"Anyone?" Xu Yan originally wanted to bring some eggs or something to give to her neighbors, but she really couldn't open the pot at home, so she had to rest her thoughts.

"It's coming!" Someone in the courtyard responded, but after opening the door and seeing Xu Yan, he actually shouted: "Monster!" He quickly closed the door.

Xu Yan looked at the rattling door panel, knocked a few more times helplessly, and shouted loudly to explain: "I am from the Yuanjun Xian family next door, and I just got married yesterday, so I am not a monster!" ”

After a while, I only heard a disgusted voice from inside: "Let's go!" The man in our family is not here, you find someone else! ”

Xu Yan couldn't, so he had to continue walking forward with Yuan Xiu.

Not surprisingly, after several families saw Xu Yan, their faces changed suddenly, and then the door was closed and never opened again.

Yuan Xiu's head drooped lower and lower, and finally he wrung his fingers and squatted under the stump and refused to leave: "Mother, are we monsters?" ”

Xu Yan glared, and his yin and yang faces looked even more terrifying, "Who said that!" Those people don't know, so we don't care about them. ”

Yuan Xiu didn't know how much he had suffered from the eyes of the village since he was a child, and he didn't dare to look up when he saw people on the side of the road, but just hugged Xu Yan tightly.

"Xiaoxiu, my mother's face is because she is sick, and she can cure her face when the family has money. As for you, it's because your own mother is from a far, far away place, and the people in that place are all blonde like you. ”

Xu Yan slowly explained to Yuan Xiu, telling him why the color of his eyes and hair was different from others, and he didn't fool Yuan Xiu casually because he was young.

"And the blonde-haired kid, isn't that similar to Xiao Xiu?" For the first time, Yuan Xiu heard that someone was very similar to himself, and his mouth opened wide in surprise.

"Yes, so Xiao Xiu, don't feel inferior, and don't blame the people in the village, those who don't know are not guilty, but you must protect yourself well and don't be hurt." While speaking, Xu Yan knocked on the door of the last house.

This time it was a tall fat woman who opened the door, her body was lying across the half-open doorway, and Xu Yan suspected that she would be caught by the door panel.

"Hello, I'm from Yuanjunxian's family, I just moved over yesterday and brought my children to the village to go around." Xu Yan had a sincere smile on his face, and the fear given by the yin and yang face had subsided a lot.

"Oh, it's the daughter-in-law that the Sun family sold yesterday!" The fat aunt was straightforward, but she was very kind, and let them in directly: "Come, drink saliva." ”

Xu Yan didn't come to drink water specially, she went straight to the point: "That's the case, Lin San went to my house just now, saying that he wanted to collect this year's rent, and said that the rent had been raised." Brother Yuan is not at home, so I have to come here to ask, eh, has your family risen? ”

This said to the fat aunt's heart, she patted her thigh, and opened the conversation with a "hey", "Hey, hey": "Why do you say that the Lin family is like this, this year's harvest is not good, I heard that the Lin family is kind-hearted and will reduce the rent by two percent, but now it is good, not down but up!" ”

Xu Yan touched his chin and asked in confusion, "How is the old man of the Lin family?" Why do I think there's something wrong with this? ”

"Alas! The old man of the Lin family is a good person, when there was a famine a few years ago, he also opened a warehouse to release grain, otherwise we don't know how many people will die in our village. The fat aunt stuffed a handful of pumpkin seeds into Xu Yan's hand, although they were only fried by hand at home, but they tasted very fragrant: "I don't know what's going on in the past few years, the rent is getting more and more, and everyone says that Master Lin is old and has begun to keep money." ”

"It's not easy for Master Lin to raise the rent." Xu Yan tilted his head and thought about it for a while, "This kind of thing like a rent increase should be reported to the government in advance." If Master Lin really wants to increase the rent, we should hear the wind in advance. ”

The fat aunt spread out her hand and spit out the melon seed shell on the ground: "Hey, this is all a matter from above, how do we know it!" ”

"Otherwise, let's go to the government and ask if the rent has risen." Xu Yan felt that there was nothing wrong with her thoughts, but the fat aunt shook her head violently, and looked at her like a fool.

"Go to the government, you're not afraid of being arrested!" The fat aunt sighed twice, "What's there to ask about this, if you annoy the Lin family, they take back the field, and we all have to starve to death!" ”

Xu Yan saw that she didn't want to talk more, so she didn't continue the topic, but talked about some other things for a while.

The conversation was almost over, Xu Yan's eyes turned around the yard, and then asked a little shyly, "Auntie, when it's time for the wheat harvest, I see that you have a lot of fields, are you busy?" ”

"It's done!" The fat aunt didn't have any heart, and asked directly, "What's wrong?" Can't keep your family busy? Isn't it just two acres of land? ”

Xu Yan smiled awkwardly: "Alas, in order to buy me back, Brother Yuan gave Sun Cripple two taels of silver, and the family can't open the pot now, I just want to ask, do you need a helper?" I don't want to be paid, I just want my children to have a full meal at your house. ”