Crossing the green wheat ears

After sending away a few trustworthy villagers, Xiyuan picked up the copper ring and knocked on the door of Wan Mingyu's house.

"Who is it?" A woman's voice inside the door asked cautiously, no need to guess, it must be the nanny of the two children.

"I, Changguan." Xiyuan replied.

There was the sound of the doorknob falling, and the door creaked open, revealing the nanny's red-eyed face: "Master."

Although the nanny had a bad life and was disliked by her husband's family, she was almost sold. Fortunately, Li Erhu and Wan Mingyu took in her, but she was a strong person, and she seldom sighed, let alone shed tears.

She was grateful to Li Erhu and Wan Mingyu for their kindness. She not only took good care of the two children, but also helped the two men to manage the family without a woman in order, completely treating the master's house as if it were her own. .Therefore, with the nanny around, the life of the two of them has been very easy.

Now, people who don't shed tears easily have red eye circles, and Xiyuan's heart tightens.

Entering the yard, the yelling from the next door became clearer. An old woman cursed smugly. She was shameless and seduced her son. She was not a man or a woman. She drowned in a ditch. Come on, why her son will get married in a few months, so let's die as soon as possible, he is just a rooster that is not good-looking and can't lay eggs. If he kills it and eats meat, he would be too sticky. He really thinks he is a phoenix...

Xiyuan was stunned, and as he listened, his anger flared up slowly.

"Young master!" The nanny's expression was very bad, feeling uncomfortable for the master's family, she looked at Xiyuan, and wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeve.She knew that the master's family had a close relationship with the eldest and second young master of the Xi family, and she usually called the brothers of the Xi family just like the elders of the Xi family. It sounded very kind, but now that she saw Xi Yuan, the sadness in her heart welled up, not for herself. , but for the one in the house.

"Where's Mingyu?" Xiyuan looked around the yard, but didn't see Wan Mingyu and the two children.There is a wall between the two courtyards. However, Li Erhu learned from Wei Cheng's experience and lessons, and directly opened a moon door in the middle of the wall, so that it is easy to enter and exit. Usually, the nanny and the two children live in Li Erhu's house. Li Erhu and Wan Mingyu lived in Wan Mingyu's courtyard more often, but they were said to be two courtyards, but they were actually more like one.The moon gate in the middle is also rarely closed.

Now, the door that is seldom closed is firmly inserted, and the happy and harmonious scene of the family can no longer be seen.

"Inside the room." The nanny pointed to the room.It’s March weather, spring has come, and every household opens their windows to welcome the warm spring sun, letting in the suffocated winter air, but the doors and windows of the four main rooms in this courtyard are tightly closed, as if the arrival of spring, with the They have nothing to do with each other.The whole yard was quiet and lifeless.

Xiyuan didn't listen to the abuse from the other side of the wall, and walked into the house. Hearing those words has polluted people's ears too much.

Entering the house, because of the interior, and because the doors and windows were closed, Xiyuan got used to the light.After a while, I saw clearly that in the room, Wan Mingyu was sitting on the sofa in the main room, her face was pale, her face was so thin that her cheekbones were protruding.Next to him, on both sides of his legs, were two children, one on the left and the other on the right, snuggling up. The three of them were silent.

The two children seemed to be frightened by the scene in the yard, like a frightened bird, they couldn't breathe. When they heard the sound of the door opening, they raised their eyes vigilantly and looked at the person who had just entered the room.

"Changguan? Are you back?" Seeing Xiyuan coming in, Wan Mingyu's numb expression changed, and she nodded at Xiyuan, her voice dry and hoarse.

"I'm back." Xiyuan sat down beside Wan Mingyu, not knowing what to say for a while.On the day they came back, many people came to the village. Although they didn't see Wan Mingyu, they did see Li Erhu, and Xi Yuan didn't think much about it. Now he was shocked when he saw Wan Mingyu's appearance.

They haven't seen each other for a few months, and the two babies didn't recognize Xi Yuanlai at first, so they hid tightly in Wan Mingyu's arms, and after a while, they poked their heads out to take a look again.

"It's coming, Niuniu, why did you forget? This is your Uncle Xi, Wei Liweilian's eldest father." Wan Mingyu patted the heads of the two children and told them.Xiyuan has been away for several months, and the children's memory of him is not so clear.

"Big Daddy?" After all, Yunlai is a boy, so he is more courageous. Hearing his father say that this is Wei Liweilian's big daddy, he stared at him for a while with his big black and white eyes, and Fang Chi called out hesitantly.However, instead of being called Uncle Xi, he was called Big Daddy along with the two children. For this reason, Li Erhu was jealous at the beginning.He felt that it should be his title, but it was taken away by Xiyuan, Wan Mingyu couldn't do anything about it, the children all followed suit, and when they heard Xiyuan's children called Xiyuan that way, they followed suit and changed it. I couldn't change it a few times, so I had to ask the two children to call me Daddy and Li Erhu's father.

At the beginning, the boy was recorded in his name, but Wan Mingyu gave him the name Yunlai. He himself had a bad life, lost his mother when he was young, lost his home when he was young, and lived a life of drinking blood with knives in his youth. My child is no longer like him, able to have good luck again and again, so he was given the name Yunlai. Although it is a bit common and vulgar, it is the most ardent hope in the heart of a father.

As for the girl who returned to Li Erhu, Li Erhu is a vulgar person who doesn't know what name to call Wan Mingyu. When I was a child, Niu Niu was called Niu Niu, so I took the name Niu Niu.

"Hey, Yunlai is good." Xiyuan reached out and touched Yunlai's face.

"Young master, Master, drink tea." The nanny saw Xi Yuan coming, she was relieved, and at the same time quickly brewed two cups of tea and brought them in.

"Come on, bring it here, Niuniu, let's go to the west room to play, and the aunt will bring you some candy to eat." Said, the nanny picked up Niuniu, held her hand in hand, and went into the house.She thought that Wan Mingyu would not tell others about the family affairs, but she might tell the young master of the Xi family that it was inconvenient for the two of them to talk about these things when the child was in front of them, so she tried to lure the child away.

"Daddy!" Niuniu tugged at Wan Mingyu's clothes and did not want to leave.

"Go, niu, you and brother are playing in the house, and daddy is sitting here, no one can come in." Wan Mingyu kissed niu niu, and grinned, maybe his smile comforted the child Niu Niu followed the nanny to Westinghouse even though she turned her head three times a step at a time.

"Poor child, that family was frightened." The child entered the room, and the far-fetched smile on Wan Mingyu's face disappeared.

"What's going on?" Xiyuan frowned.

"What else could it be? It looks like she's a girl. She doesn't care about it. Originally, it was a child from that family who bullied Niu Niu. She beat Niuniu secretly, and the adults pretended not to see it, and didn't yell at her to stop her. Niu Niu is small, she doesn’t know how to tell people, she only knows how to cry. Now, she knows that their son was not born, and even the adults are fine to slap her twice. It's not fair, I argued with them a few words, the mothers are like tigresses, they scolded the nanny for a long time."

Wan Mingyu spoke to Xiyuan with a wry smile, her eyes fixed on the low table, like a dead fire.

"I took off my daughter's gown, and I saw that my back was bruised several times, and I didn't ask my daughter to go through that courtyard. Changguan, I know you are familiar with the people in the yamen. If it's convenient, can you, "Speaking of this, Wanming Yumuran's eyes moved, and he looked at Xiyuan, "If it's convenient, I want to change Niuniu's household registration to my name. Or, really follow that family, my child I don't know what to do with it."

"Okay." Niu Niu is a girl, and the Great Yan Kingdom values ​​boys over girls, so it is easier to change the girl's household registration. Besides, there are people in the imperial court who are easy to be officials, and similarly, there are people in the yamen who are easy to handle. These, for them now, are not It's such a big deal.

"I won't say thank you. If there is a chance in the future..." Originally, Wan Mingyu wanted to say that if he had the opportunity, he would definitely repay the kindness of water, but when he thought about the difference between himself and others, how could he repay him? one two.Therefore, he just nodded towards Xiyuan.

"It's okay, Mingyu, you don't have to be polite with us." Xiyuan pondered for a while and said.

He is a few months older than Wan Mingyu, but because Wan Mingyu has been running around and drinking blood from the knife head, he has only been able to give birth in the past few years, and he has been taking care of his body. ", I haven't suffered or been tired, so I look much younger than Wan Mingyu.

In fact, not only is he younger than Wan Mingyu now, even if he stands with Wei Cheng, people who are not familiar with him will think that Wei Cheng is the older brother and Xi Yuan is the younger brother.

Therefore, Wan Mingyu, who felt that he was much "older" than Xiyuan from the heart to the appearance, was not used to calling Xiyuan brother, so the two of them usually called each other by their first names when they met.

"Does his family know about the two of you?" The scolding voices outside were low and high, and Xiyuan and Wan Mingyu could hear them clearly inside the room, so Xiyuan didn't beat around the bush and asked directly.

"Understood." Wan Mingyu smiled wryly, "But it doesn't matter now, I told him that it's time to marry a wife and marry a wife, and the family should be happy and harmonious. The fate between us is over."

"Mingyu!" Xiyuan was very shocked. This is a relationship that has passed the test of life and death. How can you say that you don't want it?

"At this time and at that time, the mother wants to let her son enjoy the blessings and go the right way, I can't stop it." To be honest, it is [-]% impossible to be indifferent based on the friendship between the two people, so Wan Mingyu said With that, he coughed violently, his bloodless face turned red from holding back.Xiyuan hurriedly picked up the tea on the table, passed it to his mouth, and told him to take a sip to moisten his throat, while patting his back with the other hand gently.

After coughing for a long time, Wan Mingyu got better, but his spirit was even worse. Xiyuan was not an outsider, so I advised him not to stand up, and go to the inner room to lean on the kang for a while. Did not insist.

The quarrel outside slowly subsided. It is estimated that there is no one to argue with, and there is no energy in singing a one-man show by yourself.

The room fell silent, and Wan Mingyu slowly fell asleep.Maybe he was miserable in his heart, he didn't sleep well, he seemed to wake up several times, Xiyuan patted him on the back like coaxing his two younger brothers when he was a child, maybe he felt the aura of an acquaintance, and his heart felt more at ease , Wanming Yufang slowly fell asleep again.However, even when he was asleep, his brows were tightly frowned, as if there was a lot of sorrow accumulated in his heart, which could not be resolved or eliminated.

Keep watch from the west, and keep watch until the sun is westward.The nanny was going to make dinner, so Yunlai and Niuniu opened the door of Dad's room a crack, and poked their heads into the room.

Xiyuan beckoned, and the two children walked in lightly, leaning against Xiyuan.It's hard for such a young child to enter the house for a long time without making a sound.

Xiyuan picked up the two babies, went out of the house, came to the yard, put down the ground, and told them to run and play by themselves.

"Big Daddy, we don't quarrel with Daddy, Daddy struggles to sleep." Yunlai probably thought that Xiyuan carried them out because he was afraid that they would wake Wan Mingyu, so he quickly expressed his opinion.

"Don't quarrel with Daddy, Niuniu is obedient." Niuniu also hurriedly followed her brother to express her opinion.

"Well, Yunlai and Niuniu are good boys. Come on, let's play in the yard, we can talk, and we are not afraid of waking up Daddy." Xiyuan touched the faces of the two little guys.

"The boss is not sleeping well now, and he is not energetic. Sometimes when he is resting, I will tell the two children not to speak loudly, and they will remember." The nanny came out of the kitchen and explained to Xiyuan.

"How long has it been?" Xiyuan raised his chin towards another yard, the meaning was self-evident.

"It happened in the first month, it's been two months." The nanny said, her eyes were a little red again, "The old lady in the yard and the two daughters-in-law scolded the street, and here, the boss is a man, so he can't be like the old woman. , The child is young, I want to help with a few words, but even a helper can't help."

"It's like this every day?" Xi Yuan was a little annoyed.

"No, it's always when the owner of the courtyard is away, but it's too early not to scold for three days. The owner here broke up with the owner of the courtyard and refused to meet. I guess it's embarrassing, and he won't talk to the owner of the courtyard. The owner of the courtyard is studying carefully. I think if this continues, within a few months, the owner of the courtyard will be pissed to death. Now, two meals a day can't afford a bowl of rice!" The nanny said, for Wan Mingyu was wronged, and it was hard to hide her injustice in her words.