Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 137

After tidying up the chores after dinner, Li Xin took out the sweet potatoes buried under the ashes in the stove.

The little baby is weak, and a proper supplement of coarse grains is good for his growth.

Li Xin called Yang'er over, filled a bowl with sweet potatoes, peeled off the top layer of skin, and the delicious sweet potato smell burst out instantly.

Handing the bowl to Yang'er, Li Xin took a spoon and said to him, "Scoop and eat by yourself, stay at home with my aunt, and mother will go out for a while." He patted his head.

Han Kui had a full meal, rubbed his stomach and talked to Guan Wen for a while, and then offered to leave.

Li Xin came out and said with a smile: "Guard Han went back and told his wife, I will do my best. Please forgive me for the poor reception today."

"Sister-in-law, what did you say, this meal is really to my liking." Han Kuai laughed and said, "My sister-in-law is so good at cooking, even being a chef is enough."

Li Xin hurriedly said modestly: "Manager Han is joking, I just know a little bit, I like to study some novel ways of eating, other things are really not as good as big chefs."

Manager Han didn't say much, exchanged a few more pleasantries with Guan Wen and Li Xin, and took his family members to leave.When he was leaving, he asked Li Xin when he could see the results again, and Li Xin said, "It's okay, the results are here, I'll visit your mansion, so that you don't have to make a few more trips to Manager Han."

Hearing what she said, Manager Han knew that she was on the right track, nodded and smiled and said, "Then I will trouble my sister-in-law."

After Shen's family left, Li Xin also briefly explained to Guan Wen about Xia Xing'er looking for her, and said, "I'll go to her house to see, it's just a coincidence that she found her when we went to town. Come."

Guan Wen frowned, and called Guan Quan, who was going to see Guan Han back after the incident, and said, "Your second brother won't be home recently?"

Guan Quan was stunned for a moment before he said: "It's still the same as the previous few days. I came back at dark and went out at dawn. I just stayed at home and rested overnight."

"He didn't tell the family anything?"

"No..." Guan Quan shrank his neck: "I don't know what the second brother is doing recently. He is elusive, more mysterious than the sixth brother and father."

"What's wrong with them?" Guan Wen suddenly recalled what his father and sixth younger brother had said in private that day when they were entertaining guests, and his brows were raised: "What did they do again!"

Guan Wen probably had a stern voice and a frightening expression, Guan Quan couldn't help but flinch, and then quickly said: "I don't know what father and sixth brother are doing, but they rarely stay at home during the day, and father often goes to the village to talk to him." Those old ruffians gambled and disappeared after a while; the sixth brother went to town every two days, and I don't know what happened to the school..."

Then he paused and said, "Sixth Brother's Shu Xiu seems to have been handed in by Dad..."

Guan Wen heaved a sigh of relief, waved his hands a little tiredly and said, "Understood."

Li Xin said from the side: "Fourth brother, you can handle the materials according to your own discretion. After you decide, show me the samples. If the price is right and the materials are of good quality, then you can make an order. The second batch of materials is available from Master Wu." What request, you can ask him later."

Guan Quan immediately said, "Understood, sister-in-law."

"I'm going out now."

Li Xin patted Guan Wen's hand and said, "If you don't worry, go to the old house to have a look, at least it's your second brother."

Guan Ming and Guan Zhicheng are not in her worrying range.

Guan Wen thought for a while and nodded: "Then I'll go back and have a look." Then he asked Guan Quan: "Is dad at home with your second and sixth brothers?"

"Father and sixth brother are not here." Guan Quan shook his head: "Father went out early in the morning, yawning and saying that he was going to the village to gamble. Sixth brother seems to have gone to school. I don't know if second brother has left, but I came He was still asleep."

Guan Wen carried a bag and went downhill with Li Xin, and told Guan Quan, "Stay here and help."

Guan Quan responded in a hurry.

A-mei took Yang'er to watch the fun, and told him in a low voice what those uncles and grandpas were doing to make him happy.Yang'er held the bowl and scooped up sweet potato meat to eat, while smiling.

Guan Quan came over and asked, "A-mei, which family is this child from?" He noticed that the little child was distracted by other things when he wanted to ask, and now he was free to ask.

A-mei pursed her lips and said, "This is Yang'er, the doll adopted by my eldest brother and sister-in-law, and it will be our family's baby from now on."

Guan Quan's eyes widened suddenly: "Adopted..."

"Brother, the head of the bodyguard bureau that used to run the dart passed away. Yang'er is his grandson. Those relatives didn't want to raise him. My elder brother and sister-in-law took him to the Yamen and crossed Ming Road to pick him up and bring him back to raise him." Touching Yang'er's head, he coughed and said, "Yang'er, good boy, this is fourth uncle."

Yang'er obediently put the bowl on her lap, raised her head and shouted at Guan Quan: "Fourth Uncle."

Guan Quan hurriedly responded in embarrassment, with an extremely strange expression on his face.

After a long time, he coughed and asked Amei, "This baby... what is his full name?"

"My real name is Wei Yucheng. My sister-in-law changed her name to Zhiyang." A-mei smiled slightly: "I think the name my sister-in-law chose sounds nice..."

Guan Quan responded wholeheartedly, looked at the little doll obediently eating sweet potato meat, and didn't know how to react for a while.

"...Father and the rest don't know yet, when will Big Brother plan to tell them?"

Guan Quan asked in a low voice.A-mei shook her head: "Sister-in-law said that elder brother has a sense of propriety. Yang'er was brought back by elder brother and sister-in-law yesterday, and elder brother will go to tell dad about it in two days."

Guan Quan said "Oh", and never mentioned the second batch of materials since he went to talk to Master Wu.

Li Xin and Guan Wen parted ways after going downhill, one went to Guan's old house to check on the situation, and the other went to Xing'er's house to check on the situation.

Li Xin had been to Xing'er's house several times, and she was quite familiar with it. She knocked on the door of Xing'er's house, and Xing'er opened the door for Li Xin with red eyes, which shocked Li Xin.

"What's wrong with your eyes?" Li Xin hurriedly took Xing'er's hand and entered the room, closed the door behind her back and led her in, while asking eagerly: "I went to town yesterday for business, and I was not here when you came to look for me. A-mei just remembered this and told me about it today." She turned Xing'er's face and asked herself: "What's wrong with you? Your eyes are so red, did you cry last night? What can I do for you?" event?"

Looking around again in a blink of an eye, she felt that Xing'er's house was deserted, so she couldn't help asking: "Where is Xiaokang?"

As soon as Xiaokang was mentioned, Xing'er's originally red eyes became bloodshot again in an instant.

Li Xin's heart skipped a beat, Xing'er wiped her eyes and said to Li Xin, "Xiaokang is at his grandpa and grandma's house."

"I thought something happened to Xiaokang!" Li Xin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "Since it's at his grandpa and grandma's house, why are you so sad?"

"Awu's father went to find Xiaokang's grandpa and grandma..." Xing'er choked and said, "I only found out yesterday that the parents-in-law said that the Guan family couldn't accommodate Xiaokang, so they took their grandson away. Let me suffer..." As he spoke, he began to cry again: "I didn't know what to do yesterday, Yinhuan has a carefree temper, and I couldn't talk to her about these things, so I wanted to discuss it with you, who knew you weren't here ..."

"So you just hid at home and cried by yourself?"

Li Xin finally relaxed, patted Xing'er on the back and said, "What a big deal, I don't know what you are worried about."

Xing'er wiped her eyes, and her nasal voice was muffled: "Xiaokang is my lifeline, if the price of marrying Ah Wu is to separate Xiaokang, I would rather be a widow all my life..."

"Look where you said, there is a way to solve the problem, why are you so pessimistic."

Li Xin wiped her tears with a handkerchief, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and pushed her, saying, "Your father-in-law and mother-in-law are getting older, and they belong to your uncle and aunt, so naturally they love you. They said they would not let Xiaokang go." You are burdened, on the one hand, you feel sorry for Xiaokang, thinking that he will marry with you, the future father-in-law doesn’t like it, the child will suffer, and on the other hand, he wants you to live a good life. After all, they are old, how can they help you take care of the children all the time? You might as well just like this, wait until you get married with the second brother, let the second brother separate and live alone, and then bring Xiaokang back, isn't it the same?"

Xing'er immediately wiped her eyes, Li Xin's words pointed her to a clear path.

"this is okay?"

"Is there anything wrong?" Li Xin said with a smile: "Recently, my second brother leaves early every day and returns home at night. Falling out, arguing to separate the family, since he has this idea, you might as well blow the pillow wind, the two of you can be the masters of the family after a complete separation. Don't you understand the truth?"

Xing'er blushed slightly, and immediately relaxed, and said: "I heard from him that he had a quarrel with his sixth brother, and his sixth brother said..." He paused for a moment, thinking it was not good Learn to export again.

Li Xin smiled: "You don't need to mention it, I know he can't say anything good." Then he asked: "Then what is the second brother doing these days?"

"He found a job and said he wants to save money so that he can make plans in the future." Xing'er sat upright and said to Li Xin: "Ask him what he plans to do, but he just doesn't say, but I can hear him He wanted to separate and live alone, and he often muttered that you have separated, and life is getting better and better."

Li Xin smiled and said, "That's true."

"It's just his father..." Xing'er frowned slightly: "Brother Guan has only been separated for two or three months, if Ah Wu also makes a fuss about splitting up, he is not a slippery talker, if things get stiff... "

Li Xin smiled, "Then it's up to you to give him some advice. But Xing'er, it's not so easy to save face and not suffer. You probably know that their father prefers the younger son, and me and When Ah Wen split up, he didn’t get any paddy fields. All of them were converted into the mountain land, and he didn’t even get a dime. He said it was the money for a pig after killing a pig in the Chinese New Year. I don’t know if there is such a thing. What about silver. Every month we have to give his father a hundred qian as filial piety."

Xing'er frowned suddenly: "So much?"

"No matter how much you have to give." Li Xin breathed a sigh of relief: "When you separate from the family, you can be the master of your own house. You can eat what you want, do what you want to do, and don't get lectured face-to-face by others. It's a comfortable life."

Xing'er nodded and said: "If you meet parents-in-law who don't understand what's going on, it's best to separate and live alone."

"So, hurry up and discuss it with your second brother." Li Xin said: "I heard what you mean, my father-in-law came directly to find Xiaokang's grandpa and grandma, and he made it clear that if you want to marry in, Xiaokang can't bring you with you. In the past, is that what you mean?"

"Yeah." Xing'er nodded, "That's what it means."

"It's a compromise if he agrees with you to come in, but he wants you to take a step back and not marry well-off. If that's the case, then it's easy to handle." Li Xin said.

(End of this chapter)