"Quit?" Shopkeeper Sun didn't seem to be afraid, but looked at Liu Zixi.

Liu Zixi, who had not said a word since Fang Cai, actually shook off Ye Lan's hand at this moment, "I won't leave." ”

"Liu Zixi!" Ye Lan is about to explode, she has been trying her best to be patient with Liu Zixi these days, not only because of her obligations, but also because she pity this child.

But he didn't look at the current situation, Ye Lan said angrily: "If you don't leave, you have to go, I'm your mother, you have to listen to me!" ”

Ye Lan ignored him and said to the shopkeeper Sun: "Hurry up and settle the salary, I have something to do in the afternoon." ”

"Wages? Liu Zixi eats and drinks mine here, and he doesn't take things seriously, and his salary has already been deducted. ”

Ye Lan sneered: "We orphans and widows have nothing to be afraid of, it's a big deal, we will die and the net will be broken, do you believe it or not, I will go out and shout now, saying that your grain and oil are adulterated and the price is inflated?" ”

Shopkeeper Sun was anxious: "What nonsense are you talking about!" ”

"Is there any nonsense for everyone to judge." It's only been a few days since this month, and Ye Lan didn't care about the wages of those days, but he bullied Liu Zixi so much, Ye Lan wouldn't ask for a penny.

"Hmph, if you leave me, I'll see who wants him!" Shopkeeper Sun scolded and gave the money.

As soon as Ye Lan turned around, she saw Liu Zixi glaring at her with red eyes: "Why are you here, it's been three years, I've been like this every day, why are you coming now!" ”

Liu Zixi ran away, Ye Lan chased after for a while, she couldn't chase anymore, this kid ran too fast, it was useless for her to chase iron like this.

"Oops!" Ye Lan snorted, and the whole person fell to the ground.

Liu Zixi heard the voice and looked back, and saw his mother lying on the ground motionless, he paused, but still turned his head.

When he walked in front of Ye Lan, he was grabbed by Ye Lan's arm.

Liu Zixi reacted and wanted to shake off but couldn't, his eyes were scarlet, Ye Lan suppressed her temper and said to him: "I'll let you go, but you can't run, I have something to tell you, if you run away, we won't be able to get along again, do you understand?" ”

Ye Lan slowly let go of his arm, Liu Zixi stood stubbornly aside, there was no one in the alley, Ye Lan stretched out her hand to him: "I fell, you pulled me up." ”

Liu Zixi glanced at her and reluctantly pulled her.

Ye Lan smiled: "Actually, I was very angry just now, so angry that I wanted to catch you and beat you, but I'm not angry now, I probably vented it all the way, Zixi, my mother was negligent to you in the past, but my mother is working hard to change now, isn't it?" ”

Liu Zixi bit his lip tightly and said nothing.

Ye Lan said again: "That shopkeeper bullied you, I think any mother will do this like me, I don't understand that he treated you like that, why do you still refuse to leave?" ”

"Why are you here, do you know that no one is willing to ask for me except for Shopkeeper Sun!" Liu Zixi was really angry, he looked thin and weak, and he was a child, many shopkeepers refused to ask him, and the shopkeeper Sun was not very good-tempered, but at least he was willing to ask him and pay him wages.

"So you're afraid you won't find a job to do? Yesterday I said that I would earn money to support my family in the future, so that you can study hard at home......"

"I don't study, I want to make money, I want to make a lot of money!"

"What do you want so much money for? Where did you get all that money under your pillow? ”

Liu Zixi was stunned, and then said angrily: "You took my money? ”

"I didn't take it, I didn't touch a copper plate of the money in it, but Liu Zixi, where did you get so much money?"

"I've saved, I've saved little by little over the years!"

Hearing him say this, Ye Lan breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, for some reason, Liu Zixi said that she had saved it, and she believed it.

"So what are you saving so much money for? You are reluctant to eat or wear on weekdays, what do you want to do with your savings? ”

Liu Zixi refused to say, Ye Lan deliberately said: "You have only been working for three years, how can you save so much, unless the money is not coming from the right way." ”

"I didn't! This money is what I saved, and I saved it from copper plate to copper plate! Liu Zixi looked stubborn, but his mouth was choked: "I...... I want to redeem my brother! ”

In an instant, all the anger and incomprehension in Ye Lan's heart dissipated, this kid ...... This kid he ......

Liu Zixi actually knelt in front of Ye Lan, and in his memory, Ye Lan had never seen this child soft.

He said: "Didn't you say that Zixi was too lonely and wanted to give me a younger brother and sister to grow up with?" But why, why did you sell your brother? I can make money, I can make money to feed my brother, why are you selling him? ”

He hugged Ye Lan's leg and begged: "I'll make good money, can you redeem my brother back?" Ransom my brother back ......"

Ye Lan stumbled, she couldn't seem to stand, she stretched out her hand to pull Liu Zixi, but the child just couldn't get up, Ye Lan had to squat down and look at him at eye level.

"My brother went to the rich man's house, he won't suffer, it's better than following us, besides, it's been six years, no matter how much money we take to redeem it, people won't hand it over."

Liu Zixi didn't understand, but "redeeming his younger brother" had trapped him like a spell over the years, and apart from this incident, he didn't know what else he could do while he was alive.

"Brother, is he really not coming back?" Liu Zixi muttered to himself.

If it was Ye Lan herself, she would not have sold the child who was only a few months old anyway, but this incident has happened, and after so many years, Ye Lan has no power to change anything.

She knows Liu Zixi's obsession, and when she counts, she is Liu Zixi's only relative in this world.

"Zixi, the Zhou family that my younger brother went to is a big family, the family is well-off and there are servants to serve, the Zhou family has no son, my younger brother was bought as his own son, he is now the little master of the Zhou family, don't say that we can't redeem it, but we redeem it, do you think my brother can get used to our current life?"

Liu Zixi covered his face and cried, yes, he is so poor, how can his younger brother get used to it......

The crying of the child who never refused to cry was even more distressing, Ye Lan stepped forward and hugged him, Liu Zixi froze, and even stopped crying.

Ye Lan whispered in his ear: "If you don't worry about my brother, I'll take you to take a sneak look, okay?" But you have to promise me that if my brother is doing well, we won't disturb him. ”

……

Zhou's house is in Tianshifang, not far from the tea shop.

bought a son like this, but he didn't want the child's biological parents to brush up on his sense of existence again, Ye Lan repeatedly told Liu Zixi: "We can't let my brother know that we exist, let's just take a look from afar." ”

Ye Lan had already inquired, and the little young master of the Zhou family went to school from the private school every day, and then was taken home by the domestic servant.