Derail

Chapter 5 Debt Collection ([-])

In late September, cotton rolls like residual snow, and the evening wind blows south and turns west.

The sun setting in the west reddened the clouds floating in the sky.The colorful clouds plunge into the deep green river water, and the evening wind rippling together into a pool of soft waves swaying the blooming reeds.

Mei Xue hugged the lightly sleeping Qiao Xinyan and stood on the south-facing balcony looking at the scenery on the river.Xiaguang alternates between light and dark, and the floating light in the water jumps into gold.In a blink of an eye, my daughter has been two months old, and the sorrow of separation is getting closer, and the feelings of separation are rampant.Mei Xue was feeling depressed, is the love in this world just as fleeting as a fleeting image!

"Meizi, come down and take a walk. Don't stay upstairs all day long!" Qiao's mother, Yan Yi, came out of the cotton forest with a cloth bag on her back.Squinting his eyes to the river and looking at the golden sword in the sky, he bared his teeth and raised his head to shout upstairs.

The cry scared Qiao Xinyan into a dream, she opened her eyes and curled her lips to cry.Mei Xue squinted at Yan Yi downstairs, lowered her head and patted the child's back and coaxed softly: "Oh... Yanyan, please sleep well!" But she stepped over the balcony threshold and entered the room, closing the balcony door.

Qiao Xinyan was still asleep, and following the click of the door lock, Yan Yi's voice came from the upstairs door again.

"Meizi, why don't you know how to respond when I call you?"

Mei Xue frowned and looked towards the door, Yan Yi supported the door frame and probed into the room.Beads of sweat hung on the copper-colored face tanned by the sun, and it looked greasy in the sunlight coming in from the balcony.A piece of skin exposed by a patterned shirt button under the neck is as white as the right gray on the wall.The clear dividing line between the neck and the chest, the color difference is like a yin and yang diagram of the Eight Diagrams.

During the busy season of farming, it was not easy for Yan Yi to harvest cotton from a field of more than ten acres by himself.Mei Xue was rushing to the point where the fire pressure in her voice subsided.She grinned and said softly: "Yanyan is falling asleep, I scared her!"

Qiao Xinyan seemed to understand Mei Xue's words, and hummed a few times coquettishly.

Yan Yi raised his right hand that was on the door frame, and with his left hand picked up the flowery sleeve on his right arm that reached to his wrist and wiped it on his forehead.He squinted his eyes and looked at Mei Xue and said, "Hold me down and walk, this one sleeps too much and makes noise at night!"

"Oh!" Mei Xue responded.

Yan Yi turned around and was about to leave, then turned back and said, "I'll go down and order mosquito coils in the back room, there are so many mosquitoes in autumn, don't bite my tender meat!"

"Okay, come down!"

Mei Xue picked up Qiao Xinyan, Yan Yi's voice echoed down the stairs.

Ever since Mei Xue called Qiao Muchu, and Qiao Muchu hung up the phone in a fit of panic, even though Qiao Muchu called several times a day, she never answered.But she never mentioned the conflict between the two of them with Joe's father and mother.

One month after confinement, except for eating, Yan Yi would call Mei Xue downstairs.It was the first time calling her to go down for a walk!
When Mei Xue came downstairs, the rays of the sun had gradually faded.A few groups of dark clouds floating in the low air layer moved at a constant speed, and the colorful clouds that were left behind turned the blue sky where there were no clouds into egg blue.

Yan Yi came back from the vegetable garden with a basket of autumn eggplants and autumn peppers, and fell on the ground in the yard, grabbing the eggplant pants.Seeing Mei Xue go downstairs, she muttered: "Your cousin and aunt will come to dinner later, you haven't seen her before. If you see her, she will be sweet and call her!"

"Oh!" Mei Xue responded, and walked towards the room where the mosquito coils were lit.I was wondering in my heart who is this cousin aunt?A few days ago, my aunt had never given such a grand explanation when she came here!
Mei Xue hadn't even set foot on the threshold when she heard a shout from the courtyard gate.

"Is sister Yan in the house?"

"In the room!" Yan Yi dropped the eggplant in his hand and returned to the basket to greet him.Then I listened to the conversation between Yan Yixiang's crisp voice and his cousin's high-pitched and rattling voice.

"My sister-in-law is here, why don't you buy something!"

"It's worthless to buy a box of yogurt for your daughter-in-law! Yanmei's house is well-built! It's a European style!"

"Biao sister-in-law is indeed the head of the decoration company. You can tell at a glance!"

"I heard from my son that your house is well repaired, so I said to help him settle the payment and appreciate Ha Lai!"

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"How can there be! It's far from the three-bedroom and two-living room you bought in the city!"

At this point, Mei Xue understood that this cousin and aunt came to collect debts.And Yan Yi didn't tell her to come down just to "walk around"!
(End of this chapter)