"That's it, I see, Aji is good-looking, and he can read, and he used to say that Aji was a fool, but do you think he is so interested in Liang Erzhu'er, like a fool? This is obviously to please the future brother-in-law! ”

Hongzhu covered her mouth and sneered, she is not from Xiaolong Kanben Village, she just got married last year, and she is Aunt Ming's daughter-in-law.

Seeing her daughter-in-law talking like this, Aunt Ming glared at her: "Who said Aji is a fool?" ”

Hongzhu stuck out her tongue: "Mother, don't everyone in the village say that?" ”

Aunt Ming's expression was a little uncomfortable, she subconsciously glanced at Gu Lan, saw Gu Lan sitting there for a long time, and said with a haha: "The people in the village are all jokes, but it's just because Aji lives far from interacting with the village that this caused these misunderstandings, don't say such things in the future." ”

These words were not like they were said to Hongzhu, but they were like they were said to Gu Lan, and the women in the same room secretly observed Gu Lan's expression in at least a few places.

That feeling, a little scrutinized, a little pondered.

The atmosphere gradually stiffened a little, and even Aunt Zhao was a little aware of it.

She waved her hand and said, "It's my family Fusheng who doesn't have this blessing, I won't mention it in the future, Aji is much better than Fusheng." ”

Gu Lan got up from the kang, and Aunt Ming hurriedly asked her, "Miss Lan is feeling uncomfortable?" ”

"No, I just want to go out for a walk, and it's always uncomfortable to sit."

Gu Lan replied very decently.

Seeing this, Aunt Ming asked her to leave.

Out of the room, Gu Lan stretched her waist, the grinding disc at home had been moved elsewhere, otherwise if she wanted to make cassava flour, she could only go to her house, so many men were always inconvenient.

Aji was at the door of the kitchen, piling up a writing board with grass and wood ashes, and was teaching Liang Er to learn to write.

Zhu'er was wearing clean clothes, with two pigtails on her head, and when she saw Gu Lan coming, she ran towards her with open hands: "Sister~"

Her voice was milky, her face was clean, she had eaten well recently, she had no worries about food and clothing, and she gradually became ruddy, like a red apple.

Gu Lan hugged her and kissed her on the cheek, "My Zhu'er hasn't learned to write, Zhu'er is so good~"

"Write!" Zhu'er doesn't know what it means to write, she can only repeat Gu Lan's words, although she is two years old on the surface, but in fact, she is at most one and a half years old, and she can't even speak clearly, let alone write.

Gu Lan sat down on the chair next to her, Aji's eyes followed her, Liang Er looked at him, then at Gu Lan, and continued to lower his head to practice calligraphy.

Gu Lan looked directly at Aji, with a gentle smile on her face: "Always see what I do?" Do I have flowers on my face? ”

"You're not happy."

Firm tone.

Gu Lan shook her head lightly: "I am full of food now, I am not afraid of cold, and even the work at home has been done, how can I not be happy?" ”

Having said that, the smile on Gu Lan's face faded a little.

Aggie got up and stood half a meter away from her.

"You don't have to mind their words, they don't have any ill intentions."

Gu Lan was silent, she was not stupid, she naturally knew that these women had no ill will towards her.

Not only these women, but even the men in the village did not have any ill will towards her, but faintly protected her.

At first, Gu Lan felt that they were all good people, and they would repay their kindness, because she told them how to eat arrowroot, and they taught them so well to her.

But gradually, Gu Lan noticed something strange.

It's unusual for these people to be nice to her, a little flattering, and a little observant.

Gu Lan thought at the beginning that even if she took the initiative to hand over the cassava method to repay her kindness, there would always be some different opinions, and there must be faults, just like the Gu family.

In fact, some people do have opinions about her, and some people complain about Gu Lan, why did she tell them this method now.

The man's old mother, afraid of dragging down the family, took the initiative to go up the mountain half a month ago to seek death.

But the next day, those who had opinions about her did not appear in front of her, and when they met again, not only did they not complain about her, but began to apologize for their recklessness last time.

Even a fool can sense that something is wrong, let alone a suspicious and sensitive person like Gu Lan.

She has always been afraid to guess the malice of human nature, and before making every decision, she will think about the worst possible outcome and make sure that she doesn't care before she does it.

Gu Lan knew that this was all because of Aji and Old Man Shao.

At first, she thought that only Aji and Old Man Shao were strange in this small mountain village, after all, they were out of place here.

But now, she actually discovered that there are abnormalities everywhere in this small mountain village.

This abnormality, the impeccable camouflage.

In the nearby villages, there is basically a big surname that occupies a dominant position in the village, and other scattered surnames are attached to the big surname.

In Xiaolongkan, there are surnames and everything, these people claim to have fled from their ancestors and fled here to settle down, they didn't know each other at first, but they slowly became familiar with each other.

Like the people of other villages, they farmed and married, men and women weaved, and they worked at sunrise and rested at sunset.

Most of them were illiterate, ignorant of the outside world, and the furthest they had ever been was in the town.

But these are just some people who have a close connection that Gu Lan couldn't imagine.

Gu Lan could guess some of the reasons.

In fact, she also found the different ones among these people.

For example, Uncle Ming, Aunt Ming, Uncle Ming knows martial arts, and his martial arts are relatively strong, he does not have a particularly good relationship with Old Man Shao on the surface, he is also a hunter, a general friend, and only in winter will he gather the people in the village to train and defend against wild beasts.

Aunt Ming talks extraordinary, knows how to win people's hearts very well, women in the village quarrel, they will ask her about right and wrong, find her to comment, she is also literate, although she herself said that when she was not married before, her ancestors were wealthy, so she could be literate as a daughter, but Gu Lan felt that it was not like this.

There is also Li Zheng, when chatting with the people in the village, Gu Lan learned that Li Zheng and his old wife were halfway husband and wife, his eldest son and second son were born to his old wife and her previous man, and later Li Zheng's wife's man died, Li Zheng was in his forties when he fled to Xiaolongkan, and the two became husband and wife, and he also settled in Xiaolongkan.

Later, the two had a young son.

Because he was literate, he heard that he used to work as a messenger outside, and he fled here when he got into trouble, he was a smooth person, and often dealt with all kinds of people, so the people in the village elected him to be Lizheng, to deal with the official errand of foreign taxation.

Anyone Gu Lan found strange was basically related to Old Man Shao and Aji.

She had long since decided that she and her younger siblings could not be involved in a deeper vortex.

But when I noticed these weirdness, I was a little uncomfortable.