Chapter 108

Since Hu Ci came to the house, there was a lot of laughter and laughter in the house, because he was a very coaxing child, and because he had stayed at home alone for a long time, he had his own way of doing things, and although he could not speak very clearly, he had a good temper, and sometimes he ran around the yard without coaxing, making himself giggle.

He just ate during the day, eating with a bowl, eating with his elbows, and eating with a roast chicken, and as soon as he wiped his front foot and his back foot, he found that he didn't know when there was a dirty piece of sauce on his face, and as soon as Lin Piao looked at him, he sat on the stool with an innocent face and played with his fingers, and then raised his tender white fingers to Lin Piao, and giggled shyly.

Lin Piao couldn't do anything about him, so after wiping his mouth with a handkerchief, Hu Ci drilled into his arms, but Lin Piao could only hug him, and Hu Ci shrank in his arms, hugging his waist and not letting go.

It's about some kind of nestling plot, after Lin Piao brought Hu Ci over, Hu Ci was extremely sticky to Lin Piao, and he reached out to let Lin Piao hug him at every turn, always wanting to sit in Lin Piao's arms and play.

After Lin Piao refused a few times, he found that the child was not very heavy, and he happened to lack something to hold in his arms, so he reluctantly kicked him in his arms.

The arms of the second aunt and Uncle Qiu were also often patronized by him, and they scurried around in their arms all day long, but what he liked the most was Lin Piao's arms, and Hu Ci felt that Lin Piao's arms were fragrant and very gentle.

Lin Piao hugged Hu Ci.

"Hu Ci, how old are you?"

Hu Ci snapped his fingers, leaned on Lin Piao's arms, looked up at Lin Piao, and opened his hands to show him.

"Ten years old?!"

Hu Ci's fingers moved, retracted two fingers, and counted back and forth with a pair of round eyes, and he didn't count clearly for a long time.

"Seven? Six? ”

Hu Ci made comparisons and strokes, and finally determined his age: "Six years old, I am six years old." ”

Lin Piao heard him call himself several times, speculated that this should be his nickname, looked at Hu Ci, in terms of appearance, a little shorter, fat face, long meat does not grow tall, it should be rice and noodles eat a lot, meat, eggs and milk eat less, speech is not very clear, it should be a long-term confinement at home and too little communication with people, not enlightened, or a little beast state who doesn't understand anything, but on the whole there is no problem.

Another thing that made Lin Piao happy was that Hu Ci was not only a child, he was also a brother, and Lin Piao could not only raise him, but also take him to sleep.

Lin Piao hugged him at night and coaxed him to sleep, and in the second half of the night he slept to the side, and when he woke up, he found that Hu Ci was still arched in his arms.

Since having Hu Ci, Lin Piao's sleep quality has improved a bit, because Hu Ci doesn't sleep much, and the sense of dependence of another small creature sleeping next to him makes him feel inexplicably very steady.

Lin Piao's daily focus in the past few days has changed from looking at the shop and Shen Hong to looking at the shop and watching Hu Ci, and when he is free, he will tease Hu Ci in the yard.

Erzhu and Da Zhuang suddenly became elder brothers, and very consciously sent Hu Ci some toys, what spinning tops, small cloth tigers and other things.

Juan'er and Xiaoyue put together a suit of clothes, handkerchiefs and small shoes for Hu Ci.

The county government was discussing the matter of suppressing the bandits, because the mountain bandits were in the middle of the land boundary and took advantage of the fact that no one on either side wanted to meddle in their affairs, but now the county lord was angry and went to the neighboring county to repair the book and strongly demanded that they work together to suppress the bandits.

But it is said that the other party's interest is not high, so Da Zhuang went to make a kick, and in the name of delivering free meals to the righteous division, he became an insider, and made some friends with people in the rivers and lakes.

According to Da Zhuanghui, the other party's meaning is obvious, and he sincerely expresses the following position.

Bandits must be suppressed! Suppressing bandits is what our people should do! But your daughter's dowry has been robbed, and you want to take the lead yourself, what does it matter to us? You snatch your daughter's dowry back, you have earned all your face, what good can we have? At the end, it is our duty to suppress bandits! Be sure to suppress the bandits! Resolutely suppress bandits!

When Da Zhuang came back to talk about this matter, his expression was very speechless: "Little sister-in-law, I thought that the mouth of doing business was unreliable enough, but it turned out that the face of the official is even thicker, and you have to pay attention to honesty first in doing business!" ”

Lin Piao smiled: "He is very honest, do you see that he didn't say it very clearly, or he wrapped it up a little before and after, and he didn't say anything." ”

"A gentleman gave an idea to the county lord, asking him to promise to join forces to suppress the bandits, and then share half of the money in the dowry he had snatched back, and if there was gold and silver in the bandits' den."

"The county lord can't agree." The county is such a fastidious person, he is definitely willing to give half of the mountain bandits' den, but giving half of his daughter's dowry is beyond his tolerance.

"No, the county lord is so angry that he wants to say anything."

But for the other party, the dowry is a clearer promise, which means that there must be points, but the points of gold and silver do not necessarily have points, and they belong to the points that we will score, and if we don't, we will forget it, and if the other party fails to get the first promise, it will definitely push back and slack off.

"I don't know how many days it will take to negotiate this matter before it is settled."

Da Zhuang shook his head: "Seven days at most, not more than ten days, otherwise, even if the bandits are successfully suppressed, there may not be anything left in the dowry." ”

Lin Piao nodded: "You take good care of Erzhu, you know that Erzhu doesn't have any minds, and I guess I don't even understand what this letter means, so you can mention it more next to you." ”

"Little sister-in-law, I know, but Erzhu is quite smart this time, and he didn't stupidly say that the most important thing is to suppress bandits, but he was very indignant, saying that Miss Yuniang's dowry is Miss Yuniang's, how can she give it to others indiscriminately, and the county lord admired him very much when he heard this."

"It's good to finally give him this straight personality in the right place."

The two chatted, Hu Ci ran around the yard, ran with a thin sweat on his forehead, ran over with steps, and threw himself into Lin Piao's arms with a happy face.

Lin Piao stretched out his hand to catch him and continued to talk to Da Zhuang, Hu Ci hid in his arms, secretly looked at Da Zhuang with his eyes, and grinned and showed his millet teeth.

Da Zhuang looked at it and stretched out his hand to him, and when Hu Ci saw that no one liked him, he got up from Lin Piao's arms and got into Da Zhuang's arms again.

Hu Ci probably usually has no one to accompany him, I like to have someone to hug him, like a gopher, all the time to drill into each embrace, if he said a word, he will raise his head, with those round black bright eyes look at you, and then embarrassed to clasp hands and smile, but a few days, no one at home said about him, let him drill back and forth arch back and forth.

In the past few days, he has not been able to set off after discussing the suppression of the bandits, and he has not yet gone to collect his brother's body, and Hu Ci is used to his brother being busy outside and does not come home, so he has not asked his brother when he will come back.

The day before Xiu Mu, Lin Piao forgot this day a little, and accompanied Hu Ci to play with the spinning top at home, the wooden spinning top was rounded, Hu Ci was not strong enough, and he did not master the skills well, Da Zhuang had taught him a few times before, but it only taught him theoretically.

Lin Piao was eating next to him and reading the script, while taking the time to encourage him: "The calendar is awesome, the spinning top is so fun, it's really fun." ”

Hu Ci pouted his ass and stared at the spinning top, then grabbed it, walked towards Lin Piao, and handed the spinning top to Lin Piao.

Lin Piao thought that it was really not perfunctory, and he still had to play with him, so he looked at him: "What are you going to do?" ”

"Spinning top for you."

Lin Piao saw that he was very serious and demonstrated in front of him how to hit the spinning top: "This way, this way, roll it up, Brother Piao, you see, roll it up, and then this way, like this." ”

Lin Piao watched him roll up the spinning top with a whip, then pouted his buttocks and threw it out towards the open space, and the top snapped across the ground, rolling out on the ground.

Hu Ci chased after him and picked up the spinning top, and stuffed it into Lin Piao's hand, and stuffed the whip into Lin Piao's hand with the other hand: "Brother Piao, come here." ”

Lin Piao looked at the spinning top and whip in his hand: "Are you letting me play?" ”

"Hmmm! Brother Piao, you play. ”

Lin Piao thought that this kid couldn't play, and probably wanted him to teach him to demonstrate, so Lin Piao picked up the spinning top and stood up with his tall and heroic body, rolled the top and shook it fiercely.

Smack.

Spinning top was once again lying in the courtyard.

Lin Piao looked at the spinning top thrown out in embarrassment, he was actually playing for the first time...... I didn't expect this kind of monotonous and boring little toy to require a lot of skill.

In order to coax Hu Ci, Lin Piao played hard, and after throwing it a few times, the spinning top was finally able to fall steadily to the ground and rotate.

Lin Piao flicked the whip and hit it on the spinning top, but he became more and more proficient, and gave the whip to Hu Ci again, let him hit it twice, and when he saw that the spinning top was about to turn and took the whip over and hit it twice more to inject power, the two played around the top for almost half an hour, and Hu Ci stuffed the whip into Lin Piao's hand.

"Brother Piao, do you know how to play? You're here to play. His big round eyes looked at Lin Piao very seriously, and then he continued to run in circles in the yard with the cloth tiger on the side.

Lin Piao's movements froze: "Huh? ”

Was he coaxed by a child?

His perspective took half an hour to coax Hu Ci.

From Hu Ci's point of view, he spent half an hour teaching Brother Piao to play with the spinning top.

Lin Piao was simply frozen in place, Hu Ci also looked back from time to time to see how he was playing, Lin Piao could not get out of his gaze, he could only stay by the side from time to time and draw a whip of the spinning top to keep the spinning top turning, Hu Ci held the little tiger in the yard and turned around, playing the tiger excellent.

He is so energetic that his legs can throb from waking up in the morning and landing until night.

When it was time for dinner, Hu Ci knew that he was going to start waiting for dinner, and he was not interested in playing, so he leaned on Lin Piao's arms and looked at the stove, waiting for the meal to be served.

"Brother Piao, do you have an elbow today?" He replied shyly.

Lin Piaochao smiled and didn't answer, Hu Ci immediately looked at Da Zhuang: "Brother Da Zhuang, do you have an elbow today?" ”

Da Zhuang nodded, and Hu Ci immediately became happy, giggling happily.

Lin Piao saw him so happy, lowered his head and arched his cheek with the tip of his nose: "You know how to eat elbows, little fat pig." ”

Hu Ci chuckled: "Lili is not a little fat pig. ”

"That's it." Lin Piao took him into his arms and kissed his fat face, caressing his back with his palm.

Shen Hong and Ergou got out of the carriage, thinking of what had happened in the county government recently, and Ergou chatted with Shen Hong all the way about the bandits: "Did the county Cheng also send someone to ask the opinion of the Ludong Academy before, but even if there are rich businessmen who are willing to contribute money and efforts to suppress the bandits, it is still difficult if there are not enough troops. ”

Shen Hong nodded: "Either agree to Linxian's request, or raise another sum of money to recruit enough capable people, both of which will take time." ”

However, time is not enough.

Before, they heard that Erzhu was injured, so they sent the best wound medicine from Ludong Mountain, and rushed back in advance to appease the people in the family, presumably at this time the family should be gloomy.

Now that the weather is warmer, the ice is melting and the snow is melting, my sister-in-law has not gone to Ludong Mountain to see him in the past five days, and she must have been running around for a long time about the affairs of Erzhu.

Although my sister-in-law is an open-minded person and rarely gets stumped by things, she often has to worry about it for a while at first, and then she will leave everything behind when she feels bored and doesn't want to pay attention to it.

The sister-in-law relied on him the most at home, and after telling him many things, she could only settle down with his advice and reassurance.

He frowned slightly, and had already thought about what he would say to his sister-in-law.

Before I entered the door, I heard the crisp and cheerful laughter of young children, and the courtyard was also bustling, and I could faintly hear the voices of several people talking and laughing.

Shen Hong stepped forward and pushed open the half-covered door, the courtyard was full of fireworks, the second aunt and Uncle Qiu were cooking, Xiaoyue and Juan'er were sitting on the side embroidering, Da Zhuang was talking to his sister-in-law around the table, and the sister-in-law was holding a young child in her arms, she was lowering her head, rubbing the tip of her nose against the child's cheek affectionately, and gently hitting his forehead with her forehead in amusement.

The toddler sat on his sister-in-law's lap, giggling and occasionally touching her cheek with her hand.

Shen Hong's second dog stood in the courtyard, looking at the scene in front of him, and he didn't slow down for a while.

Or Ergou reacted first: "Which child is this?" Neighbors? Come and give me a hug. ”

As soon as the second dog came in, he wanted to hug Hu Ci, Hu Ci hid in Lin Piao's arms, buried his head in Lin Piao's chest, and hid like an ostrich.

Lin Piaodao: "Friend's child, Erzhu's friend." ”

Lin Piao couldn't say in front of Hu Ci that his brother was killed, so he could only say that he gave Ergou a look, hinting at it slightly.

Ergou received Lin Piao's eyes, and although he didn't understand what he meant, he probably understood that there must be something else hidden in it that could not be said, so he didn't continue to ask, but squatted down to tease Hu Ci.

"Ouch, this face is really good-looking, round and fat, like a glutinous rice cake made by someone, to give my brother a bite of glutinous rice cake."

Da Zhuang patted him next to him: "Hu Ci is a brother." ”

"Oh, I didn't pay attention, it's called Hu Ci, right?"

Hu Ci hid in Lin Piao's arms and looked at Ergou, the strange brother who suddenly appeared, his eyes moved to look at another brother he had never seen before, and saw him standing in the courtyard, looking at it without blinking for a while.

"Good-looking brother."

Lin Piao hugged him: "Which is the good-looking brother?" ”

Hu Ci pointed at Shen Hong, leaned his face on Lin Piao's chest, originally wanted to giggle happily, but when he saw Shen Hong's faint glances, this brother's face looked like a good person, but his eyes were not, this strange feeling suddenly shrank, turned his head and buried his face in Lin Piao's arms, and no longer looked at Shen Hong.

Lin Piao was a little surprised, after all, Shen Hong was loved by everyone, and the existence of flowers blooming, Hu Ci noticed him at first sight, but he didn't expect to hide instead.

Shen Hong walked to the table and sat down: "Sister-in-law, give me a hug." ”