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Axi coughed several times.

Yang Ye was taking a shower in the clean room, and when he came out, he saw the young man's face flushed from coughing, and his almond eyes were still stained with tears.

"what happened?"

Seeing the scholar who didn't know when he came out, Ah Xi quickly covered his mouth with his hands, his widened eyes were slightly panicked.

Yang Ye was amused by his actions: "I'm coughing so badly, isn't it uncomfortable?"

"Let go, let me see what's wrong."

A Xi let go of his hand in response, and lowered his eyes embarrassingly: "I, I was stuck by a fishbone."

It hurts to speak.

Yang Ye was a little helpless, he was really a child, even if he ate fish, he would still get stuck, he said, "Open your mouth, I'll see if I can see the fishbone."

Axi covered her mouth again and shook her head.

"Be obedient, you won't be able to eat until you take it out."

Persuading, taking advantage of his weak will, he slowly pulled away the young man's slender wrist, and let him open his mouth with his head up. The oil lamp was dim, but this did not prevent Yang Ye from clearly seeing the young man's rosy lips and ivory-white teeth. .

Ah Xi didn't dare to look directly into his eyes, and squinted his eyes to look elsewhere, his face was almost cooked, but his face was red from coughing just now, Yang Ye didn't really notice it.

"It's a small thorn, have you eaten a small fish?"

Hearing that he had seen it, Ah Xi heaved a sigh of relief, quickly closed his mouth, bit his lower lip and nodded.

Yang Ye poured a large glass of warm water for him to drink, then bent over and coughed, increasing the pressure to see if he could cough out the sting.

The young man arched his back, he patted his back, after a few times, he really coughed up.

Yang Ye chuckled lightly: "If you're like this, I won't dare to give you fish next time."

Ah Xi took warm water down his throat, and quickly removed the cup when he heard this: "Don't!"

Yang Ye smiled even more. He raised his hand to stroke the boy's hair. Ah Xi tied his hair into a bun with a moon-white hairband, and combed his hair very neatly.

In fact, men do not wear their hair in a bun until they are 15 years old. Ah Xi is not old enough to wear a bun, but he is already married, so he combed his hair first.Yang Ye saw that the unmarried boys in the village who were not yet 15 still had two knots in their hair, which looked very immature like goat horns.

Ah Xi looked older with her hair tied up in a bun, and her body was more prominent.

The black hair was as soft as silk, and Yang Ye couldn't put it down a little bit, but when this idea just surfaced in his mind, he quickly withdrew his hand: "Wash up early and rest."

"Ah."

Ah Xi obediently replied, tomorrow Yang Ye has to get up early to go to work in the county, and he also has to get up early to cook, and today when he was cleaning up the dishes, he even mentioned to help Yang Cheng harvest beans.

But after Yang Ye left, he returned to the room, feeling that it was too hot tonight, he raised his hand like a thief and stroked the hair that Yang Ye had touched, his face became even hotter.

Ah Xi knew that it was wrong for him to have such thoughts, and Yang Ye had made it very clear to him, but he just didn't live up to it.

The days are as calm as running water. Yang Ye's life after starting work is much more fulfilling than before, but every day he wakes up at dawn, packs up his meals and walks to the county town, and then walks back after work. The morning trip was fine. The air was clear and cool, and it was a bit hot at night. After going back and forth for four or five days, Yang Ye didn't feel anything in terms of perseverance, but his body, which had never suffered so much, was failing and was very tired.

Yang Ye thought about waiting for the ox cart, but it was only two pennies a day, which was not much, but the food at home was empty, so he bought food with the rest of the money he could find. , I have no choice but to suffer a little bit, and it will be fine when I get through this month and get my salary.

Axi was careful, and he could see that Yang Ye was not feeling well. He didn't say anything to hurt the scholar's self-esteem. He went up the mountain to gather some herbs, and soaked Yang Ye's feet after cooking at night, which could relieve some fatigue.

Of course, this is also a temporary solution rather than a permanent cure.After thinking about it, he found a needle and thread, and secretly lit a lamp to start sewing at night.

On the second day, after Yang Ye went to work as usual, Axi went to the village with a small basket and entered Master Zhou's house in the village.

Master Zhou is the master of driving ox carts in the village. He has been driving ox carts for more than [-] years. He is also practical and reliable, and has a good reputation in the village.Two days ago, Ah Xi heard from Wu Yonglan that Master Zhou's daughter-in-law had given birth to a fat boy, and Master Zhou's family was overjoyed.

Master Zhou's daughter-in-law is also a younger brother, her mother's house is in the direction of his aunt's house. Although he is a few years older than him, the two of them also made an appointment to wash clothes by the river before. Although the relationship is not close, it is good. to go.

He wanted to take advantage of seeing Brother Ying to see if he could ask Master Zhou to take Yang Ye along when there were few people.

Originally, the peasant family had few confinement periods, but Brother Ying gave birth to a son and was a great contributor to the family. The family didn’t let him do any work for the past two days. He was playing with the child in the house at the moment. Hearing that Axi came, first Surprised for a moment, he warmly greeted people to go in.

Seeing the delicate little doll, Ah Xi liked it very much, and couldn't help but hugged it gently. The little doll spit out a bubble of saliva, and Ah Xi's eyebrows and eyes frowned: "The child is so, so cute."

Brother Ying saw that he really liked children, and he was also happy: "I heard that you married into the Yang family, but during that time, my belly was big, and I couldn't come out to chat with you."

"Now that the child is born, our two families are not far away, and we can go to wash clothes together again."

Brother Ying laughed, he was not yet married when he was washing clothes with Axi, so it was strange to think about those days.

Axi teased the child for a while, then lifted the basket in front of him, and lifted the rough cloth covering the head, revealing two beautiful red bellybands, he took them out to Brother Ying: "This, this is what I made , for children to wear."

"Ah, such a beautiful apron!" Brother Ying carefully touched the pattern embroidered in the middle of the apron. The needlework was so precise that he was reluctant to put it down as soon as he touched it. Even the best embroiderer in the village could not keep up with this needlework.

He was originally a rough-handed brother. He used to do some rough and tiring work at his mother's house. The delicate work of needlework was learned by his younger sisters. At that time, he didn't think much of it. Now that he has children, he realizes that The importance of this job.

The mother-in-law was too old to do these eyes-straining jobs, and was worried that the child would not have a bellyband, so Axi sent two beautiful bellybands, which he liked very much.

"Axi, your hands are really ingenious." Brother Ying touched the ball of warm-colored blessing characters, and he, who couldn't read the characters, looked at it for a long time and didn't know what it was.

Axi smiled: "I embroidered a word of blessing, I hope the child will be more blessed."

"This has a good meaning. I didn't expect you to be able to read." There are many people in the village who can't read. Brother Ying didn't feel ashamed, and joked: "Did Yang Tongsheng teach you?"

Ah Xi just smiled and didn't answer, Brother Ying thought he was embarrassed and didn't ask any more questions.

There is a saying in the village that it is good fortune. A childless girl hugging a newborn child will attract children. Brother Ying is also quick-witted. Even if Ah Xi has no children, he and Yang Ye have only recently married, so there is no need to worry. Or even if the anxious sister-in-law has a child, there is no need to bring his embroidered apron to make him happy, it must be something to come.

"Axi, we both know each other very well, if you have anything to do, just tell me, and I will help if I can."

In fact, Ah Xi was too embarrassed to rely on his little relationship to ask Brother Ying, but he didn't want to bear Yang Ye's hard work every day. Seeing Brother Ying speak first, he said, "Yang Ye found something to do in the county town. , come and go every day, I'm afraid that his body can't take it when he's studying, see if Master Zhou can spare him a while when there are few people around?"

Brother Ying understands Ah Xi very well. The body of a scholar is not like a man who works every day. It is normal to have weak strength. It is not a troublesome thing that Ah Xi asked. The ox carts are all empty, and they can’t pull a few people, even in the morning, we don’t talk about those who go to the county town to go to the market in our village, even those who go to the city to do errands can also pull a cart.”

Axi was already very happy: "No, it's not a problem, it would be great if I could meet him for a while in the afternoon."

"Then I'll talk to my father-in-law when he comes back." Brother Ying whispered, "Don't worry, I just gave birth to a son, and my father-in-law will usually agree to it."