Xiao Ming's family lives in a simple place, and rarely walks around the village except for going out and passing by the village every day, and does not participate in the affairs of the village.

"Originally, the auspicious day for repairing the house was set on the 18th of this month, but it was delayed by a rainstorm, and it was changed to the first day of the next month."

"Oh." It seems that Qiaodong is going to be lively again, but I don't know what kind of person it is.

"Today we saw the old man and wife of the Xia family, it is called extravagance when she dresses, I heard that she came back from the capital, and she used to be an official for the official family." Da Wang's said cheerfully, just like Xiao Ming's family repairing the house, Da Wang's family also signed up to cook, the Xia family generously made a generous move, cooking rice for 20 wen a day, and the man repaired the house for 30 wen and drilled a well, so that after calculation, the family had dozens of taels of silver in the account.

"Isn't it the day after tomorrow to repair the house at the first time, it's really fast." Xiao Ming muttered.

"The surname is Xia, and Brother Xia has the same surname." Xiao Han said, looking at Xia Xiaoba, but found that Xia Xiaoba was holding a horsewhip in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Brother Xia, what's wrong with you, why don't you speak."

"Ah, it's fine." Xia Xiaoba came back to his senses and glanced at Xiao Han, "Let's go, let's go home." ”

In the distance, Song and Mao Mao were waiting for them by the bridge.

"You're back." Song helped Xiao Ming get out of the carriage.

"Godmother, I told you, you don't have to come out to pick us up." Xiao Ming said that when they went to the town, the Song family would come to greet them every day.

"It's okay, it's okay at home anyway, I'm idle and idle, I have to find something to do." Her injuries are good, Xiao Ming doesn't let her do less, she is bored.

"Today, there is a family member at home, surnamed Xia, who has just moved to Liujia Village, saying that he is going to build a house in Qiaodong." Song said that the Xia family husband and wife are both kind people and can speak well, one Mrs. Song calls her, and praises Xiao Ming for her three abilities, but in an hour, they are familiar with her.

"The Xia family is here, who are they? Did they say anything?" Xia Xiaoba exclaimed, looking flustered and a little inexplicably uneasy and surprised.

"It's Master Xia and Mrs. Xia, who said some troublesome things about repairing the house, gossiping, and nothing else." Song looked at Xia Xiaoba's reflection a little inexplicably.

"What's wrong with you?"

"No, it's fine." Xia Xiaobatou shook like a wave drum. "Brother Xia, what's wrong with you today, how frightened, aren't you comfortable, let my sister prescribe some medicine for you." Xiao Han looked at Xia Xiaoba's unyielding appearance and asked with concern.

"It's okay, I'm fine." Xia Xiaoba shouted loudly, as if he was deliberately proving that he was fine.

"I'll lead the horse in first." So saying, he led the horse into the stable.

Xiao Ming looked at Xia Xiaoba's back as if he was escaping, as soon as he entered the village today and heard about the Xia family, Xia Xiaoba's reaction was a little out of shape, and he was in a daze.

Both of them are surnamed Xia, so they are related, they are Xia Xiaoba's relatives.

"Ah, yes, they came today and said that they would buy vegetables from us to repair the house in the future, and I have already promised to come down first, but the money for this dish has not yet been decided, and I am going to wait for you to come back and discuss it." Song said that although she was Xiao Ming's godmother, she never pointed fingers at Xiao Ming's family, especially in this business, Xiao Ming and Xiao Han had the final say.

Now there are so many vegetables at home that she can't finish eating, she looks at the vegetables and worries, and now that someone buys them, she still wishes she could sell more.

"The price, godmother, you must be, they will be neighbors in the future, so it's cheaper. It's also a coincidence, today Brother Kong came back and signed a contract with us, two carts of vegetables a day, and we will come to pull it from tomorrow, and we will be busy in the future. Xiao Ming said.

"Really, that's great, it's a happy event today, I'll make you something to eat when you go home." Song said happily, and pulled Xiao Yu back to the house.

Xiao Ming looked at Xia Xiaoba who was walking around the yard, he almost didn't say a word when he ate at night, asked and answered, and was not interested at all when he saw the food he liked, if he had been in the past, he would have grabbed the food with Xiao Yu a long time ago, and stayed alone in the yard after dinner.

"Brother Xia, what's wrong with you, what can you say?" Xiao Ming asked.

"I'm fine, Xiao Ming'er, why don't you sleep yet." Xia Xiaoba has always been called Xiao Ming Xiaoming'er.

"Brother Xia, you have been in our house for so long, whether it is Xiaohan, Yu'er or me, they all regard you as our relatives, my brother, I hope you can also treat us as relatives, do you treat us as outsiders?"

"How come, you are my own brother and sister and nephew." Xia Xiaoba hurriedly assured that he was not only a relative, but also a life-saving benefactor.

"Then why do you have something to hide from us." Xiao Ming asked, Xia Xiaoba was enthusiastic and cheerful, he had something to say, and he never hid things in his heart, this time he looked like he was not giving up, and it was obvious that he had something on his mind.

"I'm fine." Xia Xiaoba's mouth is not right.

"Are you really alright?" Xiao Ming looked at Xia Xiaoba's weak heart, and didn't speak, most of his thoughts were related to their new neighbor Xia family, and she didn't expose it, everyone has their own secrets that they don't want to say, including herself.

"If it's okay, just rest early, you have to be busy tomorrow, no matter what happens, we are your relatives, what can we help, just say it, you must help."

"Good! Good! Xia Xiaoba was moved, and his heart was worried, he concealed his true identity, purposefully took in Xiao Ming, and told her every move to the fifth brother They treated him as a relative, I don't know if his behavior is considered deception, Xiao Ming knows if he will hate him in the future, let alone a relative, I'm afraid it's not a friend.

"Xiao Ming'er, I have something to leave for a few days, can you be busy at home."

"It's okay, you can do it in advance, we can do the work at home, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will be Xiao Han Muxiu, they can be busy."

"Then I'm done with my errands, and I'll rush back as soon as possible."

Xia Xiaoba got up the next day to help Xiao Ming pick the vegetables before leaving, and the speed of picking the vegetables was much faster, Xiao Ming and the others put the picked vegetables away, just waiting for Kong Lin's carriage to pull them.

After lunch, Xiao Ming looked at the collapsed thatched house, it was still the same as when it collapsed, scattered and in a mess, these days I was busy taking care of Aunt Song and couldn't spare time to clean it up, just today Xiao Han Mu was resting, and the two planned to clean it up.

"Sister, this cabinet has been broken like this." Xiao Han picked up the sundries on it and pointed to the broken cabinet that was exposed, this was the only cabinet in the house before, and it had been left here, and the door that was about to fall fell into the mud, and the color could not be seen.

Xiao Ming glanced at the broken cabinet that was too rotten to be lifted.

"It's no longer usable, take it and burn it as firewood."

"Hmm." Xiao Han is a pity, now he has a lot of money, but he still can't bear the old things, this is his memory of the past.

"Sister, look, there's a box here." Xiao Han took out a rectangular box from the dirt.