Chapter 34 Worried

It snowed lightly that morning, and in order to make the children learn to read and write not to work so hard, he began to stew the broth at noon. Add the pork bones and some fatty meat, ginger and a dash of chili peppers and a variety of spices. Finally, add some radishes, and stew in two large pots. When it's time for recess, give each of them a cup to warm up. Of course, the children use their own dishes and chopsticks, and he doesn't have so many bowls at home.

At the end of school, Yuan Anping watched the children in the village leave one by one, and watched the fifteen children in the county town crowded on the donkey cart and braved the snow to go home. Fortunately, he heard that these six families had an idea and rented an idle yard of the Li Zheng family. After a few days, the children will not have to run back and forth every day.

The children left one after another, but Li Zi and a few of them followed Yuan Anping to the kang bed, saying that they wanted to learn to write together, but they wanted to enjoy the comfort of the kang bed.

The four children knew that Yuan Anping loved to be clean, washed his feet in advance, and took off his pants when he went to bed. Li Zi, Fat Dun, and Li Dongfeng are all thick-skinned, and Chen Jun, as Fat Dun's cousin, took advantage of it. Yuan Dahe, Chu Feng and Yuan Fuyuan also wanted to come together, but unfortunately they needed to go home early, so they could only leave with regret on their faces.

Yuan Anping took peanuts and melon seeds and a plate of snacks. looked at the four people who were lying down comfortably, and when he came, they sat up again.

Li Zi pinched a peanut and sighed: "Brother Anping, it's really warm in your house." ”

Fat Dun also pouted to the small table, and said with a smile: "It's this bed that is warm." ”

Chen Jun sat next to the fat mound, he was more shy, but he smiled and didn't speak.

Li Dongfeng peeled a peanut and put it in his mouth, "Brother Anping, you are living too comfortably this day." No wonder someone wants to kiss you. ”

Yuan Anping was stunned for a moment, "What do you say?"

Li Dongfeng, "When my mother was chatting with others, I listened to it. It is said that it is because you are living a good life now, and the embroidery of Fuyuan's family came out, and I thought you were talented, so someone wanted to tell you about the girl. But my mother didn't mention any girl, after all, this thing hasn't been done yet, and it's not good for the girl's reputation to say it. ”

Li Zi grinned, "Don't say you didn't mention it, even if you mention it, it won't work." ”

Yuan Anping nodded in agreement, he was only sixteen, and told him how old a girl could be. Moreover, here pays attention to the life of parents, the words of matchmakers, people who have been born in the era of advocating freedom of love are really a little uncomfortable in the face of blind marriage and dumb marriage. As a result, as soon as he nodded, Li Zi said, "Brother Anping's little daughter-in-law is Huo Xiaohan, how can he marry someone else." ”

Fat Dun was still coaxing on the side, "The little daughter-in-law is Huo Xiaohan, Brother Anping is good to Huo Xiaohan." ”

Yuan Anping glared at them and scolded with a smile: "What nonsense, you can't stop your mouth if you have food." Knowing that they would not say this, they did not conduct strict criticism and education.

Li Zi smiled: "You must be shy and embarrassed to admit it." Saying that, he remembered one thing, and said to Yuan Anping, "I heard Liu scolding Huo Xiaohan again yesterday, I should have provoked Huo Xiangxiang like that, and I don't know if I was beaten." ”

Yuan Anping frowned when he heard this, "Beaten?"

Li Zi had always had such an expression on his face, "When it comes to Huo Xiangxiang, Huo Xiaohan will not have any good fruit to eat." But I haven't been listening to her scolding for long, so it shouldn't be a big deal. ”

Li Dongfeng listened on the sidelines, "Brother Anping, you don't really like that Huo Xiaohan, right? Everyone is saying that he is hard to kill his relatives, don't you think about it." ”

Yuan Anping frowned, "If he wants to be really hard, he would have killed Liu Shi a long time ago, so that he could suffer less guilt." Although it is said that there are all parents in the world, there are also many people who are vicious. You guys are lucky, you haven't met. ”

Fat Dun said with affection: "Although my mother has a louder voice and loves to discipline me, she will not let me eat." By comparison, I think my mother is good. ”

Li Dongfeng didn't know what to say. In his heart, filial piety to his parents is right, if his parents are unlucky because of him, he must feel very guilty. Huo Xiaohan and his father and mother suffered because of him, he suffered a little and suffered a little, so he should repay his parents' kindness, he didn't think there was anything wrong.

Yuan Anping saw Li Dongfeng's thoughts, and there were many people who had this kind of thought. He didn't want to defend Huo Xiaohan at length, but simply said: "The root of this problem is that Huo Xiaohan really restricts his relatives, or is it fabricated by the Liu family with a mouth." ”

Li Dongfeng asked puzzledly: "What good does it take for her to say that her son is kissing?"

Li Zi glanced at him, "You are too stupid, say that Huo Xiaohan is a kiss, then no matter how she tortures Huo Xiaohan, no one will say that she is vicious." Their family is planning to sell their son. ”

Li Dongfeng was very surprised, "You said they were going to sell Huo Xiaohan?"

Fat Dun and Chen Jun were also very surprised, in their hearts, it was a very, very terrifying thing to be sold.

Li Zi saw that they were all looking at him, "What is there to be surprised." In the future, what is the difference between marrying him to an old and ugly man as a concubine and selling him? ”

Yuan Anping frowned and asked Li Zi, "What wind did you hear again?"

Li Zi, "The Huo family is planning to kiss Huo Xiasheng." As soon as this family affair is completed, they will definitely do their best to tell Huo Xiaohan so that they can get the money to marry their daughter-in-law. I said you better hurry up and find a way, otherwise your little daughter-in-law will marry someone else. ”

Yuan Anping's brows furrowed even tighter when he heard this, "You help me keep an eye on the Huo family, and tell me if there is any movement." "How could he allow the Huo family to exchange Huo Xiaohan for money, if it weren't for the fact that it was more troublesome for him to buy people with money, he would have wanted to buy Huo Xiaohan for a long time.

In fact, he thought about finding someone to buy Huo Xiaoyu, and more thoroughly, he could also ask the Huo family to sign a deed of sale. But in that case, Huo Xiaohan would have to go away. If they are still alive in the Huo family's field of vision, even if they have a deed of sale, they can still control Huo Xiaohan as parents. There is another way to leave the Huo family, that is, Huo Xiaohan marries. But in Yuan Anping's heart, marrying a wife and marrying someone is not a random thing. If you choose the wrong person, you can jump from one fire pit to another, bigger one, and there is no hope. As for marrying Huo Xiaohan, he never thought about it. It's just that what he didn't expect was that because he had never been able to make up his mind, Huo Xiaohan almost died, which made him regret it.

The five of them sat on the kang bed, eating and chatting, talking and laughing. During this period, Yuan Anping looked at the time and felt a little strange, why Huo Xiaohan hadn't come yet.

"Could it be that I can't go up the mountain because of the snow, so I came late?" thought to Yuan Anping, getting out of bed and putting on his shoes, "I'll go out and take a look." When he went out and opened the door, he saw a load of firewood at the gate of the courtyard, but there was no one to be seen. He hurriedly ran out to open the courtyard gate and walked outside, but there was no sign of anyone. "What's going on?"

Yuan Anping ran back to the house, "Li Zi, you help me go and see what is going on with Huo Xiaohan." ”

Li Zi got up and asked curiously, "What happened to make you so nervous?"

Yuan Anping said with a worried expression: "There is firewood outside but no one comes in, if it is Xiao Han, he will definitely come in." If he was okay, no one in their family would be kind enough to help him. ”

Li Zi got up and went down, "I'll help you go see him." As he spoke, he muttered, "So nervous, and said I didn't want to marry him." ”

Yuan Anping kicked him, "Don't fix those useless ones, go and come back quickly." ”

When the other children saw that Li Zi was gone, they also got up to say goodbye, and Yuan Anping saw that the time was not too early, so as not to let the snow outside get heavier and heavier, so he didn't leave them.

Here, Yuan Anping was anxiously waiting for the news, and over there, Li Zi ran to Huo Xiaohan's house. Standing outside the door of his yard, he took a few breaths and shouted into his yard: "Huo Xiaohan, are you at home? Come out quickly at home, I have something to do with you." ”

Huo Xiaohan was originally staying in the house, when he heard Li Zi's voice, he knew that Yuan Anping must have asked him to come, so he was happy in his heart and hurriedly ran out.

Li Zi looked at Huo Xiaohan left and right, and saw that the palm print on his face was still very clear, "Was you slapped?" He was a little surprised, and he could see that this Liu family really loved Huo Xiangxiang, after all, Huo Xiaohan avoided his face when he was beaten in the past.

Huo Xiaohan nodded.

Li Zi felt that he was quite pitiful, he had never been slapped in the face when he was so old, and his tone was much softer, "Brother Anping is worried about you, seeing that you didn't go to his house, I still think something happened to you." Let me come and see you. ”

Huo Xiaohan was very happy when he heard it, no one had ever cared about him in the past. In fact, he went, but he was worried that Yuan Anping would see the palm prints on his face, so he didn't dare to enter the courtyard. He smiled and said to Li Zi: "Please help me tell him, I'm fine." I'll go find him tomorrow. ”

After listening to this, Li Zi felt that the task had been completed, "You go back, I still have to go to Brother Anping." He turned and left.

Li Zi's mother saw her son's figure and shouted at him: "Zi'er, where are you going if you don't go home?"

Li Zi turned around and shouted to his mother: "Mother, I have something to find Brother Anping, I'll come back later." ”

Li Ziniang heard him say that he was going to Yuan Anping's house, so she didn't ask anything more.

Yuan Anping saw that Li Zi was back, and hurriedly asked, "Tell me, what's wrong?"

Li Zi gasped, "You're nervous, he's staying at home." It was snowing today, so it didn't come. ”

Yuan Anping asked with concern: "Has he been beaten?"

Li Zi sat down, "It looks like I was slapped in the face, and I still have marks on my face." But it's not a big deal, and it looks like it will be gone tomorrow. ”

Yuan Anping was relieved when he heard him say this, and said to Li Zi: "Eat dinner at my place." ”

Li Zi smiled: "Don't think I don't know, you just want him to eat hot before you let me eat." ”

Yuan Anping raised his eyebrows, "What, don't you want to eat?"

Li Zi immediately said with a flattering face, "Yes, your food is the best." It can be seen from the things given to Huo Xiaohan, swearing to God that he has not eaten secretly, but he is guilty of saliva and sin when he looks at it.

"Don't think about waiting to eat, come and help light the fire. ”

Li Zi immediately went over and lit a fire.

Yuan Anping thought while cutting the vegetables that Huo Xiaohan should not have come because of the palm print on his face, knowing that he didn't want to be seen by himself. In fact, Yuan Anping really wanted Huo Xiaohan to come to him to cry about any grievances. It's better to vent it out than to suppress it.

"Brother Anping, don't get distracted, be careful to cut your hand. ”

Li Zi's laughing voice came, and Yuan Anping came back to his senses, "Don't talk so much nonsense, work hard." ”

Li Zi laughed, and then said, "Seriously, if you marry Huo Xiaohan, you don't have to worry about him every day." ”

Yuan Anping, "What do you kid know? What do you say about marrying or not, you think that things in the world are so simple." ”

Li Zi was puzzled, "What's so difficult, his family is so greedy for money, as long as you give money, they will definitely marry someone to you." And now thou hast no shortage of money for a wife. ”

Yuan Anping turned around and was speechless, "Let's not talk about whether I want to marry him or not." Let's just say that I want to marry, then I still have two years of filial piety, and I can't get him out of the sea of misery immediately. ”

Li Zi heard him say this, "Oh, I forgot about your filial piety! Huo Xiaohan can't wait two years." Look at it, as long as Huo Xiasheng says that he is a good person, he will definitely say Huo Xiaohan immediately. You have to think of a way quickly, if Huo Xiaohan really marries someone else, you won't have a place to cry. ”

Yuan Anping slashed hard, "Don't worry, I will never let them marry Huo Xiaohan casually!"