After having lunch in Baijiazhai, Xu Bin offered his farewell. As for what he talked about with Bai Diantang in the study, except for the two of them, no one else was clear. It's just that what Xu Bin didn't expect was that Bai Mulan, who went home this time, suddenly proposed to live at home for a while, and Xu Bin did not object to this. Soon, with the escort team, he pulled two carriages full of return gifts and returned to Heifeng Village.

As the population of the cottage has increased a lot all of a sudden, the veterans who have been brutally trained by Xu Bin before will also feel very happy to watch Wang Erscar and others train those recruits. It's a pity that as Xu Bin announced to them the next day, although the veterans can be exempted from basic training such as the team, they have added additional cultural courses.

For this reason, Xu Bin also deliberately asked the second uncle to go to the village below the mountain at a high price and find a few private school gentlemen to go up the mountain. Every day, these veterans are given half-day literacy education.

It is undoubtedly a very painful thing to let these veterans who do not know a single big character read and write, but every time he goes to class, Xu Bin will specially arrange a special guard. If that person doesn't finish the homework assigned by the teacher, then the fate that awaits them at the end of the class is a scolding and intense training that exhausts them.

For the first batch of soldiers trained by himself, Xu Bin was largely trained as an officer. But if you want to teach them some knowledge of leading troops, some basic battle experience, if these guys are illiterate, they will undoubtedly play the piano to the cow. Therefore, before these courses were taught, Xu Bin's requirement was that the veterans should be able to read the newspapers they could buy on the mountain.

In this way, the recruits underwent regular military training, the veterans underwent cultural training, and the Xu Jiajun, which was expanded to three integrated companies, was also on the right track. In accordance with Xu Bin's order, Li Chengbing has been taking a few old bandits in the area of Lianbing Mountain during this period of time, inquiring about the situation of the four bandit cottages, and providing intelligence support for the follow-up attack on Lianbing Mountain.

At this time, Chen Zhengdao, who went down the mountain to pick up the family of the first soldier killed in the Xu Jiajun, also brought Zhu Erzai's uncle and Zhu Xiaoting, who seemed a little scared, back to Heifeng Village. Originally, according to Xu Bin's meaning, he wanted to pick up Zhu Erzai's sister up the mountain in person.

But in the opinion of the second uncle Xu Yizhong, it is better to let people go to Zhu Erzai's village to find out the situation first. After all, the people of these years have no good impression of bandits. Even if Xu Bin is willing to fulfill Zhu Erzai's last wish, it is not necessarily that the Zhu family is willing to accept his care. Therefore, in the end, Zhu Erzai's company commander Chen Zhengdao was sent to Zhujialing to pick up Zhu Erzai's relatives into the mountain for him.

Sure enough, when Chen Zhengdao came to Zhu's house to explain his intentions, Zhu Erzai's uncle denied that there was no relative of Zhu Erzai. Because when Zhu Erzai left home, he had made it clear that unless he came back by himself. Otherwise, anyone who inquires about him in his name should not believe it casually.

It wasn't until Chen Zhengdao led people to live in the Zhu family for a few days that they had no malicious intent. really came to pick them up and go to the mountains to enjoy the blessings, and Zhu Xiaoting, who learned that Zhu Erzai had died in battle, finally opened her mouth to go to the cottage to see where her dead brother lived before his death. Uncle Zhu Erzai, who was worried that it would be unsafe for this niece to go to the bandits' den alone, had no choice but to follow his niece up the mountain together.

Knowing that Zhu Erzai's relatives had arrived at the cottage, Xu Bin immediately ordered the soldiers of the Xu family army, who were still training and studying, to assemble and personally line up to welcome the arrival of the two. This is undoubtedly a great honor for the dead Zhu Erzai.

When Chen Zhengdao introduced Xu Bin to Uncle Zhu Erzai, he also seemed a little frightened when he learned that Xu Bin was Uncle Zhu Erzai, who was the big boss of the nephew before his death. After saying hello, Xu Bin saw Zhu Xiaoting, who was standing beside Chen Zhengdao and looked a little pitiful.

Facing Zhu Xiaoting, who was one year younger than Bai Mulan, Xu Bin said very sincerely: "Xiaoting, for your brother's death, as his leader, I have to bear a lot of responsibility. Before your brother died, let me take care of you.

So, I want to ask you if you would like to recognize me as an older brother. As long as you are willing to recognize me as an elder brother, I will take care of your life for the rest of your life. Because to a large extent, your brother can be said to have died for me, and it is my duty and responsibility. ”

Perhaps feeling the sincerity in Xu Bin's words, Zhu Xiaoting calmed down a little and said: "Xiexie is a big boss, but I want to see my brother's tomb first, I don't know if it's okay!" ”

'Of course! ’

After speaking, Xu Bin led Zhu Xiaoting and Zhu Erzai's uncle to Zhu Erzai's tombstone that had just been built. Seeing that this tombstone was very complete, Xu Bin, who thought that Zhu Xiaoting would cry, suddenly found this girl who looked very weak.

Biting his lip, he stared at the tombstone and said, "Brother, you haven't let me come to see you, but now I'm here, but you're gone." If you leave me alone, what will I do in the future? ”

is such a girl who is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, Xu Bin saw tears in the girl's eyes, but he couldn't see the tears flowing down. He knew that it was not that Zhu Xiaoting didn't love Zhu Erzai's brother, but that Zhu Xiaoting didn't want to show her weakness in front of them. At a young age, it is really not easy to have this endurance.

Standing next to hearing Zhu Xiaoting's words, Xu Bin stepped forward and said, "Erzai, I took your uncle and sister up the mountain to see you." Before you died, you asked me to take care of your sister, and now I will accept your sister as a righteous sister in front of you. From then on, he is the eldest princess of my Xu Jiajun, and I will let her live happily for the rest of my life, and you can leave with peace of mind.

Xiaoting, are you willing to recognize me as a big brother now? Although my background is not very good, I promised to take care of you in front of your brother, and I will do it. If you don't trust your uncle, I can also take them up to the mountains, or I can buy them some land and give them some money. In short, I can try to meet whatever you want. ”

Whether in his previous life or in this life, Xu Bin is alone, and now he can accept a righteous sister, undoubtedly he is also happy from the bottom of his heart. What's more, this is a promise he made as a man to his dead brother. He also doesn't want to break the promise he made at the beginning, and he is willing to accept this girl who looks weak, but is actually strong in her heart, as a sister. In this way, the second uncle of the province always felt that their Xu family was thin.

Just when Zhu Xiaoting hesitated, Zhu Erzai's uncle suddenly said: "Xiaoting, I know that for so many years, you have always wanted to follow your brother." You're in our house, and it's not good to be honest. It's useless to blame your uncle, you can't even support your wife and children at home, and you don't have the extra ability to take care of you.

Now that the master of the Xu family is willing to recognize you as a sister, my uncle doesn't look like a bad person, and these people are your brother's brothers before his death, and with them taking care of you, maybe you will be happier than in my house. As long as you can have a good time, I will go underground in the future, and I can have a good relationship with your parents. You don't have to worry about me, my uncle still has the strength to support himself. ”

His own family knows his own affairs, and there are very few people like Zhu Erzai in this year, who only have two children in the family. Like Zhu Erzai's uncle, in addition to Zhu Xiaoting's nephew, he is also raising five biological children. For Uncle Zhu Erzai, who only relies on farming and paying rent every year, he really doesn't have much ability to take care of this nephew.

Even if Zhu Erzai can sometimes give him some money, it is just a drop in the bucket. The only time the dividend was paid, Zhu Erzai gave this uncle fifty yuan of Long Yang, but just repaying the foreign debts owed over the years almost spent the money Zhu Erzai gave him. This guilt kept in his heart made Zhu Erzai's uncle still decide to hand over this nephew to this young cottage boss to take care of.

Another point is also very realistic, that is, he really can't afford to support one more person, not to mention his wife at home, who also beats and scolds this nephew. For this reason, although Zhu Erzai's uncle couldn't bear it, he could only endure it in order to support Zhu Xiaoting.

In fact, for Zhu Xiaoting, living at her uncle's house is also a dark life. Many times, she also mentioned to Zhu Erzai that she wanted to live with her brother. Even if she goes up to the mountain to be a female bandit, she is willing to do so, because she really doesn't like her aunt and the ugly eyes of her cousin, who is a year older than her.

It's just that every time my brother comes home, he comes and leaves in a hurry, so when he sees that Xu Bin has no ill will towards her, on the contrary, he shows sincerity. Zhu Xiaoting, who already understands the sophistication of human feelings, has accepted Xu Bin's suggestion in her heart.

Now that the words were said by the uncle, Zhu Xiaoting surprised everyone present and shouted to Xu Bin: "Brother! ”

I thought that Zhu Xiaoting would hesitate, but the little girl agreed to this matter so happily, which made Xu Bin really a little surprised. However, when he heard the meaning of Uncle Zhu Erzai's words, he also knew that this girl should not have a good time at his uncle's house.

So he quickly said: "Okay, since you recognize me as your brother, then you will be the eldest lady of Heifeng Village from now on." No matter what your uncle did to you before, he will take care of you until now. You are my sister now, then I will listen to your opinion, what do you think should be subsidized for your uncle's family? Give money or give title deeds? ”

Xu Bin, who knows that Zhu Xiaoting doesn't have a good impression of this uncle's family, although he understands how difficult it is for the people's family to support one more child these days. But for Zhu Erzai's uncle, he was still a little angry in his heart for raising a good haode girl to look as thin as firewood. After all, the current Zhu Xiaoting is his sister.

It's just that Xu Bin, who didn't want others to say that Zhu Xiaoting was ungrateful, quickly let Zhu Xiaoting call the shots and tell the compensation given to Uncle Zhu Erzai. also hopes to take these compensations, and Zhu Xiaoting has nothing to do with this uncle from now on. Anyway, Xu Bin can also see that although this Zhu Erzai's uncle feels sorry for his niece, he doesn't have a good impression of them, who are kings of the mountain.

Faced with Xu Bin giving up the decision to herself, Zhu Xiaoting thought about it and said, "It's still up to my brother to decide!" Although my aunt treated me badly, my uncle treated me well. Now that I have an older brother now, my brother will decide all my affairs. ”

Hearing Zhu Xiaoting calmly say the words 'Auntie is not good to me', Xu Bin felt a little distressed. Such a big girl has endured the tragedy of a broken family, not to mention the hardships of life. How difficult it is to maintain this calm!