a few days, what did it eat? Looking at Wenqing hiding in Xueyan's hands and closing his eyes to recuperate, Mingzhe felt all kinds of feelings in his heart.

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Mingzhe and Xueyan were enjoying the shade under the banyan tree, and when they saw two villagers passing by, they only heard them talking about some monsters.

A villager said, "Lao Li, how many chickens did you lose recently?

The villager surnamed Li said angrily: "How many have you lost? All of them are gone, and other animals that spoil people will always leave some traces of blood or traces, which is good, like disappearing, not a monster? It's easy for me to feed a dozen chickens!"

Then he said: "Xiao Wang, I'm nothing, I heard that the Zhao family is the worst, not to mention losing a ploughing cow, not even three dairy sheep are missing, and there is not even wool left at the scene, it's really strange!"

The one named Xiao Wang sighed and said, "Let's go and report to Lian Wei, maybe something will be missing in the future." ”

Mingzhe and Xueyan looked at each other and smiled, and continued to whisper.

Suddenly, I heard Aunt Zhang scolding: "Which grandson who lacks virtue touched my yellow dog?!

As soon as Xue Yan heard her mother's voice, she hurriedly got up and rushed back, and Mingzhe hurriedly followed.

Seeing Xue Yan come back, Aunt Zhang stopped scolding thousands of words and said to Xue Yan: "Yan'er, are you angry? I just went back to the house to get some food for 'Laicai', and it disappeared after entering the house." ”

Xue Yan was also at a loss when she held the intact dog leash.

Mingzhe stepped forward and said to Aunt Zhang, "Yan'er and I will go out to find it, we won't run too far." ”

Aunt Zhang replied, "It's okay." Then he went back to the house in a sad state.