The next day, Yan Xiaoxi got up early in the morning, quickly put on his clothes, and ran out while combing his hair.

When the village party secretary saw it, he shook his head with a smile and said:

"This kid has grown up!"

Er Laizi was about to go to work in the field, and he saw a figure running towards him from afar. The more I look at it, the more it looks like Yan Xiaoxi, the village chief's house.

When he got closer, he realized that it was really Yan Xiaoxi, thinking of the relationship between this girl and Zhou Yize, Er Laizi secretly felt that there should be nothing good for her to come to him, so he turned around and walked in the other direction.

However, Yan Xiaoxi had already seen him, stretched out his hand and waved, and shouted vigorously:

"Second Uncle Lai, Second Uncle Lai, you wait, I have something to look for you."

Feeling that she couldn't run, Er Laizi simply turned around, looked at her and asked with a smile:

"It turned out to be the daughter of the old Yan family, is there anything wrong with looking for me?"

Yan Xiaoxi stood still in front of Er Laizi, rubbed his hands a little nervously, and said.

"Hehe, it's nothing, I just think that our village has to repair houses and pour water from the fields out, and the villagers are really hard. I ......"

Before he could finish speaking, Er Laizi interrupted her.

"We don't work hard, as long as we can fix the house as soon as possible, I am willing to work hard. As long as Zhou Yize promised our people to come, the burden will be reduced to some extent. Alas? Aren't you the one who is working with that Zhou Yize? It just so happens that you go and ask him why they don't come to work yet. ”

"This, Uncle Erlai, I'm just about to talk to you about this? I think we don't have to get the water out of the fields first, and then repair the houses, so that the people in the village don't have to be too tired, and we don't have to go to the grandfather and grandmother to find those young people to work. ”

Yan Xiaoxi tentatively said her words, and it wasn't until Er Laizi's face didn't change that she hurried to say the rest of the words.

"Xiaoxi, you are a native of our Mao'er Village, when your mother gave birth to you, it was I who took the initiative to lend you my family's mule, so you could be born peacefully."

"Uncle, these fathers have told me, and I will remember your kindness for the rest of my life."

When Yan Xiaoxi heard Er Laizi say this, she felt a little bad in her heart, and what Er Laizi said next confirmed her feelings.

"Now that you know, I won't go around with you. Now that we are in trouble in our village, I want to borrow some people from the educated youth, and the people are what he Zhou Yize personally admitted to me. ”

"Yes, yes, I know that."

Yan Xiaoxi felt that she should leave, and if she stayed any longer, she would definitely be told by Uncle Erlai, thinking of this, she said to do it. Slowly turned around, stood on tiptoe, and moved out in small steps.

Erlaizi sensed her thoughts, grabbed her by the back collar, and dragged her back.

"What are you running this girl to, I haven't finished talking yet? I know that you young people can't wait to give each other's lives to each other's virtues, but Xiaoxi, you are a girl, you can't be so unreserved, there are some things that Zhou Yize has to come over and beg us. ”

"Yes, yes, Uncle Erlai, you're right."

Yan Xiaoxi didn't say a word, and echoed again and again. Joke, it's not that she hasn't seen Er Laizi's fiery temper, if he has a seizure, it doesn't matter if you are the village party secretary or the captain, no one will save you face.

"Since I'm right, then don't turn your elbows out, and when someone else says something, you will be stupid and promise someone."

Er Laizi looked at the face of the village party secretary, and he didn't say anything too much. After a few more words, he let her go.

Yan Xiaoxi found Zhou Yize in frustration, and cried out with some distress: "Aze, what should I do, I don't seem to have done a good job." ”

Zhou Yize put his hand on his clothes and wiped it. Seeing her like this, he reached out and wiped the sweat from her head.

"Silly girl, don't worry about anything, it's coming over again today! Look at the sweat on your head. ”

"Oh, you don't care about this, today I went to find Uncle Erlai, before I could say it, he had already guessed my intention, one moment I was born with dystocia, and the other time I told me that girls are reserved, and in the end I didn't have the face to say the prepared words, but let him beat me. You say, "What should I do?" ”

Although Zhou Yize's sleeves on his arms were half rolled up, the action of reaching out to wipe her sweat was very charming. But now is not the time to talk about that.

"Well, I talked about this matter in a meeting with them yesterday, and in the end, the intellectuals were divided into two factions, and they almost quarreled. I'm also a big head. ”

"So, what do you say? Otherwise, I'll look for Tang Xiaohong and them again to see if it works. ”

Yan Xiaoxi thought about it and opened his mouth to propose.

"What's the use of you telling them, a bunch of little girls, as big as my sister, with small arms and legs, can't do anything here."

Zhou Yize smiled and rejected her proposal.

"Aze, you still have a sister!"

Yan Xiaoxi originally thought about this matter seriously, but when she heard his words, she couldn't help but divert her attention, and her mind was attracted by the sister in Zhou Yize's mouth.

She couldn't help but think in her heart: Is Aze's sister easy to get along with? Will he dislike me for being a rural person, Aze seems to care about his sister, if his sister says he doesn't like me, will he break up with me because of this?

"Brook, what are you thinking? Why can't you even hear me ask you. ”

Zhou Yize stretched out his big hand and shook it in front of her, seeing that she didn't react, he pushed her with his arm.

"Huh? No, I'm thinking about your sister, listen to you, you seem to love this sister very much! ”

Yan Xiaoxi turned his head to look at him and asked him tentatively.

"Oh, I don't love it very much, it's just that from when she was a child, such a small lump, to now so big, it's really not easy to raise, you can't eat cold, you don't dare to eat spicy, you have to pay attention to it from eating to drinking water, it's very squeamish. My family is pampered and pampered, and I'm used to it. ”

As he spoke, the corners of Zhou Yize's mouth raised a doting smile.

"And how old is your sister?" Through Zhou Yize's description, Yan Xiaoxi couldn't help but be a little curious about the girl in her mouth, what would the little girl look like who even had to pay attention to such trivial things as eating and drinking.

"My sister is sixteen or seventeen years old this year, and she is about the same age as Amy in the educated youth."

"That's it" Yan Xiaoxi nodded as she spoke, no wonder Zhou Yize would be so good to Amy, it turned out to be this reason.

Zhou Yize didn't know that his unintentional words unintentionally untied Yan Xiaoxi's heart knot for many days.

The two chatted for a while, and finally decided to change the place they went to today, Zhou Yize went to persuade the villagers, and Yan Xiaoxi went to persuade the educated youth.

In the afternoon, Sun Wei and the others finished their work in the field, and were about to go up the mountain to pick mushrooms in exchange for work. Sun Wei shouted at him.

"Uncle Erlai, are you still busy getting water in the field? You can't do it at this speed, we have all planted the seeds, and now we are going up to the mountains to pick mushrooms. ”

Hearing this, Er Laizi stood there with a dark face, looking at those young men, all of whom were holding a basket and walking in the direction of the mountain.

In the evening, Zhou Yize specially changed a bottle of wine from the supply and marketing cooperatives and came to Er Laizi's house.

"Uncle Erlai, I'll come to see you."

As soon as he walked into the courtyard, Zhou Yize shouted in the direction of the inner room.

It just so happened that Er Laizi's family had already had dinner, Er Laizi's daughter-in-law was washing the dishes, and Er Laizi was sitting on a stool in the courtyard, smoking a smoking pot. Turned his head in one direction.

"Uncle Erlai, I heard others say that you like to drink, and when I came today, I happened to pass by the supply and marketing cooperative, and gave you a pound of liquor, and I hope you don't dislike it."

After Zhou Yize finished speaking with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he came to Er Laizi's side and put the liquor he had beaten on the ground next to Er Laizi.

"Hmph, I don't dare to drink the wine you bought for me, who knows if you will put something in on the way here."

Er Laizi snorted coldly, as soon as he saw Zhou Yize, he thought of the provocation of those educated youths this afternoon, and when he thought of this, even his favorite wine became as tasteless as white water.

"Uncle, what do you say! Since I have given you this wine, it means that I sincerely want to give it to you, so how can I put something in it? ”

Hearing his words, Zhou Yize was not annoyed, and squatted in front of him and said with a smile.

"This wine, we haven't drunk it to the village party secretary, this week's team leader is worthy of being from the city, that is, compared to us, these local elders pretend to know current affairs, just came to the village and befriended the village party secretary, village cadres, so that now in this village, there is no one who mentions you Zhou Yize without giving a thumbs up."

After saying this, Er Laizi took another puff of cigarette, and Zhou Yize didn't say anything, still squatting there with a smile.

"It's just that it's useless for you to bribe me, you said that you were going to discuss with that group of people to repair our house, you look at our house after being washed by the flood, it's even worse than the food we live!"

"Uncle Erlai, what you said, how can you compare it with someone who asks for food? You're so much better than them. ”

"It's useless to pat yourself on the back, since you made this promise at the beginning, it's time for you to fulfill it, we rural people know to keep our promises, you scholars won't know!"

"Yes, you're right, it's my fault, and I'm trying my best to talk to them and help you fix the house as soon as possible."

Zhou Yize didn't say anything, just waited for the old man to finish the complaint in his heart.