Lu family's daughter-in-law

Chapter 71
"Xiang'er, whose child is this?"

After getting out of the car, Zhang Man stared at Anan and asked his niece curiously.

Ningxiang said honestly: "Anan's house is next to ours. Today his family went to the field, Anan and Antao came to play with Amu, uncle, you sit in the room first, and I will carry Anan to the hut."

"Did you buy the land?" Zhang Man stopped where he was, confused.At least three or four taels of silver per mu of land, my niece...

Mrs. Li in the east courtyard was still washing the quilt cover, and she raised her head when Zhang Man came in, and said with a sneer, "Thank you for asking, my nephew is only five years old, and you only come here once a year when you are an uncle." , I only know now that I bought the land in February. Why don’t you wait for Amu to marry a wife? Ah, now there is a place for Xiang’er, pretend to come here every day, who doesn’t know what you are thinking? Bah, I They all feel sorry for Xiang'er!"

Zhang Man's face was flushed by the words, and he looked at his niece helplessly, "Xiang'er, isn't uncle..."

Ningxiang knew that her uncle was not that kind of person, just as she was about to speak, Anan in her arms couldn't hold back anymore, and twisted her body anxiously.

"Uncle, let's go into the house." Ning Xiang said simply, and walked away with Anan in her arms, without looking at the three Zhang Honglin brothers.

Zhang Man is honest and doesn't argue with Li Shi, but his daughter, 15-year-old Zhang Yunxi doesn't like to listen, and turns to Li Shi with a cold face: "You..."

"Sister." Zhang Honglin stood in front of his sister and took a deep look at her.

Zhang Yunxi remembered the purpose of this trip, then shut up, and led his brother into the house sullenly.

Under the eaves, watching the family of four gradually approaching, A Tao whispered to Xu Qiuer, "Sister Qiuer, who are they?"

Xu Qiuer sarcastically said: "This is Uncle Amu, and the one behind is probably Amu's cousin and cousin. I have never seen him before."

"Why haven't I seen it? Haven't they been here?" A Tao asked puzzled.Her aunt's family also has cousins, who would come to visit the house during the holidays. In A Tao's understanding, cousins ​​should often see each other.

Xu Qiuer is not as polite as Ning Xiang, even though Zhang Man has come to the front, she still said in a neutral way: "Probably because Amu's family is poor, their family is rich, and they look down on poor relatives. My second aunt was ill back then. , my sister cried and went to borrow money, but they didn't give it back, so my sister sold herself as a maid."

A Tao understood.My uncle's family lives in the town, making wooden furniture such as wardrobes and coffee tables. The family is very rich. Every time my cousin comes to her house, she dislikes this and that, and thinks their family is poor. The relatives of sister Xu's family must be the same.

A Tao likes elder sister Xu, so she doesn't like anyone who bullies elder sister Xu.

The seven-year-old girl stood beside Xu Qiu'er, glaring at the four of Zhang's family with watery eyes.

Feeling ashamed, Zhang Man went in directly. Zhang Honglin "retained well", nodded to Xu Qiu'er, and then patted Amu's head before going in, although Amu avoided him.Later, Zhang Yunxi was also a pampered girl at home. She was not a young lady, but she had a ladylike temper. She could tolerate Xu Qiuer from the Li family, but she couldn't bear to be glared at by a girl who didn't know whose family she was. Why are you staring at me?"

A Tao has three older brothers, she was full of confidence, and continued to stare at her, "I'm staring at the wall over there, who told you to walk in front of me?"

A look of fearlessness.

Zhang Yunxi didn't expect the little girl to be so aggressive, just as she was about to quarrel, Hanlin next to her suddenly slapped A Tao hard, "I won't let you stare at my sister!"

The four-year-old Han Lin is not as strong as Da Zhuang, and he is not small in size. He is quite strong after eating all the flesh.There were few clothes in Xia Tian, ​​and A Tao's arm was sore from his beating, and he wanted to fight back in a fit of anger.

"Why do you still want to beat someone?" Zhang Yunxi quickly grabbed A Tao's arm with sharp eyes.

Taking advantage of this gap, Hanlin gave A Tao another blow, and then hid behind his sister after the beating.

Xu Qiu'er grabbed him and slapped his ass twice, "Who told you to hit our guest? Go back to your house!"

Immediately after the beating, A Tao and A Mu were protected behind him, and he raised his head and stared at Zhang Yunxi.

On the other side, Anan was carried out of the hut by Ningxiang, just in time to see his aunt being beaten by Hanlin, the little guy was so angry that he beat Hanlin with his small fists, screaming indiscriminately.

Hanlin burst into tears because Xu Qiuer beat her butt.

Zhang Man and Zhang Honglin hurried out.

"Daddy, she hit Hanlin!" Zhang Yunxi complained angrily.

Xu Qiu'er refused to admit defeat, and hummed: "He did it first, did you see it?"

Zhang Man knew what kind of virtue his youngest son was, so he stood between the two girls with a sullen face, lowered his head and reprimanded Han Lin, "Do you still want to come to your cousin's house as a guest? If not, I'll send you back right away!"

Hanlin often saw his mother scolding his father, and he was the least afraid of his father. When he saw him facing outsiders, the four-year-old boy cried and said loudly, "I won't come to my cousin's house!" and dragged Zhang Yunxi to let her sister go with him .

Zhang Yunxi glared at Ningxiang, who was watching the excitement from a distance, and really followed Hanlin.

"Yunxi!" Zhang Honglin scolded with a frown.

Zhang Yunxi sneered, turned around and said, "Didn't brother see that? They regard us as enemies at all, and would rather help outsiders than relatives, so what are we still here for? Bring shame on ourselves?"

Because she looked down on the Xu family siblings from the bottom of her heart, Zhang Yunxi didn't have much sincerity in begging Ningxiang to do things wronged by herself. Now she finds that Ningxiang is not the stupid woman that her brother said, otherwise she wouldn't just stand there and watch the fun, so naturally she wouldn't be bothered. Acting, brother asks people to ask for it himself.

After saying those words, Zhang Yunxi led his younger brother out of the gate quickly.

Ningxiang watched the siblings pass by, her eyes were calm, she hugged Anan and walked to her uncle, and said in a low voice: "Uncle, my cousins ​​don't like us, next time you really miss us, come by yourself Well, twisted melons are not sweet, why bother to wrong my cousin and the others?"

Hearing the meaning of his niece's words, Zhang Man felt ashamed.

That day he heard his wife quarreling with the eldest son. The eldest son scolded his wife for asking his niece to do something. The wife scolded the eldest son for not understanding her painstaking efforts.So the two children proposed to come and reconcile with their niece, and he was very pleased. Who would have thought that the daughter would come here with such cynicism just before entering the courtyard?
Zhang Honglin was annoyed at his sister's unreasonable and bad things in his heart, but on his face he looked embarrassed and blamed himself, and said to Ning Xiang sincerely: "Xiang'er, Hanlin has been spoiled by us, I will teach him well when I go back, and stop him from bullying others. Your cousin ... She has that temper, if I knew she was so rude, my father and I would never bring her here this time."

After saying that, he apologized to A Tao, looked at A Tao's arm with concern, "Does it hurt?"

The gentle and gentle scholar is different from the men in the village that A Tao usually sees.

The seven-year-old girl couldn't help being a little cautious, and looked at Ningxiang questioningly, trying to judge whether this person was good or bad based on sister Xu's eyes.

"Does A Tao hurt?" Ning Xiang was more concerned about A Tao at this time, and asked softly.

A Tao honestly said: "It hurt a little just now, but it doesn't hurt now."

"That's good. I'll train Hanlin again when I get back." Zhang Honglin answered, looked at Ningxiang, and said with Zhang Man: "Father, my cousin has guests at home, let's go back first."

Zhang Man stayed here shamelessly, nodded to his niece, and left first.

Zhang Honglin lagged behind, glanced at Xu Qiuer, and said with a stern look: "Xiang'er, I know that our two families have a misunderstanding, but I really want to make up for the mistakes my mother made before, and make up for you and Amu, and I hope you can slow down. Slowly put down your guard and treat me like a cousin."

Ning Xiang never looked at him directly, and said to his chest: "Cousin is worrying too much, I believe in cousin, but cousin is going to take the exam in August, so let's study at ease in these two months, don't worry about my relationship with you." Amu. My aunt did that for my cousin's benefit. My aunt will be happy when my cousin passes the examination with his real talents, and he will naturally forget about the unhappiness that day."

"What Xiang'er said is that I will lend you a good word for my brother." Zhang Honglin smiled cheerfully, cupped his hands, and left unhurriedly.

Ningxiang called her younger brother to send it off.

A Tao asked Xu Qiu'er in a low voice, "Is he a good person?"

Xu Qiuer pouted at Zhang Honglin's back, "He will pretend to be a good person."

A Tao blinked and remembered it in her heart.

When Lu Cheng returned home in the evening, the little girl complained, "Brother, sister and uncle Xu went to her house today, and her cousins ​​and cousins."

Lu Cheng was washing his face with water, he paused when he heard this, "What are they going to do?"

Lu Yan, who was sitting in front of the stove and lighting the fire, and Lu Ding, who was feeding the donkey in the donkey shed not far away, all looked over. Only Anan, holding the robe that his father had just taken off, wobbled over there, who had soaked the clothes of two uncles. Walking to the water basin, I didn't dislike the sweaty smell on my father's body at all.

"It seems that I want to ask sister Xu for help. I got into a fight with Hanlin, and they left."

A Tao sat on the small bench, raised her head and learned the situation to her elder brother.

Knowing that Hanlin was only four years old, Lu Cheng no longer worried about the two times his sister was beaten, and asked while washing his arms, "How old is Brother Hanlin?"

A muffled laugh came from the kitchen.

Lu Cheng raised his head and gave his second brother a cold look.

A Tao looked at the second brother who didn't know why he was laughing strangely, and recalled: "I'm taller than the third brother, not as tall as the second brother, and he looks very fair and pretty, but sister Qiu'er said that he pretended to be a good person, but he was actually very good-looking. Bad, he also said that he himself could not pass the examination as a scholar, and wanted sister Xu to go to the city to beg for a son."

Immediately, Lu Cheng's mind came up with a white-faced scholar who had no power to restrain himself and could only show off his ink.

"Did elder sister Xu smile at him?" Seeing his brother's silence, Lu Yan couldn't help asking in the kitchen.

Little boy who can read, brother is in danger.

A Tao tilted her head and thought for a while, then shook her head and said, "I don't seem to be smiling, so I just said that she believes in him and hopes that he will be admitted as a scholar."

Lu Cheng's originally relaxed arm suddenly tightened, and the remaining water droplets slid to the ground faster.

Lu Ding fed the donkey silently. Lu Yan didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement. He sat crookedly on the threshold and reminded his elder brother in a low voice, "Hurry up, brother, don't wait for others to be admitted as a scholar, you will be even more incomparable."

Lu Cheng ignored him.

Over there, Anan finally pushed his father's clothes into the basin, straightened up clumsily, and sighed heavily, as if he was exhausted.

If it falls into Lu Cheng's ears, even a two-year-old son doesn't think highly of him.

The man's eyes were cloudy, and he would go out after breakfast the next day.

"Where are you going, brother?" Lu Yan asked knowingly.

"Go to the field and have a look." Lu Cheng said without looking back.

Lu Yan scoffed at the nearly new set of clothes on his brother, "Ghosts will believe it."

However, Lu Cheng did go to his family's Baogu field in the east of the village. He came too early, and he didn't meet any villagers along the way, and the dew in the Baogu field didn't melt.He looked at the head of Liuxi Village, knowing that she would come later, so he leaned against the poplar trees on the ground and waited.The sun gradually rose, and he saw someone coming from a distance. He got into the Baogu field, and when the person left, he pulled out a handful of weeds, pretending that he had just finished his work.

Pull out a few at a time, although they are all new grasses that have emerged in the past two days, they gradually piled up in a small pile on the ground.

Lu Cheng deliberately placed the haystack on the ground of Ningxiang's house.

To be sure she could see what he meant, this time Lu Cheng entered the depths of Baogu.

(End of this chapter)