Xiao Qing glanced at Ah Chao and was silent.

"Let's talk about it back in the courtyard!" Xiao Qingdao.

Ma first hummed and followed Xiao Qing home.

After the three of them arrived home, Zhou saw that his mother had brought back a stranger, and looked at Ah Lan curiously.

The person who came had unkempt hair, tattered clothes, and a rough and unclear face, like a wild man, looking very strong, I don't know what the origin is.

My mother has been gone for a day and a night, and she has been worried for a day and a night, how can she bring back such a person?

"Mother, what happened to you on the mountain, I've been there for so long, and the children and I are very worried about you!" Zhou asked with concern.

Xiao Qing handed her the bamboo basket: "I encountered something, thanks to this strong man, otherwise we would all die in the mountains this time." ”

"Huh?" Zhou was startled, and she read: "Dead? ”

Xiao Qing snorted.

Listening to Xiao Qing's words, Ma Xian and Zhou's eyes were different when they looked at Ah Chao.

Zhou no longer felt that this person looked like a wild man, and felt a little more grateful in his heart: "Thank you for saving my mother's life, our family is grateful!" ”

Ah Yan glanced at her, then turned his back and said nothing.

Zhou looked at his contemptuous appearance, and didn't know how to deal with it for a while, so he had to lower his head and not say more.

"Xiao Chengniang, you get him a meal to eat first, and then go to the cellar to clean up a vacant lot for him after eating, and then go to the county town to buy him a bed, and then measure his size, give him a set of clothes, Lord Qu said, let him help our family in the future, and live in our house temporarily." Xiao Qingdao.

After hearing this, Zhou's brows furrowed tightly, let this person live in their house?

They are a group of orphans and widows, how can they let a man live in?

"Okay, don't look at it, he is a person from Lord Qu, in the future, he will follow the people in the county to repair the canal and lead them into the mountains, so let him live in our house temporarily, and when the canal is repaired, he will leave, during this time in our house, let him help watch the cellar, it is also a matter!" Xiao Qing instructed.

Zhou's response was to look back and forth on Ah Yan's body, always feeling that it was inappropriate.

Xiao Qing saw that Ah Lan was looking at her house, and said with a smile: "Brother Ah Lan, my family is so big and simple, and I can only live in the cellar first." ”

Ah Chao nodded silently, and there was no dislike in his eyes.

"Then you look around first, I have something to tell Brother Xian here!" Xiao Qingdao.

Ah Ran hummed, turned and walked to the back of the house.

After Xiao Qing saw the people leaving, he asked Ma to sit down first, and listened to him talk about a few broken kilns on the Fang family's side.

Ma first said Fang Huai's words nine times out of ten.

In the end, he didn't forget to add: "Shopkeeper Xiao, you want a cave, my brothers are all good hands, and I will be able to build a cave for you around Yaoshan in less than a month." ”

Xiao Qing condensed his eyebrows and pondered, Fang Huai really dared to speak, and wanted to marry her? She believes in his brother's ghosts!

He must have taken a fancy to her relationship with the prince.

They can't see it, she remembers it very clearly, in the early years, Fangjia Village made a fortune by burning porcelain tiles and bricks, after tasting the sweetness, built a large cave, and almost requisitioned all the favorable places on the border of Yaoshan, at that time the business was booming, the Hou Fu Chi family looked red, and used his connections and power to take over his family's hottest brick and tile business, and kept the porcelain business in the doing, the Fang family was cut off half of his arm by the Hou Mansion so far, after the bricks and tiles stopped burning, he wanted to climb with the Hou Mansion through various methods, but he waited in front of the Hou Mansion for many days, and did not see the Hou Ye and Mrs., The family business couldn't be left alone, so he gave up looking for someone.

Now Fang Huai knows that her family has business dealings with the Hou Mansion, and the prince of the Hou Mansion is close to her family, if his family is connected to the old Qiao family, he still wants to go back to the brick and tile business a few years ago.

"I can't wait a month!" Xiao Qingdao.

Now it's October, and it's winter in November, especially in the north, Yizhou and Qinzhou, these states have almost put on leather jackets, and wait for another month to burn the kiln, and the carbon has been sold, and it will be difficult to collect.

Ma Xian said: "Shopkeeper, shopkeeper Fang also said that he will only give you two days, and tomorrow will pass, if you don't agree, even if those broken kilns rot into rubble, they won't give it to us!" ”

Xiao Qing condensed her eyebrows and pondered for a moment, could it be that this old thing could see what she wanted to do? So deliberately making things difficult?

After a while, Xiao Qing couldn't figure it out, and said, "Okay, Brother Xian, I know about this, I'll go there in person tomorrow to see what the shopkeeper thinks!" ”

Ma Xian nodded solemnly: "Shopkeeper, there are still a few days of work in the back house, and you need manpower here at that time, our brothers said that they want to follow the shopkeeper again!" ”

If Shopkeeper Xiao negotiated the broken kiln, they were good at firing the kiln, no matter what they burned, they would do it, and they couldn't be replaced by Shopkeeper Xiao.

Now that the villages are not full of food, who doesn't want to come when they learn that her family gives money and food?

Xiao Qing smiled and said: "That's a good feeling, what you said in my heart, if the broken kiln can be discussed, then I will trouble you to help me keep an eye on it more, don't worry, you and your brothers, I will not treat you badly!" ”

As soon as Ma Xian heard this, he understood that Shopkeeper Xiao would not let go of them to find someone else to work.

He smiled and said, "Cheng, shopkeeper, don't worry, I will leave them all behind and let them put their hearts in their stomachs." ”

Xiao Qing nodded with a smile: "Then you go get busy first!" ”

Ma responded first, got up with a smile and went to the back of the house.

After he left, Xiao Qing's eyes lit up with a fierce fierce light, she had to think about how to solve this matter, not only could she not take her relatives with her, but she could also successfully take down those few broken kilns, she supported her forehead and closed her eyes.

……

In the afternoon, Zhou went to the county seat, bought a bed and a few sets of clothes, and some cabinets came back for Ah Chao.

In the cellar, she made room for Ah Ran, the size of a bed and a cabinet, and added a curtain for him to make it easier for him to dress and change clothes.

In the evening, after dinner, after Qiao Cheng helped Ah Lan wash his body, he handed him a knife and asked him to clean up the beard and messy hair on his face, and it was not until the evening that Qiao Cheng came back from the cellar, hugged Ah Lan's dirty clothes, and threw them out.

Qiao Cheng was very happy to take care of Ah Lan, and after listening to the villagers talk about Ah Lan's deeds in the deep mountains in the afternoon, he admired him a lot.

From evening to night, I carried him clothes and washed his back.

After Qiao Cheng happily returned to the house, he sat in front of his grandmother and mother and said, "Milk, mother, it's the first time I've seen such a good-looking person, even better than my father!" It's better than the world! ”

Zhou was doing needlework, bowing his head and laughing at him: "Everyone compares with your father, in your heart, isn't your father the best person in the world?" ”

Qiao Chengdao: "Mother, my father is very good, but he doesn't look as good as him, I saw him shave off his beard just now, a proper young man!" ”

"What kind of boy, what do you know about boy?" Xiao Qing teased him.

(End of chapter)