"Daddy!" Zhu Youning quickened his pace and ran to Zhu Huating's side. It's like a muddy kitten who sneaks out to play, and suddenly falls into Zhu Huating's arms.

Maybe because of his young body, Zhu Youning feels that he has become smaller, and he can't help but be coquettish to his father, and he enjoys the feeling of having fatherly love very much.

Zhu Huating put the lantern on the ground, looked at Zhu Youning carefully, and then touched her head, but touched her hands full of soil.

"You kid, how did you get like this? Are there any injuries? ”

"Nope. But I was almost injured, and it was Brother Bei who saved me. ”

Zhu Youning turned around and smiled at Li Tuobei.

Li Tuobei also smiled with white teeth, and bowed to Zhu Huating: "In Xia Li Tuobei, I have seen Uncle Zhu. ”

Zhu Huating recognized him as the young man who spoke for his daughter at the clan meeting that day, stood up and saluted: "It turned out that it was Gongzi Li who saved the little girl." Thank you so much! ”

Li Tuobei hurriedly avoided not being courteous to him, and said with a smile: "Sister Xiaojiu and I are also connected by the same fate. ”

Zhu Huating was even more puzzled when he heard this, looked down at his daughter like a little cat, and asked, "Fu Ya'er, what's going on?" Did you get into a fight with someone? ”

Zhu Youning looked left and right, and said, "Daddy, let's go home and talk about it, and get some water for Brother Bei to clean it too, otherwise it will be difficult for others to answer when they ask." ”

"Okay."

Zhu Huating originally wanted to correct his daughter's name for Li Tuobei, but thinking about the two children, one is seven years old and the other is twelve or thirteen years old, and they seem to be very embarrassed, they must be in trouble together, so it is not a big deal to call them like this.

Zhu Huating politely led Li Tuobei home.

After entering the courtyard gate, when they arrived at the inverted seat they rented, Zhu Huating lit the fire first, and used a large pot of hot water to reduce it.

Zhu Youning washed his hands first, took a clean pottery bowl in front of Li Tuobei, cleaned it again, and then poured him a bowl of water and held it over.

"Brother Bei is thirsty, right? This is the only one in my family, don't dislike it. ”

Li Tuobei smiled heartily, took the pottery bowl and raised his neck to drink it clean, wiped his mouth casually, but because he forgot to have dirty hands, he wiped his mouth full of chin dirt.

He didn't care at all, and said with a smile: "What are you afraid of, you are too polite." I'm in the military...... Outside, the stables have been lived, and when there is no condition to boil water, you can drink the river water, which is not a big deal. ”

Zhu Youning smiled, not going to delve into the pause in his language just now, but he already had some guesses in his heart.

The man who sent Li Tuobei was a ruffian, but he was also majestic, and she thought he was a soldier at that time.

And what about Li Tuobei? Although he is obviously from everyone and came to the county to study, he behaves freely and casually, and his temperament is flamboyant and wanton, which is by no means what a child raised in a deep house compound will have.

Plus he has neat skills at a young age, and those calluses on his hands.

It is naturally impossible for a noble son to hold farm tools, and it is obvious that his cocoon is practiced by holding weapons all year round.

To sum up, he must have been in the barracks for at least many years: he has a ruffian side, such as gnawing sugar cane bare-chested; But there is also a righteous and free side of the soldiers, such as catching her at the risk of being smashed at the risk of breaking bones and tendons at the moment of danger, walking away first and then turning back, she didn't care about the fate of several sides.

As for what kind of background he came from to make Old Lady Zhu treat him as a guest, Zhu Youning didn't want to guess.

Zhu Huating boiled the water at this time, moved a small bench to sit aside, first took a wet towel and handed it to Li Tuobei, and then took a towel and beckoned Zhu Youning to come over.

Zhu Huating first wiped Zhu Youning's face, then took her little hand to wipe it, and asked: "Fu Ya'er, I heard from Zhu Laosan's family that a group of children came to you at night, and then you went out." For what? Did you get into a fight with someone? ”

Zhu Youning lowered his head and said, "Daddy, I didn't go out to fight, they said that my sixth sister was very annoying to go to the fourth room, they beat her and threw her back into the mountain, let me go and bring the sixth sister back."

"I didn't want to go at the beginning. But I was worried that something would happen to the sixth sister, so I had to go.

"Who knew that the sixth sister was with them, and deliberately sat on the opposite side of the trap and pretended to cry to lead me over. As soon as I passed, I fell into the trap.

"That hole is very deep, if it weren't for Brother Bei being killed by them and falling into it first, he caught me at the bottom of the pit, I might have fallen to my death."

Zhu Huating's hands trembled, "Are you talking about the pothole in the back mountain?" The hole had fallen to death, and later, because they were afraid that something would happen there, the Zhu family also deliberately inserted a sign next to it to remind passers-by that there was a hole there. ”

"When I went, I didn't see the sign, they covered the hole with branches and fallen leaves, and I didn't see anything unusual, but as soon as I stepped on it, the branch snapped."

"My child! I really want to thank Mr. Li. Zhu Huating stood up, swept Li Tuobei again, and bent down deeply, "Thank you Gongzi Li for saving your life." ”

"Oh, Uncle Zhu, you don't have to be so polite. I'm also a helper. Don't think I'm abrupt, just Sister Xiaojiu. ”

"Where."

Zhu Huating let out a long breath, and then asked Zhu Youning again: "Fu Ya'er, you said that your sixth sister is with them?" ”

"Hmm." Zhu Youning carefully told everything that happened just now, and even what she heard in the fourth room was not missed.

She didn't want to hit her father, but she wanted him to see the faces of those people clearly, so that he wouldn't be deceived in the future.

When Zhu Huating heard this, he was silent for a long time.

At this time, the water in the cauldron is boiling. He brought a large wooden basin, fetched water mixed with warm water, and took soaphorns and towels and other things, and said with a smile: "Li Gongzi will wash first, and we will go out first." ”

Li Tuobei knew that the two of them had something to say, so he smiled and nodded: "Thank you, Uncle Zhu." ”

Zhu Huating smiled and said no, when he went out, he carefully closed the door for Li Tuobei, then pulled Zhu Youning to the courtyard, and said in a low voice: "Fu Ya'er, don't be so reckless in the future, no matter who has an accident in the future, don't go rashly." ”

Zhu Youning also said in a low voice: "I think that although Aunt Jiang is not like me, the sixth sister was not born to my mother, and she is not close to me, but she is my father's daughter." I can't just watch her happen. I didn't expect her to hurt me in order to mingle with the people in the fourth room. ”

Zhu Huating sighed and hugged Zhu Youning in his arms.

"Silly boy, if something goes wrong with your sixth sister, Daddy will feel distressed, but if something happens to you, Daddy will be even more sad. You remember, no matter what happens in the future, you have to protect yourself as the premise, Dad knows that you are sensible, and you rushed out today for the sake of Daddy, but your safety is more important, understand? ”