Jia Shi slapped his leg in a hurry, but because of the difference between men and women, it was not easy to block it much, so he could only persuade him on the side, "Lord Yan, if you have something to say, don't break the child!" ”

Brother Cheng ran over, stopped Lord Yan's slap with laughter, and persuaded Xiao Xu to "first aid" from under Lord Yan's arm for a long time.

Sister Qiu took out a silk handkerchief and wiped Xiao Xu's face, Xiao Xu put her arms around Jia's neck, crying and sobbing, and hiccuping. In fact, Sister Qiujue's Lord Yan didn't use much physical strength to fight, and it was scary to look at the slap high, but in fact, there was not much sound when it fell.

If the Lord is too good at howling, the earth-shattering cry will "gather" all the neighbors to watch the fun. Aunt Huaihua'er, who lives not far from Sister Qiu's house, asked Sister Qiu quietly: "What's going on?" ”

Sister Qiu glanced at a few villagers who pricked up their ears to listen, and replied softly: "That's my relative, disciplining disobedient children!" "Xiao Xu only came to her house yesterday, and Sister Qiu's introduction to the outside world is all relatives of the eldest uncle's father's family, and the only one who knows that Xiao Xu is a child selected by the Jiang family.

Brother Cheng waved to the villagers on the side and said with a smile: "Disperse, disperse, teach children what is beautiful!" ”

The villagers saw that he was wearing the soap clothes of an official, and they didn't dare to disobey him, so they went back in twos and threes.

Xiao Xu cried for most of the day, and he was tired of crying, choking two bubbles of tears, sitting on Jia's lap aggrievedly, holding Jia's arm, sobbing twice from time to time, don't look at Lord Yan who had just beaten him up.

Brother Cheng looked at Xiao Xu, who was angry, and then at Lord Yan, who was standing aside with a black face and his hands behind his back, and he looked at his appearance to make a round, then walked to Jia's side and said to Xiao Xu with a smile: "Look at you kid, you kid, you have been sneaking out for so many days without squeaking, but you can frighten your father!" ”

Xiao Xuheng lowered, twisted his head, and left the back of Brother Cheng's head.

Brother Cheng turned around with a smile, and then faced Xiao Xu, and said: "You ran out for a few days, your father was all in a hurry, and he ran around looking for you every day, let's go, go home!" ”

"I'm not going back!" Xiao Xu muttered loudly, sneaking a glance at Lord Yan not far away, "I'll live here, with Sister Qiu and Auntie, this is my home." ”

Brother Cheng laughed, shook his head and said, "You dead boy! Why don't you ask if people are happy to want you to live? ”

Sister Qiu took the wet silk handkerchief over, wiped Xiao Xu's crying face like a flower cat, and said with a straight face: "I don't want you to live, you kid doesn't have a word of truth in his mouth!" When I first met you, you also said that your home is from Huyang City! ”

Sister Qiu's attitude successfully frightened Xiao Xu, Xiao Xu lowered her head and said: "If I say that my home is in the town, you definitely don't want me to follow you home......"

That's not a lie! Sister Qiu swallowed the words that were about to burst out of her mouth, thinking about it when she touched Xiaoxu yesterday, she should have been hungry for a few days, and she suffered a lot, it was nothing more than a 6-year-old child, give

It's pitiful enough for my father to run away from home.

"Okay, okay, you have to be obedient and obedient backwards, don't run out without squeaking, if you touch the crutches, it will be broken." Sister Qiu sighed, touched Xiao Xu's head, and all the fathers came to the door, and they were bound to take their son home.

Xiao Xu didn't cry, turned his head and threw himself into Jia's arms, and grabbed Jia's shirt tightly, "I'm not going home, I'm not going home!" "How good is this, Sister Qiu's cooking is delicious, and there are a bunch of young men from Dayin Donkey running around the mountains and playing wildly, so he doesn't want to go home!

Sister Qiu's sharp eyes realized that Lord Yan's face was cloudy and about to rain again.

Jia Shi hugged Xiao Xu, gently patted Xiao Xu's back, and gave Xiao Xu, who was crying, heartbroken, and preached to Lord Yan: "Lord Yan, the women are too talkative, say something that shouldn't be said, Xiao Xu is still young, what did you do wrong, you are so good to tell him to be reasonable, this child is smart, I understand that Li'er will listen to you." ”

Lord Yan glanced at the Jia family, nodded silently, and stretched out his palm to take the small order from the Jia family's arms.

Xiao Xu hugged Jia's neck and didn't let go, crying and screaming: "I won't go home, I won't go home!" He wants to marry a stepmother for me to enter the door, and then follow the stepmother to beat me together! ”

Lord Yan's outstretched palm stiffened and embarrassed in mid-air.

Jia Shi was also embarrassed, patted Xiao Xu's back and coaxed: "Don't talk nonsense, your father won't beat you." ”

Xiao Xu only buried his head in crying, but in addition to the grievances, he was more frightened.

"I won't marry you as a stepmother." Lord Yan opened his mouth and replied to Xiao Xu Zheng fiercely, "Father promises to you that he will not marry his mother." ”

Xiao Xu sobbed and raised his eyes from Jia's neck, looked at Lord Yan with red eyes, and asked cautiously, "Really?" ”

Lord Yan nodded, "When did Father lie to you?" ”

Xiao Xu pouted, lowered his head for a while, and said: "Uncle Shan Gen'er said that you are going to marry my stepmother, and they all said that my stepmother is fierce, and when I enter the house in the future, he will not give me food, and he will prick me with a needle...... When you have a new son, you don't want me anymore, and let my stepmother beat me......" said, tears falling again.

Brother Cheng stomped his feet on the side and said: "Shan Gen'er is coaxing you to play, turn your face and Uncle Liang will beat him in the mouth, there is no way to give you anger!" Stinky boy dares to say all the things that he doesn't say! ”

Sister Qiu followed and nodded, the child's mind is the most sensitive, no matter how smart the little order is, he is also an insecure child, that is called Shan Gen'er is really idle and has nothing to do x pain, where can I tease the child like this, make a big deal!

Xiao Xu's clothes changed yesterday had been washed and dried, and Sister Qiu took him to the house to change his clothes, pinched his crying little red nose, and asked, "You have been in the town for so many days, why didn't your father find you?" ”

This time Xiao Xu's mood has calmed down a lot, and he has returned to his usual liveliness and arrogance, straightened his little chest, and reached Sister Qiu's ears

He said: "I jumped into the mud puddle and rolled a few times, and my face was covered with mud, and my father and my father's gang of officials, they didn't recognize me!" ”

"You're fine!" Sister Qiu couldn't cry or laugh, stretched out her palm and twisted Xiao Xu's ears, and said: "You can't run out again, if you really touch the crutches, you will never see your father again, and you won't be able to see us again." ”

Xiao Xu obediently let Sister Qiu dress him, nodded his head, and pouted: "I won't run anymore, I have nothing to eat, and I will be bullied by those old flower sons!" ”

This dead boy is a typical person who has suffered losses to gain knowledge, Sister Qiu asked him with a smile, "Your father's surname is Yan, so you should be called Yan Xu?" ”

Xiao Xu shook his head and said with a look: "My name is Yan Chengxu." ”

Sister Qiu almost choked on her own saliva, but it took a long time to ease her mind, and she laughed twice and praised: "Good name!" ”

Because Jia and Sister Qiu were orphans and widows, it was inconvenient to ask Lord Yan and Brother Cheng to enter the courtyard, so Jia moved two pestles to the door from home, invited Lord Yan and Brother Cheng to sit down, and went to the small kitchen to cook red egg tea to entertain the two.

Red egg tea is boiled poached eggs with sucrose, and there are very few high-end goods such as tea, and boiled poached eggs with sucrose are a more decent hospitality gift.

Lord Yan said a few words, then took the red egg tea, and Brother Cheng followed. Seeing Jia Shi standing crampedly to the side, Lord Yan shook his hand and said, "Sister-in-law, you also sit, I haven't thanked you for taking in Xiaoxu yet." ”

Where does the Jia family dare to sit, Lord Yan is an official, and she is a citizen. What's more, this Lord Yan is not smiling, his face is serious and cold, and he is the father and mother official of Jiujiang Town, which invisibly widens the distance between the two.

After thinking about it for a long time, Jia finally mustered up the courage and said to Lord Yan: "My lord, Xiaoxu is still young, if he doesn't understand things in the future, you can reason with him." When I picked him up in the town yesterday, I was hungry for a few days, and I was bullied by my old son, who was very pitiful. Lord Yan, you're fine, but don't beat him......"

Brother Cheng burst out laughing, looked at Lord Yan with a gloomy face, and said with a smile to Jia's family: "Sister-in-law, did Xiao Xu tell you that his father beat him for no reason?" Hehe, Lord Yan didn't beat him for no reason, this dead boy was very skinny, he fell asleep during the lunch break of the master's lunch, and cut the master's beard, and cut it as long and short as a dog gnawed! When the master woke up, he was so angry that he sued Lord Yan, and Lord Yan was so angry that he beat this dead boy! ”

"Huh?!" Jia Shi was surprised, thinking about it, this dead boy is really likely to do this kind of thing, yes, it is good to discipline him.

Sister Qiu changed Xiao Xu's clothes, led him to the courtyard door, and happened to listen to Brother Cheng's words, Xiao Xu'er's small white noodles turned red, and ran over with her fists clenched, muttering loudly with tears: "I told it, I didn't cut it!" It was cut by Zhu Dazheng, you just don't believe me! ”

"Okay, okay, you didn't cut it, Brother Cheng is wrong, I wronged you!" Brother Cheng laughed and coaxed him

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Xiao Xu is not leaning, he is not stupid, it is obvious that Brother Cheng is just perfunctory to him, and he doesn't believe his words at all. Xiao Xu looked at his father with a gloomy face, pulled Sister Qiu's clothes, looked up at Sister Qiu, and said in a choked voice: "Sister Qiu, it's really not the master's beard that I cut, it was Zhu Dazheng who cut it." ”

Sister Qiu believes that it is not cut by Xiaoxu, although this child is skinny and loves to lie, but his nature is not bad, if he really did something bad, he will pass after a beating, and he will not run out of the country for several days and not go home, I am afraid that because his father who can only rely on him does not trust himself, he will be heartbroken!

"I don't think Xiao Xu did it." Sister Qiu smiled and nodded to Xiao Xu. "Didn't the master fall asleep, and he didn't see where it was cut?"

Xiao Xu tugged at Sister Qiu's palm, tears fell, and she sobbed and said, "It's better to Sister Qiu!" ”

Lord Yan walked to Xiao Xu, bent down to pick up Xiao Xu, and Sister Qiu realized that Lord Yan was very tall and healthy, and he couldn't see it from a distance, but when he got closer, he realized that he was one meter eight tall.

"Father doesn't believe you did it." Lord Yan patted Xiao Xu's back and preached.

Hearing this, Xiao Xu's tears fell even more fiercely, wiped his tears for a long time, and asked angrily: "Then you still beat me?" I've told you all about it, I didn't do it! ”

Brother Cheng don't turn his head and snicker, it's not that this dead boy was too skinny before, he has a lot of criminal records, and the master also thinks that Xiao Xu did it, and when he got home, he complained, and Boss Yan was angry.

Lord Yan asked his son, then hugged Xiao Xu tightly, and said helplessly: "I won't fight anymore!" ”

"Really?" Xiao Xu asked with a sob, obviously not convinced.

Brother Cheng laughed, walked to Lord Yan's side, pinched the face plate with tears in the small preface, and quipped: "Doctor, you don't shed tears, look at your tears, like a big flood, you want to wash away all of us!" ”

"Heng!" Xiao Xu's cheeks were flushed, and he glanced at Brother Cheng, ashamed and embarrassed, and buried his head in Lord Yan's shoulder, unwilling to come out.

Lord Yan had a smile on his stern face at this moment, patted Xiao Xu's back, and said to Jia: "This sister-in-law, thank you for taking Xiao Xu in, I am in a hurry today, and I will make up for the gift later." ”

"Your Excellency is gracious." Jia Shi hurriedly shook his hand, "The child has been living at home for a day, where is the last word of thanks, adult, don't kill our mother!" ”

Lord Yan glanced at the Jia family, and when he came to the road, he heard that the family that Xiao Xu was treating was an independent portal for orphans and widows, doing small business in the town, in his cognition, most of the merchant women who independently supported the portal were vulgar and vulgar, and he didn't expect that the Jia family and his mother were polite and courteous in their speeches and deeds, and they did not take the opportunity to climb the relationship to please him, so he was surprised in his heart.

"Then let's take Xiaoxu away." Lord Yan preached.

Jia Shi dragged Sister Qiu to stand by the door, bowed his head and said with a smile: "You walk slowly all the way." "Sister Qiu is still young, she is a widow's family, and it is inconvenient for her to send guests.

Xiao Xu was in the arms of Lord Yan, there was

Reluctantly leaving, looking at the Jia family, Sister Qiu and the big seal donkey were getting farther and farther away from him, and couldn't help shouting: "Sister Qiu, can I still come to your house?" ”

Sister Qiu laughed and shouted at him, "Yes!" ”

Xiao Xu smiled happily, and his two eyes narrowed into crescents.

Seeing him go, Sister Qiu felt a little reluctant in her heart, although this dead boy was stinky and arrogant and thief, but he was childish and cute.

When Lord Yan and his group walked away, Jia took Sister Qiu back to the courtyard and closed the courtyard door, Sister Qiu smiled at Jia and said, "Mother, you are much cleaner now than before!" ”

When he was in Mei's house before, Jia Shi didn't greet people he didn't know much when he walked on the road, not because of arrogance, but because he was thin-skinned and a little cowardly, and he didn't know how to talk to people. After the family split up and started trading, Jia's daily spirit was full of energy, his speech was very neat, and he was very clever and capable of the boss's mother-in-law.

"This kid!" Jia Shi laughed, and he was also a little embarrassed, "I joked that my own mother is here!" ”

(End of chapter)