"Isn't my brother going?" Xiao Zhuang took two steps, stopped a little timidly, and looked back at Da Zhuangdao.

Da Zhuang shook his head and said, "My brother is a big child, how can I ask for other people's things casually?" Go in, your other brother is inside, and he won't give you cakes to eat!" ”

When Gu Ming was at home, he was still good to this younger brother. As soon as Xiao Zhuang heard that he was there, he took a cheerful step, and couldn't wait to rush to the door, pushing open the door with all his strength and squeezing in.

Gu Xiao and Gu Ming went up the mountain early in the morning to chop wood, and they hadn't come back yet. The yard was empty, the ground was clean, and the firewood and grass were neatly piled up against the wall. Above the courtyard, the thick fragrance of pastries, mixed with a faint medicinal fragrance, wafted with the wind.

Xiao Zhuang smelled the sweet fragrance, came to the smoking kitchen, and looked inside timidly. An unknown aunt, with the "dead girl" in his mother's mouth, was busy on the stove. At this time, a pot of fragrant osmanthus cake is coming out of the pot, and the hot aroma is blended together and permeated in the kitchen.

Aunt Yan noticed a pair of eager eyes, turned to look, and a little bit bit of a little bit was standing in front of the kitchen door biting her fingers, staring at the peanut candy on the board with a pair of eyes salivating.

"Yo! Whose child is this? Aunt Yan came to Xiao Zhuang, squatted down and looked at the dirty little dot, and asked softly.

Xiao Zhuang is a monkey in the door, he can go to heaven at home, and he will admit it when he meets someone he doesn't know. He looked at Aunt Yan with some fear, his mouth was pursed, and there were two bubbles of tears in his eyes, and he was about to cry when he saw it.

Gu Ye walked over, looked down at Xiao Zhuang, and asked, "Xiao Zhuang, who brought you here?" ”

Seeing Gu Ye, Xiao Zhuang seemed to see his relatives. He ran to Gu Ye's side all of a sudden, hid behind her, glanced at Aunt Yan timidly, and whispered, "It's my brother, my brother brought me here." I want to eat sugar candy and eat cakes! ”

Gu Ye knew that it was Da Zhuang who was doing the trick. I want to use Xiao Zhuang's hand to eat her family's sugar and pastries, Menmen'er!

"Xiao Zhuang, an impolite child, can't eat sugar and pastries!" Gu Ye scooped up a basin of hot water, washed the dirty child's face and hands, and wiped them clean with a hand towel.

"Xiao Zhuang is polite!" After Gu Ye came out of the house, his appearance gradually grew, and he put on new and beautiful clothes, giving Xiao Zhuang a strange and familiar feeling. The beastly instinct told him that it would be no good to go against the man in front of him. In order to be able to eat delicious sugar and cakes, Xiao Zhuang showed that he had never been well-behaved and obedient.

"Then as soon as you came in, did you call someone?" Gu Ye asked lightly.

Xiao Zhuang looked at the strange aunt, then looked at his sister, and shouted obediently: "Hello aunt, good sister...... Xiao Zhuang is hungry and wants to eat cakes! ”

Aunt Yan found that this kid's eyes were spinning around, and he was as fine as a monkey. She had long been aware of the little one's cleverness, but it was only for the sake of sugar and pastries. She shook her head helplessly - this kid will be taught badly by the Liu family if no one corrects him!

Gu Ye took a piece of osmanthus cake, put it on a wooden plate, stuffed it into Xiao Zhuang's hand, and said, "Just sit here and eat, there will be delicious red bean cake and pea yellow in a while!" ”

Xiao Zhuang couldn't wait to grab the osmanthus cake with his little paw and stuffed it into his mouth. It looked like he hadn't eaten anything in his eight lifetimes, and he was so choked that he rolled his eyes and was reluctant to spit out the soft and sweet osmanthus cake in his mouth. Gu Ye was afraid of his life, so he poured him another bowl of boiled water and asked him to drink two sips and flush down.

After eating the osmanthus cake, Gu Ye gave him another piece of peanut candy to make him grind his teeth. Xiao Zhuang sat on a small stool, intently nibbling on the fragrant and crispy peanut candy, looking like he had everything to do with sugar. I had long forgotten that there was an older brother waiting for him outside.

Gu Xiao and the two came back with firewood, and when they saw Xiao Zhuang eating with sticky hands, he looked satisfied, and asked in surprise: "Who sent this kid?" ”

Gu Ye pouted in the direction of the gate and said, "Who else can there be besides Da Zhuang?" How? Don't you see that kid at the door? ”

"No," Gu Ming frowned - when he hadn't met his grandfather before, Da Zhuang bullied him and his sister a lot, and brought Xiao Zhuang badly. He didn't like to see the kid at all, "Maybe he hid when he saw us come back, right?" ”

When Xiao Zhuang was full of food and drink, and was so sleepy that he fell asleep on the small stool, Gu Ming took the little guy back with him. When entering the courtyard, Gu Qiao, who had just come back from playing cards, greeted his son with a little surprise, but in exchange for Gu Ming's indifferent eyes. Thinking that he had cut off his relationship with his son for five taels of silver, a complicated feeling surged in his heart, and he glared at Liu fiercely.

Liu came to his youngest son's room, rummaged through his son's empty pocket, pouted, and said: "It's really stingy, it's a big New Year, don't talk about giving red envelopes, don't even bring a piece of candy back to Xiao Zhuang, Xiao Zhuang still calls him brother!" So much silver, are you going to die and bring it into a coffin? ”

"Shut up!" Gu Qiao was in a bad mood because he lost the money, and when he heard Liu's chatter, he yelled, "Brother? Gu Ming and Gu Ye have been sold by you, how can Xiao Zhuang still have brothers and sisters? If it weren't for you, my son would have been able to cut off my relationship and see me like a stranger? ”

"Go and ask for silver, don't you agree? How did you become my own? How did I know that the dead girl could have such a transformation, worshiped a good master, and learned a good skill to make money. If I have front and back eyes, can I still push the God of Wealth outward? Liu's mood was also not smooth, and he raised his voice to defend himself!

"Now that you see that people can make money, what are you doing earlier? You black-hearted mother-in-law almost starved people to death, and secretly threw people into the deep mountains where wolves haunted. What's the use of cravings now? Even if that girl throws silver into the water, she can't use a copper plate on you! ”

Last time, Gu Ye entered the city and pulled four large baskets of medicinal herbs, which could be sold for a hundred taels of silver. If the two children hadn't gone out, the money would have been his! If he uses this silver as capital to open a shop, he will definitely make a lot of money with his experience in helping the master's family take care of the shop.

If you have the opportunity to open a shop and be the boss, who will guard this poor ravine and be a farmer who digs food in the soil? Remorse was like an invisible hand, clinging to Gu Qiao's greedy heart. And he put all this responsibility on the Liu family! Gu Qiao looked at Liu's gaze, as if he had quenched venom, and he couldn't wait to pounce on it and take a bite to relieve his hatred.

"See what I'm doing? If you care about her, will I rub her? That dead girl is a white-eyed wolf, and if she has milk, she is a mother. People climbed the high branch of the fifth uncle, and they still know who your father is? Liu's tone was full of schadenfreude.

"If it weren't for the fact that you always blew the wind in my ears, saying that she was a loser, and in the end she was someone else's family, and she would have to pay a dowry...... Can I be separated from my children? There are few wives and husbands! If I had married the widow of Qianliang Village, this family would not have become what it is now! Gu Qiao said hatefully.

When Liu Shi heard this, he crossed his waist and scolded: "Okay, you Gu Qiao, you are still thinking about the little widow in Qianliang Village!" Who thought that the widow's family had three children and was a heavy burden? Who is the suspect that the family is thin and weak and can't live again? Didn't you fancy me for being spicy and capable of doing it at the beginning, and now you dislike me for not being gentle. How can you take all the benefits?

You don't want to think about it, you Gu Qiao can't resist and can't lift it, if this family didn't have me, it would have been poor to drink the northwest wind a long time ago! If you look at other people's men, after winter, they are hunting and digging bamboo shoots in the mountains, and they can sell dozens or hundreds of copper coins in one trip. ”

Gu Qiao has the best face, and when he heard the Liu family belittle himself like this, an evil fire rose from the bottom of his heart. He picked up a flat pole and smashed it towards Liu's head and face. Liu Shi was not on guard, and was hit on the forehead by a flat pole, and a large purple bag was lifted when he landed.

Liu is the one who suffers, she touched the bag on her head, and pounced on Gu Qiao with a "whoop", her untrimmed nails scratched Gu Qiao's face: "Okay, you Gu Qiao, I will give birth to children for you, be a cow and a horse, and break my heart for this family." In exchange for a violent beating from time to time? I'm fighting with you—"

Gu Qiao has less work on weekdays, and he is not as good as Liu, who is used to doing farm work, but after all, he is a man, and he has an advantage in physical strength.

Xiao Zhuang, who was sleeping in the house, was woken up, and when he came out, his father and mother were beaten and his head was bleeding, and he was so frightened that he cried out with a "wow". All of a sudden, the shouting and scolding of the two people in the yard, the crying of children, and the sound of falling objects in the yard when tearing...... Intertwined.

The two Gu Mo, who were preparing the stove sugar and preparing the sacrificial stove next door, heard the movement and glanced at each other. Aunt Nine smacked her lips and said, "This New Year's Day, which one is making trouble?" Why don't you go over and take a look, don't fight badly! ”

Gu Mo sighed and said, "These two people are becoming more and more disagreeable......

Before his words fell, he heard Da Zhuang's cry that changed his tone: "Mother! You don't want to die! Come on, my father beat my mother to death! Help—"

When Gu Mo heard this, he pulled his legs and ran next door. In the yard, Gu Qiao stood there stunned as if he had been scratched by a chicken, his face was covered with blood marks. Liu was lying motionless on the ground, his head and face covered in blood.

"What's going on?" When Aunt Jiu saw that there was so much blood on the ground, she stopped helplessly.

"It's her...... She bit me first, I didn't mean to......" Gu Qiao stood there as if he was stupid, muttering to himself.

It turned out that Liu was inferior to Gu Qiao in terms of physical strength, and he didn't want to suffer a loss, so he bit Gu Qiao's hand fiercely. Gu Qiao pushed hard and pushed the person out, hitting his head on the protruding stone of the wall, and hitting a bloody hole when he landed. Liu also fainted.