"Xi'er! I'm happy, it's rare to meet my brothers in this mountain and countryside, and I don't know when we'll see each other in the future, so I drank a few more glasses! ”

Nangong Nianxi listened, froze in place, looked at the confused Ming Haoxuan seriously, and asked, "Xuan!" Was your previous decision to stay with us very reluctant, did you regret seeing the tenth brother coming? ”

"Regrets? I regret that I didn't find my Xi'er as soon as possible, and that you and your son suffered so much, Xi'er! It's all my fault. ”

"Xuan! Don't talk about those who have and don't, you drank too much, don't talk nonsense, go to bed! ”

"I didn't drink much, I was just happy to see my tenth brother who I hadn't seen for many years. Xi'er! Xi'er! After finishing speaking, Ma Li went to bed, hugged Nangong Nianxi in his arms, and said, "Xi'er! I'll never regret being with you, so whether I'm sober or drunk in the future, don't ask me if I don't regret it, okay? ”

"That's it! You've had a lot of drink, go to sleep! Don't wake up your son. ”

Ming Haoxuan held her in his arms with Xiaoshi.

Nangong Nianxi knew that he was homesick, but he still didn't want to go back now.

Until the sky was bright, Nangong Nianxi opened his eyes, and saw himself standing with his eyes at first sight, looking at Ming Haoxuan hugging them with a smile, Nangong Nianxi reached out and gently scratched his little nose, and then turned around slightly, the small stone lay on Nangong Nianxi's body, and the two looked at the sleeping Ming Haoxuan, and when he was asleep, he also reached out to hug his wife and children.

Xiaoshi stretched out his small hand, wanting to reach out and tease Ming Haoxuan's nose. Nangong Nianxi grabbed his naughty hand and whispered, "Son! Your dad drank a lot of wine last night and slept late, so let him sleep a little longer. ”

"You little thing! I wanted to be naughty early in the morning, see if I don't teach you a good lesson, after speaking, my eyes opened, I grabbed him with his little hand and held him in my arms, squeaking his itchy flesh, and the two fathers and sons played in bed before they got up.

After a while, it quieted down, Nangong Nianxi sorted out his clothes, sat in front of the bronze mirror, Ming Haoxuan took a few steps forward and took the comb, and he didn't look rusty at all when he returned to his old business, and the little stone was lying in front of the dresser, supporting his little head with both hands, looking at the two with a smile, and said, "Mother!" It's good that Daddy is here, and there are more smiles on my mother's face, these are the credit of Daddy, so from today on, Daddy will officially become a member of our family. ”

"Hey! You kid, why am I a member of the family now, didn't we reconcile a few days ago! ”

"Daddy! That doesn't count, that's just a reconciliation between our father and son, now you make your mother laugh, you can make your mother happy every day, so now you are a part of the family, and the matter of earning money to support the family will be handed over to you in the future? ”

"Okay! Everything is subject to the arrangement of Lord Minglei! ”

The two reached a consensus and gave a solemn high-five. Nangong Nianxi looked at it and said helplessly: "Mr. Ming! Young Master Ming! Let's go out to eat early! ”

A family of three happily went out,After breakfast,Ming Haojie and them reached a consensus,Understand the reason why they don't want to go back to the capital,Ming Haojie said,After accompanying them all the way to Suizhong County,After returning to the capital。

After the agreement, the team drove out and marched forward, and Nangong Nianxi and the others sat in the carriage again, marching safely and steadily along the way.

The sun hung overhead, the carriage stopped steadily, and the little stone that had been holding back all morning finally jumped out of the carriage and ran happily, Nangong Nian came down and hurriedly shouted: "Little stone!" Don't run too far! ”

Xiao Shi listened and said as he ran: "Don't worry, mother! Small rocks won't run far. ”

Ming Haoxuan pulled Nangong Nian Xi and comforted: "Xi'er! Xiaoshi is still a child, and he can't be like a girl all day long, so he should be lively and active. ”

"Alright! It's rare that he's so happy these days, so I'll leave him alone and let him have fun for a while. ”

"The way the ninth brother and the ninth sister-in-law educate their children is so good! Unlike the Linglong in my family, I don't even let go of a two-year-old child all day long, I always say that if the education is late, I will be as rude as her, and I want to educate the child like the ninth sister-in-law, who is knowledgeable and courteous, smart and clever, I can't say anything about her. ”

Nangong Nianxi listened, looked at the tenth brother who was walking towards them, and modestly teased: "Didn't the tenth brother say that he couldn't do it? I think I'm spoiling her! Besides, I'm not a smart person, and the water princess shouldn't be too the children. ”

"Oh! No wonder when the water princess was in the palace, you came to the palace three times a day to say hello, I thought you were close to your ninth brother, it turned out that at that time, the tenth brother and Shui Linglong often quarreled, and it turned out that they came to the water princess? ”

After Nangong Nianxi finished speaking,Covering his mouth and snickering,Ming Haojie blushed and said anxiously:"Ninth sister-in-law! Don't say that, I really didn't have that idea at that time, and then she was kicked out of the palace by the ninth brother, and she was very lonely in the palace, I thought that she was unfamiliar with life here, and she was sad and sad, and she was sick, I just often went to see her and had a good impression of her, and she didn't want to return to China, so we fell in love with her for a long time and she married me. ”

Nangong Nianxi was just about to speak, when he heard a small stone in the distance shouting loudly: "Mother! Daddy! Uncle Ten! Grandpa ......" Xiao Shi shouted as he ran, calling out to the people around him.

Finally, he ran over sweating profusely, and kept panting: "Oh no! There's a dead man ahead! ”

Nangong Nianxi hurriedly wiped the child's sweat and asked, "Xiaoshi slowly said what's going on?" ”

Xiaoshi eased his breath before he said: "Mother, I was just playing alone over there, and I saw a dead person lying there, and there was a pit next to it, it seemed that I hadn't had time to bury it, but there was no one around, so I hurriedly ran back!" ”

Nangong Nianxi and the others listened and looked at each other, Ming Haoxuan looked in the direction where the small stone was running, and said, "Go!" Let's check it out! ”

Ming Haoxuan took the lead, pulling Nangong Nianxi, followed by Ming Haojie and the old man Tianyou, as well as his subordinates.

When the group approached, they saw a woman lying on the ground, dressed in coarse cloth clothes all over her body, although the clothes had been washed white, but they were very clean and tidy. With a white cloth covering his face, he lay straight on a door panel. After all, the hot day is dead, and it attracts a lot of flies.

There is also a big pit more than two meters long next to it, but the pit has been dug, why is it not buried? ”

Nangong Nianxi wanted to squat down and find out why this woman died.

Before he could touch the deceased, he heard a young child's voice shouting in the distance: "Don't touch my mother!" ”

Then I saw a six- or seven-year-old child, who dropped the wood in his hand, ran over in a hurry, stretched out his hands to protect the woman.

Nangong Nianxi looked down at the little boy, he was extremely thin, with more bones than flesh on his body, wearing a whitish gray gown with patches falling on them, and only a pair of cloth shoes with mud on his extremely disproportionate big feet.

The face is a little pale, and the skin is dark. The eyebrows are slender and picturesque, and the eyes are sparkling like stars. There is a small mouth under the small bridge of the nose, the lips are thin, and the corners of the mouth are slightly curved upward, with a little sadness and a hint of anger.

Nangong Nianxi opened his mouth and said, "Child! Don't be frightened, we were passing by and seeing no one here, so we planned to see what was going on? Where have you been, why aren't your mothers buried? ”

"I don't have any money, those people are only responsible for carrying it here, and I don't care about the rest after digging the pit, don't meddle with any of you, hurry up!" I don't need your pretense of asking. ”

Xiao Shi looked at the little adult-like child opposite, looked up at Nangong Nianxi and said, "Mother! He's so pitiful, his mother is gone, and he doesn't even have an adult by his side. ”

When the little boy heard this, he bared his teeth and said, "I don't want your fake sympathy, hurry up, I don't want you to care about me, I don't have anything on me, nothing you care about." ”

Ming Haoxuan heard that the child misunderstood his woman and child, took them away from the child's side, and said, "Xi'er! Since the child said that we don't care, we will stand far away and look at him, anyway, we are passing by, and he has no right to drive us, right? ”

Ming Hao said this because he was afraid that the child would be disgusted, so he took people away from him, in order to let the child reduce his hatred towards them, and the other meaning was to listen to the child, you don't let us care, we stand from a distance and watch now, you can't care about it.

Nangong Nianxi also heard this meaning, but Ming Haojie stretched out his hand and said: "Ninth brother! When will you learn to die without helping? We can help this kid. ”

"Tenth brother! Let's go! Other people's children said that we need to help? ”

"But...... But he is a child, how did he bury her mother! Besides, I haven't heard of the truth that an adult died and a six- or seven-year-old child was buried, so what about the adults in his family? What about the men in his family? ”

As soon as the child heard him say that the man of his family was there, he showed a fierce face again.

Ming Hao preached: "Let's go! Let's go! You don't have to worry about other people's affairs, maybe an adult will come to help you later. ”

Ming Haojie looked puzzled,Still taken away by Ming Haoxuan,Standing in place from afar and watching。

I saw a small figure, peeling the bark on the log I had just held, and then gesturing on the tree and not knowing what was written.

The child basked in the sun for a long time, while wiping sweat and writing carefully, probably written, put aside, stretched out his hand and dug vigorously in front of the big pit, the child's small hands tinkered quickly, it seemed that the log was going to be used as a tombstone, buried there, sure enough, after the child finished, looked at it and seemed to be satisfied, and then the small figure kowtowed three times in front of the woman, and then began to move.

I saw him squatting on the ground and pushing the door panel under the woman vigorously, but it seemed that the door panel did not move at all, but the child was still persistent, pushing desperately, eager to use his hands and feet at the same time, but there was still no trace of movement, just watching him do his best, the lonely figure suddenly lay on the ground, motionless.