After the imperial examinations, I grew up by farming

Chapter 36 Invite Second Brother to Come Out of the Mountain
Li Xiaoying leads the way for Ning Yu.

On the way, Li Xiaoying talked about the day when her family was in distress.

"If Second Brother Xu hadn't cut open the window from the outside, even I would have been burned to death..."

After walking for a quarter of an hour, they stopped outside a farmyard, "Master Xu, this is Brother Xu's home."

A row of adobe houses and two thatched houses.

The yard surrounded by bamboo strips is very large, and several fruit trees are planted near the fence in the yard.

A five or six-year-old boy was sitting under a pear tree, babbling and reading.

"If the Tao doesn't work, I know it. Those who know surpass it, but the foolish don't. I know that the Tao doesn't understand it. The sage surpasses it, and the unworthy one falls behind—"

"Little Siyuan, hurry up and call your mother, there is a distinguished guest." Li Xiaoying stood outside the fence and interrupted the little boy from studying.

The little boy looked at the gate of the courtyard, got up and bowed to Ning Yu, "May I ask the guest's name? Do you want to talk to your father or your mother?"

Dad was plowing the fields in the east, and mother was mowing grass in the back hills in the west. If he didn't ask clearly, he would call the wrong person again and he would have to call again.

It's better to ask clearly.

"Young master, this is the young master." Zhiman said in a low voice.

"My surname is Xu, and my name is Xu Ningyu. I'm looking for your father, Xu Ningcheng."

"Oh." Xiao Siyuan opened the courtyard door and came out, closed the courtyard door again, ran down the stone steps, and ran away to the east.

Ning Yu and his party were not invited into the hospital.

While waiting for someone, Ning Yu circled around the front and back of the house.

Xu Ningcheng's house is located on a very high ground and is a single family. You can see the wooden bridge at the entrance of the village. A large bamboo forest that can grow as thick as the mouth of a bowl is planted behind the house. A small pond is dug on the left side. There is a green plum tree beside the pond. There was also an apricot tree with clusters of small fruit hanging from it.

Green plums are her favorite.

When it is just ripe, it is crunchy to the bite, the sweetness is very light, with a slightly bitter taste, very refreshing.

When it is ripe, it is extremely sweet, soft and soft. The fruity aroma is not strong, but it has a grassy and woody aroma. The taste is very unique.

When Ning Yu walked back to the gate of the courtyard, a person was climbing the long stone steps.

The visitor is tall, like Xu Ningwen, over 1.9 meters tall, with healthy wheat-colored skin, eyebrows, eyes and face like the second wife of the Xu family, sleeves and trouser legs rolled up high, barefoot, feet and calves wet It is full of mud, and one can tell that it has just come out of the paddy field.

"Xiao Qi, why are you here?"

Seeing Ning Yu, Xu Ningcheng was a little surprised.

After all, the last time the brothers met was last autumn, when Xiao Qi told him that he would go to Beijing to participate in Chunwei this year, and with Xiao Qi's talent and learning, it would not be a problem to get in the list.

Candidate examination, palace examination, official appointment, management...

He also thought that it would take some time for Xiao Qi to come back, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.

"Second brother, the world is in chaos, don't you know?" Ning Yu stood on the top of the steps, looking down at Xu Ningcheng.

"Ah?" Xu Ningcheng stopped and looked up.

To be honest, he was dumbfounded.

Ning Yu and Zhiman followed Xu Ningcheng into the courtyard, while Li Xiaoying went up the mountain to dig the ground.

Xu Ningcheng moved two benches and placed them under another pear tree. The two brothers sat on one seat facing each other, and Zhiman sat on the small bench that Xiao Siyuan sat on before, some distance away from the two masters.

Xu Ningcheng hadn't been in the city for more than two months, and he was a little unfamiliar with Nanli County, let alone things outside Nanli County.

Ning Yu told him the situation in the world in a concise and concise manner, and explained the plans of the Xu family in a simple and clear manner.

"Second brother, your talents are not in the fields. Nanli County needs you, and the Xu family also needs you. Apart from you, I can't think of anyone who can lead the soldiers of Nanli County well."

"Xiaoqi, I..." Xu Ningcheng hesitated to speak.

"If Nanli County is gone, the second sister-in-law and Xiao Siyuan, the second elder brother are confident that they can protect them?"

Xu Ningcheng was quite unhappy when he said this, and immediately changed his face, "In Xiao Qi's heart, is Second Brother the kind of person who is ungrateful, selfish, and disregarding the overall situation?"

"Second elder brother is naturally a big man who is arrogant and righteous. It is because of this that Xiaoqi came to invite second elder brother to come out of the mountain."

Back then, the 16-year-old young general was so brave, and he became one of the three great generals under the command of King Shu Yun in less than [-] years old...

Will the love of children really wipe out the blood in a person's bones?
Ning Yu didn't believe it.

She prefers to believe that it was the cruel and heartless King Shuyun who forced the second elder brother away, rather than a woman seducing him.

Hearing what Ning Yu said, Xu Ningcheng's face softened and his tone softened, "This matter must be decided after discussing with your second sister-in-law... Don't worry, although your second sister-in-law was born in the countryside, she should understand the truth. I understand."

"Xiao Qi believes in the second brother."

Ning Yu frowned.

The two brothers chatted for a while, and Xiao Siyuan and his mother Li Fangyun arrived home.

To this second sister-in-law, Ning Yu's feeling is——

The peasant girl who was prettier and quieter than ordinary peasant girls was not as impressive as Li Xiaoying.

After chatting for a while, Ning Yu got up to leave, and Li Shi hurriedly stood up to persuade him to stay, "Let's stay for dinner. I heard from your second brother that you like wild vegetables, and my sister-in-law will cook them for you."

"Thank you second sister-in-law, next time, I didn't leave a message for my family when I went out today." Ning Yu refused.

The Xu family eats three meals a day together without any special circumstances. Ning Cheng told her about this... Li's attitude has not changed, and there is still a simple smile on his face, "Then next time, next time."

"it is good."

Ning Yu responded with a smile.

Then he called Xiao Siyuan over on one knee, took out the pencil case prepared in advance, "I give it to you, it's...a meeting gift, please forgive Qi Shu for only coming to see Xiao Siyuan today, okay?"

"Father..." Xiao Siyuan looked at his father.

Xu Ningcheng nodded, "Uncle Seven is not an outsider, please accept it."

"Thank you Uncle Qi." Xiao Siyuan took the pencil case, ran back to the house, and ran out again, "Uncle Qi, this is for you."

Ning Yu took it, and it was a wooden donkey with a big slap in the face, "Did Xiao Siyuan carve it himself?"

Xiao Siyuan nodded.

"Thank you little Siyuan, Uncle Qi likes it very much." Ning Yu stroked Xiao Siyuan's little head.

Li's eye sockets were a little sour.

At the beginning, Ning Cheng resigned from the military and insisted on marrying an orphaned peasant girl, which angered Siyuan's great-grandmother and grandfather Lei Ting. Poor Siyuan grew up to be more than five years old. Except for the grandmother who came secretly twice, other relatives of the Xu family , I have never seen one.

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Lijia Village is more than 20 miles away from Nanli County.

The three master and servant returned to Nanli County before the sun went down.

Unexpectedly, the door of the house was blocked.

Children as young as three or four years old, and men as old as three or forty years old, fifty or sixty people knelt in four rows at the main entrance of Xu's mansion, and the gate of Xu's mansion was closed tightly, and not even the doorman could see a single one.

Hearing the sound of horseshoes, several men turned their heads, and one of them recognized Ning Yu and shouted loudly: "Cousin Lan Jun is back."

With a shout, dozens of people turned around and knelt facing Ning Yu.

"Please cousin, please forgive me!" "Please cousin, please forgive me!" "Please cousin, please forgive me!"

Dozens of people yelled together, several times in a row, which seemed to be well-trained.

Ning Yu figured it out...

This group of people came to intercede for Xu Houtian and Xu Ningyong.

(End of this chapter)