Three points are destined, seven points depend on face

Now it was little girl Ling Zhiyi's turn to look back and forth between the two of them.

In a few months she will be fourteen, the age when love begins. Although there are few opportunities to meet the opposite sex of the same age, this does not affect girls' longing for their future husbands.

This was the first time that she saw her brother peeling food for others to eat. Even she was not treated like this. After all, she was eating in the house, surrounded by a large group of maids and women.

Although her brother was very kind to her, she had never seen his eyes as gentle as water, and his eyes were filled with tiny pieces of light.

So, brother and sister Xia...

Ling Zhiyi felt a little excited in her heart: Sister Xia is her sister-in-law, there is nothing better than this!

After a while, Anzi came over with Alai, put a handful of barbecued meats in his hands on the table, saluted the prince and Mr. Yan, and then said to Xia Chuntao: "Mom, these are the barbecued meat skewers I grilled." , do you want to try it?”

Xia Chuntao picked up a bunch and took a bite. The meat was a little old, but it still tasted quite good. After finishing one bunch, he gave Anzi a thumbs up, "It tastes great! Our Anzi really does what he cooks, great!"

Anzi smiled contentedly.

"Mom, give me a taste!" Alai called from the side.

"Have you not eaten yet?"

"My eldest brother and I just ate the burnt ones. This is specially baked for you."

Xia Chuntao hurriedly gave two skewers to each of the two little guys, and gave the rest to Ling Qingxuan and others.

"The essence of kebabs is to share them with everyone, so it's lively! Come and come, don't be polite, try our Anzi's cooking! Anzi is really good in the study and kitchen, I will be blessed in the future!"

Anzi's face was slightly red. Every time his mother praised him like this in front of outsiders, he felt so ashamed.

Various kinds of kebabs were served on the table one after another. Xia Chuntao poured sour plum soup for the children, and the adults drank rice wine. Everyone was eating, drinking, playing and having fun.

Everyone also started a "flying flower order", and Xia Chuntao, a semi-literate person, refused to participate in such leisure activities that were suspected of being malicious. Niuniu, who is completely illiterate, was eating and drinking silly on the side, not worrying about her mother's face at all.

"If you do this, then I won't be polite!" Xia Chuntao rolled up her sleeves and shouted.

Yan Hong saw Xia Chuntao's posture and said with a smile, "Is Madam Xia going to have a big fight?"

"Let's play 'Tiger, Kong, and Chicken.' I'm not bragging. I'm a professional at this game!"

Everyone was curious, and Ling Zhiyi asked: "What kind of gameplay is this?"

"To put it simply, the stick beats the tiger, the tiger eats the chicken, and the chicken pecks the stick. These three things check and balance each other..."

Xia Chuntao told everyone how to play, and the first one who was eager to try it was Alai.

The two of them struck up their chopsticks.

"Knock it, Tiger!"

"chicken!"

"Second brother lost! Mom, you are so awesome!" Niu Niu clapped her hands and shouted.

Finally, there is a game that all illiterate people can understand. It’s not easy!

"I want to play too!" Xiaobao asked to play.

"Knock it, Tiger!"

"tiger!"

"Knock it, chicken!"

"chicken!"

"Knock it on, stick!"

"chicken!"

The crowd booed for a while.

Ling Zhiyi smiled and said: "Xiaobao is so awesome, he finally defeated the victorious general."

"It seems that sister Zhiyi doesn't believe in my strength. Let's have a game?"

Ling Zhiyi looked at her brother and hesitated slightly. After all, she had never played so wildly before.

Ling Qingxuan smiled slightly.

Ling Zhiyi took a deep breath and prepared herself.

"Knock it on, stick!"

"pig!"

Um? What the hell?

Everyone looked at Ling Zhiyi. They were stunned for two or three seconds, and then burst into laughter. Even Ling Qingxuan spat out the herbal tea he just drank with a puff.

Sister Zhiyi's little face turned red. She was... too nervous.

Xia Chuntao smiled and patted Ling Zhiyi, "It's okay. Everyone has a first time. Just do it again."

Ling Zhiyi: ...I was not comforted, thank you.

Maybe it's because she's been hanging out with Xia Chuntao recently, but sister Zhiyi is no longer as shy as before, so she just thinks of herself... Caiyiyu kisses her.

At night, Xia Chuntao took the children back to their room to settle down.

The children and Xia Chuntao were missing from the yard, and the sudden silence made people uncomfortable.

Ling Qingxuan and Yan Hong were still sitting at the table drinking tea. At this time, the table had already been cleared, and a tea set was placed on it. Yuan Bao gently placed the brewed tea on the table, and Ling Qingxuan took the teapot and added tea to the two of them.

"You and Madam Xia..."

"Ah."

"What are your plans for the future?"

"Marry her. Just her."

"That's good. Although Madam Xia is a widow, she is a good woman like no other. She has vision, a heart, courage, and a brain. Although Anzi and Xiaobao were adopted by her, I look at her. It makes no difference to a few kids, which is really rare.”

A slight smile appeared on Ling Qingxuan's lips, "If she knew you praised her so much, her tail would be raised to the sky."

……

Two days later, Ling Qingxuan came to Zhuangzi with the list given by Xia Chuntao.

"Only two of the people on the list were found." After speaking, he pointed it out to Xia Chuntao. It was Chang Sheng's father, and he also had a son from a family named Fang.

"Find some time, take them both to check, and if there is no problem, take the person back."

"What about the others?"

"Ninety percent of them are probably gone. In the past few days, many villagers from nearby villages and towns have gone to identify people, and more than half of them have been identified and taken back. There are still about 60 people left. What I mean is, you go You can take the head of the village with you when you bring people, he should be familiar with the people in this village, and let him recognize them."

Xia Chuntao also thinks this is better. There is no need to bring hope to the remaining companies and then disappoint them. She found Lao Liu and told him the situation, and Lao Liu quietly notified the two families. In the afternoon, Xia Chuntao took a few people to Zeng Rui's house.

The moment Changsheng Niang saw her husband, she burst into tears.

Changsheng couldn't believe his eyes. His father is obviously a tall and strong man, but now this stooped and skinny man is his father?

Changsheng's impression of his father was still at this time last year. His father said that he would go out and work more part-time jobs to keep him and his mother well-fed.

Changsheng remembers that on the day before my father left, my mother specially baked golden egg pancakes for my father to eat on the road. Dad was reluctant and secretly put the cake back into the pot before leaving.

The man stretched out his bony hand, wanting to touch the immortal. Halfway through, he seemed to feel that he was too dirty, so he retracted it.

Changsheng Niang cried and rushed towards her. The man hid for a moment, and after a long time, he held back one word, "Dirty."

"Dad, what's wrong with you? How did it become like this?"

The man probably didn't speak for a long time, and after thinking for a long time, he said intermittently: "I... was deceived... into the mine... coolie."

Changsheng’s mother cried uncontrollably, and Changsheng finally confirmed that this was his father and burst into tears.