[Rebirth] Deep house raising dumplings

Wan Xiang watched in amazement at the black shadow, then climbed into the window and jumped in front of her.

Mother Zhang's eyes widened, as if she was about to scream in the next second.

The person who came was a half-year-old boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, his hair was tied into a messy short ponytail, and his face was covered with some mud, which made his face look dark and dirty, but his eyes were bright and simple.Seeing that Zhang's mother was frightened, the teenager quickly waved to her and said softly, "I'm here to save you."

"Ah?" Xi Wanxiang was stunned, so, did grandma find such an unreliable boy to rescue her?No, it couldn't have been Grandma's idea.Thinking about it, Wan Xiang frowned, added more restraints, and asked, "Who are you? Grandma will come back to rescue us soon, so I don't need your kindness."

The young man turned to look at Wan Xiang, looked at her carefully for a moment, an inexplicable blush appeared on his face, and then scratched his head a little shyly: "I'm Zhong Zhize... I didn't expect that, sister Wan Xiang, you have grown so tall." You're right when you're older, you don't remember me. When I saw you, you were only four or five years old, so little." Then, Zhong Zhize compared his waist with his hands.

This...why are you chatting?Who knows you, I have never seen you.

"Let's not talk about it, I will take you away before no one finds out. Your father and mother have already rushed over. I heard from my father that it was too late to cut firewood. On the way back, I saw Zhang's mother and a little girl being killed by bandits. After being kidnapped, we guessed it was you, and then hurried to find your parents, and found out that you were on your way home. That’s why I quickly asked me to come up and find a chance to rescue you..." Zhong Zhize hurriedly sent The hemp ropes of the two hands and feet were lying on the window to explore, "Quick, let's go."

Zhang's mother seemed to think of something, she pointed at Zhong Zhize, blinked her eyes and recalled: "Oh, it's you, my boy, you're so strong!" As she spoke, she cheered herself up again, and said to Wan Xiang, "Wan Xiang Miss Xiang, this is the kid from the Zhong family, your father and his father have been friends for decades!"

Turning her eyes around these weird two people, Wan Xiang had a bad premonition.

Zhang's mother winked at her and smiled mysteriously: "It's your future husband-in-law!"

Xi Wanxiang was a little dizzy, as if she lacked oxygen.

"No, stop making trouble." Wan Xiang held her head, she felt that she wanted to be quiet, "Grandma will send someone to redeem us tomorrow, what if grandma can't find us? Besides, we haven't seen each other for so many years." See, who knows if you are real or pretending..."

"Okay, Miss Wanxiang, I remember my little brother, he looks the same as when he was a child, let's go!" Mama Zhang has already quickly turned down from the window, exposing her head, and softly shouted at Wanxiang.

Walking in the cold wind, Wan Xiang really felt what is called a knife cut on her face—well, maybe it was the dry branches of the back mountain.The three of them bowed down the path, Zhong Zhize led the way, Wan Xiang naturally walked in the middle, the younger brother was pretty good, worried that Wan Xiang would not be able to keep up, so he stopped and waited from time to time, and was also afraid of when the slope was steep Unsteady and fell down, she always reached out to help Wanxiang, but she always pushed her away mercilessly.

Finally jumped from the hillside to the flat ground, Wanxiang touched her face, her cheeks seemed a little sticky, the cold wind in the middle of the night made her almost lose her senses, she spread her fingers under the cold moonlight, it seemed to be Blood, scratched blood.

Wan Xiang was silent all the way, Zhong Zhize carefully looked sideways at this delicate lotus-like sister Wan Xiang. Seeing her three or four-year-old appearance, with a tofu face that can be broken by blowing bombs, she giggled when she saw him, and he couldn't help pinching her, so Xiao Wanxiang pursed her mouth and cried, scared him...

Thinking about it, Zhong Zhize couldn't help but put a smile on his simple face.

It was night, Wanxiang and Zhang's mother slept in Zhong's house.The Zhong family was in a village at the foot of the mountain, and there were some officers and soldiers on patrol in the village, so the bandits didn't dare to come here to search.Zhong's father and Zhong's mother are both honest and amiable farmers. The houses are not big, but as grandma said, they are indeed a good and well-to-do family in the countryside.There are several beautifully framed pictures of the Four Gentlemen hanging on the room, and a vigorous Jackdaw with a dead tree in the hall is quite a bit thin and strong.No wonder his father became close friends with him, and it really has a bit of simple and elegant taste.

Zhong's father and Zhong's mother were indeed nice people, they were still standing at the door waiting for the three of them at midnight, and when they saw Wan Xiang, they warmly welcomed her in.There were two bowls of ginger tea to dispel the cold on the table, one bowl of which was ignorant, and Wan Xiang filled his stomach with burning heat.Although his mind was very messed up, he really walked so hard that he only wiped his face and fell asleep with the pillow on his head before he even had time to comb his hair.

Early in the morning, before the sky turned pale, there was a lively sound from the entrance of the village. It seemed that someone had come and was making noise.

Wan Xiang wakes up in a haze, inexplicably thinking of his sister-in-law's gentle smile, she wakes up with a jolt.Zhang's mother beside her was still in a deep sleep, snoring fluctuatingly high and low.So she tiptoed up from the damp bedding, put on her coat, went out of the room, and ran towards the entrance of the village.

The morning in the countryside is extremely cold, and the mountain mist is thin and thin, swaying like a veil, winding around the mountainside covered with residual snow.

There were a lot of people at the entrance of the village, but after Xi Wanxiang took a closer look, she realized that it was just the most ordinary morning market, with people coming and going, and there were no faces she wanted to see at all.Wan Xiang couldn't help feeling a little frustrated, yes, even if the Xi family came, why would the sister-in-law come in person?But just send a few servants over to pay the ransom and take him back.

It was almost noon before the figures of parents appeared at the door.

Mother was indeed much thinner than when I saw her just now, her cheeks were so thin that they were sunken.As soon as she saw Wan Xiang who was still smiling at her, Madam Xi covered her mouth and cried, and rushed forward to hug Wan Xiang's small body, strangling Wan Xiang a little suffocating.Although Xi Yuannian looked calmer, he was still in shock. The news of his daughter being kidnapped by bandits still left him with lingering fears.

"Father, mother, did you see the person grandma sent when you came?" Wan Xiang raised her little face from Mrs. Xi's arms and asked impatiently.

Mrs. Xi looked at Xi Yuannian, then shook her head.Seeing the three or four scabbed scars on Wan Xiang's face, she thought she had suffered in the bandit den, and felt even more sad, and couldn't help shedding a few lines of tears.

Wan Xiang hadn't observed her father carefully before, but thought he was extremely strict, just because she had just passed through and didn't understand the rules, she ate a piece of pickled kale before the adults moved their chopsticks, so she was severely beaten by her father on the back of the hand , that sudden surprise scared Xi Wanxiang so much that she no longer dared to look at her father directly.

But at this moment, she didn't come to calm down.Wan Xiang sat next to her mother, she looked at her father's shabby gown, the originally handsome face was carved with deep wrinkles due to long-term worry and poverty.Wan Xiang was silent for a moment, and then she said clearly amidst her mother's sobs: "Daddy, let's go to grandma's house for the New Year."

Hearing these childish words, Xi Yuannian took it for granted that Wan Xiang was acting coquettishly with him, looking at Wan Xiang's pure and clear eyes, he thought of Wan Xiang's suffering in the cottage, and touched her heartily. Touching her head: "Son, it's all right. We went home after dinner at Uncle Zhong's. Although the house is not as lively as your grandmother's, parents have prepared delicious food and new clothes. "

Wan Xiang tilted her neck and smiled at him, the dimples on her lips were sweet: "Father, when Wan Xiang was in the ancestral house, my grandmother asked Wan Xiang to go to the town's academy to study. The old master taught me a word, Wan Xiang I am a little puzzled, my father is very knowledgeable, I wonder if I can explain it to my daughter."

Xi Yuannian never expected that little Wanxiang, who was always cowardly and restrained in the past, and didn't even dare to say a single loud word, would be able to say this without humility or fear.He was both relieved and worried and asked: "Just tell me."

"If there are few people, you will admire your parents; if you know lust, you will admire Shaoai; if you have a wife, you will admire your wife; if you are an official, you will admire your monarch, but if you are not in the monarch, you will be enthusiastic. A filial piety admires his parents all his life. Those who admire at fifty, give it to Da. Shun sees it." Wan Xiang read it word by word, these were the few words she could rarely remember from Mencius.

Xi Yuannian was taken aback, his hand touching Wan Xiang's hair was a little stiff, and he repeated: "Da Xiao will always admire his parents."

Mrs. Xi couldn't understand what Wanxiang said, but she was worried that Wanxiang would offend her father and would be beaten again, so she tightened her arms tightly: "What nonsense..."

Wanxiang looked at her mother comfortingly, and took her father's calloused hand that had held pens all the year round: "Daddy, Wanxiang was young, so naturally she admired and loved her parents. Although my father's moral character is not as good as that of Yao and Shun, but in Wanxiang In his eyes, he is a person of noble conduct, he knows more truths than Wan Xiang, and has read more scriptures, he must admire and love his parents more than Wan Xiang, and he must be able to understand the painstaking efforts of his parents, even if he cannot agree with his words, he can still I understand his heart." After finishing speaking, Wan Xiang carefully observed Xi Yuannian's expression, and seeing that he was not angry, she rubbed his sleeves and whispered, "Daddy, grandma misses you very much. When you were mentioned at the dinner table, there were tears in your eyes. Grandmother is a very strong person, and your temper followed her, why don't you spend the New Year in harmony as a family, and all the discomfort will disappear."

Mrs. Xi's heart was in her throat. What has this child done in the past six months?Where did she learn these nonsense, and she said the same thing, although it sounds sincere and a bit nonsensical, but she knows her husband's stubborn temper, and it is the time of the Chinese New Year, he will definitely not agree, saying Maybe I have to reprimand a few words.

Before Mrs. Xi could intercede for Wanxiang, Zhong Zhize and his father, who had gone out to herd sheep in the morning, entered the door.

Zhong Zhize stepped forward to salute the elders of Xi's family, and said, "By the way, uncle and aunt, just now when my father and I were shepherding sheep by the mountain pass, we met people from your Xi's family from Taimen Town, who seemed to be about to enter the mountain. I So I said a word, and told them the news about you at my house. The path I took with my father, they took the official road, and they should reach the village in half an hour."

When Wan Xiang heard it, she immediately forgot that she was still relying on her stubborn father's theory just now, and hastily leaned halfway out, and asked, "Among those who came, there was Tang... some came in a carriage. Is it?"

It was the first time Zhong Zhize saw Wan Xiang talking to him, and his round, dark eyes looked at him with wet eyes, he couldn't help but feel a little shy, he lowered his head and thought for a while before saying, "No... I didn't pay attention."

Hearing this, Wan Xiang was immediately discouraged, and never looked at Zhong Zhize again.That's all, let's wait for half an hour, even if the sister-in-law doesn't come, let the little servant go back with a word, so that the grandmother and the sister-in-law can feel at ease.Thinking about it, Wan Xiang rubbed her face unhappily, but when she touched the scar, it burst open, and some blood beads gushed out, making her grin her teeth in pain.