Li Daitao

The old man loves children very much, Xu Ji has good looks and a sweet mouth, taking advantage of the two days when Qin Shu is not at home, the grandfather who keeps saying that he is affectionate and coquettish, so sweet that Uncle Zheng wants to take him When his grandson loves him, even Liang Xiang seems to remember him, occasionally smiling at Xu Ji.

Liang Xiao and Ming Zhu were sitting on a small stool and weaving wicker baskets. These two children were sensible and knew how to help the family with things. Xu Ji watched from the side for a while, but he didn't have the patience. He scratched his head and fidgeted.Mingzhu saw that he was suffering from suffocation, so she told him not to go far, and asked him to play by himself near the door of the house.

Hearing the sound at this moment, he raised his eyes to see Xu Ji running in with a panicked expression, before he had time to ask what was wrong.I saw Xu Ji quickly sweeping around the yard, and only saw the two siblings and Xiang Liang sitting on the chair, but Uncle Zheng went out.

The person he was looking for was originally Uncle Zheng, but now that Uncle Zheng was not there, he felt that his father was really angry, and that the two elder brothers and sisters were really unreliable, so after thinking about it for a while, he immediately ran towards Xiang Liang.In twos or twos, he climbed into Xiang Liang's arms and sat in his arms, shaking his sleeve vigorously: "Grandpa, grandpa..."

Liang Xiang was disturbed from the endless deep thinking, slowly lowered his head, saw that it was Xu Ji, but just smiled, raised his hand to stroke his head, and looked away in a blink of an eye.

Xu Ji's heart suddenly turned cold, and he turned his head to see Qin Shu walking in from the door with a gloomy face, his gaze was very stern, and seeing him sitting in Liang Xiang's arms, although he was slightly taken aback, his footsteps did not stop at all, and he still walked straight over.

Xu Ji looked at his grandpa who had already started to wander, and obviously he couldn't count on him to protect him, so he quickly jumped off his lap and ran back to the house.When Qin Shu followed, he saw his small figure flash and ran from the other side of the house to the front yard.

Qin Shu was not in a hurry to chase him, and waited at the spot for a while, but Xu Ji was smart enough not to run around the house, and then ran back to throw himself into a trap, Qin Shu walked back to the front yard, but the front yard was gone Xu Ji's shadow, he searched around under the melon shed and bean rack where people can hide, but there was no one.

Liang Xiao put down the half-woven basket, looked at Qin Shu's face, pointed at the door and said cautiously, "Daddy, are you looking for Xiaoji? He ran out again just now."

Qin Shu sullenly looked in the direction of his finger, and saw Yi Zhen standing by the door.He came back with him, and he heard all the things that Xu Ji just said.Seeing Yi Zhen standing there awkwardly, Qin Shu couldn't help feeling a little annoyed, and asked scoldingly, "Why didn't you stop me? No matter how reluctant you are to teach, this child will really fail in learning."

Seeing Qin Shu looking at him, he coughed and said with a dry smile, "Little kid, just talk nonsense, you don't have to take it too seriously."

Qin Shu sneered, ignored him, walked aside silently, took out a thin strip from the fence, and weighed it in his hand.Seeing this, Yi Zhen was afraid that Xu Ji would suffer a lot if he fell into his hands, so he hurriedly stopped in front, and said with a dry smile: "I'll go find him, and make sure he's taught to be obedient, can't you? You go away." You should be tired after a whole day, let's sit down and rest for a while." Then he took a bag of pastries and went out.

Although the two children didn't know what Xu Ji had done, they also helped persuade Qin Shu when they saw that Qin Shu was really angry.

Liang Xiao pulled one of his sleeves and said, "Although my younger brother is not sensible, he is still young. Daddy, please don't beat him." On the other side, Mingzhu lowered her head to get the bamboo stick in his hand, and said, "No matter how you say it, Xiaoji is also Xu Xiaoji. Uncle's child. No matter what the child did wrong, it is not appropriate for uncle to intervene in discipline in front of Uncle Xu, let alone beat him."

"He is..." Qin Shu was slightly startled when he heard her words.He opened his mouth to say two words, but stopped suddenly.As soon as he loosened his hand, Mingzhu took the strip down and put it far away.Then she dragged him to the side and sat down, and asked Liang Xiao to fetch water to wash Qin Shu's hands and face.And she herself sat on the side talking to Qin Shu, asking him what he saw and heard when he went out today.

How could Qin Shu not know that the little girl was deliberately trying to stop him, and was secretly protecting Xu Ji.He was disturbed by Cai Mingzhu's unintentional words just now, and felt a dull pain in his lungs. He only thought that he was angered by Xu Ji.It's just that right now, I really don't have the interest to look for Xu Ji's bad luck again.Just followed Mingzhu's words and answered a few words.

Seeing a large pile of wicker and reeds scattered on the ground, and two small bamboo cages and baskets that had been woven, he picked them up and looked at them, and asked, "What are you doing?"

Mingzhu quickly snatched it from him, and said hastily, "My brother and I did these for fun." Seeing that Qin Shuding was staring at her without speaking, her eyes lowered, and there was still a smile in her mouth. He smiled and said: "We make some gadgets, and we are going to buy them to buy candy for ourselves." After a pause, he said: "Really, I really just want to buy candy."

Qin Shu was speechless, and after a long time stretched out his hand to touch her head, then said shyly, "I'm the only one involved in the family affairs, you and Liang Xiao are still young, don't worry, you are a girl Children's homes, let alone go out to show your face."

Mingzhu was seen through by him, and instead admitted openly: "Uncle, it's not easy for you alone. We can do all these things, and we can help as much as we can. What's wrong with being young, what's wrong with me being a girl, we I don’t steal or rob, and I earn money by myself, who can gossip about me?” At the end of her speech, she was a little childishly unconvinced: “Uncle, you look down on people! You look down on me as a girl!”

Liang Xiao was coming over with a water basin, he was not as bold as Mingzhu, he just stood there with his head bowed and didn't make a sound.

Qin Shu pulled the two children's hands over to have a look, and saw several bloody cuts on the top. He hugged the two children in his arms, but felt the pain in his chest was so painful that he couldn't speak.

Liang Xiao's eyes were slightly red, she bit her lips and said nothing, Mingzhu forced a smile and said, "Man, I'm fine with such a small injury, why are you crying?" .

Qin Shu settled down, held the hands of the two children and said, "It's because I didn't have time to tell you before that I bought some land outside the city, and I can collect the rent next year. I won't be so tight in the future. In this way You don’t have to do the same thing. I’ll find a gentleman tomorrow and send you to school.”

Mingzhu changed her mind. Although she came from a famous family, she has experienced ups and downs and knows how to be diligent and thrifty. She smiled and said, "Let my younger brother go to school. Anyway, our family has to save some money, and we have to prepare for Xiaoxiao to marry a wife in the future. Yes, grandpa taught me very well.”

Liang Xiao was thin-skinned, and blushed with embarrassment when she said marrying a daughter-in-law, and immediately muttered: "You are older than me, why do you marry first, and it's not bad to keep it for my sister as a dowry."

Mingzhu reached out to pinch his face: "You don't listen to my sister? How dare you talk back!"

Liang Xiao hid in Qin Shu's arms, and pressed his face to Qin Shu's chest so that she could not twist it.

Qin Shu was moved by the two children's troubles, and his sentimental retreated a lot. He stopped Mingzhu with a smile and said, "It's not convenient for you to go to school, so go and learn some female red embroidery, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting."

Mingzhu is good at everything, but she is most afraid of things like needlework, so she immediately put on a bitter face: "Uncle, it's enough for me to mend clothes, so why do I need to learn how to embroider, it's all just fancy decorations. I can do more than this."

Qin Shu also said to her seriously: "Nonsense, look at that girl in other people's family who doesn't learn these things. If you don't know how, you won't be able to marry in the future. How can you still live with your uncle for the rest of your life?"

"Uncle, you have to worry about nothing!" Mingzhu jumped up, fearing that Qin Shu would use this as an argument, she hurriedly said, "I'm going to do the laundry."

Qin Shu watched her run away with a smile, but Liang Xiao was still cuddling beside him, so he pulled him to sit down and talk. The two father and son had never been so intimate before.

The two father and son who fled and chased went out, but there was no news for most of the day.After Mingzhu finished washing her clothes, she started to make dinner again, but Yi Zhen and Xiao Ji were still missing.

Liang Xiao was vaguely uneasy, and kept looking towards the door, and finally couldn't help saying: "Daddy, Uncle and Xiaoji, shouldn't they just leave like this?"

"It's best to leave!" Qin Shu said bitterly. Although he felt that with the two people's shameless virtues, he couldn't sweep them out with a broom, and they would go away so inexplicably there, but the two of them haven't seen each other for a long time now. When Liang Xiao said this again, his heart suddenly felt empty, and he felt an indescribable feeling of discomfort.

He shook his head, thinking he wanted to get rid of this disappointment, and said in a deep voice: "Xu Ji is so used to it, maybe he took him there to play again, why are you so worried for no reason?"

Liang Xiao looked slightly depressed, and looked at him: "I'm afraid that my brother and the others won't come back, and I don't want my brother to go."

Qin Shu was also a little restless in his heart. After waiting for a while, he finally couldn't bear Liang Xiao's disappointed look, so he got up and said, "I'll go out and look for it, and you can help my sister."

He looked at Liang Xiao's brightened face, and explained to him angrily: "I don't want to keep two free-living masters, the kind of children who don't study well all day long, and I don't care that he lives in our house." But today's dinner Pearl has already done their portion, so it can't just be wasted like this."