It was noon, the streets were filled with the smell of rice, and most of the people were in a hurry to go home for dinner, except for the naughty children who didn't know what the time was.

Turning the street, a small road appeared in front of the two of them, there are many linden trees growing on both sides of the path, walking in the middle, quite the atmosphere of the suburbs of their hometown.

Zhang Tianduo pointed to a small wooden house on the far side of the path and said, "That's my house." ”

The small wooden building is built in the air more than one meter above the ground, and there are eighteen thick wooden piles at the bottom, which has the taste of Miao family architecture. On the left side of the wooden house is a small wooden ladder, and above the wooden ladder is a corridor that can go around the small wooden house, Li Xiang seems to like this architectural style, and while following Zhang Tianduo up, he looks around from time to time.

"Big brother, sister-in-law, I'm back!" Before coming to the door, Zhang Tianduo opened his mouth and shouted.

The inner room was quiet for a while, and soon a pleasant exclamation sounded, and then a little girl pounced out of it and plunged into Zhang Tianduo's arms: "Uncle, you are back!" ”

Zhang Tianduo touched the little girl's head in his arms and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for so long, the little girl has grown so tall." ”

The little girl pouted and said, "Everyone is thirteen years old, not a little girl." ”

"You're thirty years old, and you're a little girl in your uncle's eyes." Zhang Tianduo flicked the little girl's little nose and said funny.

The little girl is very cute, with a pair of clear and bright eyes with a hint of cleverness, two dimples of different shades on her red face, and a black and shiny hair that hangs down to her waist, caressing her heartstrings.

The girl seemed to be very dissatisfied with Zhang Tianduo's amusement, and suddenly broke free from Zhang Tianduo's arms, turned around and ran towards the back room.

Not long after the girl entered the house, a dark-skinned woman came out of the back room.

"Sister-in-law." When Zhang Tianduo saw the woman, he hurriedly shouted.

The woman squinted and looked at Zhang Tianduo for a while, and then said in surprise: "Tianduo, when did you come back?" Hurry up and sit in the back room. ”

"Sister-in-law, this is my senior sister Li Xiang."

The woman glanced at Li Xiang and nodded to her with a smile, Li Xiang hurriedly nodded to the woman when she saw this, but unfortunately the woman had already walked in.

The decoration of the room was quite simple, and anyone knew that the life of the family was not rich, and the two sat on the ground, and the little girl came out from the side again, sitting beside the woman, and a pair of watery eyes swept over Zhang Tianduo and Li Xiang from time to time.

"Tianduo, why haven't you even replied to a letter for more than two years? Your eldest brother thinks you're almost sick. ”

Zhang Tianduo was secretly ashamed in his heart, he received several letters from his eldest brother when he was in Jieyunzhuang, but there were too many things at that time, and he always forgot to reply to the letters, and he had not returned to Jieyunzhuang for almost a year, and he didn't know anything about the future letters from his eldest brother.

"Sister-in-law, don't blame, it's really too busy in the past two years, and I haven't been able to write letters to my eldest brother and sister-in-law, but I've been thinking about my eldest brother and sister-in-law in my heart.

Li Xiang on the side couldn't help but snort coldly in his heart: "This guy really sees people talking about people, talking nonsense, I have never heard him mention his eldest brother and sister-in-law for so long, and he has always been worried about others, and he clearly left others behind, and now he dares to speak so loudly." ”

Where did the woman know this, she smiled when she heard this: "I haven't seen you for more than two years, and my sister-in-law can't recognize you coming, how have you been doing for more than two years?" ”

"It's hard to say, sister-in-law, where is my eldest brother?"

"He's coming back soon, oh yes, you haven't eaten yet, have you?"

"Well, we'll be here as soon as we get back."

"That's okay, you sit down first, I'll prepare the meal, Xiaoya, accompany your uncle here, don't be trick-or-treating."

Xiaoya is the name of the little girl, usually she is very naughty, and from time to time she fights with the little boys in the town, like a tomboy, which will look very well-behaved, and when she heard this, she nodded hurriedly and said, "Okay." ”

As soon as the woman left, Xiaoya immediately turned around and asked Li Xiang, "Big sister, why are you covering your face?" ”

Li Xiang smiled: "My sister's face is not good-looking, I am afraid of scaring people." ”

"Really? Let me see how scary it is. As she spoke, Xiao Ya reached out to remove the veil from Li Xiang's face.

Zhang Tian grabbed his eyes quickly, grabbed Xiaoya's little hand, and pretended to say: "Little girl is not allowed to be naughty, otherwise uncle will spank you." ”

Xiao Ya snorted and said dissatisfiedly: "Look at it, there won't be a piece of meat." ”

That being said, she didn't insist anymore.

The little girl is obviously not a peaceful person, and she couldn't help it after being quiet for less than half a minute: "Uncle, Daddy said that you are learning great skills outside, what have you learned?" Can you tell me about it? ”

What did you learn, this question is really difficult for Zhang Tianduo to answer, after thinking about it, he smiled and said: "Uncle learned the ability to beat people, if any child bullies you in the future, you will tell your uncle, and your uncle will help you beat him." ”

"Really?" Xiao Ya's eyes lit up when she heard this, and her face was excited.

"Of course it's true, my uncle's skills are great."

Li Xiang on the side really couldn't listen to it: "Can't you be serious in front of the child?" Be careful of teaching your child badly. ”

Zhang Tianduo smiled embarrassedly, scratched his head and said, "I'm not joking." ”

"Uncle, can you beat the tiger?" Xiaoya asked suddenly.

"Tiger?" The two were stunned for a moment, very confused by Xiaoya's question.

"Yes, can Uncle beat the Tiger?" Xiaoya looked at Zhang Tianduo with anticipation.

Zhang Tianduo has never directly faced a fierce beast like a tiger, but Caisheng once told him that he had encountered the attack of "Rotten Foxglove" when he and Master Mao Daoren drove the corpse before, and the master and apprentice did not make much effort to drive away the "Rotten Foxglove", since Caisheng and Mao Daoren Master and Apprentice can do it, it must not be a problem for themselves.

"I'm ......"

Just about to pat his chest to pack the ticket, a deep voice suddenly sounded outside: "Xiaoya, who is here?" ”

"Daddy." Xiaoya cheered, got up and ran out, and soon pulled a man in his early thirties and walked in: "Daddy, look who is coming." ”

When the man saw Zhang Tianduo at a glance, his brows couldn't help frowning slightly, and he said indifferently: "You're back?" ”

Zhang Tianduo got up and nodded to the man, and said, "Big brother, I'm back." ”

Zhang Tianduo has not been treated by his eldest brother because he is not doing his job properly and often causing trouble, although the brothers have been separated for more than two years, his eldest brother still looks down on him as before.

Zhang Tianduo is not angry about the indifference of the eldest brother, he came back this time mainly to find Li Xiang's aunt, and visiting the eldest brother and sister-in-law is just a stopper, and after this reunion, maybe there will be no chance to meet in the future, so he still cherishes this meeting.

"Big brother, let me introduce you, this is my senior sister Li Xiang, and she is also the eldest disciple of the third uncle."

"Senior sister, this is my eldest brother Zhang Tiansheng."

Zhang Tiansheng nodded slightly to Li Xiang and waved his hand to signal the two to sit down.

"Father's ashes were sent to his hometown?"

"Delivered."

"Well, how is the third uncle?"

"Good."

"How long are you going to stay when you come back this time?" Zhang Tiansheng still knows his younger brother very well, and knows that Siam is not attractive to him, and he will probably not stay for too long when he comes back this time.

Zhang Tianduo didn't know how long he would stay, so he thought about it and said: "Big brother, I came back this time to visit you, my sister-in-law, and my little niece, and the second is to help my senior sister find her aunt, when I find my senior sister's aunt, we will leave here when we want, but ...... I probably won't be coming back in the future. ”

At this time, the woman brought the wine and food, Zhang Tiansheng waited for his wife to put the wine and food on the table, poured a glass of wine for himself and Zhang Tianduo, and then said, "Why don't you come back?" Although there is a 108,000-mile gap between here and my hometown, I heard from the people who ran the boat that my hometown is not peaceful now. ”

Zhang Tianduo took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "No matter how peaceful it is, it is also our hometown, and many things in my hometown are full of surprises, and I have a good life there." ”

For more than two years, Zhang Tiansheng wrote several letters to Zhang Tianduo and all of them were lost in the sea, if you want to say that you are not worried about this younger brother, it is also a lie, now I have heard him say it well, and I feel a lot more relieved, I drank the bad wine in the cup in one gulp, Zhang Tiansheng asked: "Tianduo, have you started a family?" ”

"Uh...... Well...... this."

Zhang Tiansheng glanced at Zhang Tianduo, who was full of embarrassment, and said: "Tianduo, you are not too young now, what my father was most worried about before he died was your lifelong event, he asked you to find the third uncle, and he also hoped to introduce you to a good family through the third uncle, but more than two years have passed, why are you still hanging?" ”

"Big brother, it's not that I don't want to start a family, it's just that I've been too busy in the past two years, and I'm not alone now." As he spoke, Zhang Tian grabbed Li Xiang beside him and said, "Li Xiang is not only my senior sister, but also my wife who has not passed through the door. ”

Li Xiang, who was taken aback by Zhang Tianduo's sudden remarks, almost couldn't help but slap Zhang Tianduo, but when she saw Zhang Tianduo's determined look, she felt sweet in her heart, and she didn't embarrass Zhang Tianduo on the spot.

Zhang Tiansheng was surprised: "Ah, she...... Are you already married? ”

"That's right, it's still a witness made by the third uncle." Seeing that Li Xiang did not refute, Zhang Tianduo had to inch in.

Li Xiang, who was shrinking in Zhang Tianduo's arms, listened to Zhang Tianduo's nonsense, and couldn't help but secretly pinch him, making Zhang Tianduo break out in a cold sweat, but he didn't dare to make the slightest move.

Zhang Tiansheng looked at the two of them suspiciously, and said to Li Xiang for a long time: "Since you and Tian have decided on a family affair, you can be regarded as half of my Zhang family's daughter-in-law, but the ...... on your face"

Zhang Tianduo understood what the eldest brother meant when he heard it, and hurriedly said: "Big brother, this is my senior sister's family rules, don't care." ”

Li Xiang listened to Zhang Tianduo's more and more unspeakable, pushed Zhang Tianduo away, sighed slightly, and raised his hand to remove the veil on his face: "Brother Zhang, don't blame, it's really unspeakable for my little sister to cover her face." ”

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