As Cui Hong guessed, Xu Zhen was taking Xu Yang to the village chief's house as a "guest".

Now the weather is cold, there is still a little sun during the day, the sun rests at night, the temperature brushes down several degrees, everyone eats at home, unlike summer, all with bowls to run out, where the lively crowd is.

The siblings walked on the road and did not meet a single person. They were eating at the time of the village chief's family.

The village chief's daughter-in-law has a little bad look on her face, who is running around when people are eating. If you are short of food, you will starve yourself if you make it according to the head of the person every day and give it to others, and you can't let the head of the house or the children not eat it.

Contrary to his daughter-in-law, the village chief is a man with a city government. According to his observation, Xu Zhen must have had a good family background before, and he was also clever, and never caused him trouble. Now bring my brother over, it's 100% fine.

"the baby, go serve a bowl of rice to the guests. The village chief's words caused his daughter-in-law's eyes to fly towards the sisters and brothers.

"The village chief is so polite, we have already eaten. Xu Zhen hurriedly refused, pointed at Xu Yang and said to the village chief, "This is my younger brother, he came from Shengli Farm, he has a letter of introduction, and he will stay here for one night." After speaking, he turned his head sideways at Xu Yang, "Little brother, quickly show the letter of introduction to the village chief." ”

The village chief's daughter-in-law was overjoyed when she heard this, so she simply stayed where she was. Even if she is acquainted, a decentralized person, and dares to come to her house for dinner, she is too tolerant of the family.

asked her to say that she should be kicked out directly, how can she get close to this kind of person, and resolutely draw a clear line with the black five categories.

Xu Yang took out a neatly folded piece of paper from his purse, opened it carefully, and respectfully handed it to the village chief, feeling like he was holding a rare treasure.

The village chief had learned to read and write from the landlord before, and took the letter of introduction to the kerosene lamp and read it word by word.

"This is the Victory Farm, where does your brother live at night?" the village chief turned his head again and said to his daughter-in-law, "Go to the hall and see what the baby is doing." ”

The village chief's daughter-in-law on the side didn't want to go out, she had to guard against this Xu Zhen. Helplessly, the village chief usually has a lot of power at home, and when the village chief glared at her for the second time, he had to go over stupidly.

"I squeezed with Aunt Cui at night, just today, my brother came, and he didn't have much quilt, he was young and didn't resist freezing. ”

After speaking, Xu Zhen motioned to the little brother with his eyes, suggesting that he could take things out.

Receiving the signal from the eldest sister, Xu Yang took out a stack of money from another purse, "Village chief, thanks to you for taking care of my sister, my parents are inconvenient to come over, this is what they asked me to bring to you, little care, not respect, thank the village chief for mentioning the eldest sister." Without waiting for anyone to react, he quickly stuffed things into the village chief's hands.

When the matter was done, Xu Zhen pulled Xu Yang and was about to leave, "Village chief, it's getting dark, let's leave first, so as not to delay your family's rest." ”

After the two left, the village chief took out the money in his purse and counted it, and it was a full twenty yuan. Seeing that Xu Zhen easily took out twenty yuan, he was even more sure that the Xu family must have been very powerful before.

The village chief is sleek, has a smart head, pursues harmony as the precious, and deals with neighborhood disputes or other two-headed persuasion, and only if he can't do it, he will oppress people with power.

He thinks well, feng shui takes turns, who knows when these people will go back, his own words can make people a lot better, generally help if he can help and mention a little, and easily don't offend people.

He will receive things for him, he has not done anything wrong, take proper care of it, and he is not afraid to collect some money, and he will accept it if he does not give it to him, after all, he can't help people go back to the city. It's a wonderful person.

When Xu Zhen and Xu Yang went back, they saw the door open, and Xu Yang panicked and hurriedly ran home, for fear of a thief. Old God Xu Zhen was pulling him, "It must be that Grandma Cui just came back to bring us food, go to the stove room to have a look." ”

Seeing the dishes in the pot, Xu Yang didn't know what to say to the eldest sister's admiration.

After the siblings finished eating, they washed the dishes and sent them to the next door. Ginkgo was telling Cui Hong about the interesting things that happened in school, which made her laugh, and tears broke out in the corners of her eyes.

"Aunt Tian, it's so delicious, your craftsmanship is so good. Xu Zhen sincerely praised Tian Shuang's craftsmanship.

"Have you eaten?" Tian Shuang took the bowl with a smile and put it under the table.

"Aunt Tian, are you going to the mountains tomorrow? My little brother also wants to go, see if I can let him come along. ”

"Okay, I'll go tomorrow and let him follow me then." ”

Cui Hong smiled when she heard this, "That stool is going to break a long time ago, don't scare your brother." Now there are no stakes on the mountain, there are only a few people in the family, and there are enough stools, so let your brother not go. ”

Originally, Xu Zhen was also afraid that the little brother would not be able to pick up the stake, and it would not look good at that time, so when he heard this, he simply went down the slope and got off the donkey.

"Then let him pick up pine cones, help Ginkgo, and just told me that Ginkgo took him to play in the afternoon, and I want to thank her. Let him do something, so that his heart will not be wild. ”

Cui Hong was not polite, and said directly to Tian Shuang, "They children, pick up and play, Shuang'er, you should take care of it when the time comes." After the instructions, he turned back to look at Xu Zhen, "I won't go back at night, you close the door." It's been a long time since I've slept with Ginkgo, so I'll let Ginkgo warm my bed today. ”

Ginkgo cheered, "Oh, Grandma Cui sleeps with me, and Daddy doesn't have to worry about me kicking the quilt anymore." ”

It caused everyone to burst into laughter.

Ginkgo biloba didn't sleep with her parents at a young age, and who in the village didn't have more teenage brothers and sisters to let herself sleep. Li Dali couldn't resist Ginkgo, so he could only wait for Ginkgo to fall asleep every night, fold the quilt for her before leaving, and get up twice in the middle of the night, for fear of freezing the smart and clever girl.

This night, Xu Zhen and Xu Yang talked for half a night, and finally they didn't know whose chickens in the village crowed, so the two of them slept separately.

Xu Zhen felt sorry for Xu Yang's young age, and he would go up the mountain tomorrow, and told him to sleep more.

"You don't have to get up so early tomorrow, because in the morning there is a lot of fog in the woods, and there is dew, and the pine needles are not easy to rake up, and the sun rises to the old high. Aunt Tian will go tomorrow after lunch at noon, you go back to the farm directly after picking up the pine cones, you don't have to come over and run again, we are close now, there is a chance to come over again, sister now knows your news, and my heart is better. When I went back, I told my parents that I was fine, and that no one in the village was difficult for me, so let them take care of themselves and not burn their bodies. Now you are left with your parents, take good care of them and let them worry less. ”

This was the best night Xu Zhen slept in months, the arrival of the little brother swept away a lot of haze, she cleared the clouds and saw a ray of sunshine.

This time she finally didn't cry, smiled and fell asleep, in the dream, the four sisters and brothers looked at the dates on the tree under the jujube tree in the courtyard and drooled, the second sister took a bamboo pole, and the younger brother pointed to the largest jujube on the tree with a fat finger, "Sister, I want the biggest and reddest." ”