After eating, drinking, and playing like this until the afternoon, Chen Peng deliberately fell behind on the way back, looked at Xiaoyu with a smile and said, "Little girl, how did you see it." ”

Xiaoyu sat on his pony, shook his body and said, "You said that you did things in Fengxiang Mansion last year." My mother said I had a noble person to help me. ”

Chen Peng smiled: "That's not necessarily me." ”

Xiaoyu laughed deliciously: "I just don't know." So deceive you. ”

Chen Peng asked, "What did you deceive?" ”

Xiaoyu shook her head and said, "You are my nobleman." ”

Chen Peng blinked his little eyes and looked at Xiaoyu carefully: "Is there anything else?"

Xiaoyu looked at him suspiciously, scratched his head, and looked down for a long time before he said in a small voice in confusion: "Is there anything else?"

Chen Peng saw that she really didn't seem to know, and thought that it was really her parents and brother who heard the discussion, and the child couldn't hide it, so he didn't mention it anymore.

Back at Xia's house, Lan Haoxin looked at the rooster in the yard with his head held high, and suddenly remembered what Xiaoyu said. I remembered that early in the morning, the rooster stood on the pyre and crowed endlessly, and finally understood what Xiaoyu said: "I did the work that the rooster should do." What does that mean. I couldn't help but put Xiaoyu on the pyre, and imagined her pulling her neck to learn how to crow.

Xiaoyu saw him smiling at the rooster, so he said coldly: "When you go out to play, don't go deep into the forest, there are many fierce beasts in the forest." ”

Lan Haoxin was stunned for a moment, and after she figured it out, Xiaoyu was already gone. Angry, he jumped to his feet and complained to Xu Yan: "You already knew that it was that little girl who pretended to be a ghost to scare people, right? Why don't you tell me." ”

Xu Yan said expressionlessly, "I don't know." ”

sighed again: "Childe, we still have business to do." The subordinates have already inquired, the Fang family's Zhuangzi is not far from here, tomorrow we will use the excuse to go out and visit Xue Shizi first. ”

When Lan Haoxin heard this, she had to nod stupidly.

Xiao Yu took advantage of Lan Haoxin's daze and hurriedly ran back to find Xiao Xia's mother-in-law.

"Mother, mother, how's it going?"

Mrs. Xiao Xia was hit by her daughter who suddenly rushed over and almost fell, and she stood firm on the chair behind her before asking, "What's the matter?"

Xiao Yu smiled and leaned over, leaned in Xiao Xia's ear and said, "Zhong Min." Xiao Xia's ears were tickled by her, and she hurriedly reached out and pushed her away: "Go, go, go!"

Xiaoyu was not discouraged, and said mysteriously: "Mother, do you want to hear the news of that Lin Da." ”

Xiao Xia was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I don't want to, I don't want to, I'm busy here." Don't mess around. ”

Xiaoyu couldn't, so she had to walk away.

In the evening, Mrs. Xiao Xia called her second brother to ask about Lin Da.

The second brother was stunned: "Lin Da, today I heard Xiaoyu call a villager Brother Lin, who is he?"

Mrs. Xiao Xia was also stunned for a moment, couldn't help but smile bitterly, and talked about Lin Da again.

The second brother sighed: "In this way, Xiaoyu shouted at Chen Peng." Well, it's also possible, but he was in Fengxiang Mansion for a while that year, and I also asked him to bring a letter to the fifth child. ”

"That's it. I don't know what happened to Lin Da in the end?"

The second brother shook his head: "Why does this kid have so many eyes." ”

Mrs. Xiao Xia also stroked her forehead and sighed.

The second brother said again: "I can say it, I looked at Chen Peng's face at that time and his face was not very good, but I didn't expect the two of them to say a few words, and Chen Peng seemed to be relieved again." Fang Zhun also said that Xiaoyu is a seedling who practices martial arts, but it is a little late to practice now. ”

Xiao Xia Pozi thought in her heart, it is better to send a few girls to Lao Wu in a few days, and stay away from these people in the rivers and lakes.

On the second day, Second Brother Xia also followed the eldest brother to the field to help. Now the Xia family has more than 100 acres of land, although they employ a lot of long-term workers, but when it comes to spring sowing and autumn harvest, it is always as fast as possible, so as not to encounter wind and rain, and a year's hard work will be in vain.

Even the girls in the family have to help boil water and cook. Xiaoyu drove her pony to help deliver water and food.

Seeing that everyone was busy, Xiao Xia called Lao Xia and Zhong Min to do needlework and chat in the room, just to talk about Mongolian customs.

The three of them said, and at first Mrs. Xia was still nagging: A woman's family should do her duty, and she should not run around. Xiao Xia's mother-in-law was very curious, and asked a sentence or two from time to time, and Zhong Min told some stories on the grassland. Slowly, even the old Xia woman listened to it as if she was drunk, and heard the wolves attacking their horses and sheep. Old Xia Pozi scolded angrily: "A group of insatiable brutes. ”

When it came to the second brother Xia who shot the wolf, the old Xia woman said with honor: "It's not that I boast, my second brother is really powerful." This is not allowed at home, if you join the army, you must be a general. ”

Zhong Min showed that disapproving look on his face again.

Xiao Xia took it by herself: "It's not." Not to mention anything else, just this body, there is no one more burly than him in this Fengxiang Mansion. If you want me to say: Even the generals in the northwest are not as strong as the second brother. ”

Zhong Min thought for a while and said, "Why not, there are several in the Northwest Army Tiger Camp." ”

Xiao Xia Pozi sighed, lowered her head and bit off the thread, and said: "In the end, you have seen a lot, we stay in this small village all day long, just like the frog at the bottom of the well." The Mongols are much different from our Han Chinese, do they have blue eyes, and I heard that there are red?"

Zhong Min laughed when he heard this: "Those you are talking about are Jin and Xianbei people, their eyes are blue, and some of them have red hair. The Mongols look quite similar to our Han Chinese. ”

Xiao Xia asked, "I don't know if those Mongolians are as tall as the second brother?"

Zhong Min thought for a while and said: "It's not a lot, but there is a Mongolian who is so tall and bearded, and once Second Brother Xia fell in" Suddenly remembered that such a dangerous thing is not good to tell Second Brother Xia's mother and grandmother. After a while, he continued: "I don't know what's going on, I got my clothes dirty, so I borrowed the clothes of the Mongols, and everyone treated him as "

Xiao Xia didn't urge her to continue, but said to Lao Xia: "I don't know what our second brother looks like when he wears that Mongolian robe." ”

Mrs. Xia also tilted her head with a smile and thought about it, but she didn't notice that Zhong Min's face was white and bloodless.

Xiao Xia's mother-in-law and her mother-in-law talked about the sixth brother outside, and the two country women couldn't say anything, just worried about what they ate, drank, and wore over and over again. The two of them sat there and sighed, and they didn't even pay much attention to Zhong Min saying that he was uncomfortable and retired.

When it was time for dinner, Lan Haoxin's face was not very good-looking, and she didn't know where she had planted her heels. This meal is a little deserted compared to yesterday's excitement.

In the evening, Lan Haoxin sighed and said to Xu Yan: "This errand is really too difficult to do. This Xue Shizi is actually a master of inexhaustible oil and salt. ”

Xu Yan was also very frustrated in his heart, but after all, he was sent to assist Lan Haoxin, but it was not good to lose his temper so straightforwardly: "It's good to touch his shortcomings." I don't think his cousin and he seem to be of the same mind, so it is better to work on him tomorrow. Alas, Grandpa Guo has been operating the border very steadily over the years, and this capital has been somewhat neglected. Now I can't find a few people who can speak, the second young master's errand this time is related to his life, you have to cheer up. ”

Lan Haoxin spread out on the bed and said lazily, "I can save it." It's always the first errand, and if it's messed up, neither of us looks good. ”

After a few days of busy work, the autumn harvest was finally over.

The second brother apologized to Chen Peng and Fang Zhun, and asked a few people to go into the forest to hunt together. Xiaoyu heard about it, and refused to go to the fifth brother's house to help the fifth sister-in-law. only begged Xia Xiucai and Lao Xia Pozi one by one, and also promised Lao Xia Pozi a fox skin. said to Xia Xiucai again: "It's very pitiful, I am confined at home every day." ”

Angry, Mrs. Xia said, "Don't you go home until you eat?"

Xiaoyu looked at Xia Xiucai and said, "Who will pity me if I leave my father and mother in the future." Finally, the second brother came back, and there are so many brothers, I will never be wronged. ”

Xia Xiucai saw that her daughter was pitiful, her eyes were still shining, how could she still persevere, so she said to her second brother: "Look at her, don't let people bully." ”

was so angry that Xiao Xia stomped her feet.

So, the second brother brought Xiaoyu, starling, Rushan, and Ruju a few older ones.

Xiaoyu wore Starling's clothes and cleaned up very neatly. He also carried a small bow and arrow, a slingshot, and a sneaky one wrapped in large oiled paper.

The group rowed four boats from the lake to the dense forest on the opposite bank, and the second brother tied the boat and took the lead into the forest, followed by Xiaoyu, next to Chen Peng. Xiaoyu shrunk her neck, bent her waist, and tiptoed around, even speaking in a thin voice, as if she was afraid of startling the beasts in the forest: "Brother Chen, have you ever hunted before?"

When Chen Peng saw her thief-eyed look, he couldn't help laughing, and the birds in the forest flew around. Xiaoyu stared at Xiaoyu with round eyes, and raised his index finger vigorously: "Shhhh

Then he turned back to the others and pinched his throat and said, "I promised my grandmother a piece of fox skin, and you will keep an eye on it for me later." Well, just take a breath and let me make up for it. ”

Lan Haoxin said: "How can that be done. How can things that honor elders be deceitful. ”

Xiaoyu glanced at him and said in a low voice, "Be quiet, don't invite the wolf." ”

Lan Haoxin didn't mention it in one breath, and she was almost so angry that she turned her back on it.

The deeper you walked into the forest, the quieter it became, and at last only a few people stepped on dead branches and a few children gasped.

Lan Haoxin's archery skills are very good, and she hit a few rabbits and golden pheasants in a while. Starling and Xiaoyu walked in the middle, and when it was their turn, all the animals ran out.

Xiaoyu was so anxious that she scratched her ears and cheeks, and tried to rush to the front or side several times, but was stopped by the second brother.

After walking like this for a long time, the second brother saw a roe deer, and hurriedly called Xiaoyu to the front and asked her to open her bow and aim. It's a pity that her little bow is too small, in Lan Haoxin's words: even the golden bows made by the girls of the Lan family can't compare.

The feather arrow only flew half of it and landed on the ground, and the roe deer thought it was a small bird that fell, and he didn't even raise his head, but also lowered his head leisurely and ate his meal. Angry, Xiaoyu turned her head and said to the second brother: "Brother, go and knock it unconscious." ”